History NightmareFuel / FinalFantasyIX

And the [[FinalFantasyX sequel]] doesn't disappoint on the [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyX scares]]...

* Zorn and Thorn's true form [[MeaningfulName Meltigemini]] may give [[FinalFantasyX Yunalesca]] a run for her money for creepy {{One Winged Angel}}s. Their Exorcist-esque spasms when they transform is pretty damn creepy too.

* People say that [=FF9=] is one of the [[LighterAndSofter cheerier games in the tone]] for the series, but, [[FridgeHorror when you think about it long enough]], you realize that's it's not true. Through the events of the game, you will witness the deaths of ''millions'' through war and genocide. The entire summoner race is immolated to death by a giant death ray. Both Burmecia and Cleyra are destroyed, nearly wiping out the rat people. Thousands die in the attacks on both Lindblum and Alexandria. Kuja kills all the sleeping Terrans by blasting everything to hell. And god knows how many died thinks to the introduction of the Mist. Garland planned to kill every living person on Gaia and he did ''a very goddamn good job''.

* The poor black mages. It's not just that they have such a tragically short lifespan - their deaths come with absolutely ''no warning''. They just 'stop'. The black mages are essentially a dying race; not only are they incapable of breeding, but the factories that produced them no longer function. Sooner or later, that village is going to be pretty much empty except for the Genomes.

* Despite her {{Heel Face Turn}} later in Disc 2 and the fact she's undeniably {{Bad Ass}} and cool, [[ThatOneBoss Beatrix]] is without question the most terrifying character and has the most difficult boss fights in the early parts of the game for many players. Even before you fight her in Brumecia, Freya recounts a story her love Sir Fratley told her about Beatrix. Apparently she's the most feared knight in the realm that even he; a seasoned warrior is quite reluctant to fight and she's slaughtered more men in war than most can ever hope to achieve. She also led the assaults on Burmecia and Cleyra which left both utterly decimated and littered with corpses. She's so ruthless one can see her as this series's version of [[ASongOfIceAndFire Tywin Lannister]] . It's a pretty chilling backstory and then before you fight her she says something along the lines of [[BadAssBoast "I've once slaughtered a hundred knights single handedly; to me, you two are nothing more than insects]] . You may think she's just acting tough... and then she uses that dreaded move "Shock" which more than likely will one hit KO you...

* Sections of Memoria are seriously horrifying. A special mention goes to the room that looks like it was designed by Salvador Dali, in which you have to climb over the melting fragmented remains of still-ticking clocks... but the hands-down freakiest room is the one that reenacts [[spoiler: Garnet's memories of the power core of the Invincible as it destroyed her village]]. Since it's her childhood memory and operating under a child's view of the world, the core manifests itself as an ''enormous staring monstrous eye'' in the sky, red as blood, and surrounded by a swirling vortex of clouds. It is ''right there'', glaring at you, all the way through the boss fight that ensues... and then you have to climb a staircase [[EyeScream directly into its giant glowing pupil]] to get to the next room.

** The creepiness doesn't stop there... While inside the building, you suddenly enter a gigantic dark room with scores of creepy stone faces on its walls. Your party members utter a few confused comments about the situation, and right at that moment, one of the stone faces suddenly comes to life (it kinda edges out of the wall, and its color changes to fiery tones) and says something in an alien language. It seems that Oeilvert wasn't creepy enough, so they made the boss of the place a demon airship in the basement.

* Despite her {{Heel Face Turn}} later in Disc 2 and the fact she's undeniably {{Bad Ass}} and cool, [[ThatOneBoss Beatrix]] is without question the most terrifying character and has the most difficult boss fights in the early parts of the game for many players. Even before you fight her in Brumecia, Freya recounts a story her love Sir Fratley told her about Beatrix. Apparently she's the most feared knight in the realm that even he; a seasoned warrior is quite reluctant to fight and she's slaughtered more men in war than most can ever hope to achieve. She's also lead the assaults on Burmecia and Cleyra which left both utterly decimated and littered with corpses. She's so ruthless one can see her as this series's version of [[ASongOfIceAndFire Tywin Lannister]] . It's a pretty chilling backstory and then before you fight her she says something along the lines of [[BadAssBoast "I've once slaughtered a hundred knights single handedly; to me, you two are nothing more than insects]] . You may think she's just acting tough... and then she uses that dreaded move "Shock" which more than likely will one hit KO you...

* For some reason, the first quarter of the game despite its moments of brief darkness [[spoiler: including the Black Waltzes and Blank's petrification]] was still pretty cheerful and gave the player a sense of a light hearted and fun fantasy adventure. And then following [[spoiler: Garnet and Steiner's departure BACK to Alexandria]] and your visit to Gilzalmaluke's Grotto, the game takes a sudden extremely [[DarkerandEdgier dark turn for the worse]]. And don't get me started on Brumecia and your first fight with Beatrix......

* Despite her {{Heel Face Turn}} later in Disc 2 and the fact she's undeniably {{Bad Ass}} and cool, [[ThatOneBoss Beatrix]] is without question the most terrifying character and has the most difficult boss fights in the early parts of the game for many players. Even before you fight her in Brumecia, Freya recounts a story her love Sir Fratley told her about Beatrix. Apparently she's the most feared knight in the realm that even he; a seasoned warrior is quite reluctant to fight and she's slaughtered more men in war than most can ever hope to achieve. She's also lead the assaults on Burmecia and Cleyra which left both utterly decimated and littered with corpses. She's so ruthless one can see her as this series's version of [[ASongOfIceAndFire Tywin Lannister]] . It's a pretty chilling backstory and then before you fight her she says something along the lines of [[BadAssBoast "I've once slaughtered a hundred knights single handedly; to me, you two are nothing more than insects]] . You may think she's just acting tough...and then she uses that dreaded move "Shock" which more than likely will one hit KO you....

* Sections of Memoria are seriously horrifying. A special mention goes to the room that looks like it was designed by Salvador Dali, in which you have to climb over the melting fragmented remains of still-ticking clocks...But the hands-down freakiest room is the one that reenacts [[spoiler: Garnet's memories of the power core of the Invincible as it destroyed her village]]. Since it's her childhood memory and operating under a child's view of the world, the core manifests itself as an ''enormous staring monstrous eye'' in the sky, red as blood, and surrounded by a swirling vortex of clouds. It is ''right there'', glaring at you, all the way through the boss fight that ensues...and then you have to climb a staircase [[EyeScream directly into its giant glowing pupil]] to get to the next room.

* For some reason, the first quarter of the game despite it's moments of brief darkness [[spoiler: including the Black Waltzes and Blank's petrification]] was still pretty cheerful and gave the player a sense of a light hearted and fun fantasy adventure. And then following [[spoiler: Garnet and Steiner's departure BACK to Alexandria]] and your visit to Gilzalmaluke's Grotto, the game takes a sudden extremely [[DarkerandEdgier dark turn for the worse]]. And don't get me started on Brumecia and your first fight with Beatrix......

* Admit it; before [[spoiler: you heard about the SuperSoft and helped Marcus track down the stuff to save him]] you actually believed [[spoiler: that [[EnsembleDarkhorse Blank]] was dead]] didn't you? Then again [[spoiler: seeing him as a stone statue still in posture of throwing you the map of the world]] was still unsettling wasn't it?

* The entire mission to stop the mist at the Lifa Tree is greatly disturbing. First your traveling this maze of roots all whilst facing Zombies and sentient trees. Then you have to travel deep within the tree itself in which your riding on this leaf down a green, hellish spiral of which you get attacked by zombie dragons three times. Then you reach the bottom and you land on this harp-like structure with strings of some green liquid running down to a seemingly bottomless pool of green. Then [[spoiler: the boss and the maker of the mist Soul Cage, drops down, explains it's behind the mist and that the mist itself and the green fluid and surroundings of the tree itself is comprised of SOULS]]. What makes this worse is that even while you manage to stop the mist now [[spoiler: it'll be back soon enough]].

We all know that Final Fantasy can be [[RunningGag pants-wettingly]] [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasy scary,]] and the [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyIV fourth]], [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyV fifth]], [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyVI sixth]], [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyVII seventh]], and [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyVIII eighth]] installments have their shares, but FinalFantasyIX, [[SugarBowl as cute-looking]] [[PuniPlush as it is,]] [[FridgeHorror also has some]] [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyIX terrifying stuff]] [[CrapsaccharineWorld underneath.]]

** [[http://youtu.be/uzi8XKbKZDE her theme]] alone is enough to imprint just what kind of a threat you are dealing with. Again if your a fan of {{A Song Of Ice and Fire}} you may think of this song as depressing and unsettling as "The Rains of Castamere" minus the lyrics.

* Burmecia. There's just something about the droning music, [[WhenItRainsItPours the endless bucketing rain]], the dismal scenery, and, oh yes, ''the Burmecian corpses scattered all over the place''. Oh and by the way, those bodies include children too. You can only imagine the terror that went through the minds of those poor Brumecians when Brahne sicked those Black Mages upon them.

** [[http://youtu.be/uzi8XKbKZDE her theme]] alone is enough to imprint just what kind of a threat you are dealing with.

* Despite her {{Heel Face Turn}} later in Disc 2 and the fact she's undeniably {{Bad Ass}} and cool, [[ThatOneBoss Beatrix]] is without question the most terrifying character and has the most difficult boss fights in the early parts of the game for many players. Even before you fight her in Brumecia, Freya recounts a story her love Sir Fratley told her about Beatrix. Apparently she's the most feared knight in the realm that even he; a seasoned warrior is quite reluctant to fight and she's slaughtered more men in war than most can ever hope to achieve. She's also lead the assaults on Burmecia and Cleyra which left both utterly decimated and littered with corpses. She's so ruthless one can see her as this series's version of [[Tywin Lannister ASongOfIceAndFire]] . It's a pretty chilling backstory and then before you fight her she says something along the lines of [[BadAssBoast "I've once slaughtered a hundred knights single handedly; to me, you two are nothing more than insects]] . You may think she's just acting tough...and then she uses that dreaded move "Shock" which more than likely will one hit KO you....

* Despite her {{Heel Face Turn}} later in Disc 2 and the fact she's undeniably {{Bad Ass}} and cool, [[ThatOneBoss Beatrix]] is certainly one of the more terrifying boss fights in the early parts of the game for many players. Even before you fight her in Brumecia, Freya recounts a story her love Sir Fratley told her about Beatrix. Apparently she's the most feared knight in the realm and she's slaughtered more men in war than most can ever hope to achieve. It's a pretty chilling backstory and then before you fight her she says something along the lines of [[BadAssBoast "I've once slaughtered a hundred knights single handedly; to me, you two are nothing more than insects]] . You may think she's just acting tough...and then she uses that dreaded move "Shock" which more than likely will one hit KO you....

* Despite her {{HeelFaceTurn}} later in Disc 2 and the fact she's undeniably {{BadAss}} and cool, [[ThatOneBoss Beatrix]] is certainly one of the more terrifying boss fights in the early parts of the game for many players. Even before you fight her in Brumecia, Freya recounts a story her love Sir Fratley told her about Beatrix. Apparently she's the most feared knight in the realm and she's slaughtered more men in war than most can ever hope to achieve. It's a pretty chilling backstory and then before you fight her she says something along the lines of [[BadAssBoast "I've once slaughtered a hundred knights single handedly; to me, you two are nothing more than insects]] . You may think she's just acting tough...and then she uses that dreaded move "Shock" which more than likely will one hit KO you....

* Burmecia. There's just something about the droning music, [[WhenItRainsItPours the endless bucketing rain]], the dismal scenery, and, oh yes, ''the Burmecian corpses scattered all over the place''.

* The concept of Necron is beyond even {{Cosmic Horror}}. You beat Kuja, who wanted to destroy the essence of life itself, then you're faced with the {{Big Bad}}, Necron, who is the essence of ''eternal death'', who comes to finish off where Kuja failed. It's a floating statue with a half-destroyed face in a colosseum that ascends into the sky. The colosseum has eyes that blink and watch your party take blow after blow of unpredictable attacks that cause all sorts of status abnormalities.

* Zorn and Thorn's true form Meltigemini may give [[FinalFantasyX Yunalesca]] a run for her money for creepy {{One Winged Angel}}s. Their Exorcist-esque spasms when they transform is pretty damn creepy too.

We all know that Final Fantasy can be [[RunningGag pants-wettingly]] [[{{HighOctaneNightmareFuel/FinalFantasy}} scary,]] and the [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyIV fourth]], [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyV fifth]], [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyVI sixth]], [[{{HighOctaneNightmareFuel/FinalFantasyVII}} seventh]], and [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyVIII eighth]] installments have their shares, but FinalFantasyIX, [[SugarBowl as cute-looking]] [[PuniPlush as it is,]] [[FridgeHorror also has some]] [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyIX terrifying stuff]] [[CrapsaccharineWorld underneath.]]

And the [[FinalFantasyX sequel]] doesn't disappoint on the [[{{HighOctaneNightmareFuel/FinalFantasyX}} scares]]...

** Yoshitaka Amano's [[[[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081107203351/finalfantasy/images/c/ca/Necron-art.jpg vision of Necron]] is far more terrifying than the in-game model.