History NightmareFuel / DGrayMan

* Cross's ''"Oh, I'm sorry, did you only see one shot?"'' incident. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome So awesome it hurts, yes]], and yes, the [[UncannyValley freaky]] little bastard deserved it. But it also happens to result in BodyHorror.

* There's a lot of freaky twisty BodyHorror imagery in chapter 203. Even aside from the eye thing, Apocryphos is just plain ''[[UncannyValley creepy]]'', and Allen's arm doesn't seem to have coped well with being wrapped up in depower-y stuff for a week or so.

** The Earl always wears a [[NiceHat jaunty hat]]. And for good reason too.

When we say ''Manga/DGrayMan'' is a dark series, we mean ''dark''. While it started out as horror-shonen, slow GenreShift with the development of the MythArc has driven it more and more out of the realm of standard horror... which has, ironically, made it much scarier. Read on for a bonanza of BodyHorror, UncannyValley, and AdultFear that might make it hard to sleep at night.

** The Earl always wears a [[NiceHat jaunty hat]]. [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-27347-7/dgray-man/chapter-187.html And for good reason too.]]

** You thought he looked too cartoony to be scary? Take a '''good fucking look''' at [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-15225-12/dgray-man/chapter-134.html this smile]]. The SlasherSmile that the Earl always sports, coupled with his ScaryShinyGlasses, and the fact that in some panels, he is depicted with slitted pupils and ''scaly, wrinkled skin'', only add to the terror. And before that was a brief but terrifying scene where the Earl [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-15179-13/dgray-man/chapter-88.html menaces Lenalee]]. He suddenly becomes much freakier than usual.

** [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-15116-12/dgray-man/chapter-25.html Help me... *pop*]]
** Look at what happens when the Third Exorcists [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-27347-26/dgray-man/chapter-187.html absorb a bunch of them]]. His eye starts ''[[TearsOfBlood bleeding]]'' [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-27347-27/dgray-man/chapter-187.html after seeing that]].
* Also there's this omake, which is both hilarious and slightly terrifying: [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-15212-21/dgray-man/chapter-121.html "Crocodiles~! <3"]] Road's answer is also somewhat disturbing, since it's kind of hard to be sure what kind of eating she's talking about...

** Let's go back to the Rewinding City arc for this next one. The way Road is able to enter the city is truly disturbing; she touches the "time barrier" with one finger and then walks through. Passing through the barrier seems to make her skin melt. [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-15111-1/dgray-man/chapter-20.html Behold]]. And then [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-15111-2/dgray-man/chapter-20.html there's a shot of her half-deformed mouth]]...

* Eliade's true Akuma form literally rips her human body in half when it emerges. Doesn't help that it [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-15128-7/dgray-man/chapter-37.html comes out of nowhere!]]
* Cross's ''"Oh, I'm sorry, did you only see one shot?"'' incident. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome So awesome it hurts, yes]], and yes, the [[UncannyValley freaky]] little bastard deserved it. But it also happens to result in [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-15246-10/dgray-man/chapter-155.html this]]. BodyHorror much?

* The scene where Road and Tyki are both injured, sitting in a room with the windows blown out. Tyki complains that his wounds hurt, and it cuts to an {{eyeless|Face}} [[SlasherSmile grinning]] face [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-15275-13/dgray-man/chapter-184.html reflected in every single shard of glass]].

* Oh, so ''[[http://www.mangareader.net/210-43761-16/dgray-man/chapter-190.html that's]]'' why Kanda is such a JerkAss. Wisely used an ExpositionBeam to show Alma his and Kanda's childhood memories, and Allen and Road were dragged into the memories by accident too. Allen is sickened and profoundly pissed off, and Kanda has a HeroicBSOD. Yes, Kanda's life sucks so much that showing someone his childhood memories qualifies as a MindRape. The worse part? [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Road seems upset by it!]]
** Perhaps [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-47809-8/dgray-man/chapter-192.html this]] will help you not sleep tonight...

* As seen above: "This is the final blow, Exorcist!!" What makes it scarier is that it came out of fucking nowhere The explanation ''really'' [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-47809-6/dgray-man/chapter-192.html doesn't help]]. We knew the Black Order could be total bastards, but [[MoralEventHorizon this]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-47809-20/dgray-man/chapter-192.html is beyond]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-47809-27/dgray-man/chapter-192.html the pale]].
** [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-47809-22/dgray-man/chapter-192.html Page 22 of chapter 192]]. Look at the middle right panel of Alma and notice that HIS FUCKING FACE IS BURNED DOWN TO HIS SKULL!

* The BodyHorror has been getting increasingly worse lately, but chapter 202 had a particularly terrible one involving a [[http://www.mangareader.net/dgray-man/202/8 snake-like tongue and way too many eyes.]] And one of them ''falls out''!

* The Earl can make [[http://www.mangapanda.com/dgray-man/218/2 INFLATING A BALLOON]] unsettling!

** But the most terrifying thing in the chapter is TheReveal confirming that [[spoiler:the first Noah actually being those who repopulated the human race after the Great Flood, ''every single human being'' can potentially be a vessel for any of the Noah to reincarnate themselves.]] ParanoiaFuel much?
** You thought he looked too cartoony to be scary? Take a '''good fucking look''' at [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-15225-12/dgray-man/chapter-134.html this smile]]. The SlasherSmile that the Earl always sports, coupled with his ScaryShinyGlasses, and the fact that in some panels, he is depicted with slitted pupils and ''scaly, wrinkled skin'', only add to the terror. And before that was a brief but terrifying scene where the Earl [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-15179-13/dgray-man/chapter-88.html menaces Lenalee]]. He suddenly becomes much freakier than usual.

* During the China Arc, where Allen´s eye starts freaking out, ''painfully''.

** Look at what happens when [[spoiler:the Third Exorcists [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-27347-26/dgray-man/chapter-187.html absorb a bunch of them]]]]. His eye starts ''[[TearsOfBlood bleeding]]'' [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-27347-27/dgray-man/chapter-187.html after seeing that]].

* [[spoiler:General Yeager's]] death. He is [[spoiler:crucified to a tree and tortured to insanity by Road and Tyki]]. It doesn't end there; in his final moments, a horribly disfigured and dying [[spoiler:Yeager]] is so far gone, that all he can do is [[spoiler:sing Road's song as he dies]].
* Poor [[spoiler:Skinn Bolic's]] (short) life really sucked. First he [[spoiler:suffered through a truly hellish transformation into a Noah.]] Then he gets half his body torn off in a battle with [[spoiler:Kanda,]] which looked a hell of a lot worse then it sounded.

* Also, Suman Dark. Suman [[spoiler:betrays the Black Order]] and turns into a giant-blue-human-torso-with-a-halo-thing. He is trapped in it, kind of. Allen tries to rescue him and talk with him, failing, 'cause apparently Suman has turned in to a white zombie who only yells, cries blood and spits blood. The fact that Allen [[spoiler:gets absorbed]] by that thing does not help. And to make things WORSE, even after Allen successfully manages to [[spoiler:separate Suman from his Innocence and stop the monolithic monster born from it, Suman just stares forward and drools ''BECAUSE HIS SOUL WAS REMOVED BY THE INNOCENCE''. And then he dies by ''VIOLENTLY EXPLODING FROM ALL THE TEASE THAT WERE IMPLANTED INSIDE OF HIM AND BEING GROWN INSIDE OF HIS BODY!!!'']] And if that wasn't bad enough, at one point, the white skin of his becomes... SEE THROUGH, so you get to see the black skeleton under the skin... and you get to watch the jaw bone move as he speaks.

* And remember when Allen's arm was all flaked and looked like it was about to fall off? Then Tyki [[spoiler: ripped it off and then had his Teez eat a hole in Allen's ''heart''?]] This is a almost payback for Tyki's BodyHorror infliction on Allen: He transforms [[NightmareFuel rather gruesomely]] into a demonic knight thing that turned the BlackKnight scary again. He now uses weird energy circle things to basically trounce his enemies left and right. It also seems to [[FingerLickinEvil have a taste for blood]].

* The final (for now) results of Akuma evolution. Level One: Giant orb covered in cannons with a human face down the centerline. Level Two: Massive animalistic form, with abilities and design unique to each Akuma. Level Three: Always an armoured figure, with individual variations only manifesting as differing numbers of eyes and unique abilities. Level Three Point Five: A giant, lanky hermaphroditic humanoid roughly the size of Godzilla, made by combining thousands of Level Two and Three Akuma. [[spoiler:Level Four: The deadliest Akuma form yet, resembles a naked pot-bellied four-foot tall hermaphroditic ball-socket-doll-like tattooed haloed cherubim, which is capable of batting aside five Critical-level Exorcists (that is to say, the Generals and Allen, the most powerful exorcists alive), without breaking a sweat.]]
* Road Kamelot. She sings haunting nursery rhymes about killing people, [[EnfanteTerrible acts like an excited child]], and [[MindRape messes with your mind to turn you insane]]. She likes the taste of blood, and often cracks into [[LaughingMad hysterical laughter]] when maiming people. Also, as well as possessing a number of {{creepy doll}}s, she herself can transform into one. And she has a crush on the main character, which she expresses by, within an hour of each other, a) glomping and kissing him and b) trying to force him to kill his friends. She even professed her love to Allen not long after [[EyeScream stabbing him through his eye]] with a sharpened candle and [[FingerLickinEvil licking off the blood]]. And if ALL THAT wasn't enough it gets even creepier due to the fact that she is immortal so she has in fact looked twelve years old for the past thirty-five years, which means that she's [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld biologically at least forty-seven years old]] and Allen is fifteen.

* [[spoiler:Eliade]]'s true Akuma form literally rips her human body in half when it emerges. Doesn't help that it [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-15128-7/dgray-man/chapter-37.html comes out of nowhere!]]

* Skulls. They may not seem too scary at first seeing as they look like fat humanoids with a somewhat goofy looking skull for a head, and when they first appear in the ark Cross has killed a whole room full of them and throws the only survivor into the force field surrounding the Akuma egg. But the way they are made and what there are is scary to think about. [[spoiler:When the order is invaded by Lulu Bell and a swarm of level 3 Akuma they gravely injure several members of the science section to the point they can barely move from the pain, then line them up in rows. A Skull examines them one by one to see who has a "good brain." Any who don't (which is most of them) get marked with an X and have their head crushed by one of the level 3. But if they have a good brain? The Skull puts his fingers on the victim's forehead and chants a short incantation that wraps them (while they are screaming) in black silk. A few seconds later a new Skull emerges with no memory of who it once was.]] To add to the horror, all Skulls look exactly the same regardless of what they looked like before... [[spoiler:some Skulls could be CHILDREN!]]

* A seemingly boring filler arc in the manga suddenly turns terrifying when [[spoiler:Allen stabs himself with his own sword, accidentally awakening the 14th Noah inside of him. It takes possession of his body for a couple minutes, and reveals that not only can Allen's body be capable of doing the creepiest smile ever - but that it appears as a rotting, skeletal and possibly flaming corpse.]]
** More creepiness from the Fourteenth in chapter 189. There's something really viscerally disturbing about watching [[spoiler:Allen, in the middle of angrily denying that something he doesn't remember happened, suddenly flip over to DissonantSerenity as he is taken over instantaneously and '''''with absolutely no warning''''' by the Fourteenth, who goes on to chat with the Earl like an old best friend....]] Until the Fourteenth suddenly gets right up into the Millennium Earl's face to flash a SlasherSmile and tell everyone his intended goal -- [[spoiler:to kill the current Millennium Earl in order to become the '''NEW''' Millennium Earl.]] OhCrap, indeed.
** The Fourteenth yet again in chapter 198 [[spoiler: as he starts to fully awaken, thanks to Kanda stabbing Allen while he (Kanda) was in a berserk rage. NOTHING is creepier than seeing the awakening Fourteenth floating amid shadows, making the very ground rumble with insane laughter, all while wearing a terrifying SlasherSmile and his [[GlowingEyesOfDoom Glowing Right Eye of Doom]].]]
* Alma Karma. Especially in chapter 193. [[spoiler:That's one ''hell'' of a body count for a ([[BreakTheCutie formerly]]) CheerfulChild with a HolyHandGrenade. He ripped his way through most of the Black Order employees in the East Branch, as well as the other lab-grown children, with an attempt to do the same to his friend Kanda. And he was trying to kill himself, too, but his HealingFactor kept closing the wounds when he ripped a huge hole in his body...]] And all [[DissonantSerenity with a calm smile on his face]].
* The fate of the Third Generation Exorcists. [[spoiler:If they're injured beyond their ability to continue fighting, one of the others will ''absorb'' them so that the "Alma cells" that went into making them aren't wasted.]] Eventually, the surviving ones will be used the same way Alma Karma is- [[spoiler:as an incubator to provide material to hybridize more people into half-Akuma.]]
** And the freakiest part of it all? [[spoiler:They want that. That's not only the fate of any survivors, but the ''goal''.]] And the Third Generation Excorcists that they provide the material for will follow the same path, and the next group, and so on.
* Oh, so ''[[http://www.mangareader.net/210-43761-16/dgray-man/chapter-190.html that's]]'' why Kanda is such a JerkAss. [[spoiler:Wisely]] used an ExpositionBeam to show [[spoiler:Alma]] his and Kanda's childhood memories, and [[spoiler:Allen and Road were dragged into the memories by accident too]]. [[spoiler:Allen]] is sickened and profoundly pissed off, and Kanda has a HeroicBSOD. Yes, Kanda's life sucks so much that showing someone his childhood memories qualifies as a MindRape. The worse part? [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Road seems upset by it!]]

** One of the most horrifying questions is how long Kanda and Alma were fighting for [[spoiler:after Alma had killed everyone?]] We know that they can each regenerate dozens if not hundreds of times, so the question is how many times did he slice him up before he put him down for good? For all we know he could have been down there for days...
* Chapter 194. Five words: [[spoiler: Alma turning into an Akuma]].
* Chapter 195. Aside from the nauseating and sleep-depriving imagery, there's plenty of circumstances that make this worse. [[spoiler:These guys had submitted to being guinea pigs to try to help the Exorcists fight Akuma in any way they could. And now they're [[TranshumanTreachery being compelled to attack them against their will]], while the Exorcists are faced with killing their allies or dying horribly.]] And [[BreakTheCutie poor, poor Allen]] is experiencing an entirely new level of pain in all this: [[spoiler:He's an AllLovingHero. He wants to save ''everyone''. He won't hurt humans, ever. And now all of a sudden his EmpathicWeapon is going berserk and trying to kill the guy he showed up to rescue, who's begging for Allen not to hurt him. Just after he failed to protect a ton of his civilian friends from Alma Karma. And when Allen manages to suppress Crown Clown, he gets thrown around like a ragdoll.]]
** Watching the horrifically mutated Tokusa lose all composure and start desperately screaming for Madarao to come and "save" him is upsetting in itself. The Earl sweetly telling him that it's no use, that Madarao and the others are going to suffer the same fate and that, best of all, the one to kill them will be ''Allen'' is downright disturbing!
** Allen was seriously considering [[spoiler:''joining the Earl'']] to get him to stop it.
** In chapter 198, in the pages directly after the Millennium Earl's terrifying {{technically a smile}}.[[spoiler:So let's forget the fact that Allen is being taunted by the Noah in his head. Let's overlook the chains binding him to a throne, completely helpless to do anything. Let's blank out the frankly terrifying landscape. Instead, let's take a very close look at the 14th himself. He's wearing Allen's clothes. When we look at his face, it's actually quite young... like Allen. Even his hair is rather similar to Allen's. The noticeable differences are skin colour, hair colour and the lack of a cursed eye and scar. Even without taking into consideration the implications of the 14th's speech, what does this tell you? He's already taken over.]]

* There's a lot of freaky twisty BodyHorror imagery in chapter 203. Even aside from the eye thing, Apocryphos is just plain ''[[UncannyValley creepy]]'', and Allen's arm doesn't seem to have coped well with [[spoiler:being wrapped up in depower-y stuff for a week or so]].
* Chapter 218: the Earl seems to have gone completely crazy and it's not pretty to look at. What makes it more disturbing is because at first [[DissonantSerenity it seems that the Earl has come to mess with Allen's head again as he usually does]], but [[spoiler: as soon as he goes OneWingedAngel into a huge HumanoidAbomination version of his normally jolly self, becomes utterly incomprehensible and insane in his obsession with Nea]].
* The Earl can make [[http://www.mangapanda.com/dgray-man/218/2 INFLATING A BALLOON]] unsettling!

* The series is no stranger to horror, including what humanity is capable of. However this reaches a whole new level with chapter 232, which starts dwelling properly on [[spoiler:Allen's]] childhood. [[spoiler:The poor kid was a victim of violent physical and psychological abuse for years, at the hands of a particular clown, in the circus where he used to live. Worse, his interractions with the director heavily implies the man was a sexual predator, and had his sights on Allen, with the poor boy being seemingly aware of it and understandably freaking out completely.]] Hopefully nothing had been done to him until he left with [[spoiler:Mana]], but as of now we can't be certain, [[RapeAsBackstory and the implications]] are absolutely horrifying for [[spoiler:Allen.]]
* Let's take a moment to look at the souls of the Akuma, which we get a glimpse of through Allen's "cursed" eye. Level 1 Akuma's souls generally have the poor sod looking like a shriveled up corpse wrapped in chains. Level 2 Akuma are degraded, looking like mummies. And with Level 3, there's hardly much of a soul left in the Akuma's body. [[spoiler:We don't get a glimpse of what the soul's condition is in a Level 4 Akuma, but when Allen saw it, he ''puked all over himself'' and damn nearing went into a HeroicBSOD. Whatever's left of the Level 4 Akuma's soul, if there even is one left, it's been degraded to the point where even our AllLovingHero was scared shitless]]. Let's be thankful we don't actually see what Allen did.

** How he creates the Akumas. It's a DealWithTheDevil that no one benefits from except himself. First, he finds a poor sap desperate to bring a loved one back from the dead. He presents them with a metal skeleton that the soul of that loved one can inhabit if the person calls out their name. And it works! But before the person can even enjoy being reunited with their loved one, the skeleton immediately falls under the Earl's control and is ''forced to kill the person who brought them back'' '''''and wear their body like a suit'''''. In this way, the Earl makes humanity suffer the ultimate despair.

* The Earl is a borderline MonsterClown, the low-level Akuma look exactly like normal people until they kill you horribly, some high-level Akuma take up residence deep in the UncannyValley, one of the Noah can pluck your heart clean out...

** How he creates the Akumas. It's a DealWithTheDevil that no one benefits from except himself. First, he finds a poor sap desperate to bring a loved one back from the dead. He presents them with a metal skeleton that the soul of that loved one can inhabit if the person calls out their name. And it works! But before the person can even enjoy the fact they are reunited with their loved one, the skeleton immediately falls under the Earl's control and is ''forced to kill the person who brought them back and wear their body like a suit''. This is the Earl's way of making humanity suffer the ultimate despair. Making a deal with the Earl is not good for anyone, both living ''and'' dead.

** How he creates the Akumas. It's a DealWithTheDevil that no one benefits from except himself. First, he finds a poor sap desperate to bring a loved one back from the dead. He presents them with a metal skeleton that the soul of that loved one can inhabit if the person calls out said loved one's name. And it works! But before the person can even enjoy the fact they are reunited with their loved one, the skeleton immediately falls under the Earl's control and is ''forced to kill the person who brought them back and wear their body like a suit''. This is the Earl's way of making humanity suffer the ultimate despair. Making a deal with the Earl is not good for anyone, both living ''and'' dead.

* How he creates the Akumas. It's a DealWithTheDevil that no one benefits from except himself. First, he finds a poor sap desperate to bring a loved one back from the dead. He presents them with a metal skeleton that the soul of that loved one can inhabit if the person calls out their loved one's name. And it works! But before the person can even enjoy the fact they are reunited with their loved one, the skeleton immediately falls under the Earl's control and is ''forced to kill the person and wear their body like a suit''. This is the Earl's way of making humanity suffer the ultimate despair.