History NightmareFuel / CookieClicker

* The buildings you can unlock to bake more cookies for you start out fairly mundane and become weirder as it goes on. From cursors to grandmas, factories, portals to an alternate dimension, [[BreakingTheFourthWall the code the game was written in]]. What does this all culminate into? ''You yourself'' are the final building. More specifically, [[MesACrowd clones of you]]. ''Entombed into a wall like [[Franchise/{{Alien}} a Xenomorph hive]].''

** There's also fact that by the time you get there, you have turned every atom in the universe into cookies and have them rewrite the '''fundamental laws of the Universe''', making it look like nothing can stop you. [[EldritchAbomination No]][[ElderGods pe.]]

** The Steam version makes the experience even more scary by making the music transition to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZlY0gLKIE0 a much darker and more ominous version of the main theme]] once the Grandmapocalypse reaches the final stage.

->''[[SurpriseCreepy "It begins."]]''

-->--''grandma''

->''We rise.''
-->--''grandma''

[[caption-width-right:350:This is what the power of the Dark Side does to cookies.]]

''We rise.''

-->--''-grandma''

** There's also fact that by the time you get there, you have turned every atom in the universe into cookies and have them [[UpToEleven rewrite the]] '''[[UpToEleven fundamental laws of the Universe]]''', making it look like nothing can stop you. [[EldritchAbomination No]][[ElderGods pe.]]

Everything begins with a single click. Within a few hours, your cookie production frenzy reaches levels that will [[GoneHorriblyRight make you]] [[NightmareFuel feel regret]].

* 1.039 adds [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/238457383628701697/626919932482945054/latest.png Wrinklers]]. They're large, fleshy parasites that start appearing when you trigger the Grandmapocalypse, and they suck your CPS if they get to your big cookie. Luckily, despite their appearance, they're nothing more than a nuisance. That, and they can actually ''help'' bake cookies through idling with them and ''then'' killing them.

* 1.039 adds [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/238457383628701697/626919932482945054/latest.png Wrinklers]]. They're large, fleshy parasites that start appearing when you trigger the Grandmapocalypse, and they suck your CPS if they get to your big cookie. Luckily, despite their appearance, they're nothing more than a nuisance. That, and they can actually _help_ bake cookies through idling with them and _then_ killing them.

** There are more hints at the evil ways of your business, with multiple variations of a similar news update having people who question the current cookie obsession (which at this point consists of using particle accelerators for the sole purpose of creating cookies) branded as "confused" or "delusional", while anyone who questions the current authority is branded a conspiracy theorist and mocked publicly on the news. Another example of people being branded as talking nonsense is how anyone coming out of a coma which began before the cookie authority showed up who talks about the non-cookie foods which were eaten long ago is branded as “babbling incoherently”.[[labelnote:Actually...]]That might not be true. It might just be that everyone has genuinely forgotten what was eaten before cookies. One of the news ticker messages says that cookies have become more popular than "whatever it is we used to eat". However, this could also be a coverup effort by the authorities.[[/labelnote]] In addition, one Prism-related update casually refers to someone as a "cookie magnate/government official". Yes, at this point, your business ''controls the government''.

* As you earn achievements, the pool of milk turns brown (chocolate), and then... red. It's supposed to be "raspberry milk," an AuthorAppeal substance that most players have never heard of. Instead, you're likely to think it's [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank a huge pool of blood]]. The fact that it turns red around the time you hit the Grandmapocalypse doesn't help.

** Blood-like milk was taken to its logical conclusion with the Fanciful Dairy Selection upgrade. While most of the milks are pretty, exotic patterns like starry midnight milk and various fiery milks, the sanguine milk stands out for being colored a blood red patterned with the [[SarcasmMode lovely image]] of red blood cells, which can also be interpreted as the ''screaming souls of the damned''.

* 1.039 adds [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/238457383628701697/626919932482945054/latest.png Wrinklers]]. They're large, fleshy parasites that start appearing when you trigger the Grandmapocalypse, and they suck your CPS if they get to your big cookie. Luckily, despite their appearance, they're nothing more than a nuisance. That, and they can actually HELP bake cookies through idling with them and THEN killing them.
* The Christmas update has Santa. Suprisingly enough, the last form of Santa isn't really all that scary, should you be used to the typical Grandmapocalypse things. But True Santa, on the other hard... [[http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131220211727/cookieclicker/images/e/ee/Truesanta.png Yeah.]]

** A later update adds cherry milk, which is even more blood-like than raspberry milk. However, you probably won't see it until much later in the game (or if you buy the Milk Selector upon your first ascension).

** There are more hints at the evil ways of your business, with multiple variations of a similar news update having people who question the current cookie obsession (which at this point consists of using particle accelerators for the sole purpose of creating cookies) branded as "confused" or "delusional", while anyone who questions the current authority is branded a conspiracy theorist and mocked publicly on the news. Another example of people being branded as talking nonsense is how anyone coming out of a coma which began before the cookie authority showed up who talks about the non-cookie foods which were eaten long ago is branded as “babbling incoherently”. In addition, one Prism-related update casually refers to someone as a "cookie magnate/government official". Yes, at this point, your business ''controls the government''.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"squirm crawl slither writhe\\
today we rise"'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:This is what the power of the Dark Side does to cookies.]]

** Similarly, growing Krumblor the cookie dragon requires you to sacrifice ''several hundreds'' of your Grandmas, heavily implying that [[HumanSacrifice you're feeding them to the ravenous dragon]].

* After ascension and being reincarnated, the world is back to normal, starting over with you baking cookies at home with nothing weird going on at all. But, using your new Heavenly Chip-granted powers, you can be right back to where you were in mere minutes, sometimes even ''seconds'' during the late game. This means that you can take the world from being a fairly average place into a cookie hellscape in only moments, with the news going from mundane reports to talk of cities blowing up in black holes, natural species being mutated into cookie-abominations, rivers being polluted with chocolate, and historical figures turning into giant black holes.

** There are more hints at the evil ways of your business, with multiple variations of a similar news update having people who question the current cookie obsession (which at this point consists of using particle accelerators for the sole purpose of creating cookies) branded as "confused" or "delusional", while anyone who questions the current authority is branded a conspiracy theorist and mocked publicly on the news. In addition, one Prism-related update casually refers to someone as a "cookie magnate/government official". Yes, at this point, your business ''controls the government''.

** Blood-like milk was taken to its logical conclusion with the Fanciful Dairy Selection upgrade. While most of the milks are pretty, exotic patterns like starry midnight milk and various fiery milks, the sanguine milk stands out for being colored a blood red patterned with the [[SarcasmMode lovely image]] of red blood cells.

** There's also the grandma's purchase icon [[NightmareFace shifting]] as the Grandmapocalypse advances. There's absolutely no previous warning of this, so it'll certainly catch you by surprise.
** When an Elder Pledge wears off, the sudden transition from their normal form to their final form qualifies as a bit of a JumpScare.

* 1.039 adds [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131029040833/cookieclicker/images/c/c4/Wrinkler.png Wrinklers]]. They're large, fleshy parasites that start appearing when you trigger the Grandmapocalypse, and they suck your CPS if they get to your big cookie. Luckily, despite their appearance, they're nothing more than a nuisance. That, and they can actually HELP bake cookies through idling with them and THEN killing them.

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[[caption-width-right:288:[[SchmuckBait It's]] [[WhamEpisode not]] [[SurpriseCreepy kidding]].]]

--> "A new Grandma bursts from the ground."

* One of the Grimoire spells can create or destroy buildings. *Grandmas count as buildings.*
--> "A new Grandma bursts up from the ground."