History NightmareFuel / DigimonAdventure02

* Oikawa's creepy email to young Ken in "Genesis of Evil".

** His first trip to the Digi-World, from the same episode, is strangely nightmarish. He is walking through an inhospitable desert along with Wormmon and an unknown Ryo Akiyama, and out of the blue a Gazimon bursts out from the sand, randomly and without any warning, and lunges towards Ken, who becomes scared like the little boy he is. Fortunately, Wormmon is here to shield Ken and knock out the Gazimon in a saving dive, but he still tells Ken that while he is happy his human partner is a kind boy, Ken ''needs'' to become strong to survive...
** However, the worst of his travels in the Digi-World is shown later, in episode 43, when another dream shows Ken's and Ryo's victory over Millenniummon. Suddenly, we witness the death throes of a creepy giant digimon we have never seen before, which collapses in what appears to be the same desert, sticking out its tongue and striking a chilling lost stare through its dragon eyes. Its body is almost indistinguishable in the distance, but we can see an eerie yellow aura and a pair of Machinedramon cannons strangely mounted on its back before the monster disappears - all while Ken and Ryo are standing in a strange wind that brings ''blood''-colored particles around them. And then the Dark Spores come out, darting towards Ryo, only for Ken to tackle him out of the way and receive the spores on his own neck.

* Daemon's entire appearance. He's not only a mysterious being with enormous amounts of power whose very presence gives off a creepy Satanic vibe and who leads a trio of frighteningly powerful devil Digimons, he's also a villain who comes literally out of nowhere - as in suddenly levitating out of a portal in midst of the street! And while Arukenimon, Mummymon and Oikawa had proven by this point that even at their goofiest they were still powerful enemies with very evil intentions, Daemon is even worse, because he is completely unrelated to them. He is at least just as dangerous, but unlike them, we know ''nothing'' about it.

* The encounter TK's mom has with Oikawa. A strange, pale man just confronts you in the street and ominously hints that the life threatening events that nearly killed your sons are happening again, before disappearing?

** The Scubamon, or rather the unidentified things that were ''pretending to be Scubamon'', in episode 13 who live near the Dark Ocean want Kari to have a child with them. One of them even calls Kari a "virgin". And no, [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil they don't seem to care much for her consent.]] It's only slightly better in the dub where they want to brainwash her into being their "Queen" so she can lead them to greater evil heights.

* The encounter TK's mom has with Oikawa. A strange, pale man just confronts you in the street and ominously hints that the life threatening events that nearly killed your sons are happening again, before disappearing? AdultFear doesn't even cover it.

--> '''Ken''': (''breaking down'') But he promised to help me!
* The completely surreal final battle against Cherubimon in ''Hurricane Touchdown/Supreme Evolution! The Golden Digimentals''.
** Kokomon's evolution line in this continuity is this as a whole. While in the dub the Dark Digivolutions are a result of the same virus that created Diaboromon, [[NothingIsScarier the Japanese version leaves it ambiguous as to what corrupted him]]. While corrupted, Kokomon is nothing short of a PsychopathicManchild, its childlike, playful nature becoming corrupted into something far more malicious. It's also a SuperPersistentPredator, hunting down any child with a regular Digivice under the assumption that they're Wallace/Willis. On top of ''all'' of that, it's a deceptively powerful RealityWarper; Wendigomon alone is capable of creating pocket dimensions, which it traps the older [=DigiDestined=] in, and can revert anyone and anything to how they were seven years ago. This is even present in the Digimon's official Reference Book bio, so it's something that any member of its species can do. As Cherubimon, it evokes the look of a MonsterClown and proceeds to do this with the younger children, [[WouldHurtAChild continuing to show no restraint during the fight and tossing the Digimon around even when they're reverted to the In-Training level]]. Kari notices early on that Wendigomon is [[TragicMonster crying on the inside]]; however, by the time it becomes Cherubimon, she notes that the crying monster is gone. [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody The source of its corruption has completely taken over]] and poor Kokomon has to be put down [[DyingAsYourself just so it can feel happiness again]]. Yikes...
* Diaboromon's return in ''Revenge of Diaboromon'' shows that the virus Digimon is just as dangerous as he was in ''Our War Game'', staying one step ahead of the Digidestined and achieving his goal of materializing in the real world as [[EldritchAbomination Armageddemon]], handily beating Omnimon ''and'' Imperialdramon.
* In the English dub at least, the fake Blossomon in the episode where Silphymon debuts. Not only is it bigger than usual, but unlike the other Black Tower-created Digimon, this Blossomon never talks or even makes human-created grunts. Instead, it roars [[HellisthatNoise a nightmarish roar]]. Even In-Universe, this roar actually traumatizes Kari out of digivolving Gatomon to Angewoman, just as she's about to.
* What the Digimon Emperor does with the Dark Rings. Even the GagDub stops with Digimon being painfully struck by the things.
** The opening of one episode, where Ken chases an Elecmon with a Tuskmon, beats it with a whip until it can't stand, then throws it into a jail cell to fight another Elecmon.
** And then again with two Gotsumon. A third Gotsumon manages to run away, and has to watch the two fighting, implicitly to the death.
* Ken's reunion with Leafmon in the Village of Beginnings reminds us of [[WhoWantsToLiveForever the downside]] to Digimon's standard BornAgainImmortality--Ken encounters some baby Digimon there who recognize him as ''their killer'' and are somewhat justifiably pissed. Not to mention that this scene confirms that, whether directly or indirectly, Ken definitely did ''kill'' Digimon while he was the Digimon Emperor.

'''Agumon:''' [[OhCrap What happened?]] ''[Grunts in pain as the Dark Spiral takes effect]''\\

* Ken's reunion with Leafmon in the Village of Beginnings reminds us of [[WhoWantsToLiveForever the downside]] to Digimon's standard ResurrectiveImmortality--Ken encounters some baby Digimon there who recognize him as ''their killer'' and are somewhat justifiably pissed. Not to mention that this scene confirms that, whether directly or indirectly, Ken definitely did ''kill'' Digimon while he was the Digimon Emperor.

** And then again with two Gotsumon. A third Gotsumon manages to run away, and has to watch the two fighting, implicitly to the death.

** Kokomon's evolution line in this continuity is this as a whole. While in the dub the Dark Digivolutions are a result of the same virus that created Diaboromon, [[NothingIsScarier the Japanese version leaves it ambiguous as to what corrupted him]]. While corrupted, Kokomon is nothing short of a PsychopathicManchild, its childlike, playful nature becoming corrupted into something far more malicious. It's also a SuperPersistentPredator, hunting down any child with a regular Digivice under the assumption that they're Wallace/Willis. On top of ''all'' of that, it's a deceptively powerful RealityWarper; Wendigomon alone is capable of creating pocket dimensions, which it traps the older [=DigiDestined=] in, and can revert anyone and anything to how they were seven years ago. This is even present in the Digimon's official Reference Book bio, so it's something that any member of its species can do. As Cherubimon, it evokes the look of a MonsterClown and proceeds to do this with the younger children, [[WouldHurtAChild continuing to show no restraint during the fight and tossing the Digimon around even when they're reverted to the In-Training level]]. Kari notices early on that Wendigomon is [[TragicMonster crying on the inside]]; however, by the time it becomes Cherubimon however, she notes that the crying monster is gone. [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody The source of its corruption has completely taken over]] and poor Kokomon has to be put down [[DyingAsYourself just so it can feel happiness again]]. Yikes...

** Diaboromon's return in ''Revenge of Diaboromon'' shows that the virus Digimon is just as dangerous as he was in ''Our War Game'', staying one step ahead of the Digidestined and achieving his goal of materializing in the real world as [[EldritchAbomination Armageddemon]], handily beating Omnimon ''and'' Imperialdramon.

** The only other implication is no better: The Dark Whirlpool could be a link between the Digital World and the Dark Ocean, where extremely evil Digimon are implied to be sent when they die. The voice is implied to either be Devimon's spirit taunting him or something else entirely. When the hole opens he sees something the viewer can't and screams in horror until it closes, at which point he goes LaughingMad. Either he saw the spirit of an evil Digimon like Devimon or Apocalymon in there... ...or he saw the otherwise absent ''Dragomon'' and like a character in the Cthulu Mythos went mad from the sight of him.

** However, the worst of his travels in the Digi-World is shown later, in episode 43, when another dream shows Ken's and Ryo's victory over Millenniummon. Suddenly, we witness the death throes of a creepy giant digimon we have never seen before, which collapses in what appears to be the same desert, sticking out his tongue and striking a chilling lost stare with his dragon eyes. His body is almost indistinguishable in the distance, but we can see an eerie yellow aura and a pair of Machinedramon cannons strangely mounted on its back before the monster disappears - all while Ken and Ryo are standing in a strange wind that brings ''blood''-colored particles around them. And then the Dark Spores come out, darting towards Ryo, only for Ken to tackle him out of the way and receive the spores on his own neck.

* The end episode 28, where Stingmon pulls a full Nelson on Exveemon and Digmon torturing the latter with his ''drills''. Even worse given that he sometimes nails his drills in Exveemon's ''[[GroinAttack groin]]''.

** What makes it worse is the build-up; Right after some light-hearted action with the Children, we cut back to a playground in Japan; a lone child is sitting on the swings, and when we cut in for a closer shot, ''Mummymon is there too.''

** It's also implied during to his jaunt into the Dark Whirlpool to gather Devimon's loose data that

* In the English dub at least, the fake Blossomon in the episode where Silphymon debuts. Not only is it bigger than usual- [[Main/OneofTheseisNotLiketheOthers unlike the other Black Tower-created Digimon, this Blossomon never talks or even makes human-created grunts]]. Oh no- it roars [[Main/HellisthatNoise a nightmarish roar]]. Even In-Universe, this roar actually traumatizes Kari out of digivolving Gatomon to Angewoman, just as she's about to.

* In the English dub at least, the fake Blossomon in the episode where Silphymon debuts. Not only is it bigger than usual- [[Main/OneofTheseisNotLiketheOthers unlike the other Black Tower-created Digimon, this Blossomon never talks or even makes human-created grunts]]. Oh no- it roars [[Main/HellisthatNoise a nightmarish roar]]. Even In-Universe, this roar actually traumatizes Kari out of digivolving Gatomon to Angewoman, just as she's about to.

-->'''Natsuko:''' ''(Thinking)'' He's gone! What have the boys gotten themselves into this time? I thought this Digital World stuff was over with, now the danger starts again!

** The Divermon in episode 13 who live near the Dark Ocean want Kari to have a child with them. One of them even calls Kari a "virgin".

* The Digimon Emperor manages to take control of Agumon using a Dark Spiral, which is much more powerful than the Dark Rings.