History NightmareFuel / DigimonGhostGame

* Put simply, there's a ''very'' good reason why this is considered one of the most disturbing episodes of ''Ghost Game''. It might as well as be called "{{Squick}}: The Episode", featuring incredibly graphic scenes of Digimon ''outright turning people into mushroom plantations and physically brutalizing them, with little left to the imagination''. It's as bad as it sounds. Now, bear in mind that this was broadcast on a ''Sunday morning'' KidsBlock, even though what happens in this episode is definitely ''far'' from kid-friendly and seems more at home with ''Manga/MadeInAbyss'' than ''Digimon'' in general. [[https://twitter.com/exadriver/status/1583979262029144064 Quite a bunch of viewers noticed how insanely brutal this episode is by Digimon anime standards]], which speaks volumes.

* Also a TearJerker moment, but Siriusmon's apparent death. The show doesn't hold back showing what happened. Regulusmon's blown a hole in Siriusmon's torso, and he's likely dead for real. It's just so ''wrong'' when a Digimon villain manages to not only harm a partner Digimon, but also do it in a way that's almost certainly lethal. The worst we usually see is a grievous, yet explicitly non-lethal injury such as [[Recap/DigimonAdventure02M2RevengeOfDiaboromon losing both]][[Anime/DigimonAdventureLastEvolutionKizuna arms]], but it's never a seemingly fatal TorsoWithAView. The only other victim of a very fatal injury is [[Anime/DigimonTamers Juri's partner Leomon]], but the injury Beelzebumon inflicts on him is still nowhere near ''this'' grievous. The protagonists, and possibly [=BloomLordmon=] too, are shocked and terrified. In particular, Hiro looks absolutely [[https://imgur.com/uufp6Fi dead on the inside]] having to see the stepbrother he cared for so dearly die in front of him. This is all accompanied with an eerie ''dead silence'' and an eerie grey filter to emphasize the sheer dread of the situation the protagonists find themselves in.\\\

* Fittingly for an episode called "Nightmare", this episode is essentially "''Digimon'' meets ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet''". The opening scene has a person running from something before coming across what seems to be a red river. While he ponders what to do, he meets a ''[=SkullGreymon=]'' that murmurs "Rot and decay" (the only say they ever say throughout the episode) before its claws suddenly burst out of the walls and reach out to him.

* While Hiro and Ruli are chasing [=Monzaemon=] around, the streets are wholly empty. This can be interpreted as Kayono, [=ExTyrannomon=], and [=WaruMonzaemon=] turning everyone nearby into dolls.
* [=ExTyrannomon=] is another one of those Digimon who instantly put something or someone out of action regardless of what they are. If you get hit by one of its attacks, you turn instantly into a doll, no questions asked. And unlike Splashmon, you have to ask [=ExTyrannomon=] (who is obviously unrepentant from the get-go) to reverse the process. If not for [=Monzaemon=] forcing him to, everyone affected would have remained as dolls.

* At one point Kayano's mother begs her to stop turning people into dolls. Kayano coldly tells her to shut up before the scene shows [=ExTyrannomon=] slowly opening its mouth to transform her.
* While Hiro and Ruli are chasing [=WaruMonzaemon=] around, the streets are wholly empty. This can be interpreted as Kayono, [=ExTyrannomon=], and [=WaruMonzaemon=] turning everyone nearby into dolls.
* [=ExTyrannomon=] is another one of those Digimon who instantly put something or someone out of action regardless of what they are. If you get hit by one of its attacks, you turn instantly into a doll, no questions asked. And unlike Splashmon, you have to ask [=ExTyrannomon=] (who is obviously unrepentant from the get-go) to reverse the process. If not for [=WaruMonzaemon=] forcing him to, everyone affected would have remained as dolls.

* Regulusmon is absorbing Gammamon's body, and he is ''dying''. Every single one of his memories slowly vanish in sight, all the way to meeting Bokomon's illusion in the Library, at which he himself begins to vanish too...
* When Quantumon slows down time to let Hiro in Gammamon's consciousness to save his stepbrother. But when he finds what appears to be Gammamon in the same park where Gammamon gets tricked by Betsumon and pulls him off ground, something is horribly amiss. "Gammamon" doesn't speak like how he usually does, and he speaks in [=GulusGammamon=]'s voice, pulls off the rug and shows that he's one of the Regulusmon illusions, and a bunch of Regulusmon clones are chomping through Gammamon's consciousness. When Hiro finds the real Gammamon in the library where he first met Bokomon, half of his body was already vanished, so had he not acted earlier, Gammamon would be KilledOffForReal.
* The scene where Gammamon absorbs [=GulusGammamon=] into his body. A ''very unsettling'' red mouth manifests from Siriusmon, followed by spectres taking the form of all of Gammamon's other forms with unsettling {{Slasher Smile}}s coming out from his body to devour [=GulusGammamon=], his screams probably didn't help in making any less nightmare inducing.
* As the protagonists ask Quantumon questions and Hiro calls her out, [=GulusGammamon=] possesses Gammamon one last time, prompting the Black Digimon to suddenly appear out of nowhere and nearly attack before Quantumon calls them off. [=GulusGammamon=] then tells a horrible story, claiming that he came from space and his planet was devoured by a being known as "the Endbringer" that will come to the earth after 2,000 years and he is going to create an army of black Digimon to devour it instead. Based on his reaction when Hiro questions him, it's implied that he was lying, but it's still a rather uncomfortable to watch scene. That said, the fact that their Digimon, and even ''Quantumon'', are panicking from this news means that it might be a possibility, especially since a Digimon's perception of time is much different from human's; plus, the Digital World is also at risk.

* The way Dark Knightmon lost his head is unsettling. According to him he saw a gate to the human world one day and peeked his head through the gate, only for it to ''cut his head off''. He survived no problem as a suit of AnimatedArmor, but that type of injury would likely kill and disintegrate most Digimon. Many Digimon also passed through that gate, which makes you wonder if there were any other Digimon who were actually ''killed'' in such accidents.

* When Hiro and Ruli fight the Andiramon, they super-evolve their Digimon into Lamortmon and Cannoweissmon... only for the Andiramon to infinitely stall and time them out by healing their wounds with Meditation Cure. It's clear that they are virtually invincible and by all means ''defeat'' our heroes. The only way to make the Andiramon quit is to cancel the orders, the problem being that they can only be canceled client-side because the Andiramon contracted Jellymon to program a secure ID system for them. There are also ''hundreds'' of orders Fukatsu made for the rest of the class, enough to crumble Hiro's dorm to smithereens.

* When Ruli scans the QR code on the VIP card doled out by the circus mascot (an Opposumon in disguise), it shows a video asking if she wants to join a "miraculous show just for you". When Ruli accepts, the screen turns black for a few seconds before the mascot makes a JumpScare. Then a [=FlaWizarmon=] and a Tobucatmon appear right in front of her to claim the victims, but since Ruli wasn't invited (she grabbed the card from Opposumon), Piemon tells them to grab Angoramon instead.

* If the mere appearance of Vamdemon isn't a sufficient warning that things are going to go south, then there's also how just like Majramon, the hero's current Digimon are ''completely and utterly'' outmatched against him. He never takes a single scrape from their attacks, defeats one, and delivers a brutal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to another ''without even taking a step from where he's standing''. Even his Sangloupmon minion is too much for Angoramon to handle.

* As for Arachnemon herself, she's ''extremely'' creepy. She starts her transformation with an incredibly unsettling NightmareFace, she moves and twitches in incredibly unnatural ways, and her signature "Kekekeke" EvilLaugh is accompanied by a disturbing sound akin to something tapping on wood. On top of all of that, she has devices that monitor the entire building for Hiro and co., and she links them to the cameras to deploy a near-endless amount of Dokugumon right next to them just to tire them out and get them hunted down eventually. It's just as unsettling as Sealsdramon in a different way, and unlike him, Arachnemon has a disposition for eating people instead of simply killing random Digimon.

* Any player that gets defeated by Kinkakumon is trapped in Gingakumon's Beni Hisago and turns into the sake he drinks. Thankfully they are saved while they can still be restored to normal.

* Petermon's "Midnight Fantasia" attack can cause [[ZergRush all the human and Digimon children to sleepwalk and incapacitate his foes]], weighing down [=TeslaJellymon=] and Symbare Angoramon and preventing them from attacking. It's only thwarted when he almost hits Kazuma with one of his knives by accident when trying to hit Symbare Angoramon and the Hawkmon evolve into Orcamon to protect their partner.

* This is not even the first time the Moon=Milleniumon-reanimated corpse feeds on Toru. It's been feeding on Toru for just under two weeks, but he's too insane to care. You can see blue erosion marks on his body even right before Manami's corpse starts attacking, and it's heavily implied that his eyebags and rather pale complexion are also Moon=Milleniumon's work. Meeting a crowd of humans nearby likely only awakened its bloodlust so it could do whatever it wanted to do way earlier than it should be able to.

* Even when destroyed, [=ZeedMillenniumon=] only regresses back into a dormant Moon=Milleniumon around the size of Hiro's hand. Hiro then decides to keep it, knowing full well how dangerous it is. There's something very unsettling about how nonchalant he is about the whole thing, making you wonder ''what'' kind of threat is on the horizon that needs him to keep it as a precautionary measure.

* When the group is done with this incident, Clockmon tells them that the Digimon are committing a mass exodus away from the Digital World to the human world, with multiple Gazimon, Swanmon and others emerging. Suddenly, [=ClavisAngemon=] and Quartzmon's actions become less like random incidents but orchestrated excursions. Then we see a black blot appear right on Gammamon's back, suggesting [=GulusGammamon=] is the one wrecking havoc.

* Like "Water Ghost", this is another episode reminiscent of "His Master's Voice". If the original Lovecraftian Digimon Episode scares you, just '''run''' now because this one is completely unambiguous on how ''insanely terrifying'' the situation Hikari caught herself in back in would be. What really doesn't help its case is the jarring lack of music throughout the episode, with the only ones playing being ominous tunes that indicate the sheer wrongness of the situation.
* Entire hordes of people are beckoned by Dagomon to create more underlings for his sake, whose presence is accompanied by a FogOfDoom. To make things worse, the internet signal suddenly goes low, making sure the rest of the group couldn't communicate with Gammamon and Hiro easily (who were stranded in a fishing trip and would be the most vulnerable).
* The FogOfDoom in question is powerful enough to compress the fields until it can ''barely'' fit one who activated it. No other digimon's power before was able to do that. Even [=GulusGammamon=] and Kuzuhamon need to let it activate fully before attempting to break out or deleting it respectively.
* It's not much compared to the rest of the episode, but when Floramon tells Kiyoshiro and Ruli about people vanishing and turned into ghosts, she does give out a wide-open glare to him while she freaks out Kiyoshiro with the spooky tale.
* Right before fighting Dagomon, Kiyoshiro tells Kotaro to stop marching towards the sea...and that's when his neck suddenly bloats and ''stretches fluidly to face Kiyoshiro and creates gills out of it'', then his yellow eyes suddenly turn into fish eyes and the skin on his head becomes green like anyone else. He's turning into a Deep One.
* Dagomon is a pretty unsettling Digimon. He manifests himself as a gigantic black shadow of himself and extends his trident from it. The protagonists are understandably terrified when they see the gigantic Digimon, with Kiyoshiro even nervously claiming that he just wants to create underlings for no reason. And when all three of the protagonists' Perfect forms get wounded, he traps them in an illusion where the tentacles come out from said wounds and strangle them from the inside. And when [=HoverEspimon=] tries to save Canoweissmon, he has to roll ''percentile dice'' as a ShoutOut to the ''Call of Cthulhu'' board game.
** When the protagonists dispel the gigantic Dagomon, the real Dagomon shows up, but something is very wrong with him. Compared to the other hostile Digimon who have at least some sort of sapience or sentience, he acts like no such creature but more like a frenzied, blackened monster with unnatural glowing red eyes, and Siriusmon suggests that he supposedly can't even affect entire cities like he did here. We don't get an exact word on what happened, but anyone who read Regulusmon's ''Vital Bracelet Arena'' entry will find the implication that he is infected with his Gulus Realm Burst.
*** Dagomon being able to manifest the giant shadow Dagomon like in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' makes you wonder is the shadow Dagomon there actually an illusion that the real Dagomon hides behind, and are the Deep Ones Hikari ran into ''former humans''.
* Despite seemingly being beaten by Siriusmon, Dagomon still has the tenacity to spring right back up and try for a second round. Thankfully, Black Tailmon Uver. and Cthyllamon stop him right there.
* The episode in general does a good job of keeping viewers on their toes by going against the norms of a normal ''Ghost Game'' episode; The usual Hologram Ghost intro is absent, the normal sound effects of the eyecatch are replaced with the sound of waves, there's none of the generic background or evolution music and Angoramon's usual end-of-episode haiku is suddenly cut short.
* Angoramon's haiku is cut short at the end of the episode as all of Japan goes into a blackout. At the same time, all sorts of Digimon are experiencing an unprecedented amount of despair, with Jellymon even crying and Mummymon outright saying that ''the Digital World has been destroyed'', meaning that the Digimon are afraid of being erased from existence, and the implication being the Jet-Black Champion is moving onto business for real. Of course, this begs the question as to how he could do it if he was still within Hiro's Gammamon the whole time...

* A black corrosion is destroying the Digital World and somehow also affecting the human world, causing all internet appliances in the world to go out, with Japan running on backup electronic supply. This is saying a ''lot'' considering the lack of internet and reliable electricity can easily mean the end of urban societies like in the ''Ghost Game'' world.
* Terriermon Assistant tells a group of former Digimon of the Week, the protagonists and a few others that the black corrosion spread days ago and infected Digimon and plants, turning any Digimon unfortunate enough to be stuck in the Digital world into violent monsters. Upamon even mentioned that he saw the waters becoming black when the particles hit it. And it's implied Hokuto and Terriermon ''ran into the black corrosion'' before being ejected back to the human world.

* On the way to a village, Kiyoshiro falls ill after being hit by mysterious spores coming from a group of rafflesia flowers on the ground, with his arm being discolored. Shortly after, he goes insane and baits [=TeslaJellymon=], Ruli and [=SymbareAngoramon=] into being infected. He looks absolutely crazed at first, then his eyes become rainbow and his skin becomes charcoal-grey.
* When Hiro and his Digimon eventually catch up to Kiyoshiro, the petals of rafflesia flowers emerge out from his body while he seems to be in some sort of pleasure as his body melts, with [=TeslaJellymon=] also affected. Rafflesimon then emerges out from the ground, but something is ''very wrong'' with this Digimon in a similar way as Dagomon before. Despite [=SymbareAngoramon=] describes her as a noble Digimon who wilts days after and her ''Digital Reference Book'' entry outright states that she's not a species that will display pessimism over its short lifespan, this one desires eternal life through eating other Digimon. Oh and she doesn't have the usual brilliant red color, instead having a unnatural, black coloration. Then she hits Ruli and [=SymbareAngoramon=] with the same type of body horror Kiyoshiro and [=TeslaJellymon=] were hit with, turning them into rafflesia flowers to be absorbed in her body. Small wonder why all the Digimon, including the ''Ultimates'', ran when they could, because the ones trapped became vicious, predatory monsters who rip apart and eat each other and nobody wants to end up like them.
* Just how the protagonist's first battle in the Digital World starts with ''a borderline TotalPartyWipe''.
* Rafflesimon easily curb-stomps Siriusmon one-on-one and almost consumes him before [=GulusGammamon=] manifests within him. Not only the black blot like in previous times, but his BlackEyesOfCrazy too, telling him to leave Rafflesimon to him. Then in [=GulusGammamon=]'s voice, he tells Rafflesimon to eat him and she does, so [=GulusGammamon=] takes the advantage to ravage all over her body, sending her into incredible pain before she spits out all of her victims, wilts and dies.
** Rafflesimon's death is rather unsettling. Her body quickly fades, leaving a withering husk and explodes, only leaving several agonizing cries in her wake. It's slightly more graphic than the other Digimon deaths, which only had the dying Digimon dissipate into data particles.

* The story continues from the previous episode where the protagonists run into a [=BloomLordmon=] who refuses to let them pass. [=BloomLordmon=] proceeds to give them another quick TotalPartyWipe by growing seeds on their body that cause vines to burst out from it and restrain them from the inside. Then he tries to kill Gammamon to expel the Jet-Black Champion from his body, and Gammamon pulls off a '''[[https://imgur.com/pK4wQYj terrifying]]''' NightmareFace after [=GulusGammamon=] communicates through his body once again, with razor sharp fangs and completely hollowed-out eyes, a ''major'' exception compared to before where he just at most shows up with BlackEyesOfCrazy, a SlasherSmile and screams in an inhumane voice. It drives to the point that the Jet-Black Champion is no longer playing around and will instantly get to business.
* [=GulusGammamon=] telling us about how he managed to nearly wipe out the Digital World and send everyone packing, and it's just horrific. Before Gammamon entered the human world, [=GulusGammamon=] dropped a small puddle of Gulus Realm Burst particles in the Digital World despite still within Gammamon's body. Within more than a year, the puddle degenerated into a Digital Hazard virtually wiping away the Digital World. Unlike ''[[Anime/DigimonAdventureTri Tri's]]'' Meicoomon, the GRB particles he spreads is also ''intentional'' on his own end. And when Hokuto delivered Gammamon to his son, the actual world-wiping abomination was inside him all along and the seeds of destruction already planted. Then with an incredibly widened SlasherSmile, he evolves into a Perfect form. Enter... '''''Regulusmon'''''.
* Regulusmon clearly establishes himself as one of the most horrific Digimon in the entire franchise. The ''Digimon Reference Book'' establishes him to be as strong as ''Megidramon'', the most evil and savage of the Four Great Dragons. Imagine a Digimon who is not only on the same level as the apocalyptic big red dragon ''at a minimum'', but also displays considerable intelligence like Lucemon and can drive entire groups of Digimon a into murderous frenzy like Gore Magala, and you have Regulusmon. It's as bad as it sounds. Unlike most of the other Digimon the protagonists met who only want to live peaceful lives, he is a remorseless, insane [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinist]] who runs on a thoroughly outdated and horrific philosophy that everything only exists to be eat or be eaten, and seeks to create an entire army of insane corrupted Digimon who devours everything in their path. Essentially, he is the ''Digimon'' equivalent of [[Manga/JujutsuKaisen Sukuna]]. It's no wonder all the Digimon who ran into the human world en masse (including the Ultimates like ''Quartzmon'') when the infection he spreads reaches its tipping point and Piccolomon was defeated and scared ''shitless'' when he tried to RetGone Gammamon by going back in time. That's not even getting into his Ultimate form that ''nobody even knows the ecology of''.
** At one point, Regulusmon tells Hiro that Gammamon is ''gone and deleted'', sending the usually confident and meek boy into an unprecedented amount of despair as he laughs at him. Hiro looks absolutely ''broken'' believing that his Digimon stepbrother is long gone. Thankfully, he lucked out and manages to dispel Regulusmon from Gammamon, but it's still a horrific sight to see.
** These are not just unfounded claims or jokes. When the protagonists do see him fight, he explicitly fights on equal terms with [=BloomLordmon=] who, by his own admission, defeated numerous corrupted Digimon and ''won'' against all of the protagonist's Ultimates without even taking a scratch. Even a Gran Del Sol from him only tore off one of his horns after he blocked it with his own Gran TRACE (on the other hand, [=BloomLordmon=] was already heavily weakened and put out of action from the initial assault). It's worse when the protagonists fight him as they procure his wrath. He pretends to be distracted by Amphimon and Diarbbitmon so Siriusmon can seemingly land a hit, but when he tries to, Regulusmon throws Amphimon in the way and ''immediately'' blows a hole clean through a distracted Siriusmon's body, being all but stated to be a lethal wound. Even without the pragmatic move, he still makes it very clear that he still has enough stamina to effortlessly wipe out the protagonist's three Ultimates even after fighting with the incredibly powerful [=BloomLordmon=]. In fact, he would likely kill [=BloomLordmon=] if Hiro didn't trick him into splitting away from Gammamon and allowed them to continue the fight.
* By Regulusmon's own admission, he's the original owner of Gammamon's body, and the one Hiro known and loved is a ''[[SplitPersonality split personality]]'' that he somehow developed. This brings out the horrible, ParanoiaFuel-laden implication that '''''[[FridgeHorror the series' answer to the likes of Diablomon or the Eaters is actually hidden within an otherwise perfectly cute and innocent Digimon and watching the protagonist's every move from there.]]''''' The protagonists might had been dealt with all sorts of nasty {{Serial Killer}}s, serial kidnappers and attempted mass murderers that unfortunate civilians might encounter one on a bad day, but the most dangerous one is literally ''hiding right inside Hiro's dorm room''.
** Regulusmon has always maintained some pretense that he cared about his human brother, whilst acting as TheCorrupter. But here? He's mad as hell he got duped for a BatmanGambit, that saved Gammamon. It's unnerving to see that MoralityChain finally snap. The evil digimon roars savagely, intending to do grievous harm to his partner for trapping him in a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind:
---> ''"Right when I finally got my body back! ''HIRO!!!'' '''YOU TRICKED ME!!!'''"''
* Also a TearJerker moment, but Siriusmon's apparent death. There's no holding back on what happened. Regulusmon's blown a hole on Siriusmon's torso, and he's likely dead for real. It's just so ''wrong'' when a Digimon villain manages to not only harm a partner Digimon, but also do it in a way that would almost be assuredly lethal. The worst we usually see is a grievous, yet explicitly non-lethal injury such as [[Recap/DigimonAdventure02M2RevengeOfDiaboromon losing both]][[Anime/DigimonAdventureLastEvolutionKizuna arms]], but it's never a seemingly fatal TorsoWithAView. The only other victim of a very fatal injury is [[Anime/DigimonTamers Juri's partner Leomon]], but the injury Beelzebumon inflicted to him is still nowhere near ''this'' grievious. The protagonists, and possibly [=BloomLordmon=] too, are shocked and terrified. In particular, Hiro looks absolutely [[https://imgur.com/uufp6Fi dead on the inside]] having to see the stepbrother he cared for so dearly die in front of him. This is all accompanied with an eerie ''dead silence'' and the camera filtered in grey to emphasize the sheer dread of the situation the protagonists find themselves in.
** Regulusmon's response to all of this? A ''chilling sadistic glee'' unseen in most other Digimon villains, who are nowhere near this blatant in their EvilGloating. He paid Hiro back in record time [[PayEvilUntoEvil for deceiving him]]. To put in his own words before guffawing at him:
---> ''"I only pretended to be losing and you fell for it right away. Hehehehehe...'''HYAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!'''"''

** It's implied that the Evilmon and Tsumemon haunting the house have largely nothing to do with Moon=Millenniumon and were just independent wild Digimon doing their own thing for the most part rather than its worshipers, suggesting that they were all drawn to flock Kotoha's household because of a huge concentration of evil energy the world-wiping Digimon is emitting within Manami's body, and the hauntings are just side effects that are nothing compared to the actual problem.

* Manami's death itself is pretty unsettling just because of how stark and explicit it is. There's an explosion, followed by Moon=Millenniumon darting out from the computer to slam the poor woman into the wall and she collapses into the ground, dying with her eyes wide open right in front of several witnesses. It's flat-out shown on-screen without even a GoryDiscretionShot unlike when Archnemon and Digitamamon feasted on people and sticks out within the series or even for ''Digimon'' anime in general.
* The first thing Moon=Millenniumon did upon entering the human world was to kill a human to possess her corpse. No preamble. No weird transformations. It kills her on the spot so it can feed on others and regain its strength as fast as possible, almost as if it planned to enter the human world to wreak havoc. Even in a setting where it's established that random Digimon can and will kill people out of nowhere, this is still prime ParanoiaFuel because ''a Moon=Millenniumon is no random Digimon'', and for all we know, Digimon like '''that''' can be walking around the human world for little or no reason and they might be just around the corner waiting to call forth the apocalypse.
* Even when destroyed, [=ZeedMillenniumon=] only regresses back into a dormant Moon=Milleniumon around the size of Hiro's hand. He then decides to keep it knowing fully how dangerous it is. There's something very unsettling when he's so nonchalant about the whole thing, making you wonder ''what'' kind of threat is above the horizon that needs him to use it as a precautionary measure.

* A bunch of Digimon are haunting a condo where Aoi lives in. There's a Kunemon wrapping up an old woman in webs, an Impmon throwing someone's cellphone off the wall through inducing poltergeists, and a few Hiyarimon freeze off parts of the ceiling. This is followed by a girl getting trapped in some strange space and several keyholes get carved into her body. On the next day, she shows up in front of Aoi with a shriveled, paltry face and tells her to outright ''get out''.
* When Aoi enters the "13.5th floor" of her condo, she runs into numerous Digimon who see her as an intruder and the same entity carving keyholes to the other girl does the same thing to her. The green-and-red cel shading of the strange dimension makes the attacking Digimon look even more creepy, especially with the Impmon.
* [=ClavisAngemon=] is a WellIntentionedExtremist in the likes of Frozomon before him, trying to stay out of humanity's way. The issue is he's completely oblivious to the unoccupied rooms not being the digimon's to move into and the rooms are unoccupied because they are freaking people out. He makes it a point he returns the humans who stumble into his realm unharmed, but he's unaware of how traumatic the process is. It's made even scarier when he's an ''Ultimate'' capable of instant kills, on top of being completely oblivious to the scope of the harm he's causing.

* You really shouldn't be watching this if you're looking for a late night snack. After eating a "crunchy" looking black thing (a miniature Quartzmon), Ruli is suddenly feeling ''very hungry''. She loaded on a bunch of big meals, but her belly is still empty. It eventually degenerated into her ''mutating'' into some...thing with Quartzmon's mouth and elongated arms while trying to '''eat Gammamon and the other protagonists'''. Thankfully (or not), she collapses on the spot out of malnutrition quickly so she could be brought in to Mummymon for a checkup before she could do further harm.
** Ruli's breakdown trying to satitate her hunger while the other protagonists lock her inside her room is an overall ''very unsettling scene'', especially combined with Ruli's heavily mutated appearance. There's several torn books on the floor of her room and something cracking (implied to be her breaking a lamp in her rampage) before she manages to barge out to attack Hiro and Kiyoshiro. TruthInTelevision that people starving to near-death can actually become ''feral''.
* The MoodWhiplash transitioning the episode from SliceOfLife to horror. The start of the episode is a rather adorable scene where Ruli enjoys her desserts with Aoi and Mika...until she ate a black, crunchy "chocolate pellet". The relaxing music stops right there and Ruli starts acting more and more uncanny (eating multiple large plates of dishes without being full) before all hell breaks loose.
* When the protagonists send Mummymon in for a checkup, suddenly, the lights explode and a pink-colored Quartzmon emerges out from her body and quickly makes its way to the main body. Then we get to see ''numerous clones'' approaching the main body, meaning that Ruli isn't the only one affected and there could be up to ''hundreds'' infected by HorrorHunger and dealing unimaginable amounts of harm. (To give a general idea, there's a man emptying his fridge before the episode even begins.) The other victims may have at least tried to '''eat their pets and loved ones''' after succumbing to their ravenous hunger, similar to Ruli attempting to eat her friends. One only hopes none of the attempts ever go through.
* Quartzmon comes almost close enough to killing Canoweissmon and Thetismon by trying to hit them with Ruin Blast, point blank. The way he does it is no less unsettling. He grips the two Digimon with his arms, then forces his fingers into their mouth, trying to stick the Ruin Blaster into their mouth and killing them from the inside.
* Contrary to his ''Young Hunters'' counterpart (A GenericDoomsdayVillain), Quartzmon turns out to be just a WellIntentionedExtremist who was trying to feed a bunch of Baby-level Digimon, but said Digimon are cluttered up inside his mouth and there's more right under his body. It's very uncomfortable to see and almost looks like he's bearing spider eggs. It's also implied that he's completely oblivious to how people can actually ''die'' from starvation, since he did think twice when he sees Ruli's lifeless, near-dead body.

* ''[=GulusGammamon=] is back.'' And all three of his Black Digimon buddies too. When he decides to assert himself, Gammamon flashes a downright ''[[https://imgur.com/hsPmr92 ghoulish]]'' SlasherSmile on par with his NightmareFace from last time before evolving. Special mention to how the face somewhat resembles [[https://imgur.com/OYc3hIu an infamous image posted in Futaba Channel of a doll with pale skin, unnaturally large eyes, and what resembles blood around the eyes and mouth]].
** [=GulusGammamon=] also shows a much more sadistic side of himself than in previous appearances, proceeding to beat the daylights out of Tonosama Gekomon (and unlike his previous three targets, Tonosama Gekomon was clearly not something awful enough to mandate a justified kill). All the while, he tells his opponent not to go down too quickly to he can toy with him. He actually sounds excited to have someone to brutalize.
** [=GulusGammamon=] offers to rip [=TonosamaGekomon=] open and pull Kiyoshiro out, but only if Hiro synchronizes with him. Otherwise, he'll just kill [=TonosamaGekomon=] and all of his victims, Kiyoshiro included. It is abundantly clear that Hiro is the only one he has any affection for and even that won't keep him from using Hiro for his own ends. He knows that he can use Hiro's friends or the lives of innocents in general as a bargaining chip. Before he can go through with it though, Gekomon frees all of the victims from [=TonosamaGekomon=]'s back. [=GulusGammamon=] then decides to fry Gekomon for ruining his plan to synchronize with Hiro, which Hiro only barely talks him down from. He tells Hiro that it's only a matter of time before leaving.
** In a FreezeFrameBonus Black Agumon and Black Galgomon can be seen, but unlike their previous appearances, both of them have [[RedEyesTakeWarning some very eerie, glowing red eyes]].
* The way [=TonosamaGekomon=]'s victims just peel out of his back when Gekomon lets them out is pretty disturbing to watch. His flesh just bends and warps like it had turned rubber.

* At the start of the episode a woman in a luxury cruiser was ambushed by a Digimon, who pours a scoop of water on her. The woman's body quickly shrivels, then pukes digital water from her EYE AND MOUTH. This is just the first victim; you'll see this a lot. Right after that, the cruiser stranded onto a shore and while we don't find out what happens to the other people boarding it, it can be inferred that they all folded off-screen. Several rescuers went to investigate the ship only to suffer from the same fate.
* On the way to the shrine where the mummified body was in, the group finds the way blocked by Digital Water, and the shadow of a Digimon surfaces with sinister, glowing green eyes, which leaps out of the water with its huge body casting a shadow on the group. Then the show cuts to the commercial break. The Digimon turns out to be a harmless Submarimon who provides some more than well-needed help, but you'll be easily forgiven if you thought he's one of the culprits.
* You shouldn't be watching this if the Dark Ocean episode of ''Digimon Adventure 02'' scares you. Not only are the culprits a group of Hangyomon hell-bent on flooding the city and subjecting its entire population to insane body horror, it turns out they're serving Cthyllamon, a Digimon that's explicitly named after Cthulhu's daughter.
** Cthyllamon's dried up body is unsettling, and is even described by characters ''in the show'' as such. It looks like a black, shriveled and mummified mockery of [=MarineAngemon=], and when the group bring it out for investigation, it opens its slit, yellow eyes, startling Angoramon and Hiro to drop it right into the Digital water and reverting it back to its true form, which ironically doesn't look too bad...if you forgot this is effectively a PhysicalGod running around and wrecking havoc casually.
*** Not helping matters is that anyone who has seen the appearances of [=MarineAngemon=] across the franchise as a whole will be able to tell you that it's already an unusually powerful Ultimate Level in spite of its cute, small size. '''Cthyllamon does not disappoint for those expecting a near identical amount of power.'''
** Cthyllamon announces that he will drown every human being in the world because it's fun for him. Then there's his PsychopathicManchild personality which makes him dissonant compared to the Ultimates before, who are a lot more composed.
** One of Cthyllamon's attacks has him stretch out his toungue to wrap up Thetismon, which resembles a group of tentacles coming out from his mouth. TruthInTelevision that real-life Cliones ("Sea Angels", the species [=MarineAngemon=] is based on) ''really'' hunt like that.

* This is one of the most horrific episodes to date. The house of Ruli's friend Kotoha becomes mysteriously haunted, and there's a ''human corpse'' running around at night. Not a Digimon-induced ailment, but a real human corpse. According to Kotoha, the hauntings happened after her brother Toru's ex-fiancee Manami died in a lab incident days before their wedding. He brought her body back home because it seemingly came back to life. What doesn't help is the monochromatic, gloomy camera filter the episode has and the lack of music for a portion of its first half.
* Manami's resurrected corpse is so ''wrong'', that it flat-out makes the ADR-01 Jeri from ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' look like a perfectly normal human. Every other movement from the corpse seems unnaturally forced and rigid, its default expression is a vacant, wide-open glare and there are instances where it has a deranged SlasherSmile on its face.
* The mysterious hauntings are horrific. Firstly, when Ruli, Kotoha, and Angoramon were discussing about Manami's corpse, they suddenly hear an eerie giggle and the kitchen utensils shake, with a glass cup dropping into the ground and breaking, freaking Kotoha out. Then we're treated to a scene where Hiro and Gammamon was on the way to the toilet only for a massive bunch of Tsumemon infesting the ceiling to stare at them -- when they turn their heads back, the whole crowd of ceiling-infesters vanished. Finally, Kiyoshiro has horrific nightmares of shadowed Evilmon haunting him, scaring him enough that he leaps right into the floor. According to Kotoha, she has to bear with the hauntings, nightmares and her brother playing with Manami's corpse for ''ten days'' before she decided to seek help. Truly a BreakTheCutie moment.
* The insane Toru is pretty unsettling. He has a rather pale complexion (though not as obvious as Manami's corpse), short curly hair and ExhaustedEyebags, making him look creepy. He also cuddles Manami's corpse on-screen, implying that this will evolve into something way more...''suggestive'' if this isn't a Sunday morning KidsBlock anime. When he's doing all of this and Kotoha told him to stop carressing the corpse, Toru flashes a deranged SlasherSmile and delusionally insists that Manami was still alive. The worst thing is this guy isn't even mind controlled. He's simply too mentally unstable and grief-ridden to accept reality.
* Before all hell breaks loose, Manami's corpse ''makes note of the presence of humans'' before running around to attack Toru, Kotoha, and Kiyoshiro in quick succession, turning them into shriveling husks. It just goes from silent to sporting an absolutely deranged expression and moves very quickly contrary to how it usually moves around. It gains unnatural, purple glowing eyes after absorbing Kotoha. After it claims three victims, it breaks through the windows to absorb all the Evilmon and Tsumemon nearby and turns into ...'''''a [=ZeedMillenniumon=]'''''. Yes, you read that right. If you think that the party having to deal with monstrosities on the lines of the Seven Great Demon Lords, the Dark Masters or the Warrior Ten is bad enough, this incident steps up the game by outright pitting the kids against an apocalyptic abomination.
** [=ZeedMillenniumon=] doesn't play around and the situation is treated as seriously as it would be. Angoramon holds nothing back explaining to Hiro that this thing is a mass eradicator of life that can destroy entire time-space continuums and has to be gone quickly. He's so noticeably alerted that his normally hidden eyes can be seen as he speaks, highlighting how dire the situation is. Based on the damage it does to Hiro's Digital Field through the time-space rift it opens, the surroundings will be ''flattened'' into a clearing if not for the Digital Field shielding it.
** This is not even the first time the Moon=Milleniumon-reanimated corpse fed on Toru. It was feeding on Toru for slightly less than two weeks, but he's too insane to care. You can see blue erosion marks on his body even right before Manami's corpse starts attacking, and it's heavily implied that the eyebags on his face and his rather pale complexion is also Moon=Milleniumon's work. Meeting a crowd of humans nearby likely only awakened its bloodlust so it could do whatever it wants to do way earlier than it supposedly could.
* When Moon=Millenniumon is about to surface from the corpse it's controlling, there's an entire flock of Evilmon sticking themselves right behind the glass and there's another ''massive swarm'' of Tsumemon cluttered right behind the gang. It's an incredibly creepy scene akin to a house being swarmed by flies and maggots. Looks like not even calling the pest control can save Kotoha now...

* This episode is essentially ''[[Recap/DigimonAdventure02E13HisMastersVoice Call of Dagomon: The Episode]]''. If the original Lovecraftian Digimon Episode scares you, just '''run''' now because this one is completely unambiguous on how ''insanely terrifying'' the situation Hikari caught herself in back in would be. What really doesn't help its case is the jarring lack of music throughout the episode, with the only ones playing being ominous tunes that indicate the sheer wrongness of the situation.

* Last but not least, as a last-ditch attempt Lilithmon tries to sway Siriusmon to join her only to fail, but states that she will come back to do the same to [=GulusGammamon=] instead. Given the ''Digimon Reference Book'' describes that anyone who gave into her temptations are invariably given death, it's unclear if the offer is even genuine or if it's just an excuse to actually land the finishing blow on him, although neither possibility is pleasant, especially if she did sway [=GulusGammamon=] to her side or kill two birds with one stone. Then she leaves through a portal to the Digital World she opened ''herself''. That's right. She is in the human world because she ''wants'' to be there, and she could come back at any time she wants to.

* An [=AncientSphinxmon=] is going around recreational sites tripping people by the shoes and asking them riddles. Had they fail to answer him he forces golden stone bricks to burst out from their body and they get turned into bricks too. We don't quite see the process, but it can be inferred that the stone are ''seeping through their bodies'' and encasing them. Worse is despite his large size he is capable of seemingly appearing out of nowhere and right behind his victims. His monotonous voice and complete lack of facial expressions doesn't help matters and makes him look even more creepy.
* At one point, [=AncientSphinxmon=] passes through a cinema screen and asks the entire audience a riddle. Nobody takes him seriously so he forces bricks out from every one of them, starting from one man then everyone else.
* The victims that are turned into golden bricks are perfectly aware of their suffering (with Angoramon being able to listen to all of their anguished voices), but can't do much about it.
* Ruli and Mummymon later finds out [=AncientSphinxmon's=] motivation for doing all of this; reviving Pharaohmon, a ruler of the Ancient Digital Civilization. Mummymon all but tells Ruli that if he gets revived, he will rule over all humans and Digimon and there's nothing they could do there. The other hint is how [=AncientSphinxmon=] is supposedly one of the Warrior Ten and the progenitor of mythical/demon beast Digimon and he's ''still'' just his right-hand man. We don't get to see what really happens if he comes out and we likely don't want to based on all the horrible implications.
* The number of victims he claimed wasn't quite clear, but based on how he's one block left from completing an absolutely gigantic pyramid, it can be assumed that he abducted somewhere from the high hundreds to '''millions''' [[note]]For comparison, the Great Pyramid of Giza is approximately made out of 2.3 million blocks. Based on the size of the pyramid [=AncientSphinxmon=] erected and assuming each brick is made of one person, each side is likely consisted of hundreds and it's not even clear how much empty space is inside the pyramid's interior[[/note]].
* It's implied that Mummymon knows [=AncientSphinxmon=] and Pharaohmon ''personally'' based on his reaction of hearing about [=AncientSphinxmon=] walking around and abducting hundreds being ''instantly pulling out the Obelisk'' and he called Pharaohmon "king" after [=AncientSphinxmon=] is dealt with. His past history with the two isn't elaborated on, but whatever it is, it's definitely not a pleasant experience.
* When the group gets to fight [=AncientSphinxmon=], it's less of a battle than him throwing Lamortmon and the rest all over the place like they are small fry while they fail to even so land a scrape on him. He's also only ''one brick'' left from resurrecting Pharaohmon if not for Diarbbitmon's timely intervention.
* [=AncientSphinxmon=] also dies in an unsettling way. He uses Necro Eclipse to push Diarbbitmon into a portal to a world of death, but as he is about to slash him with his claw, Diarbbitmon blocks it with his rapier and [=AncientSphinxmon=] is accidentally pushed into it, returning all the people back to normal. There's also how he had no intention to stop whatever he's doing and the people are saved after he's gone, meaning that he invariably had to die to stop the problem.
* This is one of those cases where the party won't even find out if not for their friends being one of the victims. What makes this ''worse'' than the attacks that could result in hundreds of deaths if left unchecked, is that if Kaoru just not happened to cross paths with [=AncientSphinxmon=] and got turned into a stone brick, the consequences goes beyond "hundreds of deaths" -- [=AncientSphinxmon=] would go onto resurrecting Pharaohmon totally unimpeded and Pharaohmon will go straight into taking over the human world.

* There's no less than three robberies in a span of four days that were stopped by Tonosama Gekomon. Given he has more victims than the first one and Kiyoshiro, there's likely more. The police don't seem to interfere until the last moment, either. Just ''what in the hell'' is with the crime rates in that town?

* [=TonosamaGekomon=] rampages across the city, shattering people for minor offenses. Not only is he completely delusional, he's cruel to perceived wrongdoers as only the self-righteous can be and it especially shows when he's confronted by the other characters. When Gammamon and Angoramon's evolution timers run out, he slams Angoramon to the ground and then delights in the brutal beatdown he gives to Gammamon, stomping him into the riverbed and body-slamming him into the canyon wall.
* ''[=GulusGammamon=] is back.'' And all three of his Black Digimon buddies too.
** When [=GulusGammamon=] decides to assert himself, Gammamon flashes a downright '''[[https://imgur.com/hsPmr92 ghoulish]]''' SlasherSmile on par with his NightmareFace from last time before evolving. Special mentions to how the face somewhat resembles [[https://imgur.com/OYc3hIu an infamous image of a doll posted in Futaba Channel]].

* On the way home from a Christmas choir at a nearby school, Hiro lost his phone, went back to the school to get it back, and gave Gammamon to Kotaro. A purple fog appears soon after, followed by a Digimon in a taxi overhearing Kotaro talking about the girls being angels drops a ''shriveled, barely living body'' of a priest from it, telling him that he is no longer of use and makes Kotaro her next victim. He's understandably freaked out when he sees the body and tries to run only for the Digimon to actively barricade him with green flames and control his body, then strongarms Kotaro with her Cerberumon to bring her to "the angel". We don't get to see the Digimon in question bar several hints in that scene, but based on whatever is seen about her face, it's clear that this is a '''Lilithmon''', also known as one of the Seven Demon Lords. That's right. In case having {{Reality Warper}}s wreaking random havoc in the human world isn't enough, now you have a literal ''archdevil'' capable of multiversal feats running around there. Oh and similar to Archnemon before, unlike her ''Digimon Fusion'' counterpart who's at least sometimes PlayedForLaughs, she's played entirely as the horrific monster she is described as in the ''Digimon Reference Book''.
** At the beginning of the episode and before the title card, we see what exactly happened to Lilithmon's previous victim. She parked next to a church, threw out the shriveled body of a nun, and turned off the candles next to the priest. She then ordered Cerberumon to drag him off to her taxi before he couldn't find a lead and she made her way to Kotaro and Gammamon.
* When Hiro came back, he spotted some passersby and the priest's shriveled-up body, where a clear shot reveals that it's a barely recognizable, mummified body that could be easily mistaken for a corpse. He then tries to call Kotaro only for Cerberumon to silence Gammamon (who was making the call) and Lilithmon hits him with a higher-than-usual dose of Phantom Pain that causes him to writhe in pain as purple pus covers his body. Worse, black blots come out from it later and it's implied that these are actually a result of [=GulusGammamon=] suppressing Phantom Pain's effects within Gammamon.
* According to Jellymon and Ruli, there's an UrbanLegend known as "the Ghost Taxi" circulating around where a ghost taxi would appear to beckon humans, and whoever rides them will be thrown out with their bodies shriveled up like mummies. Within the webpage Ruli sent to Hiro there's even a completely mummified corpse that is implied to have been a person killed by Lilithmon. When the group catches up to the ghost taxi, they find out she was apparently on an "Angel Hunt" described by Angoramon as an event where someone would attempt to target and kill Angel Digimon. The conclusion is her attacks had been occurring for a fair amount of time and she likely killed several on the way.
* True to the namesake, when Lilithmon decides that she no longer needs to pretend obeying traffic laws to reach the school, she orders the taxi in question to change roads ''right onto the path of an oncoming truck''. While the taxi phases through it as it did with the roadside, the truck isn't so lucky as its driver swerved in response, resulting in a nasty accident. After this accident, she uses her Phantom Pain on Kotaro just to make his body shrivel just because he didn't bring her to the angels she's looking for in time. The most terrifying thing is that this is ''unavoidable'' in the grand scheme of things, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain as the accident was what clued the heroes in to the taxi's whereabouts]].

* Just ''how'' powerful is Lilithmon? After Cerberumon goes down, she comes out of the taxi and walks towards the group and that's enough to make every Digimon and human in the vicinity ''freeze entirely'' and make Gammamon writhe in pain as the curse placed on him accelerates. Had Bakumon not appeared in time to remove the curses and Lilithmon's fear-inducing effect, everyone would be dead by there and there's nothing they can do. When Lamortmon and Thetismon try to fight him, she outright puts them out of business just by stretching her Nazar Nails. Even Siriusmon has to force her Nazar Nail to lodge onto his body (which apparently suppresses the effects to some extent) to actually land a hit on her.

* Hiro's body and sanity start breaking and deteriorating each time the Fujitsumon activates on him. At first Octmon's horns grow out from his body, then after he tried to locate Espimon the second time, his right arm bloated into some sort of barely recognizable mass of flesh. According to the Fujitsumon latched onto him, he's slowly turning into an Octmon. Worse, even before then, the Octmon warned that his head will explode because of Fujitsumon's powers.
* The Fujitsumon leader attached themselves inside Espimon's mouth alongside several other Fujitsumon.
* Hiro and Espimon aren't even the only victims -- Ruli shows that people in Lirurun posted pictures of themselves growing horns on their heads, meaning that if this goes unchecked because it just happened to affect Hiro and Espimon, had the accidents the Fujitsumon otherwise predicted not seriously injure or kill 30 or so people, some others will die because of the Fujitsumon's powers.

* The start of the episode is perhaps the most frightening. A young girl suddenly sleepwalks from her bed to the edge of her roof and walks into dangerous places like the edge of the balcony while she was being controlled by a cat standing on two legs and moving its hands around like it's controlling a puppet. When the hypnosis wears off, she finds herself at the tip of a lamppost and the cat brainwashing her flashes off one of the worst {{Nightmare Face}}s so far.
* If you're an Ailurophobe (that is if you're phobic of cats), you shouldn't be watching this episode, because the brainwashed cats are some of the scariest converted Digimon minions out there. They have some sort of absolutely insane NightmareFace with a wide SlasherSmile filled with sharp teeth, their fur is all raised up, and they act less like cats and more like hissing, frenzied monsters that look like cats. On top of that, they can controlling other's bodies like puppets, with many who fell victim implied to be the cat's owners.
* Apparently the victims are still aware of what they were doing when they are controlled by Bastemon's cats; she just chose a time when they are asleep to order her minions to take control of them.
* Appearance and behavior-wise, Bastemon might not be the most disturbing of Digimon, being a LittleBitBeastly human woman with cat-like features. The problem is her characterization. She brainwashes cats and uses them to control humans, and she wants to turn humans into {{Human Pet}}s for her. The dangerous sleepwalking she forces people to perform days ago? That's actually her ''trying to train them''. On the day when she starts her "selection process" for real, she forces people to sit like cats, and whoever can't is controlled by brainwashed cats to ''dig their own graves''.
* Bastemon drains life energy from Lamortmon and takes control of him at the start of the fight, causing him to completely shrivel, then turns him into a red-eyed monstrosity preparing to kill Ruli and Airdramon before Cannoweissmon swoops down to suppress him. She then overpowers Airdramon and Espimon by deflecting their projectiles on them and seemingly claims Thetismon. She actually booby-trapped herself with replicated silver vines inside her body system to intoxicate Bastemon, but you can be forgiven if you mistook it for a TotalPartyWipe.

* Kotaro is being erratic, obsessively and compulsively washing his face and droning the word "filthy". Even worse Gammamon fails to detect Kotaro in him and suggests it's not him. Shortly after, several other humans like Mika and another student show up with erratic movements, dulled eyes, and an obsession with cleaning, the latter plunging other students in water and the former sprinkling water on the table. Then the ''entire town'' starting from Kiyoshiro and the people around him gets hit in the same way and it degenerated into people throwing away their personal belongings onto the road.

* In general, the "exorcised" people are horrifying. They have dulled-out eyes, unnatural, zombie-like movements, and the only thing coming from their mouths are about cleansing filth. When Hiro and several of the party's Digimon return to their dorm they find Niijima ordering every dorm student to beat them down (or worse) and when Hiro extends the Digital Field they only find wooden marionettes that attack them.
* The Digimon behind this is a Kuzuhamon who finds humans to be impure and is bound to cleanse them by removing their souls from their bodies and ordering the leftover bodies to burn themselves in a ritual. And she's an ''Ultimate'' while most things before her are Perfect at best. The only Ultimate Hiro and co. fought was Piemon but at least he's kind enough to go out with a PuzzleBoss fight rather than a real one; there is no such luxury from Kuzuhamon and it's clear this one had to be stopped right there to prevent the deaths of dozens ''at least''.

* As an Ultimate, Kuzuhamon possesses RealityWarper powers unseen in most other Digimon confronted so far (bar Piemon); she can change her own size, remove entire Digital Fields, and set up her own. Canoweissmon's battle against her is less of a battle than her throwing him all over the place with her Guda-Kitsune, and she comes an inch away from stealing Hiro's soul and killing every human being in the town if not for Canoweissmon's Ultimate evolution into Siriusmon.
* Last but not least, Kuzuhamon states that ''someone'' sent Digimon like her to the real world but doesn't dictate what it is. Unlike Andiramon and Oleamon she doesn't say she met Hokuto either. Just ''who'' or ''what'' is creating the portals in the Digital World to the human world?

* A Witchmon is planning to TakeOverTheWorld with witches by brainwashing anyone with a witch costume and turning anyone else into rats, and anyone brainwashed turn into literal witches with the Digimon's own powers and attacks. At one point she managed to take over the ''entire'' city's worth of people, with Hiro, Ruli, and Kiyoshiro being the only people intact that weren't brainwashed or turned into rats.
* Her minions aren't the most disturbing things in the world compared to [=RareRaremon=]'s zombies or Salamandamon's gecko humans, but she creates them by stuffing eyeballs into her victim's mouths. Whoever she or her minions meet who isn't in a witch costume had it worse since they turn them into rats to be eaten by familiar cats.

* While this episode is far less terrifying compared to the other ones before it that regularly feature vicious Digimon obsessed with {{Squick}} or (attempted) murder, at the end of the episode Witchmon goes to have a chat with Gammamon... specifically curiously asking if he's the "Jet-Black Champion". It implies a ''much'' more dangerous role of [=GulusGammamon=] and his history and just '''''how''''' did she even recognize him?

* A Pucchiemon appeared out of nowhere and befriended Riku Fukatsu, the same kid involved in the Andiramon incident. Unfortunately, she's [[{{Yandere}} a clingy stalker]] like Ajatarmon and demands Riku to pay her back in ways that were implied to be getting him to perform Digimon behavior, and counts every time he doesn't. And it's clear Pucchiemon isn't the only problem here...
* Every time Pucchiemon counts the moments where Fukatsu fails to return her a favor, there's a pretty unsettling closeup of her with an empty SlasherSmile while counting in an ominous, distorted voice.
* After spending enough time with Fukatsu, Pucchiemon outright '''evolved''' into Meicrackmon Vicious Mode right in front of him. Not a Dark Evolution, a ''natural'' one. This monstrous beast speaks in Pucchiemon's voice and still acts as if she's still Pucchiemon even though it's clearly no longer the case, being physically stronger and faster. It quickly becomes a problem when she tries to pull Fukatsu's nails and ears to make him look like her and goes all over the streets chasing him. Mind you, this is a cat monstrosity larger and stronger than your average human capable of jumping across bridges and roads chasing a boy who can't possibly outrun her.
* When Pucchiemon spots Fukatsu or she (as Meicrackmon) sleeps with him, there's a mysterious black shadow or cloud looming over him. It's never elaborated on what that is nor does anyone seemingly notice or get affected by it. Just ''what in the hell'' is that??
* Meicrackmon is ''still at large'' even after being defeated. After Hiro and Kiyoshiro beat her, she appears right in front of a frightened Riku. Mei declares she hates him [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone because she thinks]] their relationship is over and tearfully runs. There's nothing to stop Meicrackmon Vicious Mode [[NotGoodWithRejection now feeling rejected]]. Let's hope she is done with humans like she implied.

* At the start of the episode, a female student of Hazakura Academy was walking back home. Suddenly everything goes silent for a couple of seconds, then an eerie mist surrounds her and several headless ghosts in knight armor approach her asking for their heads. When she tells them she doesn't know, a mysterious figure ''decapitates'' her. It's nonlethal and the student was later found unconscious with a red mark left on her head, but we quickly see her turned into a ghost claiming some more students.
* When Hiro and Ruli search Mr. Okonogi's office for the helmet he displayed to several students (who were all hunted down), instead of a helmet, he found the head of a [=DarkKnightmon=]. Angoramon outright warns him that it's a Digimon who will do anything to achieve a goal, and he shows up right in front of the kids looking for his head. Thankfully, unlike what Angoramon said and what his ''Xros Wars'' counterpart demonstrates, when Hiro and Ruli meet him personally he's a surprisingly noble and pleasant Digimon, but literal boss-tier Digimon like ''that'' walking around in the human world is still a terrifying thought.
* Right before Hiro returns Dark Knightmon's head to him, he was an ''inch'' away from cutting the boy's neck until Hiro promises to give it back if he gives his victims back. It's actually astounding how stoic Hiro is even an inch away from death.
* The way Dark Knightmon lost his head is unsettling. According to him he saw a gate to the human world one day and peeked his head across the gate, only for it to ''cut his head off''. He survives no problem as a suit of AnimatedArmor, but this type of injury would likely kill and disintegrate most Digimon. Many Digimon also passed through that gate, which makes you wonder if there are any other Digimon who were actually ''killed'' in such accidents.

* There is no way for certain the man we saw getting pulled underwater in the prologue got saved by the Gwappamon like Ruli. Later on, it is revealed that there are ''multiple'' reports of missing people. Who knows how many of them got eaten by the time our heroes arrived?
* When Shawujinmon drags a man into his lake and Ruli expands her Digital Field, the man was nowhere to be seen as expected but we never hear anything about him again. '''Did she get someone drowned to death by accident??''' Unless he was able to swim up without anyone pulling him down or the Gwappamon somehow got to him first before they get sucked into the field...
* When the second bead on his necklace broke, Shawujinmon gains an extra, absolutely demonic voice behind his usual one. Whatever it says is also seemingly unintelligible growling. After the third bead broke, he has the demonic voice filter constantly overlaid with whatever dialogue he still has and he doesn't even remember his subordinates.
* While Shawujinmon was obviously acting out of character, his normal strength is ''freakishly'' insane. He blocks Canoweissmon's Gallia Fissure like nothing and easily throws him into the lake where he has the advantage, giving him a CurbStompBattle until he ''devolves'' back to Gammamon, and fend himself off from Lamortmon for a good while after he was dragged underwater until Lamortmon throws Shawujinmon outside the lake to end the battle.
* Lamortmon almost killed another Digimon that wasn't even acting of his free will. Bonus that you do see him coming just ''that'' close to slicing off Shawujinmon if not for Ruli stopping him.
* Just like [=RareRaremon=] or Manticoremon, this is another case where a Digimon was converted into a rampaging monster because the actions of humans tampered with its behavior and/or habitat. It only takes some pollution or contaminated data in the wrong place and the wrong time to create a man-eating monstrosity capable of killing tens to hundreds. There are likely many more otherwise harmless or docile Digimon that became vicious monsters after someone dumped rubbish onto their habitat without knowing a Digimon is living there. Many such cases also occur in rural, desolate areas and wouldn't even be found out and solved if not for our heroes just conveniently showing up in time and getting involved with them.

* The moment after Baalmon is defeated is just nasty. As the party was wondering what are the ghosts Baalmon controlled, that are they just possessed humans or something else, he burns the talismans and shows that these are '''real human spirits'''. When the ghosts are about to vanish, they flash out [[https://imgur.com/NBMS1Eg the worst creepypasta face ever]].

* After a trip to a fishing pond, Hiro can mysteriously see the future because of a Fujitsumon that has latched onto them. He gets to see visions where Kotaro and Gammamon run into serious accidents and he stops them. Then when Jellymon drags him to a fortune-telling booth (while he was in an ''obviously deteriorated condition''), he also predicts several other horrible accidents from Aoi and some other girls. Nothing is held back showing what will happen to these people had Hiro not stopped them, they'd be horribly injured or worse. In between those events he also saw the future of 24 other people who were implied to going to suffer horrible accidents.
** Worst of all? These accidents aren't rigged, unlike Publimon's attacks. They are all ''real'' accidents about to happen. Had Hiro not stopped them there would be a lot of major characters been seriously hurt or worse. Just what in the hell is happening that day?
** Special mentions to how in one of the Fujitsumon's visions Gammamon is left struggling to stand and crying Hiro's name after being sent flying by a truck. Hiro cut it close saving him as well, the truck passing just as he tackles Gammamon to the other side. If Hiro had been too slow and gotten hit too, Gammamon surviving (which given the things he's lived through, is possible) might actually be ''worse'', given [[SuperpoweredEvilSide what that might result in]] if Hiro didn't.

* A Shadramon lost a battle and is about to die, only for a Nanomon to arrive and plant it right into one of Kiyoshiro's friends, Tamotsu. Throughout the episode, we get to see Shadramon's limbs sticking out from Tamotsu's body, escalating until his head, limbs, and wings stick out from the human, and his consciousness is taken over by the Digimon.
* At the night when the party sleeps over in Tamotsu's house, Shadramon takes control of his body to eat trash in a back alley (which is what he tended to do when he was still alive). When the party wakes up, they find trash on the floor and black stains on Tamotsu's body as he freaks out having no idea what's going on.
* Nanomon is reimagined as a MadScientist pulling out an experiment to reincarnate Digimon into human bodies so their memories will be permanently retained. What makes him so horrifying is that while the goal seems like a generally misguided goal, Nanomon himself is a NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist who only wants to make himself virtually immortal that way. Even worse, he plans on killing both Tamotsu and Shadramon once he's done with them.
* Just like Eyesmon, Nanomon turns his hostage into weapons against the party, ordering Shadramon to attack by drilling at Tamotsu's ear.
* While the episode doesn't quite hint at him having a track record, Nanomon is fully solid from the get-go. Since most Digimon that managed to become a physical lifeform had been at least implied to wreak havoc or exist for some time, one can only wonder what else he even did to reach there. He's also small enough to avoid suspicion, meaning that the party won't be involved with him if he didn't just happen to reach Kiyoshiro's senior and he would nab a few kills from his experiments if unchecked.

* Put simply, there's a '''''very''''' good reason why this is considered one of the most disturbing episodes of ''Ghost Game''. This episode might as well as be called "{{Squick}}: The Episode", featuring incredibly graphic scenes of Digimon '''''outright turning people into mushroom plantations and physically brutalizing them with little left to the imagination'''''. It's as bad as it sounds. Now, bear in mind this is broadcast on a ''Sunday morning'' KidsBlock, but whatever happened in this episode is definitely '''far''' from kid-friendly and seems more at home with ''Manga/MadeInAbyss'' than ''Digimon'' in-general. [[https://twitter.com/exadriver/status/1583979262029144064 Quite a bunch of viewers had noticed how insanely brutal this episode is for Digimon anime standards]], which speaks volumes.
* A group of four Chamblemon are abducting brides at a nearby wedding site and had claimed no less than 10 victims when Hiro and Ruli get involved with them. They infect their victims with spores that grow mushrooms out from their bodies and gravely weaken them so they can't escape. The mushrooms come out from all over their victim's bodies, so if you have tyrophobia, you're in for a bad time.
* Then there's what the Chamblemon do to the victims. The kidnapped brides are used as ''mushroom farms'' for these vicious {{Sadist}}s who pick the mushrooms from their bodies and eat them. The process is also far from pleasant -- pulling even one mushroom from the victims causes them physical pain, but they pull ''a bunch from their victims multiple times'' and they look ''ecastatic and delighted'' while they are at it. It's very [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapey]] and uncomfortable to watch. Few antagonists in the ''Digimon franchise as a whole'' commit torture on such an unhinged level.
** The worst thing about the torture is there's ''no'' leeway and ''no'' restraints in showing how they torture their victims. For reference, when [[Anime/DigimonTamers the D-Reaper]] extracted Juri's memories and {{Mind Rape}}d her to reinforce its defenses, we aren't shown the process. Here? '''Have fun seeing MULTIPLE WOMEN being tortured and borderline-raped.''' They just rip a bunch of mushrooms from their throughly infested bodies and eat them. All on-screen, multiple times. And then there's the screams of agony the poor, hapless brides make from having the mushrooms on their body pulled off. Given they have tortured multiple people on-screen in the most brutal fashion possible, you'll hear them a lot.
* Ruli becomes the Chamblemon's latest victim within minutes into the episode, something that is very unusual to happen with what's essentially the group's [[TheLancer Lancer]]. [[note]]To compare in ''Digimon Adventure'' terms, this would be like ''Yamato'' being kidnapped and vanished by a MonsterOfTheWeek on the first minute and put out of action for most of the episode[[/note]] At multiple points, we hear her cry agonizing cries of pain as the Chamblemon mercilessly take the mushrooms from her and they are apparently ''delicious'' so they amp in the torture, shredding the mushrooms from her body. Not long afterward, Hiro was victimized the same way, and since they thought that anyone with a Digivice would yield delicious mushrooms, they ripped a bunch from his body too, giving them a solid body and greatly heightened powers, allowing them to commit a borderline TotalPartyWipe on whatever's left of the protagonists. Had the mushrooms on Kiyoshiro not poison the Chamblemon because of how cowardly he is, dear Yggdrasil knows what will happen...
** Special mentions to how the episode ''holds absolutely nothing back'' showing Ruli and Hiro being brutalized alive by the Chamblemon. Not only you do hear Ruli screaming cries of agony, but the mushroom Digimon are delighted as they gleefully rip the mushrooms from her body like a paper shredder. Again, this is all on-screen and played out multiple times throughout the episode. Hiro is treated largely the same way, albeit only a bit more briefly. There's something very disturbing about TheLeader and the heroine of a group of Digimon protagonists being treated no different from the nameless victims. Pretty much the only thing that would make this worse is when Ruli gets traumatized for multiple episodes (thankfully, she doesn't).
* The Chamblemon are just unrepentant kidnappers, but their aftermath after Thetismon beats them is no less unsettling. A herd of Geremon takes them away to become ''their mushroom plantation'' and vanishes and turns out they were just lurking at the wedding site waiting to prey on the Chamblemon all along. The Geremon leader's SlasherSmile when it tells Hiro what they're trying to do with the Chamblemon doesn't help. Hiro is shocked when he sees this, and cacophonous violin music continues for the rest of the episode. It's a reminder that some of the Digimon in the human world are ''still'' predatory creatures.

* Valuable goods are being delivered to Hiro's dorm regularly, including limited edition glasses, clothes, and food stock, without him needing to pay for them. If something sounds TooGoodToBeTrue, it definitely is -- because the price is the whole dorm suffering from structural failure and almost collapsing.

* A Doumon possessed by the vengeful spirits of Hojo clan soldiers is going around turning random people into Shikigami, with Hiro (who was previously kept safe from falling victim to Digimon incidents like Ex-tyrannomon's or Salamandamon's) being his next victim. And unlike the others that he turned into Shikigami, Hiro was outright possessed by the Hojo clan lord. The number of humans he's claimed when Gammamon and Espimon reach him? An implied '''100,000'''. And if he wasn't stopped in time, he will get more.
* For those who played ''VideoGame/DigimonSurvive'', it's especially creepy because it also has a Kamakura Clan lord possessing a major character while planning to take over/destroy the world, played entirely for horror. At one point there's also a Renamon (who could evolve into a Taomon) working for him. It can't be any more explicit about what they are going for unless they straight-out used Taomon instead of its palette swap counterpart.
* Midway into the episode, when Hiro is fully possessed by the lord of the Hojo clan, he makes an [[https://imgur.com/sUQmIOf absolutely]] '''[[https://imgur.com/sUQmIOf terrifying]]''' NightmareFace while speaking in the lord's voice.

* Seriously, the ''humans transformed by Gyukimon''. It's unlike the relatively painless and instant transformations caused by Salamandamon or Ex-Tyrannomon, the victims go through a ''horribly agonizing'' process struggling between retaining their sanity and having their Gyukimon selves take over just like Ryudamon. And then ALL OF HIRO'S CLASS save for himself and Kiyoshiro were infected and were crammed in the resort site, turning into Gyukimon themselves.
* At one point, Hiro found Niijima being in the process of turning into a Gyukimon and notified Kiyoshiro to check her out with him. When he returns to the room where Niijima was in, she was suspiciously absent...turns out she was right above and behind Hiro and Gammamon and drops in to attack them before Gammamon stops her and she gets stuck in her room. Their way out was then blocked by Kotaro, who has been similarly in the process of becoming a Gyukimon only to be knocked out by Jellymon. And the only things both Niijima and Kotaro say? ''Agonizing cries of pain.''
--> '''Niijima Gyukimon''': "It hurts...it hurts...I'm in pain!!"

* A Calamaramon is twisting everything in an island, including the bodies of animals and ''people'' into spirals because she thinks that it's beautiful, turning the island into something seemingly straight out from ''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}''. It largely goes unnoticed (although because it's likely a recent incident still in a state where it's seemingly harmless), so if Espimon doesn't notify Hiro in time because he was one of the victims who had his arm twisted, Calamaramon would potentially ''destroy'' the island for reasons noted later.
* Unlike the previous episodes, not only is the incident as shown in the episode preview ethereal enough, you don't even get to see what's actually behind it in there, and the audience doesn't even know it's Calamaramon until close to halfway into the episode. And as for Hiro, Jellymon, and Espimon, they don't even know what's behind this before they just happened to notice her passing by while the digital field is preventing Calamaramon from accumulating further victims.
* Twisting the island's objects and limbs into spirals might seem harmless, but objects that are twisted a bit too far break off. No living organisms are ripped this way (and thus killed indirectly), but it won't be far off if Calamaramon wasn't stopped in time.
* When Hiro arrives on the island, only objects such as lamposts and trees are affected, and a local girl and her mother (whom Gammamon hangs out later) only had her hair twisted into spirals. However as the episode reaches halfway, animals and humans start to have their bodies twisted into larger spirals, and the girl Gammamon was hanging out with had her body ''contorted into a massive one''. All the while when she was rendered immobile and in agony, a view outside her bedroom reveals that her parents also had different body parts contorted and in obvious pain just like her.
* A few divers ran into Calamaramon and two of these got their whole bodies contorted into massive spirals, the rest who surfaced from the water being seemingly sucked in by her water tempests. [[NothingIsScarier We don't see what happened to them afterward]], so it can be assumed that all four of them drowned to death. Hoping they had lots of air...

* A mysterious wandering circus has appeared and its ringmaster is none other than a '''''Piemon''''', previously known as one of the most iconic villains of ''Digimon Adventure'' and the first Ultimate that the heroes had to deal with here. (He disguises himself as a human when Hiro and Ruli first meet him, but you do get a clear shot of him before the episode even begins.) On top of wreaking havoc in the human world, Mephismon implies that he did similar things in the Digital World before he came here too, and we don't even see his Digimon victims on-screen. The quiet and foreboding background music for most of the episode's duration makes this already grim incident look even worse.
* His modus operandi is to force children to walk the rope and turn them into cards. If anyone gets dragged into his game, they will be turned a card anyway even if they managed to reach the other end. Given he has a full deck of cards aside from the Joker when Ruli and Hiro confront him, he has claimed 52 children by that point. ''At least''.
* When Ruli scans the QR code on the VIP card doled out by the circus mascot (an Opposumon in disguise), it shows a video asking if she wants to join a "miraculous show just for you". When Ruli accepted, the screen turns black for a few seconds before the mascot makes a JumpScare. Then a [=FlaWizarmon=] and a Tobucatmon go right in front of her to claim victims, but since Ruli wasn't invited (she grabbed the card from Opposumon) Piemon tells them to grab Angoramon instead.
* Piemon is no longer LaughablyEvil here, being portrayed as outright creepy.
* When Ruli and Hiro finally reach Piemon, he has already turned Angoramon into a mascot and Hiro refuses to even fight him, telling him that "had you beaten a human before?", at which Piemon instantly agrees to play trump. The implication? Hiro knows that this guy is way out of the bracket to be dealt with by force, but he had to be stopped anyhow.

* The horrible implications if Ruli had lost the game. Not only were our heroes outnumbered, but they were up against an Ultimate level Digimon. Even if by some chance Hiro and Gammamon were able to beat Piemon's lackeys, they would still be no match for Piemon due to the huge difference in power. Nothing short of a miracle would have been able to save them if they were in that situation.
* Perhaps the most horrifying thing in the episode is Digimon like Piemon are ''already manifesting in the human world to wreak havoc''. While he leaves peacefully with his troupe and his crimes boil down to standard mass abductions, he's still an incredibly powerful Ultimate that the three kids and their Digimon have no business fighting head-on for now. The first time an Ultimate appeared in this season is Platinum Numemon, but only in Digitamamon's flashback, and Piemon is the first one to be instigating an incident. This could set up a precedent where Digimon like that can show up to instigate chaos and violent confrontations are inevitable, something that comes to fruition more than 10 episodes later.

* The Episode starts with a woman being chased by an unknown Digimon manifesting as wisps. When the woman is pushed into a dead-end, everything suddenly goes dead silent until an Oboromon suddenly pops up, JumpScare fashion, and seemingly kills the woman. And '''''[[FromBadToWorse it gets worse from here]]'''''.
* That one Oboromon asking for red colors? ''It's not the only one around.'' There's a total of 5 Oboromon, each asking for a different color. And then whatever is left of the DwindlingParty finds themselves cornered by all five of these things.
* The Oboromon attacking the heroes will ask someone to show an item of a specific color to them. If you can't they'll stab you with their swords, and put you into some eerie dimension where the limbs of people are ''conjoined''. Not only that, they ignore Digimon claiming that it's not what they are going for.

* One of the Oboromon quickly claims ''Hiro'' and another one claims Ruli.
* When the Oboromon hunts down enough people, they hang their victims down like conjoined threads -- turns out they were participating in a ''contest'' where whoever hunts down the most people is the winner. The Red Oboromon claimed the most victims, so all of the victims are absorbed into his scarf and he calls himself their "king". [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything It's made worse]] by how this sounds eerily similar to a G-Rated version of the [[UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar Nanjing Massacre]] of World War II where Japanese soldiers had a contest to see who could kill at least 100 Prisoners of War in China.
* In case if you forget he's still here, '''''[=GulusGammamon=]''''' is back. He quickly brutalizes and kills the Red Oboromon without question and goes straight into attacking the rest and eating their wisps, which is seemingly quite painful for them. He leaves once Hiro wakes up and stops him, but the other Oboromon peeking around the corner were understandably freaked out.
** Unlike the previous times where Gammamon evolves into [=GulusGammamon=], he doesn't go instantly from Gammamon into [=GulusGammamon=], there's an incredibly terrifying sequence before he does it. The red Oboromon repeatedly attempts to strike Gammamon down, and every time he does this, his face contorts in increasingly uncanny ways. At the fourth time, he gets struck into the ground, everything goes silent and the camera closes up to Gammamon, who quickly rears his head, then flashes an '''''absolutely nasty''''' NightmareFace (the same one as the page image) and screams in legitimate JumpScare fashion before evolving into [=GulusGammamon=]! You'll be actually relieved when he actually comes out because he's less terrifying than what brought him there.
** [[SarcasmMode Oh, and it gets better]]. Turns out the surviving Oboromon know who [=GulusGammamon=] is after that little display, referring to him as "the Jet-Black Champion." He is apparently ''notorious'' in the Digital World for doing things like this.

* '''Eyesmon is back.''' He's a PuppeteerParasite who takes over the bodies of random humans and uses them as conduits to feed on data, with Kiyoshiro's boarding classmate, Emma Hanes being one of his victims. He's noticeably one of the most disturbing Digimon in the series because the BodyHorror he inflicts is ''so'' gruesome that it truly reaches {{Squick}} status.
* At the start of the episode, a woman opens a program and was possessed by Eyesmon. She instantly goes into maniacal laughter and becomes an increasingly distorted and deranged silhouette.
* When Eyesmon possesses Emma in a washroom, a black, ooze-like substance with numerous eyes surrounds and restrains her then replaces her eyes with a pair of his own. On-screen, her eyes are being plucked off and at one point she has no eyes.
* The victims of Eyesmon grow eyes from their bodies. Not only it produces great discomfort for his hosts, but touching the eyes seems to induce great pain. When the possession reaches a certain degree, the victim's skin also seems to ''peel off''. The worst thing? According to Ruli and Angoramon, when the possession goes long enough, ''they will die'' by dissolving into pieces. When the party is discussing how to get Eyesmon out from Emma, we also see the possessed woman at the start of the episode lying on the ground with eyes growing on ''every part of her body'' (including her face) and eye-filled stalks growing on the floor. She comes back to her senses after Eyesmon is dispelled, but we can infer to her being almost being ''killed''.
** Ruli and Angoramon even knowing that the victims will die and Eyesmon himself being completely solid from the get-go implies that this is ongoing for a while, and at least one person was KilledOffscreen.
* On top of inducing {{Squick}}-levels of BodyHorror, Eyesmon can also subtly MindRape his hosts. Kiyoshiro doesn't feel very suspicious about Emma when she starts prodding him left-and-right because for all he knows, she likes to snoop around anyways, but from our viewpoint, something is wrong with her. She's just way too touchy to be comfortable unlike her real self, who is a lot more controlled. As for his other victims, they are very uncanny and creepy, unlike Emma. Special mention goes to the policeman randomly barging into a woman's house looking for security cameras.
* At two points, Emma tries to pluck the red eyes off her body. First with her fingers, then with a ''mock surgical kit''. At the second time, pricking the eyes inflict just as much pain as [[EyeScream if her real eyes are being stabbed]] with the kit dropping into the ground.
* When the heroes are fighting Eyesmon, they find out Emma was still in the Digital Field. And then Eyesmon hijacks her body to use Janengan. There's just something extra unsettling about an entity that can turn a hostage into a weapon.
* Eyesmon quickly realizes he can't land a hit on the partner Digimon and immediately starts dropping large objects on the heroes, hoping to cut off his opponents' power at the source by killing their humans. Few Digimon even in this series are this direct in a fight.

* This is yet another scenario where the troublemaker is found by sheer coincidence because it is just ''that good'' at hiding. On top of this, he also attacked Emma, a person who wouldn't act more or less differently even if he isn't influencing her. If it wasn't for her visit and someone just happened to seek Ruli for help because they're suffering from the same condition as Emma, Eyesmon would have continued his rampage with our heroes unaware of it all at worst or unable to find him at best.

* Valuable goods are being delivered to Hiro's dorm regularly, including limited edition glasses, clothes, and food stock...without needing to pay for them! If something sounds TooGoodToBeTrue, it definitely is -- because the price is the whole dorm suffering from structural failure and almost collapsing!
* Near the start of the episode, a woman freaks out over seeing what she believes is a dwarf. When she asks her husband for help, he doesn't quite believe it. But when he opens the tap water, nothing comes out...but rust. Then the whole building trembles and it's somehow only theirs. The apartment that Espimon tells Hiro to check out isn't any better. A woman was freaking out over something as the other residents evacuate, and turned out the door to her apartment rusted. Had these people run a second late, the building would collapse, and they would have all died.
* When Hiro did a test on the "Reward Elf" site the dorm was using to deliver valuable goods from, that night they spot a trio of Andiramon manipulating life energy to drain materials from the walls and creating a massive chocolate cake for Gammamon. Turns out all the goods are created by transmuting matter from the dorm building itself to make them, which causes it to rust and collapse.
** Hiro's dorm isn't even the only building affected. At least three other residential apartments are suffering from structure failure because someone just happened to use the Andiramon's services. Your apartment can and will risk collapsing at any moment just because someone ordered a bunch of expensive goods, not knowing that the Andiramon effectively kill off the building to create them. Based on the severity, there are likely hundreds of orders made in those flats, and unlike Hiro's dorm, we don't even see the fate of those residential areas at the end.

* When Hiro and Ruli fight the Andiramon, they super-evolve their Digimon into Lamortmon and Cannoweissmon...only for the Andiramon to infinitely stall and time them out by healing their wounds with Meditation Cure, and it's clear that they are virtually invincible and by all means ''defeated'' our heroes. The only way to make the Andiramon quit is to cancel the orders, aside from that they can only be canceled client-side because the Andiramon contracted Jellymon to program a secure ID system for them. There are also '''hundreds''' of orders Fukatsu made for the rest of the class, an amount enough to assuredly crumble Hiro's dorm to smithereens.
* When Jellymon was finding Fukatsu's laptop, back in the real world, he was trapped in an elevator and evacuated out by an instructor. Turns out not only the building itself is on its last legs with one of the staircases all but destroyed, the elevator where Fukatsu was trapped within has stopped working entirely. Glad that he doesn't have claustrophobia...
* The end of the episode reveals that while Jellymon might have made the site, it was Hiro's dad that encouraged them to go to the human world. It's not the first time Hiro's dad introduced dangerous Digimon next to his son's doorsteps, either; he's done it at least once with Gyukimon. The man clearly has ''no idea'' what he's inadvertently causing out of nowhere.

* You see some strange newsletter that is undeletable and when you go in to check it out, they are all ridiculous pranks so you call it boring or pointless. Then you see your name on the newsletter that says you'll be gravely injured, or even killed. And then a Digimon goes out of its way trying to do exactly that the next day. Thankfully nobody is really hurt or killed here, but only very barely.
* Publimon is another disturbing Digimon. Appearance wise he's still fine unlike some of the Digimon before him and his effects don't look that horrifying, but he makes it up for being incredibly direct. He will invariably attempt to injure or even ''murder'' anyone who calls his articles "boring" in the most blatant ways possible, no questions asked. People can also end up dead or crippled out of nowhere because he can notice his readers ''across their phones''. At least Archnemon or Digitamamon killed people in dark places with nobody else around, this guy is willing to do the same out in the open. Very few Digimon are this explicit at committing murder for little or no reason, even outside of the series.
* Just like Kotaro, Mika called Publimon's newsletter boring, so it shows she is going to be run over by a truck after school with a sensational headline. On the next day, Publimon briefly turns the traffic lights green just to entice her to cross, almost killing her if not for a barricade blocking the way. What makes this so bad unlike Kiyoshiro and Anna is how Mika only avoided certain death because of ''dumb luck''. At least the attacks directed against Kiyoshiro and Anna are stopped by Espimon and Gammamon respectively, but there's nothing around to stop the attack directed against Mika and the truck just happened to bump into a barricade instead. Had it gone straight in Mika's direction, she ''will'' die and Ruli and Aoi would have seen her lying dead and bleeding on the road.
* Kiyoshiro almost got killed by Publimon dropping a potted plant on him if not for Espimon interfering in time.
* He plans to kill Anna, a popular idol because she criticized his newsletter. The reason he did that instead of simply instigating an accident? Killing a celebrity will be ''sensational''. And that's not even getting into the many ways he attempts the murder; first by trying to drop a spotlight on her head, then kicking an instructor behind her through one of his limbs. When Hiro and [=KausGammamon=] try to stop him, he delays them and cuts her parachute so she will drop from the sky and die, and he came dangerously close to succeeding if he didn't cut his own parachute instead when trying to cut [=KausGammamon=].
* Publimon's death is a bit unsettling. He doesn't die on impact with the ground after falling thousands of feet, he survives a few moments, making disturbingly realistic gasps of pain before expiring.

* A Digimon planted a flower bud on Kotaro and caused him to hallucinate being strangled by plants every time he enters bodies of water. The culprit is an Oleamon who was making him not to take a bath so she could ''eat him''. It's not helped that, unlike most episodes, this one spends most of its period dimly lit.
* The hallucinations Kotaro sees are those of vines or ferns tripping or trying to strangle him into the water. The first time Oleamon attempts this, Kotaro stares into the bathtub and a bunch of vines suddenly spring out of the water, restraining him. They '''enter every office of his body''' before the scene is abruptly cut short. The hauntings have occurred for 10 days to two weeks before Oleamon arrives to eat him.
* When Oleamon was checking on Kotaro and stalking Ruli, she dangles through the ceiling, Sadako-style, with her tongue sticking out with saliva dripping and a SlasherSmile. Her figure is also obscured in black, making her look more like a StringyHairedGhostGirl in a horror movie, aside from that instead of a ghost girl it's a humanoid BotanicalAbomination looking to eat her first human. Ruli is ''understandably'' freaked out when she saw her appearing right behind her and came dangerously close to getting marked. The horror film-like BGM that accompanies these scenes makes it even more creepy.
* Near the climax of the episode, Oleamon plants a bud on each of the humans and their Digimon's necks and is preparing to eat Kotaro only to be stopped by [=SymbareAngoramon=] who distracted her to get her to remove the buds and piss her off. If [=SymbareAngoramon=] hadn't been smart enough to just taunt her, the ''whole party'' would have been eaten sooner or later.
* Oleamon is barely stopped from a kill count unlike the other man-eating Digimon but turns out she only tried it when ''Hiro's dad'' told her that her cuisine smelled like "someone who hasn't taken a bath" before and then she literally heard it believing that a person who hasn't taken a bath would taste good. Had she not just happened to target Kotaro as her first victim, this would go largely unchecked, and not only they would have to kill Oleamon, but what would Hokuto's son ever think of him? The implications are unpleasant.

* It goes even worse from here, as Salamandamon sneaked into Ruli's room and '''turned her into one of them'''. She was the person who evaded Phelesmon and Vamdemon's tricks, but she's not so lucky here.
** To make matters worse, ''Ruli wasn't even Salamandamon's intended target!'' She only got turned because the gecko human of Hiro's friend told Salamandamon how Hiro was investigating the gecko humans and the diamond thefts, compelling Salamandamon to go to Hiro's house and try to turn him to stop his interference. If Ruli hadn't decided to stay over or Hiro hadn't offered her his room to sleep in, '''Hiro''' would have been the one turned into a gecko human!

* And just like Sepikmon or Digitamamon, this is another example where a Digimon's BlueAndOrangeMorality is so dangerous. All Salamandamon wanted was to eat some diamonds to make her brighter (and that's possibly her natural diet), which segued into a full-on ''ZombieApocalypse''.

* The episode has an old woman trying to '''''sacrifice Ruli to a werewolf to appease it''''' because she was from the Tsukiyono lineage. Apparently, the tradition has been happening once every century for 600 years and it's clear that some of the sacrifices are gone through. You do not hear about people sacrificing other humans in any other Digimon anime -- the very fact that the party is savvy enough to know there's a Digimon behind the "werewolf legend" this time is the only thing that prevents any senseless deaths from happening.
* Manticoremon is shown to easily disable a ''Perfect'' and put another out of action. And he almost comes close to killing Ruli if not for...
* Lamortmon. When he appears, all of Angoramon's former stoic personality drops and he mercilessly claws Manticoremon, almost to death, if not for Ruli stopping him. Also unlike the out-of-control [=GulusGammamon=] it's not even considered a Dark Evolution of all things, but actually is Angoramon's natural Evolution with the only saving grace being that it's still willing to listen to Ruli.
* Last but not least when the heroes go back, Ruli had a flashback of the legend where "a werewolf was a protector and fell in love with a Tsukiyono maiden, but people didn't like it and tried to take her back, only for them to accidentally kill her", followed by a howl. Based on Ruli's grim face when she's thinking about this, she's obviously thinking about Lamortmon. Just what kind of mishap will she run into the next time it appears?

[[AC:Labryinth of Grief]]
* The episode starts with a building sinking into the ground with the people inside turning into stone, then the building is returned to its original position as if nothing happened.
* When the protagonists and some of Ruli's friends explore a cave, the earth around them starts to shift separating them and the Digimon behind it begins to kidnap them one by one, with each time a distraught sobbing being heard near them before disappearing.
* Hiro, Gammamon, and [=TeslaJellymon=] find the culprit, a '''Gigasmon''' that after watching the trailer of a disaster movie, believes that humanity is doomed so he tries to make a mass grave to preserve as many humans as he can by petrifying them with his blue dust. It's easy to forget this, but just like Vamdemon, this is another boss-tier Digimon known for giving another cast of heroes deep, deep trouble. Just what in the hell is a Digimon like ''that'' doing here??

* The episode begins with several '''human skeletons''' coming out from a cemetery turned landfill, reanimated by green ooze. A few scenes later, we see these corpses attacking a group of wild boars, successfully latching themselves on one...and the boar becomes a ZOMBIE with red eyes and a crazed look. According to the truck driver at the start of the episode, this happened for some time, we just don't know how long. When Jellymon was inspecting the forest, she also spotted zombies of various animals and reanimated corpses throwing themselves into the sludge accompanied by an insane stench, something that understandably horrified her. And it's just the beginning...
* Hiro and Ruli quickly find themselves dealing with a corpse very soon, and it turns out that destroying them only disables them for a short while and the ooze will regenerate them. However, this is nothing compared to what happens at that night; a man was attacked by a reanimated corpse and when another man came in to swat it off him, we get to see a JumpScare shot of him turning into a green-skinned zombie with red eyes, and every other resident in the town, including an owl chasing Jellymon, was already converted into one.
* When Hiro and Ruli find themselves surrounded by corpses, a voice beckons them and an unknown being proceeds to consume them. As it turns out, it's a Rare Raremon that reanimates the corpses of humans and animals to find victims, zombify them and lull them into its maws. Given [=RareRaremon=] has practically zombified the ''entire'' town and the database center before it's killed, it was just barely stopped short of killing '''hundreds'''.
** [=RareRaremon=] is a ''very'' disturbing Digimon. It's effectively a towering chunk of metal with a massive mouth only connected by a green ooze and a severe case of EyesDoNotBelongThere and TooManyMouths. The stench it exudes is also so putrid that Ruli and Jellymon instantly cover their nose and mouth in disgust. Last but not least, it's an actual zombie only reanimated by an urge of hunger, and the consensus between the party is this one has to be gone.
* When Ruli and Hiro were investigating Rare Raremon, everyone in Kiyoshiro's data center but him had become zombies, breaking out the window and mercilessly chasing him. And yes, just like Salamandamon's case, Rare Raremon's zombies are completely unaffected by the Digital Field, and Kiyoshiro only managed to be safe because [=TeslaJellymon=] blew up a bridge and disabled all the zombies with one Punishune.
* The two humans who were illegally dumping garbage ended up falling into the hole where Rare Raremon was located. We don't see them at the end of the episode so we can assume that they were ''eaten'' offscreen.
* While the episode only plays it for the sake of horror, an incident like this will be played very seriously at all costs if this was ''Tamers'' or ''Adventure''. Rare Raremon has killed random animals and probably even humans, and has come dangerously close to killing up to hundreds if it's not stopped fast enough. This would usually be reserved for monstrosities like the D-Reaper or Apocalymon and not a ''random Digimon''.

* After being supposedly hit by a car controlled by the mysterious Digimon, he enters Limbo, where the mysterious Digimon shows itself; a Sepikmon trying to drag him into the River Styx so they could be friends. No, this is not a joke -- it's ''literally'' what happened. Kiyoshiro was already dead by the time Sepikmon was chasing him around, and it was only a portal away from Sepikmon dragging him into River Styx and it was game over for him. The Sepikmon's childish voice and VocalDissonance only makes this even more horrifying.
** If you're still wondering how terrifying this whole deal with Sepikmon is, we repeat, '''''the death of a Digimon human protagonist''''' was played around in the most liberal way possible. The last time this happened was in ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', where Koichi [[DeathByFallingOver fell down the stairs]], his spirit effectively wandered into Limbo in the form of the Digital World and was turned into TheDragon of the DiscOneFinalBoss -- this is played as heavily as it could. In contrast, Kiyoshiro was stalked and technically killed, then fell into a coma, went into Limbo (literally this time), and almost got KilledOffForReal ''casually'' by some random Digimon with BlueAndOrangeMorality.
* The way Kiyoshiro almost died is also pretty horrific. After just avoiding being run over by a truck rigged by Sepikmon, he ends up ''cracking his head against the curb of the road''. [[BloodlessCarnage There's no blood]], but Kiyoshiro's eyes go completely white at the impact as he's knocked unconscious, combined with him having to be taken in an ambulance with a neck brace on, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome is unnerving simply because of how realistic it comes off as]]. A tragic accident like this can happen in ''real life''.
* A bonus: when Kiyoshiro was dragged into the hospital, the nurse reveals "herself" to be a Betsumon in disguise. Yes, that's the same Digimon (or at least one of them) who tortured Gammamon and almost managed to erase everyone else in the Dorm right in the previous episode. And it's not happy about it. Thank god he's been ordered by Clockmon to check on Kiyo and quickly leaves afterward.

* It seems like they are heightening up the chills to make this anime a full-fledged horror Digimon anime! A Salamandamon sneaked into the room of one of Hiro's friends and turned her into a gecko human. When the heroes investigate her, they found out that she had amassed a ''massive'' amount of victims ready to steal diamonds.
* When Hiro discovers the first gecko human, it is disturbing. A shadowy figure sneaks into his room and climbs to his ceiling -- only to find out that it's a ''person'' and it's his classmate. And when Hiro went to her parent's house to check her up, we're met with a JumpScare where her reptoid appearance is in full display.

* After a failed chase, the party starts fearing the thought of Splashmon appearing to attack them out of nowhere, and they start hearing water sounds that their Digimon partners don't even hear. Unlike in ''Xros Wars'' where nobody actually fell for his DivideAndConquer tactics, here every human hero fell for his plan to instill fear in them, and the anxiety is palpable.
* When they actually get to fight him for real, he also doesn't even see them as an opponent but more like they were prey. Unlike most similar Digimon either, he doesn't even give the party a fighting chance -- he simply transforms [=BetelGammamon=] into water, then [=TeslaJellymon=] soon after.
* Last but not least, since Splashmon absorbing humans was spread around as a ''ghost tale'' on the internet, we don't even know how long this is happening. Look at the number of bubbles he's gathered when he's on top of the aquarium -- each bubble being one of his victims. Just ''how many'' people he claimed?

* Imagine walking to your home on the best day of your life, before a hulking, multi-faced, and multi-armed HumanoidAbomination ambushes you ''on purpose'', rips your face out, and replaced it with a mask. Then you end up becoming an {{empty shell}} of a man. This is what this episode basically is. FaceStealer: the episode.
* Unlike most other similar Digimon who merely lurk in the shadows looking for prey, Asuramon blatantly attacks people in broad daylight. And after they steal enough faces, they became addicted to wearing the emotions within them and become solid, rampaging all over the streets looking for faces to steal. '''Not even your home is safe from this thing.''' Thankfully they're cut short before they could start a rampage inside a crowded stadium.
* When one of the Asuramon heads equip Ruli or Hiro's faces, their faces are exactly those of the children, but their voice is those of ''Asuramon's''. It's an incredibly uncanny case of VocalDissonance.
* The fact that the Digimon of the main characters were all defeated, leading to each of their faces being stolen. Who knows what would have happened if not for Angoramon's quick thinking in the end?

* Kodokugumon, an entire swarm of spiders infests the building, infecting humans with a fatal venom, then devours bits of human data to grow larger and larger. They're less villains and more feral animals that have developed a taste for humans. Worse? The swarm is still out there, and nothing is stopping them from attacking humans some other time except finding another method of preparing their prey.
* Toropiamon casually disposes of a Kodokugumon, causing it to vomit up its insides before bursting into data!

* This episode features something similar to episode 7: An Extyrannomon and a [=WaruMonzaemon=] popped out from a closet of a human girl, Kayono Aramaki, and manipulates her to let them wreak havoc. Unlike Yatagaramon whose actions don't directly harm humans, Extyrannomon and [=WaruMonzaemon=] ''turns anyone Kayono doesn't like into dolls''. Then it degenerated into Kayono ordering the demonic doll Digimon to attack random passersby as she pleases -- in broad daylight.
** The dolls sport creepy smiles and black holes instead of eyes, when Kayono starts playing with them, she decides to play a game to ''tear them apart'', thankfully the people are not aware and don't remember what happened after they're saved.
** [=WaruMonzaemon=] threatening Kayono's mom by scratching the wall beside her with its claw.
** At one point her mother begs her to stop turning people into dolls, she coldly tells her to shut up before the scene shows Extyrannomon slowly opening its mouth to transform her.
* When Hiro and Ruli were chasing Monzaemon around, the streets were wholly empty. This can be interpreted as Kayono, Extyrannomon, and [=WaruMonzaemon=] turning everyone nearby into dolls.
* Extyrannomon is another one of those Digimon who instantly puts something or someone out of action regardless of what they are. If you get hit by one of its attacks, you turn instantly into a doll, no questions asked. And no, unlike Splashmon, you had to ask Extyrannomon (who was obviously unrepentant from the get-go) to reverse the process. If not for Monzaemon forcing him to, everyone affected will remain as dolls.

* When a Digimon passes the sword to another one, they are absorbed into it and unlike the humans that are freed after Musyamon is defeated, they don't come back.

* When Angoramon gets possessed, he tries to fight it off by distancing himself from everyone, but after two days of Musyamon's MindRape, he is top exhausted and gets controlled by it, all while groaning in pain.
* After Angoramon attacks Reppamon and flees, resulting in his tail getting chipped. He feels that something is wrong and both his body and tail agree to contact Ruli. Given that Reppamon's tail is known to have been a violent BloodKnight in the past, it shows how serious this situation is.

* The Betsumon's normal silly appearance isn't so silly here, being played up more as ''creepy''.
* The single Betsumon targeting Gammamon? That's just one of a large pack of Betsumon. One of these had already taken over Jellymon and another implied to be the pack leader was taking over Gammamon's new friend, a Gotsumon. The rest appear after Gammamon meets Meicoomon and were preparing to ''replace everyone inside Hiro's dorm''. If Gammamon didn't expose his impersonator's intolerance against chocolate in front of Hiro, it wouldn't be just him that vanishes -- the Betsumon will take the identities of everyone inside the dorm and they would be erased from existence.
* Last but not least, the Betsumon are completely solid from the get-go. Judging by what other Digimon like Dracumon or Asuramon even did to get there and they had claimed at least one victim before they invade Hiro's dorm, the implication is this isn't the first time it happened, and they had vanished whole swathes of Digimon and humans before they went after Hiro and Gammamon.

* This is among one of the flat-out creepiest episodes so far. A mysterious Digimon is attempting to ''kill'' Kiyoshiro on purpose through {{Poltergeist}}s and comes dangerously close to succeeding at dragging him to River Styx if not for Mummymon and Jellymon's intervention. To put bluntly, a main character, and a human at that, '''almost got KilledOffForReal''' in the most unsubtle way possible.

* Remember Vamdemon? ''Digimon Adventure's'' most iconic and terrifying villain? He's back... and he's brought some friends with him. Taking the role of a more ClassicalMovieVampire, Vamdemon poses as "Aviel", the human CEO of a company called SV. He and his minions Dracumon, Matadrmon, and Sangoloupmon lure young women to their nest and drink their blood, turning them into their servants and having them turn other humans into vampires, all to create an empire of vampires he can rule over. Had it not been for Angoramon being suspicious over it as soon as he heard about his front and thus preemptively warning Hiro and Kiyoshiro to take action, Ruli would've been his next victim.

* Dracumon deserved what came after him when he tried to suck Ruli's blood out of revenge despite being told not to, but the way he dies is one of the most horrifying on-screen Digimon deaths. He gets surrounded by Vamdemon's bats, twitches in pain, then vanishes ''instantly'' with only his suit remaining. Despite Dracumon's spiteful attitude against Ruli, he isn't even the most horrifying thing there; Vamdemon is. She understandably looks ''absolutely terrified'' even before he blows his own cover -- once she sees how Dracumon is disposed of, him seeking revenge against her becomes an afterthought.
* If the mere appearance of Vamdemon isn't a sufficient warning that things are going to go south, then there's also how just like Majramon, the hero's current Digimon are ''completely and utterly'' outmatched against him. He never takes a single scrape from their attacks, defeats one, and delivers a brutal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to another ''without even taking a step from where he's standing.'' Even his [=SangLoupmon=] minion was too much for Angoramon to handle.
** During the fight with Vamdemon, he infects [=BetelGammamon=] with a virus, causing [[{{Synchronization}} Hiro to endure whatever pain [=BetelGammamon=] feels.]] And [=BetelGammamon=] becomes so enraged by the underhanded trick that his eyes begin to turn [[BlackEyesOfCrazy black]], signifying the emergence of [[SuperpoweredEvilSide [=GulusGammamon=]]]. Thankfully, [=BetelGammamon=] manages to resist and Super Evolves to Canoweissmon.
** Last but not least, when all of these were happening, his victims are already going around attacking people, potentially creating more victims. A man who was walking alone in a park was stalked and came ''very close'' to becoming a vampire himself before he folds to and runs away from Canoweissmon (which reverts all of his victims back to normal).

* A murderous Digitamamon is residing in a supposedly haunted apartment ready to eat anyone who rented it. Since it was an ''urban legend'' the moment Hiro and co. get involved with him and he's been stuck in there for half a year, there's a very high chance that it's going on for a certain amount of time. Had Angoramon not been acquainted with him since times past, this would go mostly undetected and possibly lead to more civilian deaths.
* The sheer MoodWhiplash of this episode. Most of it is Angoramon socializing with his old friend, until said friend suddenly felt hungry when talking to Ruli and Angoramon. It then promptly degenerates into horror when Kiyoshiro finds out the house Angoramon's friend resides at is known as the "Man-Eating Mansion" and he shows his true colors trying to make Ruli next on his kill list by slowly moving behind her. It's like a horrifically calm ambush predator trying to stalk and kill off his prey.
* The way Digitamamon eats people. He grabs them with his ghostly hands coming out of the hole in his shell, pulls them inside to drain their spirits, and spits out their clothes with '' their bodies being reduced to sand'' and there are many piles of sand inside the house.
* Kiyoshiro might usually be paranoid in the wrong places and at the wrong time, but he's ProperlyParanoid when he hears Angoramon's friend residing in an apartment notoriously known as the "Man-eating mansion". Thankfully when the boys arrived, Angoramon and Digitamamon were already fighting each other and just happened to fall out of a window, so they all knew who was the culprit right off the bat.
* This might only be obvious if you watched Digitamamon's episodes in ''Adventure'', but in there he speaks in a gruff, masculine manner. Here, he's voiced by Creator/RieKugimiya and speaks in a rather childish tone. The result? Another starkly uncanny case of VocalDissonance. Rie might be a voice actress known for {{Tsundere}} roles, but since she's voicing a SerialKiller here it comes across as dissonant and flat-out creepy.

* This episode might as well be titled "BodyHorror: The Episode" as it features humans getting their limbs replaced with vines. The culprit behind this is an Ajatarmon. And the motivation behind this? [[StalkerWithACrush She grew obsessed with a human botanist named Yuto]] and wanted to [[ForcedTransformation turn him into an Ajatarmon]] so they could be friends forever. To that end, she targeted anyone who so much as talked to Yuto, using them as test subjects, with the same fate nearly befalling both Hiro and Kiyoshiro.

* It might not seem creepy alone, but when Ajatarmon actually speaks, this muscular plant-tribal hunter speaks in the voice of a young woman. It's a starkly uncanny case of VocalDissonance.

* Angoramon and Jellymon explain to Gammamon that while Digimon ''can'' reincarnate -- which is at least better than in ''[[Anime/DigimonTamers Tamers]]'', where they can't altogether -- they ''won't'' be the same person once they hatch again. It isn't ambiguous like what happened with [[Anime/DigimonDataSquad Mercurymon repeatedly murdering Piyomon in an attempt to wipe his memories of Chika]] - Bokomon, as he once was, is ''dead''.

* Nearly everyone in the gang is shown on-screen to be ''critically close to '''freezing to death''''' in this episode, much to Ruli's horror when she realized this based on [=TeslaJellymon=]'s responses. She's so shocked that [=TeslaJellymon=] had to [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan slap her]] to make her focus on the problem in front of them.
** Frozomon, the enemy of the week, nearly outright killed Ruli with its hot knife, thankfully [=TeslaJellymon=] saved her on time. If that knife actually connects though.....never mind a dead body, there might not even be anybody left, considering the knife is also shown to be hot enough to melt steel.
** Frozomon's official profile in Digimon Reference Book shows just how dangerous it can be. It will use all its strength to ''eliminate'' anything that gets in the way of its rescue, even if it's ''Baby Digimon''.

* Just Petermon being a ''child kidnapper'' will really put the chill on the spine for anyone. Being a serial kidnapper is already horrible enough, but this guy is also a ''child groomer'' who believes that growing up is a bad thing despite he's mentally and physically a teenager. Petermon is basically the Digimon version of [[Manga/HappySugarLife Satou Matsuzaka]], just way more hypocritical and delusional. The guy is not far from harming or trying to kill any children supposedly under his "care" just because they ''talked'' about growing up.
* Petermon's "Midnight Fantasia" attack can cause [[ZergRush all the (human and Digimon children) to sleepwalk and incapacitate his foes]], weighing down [=TeslaJellymon=] and Symbare Angoramon and preventing them from attacking. It's only thwarted when he almost hit Kazuma with one of his knives by accident when trying to hit Symbare Angoramon and the Hawkmon evolve into Orcamon to protect their partner.

* Piccolomon is one of the best examples of some Digimon's BlueAndOrangeMorality being scary. It can send humans to a different time period....sorta as everyone in that period will only be seen as shadowed folks...and then one will start following the victims and slowly take their appearance till they basically steal their body. ''Piccolomon thinks this is fun for the humans.''

* The tail end of the episode suddenly drops a bombshell - Gammamon was '''not''' as small and innocent in the past as he is today. Piccolomon tries to erase him from existence by going back in time and is rewarded by being thrashed beyond what any of the Digimon trio are capable of doing to him as Adults.
** To circle back a bit: Piccolomon attempted to ''RetGone the main cast'' and only failed because Gammamon's past self was too strong. The decision to start with Gammamon was completely arbitrary and had he chosen anyone else they'd most likely be gone forever (well, possibly not, Piccolomon would have gone after Gammamon ''eventually'', and after deciding to befriend him would have chosen to bring the others back, it would have still been unpleasant and let the trauma of seeing the erasure of one's partner from existence).

* The very beginning of the episode shows us the first ever human death ''onscreen''. This shows just how utterly dangerous a Digimon's abilities can be as said human gets reduced to '''ashes''' the moment he exits [=DarkLizamon=]'s Dread Fire, all while his parents could only watch in horror as he dies horribly.
** Tsuyoshi's disintegration is thankfully offscreen the first time around, but not when [=DarkLizamon=] recounts what happened later on. He and Saberdramon were trying to save the man's life by protecting him from the house fire, but he didn't listen to them and stepped out of the Dread Fire before [=DarkLizamon=] could dispel it. The next thing they know, everyone is screaming at the Digimon and calling them monsters and murderers.
* [=DarkLizamon=] trapping Kiyoshiro and Jellymon in his Dread Fire attack and then telling them they were free to leave as soon as they forced the latter to give away Hiro's location, despite knowing what would happen if they did. Had Kiyoshiro not been so hesitant to escape and dissuaded Jellymon from leaving, the two of them would have died.

* Remember Archnemon from ''Adventure 02''? She's the main villain of this episode and is '''far''' more terrifying. Where her Adventure 02 counterpart was more [[LaughablyEvil comical than creepy]], this Archnemon is a demented MadScientist with a hunger for brains. And we're introduced to Archnemon webbing up three hapless humans and immediately eating one of their heads offscreen. With graphic crunching sounds to boot, suggesting she's eating his skull.
** An extra layer of horror is added for Japanese viewers who grew up watching ''Adventure 02'', as this Archnemon is [[RoleReprise voiced by]] [[Creator/WakanaYamazaki her voice actress]] from ''02'', unlike other Digimon who display different seiyuus in other continuities (Mummymon, Archnemon's partner in crime in ''02'', for example, is voiced in ''Ghost Game'' by a [[Creator/TakayukiSugo different voice actor]] than his [[Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa 02 counterpart]]), meaning they get the meta experience to watch a goofy yet loveable Team Rocket-like villain turn into a depraved, remorseless version of herself [[ToServeMan in the worst]] [[BrainFood way possible]].
** Worse? The Archnemon everyone knew back in ''02'' was an exception to the species -- the ''Digimon Reference Book'' describes her as a vicious and intelligent monster that takes the form of a human to catch her prey off guard and devour them. That's right -- this is a TruerToTheText portrayal of Archnemon that is close to the species norm.
* As for Arachnemon herself, she's ''extremely'' creepy. She starts her transformation with an incredibly unsettling NightmareFace, she moves and twitches in incredibly unnatural ways, and her signature "Kekekeke" EvilLaugh is accompanied by a disturbing sound akin to something tapping on wood. On top of all of that, she has devices that monitor the entire building for Hiro and Co. and she links them with the cameras to deploy a near-endless amount of Dokugumon right next to them just to tire them out and get them hunted down eventually. It's just as unsettling as Sealsdramon in a different way, and unlike him, Arachnemon has a disposition for eating people instead of simply killing random Digimon.
* Really, the entire episode is an arachnophobe's worst nightmare come to life. Imagine being trapped in a building infested by a horde of ravenous, man-eating giant spiders under the command of a larger, more ''intelligent'' man-eating spider who wants to kill you and eat your brain. That's the scenario our heroes find themselves in.
** At the climax of the episode, Archnemon has captured the heroes and is about to eat Gammamon's brain... only for Gammamon to evolve into [[SuperpoweredEvilSide GulusGammamon]] and beat her instantly. And the way he finishes her off is ''far'' more brutal than the way he killed Sealsdramon. Namely, he jams his fist down her throat and fires off a point-blank Desdemona, effectively '''''[[KillItWithFire burning her alive from the inside out]]'''''. Granted, she deserved it, but ''Jesus''...
*** After that brutal display of power, there's a brief moment of tension where Hiro (as well as the audience) is expecting [=GulusGammamon=] to attack them like he did last time. Thankfully, he just gives Hiro a cryptic warning and willingly devolves.

* Fittingly for an episode called "Nightmare", this episode is essentially "''Digimon'' meets ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet''". The opening scene has a person running from something before coming across what seems to be a red river. While he ponders what to do, he meets a '''[=SkullGreymon=]''' that murmurs "Rot and decay" before its claws suddenly burst out of the walls and reach out to him.
* To the episode proper -- Jellymon had suckered Kiyoshiro into a sleep therapy deal involving putting people to sleep with Pillomon's snooze. It's intended to give people pleasant dreams by having them enter Pillomon's world...but it turns into a never-ending nightmare as numerous [=SkullGreymon=] were wandering all over the dream trying to maim and kill anyone who enters it. If you suffer from any injuries in Pillomon's nightmare, either from [=SkullGreymon=] or anything else, the injuries are transferred onto the real you. Based on how dangerous Skullgreymon is as a Digimon and most people who were within the nightmare were just ''defenseless civilians'', it's not difficult to imagine that people can and will actually get killed by one.
** To make things worse, the whole thing is a GroundhogDayLoop where if you run too far from [=SkullGreymon=] it just brings you back to square one, meaning that this ''will'' inevitably kill off somebody if left unchecked.
* The aforementioned "Rot and Decay"? It's ''the only thing'' the [=SkullGreymon=] in Pillomon's dream ever say.
* As Kiyoshiro and Ruli thought they defeated [=SkullGreymon=], it wakes back up and prepares to attack them again...because they were all manifestations of Pillomon's nightmare. Therefore, the only way to get everyone back to normal and actually defeat the [=SkullGreymon=] is to awaken Pillomon.
* The most horrifying thing about this is that Pillomon is just a cute Digimon no better than a living plushie, but this time it managed to almost accidentally murder a good few...because Jellymon fed it too many dreams that it became ill. There's no wonder Bakumon refused to undo Jellymon and Kiyoshiro's scars; they started it and arguably they deserved it.
* Pillomon mentions that it got the nightmare because one time it was chased by [=SkullGreymon=] in the Digital World, which implies a ''real'' [=SkullGreymon=] is still at large there and it could make an actual appearance in the human world at some point...

* The episode starts with a possessed Potamon with extremely unsettling and out-of-character mannerisms attacking a deliveryman before Clockmon arrives to pull a BigDamnHeroes. Shortly after, all of the Digimon protagonists were possessed in the exact same way in short order and turned against the human trio, so they will be amounting to armless children who have ''nothing'' in hand to stop whatever awaits them.
* The possessed Digimon are ''extremely horrifying''. With context, they have red eyes, grow insect wings and antennae, make strange, buzzing noises and crawl and fly all over the place trying to attack humans like insects. The only exception is Angoramon [[AndIMustScream who was self-aware through the whole thing]] and even tells Ruri to run.
* Mummymon reveals that the source of the red pollen that's turning Digimon crazy is a Morphomon, who's sending distress signals because it was trapped.
** While Morphomon seems innocent enough (and this one didn't really mean harm), remember [[Anime/DigimonAdventureLastEvolutionKizuna the last time someone decided to modify one]]? They unleashed a Digimon that is capable of near-unparalleled levels of destruction. Near the end of the episode, we find out the true culprit was a woman (who also called herself an amateur researcher) who used a program to ''capture that thing'', only to be stopped by Clockmon who smashed her computer and took away the device that contained Morphomon's hologram ghost. This almost looks like a setup for ''Eosmon'' to manifest, if not for Clockmon's timely intervention.
*** The true culprit being a human who trapped a Morphomon opens a whole new can of worms -- are there any other human beings waiting to exploit the Digimon for their own gains, trying to unleash EldritchAbomination Digimon, or worse?