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American History X / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "NOW SAY GOODNIGHT!" - Though not directly seen, the infamous curb stomp will haunt your nightmares long after the credits. As will the expression on Derek's face as he's being arrested, smiling as if it was all worth it. - The sound the black guy's front teeth make when touching the concrete. Yikes. - Also, the poor guy is screaming in horror which is then suddenly interrupted when Derek stomps on him. - A gang of jack-booted, stocking-capped thugs storm your place of business and trash it while telling you to "go home". They pull your cashier onto the counter and drench her with milk until she's "white". If you don't want to become white, they have baseball bats to convince you to try. - Derek's ||Prison Rape.|| Enough said. - How about the ending, where ||Danny is *shot to death* in the bathroom of the school (complete with horror-level Gorn), without warning or buildup?||

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Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The imagery during Things Out There, befitting a horror-themed musical performance. Lots of skulls, monsters, eerie moans, and shots of the Chipmunks in peril, even if its a staged number. The rock backing is also very intimidating. - When the evil doctor considers the monster a lost cause, he abducts Alvin to his laboratory, intending to transform him into a new monster. How does he do it? By forcefeeding Alvin a beaker full of chemical formula while the poor chipmunk is strapped to a table and screaming helplessly, thats how!

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American Graffiti / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes For a nostalgic comedy, the film has a few genuinely creepy scenes. - Milner and Carol's visit to the auto graveyard. - Toad and Debbie's walk through the woods, where she tells him about the "goat killer" that's supposedly loose in the area. - Curt's mission to hook up the cable to the police cruiser's axle is accompanied by eerily-distorted train sounds.

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The Flowers of Evil / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes From the get go, an anime based around creepy visuals is sure to have its fair share of Nightmare Fuel. - The town itself is the creepiest aspect of the story, made even more chilling in the anime. With its rusted signs, and old empty buildings, it feels like the town itself is rotting away. And the main characters *live* in this. - Nakamura breaking Kasuga's father's kneecaps when he tried to stop her from taking Kasuga. *Jeez, woman.* - When Nakamura forces Kasuga to wear Saeki's gym clothes under his clothes when he and Saeki go on a date. - The ending song. Probably a good representation of someone slowly descending into madness. - That moment when you realize that Saeki has completely gone off the deep end. - Her rape of Kasuga. Even after he repeatedly tells her he's not interested anymore, she still forces herself onto him. After that fact, she gains a very unsettling aura about her, probably more so than Nakamura. - The final chapter, which goes all the way back to the start of the story from Nakamura's perspective. To wit, every other person to her, even her own father, are nothing more than indescribable masses of miasma from which flies constantly escape from their mouths. Not enough for you? Over the course of until she confronts Kasuga with his secret, she takes the time to see the miasma slowly creep along her own body as well, with her helplessly trying to will it to stop. Makes you think that she had it as bad as Fuminori.

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American Horror Story / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes *Smile* A series called *American Horror Story* virtually guarantees that it's going to be scary, and it doesn't disappoint. - The intros in general are very creepy with a bunch of creepy imagery displayed over an equally creepy soundtrack. - The overall fact that the producers and writers of the show only need to grab from things that have actually been reported in American criminal history. <!—index—><!—/index—>

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American Horror Story: 1984 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.** ### Camp Redwood - How Mr. Jingles's first victims we see in the season die - having a pole shoved through one head and into another's *mouth*. - Mr. Jingles gruesomely cutting off the ears of his victims, to string them into a necklace as a trophy. Perhaps more horrifying is Margaret having to pretend to be dead and therefore *stay absolutely still* as he cuts her ear off. It's later revealed that *Margaret* was the original killer, she professes that she **cut her own ear off** to stage herself as a victim. - Richard Ramirez's appearance is this, knowing the horrific crimes he committed. ### Mr. Jingles - Xavier's past, albeit of a more mundane type. ### Slashdance - The fate of the real Rita. Kidnapped by an insane psychologist and held captive tied up in her own car trunk for at least a couple of days. Then the group finds her while looking for a place to hide from the deranged killer. She understandably becomes hysterical because of all she's endured, in the process running into Mr. Jingles. He chokes her to death on a *pole*. ### True Killers - Xavier almost being roasted alive after Jingles traps him in the oven. ### Red Dawn - Brooke, having survived until the morning, is attacked by Montana, and successfully kills her in self-defense, then witnessed by a school bus full of children who only saw her stabbing Montana repeatedly. When Margaret reappears and blames her for all the killings, Brooke is taken away, ending up in Maximum Security for five years, and then scheduled to be executed for her alleged crimes.

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AI: The Somnium Files / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes ## Spoilers Off applies to all "Moments" pages. This is how the game Despite all of its lightheartedness and humor, this is still a story about a serial killer. As such, there's bound to be at least a bit of Nightmare Fuel in it. *starts*. - The game displays dead bodies in their entirety, with livid skin and all. - Renju in particular has some pretty disturbing endings. One route has him hanging by a hook through his mouth. - What happens to So Sejima's body. It is chopped up and put into a vase. Don't worry, you get to eventually see that in one of the routes. - The warehouse incident. The live-stream showing Iris strapped to a table with her eye taken out about to be cut in half by an ice cutter. In the Annihilation route, we get to see that ice cutter in action in all its gory detail with blood splattering on the camera. Later, it gets used on Ota who gets stuffed in the polar bear costume to be framed as the killer. Outside of that, we see the fact that Ota gets stabbed trying to protect Iris. - Saito Sejima, the Cyclops Killer. - A disturbing Serial Killer with a brain disorder that only allows him to feel positive emotions through killing others. When he finally reveals himself, he shows how horrifying he is. Being willing to hop across bodies and kill others as soon as he's done with them just to get rid of witnesses shows how psychopathic he is. When he isn't exhibiting Dissonant Serenity, he's pulling a lot of Slasher Smiles and deranged facial expressions. And this comes across in all the bodies he inhabits. And the reveal that the body we've known as Date turns out to be his original body puts a whole new spin on it. Seeing the man we've known throughout the game being a raving madman throws you through a loop. This also comes across when he is in Boss's body. Worse yet, his father So didn't bother getting his son help and only covered up his crimes using his political influence. - Saito's Somniums are especially disturbing. In Iris's body, we see the chemical plant. On the path to the Ota and Mizuki routes, we watch childish drawings get covered with bloodstains on several televisions, representing Saito's killing of animals as a child. On the other path to the Annihilation route, it's worse since we see the Old Cyclops Killings represented through the screens instead and you have to recreate the mutilations of the various dummies in the plant. In Boss's body, we see the plant again going through the New Cyclops Killings in their gruesome detail. - His Leitmotifs, appropriately titled "Atrocious Insanity", give a very unnerving feeling. The discordant synths and disturbing calm from Part 1 encapsulate the madman that he is. Part 2 manages to add more to this with a much tenser feeling of imminent danger. - How Hitomi ended up losing her arm. Rohan came over to kill her and her daughter with the face of the man she loved. And she would've had no idea. Falco's intervention is the only thing that stopped things from getting way worse. - The Psync during the Resolution Route, when Saito systematically goes through Date's Somnium, breaking his Mental Locks to pull a Grand Theft Me back into his original body. Just the thought of someone pulling this Mind Rape on you is chilling to some. - The Index entry for the Freemasons. You're flipping pages through other normal index pages but for some reason it's buried under cards with the Eye of Providence on them and cuts off partway through the description with a keyboard smash.

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ALPHA SPHERE / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes THIS IS SALVATION - In the director's cut, on random chance, the midpoint block at the beginning will send you to a few secret areas: - A reversed coloured area where everything that was black is red, and vice versa. The text above, using Dr. Andre's font, reads "HUMANITY IS DOOMED", "THIS IS SALVATION! NOT LUST...", "NORMA, BRING BACK HUMANITY!", and "HE WILL END US". When all the Jinker Bolts sprites come into play, the level ends. - An area where souls/ghosts rise from the pits of a wishing well, with Dr. Andre talking to the relic saying "I AM SO SORRY NORMA..." The room ends just after Jinker Bolts appears, confirming that maybe these dead souls are the lifeforms Jinker Bolts has ended. - A hallway with W. D. Gaster (the top), Uboa (the right), and another unknown entity (the left). After a moment, Wingdings text appear which says "YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE COME" in all capital letters. - Entering the door you spawn in front of in the beginning of the cave area results in a three-headed-horse appearing on the side of the screen. - The Jump Scare during ending Z. - On July 22nd 2021, the final update of ALPHA SPHERE drops containing a few noteworthy fixes and also a brand new ending (simply called "Ending 2"). This ending is achieved by simply running out of time. Once you do that, you're teleported back to Doctor Andre's House, this time with the door open. Once entered, Norma is found in an eerily similar room as the screen from Ending Z. If you try to escape, Doctor Andre blocks the way and sends Norma backwards. The screen blackens out. Music comes in, and not moments later a digitized image of a kid greets us. "Dad? Why does mom hate me?" they ask. If you press B, the kid will come closer and yell "I LOVE YOU MOMMY." Press B again, and the kid will come even closer, this time the text scrolling upwards and shaking left and right rapidly saying "WHY DID YOU DIE MOMMY?" Press B one last time, and the image gets layered just before you get the event that reveals a number 2 on the overworld. Judging by the context this ending shows, it seems like if Norma waits until morning, she will be deflowered by Doctor Andre and have a child together, as he wanted. However, Norma dies, leaving their child to ask their dad why she's dead. This ending, unsurprisingly, gave a lot of people pause. Not just because of the fact a "2" is teased, but also because of the context displayed to the player. It is, without a doubt, the darkest of the, now 5, endings.

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AMC Squad / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes You really don't want these things to get close... Since the game is about a special task force assigned to take on the most dangerous missions that any other organization wouldn't risk, there's bound to be plenty of nightmare fuel to go around. Just don't plan on getting any sleep any time soon... - For starters, the Abyssal Dimension in general. What makes it scary isn't so much being a more detailed and varied homage to the Hell maps from *Doom*, but that it's able to exist back-to-back with the more grounded locations taking cues from Duke Nukem 3D's level design found elsewhere in the game, something Doom would never even attempt doing. - To nail it further, the few ||EDF soldier corpses found there read an unidentifiable time of death, making one wonder if time even exists properly in there.|| Going there seems at first like a one-way trip, where logic, time, reality, safety and your sanity cannot reach you, making you wish you'd never have to see it for yourself... - ...Until the mission at ||Millhaven, a rural Texan town|| starts. ||Betraying your expectations of the paranormal being contained at Ganymede, creatures and pieces of the Abyssal Dimension can in fact be brought into reality, potentially even right to your doorstep. No place is truly safe from it.|| - In a more mundane example, the Imperial Union, a fascist movement led by a man named Prokhor Vilmos that has successfully taken over Russia in the past and have butchered thousands of civilians who have spoken up against them. To make matters worse, the Earth Defense Force have refused to look into the matter while Highwire was still with them, which disgusted him and forced him to take matters into his own hands to start his own revolution. Anyone who has lived in a similar oppressive state will shudder at the thought of the Union's existence. - To make matters worse, Vilmos is one of the cruelest tyrants to ever live. His doctrine in life is that only strength matters while kindness and goodwill makes a man weak. He has little-to-no tolerance for failure, as he screams at his own men for letting Highwire and his rebels sneak through the cracks and lead a revolution in his home turf. He owns a heavy powersuit, which he will use as a last resort, as ||Highwire finds out when he confronts him in his own bunker.|| - The dream sequence at the beginning:a nameless figure crawls through an eerily abandoned facility in a canyon until they come face-to-face with a strange creature... which screams at them with enough force to push them back. Then James wakes up, complaining about not getting enough sleep. - The core of the episode's story is that the Triads have teamed up with the Yakuza and took over Hong Kong, using the power of the Shadow Realm to unleash chaos and throw the Chinese government off-course while they swoop in. And judging by what we see in the missions that make up the arc, the Triads have been... busy dealing with the local populace rather messily. - One of the missions is set in an abandoned facility on the moon of Umbriel, which seems rather standard for the game, except it's dark and the only enemies are security robots who see you as an intruder. And the reason you go there is that a strange signal was being broadcasted from the facility, which prompts us to wonder how it got sent... or why it was sent. Ultimately, nothing of importance comes up from this, as ||the base gets destroyed at the end, while Snowfall was left without any answers as to what led to the facility being desolate or the signal being broadcasted||. - The Forgotten Tomb is hands down one of the scariest missions in Episode 3, let alone the whole game. For starters, it's extremely dark down there, and you don't have nightvision until much later in the level, and only in a secret. If you're unlucky, you'll travel the whole area without a torch to guide the way. Much of the level is also home to Abyssal forces, including the dreaded Losts, and since you're playing as Merlijn, your options for vanquishing the Losts and other spectral forces are limited (unless you bring in a gold weapon). And the whole reason you're down there is that you've to investigate reports of a missing archaeological team who had excavated the tomb. With how things have gone down there, maybe the tomb should've stayed buried... - Throughout the episode, you're beset by Naaldir's forces as you fight tooth and nail to free the realm of his influence. Should you reach certain checkpoints throughout the episode, Naaldir will be happy to pop in with a loud noise to startle you before leaving behind a random event. One of these events is him spawning a Lost on you, and this can happen even when you're in cramped spaces. Have fun!

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American Horror Story: Hotel / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The living man sewn into the hotel room's mattress. The horrendous, graphic rape of Gabriel by the Addiction Demon. Doubles as a major case of Squick. The Addiction Demon in general counts as this: an emaciated, wax-like creature who rapes his victims with a drill dildo and enjoys hearing their screams. Sally taunting the victim during the rape, and then sewing him into a mattress afterwards, presumably so he'll die slowly of asphyxiation / dehydration / cold turkey withdrawal and stay with her forever in the hotel. It's later stated that she does this frequently, and would have kept doing so forever if Iris hadn't found a way for Sally to satisfy her attention-seeker needs by getting a social media account. Elizabeth/The Countess in general, but especially her introductory scene, where she and Donovan are shown in a foursome with another couple that ends with them drinking the latter's blood. Elizabeth's troupe of creepy, kidnapped, blood-sucking children, one of which is John and Alex's long-lost son Holden. The first murder scene that we see, on so many levels. The victim is still alive, missing both his eyes and his tongue, and is... ahem... stuck in the other victim, with whom he was having sex. The scene where Scarlett happens upon two of the Ten Commandments Killer's mutilated victims when her father is investigating their house. The dark shadows, flashing lights, and blaring siren don't help with the tension either. Iris tormenting the captured Swedish girls with all the horrible (but blood-strengthening) ingredients she's going to grind up and force-feed them. When Vendela manages to get free, she tries to frantically escape the hotel, even as her sister screams desperately for her not to leave her behind. She's almost made it when suddenly Elizabeth appears right in front of the door and slashes Vendela's throat with her clawed chainmail glove. This and the brief exchange between Iris and Elizabeth right after is reminiscent of an unruly animal getting loose from a peasant farmer and entering the path of an indifferent royal. Iris:(petrified) I-I'm sorry... I dunno how she got out- Elizabeth: This can never happen again. (walks away like nothing happened) And we get a lingering shot as the poor girl bleeds to death on the floor. And later we see the infected children slowly drain Agnetha dry. No hope for those Swedish girls. JamesMarch and the origin of the Hotel Cortez. He specifically designed it to be his "murder palace." We get a montage of the gleefully elaborate atrocities March carried out in the roaring twenties before he was discovered and the police came to arrest him. When that happens, he calmly collects a gun and knife and asks his loyal accomplice Miss Evers how she would like to die. When Evers chooses the gun and is shot in the head, March almost nonchalantly slashes his own throat. Scarlett's second visit to the Hotel Cortez to look for Holden. She sees Sally, who laughs and grinds her own teeth away into smithereens. Fridge Horror: Sally mentions afterwards how children are especially fun to torture/scare. Now consider what Sally's usual methods of torture involve. The editors of a gossip site getting their tongues nailed into their desks by the Ten Commandments Killer while still alive. Claudia laying down to go to bed, only to have hands pop out of her mattress and start strangling her. It's the still-living Gabriel, who tears out of the mattress and stabs Claudia to death with scissors in a screaming frenzy. John and Hazel turn their backs on their sons for one moment and they are both taken away from them. Hazel's son was taken on Halloween by Gordon Northcott, and became one of the victims of the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders. John's son was abducted at a carnival by The Countess, who turned him into one of her vampire children. This also makes Miss Evers's relationship with James March all the more disturbing. She aided him out of a twisted sense of love, most likely after suffering a psychotic break following her son's disappearance. The blood spilling from the ceiling and running over the crime scene photos posted on the wall of John's hotel room. John's dinner with the Mount Rushmore of Murder, as March calls it. To clarify, it's a collection of famous American serial killers who, as it turns out, March influenced when each of them found themselves staying at the Hotel Cortez. These include Aileen Wuornos, Richard Ramirez, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, and the Zodiac Killer. Though they all indulge in Evil Is Hammy in their own ways, it's an unnerving display of Shown Their Work as the acting and writing almost perfectly captures each of these real life psychopaths. And they're all ghosts, which means there is no stopping them from killing anyone if they want to. The dialogue suggests that Charles Manson will become part of the group upon his death, meaning March had a hand in his murders as well. As of "Room Service," we find out why the vampirism has been referred to as a virus when Alex injects a boy dying of measles full of her infected blood. He's seemingly cured of the measles, but it enhances the blood virus. This is bad since the boy goes home, kills and feeds on his parents, goes to school, kills his teacher, infects his entire classroom, and massacres several faculty members. Before the children are rescued and returned to their parents, of course. The whole thing shoots Hotel's already huge Creepy Child factor up to eleven in the most horrifying way. The worst part is when the principal suffers a Slashed Throat and barely escapes the mob of infected kids feeding on his blood. He reaches the nurse's office, who immediately calls for a full lockdown of the school. Cue blood-soaked vampire child's Slasher Smile as the lights go out and all the doors lock from the inside. Alex willingly agreeing to become the new governess for Elizabeth's infected children; forcing her to become her nanny essentially. As well as Elizabeth revealing that Alex and Holden have their own personal coffin now, letting Alex indulge in her obsessive love for Holden forever. Liz Taylor's reason for being at the hotel? Elizabeth made her into her living doll, presumably one she got tired of playing with. Rudy and Natacha were stuck in an abandoned, boarded up hallway of the hotel for nearly a hundred years, unable to sustain themselves with blood. This also revealed that vampires can age if they lose access to blood long enough, and their aging process is not flattering. Their frenzied feeding when they finally escape the hallway also counts. They almost resembled zombies. John learning he's the Ten Commandments Killer. Just the fact someone as normal as everyone else is killing people basing it on a religious pledge is unnerving. Even before he took up the mantle as the Killer, John was unnerving. A detective who has Lack of Empathy over death. No wonder James takes immediate interest in him. The fact that John went on for five whole years repressing the fact that he was the killer. There was a side of him that he didn't existed nor did he want to. The Countess seems to have suffer a bit of Sanity Slippage, going on to create a punishment for her enemies: locking them in the hallway Rudy and Natacha were trapped in before. She also added cameras inside to watch them slowly go insane from their hunger. It's also implied she's planning to also murder or turn Will Drake's son if Miss Evers' comments are true, which is most likely since she's been at the hotel for years. Alex and John's disposal of the middle school vampires: they fool them into thinking that they'll bring them to the Cortez so that the Countess can adopt them as her children instead of turning them over to the authorities, but they instead herd them into the previously mentioned sealed up hallway that had a massive iron door installed on its entrance after it was unsealed during Will's renovations of the hotel, lock the door behind them and leave them to be sucked dry by the previously imprisoned Ramona. Sally's snippets of backstory was this: her drug-fueled love for the two band members were so twisted that she attempted to stitch herself to them so that they would never leave her. The couple overdose and Sally is stuck to their decomposing corpses for a total of five days. While getting tortured by the newly spawned Addiction Demon - i.e. suffering vicious withdrawal symptoms. It's actually kind of impressive that it took her 5 whole days to become desperate enough to rip out the stitches so she could get up and leave. The Countess' reaction to being stuck with James March and the way he says it; you can see her visibly dying on the inside.

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Amanda the Adventurer / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes # Per Wiki Policy all spoilers are unmarked! You Have Been Warned! *Pilot Episode* - Amanda, full-stop. Her responses to you if you get her questions wrong start off passive-aggressive, then it turns to frustration. By the third episode, she's gone completely mad. Or maybe she's hungry... - Special note to her face when she's standing outside the door to the house, with her dilated pupils and a wide grin. - The treasure hunt tape has Amanda pull out three items to use, two of which they used already. The items are a crowbar, a rope forming a noose, and a shovel. None of these are particularly comforting to see, given the implied context, and Amanda even says they used the crowbar to "open a door" and that they "need to dig up the treasure before someone-" only to be cut off by Wooly, who Grew a Spine and urges the player to take the tapes out and burn them. The tape ends with Amanda warping into some horrific shape behind Wooly, who lets out one final distorted bleat as she does who knows what to him. - Even before it turns creepy, the treasure hunt tape just feels off. Wooly is clearly out of it, trailing off as if he's forgetting his lines. Amanda, meanwhile, now has the animation quality of an SFM model getting its mouth flapped up and down. The Stylistic Suck here makes her look downright jarring next to the better-animated Wooly, and it gives off the impression of Glamour Failure. - Through Modding, you can explore the room you watch the tapes from. The model for Amanda's true form is stored . **right behind you the whole game** - Update 1.4 allows the player to walk around the room where they view the tapes. The area appears to be a Room Full of Crazy, the walls filled with many red phrases that almost seem like Madness Mantra. ## Full Game - Whenever Riley fails to keep Amanda satisfied, there's a bump heard from behind them after the most recent tape ends. Then the trap door to the attic opens and Amanda bursts in, now fully in her Eldritch Abomination form, and lunges at Riley. - If you listen closely to the noise Demon Amanda emits, it's a combination of demonic roaring and *Amanda screaming aggressively at you.* - Amanda playing Doctor with Wooly in the alternative "Oh no! Accidents!" tape. As in, she straight up drugs him, it cuts to them in a bloody operating room with Wooly on the table, and Amandas all scrubbed up for surgery to fix Woolys head - The Petting Zoo episode. - Wooly slowly regressing into a regular sheep is both heartbreaking and terrifying. It starts with him doing one harmless bleat at the start of the episode, then gets worse as Amanda forbids him to talk because it's not something animals do, after which he actually loses the ability to speak and can only make scared bleats. When Amanda proposes (reads: orders) that they visit the sheep enclosure, Wooly looks horrified and tries to get Riley to stop what's going on. When Riley is inevitably forced to do what Amanda wants, the next time we see Wooly is as a fully converted sheep, happily bleating away on a meadow with no memory of who he was or what happened to him. - The Lonely Kitten scenario, no matter how you answer. If you refuse to help the Lonely Kitten, Amanda breaks down literally and metaphorically, repeatedly begging you to help the Lonely Kitten while her surroundings and body distort and twist to an extremely disturbing degree. If you do agree to help the Lonely Kitten, Amanda just stares at you, then starts breaking out into a Slasher Smile. - On a related note, It's not just Amanda looking at you. As the tape comes to an end, the sheep in the pen with Wooly slowly turn and look up towards the screen as well. Neither the Lonely Kitten nor Wooly do this, which implies the three sheep may be more than they appear... - "Some Mommies eat their babies! Yum Yum!" Since Sam is never shown to have a wife and mentions Rebecca went through a lot before he adopted her, it begs the question of exactly what experiences Amanda/Rebecca has had with a Mom to have that kind of reaction. - Also, as she says that, the mother hen eats one of the chicks. There's no gore, and the chick is swallowed whole, but it's still disturbing. - Even more disturbing is that this is Truth in Television, as some hens really do eat their own chicks. - Even the background scenery is disturbing, as the barn in the background has unblinking bloodshot eyes and is breathing heavily. - The daybreak ending. If you agree to share a secret with Amanda, she tells you that she's out there... somewhere. Then the TV starts going crazy, flipping between random footage from the show and what appears to be a human trying to claw through the screen. The only way to get it to stop is to destroy the TV by throwing a brick at it. - For the entire game, all of Amanda and Wooly's audio has had an appropriate "aged VHS tape" filter applied to it. When Amanda tells you her secret, that filter isn't there. As in, *she's in the room with you behind the screen.* - Cutting up the doll is already upsetting, but then she actually *screams in agony* when you do it. And another playthrough confirms that the doll is fully sentient. - It's never actually revealed what exactly happened to Kate. All we know is that she investigated the *Amanda the Adventurer* tapes and presumably died sometime into the investigation. It's heavily implied that Amanda is responsible for her passing. - In one of the secret tapes, *someone* is recording audio of Rebecca (Amanda's voice actor) reciting lines while her father Sam expresses increasing discomfort. However, when Rebecca continues without input she tells them both that there's a 'man in the headphones' telling her what to do. It's clear from both her father and the executive's reactions that there *shouldn't* be a voice in her headphones feeding her lines... - The words Rebecca is reading out may seem nonsensical until you realize *she is spelling out the names of high ranking demons: Bael, Paimon and Balam.* Just what is Hameln company messing with to have a little girl practice calling out demons during a recording session?? - The secret orange tape is a home video showing a pair of parents trying to get their daughter Lauren to leave her room and come downstairs for her surprise birthday party. Lauren seemingly doesn't even hear her mother when she calls out to her; she just keeps staring at the TV, which is currently running an episode of *Amanda the Adventurer*. The parents remark on how obsessed Lauren has been with the show. After the dad attempts one last time to lure Lauren downstairs with her favorite ice cream, mint chocolate chip, both parents enter the room again to find that Lauren has vanished, seemingly having left the house. As the mom drops the camera to run outside and look for Lauren, we hear Amanda say this: - In one of the endings, Riley finds themselves trapped inside Amanda's cartoon world as *one of the pieces of meat in the butcher's shop*. - There's a hidden credit at the end of "In Your Neighborhood" that doesn't have anything to do with animation or writing: they're a **Containment Specialist**. Containing who? Rebecca? Sam? The ghosts of the entity's victims, including Rebecca and Sam? Demons?

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American Mary / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Mary getting raped by Grant; she was roofied and could not move but was ''conscious''. - Dr. Grant's fate. He arguably deserved it, but it's still horrifying. - As mentioned above, Billy has a fantasy of Mary stabbing him with a scalpel. - A lot of Mary's customers after surgery are nothing short of horrific. Though unlike Grant, these are at least willing and paying customers.

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American McGee's Grimm / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes It may be redundant to say, but this game is full of disturbing imagery. When you consider the fact that the guy who made this is American McGee, (yes, *that one*) it's kind of a given. - Grimm himself is rather repulsive despite the limited art for it. He's dirty, smelly and has mix-matched eyes and is literally a walking force of corruption. He destroys all forms of happiness and fun and makes things dangerously dark and twisted with a mere thought. - The forms people become as the worlds are corrupted. They are either turned into pale imitations, demonic forces or walking corpses. - In Pinocchio pictured above, Grimm decides to change the titular character from an innocent (and in this case Ditzy) Puppet into an Ax-Crazy and psychopathic monster whom at the end of the story, Grows big enough to dwarf the earth itself and proceeds to stomp on and destroy it. - Just how powerful is Grimm? During the events of the game he corrupts both God *and* Satan.

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AMBER: Journeys Beyond / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes On the same topic, special mention goes to a beehive you can disturb in the garden. If you do, a swarm of bees jumps out and hovers around the screen for about a minute, while a distorted, disembodied voice talks about ||Brice's conspiracies of UFOs and his supposed perverted desires and insanity||, as if someone nearby has been watching what Brice was doing the whole time. Naturally, he doesn't take it well. **Brice:** You bees are all! A Bunch! OF LIARS!!

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American Dragon: Jake Long / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The Magical World is not all Fairies and Unicorns, even for a heroic Dragon... - The Nyx. Imagine being a relatively normal girl, but every night when the moon reaches the center of the sky, you uncontrollably turn into a winged, snake-like monster with an insatiable hunger for souls. - The Kelpie. - Yang Jake in "The Doppelgänger Gang". He was easily able to overpower Jake due to him being weakened by making so many doppelgängers at once. And when Jake tried to reabsorb the other doppelgängers, Yang Jake beat him to it, then set his sights on absorbing Jake himself to take control. *And he almost succeeded*. Who knew Dante Basco could be so terrifying? Also... those *eyes*... - As deserved as it was, the destruction of the Huntsclan, where all members are hoisted into the air, kicking and screaming, by their glowing Birthmarks of Destiny and zapped out of existence. It could almost be considered merciful that The Huntsman himself was unconscious when meeting the same fate. - Jakes dream in Half-Baked is pretty scary, grim, foreboding and quite terrifying, as it starts out with a serene scene alongside Lao Shi and Fu Dog. But then it turns nightmarish and unnerving, branches trying to capture Jake as he follows Rose through the dream version central park as the whole scenery turns progressively darker. - The Krylock Demon from the same episode is bad enough all on its own, but its venom truly takes the cake. If its injected directly into a body, the result is almost instantaneous death, and that is the pleasant effect. When consumed, the venom instead mutates the victim and turns them into human-Krylock hybrids which become so savage that they will attack anyone, including relatives, with stinger tail, scorpion claws, xenomorph tongues or acid-spit. - Imagine a parent that ate one of those venom-laced muffins in a car with their children. - The rabid Krylock-clown hybrids were in a tent filled with children. Nuff said. - Brad was almost eaten by one that he was planning to kiss (the fact that Brad's into it and asks if he has to pay extra for being in its/her mouth afterwards is a count of nightmare fuel all on its own). Him not getting dissolved by the acid spit is a miracle. - The way the Avimetrus dies onscreen in Young at Heart is gruesome, continually sucking its own youth and then turn from young and healthy into old and decrepit over and over before it explodes, covering Jake and Hailey in its guts. Doubles as dodging the radar for graphic death. - The "Bite Father, Bite Son" episode has three Strigoi Vampires advancing on Jake in his Dragon Form, which is scary in itself. That they proceed to weaken him and then beat him up is worse, and then continue to do it when Jake reverts to human form. - "The Academy" gives the audience the Octo-puss, a cute little adorable kitten one moment, the next it is a ferocious, at least 15 feet tall octopus-cat hybrid with a Sarlac mouth and tentacles that wants to eat people. - The Huntsclans activities are a veritable factory of this and loads of Paranoia Fuel. Their murderous tendencies and genocidal aspirations aside, their other activities are downright creepy. They have eavesdropped on peoples phone calls since at least the 80s, have people stationed in hospitals to acquire new members from amongst the newborn children whom they yank of their parent's arms and have bases spread across the globe, filled to the brim with weapons. It's deeply disconcerting to think of how much they knew about regular people, how much hurt they caused and could potentially cause on a global scale. - The Huntsclan Academy. Simply arriving to the school says it all: Students are forced through a training scenario which not only includes the danger of being torn apart by animals, flamethrowers and a Drill Sergeant Nasty that uses a whip and verbal smackdowns to drive the students through the obstacle course, all while the new students are to recite the purpose of the Huntsclan: Destroy all magical creatures. The academy has a large arena for watching any misbehaving students fight a Kraken, most likely to the death. And then there is the students themselves, an army of tykebombs whom consider casual socializing to a be discussion on how best to remove dragonblood from clothes, while more serious stuff like infighting amongst the students can break out over anything from who to take to the prom to rumors (with the teachers as collateral damage). The chances of multiple deaths of students suddenly seem mind-blowingly high. - What if the gorgons had decided to bide their time in Furious Jealousy and Jake had kept getting bigger? He barely won with help as it is, imagine if he was *even fatter.* - Not to mention this is one of the few villains who was able to not only defeat Jake, but his grandfather as well by turning them to stone! If his friends hadn't been able to defeat the gorgons, the heroes of this show would be stone statues. - Sara, the chipper half of the Seer Twins, can often come off as creepy due to her powers showing her nothing but awful events to happen in the future, which she copes with by being as cheerful as possible. The bigger issue is she has no problem revealing terrible things to others in a cheerful tone. Such as the following: **Sara:** Hi, you're cute. Wanna know the exact time and day you're gonna die? **Sara:** I just get visions; horrible, disturbing visions that haunt my every waking moment. Not to mention my nightmares. - According to Word of God, the creators planned to have Technical Pacifist Dragon and Cool Teacher Sun Park fight on top of a volcano with Rose in the episode *Homecoming*, which would have resulted in Sun's death at Rose's hands, however the scene was cut for being too dark. Considering how dark the series could already get, one could only shudder at how dark the death scene of one of the series' most kindest characters might have been for the creators to deem it excessive. - Roses state during The Love Cruise after Jake shot her with Cupids arrow. She knows all of Jakes secrets at this point and is capable of exploiting them, if shed decided to lay low and avoid detection, she couldve done more damage to his family and the magical community, than only slaying him. - Its subtle and easy to miss, but in "Act 4, Scene 15", Spud is on his laptop, helping Jake find the Huntsclans tomb. He then tells Jake he found something on an urban myth website; a photographer went into a cave on the outer edge of Central Park, and was never seen again. All that was found was his camera with *a photo of the Huntsclan insignia* on it. Its strongly implied that the Huntsclan murdered this poor man who was unlucky enough to stumble upon their tomb, just to keep it hidden.

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Amalgamate / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes While certainly not more gruesome than the actual canon of Dangan Ronpa can get, this fic is packed to the brim with horrifying moments that can sometimes even match up to or exceed even the most gruesome moments of the Danganronpa 3 anime. - The Stryke-9 poisoning is played as realistically as possible, with Kokichi having graphic and painful convulsions that have him begging for death. With Kaito refusing to kill Kokichi, Kokichi has to endure the sheer agony until they can finish the trial and hopefully get to an antidote before he dies from it all. - Basically all of the back end of chapter 15, seeing the sheer trauma Kokichi went through according to the flashback lights, seeing Kaito loathe Shuichi with all of his heart in the flashback lights after Shuichi accidentally led remnants to his grandparent's house because he couldn't trust Kokichi, to the birds almost dying, and to Tsumugi and Motherkuma further constant framing of Kokichi. It's a chapter that might leave you feeling actually sick afterward.

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American Horror Story: Apocalypse / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes And as far as visuals go, this is the least creepy. This season is titled *Apocalypse* for a good reason. In fact a lot of good reasons. **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.** Promos - If you weren't afraid of the apocalypse before, the first two teasers may help. - The first teaser starts off with a baby in the womb. Then the umbilical cord turns black, the camera pans to a heart and then an atomic explosion happens. We go inside the explosion and see a female body resting near a skeleton, wearing a gas mask. The gas mask melts away to reveal her black skull which is then dragged into an oily ground by a pair of black hands. Then two scorpions come out of a fig and fight to the death. Then a pentagram explodes and is taken into a furnace. Finally, the last shot is of an hourglass with skulls and an atomic explosion inside of it. The demonic hand returns and turns the hourglass upside down, restarting the hourglass. What's worse about this is the caption that goes with the teaser. It's time. - The second teaser shows the demonic hand reaching for a baby's hand. The camera flashes as brief glimpses of the shot show that the baby's hand has gone red as an atomic explosion happens behind the hands. Intro - In addition to featuring strange creatures seen in earlier season intros, there is a shot of two children silhouetted on a dark staircase with glowing white eyes. - Just the intro in general, which is a mix between Nightmare Fuel and Awesome due to it being a direct shout-out to the *Murder House* and *Coven* openings. The End - The nuclear strikes all across the world. The air raid siren does not help at all. A random bystander commits suicide and the body falls onto Coco's car. - Timothy being taken from his family by Cooperative officials right before the strike. - The explosions from the nukes rocking the bunker Timothy and Emily are being held captive in. - Upon entering Outpost 3, Timothy and Emily see two occupants on their knees outside the building without radiation suits. They plead for their lives as they're shot in the head by Mrs. Meade and a guard in radiation gear. - Mr. Gallant and Stu are humiliated with scrubbings after Mrs. Meade cranks up the Geiger Counter to detect exorbitant amounts of really superficial radiation. It gets worse after she does a final check on them after the scrubbing and by a flick of a switch, lets Gallant go while killing Stu. It is later presumed that the Outpost's guards chopped up and cooked Stu to feed to the other occupants in the Outpost after they find bones and teeth in their stew. - The situation in the Outpost in general, without anything else. Communication with the outside world is non-existent. Their only food is a nutritional loaf, and even then they have to cut back to half-rations. - Again Mrs. Meade shows no mercy with her gun and kills Michael Langdon's horses after he arrives at Outpost 3, who then decay as they fall to the ground. It is additionally horrifying that somebody would be willing to harness two horses to a carriage and send them into a nuclear wasteland. Not to mention the unseen *something* that drags one of the horse carcasses out of sight under the bushes... The Morning After - Snakes appear from nowhere in Emily's room. After killing them, Meade chops them up and cooks them for stew... and by the time the bowls are uncovered for the residents to dine on, *they've regenerated*. - Rubber Man makes his return, and is just as creepy as ever. - Gallant being flogged by Venable and Meade. - The way Michael forcefully tells Venable to show him the reason why she's lying to him. What follows is creepy enough, but the way the camera shows off how Venable's back and spine is misaligned, either by sickness or something else, is haunting enough. - Gallant sees Rubber Man a second time and follows him to a bedroom. Thinking it's Michael, who earlier mocked and humiliated him, Gallant stabs him to death with scissors. Then he sees Michael in the doorway. And then he sees that he hasn't killed Rubber Man, he's killed his grandmother. Forbidden Fruit - The glimpse we get of Michael's real form during Mallory's power surge. - After two episodes of descriptions, we finally get to see the nightmare that the post-apocalyptic world has become. Scavengers, horribly disfigured by radiation-induced sicknesses, either dropping dead like flies or killing each other for food. With the losers of these fights often *becoming* food. - The death of the Purples (Coco, Gallant, Dinah, Andre, Timothy, and Emily) by poisoned apples. The venom destroys their nervous systems and eats away at their stomach (as stated by Mead), and the process is slow and painful, complete with copious amounts of coughing and vomiting. They can't breathe long before they die. Could It Be...Satan? - Michael telekinetically breaking the interrogation officers arms and legs while pinning him to the wall, then making his head explode. The screaming doesn't help. - Similar to the above, when Michael uses his power to murder an officer that Ariel had helplessly pinned against the wall, and was only planning on keeping asleep. It's implied that Ariel didn't even know this had happened, either. - It's subtle, but the fact that when Michael turns up at the Cortez, March, the Big Bad of Hotel, is instantly complainant and goes along with what Michael says, shows how scary powerful Michael actually is. Boy Wonder - Michael rescues Misty from her personal hell by cutting the science teacher open in the same way she was repeatedly forced to dissect the frog. - In the same scene as the above, Misty mentions that the children who were in that classroom rolled their eyes over and began talking in tongues as Langdon listened to them. As disturbing as this scene is, it also gives the implication that the children were demons from hell who oversaw and partook in Misty's torment. - Cordelia being brutally torn apart by cannibalistic apocalypse survivors during her dream at the very beginning of the episode, while a laughing demon (likely Michael in his true form) watches. - The depiction of Hell in this show is radically different from the usual depiction and a prime example of Nothing Is Scarier. It's a black hallway that goes on for eternity with rooms lining its walls, leading to people's personal hell, with the only lighting being a sickly yellow. Return to Murder House - The flashbacks to Michael's childhood, which show that over the years he killed a number of animals before getting to the babysitter seen in the finale of *Murder House*. Then, after his Overnight Age-Up, he tries to strangle Constance in her sleep just because he's mad at her. This leads to her summoning a priest for help, whom Michael also kills (he's shown sitting on his bed casually playing video games *next to the priest's body*). This is all ultimately too much for even Constance, who kills herself to escape Michael. - Michael has the ability to render ghosts Deader than Dead, which he first demonstrates by killing a lesbian couple who just bought the Murder House (wearing the Rubber Man suit, natch), then *incinerating* their spirits. On top of that, Michael senses Vivien behind him and tries to incinerate *her* (though she was trying to kill him herself). Luckily Tate saves her before it takes full effect. - The Black Mass that the Satanists perform to help Michael come fully into his position as Antichrist. They abduct a woman, cut her heart out, and have Michael eat it raw. Then his shadow warps into the figure of Satan, signifying his ascension. Traitor - The episode opens with Dinah stabbing a doll with a pin to injure a woman and then *ripping out her heart*. - Papa Legba's back and creepy as ever. - Nan is back, too, and it appears that her time in Hell has warped her a bit. Hearing her beg Cordelia to sacrifice the other Robichaux girls so that she can play with them again is quite unsettling. - Ariel and Baldwin's Imagine Spot, where they visualize themselves poisoning the coven, all of them dying horribly as blood pours from their eyes — according to Baldwin, the poison works by breaking down their bodies' cell walls, causing them to bleed out from every pore. Fortunately, this doesn't get a chance to actually happen. - For an idea of how warped Baldwin is, consider the fact that he blows some of the poison into Ariel's face *as a gag*. Sure, he didn't intend to harm Ariel, but consider how badly things might have turned out if he hadn't made absolutely sure that the poison only affected women. - Cordelia's burning of Ariel, Baldwin, and Mead at first seems like a Moment of Awesome... until you realize that Michael is going to find out and if the preview for the next episode is anything to go by, he's not happy. It's also eerily reminiscent of when Fiona coldly burned Myrtle. Human!Mead's Slasher Smile as she burns at the stake deserves a special mention. Once again Kathy Bates shows her ability to turn something like a mere facial expression held for about 2 seconds of screentime into the stuff of nightmares. Zoe is visibly troubled by the whole thing, no doubt having flashbacks to the burnings in Coven. She also notices Coco is as well and comforts her. Sojourn - The charred skeletons of Ariel, Baldwin, and Mead, which have already crumbled apart and are almost ash after only a few hours. But what really puts this into nightmare territory is Mead's skeleton. When Michael touches her skull, it looks like it's still smiling. Good luck sleeping after that. - Michael's agonized scream. Doubles as Tear Jerker. - After Cordelia offers to help Michael, he takes her hand... and then yanks her until she's inches away from his face, swearing he's going to bring Mead back and he'll kill every last one of the witches. Cody Fern's Tranquil Fury delivery of the dialogue makes it more disturbing. After he walks off, Cordelia is left stunned and glances at Mead's skeleton, realizing that she's fucked up big time. - Michael stabbing a goat multiple times before ripping its horn off with his bare hands, which leads to snakes slithering out of its gaping, bloody wound. A mix of both Squick and Surreal Horror. - While the Satanic cult is mostly Played for Laughs (albeit Black Comedy laughs), the scene where they sacrifice two innocent people is not. They're offered to Michael for him to sacrifice, which he does via Slashed Throat. All this while the end title music/Michael's theme plays over it. - Michael burning the prostitute Mutt and Jeff were using out of existence. Fire and Reign - Michael and Mead walking into Miss Robichaux's and calmly murdering every single one of the witches in the room, including Zoe and Queenie, with a gun in Mead's arm. Michael then destroys their souls, making it impossible for them to be revived. Doubles as a Tear Jerker. Apocalypse Then

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A Man of Iron / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes **RAMSAY SNOW** has a point-of-view chapter. Mr Chaos found himself quoting the Joker and Pennywise to better live in his brain. Yeah... - His death - whipped to death by Vanko's customized whip - is very much deserved but kinda unsettling. And as psycho as Vanko is, how much do you bet he uses this whip on poor, unsuspecting commoners? - Myranda's death manages to be even worse than Ramsay's. Shes stripped naked, her tongue is ripped out, her eyes are sealed shut with hot wax, and she has shallow cuts made along her torso before salt water was poured on her. Shes left wandering around sobbing and scared, looking for Ramsay... and then Vanko wraps his burning whips around her throat. Mr. Chaos goes into graphic detail of her skin burning down to the muscle before she finally dies. There is a reason this is the first chapter to receive a warning for graphic violence. - Making it even worse according to Mr. Chaos this is the **TAME** version, as how he originally wrote it was so graphically violent he chose to tone it down. He only mentions that in the original version Myranda's eyes were stitched shut with fish hooks. - Myranda herself is incredibly disturbing. While she and Ramsay are hunting their current victim, this is what she has to say: "I want to sew her pussy up. She wanted to have your baby, I can tell. I want to stick some foul rodent in her and sew her up and watch her scream as it burrows out."

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Amityville II: The Possession / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The way the house seems to come to life while the family is getting ready for bed. As the camera glides through the house, all manner of disturbances occur. We hear various moans and cries, a tablecloth comes flying out of the kitchen and covers up a crucifix on the wall, and a mirror moves to watch Sonny as he leaves the bathroom. - The entirety of Sonny's possession. His appearance alone is freaky as hell. The makeup effects get more and more hideous as the movie goes on, to the point that he ends up looking Gollum by the end. - The movie saves its most nightmarish effects for last, though, as the scene where his head essentially begins to fall apart is possibly the most terrifying scene in the entire Amityville series. - Sonny being possessed. The way his chest essentially caves in is rather difficult to watch. - Anthony is rather disturbing character in his own right. Unlike Simon, his actions are in no way excused by the influences of the Amityville House. It instead becomes increasingly apparent that the man is, at his core, an utterly monstrous husband and father. It's unsettlingly and uncomfortably the darkest acting performance of Oscar-nominee Burt "Paulie" Young, even nastier then his later performance as The Don who Fingore Eric Roberts in *The Pope of Greenwich Village*. - The scene with the paintbrushes. While the sight of two paintbrushes floating in midair and painting the wall can be a little silly at first, that silliness begins to dissipate when you see just what it is they're drawing: ||Jody, the demonic pig from the original.|| Any remaining laughs the scene may contain go completely out the window once Anthony comes in and starts beating Jan and Mark. - The way Dolores scratches at Anthony's face shortly after is rather cringe-worthy as well. - The whole BrotherSister Incest subplot. While it is clear that much of Sonny's actions are the work of the demonic presence influencing him, he and his sister seem awfully close even from the very beginning. - Sonny murdering his family. Of particular mention is the death of Mark, as lightning illuminates the background to reveal Sonny standing behind his brother with a shotgun.

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A Million Little Things / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes ## Season 1 ## Season 2 - "The Kiss": ||Gary punches the car of a guy who almost runs him over. When the guy stops and gets out of the car, Gary taunts him until the man pulls a *gun* at him. He doesn't shoot him, gratefully.|| - A racial one for Rome in "We're the Howards". He is at a softball game where he is perfectly aware that he is the ONLY black man. While he is recording Sophie playing for his adoption video, a paranoid father thinks Rome is an ephebophile recording his daughters. He accosts Rome. Gary shows up, punches the guy, and it soon leads to Rome in the back of a police car with Gary. ## Season 3 ## Season 4 - "Six Months Later" ||ends with Maggie learning she has a stalker.|| - "Piece Of Cake": ||Theo finds Katherine passed out in the kitchen.||

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American Gods (2017) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Episode 1 - The Bone Orchard - In the prologue, the Vikings have sailed to the point where they have very little food or water. When they make it to the beach, they have no time to restock, because if they step off of the beach, they will be pin-cushioned by a flurry of arrows. They cannot set sail because there is no wind. In order to ask for Odin's favor to help leave, they willingly let their captain stab an eye out with a red-hot knife, they burn a member of their crew alive on a pyre, and they kill each other in a senseless battle. When the wind picks up they leave before they could give their dead proper funerary rights. Given that they have no food or water, it is very likely that almost all of the men died trying to ration their supplies on the way back to home, (very likely cannibalized after dying from the wounds they had no time to dress). We know that the captain lived to *not* tell the tale of what they experienced, but the same cannot be said for the rest of the crew. - Shadow's recurring nightmare of an enormous pile of skulls. - As a show of just how absurdly high on the totem pole the New Gods really are, the Technical Boy (who is portrayed as something of an obnoxious, rich, white brat) has Shadow *lynched* for for the crime of *not respecting him enough*, Shadow being in the dark as to who the Technical Boy is or what he is being lynched for. Episode 4 - Git Gone - When Laura fails Anubis' judgement (or rather impatiently flunks it), he explains that her afterlife is "darkness". He implies that it will not be the peaceful experience that she hoped it would be due to her lack of belief. Episode 5 - Lemon Scented You - The female cop that has Shadow and Mr. Wednesday arrested is immediately suspicious of the Orgy of Evidence they used to arrest them was just dumped in their lap, which just makes you wonder how long the New Gods have been watching them. - When Media floats into the interrogation room a few feet off of the ground, accompanied by the dramatic score, it's equal parts amusing and unsettling. - Mr. World. Just Mr. World. From his Kubrick Stare to his utter failure to look charming and approachable, his repeat Glamour Failure, his Cold Ham sermon of salsa and the illusion of free will, the way he bullies Technical Boy like an abusive dad would "discipline" their son and the implications of his invasive omniscience allowing him to know Shadow's dreams, the face he makes when he masturbates (presumably when in private) and various other facts. And this was *his introduction!* - The New Gods try bribing Wednesday with a position among them and a pittance of sacrifices in his name. The pittance? *Naming a missile system after him and carpet bombing North Korea!* - Mr. Wood massacred the entirety of a police station both to leave no witnesses and as a warning to Shadow and Wednesday. - Mr. Wood (having once been an animistic tree god) is a Botanical Abomination that disguised himself as a desk in the station before erupting as a monstrous killer tree. Episode 6 - A Murder of God Episode 8 - Come to Jesus - While waiting for Ostara, Laura coughs up a visceral ball of maggots in the sink. - While she may act as sweet as a late-40's American Musical, it is clear that Media is there to intimidate Ostara into complacency, veiled in a manner similar to other abusive relationships. It did not help that her faceless minion was standing there next to them. - It is shown here that the Children are capable of multiplying like germs, one minion becoming a group instantly, with Technical Boy and Mr. World taking possession of two of them to join the conflict. Episode 1 - House on the Rock - When the Caretaker tries denying Mr. World access to the Eyes of Argus, Mr. World gives a Screw the Rules, I Make Them! speech that only someone like Crispin Glover can make unsettling. **Mr. World:** The President is a cardboard cutout. I am the man, behind the man, behind the man. Operation Paperclip, the Moon-Landing , Roswell , the Compton Crack-Wars; *you* work for *me* . *You* have always worked for *me.* So when I say "I need to see through the Eyes of Argus", *you make the connection* . Episode 2 - The Beguiling Man - Shadow's mother asks him to leave their apartment to socialize. When he tries, he is immediately beaten to the ground by a gang for "talking funny" (speaking perfect English, i.e. "like a white boy") and accidentally coming across as condescending ("you think I'm stupid, white boy? You think you're better than me?"). When he tries escaping, he is then grabbed and accosted by a police officer, presumably because of his skin color. He is made a victim for both being black and not being black *enough*. Episode 4 - The Greatest Story Ever Told - When Mr. World grows impatient with Technical Boy, he punishes him by grabbing his head and *shoving his thumbs into his eyes.* Episode 5 - The Ways of the Dead - William James' death is horrific enough on its own. The fact that his spirit is not only out for blood, but has it out for the lives for the marginalized Black population (no matter how mercifully he spins it) sucks majorly. - The last we see of Jamar Goodchild is him being tackled to the ground and handcuffed by a cop. The next scene we find him dead in Ibis' morgue. We can only assume that the police had him killed (unarmed, no less), or at least he died in their custody. - Jamar's body is found covered in burns and other sort of wounds that Ibis claims were inflicted post-mortem. He then explains that this is common to black bodies in Cairo. *How exactly* do these wounds end up on their bodies? Do they just appear as a mark of Froggie's curse, or does something find the bodies and inflict the wounds after they're dead? Did the *police* inflict those wounds? - William James' spirit manifests as his disembodied head, on fire and stuck on a pike. When Jamar sees it in broad daylight, it's scary as hell, especially when his eyes follow Jamar.

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American Horror Story: Cult / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.** ## In General - *KAI.* Full stop. In a show filled with antagonists and villains who are boosted by their supernatural status, as a normal human he is terrifyingly real. An expert manipulator who extracts people's darkest secrets from them and uses their secrets against them, he relishes torturing Ally and quickly kills anyone who he believes is in his way, including his *own siblings.* His hold on his followers only makes him worse, as they will do absolutely anything for him (including *killing themselves*, which he'll happily have them do). Even his very physical appearance can be unsettling at times. And the worst part? *He could really exist.* It's enough to make anyone paranoid. ## Teaser and Title Sequence - A shirtless man dons a stern-faced mask of Donald Trump and turns its piercing glare towards the viewer. Regardless of your political preference or whether you praise or pan Trump, if you watch this frame in the dead of midnight with crickets your only company in a dark room of a house in a rural countryside, or anywhere with too much silence, one may feel that the masked man with his pseudo-real face has it in for you. He's got something in mind for you, and even if you do know what he's going to do (i.e. kill, kidnap, or torture) you, you don't want to find out how he will do it! - The bugs crawling out of the woman. Fear of bugs and trypophobia are extremely common fears. ## Election Night - The opening scene. Not only can it bring back election anxiety, but televisions *should not be humped!* - Winter trying to corrupt Oz. While Oz's moms are working at their restaurant, Winter tries to show him a brutal stabbing on the dark web. Oz soon tells her that he doesn't want to see it anymore, but she convinces him to keep watching it. ## The Neighbors from Hell - The Cold Open. Showing a woman with a fear of being buried alive conquering her fear... only for the cult to break in, lock her and her husband in coffins, and leave them to suffocate. - The new neighbors wearing sombreros taunting Ally for having killed Pedro. They appear more vicious and malicious than Kai when they rattle the bars and throw coupons at their prey. - The chemical truck is high grade. It summons memories of the Joker's smilex balloon from the 1989 Batman, given the green smoke trailing from its rear. When Ally discovers the dead birds, the horror goes up. - Oz's pet guinea pig being microwaved. - The men in the dark hazmat suits spraying the toxic green gas mentioned earlier and their bloodied nose smiley face masks beneath their gas masks. ## 11/9 - Gary cutting off his hand. ## Holes - The cult members, at Kai's urging, very reluctantly decide to take turns using a nail gun to shoot nails into the head of a still-living R.J., who joined the cult but was hesitant to participate in murders with the others. Other than Kai, Gary has a sadistic and chilling smile and seems to be the only one to enjoy it as he performs the act. ## Mid-Western Assassin - Kai convincing Meadow to open gunfire at his campaign rally in a stomach-twisting scene wherein he first has her tied up and thrown in a closet before seducing and effortlessly manipulating her into doing what he wants, with the implication that he told her to kill herself for him, as she does earlier in the episode. The absolute hold he has over her is *chilling.* - This episode was actually censored for the original television broadcast due to the 2017 Las Vegas Shooting in which 58 people were killed and 422 were injured at a country music festival which happened six days prior before the episode aired. The uncut version of the episode then made available for online streaming and eventually was aired on TV. ## Winter of Our Discontent - The whole flashback scene involving the Sinister Minister that Kai and Winter met from the dark web. Not only does he kidnap people he believes to be "sinners", he also straps them in to death traps that wouldn't be out of place in a Saw movie. Even worse when Kai reveals that the "sinners" that were kidnapped were completely innocent, and were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. ## Drink The Kool-Aid - As the intro reminds the audience, this season's events to date are not far off from reality, directly recalling Heaven's Gate, the Branch Davidians, and Jonestown, dwelling particularly on the suicidal ends of those three cults. - Kai attempts to recreate one of those stories with his own cult, convincing everyone to drink some kool-aid he made, including Ivy, Ally, and his own sister Winter. Thankfully it was all just to make an example, but still. - And during all this, one of the cult members freaks out, not wanting to die via poisoned kool-aid, and ends up getting himself shot to death, despite the kool-aid being perfectly safe to drink in the first place. ## Charles (Manson) In Charge - The re-enactment of the Helter Skelter killings, complete with Sharon Tate begging for the life of her child. - Everything about the Night of a Thousand Tates. - The betrayal of Gary comes with Kai thanking him for his service and hugging him, then everyone else stabbing him to death.

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Amnesia: Memories / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes ### **Warning!** As per *Moments* page policy, all spoilers will be unmarked. Don't believe that, since this is an otome game, it will be nothing but sweetness. - Several Bad Endings. - Spade World Bad Ending #2 — *I'll get rid of those who hurt you.* The heroine gets accosted by Ikki's jealous fangirls in the forest, who have decided to punish her for monopolizing Ikki's attention. It cuts to Ikki in a hospital and talking to who is presumed to be the heroine. She is comatose, and Ikki mentions that she cannot hear him anymore because she's been rendered deaf, and blind, too. Ikki growls that he'll make sure to deal with the ones that did this to her. It's the first time Ikki is shown to be truly angry. And what did those girls do that caused the heroine to become deaf, blind, and fall into a coma? - Diamond World Bad Ending #2 — *We'll be together forever.* The heroine stumbles back to Toma's place after her accident, but runs into him outside. She's too injured to run away and Toma realizes that she managed to get out of the cage *and* was trying to run away from him. He says he'll make sure to not let this happen again... and it cuts to what seems to be winter time, as Toma comments about the snow falling softly outside of his window, but the heroine likely doesn't notice. He has her stuck in his home, implied to be in a bigger cage now, and chained up. She doesn't remember anything, having lost her sense of self, and she doesn't even react to Orion talking to her. Toma asks her if she even remembers who he is and tells her his name, ready to tell her every day, if she forgets. - An extra creepy factor in that ending is that Orion is still merged with the heroine. He cannot leave because she has no stimuli to regain her memories and push him out. So, Orion is stuck and can do nothing but watch the heroine be Toma's prisoner and toy. - Joker World Bad Ending #4 — *We'll be together forever.* Named the same as the Diamond World ending, this ending happens if the heroine tells Toma about Ikki's fangirls harassing her. In an *instant* he goes quiet, but his Creepy Shadowed Undereyes make an appearance, which will definitely warn the player they're on the way to a Bad End. If they keep playing, Toma smiles and says he'll make sure they don't hurt the heroine anymore. The next day, he invites her to his house. The player is probably expecting the cage. There is instead a huge pool of blood. The heroine and Orion freak out; Toma calmly says not to worry, it's not his or her blood after all. Anyway, he thinks it's best if she doesn't go outside for a while. Adding onto this is that the Yandere doesn't come out right away in this scene; he just gradually shifts into it, building up the dread and terror so that it hits you maximum when he gets to his last line: - The revelation of what will happen to Ukyo and Lord Nhil, if the latter's powers run out before he can fulfill Ukyo's wish. Both will end up stuck in a void between dimensions, with no escape possible. - Toma's route itself can easily become Nightmare Fuel for anybody that knows the twist going into it... or anyone that finds severe bullying from jealous fangirls on one hand and being drugged and imprisoned by a person you love or trust on the other disturbing.

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American Horror Story: Freak Show / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.** - The opening credits. The usual screeching noises, mixed in with a creepy circus theme and vastly unsettling stop-motion animation. - Twisty the Monster Clown is likely the scariest character of any *American Horror Story* series. An unwashed clown with a grinning mask, no bottom jaw, an unsettling stare and on close inspection appears to be wearing someone's scalp. With requisite Creepy Circus Music, of course. - His introductory scene, where he barges in on a boyfriend and girlfriend having a picnic, knocks them both unconscious with his pins, and is then seen *aggressively* stabbing the boyfriend. Probably the scariest part is how Twisty runs after the fleeing girlfriend like a wild animal, with his feral grunting. - Apparently after scenes with Twisty, actors had to regularly leave the set and complained about nightmares. - Dandy. From his first appearance, he just seemed a bit unhinged but his second appearance, he is a budding psychopathic killer in the making, torturing animals from the neighborhood, has a explosive temper, and becoming Twisty 2.0. - The death of Meep is horrifying as it is tragic. We have this tiny person who can't seem to talk and acts like a child, crying and confused while being thrown into a cell of prisoners who don't hesitate to kill him. After the deed is done, his body is unceremoniously dumped back at the freak show. - Bette trapped in Dot's dream in which a doctor is kind enough to separate Bette's head from their body. The most frightening part is Dot's reaction to having been woken from a "beautiful dream." Her completely unapologetic attitude about the fact that she intends to have her sister killed so she can live a normal life is as creepy as anything Twisty does. - Elsa revealing how she lost her legs. Courtesy of a depraved snuff film maker in 30s Germany. With a *chainsaw*. And a later episode reveals the fact this was Hans Gruper AKA Dr. Arthur Arden in his early days before the war, making what he did before it even more terrifying. - Also, that spiked toilet seat in Elsa's flashback. And we get to see someone using it. Just... ugh. - Twisty's backstory. Though more of a Tear Jerker, watching a once very kindhearted man slowly descend into insanity is not pretty. Also doubles as Nausea Fuel when you learn the story behind his mutilated mouth: he blew it off in a Bungled Suicide. - It's not clear whether it happened or not at first, but in "Pink Cupcakes", Bette eats one of the titular cupcakes offered by Stanley and dies right next to Dot, foam bubbling from her mouth. Meanwhile, while Dot mourns her sister, Stanley suffocates her. - Dandy's grisly murder of Andy, especially since the poor lad wasn't even dead yet—and was begging to be killed—when Dandy started chopping up his body. It's easily one of the show's most disturbing moments. It's particularly chilling if you yourself engage in casual sex, since the possibility of being brutally slain by a serial killer is always a distant concern. - Del breaking the doctors' fingers- after he had already promised not to operate on Desiree. Then threatening to do the same to the doctor's grandchildren if he calls the police. - The death scenes of each of the freaks in "Pink Cupcakes" : Paul dissected in a display case, the aforementioned poisoning of Bette and Dot, Ma Petite being *drowned in formaldehyde.* Even if they only turn out to be make-believe, that doesn't comfort the audience. Are they just imagined, or are they actually glimpses into the future? - Penny's father couldn't stop his daughter from leaving to live with Paul, nor could he bring himself to kill her. What he *could* bring himself to do was make sure she would be unrecognizable as his child so that she couldn't bring shame to the family name. So he had a tattoo artist give her a reptilian face tattoo and a forked tongue. The sadistic nature of it all — not to mention the fact that a father would subject his daughter to such a thing — is terrifying. What makes it worse is that he's *fucking ecstatic* at seeing her horrified reaction, making it clear that what he really wanted was to get back at her for disobeying him by making her suffer as much as possible. It's enough to make one wonder what else a father like that must have done to her in the years she was forced to live alone with him, to make her so desperate to leave in the first place. - Ma Petite's murder by the hands of Dell - the two of them are alone (and it doesn't help that Dell can easily overpower Ma Petite), and Dell lures Ma Petite into a false sense of security by giving her a nice dress as a present, and she thanks him with a hug. This allowed Dell to crush Ma Petite's neck during the embrace as the poor girl is *struggling to free herself*. The knife gets twisted in the wound when the episode ends with Ma Petite on display in the glass jar at the Museum of Morbid Curiosities. - Pretty much all of Dandy's scenes in this episode. Unlike previous episodes where he had been portrayed as Laughably Evil and an over-the-top Large Ham, even by Large Ham standards, this episode plays him completely straight the whole time. Watching his interactions with Gloria in this episode is much harder because it shows just how the years of dealing with Dandy have taken a toll on her mental state, and there are no narmy tantrums to detract from any of this. Shortly after Gloria tells Dandy how she loved him and only him from the moment he was born, he coldly shoots her dead and then bathes in her blood. - Despite it being a Kick the Son of a Bitch moment, the tarring and feathering of Vince at the hand of the Freak Show ladies is still pretty scary. - The opening to this episode: Dandy invites a random Avon Lady in, only to attack her with a candlestick a mere moment after she walks inside. He then takes her later decapitated head, and sews it onto his mother's body to make a mock version of Dot and Bette Tattler. He uses their dead bodies as a puppet, smiling all the while. - How easily the cop turns on and kills Regina with the mere promise of money. - The murder of Pepper's baby nephew. Her brother in law drags her out of the room. We hear the baby's screams while Pepper desperately bangs on the door. Then silence... Even worse is how easily her sister lies about it. - Though we have only her word for it, the sister says the boy was born deformed. It's highly probable he was, given that she was almost 50 by the time of the birth and she had no idea she was pregnant. To make it worse, after the pregnancy she is seen drinking one martini after the other, which she might have done even through the pregnancy- leading to the deformity in the first place. - Maggie getting sawed in half by Chester, complete with a big box of gore. Good lord. - *And the Freaks don't even care*. - Stanley's fate, though he kind of had it coming: The freaks gang up on him. He tries to run but cannot get away. The freaks chop off his arms and legs and force him to be the new geek. - Chester's flashback revealing the details of his murder of his wife and her lover. They are beaten to death until they are bloody and their faces are unidentifiable. - In the finale, Dandy massacring all of the freaks (except for The Twins, Jimmy, and Desiree). He waltzes calmly around the carnival in broad daylight, while humming "The Nutcracker Suite", and shoots them all in the head one by one while they're all either hiding, running, or oblivious to what's going on. It didn't help that, except for Ima Wiggles, none of the deaths were a Gory Discretion Shot. - Dandy's fate, though he definitely had it coming, and it also counts as a Moment of Awesome for the Freaks: Drugged, stripped to his underwear, stuffed inside a glass box, and then drowned as Jimmy, The Twins, and Desiree slowly fill the box with water.

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Amnesia: The Dark Descent / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Is that you, my love? The creators of *Amnesia: The Dark Descent* set out to make one of the scariest games ever. They did. *Amnesia: The Dark Descent* - The ambient music for the game does a great job of creating an unsettling and foreboding atmosphere. Some tracks involve haunting choirs while others feature ominous moaning. Overall the soundtrack can give out a heightened sense of paranoia. - The zone simply named "Archives" can be deeply unsettling the first time. Ambient noise is put to good effect and the deep bellow of a monster can be heard at times as if it is around the corner, and in truth, there is nobody there. You are never in danger of dying here, but you may be afraid that you are. Also, the piano in the main hall can be heard playing when you are in another room — but it stops when you get close to it. - The ambient soundtrack of the Archives sounds like it may be just the wind blowing through the corridors, but if the track is listened to on its own, volume boosted, it sounds like a chorus of defeated, moaning undead. If you listen closely, it sounds like a Brute is providing some of the vocals. - The Cellar Archives is one of the first dangerous areas of the game. The whole area gets flooded and there is an invisible water monster chasing you. You need to safely navigate your way without stepping into the water and you sometimes have to toss severed body parts to distract the monster. At the final corridor, there are fewer objects to stand on to avoid the water so you have to Run or Die. Additionally, the music in this level is absolutely terrifying since it sounds like the screams of tortured souls. - Three words: Back Hall Fountain. Okay, it's a bit creepy at first (Look at its face for God's sake!◊), but then it gets progressively worse◊. Not even the calm music playing in the background can save you now. - While the guest room may seem like a safe area, it becomes incredibly terrifying after you manage to find the hidden key. A grunt appears and you need to quickly hide in the closet and hope it doesn't discover you. - The "Storage" is a nasty wake-up call for players. The darkness approaches pitch-black in many areas, and Servant Grunts show up relatively frequently to send you running to hide. This was the area where Daniel murdered a little girl and you hear her residual heart-breaking sobs and encounter audio flashbacks of her begging for mercy before being stabbed to death. When you approach the scene of the murder, you are greeted by a nasty Jump Scare. - The Prison Level. Most people give up in sheer terror because the place is swarming with monsters, and is very dark and claustrophobic. The servant encounters within this area are incredibly terrifying. Some would show up when you climb up the stairs and others might appear in the cells that you try to hide in. - The Morgue room is filled with disturbing moments. There is a room full of bones and you can hear the echoes of a man who was trapped there screaming for help. There some rooms where there are corpses piled onto each other and being in those rooms will drain your sanity and you can just imagine the smell of rotting flesh. You need to vaccinate yourself to progress through the game and that involves creating a makeshift syringe and injecting yourself with the blood of a recently deceased man. To top it all off, there is a sudden Brute encounter after vaccinating yourself. - The "Transept" can be considered pretty and well lit with cyan light coming through the giant cathedral windows; this is in contrast to this area's sibling wing, "The Choir". However, this cathedral area contrasts with the three torture rooms connected to it, as if the "Transept" is celebrating the agony of the prisoners. A portion of Alexander's journal is found up a spiral stairway, discussing the art of torturing victims slowly for maximum effect. - The Choir. It's huge. It's open. It's easy to get lost in. And there are Brutes *everywhere*. There are no dark places to hide in either; when one appears, all you can do is duck behind one of the room's many pillars and hope he doesn't come too close. The three rooms you're supposed to go into will drain your sanity just by being inside them, and they're loaded with Schmuck Bait that will reduce you to a gibbering wreck quickly. - In one flashback, Wilhelm and his men are invited by Alexander to drink wine down in the cellar only find themselves locked in the room. After they drink the tainted wine, Body Horror ensues as their bones begin to twist and their bodies burst. You can find chunks of flesh scattered around the room they were in. - The room where the first vitae experiments took place. It's essentially a taxidermy room, with a *severed dog's head* in it. The room immediately after that has a cupboard with at least 3 dead bodies, all nothing but bones. Plus, in the background, there's the residual haunting of another dog yelping in pain or terror. - The torture chambers are packed to the *brim* with this. The accompanying diagrams do *not* help matters. - A bronze bull that's hollow inside, with the makings of a campfire beneath it. The game explains precisely what the Baron and Daniel use this for, if the implication wasn't enough for players to get on their own. Oh, and by all means — light the campfire set up beneath the bull. The result is here. And the worst part? Those bulls were *not* invented by the developers. Historically, it's up for debate whether or not brazen bulls were ever actually used, but they did exist. - Cramped cells that aren't even big enough to lie down in... and are conveniently connected via pipe at the ceiling to the cell next door, allowing the victim in Cell 1 to hear the agonized screams of the victim in Cell 2. - A room that contains nothing more than a heavy, iron weight with chains attached to it, along with a pulley system connected to another set of chains. Just give the winch a few cranks and see what happens. That is what we call a *strappado*, and an image on the wall tells you how it operates. - A classic Iron Maiden, which pops open as you approach it, giving a Shining-esque sequence of blood spilling forth. The flashback contains textual Eye Scream. - A place to string someone up by their legs... a diagram placed next to it shows two men using a lumberjack saw to saw from the groin to the chest... Also done in real life for apostasy. Adding to this was a flashback (thankfully, in text form rather than visual) in which the saw became lodged in the man's hip, and they couldn't get it loose. - You know that pyramid-shaped object you find in one of the rooms? It's called the Judas Cradle, invented during the Spanish Inquisition. Want to know how it works? You hang the person by their torso and feet, they're stripped naked, and there are several techniques on how to use it. You can drop the victim onto the pyramid or slowly lower them onto the tip so that they sit there for an extended period of time. The pyramid is basically acting like a spreader. You want more details? Machines of Malice looked at it best and shows how it WORKED. (Please note, that it starts up about this particular piece at around 8:02.) - Perhaps the most disturbing part is how Daniel willingly believed every assertion that the Baron told him in regards to their victims' crimes. **Daniel:** *Cutting into the chest of a still-alive man* Paint the man, cut the lines. Cut the flesh, watch the blood spill — let it come! *mockingly* "Please, I didn't *do* anything! Blah, Blah, Blah !" - There was a diagram which was eventually cut out of the final version; appearantly Daniel tortured *a child* in the Chancel section. - In the Archives, there's a nasty scare that can create a fear of wandering off exploring. Near the end of the Archives key-Fetch Quest, there's a chance that you'll just miss a figure wandering towards the exit, provoking you to investigate the other end of the "foyer". However, if you instead decide to head in the opposite end of the "foyer", a Gatherer is suddenly behind you, gurgling, wandering towards you. You likely turn around quickly and learn the hard way, what the grunts look like before it vanishes. It's all a hallucination, but it gets the Paranoia Fuel ignited. - In some of the areas in the game, you could hear distant moans of agony from the former prisoners, women begging for mercy, dogs howling in pain, and children crying. - When you are in low sanity, you would hear noises that aren't there such as rocks and teeth grinding. You would also encounter several cases of Interface Screw such as the screen distorting, your vision blurring, and bugs crawling on the screen. If your sanity is too low, you will become incapacitated. - In the Cistern, there's a container. When you first go near it, you can hear incomprehensible muttering from inside. When you turn the valves elsewhere in the room, water begins to pour in — and the muttering turns into anguished howling. Once all the valves are open, the voice goes silent. So apparently, by opening those valves you unintentionally drowned someone. - More subtle than most of the examples here, but still quite worthy of noting: the game's Sanity Meter is a graphic of a brain, and if you mouse over it you get a brief description of your state. These descriptions can include stuff like "hands shaking and head pounding". If your sanity is low? "..." - In the Choir Entrance if you have low sanity, you would find bodies hanging upside down with bags on their heads. Similarly, in the Transept, you could find corpses hanging in the cages. Some of the corpses might disappear if you turn around. - Subtle one, but there are portraits of Alexander◊ scattered around the castle. Look at one with low sanity. Just try it◊. - The Downer Ending of the game is this made even worse when you hear The shadow replay the voices of Daniel and Alexander's victims right before killing Daniel. And Daniel's screams DO NOT make anything better - Just imagine the intense pain during the reforming into the grunts, including having to have your genitals ripped off or sewn together. It seems like they are Alexander's servants, and they were afflicted by the Shadow. Alexander can still maintain some control over them, as in the ambush at the end of the game. But, that's only when Alexander realizes you are in the castle. The rest of the time the servants want to kill you. - The terror music, which signifies that a monster is chasing you. Apart from being very bad news whenever it happens, the sound itself is terrifying, sounding like someone screaming bloody murder. - Servant◊ Brutes◊ in general. As with the Grunts, they look horrific with metal jammed in their body (especially their face), the low-groan they make when they're around, and their loud, metal scrapping footsteps that make it's difficult to tell where they are. (The "footsteps" are actually drums in the "danger music", but it's hard to tell the first time.) Doesn't help that they can One-Hit Kill you. Brute's are also smarter than Grunt's and more patient to find you... - The invisible monster in the flooded basement. Just to reiterate, one of the first and possibly scariest monsters in the game is one YOU CAN'T EVEN SEE. Old uncle Howard must be proud. - The worst part about the monsters is actually how they appear often enough and yet seldom enough to cause extreme panic and paranoia. - The Shadow itself is the most terrifying. This... thing, whatever it is, it takes up the entire house. It is **never seen** aside from the fleshy residue it left behind and there is NOWHERE to hide from it. Nowhere to run, either. Because the Shadow REALLY. IS. EVERYWHERE. - Near the end of the sewers, there is a Brute guarding the exit and you need to distract him by throwing a rock. After it gets distracted, you believe the coast is clear and advance to a doorway. But then the monster notices you and it becomes a desperate chase as you try to reach the ladder and climb to the next area. - One dedicated fan made a video showing what would happen if a Brute Servant came knocking on your door. You'll never sleep comfortably in your own home ever again. - Even though he is very friendly and helpful, sometimes too helpful. Agrippa can still give you a Jump Scare the first time you see him. - The Servants owe a huge part of their creepiness to the fact that, normally, you never really get a good look at them (if you can see them, your vision blurs, and what's more it makes it easier for them to track you, which serves as a discouragement from peeking at them). Nothing quite as creepy as hiding from a monster which you only know as a vague shape. - The danger music lets you know that there is a monster nearby. When you choose to hide, the music will continue to play even if the monster has already left. The only way to find out if the monster is gone is to exit your hiding spot and hope that you are safe. *Amnesia: Justine* - The suitors are a very horrifying enemy in this DLC. While the grunts are like meat puppets, the suitors are just regular people horribly tortured into what they are; there no supernatural means used on them. Their eyes are gouged out and they have chains on their limbs and cartwheels somehow attached on their necks. The sounds of their heavy breathing and gasps are very unnerving as well. - After successfully passing through the first test, you escape through a small crawlspace. When you go through the tunnel, you begin to hear the suitors and the music becomes more frightening. Despite the fact that you are in no danger at all, the game manages to trick you into believing you are being pursued. - Out of all the suitors, Malo is the most terrifying. He has been driven so insane, that he wants to eat Justine after becoming tired of eating his own flesh. He explains everything he wants to do to Justine in a creepily soft and gleeful tone, all the while Laughing Mad. The encounter with him is incredibly nerve-wracking, as you have to solve a machinery puzzle while he smashes the door. When he begins to chase you, you have to escape through a door that opens slowly and have to navigate through a corridor filled with boxes with him in close pursuit. There is also no use in hiding from him as he is able to find you despite being blind. - Some of the messages written in blood in Amnesia Justine are REALLY screwed up. Some that stick out are "Death shall move across the floor", "They who burrow waits beneath", "Stay alive", "Lonely", "Suffer the trial" Made worse by the fact you sanity meter will decrease the moment you enter the tunnels and won't stop going down until you find the exit. What could possibly have gone through Justine's twisted mind to make her write those messages... In blood, no less. - After dealing with a rather annoying puzzle involving slides, you proceed to a large storage room that is rather well-lit. Then, a sudden gust extinguishes all lighting in the room, and the door inexplicably locks behind you. Then, the uncanny combination of clanking chains and wheezing heralds the beginning of a monstrous hide-and-seek game against a blind foe who attempts to track you through sound. Pray you don't slip and knock over a chair. To emphasize the danger you are in, Justine, who up to this point remained unperturbed by the horrors she has witnessed, is now fighting (unsuccessfully) to suppress her fear. This can result in situations where the creature is not two meters away, and you are trying to desperately drag yourself away from the gasping abomination. - Justine *herself* is arguably the most terrifying part of this DLC. To get into the details, she's a manipulative and Ax-Crazy sociopath that actually takes pleasure in what she does, unlike Alexander. She tricks men into falling for her before torturing them in her "Cabinet of perturbation", leaving them blind, physically disfigured and mentally broken... all while they're *still human!* And the worst part about all of this? She gets off completely scot-free in the ending! Yes, she can continue to manipulate, torture and potentially kill people like it's all some sort of twisted game for her... which it is. ## Fanmade stories - "La Caza" - At one point you receive a key from a person behind a locked door. When you enter the room, there is no sign of the mysterious person, instead, it is full of suits of armor. When you activate a mechanism to open the gate, the suits begin to follow you and the next corridor you pass will have tons of them that stand motionlessly. It gets From Bad to Worse when you encounter the infamous water monster in the next chamber. - After a heart-stopping chase with a brute, you enter a library of fallen bookshelves. A moment later, the brute follows you into the library and it becomes a terrifying moment of hide-and-seek. - In the mod "White Night", you're walking up a flight of stairs after (maybe) finding a key when you suddenly see a note... And it tells you to and not look back... Suddenly, creepy music begins playing as loud sounds sound from behind you... **run** - The 'Tenebris Lake' mod has some pretty horrific moments, due to the new monsters. The most common monster for one looks like a rotten corpse and hits like a Brute. The "goat" monster you find later in the game. Even Agrippa is made terrifying due to being locked in a room with him and after a short while, he breaks free of his chains and attacks you. Also if you have claustrophobia, you will hate near the end of the game where you have to navigate through a small tunnel. Especially when it starts caving in, and later when a corpse starts chasing you. - The 'Things in the night' as a whole. Not only are Brutes more common, the Suitors also make an appearance and there are flaming corpses that can hit you like a Grunt. From jump scares involving armors and statues, giant spiders, many jump scares from corpses and absolutely chilling environments, to the many horrifying moments, sudden warnings that something is coming to get you, monsters that can appear at ANY time, and the fact that, no matter what you do, there's no good end to the story. Particularly, in the basement of one of the houses you visit, you can find a *gigantic spider* with tons of corpses literally hanging around the basement, with smaller, but still huge spiders over the corpses. And these dangling corpses are all over the mansion, covered in the Shadow's Meat Moss. You can only wonder what exactly all of those corpses went through... - The *Disponentia* custom story, which takes place in a haunted house. First, there's a scene right at the beginning where a woman is seen playing a piano in a room lit only by red lights...and the woman suddenly *turns to the screen and lunges at you*. And the house that serves as the main scenario for the game is haunted by said woman who can strike you anytime...anywhere... all while an unidentifiable noise is heard. Then, when you head to the second floor, you see it's quite dark... and then a freakin' Servant Brute comes out of nowhere running at a speed faster than you can react to. And it happens ''twice'' Granted, this part is only a Jump Scare, but still damn horrifying. - The stone maze from the 'Lost the lights' mod. Take a wrong route, you get a Jump Scare involving the transformed Alexander portrait. Try another route, and you get *surrounded* by Servant Brutes and Grunts with no chance of escape. They literally come out of NOWHERE. - "The Cruel ways of Dr. Richard Jones" mod, *period*. Nothing Is Scarier personified, with a Jump Scare on each corner while you venture through an empty mansion...all while NO MUSIC PLAYS, adding even more fuel for the fear. - The "Gustav" mod. Two words: *Giant. Agrippa.◊*. - "Emma's story" has one of the most horrifying moments out of all the Custom Stories. You need to find drill parts to proceed at one point, and all of the parts are within the Torture Chambers. Wouldn't be so bad... except you have to *go through hallucinations of going through the tortures caused by the devices*, including the *Brazen Bull*, an *Iron Maiden* and the worst of them, *The device where you get hung upside down and sawed through your pelvis*. Did we mention that we get a full description of what the people who actually suffered those tortures felt back then, the most disturbing of them being the last one, where the tortured mentions *blood rushing to his head, making it take longer for him to bleed to death*? - "The Great Work" - Not only does Charles, the protagonist, find a shard of an orb himself, *it fuses itself with his abdomen*, meaning that the only way to remove it would be by tearing it out of his body. Kinda lends a darker perspective to the monsters trying to kill you since it implies they are trying to rip you apart to get the shard. - The cells in chapter I contain plenty of dark corridors with very little oil and tinderboxes you could use. What makes this area even more terrifying is the music added to this area. There is even a Jump Scare when you open a cell only to discover a Grunt hallucination. - When you are looking for 3 different rods to power the orbs in a basement. There will be a persistent monster that roams the area, no pressure there. - The Intelligencers. These enemies are robed men wearing animal skulls that speak in a Black Speech. What makes these guys even more terrifying is that they are difficult to hide from once spotted, not even the closet is a safe hiding spot from them. - This custom story actually has quite a few endings compared to the base game. To whit, Charles can be defeated before he's able to stop Moriaen's resurrection, be defeated after disrupting the resurrection and subsequently ''used as a new body for Moriaen's consciousness'', be consumed by the Shadow, escape the college with the orb in hand and extend his life like Samuel Hartlib so he can guard it in isolation for the rest of his days, or give Hartlib the orb so that he can escape while being given an amnesia potion to wipe his memories clean of the trauma he's endured. While the last ending is the most hopeful, it doesn't erase the fact that Jane is dead and Samuel is left at the "mercy" of the Shadow. In short, there really isn't an especially happy ending to this story. - "Amadeus" - The main monster in this custom story is a ghostly woman with glowing white eyes and a drooping jaw. Her crying moans are coupled with the screams of her child victims. She can kill you in one hit so you must stay in the dark to avoid being detected. - In one area of the game, you have to search for a special fungus down in a cellar. What makes this level unnerving is that it has pitch black corridors with flickering lanterns. There is very little sound aside from the monster's ghostly wail. - The backstory - a down on his luck stage magician purchased an automaton at an auction house that can spell out the names of dead family members. However, he quickly discovered that in order for it to work, he needed to sacrifice humans to it. More specifically, human children. After some time, he grew sick of what he was doing, and sought out a way to exorcise the spirit from the automaton, kidnapping and sacrificing the protagonist's younger brother to keep the spirit distracted while he did so. Judging by the state of his corpse when you find him, it seems that the spirit caught on and decided to feed on him, too.

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Amnesia: Memories / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes ### **Warning!** As per *Moments* page policy, all spoilers will be unmarked. Don't believe that, since this is an otome game, it will be nothing but sweetness. - Several Bad Endings. - Spade World Bad Ending #2 — *I'll get rid of those who hurt you.* The heroine gets accosted by Ikki's jealous fangirls in the forest, who have decided to punish her for monopolizing Ikki's attention. It cuts to Ikki in a hospital and talking to who is presumed to be the heroine. She is comatose, and Ikki mentions that she cannot hear him anymore because she's been rendered deaf, and blind, too. Ikki growls that he'll make sure to deal with the ones that did this to her. It's the first time Ikki is shown to be truly angry. And what did those girls do that caused the heroine to become deaf, blind, and fall into a coma? - Diamond World Bad Ending #2 — *We'll be together forever.* The heroine stumbles back to Toma's place after her accident, but runs into him outside. She's too injured to run away and Toma realizes that she managed to get out of the cage *and* was trying to run away from him. He says he'll make sure to not let this happen again... and it cuts to what seems to be winter time, as Toma comments about the snow falling softly outside of his window, but the heroine likely doesn't notice. He has her stuck in his home, implied to be in a bigger cage now, and chained up. She doesn't remember anything, having lost her sense of self, and she doesn't even react to Orion talking to her. Toma asks her if she even remembers who he is and tells her his name, ready to tell her every day, if she forgets. - An extra creepy factor in that ending is that Orion is still merged with the heroine. He cannot leave because she has no stimuli to regain her memories and push him out. So, Orion is stuck and can do nothing but watch the heroine be Toma's prisoner and toy. - Joker World Bad Ending #4 — *We'll be together forever.* Named the same as the Diamond World ending, this ending happens if the heroine tells Toma about Ikki's fangirls harassing her. In an *instant* he goes quiet, but his Creepy Shadowed Undereyes make an appearance, which will definitely warn the player they're on the way to a Bad End. If they keep playing, Toma smiles and says he'll make sure they don't hurt the heroine anymore. The next day, he invites her to his house. The player is probably expecting the cage. There is instead a huge pool of blood. The heroine and Orion freak out; Toma calmly says not to worry, it's not his or her blood after all. Anyway, he thinks it's best if she doesn't go outside for a while. Adding onto this is that the Yandere doesn't come out right away in this scene; he just gradually shifts into it, building up the dread and terror so that it hits you maximum when he gets to his last line: - The revelation of what will happen to Ukyo and Lord Nhil, if the latter's powers run out before he can fulfill Ukyo's wish. Both will end up stuck in a void between dimensions, with no escape possible. - Toma's route itself can easily become Nightmare Fuel for anybody that knows the twist going into it... or anyone that finds severe bullying from jealous fangirls on one hand and being drugged and imprisoned by a person you love or trust on the other disturbing.

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American Horror Story: Coven / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Madame LaLaurie's attic where she tortures and imprisons her slaves: One slave had his eyes and mouth sewn shut, and it was heavily implied that she forced feces into his mouth before having it sewn shut. Another slave had the skin of his face removed. LaLaurie having a newborn slave baby bled for ointment to get back at her husband for cheating on her with a slave girl. LaLaurie slowly torturing a poor black gardener to death by clipping off his toes (lots of nerve centers there) and then disemboweling him. Worst of all: he was just coming inside for help because he had nicked himself outside, and no one in the house questions where their gardener went and no one comes looking for him. Disemboweling slaves for kidneys while conscious and alive. Delphine's abuse of her own daughters is haunting as well. It's deeply sad and unnerving to see her relish locking them in the chamber of horrors for a year (having Borquita's leg broken in the process) as they scream and cry, especially if they really had just been engaging in wishful thinking and not actually planning to murder her. Even worse: LaLaurie is based on a real person. Her French Quarter mansion is said to be the most haunted house in New Orleans. The consequences of having sex with Zoe. Madison's explicit gang rape by the frat boys. The scene is horrifically detailed and very much played for horror. It's far more intense than the Lana rape scene in Asylum, to make matters worse. LaLaurie forces a slave to wear a dead bull's head over his face. Just think about how disgusting that would be. Oh God, his screams... LaLaurie: Half man...half bull. And now... I have one of my very own. LaLaurie's fate. Many would say that it was rather karmic and well-deserved, but it's still incredibly unsettling. It's a wonder she didn't go insane. That could also be chalked up to the immortality potion, which is kind of worse in a way. "The Perfect Boyfriend" when it awakens. Evan Peters' complete rage is far scarier than anything achieved in any of the seasons so far, and it lasts only a few seconds. While his rage doesn't last long, he seems disoriented, almost feral, and only grunts and whimpers. So far, there is no sign of the nice young man Kyle used to be. And it gets worse in "The Replacements", the following episode. FrankenKyle kills his mother in a fit of rage to the point of caving her face in with a statue. Granted, his mother was incestuous with him... Kyle's mother is unhealthily obsessed with her son. After her son gets back home barely able to walk or speak, what does she do? She rips his shirt off, feels him up, and starts kissing him. Which implicitly triggered FrankenKyle's memories of the OTHER times she did things like that, so we really can't blame him for going nuts and bashing her face in. Probably belongs in the Fridge, but not being able to tell the girl you love that your mother is sexually abusing you, and has been for a long time. What Spalding does with the baby that Marie gives to him: dresses it up as his living baby doll. "Fearful Pranks Ensue" has a lovely scene where a living Minotaur head is mailed to Marie's hair salon. FrankenKyle smashing his head into the bathtub in a catatonic state, covered in blood. Spalding took Madison's body after she was killed by Fiona and is using it as a doll. Word of God confirmed he had sex with her body. Joan's parental discipline techniques, but especially the bleach enema. Poor Luke. The cold steely fury on Hank's face as he shoots up Cornrow City, even killing Chantal, Marie's assistant in the process, who even surrendered in "Head". The entire scene is horrific, as it's literally in tow with the tragedies of the Civil Right Movements Delphine subjected to watch. Though it's played for comedy, the method Myrtle uses to procure Cordelia's new eyes is still frightening, as she cuts out one eye each from Quentin and Cecily while they're paralyzed, then dismembers their bodies and dissolves them in acid. Cordelia stabbing out her eyes with garden shears is not fun to watch. LaLaurie and Marie's ultimate fates: Marie has to spend her afterlife torturing Bourquita, something that even she doesn't relish, and LaLaurie is forced to watch. Hell is different for everybody, but the same in the sense that they are eternally stuck in the worst time of their lives with minor changes from their situations from when they were living. During her brief time there Queenie had a never ending work day at the restaurant she worked at before she went to the academy. The series ends with Misty stuck in Hell herself, reliving being forced to dissect a dead frog, bringing it back to life with her powers and being forced to dissect the now-alive frog instead over and over again for the rest of eternity. Probably is some kind of Fridge Horror but Kyle strangling Madison to death even though in the beginning of the season he was the only member of his fraternity who tried to actually stop his frat brothers when he caught them gang-raping Madison. Marie doing that white-eye-tongue-wagglin' thing and caused the two cops to fatally shoot each other. What a crazy/creepy display of power. Here's a nice reminder. The idea of the Supreme becomes Fridge Horror when you consider the fact that you only get about 30 years of power and perfect health before a new Supreme rises and you start to slowly sicken and die. Cordelia being the Supreme at the end is Fridge Horror especially. She never wanted to be Supreme but has no choice in the matter. And not that only that... she has seen first hand what power did to her Mother. To be not only the Supreme but a better Supreme than Fiona will require great personal sacrifice... not the least of which is to die in order to make way for the next Supreme. When Cordelia watches her Mother die she is getting a grim look into her own future. And what if she does manage to have a daughter of her own? Cordelia's eyes were healed when became the Supreme. It's quite possible her fertility issues were healed as well. Or that they could have been caused in the first place by her actively repressing her powers. Considering that Cordelia herself becoming Supreme shows that the power can be passed down from mother to daughter and that any child she had would come from 2 generations of Supremes... it's very likely any daughter she had would be the next Supreme after her. So Cordelia would know her child would have to watch her sicken and die and that the child would one day suffer the same fate. In "The Replacements", Fiona says it's a dance she's known since she first saw her reflection in her Father's eyes. Since she's very clearly talking about sex... this line becomes creepy as hell if you think about it for a moment. Is she implying that he had sexual thoughts about her that she was aware of due to her powers? Or something even worse? Kyle's entire situation. He's sexually abused by his mother for who knows how long, dies, is brought back to life, and, clearly not in control of his physical or mental abilities, is returned to his mother, who goes right back to molesting him. Imagine being brought back to life and the first thing you remember is a lifetime of trauma and abuse. Even worse is that it's left completely unclear as to whether he ever told anyone.

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American Horror Story: Murder House / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.** - In the pilot we see Violet leading Leah into the basement with the promise of Cocaine. What happens instead is that she gets attacked by Tate and the Infantata. - In "Rubber Man" Vivian being put into a mental institution through Hayden's manipulations and Violet's lying and no one believing her. - In "Smoldering Children", Violet finding her body. *There are flies in her mouth* and her eyes are rolled back into her head. - In the same episode, Harvey's dead, horribly-burned wife and children acting as though they were still alive. - The school shooting sequence in "Piggy Piggy". Tate meticulously shoots people one by one as they plead for him not to. And then you remember we saw what became of the the Dead Breakfast Club just one episode prior. The nerd's injuries were so bad he couldn't even speak. Damn. - In "Birth", Chad's plan for Vivian's twins once he and Patrick get their hands on them: smothering them when they get at "that right age", so they'll "stay cute forever". Considering Constance is the grandmother of one of the twins due to Tate's raping of Vivian, she's visibly disturbed by this. - Dying in the house is this: you *cannot* leave for the rest of your dying existence, except on Halloween. Even then, you have to return afterward. - "Murder House": Nora and Charles' baby son is kidnapped, and returned...in *jars*.

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Alien Nine / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - In episode 4, ||when Yuri watches the Yellow Knife—wearing the body of Kasumi's older brother—use its duck-billed snout to lift up Kasumi's shirt and enter her abdomen head first. The prone and unconscious Kasumi's response? Giggle and call out to her brother.|| - Nowhere is there a more textbook warning to the consequences of breaking the cutie than when Yuri snaps after being attacked by a trio of alien-wearing boys...The boys, Yuri and Yuri's teacher are the *only* things that leave that Alien Storeroom alive. She doesn't stop there though: She returns to the Alien Party room and kills her teammate's empathic alien helmets/partners, who are too paralyzed with *her* panic attack to resist. - This becomes especially horrific when you view the sequence with the boys' aliens stabbing through Yuri's borg as a metaphor for rape. It gets even *worse* when you realize that except for her friends, *nobody* cares that Yuri has been through this experience. Her teacher is more upset about what'll do to her reputation and the dead borgs; her mother just thinks she's overreacting (though in mom's favor, she may not know the whole story); and another teacher Yuri goes to for help tells her to basically "get over it" and do her duty. Yuri does get to spend a nice summer with her friends, but at the end, has to go right back into the same situation that traumatized her in the first place. - Borgs look like amphibian heads with baleen instead of teeth, they have tongues that look like they have mouths of their own (i.e. *snake*-like) and their diet consists of the sweat off their hosts' backs, which they obtain by licking them. If that wasn't bad enough, the Borg are worn like helmets, their "hands" acting as ear protectors and what holds them in place on the wearer's head. The underside of a Borg—the side that makes contact with the host— is red and nodule-covered...although it is dry, it still looks enough like an orifice to be squick-y. This is even lampshaded: in a poll of schoolgirls, 78% said they didn't want to join an Alien Party because of the attached-to-a-disgusting-alien part. - The end of episode 3: ||Kasumi shows up at the school grounds with a smile on her face, and Yellow Knife seemingly appears to be friendly, picking her up with amphibian-shaped limbs to toss her in the air into his mouth. Then the screen cuts to black as he audibly gulps her down. Kasumi was still smiling the entire time.|| - '''WHY, KUMI? WHY, KUMI? WHY, KUMI? WHY, KUMI? WHY, KUMI?''' *shudder* - In Chapters 18 and 19 of the manga, ||Yuri Has lost her Borg and has been reduced to an infantile state. Kasumi and Kumi go into a forest filled with aliens to find it. The manga descends into utter horror as Kasumi EVISCERATES monster after monster with her drills and an innocent smile, while Kumi HAS HER ARM TORN OFF to reveal a mass of writhing drills similar to what her borg uses, as she crumples to her knees crying. The worst part? Their teacher planned to send them to the forest at some point, just not so early. It ends with Kumi escaping the forest crawling away on hands and knees from a giant worm in terror, as Kasumi kills it while their teacher looks on.|| It's heartrending, chilling, and brutal. - It is probably worth remembering that we get hints of the stuff in the above spoiler early on in the series—from the teacher herself. It's not explicitly said, but she was part of an Alien Party herself, when she was their age...and that she got the *desirable* end state. Oh, and there's actually hints all through the series that this state ||is to be become a seamless, unified being with your borg||... Now reread/rewatch it with this in mind. - Miss Okada's extra story in Emulators, She told a scary story to one of her and Hisakawa's friends, it leaves the lampshade hanging on whether its true or not, but Miss Hisakawa shows up with a bandage over her cheek, which was supposedly the same cheek Okada shot with three tranquilizers. - The series is a Body Horror *goldmine.* - The Alien Party program? ||It does *exactly* what was implied above. The goal is complete and total symbiosis with the borg. The reason all the teachers are so seemingly uncaring when bad things happen to the girls is because as long as they're able to complete the program and fuse, their goals have been met.|| - ||And all of this symbiosis is done without actually informing any of the girls what they're getting into, with consequence that two out of three of them lose their humanity before it's too late. Imagine joining an afterschool club, only to find out a couple months in that you're no longer human, and it's much, much too late for you to go back.|| - And it's not something you get a choice in. When it looks like the program is going to fail because two of the girls are no longer valid candidates, the teacher takes action into her own hands and escalates ||Yuri's|| borg to forcibly fuse with ||Yuri.|| None of this is done with her consent, and the character in question *hates* borgs. What's really frightening is that even without fusing with an alien, or using a borg, it's strongly implied that ||Yuri|| is turning into one all the same. Slowly. - ||Kumi||'s loss of humanity. She doesn't fuse with her borg. She *becomes* one. And this only becomes apparent chapters after it happens, in the forest chapter mentioned above. Her body at after that point is a paper-thin shell over a mass of drills, one that she explodes out of whenever she needs to fight. ||Kumi|| appears wearing gloves and long-sleeves at all times after a certain point because she literally has no arms left- just drills.

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Among Us / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes *Among Us* may be a fun game, but the very premise of it can make sessions tense and unnerving, knowing that you can die when you least suspect it, until there's possibly no one left. ## The Premise - The game is built on Paranoia Fuel from the crew's perspective. Is that other person in the room just a fellow human who happens to also have a task there, or could they be an impostor waiting to strike? It doesn't help that you can't talk outside of meetings. - The Impostors themselves are extremely unnerving. - The game ends if the Impostors alive equal the number of the innocent crew remaining. The crew can't do anything to win/survive anymore, so the gameplay just ends. One must wonder what goes through their heads. - Watching a player be executed after they are voted out can be a little unnerving. Depending on the map, they are either sent floating off into space without oxygen, sent plummeting to their deaths, or thrown into lava. Either way, they die horribly. - The mere fact that the crew members use arguably more brutal methods of execution than the Impostors. Granted, it's possible that they don't *have* any other options to kill and must use the environment, but still... (Even this isn't true on the Airship, as there's a whole armory stocked with guns, though there is the possibility that those wouldn't work.) ## Gameplay - Getting killed as a crew member is an abrupt process, with the usual ambient sounds of your surroundings getting interrupted by the Scare Chord that plays during your death animation. Often it happens while you're focused on one of your tasks (with the task interface obscuring most of your screen), and sometimes it happens just as you're passing by another player in the hallway. - You may be working on a task only to see an Impostor suddenly jump out of a vent, poised to kill. You have very little time to react and escape. - Imagine you notice the Reactor beginning to melt down. You wait for two people to go do it while you finish tasks, but eventually you notice no one is shutting it down... and you're now too far away to fix it yourself before it melts... - Even worse, going to the reactor or seismic stabilizer to fix it... and slowly realizing a second person isn't going to come. - Or you walk up to the reactor or seismic stabilizer...and find the corpse of some poor Crewmate that tried to fix it and paid for it with their life (this one is slightly dampened by the fact that you can report the body and end the emergency without anyone else to help, making it actually a lucky occurrence). - Similarly, fixing the O2 in Admin, but realizing you're not gonna make it to the O2 room in time. - Sometimes you'll notice one person monitored as on the reactor, only for the reactor monitor to suddenly cycle back down to 0 players on the reactor. - Watching the cameras is useful for tracking everyone's movements, but they have limited field of vision, so there's always blind spots where you can miss the action or suspicious activity. This is doubly so for Polus security, where you have to toggle between individual camera views. Did that player just come out of a dead end? Weren't there just two players there? Did that player leave your view because they noticed you were watching? Is that player who's entering your room an Impostor going for the kill? It can almost feel like *Five Nights at Freddy's* at times. Just remember that everyone are *living players*, not strings of codes, and this gets even scarier. - Sometimes you may realize you haven't seen a player in quite a while. Did they die? Are they lying in wait within the vents? Are you just not running into them? Usually you find out which it is the hard way... - Sometimes you might want to stick together with another player to keep an eye on them, trying to attest to the other's innocence, while hoping they'd do the same for you. But you have to wonder, what if the person you're tailing is the Impostor? After spending that much time together, surely they would have done something by now, right? Or perhaps, is this what they want you to think, so that they can use you as a scapegoat or to get away with more kills? - Checking the Vitals on Polus shows whether every player in the session is alive, recently killed, or disconnected. note : Players who were killed before the most recent meeting are recorded "disconnected" to help distinguish new kills It can be quite a shock opening up the Vitals screen only to find out that someone has died, and you have no idea where, especially given how large the map is. - If you have the misfortune to be playing with a hacker who has disabled the kill cooldown, it gets even more unsettling as you can watch everyone get picked off one by one in rapid succession; by the time you realize you're next, it's too late. - What's especially unsettling is when you're with another player, leave them for just a moment to do something else, then check the vitals and see that they're dead. You were *just* with them, and the brief period you leave is when the impostor saw the chance to strike. - Sometimes you call a meeting or report a body, only to discover that there are more dead crew than you thought. Now you have to work with a lower numbers advantage and you had no idea where those extra crew were killed... - High-skilled impostors can even invoke a sense of a Sugar Apocalypse if more than half the crew is killed in one round by the time a meeting is called, making the surviving crewmates *even more untrusting of each other from the sheer overload of unsolved murder cases unaccounted for*. - Voting someone off only to be met with a message stating that they were not An Impostor. The real Impostor is still at large, and you just killed an innocent crew member. - Just picture being on the other side of that. You were wrongly ejected from the group, no one believed you, and you were either flung into space, fell to your doom, or thrown into lava, all while the Impostor is still around, possibly having won the trust of the crew. It'd be equal parts frustrating and horrifying. - Or even more horrific with good Impostors: you were the victim that started the discussion. You know your killer and not only does nobody suspect them, but the group also proceeds to add another innocent to the ghost crew. If the other ghosts inform you who the second/third impostor is, it is entirely possible that you notice how they smoothly manipulate the Crewmates to murder each other. - When the lights are sabotaged, your field of view lowers so you can only see players practically touching you. You won't be able to tell if you'll walk right into the kill range of an Impostor, or if you just walked past a body while none the wiser. In the latter case, it's still possible to report a body you can't see if you're close enough for the "Report" button to light up, but you won't know exactly *where* it is; taking the time to find the body, reporting a body with an uncertain location, or just moving along without reporting the body all can be seen as suspicious behavior. - Also, even when reporting the body, it might be that the killer is still right in front of you and all you can say is you found a body with no extra knowledge. Or even worse: you see another player that was trying to walk through the dark and end up suspecting an innocent Crewmate while the Impostor has long left the area. - It doesn't help that, unlike Reactor and Oxygen/Seismic sabotages, lights are not automatically fixed by reporting a body. So after that meeting concludes, you're still fumbling around in the dark. - Going through the decontamination rooms on Mira HQ and especially on Polus Outpost. If nobody else who you *know* is a crewmate is coming along with you, then you're all alone in a room and/or hall that takes a while to get through. And if you're killed there, your murderer has the perfect alibi: They were just going to do their tasks, and found you on the way. On the bright side, you can reliably affirm the innocence of the other person if you both come out alive. - Polus Outpost has both you and the Impostor stuck in the area at least so any other Crewmate in there might point suspicion their way. But Mira HQ? Not only does the locked off area have two vents that can be accessed from everywhere, *the decontamination chamber itself also has one*. Wait for a lone Crewmate to get into the hallway, vent in, kill, vent out and wait for someone else to stumble upon their body. The decontamination chamber locks the doors long enough for a perfect vent-based Stealth Hi/Bye. - When a hat-wearing crewmate gets knocked down by an impostor and tries to reach out for their hat? Funny. When that hat is a mini crewmate and the crewmate tries to reach out for who is presumably their child? Not so funny. - Related, when you die, your ghostly form happens to have a ghost version of your hat. This includes the mini crewmate, meaning the impostor kills not only you, but your child as well. - It's common for players to have both the mini-crewmate hat *and* the mini-crewmate pet. Hats become part of your ghostly form, but pets just sit there where you died looking sad. This carries the implication that the Impostor had zero qualms killing one child, but decided to leave the other alive as Cruel Mercy after they just had to watch their parent and sibling get brutally murdered. - Even though the mini crewmates (and other pets) don't take a ghostly form, they are invisible to living crewmates. This probably implies that the impostor did kill the pet as well. - When you die, any pet following you just stops. It's usually sad and not scary, but with a mini crewmate? They might be a child watching their parent die right before their eyes. Now they are just sitting there, silent. Perhaps the impostor will pass by, and there is nothing the mini crewmate can do to stop them. - Being a ghostly crewmate becomes And I Must Scream/Forced to Watch if you think about it too hard. You can fly around and still complete tasks, but you can only talk to your fellow ghosts; you can't call out who killed you from beyond the grave (which makes sense from a gameplay standpoint, but still an unnerving situation to be in). All you can do is watch as the Impostor that killed you gets away with their crime and keeps murdering your fellow Crewmates. And woe betide you if an Impostor sabotages the reactor or something else lethal; ghosts can't fix sabotage, so if Bystander Syndrome kicks in, all you can do is watch as the timer ticks down to everyone's death and your killer's victory. - Even a dead Impostor can still be dangerous. Although they cannot kill directly, their freedom of time and movement allows them to haunt whoever they like wherever they like, allowing them to focus on things such as closing important doors on Polus or hovering over the button to call a necessary sabotage if a Crewmate is about to initiate a game-winning meeting. While dead Impostors who focus on sabotaging often hurt their own partner(s) more than the other side, the occasional well-timed call can still mean a defeat for the crew, with no way to stop it or see it coming. - When the Impostors win, their victory fanfare is a Drone of Dread, and it's not the most pleasant to listen to, even if you're playing as one. - With the Engineer role active, seeing someone exit a vent becomes very nerve wracking, since theres no way to tell if theyre crewmate or an impostor. On the flip side, Engineers have to worry about venting in front of crewmates who don't know about the role, or in front of an imposter looking for someone to kill, especially with their time limit. - Similarly, the Shapeshifter role ups the Paranoia Fuel because it becomes 10x easier for an Impostor to frame someone; they just have to shapeshift into that someone and kill in front of a bunch of witnesses. - Worse still, the shift ability of the Shapeshifter subspecies is so top-notch and attentive that they can can even mimic the *pets* of the targeted crewmate perfectly, even if the shapeshifter *doesn't have one* in the match. Literally, there's no way to tell if they're in disguise unless you're lucky enough to catch them shifting back to their real form or managed to find the residue of the shift, but that's only *if* the visibility of the residue is on. - Imagine getting framed; you're doing your tasks in peace. Suddenly a body gets reported, and the crewmates said you had killed them. You have no idea what they are talking about (double points if the murder happened in the opposite side of the map), and despite your best efforts, without an alibi from another player, you couldn't convince them that you're not the imposter. What's even worse is, you won't know who framed you, and *so do* the crewmate "you had killed." - It's even worse if you become a Guardian Angel. If you got framed, you have no idea who did it, and is left trying to guess who is the Shapeshifter. If you are the one the Shapeshifter killed, you might follow your "killer" and protect anyone who gets nearby, and usually find out the hard way that someone else had is the killer, which means you had wasted your protection. Even going to the ghost chat won't help most of the time. If the Shapeshifter did none of their killings in their true form and even if they did, the dead crewmates would give you conflicting views, or don't know at all. In short, the Shapeshifter mode had made finding the Imposter harder for even the *dead Crewmates*. - If you see the Shapeshifted Impostor with the Crewmate they turned into, there's no way to determine who's the fake without someone getting killed; and even then you have no idea who they really are unless you're lucky enough to catch them when it wears off. It's even more nerve-wracking for the crewmate to see themselves, not sure of what they might do. - In the early days of the Shapeshifter mode, Imposters couldn't shapeshift as each other, meaning that if the Shapeshifted Imposter gets caught with the Crewmate they are disguised as, the Crewmate's innocence is confirmed. But soon that limit got removed; there's no way to tell if the Shapeshifter is trying to frame a Crewmate or trick the Crewmates into thinking their partner is innocent. - Hide and Seek mode is officially a thing and it somehow manages to be more terrifying than the standard game (pictured): - If you're the Seeker, or stick around in the summoning area to watch this happen, you're treated to a lovely shot of your Crewmate doubling over in pain, collapsing on the ground, and writhing for a few seconds before standing back up with a might roar from its mouth that is now on its stomach. And that mouth stays open the whole game. - When the grace period for the Hiders ends, you hear the earsplitting roar of the seeker throughout the map as they are now able to chase people down. Unless you want someone to launch their headphones across the room, *make sure everyone in your group knows of this* if anyone is new to the game! - Unlike the standard game, there isn't a thing you can do against this Impostor except wait out the clock, do tasks to make the clock run by faster, and try to vent away if the Seeker gets too close to you. - You know how the fan-imposed rules gave Impostors a more limited field of view? Well that's here in the form of a uni-directional flashlight that the Crewmates are also stuck with. It's 100% possible for the Host to give the Crewmates worse vision than the Impostor. - Unlike the standard game where there's just ambient noises, Hide and Seek mode has background music that starts as a simple bass riff that slowly transitions into pounding heavy metal music the closer the Seeker is to you until it's practically blaring at a thousand decibels, which is also illustrated by a danger meter. To make matters worse, the meter and music just care about the straight distance between you and the Seeker; it doesn't take walls or the fact that you vented into account. If you're hiding in the corner of Medbay on the Skeld while the Seeker is in the corner of Electrical, the meter and music will still go wild. If you take a vent and the route goes past the Seeker the music will still ramp up for one second, which may cause you to think you've emerged right next to them. - If you've got time during a round, look very closely at the meeting button. It's been *shattered to pieces*, signifying that working together to eject the Imposter is simply not an option anymore when you're in this game mode. It's every Crewmate for themself. - If the Host allows them, the Seeker gets a personal map to track Crewmates once the players are in the Final Hide (or if the Seeker kills half of the players), there's red circles called pings that alerts the Seeker to where they are a certain number of seconds each, and the Seeker almost always gets a speed boost. With those combined, it means that you *can't* stay in one place for too long during the Final Hide unless you have enough vents saved up. - Every time someone dies, a Scare Chord plays for every other Crewmate and the nameplate of that Crewmate displays with the message "[Player] HAS BEEN KILLED", and above the danger meter one of the Crewmate silhouettes gets crossed off. This is only a mild jumpscare on its own, but it quickly gets terrifying if it happens several times continuously.

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American Horror Story: Asylum / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Shelley discovering that her legs have been amputated by Dr. Arden and becoming another one of his experiments. Lana (Can the girl get a break?) discovering Wendy's corpse in Dr. Thredson's basement. Not to mention the mask made from her face. Dr. Thredson: Don't worry, she won't bite. I took her teeth. Dr. Thredson explaining what he makes his furniture out of and how he does it. It's all the more disturbing because this was a guy who seemed relatively tame compared to Dr. Arden. Bonus points for the agonizingly slow reveal of the character's true nature. Our first hints come during a seemingly innocuous scene in his living room, when Lana turns on a lamp with a shade made from human skin, and gets offered a bowl of mints made from a hollowed-out human skull. Santa. He's a crook who has long-standing issues with Christmas (that left him with no Christmas spirit whatsoever and a desire to convince others not to have any), who dresses up as Santa Claus and murders people. He was locked up by Sister Jude when he arrived at the asylum and forgotten about until Eunice decided to use him against Jude. Dr. Thredson is pissed. "You're going to be the start of a new Bloody Face..." Kit and Lana manage to imprison him in a supply closet. Sister Eunice took care of that. Lana attempting to give herself an abortion via coat hanger. The sheer amount of torture Timothy Howard had to go through. He got drowned, crucified, and raped by his own subordinate, who he is later forced to kill. Arden's response to someone asking if he's going to kill her: "Not exactly." Arden's experiments on Kit in the first episode are bad enough (he cuts open his neck), but in hindsight, knowing that he's a former Nazi doctor who very likely did similar things to the prisoners in the camps makes it utterly stomach-churning. The beginning of The Nightmare Ends features a Once More, with Clarity! scene. Between shots of Leo and Teresa fooling around, we see Johnny lurking nearby the whole time, and getting very angry and sinister, starting when he hears Teresa posing for a picture next to some Bloodyface graffiti. The culmination of the scene has Johnny putting on a Bloodyface mask and chopping Leo's arm off. It's a Foregone Conclusion, but the build-up is still unnerving.

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Amphibia / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes *So, anyone think they're going to be able to sleep after that terrifying experience?* — **Marcy Wu**, "The Sleepover To End All Sleepovers" Being a show from one of the episode directors of *Gravity Falls*, which gave its audience nightmares from day one, it is no surprise this show has its share of scary moments too. **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.** <!—index—><!—/index—> General - Anne and her human friends are stuck in a world where they're in constant danger from predators that eat amphibians. Judging by the way the predators look at Anne, they wouldn't mind eating humans as well. To quote *A Bug's Life*, "There's snakes and birds and bigger bugs out there!" - And carnivorous plants, fish, mammals and lizards. - And it's not just predatory bugs, birds, mammals, fish, reptiles and carnivorous plants she has to worry about; there are also amphibians that eat other amphibians as well. - As Anne lampshades, scattered piles of bones are a near *constant* feature throughout the land. - Harold in the *Teen Girl in a Frog World* short "Whack-a-Mole." At first he appears to be multiple, tiny star-nosed moles, something that's out-of-place in Amphibia, as stated above, but not scary. However, after Anne whacks several of the moles, Harold reveals himself, and he is *not* pretty. To wit, he's a giant mole-like creature *with multiple tiny mole heads growing off of his body, including one of his nose-petals and where his claws should be.*

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American McGee's Alice / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes *American McGee's Alice*, being an insanity-based game inspired by a creepy children's classic, is naturally full of horrors. For *Alice: Madness Returns* Nightmare Fuel, go here. Spoilers Ahead. - The Army Ants can be unnerving. They wear 18th century military uniforms and carry around bayonet-equipped muskets, but on the other hand they're massive ants with huge mandibles. Talk about creepy. - There are plenty of childhood-destroying freak-beasts, and at the top of the pile is the Queen of Heart's true form: A giant fleshy monster with tentacles reaching across Wonderland who has the Mad Hatter's head in her mouth, with Alice's head in *his* mouth. Most other enemies, and a fair few allies, achieve the same effect. - It gets worse when you read the manual and find out that the whole thing is taking place in Alice's head, whilst she is trapped in her own mind in an asylum, undergoing the brutal "treatments" of that era. - The "Quit" screen (seen above) was truly horrifying. It's an extreme Gross-Up Close-Up of the Mad Hatter, and instead of "Quit", the yes/no question is "RUNNING AWAY, ARE WE?". - The Nightmare Spiders (particularly for arachnophobes, and the faces on the backs are just creepy) and the kids in the school and asylum levels. Talk about DISTURBING. - "Time to wreak some havoc. The dogs of war are loose". Cue Alice transforming into a horrifying devil-like creature. - The Jabberwock. Not only is he terrifying enough in the original books, but in this game he is the embodiment of Alice's survivor guilt. You first encounter him in a replica of her own house, perched in the middle of a boiling magma land. Then he mocks Alice, saying that *she* smelt the smoke and *she* felt the flames, but was too busy having tea with her friends to bother to save her parents as they *burned alive screaming* upstairs. And just to nail it right home, you fight him in the burning remains of Alice's house. - Oh God, the poor Dormouse and the Hare. Since the Mad Hatter has gone truly insane, he's turned them both into twisted half-steampunk cyborgs, with sewn skin and pinned lips held by clasps and experiments on them by dunking them in acid or burning them with lasers. And you're not sure what's worse: that Hare is 100% lucid and bemoans that they have no tea, or that poor Dormouse is so far gone that he doesn't even notice what's happening. - And there's NOTHING you can do for them - although it's a great way to encourage you to kick Mad Hatter's ass as fast as possible to free them. Although you can't. - The Insane Children. They're harmless to Alice, but having a close look shows that their heads are enclosed in a horrible apparatus that hold their eyelids open or lips apart. And then you see that the clockwork automatons are created by fusing these poor kids inside — and you learn this *after* you've killed some. The final part is that after you see a child turned into a machine, you see the bloody words "You're Next". - A nasty bit of Fridge Brilliance here too - the whole thing takes place in Alice's mind, which in this level is vaguely registering the Asylum she is in, which also holds children. The little children are being put through the Asylum, and it's turning them into mindless robots. - If you pay close attention in the asylum when you're smashing the clocks in the kids' rooms, you realize that doing so stops the flow of mysterious white vapor into the room. When you do, the kids will switch from silently flapping their hands to the more active manifestations of insanity you see them exhibit in the school. The implication would seem to be that the steam is some kind of sedative/antipsychotic gas, which is really dark as all *hell* when you think about it. - The insane children are back in *Madness Returns*, and rather more mutilated- some have exposed brains. They also represent the kids abused by ||Dr. Bumby||, in the Dollhouse level, which is a whole different type of creepy. - This wiki page shows just how mutilated they are. - The soundtrack was composed by a member of Nine Inch Nails. It's as twisted and disturbing as you could imagine. - The Chesire Cat. He looks like a methed out Malaysian god with a soothing, deep voice that could talk you into sawing your own arm off, dripping with barely restrained contempt and ill intent. Freakiest part of an already very dark and warped game. - The ending of the trailer. After we see the backstory (the fire in Alice's house that killed her parents) we see Alice sitting in a bed, her eyes wide open and unblinking with a rabbit tucked into bed beside her. Then the rabbit turns to her and says "Save us, Alice!" in a really creepy, low-toned and distorted voice. - It's not distorted. *It's her father's voice.* - The freakin' Duchess. She's a terrifying hag of a woman that *eats people*, and plans on eating Alice herself. Just imagine seeing this lady charging at you with the intent of turning you into a "light snack". Thankfully, she's a *much* more bearable character in the sequel (visually and character-wise). - Alice herself is no saint either. She usually makes no attempt to end the suffering of others, she just waltzes past them. A village full of enslaved gnomes? Who cares, I just want to follow the rabbit! Insane children in asylum rooms? Not only will I leave them mad and gibbering, I'll cut off their sedative and drive them more insane! That's right, even the game's heroine is cold-hearted to a degree. - To be fair, she is saving them in a way, since defeating the Queen is liberating Wonderland. Doesn't make up for the fact that she hardly bats an eyelid. - Come the sequel, *that's the entire point*. She's been suppressing her guilt over her inaction towards the horrors being inflicted on those around her. - Not to mention when she goes Hysterical... - The entire soundtrack. Except for the final song, where everything is okay of course. Have a listen to the "Dementia" track here. - The whole game is a journey through Alice's mind to recover from the traumatic events of the fire. Since this is Alice's imagination, this journey could have taken any form at all, so why does Alice's subconscious choose to gorily slash and hack her problems to bits with a knife? Likely her own mind is in such a chaotic state the mental world of Wonderland itself has become hostile to her.

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American Psycho / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are comparable: *I simply am not there.* It is hard for me to make sense on any given level. Myself is fabricated, an aberration. I am a noncontingent human being. My personality is sketchy, and unformed, my heartlessness goes deep and is persistent. My consciousness, my pity, my hopes disappeared a long time ago (probably at Harvard) if they ever existed. There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused, and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. I still, though, hold on to one single bleak truth: no one is safe, nothing is redeemed. Yet I am blameless. Each model of human behavior must be assumed to have some validity. Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do? My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this - and I have, countless times, in just about every act I've committed - and coming face-to-face with these truths, there is no catharsis. I gain no deeper knowledge about myself, no new understanding can be extracted from my telling. There has been no reason for me to tell you any of this. This confession has meant *nothing* ...

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American Horror Story: Roanoke / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Looks like those teeth weren't donated... The teasers for this series were pretty vague...and very frightening. "Sycamore Tree", the song in which it's humming is featured on most of them, doesn't help at all. Here is the link to the first 26 teasers, not counting "Illusion". - "What's Cooking?" features a barn with smoke plumes resembling the logo "?6". As the date, channel and show name appear at the bottom of the screen, a chainsaw activating is heard, followed by a screaming woman. - "Milli Crossing", "Bite Sized", "Back Track", and "False Eyelashes" all show a woman inhabited by bugs, with the first showing a millipede walking across her face, the second showing a tarantula walking out of her dead-looking mouth, the third showing a line of spiders crawling into a hole in her back, and the last showing eyelashes that turn out to be spiders under her eyelids. - "Sunset Stroll" shows a shadowy family of three walking... with bright glowing eyes. - "Post-Op" has a bald patient **getting staples in his scalp that resemble the "?6" logo" on his head**. The man who stapled his head states to the patient to try to keep it dry. - "Lullaby" shows an old-fashioned bassinet with a mobile including a knife and the ?6 logo. The camera lingers, before a monstrous hand in the bassinet grabs the knife. The fact that this the first teaser that contains the mysterious humming from the song "Sycamore Tree" makes it worse. - "The Descent" shows a dark staircase, and screams are heard in the background. We then see a woman try to run down, while hands from behind the steps grab at her. The woman screams as one of the hands succeeds in getting her foot. - "The Mist" shows a bizarre humanoid creature crawling across foggy train tracks, eventually running at the camera. - "Wind Chimes" has, of course, wind chimes that contain metal resembling the "?6" logo. But then, a nurse uses hedge trimmers to cut it, sending teeth to the floor (pictured above). And the worst part of this teaser is that *it's the only one to remotely hint at the show's usual theme, unknown at the time* (as shown in "Chapter 1"). - "Camp Sight" is an alien abduction. Before the woman is carried up all the way, her back snaps and folds in half. - "Blind Date" may be pure B-movie, but it's still sort of creepy, showing a water monster dragging a woman under with it. - "The Shadow" shows a Nosferatu-like shadow creeping up some stairs and grabbing a woman's hair. Even worse, there's a version of the teaser that invokes The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You, by showing the shadow creep across a video page and grab the woman inside. When this happens, a comment praising the show turns into a repetition of the symbol that the show was using in it's teaser campaign, "?6". - "The Harvest" shows some wheat...figures walking across a field while someone follows unafraid, holding a sickle. - "The Visitors" show an entire crop somehow being cut by itself to resemble the "?6" logo. - "Anthology" contains a brief montage of every monster seen in each *American Horror Story* poster, before cutting to a very fast montage of all the other teasers before this example. It ends with multitudes of human bones and skulls forming the "?6" logo. - "Self Preservation" shows a mummy-like face wrapped in cloth, which opens its mouth to an unnatural degree and sucks in the camera. - "Blink" shows an eyeball inside a woman's lips. She "blinks" a couple of times by opening and closing her mouth, before swallowing. - "Bathing Beauty" shows a long-haired woman looking into a bathtub, with her hair clearly saying "?6". Her head turns around backwards, revealing a lamprey-like mouth in place of a face. - "The Lesson" uses *Children of the Corn* vibes to show that six students who have black eyes and slam their desks in synchronisation are clearly dangerous. - "Pitch a Fit" is worse than the previous example, depicting a pitchfork covered in green slime being dragged away from a green hand. As it moves away, it suddenly disappears. - "Baby Face" shows a doll sitting on a chair. As the camera moves closer, its jaw decays and its eyes roll forward while it sits and moves its mouth. All while a little girl's voice is chanting something in the background. - "Tide" shows someone crawling onto a beach, while their leg mutates and crystallises with unnerving metallic sounds and sickeningly realistic visuals. - "Bite Me" contains a simple yellow spider moving around. It may not seem too scary to look at... until the final seconds prove otherwise. - "Illusion" is mostly not scary due to containing Lady Gaga's "Perfect Illusion" playing over a montage of all other teasers before this example, but there are some freeze-frame bonuses when one pauses it correctly. There are actually more teasers not shown individually that are shown in this teaser, which features static containing what appears to be the Grim Reaper, a fly transforming into a butterfly that has the "?6" logo in it's wings, black smoke going into a screaming man's mouth, and a woman's reflection breaking a mirror, suddenly changing into the "?6" logo. Chapter 1 - The brief scene of the Knockout Game is terrifying. Matt is hit in the head with a swift punch, which knocks him and leaves his left eye seriously swollen afterwards. - The squealing Pig Man heard throughout the premiere and glimpsed on the home movie footage is the scariest character since Twisty. Chapter 2 - The Human Sacrifice witnessed by Shelby. - The Serial Killer nurses killing helpless elderly people, Laughing Mad while they do so. - The ways they go about killing them as well, such as: - Shooting one in the head after they refuse to take their (poisoned) medicine. - Lethal injection disguised as a shot. While we don't see it actually happen, we do see the aftermath, showing doctors fruitlessly attempting to revive the patient with CPR, all while the nurse discreetly discards the syringe in the bin. - Choking one to death with a stuffed rag, all while trying and failing to hold the nurse back. - Mixing rat poison in with one's oatmeal, causing them to vomit blood as they die. Chapter 3 - Mason's charred and mutilated remains, on display as a symbolic warning - and at that time, there was no idea who'd be capable of such an act. Chapter 4 - Cricket's extremely graphic disembowelment. Chapter 6 - A video shows a crew member working when his chainsaw suddenly seems to turn on him, cutting him open. - Deciding to quit, Diana drives away, talking on her cell phone camera. She sees a woman who looks like the Butcher on the road ahead but decides to drive on. Just as she's talking off the freaky stuff, the pig man reaches up to grab her from behind, sending the car crashing in a horrible show; the last shot of Diana as her neck is heard snapping. A title card then says that the video was discovered with her phone three months later, but her body was never found. Chapter 7 - Agnes spends most of the episode alternating between tormenting her former cast mates and psyching herself up so that she doesn't feel any of the guilt for her actions. Towards the end of the episode, it looks like she's finally gone over the deep end and is going to burn down the house... ||and then the *actual* Butcher shows up and puts a cleaver through her head||. Chapter 9 - The scene where Sophie and Milo are graphically burned to death at the stake. Their screams of pure agony as they're impaled on the wooden poles are nothing but a mix heartbreaking and terrifying.

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Amulet / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes It doesn't help that the words the cashier said to him was chilling and cryptic: **Cashier:** Check. **Trellis:** Excuse me? **Cashier:** He says it's your move now. - As a Chess Motif, this suggests that Emily's chess game against the Voice has progressed, and is *losing*. As the book goes on, this proves all too true.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes ## The Books Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland* and its sequel, *Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There*, were chock-full of nightmarish situations and bizarre mental imagery. The fact that the woodcut illustrations portrayed most of the human characters as hideously ugly with grotesquely large heads didn't help much, either. Examples include: - Falling all the way down, down, and down... - The scene in *Wonderland* where the baby turns into a pig. - Although it gets less scary when Alice comments that he looked better as a pig than a baby. And then goes on to think about all the children she knows who would look better as pigs than children. - The incredibly creepy Cheshire Cat? Way more teeth than needed, and can disappear and reappear at will. - Alice almost drowning in her own tears. Not only is she so traumatized by everything so far that she bursts into tears, but it *almost kills her*. - The Duchess's Song which includes lyrics about beating a baby every time it sneezes, and which the Duchess sings while repeatedly shaking and tossing the baby up and down. - Imagine living under a legal system which is based entirely on the whims of a bad tempered Jerkass who can have a person beheaded for even the slightest annoyance. And she annoys easily. While the King pardons all of the Queen's victims, he always has to do it in secret and we don't know how long it's going to last... - The train scene in "Through The Looking Glass". Every single passenger on the train talks in unison and say the creepiest things like "poor child she should know where she is even if she can't remember her own name". - *"If that there King was to wake," added Tweedledum, "you'd go out— bang!—just like a candle!"* Existential Horror. This is also a Call-Back to the first book, where Alice contemplates the same thing happening to her if she continued shrinking. - * 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe. All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe*. Spine-chilling. - The page's image is the Jabberwocky illustration in the original book, a horrific-looking dragon with long hairy fingers and rat-like buck teeth. - The introduction to the Tweedles. When Alice comes across them, they just *stand* there, staring at her, so still and quiet that she mistakes them for mannequins. They do this for several minutes as she gets close them enough to read their names on their collars and contemplate the nursery rhyme. Then they suddenly start to talk and move. In real life, that would easily be a Jump Scare. Then there's their appearances,◊ which can seem creepy to some, what with their little boy clothes and enlarged, caricature-like faces. - Humpty-Dumpty tells Alice he thinks she should have stopped ageing when she reached seven. She objects that one cannot prevent oneself from ageing, and he replies that she *could* have stopped ageing at seven if only she'd had "proper assistance"... Then there's the crash that shakes the forest just after Alice leaves Humpty behind, implying his inevitable fall off the wall. We know from the nursery rhyme that the White King's soldiers won't succeed in repairing Humpty in short, this means he dies just seconds after his conversation with Alice ends. ## Other adaptations - Jan vankmajer's 1988 adaptation, especially the White Rabbit. - Dreamchild. - Some of the animal characters in the 1972 version with Fiona Fullerton look pretty unnatural as well. - The Cheshire Cat as portrayed in BKN's *Alice in Wonderland: What's the Matter with Hatter*. And you thought the McGee version was creepy. And this one's supposed to be comic relief! - The 1985 made-for-TV version: - This anti-Drug PSA from 1971, entitled *Curious Alice*, that ironically is so bizarre & creepy that it seems the *producers* were on drugs when they made it. Scare 'Em Straight, indeed. - Many of Lou Bunin's stop-motion puppet characters in the 1949 version are grotesque and frightening to look at.

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An American Werewolf in London / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Indeed, The transformation sequence is very frightening. The sheer body horror of it all is subtle that it makes the whole even more terrifying. David Naughtons acting sells it. Its almost as if the whole sequence is a deconstruction of the very idea of a werewolf transformation sequence. When the transformation is nearly complete (and we see the last of it before the scene cuts away), the werewolf, now having lost just about the last of its humanity, is growling and panting as it slowly ambles to its feet, as if its revving up for the night of carnage its about to inflict. We then cut to the full moon, and once again, we hear the hellish howl we heard at the beginning of the film - night has fallen, and the nightmare can begin. The "Undead", which are more like living zombies than ghosts; Jack first appears to David with most of his skin still torn off from the Werewolf attack, and he just keeps decaying from there until his last appearance is... gah. That little flap of skin that's just barely hanging on by a thread to Jack's neck during the scene in the hospital. The nightmare sequences. Some screenshots should not be on rental video cases available to six-year-olds. The Nazi zombies attack David's home with automatic rifles and knives, blowing away David's family and slitting their throats (and ultimately David's). What's worse is that the zombies are cackling maliciously, enjoying the carnage they're inflicting on the innocent people theyre slaughtering. The NECA toy calls the zombies "nightmare demons." With how Jack confirms the "forces of darkness" are real, one could interpret the sequence in hindsight as not just being nightmares - these are actual demons here to sadistically plague the newest member of the forces of darkness in his mind! The first attack. Imagine you're walking with your friends in a pitch black and seemingly endless field, you hear howls getting closer and closer. Shortly after that you hear the growls of the beast from the darkness that surrounds you and youknowit's circling you. Another thing that makes this scene terrifying is just the very sound the werewolf makes, this genuinely unsettling howl echoing off in the distance. The fact that it's in the distance on some hostile moors at night somehow makes it even scarier than it would be close up. The fact the two main characters actually see the werewolf in the distance, and try to convince themselves that it must be a dog or something. Jack: Oh, shit. What is it? When the pub-goers are asked about the pentagram on the wall, they become very hostile and the boys decide to leave. However, they insist that the boys avoid the moors, stay on the road, and beware the moon. After the boys leave, we see that the pub-goers, apparently regulars, have barricaded the doors of the pub and drawn their weapons. The barkeep insists they shouldn't have let them leave, but is rebuffed. Then we hear the most hellish, demonic howl in the distance, and all the pub-goers look up at it. The howl continues. The barkeep begins losing her composure and begs the pub-goers to go after the boys. The others refuse, too afraid to leave. One says "it's in God's hands now." The pub doesn't get much screen-time, but damned if this scene didn't make you afraid of the unknown. The scene where one of David's victims is stalked through, and eventually killed on, the London Underground. We never, ever see the werewolf, save for one moment where we're given a very brief glimpse; a wide bird's eye POV of the man being carried up the escalator, and the werewolf emerges from the tunnels - the scene cuts to a different angle before we can fully register what we're looking at. The guy's terrified reactions are more than enough. Indeed, the very angle of the shot as the camera closes in on the cornered victim is frightening, because it's effectively a werewolf's-eye-view of the creature's approach. And the angle, together with the previous bird's-eye glimpse and how high the man's gaze was turned when he spotted his attacker at the start of the chase, confirms that it's fucking huge. The Werewolf design in general. Built like a tank and covered in fur and lacking in sheer humanity, this werewolf is frightening. It all goes down in the very recognisable Tottenham Court Road Station; watching this scene and then having to travel through that station late at night is not pleasant. The climax in Piccadilly Circus. The inspector goes into the theater where he finds David already feeding on an unfortunate victim. He then books it to the entrance where people are already gathering to see what the commotion is, and hes having the doors to the theater barricaded as much as possible only for David to start smashing against the barricade, and all the poor inspector can do is fruitlessly scream at people to run as he quickly fails to hold his ground. There is a very pissed and hungry werewolf that is quickly fighting its way through the barricade, and its terrifying to hear the animal angrily throw everything it has into tearing through David rips through the wall and bites the head off the intervening inspector in front of hundreds of terrified people. All hell breaks loose as dozens of terrified citizens try to avoid his monstrous form, crashing into and mowing down one another as they try to escape. Its arguable that the citizens do more damage than the werewolf due to the sheer panic that ensues. One unfortunate passenger gets thrown out of a bus and gets his head crushed under the wheels of a car. The Nightmare Face that David makes in one of the dreams he has (page image). The theatrical poster works thanks to, again, fear of the unknown. It depicts Jack and David looking off into the distance uneasily, with the full moon overhead. The tagline reads, "From the director of Animal House... a different kind of animal." The poster really puts you in the moment as if you're the unfortunate soul looking off in the distance as you hear the howl of the approaching werewolf. The original teaser trailer. No voiceover, none of the cast. Just a dark, murky swamp at night set to an increasingly ominous score. Then we see blood making its way through the water, around the reflection of the moon and then the paw of the werewolf splashed down over the moon with a frightening growl. And then we get the title. So much done with so little. Towards the end of Jack's first visit, he gets serious when it's clear David isn't buying what he's saying, and tells David that "the forces of darkness" and the supernatural are Real After All and it's why Jack is stuck as the undead and David will become a werewolf. It's terrifying enough to have confirmation that there really are evil forces out there. Just think of what other monstrosities are out there if werewolves and restless spirits are real. Vampires? Demons? Zombies? The possibilities are endless and terrifying. The NECA toys of the werewolf and the nightmare demons do a terrifyingly good job at capturing the ghouls.

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Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Watch your step. - As with the first movie, this film plays on people's instinctual fear of snakes—particularly ones large enough to consume human beings. Anyone with a phobia of snakes (or reptiles in general) who sees this film anyway should probably expect to have several nights that are either sleepless or nightmare-infested. - While most of the CGI isn't that good, the scene where the characters are walking through the water and there's clearly a large yellow anaconda gliding between them is downright creepy, along with the cave scenes, which took advantage of Nothing Is Scarier. - The first death is just as bad. Ben just seemingly vanishes as they cross the water. Suddenly he shoots above the surfaces, yanked around by an unseen force and begging for help. When he surfaces the final time he is badly bloodied, and everyone can only stare in horror as a snake drags him off. - The stone spider, whose bite completely paralyses its victims, leaving them utterly helpless. Worse, the first time it bites someone is because someone else used it as a weapon. - When the few survivors finally find the orchid, it's growing on a ledge just above a pit *full* of giant anacondas in a mating ball. And Jack, the only one with a weapon, forces the others to go down there and get it and just hope the snakes don't notice them. - It's noted that all the anacondas they've seen so far are wandering males, searching out the much larger female. These were the *smaller* guys.

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An American Tail / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Even without Parental Abandonment, the storm at sea, *An American Tail* features the Giant Mouse in action, and those freaking terrifying mean cats. Dear God, won't someone Think of the Children!? - The nightmarish scenario of Sapient Eat Sapient in the world of American Tail where Mice of all cultures and backgrounds are preyed upon by Cats of all cultures and backgrounds. Many of which are high ranking businessmen and figures who regularly attack and prey on the lower classes of mice with impunity. The Mice in turn fear for their lives and mourn the loss of their loved ones, including children, when they are killed by Cats. - The Cossack cats in the beginning of the movie chasing after Fievel and the fact they were like monsters (in Fievel's point of view.) They sound like monsters rather than cats, too (the same as Dragon from *The Secret of NIMH*, actually). And the cats in New York aren't much better. - The humans at the beginning, who the cats were accompanying. The movie started out with a *pogrom*. And unlike the gleeful sadism seen in the cats, the cossacks are scowling, making it clear that this was an act of pure hatred. - The human villagers fleeing the Cossacks, keep looking and you see a woman whose face is devoid of emotion, as if she has been through this thing before. Speaks to how common these pogroms were in Russia and it's territories during (and even after) Tsarist Russia. - During the sea storm, the rogue waves morph into a giant demonic entity made of sea foam and water - Father Neptune on acid. - The whole scene where Warren Rat takes off his disguise and shows that he's a cat. Especially the close-ups of his teeth. - The Giant Mouse of Minsk is unsettling by design — it was made to scare off the cats, after all — and even though it's our heroes' weapon to win the day, it's terrifying. The head and other parts of the Mouse are rotoscoped (traced over live footage: the producers made and filmed an actual Mouse) giving its movements an eerie realism and making it seem unworldly. - The Giant Mouse of Minsk was the closest thing that the immigrants could come up with to a *tank* - from the cats' perspective, it's a huge, armored juggernaut spitting missiles (well, fireworks) at them! It's little wonder they ran for the hills! - There's a whole lot of parental worries too if you put yourself in Papa's position. He's doing whatever he can to get his family a better life, but no matter where he goes the dangers he flees end up being everpresent. Then he spends much of the film thinking his only son had died before even reaching America. - And for Papa himself, too. In "There Are No Cats In America," Papa starts off the song by mentioning that he and his family were just walking to Minsk one day when he was young, then they saw evidence of a cat in the area, Papa faints, and he wakes up to find his entire family had been killed and eaten. That's a terrifying prospect for any parent, one that transcends their own death: now, their child is all alone in a world where they're at the bottom of the food chain... - The aspect of America vs. Europe as not so different with regards to the cats' oppression of the mice (representing the oppressed, disenfranchised lower classes of the world). Not only is it made abundantly clear that, yes, there really *are* cats in America, the scene demonstrating this is quite horrific. It starts with Fievel very nearly being eaten, whole and alive, by a cat and only surviving thanks to Cartoon Physics. Some other mice in the scene aren't so lucky: a few are grabbed by other cats with the clear implication that they're about to be Eaten Alive even though it cuts away to other shots of the cats terrorizing the mice. To hammer home that the mice are no safer in America than they were in Europe, the scene reuses animation cels from the Cossack raid on the Russia village earlier in the movie. - If you were even remotely afraid of insects the swarm of roaches in the sewer were pretty creepy... - After Tony knocks off Warren's disguise and Gussie Mausheimer swears he will never get another cent from the mice, he gleefully sets the abandoned museum on fire to kill them all. If Fievel hadn't used some of the fire to burn the ropes holding the Giant Mouse of Minsk back, all the mice would have been trapped and died in the fire. Even after the cats are driven off the pier, the fire ignites a pile of leaking kerosene cans and sets the whole pier on fire. - Of course, as the pier burns down, the smoke alerts the human residents of NYC and the FDNY arrives to battle the blaze, unaware of any of the fleeing mice that could be caught in high-pressure streams of water coming from their hoses.

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America's Next Top Model / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes You're probably thinking "What?! That modeling show with Tyra and the girls (and guys) and the Jays and the photo shoots? How can THAT be scary?!" Believe it or not, there are some frightening factors about this popular Long Runner. - In Cycle 1, Adrianne Curry comes down with a severe case of food poisoning and had to be hospitalized. Tyra announced that the judges decided if Adrianne was not present for the judging panel, she would be automatically eliminated so poor Adrianne had to decide between listening to the doctor's orders or taking the chance to continue in the competition. note : Luckily, she had one of the strongest photos and easily moved on to the next round. - While on the go-see challenge in Cycle 1, a random Frenchman reaches up Adrianne's skirt and *gropes her in the middle of the street* and according to her Reddit Ask Me Anything, the Frenchman attempted to follow her before the camera crew stepped in. - Cycle 2 has a photoshoot where the contestants had to pose several feet in the air inside of an old building while being suspended by a safety harness. For those afraid of heights, it will scare you witless (like poor Catie Anderson was). Moreso, not only were there a couple of *ambulances* at the scene just in case something did happen, but while climbing up the high staircase to get to the shoot, both the models and the viewer are treated to lovely shots of some dead birds strewn throughout the place. - Cycle 2's Shandi Sullivan cheats on her boyfriend with an Italian model with the camera crew catching the model leaving her room after the two had sex. According to one of the Jay's Chats that Jay Manuel and J. Alexander recorded in April 2020 on Instagram Live, the original cut of the episode was more explicit and production only edited the footage to be more tame due to the backlash from the 2004 Superbowl's "Nipplegate" with Janet Jackson. Imagine being 21 years old and a reality TV production crew ready to broadcast your sex tape on national television. Even without the explicit version, Shandi reported in July 2020 on her Instagram that she still gets messages from people scolding her for cheating on her boyfriend--something she did almost twenty years ago! - She and other contestants also reported that they felt the situation was highly encouraged by producers; the hot tub in the Italian apartment hadn't been working since they showed up and only once the boys showed up did it mysteriously begin working again. The get-together with the boys had been suggested by producers in the first place, and the crew had no problem intervening when it came to making things easier to film (Shandi said she and the guy initially began making out in the shower before the crew pulled her out) but didn't intervene when it came to her having sex with someone while she was completely wasted. Although Shandi takes responsibility for the incident, she has also stated that because of how contrived the situation was, her consenting was not straightforward. - While appearing before the panel and being critiqued on her lack of presence, Cycle 4's Rebecca Epley suddenly faints in front of them and her fellow contestants, freaking them all out. Fortunately, she ended up being fine, explaining that it was a recurring, but non-fatal, neurological disorder she had and later even poked fun at the event in Cycle 8's "Most Outrageous Model Moments" photoshoot with Jael Strauss. - Cycle 4 also had the contestants dressed as the seven deadly sins...while posing inside of a coffin six feet below. In addition to the claustrophobia, poor Kahlen Rondot had to do the shoot after learning a close friend of hers recently died in a car accident. note : Luckily, Kahlen was able to channel her grief into delivering a stellar photo. - A runway challenge in Cycle 6 involved the contestants posing with a cockroach while walking down the runway. Even with them being "glamorized" fashion pieces (which basically entailed covering the bugs with colorful sequins and the like), the cockroaches were *much bigger* than your average house bug. You can empathize with Gina Choe being horrified by them, especially when she was so freaked out that she held onto one of the designer's assistants, only for the assistant to snottily order, "Please don't grab my hand." There was a moment where Jade Cole actually *kissed* one of the roaches (and which named the episode itself), but if you watch it again, Jade actually kissed her finger instead of the bug. - In Cycle 6, Joanie Dodds was given free dental surgery and veneers to fix her crooked teeth...but had to spend almost 24 hours in the dentist's chair. At one point, she is seen walking through the empty dental office at 3 a.m. and bemoans to the confession cam about all of her pain—and then she has to go back at 6 a.m. to finish the procedures. - Dani Evans from Cycle 6 came down with severe food poisoning in Thailand and similar to Adrianne, she was told that if she did not participate in the photoshoot challenge, she would be automatically eliminated. So against doctor's orders, Dani checked herself out of the hospital and went to the photoshoot...where she was informed that they would be posing on elephant and needed to ride said elephants into a deeper part of the jungle for the shoot's location. It's a miracle Dani didn't collapse. note : (And luckily like Kahlen above, she turned out one of the best photos of the day.) - Cycle 8 had the infamous "Model Murders" where the women were supposed to pose as murder victims. As beautiful as some of the pictures were (from a "fashion" standpoint), it didn't make the pictures any less horrifying. Some of the causes of death where the model actually **looked** dead (versus just posing) included being poisoned, disemboweled, strangled, pushed down the stairs, shot (like Dionne, as seen above) and internally decapitated. note : Perhaps even worse, Dionne Walters and Felicia Provost, were actually *in the bottom two* that week (with the latter being sent packing) Fortunately, the featured picture of Dionne becomes Nightmare Retardant for two reasons, if you can spot them: the blood-splatter pattern doesn't match up to her injuries and she is clearly propping herself up by her left arm. - Cycle 9's "Smoking Models", which was done to portray a more positive role model for the show's young viewers and to stop the women from smoking, included the many effects of smoking, such as rotten teeth, secondhand smoke, cancer (including partial *and* total hair loss from chemotherapy), third degree burns and having a facial tumor or a stoma. Then there was Tyra's own picture of "glamorous" smoking where among the background smoke there was a skull sitting nearby. - Also in Cycle 9, Heather Kuzmich collapses during the filming of Enrique Iglesias's music video and had to be rushed out of the building in order to receive oxygen. - As beautiful as the theme of the photoshoot was, Cycle 10's Lauren Utter's "Fuerza Bruta" photo has been described as looking like "a corpse that had its arms and legs chopped off and dumped in a river". Made somewhat worse by how we don't get a good look at her face. - In Cycle 13, the contestants' photoshoot involves them posing underwater. Laura Kirkpatrick has a fear of drowning and dying by suffocation so when she is submerged underwater, she panics and immediately swims over to the scuba team for oxygen.

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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes At one point, you find a journal entry that describes how Mandus returned home with the Orb, started to work on his plans, and later buried his children's skulls in the garden. Later, when you are almost about to activate the Machine, it retells the last part of the entry with a few changes... **THE MACHINE:** And you came then to London and you set **me** upon a mantelpiece and then you went into the house and gathered the servants and **we** set, **you and I**, on re-crafting them and then you went into the garden and buried those tiny shattered skulls. Alone.

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And Around Again A Cinderella Phenomenon Tale / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Every single time Lucette goes back in time with no idea why, desperate to stop the cycling, but not knowing how - The possible outcome of the gamble regarding Myth. If Fritz hadn't been there, Lucette may have been forced to marry Myth, which would have held through the reset, due to it being a promise between witches. - In one cycle Myth gets turned to stone, but stays aware of his surroundings. The isolation leads to him going insane.

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Anarky / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes As a relatively little used character, Anarky hasn't seen enough publication history to rack up a huge list of stories. However, being related to the Batman-family of books, which is known for its dark portrayals of crime, and being written by Alan Grant to tackle weighty issues of injustice, cruelty and corruption, there's still been plenty of terrifying moments. Heavy spoilers for several stories below. - *Batman: The Shadow of the Bat* No.18, "The God of Fear" (part 3) (1993) - When the Scarecrow, Batman's fear-gimmick foe, attacks victims with his fear toxin, you can normally expect the characters to respond with terrifying delusions of visceral, yet common phobias. Reactions to spiders and insects that aren't there, terrible heights, or recalled childhood trauma. So what did Anarky see when he was hit by the gas? ||A sudden collapse of the weight of a dying world on top of him. He begins to see the destruction of the entire world. "The world's dying! Poisoned seas — can't breath the air! The politicians — the bankers — the criminals — they're sacrificing us all on the altar of their greed! Please... please don't kill our planet...!"|| The terrifying aspect of this is that, if you agree with his sentiments, he's not afraid of anything that isn't happening. Ripped from the Headlines of the news, his terror is something more real than any phobia involving spiders and heights and even less probable of overcoming. - *Anarky* No.2 Vol. 1, "The Economics of the Madhouse" (1997) - On the hellhole prison-planet of Apokolips, three prisoners escape the slave labor dungeons of the lower levels, seeking freedom. The planet is composed of industrial pollution, metallic artificial landscapes, paranoid architecture, and dark, oppressive weather. When they reach the surface of the planet for the first time, they reveal the depths of their isolation and deprivation, when one is so moved he says ||"It's beautiful."|| - A resistance movement is building in the shadows of the planet. The planet-wide dictator, Darkseid, ||is aware of it. He encourages it, as it will give his slaves just enough hope for him to take away when he brutally snuffs it out, furthering his psychological domination of his subjects.|| - Darkseid allows Anarky to leave the planet and live with the knowledge of what the little freedom fighter has seen: the complete, abject hopelessness of resisting tyranny. As a final show of his victory over Anarky, he reveals the fate of the three prisoners who escaped at the beginning of the story: ||All three have been promoted for killing their former guard. They have now become proud, gloating, willing guards over their former fellow slaves.||

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Andor / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The Empire as a whole shows how deadly effective they are even with a less grand presence in the series than they're usually depicted. Given the horrors and atrocities they've committed *without* the presence of Darth Vader, shows they only used him *as a last resort*. - Every time the Imperials start shooting blasters at people who have none. Yeah, these are usually rioters, on Narkina 5 or Ferrix, and in true *Star Wars* fashion the underdogs ultimately win, but every time an Imp pulls that trigger, someone dies. The true cost of this Rebellion: scores dead to buy the smallest chance of making a small stand against Imperial tyranny. - Beehaz's death by heart failure is disturbing in how mundane and realistic it is for the setting. After being forced into hard labor at a rapid pace for several minutes without break, the overweight, elderly man is seen fruitlessly gasping, clutching his heart, before keeling over like he'd been shot. - Nemik suffers a horrific death when most of his body is crushed by a sliding crate, with the sickening crunch being one of the worst parts of it. Immediately after being freed, Nemik can only cry how he can't feel his legs, but that crunch and the position it hit his body makes it clear to the viewer his legs are the least of his problems. He's left to suffer in agony until he finally dies while the doctor tries and ultimately fails to save his life. - The lengths Luthen Rael would go to further the rebellion's cause makes him quite terrifying in himself. Wearing the facade of a jovial antique shop dealer/collector on Coruscant is a ruthless rebel spy who is willing to let the entire galaxy suffer from the Empire's tyranny if it means more people will be inspired to rise up against it. - Just after the rise of the Empire, anti-Imperial protestors throw rocks at a platoon of clone troopers on Ferrix. Seeing how robotic the clones are is harrowing, especially after witnessing their humanity and empathy in The Clone Wars. All of it is long gone, replaced with cold ruthlessness. - Cassian being "hung onto" by the KX-Droid. *It throttles Cassian against a wall.* Cassian is desperately trying to explain to the droid that the Shoretrooper meant to watch him. He has to use all his strength to keep the droid from crushing his throat, something it could do with nothing more than a *slight squeeze!* - The Imperial prison on Narkina 5 is horribly unsettling. Though clean and bright inside, it torments its prisoners by forcing them to work on the same project for their entire 12-hour shift, using a punishment and rewards system to encourage productivity, (punishment is being subjected to the pain of the electric floor, reward is *getting flavor added to your food*), saps the will out of all of its inmates, and will actively shock anybody who falls behind by using electrically-charged floors. It gets even worse when one poor prisoner takes his own life, and virtually everyone is numb to it. Their only reactions are to complain about how inconvenient it is for *them*, having to spend the rest of the night with his body in the hall or his table being a man down for their shift tomorrow, making it unlikely they won't get last place. The whole thing is cold, carefully calculated cruelty to break the inmates' spirits and keep them working hard on their widgets. - Then there is the dark truth of the prison. *No one leaves*. When someone serves their sentence, instead of getting to go home, they'll just get moved to another prison, and if anyone on a level ever caught wind of this terrible truth, the guards have no qualms about having that entire level slaughtered to prevent the truth from getting out. The Imperials had them all killed *just to cover up a mistake,* and shows how little the lives of 100 men mean to the Empire. - The ISB torturing Bix for information. Instead of traditional methods, they use the screams of the Dizonite children the Empire slaughtered. And Dr. Gorst, the Faux Affably Evil Torture Technician, describes how they got the sounds in a casual, friendly way. Bix's *bloodcurdling* scream and despondent state after the ordeal absolutely sell just how barbaric this particular method of torture is, even by Imperial standards. - Luthen is revealed to be willing to throw his fellow rebel operatives under the bus to protect his operations, and forces a deep-cover mole who recently becomes a father to continue to work for him by threatening his newborn child's life. Luthen's methods make him no better than the Empire and he clearly knows it, yet that won't stop him from doing what needs to be done anyway, whatever the costs may be. The scene with the mole (Lonni Jung) is especially terrifying, as it involves Lonni communicating with Luthen while inside a malfunctioning elevator whose lights occasionally flicker out. The conversation itself starts with Luthen seemingly threatening his baby daughter. When he finally meets Luthen face-to-face and goes more into his familial life and asks to be relieved of duties, the scene turns more and more tense as Luthen talks about how Lonni cannot leave, and you straight-up expect Luthen to pull a You Have Outlived Your Usefulness on him and execute Lonni and there, especially as the whole scene seems set up to turn Lonni into a Mauve Shirt. Thankfully that doesn't happen here, but... - In fact, the opposite happens. Luthen considers Lonni *too valuable* to risk, so won't act on his intelligence that the ISB is wise to an upcoming attack by a Rebel cell. Thirty men are going to die pointlessly because Luthen wants the ISB to think they're getting a handle on things. When we see the hoops the ISB jumped through to keep their knowledge of the attack hidden and not tip off the Rebels, it would be easy to claim there was a fault somewhere in that chain that warned the Rebels off. . . but Luthen won't take that risk. Thirty men are going to die for his idea of the "greater good," and won't even know why. - While *awesome*, the riot on Rix Road is still unsettling for the brutality inflicted by the Empire and even a bit of what the townspeople inflict on their oppressors. Dedra gets an especially harrowing moment where she's kicked around so much she's like a shirt in a washing machine, crying out in pain and unable to get to her feet. Then the rioters pick her up, for a moment holding her in the air spread in the midst of them. It looked like they were going to try ripping her limb from limb. . . or any number of even less pleasant things. - We also get the dubious pleasure of seeing Imperial Stormtroopers the way the oppressed peoples of the galaxy would see them — not as an incompetent bunch of terrible shots, but anonymous representatives of tyranny who are more than happy to start mowing down unarmed civilians. - As if Narkina wasn't bad enough, want that extra bit of horror? The components the inmates are making are parts of the *Death Star* superlaser.

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And Then There Were None (2015) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The increasing Paranoia Fuel in general is expertly portrayed in this adaptation, as for the better part of 3 hours you are kept on edge waiting for the next murder to occur. - The death of Marston, the first victim. He's dismissing responsibility for his crime over drinks when he suddenly starts coughing up blood and staggering around the room, eventually collapsing onto Vera and pushing them both onto a sofa as he continues to spit blood onto her *face*. - The drug-fuelled party put up by the last four survivors, especially when Armstrong starts ranting about the horrors he has seen during the war. The fact that the recording accusing them of their crimes plays over the scene doesn't help. - The murder that Blore committed is only shown briefly, but it is horrifying. He didn't shoot Landor, or hit him with a truncheon—he shut the door to the cell and *kicked him to death*. When Blore eventually does accept the guilt and admit his crime, he himself says that he "stomped him to a pulp" and the body was so bloody that they wouldn't allow his mother to see it. (For extra Fridge Horror, Blore's fellow officers must have been fully aware what he'd done and covered for him.) - Blore's sudden hallucination of the bear rug coming to life. Made worse in that it's the last thing he ever sees. - "Poor little Cyril." - Vera's fate is slightly different from the book, where she simply breaks down and hangs herself. Here, she manages to see Wargrave entering the room and to balance herself on the chair she has just kicked away, which leaves her pleading for few minutes while gasping for air. The most horrifying moment has her trying to convince Wargrave to go along with her plan of framing Lombard, telling him "They believed me last time", thus confirming that she did indeed let Cyril drown. - Vera hallucinates seeing Cyril's ghost as he leads her up to the noose in her room. She keeps a disturbing smile on during the entire thing. - Cyril asking Vera about how she'll marry Hugo when he's penniless ... to which she responds, "Love finds a way." - Wargrave's suicide at the end of the final episode is a perfect portrayal of a psychopath. After ensuring Vera's death, the murderer closes the door on her and picks up Lombard's gun. Making his way downstairs, Wargrave callously steps over Blore's body, showing his content and lack of empathy for his victims. He shows little to no emotion as he sets the table to make it look like another person was there, even when he loads the bullet that will end his life into the gun. The only emotion he shows is just before the final act, when he picks up his wine glass. Before his final drink, Wargrave looks across the table at "U.N. Owen's" chair and the statues of the Ten Little Soldiers and grins ever so subtly as if to say "Yes, I did that!" Then, with almost no hesitation, he proceeds to blow his own brains out, not only to conceal his crimes, but to avoid execution or a slow, protracted death from his cancer. In other words this is a villain who not only succeeded with his plan, but in the end got everything he wanted. - The last forty seconds of the series. First, we see the still smoking gun resting on the table, where the detectives will think Mr Owen left it. We are then treated to a close-up of the dead Wargrave's face, the victorious villain whose blood is now dripping down his body onto the floor. Finally, we see get a wide shot of the island, fading into the distance, knowing that *nobody* is left on it.

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Andy's Apple Farm / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The Halloween special climaxes when Melody, Felix, and Andy go to investigate the basement. Felix is the bravest and most eager to see something "scary"...until he sees *something* behind a door, which renders him speechless. When he recovers, he brushes off Melody and Andy's questions, insisting that they need to *get out*. Now. Then Melody, curious, peers behind the door to see what Felix is talking about...only to, exactly like Felix, be rendered to Stunned Silence and also insisting that it's time to leave. Only Andy doesn't learn what they saw and is left begging for answers as they search for Claus and Margret. At the end, there's some levity in which it's revealed at least some of the scares were a prank at Andy's expense. **Felix:** Yeah, those bodies in the basement? *Super* realistic! **Margret:** Felix...we didn't put any bodies in the basement... - This is the last line of the episode.

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An Emerald Unearthed / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes You'd think that because Emerald actually had much better parents that Cinder and Mercury things would be better? Think again, because An Emerald Unearthed has it's own share of terrifying moments. There was a Retcon to the story that made Silva a Faunus with shark teeth, giving him an even more unsettling appearance. Especially with his constant smug smiles that provide opportunities to show them off. Silva going after Emerald in the second chapter. She has to hide from him and his henchmen using only her Semblance and her wits. It doesnt help that she is basically out in the open and is hidden only by a projection that she puts up. Even worse is when Silva is only inches away from her face. She is depending on this illusion to work or else hell abduct her. Silva: Come on out, little Sustrai! If you show yourself soon, I promise not to hurt you. Make things difficult for me and Ill make things difficult for you. The ease of how cruel Silva can be. He ruthlessly kills Emeralds mother in the opening flashback and dismisses it as collateral so that Cole will pay his debts next time. He then threatens to kill Emerald if Cole doesnt hand over more money. His jovial attitude doesnt help much. It only underscores how cruel he is. One show of his cruelty is when he casually shoots one of his men in frustration. This even disturbs Emerald when she hears it happen. The ending of Chapter 4 has Silva's guard choking Emerald into unconsciousness while Silva casually threatens her. It even ends as Emerald passes out. The later description of Silva's men beating her up to "persuade her" to join him. She only has her Aura to keep her protected.

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An American Tail: Fievel Goes West / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes *An American Tail: Fievel Goes West* is intended for children (maybe with a few Parental Bonuses), but this is also a sequel to a Don Bluth Film, so we all remember how his films tend to go... - Starting off, the Cat Attack scene at the beginning of the movie. Sure, Cat R. Waul has made no eating one of the tantamount rules for this attack, but that doesn't discount lots of mayhem and fear. - The music, while over the top, actually uses that overbearing intonation to its advantage, and really, REALLY, ups the panic and fear in the scene, especially in these parts: - Fievel runs off to fight the cats, and both Papa and Mama already fear him dead when he jumps out their knothole window, only for him to come back for his hat (to turn it into a cowboy hat), and *then* jump back out. Papa tries to call for him again, only for One-Eye (the cat with the lavender shirt, brown vest, and bowler hat) to slam his hand through the wall and tear their house apart, looking for the mice. - Fievel bites off a bit more than he can chew to protect his family. One-Eye decides for himself to go rogue and have himself a Fievel snack, with Fievel realizing he can't really take on this big cat. Slowly the cat advances on poor Fievel, overshadowing him, with Fievel slowly losing his tough composure. It's only the timely intervention of Papa Mousekewitz purposely screeching his violin playing, inflicting pain on One-Eye's ears, that saves Fievel. - Fievel falling from the train made even worse by his family witnessing it and Papa Mousekewitz even attempting to jump overboard in a futile attempt to save him. - The choice between the hawk and scorpion scene. AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! With the part where the scorpion almost stings Fievel right between the legs as a stand-out that will make anyone cringe. - *THE LAAAAAAAAAAZY EYE* that Burp implements as a successful way to intimidate his opponents.

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Amphibia Season 2 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Just your typical Disney show... With the season exploring more of Amphibia, there's more dark and disturbing scenes to be found outside the safety of the valley... Fort in the Road - There's something darkly chilling about the fact that the ancient Amphibian civilization had modern technology, but it was all abandoned, even being labeled 'Ruins of Despair'.... - Hop Pop being about to suffer Unwilling Roboticisation. It's a good thing Sprig and Anne stop it, but the fact that such a thing existed... no wonder the current inhabitants label the abandoned factories the way they do. The Ballad of Hopediah Plantar - The little Bittys rise up against the Hasselbacks and save Hop Pop... by going feral and growing teeth and *eating their tormenters alive.* There's a brief, non-gory shot of Ma Hasselback suffering the Chest Burster effect before the villains are set on fire off-screen. Anne Hunter - Imagine your adopted family being taken by a scorpoleo — as the name suggests, a half-lion, half-scorpion beast which has heat vision and is going to kill and eat your loved ones. No wonder Anne suffers a stress-induced hallucination from it. Quarreler's Pass - Lysil and Angwin are a pair of monstrous olms who try to eat Sprig and Polly. What makes them creepier than the usual giant predators in the show is that, being amphibians, they are fully sapient, and yet they have no qualms eating other sapient beings, sadistically talking to their prey before going for the kill. Wax Museum - The Curator. At first it seems like he's just an Amphibia-themed pastiche of Lovable Rogue Grunkle Stan Pines of Gravity Falls fame, but then it turns out he's a Corrupted Character Copy who encased a number of odd creatures in wax for his tourist trap and was planning to do the same to Anne. Said creatures are still alive, but can only move their eyes, stuck in their wax prison. - It's honestly kind of horrifying seeing the Curator get dragged off into the darkness of one of the Curiosity Huts rooms, presumably to his death. Granted, he deserves it, but you gotta remember this is the frog version of Grunkle Stan, so it's kind of like seeing the beloved character from Gravity Falls die. Marcy at the Gates - The Barbari-Ants are a giant race of ants that look like they have glowing horns. They're so nasty a threat that Newtopia had to close themselves off from them. Marcy states that if they're not stopped, they will turn Newtopia into a giant ant nest. The Sleepover to End All Sleepovers - Anne, Sprig, Polly, and Marcy discover an Ancient Tomb in the basement of King Andrias's castle. The coffins therein are chained shut as if to keep the contents trapped inside. The reason for this becomes evident very quickly, because they contain alien-like Eldritch Abominations that are made of energy, intangible and entirely capable of dissolving bones in their bodies. - When Marcy unsurprisingly falls down the stairs and in front of the mirror, the pattern on the moth's wings briefly makes it look as if she has sharp fangs. It leads one to wonder if there's a bit of Foreshadowing going on. A Day at the Aquarium - Most of the episode is a tragic and heartwarming Continuity Cavalcade, but it ends on an ominous note. Marcy watches Anne leave and King Andrias approaches her from behind; only, his jovial, welcoming and kind disposition is noticeably absent. He then says: **King Andrias:** Always sad to see someone go, isn't it? I have a proposition for you, Marcy, and I think you'll find it very interesting. The Shut-In! - According to creator Matt Braly, the episode being non-canon allowed the crew to do some pretty messed up stuff to the cast, much like The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror specials, and it shows. - Anne's story centers on a cute cat video that imprisons all who watch it (including human versions of Polly, Maddie, and Toadie, and one unlucky soul who was trapped in the video thirty-five years ago) and when Anna (based on Anne) learns the truth, the creature *HOPS OUT OF THE VIDEO AND TURNS INTO A MONSTER!* - Hop Pop's story centers on his days as a wagon driver, where he accidentally delivers a mysterious fellow named Mr. Littlepot, who is basically the amphibian Grim Reaper in reality, to the addresses of each person that Littlepot kills. Eventually, Mr. Littlepot goes after Hop Pop, and when it seems like he's gonna kill him..... Hop Pop's luxurious hair is sliced off instead and stolen by Littlepot. - Sprig tells the story of how he and Ivy discovered the Seamstress, a mysterious Serial Killer who skins frogs alive and uses their skin to make one of themselves. It gets dangerously close to doing the same to Ivy too, until she and Sprig basically burn it alive. - When Polly gets sick of not having a story that isn't based on a previous episode, she goes out to look at the Blue Moon in the hopes that it'll inspire her. The Blue Moon is stated to turn whoever gazes at it into a monster, but apparently nothing happens. At least... until Polly is transformed into a werebeast herself! - The end credits are mostly the same as season 1, but with Anne and Sprig as derelict skeletons. Night Drivers - The frog with the slasher smile and a hook hand that continuously stalks Sprig and Polly. Later, it turns out to be a case of Dark Is Not Evil when it's revealed to be the ghost of a hiker who helps lost travelers. - Anne dreams of being in a land of bug-free yogurt (complete with a cheerful talking yogurt container). However, it turns out all the yogurt tastes like licorice. While it seems funny in concept, the execution is actually pretty horrific, as it shows the yogurt container's eyes falling out and black goop coming out from their mouth. After the Rain - Hop Pop reveals that Sprig and Polly's parents were eaten by giant herons that attacked Wartwood. The event itself is only implied by the silhouette of a heron whose beak appears to be caked in blood. The First Temple - The thirteen-eyed Eldritch Abomination creature residing underneath the castle that King Andrias refers to as "My Lord". Andrias being the villain came to no surprise to most, but the sudden reveal of an even greater evil is the last thing you would've expected. The ending also reveals that Andrias is working on a revenge scheme, though to what end is unknown. - According to General Yunan, the status quo is getting out of control; the frog uprising appears to be spreading beyond the valley, and the Toad Lords (whoever they are), are planning a meeting, probably a strategic one in response to the issue. Add Grime and Sasha's plan of a direct assault on Newtopia and whatever Andrias is up to, and we might be looking at a three-way Amphibian civil war. Toad to Redemption - *Toad Tower is being rebuilt.* It appears that Newtopia is the one funding it and in charge of selecting its leaders. And the ambassador deemed Mayor Toadstool unsuitable for the job, giving it to the toad bandits. What does their leader say to this? That with him in charge, he'll make Grime look like a softie. Maddie & Marcy - The growth potion Maddie's sisters take turns out to be unstable, as it makes them keep growing well beyond normal limits. Maddie says that if she and Marcy don't stop it, they'll explode. Barrel's Warhammer - Captain Aldo, leader of the North Tower, is... disturbing. He appears to be a rotting corpse that seems to have no eyes, or, rather, just black voids where his eyes should be. When he first appears, Bufo and Beatrix, the other tower captains besides him and Grime (or possibly Bog at this point, though he is absent), aren't sure if he's asleep or actually dead. This is understandable, since there are vines growing over his limbs and moss on his clothes. Later, he suddenly moves and slowly rips the vines that were entangling his arms off of him. When he does speak, it is in a deep, demonic-sounding voice. A small insect appears next to his head, giving the appearance that he might be being mind-controlled and kept alive by some kind of parasite. True Colors

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Anecdote of Error / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes For a webcomic made by a teenager, quite a lot of creepy stuff happens in *Anecdote of Error*. - Atshis hallucinations, with particular mention to the one from page 19. Atshi stops what she is doing, freezing in terror, gets a Thousand-Yard Stare, and says a Madness Mantra in a tone of absolute despair, all while the fire demon is watching. - The description of what Dolvyn Dal did to his victims. - Page 63. Atshi has one of her recurring nightmares again, but this time her lookalike stares right at her, tells her to run while she still can, and transforms into the fire demon, staring right at the viewers. Whats worse is that morganicfoods saw fit to make this her wallpaper on DeviantArt for some reason.

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American Vampire / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Skinner Sweet, the progenitor of the American vampire bloodline, was a violent and psychotic outlaw that has been rampaging across the West until he messed with the wrong kind of people (namely, European vampires masquerading as bankers that he robbed from). During a scuffle, he gets himself unwittingly infected by the banker when he is bitten and has vampire's blood splashing into his eye. He emerges as the first American vampire, powered by sunlight and even stronger than his progenitors. After being seemingly brought down by his arch-enemy Jim Book, he is buried alive for 20 years and remains awake the entire time... - The Japanese vampires in the "Ghost War" story arc. If you thought the Euro-Vamps were bad, then this bloodline somehow manages to be *even worse*. For starters, they resemble Xenomorphs with their lizard-like body and eyeless faces. Their strain is far more infectious than any other - just one scratch, a bite or contact with their blood will transform you into one in matter of seconds. They are completely mindless and being transformed into one of them is A Fate Worse Than Death, at least other vampires keep their sentience when turned. Not even other vampires are safe from them. Skinner was heavily injured while fighting with a couple of these monsters and his wounds couldn't heal. Not even one of the strongest vampires out there was safe from them.

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Amnesia: Rebirth / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Frictional Games masterpiece has been rebirthed. And its just as terrifying as ever. ## General - The protagonist, Tasi Trianon, is apparently named after the real-life Tassili Caves in Algeria, home to some of the worlds oldest known examples of prehistoric artwork. Some of the petroglyphs include depictions of figures that look like they came from psychedelic visions and some that do not look like they came from earth at all. - The Ghouls. Holy shit, the *Ghouls.* Withered, mummified former humans that lurk in the darkest recesses of Tin Hinan. Complete with black eyes, shredded lips and a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth, which have convinced people that their victims were killed by cave hyenas instead of some grotesque revenant. They behave and operate like pack hunters, skittering and skulking around their prey before striking. One of their victims was an entire *regiment* of the French Foreign Legion, who they quickly and easily overwhelmed. And they don't just kill - they *torture* their victims physically and psychological to ensure that they produce as much Vitae as possible. - They are able to burrow through stone, brick and plaster with apparent ease, making it easier for them to ambush their prey. All of their territory is covered in thick mats of a black, moldy substance out of which grow strange bioluminescent fungi. None of which looks like it came from this planet. - And the worst part? Some of them have a small portion of their humanity left. - Remember Vitae and how it was harvested from the pain of torture victims to give Alexander a way home? Now imagine it being used to *power an entire civilization.* - There are hanging gibbets that are towed across the Other World on cables like sides of beef. Only in this case, the meat in question consists of living people that are carted off to torture pods and chambers to be squeezed dry of Vitae and then thrown away like lemon rinds. - And its not just physical pain thats required to make Vitae - there needs to be *emotional* pain as well. The people of the Other World exploit this by torturing them, wiping their memories and then filling their minds with their most treasured memories before they are thrust right back into their agony to repeat the cycle until their bodies expire. With the same Vitae used to keep them alive for even more torture. All of this is done in capsule-like pods where they can be seen and heard writhing in agony. AND THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF THEM. Unending torture is horrific enough, but when that degree of inhumanity is treated as casually as the changing of a battery or lightbulb? That is the stuff of which nightmares are made of. - It's also mentioned that there was public opposition among the Otherworlders to the torture process. This means that the process used to be even *more* agonizing, and that the current process is the refined one that the population found more palatable; either that, or the process remained constant long enough for the Otherworlders to get desensitized to the suffering. Either possibility is horrifying. In a way, the Shadow may have been the *best* thing to happen to it. - Now realize two things - Vitae effectively stunted the Otherworld's energy development since it was so darn powerful and relatively easy to get/make. We have no word of fossil fuels or nuclear power sources with only power source sans Vitae being possibly oil in simple torches. Secondly, humanity would eventually come to emulate that civilization (mercifully as a pale shadow) in terms of industrial animal slaughterhouses, though at least we have (as of 2023.) developed lab-grown meat to eventually end the process. ## Main Game - The game begins in the 1930s with the protagonist surviving a plane crash in the Algerian desert. Miraculously, you are able to walk away without injury. However, you have no memory of the crash itself or the amount of time that has passed since. And the passengers and crew are nowhere to be found. - Tasi finally finds her husband Salim, only to discover that he's been dead for some time. He died alone, afraid and in the dark without the one he loved by his side. - The entirety of the fortress you explore early on in the game. The entire place is positively *riddled* with corpses with various different signs of death. Malnourishment, suicide, dismemberment and decapitation. It's absolutely horrific. All in an Ottoman-era fortress repurposed as a French outpost that is slowly collapsing from years of neglect. Is that creak of wood just the place settling, or is it something that could rip your throat open? - One section in particular, shown off in the opening of the gameplay demo trailer, is positively seething with horrific sights, from the mangled corpses to the Ghoul that's pounding and clawing its way into the room after you. And there's a chance that you'll see one perched on a ledge, watching you before leaping back into the darkness. And when you leave, the door is still *pounding.* - Speaking of that decapitated corpse, guess who that is! It's Jonathan Webber: expedition engineer and the first victim of the Ghouls. He was an upbeat and pretty friendly family man, completely eviscerated and left to rot in the baking Algerian heat. - In Al-Mamaru Fort, you can read an excerpt from a book of Middle Eastern folklore that describes in horrific detail the many "Djinn" that are said to haunt the deepest reaches of the desert. It's sure to have a first time player looking over their shoulders in fear of these specters. Or rather, the creatures that *inspired* them. - The fort also has a telegraph machine set up by the French Foreign Legion. It's still functional and if you type in "SOS", you get a reply: "YOU DIE." Complete with one *mother* of a Scare Chord. Just who the hell was on the other line?! - Your introduction to Leon, one of the group members that has long since been turned into a Harvester, both for how it's done and for what it reveals. In a dark maze, you hit a dead end and have to turn around. From the pitch black darkness, Leon rushes towards you and grabs onto you, before he's taken aback by Tasi's presence and regains his sanity for a brief moment before scuttling back into the dark as the game of cat-and-mouse begins for real. - Upon escaping the maze, Leon angrily claws at the door while screaming threats and obscenities at Tasi before ambling off into the dark again. - When Tasi escapes after he tracks her down again and chases her through the sewers, she ends up taking his right arm with her as he begs her to stay. - Tasi's pregnancy, or rather how unnatural it feels. The baby seemingly grows months at a time in the span of hours, and Tasi is terrified at the though of the baby being something unnatural or flat-out monstrous as a result of her being infected with the toxin that turns people into Harvesters. - The Shadow makes its return from the first game once Tasi finds and uses an Orb to open a portal. And it is pissed. - The gelatinous residue it leaves behind is much redder and fleshier than it was in The Dark Descent. In the first game, it seemed like more of a nuisance. This time, its as if reality itself wants you dead in its cancerous grasp. - The aftermath of its true power is also shown in full terrifying glory, having turned the *entire* Other World into a shell of what it was, tearing most of its surface to ashes, transforming magicians and alchemists into Wraiths, leaving Empress Tihana as the only intelligent being alive there. Unless you count the poor souls tortured to keep her alive. - The fate of Thruston Herbert. The poor man sought glory through the archeological discovery of the Other World, only to be trapped there and left to slowly die of starvation. While he did enjoy embarrassing Daniel for shits and giggles in the first game, even he didn't deserve such a ghastly way to go. - The ruins of Tin Hinan are found alongside ancient Roman structures that hold canopic jars, Mycenaean stoneware and fragments of Roman frescoes alongside data storage devices that hold the memories of people as far away as Greece and even Siberia. The servants of Tihana have been abducting and torturing people for their Vitae for a long, long time. - One section of the game has you navigate an entire den of Harvesters. They're all in a strange catatonic state, as if they're sleeping upright or are hunched over and unaware of anything around them. And yes, if you get too close or make too much noise, they *will* notice you, and you *will* be swarmed. - Look into one of the doors in the Roman ruins and you just might see the hunched-over shadow of a Ghoul cast against the wall as it noisily chews on its meal. - One particularly unsavory moment gives Tasi the chance to *torture* someone to extract Vitae. The visuals are hidden, thank God, but the sounds are enough to give you a good idea of what you're missing. - The way Ghouls are created. The survivors of the *Cassandra* are brought to a sacred oasis by Tihana's spectral form with the promise of survival. The crew are more than happy to oblige and drink from the water, infecting them with a disease that slowly, *slowly* turns them into Ghouls. A transformation that is accelerated by intense stress and fear, producing a positive feedback loop when they start seeing black veins grow across their arms and black tendrils grow out of their eyes. - The fate of Richard Fairchild. He's a pretty decent guy, only to spend most of the story pre/post the start of the actual game being tortured. He's so broken that he, very apologetically, lashes out at his rescuer in desperation, begging for them to take her instead. Consequently, Tasi, taken over by her Ghoul-self, fights back and kills him. - Eventually, Tasi's water breaks. Not long after, she is caught in a bear trap and hung upside down. While she is found by Yasmin before long, Yasmin is about to fully become a Ghoul and can only get Tasi down and *put her own leg in the bear trap* to slow herself down and give Tasi a chance to flee. Yasmin fully loses her sanity moments later and breaks down the door, chasing Tasi across the desert sands and screaming at her all the while. No matter how far you go or how fast you run, Tasi will be caught. If not for the doctor's intervention, Tasi would have been mauled to death then and there. - Tasi gives birth to a baby girl, Amari, with the help of the doctor. However, this is done in the middle of the desert in a cave with *no* painkillers, while she's tied down to prevent her from losing herself to the Harvester toxin. And then the doctor kidnaps her newborn daughter in an attempt to barter with Empress Tihana. - Tasi, to her credit, doesn't take that sitting down. She fully embraces the Harvester side of herself and gives chase before *bashing the doctor's head into the stairs repeatedly*. Jesus... - Amari is revealed to have contracted the same disease that killed Tasi's first daughter. It gets worse — the only way to treat this disease is to use *the substance that comes from immense pain and suffering, Vitae*. - Each of the endings are chilling for their own reasons, some more than others. - The Provider ending sees Tasi and Amari escape to Paris, seemingly free of the horrors they had just been through... Except that World War II will begin soon, putting their safety in HUGE jeopardy, as well as the fact that Tasi may or may not still be at risk of turning into a Harvester in the middle of a populated city like Paris. - The Iconoclast ending sees Tasi use the Shadow to put a permanent end to the Vitae production that Tihana uses to prolong her life. This not only kills Tihana and the countless torture victims, but also kills *Tasi and her newborn daughter*. Another interpretation is that Tasi and Amari, much like Daniel in the bad ending to the first game, are essentially trapped in the dark for eternity. - The Harvester ending is easily the bleakest. Tasi gives up Amari so she can survive her illness under Tihana's care, but is turned into a Harvester and left to wander the empty husk of a world that has long been destroyed by the Shadow while thousands of people are tortured repeatedly for the rest of their lives. With the last, tiny scrap of her humanity left, she lodges her sketchbook into a pile of hardened alien sludge as if to place the final memory of her life as a human being on display. ## Promotional Material - Frictional Games' Youtube page has several live action promotional clips to drum up excitement for the release of *Rebirth* and they are a masterclass in Found Footage horror. - *Box 1, Reel 2* is a slideshow of a secret research expedition to Algeria during World War I, showing the decontamination protocols, images of their base camp, corpses of privates killed by unknown entities and a shirtless soldier with a sinister, almost unearthly look on his face, flushed as if his face had been badly sunburnt. - *Box 6, Reel 3* is a reel-to-reel audio recording of a professor analyzing the vivisection of what is presumably a bound and captured Ghoul, which quickly begins thrashing and screaming. After the creature is unable to be pacified, the doctor declares it to be a lost cause and shuts the tape off. - *Box 7, Reel 2* is completely black and only the audio - which has the sound of an unknown creature squealing in the distance - could be recovered. The now lost footage is left to your imagination. - *Box 11, Recent Acquisitions* is a shortwave radio signal of a hoarse female voice humming a lullaby. Which not only implies that the Harvester ending is canon, but that Ghoul!Tasi is *still alive* and trying to use what's left of her humanity to send for help with a radio! - *Box 11, Recent Acquisitions (Card 15)* shows a person filming themselves with a compass exploring a snowy field. When they approach a heap of strange, black metal plates, the compass starts spinning *wildly* until the digital camera crashes. - *Box 12, Recent Acquisitions* shows an amateur archaeologist opening a tin box and finding an aged, bloodstained letter written by a man describing the symptoms of his transformation into a Ghoul and lamenting about how he's unable to put himself out of his misery. The video ends after the man is startled by a loud crash. - *Box 12, Recent Acquisitions (Card 12)* is footage of a doctor inspecting a recently discovered mummy on an autopsy table, recording his finding and making notes of how well preserved it is, even jokingly giving the body props for keeping all his teeth. Just as he's about to turn up the lights for a closer inspection, the doctor drops his camera when he realizes that the mummy is *breathing.* - *Box 16, Card 5* is camera footage of a man browsing around a walk-in closet filled with decorative lamp parts and antique junk. When he approaches a brass container used to hold an Orb, the camera starts violently glitching out as ghostly roaring is heard. The operator calls for his friend to find a different camera, complaining that it's "acting up." - *Box 17, Card 9* is camera footage of a man and a woman exploring a cave system. The man briefly stops to investigate a crude shrine made of twigs, mud and branches before moving towards a bend in the tunnel. He hears a distant noise and stops dead in his tracks. Then he hears the *loud* roar of a Ghoul and *sprints* back the way he came, the woman throwing the camera down as she escapes with him - Ghoul in pursuit.

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An Encore From My Crying Heart / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.** ## Chapter I - The aftermath of Shuichi being shot by the Exisal is pretty bloody. - Bordering on Tear Jerker; At the end of the chapter when Kaede goes back down to the library and apologizes to Rantaro's *dead* corpse. So disturbing. It gets even more disturbing in the next chapter when we find out that she actually fell asleep next to the corpse, and Gonta ended up carrying her back to her bedroom. ## Chapter II - In chapter 6, when Gonta's bloody, bile-soaked body is found in his own bathroom. - Kaede has a pretty gross nightmare about all the 'dead' students in chapter 7. - When it's revealed in chapter 8 that Gonta asphyxiated on his own throw-up. - Chapter 11, when Kaede has a flashback to her v3 execution as Tenko's being pulled up into the execution chamber in a near-identical way. - All of Tenko's execution: - She's forced to fight wooden replicas of Monokuma repeatedly until she tires out and can't handle anymore. By the time she finishes fighting, she's bruised and splintered all over and it's implied that she'd broken a few bones in the process. - After the fight is over, Himiko tries to climb over the mannequin pile to get to Tenko, but just as she reaches her, Tenko pushes her away, only to get painfully impaled in the neck by a metal spike and die instantly. Tenko's blood splatters all over Himiko's face and the dojo proceeds to collapse in on top of Tenko. ## Chapter III - In chapter 15, Maki seizes Kaede by the neck in a fit of anger. - Korekiyo unravels one of his bandaged arms in chapter 16, revealing a series of gruesome looking scars. It's even more gruesome when it's revealed that he inflicted them himself, as a way of keeping count of how many 'friends' he's sent to his Sister so far. - After Rantaro is revived by Angie in chapter, Kaede keeps seeing him as his bloodied corpse from chapter 1 in brief memory flashes. The first of these happens in chapter 16. - Chapter 17's horrific reveal of Kiibo's decapitated body in Kirumi's research lab. Made even more disturbing when it's pointed out that all three of Kirumi's Victorian mannequins are also decapitated. - Kaede and Rantaro discovering each mannequin head outside the other research labs leading up to the fourth floor. Not only that, but each head has a letter of the alphabet written in blood on its forehead. - The discovery of Kirumi's corpse in Angie's lab. - Finding Kaito's blood-stained *body* in the 1st floor girl's bathroom. - Although not too graphic, Angie's execution. - She's pinned to a totem pole crucifixion style. - A little while later, hot wax starts sticking itself to her bare skin. - The bloody trail inside the secret entrance Kaede accidently finds at the end of chapter 22.

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Among the Sleep / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Just the fact that you're a two year old in a horror game is scary enough, because you can't run fast and you definitely can't fight... - Teddy is a bit creepy as well sometimes, even though he's on your side. He's in the "things that a baby wouldn't know were weird or would just be confused by that are creepy as heck to someone old enough to understand that's not supposed to happen" category. - That creepy black *thing* that appears in some of your drawings. ||Especially since it's actually your mother.|| - On a similar level, the living trenchcoat and its Glowing Eyes of Doom, especially since you only encounter it in an area where there are lots of other trenchcoats, and unlike the black thing it actively *hunts* you. - ||"He will *not* take you from me."|| That whole sequence is a bit of a gut punch. - The alternate ending from an earlier version of the game that can be viewed in the enhanced edition. ||Teddy transforms into a demonic-looking monster that plans to eat the child. You can only watch helplessly from inside your crib as he drops the mementos into the boiling soup pot before grabbing the child and dropping them in.||

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A New World, A New Way / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes It was bound to happen eventually, so now we present to you the Nightmare Fuel page of the A New World, A New Way series. A New World, A New Way - With the latest bonus chapter, we have the story that Dr. Mind tells to Belle, of how a unicorn with particularly powerful mental magic as her talent, and the consequences of her well-intentioned Mind Control on a friend cheating on another friend. Things went wrong. Horribly, horribly wrong. This particular bit of nightmares is, in-universe, something that actually happened, and told to foals whom accel in mental magic so they don't repeat that mistake. A New World, A New Way - Swarm - X being attacked by Durant. He tries to save a young Changeling from a group of Durant, only to be suddenly surrounded by more Durant whom immediately jump him and appear to try and kill him. Considering how X is a human and has no idea on how to be a Chesnaught, his fear is justified. - X's nightmare is also aripe with Nightmare Fuel. All of it. The crowner has to be when he runs into Jacob, a nightmare version of himself whom actively enjoys watching his Pokémon being beaten into submission, and is Champion of Kalos, and wants nothing more for X to be his dream-self. New World, New Bonds - Casey is rather... unsettling. While not exactly evil, he does resort to some graphic or creepy threats when annoyed, such as stating how easy it would be to stab Ryan through the torso or asking if Midnight would like to volunteer her soul as a meal for him. - Casey is also dealing with a sort of adult fear with him being separated from his team, unsure of where to find them or how they'll survive, especially the pacifistic Anya. And when he *does* find her, she's being cornered by three malicious Pokémon with type advantages...

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Anastasia / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "Go. Fulfill your dark purpose. Seal the fate of the Czar and his family once and for all..." **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.** - Rasputin is a living, *rotting* corpse. A lich essentially. He frequently breaks apart and has to have his pieces put back in place. Although it *does* explain *why he was so difficult to kill in real life*. - Rasputin's Establishing Character Moment is where he returns to the palace to place his deadly curse on Nicholas II and his family. Dowager Empress Marie, while narrating the prologue, even describes him as someone they "thought was a holy man, but was a fraud. Power mad and dangerous". **Nicholas II:** How dare you return to the palace?! **Rasputin:** But, I am your confidant . **Nicholas II:** Confidant? Ha! You are a *traitor!* Get out! **Rasputin:** You think you banish the great Rasputin? *(pulls out his magic reliquary)* By the unholy powers vested in me, I banish *you* with a **curse!** *(everyone in the palace gasps in horror)* **Rasputin:** Mark my words: you and your family will *die* within a fortnight! I WILL NOT REST UNTIL I SEE THE *END* OF THE ROMANOV LINE **FOREVER!!** *(he uses his reliquary to blast the chandelier down to the ground)* - The scene where Rasputin as he watches sleeping Anya through his floating crystal ball. Right before he sends the floating green demons floating demonically into the room and literally into Anya's head. Christopher Lloyd's delivery in that scene is probably the most chilling at any point in the movie. **Rasputin:** Pleasant dreams to you, Princess. I'll get inside your mind, where you can't escape me. - Then as he invades Anya's dream to make her sleepwalk and try to fling herself over the edge of the boat! Yikes! The music alone is scary! Good thing Dimitri awoke and saved Anya at the *last second*! - The demons turn into colorful butterflies that are both in her dream and in the real world. Though they are bright and pretty, their gestures are not so much. - In context, Anya is dreaming that her little brother is beckoning her to come to a swimming hole, where her sisters jump in, and her father is already treading water. Nicholas gently tells her to jump in, and Alexei does an impressive cannonball. Everyone is laughing, even Anya in her sleep joins in as she prepares to jump into the stormy currents. What makes it worse? Anya doesn't *know* who these people are, only that they love her and she loves them back. When she wakes up, she only repeats about the Romanov curse and the faces she saw. Doubles as a Tear Jerker since Anastasia never saw her brother or sisters grow older. - The tail-end where the dream turns into a nightmare was so scary it was actually edited out of some releases of the film. Anya hears Dimitri yelling for her to stop, and she hesitates, frowning because some part of her knew this wasn't right. Nicholas then turns into a demon and says in Rasputin's voice, "Yes, JUMP! Fulfill the Romanov curse!" He then tries to physically pull her over, while she's standing among demons on a tower of skulls. Anya screams, understandably, and grapples with him. If Dimitri hadn't woken her up, the demons would have killed her one way or the other. - The scene depicting the real-life revolution in the beginning of the film (even more so if you're aware of the actual history and know exactly what happened to the Romanovs that night...) - The true story of the Romanov murders is chilling. The family was exiled to Ekaterinburg in 1918, put under house arrest, and eventually shot by a firing squad in the middle of the night. - Whilst ''In the Dark of the Night'' may be an awesome number, there is the fact that at certain points, you can hear what heavily resembles a *gunshot* in the music... - While the rest of the family and palace staff are evacuating, Anastasia runs back to her room to retrieve her music box, and Marie follows her. As soon as Marie shuts the door behind her, she hears gunshots. *The Bolsheviks got the jump on the Romanovs*. - And when that sound is heard, Marie gives a panicked gasp. She *knows* what that sound is, and her face says she fears that her and Anastasia are moments away from experiencing the same fate. - It's also quite shocking when Dimitri tries to hide the escape, and one of the soldiers just knocks him out with a rifle. An adult casually attacking a child. - When Rasputin corners the empress and Anastasia on the frozen Neva River—first he simply tries to kill a terrified little girl, while her grandmother can only struggle with him in horror; then, when the ice breaks beneath them, he tries to pull Anastasia in with him until eventually they break free, allowing him to drown (but not die)... **Young Anastasia:** Let me go! Please! **Rasputin:** You'll never escape me, child, never! - Where he resides for most of the movie, is apparently this hellish purgatory of a vaguely ocean like space with rounded cells composed of visceral skeletal material where sentient insects reside. It's eerie due to never being made clear how it exists. - Now what exactly happened to the engine drivers? Whatever that was, the movie's authors did not consider this to be pleasant enough to show their target audiences. - The ice show adaptation offers a Nightmare Retardant, where Rasputin pulls off the driver, who skates behind the curtains. - The Dark Forces Rasputin sold his soul to are a rather frightening concept in and of themselves, as some mysterious Gods of Evil and the Greater-Scope Villain of the story. - How Rasputin reveals himself to Anastasia at her debut ball. He lures her and Pooka into the palace maze, closes the way back with hedges, and calls for her eerily. Anastasia panics as spiked vines try to impale her, and she ends up at the exit. Rasputin approaches her saying, "Look how the years have changed us. You, a blooming flower. Me, a rotting corpse." When Anastasia can't remember him, while cringing in dread, he covers the area in ice to trigger her memory. Once she shouts his name, he uses the demons to attack her and tear her dress. Yeesh. - Rasputin then reveals that he remembers Marie left him to drown in the ice. He decides to return the favor, destroying the part of the bridge where Anya's standing, so she'll fall into the freezing water below. Anya is normally tough, but the force causes her to slip and she's screaming at the top of her lungs. If Dimitri hadn't shown up and helped her climb up, she would have fallen and died. - A scene that was cut from the movie but still exists in the storybook adaptations has the topiary animals inside the hedge maze come alive and chase after Anya and Pooka. They are drawn in an intimidating manner, with red glowing eyes and feral dispositions. - The stone Pegasus statue Rasputin animates to kill Dimitri. Dimriti fights back, but eventually, the horse knocks him out with a stray rock. - Rasputin making his Deal with the Devil in the opening sequence, involving him *having his skin torn off* so that he briefly became a skeleton that is glowing bright blue! He was stripped all the way to the bone; that means his *skin, muscles, and organs* were ripped from his skeletal frame. Maybe the Dark Forces were kind enough to make it painless, otherwise... - Rasputin is not so lucky at the climax, when Anastasia destroys his Soul Jar and his power is stripped from his flesh. He falls to the ground, and his robes rot away to reveal him as a skeleton once more. But the skeleton is *moving under its own power*, as though even in this state Rasputin is still aware and in great agony and terror. He's still writhing even as the bones crumble to dust. Whatever fate was waiting for him in the next life was not pretty. - Anastasia *purposely killing Rasputin* by destroying his Soul Jar under her foot. It's probably one of the few example where a main character in a children's film murders someone deliberately, even if it is in self-defense. It's also a little unsettling how *casually* she stops it with her shoe, and then *slowly applies pressure to it*, basically telling Rasputin: "I know this is going to kill you, and I don't care". Beware the Nice Ones indeed. - There was a PC game where you played as Pooka, exploring Russia and helping out Anasastia and co. or random strangers; however, for a good chunk of time, you're alone. This can be slightly off-putting to a young child, but by itself it's not too bad...until you search the wrong spot and trigger an unwelcome visit from a minion who teleports you to the Underworld. All you have to do to escape is win one of the minigames, but oftentimes there's absolutely no indication of what's safe and what's not. Bartok will warn you that there's a trap in the room you've entered...sometimes.

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An American Werewolf in Paris / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Remember how in the first one, David could see Jack's ghost as well as the ghosts of his victims? In this film, we see that not only the main werewolf can see the ghosts; others can too, and from what we see in this film, there are more werewolves in Paris than in London. Club De La Lune, the nightclub Claude runs — Claude and his gang of werewolves — who use the club to lure people, namely tourists, to their deaths. Claude:I love Americans, they have such good taste. The experimental cure Serafine's stepfather makes ||causes immediate transformations — and Claude wants to use it at his club raves.||

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Amphibia Season 1 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Anne or Beast? Best Fronds Cane Crazy Hop Luck Stakeout The Domino Effect Taking Charge Anne Theft Auto Anne Vs. Wild Contagi-Anne Family Shrub Toad Tax Prison Break Trip to the Archives Snow Day Cracking Mrs. Croaker A Night at the Inn Bizarre Bazaar Children of the Spore Anne of the Year Reunion

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Angel Sanctuary / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Considering how Earth is currently on hold and Hell is barely any better than Heaven, you're bound to come across these. - The laboratory in Yetzirah. 'Imperfect' angels are used as *living lab-rats* and kept awake and conscious constantly to observe their nerve-reactions to all the experimenting. - Stakers. It's a term used for angels whose brains have been altered and doctored with specific needles to eradicate and avoid 'unnecessary thoughts'. This may also include limiting certain *physical* actions. - In the anime, Setsuna gets his arm torn off in slow, graphic detail by a Golem. Thats right, a Golem tore the arm off an angel. Slowly. - The idea that God ||doesn't love us and created us only as an experiment||. - The terrifying and deranged Sandalphon and what he does to Lailah. - Heaven and Hell are just as corrupted and terrible as Earth. Heaven as humans imagined it is a mirage. - What happens to an angel once its wings get cut off. - After being mortally wounded on Earth, Katan's body turns into a writhing mess of flesh and wires resting in a casket with Rosiel sending in bodies to feed him including children. We don't fully see what his body looks like except for some thick wires and a ghastly silhouette but that alone makes it truly unnerving.

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Ang Probinsyano (2015) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Nightmare Fuel pages are Spoilers Off. Be wary of unmarked spoilers when reading this page. - The mall bombing in Manila by the Kamandag, Alakdan's splinter group within the Pulang Araw where Cardo's son was one of the casualties is disturbing to say the least. Considering how this is Truth in Television in this day and age where terrorist attacks from Islamic militants are all over the news, losing a loved one in a snap is never easy. - Bungo and his criminal group heavily implying to have raped women police officers in a supposedly family friendly television show. This caused some controversy in real life with some saying the scene had gone too far and has maligned the the reputation of the real life police. Not to mention that the idea of women being maltreated, let alone sexually assaulted, wouldn't bode too well in an era where sexual harassment cases against high-profile personalities and even more disturbing stuff like children unwittingly exposed to inappropriate content are rife. - The torture scenes. **Dear god, the torture scenes.** They are bloodier that what would you normally see in a teleserye, making them one of the more controversial aspects of the series. - The torture of some members of Task Force Agila under the orders of Renato. Not only are the punches and hits sound much more sickening and brutal, but some of them ( *especially Matero*) can be heard **screaming at the top of their lungs** during the torture. - Don Ignacio's death scene is less bloody, but it's quite brutal and disturbing to say the least. It starts with a bloodied Don Ignacio being tied to a tree by Armando and Lolita's group, leaving him hanging by Armando and Lolita's group. Armando uses the stick as a torch to set Don Ignacio on fire, feet first, as Ignacio screams in agony. If that wasn't enough, Armando and Lolita's group starts shooting Ignacio to death while he's still burning alive. - The death of Armando in hands of Cardo and Task Force Aglia members. It is considered to be *one of the most brutal death scenes* in the series and for good reason. We see Armando wake up and find out that his arms are tied to 2 armored vehicles while one armored vehicle (driven by Cardo himself) is facing him. We then see the 2 armored vehicles beginning to move, starting to stretch out Armando's arms while Armando is calling out Cardo's name. To make it worse, Armando's arms are beginning to be **graphically torn off ** of his body (the audience hears gashing sounds as his arms are being torn off) while Armando lets out an agonizing scream. To top it off, Cardo then starts to run over Armando and we see a close up of Armando's head being bashed hard as the blood splatters, leaving an armless and bloodied Armando lying dead. - As if the torture of some of the Task Force Agila members wasn't enough, Lucio then takes both Roxanne and Victor to a room and he pushes Roxanne to a makeshift mattress. There, he unbuckles her pants (and his own) and **rapes her while Victor is Forced to Watch all of it.**

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A New Hope (Danganronpa) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes As in canon, there's plenty of moments; in particular are the various murders and executions, most of which also fall under Cruel and Unusual Death. - ||Rantaro: Final Summit: Pick-axed to death by Monokumas while climbing a small mountain.|| There was even a Hope Spot that ||he'd get a Stay of Execution if he could pull the flag off of the summit (he couldn't).|| - ||Nekomaru: Monokuma Pep Rally: Subjected to increasingly loud applause by Monokumas until his veins rupture.|| - ||Leon: The 1,001 Fungoes: His canon execution (shot with a thousand baseballs from a pitching machine), with the added bonus of being beaten with baseball bats first.|| - ||Right before that, everyone gets to see Kanon also get beaten to death with a baseball bat, much to their (especially Leon's) horror.|| - ||Yasuhiro: The Last Prophecy: Impaled on spikes after falling off a giant tarot card.|| - ||Angie: House of Wax: Drowned in hot wax, which sets her on fire in the process! She even get's a Hope Spot of starting to crack the glass container she's in ... right before a stream of wax hits her dead on. Worst of all, there's the brilliant description of her last moments.|| ||Yonaga's agonizing screams continued as she was slowly enveloped in several feet of wax. Her burning limbs still collided against the glass wall, leaving a bloody streak along the surface as she tilted her unrecognizable head up as she let out a horried and panicked scream, before her head was quickly submerged as well.|| - ||Korekiyo: The Tomb of the Scarab : Eaten alive by hundreds of scarabs that fly out of the jaw of a mummy while trapped in a sarcophagus.|| - ||Peko: The Last Samurai: Chopped in half by a samurai Monokuma. She takes it with her, at least.|| - ||Mondo: Quartered and Keelhauled: Torn to bits by motorcycles ripping his limbs off. This is basically a high speed version of the medieval execution of quartering.|| - ||Tsumugi: House Rules: Chained to a roulette wheel while saw blades mutilate her arms, legs, and torso, before finally sawing her head in half. She's essentially diced in the casino.|| And this happens *right in front of* the rest of the students. It was so horrific that the writer added a Squick warning. - And that had been meant for ||Celestia|| initially. - ||And somehow she still manages to laugh right before the end.|| - ||Much like the first game, Alter Ego is executed after Sakura's trial. Only this time, known as Exisal Extermination, there's a hope-spot as Alter Ego hacks the exisals that were going to shoot him to death...only for Monokuma to step in with a mallet to crush the laptop he is in.|| - ||Keebo: Junkyard: Controlled by the Mastermind into killing Maki, thus being forced to become the blackened and executed by hydraulic press.|| - ||Even Usami gets an execution. Rabbit Season has her chased down by a rifle-toting Monokuma, who then pulls the rifle to her head, just before it cuts to black... thankfully she turns out okay.|| - ||Labyrinth of Despair: Makoto is forced to run through a labyrinth similar to one that A.) nearly killed him in the past (apparently), and B.) *actually* killed Chiaki in canon. Full of traps, saw blades, pits, and a giant minotaur, the *only* reason Makoto survived was because Alter-Ego was able to intervene.|| - ||As it turns out, he didn't make it through that labyrinth the first time...|| - ||Mastermind!Makoto's "execution": stabbed in the gut by his own combat knife (dislodged from a podium by an exploding Monokuma Hajime kicked away), and left to be crushed by the collapsing ceiling of the Trial Room as Hope's Peak collapses on top of him.|| Yes, even the *motives* can count as Nightmare Fuel: - The first motive is the canonical video motive. This also has the added effect of revealing several relatives. - Of note is Hajime's video, where his former homeroom had a pile of bodies in the center of the room. The bodies are identified as Hajime's Classmates with ghastly pale skin and lifeless eyes. - The second motive is a Truth Serum released through the vents that prevents many people from lying. - Celestia's personal motive is to kill Aoi Asahina, who is ||pregnant with Naegi's twins.|| - The third motive is fairly tame (the lights are turned off until someone kills), but the real trouble comes across in Monokuma's harmless Christmas gift exchange. Mukuro is given ||the head of the real Hiyoko Saionji note : at least until The Reveal that the head belonged to a Hiyoko clone, and it's revealed later that the actual Hiyoko is masterminding the 'Final Horizon' Killing Game||, Angie gets a ||fake|| book of Atua's will ||which includes a claim that 'murder to preserve peace' is justified||, Celestia gets a revolver in order to push her to kill ||Hina||. - Fourth motive to come along is the motive of the secrets, and the threat of them being revealed. ||Though it actually plays little to no part in Korekiyo deciding to finally act. His prep work was already done.|| - The fifth motive involves a Fantastic Drug that makes the students hallucinate their worst fears. ||Hina hallucinated blood coming from the shower, and hearing Yuta's voice calling for help. Makoto and Kazuichi's fears involve their traumas over Sayaka and Sonia being killed by the iron maidens, and they both hallucinate the respective girls (with the wounds they had during their deaths) giving them Breaking Speeches for not saving them. Mikan saw horrific scars covering the rest of her limbs, and she was afraid that Hajime and Chiaki would think she was ugly if they saw them. Celestia saw her Dark and Troubled Past, where her mother was Driven to Suicide and her younger self chides her.|| - Not several hours after the last trial, the next motive, an Instant Illness, springs up to afflict 10 of the cast members, which will only end when a murder occurs— irrespective of any deaths due to the illness. - Celestia's secret motive is revealed just in time for the next one. The circumstances are a bit tricky to explain, but Monokuma has the cast herd into the casino. In said casino, the cast must decide whether to kill off one of their own or to leave it up to chance. Ultimately the cast picks to off ||Shirogane|| after Kaede makes an impassioned plea to spare Celestia and any other 'traitors' ||two of whom get revealed during that time||. - Yet all joys are shortlived when Monokuma reveals the aforementioned secrets anyway, exposing ||Maki as an ultimate assassin||, ||Hajime's failure to exist soon enough||, ||Sakura's original mole intentions||, among many others. - Under the same conditions as the Instant Illness, the cast is forced to remain awake until a murder ||or in this case, suicide|| occurs. - The surviving hostages are forced to play a role into the next motive: The participants of the killing game have to kill someone in 24 hours or else ALL surviving (captive) hostages will perish. - Only one person (||Kaede||) is affected by the next motive, but they are hit with a flashback light that drives them to Despair. - Even worse, that was the same thing that happened to ||Rantaro, in order for him to kill Mahiru. Unfortunately, there was nobody around to snap him out of it.|| - The students are then forced into the Neo-World Program, where they slowly forget they're in a simulation over the subsequent three days. And ||Junko seemingly reemerges to torture Mukuro||. - Though it ultimately didn't go into play, the next motive would have been the Forbidden Action Motive. The few bracelets revealed say that Fuyuhiko cannot curse, Miu cannot talk, Kotoko wouldn't be able to touch anyone, Makoto cannot run in the halls, Akane cannot yell, Aoi cannot eat or drink, and Kirumi cannot make eye contact with anyone. - ||Mahiru|| is strangled by a ||Brainwashed and Crazy Rantaro||. This would have also been ||Mikan's|| fate. - ||Himiko|| has No Body Left Behind when their body is eaten by piranhas like ||Ryoma did in the canon Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony||. ||Teruteru|| follows after when ||Nekomaru impales him on a wall mounted spear||. - ||Ibuki: An in-universe Nightmare Fuel example, as her death (bashed in the head by a shot put ball) happens on a stage *in full view of most of the surviving cast*! Including her Love Interest, no less!|| - Gets worse when you find out || *who* set up the trap in the first place.|| - Becomes worse again when you learn that || *Kaede* was the intended victim.|| - ||Toko, aka Genocide Jill|| is stabbed through the chest by ||Yasuhiro Hagakure in self-defense.|| - ||Gundham, Ishimaru, and the Imposter: Poisoned, with their dead bodies later coated in hot wax to hide any evidence.|| - ||Sayaka and Sonia: Locked in an iron maiden and impaled with spikes once a timer goes off.|| The same fate also nearly befalls ||Kaede, Chihiro, and Chiaki.|| - ||Gonta: Shot by a nail gun, with multiple nails impaling his chest, one through an eye, and a nail to the jugular vein from a different person being what actually killed him.|| - ||Yamada and Tenko: Suffocation by a manufactured disease. Shuichi nearly experienced the same before Tenko resuscitated him (dying herself in the process).|| - ||Ryoma: Strangled to death and left to look like a suicide by hanging.|| - ||Sakura: Committed suicide like in the first game, but this time by shooting herself in the head as opposed to death by poison.|| - ||Maki: Found dead in the theater room, pinned to the screen with Peko's katana.|| - ||Also the build-up to that death: fighting a losing battle against an unstoppable robot, beaten and lifted up by her neck as said robot/classmate talks about how hopeless life is, before finally getting her late friend's katana shoved through her chest.|| - Throughout the last half of the story, but starting in chapter 83, cast members outside the killing game meet an untimely end. - For starters, ||Ryota|| is the first victim of Munakata's deranged campaign to end despair. - ||Yamada's sister|| is poisoned in front of Kaito ||and Mikan and Kokichi's|| grandparents by ||Ruruka Ando||. - ||Gundham's Mom and Takemichi Yukimaru|| both try to plead to ||Chisa|| to take them instead but wind up bludgeoned. - As a result of her failures ||Ruruka Ando|| meets the end of ||Chisa's bat||. - The remaining survivors *not* saved end up ||blown up, taking a few Future Foundation members with them.|| - The fact that the Ultimate Despair has many more members, including ||the Student Council of Hope's Peak Academy||, ||several double agents: Chisa Yukizome and the Class 76 trio||, and, as explained below, ||Matsuda||. - ||Shuichi's Near-Death Experience|| at the hands of Genocider Syo. - ||The flashback to Kaede trying to murder Nagito and Hajime while brainwashed into despair||. - ||Matsuda's existence.|| After being killed, ||he|| is revived into a Frankenstein's monster like creation who is barely alive and in imminent pain. - The Mastermind's backstory: ||When Makoto fell in the labyrinth, Junko and Seiko collected and revived him (minus an eye). Jibo Momota, behind everyone else's backs, created a clone of him and sent him to take the original Makoto's place, with no one in Class 77-B or 78 the wiser. Driven to Despair by this, Makoto joined Junko, became one of her dragons, and took charge of the killing game to get revenge on his old friends. And Class 79 (who weren't even around at the time of his replacing) just because.|| - ||The opening of the epilogue: the survivors, who literally just finished escaping Hopes Peaks collapse ... are promptly captured by Munakata and held at gunpoint, with Munakata fully intending to have them all (including Juzo) shot to ensure the destruction of despair. He even personally kills Ryoko (sword to the chest) in front of them. All that the survivors, who have worked so hard and gone through *so much* to get to this point, can do is try and comfort each other before the end ... fortunately, the soldiers arent very interested in Just Following Orders.|| - At the end, ||in addition to the Despairs and remaining Fingers running around, with more promised Killing Games on the horizon, there remain two additional threats running around unresolved: Munakata escaping from prison, still determined to spread his murderous brand of Hope to the world ... and one of the Despaired clones of the dead students, who managed to (unlike the rest of the clones) survive the explosion and collapse before escaping; Nagito Komaeda, Ultimate Luck.|| The sequels aren't slouches in this department either. - ||Ichiro: Sets off a trapped fridge and gets stabbed in the throat with a crossbow bolt. As an added bonus, his corpse (or whatever) is put through a football game with Monokumas, ending in being blown up.|| - Alice's backstory. ||She was a doctor for Fenrir (even knew Mukuro), when one night an injured stranger came to her team's camp and she gave him medical treatment. The stranger turned out to be the vicious serial killer Mr. Psycho, who slaughtered everyone in the camp except her in the night. He left her a message (in blood) promising to come back for her. It would appear he's on the station with her.|| - Not to mention ||The Mole nearly drowned her in a (thankfully lukewarm) hot tub the first night there. And no, it wasn't Mr. Psycho *or* Ringo.|| - ||Nico: Drowned in the pool in the same manner as Alice, but the attempt succeeded for Nico. Raef: Hit by a violin case, then strangled to death as he continuously begs for the murderer to spare him because he is still needed, but to no avail.|| - ||Rei: Bisected by razor wire.|| - Rei's backstory. ||She was worked until her fingers bled by her parents, eventually reaching the point where she honestly wanted them dead. She found them dead with their hands cut off, courtesy of Mr. Psycho, and was genuinely overjoyed by it.|| - ||Hayate: Buried under gold and mauled to death by Rottweilers.|| - ||Hayate's backstory: He's Mr. Psycho, having developed the Split Personality due to his abusive upbringing. Even at the end he had no idea why he kept having blackouts until the others told him about it.|| - Hikaru ||going crazy under the psychosis motive, being egged on by hallucinations of Rei to harm his fellow students. It costs him his arms and his life.|| - ||Shuhei and Giselly are nearly sucked out a destroyed window into space. Even though they survive Shuhei still gets injured from a nail bomb.|| - The hits keep coming in the following chapter: ||Shiori is poisoned (by someone *besides* Ringo!), and Wei gets part of his leg blown off. Akiho nearly * : as in, the trip wire was literally just inches from her foot when Akiko pulled her back walks into another trap on her way to find Ringo.|| - ||How Ringo died: a shadowy monster summoned by Galexialyn (Immune to Bullets, naturally) appeared in front of him, slashed at his throat, and transferred the effects of cyanide poisoning to him. He dies thrashing and unable to breathe with the creature's red eyes being the last thing he sees.|| - Galexialyn's backstory: ||She, in her quest to actually be able to feel pain, has become the leader of a murderous cult. She mentions that they've left 'rivers of blood' in their wake.|| - ||Sayaka: Abruptly has her head and neck explode from a bomb in her neck. The rest of the group (sans Alice) gets caught in the shower of gore.|| - Everyone else's backstory: ||Class 80-A were all mentally ill in one way or another, and were all confined to the sanitarium wing of the station and experimented on. A montage is shown of their histories and what Dr. Jibo Momota and Hiyoko Saionji did to them.|| - ||Akiko and Akiho: blown up like Sayaka.|| - ||Akiho admitting she's willing to become a monster to punish/kill those that have wronged them, like the mole. Unfortunately, the person she thinks is the mole is the completely innocent Alice.|| - ||Giselly: Strapped to a rocket in a spacesuit, and shot out of the station at the meteor. Halfway there, the suit's helmet opes, so she experiences the vacuum of space.|| - ||Hiyoko Saionji: sucked out an airlock by Jun taking an escape pod. Lets herself fall after grabbing on to something. Sadly, her death isn't shown in detail.|| - ||The Archangel virus: the Despair video, in computer virus form. It's yet to be released.|| - ||Miyaki: Found with a Slashed Throat. Mikhail: Posioned by pesticide.|| - ||The Final Infestation: Rene, the voted on culprit of the first trial, is dumped into a massive, mazelike dump, and is chased by a Big Creepy Crawly through the trash heap. It crushes him to death with oversized mandibles and turns him into Half the Man He Used to Be.|| - ||Hikari and Shohei: Strangled to death.|| - ||Amare: Rolled and Rezoned. Gets stuck in cement and slowly (in slow and cautious detail) run over feet first by a steam roller, leaving only a bloody pulp.|| - The next motive, which is treated as a new rule, there has to be a murder within 7 days or else two students will be sacrificed. **Alex:** You're saying if someone doesn't die we have to play some sick version of *Survivor* ? - Mallory: Stabbed multiple times on the abdomen, with a dagger protruding from her left breast. Despite her gruesome fate, she had a strangely peaceful smile on her face. - Dylan revealing himself as the Ultimate Psychopath. He murdered Mallory For the Evulz and sees her corpse as a "rotting piece of flesh", and implies that the smile she had on her death was actually carved by him. His Mask of Sanity made him indistinguishable to everyone else. - Galexialyn is apparently literally Dragged Off to Hell. - The SCP is a thing in the world of Legacy of Despair. Let's hope it's a watered-down version of the original, as some of the things associated with that series would be *really* unwanted in the ravaged world of Danganronpa. - Everyone has been body swapped against their will, and lost their memories of the last three days. Two people are already dead, ||with Ren being one of them||. - The execution is absolutely *horrifying*. The two bodies are the ones present in the execution (reminding Alice of Ichiro's execution), but Monokuma brought them back to life so he could make them suffer an even more despairing death. Their body parts are mutilated and put onto the other, and they have to feel every second of it. Worst of all, poor Evan is Forced to Watch as his swapped body is mutilated. Since everyone believes that Ren and Dylan's consciousnesses were in the bodies, it's possible that Dylan may have finally gotten his comeuppance, but at the expense of Ren being killed alongside him. - During the fourth trial, the survivors of Class 80-A give in-depth explanations to 80-B about their Dark and Troubled Pasts which made them candidates for the Dysfunction Junction sanitarium. Xia died before she could talk in detail about her past, but it's mostly known already. - Shuhei's sister was murdered and he was determined to return the favour to her killer, but Mr. Psycho got to him first. Since then, Shuhei was determined to find ways to bring his sister back to life and find Mr. Psycho note : who is actually his brother, and he was so obsessed with his goals that he went insane. - Wei was initially calm before the Tragedy, but when his mentor was murdered, he snapped and killed a Despair. - ||Alice got PTSD and a fear of blood ever since her unit was killed, especially her Big Brother Bully. She spent months in a mental facility due to her trauma.|| - ||Hayate had spent most of his life unaware of the existence of his Split Personality Mr. Psycho. Whenever Mr. Psycho killed someone, Hayate would have no clue of what happened. It's possible that Hayate would awaken only to see people brutally murdered; like his parents, Alice's unit and the killer of his and Shuhei's sister, and he would be traumatized to see people mysteriously dying around him.|| - ||Shiori may be The Cutie, but her story is even more disturbing than her classmates'. As a child, a boy named Daichi wanted to be her friend until he murdered her cat. She was so full of pain that she resorted to using Black Magic which caused effects far beyond her control. The magic not only caused Daichi to die in a car crash, but also her parents divorcing and her mentor dying. For a long time, Shiori carried the burden of guilt for everything that happened.|| - In turn, the rest of the group as a whole gets to discover that ||Evan, Tae Min, Yukiko, Sierra, and Mirielle are all Artificial Humans, a fact they were unaware of. Their lives are all fabrications and they have nothing to go back to on Earth. A few of them *really* don't react well to this||. - ||Dylan's|| final 'F-you' from beyond the grave: ||every single one of the animals at the farm, ALL the livestock, has been brutally murdered. All except four, a group of pigs who, while sick, have managed to survive ... by feeding on the bodies of all the past dead students, strung up like scarecrows in the barn. Jason and Alice can see why the others decided over the missing three days to just finally kill the psychopath.|| - ||Anh: Smashed in the head with a bowling ball.|| - ||Mirielle: Stabbed several times.|| - ||'Evan': Stabbed through the eye in a trap, similar to Ichiro.|| - Chapter 31's reveal: ||'Evan' was actually *Dylan* the whole time following the body swap.|| - Chapter 32's reveal: ||Yukiko is actually the Ultimate Sociopath, and has (along with Dylan) been directly responsible for every death in the killing game thus far. Then she uses a perk to have the executed be decided by chance.|| - Remember that ||Archangel virus|| mentioned at the very end of Final Horizon? ||It's back in play, and Yukiko has it set to be broadcast to Earth in three hours following the end of the trial.|| - The first chapter: ||At the start of the roller coaster, there were a hundred students. By the time it's done and people stop getting ejected from their seats at random onto the spikes below(or in one person's case, onto the tracks), there's only twenty.|| - ||Annabelle, the *nine-year-old*, was nearly ejected.|| - ||Otto: Pushed off a balcony. Shiho is the unfortunate girl who finds his body the following morning.|| - ||Patrick: forced into a death game of hockey that ends with a hockey puck stuck in his gut and his helmet blowing up.|| - ||Nagito's Despaired clone is back, and he's in the park. His first move? Trying to *shoot Annabelle*!|| - ||Utano getting progressively more obsessed over Soo Young, to the point of casually threatening to kill someone thinking they might like him.|| - ||Kanade: Died in agony after being shot by an acidic paintball, going into shock so she couldn't scream as her insides fell out.|| ||And it was a complete accident brought about by the Intruder.|| - The subsequent trial: ||the students vote incorrectly when it turns out that Maddie was the accidental culprit, to everyone's surprise including her own. The rest of the cast is dumped into a game of chess, with themselves as the pieces, to survive; whichever pieces get taken, the associated student dies.|| - ||Churi: her neck is slit ear to ear. She was murdered by Utano because she was in the way of his relationship with Soo Yeong. Utano talks about his romantic obsession with him and how he wants to be with him forever. Eventually, Soo Yeong tricks him into kissing him before shoving Utano into the trolley and killing him by breaking his neck. Sure, he deserved it, but it was still a horrifying way to die.|| - All the gray bears running around as labor, ||including Yoshikuma? They are all made from the eighty students that died at the beginning, among others. Yoshi is actually the Nagito clone, and the Warriors of Hope transferred themselves into the lead Kumas. Hence why Yushikuma was bleeding when Laris chopped his head off.|| - As it turns out, ||the students that died in the killing game *also* get this treatment. They're forced to spend eternity in gray robotic bears, forced to carry out whatever (likely menial) task they've been assigned, and will experience *horrific* pain if they refuse.|| - The students attempt to escape through the sewers, fail, and get flushed by a wall of water into different areas of the sewer system. It's dark, they're split up, ||there are alligators swimming around,|| and they have a time limit to kill or their hostages will be killed instead. - ||Soo: Right when he was starting to get better mentally, his neck is broken (by one of the people who originally tried to encourage him) and he's left hanging like a suicide victim.|| - ||Sigmund: He and his sister Cathy are bound to chairs and told to eat of what's before them: his other sister Chloe. Whoever eats the most gets to live. Ultimately, he talks Cathy into eating something (just a tiny bite from the end of a fried finger) while he doesn't eat anything. In the end, she's allowed to go free, while he's sawed apart right in front of her.|| - ||Turns out, Sigmund had already done this before: When he lost his limbs, he was buried for days with his parents' bodies. He avoided starving to death.|| - ||The true plan of the Mastermind, Dolly Dewitt: To turn everyone in the world into kumas, eliminating humanity (which she hates) and leaving only dolls for her.|| - ||Also, Shiro and Kuro Kuma were running on the Junko AI. As was Dolly's doll Becky.|| - The setting. A large gothic mansion surrounded by a creepy, almost unnaturally dark forest (which the characters first poke around in at night, no less), on an island. The only way off the island is a small boat, and if anyone actually tries to leave ... ||the security staff member, a Artificial Ultimate who's been turned into a Gill Man-esque monster, will stop them||. - As it turns out, the forest (and graveyard) is also home to assorted creatures and experiments beside the students, including living, bleeding trees and ||The Slender Man!|| Hikyou and Kiyomi nearly get killed out there! ||Apparently, the Mansion's built near an old SCP facility, and was already a draw for the supernatural.|| - The mansion includes a gallery of assorted paintings ... depicting the assorted murders and executions from previous games. In full gory detail. - ||It's been indicated that the current Killing Game isn't the first one to occur on the island. A lot of people (and other things) have ended up in the graveyard ...|| - ||Kitai: Gutted like a fish and left hanging in a tree. Whats worse is that he was *7 years old*.|| - ||Hikyou: Stabbed to death, probably while trying to find the above character.|| - ||Kiyomi: Dragged down a hallway (leaving bloody scratch marks on the floor from trying to escape) before being crushed somehow. Her soul is then absorbed into a mirror and trapped.|| ||Fortunately, she ultimately gets better.|| - The scarecrow in the maze. He looks humanoid, but acts like a feral animal, nearly killing Samuel and Alejandra before Shiro steps in. Becomes even worse when you find out how he became that way. See *Creatures of Despair*s folder for that. - ||Kuuma: crushed like a grape by a tentacle through a window.|| - ||Brooke: Her head was psychically blown up.|| - ||Alpha: Killed and autopsied, in the reverse order.|| - How Hora Island became the way it is now. Hora Island was first stained in blood when a battle was fought on it during WWII. Since then, the island has been a hotbed for supernatural activity. And the souls of those who die there cannot find peace. - A Zombie Apocalypse breaks out (including dead former participants) that won't stop until a murder happens. The entire group spends a whole day fighting the endless horde. - ||Remy: Self-inflicted near-decapitation with a shovel blade to avoid zombification.|| - ||Remy's backstory: He was sold on the black market at a young age, taken by terrorists to become a weapon, and ended up killing thousands. He finally left after bombing a church. During children's choir.|| - ||Saino's true goal: to create a virus that turns people into monsters, and spread it across the world as a means of wiping out the human race.|| - ||The Necronomicon is a motive.|| - ||Sabishī: Frozen solid and smashed to pieces.|| - ||Saino escapes the island. Her first action is to infect London's water supply with the monster-creating formula.|| - ||Nozomi: Abruptly stabbed from behind by Jason Voorhees.|| - ||Who in turn gets *eaten* by the thing that *used* to be Alice's brother Nick, now a hulking, heavily mutated beast.|| - ||Chapter 27: Freddy Kruger is a thing, and he traps the cast in a nightmare world. Of special note are he impersonations of dead people, and the moment where he tries to drag a panicking Kiyomi into a mirror.|| - ||Mackenzie: Gets her throat burned/strangled before having her body burned entirely, killing her in real life. Also, she was pregnant.|| - ||Jizoku's backstory: He was once Seishin, Ultimate Voodoo Practitioner, who suddenly started turning into a zombie as a side effect of his work. His classmate and friend - Jibo Momota - tried to help cure him, unfortunately then Jibo's fiancé became terminally ill ... and once she died, Jibo felt he needed to do *something* to justify the things he did to his friend to try to cure her...|| - ||And then Freddy stabs him in the heart and leaves him to die.|| - ||Alexander: He's actually a Serial Killer that gets off on burning people to death.|| - ||Even his death (burning in an iron bull) nearly wipes out everyone else: his death activates a curse that would kill everyone (besides Akeno) from magically catching fire. Only the suddenly-revived Seishin's Heroic Sacrifice saves them.|| - ||Daisuke: Ripped in half by a giant scale.|| - ||The reveal of the final trial: Akeno (the Ultimate Vampire) was *Junko Enoshima* all along! She killed Jibo, worked with Alexander (hence not getting the curse), and escapes the island with Shiro.|| - ||After everything, Hora Island and its inhabitants are still out there...|| - ||And they include a Kraken, and an army of shark-men.|| - Eight teenagers stuck on a train in Siberia (and later in Russia). In a week's time, the train will crash, and if they accidentally lose their tickets in the meanwhile, they'll be thrown off the train outright. - ||Eline: Eats food with poisoned utensils and graphically succumbs to it in front of everyone.|| - ||Kazuko: Viciously eaten alive by a massive Piranha Plant.|| - ||Eline's and Kazuko's bodies are fed to the passengers disguised as sandwiches. This ends up turning Sarah into a Wendigo|| Thankfully, that doesn't happen in the fanfiction.net version. - ||Sarah: turned into a Wendigo and killed fighting another passenger.|| - ||Tonbe: Dropped into magma.|| - What ||turned Sarah into a Wendigo? Saino's monster virus, which *also* turns Emizel into a winged demon.|| - In the lead up to the final trial, the survivors find a film showing the death's and murders in Hope's Peak. ||Halfway through, it abruptly switches to footage of how Makoto was sent into Despair: in addition to being informed that he'd been replaced with a clone and no one was the wiser (with someone ending up pregnant by said clone), he also endured a rigorous spree of beatings, druggings, and 'other tortures'. Apparently, he held out for a time, but ultimately he fell into Despair.|| - Also, Emizel, Gundham's cousin, and Axel *really* don't react well to ||footage of Gundham and Angie's deaths.|| - ||Upon reaching the final investigation, Adohira, Emizel and Axel all discover that Despair was heavily involved in each of their respective past traumas.|| - ||Adohira is shown a puppet show that details the events of his parents' murder by his crazed sister's hand, who is revealed to have been a Despair junkie herself. This is nearly enough to make Adohira lose his cool, a rarity for him.|| - ||Emizel is shown a video that reveals the child molesters he was enslaved by actually bought him from Ultimate Despair, who are implied to have been the ones who kidnapped him in the first place.|| - ||Axel recieves an excerpt from a document written by one Kyoko Kirigiri describing a series of intentional and violent traffic accidents by an early faction of Despair, complete with pictures of the bloody and burning wreck of Axel's car accident with the implication that Axel's sister's body was removed from the morgue..|| - ||Also, the fact that Axel's reveal implies that even before The Tragedy, Junko, or possibly even someone else entirely was already manipulating the world into despair.|| - ||The mastermind reveal. It's Jun, now seemingly fully corrupted into a Despair. But that's not all. As it turns out, this game has three masterminds. Both Despair!Makoto and Junko are alive and well. The fact that both of them are now running loose is absolutely horrifying enough, but Junko has become a vampire and can create long-distant portals to travel with.|| - ||The point of the Killing Game? Simple. Expose Future Foundation's secrets, those being that it's president and second in command are a clone of the Hope's Peak Killing Game's Mastermind, and a large contributor to Despair as a whole. The students, their pasts? Never mattered in the long run, at least not to Despair. As Junko points out, plenty of people's lives have been ruined by Despair, they're not special.|| - ||Future Foundation's secrets being exposed end up causing mass riots in Tokyo, possibly kickstarting a Second Tragedy (though that seems averted, for now). Axel and Emizel are unlucky enough to be dropped off smack dab in the middle of these riots, although Fuyuhiko comes to their aid.|| - ||While Axel, Emizel and Yumei have escaped the Killing Games with their lives intact, Adohira isn't so lucky. He and Akazukin are dropped off in the middle of the desert, set to participate in the Oasis Killing Game.|| - ||Even if this game were to end without Future Foundation being exposed, Junko claims they could just start again, since they have a(n allegedly) near endless supply of Ultimates to pick from. The mass killing of nearly 100 student at the start of Kuma-Kuma Land? Apparently, that's just a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of Ultimates that Ultimate Despair claims to have captured.|| - In the epilogue, someone's been spotted roaming the Japanese mainland. ||It's the mutated thing that used to be Alice Bailey's older brother.|| - The openings. The three starting points are a trio of crashed planes; an abandoned old west town ... that gets attacked by giant scorpions at sundown; and an underground prison ... that has a load of traps that kill a significant amount of the people trapped inside. People remain trapped inside after the main characters escape. - ||Toshi: Eaten by a giant Sand Worm while crossing the desert.|| - The Ra tribe woke up in an active minefield. Their numbers quickly went down, not helped by an unidentified 'psycho' that killed Emily while pretending to be friendly. By the time they're found by Ouroboros, only five of their number are left. - ||Lucille: Dragged into a sarcophagus and crushed to death.|| - ||Korekiyo pops up again, now as a mummy. He's quickly put down for good (a sniper round to the head will do that), but not before he kills Lucille.|| - The story hasnt even *begun* yet, but the premise is already chillworthy. These kids aren't strangers or people that have been made to forget each other, they're the *children* of the past game's survivors. Kids that grew up together, friends, family in blood and bond, and now they're being forced into a killing game against each other, just like their parents and their friends. Thats just *horrible*. Crosses over with Tear Jerker. Some of the things the spinoffs do make the other fics look like sunshine and rainbows. - Penjar is a town of horrors in of itself, with windless mists, decrepit buildings, and monuments to Monokuma. The mists are constantly working against the visitors, and the place is being mysteriously built up overnight. - Around Penjar are items that are giving the visitors comatose-driven visions. They are all horrific visions, including: - ||Anzu arrives in Hope's Peak as Peko, and is hunted down by one of the classrooms. When Mahiru tries to kill her, Anzu somehow kills her in self-defense; then Mahiru comes back to life, continuing to talk despite a fatal wound at the back of her head.|| - ||Kimiko witnesses Mahiru violently murdering multiple students, and then sees her dead loved ones. She comes back a second time for Junko Enoshima to be chasing her down.|| - ||Eisei, in Gonta's body, takes on a highly murderous (and bored) Hajime/Izuru amongst the bodies of the Ultimate Talent's victims.|| - ||Fiora hears the voice of the person who stuck her in a Killing Game at first, then is chased down and kidnapped by Junko Enoshima. Junko tries to overtake her mind, and only through the grace of having an intense and overactive imagination does Fiora stop this from happening; she then headbutts Junko to death to save herself.|| - ||Ignatia, in Maki's voice, is chased down by a violent Kiibo, who kills everyone that gets in-between him and her. She even witnesses Teruteru, Mahiru, and Kaito being brutally murdered by Kiibo; when the robot is stabbed through the eye with his own ahoge, he continues to speak last words to Ignatia. All the while, the Reserve Course is massacring people at the ground floor.|| - ||Takeo: Spine severed with a piercing stab, stabbed multiple times, then gutted and stuffed with cotton and straw. The others find his remains in the taxidermy shop when investigating.|| - ||Jin: Her limbs are torn out by the Exisals, then she is slowly pulled into a shredding machine. Her remains are turned into a blood-soaked plushie.|| - ||Angelique: Knocked unconscious, wakes up buried in a accelerant-soaked log pile, and then is set ablaze, burning to death trapped in there.|| - ||Samson: One of his arms is sliced off before his punishment even starts. He is then shot multiple times by a turret gun, and dropped through a trap door, plummeting down and impaling on a statue's horns; his last sight is his own heart ripped from his chest, impaled on the tip of the horn.|| - ||Shinobu: Impaled to a piece of rebar by an explosion, then left to die before being electrocuted.|| - ||Taro: He is pounced by the displacer beast, killed by the monster biting into his neck and dragging his body around.|| - ||Emanuel: He is locked in a cage with the displacer beast, and after fighting it once, runs from it until it tears him apart, returning with his severed head.|| - ||Yejoon: Bludgeoned to death, head caved in, all of his bones broken and his beloved mask shattered to pieces. His right hand was amputated.|| - Jason Voorhees is on the island. - ||Isabella: Stabbed and literally gutted.|| - ||Diego: Torn up and fed to pigs.|| - ||Kate: Abruptly chopped in half by Nicholas Bailey.|| - Diego has *something* living inside him. And it isn't friendly. - ||The group massacre. Several hostages, Tsumugi, and Felicks, are all dead.|| - Especially when the whole thing is explained: ||Miyaki's father (heavily affected by the simulation, it seems) was trying to insist on an arranged marriage between Miyaki and Reukra. Reukra's mother refused, and so he slit her throat with a broken teacup. Before he could kill the witnesses (Weiss and Gehrig), Ibb snuck in from where she'd been watching and strangled him to death ... because *she* wanted to kill the two for coddling her (most recently for getting her kicked out of the smoking lounge). After seeing a hallucination of her dead lover, she beats the two to death. Dylan and Ethen arrived with an unconscious Tsumugi in order to frame Lars, and made Ibb also kill Tsumugi and Felix (who'd been unfortunate enough to witness all this).|| - ||Ibb: Beaten to death by the people working the engines, then thrown into a furnace. All while Riku watches.|| - ||The group is forced to go through the Titanic sinking. Some of them don't make it.|| - And then they gt to watch ||the dead bodies ground into mulch.|| - ||Dylan's second death. He hikes through the woods until he meets Kinsei, who'd been sent to take him back to the mansion to leave the island. Dylan (being his usual self and thinking he would let it slide to obey orders) ends up insulting the Alchemist's mother. He turns away for a second and is suddenly struck in the head by the silent Alchemist's diamond-topped cane. He's struck again, sending him to the ground, and a third time dislocating an eyeball. He's left incapable of even moving as the Alchemist bashes his head into 'a meaty red paste'.|| - ||Whats more is that in both this story and *Creatures of Despair*, Kinsei mostly just comes off as a teasing Jerkass. In this scene, he actually comes off as a genuine danger.|| - ||Ryan: Has his head smashed to dust by a mace (he'd been trying to kill someone with).|| - ||Harris: Accidentally drops a chandelier on himself.|| - ||Logan: Struck by a wrecking ball and several anvils multiple times, before having the wrecking ball dropped on him, crushing him.|| - ||John: Eaten by a giant plant.|| - ||Elle: Chased down and Eaten Alive by a velociraptor.|| - What happened with Shawn Wagner. ||He was a sick boy who joined the AUP and was given the 'talent' of Ultimate Scarecrow. He freaked out, understandably, and becoming part of the Island's second killing game didnt help his growing panic. When it was just him, Sabishī, Brooke, and another boy left, they attempted to escape. Brooke betrayed them out of desperation to get rid of her talent, and they were captured (the other boy dying in the process). The three were tortured, and while the girls got turned into members of the staff, Shawn was mentally broken to the point of becoming little more than a feral animal, and he became the scarecrow in the maze. Shiro putting him down in *House of Horrors* almost feels like a Mercy Kill after all the hell hes been put through.|| - ||Yasmine's accidental murder: Struck in the head with a parasol, and landing head first on the edge of a counter.|| - ||Maribelle's execution: Set aflame after narrowly avoiding being decapitated. She lives long enough to give a Dying Declaration of Love to Rowan.|| - ||Valentina's execution: **Holy molly**, she probably has one of the more gruesome death in the entire series. She's forced to ingest rat meat to the point that she inflates. And then she explodes into a shower of gore.||

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Angry Kid / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - In the episode "Horror", Angry Kid is trying to scare Li'l Sis while they're watching a scary movie during a thunderstorm. He fails, but Li'l Sis manages to scare the ever-loving shit out of AK when she suddenly falls victim to Demonic Possession. - Even spookier is that a few later episodes imply that she's still carrying this darkness. She's able to perform a genuine magic trick and gives off an eerie laugh, then later on wrestles with the dog, who then starts talking for no explained reason - The post credits ending to "Kidnap", where ||after when Angry Kid tried to get his Dad arrested, he ends up at the children's home. As Dad drives away from the home, he begins laughing harder and harder as he flees away from him before shouting "BOLLOCKS!".|| - In "Sneeze", Angry Kid tries to keep his eyes open while sneezing. ||He succeeds, but ends up sneezing so hard his eyes shoot out of his eye sockets. The fact that his eyes are stuck on the mirror while his mother repeatedly calls out "DARLING!" doesn't help.|| - Angry Kid's Butt-Monkey Speccy takes some horrific forms of abuse: - The episode "Russian Roulette", where Angry Kid, Li'l Sis and Speccy are playing a game called "spin the hammer". When the hammer stops on AK, he feints and ||whacks Speccy instead. Speccy doesn't move after that, not even when his head starts bleeding...|| - Speccy's nut allergy. Body Horror at its finest. - When AK and LS are watching a movie, Speccy is attacked by the dog, who throws him across the room, startling the two siblings. - Averted in the episode "Chemistry", where Dad manages to catch AK before he can bash Speccy's head in with a fire extinguisher. - Angry Kid prank calls an inquiry branch, which proves to be the final straw for the poor sod that answered. AK is then subjected to the sound of the man blowing his own brains out. Angry Kid, visibly disturbed, frantically hangs up afterwards. - The half-hour special, "Who Do You Think You Are", at the very beginning when AK's teacher threatens to punish him with evening PE sessions which *immediately* cuts to the PE teacher's pale, uncanny malnourished face up close at the camera, letting out a loud and very horrendous scream. Best part? The moment is repeated *twice* throughout the special.

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Anaconda / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes It's a film about giant, man eating snakes. What do you expect? - While he definitely deserved it, Serone's death is pretty damn horrific. He is caught by the snake, and he gets slowly crushed. You can actually hear his bones breaking before he's eaten. And then he's partially digested and then regurgitated. - Serone after he gets regurgitated is pretty unpleasant to look at. His right eye is missing, he is covered in the snake's stomach acid, and his skin appears to be *partially peeled off*. - Doubling as Nausea Fuel, Steven is stung by a wasp, and his treatment is *very* hard to watch. Serone takes a butter knife, *stabs Steven in the throat*, and inserts a tube with alcohol on it into his neck. Hell, the wasp sting scene is bad enough, just because of how sudden it is. Watching Steven start violently flailing is jarring, to say the least. And then Mateo pulls a *gigantic wasp* out of Steven's mouth. - The snakes themselves are pretty creepy. They seem to be some highly evolved species of Anaconda, since they have *pit organs and vocal chords*. The vocalizations the snakes make are pretty creepy, ranging from a high pitched growl to an absolutely guttural shriek. Hearing these noises coming from a *snake* is pretty strange. - The snakes having pit organs is creepy considering that pit organs allow them to sense the heat of prey and essentially track them. Meaning no matter *where* you are, they. Can. **SEE YOU.** - The scene where the second snake is introduced. We see Danny and Terri react to it, then it cuts to a POV shot from the snake's perspective, before it finally cuts to a different angle. Seeing the snake for the first time may not startle viewers at first, but then it slowly descends from the ceiling, and it's revealed to be a 40 foot monstrosity. - One word: **SERONE.** He is a creepy pervert. - When he tosses the plants into the ocean as a sign of "respect" for Gary, he has an "I don't give a fuck" face, which tells you that he could care *less* if Gary died. Really just goes to show that Serone is worse than the snakes he attacks. - The first Anaconda is highly dangerous. Why? Because Serone insists on hunting it and will not let it go. When Terri kills it, he viciously attacked her and tried to kill her. Had Steven not shown up last second, Serone would have killed them both.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked. You have been warned. Phillip's death. Where do we even start? The premise: Imagine a psychopathic killer controlling you regardless of your mind being aware of it. Now imagine that... but said psychopathic killer has cut open your hands and feet is using your tendons to control you like a marionette on top of that. The scene where Kristen snaps out of her dream with the killer bathroom fixtures, and realizes she's got a bleeding wrist and a bloody razor blade in her hand. Maybe it's just paranoia talking, but for a split second she's so disoriented, she may not have been sure she hadn't genuinely gone crazy and slashed her own wrist while hallucinating. At least you can fight Freddy, but your own insanity... The concept introduced that Freddy absorbs the souls of his victims and puts them in an And I Must Scream state. Nancy keeping vigil over a comatose Joey; "Let him go you bastard!" Freddy's reply - COME AND GET HIM BITCH - is carved into Joey's chest for her to see. The "Freddy worm" scene. "Let's get high." Poor Joey. He is a mute and cannot scream for help, which makes it all the scarier as he tries to wake everybody up to help Phillip, which leads to the scene mentioned above. The opening sequence avoided retreading what the first two films had done by making it clear at the start that Freddy is a very real and immediate threat, and this isn't a Freddy who was just beginning another killing spree. This was Freddy after he'd already killed and tormented several teenagers, and we're not even told just how long this had been going on or when it even started. This was the first film in which Freddy's kills became character-specific, preying on their own weaknesses and insecurities. While even some of those deaths are still kind of narmy, it's handled a thousand time better than in later films. Nancy's death. The audience knows it's coming, but it's still terrifying because she's hugging her father, letting her guard down for a split-second... and then he gets her. Oh, and the moment Freddy drops his disguise—there's no jokes, no one-liners, just absolute rage as he simply tells her to die. A non-Freddy related horror moment was Lorenzo the Hate Sink orderly trying to get Taryn back on drugs so he could take advantage of her, and cruelly taunting her when she tells him she'll report him to his superiors by telling her no one would listen to an ex-junkie mental patient. In a series full of fantasy horror, the horror of an orderly trying to take advantage of the children he's supposed to look after stands out. When Jennifer is flipping through TV channels, she lands on what seems to be an ordinary talk show... until the host suddenly screams at his guest and pulls out Freddy's glove in a rather effective Jump Scare.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Sweet dreams... It's called "A on Elm Street" and for fuck's sake, the Big Bad hunts his prey in their dreams. If this series didn't have a page, then Wes Craven wouldn't have made great horror movies. **NIGHTMARE** Works with their own Nightmare pages: - The premise of the series. Wes Craven takes a fear that all of us have had at some point — the idea that being killed in your dreams can result in you dying for real — and embodies it in the menacing, knife-fingered figure of Freddy Krueger. - Even Robert Englund, his portrayer, admitted to having nightmares about him. - The numerous Nightmare Sequences in the films also add to it- given that the whole theme and point of *A Nightmare on Elm Street* is Nightmare Fuel. It's also Based on a True Story. And the character of Freddy Krueger is based on a homeless person that scared Wes Craven as a kid. Wes Craven describes the story in a DVD special feature: "When I looked down there was a man very much like Freddy walking along the sidewalk. He must have sensed thaft someone was looking at him and stopped and looked right into my face. He scared the living daylights out of me, so I jumped back into the shadows. I waited and waited to hear him walk away. Finally I thought he must have gone, so I stepped back to the window. The guy was not only still looking at me but he thrust his head forward as if to say, 'Yes, I'm still looking at you.' The man walked towards the apartment building's entrance. I ran through the apartment to our front door as he was walking into our building on the lower floor. I heard him starting up the stairs. My brother, who is ten years older than me, got a baseball bat and went out to the corridor but he was gone." - The fact that no matter how campy Freddy gets, and how wacky his murder methods become, he still *eats the souls of his victims.* When other slashers kill you, the terror is over. When Freddy kills you, it's just the beginning.

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An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Some of the monsters Fievel imagines, like the one from the first scene. The scene in Treasure of Manhattan Island where a factory worker is beaten by corrupt cops (pictured above) was quite intense and distressing. Papa: This is like Russia all over again! Right near the end, the heroes set off the destruction of the passage leading to the tribe's village to protect them (their air passages will be undamaged, so they're safe). As they try to get out in time so they won't be trapped, two of the villains (the leader of the aforementioned corrupt cops and the Big Bad's lackey) fall down a seemingly bottomless shaft, screaming the whole way, followed by a colossal amount of water. Only rarely does a Disney Villain Death really and truly show that, yes, there is absolutely, positively, 100% NO WAY that those guys made it out alive.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes *"Ready or not... HERE I COME!"* **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.** - The beginning with Dean tearing his own throat open with a knife while screaming "YOU'RE NOT REAL! YOU'RE NOT REAL!" - "Why are you screaming? I haven't even cut you yet..." - And after Jesse's death... - Freddy's face melting from being burnt alive and his screams while running towards Quentin. - The Soundtrack Dissonance in the pharmacy scene. - Really Freddy in general in this reboot. His face is more frightening thanks to better effects and he lost a lot of the humor and campiness he picked up over the years. Also the fact he is portrayed as a child molester rather than a child murderer is somehow even *more* creepy. - This film adds the concept of "micronaps," times when, after being awake too long, your brain enters a brief REM-type state to try and rest itself. You can be walking around normally, and suddenly Freddy can get to you, because *technically* you're dreaming. Suddenly, unlike in the earlier films, it's not about "finding a way to deal with Freddy before we just can't stay awake any longer," it's about "finding a way to deal with Freddy because I could have a fatal micronap *at any moment*." It also helps to explain the blurred lines between reality and dreams present in the earlier films, especially the original. - Freddy's ultimate goal in the film isn't to kill the kids from the preschool - well, not ALL of them. He intentionally makes sure that Nancy (his favorite) stays awake long enough that by the time she does fall asleep, she's unlikely to ever wake up again, and will stay alive and trapped in the dream world with him forever. - The alternate ending turns the creepiness up to eleven for the ending scene by having Freddy change back to his human form. Instead of making him look less scary, it serves as a reminder to the audience (and Nancy) that Freddy was just as much of a monster when he was alive.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes *"No pain, no gain."* *As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked. You have been warned.* - Kincaid's junkyard death offers a brief Hope Spot where it seems like he's crushed Freddy, only for all the old cars to suddenly blare to life and explode around him before he gets trapped in an enclosure. As Kincaid tries to scream for Kristen's help and that Freddy's returned, the camera zooms out to reveal *the entire planet* is one huge junkyard and after this zoom out, cuts back to Freddy instantly reappearing and stabbing Kincaid. - Alice's first meeting with Freddy involves her watching as Kristen burns to death, before her soul gets sucked into Freddy. Alice can only watch in pure horror as Kristen's terrified face forms on Freddy's chest alongside his other victims. - Despite the Lighter and Softer nature of this movie compared to the others, this is also the one where Freddy completes his vicious revenge against the Elm Street children. Instead of being content with his victory, he finds and uses a loophole to keep killing and devolves for the rest of the series into an increasingly more simple, monstrous being who wants more and more fresh souls, his demonic appetite, personality and ambitions only worsening, eventually becoming an outright Omnicidal Maniac. - Freddy gives off very lecherous vibes, especially the tongue flapping, when he invites Sheila to "suck face." It's especially creepy since Sheila is just an innocent teenage girl. - Freddy's pizza. It has the tiny screaming heads of his victims, begging for release, as "toppings". Freddy casually impales one with a finger claw and pops it in his mouth, as it's still screaming for help. Even worse? It's Alice's brother Rick, whom he had just killed, and he does this in front of Alice purely to taunt her since he can't kill her. - Holy shit, is Debbie's death this *and* some. It involves her turning into a cockroach in what is clearly a *very* Painful Transformation before being crushed in a roach motel. As if that wasn't bad enough, right before he crushes her, you can also see a close-up of an actual cockroach also trapped next to her in the motel and struggling to get free. Anyone with a phobia of those can identify what a Primal Fear it truly is. Out of the entire franchise, Debbie's death was truly one of the longest and most elaborate that Freddy has ever inflicted.

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Andrew Doran / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The Child of Dreams, Annie, is someone who changes her age constantly as she moves in and out of time. She's quite insane and capable of erasing people from existence at will. The locals struggle not to offend her, lest they be destroyed or transformed. - Olivia's FaceHeel Turn was bad from *the Statement of Andrew Doran* to *Andrew Doran and The Mountains of Madness* but she is turned into an insane twisted mess by her treatment at the hands of Timothy. - The revelation of Erich Strobel being a shoggoth and his transformation into a proto-shoggoth are particularly nightmarish, especially when you note that he turned himself into the latter by using large amounts of body parts harvested from his men. - The horrific death of Patricia in *Andrew Doran and the Crawling Caves* as she's torn apart by the *Al Azif* and then used to construct a new human skin body for her. - I'm a Humanitarian has horrific effects in the Cthulhu Mythos as you're guaranteed to become a wendigo and stalk the living. This is what happened to Carol Berg and she was only brought out of her feral state by her husband (who she outlived and will by centuries).

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A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes *"That is no creature of God!"* - The funny thing about *Dream Child* is that while it's not one of the most fondly remembered of the sequels, there were large portions of the film considered so horrible and disgusting that they had to be cut out. Those scenes came out of Dan and Greta's respective deaths, with Dan being forcibly merged with the motorcycle he's driving, and Greta being force fed her own organs before Krueger chokes her to death. The death scenes were featured on old VHS tapes and Laserdisc and do not disappoint, featuring content such as: - *Literally* from this line. **Freddy:** Fuel injection! - Greta's hideously swollen face in her dream, caused not just from the "food" Freddy is making her eat, but her own vomit as well. - Mark's death scene on so, so many levels: - Some might find the idea of a person being turned into paper funny, especially if you've watched those Go Gurt commercials with that premise. So when Mark gets turned into paper by Krueger, it ought to be somewhat amusing, right? WRONG. At least the kids from those "Slurp till it's Flat" ads could move while also retaining their colors. All Mark can do is flail around helplessly while HIS colors slowly BLEED out until they come to form a multicolored puddle around his feet. Not helping is the way he SCREAMS in absolute horror at what he's become, with a look of pure terror on his face. And the music playing in the background: gloomy and dark. It's no wonder that Mark's death scene comes off as one of the darkest and also saddest death scenes from the entire franchise, considering that for a moment there, it looked like Mark actually beat Krueger. - And the way Freddy just keeps shredding him to pieces while laughing his head off sadistically and doesn't let up for a good minute as the whole dreamscape collapses around Mark. Just, yeesh. - It becomes even more disturbing when you think about what Mark's mutilated body must've looked like in reality given how thorough Freddy was with slicing him to pieces in the dream world, as all we saw was a bloodied hand. - The opening sequence focuses on Alice experiencing what happened to Amanda Krueger when she'd been raped by the maniacs in Westin Hills. This includes a lingering shot of one inmate played by Robert Englund, who also appears briefly to torment Alice when she seemingly wakes up. - After Alice goes on a rant calling Freddy a coward for not facing her or his mother, it suddenly cuts to Freddy looking *absolutely pissed off* and starts to approach Alice growling in fury. It's one of the few times in the later films Freddy isn't playing games and is terrifying without being funny. - The Freddy baby pictured above that shows up in the opening recreation of his birth. It also returns at the end when Krueger is turned back into it before being absorbed by Amanda Krueger. Though after she does his adult, clawed arm bursts out of her abdomen while desperately trying to escape her. - Freddy's portrayal in this film is one of the most divisive elements discussed by fans, who argued trying to combine his more hammier traits from *Dream Master* with the darker atmosphere of the first film and *Freddy's Revenge* didn't mesh well. However, the brutality and sadism of the deaths in this movie coupled with how hard it works at making Dan, Greta, and Mark both sympathetic and likable, puts Freddy's jokes in a sinister new light. Rather than being meant to be seen as comedic as he was in *Dream Master*, Freddy's one-liners and jokes as he repeatedly tortures his victims only serves to make him as abhorrent and loathsome as he was always meant to be viewed when Wes Craven created him. - The very fact that Freddy's defeat doesn't lull us into thinking he's been destroyed like all the other films did. All Alice and Amanda can do is keep Freddy locked up and drained of energy so he's not a threat. But to do this, Amanda has to absorb Freddy into her body and keep the two of them sealed in the dream world. The very last we see of Amanda is her screaming and struggling while Freddy's bladed hand reaches out of her, trying to break free. This movie cemented Freddy wasn't so much a ghost or demon, but a malicious force of destruction that can't be fully destroyed.

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Animal Collective / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The album cover◊ of Sung Tongs is particularly nightmarish. It's an image of two somewhat-humanoid things made out of paper cut-outs against a blood red backdrop. What really makes this one creepy is the fact that they're both sporting deeply-unsettling Slasher Smiles and that you can see their bones through what appears to be holes in their bodies. Speaking of Sung Tongs, we shouldn't neglect the horrifying tune that is Whaddit I Done. To top it off, they actually used this song as the album's finale! The song Bees can be quite unsettling to listen to on its own, but the "RWO RWO RWO RWWWO RWO RWOOOAAA" noise is just fucking disturbing. The video for Who Could Win a Rabbit. The animal costumes are unsettling enough on their own, as well as the strange movements and camera angles. However, the most unsettling part is the end of the video, in which ||the tortoise kills the hare and eats his remains||.

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Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Caused many a nightmare and sleepless night for kids who saw it on TV back in 1998 who didn't realise it was a hoax ( and even for some of those who did.)— - When the aliens open fire on Tommy and his brothers. - When an ominous figure walks past the window during the dinner. - When the aliens can be heard moving around on the roof, and then one of them is briefly glimpsed climbing into the upstairs window. - The scene where Tommy is ambushed by one of the aliens in his room, during which Tommy enters a trance and doesn't seem to remember the incident after. - The sinister red glow and visual pixellation that foreshadows the aliens' presence. - When the family is cornered and mind-controlled into submission by the aliens at the end, with the camera disturbingly zooming in. Made worse by the fact that Tommy is in the middle of a meltdown at the alien presence while everyone else has gone into a trance and is silently obeying the aliens' commands. - That damn little girl.

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Amphibia Season 3 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Now that the true villain's been revealed and the stakes are higher than ever before, this season promises to be darker and more serious than ever before... General - Going with the dark ending to "True Colors", the new season opening shows that the threats Anne and the Plantars have to face have risen to a whole new level. The New Normal - When making their way back to Anne's house, Anne and the Plantars discuss their plans going forward, bringing up the pressing issue of Anne intending to return to Amphibia to both send the Plantars back home and save Sasha and Marcy from Andrias. Anne's parents just got their baby girl back from a Death World they didn't know she was trapped in for *months*, and at some point, they're going to be forced to face the fact that Anne has to return to that world of danger, with a psychotic madman determined to end her to further his Evil Plan lurking in wait, in order to save both worlds. Throughout the episode, Anne and the Plantars end up having to hide the high stakes set in True Colours and pretend to her family that everything's fine, when the weight of her new responsibilities is clearly weighing on Anne in private, something which the Plantars worriedly note about her. That's a nightmarish scenario for any parent to face, and even more so for the Boonchuys, because Anne's powers mean that she *can't* shirk the responsibility of stopping Andrias in favor of anybody else. - Speaking of said powers, it's only lightly touched upon, but Anne is clearly unsettled by her strange new abilities, especially now that she's in an environment where they're not as useful for survival and instead mark her out as being as strange and otherworldly as the Plantars are. Even back in front of her own house, Anne is downcast and overwhelmed by what her new abilities are and what they mean for her going forward, because nobody can explain the purpose she got these powers for, or if they're a permanent part of her going forward. The only person who seems to have any clue what they are is Andrias, and not only is he evil, the whole reason she flew into the fit of Unstoppable Rage that caused her to unlock them was because he tried to murder Sprig. - In the episode's climax, Anne's Calamity Box powers make a triumphant return, and when she uses them, even in a partially-charged state weaker than the full transformation she showed in "True Colors", Anne is still fast enough to Flash Step straight to the Cloak-Bot before it can react and strong enough that a single blow from her *shreds* its outer coating, leaving it a mess of exposed wiring. This is a terrifying level of strength in the hands of a young 13-year old girl, and Anne herself is noticeably intimidating when she's using them, gaining a Voice of the Legion and a Death Glare against the target of her wrath. Afterward, though it's still a weaker activation of her powers, Anne collapses unconscious again, and afterwards notes that using her powers feels 'bad' somehow, implying that as useful as the abilities are, there's some unknown cost that comes with gaining such extraordinary power. Anne can't even move her arms to open the car door afterwards, implying that using the full force of her powers, using them for too long, or even using them when she's already tired might have severe repercussions for her. This seems to be foreshadowing a Heroic RRoD, which only makes the aforementioned awful scenario Mr and Mrs Boonchuy will inevitably face even worse, especially since there's nothing stopping their little girl suffering that *right in front of them*. - Even if it ends up preventing her from adapting to her new powers quickly enough, no one can blame her for setting a Godzilla Threshold; she doesn't understand them, there are no potential mentors on Earth as far as she or the audience can tell, and they knock her out every time she uses them. - Andrias is worried enough about Anne's powers that he sends a Cloak-Bot capable of *turning invisible* to kill her. Whilst the audience sometimes gets the benefit of seeing its translucent outline while it's in 'stealth mode', that doesn't always happen, and it's impossible to tell where the Cloak-Bot is unless it interacts with the environment around it somehow. This is the same effect the Plantars and Anne experience when fighting it, only being able to tell where it is by using the food products around them to See the Invisible. - The Cloak-Bot itself is also a fairly terrifying opponent for the heroes to face off with, featuring a more threatening, sharp, and angular design than the initial robot creations Andrias made, and featuring a high degree of intelligence. It can track Anne through the Calamity Box energy she's emitting almost the instant it arrives on Earth, and when it draws near her, it gives no sign of its presence until it's ready to restrain and impale her on its Absurdly Sharp Claws. The only reason Anne's spared the instant it gets its hands on her is that some nearby refrigerator magnets disrupt its cloaking technology as it approaches them, giving Sprig enough forewarning to react to the assassin's attack and distract it from landing the killing blow. If not for that lucky accident that none of the Plantars even realize had happened, the Cloak-Bot would have killed Anne before any of them could stop it. Even worse, this robot is programmed to adapt to all previous obstacles that give it trouble, and as long as it's tracking Anne through her energy signature, there's a chance it can assassinate her *while she's sleeping*. - Upon revealing Marcy's survival, hooked up to the healing tank in the throne room of his Ominous Floating Castle, Andrias tells his unconscious captive that her part in the events to come is just beginning. Anybody who's seen the season 3 sneak peek knows what he's referring to, but the way he says this raises the question if he only planned to do this to Marcy due to needing to work around having to stab her in "True Colors", or if he *always* intended this outcome for her from the beginning. - Anne's parents have realistic fears about what happened to their daughter. She was missing for five months and shows up with her clothes in tatters, her hair a mess, and some new friends that she claimed housed her during that time. While her parents have more questions about the fantastical elements of her adventures — like how the larb tasted with maggots and why the Calamity Box only sent Anne and the Plantars back while leaving Sasha and Marcy stranded — they also have an understandable response: not wanting to let Anne out of their sight again. As her mother and father put it, to them she disappeared into thin air for a seemingly random reason, and it could happen again. There's also an Elephant in the Room, in that Anne's former best friends are still stranded in Amphibia, and the Boonchuys are unsure how to break the news to their families. Thai Feud - Ned's food truck has no working brakes, so when Anne tries to stop, she and Sprig *can't*, and go careening downhill. It's amazing that they weren't hurt. Temple Frogs - Once the Plantars' disguises are knocked off while fighting the drones, exposing them to the whole Thai community, there's a brief shot of them with a more realistic art style to show how freaky they look from an In-Universe perspective without the show's appealing art style. Suffice to say, it's no wonder Anne is worried about others seeing them as possible monsters if this◊ is what they actually look like. Fixing Frobo Anne-sterminator - Andrias activates a *bomb* in the Cloak-Bot, giving it an hour to kill Anne before it explodes. The Cloak-Bot decides to just drop stealth and attack Anne in her home, using things like a *nail gun* and *sawblade* to chase the Boonchuys and Plantars across the city. - Just how *easily* Andrias activates the bomb — the very second the Cloak-Bot reluctantly admits Anne isn't dead, he instantly arms the device, without giving it a chance to explain the situation nor how hard it's been working to achieve its goal, arbitrarily putting it on an hour's deadline to succeed or die, with arguably what seemed to be the same snap decision he made to kill Sprig just to hurt Anne, showing how little lives matter to him. However, he was wearing the activation button on his wrist the whole time, meaning he was prepared to blow the Cloak-Bot and Los Angeles up *right from the start*. It gives a chilling undercurrent to his Faux Affably Evil demeanour through the conversation, in that he'd already planned ahead to kill the Cloak-Bot if it hadn't met his expectations, and despite his jovial and conversational tone, he had already considered the possibility that the Cloak-Bot wouldn't be successful and had prepared ahead of time to efficiently dispose of it in a manner that also had a good possibility of killing Anne as well. - Speaking of said bomb, the Cloak-Bot's demeanor throughout the episode indicates it had *no idea* there was an armed explosive in its chest the whole time, and it's implied to be a new feature Andrias has begun adding to his newer robot model specifically to avoid a repeat of Frobo's defiance, showing that Andrias is both ruthless and cunning, learning from each experience and preparing accordingly to better succeed with his next attempts. Cloak-Bot and Frobo each show the capacity for sentience and self-thought, but that runs counter to Andrias' Control Freak tendencies, so now he's arming each robot creation he makes with explosives to ensure that they don't even *think* of defying him and have no choice but to follow his orders. - Let's not forget that it is the express opinion of at least two characters, two characters the audience is supposed to trust, that anything that can have memories has a soul, the implication clearly being that even the 'evil' fodder robots are living things. While they might casually forget with some other robots in the show, the intention without a doubt is to say Cloak-Bot is a person and not Just a Machine, with every indication as well that it feels fear. - Added to that, the Cloak-Bot's Self-Destruct Mechanism is practically the equivalent of a *nuclear bomb* — enough to level a significant portion of Los Angeles. It just goes to show how **unhinged** King Andrias has become in his focus on killing Anne to remove the threat of the Calamity Box powers, enough that he's willing to kill a few million people along the way. On the other hand, given he likely expected that Cloak-Bot's 'motivation' would result in it getting seen taking out Anne this time in its single-minded determination to finish her before time ran out, him arming the self-destruct could be seen as a *chillingly* pragmatic way of taking out anybody who saw it no matter what happened. It falls in line with both his focus on efficiency and excessive force to further his plans. - Mrs. Boonchuy is revealed to have a Room Full of Crazy where she worked out the stress of Anne's disappearance by doing things like making multiple dummies of her and a number counter for the days she was gone. It is heartbreaking, funny, and disturbing all at once. As a bonus, the counter stops at 89 days, which is three months. Anne was gone for five months. At the three month mark, Mrs. Boonchuy gave up hope. Mr. X - In a case of Beware the Silly Ones, the titular villain proves himself to be quite competent in trying to catch the Plantars, and nearly would have too, if it weren't for Anne's parents tricking him with ordinary frogs and a tadpole they bought at a pet store. Sprig's Birthday - The Monster Clown hot air balloon that was used to promote a parody of *It* is enough to make Sprig scream "WHAT THE FROG?!" Not to mention, him and Anne nearly die when they take it on a joy ride and crash it into a crane. Spider-Sprig - Sprig and Robert learn the hard way that superhero battles in real life cause collateral damage that can result in people getting hurt or even killed. Olivia & Yunan - Marcy, Olivia, and Yunan are attacked by virtual representations of their greatest fears: Olivia is attacked by a monstrous version of her mother who blames her for Amphibia's current state, while Yunan gets attacked by grubhogs due to a bad experience she had with one as a child. But Marcy gets probably the worst of them: an amalgamation of Anne and Sasha blaming her for everything that's happened to them, and when they say they don't want to be friends anymore, Marcy has a breakdown. - We finally reveal the true nature of Andrias' master, the Core. It is a collective Mind Hive composed of all of Amphibia's past rulers with their consciousness still intact, and the reason Andrias needed Marcy alive was to use her as a host. - Some attentive viewers have noticed that the ending credits for this episode, when sped up, sound like screaming. Matt Braly later confirmed on Twitter that it wasn't intentional, but it still doesn't take away the absolute horror of that one bit. Hollywood Hop Pop If You Give A Frog A Cookie - How does Dr. Frakes react when she sees the Plantars' real appearances? She tries to dissect them alive! Froggy Little Christmas - Andrias's advisors gift him with a drone for Christmas, saying they want to make him happy. He returns the favor by testing the drone's attack controls on them. There's being a Bad Boss, and then there's being plain petty. - Andrias hijacking a Santa float to pursue Anne, the Plantars, and her family. Needless to say, it looks very creepy when Andrias talks through it. And not to mention its face when the camera closes in on it... - The fact that if Anne used the tree to destroy the Santa-bot but failed to destroy the drone, then the chances are it would've probably taken over another float, or just attacked her dead-on. And since the heroes never even realized the drone was there, it's unknown what would become of it... - Andrias' army is complete and ready for invasion. War is coming, very soon if the next episode being called "Escape to Amphibia" is any indication, and Anne and her friends and families need to be ready. Even if they *are* ready for the scores of Mecha-Mooks, **nothing** can prepare Anne for Darcy or either of her families for her reaction to discovering Andrias turned one of her childhood friends into a Wetware Body. - Andrias' last line, showing he's a complete No-Nonsense Nemesis and vowing that absolutely *no one* will get in his way. **Darcy:** **That was pathetic. And you call yourself a king?** **Andrias:** It doesn't matter. Against the full force of our army, *none* shall stand. Not Anne, not Earth, **not ** *anyone.* Escape to Amphibia - Mr. X is clearly planning on having the Plantars experimented on, believing them to be malicious invaders. - Polly reveals she keeps a Long List of her enemies, of everyone that has crossed her during the series. Remember, she's only a baby. When Mr. X threatens to torture her, despite the fact that she's cooperating with him, Polly dryly says that he's now on her list. - When the Boonchuys are playing with the toys, Mrs. Boonchuy pretends to stab Anne in the back with a blade that looks a lot like the one Andrias used to stab Marcy. It's not particularly scary, but it *will* cause viewers to get flashbacks to that moment in "True Colors". - Anne's Darth Vader fight against the FBI agents is a Mook Horror Show. She wields the toy lightsaber that her father packed, poses, and shows that all the fencing lessons in Amphibia paid off. The emergency lights reflect the silhouetted blade. Anne makes a bunch of trained federal agents go down like children. One bangs at the door, begging for help, before she knocks him out. It's awesome, but also scary, and a reminder of why you don't threaten the Plantars in her presence. - You think everything will be okay now that Anne and the Plantars have gotten the portal working, except that a giant red praying mantis breaks in, and to make matters worse, Mr. X has finally caught up to them. - Anne is excited to see she and the Plantars are back in Amphibia... but then excitement turns to horror when they see that their home has been reduced to a barren wasteland. The cheerful ending theme that plays afterward doesn't help. Commander Anne - Andrias is using the mind-control mushrooms from "Children of the Spore" on the native Amphibian wildlife, and considering how much of a Death World Amphibia is... Sasha's Angels - At the end, it's implied that, with the rest of their food gone, the other Marauders *eat* the re-cursed Barry. Olm Town Road - Andrias tries to use a giant drill to excavate an iron deposit, despite the fact that the olm city Proteus is built right on top of it. And given that the computer *knows* Proteus is there, he willingly tries to genocide the olms, who are highly vulnerable to sunlight, just to get what he wants. - There's a lot more chilling pragmatism than there seems to his decision to wipe them out. Andrias and the Core are aware of a prophecy that apparently states that Anne, Sasha, and Marcy are destined to stand against and defeat them, and Andrias has gone out of his way to avoid revealing this to any of the girls or their allies, even when gleefully revealing Marcy's Dark Secret and invoking Brutal Honesty against them to demoralise them. Andrias has no idea about the secret message left behind on Earth, so to his mind, wiping out the olms entirely along with the 'mother of prophecies' will prevent Anne and the rest from finding out about their destiny and thus keep them from forming a concrete plan against him, underlining how far he's willing to go to keep the advantage over his foes, keeping them as ignorant as possible about the truth of what's happening so they can't fight back, even at the expense of an entire race. Given how he proclaimed "olms have mercy" before, it seems that olms, and specifically Mother Olm, are highly venerated in Amphibia, but Andrias has no problem attempting to kill her in order to prevent any upset to his plans. The iron ore deposit was just a bonus/a useful pretext for him destroying the city. Mother of Olms - Mother Olm turns out to have an infestation of bat-mosquito hybrids *in her head*. And the reason the doctor she called seventy years ago didn't cure her? *They drained him dry*. - The people that have wrongfully claimed the Calamity Gems' powers as their own over the centuries have created a being that does not sleep and **will not** die. Unbeknownst to Anne and Sasha, said being is *currently possessing Marcy's body.* Grime's Pupil - The episode opens with Sasha and Anne viewing a map of Amphibia showing the locations controlled by Andrias' forces versus their own attempts to take back control over the land. Despite all their successes over the last few episodes, the map shows that Andrias controls *90%* of Amphibia, with only the area around Wartwood being contested, and even that comes with the caveat that the resistance has to hide underground and conduct guerrilla warfare against his army. Andrias is so powerful now that outright conflict will be a hopeless endeavour, and the Wartwood resistance has to partner up with other groups in order to stand a chance. - Sprig nearly gets eaten by bee-hyena hybrids. The Root of Evil The Core & The King - Not only is Marcy trapped inside her own head, the Core spends some time deleting some of her memories to clear up space. How much of her will be *left* by the time she's rescued? - Thankfully, the evidence for the latter turned out to be an editing mistake, but that still doesn't mitigate the hell poor Marcy is going through. Hell, it makes it worse, because at least if Anne and Sasha had had to rebuild Marcy's personality from scratch, they could have spared her any memories specifically related to Darcy. - The Core and King Aldrich telling Andrias to *exterminate humanity* simply so they can strip-mine the Earth for resources, with the heavy implication that they've done this before. Even the young Andrias is shocked when he's told. - Leif betrays Andrias because she has a vision that if they continue to misuse the music box, Amphibia will be destroyed. **Andrias**: Leif! Are you okay?! **Barrel**: What happened?! **Leif**: *(terrified)* I... I-I saw something... Andrias, if you go through with this mission— if we continue to use the box— I think Amphibia is doomed. - The imagery is mostly of things that have already happened by the present day, like the castle rising from Newtopia and Amphibia being strip-mined and turned into a Polluted Wasteland, and the latter only makes sense as a result of Leif acting on the vision... which makes what *hasn't* happened yet even more ominous than it already was. Namely, the box opening itself for no apparent reason; a Freeze-Frame Bonus of the throne room in shambles and littered with Frobot wreckage, as if the castle was hit by something from outside or Anne note : who will have discovered what Andrias did to Marcy (and/or a reempowered Sasha note : who spent much of her time in Amphibia with a Proud Warrior Race and, like Anne, will have discovered what Andrias did to Marcy or Marcy note : who will likely be a traumatized, self-loathing wreck when she gets her body back from the Core, meaning the poor girl may be too emotionally unstable to handle a Super Mode) went berserk, leading to a Mook Horror Show; and, most terrifyingly, what appears to be Amphibia's moon *crashing into the planet*, up to and including the stage where it **makes landfall**. Given that this was blasted directly into the poor girl's brain, it's no wonder she was willing to go to the extremes she did. - Leif's betrayal of Andrias cut him so deep, he explicitly started oppressing the frog species of Amphibia as a whole in the aftermath. Frogs are demonstrated to be the bottom rung of society everywhere Anne and the Plantars visit throughout season 2, and now it's revealed that this was all due to *one frog* breaking Andrias' heart and him looking for some means of venting his Wrath towards her for destroying all his ancestors had built. Therefore, the question remains... what's Andrias going to do when he realizes that the Plantar family are her distant descendants? It's heavily implied that his snap decision to drop Sprig to a Disney Death in "True Colors" was motivated not only by Anne hitting his Berserk Button about friendship, but Sprig's Strong Family Resemblance to Leif, even though Andrias seems to have not fully realized their connection yet. When he does, however, he's made it *very clear* that whatever he does to Anne's Found Family — which could easily be harming Anne herself note : who is a) already a target because she threatens his plans, b) narratively due for a brush with death after Sasha's fall and Marcy's impalement, and c) especially likely to personally and recklessly target him upon discovering what's become of Marcy in front of them — he's going to make it **hurt** them just as much as he was by Leif breaking his trust. Worst case scenario, this could tie into fan speculation that Hop Pop won't survive the finale; Disney wouldn't allow a child to be Killed Off for Real note : Marcy's survival had to be spoiled immediately for her Disney Death to be acceptable on screen, which makes him the only Plantar who Andrias *could* end up killing because he's the only adult, and doesn't preclude any mortal threat to Sprig, Polly, or Anne that would motivate him to go out protecting his family. If he *does* die, and Andrias is the one to kill him note : which he likely would be, since his Laser Sword would prevent any injury or death it causes from being too gruesome, Sprig and Polly will have lost the only biological family they had left because of something their ancestor did a thousand years ago. - The very end: **Darcy:** But now that that's taken care of, who's ready to finally start invading Earth?! **King Andrias:** Ready? After a thousand years, I've thought of nothing else. *(Beat as Darcy looks up at the king; the mother of all Unsmiles creeps onto her face)* Fight or Flight The Beginning of the End - Lady Olivia and General Yunan finally return... but they're Brainwashed and Crazy now, because they're wearing mind control collars like the monsters Andrias has forced to serve him using them. - Anne may have been spared (for now), but Darcy plans to vivisect her. - Darcy and Andrias lead their army through a portal to Earth. The invasion finally begins. All In - It is made very clear that Andrias' invasion creates many casualties among the soldiers and the civilians. - Andrias' herons turn out to be the *same* ones that killed Sprig and Polly's parents, hitting the Plantars' collective Trauma Button. It takes the prospect of Anne being orphaned the exact same way Sprig and Polly were for them to snap out of the Heroic BSoD caused by a close encounter with the beasts. - Shortly after Andrias first met Marcy, the Core appeared to him as a cluster of its 13 eyes. The audience only hears indistinct whispers coming from it, but Andrias reveals that it ordered him to kill her, due to the prophecy making it risky to keep her alive. When Andrias suggested that instead he befriend Marcy, bring her friends to Newtopia, and remove their powers, the Core tells him it agreed with the plan, using the form of King Aldrich. Except this form has all of the Core's eyes in the place where Aldrich's normal eyes would usually be. The avatar of Andrias' father was then dragged into the darkness by the Core's tentacles, accompanied by sinister laughter. **Aldrich:** *Well done, Andrias...* - When Marcy finally decides to stop living in a fantasy and fights back, Andrias' father tells her that the Core will simply erase her personality if she won't comply. **Aldrich:** So be it. Then suffer, child, in eternal darkness. And in time, anything left of your personality will fade. - The Core's versions of Anne and Sasha. Even though it's not really them, there's something...off about them. Apart from having Empty Eyes and sounding *slightly robotic*, when Marcy asks the false duo what to do next, they reply by saying that they're down to do whatever Marcy wants, which is something that's Out of Character, which even Marcy herself acknowledges. And then we're treated to some flashbacks of "True Colours", specifically when Anne and Sasha find out about Marcy's true motives. - Right before summoning a huge scythe, Darcy moves her head onto one side with her hands, and there's a clicking noise as if she's *snapping her own neck*. - When Sasha cuts Darcy's chin, *she bleeds green*. This brings forth several questions: - What did that People Jar pump into Marcy? - Will this wear off in time, or does Marcy permanently have Alien Blood? - What else did Andrias do to her to keep her alive? - How will she explain *any* of this to the first Earth doctor who examines her? To her parents? - Darcy cuts off Grime's left arm and severely wounds Sasha's back, which is all played 100% seriously and hard to watch. - Right before slashing her back, Darcy conjures up illusions of Anne and Marcy that are used to taunt Sasha to distract her long enough to deliver the blow. Needless to say, the illusions are pretty unsettling to look at, and the Core used that same tactic on Yunan, Olivia, and Marcy (prior to her possession). Sasha's greatest fear is literally hurting Anne and Marcy again, and the Core knows this, which is also why it spent their whole fight lampshading their similarities. **Anne and Marcy illusions**: *(echoing)* **Hey Sasha.** **Sasha**: You think these cheap tricks will work on me?! **Darcy**: **YEP!** *(slashes Sasha's back)* Too easy! - When Anne defeats Andrias, it's revealed he kept himself alive for a thousand years by turning himself into a cyborg. "More machine than man" indeed. - After Marcy is freed and the Core seemingly defeated, Darcy's helmet sprouts legs and crawls away unnoticed... - Once the group returns to Amphibia, the moon is suddenly shown to be falling down... and then the episode ends. - And if that wasn't enough, the ending credits shows the moon slowly descending while a music box version of the ending theme song plays in the background. The Hardest Thing - A promo reveals the cause of the falling moon — it's actually a hellishly large machine covered in the Core's eyes, each one larger than the royal palace, being controlled by the Core itself, still inhabiting Darcy's helmet on the "moon's" surface. After the invasion was thwarted, its grand ambitions now forever beyond its reach, the Core has apparently **snapped** big-time, being willing to induce a Colony Drop on Amphibia in a spiteful last effort to deny the heroes their total victory over it, selling just how *unhinged* the Mind Hive has become, that it'd go to such lengths just to gain some measure of success against its enemies. The fact this is happening, given the *reason* it's happening, also means Leif's vision was a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, which makes the fact the 'moon' apparently **reached the ground** in that vision beyond ominous... - Worse, the fact that the vision was a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy makes the reasoning behind Leif receiving it ominous. Lief unintentionally kick-started a chain of events that has caused the Core to attempt to destroy all of Amphibia in the very efforts she took to prevent that outcome. Was the warning given to Leif to allow her to avert it?...or to *cause it* as punishment for their society's abuse of the gems? - Anne using the power of all three stones to destroy the Core *kills* her. The Guardian revives her, but says that this new Anne is just a backup copy it made before the event, so the Anne that we've come to know and love throughout the series is, in a sense, *gone*. Anne herself notes that she'll have to process that eventually. - The Guardian takes the form of an old-style computer, and then Anne's cat Domino, to meet Anne as according to them, glimpsing their true form *"would make [Anne's] human brain explode"*. When Anne confidently states that she has Seen It All, we got a Jump Scare Smash Cut of the Guardian in their Lovecraftian true form. Anne immediately panics. Doubles as very, funny. **VERY** - The Guardian implies that they will only have to wait 78 years more until Anne can possibly replace them for the position. If you do the math, she's fated to die by the age of 91. While it's indeed a ripe old age, it's still *horrifying* to be told the exact number of years you have left. Let's hope Anne completely forgot about that...

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And Then There Were None / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes *Into that silence came The Voice. Without warning, inhuman, penetrating...* There's a reason Agatha Christie is known as the grandmother of the slasher film and that reason is *And Then There Were None*. ## The book ## The adaptations 1987 USSR adaptation - Differently from the Alan Towers adaptations, the Russian film plays the atmosphere of the book completely straight. This was the first version to show the aftermath of every murder. - Apart from an eerie leitmotiv and a scare track, the film has almost no soundtrack. This, coupled with the frequent close-ups, creates a very claustrophobic atmosphere. - Anthony Marston doesn't simply choke on his poisoned drink, he crashes face-first into a glass plate. And we are shown the aftermath. - Emily Brent hallucinating about Beatrice Taylor knocking at her window during the second night. Emily breaks down and yells at the girl, throws the Bible at the window and then, suddenly, regains her calm and whispers to herself that she now knows who the killer is — Beatrice Taylor. - The scene, absent from the book, in which Lombard rapes Vera. If there was any doubt about his sociopathic nature, that scene erases it. - The film shows Dr. Armstrong's death in detail. Up to that point, the murders were mostly quick-acting poison and blunt force trauma. Armstrong gets pitched over a railing by the killer, a person he completely trusted, and gets to fall screaming down a cliff into the heaving sea, where he eventually drowns. In addition to the terror of knowing he's going to die, he also probably has some long moments to realize how effectively he was duped by the killer, and possibly feel regret for allowing himself to be fooled the way he was.

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A New Hope / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes **WARNING:** Spoilers are unmarked. - In the opening scene, Captain Antilles gets his throat crushed by Darth Vader complete with a Sickening "Crunch!". OUCH! - Consider: Vader has the Force, and we see that he has the ability to use it to choke people from a distance. So what purpose does he have to PHYSICALLY choke Antilles? None other than sheer, mind-breaking intimidation. He could use the Force, or he could show just how physically strong he is too (never mind that both of his arms are *mechanical*), and make an example of the captain of the entire ship by *killing him with his gloved hands*. - The sight of the charred, skinless corpses of Owen and Beru Lars (shown right). It is very briefly shown in the movie itself; you could easily miss it. But once you actually do see it, you can never un-see it. - And look closely at the positions of the skeletons; they are sprawled out over the front of the yard, one even draped over a rock. However they were set afire (most likely by flamethrower-carrying Stormtroopers), Beru and Owen were able to AMBULATE FOR SOME TIME before they eventually succumbed. They must have been in agonizing pain for several seconds before expiring. - The IT-O interrogator droid used to interrogate Leia. The radio adaptation actually shows us Vader's mind probe-assisted interrogation of Leia and it's terrifying. He at first tries to convince her that he's another rebel who needs to know where the Death Star plans are, before causing her horrible pain. - Also in the radio adaptation version, Vader attempts to invoke her loyalty to her father. If you've seen the prequel trilogy, it's even more chilling. - When Luke finds R2 in the middle of the Jundland Wastes, R2 warns him of several creatures approaching. Luke then tries to have a look with his binoculars and spots several sand people. Then, suddenly, one of them emerges right in front of him and attacks him. - Obi-Wan's Krayt Dragon call in the 2011 Blu-ray edition. This version sounds like someone screaming in agony. It was reprised to great effect when the actual monster is seen in all its glory in the first episode of Season 2 of *The Mandalorian*. - Obi-Wan slicing off a patron's arm in the Mos Eisley Cantina, mostly because of how it's one of the few scenes in the whole saga where we actually see blood, plus said patron's realistic reaction to having his arm cut off. - Even more disturbing was how little time it took the patrons to go right back to what they were doing, as if what took place was entirely routine. Though then again, Obi-Wan *did* say Mos Eisley was "the most wretched hive of scum and villainy"... - In the scene itself, Cornelius Evazan's appearance. An Ax-Crazy Serial Killer who brags to Luke that his crimes have given him the death sentence *in twelve systems*. - Supplementary material for *Rogue One* backs his once-hollow threats up. Among other things, he's successfully created "The Decraniated," sentient victims rendered no more than droids by *cutting the top of their heads off and replacing them with computer cores.* What was once just some guy on a backwater world trying to intimidate a milk drinker, turned into something much worse. - In Legends he was even *worse*: one of his crimes, revealed in *City of the Dead*, is to poison people to test different versions of a reanimation serum, with the early versions causing literal *zombies*. And that wasn't actually what got him any of his death sentences, just what allowed Boba Fett to finally track him down and kill him... Twice, because once he had perfected the serum he used it on himself. - The Mass "Oh, Crap!" from the heroes when they first spot the Death Star. Even Obi-Wan is freaked out. - The dianoga, the amorphous tentacled creature in the trash compactor. We don't know anything about it, we don't even really see it, but really, it's a shapeless lurking predator that lives in filth and is trying to drag the heroes under the rubbish to *eat them alive*. That's plenty scary. - Tarkin coldly ordering the instant destruction of Alderaan by way of the Death Star's super-laser. A entire civilization, *billions of lives* destroyed in less than ten seconds. And he doesn't give two shits. - *Rogue One* makes it worse, overlapping with Harsher in Hindsight. It turns out the Death Star has *settings*; you can have a shot from a single reactor. Tarkin could have simply wiped out a few cities if he wanted, leaving some Alderaanians to bargain with him, but no — he opted for full power out of nothing but spite. To be sure, even a shot from a single reactor would have killed a huge number of people and permanently devastated Alderaan's geology and environment. - Also pay attention right after Alderaan's destruction as the scene transitions to Luke and the others. Obi-Wan is nearly floored all of a sudden and has to sit down before revealing that he felt Alderaan's destruction. *The FORCE* felt that loss and Obi-Wan felt the ripples of that pain. Imagine feeling the impact of that kind of tragedy and only having a guess as to what had happened, only feeling the pain the Force felt from it. - Consider Leia's position when Alderaan is used as the bargaining chip against her. It's her home and where her adoptive parents, family, and friends are, and she has to choose between surrendering the Death Star plans and the galaxy's only hope... or willingly allowing her home and people to be destroyed in cold blood. It's almost bittersweet that Leia correctly guesses that Tarkin would fire anyway despite her answer, so the Rebels still have a chance, but *DAMN* that had to have been a massive heartbreak to choose... - Listen to the audio drama when it reaches this very scene. Leia starts pleading, begging in the name of mercy, for Tarkin to stop, helpless as the Death Star commences primary ignition. As she watches her planet get destroyed, she screams in anguish and breaks down into sobs. As Tarkin orders her taken away, she warns him coldly that he and the Empire are at war with life itself. - Admiral Motti foolishly starts taunting Vader about how he hasn't been able to find the lost data tapes despite his outdated religion, then Vader makes a gesture and Motti is cut off as he's choked by an invisible force as we can hear a low creepy ambience. Tagge is visibly disturbed and even Tarkin, of all people, looks put off. Not only is this the first sign for the audience that the Force actually, really exists, but it's also quite different from Obi-Wan's description as "life-giving energy". Plus Vader's simple line, calm on the surface but with real rage underneath: *"I find your lack of faith disturbing."* - The scene is made much worse in *Legends*, for two reasons: - The original novelization hints this was actually a *set-up*: Tarkin and Vader wanted to establish their authority over the joint chiefs, supposedly their peers though subjected to them as they were on Tarkin's ship, so Vader sought a provocation and choked the idiot who gave it to him, and Tarkin, after a few moments to let things sink in, called Vader off. Thus their authority was established beyond any doubt by Vader being able and willing to murder them all without even touching them and Tarkin being the only one who Vader would listen to. - In *Legends*, Motti was the cousin of *Tarkin's wife*. Tarkin and Motti were in-laws, and yet Tarkin was more than willing to set him up for *this*. If nothing else, it explains why he was disturbed: The one being strangled by Vader was family, after all. - Vader's murder of Obi-Wan. Consider the scene: The two are in heated, tense combat, with their struggle spilling out into the Death Star's hangar bay, in full view of the heroes and a contingent of Stormtroopers. Suddenly, Obi-Wan smiles and drops his guard, and Vader, with zero hesitation, swings with the full intent to cut his old mentor and friend in half. Granted, when they last met, Obi-Wan did horribly maim him and leave him to burn, but the way Vader instantly jumps to slay a defenseless old man whom he once considered a father and/or brother figure is rather horrific when you think about it. Oh, and Vader later virtually does a happy dance when bragging about it to Tarkin later. - Vader systematically taking out the Ace Rebel Pilots during the Trench Run was not only an intense moment, but there's something chilling about how casual Vader looked while doing it. The fact that the Awesome Moments section indicates that taking out Ace pilots is something Vader does for fun makes that whole scene even more nerve-wracking. - The *Shadows of the Empire* novelization shows Vader destroying a shipyard with an Imperial fleet. The way he describes it makes it seem so blasé. He's actually bored with killing people because they provide him with no challenge, especially compared to Luke. - And to cap it all off... The Death Star itself. A battle station capable of blowing up a planet with a single shot, a feat that otherwise would require half the Imperial Starfleet, and with enough overkill to do it *through a planetary shield and still scatter the planet's remains at immense speed*. - Even worse: there's actually a valid military justification for this thing. Planetary shields take weeks of concentrated effort from entire fleets to defeat, and something like the Death Star's super-laser can do it in an instant, provided it's toned down or well aimed. They could have used it to sell the Death Star to the Senate had Palpatine not found an excuse to dissolve it right as the station came online...

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Animal Jam / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Yeah, *Animal Jam* may be your "average kid's game", with its sugary look and happy animals, but that doesn't mean there's nothing nightmarish. - The whole premise of phantoms, Anthropomorphic Personification of pollution, destroying Jamaa, turning it from a bright, colorful Ghibli Hills Sugar Bowl to dark, frightening Mordor-like Polluted Wasteland and kidnapping innocent animal citizens. And you thought pollution in Real Life couldn't be that scary... - The Conversation Museum theme accidentally sounds like a horror theme. Some describe it as if a murder happened. - There's a graveyard in the eagle adventure which is just creepy for kid's game to have. - If you turn into a flying animal in the hot cocoa hut and fly upwards, you'll see an eerie carving. - There's also a mask in the Sarepia theater which looks similar. - 'Bitter Sweets' is a Halloween adventure. It looks innocent enough, but the music is *really* spine-chilling. - The whole premise of the Proto-phantoms stealing all of the candies may be looked alright at first, but when you start playing with it, it wasn't just the Proto-phantoms that was around, the *normal* phantoms that you kill in normal adventures are also present. And it wasn't just the worst part: you are playing the adventure as your pet you selected, and you only have a *single life to begin with*. And those phantoms there ARE SO ANNOYING to handle. Once struck, **you are automatically lost your life and forced to revive again!** Thankfully, this feature is already discontinued, as the normal phantoms are now removed, leaving the adventure being played much easier. - The surrounding place that you played in has a creepy case of Scenery Gorn, with the accompanying music that fits the background *so well*. Here are a few examples: - The graveyard located on the middle left of the adventure was an unsettling place, complete with irregular-sized tombstones being placed everywhere and creepy-looking trees. There are even two tombstones that turns out to be interactive, in which one of them is *a weird-looking blob with lots of eyes popping out the headstone*, and the second opens *a mouth-like door opens wide and a ghost comes out from the said tombstones*. The music that accompanies it is rather eerie. - The pumpkin patch has an array of weird-looking jack-o-lantern pumpkin carvings when you enter the area. Some of them are innocent enough, but then, you'll notice a few uncanny-looking one-eyed ones to a giant one with a rather *nightmarish face* carved onto it. The matching background music doesn't even help any matter, complete with an spine-chilling chanting being accompanied. - The cave located on the right edge (near the lab) is pretty unnerving. The place is very dark, and there are phantom sludges everywhere and some obstacles that can be so annoying to handle as you passed through. If you had played several non-event adventures such as "The Great Escape" or "The Search for Greely", that should remind you of something. - The background sound that was played on the area is also the worst. The beginning sounds straight out of a horror movie, and a few seconds later, a banging piano-like sound was played after. - The other two, the swamp and lab, aren't as bad, but can still be pretty unnerving. - The "reach arm into the hole" choice in "Brady's Expeditions" involves a giant uncannily lifelike centipede grasping onto Brady Barr's hand. - In *Dash Tag*, some of the pets' descriptions or traits couldn't have come from a sane person. For example, some of the pets' favorite toys are sharp objects, an axe, and a knife. note : This might have been an attempt at a Darker and Edgier turn.

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Animalia / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - In "Goodbye, We Must Be Staying", the citizens of Animalia gradually start reverting back to their wild, uncivilized state, acting like real-life wild animals, with the predatory ones out for fresh meat. - The giant jungle frogs from "The Mist of Time", which are large enough to swallow a gorilla whole. As if that weren't scary enough, they briefly return in a cameo appearance in the following episode, this time with sharp teeth! - The giant, glowing eyes in "Don Iguana". - Those giant wasps from "The Mystery Of The Missing Melba". Not only are they giant wasps but their buzzing sounds very loud and very realistic. Anyone with a phobia of stinging, buzzing insects may want to skip that particular episode.

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Animal Kingdom / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.** ## The Movie - The beginning of the film. Joshua's mother's death, followed by the arrival of Smurf and the ominous music playing over the opening titles, really set the tone for what follows. - Pope Cody is walking nightmare fuel. - His interactions with Nicky. The scene where he carries her unconscious to bed is unbearably tense and creepy, and Joshua's arrival and diffusion of the situation really does nothing to ease this. - Naturally, his murder of Nicky as well. He suffocates her for basically nothing, while a high, panicked Darren watches on helplessly. Even worse, this probably wouldn't have happened if Darren hadn't told J to dump her. - His general demeanor is very unsettling, between his unpredictable, animalistic body language and the eerily hollow look in his eyes. It becomes quite apparent that he doesn't have the same kind of brain as most people. ## The Show - Movie!Pope's suffocation by pillow against Nicky is transposed to his TV version suffocating Catherine, *while he's weeping tears*, **immediately after they've both climaxed during sex**, in the missionary position. He does this under Smurf's manipulation who says that Catherine may have snitched to the police; in a later revelation she only admits that it might have happened *sooner or later*. Subsequently, he has to bury her whilst also keeping an eye on her daughter, asleep in the car, whom he also loves and who may be his illegitimate daughter. Also a Tear Jerker.

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Animaniacs / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Imagine getting your hiccups cured like *that*... Animaniacs! There's nightmares in our slacks! - The Godpigeon, of all characters, suddenly pulling a goddamn Nightmare Face out of nowhere in the simply-yet-aptly-named Goodfeathers cartoon, "Hiccup", scaring the holy crap out of the Goodfeathers to help cure Squit's hiccups (picture), and the scream he makes doesn't help one bit. Even worse is how he pulls it off: after comforting Squit, he pretends to walk away and suddenly stops to jumpscare the Goodfeathers. - Candie Chipmunk's Sanity Slippage in "I Got Yer Can". - Katie Ka-Boom. Don't make her mad or else she'll explode. - Wakko's gloves in "White Gloves" taking on a life of their own is pretty unnerving. - Dr. Scratchansniff getting poison oak in "The Sound of Warners". His head starts getting red spots and eventually his head turns purple and lumpy all while he and the nanny are singing about poison oak. This is Played for Laughs. - The Great Wakkorotti segments, due to how constantly they close up on his face and because the faces look extremely weird. - The Director in "Hello Nice Warners," with his Jerry Lewis-esque shouting and outbursts, has scared more than a few kids back in the day. Especially worth of mention is his attempt at Breaking the Fourth Wall when he comes really close to the screen and shouts "HELLO NICE PEOPLE IN THE TV!" Even *the Warners* are scared of him. - Baloney the Dinosaur, a parody of Barney whose Toon Physics are just as strong as the Warners themselves, and keeps trying to drag them into his saccharine show no matter what they throw at him. The Warners' increasing desperation as *none* of their usual antics make a dent in this guy makes things pretty genuinely tense, and ultimately they just have to accept a draw of getting to endlessly drop anvils on him. - AKOM's animation had a tendency to have some really horrifying drawings, most notably Candy Chipmunk's teeth shattering in "I Got Yer Can". - Buddy's constant smile can come off as a Slasher Smile in some scenes he's in.

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Animaniacs (2020) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes And to think, this just happens to be the one clown Wakko *isn't* scared of. While the original show didn't bring much in terms of hardcore scares, *this* one doesn't hold back in its imagery and stories. "Good night everybody" indeed... - The Reveal of Chicken Boo in Good Warner Hunting is downright disturbing, looking less like a disguise and more like a shapeshifting mutation. Even the *Warners* are horrified by it. - Seeing Mindy, a *toddler* seemingly mounted and murdered by Chicken Boo is horrifying even if you disliked her original shorts with Buttons. Adding to the horror, seeing nearly *ALL* of the original cast seemingly killed and mounted by Chicken Boo is disturbing as hell. Thankfully it's all subverted and they're still alive, but no matter how you look at it, its unnerving seeing their lifeless faces staring at the camera. - One of these victims Chicken Boo supposedly killed and mounted was Katie Ka-boom, a teenage girl who was once *his girlfriend* in the original series. Talk about a yandere, Chicken Boo! No wonder she turns into a rage-filled monster at the sight of him! - Further adding to the horror is the fact that among the hunted, Slappy and Skippy, two of the more iconic members of the cast, have their heads mounted. You can almost picture Slappy trying to protect her nephew, but through one method or another, *Chicken Boo got them.* - From "Mousechurian Candidate": Brain forcing Julia to come under his control, turning her into a Stepford Smiler. When she tries to resist she begins to painfully glitch out and go rabid. She starts making Nightmare Faces and snarling threats at the debate audience, and her hair catches on fire. - When Nils attempts to grab Wakko by the tail, he responds by *literally breaking his own tail off*. Wakko then muses that it's a good thing he's "5% salamander", and then proceeds to regenerate his tail in the most Body Horror-ish manner allowable for a kids' cartoon. - The Couch Gag of episode 11 has the Warners as zombies with visible bones. They end up looking *very* frightening. - While Wakko and Dot manage to handle Nickelwise just fine, Yakko almost gets his soul taken away as he panics over having nobody laughing at his jokes. - Earlier in the skit we see Nicklewise eating the soul of a little boy. - And ends with Nicklewise coming into the bathtub of a terrified Ralph. - Dot making the whole world "cuter" ends horribly when the Warners end up singing non-stop for *28 days*!!! - The ending of RalphCam, when Ralph slips on an IV blood bag, breaking it and the contents *burst all over him*. The skit ends with the camera feed cutting off as he screams in horror upon realizing what hes covered in. - "Babysitter's Flub" ends with Brain and Pinky being sent to a middle school science class to be dissected. - "The Island of Dr. Warneau" has the experiments in Jürgen's Mad Scientist Laboratory, including a melted-looking Wakko, a big-toothed monster wearing a mask of Yakko's face, and a severed cartoon arm that *screams* as it's suspended over a candle flame. - On that note, Jürgen himself. If he's not bringing a freaking handsaw to a psychiatric therapy appointment, then he's playing Abusive Parent to rip-offs of the Warners he created. - "Mad Mouse: Furry Road": Pinky gets so badly sunburned that the flesh peels off his back exposing his spine. - "All's Fair in Love and Door" makes Season 1's "Mousechurian Candidate" even harsher in hindsight, with the revelation that Brain's feelings for Julia were authentic and he regrets how he treated her. How does Brain cope with that? By *creating* a replica of Julia in a computer simulation that is his doting wife. This all falls apart when A.I. Julia discovers the meaning & reason for her existence. She responds by building a Killer Robot body for herself, then going on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Brain. She probably would have killed him if not for Pinky. - The episode six segment Murder Pals. Part one, Rough Collie leads its female owner to a well and pushes her down the well. In the second part, Rough Collie leads the male owner to a cliff and trips him, causing the male owner to fall down the cliff. In the final part, Rough Collie takes his child owner on a boat ride on the ocean. To the kid's shock, Rough Collie leaves with a dolphin, and the dog and the dolphin share a dinner while holding up drinks, and the words "Murder Pals" appear in red as the episode ends. - The ending of the series: ||an "Everybody Dies" Ending with a meteor striking the earth and killing *everyone*. Granted, it's Played for Laughs as an End-of-Series Awareness, but this is still extremely dark for the show.||

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Animal Crossing / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Welcome to the wonderful world of *Animal Crossing*, where everything is saccharine... or not. Despite being one of Nintendo's lightest and softest yet, players can still find reasons to be spooked by this seemingly harmless little series. ## Shared Examples - Whilst many are upbeat or at the very least relaxing, there's quite a few unnerving songs from K.K. Slider. - K.K. Dirge is about as pleasant as the name implies, being a foreboding track REEKING of dread. The song has creepy moaning noises throughout, weird, glitchy computer bleeping and synths, and finally, it ends on several abrupt bangs... before simply starting up again like normal. - K.K. Oasis. There's something unsettling about the desert feel. Not helping is the fact that it was used in the horror town of Shachipanda (more on this later). - K.K. Lullaby is a soft, comfortable sounding lullaby song. The creepy part is the last few seconds of the song. It does a creepy backmask effect, identically to, of all things, *Isloation* by Joy Division. - Hypno K.K., a distorted, melancholy song that almost sounds like it's playing in reverse. The trippy cover art doesn't help matters much. - K.K. Synth, quite simply, just sounds rather messed up and glitchy, all the while giving off an unnervingly sad sounding vibe. - K.K. Swing sounds like ordinary, relaxing classical music at first, albeit with a few off-kilter or strangely loud sounding notes... then towards the end it suddenly starts to sound as if it's going backwards before going back to normal like nothing happened. It gives the feeling of something rather sinister or creepy being concealed behind a normal, benign facade. - Due to his long-winded and abrasive rants, many younger players were scared of Mr. Resetti, to the point that there's a warning about him in the manual for *Animal Crossing: City Folk*. - The tarantula in *Wild World* onwards. Thankfully rare, if it sees you approaching while carrying a bug net, it flips out and attacks you. The horrifying part of this is that your character PASSES OUT and the screen fades to black. Luckily, you end up in front of your house, no worse for the wear, but it's still a horrifying event in a game where the seemingly worst fate for your character is being stung by bees. The scorpion does the same. And in *New Horizons*? They appear not in the summer, but from November to April! In addition, in *New Horizons*, if you run, the tarantula goes after your sorry behind. And if you wish to catch it in that game, it's an exercise in nerve-wracking patience as approaching it while its legs are up will provoke it to strike, turning it into red light, green light. And thats not helping that May is now the month the scorpion starts to appear, lasting until October. These killer arachnids show up at nighttime, specifically from 7 PM until 4 AM, which can create a source of Paranoia Fuel for players who can only play during these times unless they either time-travel or have someone visit your island/town. - A few Gyroid families are quite creepy... well, if you don't just think all Gyroids in general are creepy. All of these families fall under the "Quirky" interior theme, which says something. - The Howloids are a vibrant red, magenta, and purple (Mega, Regular, Mini, respectively) and have domed heads. Their facial holes feature a turned down mouth outlined in blue, and bags under their eyes, making them look like they're screaming. Oh, *and they do*, with a "bending down and covering face" and "spreading arms when rising" motion. - The Freakoids (two sizes, Mega and Mini) are both purple and blue with flat-topped eye holes and look like they have stringy hair, with lines under their caps. They also have a hole to be a nose, and a half-circle for a mouth, flat side down. They have the same motions as the Howloids and *sound like crying babies*. - The Lamentoids invoke Uncanny Valley by Gyroid standards. They are brown Gyroids in the four standard sizes, but their faces aren't the usual holes, but painted like an African tribal mask. They make a sound like a deep tumbling bell, but their colorful face paint is really unnerving. - The Poltergoids are more spooky than creepy, but they are pretty strange. All four are beige gyroids with two large circular eyeholes and several small mouth holes forming a creepy smile, making them resemble a skeleton. They have square designs on their base and rim of their caps. They make a rapid vibrating rattle, like a stereotypical ghost or *bones snapping*. - Adding to the creepiness of Gyroids, talking to Dr. Shrunk in the Cafe he states that, the gyroids on stage, they appeared out of nowhere one day and he has no idea where they came from. Though a villager may have put them there without him knowing, or possibly their love for music drew them to Club LOL except they aren't mobile... or are they? And if a Jock villager visits your house, and comments on your Gyroid, he may bring up that he has no idea how Gyroids work. So, adding to their mysteriousness they're some sort of creature that can be both sentient and non-sentient, are based on burial urns, and no-one seems to know what they exactly are... *shudder* - The 2.0 update for *New Horizons*' brings them back, for better or for worse. On one hand, they feel more alive and animated, but the key word is *alive*, because the method for obtaining them is far creepier than before. You obtain them by locating gyroid fragments, burying them in the ground, and then watering them, to which the crack in the ground housing them will start to emit vapor, almost like a breath... These aren't just animate pottery, but they're animated pottery that can be *regrown in the earth*. - The new Gyroids introduced in *New Horizons* are weird, which is par for the course for a gyroid, but one that gains special notoriety is the Crumploid which, as the name implies, looks and sounds like crumpled paper. While it's considered to be the most Ugly Cute of the new gyroids, some people might find its battered appearance a bit unsettling. - The creepiest part about the Gyroids is their *inspiration.* The Gyroids are based off of Haniwa, cylindrical humanoid ceramic figures that were buried in tombs during Japan's Kofun Period (400-600BCE) to act as funerary offerings, retaining structures and protection against evil spirits. While their exact origins are a mystery, legend has it that Emperor Suinin ordered them to be created as a replacement for *voluntary live burial.* - You can build Snowmen. They are sentient and they slowly melt away over the course of days, and it's possible for them to remain for a single day after the snow completely melts in late February. - Stop playing the game long enough and cockroaches will invade your house. And you *have* to squash them in order to get rid of them. In *New Horizons*, you can use the room edit mode to squash them with furniture or other items rather than stepping on them, but it's still an unpleasasnt experience. ## 2001 (Gamecube) - If you were unlucky enough to not save when you're away travelling on the train, the villager at the startup screen will realize that something is wrong, and warns you that if you play right now, it will be only "the data you left behind". Should you not heed their warning and continue, you'll find that you've lost your money, your items, and your face. Yep, imagine the horror of stepping out of your house, turning around to the camera and having an empty, gaping face. Empty eye sockets, open, expressionless mouth, warty skin, and a disturbing resemblance to a ReDead. - 11:00 p.m. as well as the music that plays at midnight can sound really spooky for such a lighthearted game like Animal Crossing. 1 AM is fairly minimalist, but still similarly unsettling. - After coming off of 1 AM, 2:00 a.m. made many players jump because of how out-of-place it sounds compared to not only the rest of the late night music, but also the rest of the hourly music in the game. In contrast, the next two installments' equivalent only has this sort of tone in its *Super Smash Bros.* remix. - The original Animal Crossing started up with a voice saying "Nintendo" that differs depending on how many times you've loaded the title screen without powering down, with the cycle repeating. Eventually, it will start up with a deep voice saying "Nintendo" not unlike the one in Luigi's Mansion, and then while it usually shows a random character walking around, this time it shows a villager carrying an axe randomly chopping down trees. Here's an example of this. - King Tut's mask. Where to start? You can buy it from the Able Sisters, and then you can put it on. Normally, headgear does nothing but change your looks. But you don't hear the normal sound used for equipping an accessory. Instead, you hear a deeper, distorted version of the same sound, which is your first clue to the items true nature. Then you start running around town, and discover you begin to trip over. As long as you have the mask on, you're cursed. Now you start to wonder where the Able Sisters got this artifact of doom? In New Horizons, this item can instead be crafted. How does something you craft wind up with a pharaohs curse?! ## City Folk - Many players have found Rover's reaction when you delete your town disturbing. Rover is shocked and freaks out when he first learns you want to delete your town, and panickedly explains all of the consequences of deleting your town, such as losing your bells, house, and villagers. But he smiles while erasing your town, and after he's finished wiping your town out of existence, he cheerfully says,"It's gone. Bye-bye!" Many have described his behaviour as "psychopathic". The black void behind him makes it even creepier. ## New Leaf - Though intended to be more serene, the fact they play during mostly inactive hours can feel a bit uncanny. - The 7 PM music somewhat falls under this category. It sticks out from the rest of the music played during the general time like a sore thumb. It has almost a creepy sense of urgency to it, almost as if sorrow is plaguing your character. - 12 AM. Unlike the 4 AM theme, which is creepy because it's essentially Nothing Is Scarier in musical form, the instrumentation has some unsettling knocking in it *and* made many players jump at the beginning. It sounds very out of place between the songs that play at 11 PM and 1 AM, which are more sad-sounding like *Wild World* and *City Folk*'s 11 PM-2 AM music. - While 4 AM is unsettling enough on its own, an industrious Japanese player created an entire village meant to be visited in dream mode that is Creepypasta incarnate, and it is always 4 AM when visited. (Since Nintendo is a Japanese company, this one was probably intentional, in contrast to a lot of other music-related examples.) - The 5 AM. After the unsettling 4 AM music, you're treated to what sounds like a deranged arrangement of the beautiful 8 PM music. Unless you have either the Early-Bird or Night-Owl ordinance, no one else is up. The music sounds distorted and has occasional pauses, with a tribal-sounding drum beat, comparable to the 12 AM theme's woodblock sounds, giving the feel of oncoming insanity. - *New Leaf* also gives us the 3:33 AM alien message, only available on Sunday and Monday. There's no explanation as to why it happens. It's just... *there*. - Why is the early morning music so eerie? It may have something to do with the Ushi no toki mairi: Japan's answer to the so-called "witching hour." For clarification, this refers to a ritual that takes place between 1 and 3AM, in which a cuckolded woman would nail a straw doll to a sacred tree in the hopes that it would fatally curse her unfaithful lover. There are many ancient trees in Japan that have nail holes from this ritual. Even worse? Some of them would look *freshly made.* - Some of the "Creepy Set" of furniture obtained on Halloween: - The Creepy Statue. It's a male bust made of dark stone, but when you interact with it, glowing red eyes appear. It's just a decoration, but it can still be startling when interacting with it for the first time. - The Creepy Crystal is a small table with a crystal ball on it. When activated, a moaning face appears. The face itself follows you when you rotate the camera. - When turning the basement light on, it flickers a bit before dimming and then fully turning on. Its just a bit creepy considering what flickering lights can mean to some. ## New Horizons - *New Horizons* has an extreme case of Mood Dissonance when it comes to the both disturbingly and depressingly realistic-looking gravestone, which is a piece of furniture that can randomly be given out by villagers or found in Nook's Cranny. It's not surprising that its sighting in the February 2020 Direct has sparked more than a few theories. - Harvey's Island can be a surprisingly creepy place to visit. While it's just a photo studio in context, from a gameplay perspective, you're essentially kidnapping/duplicating your villagers and force them to take pictures with you. It goes further, as the villagers are utterly lifeless, only repeating the interaction you gave them and when you go into another room, *they follow you*, **without even moving**! It feels like something straight out of *The Stepford Wives* or *Us*. - The darkness in the fossil rooms is a little unsettling, and there's glowing meteor replica in the second room which you can't see unless you stand in a certain spot and has a Scare Chord play when the camera finishes moving. The International Museum Day Stamp Rally even refers to that part of the room as the "Extinction Spot". - *New Horizons* added something new to fake artwork: some of the fake pieces are *haunted*. For example, the fake version of The Girl With The Pearl Earrings (the Wistful Painting) will sometimes open and close her eyes. Others will change expression, direction, or even levitate at will. Perhaps the most quietly unsettling is the fake "Beauty Looking Back", which has a creepy human-shaped stain on the back of the piece. The real terror though is that there's no pattern to this behavior, and the art will remain still and lifeless for a very long time making you wonder if it always looked like that, or is your mind playing tricks on you? Now imagine a gallery full of this possessed artwork! - Upon catching a sea butterfly, it wiggles around like all other fish. But hold it for long enough and its head will twitch and burst open, revealing multiple tentacles. This is typical hunting behavior of the creature, but its unnerving and alarming when you see it for the first time - it's almost reminiscent of something out of the Alien franchise. - Crazy Redd's ship in *New Horizons.* From the start, Redd is an incredibly shifty character who clearly isn't doing business by legal or ethical means - but the first time you encounter him, he's wandering around your island like everybody else. Explore a little before you talk to him, though, and you'll find a shabby, run-down old fishing vessel docked in the upper left corner of your island. The appearance is already reminiscent of haunted ships and the typical zombie apocalypse aesthetic but try to interact with the ship and you'll get a message from your character stating that they have an uneasy feeling about the ship and think that it's best if they don't board without permission. Being able to board after Redd invites you into the boat isn't much better, as the eerie music and dark lighting combine with the cluttered, damp room below deck to create a sense that this is not a safe place for you to be. You have to use a flashlight to see the details of any art you're interested in buying; Redd stands in the center of the floor commenting on everything you interact with, and when you decide to buy something, his dialogue might make you wonder if he didn't just take more of your Bells than you agreed to pay. For a final creep factor, *neither* of Redd's lines when you leave the boat are very comforting. If you bought something, he'll say, "You won't regret it!" If you did *not* buy anything, he'll only look at you and mutter, "...Thanks." In both cases, the camera stops and swings around at an angle, with Redd and his unfriendly-seeming face dead center of the shot... - *New Horizons's* 2.0 update introduces a lot of new items and decorations. One of them is the graveyard wallpaper, purchased from Saharah. It already looks eerie enough on its own... and then you turn off the lights and hit the button the final time in the cycle before the lights go on again- it may take a bit to notice, but that last press of the light button makes a shrouded white ghost appear in the distant background. Cycling through the lights again to bring back the ghost brings them back *closer* a couple of times until they're standing in one of the tree gaps right in the foreground. - *Happy Home Paradise* unlocks soundscapes for ambient audio to be played in rooms. One of them is "creaking", which is far-too-plausible unsettling creaky house noises that bring to mind intruders, ghosts, or monsters in the house. Not necessarily the light-hearted spooky option one would expect. ## Other - Not even Happy Home Designer is safe from people making creepy homes. One in particular is for Apollo the eagle (who is portrayed in the anime movie as stoic yet inviting) which begins showcasing a miniature city off to the side in bright daylight. Go inside the house, however, and the room is dark, eerie noises play, and an LED billboard with some ominous red Japanese text hangs over the dimly lit city. Go into the room in the back, and there's a blocked off area with skeletons, a picture of Julian (a unicorn villager), and the infamous K.K. Dirge. The code is 0008-7765-454. - Speaking of the movie, There's one scene in particular where Ai and her friends go along with Yu and Alfonso into a deep cave, While going down a rapid waterfall is already seemingly a near-death experience, It gets worse: They find a skeleton of the seisomosaurus, A dinosaur Blathers dreamed of finding. Yu tries to fruitlessly climb up on, Only to fall and hurt himself as a piece of rock that he was grasping onto gives out. The whole cave starts to come down. While everyone makes it out just in time, Yu is naive enough to try to go back in. Ai holds him back just as the tunnel becomes completely blocked with a boulder. If it weren't for everyone else, that little boy would have been outright killed. - The original Nintendo 64 Animal Crossing includes a quest to deliver an axe to a villager early in the game. When it's a grumpy-personality bear or something, and you're really young and used to playing games where dangerous things actually happen to the player character, especially if you're playing at night... it feels spookily like the villager might go all axe-happy on you with his new axe. Of course, what actually happens is even if it's a grouchy villager, they're grateful and nice and you probably get the nicest interaction you've had with them since you started. - In the Japanese versions of the original game exists a shirt called the "Tomato Juice Shirt". While the shirt's design is supposed to be self-explanatory, the supposed "tomato juice" ends up looking like something else. It doesn't help that this is the default shirt of the rather Gonk-ish looking Tabby, thus unintentionally making her come off as an◊ Uncanny Valley Girl. - The live-action short film "Don't Peek" is this in spades and jumpscares, detailing a young woman playing "New Horizons" alone at night only to realize the game has brought something into the real world... ...and it's hungry.

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An Extremely Goofy Movie / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Goofy's Disney Acid Sequence dream. It starts off with the usual Acid Sequence set to the theme song from The Partridge Family as Goofy's dreaming about The '70s and a bunch of fairies that look like Max. When he's seated at a table by a 70's version of himself, the fairies go to the other side of the table and come out as 11-year-old Max. Suddenly, the song goes into a Last Note Nightmare as Max suddenly turns into a hulking version of himself which rips the tablecloth off the table, sending Goofy falling through an abyss with visions of his boss and Pete until eventually ending up in a White Void Room as Max screams "Get your own life!" at him from a trapdoor in the room ceiling, accompanied by 70's!Goofy before slamming the door, leaving him alone in the room. The climax with the flaming X games logo is pretty intense. And since this movie was released a year before 9/11, it makes the burning X even scarier. Seeing Goofy see his son go into the giant X that caught on fire is horrifying, especially to the audience. Goofy quickly goes inside to save his son, while the others can only watch horrified at the fact that they potentially saw two college students die a horrifying, flaming death. And this was on live TV at the time. Bradley Uppercrust III, while mostly just a stereotypical rich Jerk Jock, can be pretty unsettling. First, his facial expressions, while funny, can be quite... weird and creepy, especially when he smiles (particularly the image above where he stands in front of a mantelpiece, giving him the appearance of a demon or devil with horns). Also, his obsession with winning the X games is so great that he was willing to straight up murder Max's team and even his best friend. It's also worth pointing out that he is around Max's age (maybe slightly older), as well as quite polite and soft-spoken, which makes him even creepier.

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Angel Heart / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "The flesh is weak, Johnny. Only the soul is immortal. And yours belongs to ME!" Being a film of religious horror, it's bound to have scary moments. Trevor Jones' score keeps the tension going, until it explodes with "Bloodmare", which becomes the de facto theme of Johnny Favorite's murders. Finding Margret's heart near her body, with the cavity of where the heart used to be. This scene: The boy was bound naked on a rubber mat, there were complicated incantations in Latin and Greek. A pentacle was branded on his chest. Margaret gave Johnny a virgin dagger. He sliced the boy clean open and ate his heart. It was still beating when he wolfed it down. The moment when Harry discovers the body of Ethan Krusemark, in a cauldron of boiling gumbo; it happens immediately when you expected it to happen a bit later. The last 30 seconds of the film. Pretty much the rest of it too. Like Eraserhead, the entire film is shot, soundmixed and scored to evoke the feel of a nightmare, with muffled, distant sounds, sudden flashes of seemingly irrelevant images, and moments appearing out-of-sequence. Harry himself has a number of nightmares (later revealed to be where his mind goes when he's under Satan's control), which feature copious amounts of blood. The final shot of the baby. THE EYES. The implication that it is the product of Satan himself raping Epiphany when she was basically a child herself and that it is malevolent in nature, given its act of pointing to Angel during the Burning in Hell line.

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A Night in Terror Tower / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - *A Night In Terror Tower* is one of the creepiest and most disturbing books in the series. - Two siblings are locked in a London torture chamber and are then chased by a menacing man in black. Then, when they get back to the hotel, they discover that they have no modern currency and suddenly begin to lose their memories, even of their parents and last names. It turns out that they are actually a prince and a princess from the Middle Ages (mentioned by their tour guide earlier in the book) who were sent forward in time and given false memories for their own protection, and the man chasing them is a notorious executioner who wants their heads on a platter. - The Executioner himself. He's a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to find his targets, even if he has to travel through time to do so. Basically, he's a medieval version of a Terminator. Even the local wizard is terrified of him! - The scene where the kids start to lose their memories and have flashbacks to the Middle Ages, the time period from which they came. It's every bit as freaky as in the book, and Word of God says it's one of the most genuinely scary scenes he ever wrote.

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Animals (1977) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "Dogs", the 17-minute epic that comprises virtually the entire first half of Animals, is a thoroughly chilling composition in every conceivable sense of the word. From the twistedly psychedelic keyboard effects to the raw, brittle acoustic guitar, the prevailing mood of the entire track is utterly dour. The lyrics are a stark and unflinchingly accurate portrayal of the aggressive, egomaniacal businessmen who exploit the people around them to get ahead. One line in particular stands out, describing the eventual fate of those types: Just another sad old man, All alone, and dying of cancer. "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" opens with a pig snort and a creepy keyboard solo. The middle break of the song features a pig endlessly squealing. But it doesn't even sound like squealing, sounds more like screaming in pain. "Sheep": Halfway into the song, there is very eerie Hammond organ, followed by a corrupted version of Psalm 23 which could give you nightmares (though it can come off as more Black Comedy to some, particularly with the line about karate): The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want He makes me down to lie Through pastures green he leadeth me the silent waters by With bright knives he releaseth my soul He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places He converteth me to lamb cutlets For lo, he hath great power and great hunger When cometh the day we lowly ones Through quiet reflection and great dedication Master the art of karate Lo, we shall rise up And then we'll make the bugger's eyes water. When the sheep brutally murder the dogs. It becomes even more frightening when the sheep take the role of higher-ups, only they become much more worse than the previous leaders. Have ya' heard the news? The dogs are dead! You better stay home, and do what you're told Get out of the road, if you wanna grow old The original version of "Sheep", "Raving and Drooling", is even more disturbing, lacking the later version's allegories about workers and farm animals, instead sounding like a Spiritual Successor to "One of These Days".

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Angel / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "I know what you're thinking. Maybe there's some good deep down inside of me that remembers and loves you, if only you could reach me. But then again, we have reality." **WARNING:** Spoilers are unmarked. - The ever-present possibility of Angelus returning. To elaborate, Angelus is one of the most dangerous vampires, if not *the* most, in the Buffyverse, and he is always inside Angel. Those around Angel (Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Fred, etc.) have to live with the fact that, if just a few things go wrong, they might be facing "The Scourge of Europe" whose mere *voice* turns Cordelia into a whimpering, shaking mess. It speaks volumes that Angel considers a willingness to kill him a very good quality in his allies and friends. - The possibility of, instead of a moment of pure happiness, Angel has one really bad day. This comes when Darla and Drusilia torment him: He reacts by ditching his friends, letting Wolfram & Hart be fed on by the vampire duo, wages a one-bloodsucker war on the demon world, before burning Darla and Dru alive in a scene that tries so hard to head for Tear Jerker territory. Forget Angelus; *this* is the most dangerous vampire in the Buffyverse. - In "Lonely Hearts", the way that the demon kills people is bad enough, but its final victim, the bartender, is shown to be physically falling to pieces owing to the damage that Angel, Kate, and Doyle have inflicted upon it, starting with flaps of skin coming loose and later entire chunks. - On that note, as the demon ejects itself from one host body to another, you can hear the sound of a painful last breath from the original host. Just how aware are its victims of what's happening to them? Probably best not to think about it. - From "In the Dark", Spike (probably best to clarify this is before his HeelFace Turn on *Buffy*) having Angel tortured is bad enough. But later on, it gets worse as the Psycho for Hire is revealed to have a fondness for killing children and eating them (and, if they're lucky, he hopefully does it in that order). Even worse, he gets the Gem of Amarra, a ring that makes him immune to daylight, which results in him going to the beach and walking right up to a group of Girl Scouts, wearing a creepy Slasher Smile all the while. Thankfully, Team Angel and Oz get there just in time to stop him. - Just to drive the point home, Cordy, Doyle, and Oz refuse to listen to Angel when he tells them to turn around to pursue the pedophilic vampire. Finally, Angel says, "He has a thing for *children.*" Oz grimly looks back from the driver's seat, then pulls a U-Turn. It says worlds about the gravely terrifying nature of the vampire they're up against. - "I Fall to Pieces" takes the Stalker with a Crush concept and gives it a supernatural element, with Dr. Ronald Meltzer, a guy who can disassemble and reassemble himself at will. When he gets near his victim Melissa's house, he lets his hands go loose so he can open Melissa's window and gets his detached hands to reach her crotch and start moving around. While it's not explicitly said what he did, Doyle immediately comments that he wishes he hadn't thought about that, and Melissa's reaction goes from mildly aroused (probably dreaming of something else) to screaming in a terrified manner. - It goes From Bad to Worse when a cop runs into Melissa's house to help her, finds no evidence of what happened, and is then promptly strangled to death by the two hands. Later, Meltzer proves there's nowhere he can't get into, as he manages to get part of himself in through the drain, then lets another part through the window and finally gets the rest in to chase his victim. - The Reveal from "Rm w/a Vu" as to why the ghost is haunting Cordelia's apartment is absolutely horrifying And I Must Scream material. The ghost is not haunting it because her son killed her; in fact, quite the reverse. She tied him up behind a brick wall and built a new wall around him, ignoring his pleas for mercy and leaving him to suffocate. The start of The Reveal itself is bad enough, as the pile of bones is enough to make Cordelia, Doyle, *and* Angel Freak Out. - The Scourge from "Hero". They are A Nazi by Any Other Name (even dressing in SS-style uniforms and using Nazi Germany-era vehicles), with horrifying doses of The Social Darwinist. We see the result of one of their massacres when a terrified Doyle finds bodies of refugees piled up in a flashback. Even worse? Their device that they used to try and kill all the demon refugees works to indiscriminately fry all half-human hybrids. Doyle's death at its hands is not pretty. - In "Parting Gifts", Cordelia almost has her eyes cut out. - The way that Angelus' old student, Penn, kills people in "Somnambulist". Then, to make things worse, when the police plan to try and trap him, he takes the first move and casually enters the police department, causing Kate to freak out before he starts kicking their asses. - In "She", we see a guy being burned to death graphically, including his eyeballs bursting. To say nothing of the way that Oden-Tal females are brainwashed. - "I've Got You Under My Skin" in its entirety, and notably any scene with the Ethros demon possessing Ryan Anderson. The shot of the kid trying to burn his sister alive is potentially even worse, and to make things absolutely horrifying, this is done *without demonic possession*. - Wesley having a crucifix shoved into his neck, though he survives. - The demon describing how his time in Ryan's body terrified him, to the point he became a Death Seeker: **Ethros Demon:** Do you know what the most frightening thing in the world is? Nothing . That's what I found in the boy. No conscience, no fear, no humanity—just a black void. I couldn't control him, I couldn't get out, I had never even manifested until you brought me forth. I just sat there and watched as he destroyed everything around him. Not from a belief in evil, not for any reason at all. That boy's mind was the blackest hell I've ever known. - Angelus rising from the grave in the flashback in "The Prodigal", followed by him murdering everybody in his entire village. - The first time we see Angelus re-emerge in the present day is in "Eternity", and a good mix of Black Comedy and this trope, as Rebecca Lowell goes from pleading for him to turn her to screaming for mercy, all while he cracks bad jokes. - Cordelia tells Angelus that she keeps a cross in her desk, a stake in her bag, and has the office's drinking supply routinely blessed. This gives Angelus pause. Think about it for a second: Angelus is seriously considering that Cordelia (or anyone routinely interacting with Angel, for that matter) might be living in mortal dread of his return, because in all probability, they actually are. - The vampires in "War Zone" have a moment of savvy when fighting Gunn and his gang. Instead of waiting for night-time, they dress themselves in Gas Mask, Longcoat style, and force everyone outside in broad daylight, kidnapping and turning Gunn's sister. Also counts as a Moment of Awesome, albeit a horribly twisted one. - Drusilla's return in "The Trial". She walks into the room and doesn't say a word, but you just know badness is about to go down. - Angel allowing Darla and Drusilla to massacre Holland Manners and the other Wolfram & Hart employees in "Reunion". While the episode can also double as a Moment of Awesome for some viewers, as it involves Angel making Manners suffer a Karmic Death for all the hell he's caused Angel throughout the last year by letting him die by the hands of the very people he hired and resurrected and throwing the "And yet, somehow, I just can't seem to care" line back in his face, the moment is played as very dark in the episode itself. There's the build-up to Angel's arrival, where Darla and Drusilla stalk the room and take glee in terrifying the trapped lawyers. There's the Wham Line of Angel saying that he won't do anything to stop them, which causes the score to reach a haunting crescendo. There's the genuine desperation in Manners' face as he begs Angel to reconsider. There's Angel closing the door and locking it shut while the sound of the Wolfram & Hart employees' screams echo in the background. And then there's the cut to Angel back at the Hyperion Hotel office, having explained everything that happened to Wesley, Gunn, and Cordelia, who all stare back at Angel in horror and call him out on going too far. - "Blind Date" has the moment when the blind assassin casually impales the kind old man, scaring all the children nearby. - There is an example of Mook Horror Show later on in the episode, when Angel turns the assassin's ability against her. We cut to her perspective as she loses sight of Angel, only to then get brutally beaten to death in the end. - Earlier on, Manners changes from Affably Evil to Faux Affably Evil with horrifying speed, killing Lee Mercer for attempting to leave the firm for another company and take some of their clients with him. - Cordelia having a psychotic episode after Vocah exposes her to the suffering of literally everyone in the world. - Vocah himself is pretty bad, killing two members of The Powers That Be and having a Grim Reaper-style dress code, though arguably the worst bit is seeing his real face, as it has a giant hole in the middle of it, filled to the brim with maggots. - Angel's stone-cold stare just before he sets Darla and Drusilla on fire in "Redefinition". - "Billy" gives us Billy Blim, a misogynistic creep with the power to make men violently beat women to death purely for shits and giggles. He's so vile that he was locked in a Hell prison. And his power affects Wesley and Gunn, making the former chase Fred around he hotel with an axe. - Angel furiously trying to smother Wesley at the end of "Forgiving". - He specifically makes sure that Wesley (and the audience) clearly knows and understands that it is Angel saying this, not Angelus, speaking in calm and friendly tones, right before pressing the pillow to Wes's face and ranting and raving at him, even foaming at the mouth a little. - "Habeas Corpses" has the Fang Gang try to retrieve Connor from Wolfram & Hart after the Beast has massacred everyone there. In addition to the Big Bad, our heroes have to fight their way through the zombified remains of the former employees. The darkly lit room really adds to the creepy atmosphere, resulting in something out of a zombie film. - The very end of "Awakening", when Angelus awakens. The episode ends with him turning his head and looking at Cordelia and the others, a Slasher Smile on his face and creepy laughter echoing throughout the jail cell. To say it's unsettling is a very large understatement. - Fred, all by her lonesome in "The Magic Bullet", being chased by Jasmine's Brainwashed and Crazy minions. Them all speaking in her voice doesn't help matters. - Jasmine's true face, full-stop◊. Quite possibly the most horrifying thing in both series. Everyone's nightmares coming true? Angelus unleashed? The Wishverse? The Gentlemen? Being driven insane? The lengths Willow went to to resurrect Buffy? Xander's Eye Scream? The Scourge? Darla and Drusilla burned alive? Angel trying to kill Wesley? These are all low-level scares compared to this. - Jasmine, in general. Picture a Zombie Apocalypse, but instead of rotting corpses, we have an Assimilation Plot where she mind-rapes the world to be her zombies, or slaves. Nothing is said or done without her approval. She's a humanitarian and a Big Eater who, once exposed, tries to destroy the world and when she is killed, people are Driven to Suicide from withdrawal. - The entirety of "Hell Bound" doesn't just have a nightmare scene, it's a freaking **Nightmare Episode**. The entire affair is spent on Spike slowly getting taken to Hell, leading him to him being surrounded by corpses and undergoing terrifying amounts of both physical and mental torture. It stands out that this is the *only* episode of either *Buffy* or *Angel* to have been originally broadcast with a warning about the disturbing content in the episode. - When we see all the victims of the torture, we see a guy who's sliced his own fingers off and (presumably) mutilated his face, a woman with no arms (this one actually is enough to get Spike recoiling in horror, dropping any of his Deadpan Snarker traits temporarily). Then we hear Pavayne speak for the first time, and it's a terrifying combination of Evil Sounds Deep and Evil Gloating. **Pavayne** : She can't help you now, William. No one can. *[Evil Laugh]* - Spike getting both of his hands cut off in "Damage". - Some may find the beginning of "Smile Time" to be especially so (probably due to the subtext of sexual molestation). This is the Breather Episode and even that isn't too tame. **Polo**: *[talking to child through TV]* You know *Smile Time* isn't free. Get over here and touch me! *[Child gets up, touches TV]* **Polo**: Oooooh, ohhhhh! *[Child collapses with CREEPY Joker grin on face]* - From the same episode, "talk to the hand!" - "A Hole in the World": - Fred's internal organs are liquefied in order to hollow her out for Illyria to use. Christ, at least Doyle, Tara and Anya's deaths were quick. - Knox's brief glance into the camera after he is revealed as The Mole is truly terrifying. - Lorne's offhanded threat to Eve, delivered so casually and coming from the virtually pacifistic reader... Beware the Nice Ones indeed. And the two in question are Spike and Angel. **Lorne:** Here's the thing, Eve. You're going to sing for me, and I'm going to read you right now. And here's one more thing. Winifred Burkle once told me, after a sinful amount of Chinese food and in lieu of absolutely nothing, I think a lot of people would choose to be green, your shade, if they had the choice. If I hear one note—one quarter note—that tells me you had any involvement, these two won't even have time to kill you. - The dimension of nothing but shrimp, in a humorously horrifying way given how common shellfish allergies are.

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Animated Films / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes There's a good chance you may never look at a B-17 Bomber again without shuddering. *"Once you see that shit, it'll fuck you up for life!"* Just that cartoons don't depict the same realism as live-action doesn't mean you won't get scared. **Animation released originally to the Internet now goes under NightmareFuel.Web Animation.** ## Example subpages: <!—index—> ## Studios/Creators: ## Individual Films: <!—/index—> ## Individual examples: - For a Narm-laden attempt to ride off Disney's coattails, *Happily Ever After* has some surprisingly effective scares. - The Jump Scare when the Dwarfellas are revealed to have been turned to stone. - Maliss' own demise, being petrified in a creepy half-mutation between his human and dragon forms. - *Heidi's Song* has the disturbing dream sequence when she meets all the various goblins and odd creatures living around the mountains. The rats in the cellar are also frightening. - In the *Justice League* adaptation of *For the Man Who Has Everything*, the effects of the Black Mercy are kinda scary — you have to see what you don't want in order for you to escape; that has to be bad — but what was one of the scariest part was when the Black Mercy was on Mongul. While we never *see* what's going on in Mongul's head, the sounds you hear in his head (screaming, destruction...) are disturbing. Well you'd think Nothing Is Scarier... Until you realize that A) the Black Mercy shows you your perfect life, and B) Mongul is the one that created *War World*. So all of those horrible noises, as expected, are most likely him overseeing an eternal war on the entire known universe... And winning. Gruesomely. - The original comic explains exactly what Mongul is experiencing. It's exactly what you think. - *Metamorphoses/Winds of Change* by Sanrio has an intense scene in the Actaeon segment where the titular character hunts a rampant boar by repeatedly stabbing it as the scene gets tinted red and black. - The Perseus segment includes an encounter with a beautiful blonde woman who transforms into the exceedingly frightening and grotesque Medusa (NSFW). Her chilling noises, dear God. - "Monster High: Ghouls Rule" contains a scene that suggests the adorably-named "Trick Or Treatment" consists of feeding the monster (in this case, Holt Hyde) into a giant meat grinder. The really twisted part is, the only reason he's put through this hell is the end of a scheme by Cleo to get his girlfriend to dump him. Because Cleo is bitter about being dumped by her boyfriend. - The Danish animated flick *Samson and Sally* is chock full of dark and horrific imagery, made all the more jarring by the fact that it's supposed to be a children's film. Many who watched the movie as children were understandably terrified by a few scenes: - Some prints were so dark that a few scenes were almost pitch-black. Samson and Sally exploring the sunken ship largely looked like a black screen with the occasional surreal, creepy image popping out. Check out this comparison video if you ever wondered what these scenes were *supposed* to look like! - When the pod dives to go under the oil slick and escape the whalers, the nigh-total darkness and tense music make the threat of the whales dying *very* apparent. It culminates in one member of the pod being unable to hold his breath any longer, rising to the surface to breathe, and then promptly suffocating and sinking down into the abyss as his blowhole becomes clogged with oil. A bird is also seen trapped in the oil, flopping about on the surface before it sinks out of sight. - Samson getting sick and passing out at the toxic waste site. He's rescued by the blue whale, but ||that whale gives a few brief shudders, indicating he's not so well himself. He's later found dead.|| The creepy music doesn't help. - The Killer Whales are pretty scary in general. They look much more shark-like than actual killer whales and behave like ravenous beasts. - Paul Berry's Sandman movie. It's a claymation story about a child who was going to bed in his room, his mother was downstairs and then the titular Sandman, portrayed as this evil birdlike creature appears and is sneaking into his room. The tension keeps building, the kid knows that the Sandman is there, and is scared stiff. Just as the kid just gets over being scared and is starting to fall asleep, The Sandman (in the traditional fashion of a Jump Scene) swoops down and steals his eyes. It was when the boy opened his eyes after closing them to sleep that the Sandman ripped them out of his head. And then he feeds them to his babies. - The Villainous Breakdown the Queen has in the Jetlag Productions version of *Snow White* ends with her trying to shatter her Magic Mirror, only for the voice inside to open a doorway and suck the Queen in for all eternity. It starts with the Queen throwing a hand mirror, and watching it go inside the magic one. The mirror has this to say as it sucks the horrified Queen in. **The Voice**: *Your jealousy has become a curse, your luck has gone from bad to worse. You're passing through a magic door where you'll behold yourself no more. Your wicked face no more to see, you'll stay here for eternity. So welcome to my special place, and nevermore you'll see your face.*

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Annihilation (2018) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Spoilers Off applies to all Nightmare Fuel pages, so **all spoilers are unmarked**. - The Shimmer itself. A strange, complex alien entity that does not one bit adhere to the law of physics as we know it, emanating a ever-growing dome of radiation that horrifically mutates every lifeform it comes into contact with and creates vicious, disgusting monsters that live in unbearable pain. Even though certain aspects of it are serene or even beautiful, namely the deer with cherry blossom branches for antlers and the crystallized trees on the beach, it's clear that the Shimmer's presence on Earth was horrific and very much destructive. Had Lena not destroyed it, it would have eventually enveloped the entire world, bringing annihilation by endlessly mutating everything to death and essentially giving the Earth cancer. - The bear monster pictured above, which has a Skull for a Head and whose roars *are mixed with Shepherd's dying screams.* - The Facial Horror of this monster doesn't stop there. If you look closely on the left side of its skull, you can see *a human skull growing out of it*. Even worse when you consider that the creature already absorbed Shepherd's DNA, it's very likely that the skull is from Shepherd herself. - And just when you thought it couldn't get worse, one of the eye sockets of that human skull? It has an eye in it. Which is mobile. *And has the same eye color as Shepherd.* - The way it dies is not any pretty either, getting an assault rifle emptied into it at borderline point-blank range, creating a gigantic hole on one side of its head. Pretty Little Headshots averted like *hell*. - The worst thing about it is that, despite being mixed with Shepherd's DNA and mind, this is *not* a case of It Can Think. The way it mimics Shepherd's voice doesn't seem to be a *conscious* predatory act to lure in its prey, as all of its vocalizations sound like that even after it's snuck up on the team. So what we're hearing is not a sadistic monster tormenting the humans, but a wounded animal (possibly even one with some fragments of Shepherd's mind *still in there)* moaning in agony. - When the bear attacks Anya, it kills her by *graphically* ripping her lower jaw out. The suddenness of the act makes it all the more jarring. - As the team enters the military compound there can be seen large, colorful lichen/moss-like growth on the concrete walls. The camera almost gently narrows in on one for audience to see it moves. And then it turns out that one of the previous team's soldiers was partially assimilated by it, leaving behind only a skeleton. - Mutated human remains, such as a person who was seemingly turned into a human-shaped tree with flowers growing on it, or another one merged into alien fungus growing on a wall with his missing skull nearby. - The trailer's unsettling, alien-sounding leitmotif. Which not only appears in the film but *completely takes over the score* during Lena's climactic encounter with the Humanoid. That blaring, distorted trumpet sound is so inexplicably creepy. - The deaths of Cass and Ana are relatively straightforward but horribly gruesome (compared to the other more mind-screw style horror of some other scenes). Being torn to pieces by a bear does that. - The last time we see Josie, her arms are sprouting leaves and red rosebuds at a slowly-yet-steadily increasing pace, implying that she may have turned into one of the human-shaped flower bushes, like the ones the group encountered earlier, shortly after Lena looses sight of her. - The two Apocalyptic Log videos left by Kane's earlier expedition. It's ambiguous even to Lena's team if they indicate that the earlier team went insane, or if the events actually happening to them inside the Shimmer *truly were* that surreal. - In the first, Kane vivisects another soldier to reveal the changes his body is undergoing. The soldier is apparently *willing* and perhaps Kane is trying to help him (gently holding his head with one hand as if to reassure him, then cutting a square out of his belly with a knife). Kane then peels open his belly to reveal what look like live, eel-sized worms writhing around in there - *possibly* attached to his body, mutated out of his intestines - or something (it might have been his mutating body restructuring itself really, really fast). One of the worst parts is that there's no screaming at all, and the soldier might not be able to feel pain anymore. From start to finish, it's unclear if Kane himself is insane or not. - The second and final log crosses into Mind Screw territory, with Kane inside the lighthouse, struggling to describe the changes coming over him. And the person filming the scene is Another Kane, apparently the one who returned to Lena in the beginning. - That scene with the doppelgänger. That weird tone on the teaser trailer? It's the sound the thing makes as it's manhandling Lena to presumably absorb whatever it needs to copy her. - More probably, it didn't even realize it was hurting her. The shot plays out almost like a sexual assault, but as Lena notes when questioned, it simply mirrored her own movements. Lena pressed herself against the door and the creature did the same, likely unaware that she was trapped by it - which is no less frightening. - While the ending of the movie crosses can be seen as both Bittersweet Ending mixed with Ambiguous Ending, the original ending was a straight up Downer Ending. Because even though Lena managed to destroy the Shimmer, thus seemingly saving the world, after it's revealed that her and Kane are either clones or simply new beings mutated, it pans out to a space view of Earth, and we see *several more meteors falling to Earth*, which ultimately meant Lena's efforts and the deaths of everyone else were All for Nothing, therefore Earth's annihilation really is guaranteed.

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Anno Dracula / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes ## Anno Dracula - The fate of many esteemed literary and historical figures in Dracula's totalitarian state, often merely casually referred to by other characters. - Sherlock Holmes is sent to a concentration camp in the Sussex Downs, as was Bram Stoker. - Jonathan Harker was killed by Dracula and Mina, Quincey Morris was stabbed in the heart with his own knife, and Van Helsing's impaled skull resides on top of Buckingham Palace... after Dracula sent Mina to assemble a mob to find him and bring him in front of a Kangaroo Court. - Mina herself isn't in a particularly pretty place, having overcome her brainwashing but stuck as a "guest" in Buckingham Palace, loathing the man who killed her friends and had her live through "hell". - Many of Dracula's get suffer from the corruption in his blood, resulting in inhuman monsters due to shape-shifting. A young girl tries to grow wings to fly, but is left with just a malformed, useless wing. - A brothel is searched after Dracula outlaws homosexuality, with everyone inside impaled in the street. - Though it makes the impaling no less horrific, the brothel has a hidden chamber in the basement, where Vardalek — one of the Carpathian Guard — is found with a dead body while raping another man, all while shapeshifting halfway into his reptilian form. This raises several unpleasant questions about whether the brothel knew of this, and whether the victim was spared from the execution. - The Chinese vampire assassin sent after Genevieve is so old and powerful that he borders on being a Humanoid Abomination, and despite her own great strength and durability she is nearly powerless against him in a fight. - Orlok becomes the jailer of the Tower of London, a job he's chosen for particularly due to his love of torture. - Queen Victoria's fate in Dracula's world: chained for eternity in Buckingham Palace, her manacle connected to Dracula, an inhuman giant. Surrounding her are Dracula's brides, who would gladly kill her, and his courtiers, who amuse themselves with brutal bloodsport, such as killing animals with their bare hands, and transforming to wolves to eviscerate maidens. The fact that she is publicly dressed in immodest undergarments implies that Dracula uses her as a sex-slave as well. ||Her torment is so bad that Victoria gladly takes her own life at the first opportunity.|| - Dr Seward's gradual slip into further madness, and his frenzied killings. - The scene of Mary Kelly's murder, with blood splattered three feet up the walls and Mary's remains described as "a ruin barely recognisable as a human being." ## The Bloody Red Baron - At a burlesque show in Paris, Charles Beauregard and Edwin Winthrop watch a performer named Isolde, an elder vampire who's been alive for centuries. The show in question consists of Isolde *systematically flaying and devouring herself*. - During a dogfight with Allied pilots, The Red Baron ||who has the power to transform himself into a giant bat-human hybrid, merely yanks a hapless pilot intact from his cockpit||, leaving the passenger trapped in an unmanned aircraft miles in the sky. The Red Baron's fellow pilots remark to one another that he probably did it just to terrorize the poor guy.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes *"One, two, Freddy's coming for you..."* - There is something inherently... unnerving about the intro scene where you see Freddy building his glove amidst audible breathing and the film's signature soundtrack. - Tina's death in which she's brutally sliced open across her chest, and then dragged across the ceiling of her bedroom. She falls off the ceiling and onto the bed, splashing Rod with blood. - The school scene. All of it. Nancy falls asleep in class, then sees Tina in a body bag being dragged by an invisible force and leaving behind a trail of blood, which leads her to Freddy's boiler room, where he chases her and she burns her arm on a pipe and wakes up screaming. - The rape symbolism where we see Nancy take a bath and Freddy's gloved hand comes out of the water towards her from in-between her legs. - Any scene involving the dream version of Tina's body, highlight being that giant centipede coming out of her mouth. - Rod's blankets slowly wrapping around his neck, before eventually dragging him up so that he can be hanged in his prison cell. - "I'm your boyfriend now, Nancy." - Glen is pulled into his bed and turned into a geyser of blood. - It gets worse. According to Word of God, that's not Glen's blood, but the blood of all of Freddy's previous victims! And in a deleted scene, we see Glen slowly rise out of the hole before toppling over on the mattress, dead. Glen drowned in a fountain of blood. - That one comment the paramedics make when they arrive at Glen's house. "You don't need a stretcher, you're gonna need a mop!" - While it is likely Narm to some, the scene when Nancy finds Freddy (on fire) attacking her passed-out drunk mother in bed. She and her father throw a blanket over him, he disappears as they pull it back... and we're left with a shot of Marge's burned skeleton that *somehow lifts an arm toward them* (pleading for help? saying goodbye?) while sinking away into a grave-like hole in the mattress filled with ghostly fog and flickering lightning. This eventually seals over, and Nancy leaps at the empty mattress, desperately clawing to get her mother back... - As tacky as the scene was, at the end when the car hosting the colors of Freddy's sweater whisks the shocked kids in it away while the happy mother waves goodbye, before she is sniped through the window while children are singing the eerie song... That scene just...why? The tacky special effects *amplify* the, er, nightmarish surreality of the final sequence. - The fact Robert Englund has barely any lines and mainly does *evil laughs* only serves to make him creepier and more mysterious.

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Angry Birds Toons / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - "Egg Sounds" has Red, Chuck, and Matilda visualizing the unhatched chicks as little versions of themselves. This eventually turns into a squabble, resulting in an appropriately hideous, hypothetical hybrid of the three that freaks them out. - Red's rather dark Imagine Spot in the episode "Slingshot 101", where he imagines the pigs beating up the Blues, taking the eggs and King Pig eating them, complete with terrifying music and Nightmare Faces as pictured above. See it here. - At the end of "Party Ahoy", King Pig watches as the volcano on the party island erupts and then sinks, *with the pigs there still on it* (thankfully, it only happens from the distance). You can even hear the pigs screaming as the island sinks. It's safe to say that King Pig dodged a bullet, as he spent the entire episode trying (and failing) to get to that island. - King Pig's supposed Demonic Possession in "Pig Possessed". Even his minions know somethings not right with the king when he starts coughing after devouring the claw that causes his possession. Granted, it eventually revealed to be him just being choked by the claw, but it doesn't hide the fact how unsettling the atmosphere was. - The eponymous story that Chronicler Pig reads to King Pig in "Golditrotters". At first, it plays out like the story it was based on, only with an Angry Birds twist, but then there's the ending: After the titular pig wakes up, she is confronted by three beast-like birds who resemble Red, Matilda, and one of the Blues note : they're supposed to represent the Three Bears from the original story, and they look . It gets worse. After a terrified Golditrotters runs to her home, she sees **pissed** *Terence* in place of her grandmother note : earlier in the story, the grandmother was portrayed by Professor Pig. Golditrotters screams in terror, and the story just *ends* there. It's enough to give King Pig nightmares, because earlier in the episode, he wanted to read a book about a vampire. - Red's Unstoppable Rage in the beginning of "Happy Hippy", wherein he gets so mad that he's destructive and is foaming at the mouth/beak like a rabid dog. It's easily the angriest Red has ever gotten in the entire franchise. And at the end Matilda goes berserk too as Red futilely tries to get her to calm down, with the fact that she was the one trying to calm Red down earlier making her rage even more terrifying. The music playing during the credits note : and during Red's Unstoppable Rage in the episode doesn't help one bit. - Chuck's reaction to finding out that the eggs he was trying to rescue were fake at the end of "Eggshaution" is rather disturbing. To be exact, he goes insane and starts repeatedly shouting the word the characters use to refer to the eggs as he pours white paint that the Blues were using for the fake eggs over his head. - "Stalker", which features King Pig being stalked by one of his own minions. Namely, the pig that works at the hot dog stand begins to follow King Pig *everywhere he goes* while making what can only be described as a face of disturbing obsession that stares at you no matter what (and with Scare Chords while at it). Of course it makes King Pig so paranoid that he needs his minions to scout for him so he wouldn't run into the stalker... The title card◊ isn't any less creepy, either. Even after he reveals his true intentions - he only wanted to clean up a messy spot that was on King Pig's backside - the nightmare factor does NOT stop because the king messily eats the leftovers on the floor and the stalker makes the face again, now with "Psycho" Strings and a Staggered Zoom.

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An Honest Soul / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes In the Grim-dark future, Ruby Rose finds herself alone in a galaxy of horrors. **Spoilers Will be Unmarked** - After Ruby falls into the void, her soul finds itself suspended in the Immaterium where she is immediately set upon by daemons looking to feast upon her small soul. Were it not for her silver eyes activating, her soul would have been devoured. - While in the Immaterium, she gazes upon four large figures in the distance. It is all but stated that they are the four Chaos gods: Khorne, Nurgle, Tzeentch, and Slaanesh. Fortunately, her soul goes ignored by them as she is beneath their notice. - At the height of the battle with the Orks, the 13th Black Crusade is taking place. To be more precise, right at the Blackstone Fortress is sent crashing into Cadia's surface, and expanding the Eye of Terror. The result is Kanrilia comes under siege from a massive Daemon invasion, tearing through Imperium and Ork alike with utter destruction on both. Ruby herself falls to her knee overwhelmed, comparing the Daemons to just like the Grimm. - The Greater Daemon, Xog'drithuuch, itself is walking nightmare fuel. The massive daemon is almost entirely composed of Too Many Mouths. It speaks with a cacophony of different voices speaking at once, and it has the power to use it's voice to bring almost everyone to their knees. It effortlessly decapitates Gurzag, the Ork Warboss, and tosses Ruby around like a rag-doll. - After dispatching of Xog'drithuuch and banishing him back to the Warp, Ruby now has the attention of none other than Be'lakor, the First Demon Prince of Chaos Undivided himself. And if her nightmare just prior to waking up is any indication, he's already begun his cruel work... - Following the Battle of Kanrilla, Ruby experiences a horrible nightmare after collapsing from exhaustion. At first, it just seems like the guilt and trauma of her past(which would be bad enough by itself), but then it becomes clear that something... *else* is working through her dreams to torment her. - A voice begins speaking in concert with her own inner doubts as to whether or not she deserves to live and the suffering she's endured. - In her recollection of her confrontation with Salem, something speaks in concert with her, and shows her visions of those who have stood against Chaos note : The Old Ones and the C'tan, the Watchers in the Dark, the Cabal, The Emperor in His Prime and their terrible fates. note : The War in Heaven, the Destruction of Caliban, the slaughter of the Cabal, and the Emperor upon the Golden Throne Your *mother* said those words to me./ *They* said those words to us. She was wrong, too./ **They were wrong, too.** - Last but not least, Ruby ends the dream bearing witness to a massacre of Imperials, Remnantians, and others besides at the hands of Daemons and Grimm. Unable to do anything other than watch, she then bears witness to a terrible mountain of ruins and corpses, with the higher up the peak she looks, the more people she recognizes. - As she nears the top, she sees more and people she knows and loves note : her Imperial friends, Tai, Ren and Nora, Oscar, Qrow before it culminates with Weiss, Blake, and Yang's mangled bodies. Poor Ruby can't even cry or scream in this dream. - And at the very top is Be'lakor, sitting with his back to her on his throne of shadows, watching in the distance as a golden palace, either literally the Imperial Palace on Holy Terra or a symbol of the Imperium as a whole/The Emperor, begins to crumble. *And then he stands up and begins to turn around.* It's a very good thing Ruby wakes up before she can see the First Prince's face. - Weiss lands on all worlds, Solemnace, home to the one and only Trazyn the Infinite. Despite putting up a good fight, she is captured and imprisoned within Trazyn's vast gallery. As the Necron Overlord studies her, Weiss is left frozen, a prisoner inside her own body, unable to breathe, unable to scream, and a literal showpiece. - While Ruby sees a side of the Imperium that's A Lighter Shade of Grey, Blake experiences the absolute worst aspects of the Imperium, particularly the xenophobia, bigotry, and religious fanaticism. She lands smack dab in the middle of a Hive City that is conducting a genocidal purge of all mutants, abhumans, and other undesirables in response to the Opening of the Great Rift. Since she would be considered a mutant, or at least an Abhuman, in the Imperium, this puts her right on the list. - If there is a place worst than Hell, it is Commorragh, the Dark City. It is here Yang is taken after being captured by Drukhari. She is tortured, made a slave, and forced to fight as a gladiator with the hope of winning consecutive matches to gain her freedom...something the Drukhari Archon has no intention of honoring. - What is more, through catching a glimpse of Ruby through Yang's memories during one of the initial torture sessions, the Archon has learned that she has a sister and taken steps to take advantage of that. After finding a slave girl of similar age and stature to his impression of Ruby, he commissioned a Haemonculus under his employ to painfully mold her into Ruby's image, even using Yang's DNA to alter her genetic structure. Then he tortures the poor girl in front of Yang and makes the offer to fight for him in the arena in exchange for both of their releases.

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Another / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Who is dead...? - Those dismembered dolls, especially how they appear in brief snippets without explanation... and Mei's insinuation that the dolls are trying to suck out your soul doesn't help. - In Episode 3, things go from zero to sixty in about three seconds. To wit, Yukari Sakuragi sees Mei in the hall, panics, and flees down the stairs, whereupon she trips and gets Impaled with Extreme Prejudice on her umbrella. *And it's shown in graphic detail.* - The worst part is seeing her fingers twitch in her own blood. - Then there's Episode 4... not only does it recap Sakuragi's death in the Cold Open, Mizuno is killed in a malfunctioning elevator. They don't show her face being crushed in as she falls down once, but *three* times! - In Episode 5, we get a close-up of Tabakayashi's face as he suffers a fatal heart attack. *His eyes are practically bulging out of his head.* - The ending of Episode 6. Mr. Kubodera stumbles into the classroom, apologizes to the students for allowing the Calamity to start, then howls like a crazed animal as he pulls out a *giant butcher knife*. Cut to credits. - Then there's Episode 7. **JESUS GODDAMN CHRIST.** - The class' Freak Out at their teacher's suicide. Genki Girl Aya Ayano gives a Big "NO!", half the class bolt for the doors while poor Aya is in hysterics and holding her head, Yumi Ogura sits on the floor having a Heroic BSoD, ill student Daisuke Wakui throws up, and in the background, Tomohiko Kazami just sits at his desk covered in blood looking traumatised... - The dream sequence. Specifically, the face melting part. The way Kouichi *screams* during it is in *no* way better. - For the most part, Episode 8 is a Breather Episode. Then the ending happens. Nakao suffers an aneurysm while swimming after a beach ball. Then a boat speeds by, not seeing him as he bobs in the water, and chops his body to pieces. *It stains the water red*. Then we get to see his limp, bloodied body launched into the air. The accompanying music does not help. - The atmosphere of sheer panic as the others think something has happened to Nakao. It makes the above that much worse when it actually happens, because at first, everything seems to be fine. They all thought they were safe outside the town, but it seems the Calamity can happen anywhere now. Even when the audience learns that Nakao's demise was a Time-Delayed Death that would've happened whether in Yomiyama or not, by that time the revelation *really* doesn't help. - Sakakibara's dream from Episode 9, where he sees the bodies of his dead classmates, who all blame him for their deaths. - "It's *your* fault!" - During the flashback to the year the Calamity was stopped mid-year, Matsunaga describes how the first student to die on the trip was struck by lightning. The kid, Jun Hamaguchi, was standing right in front of him, and the audience gets to *watch Hamaguchi be struck*. Matsunaga even describes what Hamaguchi's burning flesh smelled like. After that, his classmate Yuki Hoshikawa tries to escape with the others back home, and she's shown slipping on the wet road and falling off a cliff to her death, her body hitting several trees and rocks on her way down... - And there's *how* the Calamity was stopped. By Matsunaga *killing the extra student* via pushing him to the ground in the middle of a fistfight and accidentally causing him to get his throat pierced on a tree branch. - All of Episode 11. Highlights include: - Everyone puts on a Nightmare Face with Slasher Smile when Takako announced that Mei might be the dead one, and then they all slink out to kill her...slowly and quietly. - Takako popping up behind Kouichi and saying "It wasn't me" calmly is also an extremely creepy Jump Scare. - Kazami **is still alive** after he was pushed off a balcony. - Teshigawara and Mochizuki opening one of the hotel room doors to find the insane, blood spattered, knife-wielding old lady who lives in the house, who then proceeds to try and stab them. Then there's the later Jump Scare when they try to enter the fire exit, only to find the old lady's husband's dead body already in there, staring at them wide eyed. - Takako's death, when she gets strangled slowly with cables as she gets caught in them while trying to kill Mei. - Yumi Ogura's psychotic breakdown. She joins the chase to kill Mei, and tries to follow her and Sakakibara out a window, determined to avenge the death of her brother, panting and screaming and waving around a knife. When she thinks she has Mei cornered, she has a horrible, blood-spattered Slasher Smile... and then she falls off the window to her death by a broken neck. - The dining hall at the lodge has caught on fire, and two boys in the class smell the smoke. One of them, Makoto Ouji, opens the door to check it out, and is immediately engulfed in flames. After the gas in the kitchen causes two giant, exploding fireballs, the action cuts back to poor Makoto's charred remains and his friend looking on in horror. - Episode 12: Kazami systematically slaughtering his classmates to figure out who the Dead One is. He casually and calmly strolls up behind a girl who has run to Sakakibara for help, and stabs her right through the back of her neck. Then he decides that Sakakibara must be the Dead One, and *loses his shit* trying to kill him.

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Anime & Manga / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes She doesn't seem very healthy. Unlike cartoons in the west, a great deal of anime is intended for mature audiences; it might be because of the occasional swear or gratuitous blood and/or suggestive ecchi content, but quite a few people think it's because of any of these soul-destroyingly terrifying scenes. Plus, anime meant for kids can be intentionally freaky in its own right, since Japan has different standards for what's appropriate for fiction aimed at children than in North America. Manga is often filled with just as much (or more) Nightmare Fuel that is not in the least diluted by not being animated. In fact, in many ways, it can be *worse*. **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.** ## Subpages: <!—index—> <!—/index—> ## Miscellaneous Series: **This section is in alphabetical order by series. Before you add examples here, check the index above and make sure the series doesn't already have its own page.** **No Hentai examples, please, as per wiki rules.** - .hack//SIGN: The song "Aura." It's about a girl who is kept in a vegetative state by a corrupt and jealous mother-figure. - *If you are near to the dark * I will tell you 'bout the sun You are here, no escape From my visions of the world You will cry all alone But it does not mean a thing to me - *7th Garden* has many, many examples: - Vyrde. A nice, funny and beatiful lady who says she is the Devil... And when her mood swings go on the other side her Ax-Crazy behaviour and rage, coupled with her powers, will show she actually *is*. And what's worse, she has a legitimate reason for her anger and vendetta against the angels, and to consider the world, that she calls the 7th Garden, as her own propriety that was stolen from her. - Awyn's heavily suppressed anger from his father's frame-up and execution and his mother's death by illness because they couldn't pay the cures. It's so great that *Vyrde* was impressed... And she's loaning him her power. - *Why* Vyrde was impressed with Awyn's anger: it's causing him to develop an Ax-Crazy split personality... *Just what Vyrde actually is to the "Devil"*. - The Angels' behaviour. They manipulate people in power to have innocent villages destroyed, have people commit serial murders, start revolutions eerily reminiscent of the worst of The French Revolution and turn innocent children against their own friends in the name of making the world their garden... And for boredom. Oh, and Vyrde used to be one of them before they had a FaceHeel Turn and did her *something* that should have killed her, instead of turning her in what she's now. - The truth about the whole setting: the 7th Garden is actually an incredibly advanced simulation of the past of the world (with all characters save for the Angels and Vyrde being advanced AI that, with few exceptions, simulate historical characters and normal people without knowing it), a world that is dying off due an environmental collapse, with the elites living into underground shelters and the rest on the surface, exposed to the pollutants that are killing the environment. Vyrde, real name Maria, and the various angels were among the underpriviliged, with Maria's elder sister inventing the simulation so that they could live into a heaven, but for reasons still unknown the friends turned on them and sold the world to the elites, killing Maria's sister and getting her imprisoned in the process before taking the guise of Angels and starting to intervene on the Garden to reproduce world history exactly up until to a certain point, so that the elites will be able to turn themselves into data and live into it forever. Then Maria broke out of jail, and entered the 7th Garden with the avatar of the Devil to try and take it back... Except her thirst for revenge allowed her Ax-Crazy split personality Vyrde to come out, and Vyrde is taking over. - And on top of that, Uhl, the leader of the Angels, is continuing the simulation past the point where Cattleya's technology, that would eventually cause the environmental collapse, for reasons still unknown. - *Apocalypse Zero*. The big lady in episode one who kidnaps a young couple, rips the boyfriend's face off when kissing him, eats him alive, and later on throws up the decayed body of the boy... who isn't even dead yet! The girlfriend, on the other hand, gets caught up in the giant lady's hand and squeezed to the point where her ENTRAILS ERUPT OUT OF HER MOUTH as if she was a living tube of toothpaste... also she was pregnant. - While the original *Battle Royale* novel was filled with this, the manga's even worse. Let's put it this way: If Kazuo Kiriyama is on panel, let's hope you weren't planning on sleeping anytime soon. - Not just Kiriyama. Look at any picture of one of the kids when they snap. Jesus Christ almighty. Examples include Kaori Minami's "pizza face" breakdown. - Hirono's face as she drowns in the manga adaptation. She was strangled half to death and then pushed down a well, and as she dies she experiences a hallucination where she's saved. As it ends, the next page fills with her swollen face, bug-eyes bloodshot, and an utterly ghastly Joker-grin. - The ninth *Black Jack* OVA in its entirety. Especially once you reach the halfway point, wherein you get to view the most horrific Fan Disservice you will ever see. And don't get us started on the blood-spewing tumor shaped like a mutated human face. - *Blue Gender*: - 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. - *Destiny of the Shrine Maiden* has a very famous scene that can be taken as being horrifying. While most of the show really comprises of Moe lesbians and mechas, there's one scene in Episode 8 that either horrifies viewers or turns them on. It's the scene where Chikane actually rapes Himeko. As the series went on, you found out her reasoning, but still. - In *Divergence Eve,* there are many moments like this as the series progresses however, the most gruesome moment happens towards the end of the series, when Luxandra can't get her Rampant Armor to move, and then resulting in Luxandra getting eaten alive by a Ghoul, kicking, screaming for her life. - *Doraemon* would be one of the last anime you would think of that would have this trope, but surprisingly, the 2014 reboot had an episode where Noby / Nobita messes around with a gadget that changes dates. Of course, he uses it too much and it causes the Earth's axis to be thrown out of wack as it heads towards the sun! Thankfully, this was All Just a Dream because it was a doomsday simulation by Doraemon to teach Noby a lesson. - *Dream Hunter Rem:* This being an anime about dreams and nightmares, expect lots of this. - *Durarara!!*, the whole 'Saika' the slasher tsundere storyline. Ranging from the chat posts "I", "must", "cut", "mother", "mother", "mothermothermothermothermother..." to the lovely horror that is Saika's theme song called Kokoro wo Shibaru Ai no Kotoba - *Ergo Proxy* always was a little on the creepy side, but the episode "Ophelia" topped all of the other episodes. - There is a manga out there called *Fetus Collection*. It's Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Google at your own peril. If you decide to fall for the Schmuck Bait, here's a synopsis of the manga: "A suicidal girl enters a little group of sick women that made abortion a grotesque art. With usual Kago sick humor and nonsense." - *Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden* is Darker and Edgier than the original *Fushigi Yuugi* and it SHOWS. It's especially terrible when Takiko succesfully summons Genbu, then starts being consumed by him as she makes her wishes and, as a result, is subjected to *heaps* of Body Horror... - *Full Metal Panic!*: Gauron actually wanted to kill Sousuke when he was eleven. It also gets even creepier when one realizes that their countless encounters are most likely not entirely coincidence and that Gauron is heavily implied to be stalking him, actively choosing missions / jobs that would put him in a position to see his "precious boy." - Tampering with the janitor's fish will lead to very bad things. - *Geno Cyber*, just the whole thing. From children being disintegrated by gunfire in a ridiculously gory fashion, people being torn to shreds (organs and all), to giant worms erupting from people's bodies, this series is pretty screwed up. Especially the hospital scene in Episode 1. There is more gore in this 5 minute sequence than the whole of *Elfen Lied*. - The final volume of *Getter Robo Go*, starting with the revelation that the Humongous Mecha Shin Getter Robo (or rather, its power source) is sentient. Particularly what happens to Gai. He's so scared of the machine that his mind breaks and he becomes trapped in nightmarish hallucinations. When he tries to blow the machine up with a missile launcher, cables extend out the machine and eat him alive until his grinning face is fused into the side of the robot. That scene, and again where Shin Getter absorbs its pilots, the villains, the villains' fortress/mecha, and a good chunk of the North Pole before flying to Mars, imply that being absorbed brings enlightenment and takes people into some kind of heaven though. - The *UFO Robo Grendizer* manga. Probably not surprising since it has the same creator as *Devilman*, but it's supposed to be a robot manga for kids! Particularly when the villains kidnap all the children from Planet Freed, suspend them by ropes from their UFOs and then drop them from 3000 feet in the air. In graphic detail. - *Grave of the Fireflies*: - Two plucky kids starve to death. Slowly. - How about their mother after the air raid? Bloody bandages all over her body. Then it cuts to her face; the eyes and mouth are just pools of blood, and the rest of the face is covered in bloody bandages. Then, when she dies, the flies and maggots somehow make the whole thing even worse. - Hell, you could put the entire movie in this section. Which would you rather watch: a fun action epic, or a nightmarish and depressing drama about non-heroes? - The *Haruhi Suzumiya* chapter, Endless Eight, the group is going Groundhog's Day on the last two weeks of summer vacation. Sounds familiar? ||Rika suffered through just over 100 years.|| Nagato says they've been through those same two weeks ||15,498 times, which comes out to 594 years and a little over 5 months.|| And she remembered every second of it. Small wonder she looks bored. - Asakura in the fourth episode alone is already scary. But, for the love of god, listen the way she says "You think it's a... joke? Huh. You don't wanna die? You don't want me to kill you?" It's really creepy, and you just realize that behind that happy-go-lucky facade, there is nothing. - In the movie, just when Kyon is starting to realize that something is off about the world, he happens to turn towards the door just as someone walks in. There before him stands Ryoko Asakura, back from hell with a casual smile on her face. Kyon has never been so abjectly terrified before. - That's not even the worst part. Just as Kyon is about to shoot Yuki, Ryoko appears from behind, successfully backstabbing Kyon! And then she goes on about telling Yuki that she's there for her while touching her face in a rather interesting way. And she was spinnin' around like a happy child with a bloody knife in hand. Yuki's expression explains all. - *Heroic Age*: - Cerbius, the Silver Tribe's Nodos, which looks like a combination of a skeletal human and a giant insect. A little disturbing on its own, but when it goes into Berserk Mode, it turns into a horrible, shrieking thing combining insect, demon and the monster from *Alien*. Cerbius's screams will haunt your nightmares. They don't sound like anything an Earthly creature would ever produce. - Frenzied Nodos in general are this trope: frenzied Bellcross is perhaps worst, considering he's The Hero. Up to that point, Bellcross had been an unstoppable force of good. Then he takes too much damage, Turns Red, and enters Berserk Mode. Suddenly, his power is amplified to hundreds of times his usual note : his usual power level is enough to shatter moons and survive planetary implosions and he becomes an even more unstoppable force of pure rage. He begins destroying everything: hostile fleets, friendly fleets, Deimos, even himself, as his body rips itself apart under the strain of its own power. What's truly frightening about it is that there is nothing anyone can do to stop him: a Nodos is already practically invincible, a frenzied Nodos is even moreso. And the Frenzied state is contagious; any Nodos that attempt to restrain a frenzied one are likely to suffer it themselves. Belcross is proven to be the strongest Nodos, when frenzied for long enough *just moving causes colossal energy rings capable of wiping out several thousand ships*, and that is when they are at there weakest and they will only get stronger until he just ... gives out. - If the front page cover of the manga *Hideout* of some corpse-like figure ripping through the fourth wall to get you doesn't frighten you, then this closer pic of the same Nightmare Face peeking out of the darkness will. - Several scenes at the beginning of *Iczer-One*, but particularly the one where Nagisa Kano's schoolgirl friends suddenly have strange mechanical faces with an eyeball in the middle. - The manga *Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit* (lit. "Death Papers") is both this and Paranoia Fuel. In order to help the civilian population learn the value of life, and thus become productive, valuable members of society, children are inoculated with a special vaccine. This vaccine protects them from every disease known to Man, true, but *one* vaccine in *thousands* contains a special device that will cause a heart attack between the ~~victim~~citizen's 18th and 24th years. It doesn't matter how you've lived your life up to that point —if you've wasted it, if you're happy and successful, if you're a horrible criminal or a saint loved by all. You will die. There is nothing you can do to prevent it, no one to plead to, no one to save you. Your fate was sealed when you were a child, and the only mercy you get is a 24-hour notice immediately preceding the activation of the device (and heaven help you if you're not home to receive it.) Maybe you'll receive your *ikigami* in the morning as you go to school. Maybe it will be in the middle of the night after a hard day at work. Or maybe during your wedding? - In *Ikki Tousen*, whenever a character with a Dragon within him/her gets their bodies hijacked. It's epecially bad in the case of Gentoku Ryuubi, a normally super cute and kind girl who becomes **the embodiment of chaos and destruction** whenever she's taken over by the most destructive of the Dragons themselves, complete with Glowing Eyes of Doom and a Slasher Smile... - The *Inuyasha* manga had a lot of horrifying moments. For example, the entire Noh Mask arc had some serious Body Horror going on. The scene later in the manga in which two children clutch their parents' severed heads is pretty bad, too. - *Kaze to Ki no Uta*: - The series has many of them, since it involves explicit rape as this, but the one scene that stands out from the rest is when Bonnard kidnaps and rapes an underage Gilbert. The scene is very squicky considering that Gilbert was about *nine years old*. - Everything Auguste does is this in spades, especially when he rapes a young Gilbert. The worst part about it? Auguste is *his father* who was posing as his uncle. - *Kemonozume* by Masaaki Yuasa loves this trope, from the Gorn and the horroristic opening of episode 6 (involving cannibalism) to anything that has to do with Ooba Kyuutarou. - This example from *The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service* needs some explanation: There's a type of snail parasite that takes up residence in the poor creature's eyestalks, enlarging them to thrice their natural size. It pulses and throbs in order to attract attention from birds,so that it may be eaten and continue its life cycle inside the bird. One story in volume 4 shows what happens when it crosses over into humans◊ - Eye Scream, Body Horror and Squick in one well-drawn, nauseating two-page spread. - Koharu from *Koharu no Hibi*. Behind that sweet cute exterior she's really a Yandere for Akira. And boy is it creepy. - The end of the first episode of *Le Chevalier d'Eon*. The plot of the series is about to pick up as Lia possesses D'Eon for the first time. Cut to the Queen in her chambers talking to a little girl who has a high pitched voice. Turn to face the mirror and she only has a skull for a face! After this, we get a close-up as she says, "Won't this be fun, Marie?" It becomes less creepy later, but it just comes out of nowhere. - *Left Hand of God, Right Hand of the Devil*, by Kazuo Umezu. In one particularly gruesome story, a mentally unstable father lures three hikers into a lone cabin in the middle of the woods, beheads one, and forces the other two to keep eating, no matter how full they get. In the finale of the picture book, he draws a cake, topped with the heads of the two hikers, writing that "The girls who loved cakes become a cake themselves, and they lived very happily." Happily ever after, indeed... - Normally *The Legend of Koizumi* isn't scary, but when Josef Mengele appeared he was made of this with a side serving of Squick. - *Life (2002)* can be quite unsettling. It features graphic depictions of someone cutting themselves, but that's just the beginning. There are scenes of graphically sliced wrists that are just Nausea Fuel but the warped "demonic" look of Manami's face sometimes.. For someone who is a normal high-school girl, Manami is dangerously close to being more than just a bully. When she bullies, she goes all out. - *Legend of the Blue Wolves*: - Captain Continental for one. Also, his rape of Jonathan, all those grunting noises and the screaming... - The ending where Leonard turns into a monster and Jonathan has to kill him. - Although he completely deserved it there's also Captain Continental's Groin Attack at the hands of Leonard which also possibly ends up killing him. - *Lucky Star* has Keroro and Tamama's cameo as tadpoles in the OAV. The two initially start out relatively normal, for them anyway, and then suddenly there's a close up as their faces transform into the equivalent of unholy monsters, both clawing and biting at the screen. - *Macross Frontier*: - The Viktor Vajra drone. 30 meters high, capaple of vapourising cruisers, with huge claws and jaws... and no brain to speak of. - In just the first episode, Alto's partner is seized by a Vajra mecha and reduced to chunky salsa in its bare hands. We don't see the body (but sometimes that's even worse), but we do see a lot of blood coming through its fingers. - The part in Oh Great!'s *Majin Devil* involving the giant spider monster that passed himself off as human. Results in a really horrible, horror-laden scene where a teenage girl gives birth to an overgrown spider creature in the school restroom, which then lunges at her squealing "Mama!" - Redda of *Mon Colle Knights* wears a creepy red death mask that covers his sexy Bishōnen face and loves spending his time driving people to suicide and especially subjecting things to transformations in disturbing, gruesome, and splooshy ways. One part of his Evil Plan traps Rockna within the neck of Dread Dragon, and suffice it to say, thanks to him, she was actually this close to getting slaughtered in a horribly disgusting way. And that's not all, the way he creates the Doomsday Dragon in order to resurrect Oroboros by reviving Dread Dragon and having Oroboros give it a Chest Burster itself is truly enough to freak the audience out]]. Nevertheless, the Gag Dub toned him down and edited some scenes. - Most (if not all) of *Mononoke*, what with the room of dead babies and the shamisen playing fish-person who makes you live out your worst nightmare. - *MPD Psycho*: There is at least one instance per chapter (there are 14 volumes (9 in English), but it drops off for psychological trauma in later chapters), but one of the stand-out moments of horror for the series was when the protagonists investigate a case where a serial killer was using the brains of his victims like grotesque flower pots. Made even better by the fact that up until he buried them, the victims were still alive while the flowers were growing. - How about the *First Chapter*, where the main characters girlfriend is mailed to him in a styrofoam box missing all her arms and legs? Oh, and she's still alive. - *Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse*, episode 2: the cast of characters introduced in the previous episode start to drop like flies. The first victims, lost to laser fire, are the lucky ones: not so lucky are Izumi and Kazusa, who are devoured by the BETA. The graphic nature of their deaths would not be out of place in *Attack on Titan*. - *My Lovely Ghost Kana*: - When Broken Bird Utako is introduced she is first heard as quiet sobbing coming from the apartment showers. After a frightening (for her) first meeting with Daikichi and Kana, they find she had been living on the streets before moving into the apartments and she becomes their new friend. Then Daikichi gives us this little expository gem, "Apparently while looking for work, she was led to an office and made to sign some contract written in some foreign language she had never seen before. And she hated it because she feared the big men and the cold showers and the dark little room..." Thank you for that gut-punch, Tanaka-san. (Fortunately it is never expanded upon because we really do not want to know and her life turns around for the better.) - Kana's description of her "life" after her suicide, sinking into the walls and thinking and wondering. And thinking. And thinking, until she lost all sense of who she was and where she was. Then at last she pulled herself together, left the walls, and wandered all around her deserted, rotting apartment, looking to see if anyone had come, until she gave up and went into the wall again. She spent years like that, all alone, trying not to go mad. - The *Running Man* segment from *Neo Tokyo (1987)* is pretty unsettling in its own right. The slowly accelerating heartbeat you hear in the background at the beginning, the dark character designs and the idea of telekinesis to kill off other racers don't help either. Top it all off with the ghosts of previous racers he murdered haunting him and Zack Hugh undergoing a Super-Power Meltdown and the picture is gruesomely perfect. - *Noir*: The interrogation scene in episode 8 is very disturbing, mostly just because it just implies instead of showing. That and the screams are some of the most realistic-sounding screams in anime. - Altena is creepy in the way she acts throughout the series and the way they imply how she raised both Chloe and Kirika by mind raping them, plus add in both her flashbacks they really show how screwed up she is and how she came to have the beliefs she held. - Also Kirika, while definitely very Moe and someone you just want to hug, whenever she goes into noir mode, especially near the end of the series, she becomes very creepy and scary; those eyes of her she has between episode 22 to 25 are a very scary sight. - The manga *Parasyte*, by Hitoshi Iwaaki. Parasitic, shapeshifting aliens come to Earth and take over human bodies, played for all the Body Horror it's worth. - *Pikadon*, a short film about the Hiroshima bombing. It's obviously quite graphic, and certainly a Tear Jerker, but the lack of dialogue, music and animation style really vamp up the creepy factor. - Volume 2, Episode 4 of *Presents*, "Whatever Your Heart Desires." A girl ends up getting whatever present she wants, and due to her greed, selfishness, and paranoia, it ends up killing a boy who loves her. Where this goes above and beyond is that we never find out how or why this is happening. Kurumi doesn't appear once in this story, and beyond using presents, it doesn't seem at all like her usual tactics. - *Project K*: Everything about the Colorless King. Also when he threatens to rape the very young Anna to get Mikoto to open his eyes in reaction so he can possess him. - *Pumpkin Scissors*, where at one point the man with the flamethrower was part of a crew who were told that they had protective fluid in their suits, to keep them from getting fried by their weapons. They didn't. He goes on to be trapped inside the suit, unable to leave without dying, and apparently is cold, except when burning people. And then there's the scene where it actually shows those soldiers getting out of their suits, only to have their skin burn and peel off in large quantities, all the while they scream in pain]]. - Master Happosai in *Ranma ½*. He's an incredibly powerful martial arts master who sexually harasses every woman he can get his hands on, and who is living indefinitely in the home of former students who are too terrified to kick him out. He also regularly harasses and molests his students' daughters, the youngest of whom is sixteen. His character is played for laughs in the series, but imagine what it must feel like to be a young teenage girl who has to witness your father cower helplessly before a man who victimizes you at every turn in your own childhood home, sometimes even sneaking into your bedroom at night. - Episode 59 of the anime has Happosai use an incense to split Ranma's male and female forms. The female side becomes evil and tries to make the male half the same, by seducing him. As the female side continues to corrupt the male side, Ranma's appearance becomes disturbingly more haggard and sickly. And by the end, female Ranma takes over him and has him corner an injured Akane. Akane begs Ranma to fight off her influence. Cue Ranma making a Nightmare Face as he prepares to kill her. Thankfully, Shampoo comes in to save the day, driving the evil side off in the process. But that was definitely a close call for Akane. - *Rozen Maiden* has a scene when a half-completed (sentient) doll burns away in flames. - *Robotech* had dozens of EyeCatch segments for it's commercial breaks, and most of the major characters voiced over at least one eyecatch. The most creepy of them all was one by what is probably the voice of a bioroid terminator against a scene of one of Dana's nightmares (a cadaverous hand reaching out to grab her). The two parts of the voiceover were: "Robotech will return...and so will you.". When coming back from commercial, "Robotech is back... *and I'm watching you.*" Make of that what you will. - Mostly anything involving the Peacemakers in *Scrapped Princess*. Particularly the giant black blobs they summon that eat people alive. - *Shakugan no Shana* has a chilling part of the nature of their world. If your power of existence is devoured by a Tomogara and you get turned into a "torch" by a Flame Haze, you become just a shell, a.k.a. an Unperson and will eventually disappear, with no one remembering you existed. Even worse is that this may have already happened, several times in fact to people they knew. - *Shaman King*: The anime has a couple of sources. The worst two come in the form of Faust VII's introductory episode, and the end of Yoh and Hao's first clash at the Great Spirits. The former has Faust phase his hands through Manta's body and reach at various internal organs, and all because Manta had said that he didn't think it possible to bring back the dead. The latter shows Hao doing worse to Yoh: He pulls Yoh's soul out and eats it. Instances were played, in full, in the English dub, despite 4Kids dislikes violent/creepy sequences. As horrific as the anime version of Faust and Manta is, the manga is even worse. There, Faust vivisects Manta alive. To full view of the reader. Just because he was curious how someone as small as Manta looked inside. - *Sgt. Frog*: In-Universe, Fuyuki's skill in telling ghost stories is apparently unmatched — Natsumi and any other listeners become terrified out of their minds. We don't actually get to see more than a couple fragments of what he's actually saying, though. - *Shadow Star*: - *Shiki* had a quite a bit of this from the very beginning, but chapter 18 took it to new heights when Ozaki dissected his fully conscious wife to test the limits of vampire regeneration. - *Speed Grapher* has rather a lot of this thanks to the effects of the Euphoria virus. Those who are infected with this virus without dying are granted powers based around disturbing sexual fetishes, and the way several of them transform when they get particularly "excited" is bloody freaky to say the least. - *Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike* had some frightening moments of its own that would give its viewers the creeps for years; First off, take a look at the black and red tentacle monsters that are attacking several civilians that were just near the bridge to Shizontania. Then wait until you see one of the guildmen get dragged along the grass and killed along the way, and then see for yourself a tentacle monster in control of Lambert and two other dogs attached to its edge. And if that isn't bad enough, just wait until you see a rain of human blood from another of the guildmen falling on Hisca and one of the other knights. And Hisca's appropriate reaction to the blood spilled on her get-up and her body is truly frightening indeed. Bonus points for doubling as a Tear Jerker in the end when Yuri is forced to pull off his Shoot the Dog moment of killing Lambert and the other dogs along with the tentacle monster in order to protect Hisca and the others. - The latter part of *Texhnolyze* gets pretty disturbing. The show's second major villain is insane with borderline- Psychopathic Manchild tendencies; and he first convinces the citizens of Lux to discard their biological bodies to become cyborgs, arming them with Death Rays which kill anyone unfortunate enough to get hit by them]], and then later he kills Ran, the series' resident Mysterious Waif, and puts her head on one of his statues. As if that isn't enough, he also reveals that the reason for his insanity was because his family was selectively inbred. Oh, and the cyborgs? The source of power for Texhnolyze is ultimately shut down, so they end up frozen in place, unable to move at all. And at least a few of them are still conscious at the time.]] - *Tokyo Tribe 2*. - A particular scene from the first episode has an incredibly gruesome anal rape and death. This would not be so bad except for the astonishing amount of blood, the horrible, horrible imagery present, the fact that the guy raping the other is easily twice his height and four times his weight plus the sound. - Some of the content in later episodes isn't much better. Two episodes after the event, said fat guy's BishōnenCasanova son (who is thinner than he is) splits a gangster's face open by slicing his face twice with a knife. Sure, they may have cut away before it got really gruesome, but still, it deserves to be up there. - Anything penned by Tsutomu Nihei qualifies and then some. The man's really really good at communicating Body Horror across a visual medium and he has tendency to waltz right through the Uncanny Valley. - *Toriko*, a cooking/fighting manga manages to come here during the Ice Hell/Century Soup arcs. Why? Bogey Woods and Tommyrod. Bogie Woods has 4,000 bones and 4,600 joints, capable of twisting and contorting himself in inhuman ways. But one of his most common techniques is 'lodging', where he enters a human and uses it as a 'shell', controlling it as a puppet from the inside. And he has nothing on Tommyrod, who can rapidly grow and launch a variety of deadly bugs out of his mouth, a mouth that is filled with razor-sharp teeth. - Oh, and they're just two members of the Bishokokai, the Big Bads of the series. And it gets much, much worse. Granny Chiyo...has the most disturbing smile when she stabs Master Chin... - Her method of fighting, which involves completely removing all the flesh off the bones on parts of her opponent's bodies faster than they can perceive. She's so fast she completely removed all the flesh off an opponent from his armpits to his hips so fast he didn't even realize it'd happened until she pointed it out to him. - *Vampire Princess Miyu*. Loads of Body Horror, Transformation Trauma, mind games, Miyu's creepy giggling from the OAV, etc. - *Violence Jack*: - While a bit over the top, has some pretty gruesome imagery, along with some of the most truly despicable villains ever put into a 1980s anime. - The manga is even worse. In the first chapter alone, you see tons of elementary-school-aged children die in brutal ways (they were all trying to escape their crumbling school during an earthquake) and people burned alive by an erupting Mount Fuji. Also, the fates of Miki Makimura and Ryo Asuka (aka Satan) from Devilman. Miki had been brought back to life and both characters are now limbless and forced to be the Slum King's sex slaves. And that's what Satan wanted. - *Vision of Escaflowne* has some in the second episode. When the cloaked Zaibach guymelefs attack, they aim their extending claw weapons at a handful of guards who don't know what they're up against. A frame later, and they're all legs with metal claws where their torsos used to be. - *Welcome to the NHK* ends what's a pretty silly two-episode plot on MMORPG addiction by dramatizing the main character at 50 years old, still mooching off his parents and addicted to the same MMO. Still having done nothing with his life, his elderly parents write his life off completely before the story fast forwards, they die, and he's done for. - *Ys*: - Yuki Yuna is a Hero: As a price for using their Magical Girl powers, the young heroes incur physical disabilities, lose their memory, and use of certain senses. The more they use their powers, the more they lose. One veteran magical girl is quadriplegic in a hospital bed, missing several limbs, and unable to do anything but stare off into the distance. They can never die, even if they attempt suicide.

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A.N.T. Farm / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes From the 1st episode, the melted Chyna wax statue. In fact, Gibson said this upon seeing it: "Melted kid! A melted kid!" Fletcher removes Wacky the Wolf's head and there's no head under the costume!!! Fletcher's first cartoon at the beginning of The ANTagonist is pretty shocking and grotesque. It borders on this and Unintentional Uncanny Valley. The dead librarian in "ANTswers". Lexi beating up Chyna under the guise of hazing her to the cheer squad, to the point where Chyna loses her voice, is heavily bandaged and hobbling, and has some (possibly permanent) teeth missing. All of this just to get the lead role in a school play. Giving how unhelpful the staff members of Webster High are, Chyna could have died, especially since Chyna was only 11 years old at the time. I just got a text from Satan! : See you soon. The Mutant Farm episodes: In Mutant Farm 3, Wynter using Gorgon Chyna to turn the incompetent workers to stone and having them crushed into aquarium rocks. Zombie Angus eating some of the students in Mutant Farm 1. Gorgon Chyna preferring to eat EYEBALLS over apples in Mutant Farm 1. Vampire Fletchers dead body collection in Mutant Farm 1. Paisley switching brains with a duck in Mutant Farm 1. We know Paisleys too dumb to function, but GEEZ... Chyna thinking the exploded dye pack on her bag was blood. Given that her dad is a cop, he has probably picked up a murder bag before. The dead chimp who couldnt really defuse a bomb, as mentioned by Chynas dad. Principal Skidmore standing in the dark hallway and growling, before holding up Fletchers painting of her as a skeleton. Chyna and the other ANTs almost being crushed to death in the elevator by a robot. Olives genuine fear over the haunted locker prank. Imagine youre trying to be friendly only to have one of the people you really like play with your emotions. As over-the-top as it was, its distressing. Angus being won as a carnival prize and basically being abducted. The events of "idANTity crisis", with Skidmore practically lobotomizing the ANTs to be completely loyal while their personalities are in frozen yogurt cups.

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Anthrax / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Even the goofiest of the Big Four of Thrash are capable of dishing out some dark tracks from time to time. - The haunting intros to "Now It's Dark", "Packaged Rebellion", "Blood", "Potters Field" and "Fight 'Em Till You Can't", the latter with an imitation of a PSA as though an actual Zombie Apocalypse is taking place. - "Intro to Reality", "Inside Out", "Black Dahlia", and "Crawl". - The video for "Black Lodge" is about a Mad Doctor trying to restore his unresponsive wife by kidnapping a young woman to fuel a form of Psychic Link. Instead of the wife recovering, the younger woman is as broken as the wife by the end, and a wall of photos shows the doctor has tried this over and over on dozens of women. - The video of "What Doesn't Die" has the band in fighting a Zombie Apocalypse, with Rob Caggiano's screaming guitars and John Bush's singing adding to the foreboding atmosphere. - "A stream of consciousness flows into a river of blood...stem this tide of violence...as it rises like a flood..." - The lyric videos of "Evil Twin" and "Zero Tolerance" are hard and grim reminders of the atrocities committed throughout history in the name of ideology. - The video to "Blood Eagle Wings". NSFW. Brutal doesn't even **ABSOLUTELY** *begin* to describe it! The monologue in the end of this video, however, may count as a Funny Moment. - The video of "Monster at the End" is this and a Funny Moment. - Last Note Nightmare: "Be dangerous..... and unpredictable..... and make a lot of noise." ( *static*) -"This is Not an Exit" from *Sound of White Noise*.

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Animal Farm / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes **WARNING: Per wiki policy, Spoilers Off applies to Nightmare Fuel pages.** *Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.* Image by Ralph Steadman. # General/The Novel Specifcally - The entire book is nightmare fuel if you happen to be a farmer. - Or just have a job that requires taking care of animals. - The book is an allegory for the horrific outcome of the Russian Revolution: a people who dreamed of a freer and more just society wound up with a leadership that was even worse. - "It was a pig walking on his hind legs." One edition of the book has this sentence as the first one on a left-hand page, forcing the reader to turn the page before finding out exactly "what Clover had seen." For someone not expecting it, it can be a Wham Line that can force the reader to put down the book and walk away to catch their breath. - Napoleon deciding to have the dogs chase out Snowball, who at that point had been the Reasonable Authority Figure and Token Good Teammate of the pigs. Especially in the 1954 film. - The Kangaroo Court that Napoleon holds to execute falsely accused animals with the aforementioned dogs eating them as punishment. This is supposed to represent Josef Stalin killing some of his subjects during his reign. - Napoleon claims that Boxer is being sent to the vet when he's injured and can't work any more, but really he's sending him to the slaughterhouse because he's of no more use to Napoleon. Imagine how kind, trusting Boxer must have felt when he realized where he was really going and how the pigs had betrayed him right before he was killed. And just when you think it can't get any worse, the pigs buy whiskey with the money given to them for selling Boxer to the knacker and have a feast in his honor. - The infamous final scene of the book, where the humans and pigs all start resembling each other in such a way that none of the other animals can tell them apart anymore. ## Specific to the 1954 Film: - Snowball's implied death is even worse in the film. In the book, it's not clear if he was just chased off or mauled to death but the film makes it more clear. The scared expression he has and, as the chase continues offscreen, we hear Snowball's pained squeals and when the dogs return to Napoleon, they give him an approving nod, leaving far less ambiguity than the book had that the job was done. - The horror of the abovementioned Trials scene gets so bad in the 1954 film, that the crow (possibly Moses) that had nonchalantly watched Snowball's death at the hands of the dogs turns its back on the scene, being absolutely horrified at this cruelty.Then the camera pans lower and gives us a view of the "No animal shall kill any other animal" law changed to "No animal shall kill any other animal without cause" — the last two words written *in blood*. - The pigs' banquet at the end has a frightening moment where the secretly watching Benjamin sees Napoleon's face turn into that of *Mr. Jones.* The camera then pulls back to show that *all of the pigs suddenly have Mr. Jones's face,* thus showing that the Full-Circle Revolution is complete and the pigs have become exactly like the man that they overthrew. - The ending, which sees the pigs on the receiving end of a Bolivian Army Ending, seesaws between this and Moment of Awesome. On the one hand, there's the fact that the filthy swinish bastards are *finally* going to get what's coming to them. But on the other hand, the scene itself, with hordes of red-eyed animals ripping and tearing their way into the house like a swarm of zombies where their former oppressors, the pigs, are cowering in terror at their strongly implied imminent, terrible death at the hooves, paws, claws and mouths of the animals they once lorded over... it's chilling. - To punctuate this, Napoleon at first confidently calls for his guard dogs, only for them to be drunk and incapacitated. The scowl he had the entire film, even in the most intense moments, slowly disappears, and as the animals corner him, his eyes widen in panic. He's screwed, *and he knows it.* - Out of all the animals, the flock of sheep are the creepiest of the bunch during the ending. Especially during shots where we see silhouettes and shadows of the sheep complete with enraged eyes. - The way the sheep are repeating "Fours Legs Good, Two Legs Bad" throughout the film is downright haunting since they bleat out the word "ba-a-a-d" making them sound like zombies. Especially since the sheep and the pigs are the only animals in the entire film that are heard talking. ## The 1999 film by Hallmark - The Public Execution scene for the chickens, sheep and ducks in this film. To instill fear into the rest of the animals, Napoleon and Squealer recorded the murders and *showed* them to the animals. - First is when Old Major's skull is revealed. It's like a jumpscare. And what's worse is that when the sheep understandably back away, Napoleon threatens them with how only "criminals" fear a DEAD BOAR'S SKULL! - Then there's Napoleon threatening Moses to hang him by the flag pole. And in the end, when the Animals return to the destroyed farm, they see that Napoleon did exactly that. - Squealer is much creepier than he was in the animation. Not helped by the fact that his voice while fitting, gives a air of anxiety to the other animals. Mainly when Jesse tries to tell the others what she saw earlier. His lying and Faux Affably Evil tendencies are much more half hearted than in other takes, this Squealer favouring a tacit threatening tone, knowing no one would *dare* anger Napoleon, with at least one or two cases he straight up cuts the formalities and snarls at animals to shut up and get back to work *or else*. - And while the duck's song is silly and catchy, there is one part that is creepy. Around the halfway point, we see Napoleon standing on his hind legs and wearing clothes! And to cap the song off, Napoleon decides that he's planning on building weapons! Thankfully he doesn't get that far. - While it spells karma for the pigs, the Nothing Is Scarier downfall of Animal Farm. All the animals have gone into hiding and now just watch as the farm literally crumbles and dilapidates. When they come back, only one dog, now humbled from whatever has happened, has survived. The collapsed statue of Napoleon (giving the appearance of a *corpse*) doesn't leave much to the imagination as to what happened.

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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Kang the Conqueror. By far and away, one of the biggest Knight of Cerebus villains in the entire MCU. He's immeasurably powerful, exceptionally intelligent, and views time in a way no other being can even process. Jonathan Majors also plays him scarily straight, to the point it's hard to even remember if he once cracks a joke in the whole movie (even Thanos had a moment or two of levity), adding to the weight of his character and the clear threat the Pyms and Langs are up against. And if that wasn't awful enough, it's made very clear that this Kang, awful as he may have been, was just one of many... Even when the script gives him a few lines that are clearly meant to be at least a little comedic, Majors delivers them in the same cold and chilling voice that turns any attempts at levity from the villain from darkly humorous on paper, to sickly disturbing. The Quantum Realm Rebellion, at first, is an Awesome Moment with many Funny Moments sprinkled in. Then Kang decides to go out into the battlefield himself and singlehandedly turns the tide of battle back in his favor. Hell, the only reason he lost is due to things he couldn't have seen coming: the hyper-evolved civilization of ants that fell in with the family, and Darren having undergone a HeelFace Turn. Kang asking "You're an Avenger... Have I killed you before? You're not the one with the hammer, right?" Thor is one of the big guns of the MCU — the one who nearly killed Thanos in one blow during Infinity War. And yet Kang is casually dismissing the alternate Odinson(s) as if the God of Thunder was nothing more than a bug on the windshield of his war machine. It just reinforces that if alternate Earths' Mightiest Heroes all went up against Kang and were slaughtered, what chance in hell do the rest of the Sacred Timeline heroes have when the Conqueror finally comes for their Earth in full force (and especially with the Avengers still disbanded after Endgame (with most of their mightiest heroes either retired, dead, or on the downlow), Kamar-Taj wrecked, Wakanda wounded and potentially facing a leadership crisis, and the Guardians of the Galaxy embarking on their final mission?) The Quantum Realm is quite fantastical, but there are elements to it that can be quite unnerving. Like how there are beverages that include swallowing a strange but cute insect whole in order to get the full taste. There's also the fact that once you go in, unless you have a means to (and even then it requires some sort of connection back to Earth or wherever you're from), there is no coming back. Scott gets caught in a "probability storm" while trying to get the core for Kang, causing him to steadily form duplicates of himself to fill the empty void until he's literally buried under his own copies. And until Cassie contacts him to tell him to not give up, none of them know which of them is the "real" Scott. If not for that, Scott would have likely literally died under all the potential choices he'd make. Some of the Scott copies try to turn giant and touch the core... but as soon as they do, they're literally made to fall apart at the seams, their bodies crumbling into red and black threads. It's profoundly unnerving to look at. Xolum, one of the lead freedom fighters, wants to torture Scott and Cassie, and Quaz asking in exasperation why he always wants to do that means this isn't the first time he's done this. The exchange is played for Black Comedy, but the fact that Xolum wanted to go that far immediately after capturing some strangers really reinforces how terrible and desperate the fight to overthrow Kang is. Janet discovering that the man she knew and came to see as a trusted friend, was actually a ruthless and tyrannical Omnicidal Maniac who had slaughtered countless people and destroyed entire worlds so he could call them his own. It's especially jarring when it becomes clear Kang knows she's seen his true face. He has all the advantages in that instance, and he could kill her on the spot. When Janet calls Kang out after he explains his backstory, Kang gives a line that is both depressingly sad and bone-chilling. Janet: You'd be wiping out entire timelines, murdering trillions of people. Darren Cross's "death" in the first movie was already nightmarish, but this movie reveals that he didn't actually die from that. What happened to him? He transformed into M.O.D.O.K., the Mechanical Organism Designed Only for Killing. The film also flashes back to his 'touchdown' in the Quantum Realm after the climax of the first film. Seeing the previously fearsome Yellowjacket lifeless and deformed and shrunk into a M.O.D.O.K.-esque caricature is unsettling enough on its own. But we also get a brief shot from behind of Darren's naked body when he's being put into the M.O.D.O.K. chair for the first time and... it's not pleasant seeing how deformed he really is now. As awesome as it is, Scott becoming Giant-Man and destroying everything in his way, while bellowing for Kang personally, is terrifying. Imagine someone that size, and strong enough to level buildings and punch holes in forcefields, coming after you. Not to mention his booming, rage-filled voice as he calls out Kang for reneging on the deal he made with Scott. Once Kang personally takes to the battlefield in the climax, he begins ruthlessly slaughtering insurgents in droves, with special mention going to his execution of Xolum via overloading the robot's head with his own energy blast. Just as it looks like everyone's going to go home, Kang returns, his tech broken thanks to the ants overwhelming him. Not as much of a threat, right? Wrong. He manages to smash Scott's helmet by stomping on it, and had it not been for Scott's small supply of Pym Particles and Hope pulling a Big Damn Heroes, Kang would've beaten Scott to death then and there. The Stinger shows just how deep the Kang Dynasty runs. They're an advanced civilization of immeasurable power and domination over space and time. While some variants are somewhat goofier than others, it's clear all of them are very powerful and if just one Kang in Quantumania can threaten all life in existence, what would an entire army of them be capable of? Clearly, the Sacred Timeline Avengers have their work cut out for them. The Council makes Thanos look like a jobber. One Kang managed to kill countless alternate Avengers and trillions by collapsing alternate timelines and realities. The Ant-Man Family was barely able to stop him on their own (ultimately owing more to luck and Kang having been in exile and not at his full strength). Even if the entire MCU hero community unites as they did against Thanos during the Infinity War, what hope do they have against the Council of Kangs and their infinite numbers of their variants and their respective armies?

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Ant-Man / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes *"I want your daddy, too."* - Darren Cross. Either as himself or wearing the Yellowjacket suit: - The vaporization of Frank, and later of a little lamb. Flushing Frank's remains down the toilet like some discarded tissue is distressingly cold at that. - Just the incredibly casual way he says that line is just... off-putting. - The similarly dissonant way he talks about selling off the Yellowjacket and his samples to HYDRA as if it was a *board meeting* is at once hilarious and unnerving. - Cross' death is one: the first thing gone is his arm and then, POOF, he disappears. Unlike Scott, his regulator and some circuitry were damaged, meaning that he doesn't shrink uniformly, *he gets agonizingly crushed inside his own suit*. His scream during said death scene and when electrified by the anti-insect lamp is also very unsettling. It's like a mix of anger and pain all said at the same time. Not to mention poor Cassie watched the whole thing, though she was behind Paxton. If she didn't have a fondness for creepy/horrifying things (to a certain degree anyway), that could have easily scarred her for life. - Even worse, *Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania* reveals that this didn't kill him. This turned him into *MODOK*. - His increasing insanity is very, very frightening, as it shows how dangerous Pym Particles truly are. From when Frank is shot to the attack on Cassie's house, it shows that Cross is clearly one of the scariest villains the MCU has to offer. - Cross breaking into Cassie's bedroom while in the Yellowjacket outfit and mentally unstable. Her asking him if he's a monster is completely understandable. And at one point, she breaks down, crying for her father. Keep in mind that she's a Nightmare Fetishist who loves ugly plush bunnies and keeps giant ants for pets. The fact that Cross is scary enough for Cassie to wonder if he's a monster and cry for her father should say a lot. - The first time Scott uses the Ant-Man suit and shrinks himself. It really drives home that when you're the size of an ant, Everything Is Trying to Kill You. And when he makes it back to regular size, he's shaking uncontrollably. He's so freaked out, he breaks into the house again, just to return it. - Even though the idea of Ant-Man has always been considered a bit silly, this film does a pretty good job of showing just how much damage someone could do with that power. Makes the idea of someone like HYDRA getting their hands on the suit, or a whole army of them, that much scarier. - *"Practical applications include: surveillance, industrial sabotage, and the elimination of obstructions on the road to peace."* Cue a CG shot of the Yellowjacket suit tearing through a vehicle that looks suspiciously similar to the United States presidential limousine. - What really sells it, is the reminder Ant-Man retains his strength and density while shrunk... focused into a quarter-inch of area. This results in a micro-sized individual, nearly impossible to aim at, but capable of ripping your limb off or outright killing you in a single punch. And that's only because Ant-Man doesn't use lethal force: try imagining soldiers with the same powers using *sniper rifles*, following the same rule of keeping their density while being shrunk... Ant-Man essentially has the potential to be one of the world's deadliest assassins. Hope's dialogue during Scott's training montage implies the difference between *one punch* killing a target and being a "love tap" is nothing more than the amount of force. Meaning that it's **very** easy for Ant-Man to kill someone *purely by accident*. All it would take for Scott to, say; kill a surrendering foe whom he only meant to knock out would be ONE slip-up in control or letting anger get to him just foier a second. - Let's not forget Ant-Man's ability to mind-control entire colonies of every single ant species imaginable to do his will, which is terrifying enough to anyone who's experienced a full on ant infestation before. Now imagine that kind of ant swarm doing complex tasks such as blocking out your lights, short-circuiting electronics, flying in a cloud right into your face, and biting through every orifice of your body with fire ants and bullet ants. Be glad that Pym doesn't have access to African driver ants, which will crawl into your lungs and tear at the tissue. Hank/Scott may not have any African Driver Ants **yet**, but it's not much of a stretch to imagine they could get some in case one of them has to be truly lethal. - We get to see how truly *scary* Ant-Man could be if he was a full-on villain, especially during the flashback scenes. Imagine this. You're a HYDRA soldier in Berlin, when the alarms ring, meaning there's an intruder. You ready your submachine gun, and with your comrades, look around for the intruder... until the guy next to you is smashed into a wall by something... invisible. You look on in terror as more and more of your friends are smashed into concrete by this invisible intruder, who is somehow knocking them out with a single punch or kick. Then, as fresh soldiers pour in, the machine gun nest in the room *fires on its own◊* at you. The battalions are instantly chopped down by the high-powered rifle rounds as the machine gun turns by itself, fires by itself and aims by itself. Now, shaking and horrified, you rush outside to find help. You sigh with relief as the tanks roll in — but the invisible attacker, within seconds, turns the place into a war zone. Tanks blow up and set vehicles aflame. Burning men run screaming, rolling on the ground to escape the pain. The explosions from the sizzling fuel tanks wipe out men like mortar assaults. Again, forgetting your training, the fact you have a gun in your hand, forgetting that you are a soldier serving the most advanced and powerful 'peacekeeping' organization on the planet, you run, up until the invisible attacker finally reaches up with you and slams you into the ground, over and over. In your panic-stricken mind, while begging your attacker to just *leave* you alone, you wonder who the *hell* this thing is. Is it *The Invisible Man?* Is it a poltergeist? Has the goddamn *Winter Soldier* turned invisible and gone mad? **WHO IS THIS ABOMINATION?** - Heck, even in the Prelude Tie-In, on Hank's very first mission, he managed to make hardened, amoral HYDRA agents *beg him to leave*. - The mere thought of Pym's residence brimming with 4 species of dangerous ants, knowing the critters could pop out at any time and saturate the place with their bodies. - When Scott wakes up in Hank's house after escaping prison, there are bullet ants all over the floor. Hope coolly informs him that they're there to keep him in line if he gets the idea of stealing anything. Scott thus has to carefully walk across a room full of ants capable of *extremely* painful bites while wearing nothing on his feet. And he'd be lucky if they only bit him. Bullet ants don't need much provocation to *sting* you. They're basically flightless social wasps. - The scene where Hope demonstrates how to control the ants by summoning a swarm so dense it starts to blot out the light, all with an increasingly deranged look on her face... the implication in the scene that she wasn't *consciously* telling the ants to do that, but they were responding to her foul mood and darkening the room to match it. What kind of laser focus do you need over your emotions to keep the ants from doing something *really* nasty to someone? - The helmet of the Yellowjacket suit ends up looking especially ominous and threatening. Understandably, it took some inspiration from Classic Ultron.◊ - The Yellowjacket suit itself is a terrifying weapon even *without* the size-changing tech, giving the wearer *flight* AND built-in weaponry in the form of its lasers. Anyone who wears it basically becomes a fighter jet with legs, and one skilled operator could likely wipe out several squads of soldiers before even *thinking* about having to shrink. - More terrifying still, if you consider that throughout Phase One, the prospect of people less well-meaning than Tony Stark developing and deploying similarly-weaponized personal armor has been looming over the MCU's technology-race. This time, the bad guy has *already done so*. - Everything about the sub-atomic realm and the idea that you could be stuck in there forever, constantly shrinking while losing all perceptions of time and space. Heck, it looks like an effing Eldritch Location! And it's an Eldritch Location that's *not* off in some distant Mordor or alien planet or parallel universe. It's *everywhere*. You and me and everything around us are frickin' **built** out of that very Eldritch Location. - Hydra may have lost the Yellowjacket suit, but Carson escapes with the imitation Pym Particles. It's even worse if your interpretation of the dialog is that Cross already sold the plans and prototypes. Given Hydra's manpower, we might see Yellowjackets wrecking havoc in no time. - During the final fight at Pym Tech, Scott shrinks down into the model building and is shot at by Cross' goons. To us, it's just some guys shooting a model, but to Scott, it may as well be artillery fire. And as bad as regular bullets are to a shrunken Scott, it's even worse for the ants, considering bullets are at least as big as they are, if not moreso. No one *deliberately* tries to shoot them aside from the mentally-unstable Cross, but he manages to succeed with Anthony... and all that was left of him was one wing. - The fight between Ant-Man and Yellowjacket for that one family. They are just normal people, innocently enjoying a barbeque night when something lands in their pool. Immediately after they are caught in a fight between two people in super suits, one of whom is willing to kill them despite the fact that they have literally no idea what is going on and besides Ant-Man's protection, they were helpless. And Cross didn't die when he collided into the bug zapper, so we can only hope he allowed said family to live as opposed to not leaving any witnesses. - Thomas the (giant) Tank Engine, lying in front of the house with his eyes still wobbling... - The absolutely *horrible* tension that just hangs in the air after Scott goes inside the Avengers facility. Nothing can be seen on the ant-cams, except for just the doors. The scene goes pretty much completely silent except for Hank worriedly yelling "Scott, we've lost visual". After a few seconds of horrible silence, Falcon comes flying out through the door with Scott inside the wing-pack deactivating it. It seems even Peyton Reed seems to take Alfred Hitchcock's quote about the scariest thing that could be shown on screen being a closed door close to heart.

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