History NightmareFuel / CardfightVanguard

** Taken to another level when she was [[spoiler: reversed]] in Episode 130. Her voice, her tone, her antics seemed to have taken a page from the books of [[LightNovel/DateALive Kurumi Tokisaki]] and [[Manga/FutureDiary Yuno Gasai]], minus the blood.

** Even worse is the backstory how the Deletors came into existence. They were originally a force of billions of Link Joker soldiers that got devoured when they got in the path of the moving devouring planet "Brandt". The Link Joker soldiers that survived were forced to survive for ages until they became the [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] they are as we know. Just think about it the force that threatened the entire safety of Cray and Earth were defeated easily, because they were just unlucky enough to be in the way of "Brandt". And just like how they reverse units, they got turned into the monstrosities instead.

** [[spoiler: Taken UpToEleven from episodes 48 to 50. Aichi's expressions while fighting look more like he's a character from ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'', instead of a card game anime.]]

** Brought [[UpToEleven up a level]] in Episode 116 when Naoki hit her BerserkButton.
** Taken [[UpToEleven to another level]] when she was [[spoiler: reversed]] in Episode 130. Her voice, her tone, her antics seemed to have taken a page from the books of [[LightNovel/DateALive Kurumi Tokisaki]] and [[Manga/FutureDiary Yuno Gasai]], minus the blood.
* Ren's [[UpToEleven extreme]] {{Slasher Smile}}s in episode 63 are rather creepy.

* The Deletors in ''Neon Messiah'' are all sorts of scary. They're all [[ThreeDEffectsTwoDCartoon rendered in CG]], making clear how weird and alien they are. Then you have Oksizz ripping out what's implied to be a unit's ''soul'' and crushing it in its hand, erasing that unit from existence.

* The Deletors in ''Neon Messiah'' are all sorts of scary. They're all rendered in ConspicuousCG, making clear how weird and alien they are. Then you have Oksizz ripping out what's implied to be a unit's ''soul'' and crushing it in its hand, erasing that unit from existence.

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[[folder:Cardfight! Vanguard Anime]]

** Even worse is the backstory how the Deletors came into existence. They were originally a force of billions of Link Joker soldiers that got devoured when they got in the path of the moving devouring planet "Brandt". The Link Joker soldiers that survived were forced to survive for ages until they became the [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] they are as we know. Just think about it the force that threatened the entire safety of Cray and Earth were defeated easily, because they were just unlucky enough to be in the way of "Brandt". And just like how they reverse units, they got turned into the monstrosities instead.
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[[folder:Cardfight Vanguard Anime V Series]]
* In Image 12 we are introduced to serious fights of Foo Fighter which injure fighters, but instead of fighters getting [[MindRape Mind Raped]] by Psy Qualia, we have fighters weiring special gloves that electrocute the fighter painfully whenever they take damage. It's also quite horrifying that even Kamui and his friends [[WouldHurtAChild who are all 12 years old]] had to experience serious fights just to keep their shops. It even shows that the loser of the fights faint, because of the amount of pain they received. It's no wonder Eiji and Reiji quit Vanguard after that.
* Image 42: Aichi fights against [[spoiler:[=PSYqualia=] zombie Naoki]] and despite [[spoiler:putting up a good fight still loses against him and becomes a [=Psyqualia=] zombie himself.]]
* Image 43: In this episode we have Kourin taunting Misaki by recalling how Misaki got such a good memory: when she was a child she was in the car crash that killed her parents, and repeatedly had the events of her life on loop in her head until paramedics arrived. Seeing her wide-eyed and catatonic in the wreck, with her parents' bodies next to her is a much more horrifying way to go over her past in a kids show.
* It's safe to say that Aichi [[spoiler: as a PSYqualia zombie]] is this, full stop. He manages to be just as creepy as his original anime counterpart, if not moreso, precisely because he [[AvertedTrope DOESN'T]] [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide go totally insane like in the previous series]] and simply acts like he usually does, [[spoiler: only evil.]] And that's not even going into his facial expressions...
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* It's safe to say that Aichi [[spoiler: as a PSYqualia zombie]] is this, full stop. He manages to be just as creepy as his original anime counterpart, if not moreso, precisely because he DOESN'T go totally insane like in the previous series and simply acts like he usually does, [[spoiler: only evil.]] And that's not even going into his facial expressions...

* Image 43: In this episode we have Kaurin taunting Misaki by recalling how Misaki got such a good memory: when she was a child she was in the car crash that killed her parents, and repeatedly had the events of her life on loop in her head until paramedics arrived. Seeing her wide-eyed and catatonic in the wreck, with her parents' bodies next to her is a much more horrifying way to go over her past in a kids show.

* In Image 12 we are introduced to serious fights of Foo Fighter which injure fighters, but instead of fighters getting [[MindRape Mind Raped]] by Psy Qualia, we have fighters weiring special gloves that electrocute the fighter painfully whenever they take damage. It's also quite horrifying that even Kamui and his friends [[WouldHurtAChild who are all 12 years old]] had to experience serious fights just to keep their shops. It even shows that the loser of the fights faint, because of the amount of pain they received. Its no wonder Eiji and Reiji quit Vanguard after that.

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[[folder:Cardfight! Vanguard: G Anime]]
* From G season 3 (Stride Gate), Hiroki Moriyama's [[spoiler: flashback to him being bullied to the point of him bleeding]]. It's done in a very jarring red-tinted view with silhouettes and Hiroki's eyes in shockingly bright contrast to everything else, along with the callous laughing of his classmates.
** [[spoiler: And it gets ''worse'', with the blood first streaking down his forehead, then flooding from the top of the screen, blacking out everything that isn't his eye. In profile, he turns his head sideways, his eyes bright white among the black and red, and then the black silhouettes stop laughing and turn back into normal kids, who start crying out in fear, and the final shot is of Hiroki's mouth changing from hanging open in surprise at himself to [[SlasherSmile a victorious grin]].]]
* One thing that ''G'' does that the original series never did is [[spoiler: having the units physically appear on Earth. Unlike certain other card game anime, though, RealityEnsues and it's shown just how destructive they can be, with the Zodiac Time Beasts causing vast amounts of destruction and injury.]]
** ''G Z'' takes this even further with the Zeroth Dragons. When an Apostle says the words "The world will be silent!", [[spoiler: it means they're summoning their Zeroth Dragon ''directly to Earth'', unleashing one of Gyze's superweapons for just a short while. The first time this happens, Megiddo flat-out almost kills Shion and his butler by shattering the ground around them into fissures. Then, Drachma is shown boiling a river with its mere presence, Zoa and Stark rip buildings to shreds just by appearing, and finally Ultima almost ''kills Chrono''.]]

** ''G Z'' takes this even further with the Zeroth Dragons. When an Apostle says the words "The world will be silent!", [[spoiler: it means they're summoning their Zeroth Dragon ''directly to Earth'', unleashing one of Gyze's superweapons for just a short while. The first time this happens, Megiddo flat-out almost kills Shion and his butler by shattering the ground around them into fissures. Then, Drachma is shown boiling a river with its mere presence, Zoa and Stark rip buildings to shreds just by appearing, and finally Ultima almost ''kills Chrono''.]]

** Brought [[UpToEleven up a level]] in Episode 116 when Naoki hit her [[BerserkButton berserk button]].

* Ren's [[UpToEleven extreme]] [[SlasherSmile Slasher Smiles]] in episode 63 are rather creepy.
** Ya mean [[http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/421/473/04d.png like this one?]]

* [[EldritchAbomination Void]]. It's got an entire planet at its knees, reducing it to a shadow of its former self and, as a power of nothingness, it seems to be erasing things as it goes. Worse, it can get to Earth once it's finished with Cray. In Episode 103, [[spoiler: its made clear that it's poisoning Aichi, who notices that his strength and even his drive to win the fight against Leon is draining.]] By the time the toll becomes great enough that he collapses, he can't even move. It's a power that saps others of everything and leaves them hollow. Seeing as this came from space, how many other planets could it have drained before touching down on Cray?

* Warning: Contrasting with Void may result in side-effects, including [[PsychicPowers Psyqualia]], [[SanitySlippage insanity]] and [[http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/inasoku/imgs/3/b/3b5f3706.jpg looking like you've]] [[http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/inasoku/imgs/4/e/4e7c05b4.jpg been burned horrifically.]]

** One very chilling thing in Link Joker is [[spoiler: Kai's descent. MindRape and his fears aside, his fall reaches its horrifying climax when he ''stabs a copy he deems his former self''.]] And the whole time, he is just as horrified, like he's not in control of himself.

* The Deletors in ''Neon Messiah'' are all sorts of scary. They're all rendered in ConspicuousCGI, making clear how weird and alien they are. Then you have Oksizz ripping out what's implied to be a unit's ''soul'' and crushing it in its hand, erasing that unit from existence.

** [[spoiler: And it gets ''worse'', with the blood first streaking down his forehead, then flooding from the top of the screen, blacking out everything that isn't his eye. In profile, he turns his head sideways, his eyes bright white among the black and red, and then the black silhouettes stop laughing and turn back into normal kids, who start crying out in fear, and the final shot is of Hiroki's mouth changing from hanging open in surprise at himself to [[SlasherSmile a victorious grin]].]]

** Taken [[UpToEleven to another level]] when she was [[spoiler: reversed]] in Episode 130. Her voice, her tone, her antics seemed to have taken a page from the books of [[LightNovel/DateALive Kurumi Tokisaki]] and [[Manga/MiraiNikki Yuno Gasai]], minus the blood.

* From Season 6 (Stride Gate), Hiroki Moriyama's [[spoiler: flashback to him being bullied to the point of him bleeding]]. It's done in a very jarring red-tinted view with silhouettes and Hiroki's eyes in shockingly bright contrast to everything else, along with the callous laughing of his classmates.