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Black Swan / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
And this is one of the
*tamer*
scenes of this film.
*Black Swan* is considered a "live-action version of *Perfect Blue*". With the parallels and existence of the latter's NF page, those words are truer than you might believe.
- The entire "Night of Terror" sequence, as it's called on the score, which is basically 10 minutes of Nina going completely MENTAL the night before her performance, as we are treated to Body Horror, and jump scares, just to name a few things. Unsurprisingly, that is director Darren Aronofsky's favorite part of the movie.
- The major turning point is Beth (Winona Ryder) stabbing herself in the
*face* with a nail file whilst screaming "I'm nothing! *Nothing!*" And then her face turns into Nina's, who runs for her life as Swan Lake music BLARES over the soundtrack. And when Nina gets to the elevator, she discovers she is holding the nail file, covered in blood. All of the other hallucinations reveal themselves to be hoaxes shortly afterwards, but this one is so extreme, it fully confirms that we have reached the point where we can't trust ANYTHING about the movie. And consider that it may have actually been Nina who stabbed Beth.
- When Nina gets home, someone whispers "sweet girl" from the darkness of the kitchen and there's a bloody figure, presumably that of Beth, standing in her kitchen when she turns the light on. And then the paintings start screaming at her.
- Listen to the music from that scene and you'll probably never be able to listen to the introduction of Swan Lake again without hearing weird sounds in the background of the music.
- Nina herself. Thanks to being smothered by her Stage Mom for so long, Nina becomes insane and self-abusive.
- Her heavily implied eating disorder doesn't help matters either.
- One particularly disturbing thing was her scratching problem, especially to those who do the same thing. The fact that her mother thinks using scissors to cut her nails is a good idea, and the fact that she's done it in the past and might have injured Nina doing so isn't nice either.
- When Nina wakes up from a particularly bad freak out wearing mittens. That's how parents usually try to discourage their
*babies* (literal not even 2-years-old babies) from scratching. It really drives home just how smothered and held-back she is, and how her mother sees her.
- The worst bit? During the "Night of Terror" sequence, while Nina shoves her mother out of her room, she is saying "
*You see...you see it!*." Which implies that she might have gone through the **very same thing that Nina went through**.
- What about Thomas' approaches to Nina? That creepy bastard knows that Nina is emotionally unstable, so he takes advantage of her and uses her for his own pleasure.
- When he calls her "little princess" at the end, it was so slimy and icky. Also when he nearly full-on assaults her in the ballet studio, saying, "open your mouth..." . Eugh.
- He only gets shadier when Beth says she's going to stop by his house later, and the next we see of her she's in the hospital for "throwing herself" into traffic.
- There's also the interpretation that he's abusing these women because he believes breaking them down will make them better performers. Which is in some ways
*more* twisted than if it was only about sex.
- The movie doesn't shy away from the damage ballerinas do to their feet on a regular basis. Now, toes fusing on the other hand, that's usually not quite normal.
- Nina's final Black Swan wardrobe and makeup is more than a little frightening.
- Her first appearance as the Black Swan, including with Nina's initial lunge to the camera, with that disturbing
*growl*.
- Then there's the moment when, after noticing the blood on her fingers, she starts cutting her nails whilst looking in the mirror with a psychotic expression on her face, while disturbing laughter can be heard...
- Ballerina legs? Nice. Ballerina legs snapping into the shape of swan legs?
**AAAAAAAAAAAAA!**
- The scene (featured at the end of the trailer) involving Nina plucking a
*tiny black feather* out of the scratches on her back... AND, her eyes are red (pictured above).
- That scene where the tiny black feathers are growing out of the scratches on her back is believed to be a Shout-Out to
*The Fly (1986)*, including the scene where Nina's legs start bending the other way.
- The entire idea of being too committed to a role. Nina COMPLETELY loses herself in her quest to become the Black Swan. Considering the process some actors actually go through to become their characters, like Heath Ledger, method acting suddenly becomes quite scary.
- The part where Nina slammed the door with
*her mother's hand still on the doorframe*. Her mother's screaming in pain only makes the scene even worse.
- And then shortly afterwards when she twists her mother's injured hands. Did this movie have a thing against hands or what?
- The climax (pun not intended) of the sex scene. Lily stands up and whispers "Sweet girl" in an extremely creepy way before suddenly transforming into Nina's doppelgänger and attempting to smother Nina with a pillow.
- The things that are obviously unreal are disturbing, of course... but the things that
*might* be real are even more unsettling because by then you realize you can't trust *anything* about the movie.
- Nina peeling off the skin of her finger in the bathroom.
- Her "goosebumps" that turn out to be more literal than thought at first.
- And then later her neck freakishly elongating like a swan's.
- As a reclusive perfectionist, in more then a few departments, the pure fact of Nina's whole experience in the movie coming from her desire to be perfect...
*I just want to be perfect* indeed.
- The strange, subliminal imagery that flashes among the strobe in the dance club scene.
- One of which is Nina's final Black Swan form, the very same seen on the movie's poster.
- While the movie features several instances of Nina having disturbing hallucinations, her fitting features one of the more unnerving ones... while also being the most
*subtle*. As Nina is getting fitted for her costume, she is stood between two mirrors, creating a Droste Image effect. The problem? One of Nina's reflections starts to scratch their shoulder independently of Nina. And it is *never followed up on*...
- The first time we see the paintings Nina's mom has been making, for a brief second, you can see one of them
*move its eyes.* This never gets brought back up, and we the audience are left wondering if we really did see something just like Nina did.
- Mundane example but the makeup for the black swan is pretty unnerving. It's a combination of Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette with just enough of a hint of bird to come across as unnatural, not helped by Odile's red-tinted sclera.
- Every time Nina sees a doppelganger of herself. It's just plain disturbing. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackSwan |
Between My Brother and Me: Ab Initio / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Considering the nightmarish things found in the two series that this is based on, this is gonna be a given.
# In General
- The Dark Signers. They
*may* seem more benevolent in that they feed off of the sin in people's hearts, but they still worship a figure known as the Dark King of the Afterlife who has plans to unleash the "Gates of Hamunaptra" on Satellite. They have no qualms in leaving victims to die or Mind Rape them (as we see later on with Team Satisfaction) and Carly notes that those who chase after them wind up dead.
Prologue(What We Do in the Shadows)
- The narration begins with Shooti
*dead* and replaying the events that lead to his death. What exactly happened that would lead this boy to die?
- If
*In Somnis Veritas*, which takes place about seven months after this one, is correct ||he was dragged into a suicide club that jumped off of his school's rooftop.||
- Kiryu Kyosuke going insane as he tells Kaibaman how he's been stalked by shadowy figures that only he can see, and is willing to sacrifice the hero to survive. Unfortunately, the dark figures (which Carly identifies as
*The Dark Signers*) state that Kaibaman is actually their ally and they have come to collect Kiryu for this reason.
- Which leads to Carly and Shooti watching the Dark Signers drag a nervous, panicking Kiryu into a malicious portal into the Underworld.
- After the above scene, the hood of the orange Dark Signer gets knocked over, revealing a girl who can't be older than Shooti. Shooti takes a photo of her and notes that he'll probably never see the girl again. Cut to the next scene...
- Shooti looks in horror that the same girl, Bel, is now in his class and
*knew that he took a photo of her*. The boy has every right to be a panicking mess at the end of that chapter.
Chapter 1 (Stranger Things)
- Everything about Shooti finally realizing that Bel is a Dark Signer; especially after he realizes that he brought her
*into his apartment* without any backup. He quickly tries to call Jun, but Bel states that Jun is unavailable right now. Which is gonna lead to...
- ||Shooti learning from Carly that 25 students jumped to their deaths in front of a train, and
*Jun was one of them*. And to really drive it home how horrifying it is, Bel states that Jun is all right...because he's one of the Dark Signer Acolytes.||
Chapter 6 (Sideways)
- Hikari and Shinji follow Bel, Shooti, Jun and Reiji to Team Satisfaction's apartment and find a strange room that looks out of place, revealing something out of an Ancient Egyptian tomb with four stone coffins laid out. What's inside those coffins? ||
*Team Satisfaction*, dressed in Egyptian garb and hare masks covering their faces. This sets what happens later on...||
- Crow's personality shift, willing to duel Haruka even if he's slightly annoyed by her before he has glowing eyes and is threatening to incinerate the girl with Blackfeather Darkrage Dragon. ||What doesn't help is Masato telling his sister that Crow is dead...||
- The last part of the chapter. ||Haruka is thrown into a dark forest while "Alice" is starting to remember that she's really Mokuba, causing Noah to bring drastic measures to ensure Alice stays with him.||
{{AC:Chapter 7 (Lovers End)]]
- ||Fubuki Tenjoin is the host to Nightshroud this time around and something regarding him is what caused his sister to fall into Wonderland in the first place.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BetweenMyBrotherAndMeAbInito |
Blade of the Immortal / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Shira ||torturing two Itto-ryu fighters and a prostitute from the Yukimachi||.
- Hyakurin's ||torture and rape at the hands of the Itto-ryu||.
- Burando's experiments with the prisoners.
- Burando's ultimate creation, Nue #1, is a primitive cyborg—metal plates fused into his skin across the back of his neck to make him almost immune to decapitation, a metal grill covering his face, large twin blades bolted to each forearm, an insane Healing Factor almost on par with Manji's thanks to the bloodworms infused in his body and
*utterly, psychotically insane!*
- Shira ||tearing apart three Shogunate officers was bad enough, but the fourth one gets it the worst...||
- The nightmarishly horrific Mutual Kill of Itto-Ryu warrior Kunimitsu Amon and Rokki-dan warrior Murasaki Shozo. When Amon forces his way into close range against Shozo, the midget torturer (who fights with highly corrosive acid) uses a hand-held pump to inject a large amount of acid directly into Amon's subtantial gut, almost melting him in half. With his dying breath, Amon grabs Shozo and forces him face-first into his melting belly, suffocating and burning him in turn until Shozo's half-melted skull emerges from Amon's disintegrating
*back!* | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BladeOfTheImmortal |
Blade Runner 2049 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*Happy birthday.*
- The control procedure each Replicant Blade Runner (K in this case) has to be submitted to after a mission, which is somewhat reminiscent of the Voight-Kampff test. Instead of being calmly asked questions, you are peppered with very personal verbal abuse ("Do they keep you in a cell when they don't need you? Do you wish you could connect with people?") and required to repeat canned responses, trying to maintain your composure.
- Even more so when you realize this test was coldly engineered to ensure that legal replicants can take the day-to-day abuse of an openly racist/human-supremacist culture without flinching, much less actually snapping and doing anything like running amok or organizing a massive revolutionary army.
- Luv's killing of Coco, simply by cracking the back of his neck and causing him to bleed out his face. For extra horror points, viewers who look closely will notice that his upper row of teeth are overextended when he hits the ground - Luv hit him so hard his
*entire skull* was dislocated.
- Wallace's creepy meeting with the female replicant he creates and then kills. Or more precisely, guts directly in the stomach and laments about angels, godhood, and replicant reproduction. It's all very disturbing.
- Luv's surprise missile strike on K and the hobos living in the remains of San Diego. There are two things that make this scene especially disturbing: 1) the sight of the hobos being blown into Ludicrous Gibs, and 2) the complete lack of emotion Luv shows in killing them, made worse by the fact she's just casually
*having her nails done* while blowing (sort of) innocent people to kingdom come!
- The tracks Wallace and Furnace from the movies soundtrack. Hearing the tracks by themselves without movie context really sends a chill. The ghostly vocalisations that phase in and out bump up the eeriness.
- Luvs fixation on K, her target, is disturbingly akin to a stalking Yandere-esque infatuation. She twice states that she likes him to Joshi (before killing her), breaks into his apartment and forgoes multiple opportunities to kill him. Then theres Luvs reaction to Joi, Ks AI hologram girlfriend: immediate cruel hostility ||and needlessly destroys Joi on the spot in front K whos Forced to Watch|| which has all hallmarks of spiteful jealousy. She even gives K a Forceful Kiss after stabbing him.
- K's fight with Deckard takes place in his hideout, an abandoned casino in what used to be Vegas, that has a holographic projector of famous performers such as Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe that ends up turning on during their fight. The problem is the projector is
*very* old, and results in scenes where the Elvis and his dancers are performing in total silence, and whenever the sound does come on, it's for a quick second and it's very glitchy and unrecognizable like a faulty radio broadcast. The effect coupled with the flashing lights and the sounds of K's and Deckard's punches is incredibly unnerving.
- K drowning Luv. Not only is it the cap on an incredibly tense fight sequence, but Luv's muffled screams under the water as she tries to fight back sound like the pure, feral embodiment of rage.
- The "farms" themselves, and the food available to most people. Basically giant maggot breeding pens, that makes protein. Food in this timeline is just Nightmare Fuel piled on top of terror. For example, K's meal appears to be gelatinous tentacles, which are so bad, Joi attempts to "cook" him a meal and overlays what seems to be steak and potatoes over the bowl of "food" via hologram. It barely seems to work, as the clear, slimy tentacles are still very visible.
- To drive this even further, we see a standard "farmer" doing his daily chores on his "farm." Between the heavy environmental suit, decontamination process and the fact that every building is wrapped in heavy plastic to keep whatever chemical soup exists in, and the terrible environment out... the farms in this case look more like temporary cities that spring up around chemical clean-up efforts.
- The furnace scene. As K wanders through the abandoned factory, he slowly begins to find himself in the place from his one "human" memory. At first, he seems to not really believe what he's seeing... and then it dawns on him. The toy horse that he lost might still be hidden there, and if it is, then K might very well be the Half-Human Hybrid he's looking for. As K walks through the dark factory, the music begins to pick up in intensity, and K slowly walks towards something that should be completely impossible. He then sticks his hand into a pile of ash, withdraws the horse, and quietly stares in abject horror. The entire scene is like something out of a bad dream, and the
*agonizingly* long time it takes for the scene to finish only adds to the horror.
- The entire setting of the film is nightmarish. Despite fantastic technological advances, planet Earth has been all but completely scoured of life due to unchecked industrial expansion and corporate interests. The corporations have so much power, in fact, that one high ranking agent is able to infiltrate the city police headquarters, commit theft and two separate acts of murder, and walk out without even a hint of facing consequences. Common folk live desperately lonely lives even though they dwell in boroughs so crammed that they make Megacity One look like an open park, and most of them don't have access to anything beyond the barest subsistence commodities. The one glimpse we see of children in the film is a hellish sweatshop run by an openly abusive and greedy proprietor who claims to be performing a public service. And outside LA proper we see nothing but vast wastelands and empty space. Overall, life is brutal, short, and cheap. Sweet dreams.
- The poor state of the natural environment can double as a Tear Jerker for environmentally-minded viewers.
- "99.9% detoxified water." Not only is it creepy that they have to state that everytime but it indicates the water table is as polluted and dead as everything else. Also what's in the .1% they can't clean? Chances are humanity is slowly poisoning itself everytime it drinks or tries to clean up.
- A further environmental one. A caption at one point confirms the film takes place from June 30th onwards. Late June/early July in LA and there is snow on the ground and multiple blizzards. Actual winter is probably even worse and this at 34 north. Sure shows how badly screwed up the planet is...
- A subjective example, but some viewers watched this film in a theatre that had quite a bassy surround system. Every crunch of bone, squish of flesh and splash of blood was
*painfully* visceral and left people feeling not only nauseous and squicked out, but also quite unnerved. More than a few people walked out of this movie based on the *sound design alone*, to say nothing of the oppressive atmosphere of the setting. Big props to Theo Green, the sound designer for this film.
- The giant holographic Joi. In sharp contrast to the one we've been seeing, her skin is unnaturally pink, she's wearing an artificial blue wig, spouting canned lines, and her eyes are
*fully black*. Combine that with the dark implications for K's "relationship," and one would never expect to be so unnerved by naked Ana de Armas. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BladeRunner2049 |
Black Lagoon / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*Would you like to play with us?*
- Anything Hansel and Gretel do.
"My mother has killed me... my father is eating me... my brothers and sisters sit under the table, picking up my bones! They'll bury them, under the cold marble stones..."
note :
Possibly based on the nightmarish English fairy tale
*The Rose Tree*
- They are prepubescent Blood Knights. And they don't just like violence, it turns them on. Just look at the close-up of cute little Hansel sporting a Slasher Smile as blood streams down his face. And then there's the gleeful nonchalance as they revel in the blood. See, in an adult, that's creepy but also awesome. Not in little kids. And that's without the Harmful to Minors backstory.
- Their attack on the bar in their debut episode. They hack and blast everyone there to pieces, and the one guy who tries to run gets captured and dragged back to their apartment, where they hammer nails into his head until he dies. And then they keep on doing it
*after* he's dead because they think the way his corpse twitches is hilarious. Even the people who *hired* them are disgusted by that.
- Their backstories are horrifying as well; they were orphans in Romania
note : As a result of policies of the Ceausescu's dictatorship banning birth control and taxing childless families, orphanages were flooded by children whose parents couldn't afford to keep them. In some, conditions were Hellish as the government could not afford to heat or light them, staff was undertrained and brutal, poor nutrition and isolation slowed the children's physical and mental development., but when Ceausescu's dictatorship was overthrown, the lack of government financial aid meant they were snatched up with lots of other kids by degenerates who got them involved in child pornography and Snuff Films — they survived because they went insane and began willingly collaborating, mastering the arts of killing until they were able to suddenly turn on their sick masters, butcher them and flee. This origin is all the more horrifying because it's Truth in Television — when Romania's Communist dictator fell, many of the orphans his policies created fell into the hands of human traffickers. In the comparatively Lighter and Softer anime version, Balalaika and Chang exhibit minor signs of disgust when talking about the fact that Balalaika was able to track down no fewer than *two hundred and fifty* child pornos and snuff flicks starring Romanian twins.
- One of the subtler scary parts of them is the philosophy they developed as a result of their backstory; they literally believe God created humanity to kill itself, and that killing people is the purpose of life. The more you kill, the more integral you become to the world, which will keep you going on the lives you have taken. So, by killing everyone they meet, they are literally extending their own lives, to the point that as he bleeds out, Hansel comments with true devotion that he and his sister can't die because of all the lives they have taken. And what's worse? This was a
*coping method.* The twins convinced themselves of that because, if they hadn't, they'd have to accept the Awful Truth that all the horrible stuff that happened to them happened for *no reason at all.*
- Most of the Omakes are quite humorous. Number 5 however...
- Chaka's actions towards Yukio Washimine.
- Chaka's death is also fairly disturbing as well. Ginji slices off his hands and pushes him into a swimming pool to drown in both the water and his own blood, while also using the blunt end of his sword to push him underwater. It's already bad enough, but it's even worse when you know that chlorine getting into open wounds (in this case being the holes where Chaka's hands used to be) is a very painful experience on top of already drowing to death. It's migated by the fact that Chaka seriously had it coming and deserved every second of it, but still.
- Roberta's Sanity Slippage during the
*El Baile de la Muerte* arc. As well as the Fingore and how she just shakes her severed fingers off like they're a hindrance to her since they'll slow her rampage down.
- Roberta's confrontation with a Cuban mercenary who knows her from the past. First she entices him with sex, then unloads on him with a gun
*hidden in her belt buckle*, and when he dismantles her psychologically, she punches his face in until the *top half of his head is gone*.
- And to her horror, Garcia overheard
**ALL of it**.
- The entirety of the Roberta's arc really. Her introductory arc was flashy and pretty awe inspiring; very action movie-styled. The OVA shows what the grim reality of someone as ruthless and brutal as Roberta and the rest of the corrupt individuals of
*Black Lagoon*, and the cost of bloodthirsty revenge. Roanapur is a crapsack city on its own. Roberta's vendetta turned it into a living nightmare. She even *looks* like a vicious beast when she enacts her brutality.◊
- Hotel Moscow. They're ex-Spetsnaz who turned to crime, and took their training with them to the criminal underworld. The very idea of such a criminal organization is terrifying.
- Let's expand on this. Black Lagoon is a series where things are overt, over the top, and there's at least some hint of wacky hijinks. Mr. Chang and his constantly cool persona, Sister Eda running guns and drugs, there's always something to see as funny. The second Hotel Moscow arrives on the scene, the funny stops. Hotel Moscow isn't about looking cool, they're about doing what it takes to win. All of them are veterans of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, and they absolutely do not stop. If you hurt one of their number, you
*will* pay. If you try to make a deal with them, they *will* turn on you. If you stand in their path, they will *annihilate you*. The only reason they haven't taken over Roanapur is because there's a bigger game at play...
- Think about it, you are an heir to the Yakuza and you will rule by an age which you are still in high school. The stress of having to maintain an organized crime group, coupled will the existing stress of having to study and go to school, will pretty much drive the would-be ruler to suicide, as demonstrated with Yukio.
- Whenever Revy goes into "Whitman Fever" mode, she can be absolutely
*terrifying*.
- Anytime Eda removes her shades, the laid-back Hard-Drinking Party Girl persona vanishes
*completely* as she enters her ||CIA mode|| with a look that could *kill* the most macho of men. It's quite unnerving on how much of a change it is. Even Mr. Chang lost his cool after one phone call with the lady. And this whole time we thought *Balalaika* was the ruler of Roanapur? Even more creepy is the way that she warns Rock not to try and learn any more about her affiliations, indicating that she may or may not truly consider them anything, let alone friends. Yeah, it's that creepy.
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*Rock* has become pretty damn scary himself after the events of the El Baile De La Muerte arc pushed him over the edge. Take a look at his expression◊ near the end of the arc when he approached Garcia to ask a favor.
- Seeing sweet Yukio turn into a Yakuza boss and dreaming about moving to Roanapur.
- Revy's backstory is terrifying. She grew up in an abusive household, was arrested and thrown in jail and was raped by a police officer. All of this pushed her to kill her father and led to her bleak look on the world.
- After Jane suggests she might make a pass on Rock, Revy's reaction is not to make a death threat as would be expected from someone hitting her Berserk Button about him. Instead, his reaction comes off as quite creepy, as not only does it shed some rather unsettling light on Revy's prison experience, but Revy here is basically threatening to ||
*make Jane her bitch*||.
- Sawyer the Cleaner. A chainsaw-wielding Psycho for Hire who has no qualms about "disposing" of living people definitely sends chills up the spine.
- Imagine yourself as one of her victims. You piss off the wrong person, and end up bound and gagged, and stuffed in a suitcase. You're left anticipating what's in store for you. Then, the case is opened, and you're left at the mercy of an ominous figure wearing a blood-spattered apron over what looks like surgical garb, their face obscured by a surgical mask and goggles. Then they start revving up a chainsaw...
- Roanapur is itself nightmare fuel when you realize the implications. A city so run through with criminals that the government only makes a token show. Where some of mankind's most irredeemable criminals come to do business and step on each other given half a chance. To the average person, hell an experienced lawman, Roanapur is probably the closest thing to Dante's Dis that could ever exist on Earth. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackLagoon |
Black Friday / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Jon Matteson's performance as the voice of Wiggly. He never once loses his childish voice, no matter how monstrous he acts, which is especially creepy when he's threatening Hannah:
''You could have served me willingly, but you're being a rotten little banana. I'm going to have to peel you. I'm going to split you in two. I'm going to eat you, Hannah. I'm going to eat you
" **right the fuck up!** | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackFriday |
Black Panther / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Life is never easy for the Black Panther.The world of the Black Panther is as chock full of mystical and tribal horror as it is with technological wonders due to combining the most savage parts of Darkest Africa with Afrofuturism. Not to mention the wide assortment of disturbing baddies the eponymous Panther has to deal with.
- The Panther's Teeth, a sophisticated Wakandan springtrap that impales its victims midsection.
- T'Challa's grandfather King Azzuri was The Dreaded during World War II and for good reason. Any intruder who came to Wakanda's borders was brutally slaughtered and had their decapitated heads placed on pikes as a warning to any outsider. Azzuri made a point of doing this for a substantial amount of time and even gave Captain America a Curb-Stomp Battle just to prove poor Cap was out of his league.
- Armless Tiger Man. He may look like a rambling armless freak of nature, but he's actually a dangerous Handicapped Badass who can kill entire crowds of armed warriors with just his razor sharp teeth in seconds. He's also a noted cannibal. He gives this threat to a group of armed Wakandas before leaving them as a pile of corpses.
**Armless Tiger:** I know what you're thinking...how fast could he be? He couldn't get us all! But then you look at the bodies on the floor and reconsider. As well you should. I'm developing a taste for **dark meat.**
- How Man-Ape got his powers is pretty nauseating, especially for a primatologist. He went after one of Wakanda's mystical white gorillas, brutally beat it to death, bathed in a pool of its blood, ate its flesh and then fashioned a suit of armor out of its hide.
- Reverend Achebe. If his consistent Slasher Smile and Kubrick Stare doesn't unnerve you, his history will. He is believed to have once been a simple peasant farmer who offered asylum to rebels from a neighboring country. Instead the rebels betrayed him by burning down his farm, stabbing him 32 times, and taking his wife, who left willingly upon being seduced by the rebel leader. Left for dead, Achebe sold his soul to Mephisto and proceeded to track down anyone associated with his wife and the rebels, killing each one by stabbing them 32 times and razing their livelihoods to the ground.
- Even worse he's as clever as he is insane, as he managed to take over Wakanda as its new Prime Minister through political guile and good publicity, before setting murderous robots on the Wakanda populace for fun.
- The poor fate of T'Challa's stepmother/Shuri's mother, Ramonda. Abducted when T'Challa was a teenager during a South African protest by a white supremacist Magistrate of Communications named Anton Pretorius. Pretorius made her disappear via paperwork/bureaucracy and brought her to his mansion, where he kept Ramonda hidden from the public and sexually abused her for years on end, even keeping her tied her to his bed.
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**Erik Killmonger.** T'Challa's archnemesis, intellectual equal, and his physical superior, serving as one of the few people who can regularly best The Black Panther in hand-to-hand combat. He's also an Ax-Crazy angry black man whose plans generally include wholesale genocide or just to screw with T'Challa. At one point he managed to even take over Wakanda through ritualistic combat and remained ruler of the country for a while. The worst part about him however is his inability to stay dead no matter how many times he is killed. As long as T'Challa lives, Erik will find a way back to life to make trouble again.
- Solomon Prey's process that gave him his wings and claws is nothing short of nauseating. The process caused his body to grow and tear open from his back through a large surgical scar, resealing itself as the new limbs formed from his back muscles and bone. The sequence it played very graphically, and his body is covered in blood and raw flesh after the wings grow
- T'Challa and Storm getting tortured by the Skrulls. The Skrull commander himself is unnerved by the two as they are tortured and then recounts how they finally start to break. Then it's revealed it was all the ruse by T'Challa and the two being tortured were Skrulls who had their bodies and voices surgically switched to be decoys.
**Skrull Leader:** My soldiers beat them for what seems like hours without either of them uttering so much as a grimace. Occasionally T'Challa will tell us all to go to Hell. But other than that, they are silent. They never look at the Skrulls who beat them or at each other. They only stare at me. Icy stares that chill me to the bone. Only after we lay them down and the torture priests began to work with their blades, does T'Challa give in and glance over at his wife. And then he screams. They both do.
- T'Challa and his forces leave hills of bodies of Skrulls within their ship before painting a warning in blood: This is what happens when you invade Wakanda. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackPanther |
Black Mirror Series Four / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**Nightmare Fuel**Series One — Series Two — Christmas Special — Series Three — **Series Four** — Series Five
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*USS Callister*
- Imagine your geeky coworker moonlighting as an asshole Mad God in his own twisted little reality, in which you're
*an NPC*. A lowly NPC with little more role than a glorified actor on a stage, forced to play along or suffer the wrath of the aforementioned master.
- In his modified game, Daly has Reality Warper powers. If you don't play along with his fantasies, he'll do such lovely things such as stealing your face, turning you into an Eldritch Abomination complete with Body Horror, or
*shoot your six-year-old son out of the airlock while forcing you to watch.*
- The torture of having your face removed is as horrific to hear about as it is to witness. Suddenly your face is wiped off your head and immediately you have no oxygen and no sight. Your brain screams for your lungs to breathe but they cannot because there is nowhere you can pull air into your lungs from. Even worse is that you don't get the sweet relief of being rendered unconscious from it. You get to remain conscious and struggle throughout the entire experience in a state of perpetual suffocation because only Daly himself can decide if and when you die. If he is feeling especially cruel he can simply choose to leave you writhing in agony forever.
- Daly describing how his own son Tommy died as his father watched is incredibly chilling: a six-year-old didn't just die when tossed out into space,
*his body froze and then cracked like a porcelain doll*. And because Daly has Tommy's DNA in real life, he could torture a copy of Tommy over and over until Walton complied to his twisted fantasy. By this point, any shred of sympathy Daly might have from the audience will have vanished. And remember that Daly also has a power (but thankfully not uses it here) to make Tommy undying: if you thought killing the boy over and over was bad, now imagine him being thrown out the airlock and *not* dying.
- As awesome as Walton's heroic sacrifice was, being burned beyond recognition in the ship's thruster once it restarts is not a friendly way to go even if he was a digital clone. And this is even considering that he cannot truly die, and after the crew escapes into the main game and Daly's mod is removed, he returns to the bridge.
- Hell, Daly's possible brain death near the end of the episode is unsettling. The implication that his entire mind was erased causing said brain death as well as showing his body going limp while an eerie version of Silent Night plays makes you feel a small amount of pity on him.
- Him having a brain death is actually
*merciful* in this context. With how much emphasis has been put on Daly being a hermit and Callister being shut down for ten days, some people speculate that Daly's actually just in a comatose state, left to die slowly of dehydration. To add salt to the wound, Daly locked up his apartment earlier to get out of paying a tip, making it absolutely certain that he won't be found.
- The real Nanette idolized Daly and is probably going to be a wreck if he is found dead after she stole from his apartment. Also, as far as she knows, there are blackmailers out there who have her naked photos to re-use later. She knew nothing of the digital crew's plans. Finally, she left prints at Daly's apartment and presumably ordered a pizza to his address from her phone. If Daly dies and police investigate, she is in for a world of trouble.
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*ArkAngel*
- Marie spying on her daughter Sara throughout key points in her life takes My Beloved Smother to obscene levels, using a chip injected into Sara's brain that works in tandem with a tablet. She can see everything through Sara's eyes and tell exactly where she is through the tablet's tracking feature. Paranoia Fuel incarnate for anyone who's ever had an overprotective parent.
- When Sara is young, her grandfather has a stroke, but seeing him in pain causes her stress levels to rise. The chip blurs him out, so she can't see him or hear him telling her to get the phone. He only gets medical attention in time because the ArkAngel tablet notifies Marie that Sara's stress levels are abnormally high.
- The implant blurs out things that elicit a fear response from the implantee. Through Sara's eyes, every depiction of blood is blurred out, even including a simple red-colored-pencil-on-paper drawing. She pricks her finger with a sharp pencil to find even her own blood pixellated by the implant, and begins wildly stabbing her fingers with the pencil in frustration.
- When Sara has finally hit her teen years, she has a full-on mental breakdown courtesy of discovering her mother had watched Sara and her boyfriend have sex,
*then* secretly slipped her a morning-after pill in her smoothie. Sara takes the tablet and beats her mother bloody with it, only further twisted by the implant pixellating her mother's entire face.
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*Crocodile*
- Mia ends up killing her old boyfriend, an innocent couple and their infant son. Shazia is clearly terrified when she realizes her memories are cause enough for Mia to kill her; Shazia's husband was killed because he knew his wife was going to meet Mia, and the baby died
*simply because he appeared to see Mia in the house.*
- All this is caused because of the memory scanning tech, which has the potential to create a domino effect of utter catastrophe. For criminals (or really anyone in this future) it means that ANY LIVING THING can be used against you as a witness; Mia gets caught because of a pet guinea pig. For the innocent, it means that you can be a perfect witness — so desperate people will do whatever they can to take you out of the picture before you can incriminate them. This has to be happening
*a lot*, since the law has seemingly made compliance with any civil worker that uses these chips mandatory. Finally, there's nothing to stop less scrupulous people from using the tech for their own purposes, such as Mia forcibly reading Shazia's mind to see who else knew of her visit, before taking steps to cover her tracks.
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*Metalhead*
- Those robotic dogs actually manage to be quite terrifying. Their barrages of bullets make Your Head Asplode. No wonder this thing had to be shot in black and white. Yeesh.
- The way the robot dogs move is a bit silly at times, looking almost like stop motion. Other times, its jilted mechanical movements look unnatural and just plain unsettling.
- The body of the suicide victim in the house looks rather realistically decayed. There's even wet crunching noises when Bella tries to take the shotgun out of its arms.
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*Black Museum*
- The Pain Junkie. In order to get his fix, he eventually turns to graphic self-mutilation, starting with a sickening display of Fin Gore with a shard of glass, and ending with him with lots of bloody tissues and gouged flesh in the bathroom. There is the exact opposite of a Gory Discretion Shot. The highlight of this is his lips, marred with freshly healed scars that appear to be either a result of him cutting into his lips or suturing them shut. And before that, we can see that he's Not to mention the first shot we get of him is his feet, revealing that he's
*CUT TWO OF HIS TOES OFF.* And going back to the lips, the first shot we see of them is one where he is *pulling out one of his teeth with pliers*.
- The Pain Junkie eventually takes a cordless drill to a homeless man's head to sate his needs. Luckily we're given a Gory Discretion Shot, but we still hear the poor man's screams.
- The next story features a coma patient who agreed to have her consciousness transferred to her partner's. However, the arrangement proves to be stressful for the both of them so after failed compromises, the patient ends up with her consciousness put inside a stuffed monkey who can see, hear, and feel everything around it but can only say two things. Eventually, the monkey becomes neglected and forgotten. And I Must Scream at its most horrific.
- Having your consciousness trapped as an attraction and being electrocuted by a bunch of greedy or vindictive tourists for years. Thousands of souvenier copies exist in perpetual agony. Nish has no way to find and free them all, only the revenge of putting one copy of Rolo through the same torture.
- Speaking of which, Nish Leigh, Clayton Leigh's daughter, can be this in spades if you happen to be on the receiving end of her wrath. Just ask Rolo Haynes. Think about it: an ordinary young woman on a road trip from Britain shows up at your museum. She seems friendly and curious with a charming accent. Then, just as you show off your prized exhibit, you're coughing and having trouble breathing. Her accent disappears and as she tells her side of the story—not able to decide whether to break down in tears or lash out in anger—you realize just how screwed you are. And that's
*before* your physical body dies, as Nish attaches a familiar piece of technology to your forehead that you had a hand in developing. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackMirrorSeriesFour |
Black Metal / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Black metal is known to be a terrifying genre, and for very good reasons. Some aspects can even make Death Metal, its sister genre, look like children's songs. It's
*that one genre* that can easily give you a healthy dose of Sanity Slippage and Paranoia Fuel. Long story short, there's one word that perfectly describes the genre: hatred. And in an incredibly harsh way.
- The corpse paints look quite not-so-human, easily putting them in Uncanny Valley with absolutely no room for Fanservice. Some bands would even go as far as making it look very demonic, making them look Humanoid Abomination. And if that wasn't enough, a few of them would even mix the paint with fake, or worse,
*real* blood, adding an extra Squick factor to the whole deal.
- The riffs themselves have a very haunted, creepy feel, building a chaotic and tense atmosphere that only gets worse when bass and keyboard (if used) are thrown into the mix. Guitar solos are usually absent, but when they appear, they only contribute to the already-tense character of the music. The Loudness War only adds an extra layer of dread to the sound since the distinctive "lo-fi" quality derived from such a phenomenon makes the music sound like they came straight out of a horror movie.
- Shrieking vocals, commonly used in the genre, will send chills down your spine, especially if you are not accustomed to the genre, with their ghostly, pain-sunken, dark feel. Black Speech, if used, only make it sound even more menacing.
- Death growls taken from Death Metal aren't common, but that doesn't mean it's any better. In fact, listening to a black metal song with death growls instead of shrieking vocals can freeze your blood, as they are very good at scaring people with their demonic tone, especially if they aren't ready for such harshness within music, which would be even worse if both shrieking and death growling vocals are used simultaneously.
- Lyrics, while usually not as gory as death metal, are still more than enough to evoke nightmares. Loads and loads of lyrics are misanthropic, all of which create scenes filled with hatred and madness. The sheer abundance of Satanic imagery and a lot darker depictions of mythology don't help either.
- What separates them from usual Satanic imagery found in thrash, death, grind, and others is there are bands who
*legitimately are* Satanists and condone violent, vile and twisted acts. Several band also have very intimidating names, logos that look like actual monsters, as well as nightmare-inducing pseudonyms for the band members. All those would've been Narm or Narm Charm, if it wasn't the fact Serious Business ruined all the narmy parts of the genre.
- The situation isn't even any better if the bands are on live concerts. A few vocalists, such as Dead, Maniac and Kvarforth, are known for
*cutting* themselves while singing onstage. Other black metal bands also used actual animal corpses as stage props. once Gorgoroth played live on Polish TV on a stage surrounded by barbed wire with severed pigs' heads impaled on stakes and surrounded by life-size wooden crosses with naked female models (hooded) tied on Christian crosses, something you definitely won't see on U.S. prime time television. Watain probably outdoes other bands on this: their shows are famous for pigs' blood being sprayed all over the place.
- Whenever Satan
*does* get illustrated, he is portrayed in the most disturbing, monstrous, evil, demonic way possible, like a combination of Animalistic Abomination, Eldritch Abomination and Cthulhumanoid, but even worse.
- It doesn't help most album covers are monochrome, with a few shades of red added, making them that much scarier than most other album covers.
- At the genre's peak, the only way to get taken seriously as a black metal band was to burn down a church or two, as well as to torture and brutally murder a person or two. In other words, you have to be
*mercilessly cruel and cause terror in order to get accepted in the black metal scene.*
- TheTopTens has a list full of disturbing actions done by black metal musicians. It's NSFL for a reason.
- The Fandom Rivalry between the Norwegian black metal and Swedish death metal scenes was so fierce that there were
*reported incidents of Swedish death metal fans plotting to bomb and assassinate Norwegian black metal bands * And thou thought "west coast/east coast" rivalry of Hip-Hop was the most violent rivalry in musical history. **and** fans, and vice-versa.
- Greek and Norwegian black metalheads also hate each other to point of attempting to
*murder* each other's bands.
- A lot of black metallers who are theistically Satanic wanted to outright
**torture and kill** unblack metal bands. Talk about a Broken Base!
- Subgenres aren't any tamer. DSBM, as the name suggests, is all about depression and suicide. DSBM is filled with harrowing screams and lyrics mentioning self-harm, depression, isolation, pain, and mental illness in general, and the widespread black/doom and dark ambient influences only accentuate the grim atmosphere within the music. In addition, DSBM as a whole more functions as a form of art-therapy both for the artist and the listener, and the music wouldn't be created if it wasn't needed.
- You might think unblack metal/Christian black metal would be Nightmare Retardant, Narm or Lighter and Softer, since Christianity is perhaps a positive and peaceful religion (and the sheer fact that many within the black metal scene despise the genre and the associated religion)? Well,
One thing that reverses this? The Bible also has its own very dark and unsettling moments and the lyrics of most unblack/Christian black metal songs are just as nightmarish as their Satanic counterparts, or perhaps even more so, so **think again!** *don't* be fooled by its pro-Christianity imagery. note : You can say unblack metal is pretty much a Darker and Edgier offshoot of the regular Christian metal, and perhaps, the latter's Darkest Hour.
- There's also blackened death metal, which goes for death metal's pure, unadulterated aggression with chugging guitars, pummeling blast beats, demonic death growls, and gruesome depictions of gore, rape, mutilation, and murder mixed with Satanism, chaotic atmosphere and dark portrayals of mythology within the lyrics.
- The same goes for blackened grindcore in that it takes black metal and kitbashes it with grindcore in a crazed orgy of madness, creating an unholy hybrid between two genres that are already known for their dissonant, chaotic sound.
- There's blackened doom metal that combines doom metal's heaviness, sense of dread and crushing atmosphere with black metal's shrieking vocals, tremolo picking, Satanism and rawness. Even worse, stuff like blackened funeral doom and blackened death-doom also exist, and they manage to make the aforementioned genres
*even creepier* than they already were.
- For those who think blackened death metal isn't "kvlt" enough, we also have war/bestial black metal, which can be best described as blackened death metal taken up to eleven with hefty doses of grindcore, Harsh Noise, and powerviolence, making it extremely cacophonous and chaotic. With lyrics depicting wholesome and uplifting topics such as visions of apocalypse and conflict, total war, nuclear holocaust, and extreme Satanism along with the liberal use of gas masks, bullet belts, nuclear Baphomets, and goat demons laden with bandoliers on album covers, this genre is practically Hate Plague in musical form, indeed,
*pure fucking hatred and malice* incarnate. The main page describes this subgenre as black metal's equivalent to brutal death metal for a *very* good reason.
- Despite often being considered a Lighter and Softer, Dark Is Not Evil or at the very least A Lighter Shade of Black variant of black metal, even atmospheric black metal has its fair share of nightmare fuel. Many bands of this subgenre are heavily influenced by the already dark sounding Burzum and turn it up to eleven (at least musically), creating long and atmospherically dense songs that, despite being epic, are not any less aggressive. This is especially evident in space/cosmos-themed black metal, which is heavily influenced by dark ambient to create soundscapes reminding one of the vast, cold void between the stars or even galaxies, accompanied by heavily distorted riffs, very fast blast beats and utterly
*inhuman* shrieks and roars. Just listen to this.
- Then we have National Socialist Black Metal (NSBM), and the name alone should already be a good indicator for what it talks about. This subgenre glorifies Nazi Germany's devastating and horrific war crimes (The Holocaust, for example), and its fandom is extremely antisemitic, so if you really value your sanity,
*steep clear of this genre!*
- In the darkest and saddest form of irony possible, NSBM arose fast and far within the Slavic countries, the
*very* people actual Nazis wanted and attempted to exterminate. Harsher in Hindsight, much?
- The
*Helvete* note : Norwegian for 'hell', comes from the Norse *hels víti*, translating to hells punishment. basement in Oslo, located under Neseblod Records shop, is undeniably creepy, as it feel like you're walking through a dungeon, or an abandoned mad scientist's chamber. With low lightning, posters with dark imagery, general unkempt appearance and the simple fact of its association with the genre's more extreme aspects adds a layer of menace.
- The album cover of
*The Dawn of the Black Hearts*, a bootleg live album by the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, bears a photograph of vocalist Dead (Per Yngve Ohlin), shortly after his suicide on 8 April 1991. The photograph was taken by guitarist Euronymous (Oystein Aarseth), shortly after he entered the house the band shared and discovered the body. There are still people out there who are deeply traumatized by Dead's suicide picture to this day (mainly his family members and childhood friends)—and with good reason. The cover in question is downright disturbing, unsettling and definitely Nightmare Fuel. The those who has seen the cover, sweet dreams.
- The lyrics of Mayhem's
*De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas* are written by Dead, who commited suicide.
- Those photos of Euronymous gave us a really creepy feel, with him mastering his twist on Nothing Is Scarier.
- Dimmu Borgir's "Puritania". A song that starts "we'll do away with your kind" and then a robotic voice saying "exterminate the human race." and finishes with "Earth successfully erased". Most of the song is sung by someone impersonating a demonic robot.
- Their song,
*Tormentor of Christian Souls*. The lyrics are not overly graphic, but still extremely disturbing. The narrator gloats about how he *could* torture and rape someone but won't because instead he wants to break them mentally by destroying everything they love.
- Cradle of Filth:
- Try having a good night's sleep after listening to "Dinner at Deviant's Palace" or "Venus in Fear". We dare you.
- Dani Filth's unnaturally shrill screams are just terrifying. He sounds like a female murder victim from a horror movie at times. Other vocal techniques he uses always sounds eerie, too; his deep voice sounds like Satan himself.
- As a bonus for curious tropers, here's
*Dinner at Deviant's Palace* in reverse. Sweet dreams!
- Blut aus Nord's infamous album
*The Work Which Transforms God*. It is just so full of dread-inducing, disturbing riffs and ambient sounds. It almost feels like it was not a human who created it, but instead a extraterrestrial lifeform or just a person who were inspired by a musical culture that doesn't exist on Earth and, by God, is it terrifying.
- In addition, their later releases, with their extremely harsh and noisy textures and copious use of Drone of Dread, are quite unnerving, even by Black Metal standards.
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*The Work Which Transforms God* as a whole is split between eerie Drone of Dread and incredibly heavy, dissonant, and inhuman industrial metal. Special mention goes to the song "Inner Metal Cage", which has a part where the guitars and drums drop away leaving only a quiet humming sound, which is then interrupted suddenly by a bizarre, croaking shriek, after which the music resumes with a strange, robotic voice chanting over the riff.
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*MoRT* as a whole probably counts. The album is even more dissonant and inhuman than anything else the band has done, to the point of abandoning song structures altogether. And then there's the cover art, which looks like something from *Silent Hill*.
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*Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses* can be seen as the musical incarnation of Cosmic Horror within the genre thanks to its haunting, ethereal sound. Not helping is the fact that it draws a much of inspiration from the Cthulhu Mythos, another work that is already quite disturbing in its own right.
- Behemoth: Almost all of their musical output and music videos qualify, with lyrics referencing extreme Satanism and occultism by the boatloads. The worst contenders for videos include Lucifer and Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel.
- Silencer's "Death, pierce me" and "Sterile Nails And Thunderbowels" are some of the most disturbing black metal tracks ever recorded. Not only by his voice but also because of the gloomy atmosphere from the guitars. To make it worse, most of the YouTube videos add footage from
*Begotten* (an already fucked-up movie) to their tracks.
- Actually, the band itself can probably count as a major case of this trope. A Swedish suicidal black metal band who released one album, fronted by one Nattramn, who has an interesting backstory. He's a paranoid schizophrenic who was institutionalized. There are also rumors that he attempted to kill a six-year old girl with an axe, took psychiatric ward workers hostage, tried to kill himself and the cops and that he cut off his own hands and replaced them with pigs' legs. The last is only supported by a well-known disturbing picture of Nattramn though, so it's false, but who knows what other fucked up things he has done. He also has the most deranged and psychotic vocals you'll ever hear.
- It was actually his brother that attempted to kill the girl and committed suicide when the cops came. That said, Nattramn was no bastion of sanity himself, and actually was institutionalized after his brother's suicide. And the album he wrote while he was in the asylum was arguably creepier than Silencer's
*Death, Pierce Me* was.
- Celtic Frost: The music video for "A Dying God Coming Into Human Flesh."
- Actually,
*Monotheist* in general is this trope.
- Considering that
*Monotheist* **surpasses** the Darker and Edgier aspect, especially with "Triptych". Brr...
- "Tears in a Prophet's Dream", a Mind Screw instrumental track on
*To Mega Therion.*
- "1349", if you know your history
note : 1349 was the year the Black Plague spread to Scandinavia. It came on a ship where the entire crew was dead and the hull was filled with rats, has quite the chilling name. The title-track off Hellfire packs enough nightmare fuel for the album (not counting the other songs). The last minute is filled with nothing but the sounds of something burning and a dark Evil Laugh.
- "Bathory". Much like 1349, the name alone is spooky if you know your history, alluding to Elizabeth Báthory, known for a pre-modern Serial Killer, allegedly kidnapping, torturing, and murdering dozens of young peasant girls and drained her victims of their blood so that she could bathe in it.
- Quorthon's vocals on their black metal albums sound like they were ripped straight from Hell itself.
- The album cover◊ for their debut looks downright evil.
- "Reaper", also from their debut. Quorthon's vocals sound outright deranged, which isn't helpful given some of the lyrics:
- "Necromansy" also has similar vocals with an absolutely evil sounding chorus
*Descend from blackened skies *
On soundless magic wings
To spread the word of Satan!
And live in eternal sin!
- Equimanthorn from
*Under the Sign of the Black Mark* is probably the angriest sounding song in the band's entire discography. It is also noteworthy that this song was featured on the soundtrack of *Gummo*.
- The outro track on all of their early albums. A low Gregorian chant punctuated by a Heartbeat Soundtrack drum.
- Hellhammer: "Triumph of Death" has some pretty messed up lyrics at top of the already grim-sounding guitars, as shown below.
"When...you... / Have...been... / Down...in your grave... / ALIVE!!!
"
- The bootleg cover of Nastrond's ''Todeslaut'' features a band member with blood dripping all over his chest.
- Although King Diamond isn't really a black metal act (usually a mixture of Gothic Metal and Speed Metal), it is Nightmare Fuel enough to be considered as a honorary member of the black metal scene for reasons below
- Albums about living paintings, corpses made into puppets by a deranged magician and are very aware and alive, ground glass in dinner... His album concepts are pure made of nightmares.
- Same goes for his corpse paint, which started the trend of terrifying makeup for years to come.
- Thanks to King's vocal skills, he manages to turn an offering of tea into this in the ending of
*"Them"*.
"
*I bet you're dying for a *" **cup of tea**.
- The ending of
*Give Me Your Soul...Please*: "I'm moving on to **THIS house**."
- Venom's song, "Buried Alive" from their iconic
*Black Metal* album is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. The pained breathing of Cronos' in the intro along with the desperation in his voice at during the first verse of the song add another layer of atmosphere to the song. Definitely not for someone who is claustrophobic. *I tear at the lid, my fingers they bleed *
Is this happening to me, or is it just a dream?
- The ending to "In Nomine Satanas". It can only be described as Cronos' maddened ranting punctuated with the screams of Hell's tortured souls.
- Their lovely chant in reverse.
- The song "Black Metal", the one responsible for all the Nightmare Fuel the genre would later adopt later on, has a gnarly, menacing intro sound that not even your worst nightmares can conjure.
- While most bands fantasize about war and glorify violence they have never witnessed, the war metal band Damaar (Arabic: دمار) hail from Lebanon, where war perpetually looms, adding a layer of Realism-Induced Horror that few other bands can even hope to match.
- Xasthur: This ambient black metal project created what can only be described as the din-hordes of Mordor marching through all nine layers of Hell.
- Witchaven's album covers are very dark and bone-chilling in nature. Witchaven Terrorstorm has a monstrous creature armed with gigantic Kalashnikovs shooting down people and destroying buildings, Unholy Thrash Attack has Satan creating Armageddon with the army of his and their demonic wolves (with the uncensored version being even worse, depicting Satan himself
) with the help of his minions and Blood Sacrifice features Satan **RAPING A WOMAN SCREAMING FOR HELP WHILE SHE'S BEING BEHEADED** *taking and impaling on a sword a fully developed baby taken right before birth right from the mother's womb*.
- Much of Abruptum's music is extremely dark and unsettling even by black metal standards thanks to its heavy influence from Harsh Noise and power electronics, making every song they record extremely difficult to sit through. De Profundis Mors Vas Cousumet has vocals that sounds like as if Satan himself recorded them.
- Sortsind's Skumring is pure dissonant noise with And I Must Scream moments on top.
- Still believe Christian black metal is tamer and Lighter and Softer? Well, Christageddon's self titled song proved otherwise.
- Jute Gyte's micro tuned experimental black metal isn't the most pleasant to listen.
- Some consider many of Burzum's black metal melodies (especially
*Filosofem*) to be this with their dark droning and overall distorted character. *He himself* as a literal convicted murderer *and* arsonist can qualify for many people. On the other hand, some of his ambient material can almost qualify as Sweet Dreams Fuel ("Tomhet" is a good example), and although he is a bigoted murderer, he comes off as such a bumbling Cloudcuckoolander most of the time that the intimidation factor at least is wholly diffused.
- As Narmy as "War" is, the lyrics are indeed incredibly dark and do fit the harrowing riffs.
- Sodom:
Persecution Mania, tremendous dreams
Persecution Mania, alarmed about my life
- "Bombenhagel" has an extremely ominous sounding bass tab and equally dark lyrics about the bombings of cities by the Nazi Luftwaffe, ending with a foreboding guitar rendition of the German national anthem.
- Things get even freakier when Hentai
note : Definitely *NOT* something that first comes to your mind about black metal, considering its Anglo-Swedish-Norwegian origins, but surprise surprise, hentai fomr Japan has managed to come contact with black metal all the way to here in Europe. gets thrown into the mix (yes, you read that right). A black metal band named Vaginal Ass just did it with their album *Black Metal Hentai Wanking* and most of the songs are graphic depictions of rape, even the album cover looks creepy with tortured naked anime girls. And is it terrifying? *Yes, it fucking is!* So you have Satanic, Pagan, Christian, communist, Jihadist and neo-Nazi bands trying to one-up each other in terms of darkness and abrasiveness, then hentai have managed to enter the black metal scene and makes the already fucked-up things even more fucked-up. You know a genre is chaotic if you can fit all this in and make it even partially working. Apparantly, something like "H-Black Metal", shouldn't exist, but it does.
- Watain:
- Erik has a tendency to advocate violence and terrorism in interviews, all the while rarely ever dropping his polite tone.
- Watch or read any interview of his. The "wtf?" creeps in when you realize he's not kidding about anything he says.
- The song, "Satan's Hunger", and the following instrumental track, "Withershins" are just so damn eerie and sinister.
- Then there's this gem from the title track off of
*Sworn To The Dark:*
The all-defying pendulum
Of radiant conviction
So determined in its pace
Pounding now through flesh and bone
Like a hammer through a child
- "Stellarvore" is a menacing, claustrophobic 8-minute song about a terrible force awakening to devour the cosmos and destroy all life as we know it.
- The preceding instrumental track, "Dead But Dreaming", (its title, an obvious Shout-Out to
*The Call of Cthulhu*) adds new layers to that sense of claustrophobia.
- The middle of "Holocaust Dawn" is an unsettling cacophony of violins, coupled with some rather cryptic lyrics.
*Spoken* lyrics. May also double as a Tear Jerker.
Mind not my burden
Although it is the weight of all the sins
Their harvester awaits at the end of my road
Mind not my disfigurements
Although they are the pains of all flesh
For I run with the wolves at night
And quenchless is their hunger
- New York-based trio Imperial Triumphant are no slouch either in terms of sheer spookiness. Their music fuses traditional black metal musicianship with freeform and dissonant jazz elements in the vein of tech-death bands like Cynic and Gorguts, mixed with uncannily pristine art for a genre known for its rawness. The end result is chaotic, horrifyingly leftfield black metal that evokes the nauseating glitz and glam of the rich that get richer as the rest of the world crumbles around them.
- Tempel's Mountain not only paints a dark and grim landscape, but it also creates a tense atmosphere that only gets more nerve-wracking as the song progresses.
- There is even a creepypasta based on real black metal-related murders, and it is just as scary as their real-life counterparts despite being a role reversal for murderers and victims.
- Uninitiated listeners might find Revenge's music to be completely terrifying, and rightly so, given their nature as a bestial black metal band. Just about every song they have made are closer to frenetic, rabid bursts of crazed shrieking and grinding noise than music in any conventional sense, with the breakdown in the middle of "Wolf Slave Protocol (Choose Your Side)" and the beginning guitar solo in "Death Heritage (Built Upon Sorrow)" being two particularly horrifying examples of their musical brutality. In an interview from when he was in Conqueror, James Read warned fans of melodic music to not waste their money on his band's albums.
- Myrkur: Most, if not all of
*Mareridt*, not helped by the information about Amalie's Creator Breakdown caused by sleep paralysis and the amount of hatred (and *death threats*) over the project lead to the album's creation.
- Anaal Nathrakh:
- "Regression to the Mean" is a great example - it has a heavily distorted air-raid siren blaring in the distance, a choir in the background offsetting that, and Atilla Csihar's ominous growls, which are then distorted even more to create a truly unnerving soundscape.
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*I Am The Wrath Of Gods And The Desolation Of The Earth Music* is easily one of the scariest things that you'll ever listen to, even if you're a fan of goregrind, death metal and extreme music in general. It may not the most brutal song of all time, but it's a good contender for most *totally fucking necro* song to ever exist in the history of music.
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**Gnaw Their Tongues**. *Everything* that it has produced sounds closer to an auditory hellscape of pure madness, dread, and nihilistic despair than music in *any* conventional sense, even by the standards of black metal. Behold.
- Stalaggh: This vaguely Black Metal-related noise project consists of the sound of insane people straight out of mental wards locked up together in cathedrals, toppling over each other frantically while shrieking endlessly and inadvertently evoking the sound of the complete chaos, confusion and all-consuming sorrow lurking in the most base end of the human psyche, and is pretty much the most unnerving thing you could ever hope to listen to. The "performers" supposedly consented to take part in these recordings, though it's been called into question whether anyone that far gone into mental instability can really consent to being exploited for art in this way; thus, Stalaggh has always been a very controversial act and is often name-checked among Black Metal acts known for their often exaggerated crimes against humanity. (If you're wondering how this counts as Black Metal, there are trem riffs hidden in the cacophony occasionally, but they don't serve as much more than window dressing for obvious reasons). Listen here.
- Mgła: The album cover of Groza: A Nightmare Face screaming in horror. Fitting since the album's name is Polish for "The Terror".
- Cobalt: This will come with the territory of them being a Black Metal band for some people. McSorley's experiences in combat may also lend their music an authenticity some other metal acts may lack, which may make the albums he appeared on more frightening for some listeners. Even the non-metal pieces can be very unsettling, particularly the full-length version of "Ritual Use of Fire", which seems to have been specifically composed to be as unnerving as possible. The Scare Chord where McSorley shouts "You motherfucker!" stands out as a particularly obvious example of this, but the whole piece just sounds slightly
*wrong*.
- Cormorant: Aside from some of their more grotesque and horrific lyrics, the music itself sometimes invoke (or complement) this. Particularly the ends of "Two Brothers" with von Nagel's screaming and the heavily layered and distorted guitars, choral singing and string accompaniment in the last few minutes of the song "Hanging Gardens" sounding like something straight out of Hell.
- The Axis of Perdition:
**EVERYTHING THEY MADE**, most notably the entirety of *Deleted Scenes* and *Urfe*, due to the hellish landscape of sounds and vocals, but of course the surreal story of ||Urfe going to Locus Eyre, encountering monsters, implied to *have sex with Pylon*, become mutilated, and eventually becoming a Humanoid Abomination that Ascends to a Higher Plane of Existence which then corrupts the world||.
- Dissection:
- Jon's suicide. While most people who commit suicide is either because of depression or mental health problems, Jon however committed suicide because
*he felt he had achieved everything he had done with his life and career*. The fact he did it *voluntarily* is chilling enough.
- Jon himself, especially in the early days. Among other things, he made a list of potential human sacrifices, one being his own girlfriend. He also supposedly had some involvement in a ritual that involved the mass slaughter of black cats.
- Zeal & Ardor: At their darkest, they can certainly qualify, between Manuel's
*insane* Careful with That Axe, the oppressive atmosphere their music creates, and the at times incredibly dark lyrics. The title track of *Stranger Fruit* is a good example of this.
- Woods of Infinity: This underground Swedish band stood out in an already consciously transgressive genre by their pro-pedophilia themes. And it wasn't done in a silly or edgy way either. Songs like "A Love Story" doesn't feature any graphic sex, but is still repulsive enough to disturb even hardened metalheads. Then there's songs like "Genevere" where the murder of children is described in an almost sensual way, which makes it obvious that the writer was getting off on it. Lastly they also have some album covers featuring naked children. Since these obviously could be interpreted as child pornography, be
*very* careful when googling this band. According to interviews with the band, the pedophilia themes are meant to be taken as a metaphor for social alienation, and a wish to find pure innocence and corrupt it. They noted that they noted that they've drawn condemnation and indignation from people who usually preach about the destruction of the universe and humanity in their lyrics. All in all, Woods of Infinity was one of the most genuinely disturbing bands in a genre where people were competing for that title.
- Leviathan: Basically everything about his music, but
*especially* his screams, which are just inhuman. Then there's the hateful, despairing, and disjointed tone of the music itself. It really isn't surprising when you learn about the dude's Creator Breakdown.
- Again, his album covers.
*Tentacles of Whorror* might be the worst one, because of how obscene it is.
- All of
*Scar Sighted* is nightmarish, but the closing track, "Aphonos", might be one of the most apocalyptic, crushing things he's ever recorded. Between the brutalizing riff and Jef's tortured screams, it legitimately sounds like a nightmare. The haunting ambient outro doesn't help matters.
*I wanna see it in your face. I wanna see it in your eye. * **I wanna see it in your tears**.
- The chaotic atmosphere of the first two albums really add a sense of paranoia and sense of The Nothing After Death in
*The Tenth Sub-Level* and the hateful fury of *Tentacles of Whorror*. Special points with songs such as "The Idiot Sun" and "Vexed and Vomit Hexed".
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*Even non-metal stuff is unnerving*, the hauntingly depressive tone of the Lurker of Chalice debut and *A Silhouette in Splinters* can give a creepy vibe.
- Carach Angren: As over the top and cheesy the music is, it does
*not* dissuade how horrifying the stories the band tells are:
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*Lammendam*, focusing on the haunting of the Woman in White in the titular location of Lammendam. It is *not* a happy story and to the music doesn't help.
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*Where the Corpses Sink Forever* arguably paints this, with multiple stories of war being shown to a soldier by seven demons (such as the suicide of a violinist over the horrors of war, a child killing his father and his spirit causing the same events to occur, a cannibal soldier, ect..) and forced to relieve them for all eternity.
- You think that transposing guitar riffs to bass would make it better? Think again! In fact, playing black metal riffs on a bass guitar only creates an even more grim sound, comparable to early Swedish death metal bands. Arphaxat has showed that you can get an even more nightmarish sound by playing all guitar parts on bass.
- Memetic Mutation can sometimes make things even worse, in effect making it even more Nightmare Fuel. You know how to bring even more clusterfuckery to black metal? Simple. Add Kotonoha Katsura from
*School Days* in there. Watch how it means to add fuel to fire, and since School Days is known for gory ending (no less to Makoto's horrible personality), replacing Makoto with Euronymous and Varg imply a nightmare beyond the realms of imagination. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackMetal |
Black Mirror Series One / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**Nightmare Fuel** **Series One** — Series Two — Christmas Special — Series Three — Series Four
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*The National Anthem*:
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*The National Anthem* contains the Prime Minister being forced into having sex with a pig, which may sound silly but it goes sour quickly. Even those watching in-universe are horribly disgusted and wind up feeling sorry for him.
- While probably not as disturbing as the demand, there is what happens when they try to bypass it. Princess Susannah's finger is sent to the press. As it's revealed as an extreme bluff, the finger wasn't Susannah's. It was
*the kidnapper's.*
- People watching the stream are not horrified: they are
*delighted*. They are supposed to feel powerless to stop what is essentially a terror act, with the future of their country taken hostage; instead, they revel in seeing this as a Black Comedy (until they actually see the act and grow disgusted). Which is basically the whole point of the kidnapping: show them this.
- The reactions to the show are basically what an old saying describes: it's like looking at a train wreck, horrible to look at yet for some reason being unable to avert the gaze.
- The Prime Minister is not very well received and loved by the public (not until he proves himself, at least), which, combined with the sheer absurd audacity of the demand, makes most viewers chuckle at the idea. Imagine the public reaction (in-universe and in real life) if that was
*not* played for laughs. For example, by switching the Prime Minister and the princess around.
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*15 Million Merits* is an emotionally shaking experience throughout, but one of the worst moments comes when the protagonist Bing is Forced to Watch his love, Abi, now a porn star, essentially being raped in an advert. He can't skip the advert due to lack of 'merits', and when he closes his eyes, the room he's in emits a piercing tone till he opens them. Just imagine yourself in his position.
- Then there's the unsettling slow shot as he looks at a broken, nasty-looking shard of glass after he broke his room screen, listening to a distorted, warped version of Abi being raped and select notes of her song on a continuous loop. He picks up the shard, aims for the tattoo on his wrist, and makes a deep incision.
- Just the idea of being perpetually surrounded by obnoxious adverts that you cannot escape even by closing your eyes is pretty nightmarish in and of itself.
- Abi never contacts Bing after she begins a new life. It's never explained, and all of the possible reasons are equally heartbreaking. What is worse, Bing himself does not know the answer, making it all just all the scarier for him. Does she blame him for essentially being forced to sign her own cabal contract? Is she held there against her will, and possibly not lucid enough? Or did she immediately forget him, showing zero gratitude (even if that did not end up very well, Bing
*did* sincerely want to make her life better)?
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*The Entire History of You* ends with Liam apparently wiping his memories, which he does by messily removing his Memory Grain from his neck with a razor blade. And there's not a Gory Discretion Shot in sight.
- It's easy to miss, but the "gashed" party guest mentions suffering very little aftereffects, saying she retained her sight. One might wonder what other horrible effects Liam is risking, and what the black screen at the end means for him.
- The Memory Grain seems innocent enough, but seeing Liam clinging on every memory he has to support his claims or even the more humorous character who simply whines about the carpet shows how resentful people can be when they can review perceived slights over and over.
- The opening sets the tone. There is no longer
*any* privacy left in the world: whatever you do, wherever you go, you *must* show that your memories are clear or be driven out immediately. Every sin, every slight will live forever with the Grain. Not only that, but it's also how people judge you: in the introduction, Liam basically has to prove that he really is an Amoral Attorney to get a better job.
- Adding onto that, Ffion's obsessive and abusive boyfriend vibes serve as creepily realistic Nightmare Fuel.
- While calling the police during Liam's assault of Jonas, the woman calling can be heard telling the operator that she hasn't got a feed of the crime to show because she hasn't got a Grain. Then we hear her repeatedly calling out: "Hello? Hello? Are you still there?" And then cursing.
*Emergency services hung up on her because she doesn't have a Grain.* And how can we be sure they dont do this to everyone whos Grainless? Just how many horrible crimes have slipped by the wayside solely because the witness or victim didnt have a Grain? | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackMirrorSeriesOne |
Black Mirror / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*The future is broken.*
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- Let's start the same way the show does. The intro. A buffering icon accompanied by an odd low tone and an odd tinking sound, before suddenly breaking up into a series of progressively more and more bizarre shapes as what can only be described as static on steroids gets louder and louder. Then, the shapes form the words, accompanied by an earsplitting bleep, not unlike a broken TV broadcast. Then, the screen cracks. And you're left facing those broken words.
**BLACK MIRROR**
- It gets modified in the episode
*White Christmas* in which the screen fades to white after cracking multiple times.
- The picture above
note : for vision-impaired readers, it's a distorted image of a woman smiling while holding a phone, 'cracked' in such a way that it appears her friendly smile is twisted into an unnatural, demonic grin appeared on a billboard for the second series. Imagine seeing *that* on your way to work every morning!
- Even the trailers for the show are EXTREMELY unnerving and creepy, featuring surreal or disturbing imagery as well as warping electronic music.
- The trailer for the first series begins with a couple kissing, before zooming out, showing them on a screen within a screen within a screen, etc. Several of the scenarios that appear are somewhat unsettling — what looks like a porn film setup, a dark figure swiping through endless screens, a screaming woman gagged and tied to a chair... The list of wrong goes on.
- The second series trailer begins as a riff on Apple and gadget adverts, it has a 'wrong' vibe from early on, thanks to a digital voiceover not dissimilar to that in the Radiohead song "Fitter, Happier". However, it soon gets plain disturbing...
- Some of the imagery in that trailer includes: a strange symbol carved into someone's back; a wild-eyed man staring DIRECTLY at the camera; a man beating a tramp to death for a filming crowd; cracked and distorted faces; a bus and assembly line populated with masked, hooded people; a man either lacking eyes or with skin-colored eyeballs; and a crowd of people passively filming a huge cloud flooding the street in front of them, before ending with a small girl vanishing into the cloud...
- The voiceover doesn't help: the computerised tone is very creepy, and then it starts to break down entirely, finishing with the chilling "BE. YOURSELF. NO. MORE."
- The fake smiley-happy people in the 'nice' bits don't help either. At one point, we see a woman and a baby talking with a man through a FaceTime-like app on a tablet computer. It's all very shiny and happy and nice. Then later in the trailer, we see another shot of the woman and the baby. The baby is crying, obviously upset or frightened at something. The woman? She's still smiling... but it's a very glassy and frozen fake smile.
- The Netflix Vista trailer. In this promotional advert, the viewer is treated to a world where the eye-camera technology is used to stream Netflix. Random citizens are seen watching various episodes of Black Mirror through their eyes, while riding the train, waiting at the airport, standing by the sea, talking to a parent on their deathbed, all the while bearing frozen smiles and vacant white eyes. At the end of the trailer, when one man turns off the stream and comes to the dinner table with his wife, she is
*watching*... so he just turns his stream back on. Nothing out of the ordinary happens, **and that's what makes this trailer so scary.**
- The 2018 Happy New Year message. It's events from 2017 intercut with
*Black Mirror* scenes, and it makes perfect sense.
- It ends with the "Look in the Mirror. Do you recognise yourself?" line, but sounds so fake and reproduced that it makes it so much creepier you
*don't want to*.
- In a trailer for Season 4 one critic's quote is utterly spine-chilling: "at least we'll be entertained while the world's going to hell". | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackMirror |
Blank Dream / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*~ Realm of Blood ~ Bathe in it if you wish, and go mad*
Considering this is a game that starts with the main character attempting suicide and is considered a Spiritual Successor to both Ib and Witch's House, it is no surprise that
*Blank Dream* has its share of horrifying moments. **Unmarked spoilers below!**
- As mentioned above, the very first scene in the game is about Mishiro attempting suicide by jumping in a lake.
- The shadowy girl with red eyes that stalks you across the Mirror World starting with the room in the Realm of Beauty where you get the blue paint and whose presence is signified by the background music completely disappearing. It turns out she's the Big Bad. She is Utsuro, the white-haired girl from Yuzu's backstory who was revealed to be the daughter of Mishiro's grandfather Rinzou and the daughter of his mistress Tamaki after the former
*rapes the latter and impregnates her*. Tamaki tried to raise Utsuro with love as she had done nothing wrong, but as Utsuro got into art, Tamaki started to see too much of Rinzou in her, especially his rape of her and as a result, she snaps and kills Utsuro, who then goes on to create the Mirror World and trap the spirits of her parents in it after their deaths.
- The pumpkin in the Realm of Love. You need to crush it to get a candy for a boy to progress in the realm, but neither the knife or the hammer are effective and should you try that method, the pumpkin will kill you when you try to leave the room. And when you complete the puzzle required to crush it, when leaving the room after collecting the candy, you will find yourself in a dark, narrow hallway where the pumpking will chase you. When you are nearing the exit, the Scare Chord becomes higher-pitched and the pumpkin dons a Nightmare Face.
- From the same realm, the smiling beings attending the dinner. They hammer you to death if you reveal yourself a fake and they will chase you with the intention to kill you after you get the weary key. And if you keep smiling at them and fail to find the faker among them, you will eventually break and lose your mind, prompting a game over.
- The many Jump Scares in the game are scattered across it such that you keep on edge at every step down to the final realm. It doesn't help that some of them (Such as the spawning of Utsuro's ghost in the Realm of Spirits.) are entirely random. With every new item obtained, every lever or switch activated or every puzzle solved, you
*will* be with your hairs standing on end expecting something to start chasing you. Essentially, the savvier the players are, the scarier the game gets.
- The aptly named Realm of Death.
- The Realm of Blood. Unlike the other realms, there isn't actually anything in it that will kill you and it is actually the safest of the realms and downright pleasant in its Baroque interior and soothing music. However, considering all the other realms you've been through at this point, this actually makes it the scariest of them since you'll still be expecting death at every corner like in the previous realms and players will assume its pleasantness is but a ruse to drop the player's guard for a scare lying in wait.
- Not helped at all by the fact that the mirror of the Realm of Blood is the one where you can get the Bad Ending of the game. Said ending involves Mishiro snapping and killing all of her bullies, losing herself to the Mirror World forever as a result. It ends with the stoic Mishiro donning a Slasher Smile while covered in blood and laughing insanely.
- Julia Maria, the living painting that talks and even bleeds that is found at the very end of a narrow, dimly-lit hallway in the Realm of Beauty. She is actually one of the more pleasant and friendlier characters you will find in the realms aside from Ryotaro and Yuzu. However, you have to tear her open with your knife to get her blood as red paint for the painter blocking the way to the mirror. She is understandably outraged you would do such a thing to her for such a reason and goes silent afterwards, but blotches of blood follow you on the way out. The thing about her, though, is that she
*doesn't* chase you like the tree in the Realm of Greenery or the pumpkin in the Realm of Love, which actually makes it worse since, until you finish the Realm of Beauty, you'll be expecting her to come after you at some point, keeping you on edge the whole time.
- The reason Mishiro wanted to commit suicide. In middle school, her family was struggling with a battle for the inheritance left by Rinzou and Mishiro, not wanting to add more stress to her family, kept silent about her bullying until she snapped and attacked one of her bullies with a knife, drawing blood and causing her mother to be strict and distant to her. During that time, her father died in a fire, which made things with her mother worse. Later, she befriended Ayato and when things were finally starting to look up, Ayato sees a car speeding in her direction while he was walking her home and pushes her out of the way, taking the hit for her. It was then that her mind and heart finally broke.
- The truth behind both the inheritance battle and the car running over Ayato are nightmarish on themselves. The inheritance battle is a result of Rinzou, Mishiro's grandfather, writing his son off his will for not appreciating his art and then divorcing his wife for his mistress and his daughter Tamaki, who do appreciate his art like he always wanted his family to. When Tamaki turned 18, Rinzou
*raped and impregnated her*, ruining her life as a result and driving her and his mistress away. The incident scarred Tamaki so deeply that she grew a hatred of the whole Usui family as a result and when Rinzou left all his inheritance for her as his way to apologize for his deeds, Tamaki not only refused the money but she also refused to let any Usui have the money out of her resentment for the whole bloodline. Eventually, she had Rinzou's baby and later had a child with a man she married. That child was Ayato. And when Mishiro, an Usui, befriended Ayato, she tried to run over her only to end up running over her son. She killed herself as a result. Overall, one Big, Screwed-Up Family.
- How Yuzu came to the Mirror World. Unable to accept Utsuro's death, Yuzu started to study necromancy and one year later, she killed herself to be with Utsuro.
- The "Mistakes Repeated" ending. Mishiro lingers in the memory of her attacking her bullies and decides that since it isn't real, she finally has a way to get retribution. She then
*murders* the bullies. Or rather, *you* murder the bullies. You regain control of Mishiro, and the bullies start running away from you; you have to run into each of them several times to reduce them to pools of blood. Jesus. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlankDream |
Blake's 7 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The Federation is so twisted and corrupt that they have no compunctions with implanting false memories of sexual abuse that never happened into the minds of several innocent children, just so they will have some credible witnesses with which they can smear Blake with false accusations of an utterly heinous crime that will ruin his reputation forever. Think about that for a moment; there are a number of children who will grow up with all the mental and emotional scarring that child abuse causes, and whose lives will doubtlessly be ruined, purely so the Federation can destroy one of their enemies.
- Mutoids people who have had their memories wiped and are now slaves in service of the military. They appear to have some ability to think independently, which somehow makes them even more horrifying. Also, the cap on their heads, which is presumably covering some sort of revolting-looking mess of machinery and brains.
- By the fourth season, the Federation has developed a drug that blocks the production of adrenaline, enabling them to take over entire worlds in weeks. By "Warlord", we're told this drug has been refined so it can be slipped into the water or dispersed through the air. We're then shown a secret resistance video from a Federation-occupied planet. People with zombie-like expressions and numerals stamped on their foreheads, moving listlessly up and down elevators while a soothing voice tells them, "You are cared for. You are loved." The voice continues even when the guards get bored and start shooting people for fun.
- Avon stalking Vila with a gun, intending to kill him, in "Orbit". | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlakesSeven |
Black Sabbath (1963) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*Black Sabbath*: The 1963 Italian horror film (yes, the one a certain band was named after) has three segments than can and will haunt one's dreams.
- Much of the final short, "The Drop of Water", but the ghoulish face of the dead medium stands out.
- The clearly dead child calling from outside the house its mother, using her pain to make her open the door. "Mama, I'm cold. Mama, let me in. I'm cold." | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackSabbath1963 |
Black Sabbath / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Their self-titled song. A pure and prime example of
*"Diabolus in musica."* The song was inspired by a nightmare of "Geezer" Butler's. After reading a book about the occult, he fell asleep and woke up a bit later to see a silent creature with a black face staring back at him. And black means pure black. No eyes, mouth, anything — only black.
- When it first came out, this song was
*so scary* that the first time they played it, most of the audience ran out of the venue screaming. The ones that stayed yelled for it to be played again.
- Another common interpretation of the song is that it's about a dabbler in the black arts who inadvertently summons Satan himself. The unlucky summoner is then Dragged Off to Hell kicking and screaming by the Prince of Darkness.
- Listen to the demo version of this song, Ozzy sounds more like a victim of the demonic summoning.
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*Paranoid (Album)* in general is a trippy, disturbing listen. Themes of war, death, mental illness, drug abuse, nuclear fallout, a homicidal Cyborg destined to eradicate mankind, amongst the intense, fast, doomy riffs, established Heavy Metal as an unholy force to be reckoned with.
- "War Pigs", also from
*Paranoid*. The first and third part of the apocalyptic anti-war lyrics are accompanied with eerie silence save for the regular guitar hits and licks. Then theres the melodic, climactic instrumental Lukes Wall, when listening feels like falling through a labyrinth of flames.
- The alternate lyrics for the song's first incarnation "Walpurgis" are just as horrific, detailing the disturbing going-ons as Satan's followers sow chaos, death and ruin across the land on their "holy" night.
- "Electric Funeral", also from
*Paranoid*, is pretty damn scary for a song about nuclear war, with its nightmarish description of the radioactive fallout and the chugging pace of the riff, which feels like some sort of lumbering monster or something.
- "Electric Funeral" also contains an unusually terrifying example of the band showing their work. In the third verse, the reference to "terrifying rain" calls to mind the rain storms that followed the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Thick, black rain, filled with the ashes of burned buildings and people sucked into the mushroom cloud fell in the aftermath of the blast. Many victims drank the water to, as the song states, "ease the burning pain", not knowing that it was highly radioactive.
- "Hand of Doom" and its creeping lyrics about the sheer horror of heroin addiction. The harsh, stuttering guitar riffs in the later part of the song can be interpreted as heart palpitations during an overdose.
- The cover of
*Black Sabbath (album)*. A figure in black standing in front of a dilapidated house in a wooded area. For decades, information about the figure was unknown. note : The figure was eventually revealed to be model and later electronic musician Louisa Livingstone.
- The haunting whispering and distorted guitar at the end of "Children of the Grave".
- Solitude may qualify as this for some, what with its hauntingly quiet atmosphere throughout (including complete lack of drums the whole time), eerie bassline, and Ozzys strangely soothing voice which fits the depressing lyrics about the world being lonely and hopeless due to the loss of someone. Whether a breakup or the death of someone is up to interpretation, but the lyrics make either one possible, and the song closes with a reversed piano and every instrument slowly fading to the creepy sound of wind chimes off in the distance... Oddly one of the most beautiful Black Sabbath songs ever written at the same time.
- The album artwork◊ for
*Sabbath Bloody Sabbath*, depicting a man on his deathbed, grotesquely surreal demons mocking and tormenting him, a snake wrapped around his throat crushing it, and at the top of the bed, a skull with demonic claws, and 666, the Number of the Beast. Guarantee you this freaked out a lot of people in the 70s.
- Oddly enough, the inner sleeve art is much more serene and peaceful in appearance, depicting the same man dying a peaceful death.
- Filler tracks such as "FX" from
*Vol. 4* and "The Dark" from *Born Again*. Just give them both a listen in a dark room.
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*Born Again*'s album cover is particularly loathsome, depicting a newborn infant doctored to look like a demon child. *brrr...*
- Speaking of "The Dark", it fades into the intro of the next song, "Zero the Hero" where the opening riff sounds like a monster coming alive in the most nightmarish way possible.
- Also from
*Born Again*, your listening to the atmospheric "Stonehenge", when all of a sudden... "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" You're jolted into the next song, "Disturbing the Priest", a haunting track in its own right.
- "Born Again" from the eponymous album. A slow, haunting, doom metal sound with distorted guitars due to the muddled production give it an atmosphere as though an Apocalyptic Log is recording the coming of the Antichrist.
- Most if not all of
*Dehumanizer*. The majority of the Ronnie James Dio albums favors epicness over nightmares, but this album, from its cover art to its doomier sound makes this easily the scariest of the Dio Sabbath albums.
- "Virtual Death" from
*Cross Purposes*. The opening bass sounds similar to "Hand of Doom", while Tony Martin's hauntingly creepy vocals will wonder if you're experiencing a living nightmare.
- Say what you will about
*Forbidden*, but the opening 50 seconds of "The Illusion of Power" would be a great tone-setter for any Sabbath album. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackSabbath |
Bleach F / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Fanfiction can be used to spread new and interesting ideas. It can also be used to deprive people of their sleep...
- Karyu's Zanpakuto can hypnotize anyone to do anything.
*Period.* Even Adult things as Rangiku very nearly found out...
- And the default state? Just stand there and do nothing. ||Even if he's actively cutting you with said Zanpakuto.||
- Kurotsuchi seems to have indoctrinated Aikami into blind loyalty
*from birth*. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BleachF |
Blindspot / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- Jane's discovery in Time Square. Just from a duffel bag with no memory at all. Gets even worse when the ending reveals that she went through it willingly.
- A Chinese national wanted Washington to intervene to help his mother get out from the labor camp she was imprisoned in. When the government declined (and his mother subsequently died there), he decided to take his anger out on the entire nation by planning to bomb the Statue of Liberty.
- The US Air Force having a domestic anti-terrorist drone operation. And any collateral damage done to civilians is spun off as accidental explosions to keep the public eye away.
- The suspects planning a bioterrorist attack aren't actual terrorists, but actual CDC personnel who have a Humans Are Bastards view. It gets scarier when one of them's a US Army officer working alongside the CDC who has the same view.
- Patterson's reveal to Weller doesn't sit well with him. According to her findings with Jane's tooth, she was possibly born in Africa and not in North America.
- The revelation to Weller that Sandstorm agents had kept an eye on him for 20 years.
- Patterson's torture at the hands of Shepherd where she pierces her eardrums repeatedly with needles.
- Jane waking up after a residual effect of ZIP reverted her back to Remi with no memory of the last few years. The Psychotic Smirk tells you all you need to know, Jane is gone. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Blindspot |
Blindsight / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The entire book could be considered one. But some points stick out.
- The central premise of the book is as existential as horror gets. ||Self-awareness was an absurd evolutionary fluke. Were about to be out-competed by our own natural predators, hyper-logical A.I.s, and aliens who dont waste precious processing cycles thinking about themselves. Oh, and human psychopaths arent aberrations, theyre an evolutionary preview of humans evolving away from sentience again. And we only catch the stupid ones - the smart ones blend in perfectly despite being non-sentient.||
- Imagine you're Amanda Bates. ||Before Theseus you were quelling a terrorist group on Earth. You caught 4 terrorists and let your soldiers do
*anything* with three of them. Then you locked the soldiers up. Then you told the one surviving terrorist what happened, gave her a microwave gun and sixty seconds alone with the people who just killed her comrades-in-arms, after which time the two of you will sit down and have a nice chat. Cold? I say *freezing*.||
- Siri's journey home. On the occasions he wakes up he notices ||transmissions from ships who sound like they're fleeing the solar system before getting cut off abruptly. Channels which once played human music have been replaced with droning filled with vampires' vocal clicks and pops. After all, what did we
*expect* to happen after the human race resurrected its only natural predator, engineered away their only weakness, then started emigrating to digital "Heaven" en masse leaving our bodies as pre-packed meals? It was only a chance mutation that cheated vampires out of their natural position as apex predator, and it's strongly implied they've just inherited their birthright.||
- There's no FTL in this 'verse. That means two options: either
*Rorschach* just happened to be listening during the 21st century and lives within a ridiculously small radius of Earth; or there are millions of these things, scattered across the galaxy to lie in wait until a star system shows signs of containing a threat.
- The crew hypothesizes that
*Rorschach* is a "seed," like that of a dandelion, carrying the implication that the "species" (if you can even call it that) lives around and in sub-brown dwarfs like Big Ben and sends seeds out to new subdwarfs, eventually covering immense tracts of space. *Rorschach* is also still growing, and it's suggested that this incomprehensible cosmic monstrosity is *still a baby.*
- Everything about
*Rorschach* is on some level frightening. The artifact itself is described as resembling a city-sized crown of thorns, constantly arcing lightning and dimly illuminated by the red glow of the failed star it orbits. Its electromagnetic field induces paranoia and hallucinations in humans who try to explore its cavernous tunnels. And although the contact team's linguist is thoroughly convinced it's non-sentient, and therefore can't really "want" or "feel" anything, *Rorschach* ||nonetheless manages a *terrifyingly* good impression of rage and spite in issuing death threats to the crew.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Blindsight |
Black Widow (2021) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**Spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- The Red Room is a program that abducts young girls, subjects them to horrific abuse, and employs them as disposable objects against their will. The film's opening credits show a montage of Natasha and many other girls being transported in shipping containers and being forcefully dragged out by armed men, which has a particularly disturbing resemblance to real-life human trafficking. Malia J's cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is not helping. Highlights include:
- Masked soldiers forcibly dragging Yelena, Natasha and the other girls out of the shipping containers. As they do this, Dreykov can be heard in the background telling his soldiers which girls to take and which ones to kill then and there.
- The girls are forced to watch cartoons with subliminal messages as a part of the psychological conditioning.
- Some of the girls are briefly shown having their brains dissected by the Red Room.
- One girl is shown to have died from this, given she's covered with a bedsheet.
- Some girls are seen standing in a line, holding guns and shooting at targets as a part of their training, while Dreykov walks behind them, observing each one. He stops to look at one girl, and eagle eyed viewers will spot the girl being pulled back from the queue, implying that she was
**killed for not being good enough.**
- If you've watched the scenes of the Red Room from Agent Carter, that combined with the aforementioned scene creates a terrifying image of a merciless organization that does not tolerate weakness and is willing to kill the girls in its' care.
- If you pause the opening credits at the right time, you can briefly see Dreykov wrapping someone, presumably one of the Widows, in a tight and forced hug.
- The MCU's version of Taskmaster is highly reminiscent of the Winter Soldier's sheer Implacable Man factor. Wearing the traditional skull mask, heavy armor and making use of the Menacing Stroll, Taskmaster's scenes ramp up the tension of the movie. You'd be forgiven for thinking that, at one point or another, she was about to groan "Staaaaaars..."
- First, as Natasha is driving at night, her car is very suddenly hit by a missile. As she leaves the wrecked vehicle, she can only witness Taskmaster slowly approaching her amidst the flames. Despite her best efforts, Natasha clearly stands no chance and is thrown down the river below. All she can do is swim away.
- The Reveal showing that under the mask is Dreykovs daughter Antonia, horribly disfigured from the explosion that supposedly killed her and her father. What makes this moment unsettling is the dead-eyed glare she gives Natasha due to being under Dreykovs mind control.
- The fact that Dreykov was willing to brainwash his
*own daughter* just to create another soldier.
- Taskmaster's use of weapons, skills and tactics copied from one MCU hero after another, but with
*absolute ruthlessness* that imperils innocent bystanders beyond counting, can drive home just how much of a Mook Horror Show the likes of Steve Rogers, T'Challa, or even sweet Peter Parker could put on if they **really** lost it.
- While Taskmaster is an intimidating threat, the film's true Big Bad, Dreykov, is even more unsettling. Being heavily inspired by real-life sex offenders such as Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein, the film portrays Dreykov as an utterly repulsive human being. His climactic confrontation with Natasha, where he forcefully sits her down and leans close into her face, has an especially strong resemblance to an abuser gloating about his power over women. Which, in a sense, he
*is*, considering he already engages in Evil Gloating and controls all the widows' movements.
- What makes Dreykov particularly nightmarish is the fact that, at face value, he's just an ordinary man. A pathetic, cowardly little man, who can't even physically defend himself when Natasha begins her Curb-Stomp Battle against him. But the sheer power that he wields, both over the world and especially the women under his command, make him feel like a far more down-to-earth and realistic villain than the MCU's usual fare.
- In the middle of a heartwarming scene between Yelena and Alexei, a bright blue light suddenly flashes through the windows, complete with a loud noise. Given how the scene was relatively very quiet up to that point, its certainly
*very* startling.
- At the beginning of the movie, while still under mind control, Yelena goes after Oksana, who has the antidotes. During their brief scuffle, while it is bloodless and largely obscured, Yelena brutally stabs and guts her. When Yelena is freed from the mind control moments later by Oskana, she appears absolutely horrified at what she's done.
- Ingrid, one of the Black Widows, breaks her leg while chasing Natasha and Yelena. Dreykov uses his forced mind control to force Ingrid to electrocute herself using a taser on her wrist as punishment. Made worse by the fact that she was
*fully aware of Dreykov forcing her to kill herself*. The poor girl barely has enough self-control to cry to Natasha, "He's making me do it!" just before she physically kills herself - proving she wanted to live but was killed because she outlived her usefulness to Dreykov.
- Yelena's description of what it was like for her being under the Red Room's mind control (and by extension, the rest of the Widows who are still under mind control) is absolutely horrifying. She was fully conscious and aware of what she was being made to do, but was unable to resist because the drugs used on her kept her mind fogged over just enough that she couldn't tell the difference between Dreykov's orders and her own thoughts.
- The mind control itself is horrifying when you realize Dreykov has control over not only the Widows' movements, but everything, down to their actual
*breathing*.
- Also, Yelena's graphic description regarding how Dreykov sterilizes the Widows. (This was first brought up in
*Age of Ultron* when Natasha mentions how Widows have a "graduation ceremony" where they are sterilized to ensure pregnancy can never occur, thus forcing them to focus solely on their missions.) They do this by performing radical hysterectomies on the girls, which involves total removal of *all* female sex organs, leaving their wombs literally *empty*. Her graphic details of how they use sharp instruments and "chop away" at their reproductive system until all of their sex organs are completely gone leave Alexei justifiably disgusted and revolted.
- When the mission to infiltrate the Red Room seems to be going south, Yelena ends up Strapped to an Operating Table so doctors can cut up her brain and see what the antidote did to make her immune to the mind control treatment. They will do this while she's fully conscious.
- Made worse by the fact that other young girls can be seen having their brains dissected by the Red Room in the opening credits, although viewers won't understand that that is what is happening until they watch the rest of the movie and see the aforementioned scene. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackWidow2021 |
Bleach / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*Bleach* has always been quite extreme for a series ostensibly aimed at the Shonen age bracket. Hell, even when the anime censored the gorier parts, it didn't keep them from making it bloodi *er*, and they've occasionally made certain scenes even creepier than in the manga.
Notably, once the anime ended its run, the manga
*immediately* went Darker and Edgier, as well as Bloodier and Gorier, to the point where you could honestly mistake it for a *Seinen*.
- Rukia in Ganju's flashback when she returned with Kaien's body to the Shiba residence. The look in her eye is just...terrifying.
- Orihime's Hollowfied brother Sora tried to kill Ichigo (and Tatsuki, though less so) for taking his place in Orihime's heart. He then says he'll
*kill Orihime just so no one else can have her.*
- Mayuri Kurotsuchi from Squad 12. He turns his own men into living bombs with the skin bubbling shown
*very* clearly in the manga. He has *no ears or lips* either, and has a sickle attached to a fleshy cord in it that he can retract and detach at will. Finally his bankai Konjiki Ashisogi Jizo is a giant caterpillar with a baby's head that exhales poison and sprouts swords from its neck. Oh. And don't forget about how he planted those bacteria inside Ishida to track him? Imagine someone like Mayuri watching your every move, through millions of microscopic cameras hidden inside your own body, to collect intel on how he can eventually kill you, or anyone you meet.
- Kurotsuchi showing Uryu a picture of his grandfather's soul after Kurotsuchi had finished experimenting on it. Mild compared to the worst of the examples on this page, but still horrifying in retrospect. It's bad enough to be shown the mangled corpse of a stranger who
*might* be a distant relative, but if that corpse happens to belong to your much-beloved grandfather, you'd probably be having nightmares for a while afterwards.
- Not that bad? It's kind of hard to see right off the bat, but if you spend some time to look at him, you can see the picture pretty clearly in the reflection on Uryu's glasses. His grandfather didn't have a body anymore. Even worse: he hadn't been beheaded. Based of Mayuri's comments, Old Grandpop's body had been ground up, dissolved, crushed into pulp, burned away, or any other horrible thing you can imagine. Also, he was definitely alive for the start of the process. At
*least* the start.
- Hollows. Super strong and super durable The Heartless who grow to the size of skyscrapers and turn into a myriad of Body Horror, Eldritch Abomination, and Humanoid Abomination afterward. Oh yeah, and they're invisible. Have fun sleeping.
- Hollow Ichigo. Imagine having a psychotic, demonic Blood Knight rammed within your psyche. You hear its Evil Laugh every time you start to crack under stress, threatening to swallow you up. As a human, you can't do
*shit* to stop it. As a Visored, you have to fight this inner demon while your *real* body is transformed into a hideous Hollow-like creature, complete with a mask and hole. If you fail, you're doomed to stay a Hollow *forever*.
- Kenpachi's reiatsu-retaining eye patch is a tiny monster with a mouthful of tiny fangs. Right over his eye.
- The real Nightmare Fuel kicks in when you stop and realize that Kenpachi thought up the basic concept of the eye patch himself. Made even worse when you realize he wears it by choice and is constantly staring it in the teeth all day every day
- Hollowification. If the victim stays for too long or grows too resentful, their "chain of fate" (a fairly long chain with tiny mouths gnashing out) starts to nibble at itself until it reaches the chest where it's attached. The illustrations show the transformation, where the former "Plus" dissipates and reforms as a Hollow as white stuff spills out their mouth and covers their face into a mask, to be quite painful.
- Also, when a Hollow's hunger becomes so strong that the souls of humans is no longer enough for it, it begins to eat OTHER HOLLOWS. This often leads to the creation of the mindless giant Gillian-class Menos, but may sometimes lead to Adjuchas, the level that hollows like Grimmjow were in before becoming arrancars.
- It's mentioned that a Gillian is a mass of several Hollows. The Gillians that can evolve have a stronger personality that dominates all others, and that stays in command as the Gillian becomes an Adjuchas and later, a Vasto Lorde. Think about it. All the Espadas are comprised of
*several Hollow souls*, stuck together and dominated by the main personality until the Hollow dies.
- Gin Ichimaru's damn smile, which he
*always* has, even during the thick of battle or when he's committing some heinous act. You know that a character is terrifying when he scares even the other characters. Gin scares the shit out of Rukia. When she was in Soul Society awaiting her execution, she stated that even if he wasn't talking to her she'd get this ominous feeling like "snakes were curling themselves around her" and she could feel "every bead of sweat" on her body whenever he was in her presence. And there's the fact that Gin was a total asshole and told her that he would save her from being executed before crushing her hopes flat. Rukia's scream is the worst part.
- Metastacia. It's kinda hard to use words to describe this thing, so just use this picture.◊ If anybody touches the tentacles on his back, their zanpakuto is broken, leaving them at his mercy. Poor Kaien.◊ And in the manga it was worse;
*there were tentacles sprouting out of his empty eye sockets.* Not mentioning his habit of turning friend against friend. Imagine having to fight your friend, but it's not really your friend, even though you know it actually is.
- There was that scene when Muramasa invaded Ichigo's mind to control Zangetsu, and during the 'probing', Ichigo awoke on the ground of his inner world, then suddenly went to his inner hollows' version of that world, except that he was on the 'roof', with Muramasa standing a few feet in front of him. Without warning, a hole opens up on Ichigo's chest and
**dozens of arms forcibly erupt out from his very torso, wrapping around his entire body like a cocoon**.
- And the part when, after being rejected and broken by Kouga, Muramasa underwent a
*horrific* transformation into a Hollow himself, where his entire body, from head to toe, was literally and *repeatedly enlarging from the inside-out, shrinking back in proportion immediately thereafter and enlarging once again after that, simultaneously boiling the skin at each time*.
- Aizen's shikai. From the moment you see it,
*you can never again fully trust any of your senses*. That's a pretty goddamn frightening thought right there. Then there's how he *uses* it; in particular, tricking both Kyoraku and Hitsugaya into backstabbing poor Hinamori. Even worse, **his abilities even affect the reader.**
- Anything Szayelaporro Granz pulled qualifies, too. From chomping into his little minion and devouring him whole, leaving a skinny arm dangling from his mouth to
*forcibly impregnating Nemu*, making her stomach grow to an unnatural proportion, and *spew out of her mouth* (in the manga, he *burst out of her* instead) as a liquid blob thing, leaving Nemu extremely wrinkled, dried out, and nearly dead.
- His death at the hands of Mayuri Kurotsuchi is just as jarring: he is very,
*very*, slowly stabbed through the hand and chest. But that's not what makes it nightmare fuel. What makes it nightmare fuel is that Szayelaporro unintentionally absorbed one of many special drugs placed in Nemu's body while he was being reborn in her. Mayuri explains that the drug he just absorbed heightens his senses to superhuman levels, slowing his sense of time to the point that through his perspective, one second will feel like one century to him. By the end of it, he is **very** *begging* Mayuri to hurry up and kill him.
- Ayon, the monster summoned by Harribel's fraccion, and the damage it causes. Matsumoto gets a piece ripped out of her. And if you thought that was bad, just wait till you actually see it's face.
- Hooleer, the big tumorlike humanoid that Wonderweiss has just brought into the fake Karakura — a vast white veiny thing with no head◊, which vomits up a bloodlike stream of Gillians◊. Ew.
- Ichigo having a giant bloody hole blasted through his chest. The fact that he then runs around with that gaping hole in his chest somehow makes it worse. In an earlier fight, he was almost cut in half.
- Even more nightmarish is what happens after Ichigo has a hole blasted him and even more so
*why* Orihime sees' that Ulquiorra has effectively killed Ichigo and tries to heal him, while Uryu tries to hold Him off, but it *doesn't work* so she cries out for help, and it works! Ichigo is back in the fight, all good yeah? *Wrong!* Ichigo has turned full hollow, sporting a wicked new form that the fandom had taken to calling "Vasto Lorde Ichigo" and the next few pages/scenes show why, he brutally and absolutly decimates Ulquiorra in his most powerful form, a form that can throw projectiles many times stronger than nuke, and Ichigo tears him apart and goes to butcher Ulquiorras broken body, Uryu tries to stop him, Ichigo proceeds to throw Zangestsu through Uryus' stomach! Then just when we think Ichigo has simply Devolved into a mindless destructive beast, he starts speaking, the worst part about his transformation, he simply repeats a Madness Mantra over and over "I...Must.. I Must..I Must Protect...Her" (thats what it said on the translations i read), Imagine the horror, the Orihime must feel at that moment, he hasn't became a brutal monster out of a 11th-Hour Superpower effect, he became a brutal monster because of her and his Chronic Hero Syndrome *Massively* Backfiring.
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**Barragan Luisenbarn.** The spitting image of Death itself in his released form, he is a nightmarish ghoul enshrouded in darkness with a crowned *skull* for a head, who *rots the ground he walks upon*. And that's only in regards to the *ground*. Anything that ages and decays with time (even if it would regularly take thousands, no, millions of years), will be reduced to nothing in a short time.
- All of the Espadas except for Starrk have their moments.
- Aaroniero's released form.
- Everything that has anything to do with Szayel.
- Zommari twisting his neck like that to transform.
- Grimmjow's brutal beatdown of Ichigo, as well as blasting half of Menoly's body off and ripping Loly's leg off her
*with his bare hands*, and choking Orihime when she questions him.
- Nnoitra's brutal beatdown of Ichigo and the way he acts toward Orihime.
- Ulquiorra's brutal beatdown of Ichigo, his psychological torture of Orihime
*and* his mix of physical torture and mutilation of Ishida.
- Harribel's mask.
- Baraggan's Battle Aura of death by aging.
- Yammy's released kaiju form.
- Ulquiorra's psychological torture of Orihime was quite unsettling, especially the part where he threatened to force feed her and then strap her down to a table and give her intravenous therapy when she refused to eat after he ordered her to.
- Zommari releasing Brujería. Heads should not turn that way◊ —
*especially without moving the neck!*
- When Tousen had a jaw sprout out of his otherwise-blank Hollow mask. Look at what happened to his arm...
- The first fight between Ichigo and Grimmjow, mostly because Ichigo being utterly owned by Grimmjow is made worse by the fact that most arrancar's Hierro makes their skin literally tough and hard as iron, which means all those punches are effectively sledgehammers to the face. Ichigo is damn lucky his skull didn't cave in. Then there's the occasional tinkling sound...Was that his chain on his Bankai...or was it teeth falling out?
- Oh cool, we're finally learning Tousen's motivations and he's going crazy. AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
- Just look at the distance between his eyes. And the worst is, despite having turned into an insect-like abomination, there's still a part of his
*freaking human face* left! With ragged teeth, of course. And the fact that he still talks (having gone batshit insane, but not significantly more than a few seconds ago before his transformation), yet is unable to recognize his old friend.
- Grillar Grillo in the anime, his eyes making a squishing noise as he opens them, and his voice suddenly going from deep and warped to psychotically high-pitched as he starts screaming his new Madness Mantra was just really unnerving.
- Kensei's first Hollowfication, which not only makes him go berserk, but makes pillars start to grow out of his back.
- The scene in which Hiyori nearly gets strangled to death by a insane Hollowfied Ichigo with a huge Slasher Smile on his face. The English dub of that particular scene takes this up a notch. Holy crap, Johnny Yong Bosch! (start around 3:48) That crazy bone-chilling laughter...
- What makes said scene actually even more nightmarish is Hiyori's reaction, remember that all of them had to go through a similar kind of process to Ichigo, so she has Seen It All Before, even her reaction to her fight with him is boredom, then Hollow Ichigo surfaces and her face goes from bored to scared, after the other subdue Ichigo, she is in the corner with a terrified look on her face, jesus...
- Nnoitra's Hollow hole and mask fragments. It was revealed with him getting STABBED IN THE HEAD by Kenpachi.
- When we finally get to see it, the release of Wonderweiss looks like a level 4 Akuma. Much like Tousen, he still has a bit of a humanoid chin. The worst part of it is by far those goddamn arms◊
*erupting* out of his over-sized shoulders.
- Menos Grandes, and the the other Adjuchas in Grimmjow's gang (before becoming Arrancars) have some very horrific physical forms and faces.
- Ninth Espada, Aaroniero Arruruerie
*definitely* has the look of an ugly-ass Eldritch Abomination. His real "face" is a large, glass cylindrical capsule filled with *blood-red* liquid and two small, floating Hollow *heads*, that tend to talk at the same time when revealed, almost as if there's *two people* speaking to you. The upper head has a menacingly deep voice, while the other is more high-pitched and child-like, like that of a living doll or chipmunk. His zanpakuto is a deformed arm-like appendage with dozens of sprouting tentacles, concealed in his left hand under his glove. One of his powers is to *absorb you into himself*, gaining all your memories and abilities, which he can perfectly mimic to any one else he comes into contact with, *including peoples' faces*. He shape-shifts by forcing one of his heads through the glass, making it bubble into a coating of skin, which he then stretches to force the rest of the cylinder under. Finally, his released form is a MASSIVE, two-eyed, grinning octopus◊. For reference, that little yellow thing standing right in front of Aaroniero is *Rukia*.
- In the manga, Grimmjow kicking Loly in the stomach so hard that it causes her to vomit, and ripping off her leg. The look of absolute
*terror* in her eye says it all. Also look at how badly Loly disfigured Orihime's face. All of this was understandably softened in the anime (Grimmjow just swats Loly aside with his arm, psyches her out with a "Boo!" rather than rip her leg off, and Grimmjow's arrival interrupted Loly before she got the chance to badly disfigure Orihime.
- Think about this from poor Orihime's POV. You just got emotionally blackmailed by Ulquiorra into being a captive. Two awful people you've never even met bust into your cell and start to beat and abuse you over someone you don't even
*like*, let alone love, and then the guy you just healed busts in, kills them, and you're so pacifistic and gentle that you decide to heal them anyway, and to add more salt to poor Orihime's wounds, Grimmjow only wanted her to heal Ichigo just so he could injure and kill him. Let that sink in.
- Ulquiorra ripping out and crushing his eye. To say nothing of how he brutalized two Red Shirts by shooting gigantic holes through their chests with a Cero.
- The eye thing is mitigated somewhat by the fact it was more or less crystallized at the time, so it wasn't like he was crushing it into a gooey mess.
- Yammy's released forms, this dinosaur-esque creature◊ and a giant ape thing◊..
- The Menos Forest was rather creepy. Just a gray floor with dark gray pillars jutting up into a black abyss that is pretty much everything around you. And the fact that there are massive, and also rather frightening Gillians everywhere in the darkness.
- Tesra vs. Ichigo. Tesra goes One-Winged Angel on Ichigo immediately, and then proceeds to break every bone in his body.
*You can hear Ichigo's arm being snapped like a twig!* Tesra apparently thought it was necessary to slam him into the ground from 15 feet up 3 times in a row and then attempt to break his spine on two different occasions. Thankfully, Zaraki pulled a Big Damn Heroes and then took Tesra out in one shot. Now for all to enjoy!
- Worth mentioning from
*Turn Back the Pendulum*, the whole Visored incident. Imagine being out in the night to investigate something that apparently wiped out *captain-class* Shinigami. The place is away enough no one can reach for Soul Society for extra help — you and your friends are on your own. Then two of your friends show up, *wearing a Hollow mask*, having become mindless monsters bent on killing *you*. When you manage to defeat those friends, one of the unaffected people starts exhibiting symptoms too. Soon, all of you are becoming monsters and *there's nothing you can do about it.* Also, because of it, the military organization you've been treating as home wants nothing more to do with you, and in fact has *sentenced you to death as Hollows*. All of the Visored still seem quite traumatized by the event one hundred years later.
- Minor in comparison to the rest of this page, but seeing Hitsugaya in the anime viciously, determinedly stabbing his sword through Aizen's chest right up to the hilt for how deliberate it was. Not even taking into account what happened next...
- Chapter 403 gives us Aizen's new form. As Ichigo himself states in the chapter: "What...the fuck...is that..."
- Following up on Chrysalis-Aizen, this is what happens after he's hit with a big-ass Getsuga. Special note is that, when injured, he doesn't bleed, his skin
*cracks* instead, with *no* reaction at all from the guy, implying that he can't feel *anything* anymore.
- Chapter 409: Upon reaching the real Karakura Town, Aizen began
*randomly slaughtering passerbys.* Keep in mind, most of which *can't even see him.* And he isn't even doing so with intent; his Battle Aura is so strong, anything made of reishi (spirit particles), which includes peoples' souls, that isn't used to such a strong aura, gets *splattered*. Only those that actually have something to resist can *try* to survive. That means Aizen is now currently so powerful that his mere presence is enough to kill *the entire human population*. Oh. He also goes after Ichigo's friends, intending to kill them in the hopes that it'll provoke Ichigo into becoming more powerful.
- Chapter 415 What Aizen's cronies did to Matsumoto. She was one of the people they beat up and took a piece of her soul to power up Aizen's Hougyoku. Made worse by the fact that the state they left her in makes it look like she was raped.
- 416. Up until now, Aizen has cleanly cut his enemies down. Then he slashed them across the chest, then ripped off an arm, stabbed through the chest, and finally throwing the already dying victim through a building. With that perfectly calm smile. And Aizen's doing this to Gin, who had just then betrayed him and was the last subordinate he had. And here the good guys at least had the hope of going down without too much pain...
- Chapter 419. Aizen's transformation and his final form, now animated at
*Neon Genesis Evangelion* levels of scary:Sweet dreams!◊
- In Chapter 450, Ginjou
*slashes Ichigo's eyes*. And in Chapter 451, he deals him a *huge* No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
- Tsukishima manages to be an even
frightening and threatening villain than Aizen could **more** *ever* hope to be; with his Fullbring, he can rewrite the past of anyone and anything he cuts, and uses it to turn all of Ichigo's friends against him. The mindgames he plays on people are simply terrifying.
- Ginjo was already hit with "Book of the End", and being hit twice TURNED HIM BACK TO NORMAL: The actual villain of the arc. He and Tsukishima effectively took the very concept of True Companions that gives strength to so many Shōnen Genre protagonists, defeated it, and virtually made it their bitches.
- Chapter 462: Tsukishima mindraping Orihime and Chad when they start breaking off from his control. He seems to be enjoying it too.
- This also happens to be the first time we're seeing things ''from the perspective of somebody affected by him. Even Ginjo dislikes Tsukishima's usage of his Fullbring as it can completely destroy the victim's MIND and make them Empty Shells with overuse. His reaction is Lack of Empathy.
- Kutsuzawa looks creepy with this unsettling transformation◊.
- [The monsters that Yukio summoned into his fullbring and that he was almost killed by them.
- Relatively minor, but Ikkaku fixing his broken shoulder in the anime is grotesque. It almost looks like there's something alive under his skin as his muscles move to heal his arm.
- The backgrounds of some of the Fullbringers: Jackie returning home with her dead brother in her arms to find her family slaughtered. Or Kutsuzawa killing his own wife on a whim. Riruka kidnapping a guy she liked and locking him in a dollhouse... And what exactly happened to Yukio's parents?
- Due to Hollow's having slipped far, far down in the Villain Pedigree they were resorted to being comedic in filler, it can be easy to forgot just how horrifying they can be. Chapter 480 was more than happy to remind us. Two pages earlier.
- Ebern's Nightmare Face as he's about to attempt to steal Ichigo's Bankai. The anime version of this scene is even
*more* terrifying, especially because they decided to make it a straight-up Jump Scare on top of making it deliberately Off-Model. There are 2 frames of animation before the panel is recreated, each one not showing him smiling, then all of a sudden...BAM! Instant Slasher Smile right in the viewer's face. Pleasant dreams!
- The anime adaptation adds in a minor scene which shows the exact moment when Harribel was beaten, and as she looks up, all she sees are the countless silhouettes of the Wandenreich soldiers marching in formation towards her as Yhwach just floats above them, his sheer power alone creating a massive thunderstorm behind the army. Even if "Letzte Bataillon" was playing in the background, it wouldn't quite do the shot justice.
- Chapter 488. If you thought Mayuri's freakishly-painted face was scary, you may want to skip this (very spoileriffic) panel.
- Chapter 492: Ayon's rampage is an in-universe moment, but the biggest one is after the rampage: Kirge is still alive after having his neck snapped like a twig, and just puts it back in place.
- Chapter 493: We get to see the pleasant sight of people's flesh being
*disintegrated from their bones.* Up to and including seeing seeing Ayon being reduced to a skeleton, in a way somehow much more gruesome than the similar fate of those affected by Baraggan's ability.
- Which leads to this humanoid abomination of a one-winged angel.
- Chapter 494: Interesting that they introduced several officers at once with zanpakutous to boot at once. That means that they'll probably be cannon fodder to the Vandenreich while — DID ONE OF THEM BLAST KIRA'S RIGHT SIDE OFF?! 1,000+ deaths in 7 minutes? Aizen, can you be our Big Bad again?
- Even more so, does poor Kira's horrifying injury look familiar? Yes, it's disturbingly similar to what happened to Matsumoto in the FKT arc. Only that, instead of having his right side merely torn by a Giant Mook's hand, the upper half of his body was blasted off. Auuuugh.
- Originally we thought that there were only 7 Stern Ritter, 7 Stern Ritter than completely annihilated 1/3 of the Seireitei, then in Chapter 495 we find out that they're ranked by letter and Rose comes face to face with Nanana Najahkoop who is Stern Ritter
**U**...U being the *21st* letter of the alphabet...that means there is a strong chance there are 26 Stern Ritter...look at how much destruction those 7 caused, and it turns out that there are literary **THREE TIMES MORE OF THEM**.
- They're probably all there; eleven pillars of light can be seen on panel, and probably more off, when they first touch down, and some didn't appear until the next chapter, Nanana included. Not that this helps much...
- The scary thing is there may be 30 of them because the German alphabet has 30 letters and this arc has a German theme.
- Äs Nödt screams this. Pitch black eyes, check. An instant-kill-attack, check, doesn't seem to speak, check. To top this off, even the Shinigami started running from the character.
- The shinigami killed by Nodt
*keep on screaming even after they die*.
- Made worse by the fact (s?)he stole a bankai, specifically Byakuya's.
- And has now used Senbonzakura Kageyoshi to turn Byakuya into a fountain of blood. As Nodt
**is** the living embodiment of Nightmares.
- Because of a miscalculation, four captains have now had their bankai
*stolen* before they get the chance to set them off. So much that it gives resident stoic Byakuya a legendary Oh, Crap! face, too shocked to even hide it.
- Well, keep in mind that the above were only the mid-tier captains, surely the senior captains will —
*and* Shunsui's lost an eye...oh shit.
- The effects of the bankai thievery sound part Tear Jerker and part this when Toshiro was breaking down because he couldn't communicate with Hyorinmaru. It sounds like not only it was just a stolen ability, but his partner was outright ripped out and imprisoned, and likely may not be able to use his shikai either.
- Straight from the 500th chapter, we have Ichigo trapped in the Garganta, he can hear everything from the battle... If you can call it a battle, but can't be heard by anyone. Also, the members of the Science and Development team alongside Jidanbo are forced to attack each other during this.
- Chapter 501...
**ALL OF IT**. How so?
- Ichigo is still trapped. And still hearing everyone... everyone but the True Companions. Even with Kirge slain, it's still nerve-and-heartbreaking.
- As Nodt vs Byakuya. As succeeds where Tsukishima has failed... by mind raping Byakuya. As Nodt's explains that his/her ability is shooting arrows that augment fear at his enemies, causing them to literally be scared to death.
- Byakuya fights it well and reminds himself that he fights for Rukia... but he soon succumbs to it. And this image◊ of Rukia disintegrating and becoming a zombie
*does not help*! Tite Kubo can be insanely good at Psychological Horror, **and it shows**. The page image is now the anime version of this scene, and they made it even *worse* there by turning it into a Jump Scare. One moment Byakuya is thinking of Rukia, the next her image *flash-forwards* into a decomposed, rotting state.
- As Nodt then proceeds to give Byakuya a "The Reason You Suck" Speech on the true nature of fear, and as it's happening we are treated to a horrifying view of
*thousands of insects* crawling all over Byakuya. By the time said speech is finished, the hallucinated insects have crept up to Byakuya's face and even begun crawling inside his mouth right before he completely loses his composure and **screams** as he futilely tries to attack his opponent. You *know* things are seriously screwed when Byakuya Kuchiki, one of the most stone-faced characters in the series, is driven to the point where he can no longer maintain his intense emotional balance and just *breaks*.
- And at the end, Byakuka
*is attacked by his own Bankai*, blood jettisoning from his body.
- This chapter really makes it clear that the shinigamis are going through their worst nightmare:
- Their first line of defense is the Shakonmaku, which stops and disintegrates anything unauthorized that tries to get into the seiretei. Too bad the Quincies are able to get inside with no trouble, allowing them to casually reach and attack even the soldiers in the rear.
- The Gotei 13's strength relies mainly on their 13 captains. Except even captains are struggling and getting overpowered. Foot soldiers die in droves and even vice-captains get one-shotted.
- It should be ok though, because captains have their trusted trump card: the bankai. The ultimate technique of a shinigami, so exceptional and rare that any shinigami who can use it leaves a trace in soul society's history.
*Nope!* The quincies can not only nullify this (easily even), they can outright steal bankais and use it to increase *their* own offensive power.
- At least, Ichigo, the one who saved them from Aizen and a shinigami whose bankai can't be stolen is on his way. Try again! Soul society can't reach Ichigo anymore, and they have no idea why. Even their mission control is falling.
- In the end, even Kuchiki Byakuya, head of one of the four noble families, the most famous of the 13 captains and a role model for every shinigamis is completely helpless and falls to As Nodt.
- Chapter 502 gives us As Nodt repeatedly using Senbonzakura to turn Byakuya into a mangled bloody mess.
- Also,Byakuya's bloody body lying in a huge crater in the wall. It is not pretty.
- Neither is the scene in which where his right arm is severed. O U C H.
- Chapter 503: Ichigo seems to be starting to suffer a mental breakdown from not being able to break out of the cage.
- Chapter 504: Yamamoto oneshotting Driscoll Berci by
*actually melting him*. Admittedly overlaps with Moment of Awesome by virtue of the recipient.
- It should also be mentioned that Driscoll's skeletal structure could be seen in the fire. Prior to this, nobody got scorched
*that badly* by Yamamoto, which shows how personally he took it. Yeah, do not piss him off.
- Chapter 505: Kenpachi
*lost* to the Emperor. How do we know he got his ass handed effortlessly? Yhwach is holding him up by a few fingers impaled in his face, the eyes are blank (no eyepatch!), and Kenpachi isn't displaying *any* sign he enjoyed the battle. It is *chilling* to watch, especially how the few panels prior was Yamamoto's rage riling up the Soul Society.
- Chapter 507: Zanka No Tachi's power and heat is so intense that it is causing all of the moisture in Soul Society to vanish. Unohana even tells Yamamoto to finish the fight quickly before Zanka no Tachi destroys Soul Society.
- Chapter 508: Zanka No Tachi, Minami: Kaka Juuman Okushi Daisoujin. Just try imagining Yamamoto raising 100,000 skeletons of the people he's killed to fight against you. Said skeletons are
*charred* and at least a few of the people he killed were Stern Ritter. Yamamoto pissed off is Nightmare Fuel. The Hellfire imagery, The Sheer Beastial/Demonic faces. If you came into this chapter blind, YOU THINK YAMAMOTO IS A VILLAIN from the bowels of hell!
- Chapter 509: Continuing from the above. Yamamoto purposefully attacks Yhwach with the Quincy he's killed so he'd have fight his way past them.
- Yamamoto's rampage has been truly terrifying except when the final lines of the chapter are spoken...you just realize how screwed he is.
- Episode 7 of this arc's anime adaptation begins with a scene shown for the first time: Yhwach leading the Lichtreich army to the Soul Society only to be met by the very first Captains of the Gotei 13. Said Captains proceed to not drive off, not defeat, but
*massacre* the Quincies with expressions ranging from stoicism to serenity to even *delight*. Meanwhile, a younger Yamamoto marches across the body-covered battlefield with his blazing sword, callously striding across corpses without hesitation towards Yhwach. Certainly an impressive moment, but it also punctuates Yhwach's claim that the original Gotei 13 had been nothing more than a pack of violent killers.
- Chapter 511, Yamamoto dies. Not only is he cut in half, his hand gets cut off, and his entire body gets completely disintegrated. Even if Orihime can get to Soul Society, he almost certainly can't be brought back. Also, the Vandenreich has brought in their army to destroy all of Soul Society, and are now in the process of massacring the few Shinigami left.
- Chapter 512: The sheer look of
on Ichigo's face, you can hardly blame him though, he was essentially trapped in a cage, helpless and forced to listen to his friends **rage** *die*.
- The anime expands on this by showing us what Ichigo is seeing: he can feel everyone who's fighting as countless lights,
*and they're being rapidly extinguished one by one* as he *screams at them* not to disappear.
- The death glare on the final page of Chapter 520. Combine that with who it's from: the normally cheerful, but nonetheless universally feared Unohana. Oh, and by the way, it turns out her real name is Yachiru Unohana, and she's the original Kenpachi.
- It's particularly effectively done, because of how her face usually looks. Her neat hairstyle and calm expression normally adds to her 'motherly' image.
*Here* Unohana is shown partly in shadow; her hair frames her face in a way that make it looks like a mask and her expression is less 'calm' than it is blank and deathly.
- Also, the manner in which Tenjirou's Healing springs work may be very beneficial, but it sounds horribly... uncomfortable. To get healed, you have to be totally submerged in one of them, which sucks out the damage to your body and reiatsu and drains it into another pool. There, said damaged blood/reiatsu are sucked into a skeleton bone and replenished in the pool... which instead of water, is made of blood.
*And you get tossed into that blood pond to continue the process*. Later, rinse, repeat, until your health is fully restored. Also, if you're healthy... you have to get out ASAP before the healing springs work *against* you, making your body **explode**. (Hence why Tenjirou's assistants must wear protection). Yeah, it does work wonders on Ichigo and Renji and ultimately saves Rukia and Byakuya too, but *still*. Ewwwww.
- Even more nightmare-worthy facial expressions from Unohana in Chapter 523. She's like a completely different person now, complete with Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl style hair...
- The things that Ichigo and Renji are fighting are no better. They appear to have
*mouths* where their eyes are *supposed* to be. It doesn't help they are filled with anger either.
- And that one page where it looks like they're crying...or maybe drooling?
- Unohana's training regimen for Kenpachi in Chapter 524. In a series that typically involves characters calling out their attacks and explaining their abilities, she quickly and brutally takes down Kenpachi, culminating in a killing slice to his neck...and then she
*heals it.* She intends to heal every fatal blow she lands, just so Kenpachi can survive long enough to learn from the training. That alone demonstrates just how deadly Unohana really is.
- Also, Kenpachi's reaction when he realizes that he's unable to kill Unohana, and that she's about to kill him. That's probably the only time in the series in which Kenpachi looks scared.
- Kenpachi Zaraki has never had any formal training as a Soul Reaper. Central 46 had to pass a law forbidding his formal instruction just to make sure he wouldn't get so strong they couldn't control him. Now picture Kenpachi Zaraki, with formal training as a Soul Reaper, with all of his spiritual energy, and proper fighting techniques, and, against the law of his squad, KIDO. Him just swinging his sword with both hands was enough to one shot Nnoitra. Now imagine that kind of power coming after you.
- Chapter 525 not only re-affirms this but takes it up to eleven. When Zaraki and Unohana first fought each other, Zaraki was only
**a child**, but he was **stronger** than Unohana. He even had his Zanpakuto back then, and it was still the same, chipped, constant-release nameless Zanpakuto that it is today. Zangetsu once said the disunity between Zaraki and his Zanpakuto and not knowing its name weakened both Zaraki and the Zanpakuto. To top it all off, the reason why Zaraki is weaker than what he used to be is because he was afraid of losing the one person who made him enjoy a fight, so he subconsciously limited his power. Take away the subconscious limiter, have him use proper swordsmanship and learn the name of his Zanpakuto. With every last thing that is limiting Zaraki's true potential rectified, imagine how powerful he can become...
- Unohana's bankai... WTF?
- Yes, it would seem Unohana's Nausea Fuel Bankai dissolves everything. In an extremely disgusting manner. And even more disturbingly, she seems to be the one that is intentionally keeping Zaraki alive, no matter how much he is dissolved. Because she cares. It would also seem that Unohana is fully capable of killing Zaraki whenever she damn well pleases, but cedes her own life because she deems him worthy of the title of Kenpachi. He may not be as skilled as her, but she clearly respects his raw power and future potential.
- Zaraki Kenpachi is about to learn his Zanpakuto's name. This is a moment fandom has been anticipating for a long time and now, having regained his former power that surpasses the second-strongest Shinigami in Soul Society, he is about to finally learn the name of and to start working together with his Zanpakuto. When Ichigo began working together with Zangetsu in his fight with Zaraki, Ichigo went from being beaten on the ground to overwhelming Zaraki and eventually beating him. One can only imagine what heights Zaraki will achieve...it seems Godpachi might become reality.
- Also the test Ichigo and Renji had been subjected gives more nightmare fuel since it gives us a timeframe Unohana was killing and reviving Kenpachi for 3 straight days so yeah its confirmed if she wanted to Unohana won't let you die until she wanted you to die.
- One of the volume sketches in Vol 55 is the Vandenreich symbol with the word "Peace" written in blood. It's very ominous.
- In Chapter 530 a Shinigami's head is split in half
*horizontally* in the blink of an eye. The look in his eyes shows he barely had time to realize that he was dead.
- In Chapter 534 Masaki suffers some after effects of letting that proto-arrancar bite her... and it causes her to gain what looks like a Hollow Hole and bulging veins it looks pretty horrible. Remember what happened to the Visored? It's the same thing. The one revealing it is none other than Urahara, and he's
*dead* serious.
- In Chapter 535 poor Masaki finds herself floating helplessly naked into a massive hollow's mouth. Thank God Isshin saved her.
- Chapter 537: We learn the
*real* reason why Masaki died. She had her powers stolen by the Vandereich leader, simply because he considered her "tainted" and/or "not strong enough". And this happened *right when she was about to fight Grand Fisher*, which she could have defeated easily if not for Yhwach's intervention.
- For worse, she wasn't the only victim.
*All* remaining Quincies who didn't fit Yhwach's standard of "purity" suffered the same fate. Including Uryuu's mother Kanae, who fell in a coma and died three months later.
- And as of 544, we have confirmation that Uryuu's survival wasn't for lack of trying on Yhwach's part.
*He tried to kill an 8 year-old just for existing.*
- Chapter 544 has Bambietta inviting a Quincy guy over to her room, apparently having sex with him and then slicing him in two out of frustration. You can see his body falling apart in front of the camera as she calmly, almost dully stares on. When the FemRitters appear, they don't necessarily disapprove of her brutality; they just don't like how she made a mess and killed a hunk before they could have their own fun with them. Granted, he
*did* accept her offer at the beginning, and he was a Neo-Nazi by default, so yeah.
- Chapter 546: Imagine being a Soul Reaper who is either training or doing some chores or tasks and all of a sudden shadows envelope the Seireitei and in its place is the home base of the Vandenreich. All of a sudden, hundreds of Soul Reapers are shitting themselves with the fact they are now in a place they have no knowledge of, and the fact it is the base of the enemy. And considering 2/3 of the Soul Reaper count got decimated in their last encounter...
- And what if this happens when not only you have any idea of what's going on, but your beloved and much younger little sister who is NOT a combatant ''is right next to you''? And then one of the most powerful enemies shows up and you have no time to send the little girl to safety]]? Whoa there, Kubo.
- And this particular horror reaches CRITICAL MASS QUOTIENT in Chapter 549, since BG9 stabs Mareyo with a tentacle and holds her hostage with the threat of extracting it and letting her bleed to death. Shiiiiiiiit...
- Chapter 558 shines a really dark light on the relationships between the FemRitters. When Bambietta is defeated, she's surrounded by Giselle, Candice, Liltotto, and Meninas. Giselle claims that they don't want her to leave them, which would be fine if it wasn't for how she was Face Framed in Shadow as she said so, along with how Bambietta actually elects to plead for her not to help. There's something very ominous about it.
- Chapter 562. Mask De Masculine, up until that point, was a rather flamboyant and hammy Stern Ritter of the bunch. All of his actions seemed to make him rather Laughably Evil than anything else. But when Renji demonstrates just how dangerous he is, the guy snaps. His eyes turn bloodshot, he's screaming and ranting on about how much of a "hero" he is and a "villain" his enemies are, and at one point, he starts attacking Renji repeatedly while repeatedly chanting the word "murder" over and over again. Another reminder of how depraved and insane the Stern Ritter are.
- Chapter 563 has a terrifying scene in which James' mouth, despite being detached from the rest of his face and his body after Renji shredded him, is given a close-up as it cheers for Mask De Masculine...
*And a smaller James comes out of it before more James come out of the shredded remains of his body*. Renji is *visibly horrified by the sight*.
- Needless to say, the actions and behavior of the higher orders of the Stern Ritter are so terrifying and bizarre that they somehow manage to make Hollows, creatures consumed by Horror Hunger and violence, look like upstanding citizens in comparison. Yhwach acts less like a human and more like a Humanoid Abomination, whose tendency to indifferently dispose of his fanatically loyal minions regardless of whether they helped accomplish his goals or not is akin to that of an Eldritch Abomination and its cult.
- This is not in the least helped the Sternritter or anybody else by the fact that Yhwach LITERALLY feeds on the death of his minions and those they kill. Since he thus needs endless bloodshed and war to survive, he has become a completely unfeeling abomination, caring more about the powers he has bestowed than the soldiers he has bestowed them upon.
- Oh, if only it were that simple. The ability applies to anyone who has touched his soul, so even if a Shinigami were to die in unrelated combat, their power would still go to him. OH, and this means he already has Yamamoto's power, and he and Kenpachi have most certainly made contact. In other words, if Kenpachi dies after attaining Bankai, it's over for the entire universe.
- Adding to the creepy, he's had this power since he was a baby. The text notes that everyone who was "healed" by touching his soul would die mere months later as Yhwach took back the soul fragments along with their memories and abilities. He's been killing people since birth.
- Chapter 566 features the return of As Nodt. Not only that, but as soon as he sees Rukia, the younger sister of the guy he almost killed, he starts going fucking CRAZY.
- A more low-key one. His Emotion Bomb apparently cannot be blocked, which Rukia found out when his fear attack bypassed Sode No Shirayuki's ice.
- You think he's scary now? Wait till you see what he's hiding under that mask...
- ...As well as his One-Winged Angel form. He looks like a cross between Aizen's monster-form and Ulquiorra's Segunda Etapa.
- Said One-Winged Angel is the standout example of the series. There may be scarier sights in
*Bleach*, but how many other characters have a form with the explicit purpose of *terrorizing anyone who sees it into submission?*
- If it was somehow possible, As Nodt continues to
*become even more horrifying* in Chapter 569. He practically grows into a borderline Eldritch Abomination after Byakuya shows up.
- Chapter 570: Now we get a Quincy whose powers are comparable to The Silence. Yachiru actually lands a hit but forgets instantly and gets sucker-punched as a result.
- Not to mention, the Quincy who did that? He manages to pull one HECK of a Nightmare Face against both Yachiru and Isane. And for worse, all of this happened
*in a specially sealed place that was supposed to be a haven for the Shinigamis*. Fuuuuuuu--
- Chapter 571: While it was indeed awesome, it also stands as a reminder that Yachiru is much more than the Cheerful Child we've seen her as. If her speech doesn't let you in that she's a bit...off, then look closely, and see how her eyes lose their light after she draws her sword, and gives her a mix of Dull Eyes of Unhappiness and The Unsmile. Her dialogue also reveals that the only reason she never got involved in fights before was because she didn't want to steal Zaraki's kills.
- Chapter 572: Another Sternritter appears and explains that Guenael is just a product of his imagination before vaporizing him. He claims he already killed Kensei and Rose, and Isane checks their bodies to confirm this. Yachiru tries to attack him, but he causes the bones in her arm to be made of
*cookies*, thus breaking them.
- And then later, once Kenpachi proves to be a true challenge, Gremmy learns to enjoy himself during the fight. The grin he shows is rather, uh, unsettling.
- 576: Gremmy nearly
*imagines himself dead* when Kenpachi manages to overwhelm his defenses, which would have *killed him*. Another fine example of why Reality Warping Is Not a Toy.
- Then, when he overcomes that, he copies himself and combines his powers with his duplicate in order to
*bring down a meteor*!
- 577: The meteor causes an Oh, Crap! from practically
*everyone* especially when it busts *right through* the Seireitei's shields!
- 578:
- Gremmy sends Kenpachi to the vacuum of space, which nearly causes his eyes to burst out of his head and his lungs to collapse.
- Gremmy tries to imagine himself stronger than Kenpachi, but the strain tears his body apart, killing him.
- 579: The battle won, Kenny calls out to Yachiru, and gets no response. Within the span of a single page, he goes from asking his squad members if they've seen her to screaming at them to look for her. If you've ever been responsible for someone else's child or your own and suddenly discovered they were nowhere to be found, you know at least a tiny bit of this feeling. Also keep in mind this is Kenpachi Zaraki we're talking about; he's just lost one of the only two people he ever admitted to caring about, and he's now in danger of losing the second.
- 580: Giselle Gewelle reveals her ability, "the Zombie". She lets her enemies cut her up as brutally as they like, leading to a sight of her mangled and split body that's unnerving by itself. But the true nightmare begins when her blood sprays over her attackers. Once that happens, they lose control of their bodies, doomed to exist for no other purpose than to obey Giselle's orders. If she commands them to kill themselves, they'll do so, fully aware of their actions... and there's nothing they can do to stop it.]] And while all that is happening, Giselle won't drop her smile even for a moment.
- Not to mention, right before her ability kicks in, after letting the others cut her up almost in half, she just puts herself back together, as if it was nothing. OUCH.
- Liltotto Lamperd's ability "The Glutton" is either really funny or really creepy. She is something straight out of
*Parasyte*.
- The sight of the Femritter nonchalantly discussing who gets to finish off their prey is especially disturbing since it's from their victim's point of view. Although this is kinda mitigated since one of 'em offers a game of
*Rock, Paper, Scissors* to decide who gets the finishing blow.
- 582: Giselle reveals herself as the local Combat Medic... but her healing methods are pretty disturbing. Taking spare parts from dead corpses to re-make loss limbs? Sorry (only not), but ewwww.
- Not to mention, there's the reason why she's using such skills. Candice got her arm severed
*by her own attack*. Owwwww.
- 588: We get
*yet another* reminder that the Thousand Year Blood War is Bloodier and Gorier, with the unpleasant image of a Soldat's face bursting apart in something that looks straight outta *Barefoot Gen*.
- When Ikkaku and Yumichika confront Giselle, the latter summons a darker skinned Bambietta◊ to help kill every last Shinigami. The nightmare part? Bambietta's eyes are a deranged mixture of lifelessness, depression, and horror, most likely still begging Giselle not to kill her.
- 589: Yumichika and Ikkaku continue to fight the seemingly lifeless Bambietta, cutting off one of her arms and impaling her through the head, but to little effect. Giselle immediately confirms that she finished Bambietta off, explaining how her powers only affect Quincies post mortem. To make things worse, she admits that Bambietta's face upon dying gave her a generous orgasm. It makes you wonder what exactly she did to Bambietta's body... Pass the Brain Bleach.
- Adding to that is Bambietta's behavior towards Giselle.... it appears she was not only turned into a zombie, but into
*a sex slave*.
- 591: Giselle reveals another minion after the others are defeated: Hitsugaya, sporting the same darker skin as Bambietta and dressed up in a Vandenreich uniform.
- 592: How the zombified Hitsugaya makes his presence really known. He unleashes a wave of ice over the area, causing Ikkaku to lose his leg. He stabs Ikkaku a few times to take him down, then unleashes a brief yet brutal beatdown on Yumichika by nailing him in the gut with an ice-spike knee, headbutting him and cutting him down. After this, he strikes down Charlotte. Throughout all of it, he's carrying an out-of-place expression of calm on his face.
- 594: Kurotsuchi Mayuri, who claims to have his flesh stuck with decorum instead of skin, says its painful for him to use such a drug he's about to use on someone that can't resist, but it consoles his heart to see Hitsugaya resist with words by
*pleading him to stop*. Then we get one page worth of Hitsugaya's screaming divided in two pages.
- 596: The same thing happens with Kensei and Rose (and presumably to Matsumoto) as well. The drug itself is bad. It changes the very composition of the blood while the recipient is still
*conscious*. So basically, Mayuri is pumping out the 'bad blood' and replacing it with new blood *like* stuff. No wonder everyone was screaming their heads off!
- 597: We're introduced to a new Stern Ritter: Nianzol Weizol, The Wind. Talk about a Nightmare Face...
- Also on this chapter, we have Liltotto basically eating Pepe alive offscreen. As if Giselle's treatment to Bambietta wasn't gruesome enough...
- 600: Lille blows a hole through Senjumaru's skull and her body falls to the ground, bleeding profusely from the head. Valkyrie suggests Pernida cleans the mess up. The latter complies, brutally contorting and compressing the body until nothing remains but a small ball of bloody cloth. The worst part being that we don't even see what he did. The good news being that the body was a fake.
- Pernida in general gives off some serious Humanoid Abomination vibes. He's always obscured by a hood with the only thing visible being glowing eyes, he never talks, and his powers seem, if anything, like they can force things to collapse in on themselves. Everything about him gives off the impression that there's something seriously wrong about him.
- 601: Askin's powers are a serious dose of this. His ability is to survive stuff that would kill almost anyone else; this means that, to make them kick in, he must be
*grievously* wounded, ill, etc., which is proven by him surviving the same attacks that let Ouetsu curbstomp three Schutzstaffel Sterntitter Gerard, Lille, and Pernida. No wonder that he hates them.
- 602: Askin's other power is to control toxicity levels. He can even make
*your own blood* lethal to you.
- 603: We see Auswählen in full effect. What does this
**exactly** mean? Instead of fighting Nimaiya immediately... Yhwach performed The Purge of his own subjects **again**, to power himself and his Praetorian Guard up and fight at full strength, by creating pillars of light that either absorbs the targets whole or only leaves their bones behind. Liltotto and Giselle managed to escape for the moment... Accutrone, Nanana and Buzz-B were not as lucky. There's a very, VERY good reason why this chapter is named "What the HELL".
- Even more terrifying is Yhwach himself. When a hurt Liltotto screams to Yhwach, demanding to know what they were to him, he responds with, "Comrades. We are comrades. We help each other." He truly seems to not see anything wrong with how he treats his subordinates, cementing himself as arguably the most terrifying and twisted character of all.
- Special mention goes to the...
**weird** deals between Zombie!Bambietta and Giselle. Giselle, who had been badly wounded by Zombie!Kensei, drags both of them into a dark cave and starts drinking Bambietta's blood to recover. Starts innocently enough, with Giselle simply sucking blood out of Bambietta's wounds, but then turns terrifying when she bites and tears into her flesh to drink more. When Bambietta states that she doesn't want to die, Giselle freaks out and responds by saying Bambietta is already dead, and smashes Bambietta's head into the pavement repeatedly, which splits her head open and knocks her out. The shot of a blank-faced Bambietta staring at the camera, with a puddle of blood underneath her head, is **very** disturbing. Giselle sees the now incapacitated Bambietta, and being the VERY weird person she is (to say it politely), decides to glomp her happily, and basically says she prefers Bambietta as a zombie. The image is complete with Giselle's version of Vollstandig: *a pair of skeleton wings*. Uuuuuuuhhhh...
- 605: Ichibei's face at the end of the chapter has him with completely blank eyes muttering: "I guess I'll kill you". For such a normally jovial man, that image makes him seem more like a demon than a Human.
- Ukitake finally appears in the chapter, but his shadow is in the shape of a figure with an eye in the middle of its chest and a ring around it. It is something call "Kamikake". Do we want to know what that is...?
- 606: The facial expressions Ichibei makes as he gradually overwhelms Yhwach are jarring and shows that underneath his jovial behavior, a ruthless fighter hides.
- Ichibei's true power is that by naming things, he defines their purpose as well. His brush weaponizes this power by 'cutting' the name of whatever it clashes with, effectively crippling the target completely by changing it into something with no designated functionality.
- 608: Ichimonji's ability. Anything that the ink from Ichimonji splashes onto loses its name, and thus it power. What is more, the source of Ichimonji's power is "blackness" i.e. the colour "black", and that all the "blackness" in the Universe is his to control - to the extent that Yhwach cannot take Ichibei's bankai because it just goes right back to him. All the while, Ichibei is still throwing around those demonic expressions as he negates everything Yhwach throws at him. While he is supposed to be a 'good guy', anyone going into the chapter blind would think Ichibei is the villain.
- 609: When Yhwach activates his Schrift power, "The Almighty", the irises and pupils of his eyes divide themselves into two, leaving Yhwach with two irises and two pupils in each eye.
- Although that pales in comparison to what Ichibei does to force Yhwach to reveal his Schrift. The chapter makes the sheer powerlessness of having your name stolen horrifically obvious, with the Physical God Yhwach, previously the single most powerful and untouchable character in the entire series, totally shadowed in black ink, paralyzed standing up and barely able to speak in sentence fragments. Yet despite the Quincy King's list of great crimes, Ichibei still manages to seem like the villain by vindictively giving him a new name - 'ant', then literally crushing him like a bug.
- 610: Futen Daisatsu Ryou. Taking the darkness from one hundred nights in the Soul Society's
**future**, Ichibei constructs a mausoleum made of pure blackness that takes the blackness from the targets, and uses that same blackness to crush them into nothing, **ensuring even reincarnation will not occur**. This is Ichimonji's ultimate technique, and transcends **TIME** to gather the darkness to execute it. Also, to crush someone down to nothingness to ensure even reincarnation will not occur? The Shinigami exterminated the Quincy because their arrows "destroyed" Hollow souls, yet Ichibei has a technique that does just that to *any* soul.
- "The Almighty's" scope is clarified. Yhwach can see into the future, make use of any ability he sees, and the pupils and irises in his eyes further divide into a third set right before he vaporizes Ichibei's torso, pieces of his rib cages and organs flying away from the destruction. There is also a shot of Ichibei's spine... or, at least the vertebrae of his neck. So basically, Yhwach makes Aizen look like a complete scrub by comparison.
- 612: Ichibei implies that he knowingly sent Ichigo and co to their deaths against Yhwach.
- 613: Ichibei repeats what he said the last chapter, and states that is what "peace" is all about. And he says so while pulling what can be said to be his most disturbing Nightmare Face.
-
*Can't Fear Your Own World* expands on this. Had Ichigo died in his fight with Yhwach, *he* would have been made into the new Soul King.
- 614: Ichigo's own Quincy blood forces him
**to kill the Soul King** once he grabs Yhwach's sword. Now, the destruction of Soul Society begins...
- 615: The living world is starting to fall apart as well as Soul Society and every other world. Yuzu and Karin are caught in an earthquake. Orihime tries to heal the Soul King, but nothing happens.
- 616: It seems that Ukitake has found a way to at least delay the destruction of Soul Society, by replacing the Soul King's right hand with himself. Problem is, this involves him basically trading what's left of his life and the deity that let him live (aka the Kamikake that was seen some chapters ago) in exchange for that. And the immediate consequences are NOT pleasant to the sight...
- 617: Kamikake is streaming out of Ukitake's mouth and eyes, and his body has gone completely limp while his life-force is used to temporarily substitute for the Soul King. It's very unsettling to see Ukitake in such a state. Also, Mimihagi's eye seemingly
**smiles** in response to Yhwach's anger towards it, as the Soul King himself is apparently the one thing Yhwach cannot "see" with his eyes.
- Aizen lets out quite the menacing grin at the very end of the chapter. It's enough to unnerve Kyoraku, who had the balls to go speak to him in the first place.
- 618: [Aizen shows he still has the power he had in "Deicide" when his reiatsu begins
**disintegrating** the hands of a guard who tries to bind him in a restraint. He just got too close to [Aizen and his hands were obliterated.
- 619: After Uryu shows up at the battle in the Soul King Palace and shoots Yoruichi in the shoulder, causing the barrier around the Soul King and Mimihagi to shatter, Yhwach sets about
*ripping Mimihagi off the Soul King* with a *genuinely terrifying* Slasher Smile on his face.
- 620: Yhwach breaks apart and absorbs Mimihagi, decides that he is going to take everything from the Soul King and uses the power he absorbed from [Mimihagi to fire down a black beam from the Soul King Palace down to the Seireitei. The image of the left side of his body covered with Kamikake's markings is suitably terrifying.
- 621: The Soul King's true power was released from the seals placed on him by the Shinigami, and there is so much of it overflowing that even Yhwach cannot absorb and contain all of it effectively. The form it takes? A mass of tiny one-eyed shadow abominations that proceed to swarm the Seireitei. Why? As Haschwalth states: "The Soul King's enemies are only/now the Shinigami."
- 626: Yhwach's new appearance after fully absorbing the Soul King. Even his elites were frightened.
- Even if you aren't put off by his appearance, there's the fact that the old Soul King has, in Haschwalth's words,
*ceased to exist.* Let's just say that even if Ichigo and the others defeat Yhwach, things won't necessarily be the same...
- Yhwach and Mayuri have a competition to see which one needs their own Nightmare Fuel sub-page.
- 630: Bazz-B shooting a guy in the back of the head with a beam of fire straight through the guy's eye, melting it in the process.
- 637: The reveal of Pernida Parnkjas's true identity - it's a giant disembodied arm with a two-pupiled eye in its palm. Not only that, but it's also the left arm of the Soul King much like how the Mimihagi was the right. It raises many disturbing questions, the primary one being: "How did Yhwach get ahold of this thing?!"
- Follow-up question:
*Why the hell is the Soul King's left arm serving its owner's most dangerous enemy?!*
- 638: Mayuri's battle tactics are as disturbing as ever.
- Mayuri decides to collect a 'sample' from Pernida by blasting one of its fingers off. The device he uses to do it looks like a snake with a human head that screams constantly.
- When Pernida tries to use its nerve-invading power on Mayuri, Mayuri responds by tearing his hand apart and rearranging all its muscles, blood vessels and nerve endings.
- Pernida is no slouch in this department either. When Mayuri blows off one of its fingers, an eye opens in the finger's knuckle.
- And on top of all that, there's the volume's title page.
- 639: [Practically all of Chapter 639 but special mention goes to the reveal of Mayuri's modified Bankai. It is absolutely
*bone chilling* seeing the big, black-eyed baby monster of a Bankai screaming bloody murder as Mayuri tells Pernida that just being *alive* causes the Bankai pain. Not only that, its skin peels off when it comes into contact with Pernida's nerves.
- 641: At this point, Mayuri and Pernida are exchanging Crowning Moments Of Nightmares.
- 643: Thought being blown into pieces would finish off Pernida? It doesn't, as eyes and fingers appear on each piece of the blown apart Pernida, riddle Nemu with the "Compulsory", and basically explode her entire body. Then Szayelaporro shows up as a hallucination in Mayuri's mind to savagely taunt him over Nemu's death...
- The idea that if Yhwach had waited another say 100 years: he could have gained Ichigo's power twice. And due to his ludicrously powerful abilities, that could very well have meant
*unlimited* Final Getsuga Tenshou...
- 644-645: as one of the oldest and most powerful of the shinigami captains, Kyoraku has always carried a subtle-yet-potent degree of scariness behind his cheerful, goofy demeanor, but now it's becoming clear just how terrifying he is. Considering that his power is literally making children's games real, it only ups it more.
- 647: Bankai - Katen Kyokotsu: Kuromatsu Shinjuu, "Lovers' Suicide Beneath the Black Pine". Do we even want to know what this Bankai entails, given the name alone is derived from an adult theatre play?
- You probably don't, but if you're curious: it operates in stages. First it inflicts all of its wielder's injuries on everyone else, then it gives them a nasty-looking disease before drowning both the enemy
*and* the wielder in a black ocean that materialises out of nowhere.
- There's more—if we remember a throwaway remark made by Ukitake during the Fake Karakura Town arc, along with something that Kyoraku says before unleashing his Bankai, then the possibility arises that
*Katen Kyokotsu: Kuromatsu Shinjuu* doesn't just affect both Kyoraku and his enemy , but *everyone* within the Bankai's considerable area of effect—allies and noncombatants alike! **Ukitake:** "You shouldn't use your Bankai where others can see it." **Kyoraku:** "Nanao-chan... if you get caught up in this, I apologize. So it's come to this... I guess it's time to see what's waiting for me on the other side. **Bankai.**"
- 650: Lille Barro shows off what it means to be the "Messenger of God" by regenerating his severed head and transforming into what can only be described as a giant owl with a long neck, deer-like legs, extremely long and lanky arms, the wings from his first form, and a halo above his head. He then proceeds to No-Sell Kyoraku's Bankai and starts blasting everything around him in an effort to kill Kyoraku, and nearly succeeded if it wasn't for Nanao showing up.
- 654: The reappearance of Izuru Kira, whom we assumed just another casualty. He finally gets a moment to really shine against an actually strong character as opposed to just mooks. What makes this nightmare fuel is his appearance. His entire body is covered in contrasting shadow, his zanpakuto already released, and that hole in his torso? It hasn't been healed. There's just three rods propping it together, and you can clearly see the crescent moon THROUGH the hole.
- 664: Askin's Vollstandig-induced Gift Ring
note : Poison Ring grafting itself onto Urahara's eye and *imploding it*.
- 665: Kisuke's Bankai: It has the ability to 'restructure' by his own definition, and we see it very graphically in action. Askin's arm is almost surgically pried apart upon the Bankai's activation, Kisuke's face and down his neck have been visually stitched together to restore his eye sight, and his hand was rather graphically 'disassembled' and restructured during the fight.
- 666: Even having his heart ripped out and crushed by Grimmjow isn't enough to bring Askin down.
- 678: How staggeringly powerful God Yhwach is. Ichigo can barely do anything despite going Bankai in his new super form. Yhwach's easily one of the most formidable, nightmarish opponents that have ever existed, given how Ichigo's raw power couldn't even touch him.
- 679: The horrified look on Ichigo and Orihime's faces as Yhwach explains "The Almighty" and how utterly screwed they are. To elaborate, Yhwach informs them that if they oppose him, he'll appear before thm at their moment of greatest happiness and then kill them, so any time they're happy, they'll be overcome with fear as to whether that's the happiest moment in question.
- 682: As Yhwach returns to Soul Society, he sees the very same Sosuke Aizen. When Aizen claims this Soul Society is his, Yhwach gives him his menacing grin, and completely frees him of his chair by completely destroying it, proving how terrifyingly powerful Yhwach is. Now, Aizen can do whatever he wants, and there are only a few who can stop him.
- 683: Yhwach continues to show how menacing he is when he starts curbstomping Aizen, Ichigo and Renji with his godlike powers. He breaks Renji's Bankai and lops off his arm, he destroys Aizen's Zanpakuto while shrugging off his attacks and then shatters Ichigo's new reformed Bankai before blowing a giant hole into Ichigo's abdomen.
- Yhwach's look of genuine surprise when it turns out he was seeing an illusion all along by Aizen and ends up being stabbed by the
*real* Ichigo and his body blown to bits by a point-blank Getsuga Tensho.
- 684: Yhwach actually demonstrates the final and most frightening bit of "The Almighty": If through some miracle, his opponent actually manages to kill him,
*he can rewrite the future to a point where he survives and is still alive!!*
- Aizen ends up being swallowed whole by Yhwach.
- Yhwach decides to end the final battle by absorbing everything around him into a singular point. He's then shot by Uryu Ishida with an arrow laced with Still Silver, the same silver that ends up clotting his victims' hearts if they were unfortunate enough to get hit by Auswahlen. The look on his face as he's infected by his own weapon is terrifying. Even then, Yhwach is able to overcome even this trump card in a matter of seconds!!
- Yhwach's horrifying realization that the nightmare he had on his throne room, shown to him by Haschwalth, was actually a
*warning* about Ichigo slashing him in half with his old Zanpakuto. The brief opening of Ishida's arrow gave Ichigo all the time he needed to slash the evil Quincy monarch in two, this time Yhwach has no omniscient power at all to save him.
- 685: Akon reading a peculiarity on his computer screen: Yhwach's reiatsu appearing in Soul Society. Even after a decade of peace, the man will not stay dead.
- 686: It was only for a brief moment but Yhwach's reiatsu takes a brief life of its own and starts to attack nearby Shinigami. Thankfully, Kazui Kurosaki was able to wipe it out forever...somehow.
- Aizen is revealed to have survived the final battle and ends up being imprisoned again in a reinforced chair. The man has to look forward to an eternity of jail time.
- The opening narration about owning two goldfish, one of whom died. At first it sounds like the narrator is mourning the death of one, but then they note the second goldfish has started growing. The narrator then states that the death of the first goldfish was a good thing. It's an extraordinarily creepy note to open on.
- Kazui and Kon go on a late-night stroll to a hidden place. When Kazui shows Kon the ritual to open the door, things take a turn for the freaky. Disembodied eyeballs float in the air and the doorway appears out of thin air, its opening lined with teeth.
- Ichika spots Ichigo with Renji and the other lieutenants. To her shock, a huge skeletal...
*thing* appears behind them without warning. They manage to dodge its attack, but Kiyone gets blindsided by another monster. Supposedly they're Hollows, except one of them gets its flesh and mask ripped off its bones and what we see of its skull does not look human.
- Szayelaporro returns, now upgraded from an Arrancar to some damned entity similar to the Togabito. His left arm burns with a black flame that's already seared away the flesh, his left eye is a dark pit and two wounds on the sides of his head leak some mystery liquid that solidifies into a pair of horns. The worst part of all is that he's been watching over Renji ever since he ended up in Hell. Then he tries to kill Ichika.
- Renji is already freaked out at seeing Szayelaporro again, seeing as how the last time he fought the Arrancar he had several of his bones, organs, muscles and tendons crushed and torn from his Release powers. The second that Szayelaporro sets his sights on his young daughter, Renji doesn't even try to attack. He just grabs his child and
*runs*.
- The most chilling detail of all? Apparently Captain-level Soul Reapers, and similar individuals can't assimilate into Soul Society when they die, so instead they go straight to Hell. Szayelaporro implies that keeping Aizen and Yhwach alive is going to prove a
**very** costly mistake for the Soul Reapers. This has been going on for **generations** and implies some pretty horrible Nightmare Fuel for any Captain-level Soul Reaper in the cast when it's time for them to die, which includes Rukia and many other known characters who are Captains or may be powerful enough to become Captain-level Soul Reapers.
- Anime only, in the "New Captain" arc, where Ichigo gets locked in to his mind for a moment and tormented with the death of his mother, Masaki Kurosaki. She also starts choking him, intending to kill him while he is unable to harm her. The worst part is how her face was hidden in shadows/covered by her hair so you couldn't really see her expression.
- The nucleus of a Bakkoto looks like an eyeball. Gyokaku
*kept them on his desk*. Then, when Amagai kills Gyokaku, he takes them with him and then *wears them like a sash*, looking like he has four eyeballs growing across his chest.
- The scene in
*Fade To Black* where Homura and Shizuku fusing with Rukia against her will, because they want to be with her and want nobody else getting in the way. Poor Rukia's tortured screams do **NOT** help. After this, Dark Rukia shows up and rams her scythe into a plant which spawns an Eldritch Abomination that's **OVER 150 STORIES TALL** with massive eyes **EVERYWHERE**, sprouting tentacle monsters that look made out of *sperm*. All the captains make a Big Damn Heroes, but it doesn't really help much, because the damn thing spawns the monsters **non-stop.**
- The fourth movie brings us Hell itself, from what appears to be gigantic prison city made up entirely of white marble blocks patrolled by giant skeletal gorillas with floating skulls instead of heads, that can pass through walls and chew on people, to a sea with stone lotuses, with a corpse of one such monster impaled on a giant sword inside each, to what appears to be a cavern, with ponds of corrosive yellow liquid and a dimly lit underground tunnel, leading to a desert made of the ground bones of the damned, with some sort of dark sacrificial altar in the middle, and a pool of lava that respawns anyone killed in hell so they can die again, and that's just the start.
- Ichigo's complete Hollowfication in Hell upon Kokuto revealing he's the one responsible for the events of the fourth film from the start, first. He turns towards the giant Kushanada corpse, only to get Kokuto's sword thrown into his chest as the Getsuga he launched Shuren away with finally explodes in the background. He collapses sideways as Kokuto steps closer and asks him how he is, before kneeling and taking the sword out with two sharp swoops, causing Ichigo to shout in pain, before being shushed by the white-haired Sinner. He then has to watch all of his friends who came with him to Hell taken, before being told Yuzu has converted into a prisoner of Hell. This makes Ichigo snap with anger and hatred as his spiritual pressure flares around him in black and red. The whole scene is terrifying, to find out just how much, watch this video.
- A bit of in-universe nightmare fuel, nobody except Uryu & Orihime have seen Ichigos Horned Hollow form, much less how powerful it is, Renji is there when Ichigo turns, and now one of his closest friends/rivals has turned into a beast powerful enough that it is said to dwarf even a Vasto Lorde in power, who then basically nearly
*annihilates Hell itself* in rage, Renji must have wet himself at that point.
- From the light novel
*Bleach: Can't Fear Your Own World*, Hisagi's Bankai is rather gruesome to look at. It's basically a giant ball of chains hovering above him with a few of them wrapped around Hisagi's neck *like a noose*. It actually freaks out a few of Hisagi's allies from the sight of it. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Bleach |
Blood and Revolution / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Kenshin ||outlives two children, has two more and two grandchildren taken out of this world for their own protection, and has to watch his final grandson fall to evil and insanity. He comes to believe hes fated to lose his children.||
- In a moment of insanity, believing that he is doing the right thing, ||Kenshin starts
*peeling Aoshi's skin off* and almost kills him. The only way that could have been worse for Kenshin's mind is if it had been one of his children.||
- Yukito ||has hir babies taken away forever, pulled directly from hir arms, for their own protection.||
- Saitou ||dies alone in his old age, a widower with all of his family save one adopted son driven away by his own distantness, and his lovers too busy
* : albeit busy trying to fight fate and save him to stay with him.||
- Saitou also ||gets called to a location to find his Morality Pet, a sweet and innocent doll girl with a mental age of about six who hes all but adopted, shielding another little girl and being stabbed by the adults that were supposed to take care of her. Its probably no wonder he immediately moves her in with them where he doesnt have to trust anyone else to protect her.||
- Aoshi was involved with Saitou before being turned by and involved with Kenshin, yet ||he is slowly but surely forgotten by Saitou as Saitou turns into a kami. Hell spend his time on phone calls asking about the Kaibas welfare and never mention Aoshi at all; he cant even remember his name. Even when he comes back he doesnt seem to notice him. Aoshi and Kenshin originally think its some form of dementia, but that just asks the question, which is worse: (being immortal and) watching your loved one slowly deteriorate, or having your loved one lose interest in your relationship and not even tell you?||
- Similarly, ||after the apocalypse theyre all leaving each other behind. Kenshin is meditating in a lava pool where Aoshi cant even touch him for ten years, Saitou is an ancestor kami who no longer needs to sleep and has half his attention always on his clan, and when Aoshi evolves into a chaos demon he spends less than half his time with them and doesnt bother to sleep there. They all know theyre growing apart and cant do much about it.||
- Inuyasha lives in a town populated by his descendants, whom he calls grandkids, ||and when they start going mad and attacking people, hes the one who has to kill them.||
- Body horror:
- Saitou is kept alive ||far, far past the point of death by what was supposed to be a blessing while he is tortured and experimented upon by Kurama. Aoshi determines after he is rescued that he is alive even though he
*has no heart*.||
- All of Kurama's victims in general; he has one alive with her organs suspended like fruit from one of his evil trees.
- Mental horror:
- Atem enjoys this... ||He utterly destroys the mind of Kenji's killer from the inside out. Later, when he is slipping into insanity, he reveals to Seth that he has several people he is absolutely mind controlling, letting them experience only what he wants them to, though they seem so normal from the outside they can still keep their positions as guards.||
- Aoshi essentially mind-crushes ||Seto - he implants his own memories of Hell into him and then leaves him there trapped in them, his body in a coma, for five months.||
- Aoshi, a person whose
*least*-evil setting is Well-Intentioned Extremist, had to walk through Heaven and know that he would never be worthy of it.
- Sexual horror:
- Atem ||and Seth's|| treatment of Rei, a mentally unbalanced and later vulnerable teenager, would cross the line into torture for anyone sane. Several other characters even have some trouble with the Questionable Consent aspects of the relationship themselves.
- Ryou ||after the apocalypse, uses his power to force rapists to continue having sex with him until they die, even when they're begging for it to stop.||
- Saitou won't actually confirm it, but he hints around at the fact that for more than a year ||he was tortured in prison by constantly being raped. He doesn't specify whether it was just the guards or other prisoners as well.||
- And worse yet, ||he was
*forced to enjoy it* instead of fighting by Bakura's curse on him.||
- Bakura's curse ||on Saitou wouldn't be a walk in the park anyway - he's mentally controlled into responding to anyone's sexual interest with lust, and be submissive unless otherwise ordered. No matter who it is or how he feels about them.||
- Soul horror:
- Ryou drains rapists to death, and then keeps their souls as ghosts helplessly bound to him. The reason this isn't a case of Pay Evil unto Evil? Because Ryou
*doesn't realize he's doing evil*. He calls them his "friends". | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BloodAndRevolution |
Black Mirror: White Christmas / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**Nightmare Fuel**Series One — Series Two — **Christmas Special** — Series Three — Series Four
- The tone throughout the overarching narrative, with main characters Joe and Matt sitting in a cabin just talking, is constantly unsettling, due to the lack of almost any sound apart from their voices.
- Fridge Horror: the Zed-Eyes (technological contact lenses) are worn by everyone and cannot be removed. But what if somebody hacked into them? They could see everything. And you'd never even know.
- Also, imagine that someone you know/used to know does something to get "blocked by the system" and the first you find out about it is them getting "fuzzed out" in your old pictures.
- The first segment: a young man tries to romance an attractive outsider, only to discover she's an undiagnosed schizophrenic, and believing she has found a kindred spirit, forces him to drink poison before killing herself with it as well.
- The second segment features a woman getting a 'cookie'. It's an implant that learns how a person thinks, in order to perform tasks exactly as the owner does. However, the problem is that the cookie believes they ARE that person. This results in the cookie refusing to work. Solution? Their perception of time is sped up. They believe they have spent days, weeks, months even, alone with nothing to do. And this is a digital copy, so they can't age or die. By the end, they are left a broken shell of their former self, condemned to an endless 'life' of slavery.
- Matt's complete nonchalance about the whole ordeal suggests he did this multiple times.
- It's also pretty scary from the perspective of users who don't know what they're really getting into. If your "cookie" finally snaps, what sort of revenge could they get on you? Could they lock you in your house? Scald you in your shower? Blow out the pilot light and gas you? How much power are they trusted with? And you probably already have devices/applications which learn your habits and preferences. As smarter versions are developed, will we in the real world eventually be condemning intelligent consciousnesses to predicting when we'll want our toilet seats warmed up for us?
- It's also stated that "Cookies" that go irreparably insane are used as NPCs and enemy characters in video games. Ouch...
- Another Fridge Horror thought here is that plenty of these cookies have to be made from parents. Heck, aside from schedule freaks like Greta, parents are the number one candidate. Imagine a cookie, who thinks it IS the person, never being able to really talk to their kid or kids again...
- The third segment introduces the idea of blocking people in real life using Zed-Eyes where all that either of you see is an inaudible shadow. It can be left on indefinitely, until death. It also covers offspring AND all media of the subject (such as photos). Just imagine never being able to see or hear a loved one till they're dead and gone...
- It's also legal to "block" someone indefinitely, even when they believe you have a child with them, denying all custody and visitation rights unilaterally.
- Also, congrats to
*White Christmas* on being the first Christmas special to feature a man accidentally murdering his ex-partner's father in a fit of rage. Good job!
- Also, keep in mind that blocking obscures a person's body language and their voice. If you blocked someone, you would have
*very* little warning if they tried to physically attack you.
- The ending especially gets dark very quickly...To clarify, Joe's cookie confesses the murder of his ex-girlfriend's father and indirectly causing her daughter's death and is left there, completely alone. To add insult to injury, one of the cops speeds up his perception of time, making one minute in the real world correspond to 1000 years for the cookie! And leaves him like that all of Christmas Day with one annoying song with the volume turned way up! That's right: he has to suffer more than one million years alone, with the full knowledge of what he has done and also knowing he's not real, with the most ironic soundtrack in the history of ever. It's safe to say this could be the most accurate depiction of Hell ever portrayed without any supernatural element.
- To put that into perspective, in the 26 seconds it took for the officers to exchange that information, 433 years and four months have gone by in the cookie, and Roy Wood has wished it would be Christmas every day
note : as a point of reference, the song is 4 minutes, 37 seconds long roughly *49,367,073* times.
- It gets even worse when you do more thinking. They left it on overnight. Assuming they left the station at around 5PM and came in the next day at around 8AM, that means it was left on for 15 hours. In that time, not only would
**900,000 years** have passed, but the number of times "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" played? Roughly . **102,531,612,996 times**
- Ordinarily, he would likely be Driven to Suicide, but since he's a digital being, that's probably not even possible. Instead, he's stuck there with no escape. Poor guy can't even stop the music from playing... (He tried. Every time he smashed the radio in the digital room, it respawned, and the music got
*louder*.)
- Don't forget Matt. He is blocked by
**all of humanity**. Everyone else sees him as a red static blurb, and it's evident that someone might want to make him pay... | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackMirrorWhiteChristmas |
Bloodlines / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Literature
- Sydney seeing just how robotic and mindless ||Keith|| has become as a result of ||re-education.||
- We are finally going to find out what exactly happens in ||a re-education centre.|| If you didn't think ||the Alchemist superiors|| were psychotic before, you will now.
- To make things worse, they are keeping ||Sydney drugged and in a pitch black room, so neither Adrian nor Ms Terwiliger can find her.|| Kind of makes you wonder if they have actually been monitoring ||Sydney all this time and gathering as much info on what she's been doing all this time in order to stop her from being found||, or if the setting for the ||re-education|| is just how the normally do things. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Bloodlines |
Blacula / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## First film
- The beginning with Dracula. Eventually he shows his true colors by agreeing with the whole slave trade, sics his men on the Prince, summons an army of vampire brides (which basically emphasizes that his opinions on slavery aren't limited to blacks, he'll use his power to make anyone his slave), sic them on the prince's wife, then proceeds to bite the prince. Leave his body locked in a coffin in a sealed off part of his castle while the prince's poor wife is just left to starve to death with the prince fully aware of it thanks to his immortal state.
*Sheesh*, even the Dracula from the novel didn't seem that cruel.
- Whenever we see Blacula put the bite on someone, their reaction is horrified screaming agony. Rarely before this was the brutality of vampirism so bluntly displayed.
- A nightclub photographer takes a picture of Blacula. In order to destroy the evidence of his vampirism, he proceeds to follow her and attack her at her home while she's developing the photo in her darkroom (though exactly how he knew he wouldn't show up in the photo is never explained, considering he's only been in the modern era for a short while now). Some time later, the worker stumbles out of her house as a cop pulls up. The cop goes to help her, but the moment he picks her up in a bridal carry, she suddenly turns and attacks him.
- One of Blacula's female victims reanimates in the local morgue, and the viewer gets treated to a POV shot of a luckless morgue attendant, as said victim comes charging down a hallway towards him in slow-motion, all fangs and crazed staring eyes.
- The raid on the hideout, it's very creepy as the vampires come out one by one at the cops. We even see the cop that was bitten earlier suddenly waking up and wasting no time attacking the two.
- At the end of the film after Blacula ||commits Suicide by Sunlight||, two cops look at his body, and we see a close up of Blacula's decaying face with lots of maggots squirming his mouth, nose and eye sockets. The image
*still stays* as credits roll, and Blacula's face continues to decay into a skull. The whole thing is accompanied by music that is expecially eerie and haunting after all those funky tunes.
##
*Scream, Blacula, Scream*
- Some of Willis' friends come to get him for a party unaware that Willis has been turned. Blacula kills one of them outright while the other guest, a Caucasian girl, tries to escape but is blocked by Willis. She eventually faints and Blacula allows Willis to feed on her. Next we see of the two, they're among the growing number of Blacula's undead, barely recognizable by their wild hair and pale skin.
- Blacula's attack on Gloria, very well done and creepy as he creeps up on her as she doing her make up. What's more this was during a party, so no one even hears her scream as she's fed on. Even worse she manages to stumble down to the guest not long after the attack and drops dead right in front of them.
- Similarly, her turning in which she awakens when Lisa is near her coffin. She beckons her to come over then promptly tries to bite her. Luckily Blacula appears and a Death Glare is enough for vampire Gloria cease and leave. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Blacula |
Black Sunday (Thomas Harris) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The image of the Goodyear Blimp's nose rising over the Super Bowl stands, with the audience aware that there's
*a bomb* on that thing...
- And the fact that it collides with some of the stadium lights and knocks them
*onto* part of said crowd.
- In the book, Harris used a fictional name company for the blimp, but for the movie Goodyear agreed for the filmmakers to use their name on the blimp.
- Another instance: the kitten incident.
- The look on the farmer's face as he's shot full of holes by Lander's test bomb.
- The ungodly sound the weapon makes as it's being fired is inexplicably bizarre and jarring. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackSundayThomasHarris |
Bloodborne / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
One would assume that the item descriptions at least would be mundane and bland. No such luck here...
(
*Concerning the Constable's Armor Set*) Once upon a time, a troupe of foreign constables chased a beast all the way to Yharnam, and this is what they wore. The constables became victims of the beast, except one survivor, who in turn devoured the creature whole, all by himself. This fable is a favorite among Yharnamites, who are partial to any stories of pompous, intolerant foreigners who suffer for their ignorance.
It makes the blood taste that much sweeter.
The Tear Stone's description "A doll sheds neither blood nor tears and thus its nature remains unknown.
." **Whoever thinks this is precious must be troubled by severe naivete** | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Bloodborne |
BloodRayne / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
While the
*BloodRayne* game series is not Survival Horror, it has so many horror elements and extreme violence that could fill gallons of Nightmare Fuel. *BloodRayne*
- The Daemites are pretty scary in themselves, due to their Puppeteer Parasite nature, grotesque appearance and the fact that they just won't die, shrugging off the damage dealt to their host body and simply leaving it for another when it is too battered. However, they are at their scariest in "Lurking Underground" episode, where they are introduced. It marks a sudden and unexpected Genre Shift from action to horror, which you will be most likely unprepared for, unless you knew of their existence before playing the game.
- Up until now, you've spent the entire second act fighting through a Nazi stronghold, wiping out entire squads of ordinary human soldiers with ease. At the beginning of this episode, you follow one of their officers taking a ride to an underground storage area, only to get a glimpse of him and other soldiers screaming in horror and being attacked by
*something*, before a closing gate bars you from seeing what's happening out there. When you finally enter the room, you find nobody in there. Nobody. There's just some blood and weapons laying around, but no corpses. The previously visited parts of Nazi base were full of people, but now, the whole area is suddenly completely devoid of life. Heck, even the music, which has been accompanying you before, now goes completely silent. Rayne, who's been quite unflappable before, loses her normal composure and gets slightly, but visibly creeped out.
- It gets worse. When you proceed to the next room, suddenly there are those otherworldy, disembodied voices which seem to come from all directions, mocking Rayne and repeating her earlier words like echo. And everything is accompanied by hellish laughter. Followed again by complete and total silence. Even Rayne fails to come up with a wisecrack this time. When you go further, the music is back on... but unlike earlier, quite kickass tunes, now it's suddenly minimalistic and really creepy, enough to send shivers down your spine.
- In order to open the gate and proceed further, you need to enter a small room, with only a few Nazi corpses lying inside, to turn a lever. Seems easy enough. But the moment you burst in there through window, the previously quite dead bodies suddenly start screaming in excruciating pain and rising on their feet. Then their heads are ripped apart from inside, replaced by grotesque visage of parasites which took possession of their bodies.
- And then, to put a cherry on top, Daemites are much harder to actually kill than anything you fought before. As noted above, previously you've been effortlessly cutting through scores of ordinary soldiers, which undoubtedly gave you a feeling of invincibility. Daemites, however, would deprive you of that feeling. None of usual tactics work well on them — they control the bodies of their hosts like puppets, meaning that they shrug off wounds that would easily incapacitate normal human, they take a lot of damage before finally going down, and when it eventually happens, they don't die, but merely leave their host body. Which means that you cannot dispatch them quickly by draining them of blood either. In short, this is a fight you will be woefully unprepared for.
- One of the antagonists introduced late in the game is Hedrox the Infinite, an ancient vampire chieftain from a closed off region in the world and his appearance is completely inhuman in contrast to Rayne and other vampires introduced, with a vaguely chiropteran face and two clawed hands with mouths. But that is not the worst part: his regenerative powers are so powerful that any severed limb can regenerate into a Hedrox clone. If Rayne tried to cut him into pieces with her blades, she will just create
*an army out of Hedrox*. If it wasn't for water being the only feasible way to destroy him, it would have been impossible to destroy such creature.
- Belial, the ancient previous ruler of Hell before being deposed by Lucifer, most certainly wasn't a Big Red Devil. Instead he looks like
*this*.
- Rayne herself can be even scarier than all the daemites and feral vampires. Outside of her Ms. Fanservice looks, she also has a strong passion for killing everything that moves, some really sadistic tendencies towards her victims (sometimes rapey enough to make her daddy proud) and a complete Lack of Empathy towards anyone who isn't Mynce or Severin. Sure, she does fight much worse people and creatures, but she does it mostly to further her agenda of getting back at her father and just to have some fun and spill and feed on some blood along the way.
- The pinnacle of this is shown during the intermediate cutscene between Argentina and Germany, when she goes after a GGG higher-up to get the next kill-list and does it in the most over-the-top way possible. First, she kills the officer's mistress just for being in the way before sneaking up to the poor bastard and
**slicing his fucking ear off**, just to entertain herself with his agonized screams. Then we get a brief Mook Horror Show as the officer's guards try to interfere but get hacked apart within seconds. Finally, once Rayne is done toying with the mortified officer, she adopts an intense Slasher Smile and lunges straight at the camera to finish him off. *BloodRayne 2*
- Rayne's daddy dearest Kagan. He is a vampire lord who raped Rayne's mother just to give birth to a Dhampyr child and then murdered every single one of her relatives. What makes this truly twisted is that Kagan does it as official policy for any of his children, so they wouldn't have any other family to turn to but him. The only reason Rayne didn't join his family was because a kindly scientist took her up and raised her as his child. What does Kagan do when he finds said scientist though?
*He beats him to a pulp, tears out his intestines and chokes him with them*.
- Right in the first level, Rayne has to infiltrate a ball party being pulled by Zerenski, which has invited several wealthy guests such as executives, mobsters, politicians and etc. And then Zerenski has
*everyone in the party killed*. You don't see the slaughter happening (only its aftermath), but you hear the people screaming over the radio while you are unable to do anything about it.
- Some of the finishing moves in the game are so gruesome that they wouldn't be out of place in
*Mortal Kombat*.
- The Shroud. For starters, its a substance created from the bodies of homeless vagrants and street walkers which we see its development production (their bodies are grind through machinery until they are liquid) and turned into a gaseous form that when released into the air allows vampires to walk unharmed during daylight. That on itself is bad enough, but the Shroud also causes some aberrant effects on nature: plants and trees wither and burn, while animals are mutated by it, though thankfully we don't see any of them. Judging the effect it has on insects (read further down) it must probably not be very pretty.
- The second the shroud goes up, we get a cutscene, a random person is looking down at the subway entrance hearing strange noises, then, what is pretty much a firehose-like stream of vampires burst out, the ensuing scene shows the world basically succumbing to Kagan's vampire apocalypse plan to full effect, and by the end of the game? It's still in effect, killing all the leaders of Kagans cult, including Kagan himself did nothing to stop it.
- If you thought Hedrox was horrifying, just look at the new vampire enemies introduced in the second game:
- Brutes (pictured above) are horribly mutated feral vampires of great strength, size and ferocity serving as Boss in Mook Clothing. Their brutality is displayed in "the Dawn of the Vampiric Age" cinematic, where they tear down people as if they were made of paper.
- The Foremen are also equally mutated and implacable, only they are dressed in industrial clothing and use large hammers as weapons.
- The biggest example (quite literally) is Slezz, an monstrously-inhuman vampire living in the sewers said to be from an ancient breed referred as Babylonian Winged Shakab. One of her attacks includes shooting acid out of her breasts and in order to beat her, Rayne has to blow up her belly, enter inside her and destroy her heart from within. While she is a very easy to beat boss, it doesn't make her appearance any less disgusting. Also, there is the fact that Slezz refers to Kagan as "my love", the implication being that Kagan probably mated with ''that''.
- When you visit the Twisted Park, you see several corpses on display that are inexplicably twitching, which freaks Rayne out. Then several insects burst out from the corpse, forming The Worm That Walks enemy, that is completely invulnerable to attacks and can only be warded off with fire.
- One of the deleted enemies of the game was the Roach Queen, a dead woman who controlled the insects in the Twisted Park and was supposed to be a boss fight, but got cut due to time constraints. Its probably fortunate for gamers with entomophobia that they never go to fight this.
- The dissonant soundtrack played during the final level is very unnerving to say the least. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BloodRayne |
Blood+ / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Given that this series belongs in the same franchise that brought us the original movie and
*Blood-C*, it was inevitable that there would be many creepy moments in this installment. It ain't the page image for Anime Nightmare Fuel for nothing! **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- The show happens to be one of the few anime at the time to air on [adult swim] with an auxiliary content warning.
- Nathan threatening to kill Amshel if he harms Diva. It's only for a split second, but his voice sounds outright
*demonic*, and it's so unlike what the viewer's seen of him so far that it's downright creepy (he even cracks a wine glass Amshel's holding with pure Killing Intent).
- The Chiropterans themselves. Their hideous appearance aside, these monsters are actually people who have undergone a Painful Transformation. What's worse, many of them
*still have some of their consciousness remaining* inside their newly twisted forms. Yuck.
- Chevaliers and Chiropteran Queens can mimic the forms of the people they drain. Just let that sink in.
- Saya going berserk during The Vietnam War, which we originally see as the very first scene of the series. Having detected Diva, a desperate Red Shield forced her to wake up by giving her an injection of Hagi's blood. The result? Oh, nothing except her slicing and dicing everything she sees indiscriminately. That's right, she was not only smoking Chiropterans, she was also killing American soldiers, villagers, and
*children*. What's worse, this version of Saya is **pissed**, speaking nothing but indiscernible growls as she angrily tries to approach Diva.
- Those Chiropteran children in Episodes 12 and 13. As if their choir singing isn't disturbing enough, the viewers have the privilege of watching them burst out of the kids' bodies to reveal fetus-like monsters and brutally tear apart the mercenaries working for Red Shield. Fun.
- The Reveal of Diva in Episode 24. This is when the viewer really gets to see how fucking psycho and sadistic this Big Bad is. Hell, even
*Saya* is freaked out from her sister's... quirks.
- Doubles as a massive Tear Jerker: Irene's crystallization and death. Knowing she doesn't have long without help from Saya, Kai convinces his sister to give Irene some of her blood. It at first seems to work... only for Irene to completely turn into crystal and stone, before shattering to death. That particular scene is the image for the Anime Nightmare Fuel page for good reason.
- How The Schiffs came to be in the first place. They're genetically-engineered Chevaliers, put under dehumanizing experiments and barred from learning even the most basic social skills as they rested in their cages. After finally breaking out of the hellhole, they realize that unlike other Chevaliers, their lives are finite and are seen as nothing more than weapons.
- To say nothing of Diva raping and petrifying Riku to death. No wonder Saya crossed the Despair Event Horizon after this horrific and despicable act.
- The Corpse Corps. To put it bluntly, they're the Schiffs' Psycho Rangers. And all the while, governments are convinced that they are Chiropteran-hunting robots, blissfully unaware that they too have presumably having gone under a similar brutal development program but are this time cold, thoughtless killers. It's hardly a surprise that Moses had a brief Heroic BSoD after finding out.
- Imagine being a young adult who's dragged into a room by two of Diva's Chevaliers. There, you are told that you will be pressed into service and the next thing you know, Diva approaches you and closes in on your neck, dooming you into an eternal contract to be her chevalier. And with no friends, you are stuck in this hell all by yourself. This is how Karl became a Chevalier.
- Diva's song is simultaneously beautiful and heartbreaking. It is also absolutely terrifying, not only because it signals that she is close by, but also because of its supernatural effects on people who consumed any of Cinq Fleches products (as seen through her performances at the airbase and at the Met). That's right, if you ate or drank something made by Cinq Fleches, her song
**will indoctrinate you into becoming a Chiropteran!**
- The flashback in episode 22 shows us how Hagi became a Chevalier; he fell off a cliff while trying to fetch a flower Saya wanted and Saya - misinterpreting what she'd heard Joel I saying about her needing blood to live - thought she could heal him if she gave him some of
*her* blood. She was technically right...except that, when Hagi swallows it, he starts screaming and writhing in pain as his heart beat slows and finally stops, and he's left a wide-eyed corpse in a pool of his own blood. He gets better, but still... | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BloodPlus |
Blair Witch / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**Unmarked spoilers below!**
- The entire situation with the cut on Ashley's foot. On several occasions, horrible snapping sounds can be heard as she puts pressure on it, she develops a fever, and, later, something appears to be
*moving* inside her foot. Even later, it spreads up her leg... resulting in Ashley pulling a *tree root* out of the leg wound. It's never revealed why this is happening to her.
- The group waking up to dozens, possibly hundreds, of those stick figures hanging all over the camp. At one point, Talia backs into an
*enormous* one that seems to have been constructed using a small tree trunk.
- Talia freaks out upon seeing that one of the stick figures has some of her hair woven into it. Ashley, frightened and enraged, accuses Talia of faking the whole thing and snaps said stick figure in half... resulting in
*Talia* getting snapped in half.
- The creature who appears to be a physical avatar for the Blair Witch that stalks James and Lisa through the house. According to the director, it
*is* a physical avatar: ||Ely Kedward.||
- The revelation that the Blair Witch can mimic the voices of her victims to lure them to her. This was hinted toward the very end of the original, but now confirmed outright.
- Lisa getting trapped in the very, very tight tunnel towards the end along with the sounds indicating the creature is
*following* her through the tunnel.
- Lane aging through a time paradox and become the Witch's crazed servant. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlairWitch |
Blood Rites / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
||Madge||, after the remorseless entropy curse is redirected at her.
''She had plenty of time to feel it as the demonic killer, the guiding mind who had been behind the entropy curse, flowed in its semigaseous form into her mouth and throat and lungs, then extruded savage spines and tore her apart from within.
||Madge|| didn't manage to get out a scream as she died.
But it wasn't for lack of trying.'' | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BloodRites |
Blade Runner / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The Nightmare Fuel page for
*Blade Runner 2049* can be found here *As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked. You have been warned.*
- In some cuts of the film it takes three shots for Pris to finally stop screaming.
- Her screaming coupled with a seizure. Dear god.
- Fingers in the eyes. Urgh.
- The climax, where Deckard is being stalked through a deteriorating building by a sadistic, ludicrously strong replicant who is losing its grip on sanity. The movie did a brilliant job at showcasing the horror of being hunted down and
*toyed with* by a psychopath you cant possibly defend against.
- From the climax, Deckard getting his fingers broken by Batty. There's a reason that the original home video release had a warning on the box about the violence level in this movie...
- Batty sticking a nail through his hand to prolong his life... ouch...
- The damn Psychopath was howling...
"I can see you!"
- The romantic scene between Deckard and Rachael can look more like a rape scene to modern audiences. In context there's the implication that she does want him but she's too afraid of getting caught up in her emotions, but the way Deckard pushes her to act on them can come across as creepily forceful, especially considering her vulnerability having just killed a replicant. When she gets up to leave after he kisses her neck he slams the door shut, throwing her against a window and kissing her again. Then he makes her tell him to kiss her—making it seem like everything she says afterwards about putting his hands on her and such is just because he forced her to. The fact that she looks worried and scared for most of the scene until they start passionately kissing doesn't help matters.
- The scene where Deckard shoots Zhora. At one point it looks like her heart pops out of her chest, and she still keeps running... | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BladeRunner |
Blade Strangers / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Lina's ending can be very terrifying for those not expecting it: After defeating every single fighter trying to oppose her, including the recently awoken Blade Stranger, and devouring their data, Lina happily declares that she will devour everything in sight. The whole world then starts collapsing around her, and when she notices that something is wrong, it's too late. Then, in a very odd case of Non Standard Game Over, the game abruptly cuts to a Blue Screen of Death, which as some may know, indicates a system crash or irreparable error. A few seconds later, it changes to a reboot screen, and then back to the title screen, with no credits or a single word from Exiva or the Motes, indicating that world of the game has started anew. As mentioned above, it can be very terrifying for those not expecting it, as it can be easily mistaken for an actual Blue Screen of Death. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BladeStrangers |
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
How does Miriam gain new powers? By killing her foes and absorbing abilities as shards shards that jam straight through her torso, which she has to forcibly aid with visible stress in the process. And as of the E3 2018 Demo, she screams in pain when she absorbs one. Apparently it's even more uncomfortable than it looks, with Miriam describing shard absorption as claws scraping against her bones.
Valac, the double-headed demon serpent boss from Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon's stage 4, makes a return. Those who didn't know, or those who weren't paying attention to his design in Curse of the Moon, might get jolted by the bloody corpse under his chin, and that's before he properly greets you with his many, many teeth and centipede-like bodies, along with a rather claustrophobic boss arena.
The lengths the Alchemist's Guild went to in the name of sheer, naked greed. They infected children with a blight that crystallized their bodies, then ritualistically sacrificed them to summon demons, resulting in a Hell on Earth that is plainly stated to have killed millions. All because scientific progress and the Industrial Revolution were drawing away their wealthy patrons. There's no suggestion that The Extremist Was Right, either; this was entirely done out of pure avarice and fear of change.
Arguably making things worse is the classic ultimate goal of alchemy — the Philosopher's Stone needed to create the Elixir of Life, which would grant total immortality. Never mind just avarice — they were arguably so determined to cheat death outright that they were willing to risk killing everything else off.
To make things even worse? This most likely inspired Dominique to instigate her Rage Against the Heavens plan (explained below), which is in a different regard, just about as amoral as what they were trying to do. The Guild is effectively a monster who gave way to another monster.
The Easter Egg found in the runaway train, now pictured. There's a chair within the train that players can take a seat in during subsequent visits, which triggers a scene reminiscent to Alucard peering into the telescope of the Outer Wall in Symphony of the Night as Miriam looks out the window of the train. However, if you have her sit still long enough, players will witness Miriam's vision dozing off during the ride, only for a strange entity to appear in the distance. If the player lets the scene play out, the entity steadily gets closer and closer between her blinks, only to suddenly vanish from the scene and WHAM! The monster suddenly jumps right into the player's face and screams at them, and if the player didn't have Miriam run away from the chair as they would from their console/PC in real life, they are treated to a fight with the Kunekune, a Boss in Mook Clothing that can also inflict Curse on Miriam, causing her HP and MP to be cut in half, and the Kunekune is a very strong enemy that will likely send unsuspecting players to a Game Over screen, being able to deal damage and Curse Miriam just by having her be facing towards it. To make matters worse for completionists, they'd have to trigger this fight many times over if they plan to get the shard it possesses and upgrade it. Have fun.
Den Of Behemoths, which is the beginning of the endgame. At first you think, great, we've ratted out Gremory and found the way to the final dungeon! And then you arrive at Den of Behemoths only to be greeted with glaring crimson background, and as you go further, you then learn why the place is called Den of Behemoths: The enemies have been significantly upsized, and even your formerly frail mocos and mortes become gigantic with tons of health. Imagine being in Miriam's shoes; she has gotten used to foot-sized frogs, Morte Cannons about her size, and suddenly she sees these demons dwarfing her (especially that giant moco which bursts out of a giant boulder she is merely climbing). The oppressive music doesn't help matters.
The "Usurper" ending, the second of two bad endings. If you get the Zangetsuto, but kill Gebel without attacking the moon when it turns red, Miriam will wonder if she did the right thing, the screen fades to black, and then you hear... this:
Gremory:(Evil Laugh) With that many shards bound to you, you will be all too easy to possess.
To cap it off, the Game Over screen is displayed afterwards, complete with music.
Dominique's true nature. After having spent her entire life devoted to God, only to watch Him remain utterly silent as mankind suffered and died to the Demons, she decided that if God refuses to do anything, she will usurp Him and take His place. This new mindset led her to become obsessed with amassing as much power as possible, driving her to form a pact with Gremory and instigating the entire plot, being willing to unleash Bael upon the world all for the sake of obtaining even greater power so she can create a Crapsack World.
The Unnamed Alchemist's journals. They detail the original creator of the Crystal Curse's attempts to summon demons to the world, in hopes of keeping the Alchemist's Guild afloat and their coffers flowing. It details how he went about with his crystal project, how he found out that using children would hasten the curse's progression. After being given children to experiment on by the Guild, he then forces them to bind shards, of which Miriam had said "it felt like claws scraping against her bones". At the end of it all, he expects them all to be sacrificed to summon demons en masse to the world. How does this fit into Nightmare Fuel? Simple: the entire journal volumes are like reading from the perspective of a Mad Scientist who doesn't care how many people he has to kill and hurt so long as he and the guild profits, up to and including children. He has absolutely no remorse for his actions, and only seems to feel regret when Gebel is back to finish off the Alchemist's Guild (which is likely less My God, What Have I Done?andmoreOh, Crap!). Perhaps the worst part is that it can paint some unsettling real life connotations on how some institutions make use of child labour without caring about them, and only using them as a means to an end. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight |
Bloody Roar / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Bakuryu's ending in the first
*Bloody Roar* was horrific. For clarification, it's revealed that his molecules are unstable, and he melts *onscreen*. Adding to the horror, the scientists watching don't give a crap, merely acknowledging his death.
- Fox's ending was just as bad, as he became a Self-Made Orphan after killing his mother accidentally during a frenzy, and then his screams of anguish slip into
*insane laughter*.
- Everything Buzusima does in
*2*, whether abducting and brainwashing Kenji into being his personal assassin and then forcing him to fight his surrogate father Yugo, turning his (former) best friend into a freaky abomination, and creating a terrorist group led by Long's insane clone. Small wonder he was subject to Villain Decay in later installments.
- The brainwashing scene itself deserves a mention, since all we see is a really creepy image of the bad doctor himself as Kenji is very brutally turned into Bakuryu. He recovers... right after beating the crap out of Yugo, where he promptly decides the only way to atone for his misdeeds is to
*kill himself*. He is only saved due to Gado's interference.
- As a capper, said image is
*never used again*. Not even in the doc's own story mode.
- The Mad Scientist has his own story mode story, with images that range from midly creepy to
*What the actual Fuck?* The worst of them is the one before he fights Uriko, where he literally looms over her, looking for all the world like a pedophile while Uriko looks terrified.
- Stun's unstable zoanthrope power as a result of Busuzima's "man-made zoanthrope" experiment; Stun cannot fully morph into insect form but cannot turn back to human form either. To prevent his body from decaying, he needs to either get the DNA stabilizer only Busuzima can create (which means Stun has to ask his enemy for favor) or drink fresh human blood (which means Stun has to commit murder).
- Shen Long's story images are creepy enough that even the Narm of the writing is mitigated:
- First appearance: He just stares at the screen with no real facial expression at all.
- Victory: He's smiling, holding up his arm with it being heavily implied that he disemboweled you. This happens even when he fights Uriko.
- Defeat: The worst one, as his battered face is much closer to the screen, his mouth is now significantly more open and his smile is deranged, and he's bleeding from one eye.
- The fact that Xion's zoanthrope form is the product of demonic possession. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BloodyRoar |
Blue Exorcist / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- Fujimoto Shiro as he's possessed by Satan (pictured), he gets a demonic appearance and starts disintegrating because Satan is too powerful for him. Cue a bleeding, horribly disfigured face. Then he rips his fingers off. The anime toned it down.
- The Fingore isn't shown on screen; there's a cut to Rin's expression of horror and
*the sounds of them being torn off*.
- Ghouls. They look like they crawled right out of something like
*Amnesia*, being horrible, stitched-together, bleeding rotting things.
- Rin as his face is literally punched off by Amaimon. Again, anime toned it down considerably.
- The Impure King is a giant fungus, not unlike the mostly harmless Coal tars often seen floating around. It spreads disease by making a gigantic "building" of its spores which grows over time and makes boils on the skin of anyone who touches them.
- To say nothing of resident traitor Saburota Toudou regenerating while being shot by Yukio, always regenerating his mouth first to talk to Yukio about how "nice" it is to be a demon, and that Yukio is already like a demon.
- In Episode 24, an army of eyeless baby Yukios latched onto him as he tried to fight Satan's possession.
- Recent chapters introduced us to a "ghost" in the girls' washroom. Aside from looking really, really horrible, there is what it actually is all the pent up frustrations of various teenage girls and what it
*says*.
- Chapter 43: the shapeshifter. Its true form looks like an Eldritch Abomination and can take the form of your worst fears if you look at it.
- Chapter 48: Shima shows up to help Izumo and fights Takara, who appears to be the Illuminati spy. Then, at the very end, he stabs Izumo, and Takara calls him The Mole.
- Chapter 51: Izumo's mother after all the experimentation done. She is bound to a wheelchair and rapidly deteriorating and the only thing she can say is requests for her daughter's help. Equal parts this trope and Tear Jerker.
- Zombie Chimeras are lurching, snarling, slavering masses of Body Horror—huge, twisted abominations that have way,
*way* too many eyes, mouths, ears, limbs... they make *ghouls* look like swimsuit models by comparison. They're the horrific results of immortality/regenerative experimentation derived from studying Izumo's mother, and they used to be people. *Some of them can still think and talk*, enough to react with surprise to Shiemi screaming, or utter a desperate plea to be allowed to go home...
- Yukio in chapters 71 and 72 of the manga. He's trying to get his Eye power to work, but as it apparently only kicks in when he's feeling an intense emotion, he repeatedly makes attempts on his life, like trying to drown himself to experience true fear. It doesn't work. Chapter 72 ends with him jumping off a building and
*utterly terrified*,and as he falls, thinking that he doesn't want to die.
- It then gets
*even worse* in ch73: upon finding out that a) he survived and b) his power only briefly flared up and still isn't stable he *puts a fucking gun to his head and demands that the "monster" comes out.*
- Chapter 76 ends with the strong implication that Hachiro is going to force
*Shura* and *Yukio* to conceive a child through Mind Manipulation against their wills. Keep in mind that he's underage, they've essentially had the same adoptive father, and Shura realizes that he may have done this to the other women who came after her ancestor.
- Chapter 77 starts with the above implication
*nearly happening*. If Rin hadn't shown up, it would have gotten much worse. And even so what Yukio suggests and says is incredibly freaky even if he's acting, he didn't have to *shoot* Rin - he's too calm about it too!Followed by Hachiro *losing* it and going berserk. Hachiro is *immortal* and the previous Paladin was ultimately *powerless* against him. And now he's planning on *killing* them all...and Yukio's "successful" plan also weakened Shura.
- Chapter 93: Yukio being Driven to Suicide after learning Father Fujimoto's true origins. It fails because his demonic blood finally awakens... and we are treated to a lovely shot of Yukio's eye disgorging blue flames, while
**SATAN** is taunting him about how he will not be allowed to die.
- Chapter 98 begins with Rin's body being overwhelmed with the power of his demon heart now that Kurikara is no longer sealing it away. The end result is Rin being reduced to a blackened corpse in mid-scream which then breaks apart. He got better but still.
- Section 13 is this through and through. Inhumane experiments? Check. Copious Body Horror? Check. Harm to minors? To an unbelievable degree. Satan's birthplace? Check.
- Everything about how they treated Yuri during her pregnancy. Unethical doesn't even begin to cover it, and many fans speculate the Order was trying to kill her and her children indirectly since the Cradle Barrier prevented more direct methods. Either way she's visibly in so much pain.
- Rin was terrifying at birth. He already had his demon powers and immediately started burning nearby exorcists to death within seconds of being born.
- Satan's form as seen in Gehenna is horrifying, a pillar of bodies and body parts that seem to be consuming themselves with a flame filled with eyes at the top.
- It turns out the Toudou family did not die by Satan's fire. Actually, Saburota murdered them all (save for Homare) during the chaos of the Blue Night and then set fire to the bodies himself. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlueExorcist |
Bloodbound / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
As if the regular Ferals weren't bad enough.
**As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- The Ferals. They are (technically) still vampires but they are driven solely to feed and kill. They are constantly in a state of mindless rage. Getting bit by one turns the victim (whether human or vampire) and there's no cure for being a Feral (apart from death).
- The Cryptoferals in Book 2 are even worse. They have evolved due to their environment (being trapped in the vampire crypts for hundreds of years) and look like something out of the Alien franchise.
- Worse still are the Spiderferals (pictured). They are six-armed, four-eyed monstrosities that make the regular ferals seem tame by comparison,
*and there's a whole army of them*.
- Book 2, Chapter 6 is an extremely dark chapter in which two characters are violently killed, the Big Bad becomes
*basically immortal* and the main characters either go into hiding (Kamilah and Lily) or flee to another country (Amy, Adrian and Jax) for their own safety. To hammer home how dark this chapter is, the chapter description simply says "RUN".
- The Order of The Dawn. A sadistic, ruthless group dedicated to the total eradication of all vampires. Their first physical appearance has them burst into a nightclub and brutally slaughter waves of innocents (both vampires and ordinary people). The game puts it best: "The Order does not yield. The Order does not sleep. The Order shows no mercy... and leaves no survivors".
- In Book 3 Chapter 16, it's revealed that Rheya killed her own daughter Iola (since Rheya believed Iola was burned alive, by the Son of Ares and thought Iola was a random human).
- The bonus scenes of Books 1 and 2.
- Book 1's bonus scene shows a hideous-looking Gaius feeding on a random girl brought to him by Jameson.
- Book 2's bonus scene shows a resurrected Rheya feeding on a fisherman after he finds her on the beach and asks if she's alright.
- How would you feel if you're a newly-turned vampire forced to search for a blood meal, then chase down and feed on the first bleeding person you see? This moment in Book 3, Chapter 1 is made worse by the fact that there are no options to resist the urges, not to mention the woman's scream just before Amy's love interest finds her.
- The "bad ending" of Book 3, in which Amy essentially causes the end of the world by draining the life force out of everyone, which results in a Non Standard Game Over. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Bloodbound |
BLUE GUARDIAN: Margaret / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
As Badass Adorable as Margaret is, she tends to be offed in some rather disturbing or frightening ways. While this Fox Eye game as a whole is not as dark as the likes of
*Holdover* or *especially Sacrifice Girl*, this page will cover just how much failure can be a cruel mistress to *BLUE GUARDIAN: Margaret*.
- One of the Game Over images has Margaret beaten to death (see top-left of the page image), with her lying on the ground with cuts, bruises, bloodstains, and even a black eye. It can be pretty unsettling to see for the first time since Margaret never looks this hurt during the gameplay, itself. It feels
*even worse* if you or someone you know has been on the receiving end of a brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in Real Life, let alone if you or that someone is a girl.
- With this game being known as a borderline H-Game, there are quite a few other creepy deaths Margaret can suffer from, here. She can be
*raped to death* by creatures such as giant rats, or eaten alive by bosses such as giant plant monsters and centipedes, with her drowning from her head being submerged in the monsters' internal fluids; likely their *stomach acids that's trying to digest her whole body*. Certain snakes can turn her into stone, leaving her with a terrified expression from it (see top-right of the page image). She can also be forced to drown underwater by either getting the air sucked out of her by a Gorgeous Gorgon, getting strangled by Lizard Folk, or held under by Combat Tentacles. In short, everything she encounters wants to ruthlessly kill her.
- There's also an underwater version of the above No-Holds-Barred Beatdown death where Margaret's beaten corpse slowly drifts deeper in the water she was killed in. Her ordinary drowning image seems tame in comparison, and this is considering the nearly-blank-eyed, Dies Wide Open expression she has in
*that* image (see bottom-left of the page image).
- Speaking of drowning, much like Miyo in her own game, Margaret's drowning is pretty realistic as well, as she both verbally
*and* vocally strains her lungs to hold her breath, and she sounds more and more dire the closer she is to drowning, with her even frantically kicking her legs in a panic when she's almost out of air. The Game Over image for drowning is merely just the end result, and as stated above, several enemies have attacks that are *specifically* used to drown her faster instead of killing her brutally such as the aforementioned No-Holds-Barred Beatdown death. When this happens, it's usually by strangling the air out of her until she stops moving.
- Although it's a part of Fox Eye's Signature Style and Author Appeal to set its protagonists up for drowning perils as a common-but-avoidable danger, and in this specific case it can be entirely skipped by the player, ||the Have a Nice Death sequence of Margaret being drowned in a water torture tank near the end of the game is quite possibly the most brutal instance of a drowning in any Fox Eye game ever made. If the player gets careless and lets Margaret get caught by the wizards in the underground laboratory, the water tank sequence is initiated where Margaret is stripped of all of her clothes and guns, bound upside-down by a rope, and then dumped into the tank. She's then forced to flail around and fight against drowning
*helplessly* while the enemy, including the Big Bad, General Blaine, gloat and watch her fruitless efforts up to her inevitable death. The only control the player has with Margaret at this point is to make her struggle free, but her efforts remain in vain, as all this does is deplete her Oxygen Meter faster. This can happen to her twice as she survives the first ordeal, but triggering this sequence a second time drowns and kills her for real, greeting the player with a detailed Game Over image of Margaret's suspended, now-lifeless body hanging in the water tank with the cloaked wizards looming on at her, preparing to throw her corpse away like trash per Blaine's orders. The fact that this whole sequence plays out like a special cutscene to the "dark area" music gives it the feeling that it's meant to represent a Bad Ending for the game where The Bad Guy Wins by drowning the heroine, herself. Not even Margaret's In the Name of the Moon boast was enough to soften the blow of her fate.|| Once again, the player can skip this whole sequence by ||never getting caught in the laboratory||, but still...
- ||As shown in the bottom-right of the page image, not escaping the collapsing tower in time after beating the True Final Boss causes Margaret to perish under the tower's rubble. If you look closely at the Game Over image for this, you can see that
*she's still barely moving, and likely trapped where she is.*|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlueGuardianMargaret |
Blue Gender / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The show opens with the main character awakens after a long cryogenically enduced sleep, hoping to find the cure for the disease he has. ||Upon waking up, he's horrified to discover that the other people he was frozen with, including a girl he met prior to the freeze, not only dead, but horrifically balled up and
*savored* for the hideous, insectoid Blue to eat later. Their faces, horrified, terrified and pain filled, pressed right up so he can see every single instance.||
- If the Blue kill a human, but aren't hungry, they store the body in a cocoon... after compacting it to be as small as possible, complete with loud sounds of bones breaking and joints being dislocated.
- The slaughter of the refugees in episode 6. Instead of going with a Battle Discretion Shot, you get to see Choppers crushing civilians underfoot or slicing their limbs away, as well as the Maneater slashing at a mother and her child, or crushing a man in its jaws.
- The Clincher: the power-sucking Blue from episode 11, specifically what it does to the Axe-Crazy soldier who decides to attack it. The thing knocks him to the ground, leaps on top of him, and its tentacles coil around his head. You can hear him scream, but you have no idea what it's doing to him. Later, it reappears, and the tentacles have grown into the soldier's head. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlueGender |
Blue Öyster Cult / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Blue Öyster Cult is well-known for incorporating science fiction and occultist themes into their lyrical content. It should come as no surprise that many of their songs are horrifying.
"Astronomy"'s other-worldly Lovecraftian setting of the Four Winds Bar, standing under strange skies outside space and time, where people from this world suddenly find themselves with no hint as to whether they were able to get back again.
"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" from Agents of Fortune is a commonly used shorthand for establishing an ominous feel in horror movies and TV shows (in addition to being a stoner anthem, but that's a whole other trope). It influenced novelist Stephen King to write his famous apocalyptic 1978 novel, The Stand. Why does it have this effect on so many people? Because it's damn unsettling, that's why. The music sounds eerily serene, almost like it could have been written by The Byrds - but it's about the inevitability of death and the transcendence of love. The eponymous "Reaper" features prominently.
"Golden Age Of Leather", from Spectres. In which an upbeat surf-music theme and vocal harmonies reminiscent of The Beach Boys allows a story to unfold, of old Hell's Angels deciding to go out with one last gang-rape followed by a battle to the death. And at the end, a desert sandstorm rolls over the corpses and swallows them up.
The first album has the standout track "Then Came The Last Days Of May" which can best be described as stealth country music played by heavy rockers. The theme is one not usually covered by C&W: three buddies set out, with a guide they mistakenly think they can trust, to cross the Mexican border via a desolate desert so as to buy drugs. in the desert, their guide murders all three to steal the drugs money. The song is from the point of view of the last man to die, in the manner of a lonely cowboy on the frontier.
"Harvest Moon" seems rather tame, until the ending reveals that a mysterious entity, referred to only as "some evil", comes every harvest moon to disappear the townspeople of a village.
"Screams in the Night" (from the self-titled first LP) is about the infamous Kitty Genovese murder in New York, where, allegedly, hundreds of people saw or heard the murder but did not intervene. One of the witnesses was keyboard player Allen Lanier - who had only just moved into an apartment overlooking, and within listening distance of, the murder scene.
"The Shadow of California" from Revolution By Night has Word Salad Lyrics, but it can be read as a chapter of demon-possessed Hell's Angels on their way to do the bidding of their master in Los Angeles. Alternatively, "the shadow" can be read as resurgent fascism/Nazism which is rising in America's most populated state. ( a clover-leaf junction has four arms and the swastika is "a symbol of good luck").
"I Am the Storm!", from Mirrors, charts a Stalker with a Crush who has let his doomed obsession tip over into violent insanity as he contemplates what he'd like to see happen to the object of his spurned affections.
"Unknown Tongue", the final track from Cultösaurus Erectus, is about a young girl who partakes in ritualistic self-cutting for what seems to be religious reasons ("a crucifix above her head"). Two things make it especially unnerving: the fact that she tastes the blood, and the fact that it ends with her going to school the next morning like an ordinary schoolgirl, as if to juxtapose her banal everyday life with the disturbed behavior she exhibits at night. There is also the association with stigmata, the Wounds of Christ, that religious tradition assures us can be visited on a particularly pious believer as a blessing from God. There is a hint in the song that Margaret's piety and desire for the Stigmata is helped along by her father's razor.
"Workshop of the Telescopes" is the penultimate track from the band's self-titled debut album, and it's so cryptic as to evade basic comprehension. What it does do well is create a very eerie atmosphere, described perfectly by late band manager and frequent lyricist Sandy Pearlman:
"It's really what I call a gothic technology song . . . It has kind of a Frankenstein's laboratory, techno-gothic take on how things would be transformed, and what the transformative mechanism would be." | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlueOysterCult |
Blue Submarine No. 6 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The CGI effects, as dated as they are, do help make the Umigumos and Musucas seem otherworldly and frightening.
- The interior of the Phantom Ship, from what we see, is very hazy. Most of the time, we only see shots of the faces of the hybrids in Verg's crew, but mostly the hideous ones.
- The opening of the third episode, "Hearts", features a slideshow of catastrophic events throughout the world. These include riots, poverty, disease, flooding, and political unrest.
- The scene in episode 3 when Mutio's sisters all rise up from the ocean to attack Hayami. At first, their white faces and hair make them look like a flock of seagulls floating in the water. But then they start climbing
*en masse* onto the wreckage of Blue Dome, making horrible yowling noises while crawling around and hissing like an army of Gollums. You can also see the glowing blue eyes of even more of the sisters in the water, hinting that the swarm on the wreckage is just the first wave.
- Marcello from the PS1 game is a giant Angler fish hybrid with a big, toothy Slasher Smile.
- When Red Spot is hit by Blue 6's torpedoes, he starts gushing out blood. Lots of it. To the point where all the water he's in turns a dark sanguine. And even worse, Hayami ends up swimming and almost
*drowning* in the stuff.
- Here's one that overlaps with Tear Jerker: The dead sister that Mutio finds after the Battle of Tokyo. Her eyes are desaturated and glassy, she has an expression of pure terror, and there are even little fish swimming in and out of her open mouth (which, along with her nose, also has blood leaking out of it). And as Mutio looks at her corpse, she starts sobbing, then her face and hands contort in anguish, intercut with rapid flashbacks to the moment that Hayami saved her. Without a single line of dialogue, this scene manages to successfully capture both the horrors of war and the concept of Survivor Guilt, as Mutio is confused and horrified by the fact that she was spared while her sister was killed by the same people. Not helping matters is the music that plays during all of this.
- Towards the end of the third episode, when the crew of Blue 6 are preparing for their final battle, one can faintly hear a woman making a blood-curdling scream in the background. Fridge Horror sets in when you consider that this would be the exact moment when Mutio is captured by her fellow hybrids and tortured/beaten for saving Hayami. Could that have been
*her* scream?
- In episode 2, Verg has a meltdown after speaking with Zorndyke. He goes berzerk and lashes out at Mutio and her sisters. First he grabs one of them while they're fleeing and forces his very long tongue into her mouth. And if that's not bad enough, he walks over to Mutio (who is still catatonic from the previous battle) while cackling like a lunatic, and begins creepily groping her and nibbling on her ear. Thankfully, the camera cuts away before we see what he does next. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlueSubmarineNo6 |
Blood / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Moment pages are Spoilers Off by default, so all spoilers were removed. Proceed with caution. You Have Been Warned.Though the game uses its own horror as a constant point for comedy, some things are still terrifying regardless. Caleb is a wisecracking, cackling Villain Protagonist, but that doesn't really seep enough into some people to make these parts very tolerable.
- The opening cutscene itself. Aside from falling into Narm territory due to the outdated CGI, even by 1997 standards, it still manages to be creepy for how inhuman and isolated everything feels. Bonus points for the Cabal cultist being possessed by the Tchernobog himself (pictured above), who appears to have his eyes glow white and groaning at the same time, as if he's choking. After that, the cultist pulls a Slasher Smile before every last pound of flesh sloughs off his skeleton, at which point his monstrous servants close in. Shial drops down to take Gabriel, Cerberus sets Ishmael alight before anyone can notice its presence, and while Caleb and Ophelia are still in shock over that, Cheogh swoops in and drags the latter off to her doom. Tchernobog then disposes of Caleb, imploring him to "consider [his] power in a hollow grave".
- Caleb's primary focus upon his resurrection, besides tearing the Cabal and their undead minions limb from limb, is rescuing Ophelia and Gabriel... only to discover that they were both murdered long before he could reach them. Ophelia was crucified in a manner that suggests that she bled out, and Caleb later finds Gabriel webbed-up and hanging in Shial's lair like a slab of meat. Caleb
*screaming in anguish* at the sight of the former really hammers it in.
- The prose intro of the Prima guidebook, written from Caleb's perspective, slightly expands on the opening. Caleb's already aware that something is off about this particular meeting, and that his pistol isn't going to do him any good against Tchernobog... In addition, while the game is ambiguous about how long he lay in his grave, the guidebook posits that Caleb was in there for a while. A very long while.
- The horrified screams of the Cultists when they die can be jarring the first time. The worst ones sound like they're going through unimaginable torture and play regardless of how you kill them. Albeit, it can verge into Nightmare Retardant if they die to your mundane pitchfork, and it can soon become rather satisfying due to how dangerous and annoying fighting the Cultists is.
- The Dark Carnival has... graphic attractions, to say the least. This includes a game where you have to kick zombie heads into a giant monster jaw, a freak show with only zombies and a Choking Hand, tightrope walking over a pool of snakes, and your first contact with gargoyles who suddenly come alive on a carousel. Worse, if you have the CD in your player (or activated the CD soundtrack on modern ports), the unsettling music track is replaced by its even more disturbing variant which includes rhythm changes, Creepy Children Singing, and a finale that makes you wonder what they do after the show is over.
- The secret level, House of Horrors, is true to its name. You open a giant jaw similar to the previous one (this time with a Monster Clown face above it which, superposed over the mouth, gives it a Slasher Smile), then enter a Meat Moss-infested corridor which evokes a giant digestive system: after being "swallowed", you board the River Ride of Terror, a water slide with hanging corpses and creepy laughs coming from all directions, which ends on a trap where you have to dive among piranhas and escape through a Frankenstein's lab torture room. Like the previous level, if you have the CD soundtrack, the Creepy Circus Music is replaced by this ominous music track. It's also not clear if the Cabal set this up some time beforehand, or if the House of Horrors was always one of the carnival's "attractions".
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*The Nightmare Levels* reveals that the Dark Carnival *enslaved* some of its performers in the past, including Ishmael (who played "JoJo" at the time). While his segment isn't played any more seriously than the others, the fact that it opens with him breaking out of *a repurposed animal cage* raises some horrifying questions.
- Choking Hands, which are the equivalent to Duke Nukem 3D's Protozoid Slimers. These buggers are little enough to be immune to bullet spam, appear suddenly from unexpected places, and when they choke you, you cannot do anything to them except try to pull them off (with your vision darkening, sounds of gasping and your health quickly going down). If you can fight them without getting the heebie-jeebies, you have nerves of steel. If you can kill one with a single pitchfork blow, you are both
*utterly fearless* and *really masterful*.
- The Bone Leech in the sequel, which is to this game what the facehugger is to
*Aliens vs. Predator: Extinction* - it should be very obvious how Monolith wound up making *Alien Vs. Predator 2*. It gets worse when you see the Soul Drudges, Drudge Lords and Drudge Priests are *the results of what happens to the victims*. The fact that the Lord is a Demonic Spider and the Priest is a Boss in Mook Clothing that can spawn *more* Leeches doesn't help.
- If you don't Read the Freaking Manual, it isn't obvious how to remove bone leeches and the like. While this is the case, walking into any dim area or murky pool is
*terrifying*, as at any time a monstrous creature might jump onto you, completely filling the game screen, and (slowly) kill you. Even throwing a Bone Leech or a similar monster off your face might matter little considering their striking (and annoying) habit of latching back on you moments later.
- Hell, there are several noises, visions and general stuff that manage to make the game pretty damn scary. Of note is the ominous Domus Durbentia chanting of the voices of Legion in
*The Great Temple*, apparition on the window at the end of *Rest For The Wicked*, a ton of stuff in "The Haunting" note : an eerily large, quiet and dark mansion with several vent holes out of which both Spiders and Hands come crawling, a Hedge Maze way creepier than the one in *The Shining*, and secret passageways filled with Phantasms, and that's not to mention the Sickening Slaughterhouse - the first building you find in the level and only access much later; it's full of hanging mutilated bodies, disturbingly well-placed blood, and *Hands* - and the goddamn Creepy Basement and on top of all that the unnerving ghastly moaning without any apparent source in the *Ganglion Depths* which literally sounds like some unfortunate fellow's soul was trapped in a different plane of existence suffering unspeakable torment. That, and the sense of foreboding you get in any silent level. To boot, if you play the game with CD music on, "The Haunting" will have easily the creepiest ambient music in the game.
- The CD version of "Father Time" starts off as a rather melancholy, atmospheric song, before descending into pure dread.
- The Phantasms themselves, thanks to their alarming appearance (imagine a white mini-Grim Reaper with a Slasher Smile) and the way they scream bloody murder non-stop, as well as their propensity for taking you by surprise. As VGJunk puts it, the Phantasms were probably voiced by a guy whose balls were put in a rat trap, so much misery and hopelessness is in their screams.
- On the second level of the first game, you can skip the level exit and go straight into the train tunnel - which results into you walking a long dark hallway in pure silence for a minute, only to get hit by a coming train. This was years before a similar technique was used in games like
*Silent Hill* or SCP-087.
- The cruelty of the Cabal is made evident very early on; some of their victims have been nailed to walls and the sides of buildings, seemingly as a warning to Caleb.
- The Fanatics in
*II* look and sound like normal human soldiers... until you take enough health off them, at which point they start convulsing and let out a decidedly *inhuman* shriek; they then get back up and bum-rush you with explosive intent. The *Extra Crispy* mod runs with the implications and has a Shikari occasionally burst out of a slain Fanatic.
- Hey, a jukebox! What's it playing? ...The endlessly-looping screams of the damned, apparently.
- There's a painting of the Virgin Mary that periodically cycles between her normal state and a skeleton, with rotting stages in between. You'd think Caleb might have something to say about that if you try to examine it, but he doesn't.
- With how stoic and quiet Caleb usually is, it can be somewhat jarring to take a fatal blow and hear him shrieking his lungs out. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Blood |
Blood Is Mine / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
"If you had to kill one of your friends, which one would it be?"
- The first chapter begins with our protagonist stuck in a hospital overrun by monsters. Said monsters are created from a hacked bioprinter, which normally makes replacement human organs and tissue for the hospital patients, so the monsters look like hideous amalgamations of limbs and organs. And since the bioprinter needs material to make those things, the monsters feed the corpses of their victims to it.
- The drug Save the Queen makes those who take it into part of a Hive Mind that can be remotely controlled by whoever is in charge. Fuse has only tried this drug
*once*, and he still tries to kill Blondie against his will when he first meets her.
- When our protagonist finally remembers what happened before she woke up in the hospital, we see that she had been attacked on the street and forcefully injected with Save the Queen. It awakened her own abilities, negating the mind control effects of the drug, but it also caused her to
*sweat blood until she died*.
- When she syncs for the first time, our protagonist encounters her red. It looks like skin stretched over the wall with a huge mouth full of disturbingly human-like teeth. And it starts
*talking* to her, asking which of her friends she would prefer to kill.
- The second time we see the red is hardly better. Blondie finds herself in a replica of the same hospital room where she woke up in the beginning. Something is approaching, so she tries to hide. Red tells her that monsters don't need to hide, and this time it looks like
*her*, only covered in blood and with her limbs stretched out inhumanly long.
- Forcefully syncing with unwilling targets means wandering through their minds searching for information, while their mental defences attack you. These guardians can be downright horrifying.
- Michelle's guardian looks like her abusive former boss Vasquez with multiple spider eyes. When he's injured, spider limbs grow from the wounds.
- Macland's guardian was put in his mind by an amoral Mad Scientist specifically to counter mental intrusions. It's a grotesque shadow monster, described as "the nothing between things that are". It can retcon your attacks by crossing out their text descriptions and attack back by splitting apart comic panels. It's also extremely dangerous and has no regard for the life of its host: it tries to kill our protagonist by shutting down Macland's brain. She narrowly makes her escape, but Macland is left comatose. ||As it is revealed later, the Nothing isn't just a mental construct. It's an ancient Eldritch Abomination that wants to end all conscious thought in the universe.||
- Fuse accompanies Blondie on her trip into Macland's mind. But since Fuse is only a tagalong and doesn't have her abilities, his surroundings quickly begin to affect him. He painfully transforms into a giant cockroach, because that's how Macland sees poor people like him.
- Dr. Finch is attacked in his own home by Mooks who have been infected with a lethal bioengieered disease. Blondie has to use his knowledge and her own powers to save him while Finch is rotting from the inside.
- Zone 50 bunker is an unnerving derelict place with spacial anomalies and frozen monsters inside, but the thing in Bunker C takes the cake. We come across a blocked door that even Michelle with her Super Strength can't open. Michelle knocks on the door, not really expecting a reply, but then something knocks back from the other side. She tries sending a note: a piece of paper with "HELLO" written on it that she slips through the door. The note is returned with the last letter torn off, leaving "HELL". And then whatever is behind that door starts talking to her
*in Michelle's own voice*, repeating words that she has said previously and laughing. Understandbly, Michelle leaves the door closed and runs like hell.
- The fate of Dr. Deaglan Camp is horrifying. The poor guy was trapped in a bunker with no way out. To avoid starving to death, he ate plants bioengineered with alien blood. These plants started to grow
*inside* him, eventually turning him into a plant monster. He spent hundred years unable to move and in constant pain. When Jane finds him, he just wants to die.
- Voclain's line of genetically engineered beings was created to imitate Jane's mom. They are in constant pain, and they don't even get a chance to develop as individuals before Thale starts rewriting their minds into a copy of his own. And why does he do it? Because he hated Jane's mom, and now that she's dead, he needs someone to take out this hatred on.
- Jane uses a magic ritual to defeat a dangerous monster. This ritual calls upon the power of Nil to completely destroy its target. It works, but Michelle and Caius, who were holding the monster inside the ritual circle, are affected too. Caius is mostly fine, but both of Michelle's arms are
*rotted off*. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BloodIsMine |
BlazBlue / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*"What I crave is the death of all..."* *"Wait... did this nightmare fuel used to be... HUMAN...?!"*
—
**Ragna**
, during his encounter with Arakune
in
*Calamity Trigger Reloaded*
Ragna wasn't kidding. While
*BlazBlue* isn't the Trope Namer, that doesn't stop it from having a disproportionate number of scary moments.
- From
*Calamity Trigger*, Ragna and Nu fusing together and forming the Black Beast. Her childish giggling does not help at all.
- The more one thinks about it, Ragna in general can be this in spite of his Butt-Monkey status. The entire planet is
*terrified* of him for the death and destruction he has caused. In the manga, he's spoken about in hushed tones and terrified whispers while he was eating with Tao at the restaurant.
- We even get to see small glimpses of his assault on an NOL base. Long story short, the entire floor was
*covered* with corpses. This was also shown in the short story, *Memory of Blue*. The narrative describes the entire fight as a one-sided slaughter. Nothing the NOL could do even phased him, with the encounter ending with hundreds dead and the complex destroyed.
- To add to this, the text makes it clear that a single NOL branch has enough power to equal an
*entire country!*
- To make matters worse,
**He is the Black Beast**! He's ultimately the monster that wreaked havoc on the world 100 years ago, and he has the potential to become that same monster again on his own. Is it any wonder Hakumen wants him dead?
- This arguably reaches its apex in
*Chronophantasma* where Izanami has Ragna impaled by Nu to make him **utterly** ! He becomes a small version of the Black Beast and proceeds to thrash Jin and Mu-12 **lose control** *simultaneously*. These two have both become immensely powerful in the course of the previous two games, and yet a minor version of the Beast is all that's needed to wreck them so badly that Celica needed to heal them from near death! If that's just a taste of what the Beast is capable of, be very afraid.
- The Kisaragi family. Yes, the one that Jin, the Deuteragonist of the series, is a member of. The way they carry their tradition is a double-edged sword in that while it has a large number of influencial leaders and soldiers, this environment inevitably breeds Greed and Envy among it's countless members, with many of them hiring assassins to kill one another. Sounds just like a typical Big, Screwed-Up Family but what makes this family utterly horrifying is their treatment of Jin, their next future heir.
- The Yayoi family counts, as well. While they don't have the terrifying Social Darwinist tradition of the Kisaragi family, they do have a very, VERY disturbing way of keeping their lineage strong. How? Why, through INCEST (read: in-breeding), of course! It's been specifically stated that Tsubaki's father, the current head of the family, is in a mad delusion to keep this tradition alive, and he still wholly believes the family WILL get stronger despite multiple protests from the other Duodecim and the NOL itself. Then, when you realize that Tsubaki's obsessive love and Single-Target Sexuality towards Jin and the fact that he calls him "Nii-sama"/"Big Brother", it has some seriously disturbing implications - one of those is the fact that the moment she fell in-love with Jin, it was a Love at First Sight, and from that moment on, she labeled him as her "Nii-sama" to claim her incestuous possession of him that he is hers, and hers alone. Thankfully though, they're not actually related so that might alleviate some of the horrific imageries.
- Nu-13 is usually a stoic Robot Girl, always speaking in a robotic monotone, finishing her tasks with surgical precision... unless Ragna is around. She then regresses to the personality of a young girl, and turns her Yandere index up to
*13.* It's absolutely mortifying.
- And there's the part in her CF arcade mode where she meets Naoto. She initially thinks Naoto is Ragna, but once she sees that his presence is similar to Ragna, she's
This is one of the few times we actually see Nu **completely PISSED.** *completely* off her rocker, and it is horrifying.
- Remember in the True Ending of
*Calamity Trigger*, when Noel saved Ragna from her and Nu fell into the Cauldron? Well, Nu also remembers. By the time she finds Mu in her Act 3, she attacks her believing that she is Noel and vows to make her pay for both denying her wish to be with Ragna and for killing her in *CT*, sadistically promising to make her suffer what she went through when her soul was in the Boundary for what felt like an eternity.
- Depending on how you interpret Ragna's Badass Creed, his Astral finish kills his opponent
*utterly*. *"There is no hell, just darkness..."*
- What Relius did to his daughter Ada and his wife Ignis is horrible, turning them into lifeless killing machines For Science!
- And if the trailer for Act 2 of Centralfiction is any indication, we may have to
*witness how Ada was turned into Nirvana on-screen.* *Please let it just be a glimpse...*
- As of Carl's Act 2 Arcade ending, thankfully it's just a glimpse, but
*boy is it a terrifying one.* The only thing we see is *Ada's top half of her body◊.* And the fact that she already looks mechanical, making it much more unsettling. Poor, *poor Carl...* Making it worse: Picture Nirvana. Now realize that, in the linked image, it looks like Ada's head and most of her torso are *still organic*. Pretty sure *anyone* would be scarred for life after seeing THAT.
- We finally get to see exactly how Ragna lost his arm, and it is not pretty. Seeing a young Ragna, his arm cut off, surrounded by a ring of fire as a Yukianesa-possessed Jin looms over him, all while Terumi's silhouette watches with twisted amusement is beyond freaky. Picture here◊.
- In Carl's Bad Ending, he confronts Hazama, who beats him and props Carl up where he is helpless, then begins slowly tearing Nirvana apart. Carl desperately pleads for him to stop, but he continues and breaks her into pieces. Hazama then grabs Carl by the collar, sickly grinning and delivering a brutal Breaking Speech to him, before finally throwing him against a wall and killing him. The whole scene is both awesome and terrifying. Picture here◊.
- Ragna's Bad Ending is a definite example. Ragna's Azure backfires from overuse and turns him into a new Black Beast. He can do nothing as he ravages across what's left of the world and destroys it. The chilling screams of the people he devours do not help.
- Arakune. Just... Arakune. Everything about him.
- A bit more detail... Arakune Was Once a Man, but after trying to tap into the power of the Boundary and experimenting on his own body, he began to degenerate. Now he's nothing more than a black mound of goo, smelling of trash, filled with bones and disgusting insects, and eating anyone he comes across. His speech is fragmented, and he swings between insane laughter, paranoid rambling, nihilistic threats and tortured screams. As of
*Continuum Shift*, he seems to be regaining his sanity in short bursts, mostly warning Litchi to stay away from the Boundary. And even at his craziest, he's aware that the is SOMETHING wrong with him, but he can't quite place it.
- Just when you thought it couldn't get worse, it did. If you were too distracted by Arakune's Creepy Awesome factor, or his Woobie points above and possibilities that he's learned his lessons once Litchi probably cures him,
*Chrono Phantasma* finally turns him into the terrifying monster he's supposed to be with his new Astral animation. Remember how nothing happened when he hit the opponent? Now something does happen, and that something is very, *very* grotesque even for *BlazBlue* standards: the opponent gets sucked into (read: devoured by) Arakune and is trapped in a giant spider web. Then all of a sudden a bunch of HUGE eyeballs pop in from the background as a swarm of spiders, *with the exact same eyes on their backs*, begin to *crawl out of the huge eyeballs* and close in on the opponent, covering the screen in the process. Once the screen is completely covered by spiders, you hear a Sickening "Crunch!" as the Astral Finish display pops up. Once the screen clears, *nothing is left*. Yes, you know what just happened. *That poor soul just got eaten alive by spiders*. **And now their blood is raining down on the screen.** Prime phobia trigger for Noel. **Holy. Shit.**
- A close-up of one of the spiders in question. Sweet dreams.
- Those aren't spiders... those are centipedes.
- The Black Beast.◊ The similarities it shares with Giygas
**DO NOT HELP**.
- In
*Continuum Shift's* True Ending, Ragna and Terumi fight, with Terumi shutting down Ragna's Azure to make the fight into a Curbstomp Battle. After Mu-12 is completed and sent to destory Amaterasu, Ragna insists on fighting to the end, and invites Terumi to play. At this point, Terumi *goes fucking insane* and beats Ragna to within an inch of his life, screaming at him to just die, with Ragna struggling to stand and from the sound of things *choking on his own blood*. Terumi has done plenty of horrible things by this point, but even when doing some of his worst actions he retained an air of Black Comedy and evil glee. Here, he completely drops the jokes and just goes all out. He isn't enjoying this like his other evil actions, he just wants Ragna to die, *painfully*, and seeing his sadism in full force is really disturbing. **Terumi**: *"Ouroboros!! Picked a great time to grow a pair, huh? YOU'RE gonna play with ME? I don't think you understand how this shit works!"*
- Makoto's bad ending is royally messed up. Relius Clover captures her and subjects her to mental torture, to the point where she is crying out for him to stop. By the time he's finished, her soul has been completely and utterly
**shattered**, leaving her with no willpower to do anything anymore. **Makoto**: Ah... it hurts... **Makoto**: Stop! I don't want to remember! I don't want to relive those times... **Relius**: There's more...! **Makoto**: Oww... it hurts, it hurts! Please, stop! I... I never did anything to anybody, so why... why does everyone hate me?! I was just... just... **Relius**: Pain... violence... loneliness... par for the course... aha, but what's this...? **Makoto**: Don't! Please... not that...!
- There's a particularly chilling portion of this ending where all we hear is Makoto sobbing, pleading with Relius to stop, and a few times mentions what he's doing is hurting her, while he ignores this and says he will go on. What makes that even worse is that their character portraits aren't shown at this time, amplifying the effect of us hearing a rape in progress.
- You may ask yourself, "Is there any way this ending can get worse?" Watch it with the Japanese voices on. See that Big "NO!" Makoto gives in the dialogue above? In the Japanese version,
*she screams bloody murder*.
- Even the
*Help Me Professor Kokonoe* segment is chilling due to Makoto still begging for mercy even after she's entered Kokonoe's lab.
- It's implied by his last comment that he intends to turn her into something like Ignis. She's still fully concious as the ending goes black. Yikes.
**Relius**: You've just given me the fulcrum I need to topple your soul, and reshape it however I choose...
- Want more? Use his Astral Heat (Puppeteer's Altar). The opponent is trapped in one of Relius' labs and restrained in some way. If you'll notice, the walls are smeared with the blood of past subjects, who are hanging above on swinging crosses, the shadows of which can be seen. Relius then nonchalantly alludes to what he's going to do to him/her and the doors slam. All you can hear over the announcer is the death cry of the victim. For even more horror, some of the "experiments" are particularly gruesome. While Hazama's just dying of boredom ("Not like I don't deserve a hundred times worse..."), it's heavily implied that some characters are brutally killed or abused. Many of the characters are literally bound into torture implements or positions. Platinum is trapped in a barrel skewered by swords. Carl and Nirvana are
*strung up like * Yeah, he's that kinda person. **literal puppets.**
- His Astral Finish on Rachel isn't especially gruesome, but is rather tragic if you think about it. Nago and Gii, despite the abuse she heaps on them, are clearly very loyal to Rachel. During the Astral Finish, the two (or at least Nago) are forced to keep her bound so Relius can do whatever he wants to her.
- Some say that nightmares can begin with a sense of safety. In that very case, the combination of Litchi and Arakune's Bad Ends count. We were lured into a sense of happiness and heartwarming that we saw Arakune still has enough heart and care about Litchi's welfare, trying his best to remove her from his curse, and she is able to live on her life normally without any memory of him... in which we later learn that the corruption within Litchi is similar to Alzheimer's disease. Without a cure, it will continue to rot her until she dies, and all Arakune took was memories of him, and without his memory, Litchi becomes unmotivated to find the cure and blissfully unaware of it, awaiting the day she withers and die with her memories being jumbled here and there, or at worst, become the next Arakune and then start eating everyone nearby until someone kills her. Now then, when your choices are keep making bad decisions of continually working for Obviously Evil guys to pursue the cure as it's the only way or forget the cure and then get inflicted with this... Her desperation and 'obsession' would look justified, you
*don't* want to get into her situation! At least those bad decisions still let you be in full control, not show that you actually like working for that bastard and show remorse sooner or later...
- Carl's entire story. Even if he does become a adult, even if everything is okay for Carl, the kid's gone through enough crap to rival Ragna. He dropped out of the Academy after his father integrated his sister into Deus Machina: Nirvana and left her half-done for the boy to finish, and was effectively abandoned to grow up on his own terms making a living as a vigilante. On top of that trauma, it is implied that Nirvana amplifies the bloodlust of its wielder and stymies other emotions to that end, leaving him cold and emotionless on missions and a broken wreck that distrusts the adults around him otherwise. While Bang and Litchi did comfort him to a degree, he nearly broke all over again when he realized that Relius' improved detonator doll was built using
*his mother's soul*. The kid's about as stable as Shinji, and who can blame him? And let's not even get to what becomes of him much later on...
- Mind Eater is a form of geas that, while it allows the subject to somewhat freely express themselves, any command that is issued by the controller
*will* be executed whether the subject wishes to cooperate or not. After overtaking Kazuma and slaying Tomonori (the latter is somewhat justified, as Tomonori was trying to kill Kazuma to prevent the merge) alongside his role in the Black Beast's creation, Terumi deserved no less... not that he took his rehabilitation very well, mind you.
- Nine knew a more advanced form, called Ruby: Mind Eater, that further overwrites the subject's will, reducing them into a warped puppet of the controller. This technique was used on Tsubaki, and had she not been saved by Jin, Noel, and Makoto, her mind would have been totally consumed until she
*became* the Imperator.
- In a nutshell,
*anything* and *everything involving* Yuuki Terumi!
- But let's go into specifics, shall we? To kick things off, Unlimited Hazama (as
*CS* arcade boss) default theme is always Endless Despair, so you know right away he's not messing around. Then the fighting starts. His pure sadism, incredibly painfully looking moves and distortions, and his incredibly joyous laughter as he's ruthlessly beating down his opponent is a terrifying sight to behold. Even it is meant for comedy, this video shows off just how insanely sadistic the bastard is.
- As of recently Terumi is now a separate playable character from Hazama and he's even
*more* barbaric and cruel. His fighting style's pretty much all about crushing his opponents and destroying their hopes and dreams into tiny pieces. His Astral Finish has him summon snakes on to his opponents and then turn into the Black Susano, ending their lives while laughing manically. His special moves drain heat, and his win interactions has him stomping on his opponents mocking them.
- And then there's his role in the story proper. You already have an idea of just how brutal and sadistic his fighting style is, but his actions are so,
**so** much worse. Put simply, Terumi is more than just an utter bastard. He's the bastard to end all bastards. He's committed so many atrocities and caused so much suffering that he's lost count, especially due to all the time loops, but one thing is certain - **he enjoyed every single second of it**. He enjoys viciously mocking and belittling anything that isn't him, even going so far as to be both racist and sexist. He enjoys lying to and manipulating others, be it for his own personal gain or simply because he *can*. Even his own claim that he hates lies is itself a lie, one that he knows full well, takes advantage of, and finds funny all the same. He enjoys beating the crap out of and even killing people physically just as much as he enjoys doing it emotionally and spiritually. He **thrives** on every sort of negative thought and emotion imaginable. And no, that's Not Hyperbole. Yuuki Terumi is the separated will of a godlike entity who is literally Made of Evil. You name it, if it's negative, it sustains his existence and makes him stronger. As revealed after he regains his true form as Dark Susano'o, his ultimate goal is to rule the world with an iron fist as a God-Emperor, transforming an already Crapsack World into a literal Hell on Earth where people fight, suffer, and die for his amusement while fearing him as the one and only god. There are absolutely **ZERO** redeeming qualities about this man. He's a bloodthirsty, egotistical, psychotic *devil* who wants to tear the world a new asshole purely For the Evulz, and there are no lows he will not stoop to in order to accomplish that goal.
- Azrael is walking, talking Nightmare Fuel. The fact that
*Hakumen*, the very same Hakumen who can cut through time itself and is the de facto leader of a group of six beings considered to be the strongest warriors on the planet, flees from him rather than fight him should tell you everything you need to know about him. And don't get started on what he's like when he really starts getting worked up and into a fight.
- Armageddon itself. With Relius having stripped the limiters from every cauldron in the world, the seithr is overflowing and overdosing everyone from the top of the hierarchical cities downward, with all the terminally corrupted disintegrating where they stand. Imagine seeing black smoke spew forth from a volcano, but everyone it washes over just disappears before your very eyes, and you have a good idea how horrifying it would be. And then there's the sea of seithr in the lower elevations, so given long enough there would be nowhere left to hide. This is such a nighmarish scenario that the plan to activate the Lynchpin is preferable to allowing this to continue!
- Downplayed example, but Izayoi's Slasher Smile in the opening of CPEX is quite unsettling, mostly due to the fact that it's completely out of character for Tsubaki...
- Celica A. Mercury isn't Nightmare Fuel by herself - she neighbors Litchi and Makoto in terms of niceness and lacks a violent bone in her body, Inazuma Kick notwithstanding. Neither is Kokonoe accounting for her Power Nullifier incontinence with built-in dampeners and Ex Machina: Minerva. The problem cycles back around to Kushinada's Lynchpin - Kokonoe evoked her for precisely three reasons, those being to blot Ragna off her radar so she can track down Terumi, to obscure a small party of agents so Izanami cannot monitor or intervene freely, and to use her as the warhead for the damn thing! Even worse, Shuichiro Ayatsuki originally built the Lynchpin with this very fact in mind! It's telling just how horrible things have gotten that Nine built the original Nox Nyctores (of which Celica actually wielded Nirvana) and sacrificed the souls of thousands of war victims as a workaround to this thing.
- The Great Magister Nine, once a celebrated member of the Six Heroes; she ended up betrayed and killed by a teammate she herself forced into the group out of necessity. But Terumi wasn't quite done with her yet. She is now a revenant brought back from the dead to serve him...or so it was believed. Initially she was just Brainwashed, at the end of
*Chronophantasma* she is released from her mind control by Izanami, and set loose upon the world, releasing her limiters and allowing her to showcase her true, resurrected form. In *Central Fiction* we get to see exactly what this entails: she has Black Eyes of Crazy, a much darker-looking Robe and Wizard Hat as her attire, and a shift to a more condescending and domineering personality compared to the Nine we saw in flashbacks during the Six Heroes story in *Chronophantasma*. Her bio makes it perfectly clear that she is out to destroy the world.
- Even more frightening is how similar she and Terumi have become. Though Nine would be loathe to admit it, she and Terumi have become much alike. Having seen the "truth" of the world, she has become extremely nihilistic and seeks to destroy the world. She has also begun to imitate some of Terumi's traits, being more prone to malicious taunts, Evil Laughs, and taking a disturbingly sadistic glee in her psychological torture of the heroes. Also, in contrast to the emotionless glare she gives most characters at the end of their arcade runs, Hakumen's, Hazama's, Nu's, Amane's, and Arakune's endings replaces it with an
Slasher Smile. Clearly, her time in the Boundary and as Terumi's puppet has had a detrimental effect on her sanity. **absolutely terrifying◊**
- And now Act 2 shows just how warped she has become. Nine's ultimate goal in destroying the Amaterasu Unit is to create a world where only she and Celica can live happily, while everyone else can suffer and die for all she cares. She's become so broken by learning the truth that she's willing to kill
*everyone*, even people she once called friends, all for the sake of her sister, whom she doesn't realize would be heavily opposed to her plan because she's an All-Loving Heroine. In this light, it really makes it seem as though Nine is selfishly clinging onto Celica as an excuse to try and desperately mend her broken mind, and keep what little sanity she has left. Because she's become super-overprotective of Celica, this also means that Nine hates her own daughter Kokonoe for trying to use Celica to activate Kushinada's Lynchpin, the one thing she didn't want to happen 100 years ago.
- And now Act 3 reveals exactly
**how** she intends to destroy the world. By collecting all 9 of the Nox Nyctores, she will be able to call forth Take-Mikazuchi to completely destroy the world in an instant. However, when she calls it forth, she is going to call it forth in a completely berserk state. What makes it frightening is that she is She is fully aware she will be summoning a mindless beast of destruction upon the world. Made even worse when you remember that Nine once considered Take-Mikazuchi too dangerous for **fully aware of this.** **anyone** to use.
- Hades Izanami. Every single aspect of her character is designed with the sole purpose of invoking the primal fear of death, and her obsession with it. If an event in the plot involves the loss of lives, you can bet that Izanami is involved somehow. The Ikaruga Civil War? Nothing more than a setup to provide Izanami with thousands upon thousands of souls to sustain and power herself up. She serves as The Caligula during her reign as Imperator. After all, what sort of value does human life have to a "Goddess of Death"? Her very existence is even fundamentally wrong by the
*BlazBlue* universe's standards, being the negative aspects of the Origin's (the girl within the Amaterasu Unit's) personality given corporeal form and inhabiting the body of an Artificial Human. To reiterate: the de facto queen of the entire world is a Humanoid Abomination who fancies herself a god, and wants to turn said world into a desolate wasteland where absolutely nothing can survive. Even Izanami's fighting style is enough to make one's skin crawl. She utilizes darkness, the ghosts of the dead, and even time itself in her attacks, all of which are excessively brutal and look like they might actually kill the opponent. Her facial expressions only ever consist of Thousand-Yard Stare, Psychotic Smirk, Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises, Slasher Smile, or flat-out Nightmare Face as seen in the page picture.
- At the end of each arcade play in Act 2, there's The Stinger consisting of what seems to be the girl inside Amaterasu trapped inside
*something* with tubes connected to her.
- For all his talk about how he's nothing like his father and never will be, Act 3 shows that the apple really doesn't fall far from the tree with Carl's story, sending his characterization into a full 180 in the creepiest way imaginable. It's shown that when he actually does decide to piece together the truth, his methodology and line of deductive reasoning is
*exactly the same as Relius*. This means that he eventually just starts seeing people as merely things to be used and discarded when no longer necessary. For starters, he only fights Relius just to *see how Ignis is made*, after which he simply comments that she's *well made.* Uh kid, *that's your MOTHER you're talking about.* By the time he reaches Noel in the end, he just tells her to shut up and just let him experiment on her, and that she doesn't have a choice in the matter. Not "kill", despite that being what would allow him to save Nirvana. " *Experiment*". Like Hibiki, he intends to **torture her while she's still conscious** until he gets results. It gets to the point where Nirvana has to step in and stop him. First, Carl assumes it's a joke, but when she refuses to move, he gets PISSED and demands that his sister move aside in a cold, commanding tone, as if he no longer sees Nirvana as his sister, but a malfunctioning machine that refuses to obey orders. Although Noel gets away, Carl muses to himself that things are getting interesting while sporting a Psychotic Smirk and laughing maniacally. He's officially gone insane from trying to find out the truth. **Carl:** Hmm? Step aside, sis. **Ada:** ... **Carl:** **...Get out of my way, NIRVANA.**
- Hibiki Kohaku is now officially this as of
*Central Fiction*. Beneath the calm, collected assistant of Kagura Mutsuki is a batshit-insane killer who secretly wants to murder his master. When it's pointed out that his true desire is to kill Kagura, he angrily and childishly denies it, despite it being made painfully obvious that he's been engineered since birth to be a natural born killer whose only purpose in life is to be a tool for the Mutsuki family to use. His sanity really starts taking a turn for the worse in Act 3, where his murderous intent completely overrides his sense of rationality. He arrogantly states to Kokonoe that he'll become an Observer just to kill Noel, even when such a feat has been stated numerous times to be impossible. The real kicker is when he finally confronts Noel and attacks her in order to fulfill his wish. Even though he knows that nothing can truly harm her, his warped mind comes to the conclusion that if he kills her enough times, she'll have to die eventually.
- If you finish Act 3 with every round being a Distortion, Overdrive, or Astral Finish, the ending credits will suddenly be interrupted by static as Phenomenon Intervention occurs and you face one of three secret bosses: Unlimited Nine, Unlimited Izanami, or Unlimited Ragna.
- The stage where you fight Unlimited Ragna is most definitely this. It's called "Judgment Day", and it's a horrific amalgamation of Blockaded District and Take-Mikazuchi's stage, with the Embryo floating in the background. Since the Embryo is in the background
note : The game as of CF took place in an alternate world inside the Embryo... except for this stage, it is *heavily* implied that both combatants are back in the real world. Then it hits you: every single living being on the planet had its soul converted into seithr to form the Embryo in the previous game. It's literally Hell on Earth - a desolate wasteland where nothing can survive. **Izanami ** *won the previous game*.
- Azrael's Act 3. Him alone is bad enough, but then he teams up with Arakune of all characters. With a battle-monger and the co-king of Nightmare Fuel together, things are bound to be bad. And, yes, it's
*bad*. Azrael confronts Bang and Nu in a battle. When he inevitably wins, he has Arakune *devour them* when they are down. For Bang, the screen turns to black as Arakune skulks forward. The sounds we hear next are Arakune's psychotic, distorted voice and presumably him *eating* Bang. When the screen turns back to normal, *Bang is nowhere to be found*. For Nu, this happens immediately *after* the battle, leaving things to the imagination on how she got eaten. Why? To get their Nox Nyctores. Though this is undermined by Azrael kicking Arakune out of the screen right before the fight (or, in case of his final fight - Terumi - right at the beginning of the cutscene).
- His ending is even worse. The proverbial Devour Hour just so happens to attract the attention of
*Terumi*, which is exactly what Azrael wanted. He then proceeds to *beat the ever-loving shit out of Terumi*. You heard that right: **Terumi** got beaten to within an inch of his life by someone who *isn't* a main character, and he was forced to give up. It doesn't stop there, though. Azrael then begins interrogating Terumi about "the realm of the gods", to an image of Azrael with glowing red eyes and an intense Slasher Smile, and as he speaks his tone grows increasingly hammier and maniacal.
- The console opening animation contains lovely scenes such as Carl
*getting his eye shot out*. Keep in mind that this is happening to a kid who's at least no less than 14.
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**SUSANO'O.**
- Just when you thought Terumi couldn't be more terrifying, he outdoes himself and manages to rival Izanami and Arakune with this new One-Winged Angel form. To give you an idea of how terrifying he is,
**he killed Hakumen to get this form**. He one-shots Hakumen straight through the back using a Hihiirokane-empowered Ouroboros strike, which allows him to cut straight through Jin's soul, yank it out, and destroy it, leaving Hakumen nothing more than a limp, empty husk. Once Terumi enters the unit and transforms, he becomes a completely different person altogether. Gone is the bloodthirsty maniac we've come to know, love, and loathe for years. In his place is a cold, efficient, divine killing machine hellbent on destroying everything in sight. The Susano'o unit itself gets corrupted by Terumi's essence as he completes himself, and we get to see exactly what the Susano'o unit *really* is: a terrible monster that believes its path of destruction is the will of the gods. The unit now sports a mask with Glowing Eyes of Doom and jagged teeth which are permanently locked into a Slasher Smile of epic proportions, making it look not to dissimilar to Venom. Its shoulders which once had eyes now sport teeth as well, also locked into those same terrifying grins. He sports a Sickly Green Glow everywhere around his body, even *leaking through the armor itself*. His fighting style has been changed to match Terumi's love of brutality, but instead of being openly sadistic he now goes for raw power and ferocity, using wild claw and tail swipes along with highly flashy acrobatic movements to show how awesome he is.
- One of the first things he does? Kidnap Noel and assimilate her. A terrifying thought on its own, but what's truly scary is doing so makes him
*completely immune to phenomenon intervention.* Susano'o just took his one genuine weakness, the Master Unit rewriting events, got rid of it, and came out almost completely invincible were it not for Ragna's Soul Eater. It's a genuinely scary thought that if Terumi had fully reestablished his link to the Susanoo Unit there would have truly been *no one* capable of stopping him.
- One of his winposes has him steal the defeated opponent's soul and crush it with his own hand, making sure its Deader than Dead.
- While it might not seem like much, but some of the later games' stage names get kind of unsettling. We go from names like Halloween, Cathedral, the Gate, Hanging Gardens, Monorail, pretty basic stuff. Then
*Chronophantasma* gives us "Asphyxiation" and "Fetal Movement".
- And if that's not enough,
*Centralfiction* gets *worse* with "Soulless Monument", "the Gate -Not Possible-", "Apocalypse" and "Judgement Day".
- You also know how most stages come with a neat little proverb attached to them? Something motivational like "Laughter is the best medicine" for Taokaka's
*Continuum Shift* stage? "Sacrifice", the stage for Susano'o, has "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."
- BLUE, as pretty-looking of a stage it is...it's associated description is just "This is a force", like it's straight up indescribable. Fitting that it's out in the Boundary. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlazBlue |
Blur / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- "Peach", one of "For Tomorrow"'s b-sides, has a gentle, melodic, folksy instrumental... accompanied with some pretty gruesome lyrics like "you've got a gaping hole in your head". The broken record-like effect at the end of the song is also worth mentioning.
- "I'm Just a Killer for Your Love" is a pretty disturbing song. It is also really cool-sounding.
- The cover art of
*13*. WTF, Graham?
- "Essex Dogs" is full of unsettling noises. Also, it's the one with a Last Note Nightmare.
- "Intermission" from
*Modern Life Is Rubbish*. It begins innocently enough with a simple piano riff. Then the guitars. Then the drums. And you don't notice it's getting faster and faster until it's too late and becomes a cacophony of guitar feedback and drum hits...and just when you think it can't get any more frantic, it keeps going and going before ringing out, playing the piano riff again, and abruptly stopping on a burst of guitar noise.
- The music video for "Good Song", mainly due to the fact that it's Surreal Horror that might as well come out of a David Lynch product. It starts off simple with a fairy wanting admiration and love and falls in love a squirrel. Weird but cute. But then it goes
*bizarre* when ||the squirrel confuses his head for a nut during an imaginary sequence and *eats the poor guy's head!*. While the squirrel is obviously devastated and heartbroken, she (or he) is then murdered by *random wasps and fairies for no actual reason at all!* Not helped the second half of the video focuses on the squirrel's dead corpse and makes the random ending of a man playing with a leaf blower more like a break in the mood but still.||
- "Fade Away" from
*The Great Escape* qualifies for its walls of discordant brass and ominous organ-line - the whole thing borders on Creepy Circus Music.
- Also from
*The Great Escape* is "Entertain Me", a dark disco tune with a generally disorienting atmosphere, screeching guitars, and overall stark tone. The equally bleak, lurching "He Thought of Cars" is also worth mentioning.
- Parts of the self-titled qualify - the album saw Blur going down a more experimental path, and while there's still some lighter-hearted songs like "M.O.R" or "Look Inside America", there's also the hazy, off-balance "Theme from Retro", the dark trip hop of "Death of a Party", and the aforementioned "I'm Just A Killer For Your Love" and "Essex Dogs".
- Also worth noting is "Movin' On"s Last Note Nightmare, where the song descends into chaos with dissonant synths over a repeated, dizzy-sounding riff, not so much ending as much as it just dies out.
- What can be said about the self-titled applies tenfold to
*13*, which saw the band shift towards an even darker, more experimental sound. Notably there's the screeching guitar walls present on "1992", the helpless atmosphere of "Battle" (particularly as it nears its end), and the general darkness and intensity of tracks like "Caramel" and "Trimm Trabb". | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Blur |
BNA: Brand New Animal / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
# Unmarked Spoilers below!
- Beastmen Hunters. Being aware that there is Fantastic Racism in this world is one thing. To see that it goes so far that no one has an issue with Beastmen being
*murdered in public* is another.
- Your best friend turns into something inhuman and is shoved into a van right before your eyes. Then soon after, you look down to see your hands have turned into paws...
- Beastchildren trafficking is
*very* alive and well in Anima City. Michiru and Shirou may have prevented one shipment from happening, but there are probably dozens of beastchildren out there who weren't so lucky.
- The Silver Wolf Order being a popular and gigantic cult that promises a better lifestyle for beastmen living in poverty and fear. While they do offer hope and commodities for its members, the way they reach out to its members is far too similar to how Real Life cults operate.
- Boris Cliff in spades. He's an older man who works closely with Nazuna and isn't afraid to get up close and physically touch her. This level of creepyness is something that Michiru constantly warns Nazuna about during their first encounter with him and it takes her a while to believe her. And that's not even mentioning how he turns into an obsessive literal monster in the final episode.
- The Nirvasyl Syndrome. It causes the affected to go through intense Body Horror and completely lose themselves until they're either tranquilized or killed. And the only (as of yet) known cure is to lose their beastmen-powers and become human. Once you have it, you literally cannot go back to your old life.
- On a related note: Alan Sylvasta's speech about how the potential to get Nirvasyl Syndrome and run amok is inherently part of a beastman's DNA and that erasing their beastman-side is the only way to cure it sounds
*dangerously* close to eugenics. You know, that pseudo-science the nazis used to justify their mass-murder of minorities? Driven home with the reveal that he is a "purebred" beastman who views the others as inferior lesser hybrids. However, it turns out he is not so different as he nearly succumbs to Nirvasyl Syndrome himself despite his purebred heritage, only to be saved by Shirou and Michiru; the very type of beastmen he swore to erase. So anyone can fall victim. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BNABrandNewAnimal |
Blood-C / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
As
*Blood+* itself has horrifying moments, it is no surprise that its spinoff has its share as well.
- The fight with the mantis Jizō in Episode 1. It pales in comparison to the horrors that come in later episodes, but even on its own, it's eerily intense.
- Episode 3 was creepy enough with the baker wandering around at night with that soulless expression on his face, but the scene that followed was even worse: just, the way he died, and the piece that was left of him getting thrown out of the train, that was horrifying. And then you think about how he snapped out of his trance before he died, and how it was probably just the Monster of the Week letting him have control just so he could be conscious and struggle while he died. But the creepiest scene yet was when Saya entered the train and sees the baker, who twists his head backward and has the same soulless eyes again — and then his face melts off.
- Episode 4, the elder bairns eating each other and two of the fishermen, and when Saya
*saves* the last one from being eaten... he's already dead.
- Episode 5. A human-shaped Elder Bairn with its face covered—not too bad... A GIANT EYEBALL!? On a human body? What the
*hell*? Yeah, the monsters in this series are Nightmare Fuel incarnate.
- When the Centipede-Elder Bairn appeared behind Nene.
- It's pretty telling as a scary series when there are so many Nightmare Fuels in five episodes.
- Episode 6 takes the cake.
- Definitely a Blood-based cake with a serving of gore.
- Episode 8 and 9. The invasion of the monster in the school makes episode 6 look tame.
- Episode 10 gave a mindscrew at the very end when Kanako suddenly tells Saya to cut out "the act" and the Motoe twins show up unexpectedly alive.
- Episode 11 is Nice Character, Mean Actor to the alarming extreme. The Motoes are as cheerful as ever despite their implied criminal past, Kanako makes it no secret that Saya is only unique animal to her AT BEST in order to make her famous, and up-till-now Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold Tokizane is nothing but a greedy dirtbag who never cared about Saya and considers her less than human. It makes you wonder where Fumito found such people who were willing to go along with this grotesque experiment just for their own selfish goals.
- Episode 12. Sweet merciful CLAMP, episode 12. Even a hardcore gore fan is gonna have trouble with this one. It starts off with the Elder Bairn stomping on Tokizane's head, crushing it in a bloody splash, then grabbing Nene by the legs and smashing her repeatedly against the ground, splattering her blood and body parts all over the pavement. After Nene dies, the Elder Bairn goes after Nono, grabbing her by the legs and spreading her legs apart wide, forcing her to do the splits while holding her upside down. He then proceeds to pull Nono's legs apart, causing her to shriek in pain, before the Elder Bairn rips her apart at the crotch, killing her instantly and abruptly stopping her screams. This is followed by Kanako's bloody, painful death at the teeth of Tadayoshi. Then comes ||the attack on the town by an army of giant humanoid rabbit-like Elder Bairns. Helpless citizens being slaughtered, with one unlucky group stuffed into a bag and mulched.|| Enjoy your dreams after this episode. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BloodC |
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Curse of the Moon 1
- The demon drake Valac. This boss is a twin-headed demon dragon that seems less like a dragon and more a draconic centipede with its mouth running all the wall down its underside to the tail! More Teeth than the Osmond Family does not begin to describe this thing!
- Once you start Stage 8, a huge swarm of glass shards rips through the room, tearing parts of the stage apart. As you progress through it, it continues destroying parts of the stage, and chases you at several points. All this, combined with the absolutely frantic music, screams one thing; Zangetsu has the attention of the castle's master. And she is PISSED.
- If you fail to protect Alfred as he's preparing a spell to stop corrupted Zangetsu, Zangetsu uses his massive scythe to instantly mow down his three former allies. In his euphoria of killing the interlopers, he transforms into a skeletal demon laughing maniacally in a black and red silhouetted scene.
- And worse: Miriam's health doesn't deplete UNTIL he transforms. The implication is that they only died after seeing the outcome of their failure.
- Stage 6 and the boss Bloodless in general. As you wander through the stage, you're treated to many 8-bit style scenes of cages, iron maidens hung from the ceilings and blood all around, which gives way to Bloodless's scene. You walk into her taking a bath in her blood, which she proceeds to spring out of with a Noblewoman's Laugh. All of her attacks are blood related, and on the first time she uses her Bloody Storm attack, it will not only hurt you if you're not under a parasol she makes, but also covers the entire BACKGROUND in blood. One has to only wonder: where did she get so much BLOOD!?
## Curse of the Moon 2
- The very first boss of the game, the drago-Symbiote. Granted dragons can be pretty intimidating but this one ups the creep factor by 1, having a long tail that ends in a smiling creature that fires electrical beams and 2, having a corpse inside its normal mouth that fires off the fire breath!
- And just before you enter the boss room you can see the dragon's silhouette sitting on a distant perch watching you like a bird of prey before literally diving into the fight.
- The stage 6 fight Titankhamun. The boss of the museum stage is, of course, one of the exhibits. Said exhibit being a towering sarcophagus with some unseen horror trying to break out! Only the entire time you are fighting the sarcophagus itself and the final attack will certainly creep out anyone with a phobia of insects. When the final blow is struck, the hands of a mummy break through the face but you never see the mummy but you do have a massive wave of scarabs burst out of the sarcophagus in a desperation attack! Afterward, you see a mass of skulls is resting inside and the hands just stay where they are. Almost as if the scarabs were the ones controlling it...
- This even leaves its mark on Episode 2 EX's intermission screen between stages 6 and 7. The scene is largely Played for Laughs for the amusement of the gaming community, but take a second to look at the scenario from the point of view of the characters.
- The final level of the game. Just like the initial finale of the first game, there is a major hazard pestering you courtesy of the tower's master. Before it was wave after wave of glass shards trying to eviscerate our heroes. Now it is swarms of killer insects controlled by the boss Abaddon! Eventually, it comes to a point where Abaddon himself chases you while surrounded by their insects!
- And speaking of Abaddon, their design in the second phase. Abaddon becomes this enormous insect with six arms, oddly placed eyes along their body, and exposed organs!
- Mephisto, the final boss of Episode 2. His design is certainly not an appealing one in the slightest. And for bonus points? Mephisto is
*Ritual of the Night's* save room. Let's repeat that: the *save room* is, of all things, the Final Boss.
- Sariel, full stop! This is the true final boss and it has what could possibly be the most nightmare-inducing design in the entire franchise! First off there's the entrance to their domain on the moon. As our heroes make their way towards them they pass by a number of giant rabbit skeletons and enter the final arena. Sariel initially has no face which would be creepy enough but then a gaping hole appears with blood dripping out! They have clearly seen better days as their whole body is cracked up and are wearing chains, their wings are smiling crescent moons, and they are accompanied by two more of the rabbits acting as living tentacles. Overall, Sariel can only be described as a more demented version of Gremory. In fact, between their design, attacks, and location, it could be a pretty safe bet that this unholy abomination is Gremory's real superior! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BloodstainedCurseOfTheMoon |
Bio-Meat: Nectar / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*Bio-Meat: Nectar* is a survival horror series, and the name *Bio-Meat* should tell you all need to know about what kind of manga this is...
Spoilers below.
- The B-M themselves are bad enough, until you realize that their teeth (which are all molars) don't rip off chunks of flesh from their victims, like say, a piranha. They can only latch on, and chew them to death, meaning that you feel every single second of them eating you, up until they swallow whatever piece of you they succeed in chewing off, and they eat
*everything*. If you're attacked by a huge swarm, quick death. However, when you're only attacked by a small handful, your death will be an agonizingly slow. Worse, either due to shock, or some manner of numbing effect from their bites, most victims don't initially seem to feel pain from the first few bites, so many victims only seem to realize something is wrong until they look down and see a B-M, happily chewing away on their sweet, sweet flesh.
- And then we have
*America's* version, which can infiltrate just about any space, including you, and pull a Chest Burster once you cave into your need for water. Oh, and it's a tentacle monster.
- Furthermore, Shingo, when he feels like it. Holding a gun to his face? Fine. He'll give you a perfectly calm death smile, and terrify you into surrender.
- There's a good amount of horror actually, and notable in that, for the most part, it manages to creep the Dickens out of you without resorting to anything graphic. The ending to the chapter
*Contract*, for example, ranks as one of the most horrific moments in the book.
- The beginning of the second outbreak. ||Just imagine you being saved in a lockdown building from tentacled monster, that grows before your eyes, by a bunch of soldiers, and few hours later, the same soldiers come back to BURN YOU ALIVE for witnessing it.||
- The
*name* Bio Meat should tell you all you need to know about the genre of this series. This ain't no *Lucky Star*, this ain't no *Strawberry Marshmallow*, this ain't no foolin' around...
- The fact that the outbreaks happen over and over and OVER. The Bio-Meat is simply too valuable to abandon, but no matter what ridiculous amount of precautions are taken, something always goes wrong eventually, usually due to human error or stupidity. The first two outbreaks were bad enough, but the third one basically wiped out all of Japan. ||And to the utter,screaming horror of the survivors, the manga ends with them hearing the announcement that more U.S. Bio-Meat (the
*even more horrifying, harder to kill* Omnicidal Maniac It Can Think version of Bio-Meat) will be produced in the U.S. as they are rebuilding their lives in one of the tiny islands surrounding Japan (the only piece of their nation's land that is still standing).||
- The general of Conquest, the alleged La Résistance, after he goes insane and tries to kill all his "traitor" comrades for not beliving in their leaders (who turns out to be a bunch of rich kids who were just funding the group out of boredom).
- It's almost unnoticeable and left untranslated but one of the casualties involves a car with a Baby on Board sticker on it. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BioMeatNectar |
Bob's Burgers / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*Bob's Burgers* makes its name in crowning moments of awesome, rockin music, well-done jokes and humor, things that warm our heart, references to movies, TV shows, and more, and even its emotional scenes. But to say that the Spiritual Successor to *King of the Hill* (as some fans call it) is capable of scaring people is an Understatement, because the show, more often than not, can serve up loads of scares in the kitchen. And really, what else do you expect from the guy who created *Home Movies* and was one of the main producers of *Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist*? **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- In "Sacred Cow", there's a petting zoo with nursery rhyme-themed exhibits run by a elderly couple who steals Moolissa. Not only is it cheap & poorly constructed, but also... the animals are mistreated by being put in very cruel displays and the worst offender may or may not be the two mice tied up in a grandfather clock.
- In "Weekend at Mort's", Bob is nearly cremated alive trapped in a coffin by his kids, who have no idea that their father's in the coffin.
- In "Lobsterfest" Louise has a fantasy of her first time eating lobster: she's seated in the electric chair about to be executed and given lobster for her last meal, only to use the claws as weapons to escape. The electric chair is drawn in detail and Louise is still drawn as a small child, dwarfed by it. Not only is this pretty morbid imagery, the electric chair is inaccurately shown with a wire going to one of the wrist-cuffs—real electric chairs have one electrode in the cap and one electrode attached to one leg, which gives the electricity has a clear path along the heart—though its inventors thought it worked by shorting out the brain, in reality it's just a crude and painful method of stopping the heart. Electrifying someone from the head through to one arm would be fatal with enough amperage, but not nearly as quickly, as the heart would not necessarily be immediately stopped as it is not in the direct path. So while it's probably just a mistake in a few animation frames, the eagle-eyed viewer can glean a lot of horror from this scene.
- In "Torpedo", Bob attempts to tell Gene via microphone that he shouldn't cheat to win a race. Mr. Fischoeder, in an attempt to quiet Bob down, begins firing his starter pistol at him... except it's not a starter pistol, it's a fully-loaded handgun. Mr. Fischoeder was seriously trying to shoot Bob down, only stopping because he ran out of ammo. And because of his status, he escapes punishment even though he did so in front of a giant crowd.
- In "The Belchies", the kids and their friends search the abandoned building for a treasure, as it'll be demolished the next day, and they'll never have another chance. Cue the kids, Bob, and Linda being trapped beneath the building and hearing the wrecking balls start. They just barely make it out alive.
- In "Bob Day Afternoon", Bob gets caught up in the middle of a hostage crisis. Tensions are eased when it turns out the hostage-taker is Affably Evil, but Linda is so terrified that she thinks Bob is going to die.
- There's something genuinely unsettling about Gayle's obsession with Bob in "Dr. Yap." After Bob unwittingly hallucinates that Gayle is Linda and makes out with her, Gayle becomes convinced she's having an affair with Bob. Bob tries to confess to Linda what happened, and she somehow thinks this is a good thing. Apparently Linda's used to letting Gayle think she's dating the men Linda has had relationships with, as part of some disturbing method to give Gayle a confidence boost. Gayle only grows increasingly forward with Bob, practically assaulting him, and Bob becomes more and more disgusted while Linda's apathetic to her husband's plight. It goes to show Linda's sisterly bond with Gayle has always been horrible, and makes one wonder how far Gayle tried to go with Linda's past boyfriends.
- Louise's Sanity Slippage in "Ear-Sy Rider" when she thinks her bunny ears had been destroyed by Logan. She cashes in a favor from the One-Eyed Snakes
*to slice off Logan's ears* in revenge. While the One-Eyed Snakes were just trying to intimidate Logan and weren't going to actually do it, Louise clearly intended to have them actually cut off Logan's ears, and gets *mad* when told after the confrontation that they wouldn't have gone through with it.
- The One-Eyed Snakes themselves. They're a biker gang with a soft spot for the Belchers. And when they
*don't* hang out with the Belchers, they do the wholesome team-building exercises of cooking meth, brutally murdering cops, committing armed robbery, and associating with white supremacists. Good thing the Belchers got on their *good* side...
- The kids' fake drowned bodies to fool the crooked insurance agent in "Tina-Rannosaurus Wrecks". The audience knows they're faking, and Bob and Linda know they're faking, but they certainly don't
*look* like they're faking.
- There's also Tina in her Imagine Spot of being in Hell Jail, where all they serve for lunch everyday is Tina's lies.
- Tina nearly gets killed in Louise's science fair project in "Topsy". While she was only acting, her playing dead is good enough to convince Bob and Linda otherwise.
- Rudy suffering an asthma attack on an observation deck in "Carpe Museum", with no way to get down and access his inhaler. Bob is left to watch as a kid his own daughter's age suffers from something that could very well
*kill* him.
- Tina's
*Trainspotting*-like hallucination induced by coffee withdrawal in "The Unnatural", complete with a porcelain baby with Jimmy Jr.'s face crawling under the counter like the baby in the movie.
- Bob's nightmare from "Friends with Burger-Fits" is pretty disturbing. It starts with Teddy's doctor calling the restaurant, then Reaching Between the Lines to pull out Teddy's still-beating heart and cram it with hamburgers, causing it to swell grotesquely. Then Bob realizes that he's sprouted extra arms that are cramming burgers into Teddy's heart, and Bob wakes with a start just before Teddy's heart literally explodes.
- "Dawn of the Peck" has Wonder Wharf host a Running of the Turkeys. As Linda herself lampshades, it sounds like it should be safer than the Running of the Bulls, right? Well, as it turns out, not exactly. The episode starts out showing us a guy innocently giving a piece of pretzel to one of the birds and the bird yanking his arm into the cage.
- Then in the present, Linda and Teddy run in the event, but once again, the turkeys (and chickens, ducks, and geese) go haywire and attack everyone. A menacing one-eyed turkey (nicknamed Cyclops) even knocks out Linda!
- While the rest of the episode is more Awesome and Funny, there is one last moment where Bob goes to buy and cook a turkey after all. It starts out suspenseful as no one is at the store, then when he finally gets a (frozen) turkey, Bob turns around and is faced with none other than Cyclops, who stares at Bob menacingly before charging him.
- "The Millie-churian Candidate" features the return of Millie Frock, whose obsession reaches a brand new level when she literally attempts to kill another student for the sake of having Louise as her best friend.
- Louise's nightmare: Millie gets elected... and then has Louise brought to her by the wrestling team and SEWN TO HER.
- "Housetrap" ends with the very strong implication that Linda and Louise were
*right* that Helen killed her husband. All because Bob just happened to find an old toolbox containing a single hammer and two bent nails buried in the backyard (but he was too high on painkillers to draw the proper conclusion). The unnerving music, plus the stare Helen gives as the Belchers drive away just enforces it.
- Fridge Horror ensues when one wonders what would have happened if Bob had found the evidence and he
*was* able to draw the proper conclusion. Helen might have had a grudge against her husband in particular, but she might not be averse to practicing the good old He Knows Too Much trope...
- In-universe, the Belchers consider Tina's segment in "Sliding Bobs" to be this, when she presents a hypothetical scenario where Linda married Hugo like she originally intended. It's kind of disturbing to see Tina, Gene, and Louise act so out of character. "Mona" is not socially awkward, couldn't care less about boys or horses, and has very little interest in Jimmy Jr. when he actually pays attention to her. "Dean" is quiet, withdrawn, and speaks in a slight monotone voice, as if he's just going through the motions of life. And finally, "Charlize" is a sweet and adorable princess lover who thoroughly enjoys helping her dad
note : While the *real* Louise very much idolizes her dad, it's jarring to see "Charlize" so blatant about it. There's also Hugo in Bob's place running the restaurant, with a mustache-less Bob as the health inspector investigating a claim that Hugo's hot dogs are made from actual wiener dogs. **AND THEY ARE!** **Louise:** *(To Tina)* You got dark, girl. You got *real* dark. **Bob:** That was... disturbing. **Linda:** I think I need to go lie down. **Gene:** I kinda want a hot dog.
- "The Hauntening" was the sixth season's Halloween Episode, and a legitimately creepy one at that. Bob and Linda try to put together a haunted house so Louise can finally say she's been scared by one, but it goes... poorly. When the family tries to leave, all the car's tires are flat, and they're being watched by an old man holding a pair of gardening shears. Literally all the man does is stare at them from the driveway, not even moving or blinking. Once the Belchers get back inside the house, the power goes out and they hear terrifying noises coming from the basement. The old man tries getting into the house, and while looking for a place to hide, Tina finds a room only containing a baby doll
*with sharp tree branches jammed into its eye sockets.* The Belchers try to hide in the upstairs bathroom, only to find themselves trapped when they hear someone or *something* coming up the stairs, and finally reach the bathroom door. They flee through the bathroom window, only to find themselves trapped on the roof. A group of people in hooded cloaks surround the house, making a horrifying chant. and a ring of fire appears on the lawn. Finally, the old man from before appears in the bathroom window, the Belchers are trapped, and for the first time in her life, Louise screams in true and utter terror.
- Thankfully, the episode ends with the reveal that the entire ordeal was a set up to give Louise a legitimately scary haunted house.
- Even with that, seeing Bob suddenly change to Dissonant Serenity when he's about to do The Reveal because it's so unexpected and clashes with everything else that has happened so far in the episode, since there's really no foreshadowing that it was all fake.
- Nurse Liz in "Lice Things Are Lice". Louise rubs the nurse's hair against Tammy's hair thinking it'll slow her down. Not to be outdone, she promptly
*shaves off all her hair, including her eyebrows* and her appearance afterwards is creepy too. She then tries to do the same to anyone she thinks has lice.
- The whole episode is rather creepy, playing heavily on the fear of someone who's supposed to be looking after kids going completely off the deep end and abusing them. A whole group of kids are in terror of an impending Traumatic Haircut. They appeal to Mr. Frond, who at first completely turns his back on the kids until it's revealed he's going to need said traumatic haircut as well. He then is forcibly shaved by the insane nurse while
*crying*, his jerkassery still not enough to save this from seeming like serious Disproportionate Retribution. In the climax, Louise (who has the most to lose, seeing as her beloved hat will also get burned if she's caught, the very same hat she almost chopped a kid's ears off over a couple seasons ago) escapes but basically sees the other kids getting caught as a Fate Worse than Death and goes back for them. In the end Louise realizes Tammy never had lice, just dandruff, and Tina calls Nurse Liz out for not wearing glasses and therefore not being able to see the flakes/lice anyway, and everyone (sans Frond and the nurse) keeps their hair. Still a weirdly unnerving episode, though.
- There's some Fridge Horror with Nurse Liz, as it's mentioned that a regular hospital/clinic wouldn't take her. Considering her actions in this episode, it's not really hard to see why and it brings up many questions (namely how the school thought it'd be a good idea to hire her, who the other options were if
*she's* the one they went with).
- While not as extreme, Joel repeatedly tricking his elderly and senile Aunt Meryl into thinking it's his birthday every week so she'll write him a check in "Secret Admiral-irer" is a shockingly straight depiction of Elder Abuse.
- Gene getting the reverse Norwegian stink-hold in "Large Brother, Where Art Thou?" shown only in shadow on the wall behind a horrified Louise.
- In that same episode, just the fact that Logan was actually going to such lengths to physically abuse a 9-year-old girl for what actually was an accident on her part. Even though she refused to apologize, she didn't actually physically hurt him, and what did happen wasn't a good enough reason to pretend to have broken into their house, tricked them into running out of the house, and cornered them in a warehouse where no adults could hear them. Probably the worst part is that he was threatening enough to actually make her cry.
- While it's never discussed or even played up as scary, "Ex Mach Tina" reveals that Nurse Liz is still working at Wagstaff. This veritable maniac somehow completely evaded culpability for her previous actions and is still in the same position she held before. Wagstaff must have been
*very* desperate to hire her in the first place if they can't find any replacements.
- Linda's nightmare in "The Grand Mama-Pest Hotel" is pretty creepy and also kinda sad. It starts with Linda and baby Tina in an animated picture in a scrapbook, only for Tina to undergo Rapid Aging into a teenager. The now teenaged Tina yells at Linda for embarrassing her, pushing away and running out of the scrapbook. Linda desperately runs after Tina, but the cover to the book slams shut, trapping Linda inside a dark void with a somewhat-unhinged version of Dillon's mom Amy, who offers to share her scrap-booking supplies in a creepy, distorted voice.
- The Nightmare Face that scares Gene at the beginning of the laser light show in "The Laser-Inth". From his point of view, the mouth looks like it's coming right at him.
- "Into The Mild" basically pins this for both the claustrophobic and the acrophobic among the audience. More or less at the same time.
- In "The Silence of the Louise", Louise ends up having to work with Millie Frock to solve the "murder" of Mr. Frond's therapy dolls, but Millie will only cooperate in exchange for playdates with Louise. Cue a cheesy "playdate/crime solving" montage and a deliberately silly, over-the-top song to go with it that is hard not to laugh at... until you notice that the lyrics constantly repeat that "(Millie) will play with (Louise) till (they) Die", befitting her psychotic attraction in terrifying fashion. The song is even song with a just slightly off-kilter "cutesy" voice.
''"Playdates, playdates, having lots of playdates / I'm gonna play with you till we die / Playdates, playdates, super fun playdates, gonna play together until we die"
- "V for Valentine-detta" has an almost literal example of Nightmare Face. When the girls get Valentine's Day makeovers, Louise winds up spending most of the episode in grotesque facial makeup that makes her resemble an Oni — a look she says was inspired by her nightmares. Inspired by her nightmares, but no doubt inspir
*ing* the audience's.
- In "As I Walk Through the Alley of the Shadow of Ramps," Alice, the food truck driver Louise has been feuding with the entire episode, runs over Louise's mean green machine in a fit of spite...and then, unbeknownst to her, drags it under her truck for
*two miles* before the kids catch up with her. When Alice is hit with the realization that it could have easily been Louise herself instead of her bike, she's positively mortified and bursts into tears.
- In "PTA It Ain't So", Linda has a guilt-ridden nightmare caused by keeping quiet about Joanne stealing stuff from the charity auction. It starts with Linda and Joanne talking in the restaurant, then Joanne offers Linda a contract. When Linda doesn't have a pen, Joanne says she can sign in
*in blood* and begins laughing maniacally. Then she rips off her face to reveal a Big Red Devil as flames surround her and Linda. *Then*, she rips off *that* face to reveal Linda's own face.
- Tina's nightmares in "Pig Trouble in Little Tina" are pretty messed-up, especially the one she has in class where she nearly drowns in pig intestines.
- "Bob Belcher & the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Kids" showcases a fire that nearly destroys the restaurant. This is already frightening on its own (the Belchers nearly lost their home and livelihood), but as Teddy points out the Belchers themselves were in genuine danger. They could have
*died* that night.
- "The Show (And Tell) Must Go On" has Tina and Louise racing to get out of a seaside cave while the tide starts coming in.
**Louise**: Okay, Im gonna pull [on the stuck cannonball], move over. **Tina**: Quickly! Or theyre going to be pulling *us* out of here once we drown! **Louise**: Dont be so dramatic! Just because it *might* happen
- "Radio No You Didn't" has Bob telling the story of how his grandmother Alice discovered there was a Nazi spy living in her apartment building. The terrifying part comes from the reveal that said spy was in fact the seemingly kind old man Mr. Miller, whom Alice let into her apartment. After trying to call the police and not being taken seriously, Alice and her baby daughter Lily (Bob's mom) were left at Miller's mercy. Had Alice's mother Gertie not suddenly returned to the apartment for her wallet, Miller was going to strangle Alice. And had Alice not thrown her radio on top of Miller's foot when she did, he was fully prepared to murder both of them.
- The unaired pilot's original plot, where the burgers are made of flesh of dead humans. This became a simple Development Gag in "Human Flesh". with Hugo accusing Bob of this thanks to Louise's rumor, but we nearly got a version of
*Bob's Burgers* where the rumors were *true*.
- The original character designs. Bob and Linda look very creepy, but Louise in particular looks completely
*deranged*.
- The concept footage has Bob and Linda having more or less the same conversation about their anniversary as in the pilot, only surrounded by blood and body parts as they grind human meat for the restaurant. Things take a turn for the
*deeply* disturbing when Bob takes a ring and a pair of shoes off of a dead woman to give to Linda as gifts. The fact that the only color comes from the bloody meat with everything else in black and white, in contrast to the bright colors of the show proper, makes it all the worse. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BobsBurgers |
Boardwalk Empire / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*"No ma'am, it's an iron."*
- Van Alden's self-flagellation.
- Jimmy's story about a German soldier who spent days trying to untangle himself from a barbed wire fence with two bullet wounds, refusing all of Jimmy's offers to put him out of his misery.
- Richard Harrow callously murdering the 14-year-old Pius D'Alessio.
- In general, before he undergoes his character development, Harrow seems less like a man and more like the Grim Reaper.
- Nucky describes finding his wife cradling and caring for their son, only to realize the infant had clearly been dead for weeks. Though nothing is shown, and he doesn't go into detail, the haunted look in Nucky's eyes tells us all we need to know.
- Jimmy and Richard scalp Mr. Parkhurst.
- Owen Sleater's vicious murder of a rival - by garrotting him right through his fingers, trying to stop the wire.
- Nucky's Heroic BSoD / Villainous Breakdown in "The Milkmaid's Lot".
- Gyp Rosetti kills the Sheriff of Tabor Heights by dousing him in gasoline and setting him on fire. Even worse is the squicky look of pleasure on Rosetti's face.
- Three words: Giuseppe Colombano "Gyp" Rosetti. A violent, unstable psychopath, with no impulse control. He can spontaneously go from being seemingly charming and humorous to paranoid and aggressive over the most trivial slight or inconvenience. And even when in a "good mood", he delights in inflicting pain and suffering as well as sadistically intimidating others with the threat of violence. Consequently, in a show filled with sadistic killers and cold-blooded crime bosses, he's probably the most depraved and deranged character of the entire series.
- Gillian seducing and killing Roger in "Sunday Best".
- After Paul goes over the line with his insults against Richard and Julia, Richard grabs him by the neck, pins him on the floor, and rips his mask off to show his face. The idea of Richard choking the life of you while the last thing you'll see is his Nightmare Face is a little disquieting.
- The demise of Nate the thief. Nate has been caught stealing a significant amount from Nucky Thompson, a known gangster. And given that he's been tied up in a warehouse, he would be correct to presume he's going to die. And having been given some time to resign himself at least partially to his likely fate, it would seem almost impossible that Nucky Thompson himself would arrive and grant forgiveness or at least a non-fatal punishment. But miraculously, he appears to have been saved. Suddenly he has this burst of joy and immense appreciation for life that he never had before. And just as quickly as it came, it's snatched away, the agony of knowing it's all about to end in seconds.
**Nucky:** *[to Manny]*
Untie him.
*[Nate relaxes]*
Oh, but before you do, put a bullet in his fucking head.
*[He and Owen exit the room]* **Nate:**
What? No! No, Mr. Thompson! Please! No! No!
**Manny:** *[produces gun]* Certain people, you do not steal from. *[shoots Nate in the head]*
- For those who've watched
*The Sopranos*, this scene plays out a lot like Tony Soprano and Big Pussy's execution of Matt Bevilaqua. Like Tony, Nucky starts out friendly like he's going to let Nate walk away alive, only to turn and order him killed moments later. The main difference, though, is that in *The Sopranos* instance, it was clear from the start that Tony was going to murder Matt as revenge for his and Sean Gismonte's attempted assassination of Christopher Moltisanti. Here, we're left uncertain as to what Nucky's final decision would be.
- It's also similar to Carlo's last minutes in
*The Godfather*, where Michael lets Carlo think his punishment for setting up Sonny's death is simply being exiled from the Corleone family, only for Clemenza to garrote him in the car.
- Owen's body in a box after his unsuccessful attempt to kill Joe Masseria. His body is only seen briefly, but the tension of the cinematography- the martial drumbeat on the soundtrack, the very slow pan into the box and the way Nucky frantically tells Eddie to close the box before Margaret (and we) can see its contents- make it tough to watch.
- From the point of view of Rosetti's men, Richard Harrow's attack on them in the finale can be seen as this. They have no idea who he is or why he's attacking them, he goes through them with no emotional expression at all, they're far far too scared to aim at him properly while he's blowing their heads off with every shot. No wonder Rosetti simply ran off.
- Arnold Rothstein is a kind of one man nightmare fuel repository. A quiet, dapper, low key businessman who will speak respectfully even to his enemies, never let his temper get the best of him, and is perfectly willing to have you killed horribly if it benefits him. Or just if he feels like it. Once, when interrogating Frankie Yale, he tells a story about meeting a man who could swallow and regurgitate billiard balls as a trick. Rothstein offered the man $10,000 if he could do this with the cue ball. What Rothstein knew, and the other man didn't, was that the cue ball was 1/16th of an inch larger than the other balls. He swallowed it down, it lodged in his throat, and he choked to death on the spot.
**Arnold Rothstein**
: Do you know what the moral of this tale is, Mr. Yale?
**Frankie Yale:** Don't eat a cue ball? **Arnold Rothstein:**
The moral of the story is that if I'd cause a stranger to choke to death for my own amusement, what do you think I'll do to you if you don't tell me who ordered you to kill Colosimo?
- One small but disturbing detail is how Rothstein begins the story: "There was a man once, I don't recall his name..." He could recall every detail about the story, but he never bothered to learn the name of the man he caused to die choking...
- Dicky Pastor, the talent agent who catches Dunn Purnsley with his wife and forces him, at gunpoint, to finish while he watches, all the while delivering a creepy, racist Breaking Speech and insisting Dunn address him in minstrel dialect.
- What happens to the Jerk Jock that Willie and his roommate prank by dosing him with milk of magnesia: he shits himself to death. And then the audience is shown his wide-eyed corpse, lying on the bathroom floor and bleeding from the mouth.
- William Wilson has two subtly disturbing one that's more psychological horror then blood and guts: Daughter Maitland's story about the murder of her prostitute mother by a man who she splashed with lye who then strangled her: and The Reveal that Dr. Narcisse was the murderer, with a Wham Shot of his burns and the disturbing devotion that Daughter has for him regardless of this.
- Eli's nightmarishly brutal beatdown of Agent Tolliver. True, Tolliver more than had it coming, but even then, Eli's Unstoppable Rage is positively terrifying.
- The discovery of Jimmy's body in the end of Season 4. Of course we skeletons on TV all the time, buried in unmarked graves, with cops casually examining the bones to determine the identity. But to see such an undignified fate for a character we've known for two seasons is deeply disturbing.
- Nelson Van Alden's death and the close up of his dead body. He's shot in the back of the head by the undercover Mike Malone, with the exit wound through his eye, ending up with a Nightmare Face rivaling Richard Harrow's.
- The terrified little girl in the Commodore's house and Nucky's Thousand-Yard Stare when he sees her.
- Gillian's description of her first night with the Commodore.
- J. Edgar Hoover, full stop. His interrogation of Dr. Narcisse shows his capacity for soft-spoken sadism when he holds his feet to the fire. His own face shown in profile is framed in shadow, giving him full Black Eyesof Evil. The way he casually dismantles Narcisse is as chilling as it is well-deserved. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BoardwalkEmpire |
Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- When you really think about it, the entire series is
**one huge Nightmare** for Sakura as you watch the poor lad be humiliated, skewered, ripped to shreds, splattered, and turned into nothing but a pile of blood and guts. It's supposed to be played for laughs, and while there are definitely moments that make you burst out laughing, that effect wears off pretty quickly when you continuously watch the man be killed off every five seconds by a woman who is supposedly in love with him.
- It's taken even worse in the Light Novels. In the anime, it's blatantly obvious that Sakura dies before he can even feel the pain of Dokuro's attacks (most of the time) but in the Light Novels, Sakura mentions that his body is still conscious.
*That means that each and every single time he is bludgeoned, he can feel every second of it.* Now Dokuro doesn't seem so harmless, does she?
- Even more horrifying is that Dokuro, being an angel, was supposedly sent by God Himself to punish Sakura. The situation he's in is literally hell-on-earth.
- How about the treatment he gets from his classmates? What one point they leave him to suffer after he gets tricked into eating poisoned mushrooms. Kids Are Cruel? More like
**kids are psychos**.
- The "Pedophile's world" that Sakura will create. And he never finds out
*why* he creates such a world. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan |
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/Bloodline2021 |
Blue Comet SPT Layzner / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- This show is basically Real Robot Genre meets Survival Horror. The first half is one Hope Spot after another as the SPTs tear through the Earthling technology like tissue paper. Among the first is the nuclear annihilation of the American Mars base and the ensuing shots of soldiers who tried and failed to get to the shelters in time.
- Scenes of Gosterro gleefully gunning down helpless Earthlings can be pretty scary.
- The AI-controlled Skullgunners give the Cosmic Culture Club one hell of a fight.
- The way in which the Gradosians decide to ||subdue the Earth's society once and for all|| is pretty horrifying; ||use a Kill Sat to bombard their planet with
*UV rays*.||
- The ||tyrannical rule of the Gradosians over Earth|| in the second part becomes
*even more nightmare-inducing* when the audience remembers that it's almost surely based on ||what Imperial Japan did to Korea.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlueCometSPTLayzner |
Boatmurdered / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Where to even begin? Boatmurdered, quite frankly, is a veritable nightmare fuel
*refinery*.
- The elephants. Fast, hard to kill, and with a taste for the blood of dwarves and anything else that moves. They proved a major source of dwarf deaths for Boatmurdered in the early days of the fort, up until Project: Fuck The World was completed, trampling dwarves to death and killing anyone who came out to loot the bodies.
- Early on, there was an attack by Mandrills, which resulted in a few war dogs running out and attacking. One of the dogs gives birth while ripping a mandrill to shreds,
*and her puppies join in on the carnage*. One of the puppies gets hit, half his chest winds up missing. Then it's stated that he's still running around the fort with half his chest missing. 'Makes it damn disturbing when he humps your leg', indeed.
- Most of Emperor Sankis' engravings. Most consist of elephants killing dwarves, dwarves killing elephants, dwarves burning, dwarves screaming, elephants screaming, cheese, or much, much worse.
- Project: Fuck The World. A superweapon-slash-defence mechanism created by the notorious StarkRavingMad, which works by funnelling lava to the outside of the fort, burning anything outside alive. It quickly becomes the fort's first, last and only answer to anything they don't like, only for it to eventually backfire as a ruler burns a group of human merchants with the lava, accidentally setting a siege engine on fire and driving everyone in the fort mad from smoke inhalation, resulting in everyone either 'wandering into the flames' or going bonkers and murdering each other.
- The human merchants in question were sent by Boatmurdered's only allies in the entire world, meaning that the dwarves have inadvertently
*started a war* with no one else to turn to. If the fire and smoke didn't kill the denizens of Boatmurdered, an army of furious humans certainly would have. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Boatmurdered |
Blue Drop / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Some people find Tenshi no Bokura rather gruesome, with its cruel variations of Gender Bender and Aliens Made Them Do It. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlueDrop |
Boogiepop Phantom / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*Boogiepop Phantom* certainly has some moments like this:
- In the very first episode, Moto confesses her love to what she thinks is Masami Saotome's ghost. He says he doesn't know her, and she agrees to let him kill her - he matter-of-factly says that she "really will die", opens his mouth, and
*tentacles come out*. It gets even worse when he shows up in episode 3.
- "I have to eat the spiders." from the second episode.
- Mitsuzu claims to have found some sort of zen acceptance of all life's horrors and beauties, having adopted this philosophy from a friend who died a couple years ago. In episode 3, said friend begins to appear—her face half-covered in blood, her eyes unfocused—and she shakily raises her hand to point at this girl and shouts "LIAR!". By the end of the episode, this and a couple other events have caused her entire world to fall apart. She stumbles out of an alley to find a policeman, running towards him for comfort. Only for the policeman to turn out to be the composite human Snake Eye and eat her alive. And you're treated to a lovely first person camera shot from the girl's perspective as this happens.
- Oh, and at the very end, he drives away with her body parts in the back seat. Oh, and they
*shift* in transit.
- The creepy high school kid whose obsession with a dating sim, combined with the Type S drug, causes him to start fantasizing about one of his co-workers, mixing her up with the character in the game. His increasingly controlling and stalkerish behavior and mental/emotional breakdown are chilling to witness, especially since his final fate is shown at least two episodes prior.
- In the fifth episode, centered around a theoretically normal chat between two cops that gets less and less normal and more and more disturbing as the episode goes on.
- Back when Locomotion still existed, the commercials they used to promote this series were spooky. One of them was the superposition of a typical Japanese crossroad, a character trying to get a butterfly made of light, a distorted crosslight music, and the audio of one character stating calmingly "Why are you trying to do things? We're going to die soon anyways" with the translation subtitles fading like they stop being lighted on. The worst part is that that scene was lifted verbatim of the series, only adding the spoken lines from other episode for increased creepy. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BoogiepopPhantom |
Boards of Canada / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Old Tunes
- "House of Abin'adab" from
*Old Tunes Vol. 1* practically lives off of Nothing Is Scarier; the only sound throughout the entire track is a low, quavering drone that occasionally pipes up in intensity.
Music Has the Right to Children
- The cover of
*Music Has the Right to Children* anyone? The Faceless...
- The inside of the album has each of their faces magnified. Ugh.
- Plus, the
*"I... Lovveee... You..."* samples on "The Color Of The Fire."
- Though maybe not
*outright* Nightmare Fuel, "An Eagle In Your Mind" and "Sixtyten" are subtly ominous.
- Not to mention the more subtly ominous "Pete Standing Alone". Brr...
- "Smokes Quantity" is very ominous too, especially those droning...
*sounds* repeated throughout the whole thing. The icy keys that join partway through don't help either
In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country
-
*In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country.* The whole EP has an unsettling atmosphere, especially "Amo Bishop Roden" and the title track.
Geogaddi
- The entirety of
*Geogaddi* is deeply unsettling, with deceptively sunny keyboards filtered through tape recorders that make them sound broken and distorted and to this day, people and fans argue about what the album's themes truly are (not helped by the album's references to cults such as David Koresh and the Branch Davidians). Particularly creepy tracks include:
- Right out of the box with "Ready Lets Go", which is little more than an oscillating drone (used to
*very* creepy effect during *Baby Driver*).
- "Music is Math", the second track and the first full song on the album, sets the tone. The lyrics are hard to make out (as they're being sung in a near-incomprehensible, tribal wail filtered through a vocoder) but consensus seems to be that they are: "we all fall down... we all fall down... down..."
- "You Could Feel The Sky". The ripping/tearing beats, the eerie drones, the backmasked "a God with horns" sample, and the yelling at the end all add up to create a track that is disturbing as much as it is beautiful.
- "1969" crosses Boards of Canada's
*Right to Children*-era sunny sound with unsettling vocoder bits and references to cults. In fact, it's about the Branch Davidian cult, which maintained a Stepford Smiler facade while their leader sexually abused children.
- "A is to B as B is to C", with its strange, garbled loops and samples. Towards the end of the track, an ominous backmasked chorus chants something that sounds astonishingly like "O Geogaddi! O Geogaddi!"
- "The Devil is in the Details", which is about hypnosis. Not a good idea to listen to in a dark room.
- It doesn't help that the backing beat sounds vaguely like an insect moving its wings back and forth.
- Someone backmasked it in its entirety, and used the end result in a Slender Man webseries known as Tribe Twelve. The result?
that feels like Uncanny Valley in sound form. **A completely different track** *Shudder*.
- "Alpha and Omega", which gradually becomes more and more frantic and incomprehensible, and three-fourths into the song a loud and unexpected "yellow" is spoken.
- "Gyroscope" makes you feel like you need to be running from something. Not to mention the small child repeating numbers throughout the song.
- Even worse, according to an interview, Marcus had actually
*dreamt* this song before creating it, and unlike others he dreamt, he did this one extremely quick, and yet still ended up **99 percent** like it was in the dream. That's right, **this song was entirely created from someone's subconcious.**
- "I Saw Drones" is short, but downright threatening.
note : Though it sounds rather lovely when it is reversed
- "Corsair" is fairly tranquil compared to any of the other tracks, but still retains some ominousness.
- "Beware the Friendly Stranger". The more you look into the song, the worse it gets.
- "Dawn Chorus" is a bit odd at first, but starts getting really disturbing when you start to hear what appears to be a woman moaning as she's having sex.
note : In reality, it's the "same sample of a kid saying "bye" that was also used in Sunshine Recorder.
The Campfire Headphase
- "Slow This Bird Down" is fairly ominous, especially compared to the rest of
*The Campfire Headphase*.
Tomorrow's Harvest
-
*Tomorrow's Harvest*. An apocalyptic dread is present through the whole album, from the opening bleakness of "Gemini" to the Downer Ending of "Semena Mertvykh".
- And speaking of "Semena Mertvykh", the title is a Russian translit for "Seeds of the Dead". Creepy, that is.
- "White Cyclosa" can easily put the listener on edge, whether or not they've seen
*Day of the Dead*.
- As with most BoC works, fan interpretations are ubiquitous, but a Redditor came up with this particularly horrifying one.
Other Releases
- Their remix (under the "Hell Interface" alias) of Colonel Abrams' "Trapped" turns an upbeat pop song into a horrifying song about love gone wrong.
- Speaking of Hell Interface, the Anti-Christmas Song "Soylent Night" is arguably one of the most unsettling tracks ever heard from BoC. The main melody is a sample from the fifth movement of Johann Sebastian Bach's Magnificat twisted into a dissonant, haunting loop. Partway through a passage from "Silent Night" can be heard, but it has been treated in such a way that it sounds more like a faint and ghostly wail than any human vocal. To top it all off, the song concludes with a distorted robotic voice reciting the Lord's Prayer.
- Some of the tracks on the "Random 35 Tracks Tape" can be unsettling. Case in point? Audiotrack B08. Tense atmosphere, dissonant, clanging melody, the perfect soundtrack to a lost Silent Hill area.
- Audiotrack B06 is very quiet and empty. In fact, it feels almost a little
*too* empty... | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BoardsOfCanada |
Book 5: Legends / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Warning: Spoilers!
- The masked bending thief, who can appear seemingly out of nowhere and vanish just as quickly. Not helped by the fact the disguise is reminiscent of a Plague Doctor. Its like they were specifically trying to invoke this very trope. Even worse is the understanding that behind the mask the could be anyone... even those they might have considered friends...
- The walking dead aren't exactly pleasant to behold either, whenever they appear the story instantly becomes much more serious. They can't be reasoned with or bargained, only fled or fought, and they rack up damage but keep on fighting until totally reduced to paste or ash.
- Korra's nightmare about her four previous foes attacking her, then melting into black slime and re-forming into her new enemy, able to wield all four elements while she is powerless, all while Vaatu is taunting from the background.
- The Reveal about Temuji and Fumikos plans. To really and truly bring the dead back to life. Korra herself is horrified at the prospect, and declares that no one should have that sort of power. Whether or not they can succeed quickly becomes irrelevant.
- The enemy's exact identity remaining a mystery, and having infiltrated at least the White Lotus and the police of a major city, coming dangerously close to killing Ban and his friends numerous times before the first book is even over. No hints to their identity, motive, or organization. A far cry from the readily visible Mooks of the Fire Nation, or even the Affably Evil Red Lotus. Who can you trust when anyone could be out to get you?
- In Book Two's opening chapter, the Band find their way to the uncle of Meiling as a potential firebending teacher, and at the very least, a safe harbor. Yet who should they find behind the door of his manor but Drago, the same Drago who brutally murdered Jade one chapter prior? And they have no idea they're now under the same roof as a ruthless murderer.
- Meiling discovers she has a rare talent to ||combustionbend||, but discovers this at the worst possible time, nearly blowing up herself and her friends by accident. Her subsequent Freak Out over it almost makes it worse.
- Throughout Book Two, Ban's Visions of Korra have a specific thread... telling the story of how their greatest enemy came to be. One that can't
*ever* be truly stopped. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BookFiveLegends |
Book of the New Sun / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Jolenta's eventual fate. ||Originally a homely woman, Dr Talos made her very, very beautiful. So beautiful that Even the Girls Want Her. It's left vague exactly how he did this, but strongly implied to be the reason why she's so weak and lethargic all the time. Then he and Baldanders leave, and the treatment starts to break down, and Severian feels
*metal bands under her skin* holding her body in shape.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BookOfTheNewSun |
Board James / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
James Rolfe is a horror lover, of course it's bound to have some tropes, especially during Season 3...
- The
*Mr. Bucket* episode marks the beginning of the horror episodes, especially with the Paranoia Fuel of the bucket stalking James as well as him drowning the bucket in a sink in a very disturbing manner. Mike even looks visibly discomforted.
- Made worse with the "Lie Detector" episode, when it's shown that this was Through the Eyes of Madness, making Mike's reaction more understandable.
- Bootsy's accidents, while funny in their own way, can also be pretty cringeworthy to see, like him getting burned by the coffee or even losing an eye after tampering with the Tornado Rex launcher.
- Bootsy's and James's unexpected outbursts in the
*Shark Attack* episode. Not only do they come out of nowhere, they sound genuinely angry during their respective lash-outs, as opposed to the humorous, joking rivalry dynamic they and Mike otherwise display. Worse yet, this video directly preceded the *Dream Phone* episode, indicating their uncharacteristic moments of anger were meant to foreshadow the upcoming major shift in tone.
- The
*Dream Phone* review is almost entirely made up of nightmare fuel. The phone turns out to be evil and hellbent on causing terror for James one late night, Bootsy is hanged in a closet, and Mike is bloodily stabbed. Then we realize that the phone was the murderer the whole time. Don't ask us how that works.
-
**SEASON 3**:
- The
*Omega Virus* episode shows a very different James than we've gotten used to, and he appears to be going insane from the isolation he's had for presumably a long time now, given that there appear to be multiple Jameses in the room. The creepiness is ultimately subverted at the end, which reveals all but one of the Jameses to be Terminators... or something.
- Just his entrance in this episode can send chills down your spine, knowing what he may or may not have done in the previous episode... He climbs into the attic, looks around, and then toward the camera, remaining emotionless for a brief moment, before he puts on a VERY unnerving smile, and just casually says, "Let's play a game!" As he continues to talk, he clearly comes off as a psychopath... It's all so uncomfortable until finally the tension eases as he looks at the games...
- In Lie Detector, when the fight promoter accuses James of murder, we get brief reshots of both the Mr. Bucket and Dream Phone episode. Each of them implying that James is nuts and that he hallucinated the Bucket and the Phone attacking him.
- To top it all off, the ending depends on the viewer, and can either show James being innocent of killing his friends or not. If he is sane, he just hints at what will happen the next episode, but if he is guilty...
- At the end of the
*Ouija / Domino Rally* episode, the revived Mike and Bootsy assure James that nothing is wrong and nothing ever happened, repeating "nevermore" as the camera alternates between and zooms in on their faces. James simply adds "... quoth the raven, nevermore", sporting another *very* creepy smile and topping it off with a disturbing chuckle.
- James' ritual, with all of the Black Speech and genuinely creepy atmosphere, especially with the part when he
*slits his wrist* (although some of the scare factor can be alleviated with the fact that it's clearly ketchup coming out).
- The Acid-Trip Dimension that James enters. Special note goes to the giant eye in the darkness as well as
*the returning appearances of Mr. Bucket and the Dream Phone*.
- The
*Full House/Urkel Game* episode shows that James really *didn't* murder his friends after all! They never actually existed in the first place.
- The Steve Urkel glasses/blindfold from the "Do the Urkel" game have an Unintentional Uncanny Valley-esque creepiness about them. That creepiness becomes all the more apparent when Mike and Bootsie wear them as they reveal to James that they aren't real.
-
*13 Dead End Drive*. Holy fuck... if you thought the *Mr. Bucket* and the *Dream Phone* episodes were diving into the dark horror flick territory, this is where the show basically started using the submarine. Highlights include the vehemence of James during the deaths of his friends, and of course the whole Hangman murders subplot.
-
**''NIGHTMARE''.** The finale of the third season really managed to live up to its name, as it's the goriest and most visually disturbing episode of the entire series and a complete Mind Screw after another to end it all with complete confusion. Even when the special effects were sometimes cheesy, there were times when only added to the horror of the whole thing. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BoardJames |
Boo to You Too! Winnie the Pooh / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Befitting a Halloween Special,
*Boo To You Too* has a darker, scarier tone than most *Pooh* fare.
- The opening of the first act does an excellent job at setting up the atmosphere. The music is really creepy, the narrator does an excellent job at selling how ominous Halloween can be, and generally it's a great opening for what's to come.
- In his song, Piglet imagines a group of ghosts attacking his friends. He's able to bravery send them away, but it's still unnerving to see the gang cowering and defenseless against these very real threats.
- Tigger doodles scary faces on Rabbit's pumpkins, and his drawings look like something from a horror novel.
- The ending of the first act has Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and Eeyore leaving Rabbit's house at dusk as a storm begins to whip up around them. Tigger then begins hyping up the imminent Halloween as the storm intensifies. The atmosphere significantly darkens to accommodate this. Even the Hundred Acre Wood at
*dusk* looks scary here!
- Piglet then tries to flee home, but he's harassed by monstrous trees that come to life
*Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* style and roar at him.
- The opening of the second act is no picnic either. Night has finally fallen, and the narrator elaborates what that means: Halloween has finally arrived, and Piglet is now unprotected from the horrors of the night that's finally here. Piglet runs home screaming.
- Tigger's song, while fun, is still a Disney Acid Sequence, and it shows all manner of monstrous oddities and horrors. At the end, Tigger is lording over a monstrous army of horrors that are all sneering at the camera.
- Pooh, Tigger, and Eeyore are eventually scared into a panic by the storm and the scary looking trees in the woods.
- While it's a happy resolution to the night's adventures, the ending takes a slightly ominous note with the creepy music returning briefly. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BooToYouTooWinnieThePooh |
Bo Burnham: Inside / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*Inside* is arguably Bo's darkest special, which is saying a lot if you're familiar with his other material, consisting of nothing but Bo working alone and losing his mind over the course of a year.
- "Welcome to the Internet" has been described as a fully accurate Villain Song for a disembodied network system, and not for no reason.
- Alongside the innocuous internet content that Bo mentions (a tip for straining pasta, making a psychologist appointment, a quiz to find out "Which Power Ranger Are You?") he rattles off fetish-related content (feet pictures, NSFW Harry Potter Fan Art) and some truly disturbing options (instructions for how to build a bomb, "send a death threat to a Boomer," and advice like "You should kill your mom" and "DM a girl and groom her")...with no delineation. It all goes by so fast that some of it might not even register on the first listen.
- The Evil Laugh halfway through. It starts out as a sinister chuckle, then morphs into an insane cackle worthy of The Joker. Bo's Scary Shiny Glasses certainly don't help.
- The slow grim realization as the song goes on that the internet has not only failed to make the world a better place, but it has made everyone anxious and alienated from each other. Even worse than that, the malevolent forces have not only infiltrated it,
**they've won.**
- It's also worth mentioning that the shot preceding the one shown above has a reflection of the camera in his glasses, which create a single red dot in the center of each eye...
- There's a brief scene of Bo mimicking a generic, modern YouTuber outro of thanking the viewer for watching and to subscribe to the channel, all while being unnaturally cheerful and
*holding a knife*. He doesn't do anything with the knife, but it's very unsettling, especially when he stops talking and his Stepford Smiler persona drops.
- The part of the ending, with him frantically trying to get back inside while the only sound is laughter, is absolutely anxiety-inducing.
-
*The Inside Outtakes*' alternate take of "Goodbye" ends with Bo zooming into his projector's lens as it displays images of fire. Sounds of fire, laughing and screaming are heard, and before fading to white a brief shot of one of Bo's earliest YouTube clips appears. Did his younger self die in the hypothetical fire? | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BoBurnhamInside |
Bone / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The grim reaper has some competition.
**Spoilers Off applies to all Nightmare Fuel pages, so all spoilers are unmarked. You Have Been Warned!**
Huge mountain lions, locust swarms, and ominous hooded figures. This ought to be fun.
##
*Rose*
- Rose following a mysterious figure into the mountains on her way to Old Man's Cave, only to be suddenly attacked by a gigantic swarm of locusts cast in the shape of herself. What makes it even more terrifying is how out of nowhere the event is, and how the visage bellows in her face for her to turn back.
- Balsaad, an Ax-Crazy nigh-indestructible river dragon who turned to the side of the Locust for his own personal glory and power. His healing ability allows him to rejoin missing body parts regardless of how many times they are severed from him, and it's unavoidably clear that he takes immense joy and pleasure in killing innocents.
- His mindless slaughter of a village full of innocent people. Any time someone tries to escape, Balsaad drives them back with a blast of fire, promising to kill every single one of them if they try to run while he's gone.
- The Locust's attempt to possess Rose's body and make her the Emancipator. Firstly, he appears to her as Mim, the first queen of the dragons, ranting about how his plans for world destruction were ruined by Mim going mad. Then he morphs into a twisted mixture of Mim and a locust, briefly takes the form of Lucius to tempt her further, before finally assuming the form of a giant locust. The way he creepily caresses Rose's face with his mandibles is enough to make one's skin craw,
*especially* when he tries to kiss her as Lucius.
- Briar's betrayal of her sister. While Briar treated her sister coldly at the best of times and was usually cruel and condescending, when the Locust attempts to use Rose for the ritual, she goes completely ballistic and reveals her unabashed
*hatred* of her sister. It's then further revealed that the Locust has been in contact with Briar throughout her entire life, fostering her jealousy and resentment of Rose, feeding her ego, and promising her vengeance over every imagined slight. When the Locust finally agrees to let Briar have control of Rose's dreams, Briar sports a truly frightening Slasher Smile as she sends Rose plummeting over a cliff edge into a pit of spikes. **Briar:** Oh, thank you, my master. And thank you, my sister. **Rose:** What happened? **Briar:**
(grinning manically) I have won, and he has left you to me...
For years I have begged the Locust to let me take control of your dreams, leaving you to wither and
*die*
.
**Rose:** Briar, *don't-*
(Briar sends Rose flying over a cliff)
**Briar:** Are you surprised at my power, Rose? | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Bone |
Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Giga, full stop. Especially when we find out just exactly where he gets his art pieces... He uses a clay voodoo doll of his opponent to mold their bodies- while they're clearly in pain- into abstract positions and shapes, then turns them to stone.
- His Nightmare Face when he's on a high of overconfidence in his Super Form.
- Gunkan's life-draining nose hair and the look he does beforehand aren't exactly welcoming.
- OVER. He is the first villain that is a true No-Nonsense Nemesis whose actions are taken seriously in this kind of world no less as he is introduced by ripping out Gunkan and Purupu's Hair for failing to stop Bobobo despite being equal Heavenly Kings.
- Byakkyo's surgery dolls, namely in how they are
**emerging from his body** and his overall Ax-Crazy-ness beneath his stoic facade.
- Bobobo's Freak Out at seeing Gasser's Baby state, the camera is shaking and closing in & out does not help.
- From the same episode, Don Patch being extremely calm despite often going on an instant rage almost always, hints that he might be angrier than usual.
- Some of the never again referenced moments in the series that get into Surreal Horror due to the lack of explanation, especially in the earlier episodes.
- Bobobo appearing as Bobobo-headed dogs.
- From the roller coaster rap, especially in the uncut version, it delves quickly into incomprehensible gibberish and surreal visuals including Don Patch stretching his face with an eerie expression before Bobobo's afro opens up to reveal mini-Don Patches doing the same things before he tosses some of them out.
- "
**CHURROS**"!!!
- Don Patch and Jelly Jiggler's Wing Ding Eyes when touching Halekulani's money.
- Halekulani going Ax-Crazy after being beaten by Bobobo too many times, complete with completely white eyes with no pupils to emphasize his insanity.
- Bibibi's Big Brother Bully past towards Bobobo is surprisingly Played for Drama, unlike most of the series' more silly humor, all culminating in killing Bobobo.
- The revelation of his Super Fist of the Hair Hunt, especially with the hovering demonic hands he summons for it.
- Gasser's FaceHeel Turn after the Time Skip, his No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, and his One-Winged Angel form of a horned, snarling demonic being.
- Some of the original soundtrack feels like they belong to a much more serious and dramatic anime than Bobobo due to how threatening and creepy they sound.
- Mysterious appropriately plays whenever there's a foreboding moment of ominousness or when the mood takes a sudden turn to seriousness. Quite memorably, it was played during the beginning of the J fight, leading into Soften's surprise defeat.
- Terrifying Margarita Empire plays whenever the more serious major villains do something sinister. It starts with an ominous organ before going into a sinister violin orchestra before gradually building up to a bombastic sound of villainous triumph.
- Draw The Demon Fist! Serious and Dangerous! is a tense-sounding piece that continues to build as it builds into a much more frenzied piece. Memorably, it plays during the moment building up to OVER's transformation into Torpedo Girl, with the soundtrack in question plays into the inevitable situation getting worse.
- Babuu, from Shinsetsu Bobobo. He's quite similar to Byakkyo, in that he's a mad doctor who does many disturbing things and behaves in a frightening manner, with equally frightening attacks, such as his unnamed attack that involves him
**growing the heads of baby dolls from his body and having them extend out like tendrils, causing them to merge onto his opponents,** plus, he can also turn you into a doll with the use of a vicious-looking horned creature with glaring eyes and veins all over his body that lives in his mouth, which he does to Plain Bread-Chan, who he then rips up. It's telling that the freaky-looking Karakuri puppet doll that Don Patch turns into is less frightening than Babuu himself!
- It's safe to say that Yoshio Sawai probably had him act like a baby, down to the point of wearing baby clothes and speaking in a slurred way as a showcase to how disturbing he is, rather than how eccentric he is. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BoboboboBobobo |
Bone Tomahawk / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
This isn't the scariest image in the movie...it's the only one that's not too gruesome to display.
**Unmarked spoilers below!**
- Holy shit,
about the cavemen. **EVERYTHING**
- First off, they're inbred beyond comprehension. They come from generations upon generations of inbreeding. This, coupled with the fact that they're cave-dwellers, has completely devolved them into subhuman troglodytes.
- Secondly, their mutated physiology. They've jammed spiky animal bones into their faces and bodies, they're huge, hulking beasts of men that can tank through gunshots, and their bodies are covered with some sort of white ash that lets them blend into the sand and rock of their hunting grounds.
- Thirdly, their brutality. They seem obsessed with disembowelment and Groin Attacks, and their entire "culture" is based around rape, inbreeding, and cannibalism. They also love scalping and bare-handed bisections. The thing is, it'd be different if they were just animals who didn't know any better. But no, even though they have zero emotion, it's clear they do all this strictly For the Evulz. It's like they're trained to deliver as much pain as possible.
- Then there's their weapon of choice, the bone tomahawk itself. Despite being made of solid animal bone, it's blunt enough to bust open skulls, yet sharp enough to decapitate with one swipe.
- The cavewomen. All of their limbs are cut off and cauterized, then spikes are driven into their eyes permanently so they can't see. They exist only to be breeding machines for the cavemen, spending their entire lives being raped, giving birth, and then getting raped again by their own sons in an endless cycle.
- Finally, there's the noise they make, the only thing resembling communication they have. It's an unmistakably inhuman roar, and they pull this off by somehow wedging a strangely shaped windpipe made out of bone into their own throats.
-
**Nick's death**. First the cavemen scalp him, then they shove his own scalp in his mouth and hammer it into his throat with a chisel. Then they hack through his groin with a tomahawk so they can bisect him with their bare hands. He's kept alive *the entire time*. You literally couldn't think of a worse death if you tried.
- Hunt's attempted murder. First they cut his belly open, then they shoot him in the arm when he tries to resist, then they force a metal flask that's been roasting over an open fire for hours into the flap. Then finally, they try shooting him in the groin (an example of how needlessly cruel and sadistic they are), but thankfully, they don't understand how to reload guns. And then they figure it out.
- If you're squeamish towards throat slits, don't watch this movie. Literally the very first shot of the film is an excruciatingly long scene of a man's throat being cut. The noises are so disgusting. There's another one near the end of the film, and this one's
*even longer*, and involves Arthur O'Dwyer carving open one of the troglodyte's throats to get at the bone windpipe lodged in his trachea. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BoneTomahawk |
Bones / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Considering the sheer variety of everything that happens to the assorted victims shown throughout the course of the show, there's bound to be quite a few disturbing situations and ways to die. As this section mostly features causes of death,
**ALL SPOILERS ARE UNMARKED**. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Bones |
BoBoiBoy / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Though filled with heavy amounts of humor,
*BoBoiBoy* is no stranger to scary moments. **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- Overlaps with Tear Jerker. Extra Comic "BoBoiBoy Galaxy Comic Issue #7" shows Fang and Kaizo's past. Their home planet was invaded by the Tengkotak gang who sought to find their power sphere, Enerbot. Their parents, who were governors of the planet, were brutally attacked by Bora Ra, leaving their current status unknown. After Kaizo gains the power of energy manipulation, Bora Ra threatens that he will kill Fang if he didn't surrender, causing him to go berserk and accidentally hurt Fang.
- Both BoBoiBoy Thunderstorm and BoBoiBoy Fire/Blaze. Early in their introductions, both show how powerful and dangerous they are. Fire/Blaze is a Mood-Swinger, his behavior can change from happy-go-lucky to aggressive if triggered by something. Thunderstorm's aggressiveness is so deathly, some fans dubbed him as
*Bad BoBoiBoy*. Even one of the promotional pictures shows him with a Face Framed in Shadow and a menacing Death Glare.
- As story progress, it confirmed that all BoBoiBoy's power have potentially dangerous side effects if he unable to used it carefully. The warns from two previous holder of his powers also heavily implied that BoBoiBoy Elemental Powers are sentient and have their own consciousness. If he unable to control it, his power will takes over on him :
- The side effect of Elemental Split. If BoBoiBoy uses this power for too long, he will slowly lose his memory and identity. At first, its Played for Laughs whenever he forgot his allies name. But slowly become less funny when the Elemental Form start fighting each other to death to proved themselves that they are "the real BoBoiBoy".
- The Movie 2 and Season 2 confirmed by both Hang Kasa and Lady Kuputeri about another dangerous side of using Elemental Powers. If the users use the power in a greater scale, the power itself will
*take over* the users which leading a horrible potential that will be happens to them: 1) The users will get hurt both in mentally and physically since both body and mind can't handle the huge amount Elemental Powers 2) Ended become power-hungry users just like Retak'ka.
- Some of Power Sphere can granted a powerful supernatural power for the users. Unfortunately, some of users (especially the young users) can experience painful things whenever they use the power. Both Fang and Kaizo experience unable to control their power for first time and almost injuring anyone near them. BoBoiBoy potentially can being controlled by his Elemental Powers if he use the power in huge scale or have memory loss if he use elemental split for too long.
- The introduction of BoBoiBoy Thunderstorm. After being tortured by Adu Du and Probe who used his phobia of popping balloons, BoBoiBoy Lightning snapped and evolved into BoBoiBoy Thunderstorm, with scary red eyes and the Death Glare. He brutally attacks Super Probe and attempts to kill Adu Du. How do they stop him? By taking advantage of his amnesia and claiming that they are his friends.
- After he returns to Granddad's house to finish off his friends and the rest of the elementals in their split forms, he easily defeats all of them. If Probe didn't mention his catchphrase which caused his memory to return, BoBoiBoy Thunderstorm would have killed all his friends including his own granddad.
- In the final episode of season 1, Adu Du attacks the heroes with his Mukalakus Robot Destroyer, which is fueled off Ochobot's energy. Ochobot visibly screams from inside the machine every time it takes power from him. Adu Du almost finishes them off before BoBoiBoy Earth evolves into BoBoiBoy Quake.
- Adu Du's revenge in Season 2. He uses a shrinking pistol to shoot BoBoiBoy, Fang and Gopal. Computer explains that if they do not take the Magnifying formula, the boys will continue shrinking until they disappear.
- Ejo Jo's official appearance near the end of season 2. He knows
**everything** about the heroes' powers' potential and has a more powerful battle robot than Adu Du's. He has no problem in destroying their elementary school, which potentially hurt other innocent students, and kidnapped their classmates along with Yaya, Ying and Gopal, and stole their power bands.
- Doubled as Tear Jerker in Probe's Taking the Bullet moment. It's not only sad because it proved Probe's loyalty which causes Adu Du massive Villainous BSoD, but this scene is very unsettling for kids by showing a character being beaten and then killed on screen to protect their loved one in a brutal way.
- Ejo Jo using Fang's power band and releasing a gigantic "shadow dragon" which would potentially swallow everything around him without a trace.
- By Season 3, BoBoiBoy slowly suffers from stress due to exhaustion from his heroic and school duties, which resulted in him suddenly transforming into BoBoiBoy Fire
*without his knowledge every night*. All the chaos that he caused in the night is because of his recklessness. When Adu Du rudely points this out to the public, he is clearly terrified and tries hard to control his anger and his stress in order to not transform into him. Unfortunately, BoBoiBot's taunts are the last straw in bringing him over the edge, and he transforms into BoBoiBoy Fire and begins to spin out of control, which made the citizens believe and agree with Adu Du's statement.
- BoBoiBot itself is also shown to be very nightmarish as he proved more powerful than the original BoBoiBoy, as his fire power is able to create a
*miniature* sun while his water power had the potential to flood the entirety of Rintis Island.
- Once again, Ejo Jo comes to Earth to seek revenge on BoBoiBoy, making the heroes have no other choice but to accept Adu Du and Probe's help to defeat him. Ejo Jo then suddenly arrives right above them, now equipped with five gigantic battle robots and a battle suit with lasers capable of obliterating a hill right behind them.
- Captain Kaizo and Lieutenant Lahap's first appearance. They are an insanely powerful One-Man Army aliens that are able to defeat Ejo Jo and all his robots without breaking a sweat. Unlike the other antagonist, he is known to be a most fearsome figure in space known as the
*Legendary Space Rebel* and is appearingly 20 years old, which is pretty young compared to the other baddies, making the heroes and the villains completely outmatched to defeat him. The only reason why BoBoiBoy and the others are able to be saved is because Fang has no other choice but to take all their power bands for his superior, so he can spare his friends' lives.
- While most violence in the series is Played for Laughs, it is absolutely not funny to see him violently punish Fang due to his insubordination, he also attempted to slay Fang with his sword twice, especially after the reveal that he is Fang's older brother all along. For whatever reason, seeing Fang being punished by Kaizo is NOT. FUNNY.
- Space Mosquitoes are described as the most fearsome aliens that can suck the energy fuel from spaceships, and inhabit in a spaceship junkyard, the most forbidden zone in the galaxy. Have you ever wondered what happened to the rest of the spaceships' crew from this junkyard and why this place is considered as the most ''forbidden zone in galaxy''?
note : Judging from Gopal's Black Comedy that he pretended to asphyxiate, it could be implied that the crew of the other spaceships in the junkyard suffered from a similar fate.
- Sure, overall
*That Joe-Ker ?* episode was mostly a fun episode. But being trapped in a card game and controlled by villains to fight each other is an unsettling concept.
- Katakululu is seemingly harmless. But this creature possesses the ability to brainwash its targets and force them to do his bidding, even fighting to the death against their own allies. Katakululu is able to brainwash the weak and incompetent to become more powerful.
- Tarung's "fierce side" is pretty scary.In
*The Savage Trial*, He tells the heroes that if they failed in the exam, they'll be thrown out of the space station. He even opens the airlock doors as a demonstration to prove he's not joking.
- The return of BoBoiBoy Fire. BoBoiBoy transformed into BoBoiBoy Fire out of anger at Sai and Shielda's statement of mocking Fang's sympathy for his "weak" human friends. Fire viciously attacks the twins and casually dodges Sai's shield. It's when he
*catches* said shield as it bounces back that Sai looks severely troubled. If Gopal didn't plea to Tarung to stop the test and BoBoiBoy Fire's rage, he would have destroyed the planet with all of them on it.
- Almost everything in
*"Dark Circus"* and *"Thunderstorm Strike"*:
- Jugglenaut turned out to have enslaved a bunch of power spheres in his base.
- With Jugglenaut's successful encasement of the heroes' bodies with cement from Cementbot, it almost gave him a near total victory in defeating BoBoiBoy.
- Jugglenaut's
*nose* turns out to also be a power sphere named Nosebot. When he squeezes it, he turns into a colossal form and continues his fight against Kaizo. He almost overpowered the legendary space legend with a single blow. In this difficult situation, both BoBoiBoy and Kaizo force themselves to use the powerful second tier of their powers to stop Jugglenaut.
- Captain Vargoba. Just him ! Not only he has terrifying appearance. He also shown highly no-nonsense, brutal, and completely no humorous side on him to the point he made the previous Ax-Crazy Big Bad Ejo Jo and Bora Ra to shame.
- He proved to be more powerful than Kaizo as he can break multiple Energy barrier with
*single punch.*
- After Gopal accidentally appear in front of him, Vargoba immediately attempted to kill him while angrily asking Gopal about
*his* Stealthbot whereabouts.
- After the heroes successfully take the Stealthbot, Vargoba immediately pulls Darkest Hour by invaded the TAPOPS station which resulting the Heroes side having trouble to faced him due to lack of preparation. To made it worsen, the space pirate blocked the communication system on the Base resulting on them has no other choice but fight him without helped by Higher-ups. Oh and don't forget he also take Gopal and Papa Zola as hostage, using them as
*password* to forced the heroes to fight him or he will crushed both Gopal and Papa Zola like toothpick.
- The entire fight against him. Vargoba's magnetism power is so powerful even its can caused a massive explosion and completely outmatched everyone including Admiral Tarung. After feels successfully defeat the Heroes, do you think he just takes all Power Sphere and runaway ? NO ! Vargoba once again taunts BoBoiBoy before he brutally smashed him out the space, which almost made the poor boy killed in process.
- Retak'ka overall character is perfect Evil Counterpart of BoBoiBoy for being "Master of Seven Elements" and example what happened if someone being consumed by their power. He willingly do everything to satisfying his own to be stronger even he need massacre everyone who dare to stop his way.
- When he on his way to searching BoBoiBoy, Retak'ka effortlessly defeat the entire knights of Planet Gur'latan before absorb the power of electricity of its planet. When Fang and Kaizo arrive on the planet, all they found is nothing but a lifeless body of the knights.
- Retak'ka's rampages on Gur'latan during Movie 2, combined with Kira'na's perspective in "Issue 24", mean this scene is nightmarish and sad at the same time. When she sees Thunderstorm use his deadly attack to destroy Robot Satriantar, Kira'na is suddenly shocked into silence with empty eyes because she remembers this attack is similar to a technique that Retak'ka Voltra use to kill her father. Given that Thunderstorm's attack is downright brutal to the point the robot end up in pieces, this heavily implies that Kira'na's father faced a brutal death at the villain's hand. No wonder Kira'na paints BoBoiBoy as a bad person and orders her guard to kill him while he is still unconscious.
- The symbols of 3rd-tier Elements speak volumes of their nature. From BoBoiBoy's clean and smooth emblems they turn jagged, distorted, and wild.
- The introduction of BoBoiBoy Tempest, the 3rd tier form of BoBoiBoy Cyclone. After defeating Karantular, BoBoiBoy Tempest instantly gets Mind Raped after using the the power of wind, causing him to become uncontrollable until Kuputeri calms him. Remember how Wind first evolves into Cyclone and becomes uncontrollable due to his emotions ? it was handled in the goofiest way. Then when Cyclone becomes Tempest, there are
**NO FUNNY MOMENTS** during his introduction.
Kuputeri : You control the power, it doesn't control you-
BoBoiBoy Tempest : EERGH ! I CAN'T ! IT'S TOO STRONG !
Kuputeri : Focus on my voice ! Calm yourself and let the power go !
- Just look how Tempest was introduced. Not only does he laugh maniacally during his fought with Karantular, he also sports a disturbing Slasher Smile along with Glowing Eyes of Doom while declaring "play time" at his opponent introduction clearly makes Thunderstorm's introduction in the Original Season looks pale by comparison. The promotional Video of Card Game even makes the 3D version of BoBoiBoy Tempest even creepier, unlike in the comic version.
- BoBoiBoy once again lose his memory after Blaze and Ice are split for almost
**two days** in Baraju. In Issue 20, when they feel using 2nd tier form is not enough to fighting, Blaze and Ice almost transform into Nova and Blizzard. If not because of Fang snap him into the sense before they could transform, there are possibility that they will be unstoppable or worse they would accidentally kill the others around them including both the local tribes and his teammate due to their destructive powers.
- In issue 22 BoBoiBoy Tempest once again loses control of himself and his power during his training session with Hang Kasa. When Tempest tries to use his non-lethal technique, he gets another Mind Rape by suddenly remembering the recent trauma of his first transformation, Blazr and Ice fighting while having amnesia in Baraju, thinking about his friends' condition and fear of suffering the same fate as Retak'ka. Poor boy ended screaming in agony.
- If you look closely at this moment, Retak'ka doesn't show up as a person in BoBoiBoy's nightmare, but as a demonic entity who tries to reach him. It is a symbol of BoBoiBoy
*almost* being corrupted by his own power, which would potentially make him into a monster like Retak'ka.
- Putting aside the sympathetic circumstances of her character, Kira'na is a truly terrifying and manipulative person. She sets a perfect plan to bait BoBoiBoy and the other TAPOPS members to come to Gur'latan while making Kaizo stay away from them.No one is suspicious of her calm and friendly attitude. Not even her citizens are aware that she is the one who painted the heroes as "traitors" by pretending to be one of the victims during Robot Satriantar's rampages. After revealing herself to Kaizo as the mastermind of the havoc during a TAPOPS meeting, she immediately orders her guard to shoot Kaizo in his stomach and hunts the surviving heroes. This means Kaizo has no other choice but to run away with BoBoiBoy and Gopal to treat his wound. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BoBoiBoy |
Bodyguards and Assassins / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Asides from this film containing a lot of martial arts and historical references, this film is prone to having scary moments from time to time.
- The beginning scene in which Yang Qu Yun, a pro-democracy English teacher, is walking down the stairs and communicating with his pupils, gets immediately shot by Ying Xiao Guo's gun, as blood splatters on all the people surrounding him. This immediately creates a huge scene and starts the entire story...
- The scene in which a bunch of assassins suddenly appear in Shen Chong Yang's house and start mistreating him.
- The first fight scene.
- As Fang Tian, a former general living in an opera house, tells his daughter, Fang Hong, to immediately protect Mr. Chen, bodyguards immediately break into the place and pour acid over people,
*burning their faces in the process*.
- The blood in this film is enough to make some people uncomfortable
- Fang Tian cutting off an assassin's left pinky finger can be very disturbing as he does so in order to free himself from getting corned by those assassins. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BodyguardsAndAssassins |
Borderlands 3 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The Children of the Vault are not only a large and heavily armed cult that has absorbed many bandit gangs, but are apparently able to steal powers from Sirens and use them for themselves. Sirens are among the strongest beings in the Borderlands universe, and the twins are able to rob them of their powers entirely, with Lilith being their first victim. This has also allowed Troy to go against the natural order and imbue himself with Siren powers, despite that it's a Gender-Restricted Ability. His tattoos being red and frayed in comparison to the more fluid-looking tattoos Sirens normally sport demonstrates how wrong and unnatural this "male Siren" is. In an added bit of horror, Tyreen's tattoos don't glow when she uses her powers, Troy's do.
Speaking of Troy, both twins have one half of the same power, parasitic healing. Tyreen can absorb powers but Troy needs those powers to prolong his lifespan. Troy's existence may have saved Tyreen's life because if he didn't exist, then Tyreen would have been akin to a vampire, draining the life of others to prolong her own.
Tyreen has the power to leech energy from living beings, and plans to do this to multiple Vault Monsters to become super-powerful. The results of this on her followers are not pretty.
How the Children of The Vault came into existence in the first place. Years of being cannon fodder for companies like Dahl, Atlas, and Hyperion, being target practice for the Vault Hunters and subjected to genocide by the New Pandora Army have pushed the bandits to the breaking point. Now imagine every Bandit and Scav from the previous games setting aside all their grudges and joining forces, and they're said to number 10 billion strong. Scary thought, huh?
Even worse is the possibility that Affably Evil gangs like the Hodunks, Zafords, and Captain Scarlett's pirate crew could have been forcibly conscripted into the Children of The Vault with next to no say in the matter.
According to the cosplay guide for the Female Psycho, Psychos aren't just the ordinary kind of crazy, but are being actively driven insane by something — and it can happen to anyone in the galaxy, not just on Pandora or Elpis. This is exemplified in an early quest where a "sane" Psycho wears a tinfoil hat (that Claptrap wants to use as an optional replacement for his antenna) and asks you to break nearby dishes that are trying to brainwash him. He's actually remarkably polite (by Pandora's standards) and coherent (by Psycho standards). When you've destroyed the 3 dishes, he thanks you for stopping the brainwashing transmissions... saying "the soothing voices" have stopped, and then attacks you.
Vault Monsters in this game are not less threatening than the previous games. In Promethea, the Ravager is small but will change by snapping its neck and wings as it sucks up souls. In Eden-6, Graveward is probably bigger than the Warrior and seems to be the cause of the planet's gravity trap as its arm suggests. On Nekrotafeyo, the Vault Monster is already dead, though the fight could have been similar to Haderax in a room half the size of Ravager's. And finally, the Destroyer or rather its true body, said to be powerful enough to eat stars and was sealed in Pandora itself with Elpis as its Vault Key.
Maya is then killed in a horrifying manner, being slowly Reduced to Dust while screaming in pain and terror as Ava helplessly watches. Maya's skin even cracks when she's dying!
An ECHO log you can find appears to center around Rhys and Zer0 discussing Rhys's girlfriend, Sasha, who has disappeared so well that Zer0's spies are unable to find her. In Tales from the Borderlands, Fiona disappeared without a trace, and we still don't know what kind of fate she met. Now Sasha is gone, with no explanation as to why. Are the sisters cursed? Did the Cult go after them? What is so terrible that it makes a hardened conwoman disappear off the face of the six galaxies without any contact whatsoever?
Near the end of the game, Troy goes into such a massive power trip that he Phaselocks Elpis and tries to ram it on Pandora, so he and Tyreen can open the Great Vault, free the full extent of the Destroyer, drain it and become gods. Seeing Elpis so close to the surface is the stuff of nightmares. It takes Lilith's Heroic Sacrifice to stop Elpis from crashing into the planet.
A quest-giver begs you to find a friend who was kidnapped by bandits. Sounds heartwarming, except when you do find said friend, he actually went to these bandits for protection. It turns out that the quest-giver is actually the leader of the Fingerbiters who wants to remove the fingers from his "friend" for stealing a gun. Oh, and he's right outside the door.
Anointed enemies. These are COV bandits that are immune to Cryo and have powers of their own, but some of them will calmly walk towards you as they shoot you with their finger laser. They don't jump in your face, scream in your face, or even run away from or towards you. What does Eridium do to make these bandits act like Terminators (and it's most likely Eridium is the cause as defeating them will crystallize their bodies)?
And the sidequest of how Troy experimented with this power, either trying to transform prisoners without blowing them up or making prisoners fight against an Anointed.
The first Anointed you fight. For context, the previous story boss is a Goliath. This boss is a Goliath with its skull already exposed and two/three times bigger than that, and it can also shoot energy balls.
That's not even mentioning how exactly making them is possible in the first place. Maya's siren powers, which Troy stole.
The COV killed and tortured the Sun Smashers Clan, in that order. In fact, you do rescue one who was reduced to a brain in a jar and rescue her mind from a virtual reality. it was awful for her.
Zane: Come on. Time to break you out. Vic: N-no! Cant leave! He'll twist my arms off again! It hurts so bad... but then they grow back! I don't understand! It's happened like fifty times already!
You help bake a birthday cake for revenge, gathering some spiderant eggs for the batter and gunpowder for revenge. Those ingredients are tame compared to the eyeballs and fingers on the cake, and this is a three-tier cake with a butcher knife on top. It doesn't help that when you complete the quest, there are already orders for more of this cake.
Maliwan's brutal sociopathy among its soldiers. Though played for Black Comedy, the fact that their troops actively compete to see who can be the most evil and gleefully talk about how they're laying waste to a world of pacifist monks shows that the atrocities that Hyperion committed in Borderlands 2 were not isolated. In fact, if you look and listen closely while fighting the Maliwan soldiers, their troops are pretty much bandits but with less outright insanity and much better weaponry. During the Ratch'd Up side mission, Glenn refers to a Maliwan soldier named Gary as being cannibalistic and insane even beforebeing turned into a ratch.
The war between Atlas and Maliwan shows how powerful and brutal corporations have become. Maliwan's invasion of Promethea has likely caused thousands of casualties and many more innocent civilians turned into refugees just because Maliwan wanted more power and control. They even burn down non-Maliwan shelters in refugee camps, seeing them as "violations of their non-competition policy." The Head of Maliwan's Mergers and Acquisitions Division, Katagawa Jr., views the devastating and destructive invasion of Promethea as a corporate "merger" and downplays the suffering and terror he is causing to an entire planet. On top of that, the way in which Katagawa obliterates landmarks on Promethea with his laser, while Played for Laughs, further shows how sociopathic some corporations have become.
While Katagawa himself can be more smarmy than scary, the fact remains that he murdered nearly ten of his siblings without a care in the world on his pleasure yacht, and actively asks Tyreen to feed on his other siblings and place the statues in the Zanara as a twisted sort of "Family reunion." The fact that his pleasure yacht is also his favorite assassination spot doesn't help.
What's even worse is that if anything, this bid for power actually worked seeing as his father's only reaction to the bloodbath was to name Katagawa Jr. his legitimate heir and promote him to his current position.
Saurians are a new creature found on Eden-6. They resemble bipedal dinosaurs with large heads and scaly bodies, but most of them are quite small and easy to kill. Then you meet the Tyrants, Tyrannosaurus-Rex sized Saurians who are capable of breathing fire. From the perspective of someone fighting them, the Tyrants seem to be a maw of gigantic, grinning teeth rapidly advancing on them while spewing fireballs. The fact that the armor on their heads resembles a decayed skull with empty eye sockets doesn't help.
There's also the Saurians that were upgraded by scientists, namely the Saurian Hivemind, one of those camera bots...connected to a Saurian in a jar. And it talks, both about how it dealt with the scientists and how it views the Saurians it tests against you.
After defeating the Agonizer 9000, Pain and Terror are left helpless on the ground. The arena is completely silent, with no music and absolutely no noise from the crowd. In order to advance in the story, the player is required to execute both of them, and both explode into a bloody mess when shot. The way in which the two are executed is fairly unnerving, especially if one looks at Pain and notices the look of fear and desperation on his face.
The Agonizer 9000 itself can be pretty frightening, even considering the fact that it's a giant SkeleBot 9000, taking a closer look at it reveals some nightmarish details. The corpse of a psycho is impaled on the spiked chunk of metal attached to its shoulder, and inside its arm is a cage with another dead psycho who was pulled apart.
While fighting through Carnivora, Pain will comment that for every minute that they aren't live on the air and performing gruesome, brutal deaths, they lose half a million subscribers. Not only does this indicate just how widespread the Children of the Vault's audience is, it also shows just how absolutely messed up the rest of the galaxy has to be for them to be getting those numbers for what is basically a murder livestream.
An Echo log reveals that not only has Mr. Holloway not given up on hunting Gaige, but he's become more obsessed with her than ever, ranting barely coherently and flooding the galaxy with his deathbots.
Guns, Love and Tentacles goes further, revealing that Holloway's vendetta got so intense that Gaige was forced to leave the Raiders and spend the last seven years on the run and in hiding. Keep in mind, despite all his wealth and influence, Holloway is mid-tier at best compared to the other main corporations of the galaxy, and Gaige is a veteran Vault Hunter who's killed entire armies of bandits, monsters and Handsome freaking Jack. Just what the hell is Holloway capable of that it caused Gaige to spend the last seven years running for her life?!
One of Typhon's logs on Athenas indicates that the local monks aren't as virtuous as they seem, with one of them offering Typhon a large sum of money if he were to "bring another Siren," (with the implication of kidnapping one by force) and at least one other monk wants to sell out the monastery to Maliwan so he can regain the power he had before Maya returned. Not even a pacifistic religious order is safe from greed and corruption in this universe. Thankfully, Typhon flat out refused the job, but it makes you wonder how many of the bandits out there looking to traffic Sirens are working on the monks' dime, like the one who tried to kidnap Angel.
Enemies killed by the Radiation element while explode and disintegrate while anyone unlucky who gets caught in the blast radius will suffer the same fate.
Despite the Children of the Vault being neutralized with the death of the Calypso Twins, there are still future threats in the upcoming DLCs waiting to fill the void and strike. Who or what could be lurking out there in the Six Galaxies?
We've got one answer: a casino built by Handsome Jack that's still full of Loaders and maddened guests. It's not all that terrifying, but it's still unnerving to think that so much of Jack's influence survives even seven years after his death... then it turns out that the casino is actually a hyper-advanced production facility capable of churning out infinite advanced Loader bots, enough to make whoever owns it a superpower in their own right.
The next threat is a cult that worships an Eldritch Abomination that may rival The Destroyer in power.
Threat number three is just a bounty...of a cowboy gang so bloody that one of its top killers turned tail.
DLC 4 isn't a galactic threat, just a peek into the mind of a psycho. Which, come to think of it, isn't as sane as a child bomber or a buggy robot.
In the Halloween event, you gain access to Heck, Borderland's version of Hell. Here, you fight undead Maliwan soldiers, ratches and the ghost version of Captain Traunt. So where are all the psychos you killed? And why does Heck have a stained-glass window of the Calypso Twins?
One respawn station quote mentions that if you awaken on an endless, burning hot plain and see demonic creatures, you aren't in Hell, you are in Pandora; as it mentions hell, it seems that the Borderlands universe has two horrifying afterlives and that Pandora can be just as bad. Not even dying can improve your life in this universe.
Remember how in Borderlands 2, Angel said her claim that the Destroyer being a Universe-destroying Eldritch Abomination was a fabrication of Handsome Jack designed to trick the first game's Vault Hunters into getting rid of the monster for him so he could plunder the Vault's Eridium? Well, turns out that was untrue and Angel was right the first time: the Destroyer really is a universe-destroying monster which according to Nyriad's logs could eat stars so fast it didn't even need to stop and chew, and required the sacrifice of the entire Eridian civilisation in order to imprison it within the Great Vault, which is actually the whole of Pandora!
One of Nyriad's logs makes this even worse. The reason why awakening and killing the Destroyer in the first game made Eridium erupt across Pandora was because part of Pandora's structure is made up of a single massive layer of Eridium. Disrupting the Destroyer's feeding cycle like what happened in the first game caused masses of Eridium to escape to the surface. The frightening part is that this Eridium is part of the Destroyer's prison, meaning that all of the mining of this incredibly rare mineral is weakening the cage holding back a star-consuming Eldritch Abomination.
If you don't prepare for them, higher Mayhem levels turn the game's tone upside down. Combat encounters you previously just blasted through become minutes-long battles for survival where cover actually matters - even the easiest enemies are given enough health/armor/shields that they become a threat, and Elite Mooks turn into walking tanks that eat an insane amount of ammo before they even consider dying. To make things worse, most if not all enemies have shields that replenish over time, so you need to keep dealing damage to even stand a chance. It gets easier once you adjust and get mayhem-leveled gear, but the enemy buffs are impressive enough that a player trying the higher mayhem levels for the first time will feel overwhelmed for a good while.
The intro for the Handsome Jackpot has a moment where we're reminded that even when pretending to be nice for a commercial we're still watching Handsome Jack.
(The camera pans around the Jackpot's skyline)
Handsome Jack(Cheerfully): The Handsome Jackpot: once you're here...
Rhys is lucky that he only had to deal with AI Jack controlling his cybernetics. All the Jack doppelgangers have Jack's DNA, which cannot be removed by surgery, which seems to naturally contain traits like giving people derogatory nicknames and a desire to strangle kittens. If Jack's death hadn't screwed them over, the Vault Hunters might have faced dozens of fighters as amoral as Jack. And if Jack's DNA can affect people that way, what is in a Psycho's DNA?
Once he runs out of cash, Pretty Boy pays the final repair of the Jackpot fighting robot using his blood. According to the dialogue, the mechsuit just sprouts needles out of nowhere, pierces his skin instantly in dozens of places, and starts literally draining him dry. Made even worse by his mech suit's health bar switching from armor to normal health, which carries its own horrific implications. Jack basically designed a supremely powerful mech that would kill anyone poorer than him if they dared get into it.
Pretty Boy's exsanguinated and charred corpse. *shudders*
Shortly after that, Timothy is forced to save everyone by using the laser bars on his cage to amputate his hand so you can activate an override out of his reach.
Scraptrap Nest. My God, the Scraptrap Nest. The years of hiding from Jack's sanctioned pogrom of the Claptraps have corrupted their programming so badly that they've turned feral and aggressive to anyone residing in The Compactor, and are genuinely frightening to face. Gone are the comedic personas of the Claptraps from the previous games, and in their place are psychotic, babbling maniacs hell-bent on killing anything unlucky or unwary enough to wander into their lair.
The fact that when you venture into the Scraptrap Nest in search of a plot item, you pass by their burrows, from which many, many red eyes stare back at you from. Thankfully nothing pops out to attack you during said walk, but it's still unnerving either way.
Your introduction to them doesn't help either. They slowly crawl out of their burrows like zombies, attempting to speak, before suddenly swarming you with a shrill cry of "TRAVELEEEEEEEEERRRRR!!!!". The title card that appears afterwards has the rather ominous subtitle of "YOU ASKED FOR IT".
Guns, Love and Tentacles as a whole would be this. To start, most citizens of this DLC world have completely black eyes with runny streaks. Blobs of flesh that litter the landscape. And toilets have tentacles with eyes poking out of them.
That's not to mention the giant monster you can see in the horizon. Thankfully, it is already dead...
Wait, it turns out this monster's heart is still beating even when the body's dead, and its nickname is "Eater of Hearts".
Mancubus can be mistaken as an evil guy when you first see him. It doesn't help that, in an ECHO you find shortly after, someone stopped hearing voices when they entered the Lodge. In another quest, he is able to acquire a recipe from an evil book that possesses anyone looking at its pages, including the librarian.
It should also be noted that, according to memory Maya, a hotel with a creepy owner appeared in Athenas and, after a nice nap, disappeared in the middle of her sleep.
Cursehaven is what it sounds like. Everyone in that town is afflicted with a different curse, from continuous dancing to breathing through their abs.
One of the doors you can knock on in Cursehaven is answered by someone who doesn't want to let you in... because they've just eaten. But they ask you to wait around, as they'll have more room shortly...
You think the Calypso's cult was bad? The DLC's cult, the Bonded has ominous chanting, mass sacrifice, and tentacles. Both as part of their costumes and attacks. Some of the enemies have shields with beating hearts in them.
THE HEART STILL BEATS THE HEART STILL BLEEDS
Vincent, one of the cult leaders of the Bonded, doesn't seem impressive as a miniboss. However, his death releases his host from the possession and Wainwright gets possessed instead, falling into the abyss against his own will. And apparently Vincent is not picky of his vessels as he once possessed a little girl.
The possession in question has a frankly horrifying process. The victim gets faintly glowing red eyes, turns deathly pale, and begins to speak in a tone more reminiscent of Vincent rather than themselves, in addition to moving like a marionette, when they aren't incapacitated from attempting to fight the possession. While the process is thankfully interrupted before it can complete, the implication that Vincent will eventually seize full control of the victim, morph them into a replica of his original body and proceed to commit further atrocities while the victim is cognizant throughout the entire thing is horrifying.
The fact that the previous victim before Wainwright thanks you before dying says exactly how bad an experience it is for the unfortunate person to wear the ring.
Somehow, The Bonded make the Children of the Vault look good. Sure, the COV are complete psychos hell-bent on opening the Great Vault and killing anyone who gets in their way, but their guys fight in the cult of their own free will (in a very broad sense of the concept, anyways). The Bonded are basically enslaved into fighting for the cult's leaders. Tyreen and Troy ruled through cunning and popularity, Eleanor and Vincent rule through mind control.
Adding onto this, the fights with the COV are more in the flavor of traditional Borderlands gunfights, comedic action-movie sequences with lots of explosions, bullets and witty one-liners. The Bonded throw this out the window, with their fights being more along the lines of scenes from Resident Evil, facing off against unknown and untold horrors, throwing everything you have into the fray in a desperate attempt to stay alive.
Ratches are horrible, disgusting rat/bug monsters with scary faces and nests that are infesting everything.
Spiderants are still as scary as ever, what with the updated graphics and all, but special mention has to go to Princess Tarantella II, who bursts out of the ground and promptly begins attacking anything that so much as wanders into a very broad region around her. It's eerily reminiscent of a Thresher Maw attack.
Gehenna, the planet from Bounty of Blood actually manages to be creepier than Xylourgos - the Cosmic Horror themed planet from the previous DLC, for a number of reasons:
The Company that ran the place (actually the Jakobs corporation) used the planet to test all their secret weaponry - including bio-engineered monsters and WMD's infused withGreen Rocks. When the Company left the planet, they bombed it to hell to cover up what they'd done. It's implied that the majority of Gehenna is a blasted, radioactive wasteland.
The ambience of this planet is discordant, almost atonal in places - not what we expect from Borderlands or a Wild West theme - giving the whole place a feeling of emptiness or dread.
The lower levels of the Facility turn the above point up to eleven. It's very similar to the lower levels of Apeture Science, and while there's nothing explicitly scary down there, you get the feeling there might be. It doesn't help that there's numerous cryptic hints (such as a fridge covered in blood with a trail of blood leading to a door, and a bizarrely mutated bandit with wings) that Jakobs did some seriously unethical things in there.
It's probably why they stayed out of the Corporate Wars and never opened The Vault on Eden-6.
The Meatman, a legend of Gehenna, said to make even the toughest men disappear, leaving only their hats behind. Granted, the questgiver's target is very superstitious, but said target is a very bloody killer, and seeing the flaming fake of this legend can either kill him via heart attack or make him give up the thought of killing even a flower.
The Ruiner hatching looks like a nuclear bomb going off, and unlike Fallout it's portrayed as terrifying. The sky is blocked out with green clouds, fire and debris stream through the air, and when you call Juno you can hear everyone panicking in the background.
The first memory of Krieg...is constructed in meat. And there are giant eyeballs that keep looking at you, even when placed correctly in skulls. And there are spiderants, in case this wasn't creepy enough.
In the memory of Hyperion, some things might glitch out, leading you to find things that aren't there or structures suddenly appearing/disappearing whenever you get to close. In memory of Hyperion, their scientific research are so horrendous that the board of Unethical Experiments and Forced Mutationsgave them three thumbs down.
As for the research, this started with various experiments, leaving the subjects either dead or alive. However, the worst part is that they developed a gas that turned the survivors into blood-raged berserkers, and while not fully successful, it is still considered a useful corporate sabotage.
Dr. Benedict is unusual for a Borderlands villain in that there is nothing remotely humorous about him whatsoever: the man looks like he was stitched together, wears a creepy gas mask, speaks in Creepy Monotone about mutilating people and has an armature of needles, lasers and sawblades on his back. He is responsible for the horrific experiments conducted on Krieg, including the berserker gas mentioned above, and even proposes using the gas on an elementary school in order to test a homogenous sample group.
Psycho Krieg apparently has no issue assaulting a CoV base or the Firehawk if push comes to shove, but the moment he has to recall the "Needleman", the chaos is canceled.
After defeating Dr. Benedict, the entrance to the level in the Psychoscape has a new addition: Benedict's bloody and mutilated corpse, strapped to his own operating table. Although it's fair to say he had it coming.
What make a Psycho tick? Tannis reasons that the answer lies in Vaulthalla. The answer is the Psychoreaver, the incarnation of rage so strong that Sane Krieg almost succumbs at the entrance. To illustrate this better, this Psycho is built like a gladiator or Thor, is as big as a house, is smart enough to throw magic if you try to camp at the ledges, and prefers to smash you with a cage-sized flail. And he can grow bigger.
The leadup to the Psychoreaver is unsettling in a Nothing Is Scarier fashion. While all the other Fantastic Fustercluck areas had plenty of enemies and music to keep you occupied, Vaulthalla is just... silent. No psychos scrambling to cave your face in, no creepy ambient music. Just the sounds of your footsteps as you trudge through the gore-caked passage.
As if that's not enough, when you defeat him the first time, he disappears... only for the Kriegs to appear and state that it's not over yet. True enough, the Psychoreaver returns, only he's even more massive than before, making his previous form look like a pipsqueak. He still speaks, but it's so deep and booming that it's near impossible to understand, and that's without all the other sound effects throughout the fight.
On another note, in this game the Psychos have gained the quirk of yelling "FIND LEIBERMANN" at some points, usually upon death. The fact that the Psychoreaver also namedrops Leibermann does make you wonder... who is Leibermann? And why are they so significant that even the embodiment of a Psycho's rage and insanity knows the name?
Near the end of the final Mysteriouslier Side mission, The Seer shows it true colors: To control the Sirens to maintain "balance". | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Borderlands3 |
BoJack Horseman / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
"Oh shit, I'm still tripping."
*"There is no shame in dying for nothing. That's why most people die."*
While
*Bojack Horseman* has never been the kind of show that goes out of its way to scare the audience, it has had its fair share of scares. Given that the series is more than willing to show the darker side of celebrity and the desire to be remembered, a lot of scares come from more existential places. The BoJack Horseman Story: Chapter One
Prickly Muffin
- BoJack explaining to young Sarah Lynn about the scary truths of show business comes across as very sinister, especially as BoJack grows more unhinged and angry as if he is
*threatening* the little girl. It gets worse when you realize that it's this advice that led to Sarah eventually becoming the train-wreck that she is as an adult. The fact that she looks absolutely terrified when BoJack finishes telling her all this really hammers it in: **BoJack:**
Hey, you see those people?
**Sarah Lynn:**
Yeah.
**BoJack:**
Well, those boobs and jerkwads are the best friends you'll ever have. Without them, you're nothing. Remember that. Your family will never understand you, your lovers will leave you or try to change you, but your fans, you be good to them and they'll be good to you. The most important thing is, you gotta give the people what they want, even if it kills you, even if it empties you out until there's nothing left to empty. No matter what happens, no matter how much it hurts, you don't stop dancing, and you don't stop smiling, and you give those people what they
**want!**
(beat)
**Director:**
And action!
**BoJack:**
(as The Horse) Why aren't you dressed for school, prickly muffin?
- Back in the present day, Sarah Lynn proves what an insane Attention Whore she's become; she reacts to a breakup with her boyfriend by
*stabbing her own stomach*, and spills lots of blood on the floor. BoJack has to drive her to the hospital.
Our A-Story is a 'D' Story
- When Todd is in the prison cafeteria, he meets a friendly inmate who offers to protect him... and then out of nowhere, another deranged prisoner repeatedly stabs that man to death, spraying lots of blood.
- Later, after Todd accidentally "double-crossed" two different gangs (the Aryan Brotherhood and Latin Kings), he has now triggered a full-blown prison gang war. In the aftermath, there's several dead inmates and guards lying around, and the Aryans and Latins have teamed up to try and kill Todd by
*curb-stomping his head*. Fortunately for Todd, a conveniently-timed prison break allows him to escape unharmed (along with dozens of dangerous criminals, however).
Downer Ending
Chickens
- The chicken slaughtering. To clarify, in a world full of Funny Animals, how do they eat animal meat? Well, there are
*no non-anthropomorphic animals*, so sections of prey species are bred solely for the purpose of being eaten, and are hormonally altered so that they can only act like dumb animals. Even more jarring is the fact that the local chicken farm is run by a family of talking chickens, who are fully willing to shoot trespassers (except the mother, who's clearly emotionally distraught by this lifestyle and just wants to make math-based video games).
Hank After Dark
- After going to what ends up being a staged interview with one of Hank Hippopopalous's assistants, Diane ends up in a dark parking garage, alone, with Hank giving her a
*very* creepy smile before the scene cuts out. When the scene goes back to her, it opens on a lingering shot of Diane's recorder lying on the hood of her car, leading the viewer to fear the worst.
- The subplot involves Todd somehow switching places with the despotic Prince of Cordovia. When the real Todd is found, he's desperately trying to escape (hinting that he was kidnapped, or was at least tricked into doing this), and he mentions something about civil war atrocities being committed in his name.
*Just what the hell happened* while the poor guy was missing?
The Shot
Escape from L.A.
It's You
- BoJack listens to Ana's story about how she once crashed her car into the ocean and nearly drowned. He even notes how disturbing her story is.
That's Too Much, Man!
- The parents of young Todd lookalike — they see a strange man talking and hugging their son, but recognize him as a famous person. Even though they wonder if he's a pedophile, that doesn't stop either of them from attempting to use their son as a way to make a name for themselves. Of course, since the audience is well aware that BoJack isn't like that, it's fine on that part, but still...
- Despite his better judgement telling him not to, and his disgust at himself for even thinking it, BoJack travels to Penny's college to find her and talk to her. Not because he thinks it's a good idea, but because he's so strung out on illicit substances that
*his own mind and body are working against him*.
- This Wham Episode ends with Sarah-Lynn overdosing on drugs as a result of BoJack asking her to end her 9-month-long withdrawal from substances, just so that she can get wasted with him. Sarah-Lynn loses consciousness and dies in BoJack's arms while the two of them were having quite the eye-opening, life-contemplating experience at a planetarium. The End.
- Keen-eyed viewers will also notice Sarah Lynn's body growing deathly pale, and her eyes getting more dark than usual, shortly after taking the drug BoJack, which was strong enough to kill an orca stripper in
*BoJack Kills*.
That Went Well
- BoJack's Heel Realization that Sarah Lynn's rise and fall wasn't anything special. She was just one used-up starlet in a long line of used-up starlets, and he contributed to the problem by inadvertently causing her fatal overdose. When the child actress on
*Ethan Around* tells him she wants to be just like him, he has a panic attack at the implication that he'll be responsible for it yet again, and is literally Driven to Suicide when he attempts to crash his car along the freeway, only to relent and continue living at the last second. The Old Sugarman Place
Thoughts and Prayers
- While it's played for dark satire and isn't actually shown on-screen, there's the in-universe news media's constant stories about the numerous recent massacres by spree-shooters in the United States. It's a rather grim reminder of a horrific real-life phenomenon. Regardless of whether or not one agrees with this episode's mixed messages about gun politics. Even by that standard it's dark; there are at least half a dozen in the course of a single day.
- For anyone who has been in this situation like Diane — imagine you're walking somewhere either with a friend or alone, at night. Then you start getting harassed by a larger guy who uses some cheesy pick-up line or just plain offensive dialogue that he sees as "cute". And when you made it clear you're not interested and the same guy gets angry and starts to advance on you, threatening you with sexual assault.
Stupid Piece of Sh*t
- BoJack's brutally self-deprecating internal monologue and the accompanying scribbles can be unsettling, especially for those who suffer from intrusive thoughts and anxiety in real life. The worst case is when he panics over "ruining" Hollyhock near the end: rambling in his mind about how horrible he is as he pictures Hollyhock falling away from him, Sarah Lynn dead and Charlotte scowling at him, and all his (ex) friends and anxieties crowding around him, black scribbles all over the place as his thoughts become less coherent and more rapid-fire panicky self hate.
- Even if you don't suffer from anxiety, the Deranged Animation used in these sequences can still make watching them somewhat unpleasant. Charlotte, Beatrice and Hollyhock, in particular, show some hefty split second nightmare faces.
Underground
- As a direct consequence of allowing oil fracking operations to happen in his (literal) backyard, a sudden earthquake causes Mr. Peanutbutter's house to sink beneath the ground during a campaign fundraising party. While this situation is mostly Played For Black Comedy, the ramifications are still genuinely grim.
- Mr. Peanutbutter, Diane, and all their party guests are trapped underground for a total of
*10 days*, without any immediate assistance from the outside world. The food, water, and oxygen are gradually running out, so this naturally drives everyone crazy. Mr. Peanutbutter and Woodchuck fight for leadership of the group, which reveals that a desperate mob mentality has formed that will do *anything* for their own survival and self-gratification.
- A bit of Fridge Horror: since BoJack was one of the people trapped underground for those 10 days, that means Hollyhock was most likely at his house with Beatrice and Tina the whole time. Not a scary thought at first, but then we find out in the next episode that Beatrice was spiking Hollyhock's coffee with amphetamines the entire time...
lovin that cali lifestyle!!
- The cold open, including the "A Netflix Original Series" card at the very start, is from a distorted, blurry perspective, with muffled audio and disjointed shots of BoJack, Tina, Hollyhock, and Beatrice playing cards. The audience isn't exactly clear what's going on until it's made clear Hollyhock is having some sort of episode, and she stumbles to the bathroom, where she quickly replies to one of her dads' texts a happy selfie with the Title Drop as her caption before passing out. We're kept in the dark about her condition for over
*ten minutes*, until it's revealed she overdosed on appetite suppressants Beatrice had been mindlessly slipping into her coffee without anyone knowing.
- While we're not told exactly what's going on at first, we can clearly see that she's drastically skinnier, as evidenced by her regular outfit suddenly looking baggy and loose-fitting and her otherwise plump belly all but completely gone. It's obvious from the beginning that this has something to do with her being self conscious about her weight, but at first it looks more like BoJack caused her to develop and eating disorder, the mere thought of which is actually
*more* terrifying than the truth.
- The way Beatrice with a devilish look admits she put in Holly's coffee an "old family secret" (a.k.a. weight loss pills)and the way she casually tells BoJack she did it, so Hollyhock would take them in the future on her own to make herself skinner, are unsettling. It almost looks like she never had dementia in the first place, and that it was just an excuse to make everyone's life even more miserable because of her toxicity.
- Similar is BoJack's panic attack when he realizes that he's ruined not only yet another relationship but that he very nearly
*killed a child*. He speeds home, runs into the bathroom, and flushes all of his pills down the toilet, fearing that she must have OD'd on something of his while yelling "No! No! No!" over and over. The whole time, all of the high-frequency sound cuts out, leaving everything a low rumble as we get BoJack's mental breakdown from his perspective, eventually ending with him collapsing on the floor of his bathroom while hyperventilating, clearly thinking "My God, What Have I Done?".
- BoJack's hyperventilation sounds as if he's trying to cry, but as we know, he can't. Those anxiety attacks and hyperventilation in other episodes? That's his body reacting to being
*physically unable* to properly function and cry when he needs to.
Time's Arrow
- Beatrice's traumatic flashbacks are extremely trippy and unnerving, due to being filtered through both her dementia and depression. They start with subtle changes, such as the letters on the hotel sign switching around (though when you do notice them they can be quite jarring), and then slide into borderline Deranged Animation, such as the portraits of the Sugarman and Horseman families being layered together, and the faces of Henrietta and most other people being scribbled out for the whole episode. Then here's the horrible, hellish red filter over Beatrice's flashbacks to her childhood, and her father cheerfully burning her beloved baby doll while she cries for him to stop.
**Damn.**
- Beatrice's memory of her mother appears to be so painful, she's only ever seen as flashes of her silhouette, with the massive surgical scar on her head highlighted.
- Also, as this review pointed out, things shown in shadow often symbolize something to be feared, playing on the Primal Fear of the dark. Honey being shown only in silhouette not only displays how she's now a "shadow" of her former self; because Joseph used Honey and her lobotomy as a threat to keep Beatrice in line, Beatrice sees her mother as everything she fears could happen to her.
- "[This painting] belonged to your grandfather. A man who knew what marriage meant." Smash cut to Joseph (in silhouette) angrily shaking his brain-dead wife.
- And the kicker — when her father is burning all of her possessions, including her favorite doll, he makes no attempt to console or explain things to Beatrice. He instead scolds her for getting so emotional before reminding her what happened when her mother couldn't control herself.
- Even the transitions between flashbacks is horrifying. When BoJack blacks out in "Downer Ending" or "That's Too Much, Man!" it happens with a simple fade or black flash. Beatrice's flashbacks? A strange computerized glitch and a horrible screech.
- As with
*The Old Sugarman Place*, this is an episode that makes terrifyingly effective use of sound, particularly towards the end. As Beatrice's memory of her doll being burned gets entangled with BoJack's birth and Hollyhock's birth, the music moves from bittersweet but triumphant, to a moment of calm...only to slide into a discordant and eerie noise as a young Beatrice frantically begs the servants not to burn her belongings, cut with Hollyhock's separation from her mother. There's a Scare Chord when Henrietta screams as her baby is taken from her, followed quickly by the echoing and ethereal scream as Honey's lobotomized silhouette appears in the flames behind Beatrice's father and his horrifying Dissonant Serenity. The effect is downright chilling, and is pictured above.
- If Henrietta's screams of anguish as she begs to hold her baby weren't traumatic enough, her final scream is accompanied by the black scribble that obscures her face engulfing the entire screen to properly illustrate her Sanity Slippage.
- When Joseph not so subtly threatens to have Beatrice lobotomized like her mother, the background is nothing but fire, essentially being Hell. Joseph turns his body slightly so that it faces the audience and his ears actually resemble
*horns.* This may not even have been intentional on the animators part, but it certainly makes Joseph look that much more evil.
- The scene where the silhouette of Beatrice's lobotomized mother appears besides Joseph, who is bathed in hellfire, is also accompanied by the faint sounds of a woman's screams. Screams that could either mean that Honey was in pain due to the procedure, or worse, she was screaming in fear of the procedure taking away her identity.
What Time Is It Right Now
The Lightbulb Scene
- There's a bit where BoJack confronts Flip for the nude scene with the light bulb, accusing him of doing a power play over the horse complaining. Flip, in a cold voice, reveals that thanks to the contract that the horse signed, that he is obligated to take off his robe because that contract has turned Flip into Philbert's god and BoJack better do everything that Flip says. He then chases BoJack around the room in an attempt to take off his clothes, and despite being visibly shorter he is intimidating. This was visible sexual
*assault*, something that BoJack doesn't think to mention to Princess Carolyn when asking her for help.
- Even Flip is aghast at his behavior at the wrap party. He apologizes to BoJack and tells him that he's not trying to punish him. Instead, he's trying to wrangle his debut and make it perfect. The horse forgives him, even though he had every right to tell him to fuck off.
The Dog Days Are Over
- It's treated as a quick Black Comedy joke, but there's the background event where Stefani Stilton hires a crew of
*exterminators* to deal with a bunch of striking cockroach IT workers at GirlCroosh who tried to unionize. Their muffled screams can even be heard while poison gas is being pumped into the fumigation tent while they're still inside the building. There's a lot of Fridge Horror from the apparent fact that it's *perfectly legal* to exterminate (fully sapient) insect-people.
Ancient History
- The episode's main plot is kicked off by Hollyhock throwing all of BoJack's painkiller pills down the sink drain, due to a combination of PTSD-induced flashbacks of when Beatrice poisoned her coffee with amphetamines, and (unjustified) paranoia that BoJack was going to spike her pizza with those pills. It reveals that she's still mentally scarred by last season's events that resulted in her hospitalization.
- Desperate for painkillers after Hollyhock destroys his stash and visibly going into withdrawals, BoJack closes his eyes and plows his car into oncoming traffic, echoing his earlier suicide attempt from the Season 3 finale.
Head in the Clouds
- Diane and BoJack's argument about his behavior was compelling for a lot of reasons, but his instability combined with her (completely justified) fury about his shitty behavior and casually predatory actions towards women makes the tension build and build, which makes the moments where BoJack grabs Diane's arm as she tries to get him to stop absolutely
*chilling.*
The Showstopper
- The episode takes the premise of the classic Surreal Horror film
*Perfect Blue* and makes it *even darker* with BoJack's painkiller addiction causing the Mind Screw plot of *Philbert* to bleed into his perception of his real life more and more, culminating in him *genuinely* strangling Gina during filming of the show, as the others gradually realize they're watching what looks like an attempted murder in progress.
- The other characters present are horrified when they finally realize what's happening, including Mr. Peanutbutter who joins several crew members in pulling BoJack off of Gina. But Flip's reaction? Tell the cameraman to keep filming.
- Actually the even more unsettling element is that only a handful of crew members figure to stop BoJack. The rest just sit there and gawp or record footage on their phone. If Mr. Peanutbutter hadn't started restraining BoJack, everyone might have dithered long enough for BoJack to kill Gina.
- In the French dub, BoJack is
*laughing* as he strangles Gina.
- Hell, French BoJack is just downright terrifying in this scene. Whereas in the English dub he sounds seriously pissed off, the French dub makes it sound like he's completely lost his mind in a blind rage.
- When BoJack begins strangling Gina, his expression is absolutely chilling. Even for a cartoon, you can see disturbingly malicious intent in his eyes, as if it were a real murder taking place.
- In the final scene of BoJack's drug-induced psychosis, there's the absolutely chilling shot of BoJack looking up at the
*Philbert* promotional balloon of him, which is *staring directly back at him* in a way that seems to symbolize how everything that's just happened was all his own fault, and he has no one else to blame. And then the episode just ends right there. Oh, God...
- Once instance of BoJack's perception of reality being distorted is when he begins to hear a woman's voice singing, except it's backwards. If one were to reverse the audio, they'll find out that it's Gina's voice, singing "Life's is an never-ending show, my friend", taken directly from the infamous "Don't Stop Dancing" dream sequence.
- The "Don't Stop Dancing" sequence comes to a very sudden and abrupt end when the inflatable Philbert balloon bursts and slams into the screen in the middle of Gina's line. If you look closely, you can even see the screen shatter when this happens.
The Stopped Show
- After the last episode's moment of BoJack strangling Gina, this episode reveals something that just makes it a thousand times worse:
*BoJack doesn't remember any of it.* Up until Princess Carolyn shows him, he's genuinely worried for Gina and confused about what exactly has happened. While we've seen BoJack make his ( *very*) bad choices and then deal with the guilt and consequences, this is a sharp contrast. BoJack has to deal with the guilt and consequences of something he *can't remember doing.* His addiction was no one's fault but his own, but the fact that even Princess Carolyn—who has always been the one to tell him to get his crap together and push him on his feet—shows genuine concern for his mental state really says that BoJack has officially *cracked.*
- The opening goes through a massive overhaul, with one very subtle bit of horror; the moment where BoJack tips over his balcony and lands in a swimming pool is altered so he's now at the observatory. When he falls over the balcony, there's no swimming pool, just darkness.
- In what may be an accidental animation error, during the opening for the first half of season 6, when Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter look down at BoJack in the pool, Mr. Peanutbutter's face does not move at all, giving him the look of a very unnerving thousand-yard stare.
The New Client
- Princess Carolyn's daily routine of trying to look after a newborn and work full-time is depicted with her accompanied by several doppengangers doing various tasks, for a full episode. The overwhelming nature of it captures the stress of being a new parent so well.
- How stressed is she? She
*nearly microwaves her daughter*!
Feel-Good Story
Good Damage
- This episode is a counterpart to the above mentioned "Stupid Piece of Sh*t" in that it employs Deranged Animation to convey serious depression, this time representing Diane's thoughts as she works on her memoir. She sees herself and the figures in her life as scraggly incomplete scribbles, words on the page running together, and eventually, all of the figures in her life grow monstrous and begin to overtake her.
Xerox of a Xerox
- The shocking revelation that Sarah Lynn was only barely still alive in the planetarium, right when BoJack had thought she died in his arms after calling out to her several times. That's not the terrifying part. The actual terrifying part is what happened next:
*BoJack abandoned Sarah Lynn*. He failed to call for help until seventeen minutes had passed, and by then it was already too late for her. BoJack saw Sarah Lynn as a surrogate daughter, and he confessed in the interview that he had also loved her, and yet at the end he cared more about covering his tracks that night, instead of doing everything he can to get help for Sarah Lynn right away.
- What's
*worse* is BoJack doesn't remember this. He knew he was covering up something terrible, but what exactly was blank due to the drug haze. Yet his intoxicated self, with no inhibitions, left Sarah Lynn to suffocate.
- To note how bad this is, Biscuits Braxby changes her tune on helping BoJack maintain his image when Paige provides the evidence that BoJack effectively killed Sarah Lynn. She asks BoJack about all the terrible things he did, including accidentally giving Sarah Lynn vodka in his dressing room, and points out he lied to everyone about the death of a woman who put all her faith in him.
The Horny Unicorn
- The aftermath of BoJack's second interview. Everything he (and the audience) feared becomes reality. He is loathed almost universally and can't even leave the house to go to a Drive-Thru without people glaring, yelling, or throwing objects at him.
The View from Halfway Down
- This entire episode is about BoJack trying to reconnect with his family and loved ones (as well as Zach Braff and Corduroy Jackson-Jackson), even though they're all dead. He's aware that it's all a dream that he thinks he can wake up from, but they all decide to put on a show, and BoJack has no choice but to watch. He asks why he hasn't woken up yet.
- Sarah Lynn's performance is a reprise of Gina's song from a season prior, albeit with a more modern flair, and as she wraps up her performance, a door appears on the stage. It is pitch black beyond the door, her singing slows down to a droning chant, and she takes a deep breath before letting herself fall backward into the nothingness. What's worse is that mantra ("Don't stop dancing") is what BoJack told her when she was little. BoJack knows that her inability to slow down and eventual death were all his fault. What's worse is she wears her funeral clothes for it.
- From the beginning of the episode up to right before the performance, we see Sarah Lynn slowly age from her child to teen appearances she had on
*Horsin Around*, to her 20-something pop star appearance, to her 30-year-old appearance, showing both BoJack's shifting memory of her and her edging closer to death.
- Corduroy Jackson-Jackson performs an aerobatic routine that has him falling through the doorway while Herb and BoJack have a worried conversation beside it - but watch closely as Corduroy flails about in the background and you're treated with a chilling split-second shot of his limp body swaying from the ribbon as if it's a noose.
- In a moment of Black Comedy, Zach Braff is pushed and roller blades slowly back into the void, seemingly powerless to control himself, yet he just spouts the show's signature tongue twisters all the while.
- Secretariat recites a poem about what it was like
*jumping off a bridge*, talking about the view from halfway down during the fall, and all the while, the spotlight keeps shining on the door as it inches closer to Secretariat, as if it's taunting him. Worse still is that as Secretariat continues reading, he starts to sound more panicked and scared, then eventually falls back into it, and it's just very hard to watch, *especially* for viewers who have been suicidal in the past.
- Secretariat is holding four pages in his hand when he reads the poem. The first three pages are each a stanza from the poem, but he doesn't get a chance to read the last before falling into the door. Who knows what could have been were he to finish living his life instead of ending it early? We'll never know now.
- BoJack starts to panic and tries to leave, but he can't. Beatrice and Crackerjack are up next, and the two perform a duet of Beatrice twirling a ribbon and Crackerjack playing the trumpet for her. He then wraps himself up with the ribbon and jumps into the void, while Beatrice covers herself with the ribbon. All while black tar envelops it, and it envelops her, and then she disappears.
- Shortly before his performance with Beatrice, Crackerjack is briefly shown
*with a bleeding hole in his head*.
**Crackerjack:** Nothing you do in here matters, pal.
- The tar then swallows up Herb, and the red bird that flew in to the house (and said bird has a moment where the bird's face melts off a few times), and the tar then begins to chase BoJack throughout the house as he realizes that whatever this is, is death, and that it's coming for him. He realizes that he's drowning in his swimming pool, as he sees a silhouette of himself floating inside said pool. It catches up to him, it starts to envelop him too, and the episode ends on the sound of a flatline. It stays throughout the credits.
- The whole scene really hammers in just how frightened BoJack is about confronting his mortality. This bit of dialogue he has just before it's
*his turn* to enter that pitch black door to nowhere doesn't ease his intense feeling of dread. **BoJack:**
Is it terrifying?
**Herb:**
No, I don't think so. It's just the way it is, you know? Everything has to end. The drip finally stops.
*(sticks his arm into The Black Door)* **BoJack:**
See you on the other side.
**Herb:** *(with sadness in his voice, as the darkness creeps out the door and slowly consumes him)*
Oh, BoJack, no... there is no other side. This is it.
*(he's eaten entirely by the darkness)*
- BoJack places one final call to "Diane" before being swallowed up by the slime. It's a bit eerie to hear her voice so calm and pleasant, yet hollow, in the midst of BoJack's apparent final moments.
Nice While It Lasted
- It's very easy to miss the beeping of the heart monitor at the end of the previous episode (which signifies that BoJack is still alive) and go into this episode thinking that he actually died. The beginning of this episode, which features a grungy song and Jitter Cam around the chaos of BoJack's former living room, is disturbing to watch with this in mind - especially as you see his apparently dead body seconds later.
- While it isn't the kind of extreme, short term trauma of other events of the series, BoJack getting out of prison for a day and ending the night with Diane, someone who was his best friend and closest confidant for the better part of a decade, telling him they'll never talk to each other again. There's a definite sense of dread in the idea that a relationship like that can just dissolve into nothing.
- In the same scene, Diane describes her having gone into a spiral after hearing BoJack's last voicemail and thinking that he had died and that it might have been her fault for not picking up his call. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BoJackHorseman |
Borderlands / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Moment pages are Spoilers Off by default, so all spoilers have been removed and all entries folderized. Proceed with caution. You Have Been Warned.
- The elemental tech weapons all have unique death animations if they kill a humanoid victim with elemental damage. Explosion just blows them to bits, but the other three are much more disturbing...
- Fire weapons engulf their victim in flames, who screams and flails in an attempt to pat them out even as they burn him into ashes.
- Shock weapons make their victim stand up ramrod straight, twitching madly as the flesh melts off their
*skull*, leaving two eyes staring at you from it. Then an eyeball pops out. Then a part of the skull pops off, exposing the brain. Then they fall over and their head *explodes*. In the sequel, they're merely vaporized. Not that it makes it any better.
- Acid weapons make their victim scream and wail as they dissolve in a splashing gush of green fluid. With Psychos and Bruisers, their mask gets left behind.
- The Badass Psycho can be quite disturbing when you first encounter him. You're fighting a group of bandits, when all of a sudden, a pale-skinned mountain of a man with a right arm as long as his entire body charges you and starts swinging away with a buzz-axe. Even worse, their left arm is atrophied, as if someone sucked the muscle and bone out and injected it into the other arm. Also, they seem to be even more crazed than normal psychos, to the point of being unable to talk, instead simply growling and screaming.
- Midget Psychos' screams can be terrifying. However, the sheer demented agony filling the screams of Crimson Lance soldiers dying to fire weapons is scarier than any other sound in the game.
- If you have a thing against giant hissing cockroaches or bugs in general, then the Scythids when you first encounter them in a tiny, hard-to-maneuver space is going to be fun!!!
- The Rakks themselves may be annoying, but hardly a thing of nightmare, even though they have moments of jump scaring. Rakk hives, on the other hand, are monstruous, towering mammoth creatures with a deformed, vagina-like face. Worse yet, when you have to fight one later at Trash Coast, you realize that it's not the first one you've seen in your travels... Thank goodness they're dormant.
- Sledge's Safe House, passing the Arid Hills, is extremely disturbing the first time around. "THEY GOT ME" written in blood on the walls, presumably written by the victims in their own blood at the command of their captors, bodies chained up all over and strung up like chandeliers leaking pools of blood, huge blood splatter everywhere, bodies stuck to the walls and ceilings via steel rods jammed through their eyes, a room with an armless body along with several dismembered appendages and a body stuck up on the ceiling, a small "Colosseum" where victims were presumably forced to fight the cannibalistic Psychos for sport, and on and on. In many cases, fresh blood still drips down from strung up bodies.
- Another area near Patricia Tannis's place at Rust Commons West has a body held out over the edge of a cliff by two rods. He's tied by his neck to the top and by his feet to the bottom, plenty of rope between his body and the rods, and with a brace on his neck so he doesn't actually suffocate. When you go up there, you find three bodies impaled on steel pipes to a wall, with dart boards visible behind them, and barrels under them to collect the blood. One barrel is on fire. So you go to the strung up man, and as you do, a flock of Rakks attack you. So apparently the man was put there to be fed on alive.
- In Krom's Canyon, you will occasionally see natural bridges of earth connecting the two sides of the canyon. Several people can be seen hanging by their necks from them, hands bound behind their backs. One of them was on fire.
- The Destroyer's arrival & its, ahem, "introduction" to Steele. Steele opens the Vault only for both you and her to discover that it's not a cache of Eridian tech like the vault Atlas found was. It's a
*prison* for a civilization-destroying Eldritch Abomination/Out of control Eridian Bio-Weapon called *The Destroyer* that spears Steele on it's tongue and smashes her retinue to bloody paste with its Combat Tentacles before dragging her screaming into its maw. For such a derided Giant Space Flea from Nowhere that even gets mocked in future games with the phrase "Tentacles and Disappointment", the Final Boss of the main campaign makes an *impact.*
- The whole storyline of the DLC, because of its reveals about the utterly crapsack nature of the whole universe. Gross incompetence, corruption, nepotism... It's an awful stew of everything that could go wrong with the government and big business, to the point where the Vault Hunters, who are seen In-Universe as bloodthirsty anarchistic psychos who simply kill everything in sight for profit and pleasure, really do look heroic by comparison.
- There's an Atlas speaker announcement at T-Bone Junction which outright states that there are
*worse* places than Pandora that Atlas personnel can be assigned to, such as Prometheus.
- The Drifters. Effectively four-legged spiders with aspirations to be skyscrapers, towering over you and firing acid at you. To make matters worse, they have no movement noise, meaning they can easily sneak up on you. And one of the side missions require you to destroy a big one, appropriately called Skyscraper.
- General Knoxx's descent into nihilistic despair is played in-game for laughs both during his addressing towards you and the Echo record searching side missions, but when the reality of it sinks in, it's quite chilling. The sheer resignation of Knoxx to his situation, the fact you literally interrupt his efforts at committing suicide, the fact he insists you ought to just blow Pandora up and kill everyone on it when he dies...
-
*Crawmerax The Invincible*, the terrifying Bonus Boss. The player is treated to a brief look at it as they enter Crawmerax's Lair (the loading screen), and its mere appearance is enough to get you quacking on your pants. A nightmarishly deformed Crab Worm-tarantula-walrus- *whatever* that absolutely towers over the player(s), it's no wonder why Crawmerax is the stuff of legends in-game.
- And then there's trying to beat the guy. Get close to him and he'll lunge and try to
*bite* you. Go ahead, keep your distance — he'll start shooting out purple globs from his teeth that are composed of acid and will eat away at the fabric of your shields. You think you're able to avoid his glob-shooting? That's not even his worst attack. He'll burrow underground and then explode out at an unexpected point — unless you're able to avoid the blast radius or jump at the right time, when Crawmerax pops out again above ground, the sheer weight of him will send you *flying*.
- His maximum level is 72 — a full three levels above the set limit of 69...
- Easily the most difficult boss in the game — even with four players he's tough. While he's not really invincible, by God, he's damn close.
*Then* the glitched ledge was discovered, and it subsequently became a bit easier to beat.
- His even more infuriating Mooks. That's right, he's got a handful of unique Crabworms that are far worse than the baby ones, if not
*worse than Crawmerax himself*, because the Craw Maggots and Green Maggots love to charge at you and push you off the ledge when you're not looking, and all three kinds are resistant to all forms of damage except for their correlating elemental weakness (Craw Maggots are weak against Shock; Green Maggots are weak against Incendiary; Armored Maggots are weak against Corrosive). At least the Armored Maggots are slow and won't knock you off, but the other two maggots will put you in a flurry of crippling fear and seething rage.
- Fighting the Bandit-Traps becomes disturbing fast when one of their death cries is "Please... Just let me die". Suddenly it puts the Claptrap conversion into a VERY different light.
- The first boss you actually fight in the storyline? KnoxxTrap. Yep, not even in death Knoxx can find some semblance of peace.
- The remaining bosses being claptrapped versions of their past selves, such as SteeleTrap and NedTrap give a scarier idea to the extent the Claptraps are going to go in order to make the Robo-Revolution a reality. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Borderlands1 |
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
As with any Borderlands series, Elpis has its own fair share of nightmarish denizens, happenings, and locations.
- Sub-Level 13, otherwise known as the ghost level. Poor Schmidt has been trapped there for so long, infinitely respawned by a system that couldn't resolve an incredibly unfortunate accident. Her ghastly cries don't help...
Cold, then hot, then cold...
Help me...
End this cycle!
- Enemies being frozen and then shattered into icy chunks.
- The ultimate fate of Skipper, or as she is then known, Felicity. She had just changed her name to a word that means "happiness." What happens soon after is equal parts depressing as it is nightmarish, as Jack forcibly moves her into a new body, has her murder Scavs by the dozen, and tries to wipe her memory to retain only the baseline military AI. Her rage is understandable and sad.
- The worst part of this is that it's not even Jack's Moral Event Horizon. It's a horrible act, but his reasoning (needing the Constructor program online as fast as possible, with no time to store a backup of Felicity's program) makes a sad amount of sense, as not retaking the Helios station in time would be devastating.
- It can be justified beyond that: Felicity is, for all intents and purposes, a malfunctioning machine. She was extensively tampered with and reprogrammed by The Bosun, and while we have no idea what she was like before this, it's reasonable to assume that her reaction to violence and unwillingness to co-operate with Jack's plan are the result of this tampering. What Jack intends to do to her will repair the reprogramming and eliminate the same personality defects causing her lack of co-operation, and he has no way of knowing if she actually has the ability to feel emotion, or if The Bosun has simply programmed her to emulate it. The fact he seriously considers the alternative of copying her before deciding that it isn't an option is a testament to just how different this Jack was to the one we know from Borderlands 2.
- As the Felicity Rampant boss fight draws on, her voice becomes gradually deeper and more robotic, and she begins to say things that seem eerily similar to some of the combat quotes we're familiar with from the Constructors in Borderlands 2 - 'I see you, Vault Hunter.' as opposed to 'Target sighted.' for example. Even as you battle her, her entire mind is being systematically erased and rewritten.
- Part 3 of Nisha's backstory ECHOs. Her favorite dog had just been turned against her by her own mother, the animal tearing at her neck, her father whimpering in the corner, her mother
*laughing.* Knowing that her pet was the one thing she had trusted and loved for so long, and have it just have the monster that is her mother change it like that...
- Though unfolded in humorous "children's stories" that are not at all child-safe, Janey Springs' backstory is that she watched her girlfriend get eaten by a Kraggon, got attacked by Dead Lift, and had her only means of safely getting back to Concordia stolen from her. She's been stranded for months in total isolation, and even worries that she's not expressing her happiness at seeing somebody else - anybody else - properly during the poster quest, despite spending every moment of her dialogue smiling.
- It is actually implied it was a younger relative that was killed, seeing how there's a teddy-bear where you find the second echo, and that it was mentioned that while the adult kraggon attacked her and she survived, the baby kraggon killed the "other two-legs".
- Play as Clap-trap and Janey explicitly states it was her girlfriend that got murdered. Quote the woman herself:
I didn't ask for my girlfriend to be murdered, and get stranded on the moon with no food and a raging lady-boner!
- For merely mentioning that there is a possibility that Zarpedon might have a mole in the Hyperion scientist team, Jack flushes them all through an air lock. Safety be damned, that was
*harsh,* to say the least.
- Even more horrifying, Jack knows all these scientists personally. In fact, in the mission prior to this, you spend the entire mission collecting personal items for them - a picture of a scientist's mentally-challenged son, a therapy teddy bear, etc. And Jack spends the missions practically singing praises about how great these scientists are. Then he tosses them out the airlock on the mere possibility that one of them could be a mole - including the man who helped develop the huge robot army that Jack was going to use to retake the station - based on nothing but an offhand comment from said developer that there
*might* be another mole on Pandora.
- One (Gladstone) manages to get a handhold. You get to look into his eyes. Then he loses his grip and vanishes, leaving behind a crack in the window and a streak of blood.
- For reference, this act disturbs Athena enough to send her into a Heroic Blue Screen of Death.
- Why does Jack have a Vault symbol branded on his face? Lilith punched it there.
- The Boils, Hyperion workers who had been caught in a viral plague of Zarpedon's doing, and quarantined in there for weeks to turn cannibalistic and insane. The worst part is the source of the plague
*can't be destroyed,* and during the optional quest chain there, you *get infected.* Fortunately you can leave, but still.
- There is also the Boils themselves. They wear their welding masks on their heads, because if they don't, horrific boils start to grow on their person.
- The worst part? They're the precursors to the Rats that plague Pandora.
- To wit, the Boils are a result of Zarpedon tricking a Hyperion Worker, Lazlo. Lazlo was trying to make the deadly neuroparasite the "Brain Bug" into a family friendly pet, and was told by Zarpedon that she was going to release a disease into the sector. Lazlo set his Brain Bugs free, upon which the parasites reverted to their natural program and quickly burrowed into the minds of the unlucky Hyperion workers.
- "My worm is filled with miiiinds!" The scary thing is, both interpretations of that statement are true: One, that their heads are filled with worms, and two, said worms have gorged themselves on their victim's brains. Sweet dreams!
- Eridian Guardians are already creepy with their white-doll-mask heads on drooping necks, but it's taken a step further with their Mook Maker variant, the Ophas, who in its mini-boss introduction actively
*reaches into its stomach* and *tears* a Putti out *by the face*. Way to channel H. R. Giger there, 2K. The intentional resemblance to a pregnant woman does not help AT ALL.
- The fact that before Jack took over, Hyperion wasn't really that bad of a Mega-Corp to work for. While Tassiter is an ass, and Hyperion was responsible for the Robolution on Pandora, most of the workers seemed relatively happy and the scientists were enthusiastic about work that didn't involve horrible human experimentation. Then Jack slowly, steadily loses it, and by the end of the game, we have the fascist Mega-Corp that requires the likes of
*Borderlands 2's* Vault Hunters to defeat.
- To
*really* drive this point home, Gladstone's first meeting with Jack says that he trusts him and would not dream of shooting him in the back. Later on, when Felicity is expressing doubts about working for him, Gladstone pipes up and says she could not have picked a better company in Hyperion — "best three years of my life!" he says. Then Jack ends up venting him into space for a chance comment about Zarpedon and the Helios defenses still being in her control.
- Hyperion didnt even have a militarized force, unlike every other corporation that came to Pandora. They werent strip mining the planet like Dahl or an army like Atlas. They were literally only in town to study things and invent new tech using those things. Theyre easily overrun by a ragtag group of soldiers using their leftover equipment. Their space station was at the time of deployment unarmed. Hyperion was the least evil group in town until Jack came in.
- Just after having the secret of the Vault punched into his face Jack's rant about how he's going to scorch the planet in freakin' fire, and the ambient sounds that seem an awful lot like screaming, was particularly bone chilling. Especially when you know he
*succeeds* at it for several years.
- The final lines of the game, delivered as Jack finishes strangling Tassiter to death, and we get our first shot of him wearing his mask.
"Call me Jack, honey.
*Handsome* Jack."
- The buildup to said murder in the final stage of the game is also quite chilling. When told by Jack not to say another word under penalty of death, Tassiter begins to stutter an objection only to be met with this spine-tingler from Jack:
"That's three. See you soon."
- In other words, the culmination of Jack's rise to power and murder of Tassiter wasn't because Jack was ambitious or ruthless. It was because Tassiter picked the wrong moment to
*annoy* Jack. It really does fit with how Jack would casually murder people for the smallest transgressions such as disagreeing with the decision to build Opportunity or mentioning his wife.
- Alternatively, several scenes earlier in the game could indicate Jack was never planning to reconcile with Tassiter, even if the board decided to bring him back into the company. From the moment he was fired, Jack was planning to be brought back into the Hyperion power structure, as seen when he said "And when I take Helios back with an army of badass robots, I'll be unfired so fast it will make Tassiter's pedo mustache spin off his gross ugly face". But his interactions with Tassiter also make clear that these two will never be working together, since neither man would ever be able to reconcile with the other. Because Jack doesn't plan for Tassiter to be around after he is 'un-fired'.
- The holographic portrait of Maxim Turner, founder of the Hyperion Corporation, found in the Hyperion Hub of Heroism. Aside from his very deliberate Slasher Smile, the moving scanlines on the hologram distort his face enough to make it seem like his face is
*melting*.
- In Stanton's Liver, if you clear the cave of Torks and a Swagman, you can go through a small tunnel to find an Eridian monolith. You'll fight off the Armoured Outlaws, grab the loot, and head towards the monolith... and get a cutscene of disturbing alien writings and freaky noises, being teleported several times before making it back to the cavern.
- Shadowtrap. Full stop. This piece of malware within Claptrap's mind is introduced Hannibal Lecter style, is the representation of Claptrap's hatred caused by how horribly he was treated by nearly every single major and minor character ever seen in the series, and is the true manifestation of VaultHunter.EXE. The fact that this
*thing* was lying just under the surface in the mind of the most cheerful robot to be ever created, waiting for a chance to take over, is just terrifying. It's strongly implied that if Shadowtrap had succeeded in capturing the H-Source code, Handsome Jack would have been the least of the galaxy's problems, and given how hardy Claptrap is in Borderlands 2 and the Pre-Sequel, and how utterly frustrating the final parts of the boss fight (listed under That One Boss on the YMMV page) were, it's very likely Shadowtrap *cannot be put down.*
- Furthermore, think of what we actually see at the end. Shadowtrap resurrected Claptrap. Sure, Claptrap is still rather fun and hyperactive in Borderlands 2, and still a ditz, but he has a vengeful streak now. The moment he wakes you up, his immediate thought is using you to kill Jack. What does he call you? Minion, a term only associated with villains. During the Supertrap sidequest, when Supertrap is convinced that hes the villain, he immediately calls for minions. When he unlocks the door to Jack near the end of Borderlands 2, his first thought is that hes going to go kill Jack himself before remembering he no longer can climb stairs. Claptrap in Borderlands 2 is an amalgam of the original and Shadowtrap. Had he been restored to his Pre-Sequel capabilities, its very likely the entire Borderlands 2 cast of Vault Hunters wouldnt have been needed, because Claptrap would have gone on his own Roaring Rampage of Revenge, and would no longer be bound by his own faulty programming holding him back. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BorderlandsThePreSequel |
Bookshops of Arkham / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**All spoilers are unmarked!**
## Episode One
- Angus Jackson's blubbering incoherent speech when he arrives at the auction, slowly revealing that his wife was murdered by something on the way here and that it is related to the monster presently stalking him.
- Mickey Sykes describing how his gang was slaughtered except for one.
- The arrival of the monster in the auction who rips the head off of Angus Jackson in a particularly gruesome and horrifying way, severing the spinal chord as well as splattering Hazel with blood in the process before the lights go out.
- The fact the players came incredibly close to gunning down an innocent guard due to bad rolls.
- The catatonic state of "Patient X" who has been reduced to an utter shell of his former self.
- Doctor Gray turning a roleplaying game exercise into an occult ritual.
## Episode Two
- The Arkham Asylum swiftly turns from a modern (for the 1920s) psychiatric hospital to a Bedlam House and Medical Horror story as they're subdued by the insane doctors White and Gray as well as their orderlies. They're then wheeled down to the basement, which is filthy and full of blood and other fluids as well as hospital staff imprisoned in the cells.
- They are promptly wheeled into the surgical wing where the surgeons wear filthy gowns, have nothing in their eye sockets, and are featureless besides. They are tended by nurses who have horrific cancerous growths on their faces and give them rusty syringes.
- Doctor White suggests they receive electroshock therapy before receiving lobotomies.
- Hazel is subjected to electroshock therapy with the others forced to watch. It provides her a brief moment of supernatural insight.
- The horrific degenerated state of Norris. He has completely lost his minds, ate one of the Salem Bequest papers, and now has something growing out of him.
- The subtle Mind Screw of the book store that becomes an Eldritch Location where the architecture shifts around.
## Episode Two and a Half
- Mark Meer's terrifying description of the Baba Yaga-esque witch who is lacking eyes and has a centipede crawl into her mouth during her conversation with the PCs. The fact she keeps talking while it's happening and crunches it up just adds to the disgust.
- Hazel discovering that her memory of her One True Love is gone is one that the audience is horrified by.
- The skinless bears that are chasing the PCs during one segment.
- Neil's death. Heroic Sacrifice or not, he's proceeded to be murdered with a meat hook to the back of the neck and left to die over The Hecate Sisters' stewpot.
## Episode Three
- The horrific fate of Angus Jackson as he is turned into a fully aware decapitated head on a plate that is kept alive with mad science.
- Judith's reaction to being covered in maggots and reduced to her knees due to the foul stench of Gottard's demonic breath.
- The murder of Lottie Potts by the player characters to bring back Neil. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BookshopsOfArkham |
Bordertown / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Gert's heart attack in "Heart Attack".
- Ernesto fighting the leaf and getting sent to hell in "Santa Ana Winds".
- Bud's head exploding upon finding out about Becky and J.C's marriage in "The Engagement".
- Bud and Janice having sex in "Groundhog Day", coupled with both families reactions to the loud crashing sounds that occur offscreen. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Bordertown |
Boruto / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
It's not like Naruto was full on horror story, but it does have some truly scary moments. Despite the author wanting it to be more lighthearted, we might still get some moments that will prevent us to get some sleeps.
**Unmarked spoilers below!**
# Manga
*Chapter 10: My Story!!*
- After killing Momoshiki Boruto suddenly has a vision, where he sees the Otsutsuki again, and he tells him that his blue eyes will take away everything he has one day, while also leaving a mysterious mark on his right hand.
*Chapter 12: Friends..!!!*
- After a whole chapter spent to build Tentou and Boruto's friendship, it is revealed that his personal butler is actually dead and that the man impersonating him is the Leader of a Band of Thieves famous for stealing PEOPLE'S FACES. That means he wears the dead butler face INSTEAD of his own. Thank you, Boruto.
- The next chapter expands on how this is done: Brain Food.
*Chapter 17: Vessel*
-
*Kara*, a new evil organization shrouded with mystery with an unknown purpose.
*Chapter 35: Vessel*
- Jigen, the leader of the
*Kara* Organization, was the partner of Kaguya Otsutsuki. Like Momoshiki and Kinshiki were. It even seems that Kaguya was the inferior one of the duo. And this guy is leading Kara!!!
- Worse still, Sasuke discovers something that scares him: Jigen has a miniature version of the
*Ten Tails* under his control!!!
*Chapter 36: Raid*
- Jigen uses Kawaki's own Karma to invade the Uzumaki house and from the looks of it, he's more than a match for Naruto.
*Chapter 39: Proof*
- If what Jigen says is true, he plans on turning users of Karma into vessels for the Otsutsuki, which means he will turn Boruto into Momoshiki!
*Chapter 43: Manifestation*
- After Sarada manages to land a blow on Boro, destroying the core that keeps his Scientific Ninja Tool in check, he starts swelling up like a balloon. But even then, he still won't die! That is until Boruto uses his Karma boosted Rasengan to finally destroy him. But... something is off about the boy. He grows a horn and his personality seems different. Almost like... Momoshiki Otsutsuki.
*Chapter 46: True Identity*
- Amado reveals what Karma really is - a compressed back-up of the Otsutsuki's biological data implanted into a target (as well as, somehow, allowing their soul to move to the new body as well), allowing the Otsutsuki to resurrect themselves by overwriting the victim's genetic information with their own, and transcend death. In other words, Boruto will literally become Momoshiki via Grand Theft Me and Clone by Conversion. What's worse, one of the few ways to prevent this from happening is to kill the host before Karma has fully manifested.
*Chapter 48: Time Limit*
- Isshiki has returned and is poised to destroy the Hidden Leaf Village and everyone in it to get Kawaki.
*Chapter 51: Sacrifice*
- As Boruto is poised to commit suicide, Isshiki shrinks his kunai and tells Boruto why he's been given the Karma: to use him as a sacrifice to the Ten-Tails, creating another God Tree, which would then annihilate all life. At this point, Boruto's just learned that he's either going to have his consciousness overwritten by an unimaginable evil or get
*eaten alive* by a creature who will use his nutrients to bring about the end of the world, and his only chance of preventing this is his own death. So much for that promise of lightheartedness.
*Chapter 53: That's reality*
- Just when you think all is well after Isshiki is defeated, Momoshiki takes over Boruto again
*and stabs Sasuke's Rinnegan*, before declaring he will kill him, Naruto and Kawaki.
*Chapter 54: Bro*
- Boruto manages to regain control of his body thanks to Sasuke and Kawaki's efforts... but Naruto has lost consciousness.
*Chapter 55: Legacy*
- Don't worry, Naruto doesn't die...but Kurama does as a result of the Baryon Mode and he didn't tell Naruto this because he knew he would outright reject the idea. Kurama's death also means that Naruto has become significantly weaker now.
- It turns out that Isshiki had one last backup plan. He planted an inferior version of Karma into another member of Kara, Code, and he tells him to finish what he started.
*Chapter 64: Control*
- After using the power of the karma to an extent he never used before thanks to Amado's meds, Boruto suddenly collapses on the ground, holding his chest.
*Chapter 65: Karma Power*
- Momoshiki takes control of Boruto once more, and this time, he can absorb how much chakra he wants, unlike last time.
- Naruto is faced with one of his worst nightmares, having to fight his own son who is under an alien despot's control, and there's seemingly no way out of it.
*Chapter 67: Rift*
- After Momoshiki resurrects Boruto using the Karma, he explains that because of it, he is now 100% pure Otsutsuki. He notes that Code will realize this soon, and that being 100% makes Boruto a preferable target for sacrifice compared to Kawaki.
- As if that wasn't enough, Momoshiki also tells Boruto that no, his close call with death had nothing to do with the grim prophecy he foretold him the first time, and laughing, he promises him that while he doesn't know how it will come about exactly, the event is getting close, and that it will be a "true spectacle".
*Chapter 75: The domain of gods*
- Amado reveals that the abilities of Eida and Daemon come from a new Otsutsuki, Shibai Otsutsuki; a being that successfuly attained godhood after continiously eating chakra fruits and cheating death with the karma, to the point that he could seemingly just abandon his mortal body and Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence.
- Boruto suddenly gets to experience a flash to the future, and it doesn't paint a good scenario: the ninjas of Konoha are pursuing someone, and team 10 is seen confronting someone, with Shikadai chastising that someone, even Mitsuki, someone that rarely gets angry, is seen enraged and in sage mode. And lastly, we're treated to a shot of kawaki looking down someone, with blood on his right cheek, and the karma activated to the same level he used against Momoshiki.
*Chapter 77: Time Drawing Near*
- Kawaki has decided that the only way to protect Naruto is to destroy every last Ōtsutsuki... and that unfortunately now includes
**Boruto**, since he's become genetically one due to Momoshiki's Karma and he believes the latter could take over Boruto at any moment. Despite Naruto and Hinata opposing his decision, Kawaki sends them away with the Karma Rift to keep them from interfering.
*Chapter 78: Super Idiot*
- Kawaki proceeds to attack Boruto and manages to slash the latter in the right eye while Boruto was protecting Sarada from his attack, giving him the scar that would be seen in the flashforward. Momoshiki then tells Boruto that the prophecy he foretold is just about to begin...
*Chapter 79: Omnipotence*
- When Kawaki laments that he's a nobody who won't be missed should something happen to him while Boruto is the Seventh Hokage's son, Eida's power proceeds to grant his wish by altering the memories of everyone on Earth (with the exception of Sarada and possibly Sumire, both of whom are somehow immune to Eida's entrancing power), making people think that Kawaki is the biological son of Naruto and Boruto is the adopted child who betrayed his family and tried to kill Kawaki. Everyone who was hunting down Kawaki is now going after Boruto, with Mitsuki even going so far as to attack Boruto with the intent to kill. The situation goes From Bad to Worse when Kawaki tells Eida to lie to everyone that Boruto killed Naruto and Hinata.
# Anime
*Episode 28: A Declaration of War!*
- Shizuma's revelation in staging the war against Konoha by planning on killing the Hokage's son. When Kagura refuses to do so, Shizuma just make blatant lies by accusing the "real" Chojuro as a "ruthless" Mizukage who was "assassinating dissenters and erasing both their family names from memorials". To add insult to injury, Shizuma further claims that Kagura will belongs to him because of his scares thanks to Kagura's attack itself, further breaking Kagura's mind the progress. This means that Kagura's own doubts makes Shizuma's manipulations easy and he would continue to do that to torment the poor guy.
- When Boruto is defeated by Shizuma and his comrades who proclaim themselves as "New Seven Ninja Swordsmen", Kagura, who is helping Boruto up, is shocked to learn that he has been been inducted as the 7th Blood Mist Swordsman and he is given an order to
**kill Boruto** as a respect from the new group. Good news? Kagura *spares* Boruto. But the bad news is that Kagura will go along with the new group in their quest for chaos. You can see how helpless Boruto is when he fails to stop Kagura from joining the new group while suffering his own injuries.
- Comes to think about it, its terrifying to see that this so-called "war" is started by some teenage thugs who yearn to restore the former Blood Mist Village's "former glory" by declaring a war against Konoha by hurting the son of the 7th Hokage. Meaning that by any chance that the hard fought peace will be destroyed by one dissident who wants to wage war so they can commemorate their clans' name.
- However, it's also rather funny because it couples with Idiot Ball moments since these self-proclaimed "shinobi" are trying to restore the "Blood Mist" by ignite the war between Kirigakure and Konohagakure. Their reason to do so? They view the current peace as an insult to their heritage! Look, guys. we don't care how strong all seven "next-Gen" Seven Swordsmen your are but, do you even know that the Hokage you're fighting against was once a hero who
*saved the world by defeating the evil Moon Goddess with Sasuke*?!
- Tsurushi's terrifying reaction about Shizuma's war enough give you some chills despite he barely survives his former boss' execution thanks to Sarada's healing technique. According to his revelation, the reason why he joined Shizuma's group in the first place was because he thought it makes him look "cool", only for him to realize the war is a serious business, starting by killing his friend for his failure; moreover, he also reveals Kagura's cooperation with Shizuma was because of the past between them where the former injured the latter first, which means that Shizuma used that past to manipulate Kagura's feeling (especially his guilt). Needless to say, this garners Boruto disgust and prompt him-along with Sarada-to find a way to rescue Kagura before Shizuma's gang starting a war.
*Episode 29: The New Seven Ninja Swordsmen!*
- We get to see the New Seven Ninja Swordsmen trashing the vault, stealing the swords that belonged to the former Seven Ninja Swordsmen and then uses these weapons to cut down the security robots. Kagura is so shocked to see this to the point he begins to question Shizuma's so called "revolution", which Shizuma replied that they were supported by Land of Water's daimyō who disagreed with Chojuro's moderate administration, and their next plan is to dethrone Chojuro and place Kagura as the new Mizukage and rule the Land of Water again. Talk about the violent coup to revive the former infamous village.
- Speaking of the Blood Mist Swordsmen, as the episode goes on it reveals that Buntan, one of these wannabe swordsmen, is a daughter of one former Seven Ninja Swordsmen, making them as the Legacy Character Legacy Characters from the previous group. To see such young people like them to wage war again for something as trivial as their heritage is outright nerving...
- Back to Kagura himself, he remarks about how he is unable to escape from the path his grandfather walked is outright unnerving. How is that horrifying? Well, possibly for years he had struggling not to follow let his blood-lust got the better of him and yet he is shunned by his fellow villagers because of his accursed bloodline, and his meeting with Shizuma along-whom he thought have "understand" him-further opting him to feel despair. Plus, the fact that his remark that he and Boruto will become enemies is both this and tragic due to the fact that he knew well that his life has changed after meeting his new friend.
- This incident above opting Chojuro decide to hunt down the New Seven Ninja Swordsmen and have them to be executed should they harm anyone,
*including the "defected" Kagura*. Granted, this affair has becoming extremely serious considering a gang of rouge ninja were on the loose while attempt to ignite a war just to revive an old memory, and there will be consequences to both Land of Water and its diplomatic relationships with other region. The only reason why this decision is never implemented is thanks to an intervention from Boruto and Sarada, especially the latter when she says that the Hokage she wants to be will *never* sacrifice anyone for the sake of the village.
- Chojuro being trapped by three of the Seven Swordsman. Luckily for him, its the first three Swordsmen's arrogance to outwit them for their advantage.
*Episode 30: The Sharingan vs. The Lightning Blade, Kiba the Fang!*
- Kagura's "resolution" itself is this since he is attacking Boruto without any hesitation, for all the wrong reasons.
- The near end duel between Sarada and Buntan almost takes a horrific turn where the latter manages to break through the former's defense and
**decapitates the Uchiha kunoichi's head**! And if that's bad enough, we get to see Sarada's shocked expression on her decapitated head, with lifeless eyes, in a close-up shot. Though the viewers will be relieved that the "decapitated" Sarada is actually nothing more than an illusion and it is revealed that the real Sarada has already activated the Genjutsu during their struggle between the Lightning Blade and the Sharingan, it's still that shocking for what's supposed to be a light-hearted show. *Episode 39: The Path Lit by the Full Moon*
- The very idea that Orochimaru had mindwiped Mitsuki at least six times so he could take a very elaborate test to try to mold Mitsuki into being his own person. Judging by how heavily wounded Mitsuki was when he initially woke up the sixth time, one can only assume the worst what had happened in the previous attempts.
- Not to mention how scary it is to wake up with no memory of who you are.
*Episode 51: Boruto's Birthday!*
- Team Konohamaru is sent to investigate "monster sightings" in a mine. The Nightmare Fuel? They unknowingly stumble upon an Otsutsuki clan relic, and guess what the monster is? A merged White Zetsu!
*Episode 52: Sasuke's Shadow!*
- Team Konohamaru discovers what happens to the White Zetsu when the chakra reserve in the God Tree runs dry while they are in development: they die and decompose. One of the cocoons breaks off the God Tee's roots and a white sludge oozes out of it.
- When Naruto arrives to help clean up the mess after the merged White Zetsu is destroyed, he and other Konoha jonin pull out thousands of other merged White Zetsu bodies and their deformed faces are twisted with agony. This confirms Naruto and later Sasuke's suspicions that Kaguya Otsutsuki was preparing for a war with her own clan.
*Episode 53: Himawari's Birthday*
- Koji Kashin's short yet suddenly terrifying appearance in which he puts Katasuke in a genjutsu.
*Episode 62: The Otsutsuki Invasion*
- Watching Mitsuki get hooked straight through his chest by Urashiki's fishing hook type weapon. Not only that, but Urashiki then ripping Mitsuki's chakra with the hook.
*Episode 73: The Other Side of the Moon*
- Boruto finding the room full of Mitsuki clones and him finding out from Orochimaru that Mitsuki was a result of experiments.
- The whole idea that this
**whole time**, according to Orochimaru, that Mitsuki had been implanted with a curse mark that would kill Mitsuki by blowing him up if anyone dug too deep in trying to figure out how he was created. It's unclear if Mitsuki knew this himself, at least until he was told about it.
*Episode 83: Ohnoki's Justice*
- Those weird earth monsters and the artificial humans sent to bring Mitsuki to the Hidden Stone Village? Kurotsuchi's abduction? They were all Ohnoki's plan! Why did he do this? Because he felt that the Stone Village's youth were weak compared to the previous generation. Something like this was discussed in previous episodes regarding the Leaf Village's youth, but they showed promise and made progress in strength, skill and smarts. Just how bad are the Stone Village's youths that Ohnoki would commission an army of rock monsters?
- So the Curse Mark Orochimaru said he implanted in Mitsuki that will make him self destruct? Turns out, he wasn't lying.
*Episode 86: Kozuchi's Will*
- The revelation that the base for the artificial humans was a White Zetsu sample.
- Ohnoki's callous remark that the artificial humans have no will since they were made by man. He also states it is possible that Mitsuki is no different: a puppet with no will. That said, he soon realizes his error.
*Episode 100*
- It seems someone wants Jugo's curse mark and replicate its effects. They've already experimented on endangered geese and are now moving onto humans. One of the (willing) curse marked even takes the shape of a
*velociraptor*!
*Episode 101*
- That harmless bird watcher? Turns out he's in on the whole thing.
*Episode 102*
- The bird watcher's transformation thanks to the Curse Mark turns out to be pointless as Jugo
*breaks his hand* and drains him of the Curse Mark, leaving him stark naked.
*Episode 105: A Wound on the Heart*
- The reveal that while Mitsuki was developing extremely well as a human, that growth has caused him significant distress. Orochimaru revealed that this distress could lead to his
*brain cells dying* which would eventually cause him to go brain dead and *die* if they didn't erase his precious memories.
- Mitsuki having to live with the fact that he would suffer and might die someday due to his decision not to drink the medicine to preserve his life. And the sad fact that he may forget the memories he wanted to keep anyway.
*Episode 111*
- It seems that history repeats itself as Mirai fights Riyuku, a follower of Jashin just like Hidan. Hell, the guy is an admirer of Hidan! And he seemingly kills Mirai using a spell similar to the one Hidan used to kill Asuma...NOT!!! Mirai used genjutsu, what Riyuku thought was blood was actually hot spring water laced with iron.
*Episode 118*
- Boruto and Konohamaru are dealing with an enemy that can erase people's memories.
*Episode 128*
- Urashiki's new plan to capture the chakra of Kurama in Naruto's body: go back to the past when Naruto was a Genin and extract the fox's chakra.
*Episode 130*
- The worst case scenario has come: Urashiki has found Genin!Naruto!
*Episode 131*
- Boruto ends up scratched by Genin!Naruto while he's in Kyuubi mode. This single act makes Boruto afraid of his own father in the next episode.
*Episode 133*
- Urashiki's final transformation involves him
*ripping out his own eyes* **and eating them.**
*Episode 160*
- The reveal that someone is using Hashirama Senju's cells for their own purposes. But because of the cells' unpredictability, they end up very slowly killing people. If it weren't for Mitsuki's abnormal genetic code, he would have died when he got infected by a man who had the cells injected in him.
*Episode 161*
- The Land of Silence has become nothing more than a den of criminals ever since Gengo was defeated by Shikamaru. And the people who live there have no love for the five shinobi villages.
*Episode 166: Death Match*
- The title of this episode really does it justice. This is arguably the first fight in the series where mortality was truly on the line. The fact that Deepa does
*not* hold back at all in the fight and his sociopathic sadistic behavior just makes the whole fight almost morbid.
- In the fight, New Team 7 is just
*brutalized*. They can only just *barely* keep up with Deepa's vicious attacks, only just enough to still come out the other side injured, but still alive. Even *Mitsuki*, one of the most intelligent and powerful of the new generation is unable to keep up with Deepa.
- Deepa's creepy factor is only doubled when he
*plays along* with the team's final attempt at an attack. It all ends with Boruto and Sarada getting knocked out and Asaka self-sacrificing himself for nothing.
- Boruto's terror when he realizes that despite all his, Sarada, and Mitsuki's efforts, that they couldn't even land a
*scratch* on Deepa is notably horrifying. He had become so shocked and horrified by Deepa's power that he didn't even try avoid his attack.
- With his friends in danger, Mitsuki decides to cross his Godzilla Threshold and tap into his Sage Transformation. And it isn't even to
*fight* Deepa, it was to *flee*. The fact that Sage Transformation has always been marketed as an all-powerful trump card and that it's being used like this really says something about how powerful Deepa really is.
- While the attack Mitsuki while in Sage Form was not so much to try damage Deepa than it was to buy an oppoturnity so he could escape with the unconscious and injured Boruto and Sarada, the fact that Deepa came out of such a powerful attack unscathed is scary in itself.
*Episode 174: Revival of the Divine Tree*
- The giant tree that sucks chakra or life force out of you and turn you into White Zetsu is back. Nuff said.
*Episode 175: Beyond the Limit*
- Continuing on from previous episode, despite being an imitation of the divine tree that appeared from the war, it still sucks your chakra dry until you die, which is not shown on screen other than the scream of the victims. It does not distinguish between ally or enemy. You get too close, you'll become its nutrient, which happened to the ringleader, Victor, who was not aware of this and nearly meets his end by the tree he wanted to have its fruit from.
- Had Mitsuki and Orochimaru not arrived to the rescue, Boruto, Sarada, Konohamaru and Mugino would have been wiped out.
*Episode 201*
- As part of Kara's scheme, Boro has for years been forming a cult that believes that the Infinite Tsukuyomi is a good thing, taking advantage of people's hopelessness and yearning for a better future as well as convincing them that he is a savior who can cure diseases. But we all know Boro is hiding the truth from them. That eventually, any human caught in the genjutsu and assimilated to the God Tree will very slowly transform into White Zetsu, becoming slaves for the Otsutsuki. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Boruto |
Bomberman / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
God of Chaos, Sthertoth.
- The general appearance of Sthertoth, from
*Second Attack*, pictured on the side of this page. He's a sort of horned, huge demon with a skull face and veiny-body. Vile Villain, Saccharine Show indeed. Never mind the fact that, in the bad ending, Sthertoth *wins*, meaning only Bomberman and Pommy are left alive, of the main characters. There's also his theme, an ominous, imposing piece, telling you that you're close to doomed, and giving off an atmosphere of dread.
- Buggler's plan in
*Super Bomberman R*: he plans to convert the sun into a black hole and use it to destroy the solar system, and eventually the entire universe. Buggler overall is quite creepy, what with being the closest thing the series has to a Big Bad, the Evil Laugh, and repeated attempts to end the world, be it through a Colony Drop or brainwashing.
- The opening of
*64.* The first thing you see in what would usually be a typical, happy *Bomberman* game is a planet being raided and destroyed by the villain, on-screen no less.
- Altair's death in
*64.* He's disintergrated *on-screen* by Sirius, in what's a Family-Unfriendly Death, before Sirius proceeds to betray you.
- The fact that, in
*Second Attack,* you meet and fight GOD, who wants to recreate reality! Even once you defeat them, they say they'll come back one day!
- The power of the Omni Cube in
*64.* It has the power to trap entire GALAXIES in it, and the owner can rule over it as a god. And considering who has possession of it... It's not hard to think that Altair and Sirius rule over the galaxies in there with an iron fist.
- The reason Max is a cyborg is revealed in
*Bomberman Tournament*: he got in a fight with Brain Bomber, who injured him to such an extent that he required cybernetic implants to live. Yeesh.
- Also in
*Tournament*, before the events of the game, Brain Bomber had taken over a planet and imprisoned its inhabitants, for *over a year*, with no freedom. He had made a plan that would only fail if Bomberman came along by chance, and he was correct! Talk about The Bad Guy Wins.
-
*Bomberman Generation* definitely has its fair share of freaky things.
- The second boss of
*Super Bomberman* is a clown face. Not scary enough? It makes a crying face when it chases Bomberman with faster movement, but it can also come out as creepy (especially for those who have Coulrophobia (phobia of clowns). Oh, and he releases sparkles in all directions, which can be interpreted as tears as mentioned in one of WhoIsThisGit's videos. It's face on defeat can be spooky too, especially given that he explodes on defeat (like other bosses).
- The ending of
*Super Bomberman 3* is a case of Mood Whiplash right into Nightmare Fuel. After going through an upbeat, cheery Credits Medley of all of 1-Player Mode's catchy themes, it ends by showing that Bagura's brain has survived his final battle against Bomberman, and is now traveling through space. After the brain leaves the screen, what replaces it? A *gigantic* red "END" that nearly covers the entire screen, with a silhouette of Bagura in the letters, and being accompanied by some eerie alien-like beeping and gurgling before it all suddenly ends with a electronic crunch noise, as if the brain itself was trying to speak about its revenge in a short transmission. What a spooky way to end the game *and* leave a Sequel Hook into *Super Bomberman 4*.
- The death animations of the Bomberman in general (and also some of the Game Over screens) They range from the following:
- The original
*Bomber Man* from the MSX (known as *Eric and the Floaters* in the Europe release) has the player character's *head falling off from his body, with his body falling backwards and the head's color becoming Undeathly Pallor*, being essentially a very Family-Unfriendly Death. Thankfully, this was the only game where such death animation happens, the latter games made more comical death animations, but still, some of the later games weren't much better...
-
*Super Bomberman*: If Bomberman gets killed by Collision Damage from an enemy or blown up by his own bombs, the Bomberman will get knocked up with surprised eyes and the... wait, so the eyes just disappeared from Bomberman's face, revealing that his face is a computer screen after all, that turns out dim and fizzles out into black? Yes, that was actually a thing. Worse, it's also referenced in the Continue/Game Over screen in *Super Bomberman 2* where if the player chooses to not continue, Bomberman's face will completely disappear into a black screen (though the death animation in-game itself is different than from the prequel).
- Frequently in most of the early
*Bomberman* games, such as the *NES* version of *Bomberman*, the titular character when killed will have their belly inflated with the cross-shaped Wingding Eyes, and "POP!" Goes the Bomberman, exploding from the belly outwards. It doesn't help that in some versions of these, the belly inflation on the Bomberman before popping out can disturb some people. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Bomberman |
Borrasca / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- The story starts with a kid named Sam moves to a small mountain town named Drisking and makes friends with two other children named Kimber and Kyle. Drisking used to be a mining town, until the iron ore in the mines drained out and were rendered useless, and the Prescott family has taken over a large part of the town. A creepy factor of Drisking is the metallic grinding noise that comes from the mountains, which the children say is "Borrasca", a place where "Skinned Men" live. Over the course of the story, Sam's sister, Whitney, vanishes and never returns. It all gets worse from there...
- There's a seven year Time Skip and the eeriness of Drisking is becoming all the more apparent. Kimber's mother kills herself unexpectedly, and Kimber disappears shortly thereafter. Adults Are Useless comes into full play, and it's up to Sam and Kyle to figure out what's going on. The Reveal is a punch to the gut that's equally horrifying and disgusting. The iron ore that leaked from the mines contaminated the water supply of Drisking and rendered many people infertile to have children. The Prescott men made a business of impregnating women and then selling the babies they birthed. They've been doing this for decades, and Whitney and Kimber were two of the girls that were kidnapped and impregnated. The grinding sound that came from the mountains? It's a machine that skins and grinds up the mothers once they're rendered useless. And the
*real* stinger? *It doesn't stop by the end of the story.*
- The babies made in the "community services" are named after their fathers, "P" names for "Prescott" and "K" names for "Killian", the town sheriff. Many of the children have names that begin with these letters, like Parker and Paul. There's also
**K**yle and **K**imber, which explains why her mother was so against their relationship.
- Jimmy Prescott mentions that Whitney was only giving them "shit babies" and they'd get rid of her after this next one. Why? It's revealed her
*own father impregnated her several times*, so the children were inbred. In the epilogue, Sam mentions that one of the families in town had a child named **W**illiam. There's also the implication the naming convention may even have been a sort of branding, so Clery and Prescott know which girls they shouldn't impregnate, so as to avoid inbreeding and "shit kids".
- One of the worst parts about this story? It starts off pretty innocently, with children exchanging ghost stories and growing up. Then they're normal teenagers after the Time Skip, while still thinking over the small town conspiracy. But when the shit hits the fan, it hits it
*hard*.
- The ending of the first half of the story, an absolutely brutal Downer Ending where The Bad Guy Wins flawlessly. The closest thing to a silver lining the story had is that none of the main trio die, but Kyle is hospitalized, Kimber is on the run, and the three will likely never see each other again. Sam also has to go on knowing that his own father was dragged into the conspiracy that kidnapped and almost certainly killed his own daughter to the point of willingly participating in it, and also knowing they didn't even manage to inconvenience Prescott's operation and there's nothing he could have possibly done to stop it or save any of the girls aside from Kimber.
- The sequel
*Borrasca V* makes things a little better but not before they get worse. Sam and Kimber meet up again and, after some pretty extreme trials, manage to dismantle the Borrasca operation entirely — we even discover, at the very end, that Kyle isn't as much of a vegetable as previously thought. That being said, Sam's dad more or less becomes the Patron Saint of Borrasca Nightmare Fuel, revealing himself to be even worse than any of the Prescotts, usurping their role and turning the Borrasca operation from a method of restoring the town into an even worse human trafficking operation.
- Sam's dad reveals he really was reassigned from St. Louis because he was just as crooked a cop there, and he was involved in human trafficking and all he did after taking control of Borrasca was link it to his old contacts. It's also shown that Sam's dad had feelings for Whitney that no father ever should, because when Sam goes back to his old house, there are
*dozens* of pictures of Whitney hung all over the house, to the point that it borders on a Stalker Shrine. It also reveals he had Sam's mom killed and married and had a daughter with Sam's old crush; the fact that he named the new daughter Whitney and what his motives were implied to be with the first Whitney were, it's best not to think what he might have been doing or planned to do with the new Whitney.
- The Broken Bird status of Sam and Kimber in
*V*. Years after learning the truth of *Borrasca*, it's revealed Sam took up a drug habit in order to cope with what he witnessed and when he and Kimber reunite, it's discovered that Sam's dad was her rapist. As they go to seek justice for what happened in the past, they are pretty much on the run with Sam being public enemy number one due to his father framing him for Kyle's assault. Throughout all this Sam is going through a drug withdrawl and it's not pretty for him to go through, especially when he blows his lid at discovering his half brother/nephew while in town. It turns out his dad has been secretly supplying his drugs to keep him docile and intends to mold him into his heir.
- Just about everything about Sam's father in
*V* with how nonchalant and remorseless about his crimes list above and how he pretty much drove the town to near poverty with his greed, likening himself to the undisputed king of Drisking. During Sam and Kimber's final confrontation after trying to interfere with his operations, he states that he has killed children for less, and Sam thinks that at that point there's nothing he could put past his father. It's also implied most of the people who work for him do so out of fear. There's also why he does what he does, besides wanting a harem and power; it's that he likes "playing games with his children". That's the whole reason he married one of Sam's crushes. He also more than willing to kill and replace Sam should he refuse to be his heir.
- An unhealthy dose of Fridge Horror. The sheer fact that almost all the adults in town were in on the conspiracy and were either killed or bribed into silence. This gets worse on two accounts.
- Sam's mother is implied to be innocent in all of this, but also not ignorant of her husband's actions. What if she really knew what happened to Whitney but was kept quiet by her husband. No wonder she was borderline catatonic.
- Kyle's parents also may have known about the truth considering that Kimber's parents knew too. In other words, they were willing to go along with having their battered son kept barely alive and heavily drugged for years in addition to the plan to frame Sam, just to either stay alive or worse, to keep the operations going. The fact they seemingly abandon Kyle after the operations topple unfortunately implies the latter.
- Sam's uncanny resemblance to his rapist father not only makes it hard for his friend Kimber to let him touch her even casually as an adult, it might be what caused his sister not to attempt to escape with him when he freed her. She had never seen her brother older than 9 and thought instead her rapist was returning for more, emphasised by her assuming her bound position and then looking away. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Borrasca |
Botanicula / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
You might not believe it, But this game is one of Amanita's scariest games (especially near the end), and this is definitely not joking.
Beware of unmarked spoilers! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Botanicula |
Blood Raining Night / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- That Minna gets amnesia by simply
*watching an animated series for children* is pretty scary.
- The "divine punishment" Reicheru must undergo in order to find her daughter: first she must get stabbed in the eyes, then get her arms torn off. What's worse is that her friends just calmly carry these horrific, explicitly described tortures out on her. Eesh.
- The fanime shows the audience the incident that caused Lucy to lose her horns. The shoddy art combined with the bizarre and uncomfortable sexual subtext and the creepy music
note : a Vocaloid song used without crediting the original author makes the whole thing unsettling. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BloodRainingNight |
Bottom / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
This series is basically a live action Tom and Jerry, but some of the violence and humour really shows how dark Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson could get.
- Richie coming face to face with "Death" (it's actually Eddie in a costume) in "Apocalypse". While it's still Played for Laughs, the music that plays during this scene, along with the frightening sound effects and the fact that "Death" appears as a giant with his robe covering his face makes this quite chilling. This all happens on the night that Richie was told by a fortune teller he would die on.
**Richie:** Oh my God... the moon's up! She was right. She was right! **Oh my God!**
- Even before this, there was the sounds of the front door creaking open and the loud footsteps coming towards Richie's room.
- The sound of the burglars breaking into Richie and Eddie's flat in "Burglary". Talk about Paranoia Fuel.
- The part towards the end of "'s Out" where a shadowy figure is seen lurking outside Richie and Eddie's tent. Quickly changes when it turns out to be the flasher from earlier shoving his genitalia into the tent... though it dives right back into it for the male audience when Eddie pulls the tent zip right through the flasher's testicles, causing him to scream in agony and run off... with the tent
*still attached*.
- "Hole" in general. Imagine being stuck on a 350ft Ferris wheel that's going to be blown up in just a few hours. And that's also rusted, shorting out and falling apart while you're on it.
**Eddie:**
Hey, look! Rich! There's an article about the Ferris wheel in this week's Bugle! Not only is it the tallest, it's also the
*oldest*
Ferris wheel in Western Europe. Look! It's all here in this article, entitled: "Illegal Death Trap Wheel To Close Tonight". "Whole Area Declared Danger Zone, And Boarded Up To Await Detonation". (
*chuckles nervously*
) It's all wired up and ready to go!
**Richie:** What?! **Eddie:** And it's too expensive to dismantle, so they're just going to blow it up! **Richie:** When?!
- Later on, when the gondola they're in collapses on one side after an accident with a self-made Molotov Cocktail distress flare, they're left hanging by their fingers off the sole remaining half, with Eddie going full-on Laughing Mad in the process. Then
*that* falls off as well only a minute or so later.
- The scene in "Holy" in which Richie decides to cut up some Brussels sprouts with a meat cleaver... and instead chops off one of his own fingers. If you've got hemophobia, then seeing the veritable fountain of blood spraying out of the wound will definitely give you nightmares.
- Later, Eddie finds his finger, only to stuff it up his nose
- How does Eddie try to reattach Richie's finger? With a
*stapler,* naturally. Made worse by the fact that he staples the wrong finger first, and when he does staple the right one, he does a poor job and the finger is on Richie's hand pointing the wrong way for the rest of the episode.
- A similar scene takes place in "Terror" where "the devil" visits the boys' flat. Richie tells Eddie to get the devil a glass of blood and to use his own because it's "ninety percent proof". Eddie obliges, and when it's revealed that the devil is just Dave Hedgehog's daughter Doreen, Eddie is left standing there with his wrist slashed. Just before the episode ends, we see Eddie getting absolutely covered in his own blood that's spraying out from his wound right before he collapses from blood loss.
- The scene in "Break" where Richie, angry at Eddie for causing him to go flying through the kitchen window, gets his revenge by
*chainsawing Eddie's legs off!* He even does it again later on because Eddie had sewn his legs on the wrong way round.
- In what's probably one of the biggest Harsher in Hindsight moments in television history, Richie having what initially appears to be a heart attack — actually his bladder and kidney completely backfiring as a result of a botched back-alley operation to remove one of the latter so he could pay for everything — in "Digger".
- A scene earlier in the episode provides some Fridge Horror. A woman comes to the door collecting for victims of domestic violence. Eddie plucks the collection tin from her hand and smacks her in the head with a mallet, causing her to fall down the stairs. When Natasha comes later she mentions being late because there was a "dead body on the stairs". Eddie
*outright murdered* someone! Not just that, but he and Richie don't care at all.
- The massive amount of collection tins under the sink imply this isn't Eddie's first kill...
- In "Accident" there is of course the scene where Richie falls and breaks his leg. The way he screams in terror when he sees it pointing the wrong way really sells it.
- Richie and Eddie in general are living examples of this when you think about it. Two violent madmen who regularly get into physical fights with one another and don't hold anything back.
- Making matters worse is that they sometimes don't hold back when fighting other people either, seeing as they nearly beat the gasman to death in "Gas", something Eddie admits doing
*for fun*.
- They also have very little qualms about force-feeding a burglar
*bird poison*.
- The ending of "Carnival" in which Eddie and Richie are bloodily gunned down by the SAS after a failed blackmail attempt after the duo find the Sex Tape of the Prime Minster can catch a few people off guard for the first time, especially as it's the show's final episode and the final on-screen appearance of Richie and Eddie on television (minus
*Guest House Paradiso* and the live shows of course) which leaves their fates truly unknown as neither the movie or live shows share the same continuity. This isn't the first time that Rik and Ade had a sudden downer ending to their show, as *The Young Ones* finished with the gang going off a cliff in a stolen bus which blew up and killed them at the end of Series 2. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Bottom |
Bokurano / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
It
*is* a Kitoh manga, after all...
- The entire premise. For entirely arbitrary reasons, a monster is making you and several others take turns to fight and destroy giant robots with your own giant robot. The giant robots act exactly like such devices would behave in real life, causing horrendous collateral damage, causing thousands to die for no reason each time a battle occurs. Once each fight is done, ||the pilot of the giant robot dies.|| No exceptions. ||So when your turn comes up, you will die.|| You can't just not fight, nor can you lose a battle, because
*|| your entire universe||* would be destroyed otherwise. Then it turns out that ||you're fighting *other humans from parallel realities*, who have been forced to do the same thing as you, so even if you win, their universe is completely annihilated|| for no reason besides the amusement of the Eldritch Abomination. Oh, and your dashing heroes are between the ages of 8 and 14 and are all, more or less, terrified beyond belief.
- The 2nd credits sequence which depicts the kids in outer space, smiling, holding hands mostly in their pilot/death order. The music makes it even worse.
- Watching every single star in a doomed universe disappear.
- All those empty chairs...
- What ||Hatagami|| does to Chizu in the manga, that being ||setting her up to be gang raped by his friends.||
- Yeah, and how he was videotaping them having sex the last few months, and showing it to them. That was fun too.
- And when it's her turn to pilot Zearth, ||she puts off the fight to go snipe her rapists with lasers. Including one who she can see is carrying a little girl who's probably his daughter. And since it's doubtful that Zearth's giant lasers have the kind of precision to kill only him, that means she deliberately murdered a small child in cold blood.||
- In the manga, during Anko's turn to fight ||one of the enemy's needles manages to pierce the cockpit, and it starts leaking a corrosive liquid above Machi's chair. Anko manages to push her out of the way, but she gets her legs burned off with the substance.|| While we don't get to see the clear effects of it, it remains horrifying enough when you consider that ||the liquid was strong enough to start melting Zearth's armor!||
- The thought of Chizu's
*unborn* child being in the contract is just too horrible. When you're in the contract, there's a constant chance that your turn will come, *even if you're in no physical condition to fight*, in which case your Universe's best bet is to have another pilot kill you and take over your turn. Think about it. *There was a constant chance that Chizu's unborn child would be chosen to pilot Zearth!*
- Even at the end of the story ||the battles are still being fought by others in altenate realities and billions are still dying with no sign of it stopping.||
- The final battle. ||The pilot of the enemy robot tricks Ushiro into opening his cockpit without killing him, allowing him to teleport away. Now potentially anywhere in the away team's world, and with only 48 hours to find and kill him, Ushiro ends up having to win the fight by
*personally killing every single person in this alternate world until he finds him*. And what's even worse is that he figures out pretty quickly that *this is exactly what the enemy pilot wanted.*|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Bokurano |
Brad Tries... / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
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*Brad Tries* can be pretty nasty, but usually in a Crosses the Line Twice kind of way. Then we see these two little words, describing what he'll be eating at the state fair: Turkey Testicles. And yes, they're real.
- The Billy Beer episode ran the risk of being genuinely dangerous due to its sheer age and possible contamination from the can, leading to this particular episode having a much more serious than usual approach when it came to handling the tasting- with the agreement that the beer should not be swallowed. Hell, during the lead up, Brad reveals that Jillian had gone so far as to hide the can in an effort to stop him from trying it. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BradTries |
BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*Uh... guys? You alright down there?*
BoxxyQuest is mostly a lighthearted story about venturing through the Internet, with plenty of satirical humor. But even this game has some genuine horrors.
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Chapter 5 is mainly set in /x/, the birthplace of CreepyPasta
, so its no surprise that nightmares abound.
- The house nearest to the village entrance is empty, with nothing strange going on inside except for a handful of black stains near a clock on the back wall. But if you inspect the clock, you'll find that you can go through it
and end up in a secret room with more of the black stuff coating the walls, and what seems to be a shriveled, mummified corpse in the corner. There's also this warped, ambient clock noise that can be quite chilling the first time you hear it.
- The local inn is staffed by a group of people... all of whom have bloody wounds on their body. They do not seem to notice this at all, and simply tell you not to investigate any sounds that appear at night, but there is clearly something off about them- one of them is even sobbing. At night, a distorted woman's voice is heard- if you investigate, you are attacked by a wraith. Lose to the wraith outside the inn, and it runs at Catie with a scythe and mutilates her while she screams, and we cut to black
and then Catie wakes up in bed, mutilated with a missing eye and arm, surrounded by the other undead guests, who promise to take care of her. The narration then tells us she remains trapped there for eternity, and that this is what happened to the others. Cue Non Standard Game Over. If you beat the wraith and return to the hotel, the guests disappear completely, having been Dead All Along.
- The basement with the doll is one big, terrifying Mind Screw. There's a house in the village owned by a woman who acts just a little too nice for such a grim place. In her basement, there's an old doll hidden behind some boxes. If you pick it up, the screen fades while you hear the echo of a conversation between a mother and child. It ends with
*something* entering the basement and ripping the child apart, complete with nauseating screams and squelching sounds. When the screen fades back in, the room is covered in blood and a new doorway has appeared in the upper wall. Go inside
and you end up back upstairs, having just walked in through the front door. Things get much weirder from there, with multiple looping basements, one of which holds faceless copies of your friends; a spiraling tunnel filled with echoing ghostly wails; a rope bridge that extends as you cross it; a flickering necropolis in the background; and the house owner melting out of the wall in a really grotesque way, while saying that neither of you will make it out alive.
- Taking a nap at the cabin in the woods and waking up to find the owner, who looks like Uboa, standing beside the bed. It turns out the entity is friendly, thankfully.
- The "Eternally Lost" area inside The Woods:
- The "Eternally Lost" are a type of enemy found only on one screen in the deepest part of the forest. There are a few different kinds, but they're all severely mutilated and rotten women. Their wiki text calls them tormented souls who were "lured into the forest by a strange voice".
*Something* is preying on women who get lost in these woods, and the end result is terrifying. The worst part? You're *playing* as a woman who gets lost in those woods.
- Wendigrief is heavily implied to be the "strange voice" luring girls to their doom. It speaks to you on a long-forgotten path, while the background music slowly fades out, leaving you with just the ambient sounds of the forest. It says it wants to keep the wilderness wild and mysterious, and tries to coax you into killing yourself so that your despair can feed the trees. At the end of the path, you find a lonely grave marker, where Wendigrief appears in the form of Catie herself. The fake Catie taunts you, decomposing further with each line of text before finally attacking. And when you beat it? It just laughs and fades back into the trees. Whatever this thing is, it's still out there, and you did
*nothing* to stop it. **Wendigrief:** *Every day, the trees fill up with memories... The lingering stench of life. I can't stop the humans from killing this place, but I can slow them down. All it takes is a few wayward souls... Their loneliness... Their desire to disappear. People like you exist to be forgotten, to feed the darkness beneath these trees.* **Will you stay with me in the shadows?**
- The freaky ambient noises inside the windmill, and the boss you fight in the basement. Something Awful is a hollow pile of slime around a dark void filled with yellow lights that might be eyes, and covered in twisted, bony, reaching arms. And it can inflict your party members with viruses that can't be cured with the game's normal antidote item. Worst of all, no one even seems to know what it is or why it's down there.
- The Bonus Dungeon, the schoolhouse, available after completing Chapter 5, is disturbing as well:
- Thought after Chapter 5 and the schoolhouse, you would be done with /x/? Well, the Epilogue has you pay one last visit and has one last nasty surprise to throw at you. The Sky Tear, needed to access the Sky Abyss, is kept in a colorful, dreamlike grove in The Woods inhabited by cute, friendly fairies. But when you take the Tear, the enchantment fades - the grove turns back into murky forest, the music turns dark and depressing, and the fairies become Faded Fairies, mindless enemies with empty eyes, covered in dust or mold. Before she fades, one of them tries to assure you that it's worth it, but you can tell she's really trying to convince herself.
This Bonus Dungeon
is a vast patchwork of Nightmare Fuel, and has something special for just about everyone.
- You know you're getting in over your head when the entryway is a Paris catacombs-style hallway made of skulls. Things just get worse from there.
- The "blank" enemy encounter. At one point, after pulling a switch in an empty room, there's a Fight Woosh and the battle screen appears
but the battle music isn't playing and there's no one there. Eventually, this twisted little ghost fades into view while a garbled female voice starts endlessly repeating the phrase
*"I love you."* The thing feebly tries to attack you a few times, and then the battle ends. No, it doesn't flee, or die, or anything like that, the fight just
stops. In the middle of a turn. Youre suddenly back in the cave, and this event is never mentioned again.
- One part of the labyrinth is an old mineshaft crawling with poisonous, zombie-like husks. To make it worse, try using your Enemy Scan on one of them: they used to be the miners, until they died in some kind of mysterious gas leak.
- Upon arriving in the lower halls, the very first thing you hear is an unholy shriek/moan coming from the other side of a chasm. That's where you need to go, but in order to make a bridge, you need to get the keys from five branching side paths, all of which are horrifying in different ways.
- One path is a lengthy, winding system of tunnels and waterways filled with nothing but giant spiders. Goddesses help the arachnophobes trying to complete this dungeon.
- Further along the same path, there's a hallway styled like a burial crypt, where you'll find a Unique Enemy called the Vigil Keeper. His bio says that he keeps watch over the forsaken tomb, and hasn't aged a day since first touching the Lantern Stave. The same stave that he randomly drops, and which you might have just picked up.
- The path ends at the entrance to an abandoned, eerily monochrome inn. The real fright comes when you enter an upstairs closet, and find it full of broken sex dolls, who seem to be dimly alive. They're all just drooling, staring vacantly, or pressing their faces into the wall, but when you grab the key and turn to leave, they all surround you and attack.
- Their bio text has some very squicky implications.
*"It's unknown which of these dolls was the original, or which of the others her late owner became..."*
- If you lose the fight, they forcibly transform Catie into one of them.
- The Sukima Glitch, an enemy in the lower halls, is said to live in the gaps between polygons and feed on speedrunners who try to slip through them. It has a rather creepy Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl design as well.
- Another path leads to a lunar wasteland and the ruins of a small village. This is the home of the Trapped, miserable shambling corpses who say things like,
*"It hurts to move
but I cant stop
or else
it will see where I am..."* And when you pick up the key inside one of the houses, they all stop dead in their tracks, as still as statues, and no longer speak. You cant help but feel like you just did something very, *very* wrong.
- As you leave town, a message pops up telling you that
*"It suddenly feels like you're being hunted..."* A few steps later, you're suddenly attacked by the area's miniboss, Trahald Prime, which can only be described as a gigantic mantis made of skeletons, with a battle theme that sounds like the auditory embodiment of blind panic. It's no pushover, either: it uses a move that can and *will* one-shot your whole party if you're not careful.
- The Passage of the Hateful Reliquary. Its a long, long,
*long*, perfectly straight hallway ending in a room full of broken statues. The statues plead with you to turn back and flee before "it" awakens and sees you. Behind them is a massive treasure chest sitting on an altar. As expected, it turns out to be a Chest Monster, but not just the usual kind. When it wakes up, the Hateful Reliquary grows hideous spider legs and *chases you*, relentlessly pursuing you all the way back down that very long hallway. And if it catches you, a Hopeless Boss Fight ensues. The only way to kill it is to lead it onto the collapsing Rope Bridge at the tunnels entrance and let gravity do the work.
- Special mention goes to the "music" in this area. The tunnel has a low, unbroken Drone of Dread mixed with some kind of machine-like whirring. In the Reliquary's room, the music starts with ominous chanting before fading into a cacophony of frantic whispering, ethereal wails, and the distorted laughter of a baby. The thing's actual battle theme if it catches you? Pure, formless, oppressive
*noise*.
- The kids' village is very unlike the rest of the Deep Web:
- It's bright, sunny, perfectly safe, and your only challenge is a game of hide-and-seek. It's not scary at all! That is, until you start hearing what the kids themselves have to say. It seems they're trapped in the village, or at least scared to leave. They want to know if "she's" listening. Theres a building that no one enters, except when the "grown-ups" come. The innkeeper watches while you sleep, and some of the kids show signs of PTSD. Oh, and there's a hanged boy in one of the trees by the river. Its just a background detail, not used for shock value or anything, but the fact it's there at all is
*unbelievably* dark. Something is up in this town, and its very, *very* not okay.
- You finally go in the forbidden house, and it just confirms your worst fears. Theres nothing in there but shackles, beds
and
. Thank **cameras** *God* the ending confirms that the kids make it to safety when you beat the rest of the dungeon.
- As you leave the village, key in hand, you meet something unexpected in the woods. It's Pale Luna, a spirit with the surreally frightening appearance of a giant floating head unraveling into eyes. She's almost certainly the "her" the children were referring to, and shell put up one hell of a fight to keep you from leaving. But the true gut punch happens if you go back to town after beating her, say to heal or something. The kids hate you now, and refuse to look you in the eye. Because Luna was
*one of them*. She escaped in search of a power that would let her save everyone else, and you killed her. Because of you, the kids are now trapped in that awful place forever. note : She's not really dead, and the kids do escape, but the guilt you feel in that moment is real.
- The hallways just before the Deep Web's final boss are unnervingly dark and scary, even though there are no enemies to fight. Also, the fact that you get down there by falling through the floor in the level above.
- After Chapter 2, a white toadstool sprouts near the DeviantART train station. Touching it takes you to a code room, like the one in 4chan. A nice little Easter Egg, right? Well, there's a door in there, and it leads somewhere else - an eerie subway platform, haunted by forlorn shades waiting for a train that never comes.
**Shade:** *Is the train... ever coming...?* **Shade:** *We've... been waiting here... since... since...*
- If you revisit later with a certain item, you can find a Rare NES Game here, but the area itself is never even slightly explained.
- The Tower of Plot is a rather sinister area:
- Lady Ny'agai, a Bonus Boss found inside the Tower, simply because of how out of place she is compared to everything else in the game. Most of the enemies fit with the virtual reality setting, but Lady Ny'agai seems like a figure pulled straight from a Grimms' fairy tale.
- She first appears in an in-game short story called
*"The Grey Promise."* It tells of a boy who runs to find help after bandits attack his home. He gets lost in the woods, and finds a seemingly endless cobblestone path shrouded in mist. A veiled lady approaches him, twitching like a corpse and smelling of the grave. She kneels down and promises to protect the child
and then the little *girl* is no longer afraid. note : This was likely her transforming the boy into a Ny'agai, who are all female, which she can do in the battle against you.She takes her "mother's" hand, and together they vanish into the fog.
- You can find this path in the Tower of Plot's secret area. It's populated by Ny'agai little girls in gothic dresses with twisted, eldritch faces. The grey lady herself waits at the end, and if you fight her, she'll use attacks that turn your party members into more Ny'agai. Afterwards, if you win, she just walks away into the mist without saying a word
- In the Tower of Plot, you first have to help out a village full of people getting ready for a harvest. Seems innocent... until they decide to blame all their problems on a witch and force you to pick who to condem to a burning. Then they all turn into skeletons and chase you, with frantic music in the background.
- Then you get a look at one skeleton in particular. It's the girl from earlier who denied knowing what happened to her missing friend. Shes got two skulls, and what looks like a second ribcage partially fused into the first one. If you go back and pay attention to her dialogue, the first letters of each sentence spell out "HELP ME." The implications are unsettling, to say the least.
- Remember the cute thief girl? The one you can either expose or let go? Her skeleton comes
*sprinting* at you in the last area, at least twice as fast as any of the others.
- The Astral Error, a secret area in the 4chan code room, which can only be accessed if you got the k ey (not a typo, the item is actually spelled k ey with a gap in between the k and e) from the only time you visit Twitch and waited until after Chapter 6 to do the sidequest involving the fourth sibling. You enter a secret room from the 4chan code room, finding yourself in a glitchy area where Catie's sprite first begins walking backwards, then slowly decomposes. At the very end, you meet not_intended, a Humanoid Abomination who speaks in bizarre glitch text and attacks Catie, before turning into Nihilerror, an entity that has a creepy design with black-eyed faces sticking out like a chariot. Once you beat her, she is never mentioned again (though it is implied she is an angel of Virtua).
- At first, Amelie just seems like a name that pops up in a few weird places. But if you find a secret key (bet Lady's Breath at the arena), and take it to an even more secret door (in the forest near the great bridge to Wikipedia), you'll unlock an area that's all her own. It's an old cathedral, with the inside set up for a funeral. Theres a letter next to the casket, written by Amelie to someone she loved. It's implied that someone is
*you*. Read it here◊, if you dare.
- In the church's graveyard, there's a path leading off into the woods. It goes to a small, dead-end area with a Heartbeat Soundtrack, and then
THIS◊. Some kind of grinning, serpent-like
*thing*, surrounded by
what even *are* those? Statues? Corpses wrapped in tentacles? Whatever they are, they can't be interacted with in any way. As far as anyone can tell, this place serves *no purpose* except freaking the player the hell out.
- It's strongly implied by Esoteraphim that Lady Ny'agai has some connection with Amelie, or may actually
*be* Amelie herself.
- When you leave Tumblr, and finally see just what has become of the Internet during your absence. Theres nothing left but a sea of endless nothingness, swarming with Overtaken. And then you see one of the few remaining islands get erased before your very eyes.
- The Overtaken in general. Mindless hulking slabs of ash and corrupted code that used to be people just like you. And when theyre defeated, they seem to
*melt* (and in some cases *bleed*) before returning to normal.
- Her World has an enemy called "What Could Have Been", which looks like two female figures looped into a ring. Heres what Wiki It has to say about them:
*"The likenesses of Catie and Arianna, twisted together in endless pain. The gap in the middle shows fleeting glimpses of futures that never came to pass.*
- What exactly would have happened if Catie had joined Arianna like she wanted?
- Watching Arianna get corrupted by the First Internet code. She tries her best to fight it, but it's no use, and she's left weakly begging for help just before her final transformation.
- The eBuy Holiday Sale quest sits in this odd line between funny and disturbing. It starts innocently enough- there is a Holiday Sale at the eBuy store near YouTube, and you go to celebrate. Then, a little after you get there, everyone dissapears and all the lights go off. You cannot leave until you go to the top, where you meet the Spirit of CTH'RISTMAS an entity that is a giant monster shaped like a Santa hat- it's more threatening than it sounds, not at all helped by how totally
*random* it is.
- Stratum 4 of the Sky Abyss, the Plagued Garden, has a very uneasy and alien feel to it, with black clouds, a bizarre technicolor sky, and somber music, complete with egg-like structures that erupt into previous bosses in the game. It certainly doesn't help that you have an echo encounter with Wendigrief there, and the encounters with Legion and Virtua send Anonymous and Catie, respectively, into panic.
- The PC Ending is one of the most disturbing things in the game. After beating the Plagued Garden and going to the Bell Cave, you can enter a secret area that is similar to the doll house basement necropolis, with eerie fog, hanging lights, and unsettling music. While walking there, the party members
*beg you* to turn back because they have a very bad feeling, with Tyalie outright Addressing the Player to get them to turn back. Once you get to the bottom, you reach a save statue that does not have any more tears to cry if you decline to save. Then a headless statue makes you answer questions related to the various things in the game while tense music plays. If you get the questions wrong, the game just closes- get them right, and you are transported to a dark grey city landscape implied to be *the player's own reality*. Then Esoteraphim, a sinister and mysterious Mechanical Abomination, gives a speech about art, tells a story about buttercups and a boy who loved to play with Amelie, and attacks the party- the resulting battle is the hardest in the game. Once the entity is beaten, you are transported to a house where you are a butterfly reading notes about unseen people, then shut down a PC, and end up in a field with buttercups where what is heavily implied to be Amelie greets you. Then the game ends. The entire thing is disturbing mostly because of how little sense anything makes.
- Legion, the Greater-Scope Villain. The whole game hypes him up as an utterly terrifying presence as a giant Draconic Abomination who was responsible for turning the First Internet into a Death World, then broke apart into a Hive Mind that terrorized the people of the Internet, and when he finally arrives at the very end, he does
*not* disappoint. His few minutes of screentime and subsequent battle, wherein he speaks to Catie about his desire to Kill All Humans and tries to forcibly merge with her, are far darker and more intense than anything else in the game.
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*There you are...*|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm |
Boy Meets World / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Season 6 had the appropriately-named "The Psychotic Episode". As if the main plot of Cory having nightmares in which he kills Shawn wasn't bad enough, the subplot with Eric's new roommate could be stretched out into a full horror movie! The man
*keeps the corpses of his mother, uncle, grandmother and pet parrot* around and makes them talk! Plus, it's implied he killed all his other roommates.
- After a class with Feeny, Cory opens up to him about his nightmares, to which Feeny suggests merely forgiving Shawn in order to make the nightmares stop. Shawn immediately reenters the classroom and, before Cory can do so, he gives Cory a baseball bat as a gift. After accepting it, Cory begins to snarl and wind up the bat... whereupon we cut to Cory, asleep in class, loudly shouting "DIE SHAWN!" as he smacks his rolled up book against the desk, much to the shock of everyone in the room.
- And then we get to the ending: Feeny's
*actual* advice to Cory is to let the original dream (of shoving Shawn down the elevator shaft) continue, as Cory kept waking up after Shawn went in. After shoving Shawn down the shaft, along with Jack, Rachel and Angela (Eric went down on his own), Lauren comes in, saying she represents everything Cory is giving up by marrying Topanga, before willingly jumping down the shaft. Then Topanga comes in, with a wedding dress, to mourn the deaths of their friends with Cory. In other words, Cory is so worried about his life changing once he got married, he kept dreaming of *killing everyone he knows*.
- The flashback to Rachel accidentally destroying her stuffed rabbit in the garbage disposal is a bit unsettling.
- The tarantula in the Honeymoon episode that bites Eric can easily give any arachnophobe the creeps.
- The entire ordeal surrounding Chet Hunters demise is more so a Tear Jerker, but is also rather disturbing for a sitcom given its unrelenting realism.
- The twist to "And Then There Was Shawn": the killer was Shawn himself... trying to get Cory and Topanga back together (since he feels them breaking up was
*his* fault).
- Pretty much every part of "And Then There Was Shawn" not played for comedy is terrifying. There's blood, explicit mention of death, impalements, and more. And the "strange, shrouded figure creeping behind us that none of us will see" is played for laughs, but the killer is terrifying with his skull mask. Good luck sleeping after watching it.
- After everything is said and done, and the kids leave detention, the shadowy figure appears from behind Feeny's desk, and runs out of the darkened classroom.
- Special mention goes to The Stinger: Feeny has a dream in the middle of class of the students being polite and engaging. After waking up and seeing them rowdy and rambunctious, Feeny pulls out some scissors from his desk, and looks at it in contemplation. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BoyMeetsWorld |
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Seeing the surviving protagonists brutally murdering half a dozen people (one of which by *repeatedly ramming a pencil into the victim's head*), not understanding what's going on, resulting in them madly babbling that *they're* the victims and the *real killers* are the murderers and/or witches. Sheesh.
"This is wrong. Someone fucked with this tape! SOMEBODY FUCKED WITH THAT TAPE!
*THAT TAPE IS WRONG! THAT'S FUCKING BULLSHIT!!!* | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BookOfShadowsBlairWitch2 |
BrainDead / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Why Vera, don't you look lovely tonight.
- Lionel's zombified mother turns into a huge, hideous monstrosity at the end of the film.
- The undead biker's internal organs slithering on their own in pursuit of Lionel as well.
- Baby Selwyn is a creepy zombified Enfant Terrible
- Rita's death. Baby Selwyn rips through the back of her head.
- The Rat monkey. There is a DAMN good reason why the Natives didn't want that thing to go out of their grasp, considering how it carries the mother of all zombie infections.
- Near the end, Lionel attempts to euthanize the zombies with animal poison... only to realize that he used animal
*stimulants* instead. Cue a *horrifying* musical sting as the zombies erupt from their graves with a vicious roar. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Braindead |
BrainDead (2016) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
|| After Laurel survives the bugs, she tries to help her friend Stacy be cured. *Stacy is gone*. The bugs are in control, and they've eaten enough of her brain that her head sounds hollow when it's knocked on. Oh, and there's this little tidbit:||
**Laurel:** What do you want?
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**Stacy:**|| *Everything*. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BrainDead2016 |
Brain Dead 13 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Deaths that occur to Lance in this game are shown to be quite disturbing for a K-A game, just look at the picture on the right!
Despite its fairly cartoony style, you can't really expect less from a game with nearly 100 distinct very graphic ways to die. Also, despite the fact that there isn't technically any blood or gore in the death scenes, many of them are still VERY disturbing. This game was able to get away with a kid-friendly rating because of certain concessions (no blood or gore, Lance immediately revives after every death, etc.), but the graphic cartoon violence could still keep many a kid awake all night with fear.
Here are the many examples for this page:
- That puppet in the music room, who chokes you with his strings and pulls you offscreen. God, those
*eyes* when he does it...
- The worms in the library, who, as graphically as the game's age rating will allow,
*burrow their way through Lance's abdomen and burst out of his back*, and all the while he's screaming and grunting in pain.
- The Jack the Ripper-esque ghost in the bedroom, who can
*tear your face off*.
- A few things in Vivi's Funeral Salon:
- If Lance can't make a choice of either a shave, manicure, or a facial quickly enough, then Vivi won't hesitate to suck out all the blood from Lance's body while he is still gagged and tied up in spider webs (ripping up his shirt in the process, in case anyone's interested), turning him from a normal, healthy person ''into a shriveled-up, skeletal mummy-like corpse!!
- If Lance is still stuck in the Beautifier and can't escape, the mechanical powder puffs can close in on his head and screw it up, turning it into a skull for Facial Horror!
- And if you hesitate after Lance yells, "Hey, Viv! I'll take a rain check on that...
*bite*!", Fritz will hook him up and decapitate him with an oversized hair razor.
- Also, if Lance can't blow away the tiny spider on the web quick enough, it will cling onto his face, take a deadly bite, and, in a manner worthy of Imperfect Cell, suck up his entire body and swallow him whole, leaving behind only the spider web barber cloth. And all the while Vivi is too busy distracting Fritz and shoving him into the spiked coffin to even notice while leaving poor Lance unattended!
- Also, when Vivi leaves after her failed attempt to cut off Lance's head with her Sinister Scythe, there is a scary mirror wardrobe that can pull off a dagger and finish the job...
*by slicing off Lance's head AND his shoulders and top half!* This is just... very sickening!
- In one scene, if you hesitate on which path to go to, Lance will suddenly feel a jolt of pain in his head, which is splitting up vertically (putting new meaning to the words "splitting headache")... and then, in a Cruel and Unusual Death, he is torn apart in two by the eyes from behind by Fritz, revealing a skeleton that quickly falls into a pile of bones!
- A similar Fritz-related death involves Fritz vertically
*trisecting* Lance with his hooks.
- Another Fritz-related death somehow manages to be WAY worse than being torn apart by the eyes. It starts when Lance suddenly feels discomfort in his body, as if he suddenly has diarrhea, then looks down and feels a swelling rupture in his chest as he grunts in pain and clutches himself tightly. Suddenly there is a chicken cluck as both hooks belonging to Fritz rip through Lance's chest and shirt, and then Fritz emerges and makes him burst asunder,
*tearing him apart in two completely!*
- In another crossroads path scene, if you hesitate too long, Lance will get his skull knocked out of his head! No, really: he gets hit in the head so hard that he
*spits out his own freaking skull!!* And his skull-less head will bobble upside-down lifelessly while his body is still standing before he finally collapses in front of Fritz, who has just whacked him in the head!
- The hedge maze is home to some of the nastiest deaths in the entire game, as taking just one wrong turn can result in any of the following:
- Lance falls into a pit full of bloody spikes.
- Interestingly, that death is the only death with an actual Scare Chord.
- Lance accidentally runs through one of the hedges, and emerges from the other side as a skeleton.
- Mushroom men bounce in front of Lance, then one explodes into spores, causing mushrooms to sprout all over Lance's body.
- Some sort of plant-tentacle emerges from the side of the screen, and tears out Lance's skeleton as he tries to escape, causing his empty skin to flop to the ground.
- The statue stage at the end of the maze is pretty much Nightmare Fuel, as, at the beginning of the stage, the acid will suddenly form underneath the ground tiles, and if you don't move PDQ, they will wobble and collapse under Lance's weight, causing him to fall into the Acid Pool below; worse still is that the splash it makes causes the ground tile to fly and land on top of the acid, crushing him! As if that wasn't bad enough, the camera has to cut down to the ground of acid for a close-up. Dear God... the acid seeping out... his hands rising up and clutching one tile as he tries in vain to get out of the acid before one hand twitches and then becomes still... and it gets topped off with his baseball cap fluttering down and landing on his now-lifeless hand...
- If Lance
*does* make it through the collapsing tiles towards the fountain, he will repeatedly get doused in or sprayed by acid, revealing a horrific skeleton in many parts of the stage. One of the parts has Lance stumbling at the fountain and clinging onto a gargoyle statue for dear life, and he says to it, "Hiya, pal," before it sprays him with acid, exposing his skeleton with his hat on, still clinging to the statue before the entire skeleton falls off. To tell you the truth, this Nightmare Fuel is combined with a Funny Moment if left uninterrupted.
- Dr. Nero Neurosis' moments in the beginning... Those freaking
*eyes!!!*
- In the Cocoon Room, a spray of acid can hit Lance's face, which melts along with his head (save for the eyeballs), and it is followed by
*his entire body melting away into nothingness!* Yikes!
- The egg-beater death is just very horrific and painful to watch. It starts with Fritz pouncing on Lance before going offscreen along with him, followed by Fritz's egg beater arm being lifted up and turned on before coming back down at Lance's screaming... followed by bits of his hair flying all over the place... and then Lance emerges battered and bruised with a black eye, his shirt ripped up, and his going bald... before Fritz's hook pulls him back down to finish the job. Not a pretty sight at all.
- A few things in Moose's scenario:
- If Lance doesn't dodge one of Moose's attacks or remains on him for too long without knowing which way to go, Moose will grab him by the neck and shoulders and, as Lance helplessly watches in fear, grabs our hero's underwear, causing him to wince in pain before Moose quickly pulls out his spine and pelvis (in a manner worthy of
*Mortal Kombat*), *splitting him in two completely!!* This same move is repeated by the stuffed Yeti in the trophy room, should Lance dodge the bat and acid dragon head.
- Also, if Lance doesn't dodge Moose's baseball bat attacks, our hero will look up helplessly as the bat hits him on the head
*real* hard, so hard that his earwax, snot, teeth and brains get knocked out and he collapses with a groan.
- In another scene worthy of
*Mortal Kombat*, one of the lightning rods that both Lance and Moose touch causes them to vibrate violently and explode!
- After Lance pulls the lever up to eleven on the lightning mechanism, breaking off the lever, but doesn't watch out for Moose climbing up the ladder, the Frankenstein's Monster Jerk Jock will grab him by the chest and shoulders, and then use a Megaton Punch to knock off our hero's head and send it flying before he pulls his headless body closer and looks at his neck in glee. So... shocking... in a manner worthy of
*Duke Nukem*. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BrainDead13 |
BrainScratch Commentaries / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Lost Impact's... Impact on Johnny can be VERY unsettling considering up until that point, Johnny wasn't NEARLY as vocal and hate filled as he was at this point of *Shadow the Hedgehog*. Beware the Nice Ones INDEED... **Ryan**: So how are we going to keep this rage up for four more parts? **Johnny**: I will find EVERY excuse I can! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BrainScratchCommentaries |
Brandon Rogers / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Her fate in The Stinger of Stuff & Sam, while deserving, is pretty horrific. To elaborate, she was resurrected by the book since Sam gave it to the first clone of Elmer and he is going to use it to make her suffer *forever*. **Elmer:** You and I are going to have lots of fun...with infinity. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BrandonRogers |
Brandy & Mr. Whiskers / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
When cartoon animals meet real life predatorsDespite the jocularity and slapstick humor of the show, there are moments that reek of terror when you realize the setting features main character anthropomorphic animals living in fear of the very real threat of being killed and eaten alive by other animals in the Amazon Rainforest.
- The first episode,
*Mr. Whisker's First Friend*, features Mr. Whiskers meeting Brandy on a cargo plane and thinking he's going to a fun summer camp. Brandy corrects him by saying he's actually being sold to a zoo in Paraguay for 39 cents. Cue the shot of a terrified Mr. Whiskers having to share a habitat with a hungry-looking realistic leopard. He sadly mentions this isn't the first time this has happened to him.
- Whiskers also nearly gets killed by being eaten by Lola Bola, a friendly but still carnivorous boa constrictor, which Whiskers responds in absolute horror to because of a past incident where he was nearly eaten alive by a snake.
- Whiskers also nearly gets killed a second time by Gaspar Le Gecko by being cooked alive, which is jarring considering this isn't the only time this would happen in the show and Gaspar suffers little to no punishment for any of those attempts. Gaspar also tries to eat Brandy as well which is even more disturbing considering he also tries to romantically woo her in future episodes as well as try to eat her.
- In
*Cyranosaurus Rex*, Whiskers tries to woo a blatantly dangerous giant lizard named Isabelle and gets eaten whole for his trouble, but the terror is downplayed by the fact that Whiskers never really worries too much about being eaten because his poor personal hygiene eventually makes all his predators sick enough to spit him out. Unfortunately, this doesn't apply to Brandy, whom Isabelle was drawn to try to kill and eat during the episode.
- In
*To the Moon, Whiskers*, Boris the Cosmonaut and formerly happy Circus Monkey, who got sent into space **40 years ago** by a bankrupt Russian space program and left to stew in his own waste in a small space pod before crash landing into the Amazon Rainforest. He warned Brandy not to press an emergency rescue button on the pod's console that would cause his masters to find and send Boris back into space, but after Brandy pressed the button it only revealed a small compartment with only a peanut. Breaks into Fridge Horror when it's shown that the sadistic scientists who sent Boris into space purposefully arranged for Boris to die alone in space with no way to get or actually call for help and how lucky he was to crash in the Amazon Rainforest of all places.
- In
*Lack of Brains Vs. Brawn*, Brandy becomes terrifying when she tries to rescue Mr. Whiskers from Lester the brutish monkey bully and gives off a feral look with a guttural growl, threatening Lester not to touch Whiskers. You've never heard Penny from the Big Bang Theory sound so ferocious.
- In
*The Fashion Fascist*, when Whiskers becomes a fashion trendsetter, he tries to rip off a ring-tailed coati's tail because he was angry at how much the tail stripes were against his sense of fashion. This is not treated with slapstick and the coati flees in terror as a deranged Whisker gives chase. Imagine if someone tried to tear off your arm because they saw it as unfashionable?
- In
*Private Antics, Major Problems*, Brandy tried to feed Whiskers his own arm after throwing a temper tantrum.
- In
*Monkey's Paw*, the Nightmare Fuel is put up to eleven when Whiskers, Brandy, and Ed find a malevolent monkey's paw that grants wishes with a sadistic twist. Brandy wishes she never knew Whiskers and gets amnesia, and after Whiskers explains their friendship and how much grief he's caused her, she decides to use the monkey's paw to try and wish Whiskers out of existence. Whiskers also accidentally turns Ed into a human brain which gets eaten by piranhas, with Brandy uncaring in her pursuit to actually kill Whiskers. Only Whiskers wishing that he never found the paw in the first place managed to fix everything, but it was jarring see Brandy become that sociopathic in her attempt to get rid of Whiskers.
- In
*Taking Paws*, the Androcles' Lion trope with dangerous creatures is thoroughly deconstructed when Whiskers befriends the carnivorous jaguar Lorenzo and he ends up being obnoxiously annoying. Whiskers tries to maintain the friendship because Lorenzo will eat Whiskers and Brandy as a predator if he feels they're not friends anymore. When Brandy and Whiskers become fed up with him and tell him off, Lorenzo immediately tries to kill them both.
- In
*Pickled Tink*, Brandy hypnotizes Whiskers into being her personal brainwashed maid using the word "Pickle" as a trigger word but the word is said too many times and the conditioning ends up mentally breaking Whiskers. It's not played for laughs and leaves Whiskers in a catatonic trance that's so severe he doesn't even blink.
- In
*I Am Rainfo*, the true nightmarish implications of living unprotected in the Amazon Rainforest is brought in full when Whiskers reads a book he found dubbed "I am Rainfo" that he believes is a fictional horror novel detailing all sorts of dangerous and lethal animals, but he freaks out when the book is actually called "In the Amazon Rainforest", detailing in no vague terms the very place he's been living in.
- In
*A Bunny On My Back*, Brandy goes on a date with a jaguar who Whiskers has warned her about the whole episode. She blows him off, but when theyre alone at night, the jaguar turns out to be Evil All Along and summons a gang of fellow male jaguars to eat her with. Even without the pretty creepy real-life connotations, Brandy certainly wouldve been eaten if not for Whiskers helping save her.
- Gaspar tries to join the Carnivore Club an entire episode, and at the end, the Club agrees, saying they know the perfect way to get [him] INSIDE the Carnivore Club. They menacingly surround him to eat him and all Gaspar can do is cry in terror as the episode ends.
- In
*Less Than Hero*, its Whiskers comes across a gator who has become extremely fat from its last meal, and finishes picking its teeth with a bone before taking a nap. Considering the Sapient Eat Sapient nature of the show, its brief, but its still not pleasant to think about too much. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BrandyAndMrWhiskers |
Brave Frontier / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Don't let the game's awesome music and cool character designs fool you - the world of Brave Frontier is far, far more scarier than you think it is. Here are a few examples why.
- The unusual organic red patterns in Immortal Dragon Ragshelm's body resembles cancerous symptoms and has been known to trigger Trypophobia.
**General**
- Imagine yourself living your life in your hometown, where everybody's happy, the Gods keep everything in order and you have nothing to worry about. Then all of a sudden, just as you thought your life couldn't be any more perfect, the Gods come and destroy everything you hold dear with you wondering just why as they begin cutting down your friends and family... then you. This is how the War of the Gods started.
- The fact that the War of the Gods happened when people least expected it, or thought that it was impossible. Just how many people died before the armies of Grand Gaia gathered to resist the Gods? Or worse, how many died
*resisting* them?
- Some of the Raid Battle Demons have very unsettling designs. Special mentions goes to Queen Sipla, Jirayen, Lesnik, and Arkem.
**Summon Units**
- Ciara: Her Omni Lore takes on a scenario where Semira wasn't involved in her life. From a benovent, quite playful guardian in her 7-star form, she then evolves into a dreadful, evil entity.
**Manga**
- During Chapter 5 of
*Grand Gaia Chronicles* (a manga adaptation based on the Twelve Guardians' Civil War), as the Loyalist Guardians confront the Traitor Guardians, Luly starts attacking. Her Slasher Smile that comes with has a demonic or psychotic resemblance.
- ||It continues on two chapters later where she mocks Farlon's screw-up; the way she approaches him is like he's being confronted by The Devil. Eventually he slashes her head off, but she does not stop talking after that. In fact, Luly uses her last words to complain how boring Farlon is. And at the end of the chapter, there's a shot of her bodiless head, still having that nightmarish smile.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BraveFrontier |
Bravely Default / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
"Though I fear my magic won't keep the girl's mind intact."
Florem is this big time when exploring the Mephilia and Artemia sidequests. The Petalhue hair dye and Spirit hairpin accessories are made from bits and pieces of the creatures the citizens worshipped: Florie wings for hairpins and Orochi snake fluids for the dye. The Florie wings secrete a fluid that brings out a person's desires, corrupting them in the process. The two girls who went to the forest succumbed to the wings and killed each other over it. The Orochi snake extract, called Nidaphyx, is a hallucinogen and drives people mad. Considering what happened to the girls, this would have been Florem's fate had the party not intervened. The Petalhue merchant, working for the Bloodrose Legion said that at the rate it continued, "Florem won't last a month."
Two girls - literally children - kill each other with their bare hands over fairy wings while you're standing right there. Since you're fighting Mephilia you don't see it. Not to mention them screeching at each other as they pull a fairy apart between them right before the fight. And Mephilia's obviously insane, chattering on about how much she loves her sister and loves watching people betray and kill each other...and then she says there's another soul inside Tiz, right before she dies. Yeah, that whole scene is terrifying, made somehow worse with the dissonance between the grim goings-on and the fact that this is happening in a bright, colourful forest area.
Artemia the Ranger is pretty creepy as well, having gone completely feral and having practically no sense of free will anymore. What makes it worse is Edea once knew her. Imagine having one of your friends lose their mind and consider you "prey" to "hunt"... Actually the Blood Rose Brigade has Nightmare Fuel aplenty.
During the Fiore DeRosa quest, you can talk to one of the girls who's been subject to his pheremones. It's incredibly horrifying from an adult point of view, since she sounds scarily similar to a rape victim.
And he was this close to doing the same to Edea, AKA his boss's daughter.
And (in the Japanese version) she's only fifteen years old.
The game's original superboss, Ba'al i; The Turtle Dove, only received from Spotpass. Its appearance brings to mind the witches from Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Its battle theme is not the usual Nemesis battle music and is instead a chaotic melody accompanied by Creepy Children Singing.note : The actual title of the song equates to either "The Garden of Distorted Thoughts" or "Distorted Thoughts; That is the Devil King". Fitting, isn't it?
The reveal of the Big Bad near the end of the game. It's Airy the Fairy.
Airy's roaring in the AR movie. You can hear the chilling sound from just offscreen as Agnés looks visibly terrified, pleading for your help. To make matters worse, it is heavily implied that her friends are currently being slaughtered in the other room and that she knows she doesn't have long before she's next.
The illustration of Airy's Larva form in Ringabel's journal.
Alternis Dim's tendency towards Sanity Slippage can be a bit unnerving, especially as it happens a lot. Especially once you realize that it's Ringabel, and Edea points out he almost loses his mind in-game... after he's already lost his memories.
Alternis's comment during his first confrontation with Edea on the airship. He says he is not good at holding back, a hint at the the lack of self-restraint and mindset that proves his undoing in numerous worlds (though under the circumstances it's understandable and quite tragic). It's also a rather dark reflection of Ringabel's personality, who is similarly unrestrained in a much more positive - if at times insufferable - sense. Both have good intentions, they just show them...differently.
Near the end of the game, Airy's failure to kill the party despite gaining power and full heals from Ouroboros causes him pull a You Have Failed Me on her and devour her... and you get to hear him snack on her...
The villain wants to kill everyone in the "Celestial Realm." We see a flash of the Celestial Realm: it is your 3DS camera picture. The Celestial World is our Real Life. If they win, the first person it's going to kill is YOU.
During the final battle, Ouroboros will consume entire WORLDS to restore his strength after his regeneration is cut off. How many hundreds of thousands, if not billions does he manage to kill in this time is unknown(not to mention other versions of the characters we've met along the journey and the party themselves).
How about when you are starting the True Final Chapter, The End: Bravely Default. The usual chapter title screen appears, with its calm music box tune, and as it fades outthe first thing you see is Airy's Nightmare Face grinning RIGHT AT YOU before she flies around, hailing her victory.
The decription of what Qada's WMD precisely does is pretty horrifying, as delivered by one of its undead victims.
The theme for the murder mystery sidequest is chilling to the bone.
The nemesis bosses can be very unnerving if you think about it. These Eldritch Abominations are emerging from the Great chasm and attacking Norende, requiring the party to fight them off. Each one has a recommended level to fight them at, and you can get ones at a much higher level than the party can ever hope to face. The worse offenders are the (currently) two Ba'al bosses, which have a recommended level of 99.
Ba'al's two forms deserve mention as well. Goldie is a giant jewel encrusted goldfish skeleton, and Turtle Dove is a bird skeleton. In a bridal outfit.... What!? And the sequel brings us the whole roster, and they are EVEN WORSE.
D's Journal, if you read the whole of it before experiencing events detailed in the entries, as it makes Agnés' quest sound like an evil prophet bringing destruction to the world which is not entirely inaccurate and ends in an ominous dark splatter. Take a closer look: that is Airy's "larval" form.
The title screen changing before the end of Chapter 6. When you select your save file, part of the game's subtitle, "WHERE THE FAIRY FLIES", turns blood red and fades away, leaving only some of it left... The spoiler in plain sight the entire game. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BravelyDefault |
Borderlands 2 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Pandora is a Death World, and few games display this horror in all its glory more than
*Borderlands 2* and its tons of DLCs.
## Enemies
- Just to show how terrifying they are to fight, they not only turn on whoever they were helping if you're not around, they get
*stronger* for doing it. Every time he does, a musical sting plays for everyone nearby.
- If they level up to max, they become GOD-liaths, the ultimate badass Goliath.
- After they go berserk, you can glimpse a couple of times them laughing as they tear their former friends limb from gory limb.
- If you look carefully at their skulls, you can see writing on them, implying that their condition is the result of something consciously done. Who
*made* these poor bastards?
- If you look close enough, you'll see that their skulls actually sprout right out of their mouths.
## The Vault Hunters
- All of the player characters have a few different noises for when they're set on fire/corroding/being electrocuted. For the original four and Krieg all of said noises are varying degrees of grunting in pain. Gaige, however, doesn't grunt. She screams in pain very loudly and
*very* realistically. You get to hear a teenage girl scream in agony every time she's hit with an elemental weapon. It's...unnerving.
- Several things Krieg says. When they say he's a Psycho,
*they mean it*.
**Krieg:** *I'm beginning to remember—STOP IT!* *Keep the memories down with a knife in its throat! Slash it until it bleeds thought juice across the dirt until it is absorbed into* ... **nothingnrrrsss**
**Krieg:** *THE SILENCE! KILL IT! I'LL FIND YOUUUU! Quiet noises, and I'll STRANGLE the whispers out of you WITH A BONESAAAAAW!*"
- Playing as him is a strangely tragic and disturbing experience. Whoever he was before Hyperion got him is lost. He was irrevocably broken, turned into a monster. Krieg emerged from the experimentation as a Badass Psycho, insane with a need to kill. Krieg's former psyche was sent to the deepest depths of his soul and out of control of his own body. His other personality knows this, and has seemingly given up on ever recovering. A player rips their way across Pandora, occasionally hearing the sane part of Krieg quietly commenting on the action, in an utterly mournful voice. Being a Badass Psycho isn't as cool as it seems.
- Even the names of his skins start to tell a grim story when you piece them together: "I AM THE ONLY ONE LEFT" "I'LL NEVER GO BACK" "DON'T MAKE ME DO IT" "CAN'T CAN'T CAN'T DO IT" "DON'T STOP PLEASE HELP ME" "NO NO NO NO NO" "WHYYYYYYYY"
- Krieg's lines can be made far worse because they flip-flop between nonsensical comedy and psychotic horror with little warning, sometimes even with the same thought.
You're going to
*scream* just like she did. Open mouth. Open heart! *Blood* and *noise* forever piercing my Poisoning me with its psychopathic, purple liquid. We watched it **skull!** *all.* We felt the knife edge down the middle! **splat** **CAN YOU HEAR ME?!**
- The Vault Hunters themselves from their enemies' point of view! Krieg
*especially*!
- Axton: Imagine being part of a bandit clan and you see this military looking guy charging at you and your friends! Suddenly, he deploys this metal device which acts almost like another one of him and even worse, it seems like he's got an infinite magazine as he riddles you and your dumb friends with bullet after bullet alongside his turret! Overkill much?
- Maya: Looks can literally kill as this beautiful Siren uses her special abilities to enhance the effects of her elemental guns and lock one of your friends into a black hole as you all scream for mercy as you are being burned/shocked/dissolved to death! Death never looked so charming before!
- Salvador: Look at this idiot midget dashing into the fray shouting stupid catchphrases and giving the bird! He's nothing compared to you and your Hyperion buddies! WRONG! No matter what you do, the small guy just keeps taking it and decides to get serious by using both his hands to fire weapons! It's literally a bulletstorm as you dive for cover hoping his bullets don't pierce through you! Suddenly you hear
*two* RPG's being fired. SHIT!!!
- Zer0: It's just another day out in Pandora. You and your clan have been out here for hours scouting the terrain and killing anyone dumb enough to give you trouble or not! Suddenly, you hear screaming as one of your members suddenly has a bullet put through his head and there's no one in sight who could have shot him. You and your team decide to investigate the reason behind this when someone randomly runs up to another one of your friends and starts attacking them. Before any of you have time to react, everyone starts dropping like flies as the sound of a sword slicing flesh is heard. As you succumb to death, you see the person who did it and it looks an awful lot like a robot or is it a ninja as it speaks in a weird fashion seemingly mocking your group. "Leaves falling from trees / Snow drifting onto the ground / Life leaving your corpse."
- Gaige: You see a young, high-school-age looking girl stroll casually towards your camp. As you rush out to get her, this peppy little girl, who you notice has a robotic left arm, pulls a blue SMG and goes to town on the whole camp. She seems to get crazier and crazier as the battle goes on, firing blindly and pulling Wolverine Claws, murdering everything in sight. Eventually, her huge-ass Robot Buddy joins the fight and begins tearing everybody apart with gigantic claws and elemental beams. In the end, it's just you and her, and the last thing you see is this sweet high school girl's tool hammer hitting your forehead.
- Krieg: So normally the various Bandits and Psychos dotting Pandora's landscape seem to get along fine, at least within certain communities. So you, a marauder, probably aren't thinking too much about the Badass Psycho roaming around The Dust at the Southern end of your camp. Until, of course, you hear the urgent shouting and pained screams coming from your buddies near the entrance. This Psycho is somehow a thousand times more resilient than your average, tissue-paper-thin specimen. He unloads lead, explosives, and a seemingly endless supply of buzzaxes into the camp's collective face, with no end in sight. You send out some Flaming Psychos to try to take him down, but the beast seems to enjoy, and even be empowered by, the flames. When he
*should* finally be dead, he just pulls out a bundle of dynamite and runs around like a lunatic on speed, destroying everything in sight. Your own burning flesh is the last thing you smell as this impacable Psychopath *breathes fire* directly into your face.
- Or, to look at it another way...
- Axton: For a Badass Marauder like you, it's just another day in Sawtooth Cauldron...when a Commando jumps down from a nearby cliff into your area and starts blasting away with his Vladof assault rifle. The bullets are going everywhere, faster than you can blink, faster than any bullets you've seen, and chopping off limbs and the imploding faces your buddies. You lead a massive charge against him, while air support flies in...then he throws down his turret.
*Two* turrets that stick to the walls, with a giant shield, and a gun that slags you, while its rocket pods shoot buzzards out of the sky, pinpointing them with their laser beam. You bombard him with endless grenades, rockets, gyrojets and bullets...but he shrugs it off like it never even *harmed* him. Eventually, the Commando fires a 2-round burst through your helmet and you fall down, clutching your Bandit rifle, watching your legs separate from your body as the commando continues firing, cheerfully yelling as crashing buzzards, loot midgets and bloody limbs all fly past him...
- Maya: Another day patrolling on Thousand Cuts as a Hyperion soldier is livened up when you spot a pretty Siren who also just wandered through the Death Wall that fried loads of dumb bandits. You signal to the other yellow-clad soldiers around you, and cock your assault rifle. They take hidden positions as you slowly inch closer...then she spots you. She immediately locks you in a giant black hole. You squirm around, trying to throw down your turret, but unable to move as she lifts her Dahl SMG and shocks your comrades and loaders to death, before completely wrecking the Constructor. Then, she turns around, smirks at your helplessness and fires a 3-round-burst through your visor, into your terrified face and straight through your brain.
- Salvador: It looks like a fine morning in Buzzard Academy from the outside, but inside, there's only absolute havoc. A steroid-fueled midget with a mohawk just entered your camp, with nothing but a legendary Torgue pistol in one hand, and what seems to be a Moxxi-made slag pistol on the other. You watched your buddies attack, only to get slagged and have their skin shaved off or limbs amputated for their troubles as the midget screams one-liners and shatters skulls with his fist. The Buzzards come, the midget switches weapons, and the Vladof sniper rifle/launcher combo in his hands proceed to send them crashing into the desert below. As you attempt to shoot him with your Bandit shotgun, the grinning midget shoots your buddy and the gasoline tank near him, burning you to death while the shells you desperately fired are simply absorbed into his ammo supply, as he shoots and shoots and shoots...
- Zero: You're a Marshal patrolling the street near the Sheriff's office, when suddenly there's the sound of a giant gun battle in Main Street. You look through the scope of your assault rifle, and see nothing but bloodstained walls and the ground littered with countless corpses, with terrible wounds and kunai embedded through their chests. As you stop to continue watching over the far end of Gunslinger's Corner, you see dozens of bandits being wiped out by a lone sniper. The sniper is so talented that his bullets are piercing through his targets and hitting anyone caught in the flight path. However, you can't see who's doing the shooting. Soon, you go back to watching the far end again...when a few minutes later, your fellow Marshal notices an assassin, unnervingly tall and clad head to toe in body armor, advancing with his sword drawn. It's impossible to tell if he
*is* human, but that doesn't matter - you've got him in your sights. The Sheriff and Deputy Winger open fire on him, and so does everyone else. Somehow, he's deflecting the bullets with his sword, and there's no wounds on him. Then his body *explodes* and sends a shock nova around you. Recovering from it, you find that it was a decoy, and the real assassin's just wiped out almost everyone with his revolver. You look on horror as your boss, an ex-Vault Hunter and the resident badass who can outshoot everyone in the town, is blasted in the chest by the assassin's Maggie and falls from her vantage point on the roof. Deputy Winger is waving his shotgun, yelling something that you can't hear-and the assassin appears again, in front of you. But this time, he's real, and before you can open fire, he slices you in half.
- Gaige: So you and some fellow Marauders are just relaxing in the Dahlwell Oasis, talking about that grilled skag you just shared, when up strolls this redheaded kid in a skirt. She runs right up to your group and is spouting self deluded nonsense like she was auditioning for a slightly more lucid psycho. She draws her Coach Gun, and you quickly try to cover yourself. Only except you realize that every one of her shots is missing. Like, missing by a
*mile*. Your friends share a laugh at this, this girl obviously hasn't used a gun in her life. Then the laughing suddenly stops when the guy right beside you suddenly bursts into bloody salsa. You realize that so many of those missed bullets are bouncing around the place like pinballs, and every wall of lead from the Jakobs shotgun is tearing everyone apart like a million Torgue rounds! You manage to find cover as more and more of your group are splattered all over the place thanks to this redheaded 18 year old from hell. When you finally strike the nerve to aim your Bandit repeater at her head, you're face to face with a floating metal demon of a robot covered in bones, knives and a hellish red glow. The last thing you see are her bladed fingers, impossibly sharp and shiny, heading right for your terrified eyes.
- Krieg: Opportunity is under attack. The majority of Hyperion's robot army is just peacefully walking around, when in comes the tallest psycho you've ever seen, with arms the size of autocannons. Immediately, he whips out his Buzz Axe and charges towards the nearest loaders and engineers. He's just a Badass one, right? Wrong. You watch in horror, forgetting that you're supposed to be Jack's
*freakin' body double* as his axe blows up your friends and whacks Badass loaders in half, and his Torgue assault rifle cutting down more and more Hyperion forces with every reload, even when his shields are down. And when he isn't slicing or shooting, he's chucking dynamite everywhere, blowing up everything in sight. A Super Badass Loader unloads its guns onto the psycho, setting him on fire. But to your horror, *it just makes him stronger.* You desperately raise your Bitch and fire round after round, watching the Vault Hunter turn your boss's glittering Orwellian paradise into a land of burning men and twisted metal, until the Psycho finally turns towards you, wreathed in flames, and slams his axe straight into your heart.
- And you think that one of the Vault Hunters is a Nightmare to face? Imagine a pair or three or four or five or six of them against you. It kind of makes you pity the unfortunate souls that have to fight them, yes? Especially when a pair of them compliments one another, strength and weakness wise. For example, the player character version of the Ultimate Badass Psycho and the Physical God character type that is the Siren will result in a planet-wide bloodbath.
- The fate of Helena Pierce, and the civilians she was escorting. You can hear about this on a hidden ECHO log located in the Southern Shelf level, at Liar's Berg. Jack shoots Helena dead on the spot, then casually orders Wilhelm to kill the others. It's only an audio recording, so we simply hear Wilhelm acknowledge the command and open fire — and the civilians screaming.
- While it's Played for Laughs, Tannis' Sanity Slippage (as revealed in her ECHO notes) is more disturbing than anything: not only has she become obsessed with the vault, she has developed a social phobia so extreme even people saying hi or telling her she's pretty makes her have a massive nose bleed or vomit for hours.
- The quest where you have to carry a midget up to the giant fake dragon and set him on fire. Sure, he's going along with it voluntarily, but still, you're basically helping a guy burn himself alive out of devotion to a goddess that you
*know* isn't actually a goddess.
- So you just defeated Wilhelm, and have retrieved the cargo the train he guarded was carrying. While it's not the Vault Key, it is something that's still useful - a power core for Sanctuary's shield that can replace the one you just put in a few hours ago, and hopefully power it for a lot longer. You go back home, take out the old one, put in the new... and suddenly there's a pause. Angel's face appears on a screen right above where you put in the core, as Jack calls in and drops the Wham Line -
*Angel is working for Jack.* And then she disables the city's shields so that Jack can start bombarding it with Moonshot rounds.
- Up until this point, the game was a mixture of kickass gunfights with bandits, robots, and the local wildlife, and absurd dark humor from the likes of Tiny Tina. Plus you're gradually growing in power as either a Military Maverick with a deployable turret, a short and roided out dual-wielding berserker, a completely faceless Ninja with a super sharp blade, a cheerful high school girl with a killbot by her side, the Pandoran equivalent of a physical goddess, and/or a playable version of the Psychos who can get power from all the suffering he takes. Suddenly, all the awesomeness and hilarity comes to a halt, as Sanctuary - which is your home at this point - is now being blasted apart by Handsome Jack. You go in and hear people screaming as the place is being hammered with what seems like hellish meteors, and with some unlucky souls being
*liquefied* by the impacts as you pass through.
- Scooter's lines make it worse in all honesty. Previously he was a dorky, perverted mechanic who nonetheless seemed friendly enough. But when Sanctuary is getting torn apart, it gets replaced by a guy who's in a major panic and supremely scared about what's happening. It can possibly make
*you* scared that the place is going to be pounded into dust before long.
- The log of Taggart, a Hunter who, well, hunted the Stalkers, in the "Overlook" level. It all starts out funny enough but the last log emphasizes how much of a Death World Pandora is:
**Taggart**
:
*Chapter F... Chapter Ffff... Henry ate my hands.. she chewed them off in front of me and I swear to Jack... the spiky bitch laughed as she did it. Mom, I just don't know what to do... No! Get away! Henry! No, Henry! Get back! No! Mommy! Mommy! MOOOOOOOOMMMMMY! * **Accompanied by chewing noises**
- The concluding quip of the quest doesn't help, either:
*"You found Taggarts missing chapter and, in so doing, discovered a soul-crushing truth: all the confidence in the world cannot prevent you from dying frightened and alone. But on the upside, you got PAID!"*
- The entirety of the "Wildlife Exploitation Preserve" level. To wit:
- On open air, the area is full of the aforementioned Stalkers and other creatures that can (and will) make your life a living hell, especially in True and Ultimate Vault Hunter mode. On closed areas, it's Hyperion's robots.
- The first time you enter the Wildlife Exploitation Preserve area, you're told that Mordecai's BFF Bloodwing has been captured by Jack. After getting through a building full of Hyperion employees, robots, and varied species, you reach Bloodwing's cell... only to find it empty. Turns out Jack moved her to a big open-area observatory which is where you confront her in her Slagged form. Mordecai asks you to lower her health level so he can shoot a tranquilizing dart that will calm her. At one point, Jack taunts you about the different elemental effects that she can mutate into, which corresponds with the element she resists at that point in time, forgetting about one of them on purpose. Once Mordecai calms her down, Jack remembers the missing element: Explosive! And activates a bomb planted on Bloodwing's collar that decapitates her in the most gruesome way.
- There's a side mission chain that involves slag test logs, namely the fate of Tiny Tina's parents. Jack caught a scientist and forced her to perform horrible experiments on her test subjects. Dr. Samuels, the aforementioned scientist, clearly despises having to do said tests, but she still does so because of Jack's constant death threats. And when Tina's fathers' fate is sealed, Tina's mother gave her a grenade that she uses to escape from the facility.
- "Opportunity" is basically a
*Nineteen Eighty-Four*-style city played for laughs. Then, at the third info kiosk we meet, Jack is cheerfully talking, until the end of the sentence, when his tone turns into a very threatening, cold one that he normally reserves for talking to *you.* *"Remember, we should all love our parents...* " **but love me more.**
- At one point, you can see Bloodwing's decapitated corpse on full display.
- While undeniably an evil douchebag, Jack manages to somehow be funny with his sheer mania and trolling. However, once you clear the level, his smug, taunting personality suddenly becomes threatening and serious, and his dialogue from then on becomes surprisingly sinister, particular his line when he sics the BNK3R on you.
**Handsome Jack** (In a completely serious, low and seething tone) *Now do me a favor...and * **die**.
- Once Jack decides to intervene directly following Angel's death, we see just how
*downright terrifying* he can be when he's not being a petty jackass. Before, he was a smug bastard who derived joy from taking petty potshots at you, and then suddenly, Roland has a bullet in his chest and Lilith is kidnapped and tortured! It may be justified, seeing as how you helped kill his daughter, but **DAMN...**
- Jack's treatment of his daughter, which you learn from an audio tape in Fyrestone/Jackville. His sick, sick treatment of her...Not mention his real face. Pure Body Horror.
- The music in Sawtooth Cauldron is very, very, ominous and actually unnerving, to the point where you'll actually be relieved when a gunfight starts.
- Lilith in "Angel Vision" after the game's Wham Episode. Unlike Angel, Lilith just looks like she's in
*agonizing pain* whenever she talks to you like that. And she *is*, instantly regenerating in Hero's Pass from Jack, who is stabbing her, repeatedly.
##
*Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty*
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*Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage*
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*Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt*
- Professor Nakayama's prime experiment, Jackenstein. Basically, a Bullymong augmented with two electric generators on its back, and a Handsome Jack mask embedded into its stomach. As if the implications for bringing the big bad Handsome Jack wasn't bad enough, in spite of Nakayama's incompetence, but this creature is all but invulnerable in every part of its body except those mentioned areas. When Nakayama said it was the most dangerous creature on Pandora,
*he wasn't kidding*.
##
*Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep*
- The first time you encounter a mimic. You've just finished cleaning up some fantasy foes, and are ready to open the nearby chest of loot... only to be greeted with a roaring huge mouth with spike-shaped teeth and a huge tongue instead of loot who's going at you at fast speed.
- The penultimate boss battle. Having the person you've been trying to save turn out to be Evil All Along isn't exactly new, but when that person is revealed to be
*Angel*, it becomes quite chilling. And she's definitely creepy. You do not want a corrupted Drider smiling at you as she spews spiders from her body at you. **Princess Angel**: *At last, I'm free... *free to wreak my vengeance * * **UPON ALL THE WORLD!!**
- Becomes just plain sad when you realize that it's
*Tina* who made her evil, in a desperate attempt to blame someone for Roland's death. In the campaign, Angel stated that Handsome Jack tricked the last four Vault Hunters with Angel, and Tina made Angel into a villain. In other words, *Tina knew she was a danger, and Roland paid the price. Tina made Angel as she saw her as: A lure.*
- The Handsome Sorcerer. He gets so graphic that even Brick points that out.
**Brick**: *Damn, Tina. That was graphic.*
**Tina**: *Don't hate the player, hate the game.*
- In fact, that WHOLE last stretch of the DLC is rigged with The Sorcerer going into gory details about what he and his soldiers are going to do with the queen! It even gives the vibe that this is timed! Of course, the queen ends up just fine and killed her attackers easily, but still.
##
*Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary*
- Handsome Jack was one thing, but Colonel Hector's attempted planetary genocide was the straw that broke the camel's back for the bandits. Someone will unite them into a single cohesive unit and they will become a truly terrifying force to be reckoned with across the Six Galaxies, capable of
*invading other planets*. Vault Hunters, prepare yourselves: The Children are coming...
##
*Headhunters* packs and other DLCs
- You know how the Goliath's face peels back, and their skull protrudes from what used to be their mouths? Have you ever wondered how your Vault Hunter would look with their skull exposed and their face peeled back like a hood? No, you didn't? Well, too bad, because the reward for completing
*Mad Moxxi and the Wedding Day Massacre* gives it to you anyway in the form of unlockable head options for each Vault Hunter.
- Krieg's is the worst. On other Vault Hunters, it's clear that their faces were pulled back over their skulls. On Krieg, whatever skin wasn't being held in place by his Psycho mask was just torn away. The skin still on his head is ripped from where it evidently caught on the mask's eye-hole, leaving Krieg's exposed, lidless eye visible in its bloody socket.
-
*T.K Baha's Bloody Harvest* has a few hidden Easter eggs that pay homage to three infamously terrifying horror movies. In order to unlock a secret boss, you'll have to find three hidden TV sets. For the first one, stray from the path and you'll find an abandoned tent with one of the TV sets inside. Get closer, and the TV will suddenly switch on, showing a Psycho shot from a weird angle, who just stares directly at the camera, before it cuts to static. It's supposed to be a shoutout to *The Blair Witch Project*, but it's still pretty jarring.
- Another is a reference to
*The Ring* but with Claptrap in place of Sadako and Moxxi in place of the woman in painting. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Borderlands2 |
Borderlands / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
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Bravely Second / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- The Amphisbaena. By itself, it's not
*that* nasty; just a two-headed lizard with a long tongue and venomous bile, who can regenerate endlessly so long as both of its heads are intact. But when you kill it and read its lore entry in U's Journal, the true horror begins: the creature is made of "baena cells", a strange type of cell cultivated in a Gigas Lich, which were then injected into **ten different Eternian researchers**, only two of which survived, and they immediately tried to eat each other. But that's not the worst part: the two survivors were twins who interfered with the Empire's attempt to seize control of Tiz, and the one left to "guard" him (thank the Crystals Tiz flew the coop by then!) was meant to imprison or EAT him, and both of them retain their memories and consciousnesses yet possess no way to express the pain and horror! You know it's utterly fucked up when *every single party member* is outright revulsed after reading *that*.
- The Ba'al, looking like demons that have taken on the forms uncanny bastardizations of celebratory occasions, being both seasonal, such as christmas and winter break, and contextual like marriage or a birth in the family. They are events that were supposed to be great moments for Altair and Vega but were corrupted by Providence.
- Bella. Poor, poor Yew who is afraid of ghosts and the first time he meets her, Bella scares the Hell out of him with her doll Donna. When she properly introduces herself, how she does it? With a full close up of her face.
- If Bella creeped you out, wait till you meet Geist, the Glanz Empire's Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant. His design in so unnervingly different than most of the game's chibified characters, bordering on the Uncanny Valley as he looks so realistically human. He is covered in blood and tortures his victims endlessly by reversing their wounds and starts the whole process again. He presents himself by doing this to the contestants in Florem and, in an intelligent movement from the developers' malicious minds, his deranged face is shown in close ups when the cutscene plays out without the black textbox border coupled with Slasher Smile and Nightmare Face becoming
*worse* with every shot. Sure, he does have a tragic backstory like many asterisk holders but the first impression will prevail.
-
*Bravely Second* ends Chapter 4 with the Kaiser getting away unfought and Anne using the power of the Holy Pillar to erase the moon from existence. This casts an eerie shade of gray across the entire world, and time stands still. Worse yet, venture outside and every random encounter is replaced with a fight against a Ba'al at full strength!
- Then there is the true Final Boss battle. Providence is the creator of the Ba'als that you fight and during this fight Providence forcefully controls your 3DS to not only make your party members fight each other but also
**DELETE YOUR SAVE FILE!** | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BravelySecond |
Boruto: Naruto the Movie / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
As awesome as the movie about the next generation can be, at times, the story still manages to freak you out.
The guy more dangerous than Kaguya Otsutsuki!
## Movie
- The movie opens up on a barren wasteland, carrying an eerie silence before it devolves into chaos between two super powered beings trying their best to kill each other: ||Sasuke vs Kinshiki||.
- Despite the comical nature of the bear-panda rampaging around the area,
*it's still an aggressive vicious animal*. If not for the fact that people in this universe can somehow generate fire or manipulate movements through shadows, etc., then the situation would be a whole lot more grim.
- Naruto may not have meant it to happen but he very nearly destroyed his relationship with his son through his busy work schedule.
- The fact that a grown adult like Katasuke would go as far as to manipulate a child to get what he wants out of others.
- It can't be easy being a parent and knowing that your child is is mortal danger, as Naruto and Hinata find out whenever Boruto is in danger. The same is true in vice-versa.
- The amount of casualties would've been a lot higher if not for the shinobi sitting within the audience protecting the normal citizens from falling rubble as a result of the main antagonists attacking.
- Momoshiki and Kinshiki are walking, talking nightmares:
- One is a hulking, fast brute that has extremely large hands that almost reaches the ends of his feet. The other is a smaller, but much more dangerous, humanoid with rabbit like horns growing out of his head and Rinnegan eyes on the palms of his hands.
- The first thing they do after arriving on Earth is capture Killer B and Gyuki off-screen and demonstrate why they're so dangerous to the audience:||any ninjutsu used against Momoshiki, even something as powerful as a Tailed Beast Bomb, will just be absorbed and fired back at you,
*but stronger*.||
- They then interrupt the proceedings of the Chunnin Exams and destroy everything around them in their effort to capture Naruto. Momoshiki displays his cruelty in full force as he rains down a multitude of high level jutsu on the good guys and innocents, laughing at the top of his lungs.
- During the final battle in their home dimension, the Five Kage manage to trap Kinshiki as they go after Momoshiki with nothing but Taijutsu. Seeing his master in trouble, Kinshiki actually ||rips himself free of the makeshift prison, tearing the skin and muscles from his left arm in the process and bleeding profusely.||
- Momoshiki absorbing ||Kinshiki|| by turning him into a Chakra Fruit and eating him. The scream of pain ||Kinshiki|| gives before he dies is horrifying, freaking out all those present. Momoshiki then transforms into a red demonic version of himself, growing an extra eye on his forehead in the process, along with his horns elongating. His outside appearance finally matches what he truly is on the inside.
- Boruto and Sasuke working together to ||cripple Momoshiki by stabbing out one of his Rinnegan eyes, taking away his power to absorb||.As Boruto deals the ||final killing blow|| on Momoshiki, we see the villain in the process of ||disintegrating before being launched into space||.
- Treated as a funny moment, but has some Squick value too: ||Mitsuki revealing that Orochimaru is his parent.||
- The scene where ||Himawari ||finally locates her brother right after he ran away seeing his father knocked out cold. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BorutoNarutoTheMovie |
born of hell('s kitchen) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- THE defining incident for the story is Kilgrave first capturing Jessica while she was heavily pregnant, deciding it won't do and dragging her to the hospital for a caesarean, then making her waive her parental rights off and taking her away, without even letting hold her baby or know their gender. Just because he wanted her all to himself.
- Peter barely had two years to come to terms with his adoptive parent's untimely demise, only for Aunt May to fall terminally ill and die. No wonder he got abandonment issues from this.
- Hiding something from your parents because you're genuinely afraid they will kick you out for it. It's already hard when you're a teenager, but for seven-year-old Peter being terrified to let Matt and Jess learn he's a superpowered freak? Double as Tear Jerker.
- Dorothy's panic when Trish drops from the radar, last seen investigating a Serial Killer. And when she comes to Jessica and begs for help, even offering to
*pay* for Trish's rescue, Jessica coldly dismisses her.
- On Jessica's side, her wariness regarding Dorothy isn't
*totally* unjustified, since Dorothy was a hardcore Stage Mom who horrendously abused her biological daughter. And Jessica really doesn't want to see this kind of person near her too-sweet, too-vulnerable little boy.
- When hunting enhanced people, Salinger systematically preys on their more vulnerable families to make them lose control and rationality. Courtesy of Trish utterly flubbing her superheroic career, Salinger decides to target her. Now, Jessica is still Trish's sister, and even if
*she* can protect herself, her preteen son *can't*. Needless to say, she's completely horrified to learn this, along with being apoplectically furious against Trish for endangering Peter.
- Matt's reaction to this info isn't much better. He actually considers letting the Punisher come back to Hell's Kitchen, that's how much he's terrified.
- To hunt, you needs a target. As Jessica quickly understands, by sheer virtue of being Hell's Kitchen's most publicized hero,
*Daredevil* would have been probably picked by Salinger as a victim. Matt barely escaped this because he firmly put his vigilantism on the back-burner to focus on Peter, letting Daredevil drop from the radar.
- Salinger finally gets into the action and abducts Peter in plain daylight, right after schoolhours.
*In front of Karen*.
- Peter's nightmare in which Jessica shows herself hostile towards Daredevil — whom Peter idolizes for having enhancements just like the boy.
-
**The Winter Soldier** shooting Frank Castle's tires in order to cause a car crash and trying to abduct Peter. Even worse, the author said that Bucky would rather be "tased in the eye" than let Alexander Pierce do whatever he plans to inflict to Peter.
- HYDRA isn't merely aware of Peter's hidden potential, they also know about
*Matt* being enhanced in spite of his paranoid insistence on having a Secret Identity. *Is there anything they don't know?!*
- They not only know about Jessica and Matt's abilities, but it's made clear that the only reason they haven't tried to 'acquire' either to make them new assets is that the two are considered psychologically unsuitable; Jessica's strength and anti-authoritarian streak means that any potential handlers would be at risk the moment her conditioning slipped, and in Matt's case his morality is so powerful they estimate that he'd try and kill himself the moment his conditioning lapsed enough for him to regain control of himself.
- And then the Avengers speculate that the Winter Soldier's masters intend to brainwash Matt, Jess and Peter so that
*Peter* would be his own parents' handler, thus getting around the issue of potential rebellion by giving them a handler they would instinctively trust and want to protect (and that's before factoring in the possibility that they'd become Breeding Slaves to create maybe a dozen or so more like Peter to be raised as assassins from birth...). | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BornOfHellsKitchen |
Brave New World / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- For John, the hundreds of human clones who he describes as "long rows of identical midgets" and "human maggots squirming over beds of death."
- For many readers, the idea of being born and pre-programmed on an assembly line, possibly waiting to be made mentally handicapped, and being forced into a caste position for the rest of your life. And nobody is going to mourn you after you die.
- And you won't even mind because you've been conditioned to accept your lot in life.
- The Behavioral Conditioning includes the use of Electric Torture on
*babies*. Chapter 2 has a scene where Delta babies are exposed to books and flowers, then shocked so that they'll associate reading and nature with fear and pain, ensuring that they won't be able to educate themselves or derive enjoyment from something like hiking (since nature is free to enjoy, and the government would *much* rather you entertain yourself by buying something). If there was any doubt about whether or not the Brave New World really counts as a dystopia, this should be what convinces you.
- Linda's death: as soon as she got back to society she kept taking more and more soma to escape the humiliation of being a mother and make up for the years of misery in the Savage Reservation until it eventually stopped her breathing. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BraveNewWorld |
Bottersnikes And Gumbles / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
It So,
*is* "the horror" indeed... *Bottersnikes And Gumbles* is a children's series revolving around cartoonish heroes and villains engaging in conflict. It's bound to have a sense of ridiculousness and cute cartoon character designs along with stories telling about their daily skirmishes. Gumbles playing, having fun and outsmarting the villains, and the dim-witted Bottersnikes indulging in Toilet Humor, consumption of all things inedible and messing with our heroes, it's all there to convey that this show prides itself in being silly.
...But is it immune to also being scary at times?
- Toot's backstory, which is revealed in "Toot On Duty" and on the official website. In contrast to the rest of the work which is quite lighthearted, the tale behind Toot is major Backstory Horror that involves an incident with King Snike putting him through a legitimately disturbing experience - to elaborate, King Snike swallowed him whole and Toot was then forced to take the "back passage" to escape, after which the poor guy spent the rest of his life in fear of the Bottersnikes. And worst of all, we're never told how he even wound up captured in the first place before being eaten. In more detail:
- In "Toot On Duty", Smiggles gets sick and accidentally spreads his sickness to Bounce. The end result? Bounce suddenly turns aggressive and begins demanding mattress stuffing, along with her eyes looking uncanny and disgusting slime hanging from her nostrils. And then it spreads to the other Gumbles. The absolute highlight would be Bounce crawling on the floor like a zombie while demanding the stuffing, and Happi trying to tell Toot to go to Snike Hill while fighting off the strong urge caused by the illness.
- In "The Pied Tooter", Toot accidentally summons giant black grubs which then promptly try to eat the Gumbles (and they do, sort of). At first it's nothing grim as the grubs end up just holding the Gumbles in their mouths... until Happi mentions that they're being slowly dissolved, in a quite nonchalant tone. The grubs don't look pleasant, either; as opposed to the regular grubs which are tiny and cute, the giant black grubs are hideous and have disturbingly large black eyes.
- In "The King's Seat", as an attempt to coerce the Gumbles to surrender an item believed to have great power, Chank ties up and then
*swallows* Toot before taking several seconds to regurgitate him back up when Tink agrees to hand the item over, telling him that it was a "wise decision". Bear in mind that just two episodes ago Toot revealed that he met this fate and that he considered it to be the "darkest of dark nights", along with him getting flashbacks if he so much as just hears the word "Bottersnike" - upon closer inspection he seems to stare blankly while tooting uncontrollably (which can be heard even as he's in Chank's belly, no less) inbetween being eaten and then released. In other words, *Toot froze in horror before having a panic attack*.
- "Blue Grub Moon" presents us with the abomination that is a Gumble becoming a Weregumble. It starts with Happi forbidding the other Gumbles from eating blue grubs on the night that the episode takes place, but Merri and Jolli decide to go off on their own and look for them anyway. Merri then accidentally eats one and is fine for a moment, and what follows is him coughing violently before he transforms while making horrifying animal sounds. Then he goes to Snike Hill and begins terrorizing the Bottersnikes who are all utterly terrified of him. And on top of that, Were-Merri looks pretty scary especially given the general tone of the work. What?!
- In "Monster in the Moat", the Bottersnikes hatch and carry out a plan to kidnap the Gumbles. In the middle of the night, when they're sleeping soundly. So even if they were high up in a tree surrounded by water that repels Bottersnikes, the Gumbles weren't completely safe...
- "Where's Willi?":
- The part where King Snike attempts to eat Toot again, and he almost does,
*on-screen*. The first time it happened, it traumatized the poor Gumble - there's no telling what kind of outcome would've resulted this time had Willi not interfered.
- When Willi tries to ask Toot about "the unnamed Gumble", the latter is quick to become mildly agitated. That's not the creepy part; the creepy part is the brief moment where he puts his hand on Willi's cards and pushes them down, without taking his wide, unblinking gaze off of Willi. This shows that when Toot doesn't want to talk about something,
*he means it*. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BottersnikesAndGumbles |
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