History NightmareFuel / FullmetalAlchemist

** Worst of all is the fact that, not too far in, we actually see multiple people who are human/beast chimeras, some of which are mostly human with a few animalistic qualities and a few that are full-beast men. It's very likely that some people within the military did indeed figure out exactly what Shou had done to his wife and instead of reporting him or punishing him, they decided that they should instead expand on his research. Shou's crime is horrible on a personal level, being that he turned his wife and later his daughter into chimeras just to keep his job. Meanwhile, someone else decided to effectively industrialize the process to mass produce chimeras for no other purpose than to see if they could and whether the results would be worth using in warfare.

* Ed's nightmare after Nina's death is turned UpToEleven in the ''Brotherhood'' anime. It features a front view of the NightmareFace of the resurrected "Trisha", while in the manga, it's only living Trisha with BloodFromTheMouth. What made it infinitely worse is that he tried to play it off as not so different.

* Envy's true form. As if the idea of turning souls into Phlebotinum wasn't scary enough, this consists of seeing their [[NightmareFace distorted faces begging you for release from their tortured existence. A melting, dripping, mutating bodymash of emaciated faces begging for their mommies and/or death]]. The true form is [[UpToEleven Upped To Eleven]] in the anime. It's the way that all the faces are moving, all the time...

Ladies and gentlemen, Creator/HiromuArakawa presents ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''.

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* Shou Tucker's reappearance as a chimera. His spine was ''fused to whatever animal he was combined with'' in a way that makes his head look upside down. And the fact that Shou talks entirely in a WHISPER after this event.
* Nina's death: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdTzcp1YLY8 "Edward, why does it hurt here?"]]
** Not to mention the death itself is ''graphically'' shown on-screen, as opposed to cutting away after in the manga. We get to see ''all'' of the [[SarcasmMode beautiful]] [[{{Squick}} images]] of Scar [[YourHeadAsplode blowing up Nina/Alexander, as well as her/their bloody remains on the wall]].
* When Edward comes across the crime scene of one of Barry the Chopper's victims. Upon accidentally having the cover taken off her body, its position reminds Ed of the transmutation attempt on Trisha, and he gets a flashback of its [[NightmareFace horrible, pulsating face]], causing him to [[HeroicBSOD (understandably) pass out]] from remembering it.
* The scenes in the decaying, bombed out shell of a city. That's WWI era London. While that may not seem so disturbing, bear in mind that in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the first anime series]], it is said that every time alchemy is performed, some dead soul from that world will have to lend its energy to make it happen. Even if the manga/''Brotherhood'' 'verse works differently, it's still creepy.
* All the freaky shit from the first episode. When Al and Ed are in the Gate and Al is being forcibly pulled in, screaming for his brother to help him while Ed reached for him. Their hands ''barely'' touch for an instant and then Ed is screaming in disbelief, anger, and then bloodcurdling pain as he clutches the ''bloody stump'' of his leg.
* The chimera that Cornello put together to resemble Rose's lover.
* The time when Wrath, pre-"awakening", accidentally fused himself with a bed. It's a bit like the TeleFrag article when you think about it.
** When he fuses himself with Sloth and she is literally ''evaporating'' because Ed transmuted her into ethanol. The reaction with his body causes his skin to become permanently burned, and he tears free of her while screaming in pain.
* Envy killing Ed via a blade through the chest with blood spewing everywhere. Top that off with a closeup shot of Edward's pupils ''dilating'' as he finally dies. And Envy's freaking huge SlasherSmile as he was doing so.
* The MindScrew moment when you see the flashback of Izumi trying to bring her baby back to life: It looks like the transmutation worked because her baby's body swells and actually starts ''crying'', but it failed, and she hands her child to the Gate. The creepy shadow arms grab it and ''yank it back through the Gate while it's still crying''. Izumi is shown remorsefully reaching out to her helpless baby as it is pulled away from her. When the Gate closes, she lets out a bloodcurdling scream.
* Kimblee's method of dispatching his foes or just people who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Plus unlike the Brotherhood version, this version of Kimblee forgoes any charm or etiquette, relishing causing death and pain out of ruthless nihilism and slowly turning human beings into bombs or mutilating them for kicks.
** Speaking of Kimblee, like Barry the Chopper mentioned below, he is ''much'' more horrifying in the first anime and considering the [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Blue and Orange Morality]] of the ''Brotherhood'' counterpart, that's really saying something. In the Ishval flashback early on in the series, Kimblee is seen blowing up entire buildings with a Philosopher's Stone and ''laughing maniacally''. And remember, this guy actually influenced Barry to become the serial killer he is now.
** Kimblee's death deserves a special mention. He is first impaled by Scar in a duel at Liore and just when you thought he was already done, Kimblee crawls with the last of his remaining strength towards Al and transforms him into a walking time bomb. All while literally having his intestines blown apart, spewing blood from his mouth, and unleashing one of the most disturbing [[NightmareFace Nightmare Faces]] in the series. The man was so nihilistic and hell-bent on turning Alphonse's hollow armor into a bomb that he didn't even care what would happen to himself. And just to add more nightmarish undertones into his twisted philosophy on humanity and its pointlessness, Kimblee deliberately makes his armor react slowly with oxygen, just so Al can realize with time how pointless his efforts have been. And then he dies believing that no one could ever save him. Holy shit.
* The death of Basque Grand at the hands of Scar. After Scar deconstructs his gray matter with alchemy, blood shoots out of his ears, nose and eye sockets in slow motion. Even creepier is how fragments of Red Stone shards fuse with the flesh on his tattooed arm upon contact.
* What happened to [[RapeAsDrama Rose after she was captured during the raid on Liore.]]
* In the video game ''Curse of the Crimson Elixir'', the Elric brothers are sent to investigate the village of Bord'wan with Riza. You find the place in complete shambles -- all the houses are blown out and many are covered with bloodstains (even the path you're walking on). It's dark as night, infested with scores of inky-black Golems, and has some suitably creepy music in the background.
** An early chapter has the brothers investigating Shou Tucker's house. Know ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''? You'll be getting familiar vibes walking through the mansion, but not because of zombies. When you look at Tucker's diary, it's clear that ''he's lost it''. And then you find his glasses.
** Near the end of the game, Ed's contact with the Crimson Stone causes him to end up in a blank white void. His only guide are blinking red lights, and touching them allows him to see Crowley's memories of his slow and steady descent into complete madness after failing again and again to create the perfect Golem body to place his lover's soul into.
** In ''The Broken Angel'' (of which ''Elixir'' is a prequel to), Carmilla melting into a human-shaped mass of inky-black goo. Her screams of pain and rage don't help matters.
* "Can I... eat him??"
* The episode where people in a town are infected with a disease that slowly kills a person by turning their skin into a stone-like substance. Made all the worse with the closeup of one of its victims: Lydia, an innocent young woman, has her face disfigured so it resembles rotted, stony bark.
** Lujon attempts to save a small boy from the disease with alchemy at one point. The poor kid pretty much ''exploded''. While ''screaming'' in agony.
** Also something of a TearJerker, but, at the end of the episode, ''the entire town'' has become infected with the illness. Their bodies are shown on-screen, and seeing all of them with the [[BodyHorror rocky skin]] is just flat-out horrifying.
* The whole thing with being stuck inside the Gate. Wrath described it pretty well: Stuck there. Sentient. No way to escape. And now let's think about Al's body being there, surrounded by all those eyes...
* Envy's final form in ''Conqueror of Shamballa''. To put it into simple terms, the movie has Envy as this ''enormous'' dragon-like serpent, with razor-sharp fangs, that can move at lightning-quick speeds and more or less relies on the single emotion of envy. This, and witnessing dragon!Envy chomping down on Hohenheim, all of Hohenheim's blood gushing out and then dripping out of dragon!Envy's mouth... ''Brrrr....''
* Envy and Hohenheim in the movie. Hanging up there, having something pierced through your body, waiting for something finally to happen... Highly unsettling, especially considering the time period Hohenheim hung there ''in Envy's mouth''!
* The expression on Mustang's face as he is ready to kill himself in the Ishbal flashback episode is nothing short of haunting. What's worse is that unlike the Brotherhood incarnation, [[spoiler:Mustang was the one who killed Winry's parents under orders from the military!]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIoIOKygOK0 Barry The Chopper.]] Unlike in the manga/''Brotherhood'' anime, his sadism is not only played seriously, it's also terrifying. In episode 8, he kidnaps both Winry and Ed. He has Ed tied to a chair with his automail arm taken off and has Winry BoundAndGagged. He graphically talks about how he likes slicing people into pieces and makes several [[NightmareFace nightmare faces]]. He slices Ed's arm and mentally tortures him while trying to murder him.
** There's Ed's reaction to this scene that makes it scary. Keep in mind, he was ''twelve'' when this happened, and he reacts the same way anyone, especially a preteen boy, would. And he was all alone, and no one knew where he was. Ed manages to escape by turning the chains into a spear. That's when Barry starts swinging, and when Ed starts screaming. And when we realize that he's actually ''terrified''. The only time we've seen him so scared was when he and Al tried to bring their mother back. After Al and a few State Alchemists arrive to save them, Ed breaks down sobbing.
--->'''Ed:''' I thought he was going to kill me. I honestly thought I was gonna die. I was so scared... so scared...
** Much later, Al meets Barry again, now as a disembodied soul attached to armor just like him, and -- also unlike the manga -- there is absolutely no humor attached to this. Al is ''terrified'' to see that the serial killer who almost murdered his brother and their friend is not only still alive, so to speak, but is more dangerous than ever before, and now the skull-faced psychopath has the government's blessing to kill as much as he pleases so long as he does it on the grounds of Lab 5.
* Martel's death. It's roughly the same as in the manga, but the most major difference is that the actual killing is shown from Al's point of view. Also, Al told her to hide in his armor to get away from Bradley/Pride.
* The way Greed's body contorts when he dies. His eyes are bulging, his skin is dried up, and his mouth is agape as if he wants to scream but can't. Ed's scream of agony as his dissolving body sinks into the floor makes it all the more chilling.
* Hughes' death is only a little different in this version, but in a way that largely changes the atmosphere. The part with Lust is mostly the same, it's when Hughes goes to use the phone in the lobby. The random girl he runs into is replaced with the Fuhrer's secretary, who is the anime's version of Sloth and also tries to kill him. It gives it a kind of ParanoiaFuel feeling, like the homunculi can be anybody and anywhere, and there's nowhere to run.
* That horrible ''thing'' that Ed and Al made when attempting to revive their mother? It lives on and eventually becomes Sloth.
** In a flashback, the thing can be seen ''crawling around... it was able to MOVE!'' And then, [[BigBad Dante got her hands on it]]...
* Gluttony's monster form in the movie.
** The fact that they ''[[NothingIsScarier never revealed how he turned out like that in the first place]]''.
** In episode 50 of the series, Gluttony is unable to eat Alphonse in order to create the Philosopher's Stone due to his grief over Lust's death. Envy becomes infuriated and Dante is annoyed with his inability to cooperate. So Dante activates the ouroboros tattoo on his tongue and erases it, reducing Gluttony to a mindless being whose only desire is to eat. This even shocks ''Envy'', who seems scared of Gluttony's "pure" form.
** The point in the movie where Gluttony chomps down on poor Wrath. He is caught between Gluttony's jaws, and blood oozes from his mouth. As Gluttony drags Wrath further in, a horrible ''crunch'' is heard as Wrath screams out in pain. By the time Al transmutes them both, Wrath appears to already be dead. It's especially horrifying in the dub, where Luci Christian ''actually sounds as though she's in horrible agony as she speaks''.
* Scar's older brother is revealed to have suffered SanitySlippage. The combination of his lover's death, failing to revive her through human transmutation, and the imposing threat of a war on his home eventually pushed him over the edge. Using his own body, he misguidedly planned to create a Philosopher's Stone out of Ishval's people during the massacre to resurrect his dead beloved. He wandered out onto the battlefield completely tattooed and naked with AxCrazy eyes and tears streaming down his face as Scar watched in horror. It didn't end well.
** Not to mention the ''reason'' he was naked; the sacrifice he made for human transmutation to bring back his lover/Lust? It's strongly implied to have been ''his own genitals''. [[GroinAttack OUCH.]]
* Eckhart and her Thule Society mooks in the movie crossing the Gate over into Amestris... and subsequently getting themselves transformed by whatever the hell's in there. The viewers can even ''see'' said mooks practically screaming as the Gate morphs them. When Hughes shoots a heavily mutated Eckhart on the return trip, it comes across as a blessing.
* Lyra's death. We never see it happen, but we ''do'' see the end results. [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe They're NOT pretty]].
* King Bradley revealing himself to be a homunculus is way more chilling and foreboding in the 2003 anime, certainly helped by the fact that in this version, TheReveal is much later in the series, and Bradley's true identity as the homunculus Pride had not even been foreshadowed. It's a much more terrifying version of the above mentioned change to Hughes' death, as it not only gives the idea that the homunculi can be everywhere and nobody is safe... but they also have [[ParanoiaFuel so much hidden influence that ''the leader of the country'' is one of them]].
-->'''King Bradley:''' (''to Marta'') Your agile moves won't work against ''me'', snake chimera. [[WhamLine I have the Ultimate Eye]]!
* Lust attacking Scar in the Central Library. The difference here is, instead of sporting her usual smirk, Lust instead goes into an almost doll-like, wide-eyed SlasherSmile, and it is ''[[http://i.imgur.com/qJk6RAC.png unsettling]]''.
* The lifeless Nina dolls that Tucker has created in his attempts to revive her.
** They just... stare blankly at everything, don't react at all, and seem unable to move or speak. Even after Tucker attempts to use Al's Philosopher's Stone to "finish" them, they're ''still'' {{Empty Shell}}s. It's straight out of the UncannyValley, and it's even more wrong considering how [[CheerfulChild cheerful]] the original Nina was.
* Dante's death, [[KarmicDeath as cathartic as it was]], is also pretty creepy--she's escaping in the elevator when suddenly Gluttony chews his way through the floor and grins at her hungrily. She tries to talk him down only [[OhCrap to realize]] that [[HoistByHisOwnPetard he doesn't even remember who she is because she alchemically destroyed his mind]], meaning that she can't control him anymore. He then lunges at her and she tries to defend herself with alchemy. We never see what happens next, as the elevator is empty the next time it opens, but WordOfGod confirmed that Dante didn't make it out alive.

** The same can be said for Izumi Curtis. In her attempt to bring her stillborn babe to life, she ended up losing her sexual organs and left with a misshapen thing. She is very relieved when Ed tells her it's not her child, but she still brought an unholy creature into the world just like her pupils.

* The inside of Greedling. Those huge, demonic screamingbfaces staring constantly at its victims behind a constantly-shifting, blood-red background.

* Maria Ross's death. She gets flame broiled by Mustang in Episode 17, and her burnt corpse is very graphically displayed. It was actually a cadaver created by Mustang, but still...!

** Consider this: it's pretty easy to figure out that something is wrong with Shou long before TheReveal, what with Roy's somber recount of what happened to the first chimera i.e. Mrs. Tucker, the ScaryShinyGlasses, and his asocial personality which does not escape his five-year-old daughter Nina's notice and leaves her feeling lonely. Yet the sheer depths of Shou's depravity in his obsession with remaining a State Alchemist is such that he ''still'' manages to be horrifying. A rare example of an ObviousJudas that still manages to shock viewers, because his actions are ''that'' horrible.

* Kimblee's method of dispatching his foes or just people who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
** Speaking of Kimblee, like Barry the Chopper mentioned below, he is ''much'' more horrifying in the first anime and considering the [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Blue and Orange Morality]] of the ''Brotherhood'' counterpart, that's really saying something. In the Ishbal flashback early on in the series, Kimblee is seen blowing up entire buildings with a Philosopher's Stone and ''laughing maniacally''. And remember, this guy actually influenced Barry to become the serial killer he is now.

* The death of Basque Grand at the hands of Scar. After Scar deconstructs his gray matter with alchemy, blood shoots out of his ears, nose and eye sockets in slow motion.
* What happened to Rose after she was captured during the raid on Liore.

* The expression on Mustang's face as he is ready to kill himself in the Ishbal flashback episode is nothing short of haunting.

** There's Ed's reaction to this scene that makes it scary. Keep in mind, he was ''twelve'' when this happened, and he reacts the same way anyone would. And he was all alone, and no one knew where he was. Ed manages to escape by turning the chains into a spear. That's when Barry starts swinging, and when Ed starts screaming. And when we realize that he's actually ''terrified''. The only time we've seen him so scared was when he and Al tried to bring their mother back. After Al and a few State Alchemists arrive to save them, Ed breaks down sobbing.

* Scar's older brother is revealed to have suffered SanitySlippage. The combination of his lover's death, failing to revive her through human transmutation, and the imposing threat of a war on his home eventually pushed him over the edge. Using his own body, he planned to create a Philosopher's Stone out of Ishbal's people during the massacre. He wandered out onto the battlefield completely naked with AxCrazy eyes and tears streaming down his face as Scar watched in horror. It didn't end well.

** The same can be said for Izumi Curtis. In her attempt to bring her stillborn babe to life, she ended up losing her sexual organs and left with a misshapen thing. She is very relieved when Ed tells her it's not her child.

** When Roy Mustang tells Ed and Al about Tucker's first chimera, [[https://fma.fandom.com/wiki/Mrs._Tucker?file=Mother1.png there's a shot of a creature crouching in darkness]], its face a grimace of agony, as Roy sombrely adds that the only thing it ever said was "[[FateWorseThanDeath I want to die]]", and that it either managed to starve itself to death or got someone to MercyKill it. Even worse, until Ed and Al found out the AwfulTruth, ''no one'' realised what Tucker had done, and Mrs. Tucker spent her last days as a mutated experiment suffering horrific pain.
** Shou's complete [[ObliviouslyEvil obliviousness]] to the idea that he did anything wrong is frightening all on its own. Anybody with a healthy mind would immediately realize that performing these kinds of experiments on humans is beyond immoral. [[TheSociopath Sociopath]] extraordinaire Shou Tucker intellectually understood that he would be convicted as a criminal if he was found out (sure enough, that's exactly what happened when Ed and Al pieced it together), but not only did he think that what he did to his wife and daughter was ''acceptable'', [[EntitledBastard he expected to be]] ''[[EntitledBastard rewarded]]'' [[EntitledBastard for it]]. Remember, the only reason he was "rewarded" the first time is because he wasn't caught. In the ''Brotherhood'' anime, a scene is added after Ed is restrained by Al to keep him from beating Shou to death, where Shou picks up his State Alchemist pocket-watch and happily declares that he gets to ''keep his job''. Ed immediately kicks the pocket-watch out of his hands where it breaks, and tells him that there's no way in hell he'll continue to be employed by the Military now that his secret is out.
** Consider this: it's pretty easy to figure out that something is wrong with Shou long before TheReveal, what with Roy's sombre recount of what happened to the first chimera i.e. Mrs. Tucker, the ScaryShinyGlasses, and his asocial personality which does not escape his five-year-old daughter Nina's notice and leaves her feeling lonely. Yet the sheer depths of Shou's depravity in his obsession with remaining a State Alchemist is such that he ''still'' manages to be horrifying. A rare example of an ObviousJudas that still manages to shock viewers, because his actions are ''that'' horrible.

** Not to mention, watching Roy char "Hughes" is rather unsettling.

* The inside of Greedling. Those huge, demonic faces staring constantly at its victims behind a constantly-shifting, blood-red background.
** And Ling is ''still conscious'' inside of all that. True, he took Greed willingly, but it's still amazing he stayed sane in all of that.

* The armors with souls attached to them that were guarding Laboratory #5. There are sixty-six, or possibly even more revived souls like Barry the Chopper and the Slicer Brothers whose souls were sucked out of their bodies, in a process so painful that it prompts ''[[AxCrazy Barry the Chopper]]'' to say matter-of-factly that he wishes that they had just executed him. Unsurprisingly, a vast majority of those souls are completely off their rocker, just like the... people... who brought them back.
* The fate of the first Greed. He got melted down to his core... [[CruelAndUnusualDeath slow and painfully]]. To make it worse, the BigBad ''drank his remains''. Greed's reaction to this? '''[[LaughingMad Insane laughter.]]'''
* The making of the Philosopher's Stones... Which involves getting your soul ripped out and trapped in a tiny, rock-sized container... along with probably a dozen more souls. ''And you are conscious. The whole time.'' Those screams of despair aren't there for no reason... And it has been done for centuries...

* Gluttony's true form is shown several episodes/chapters before Envy's. His entire front half ''splits open'', baring his open ribcage, which extends from his jawline to his groin and rakes forward. His entire lower jaw is gone, leaving tusk-like ribs near his jawline, and his exposed, Ouroboros-tattooed tongue slavering in the open air. Looking inside the opening reveals nothing but inky blackness and a single eye, almost exactly like the one in the Door of Truth. And then he goes on [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge an insane rampage]], ''erasing'' large sections of the landscape with what appears to be some sort of KamehameHadoken, but is actually him ''extending his ribcage faster than the eye can see'' and swallowing whatever he catches. From the most cheerful, childlike, and seemingly least dangerous and malicious Homonculus, this was a ''nasty'' surprise.

* The episode... ''The Ishvalan War of Extermination''. It's as horrible and nightmarish as it sounds. We see Armestrian soldiers gunning down civilians en masse, the sheer horror of the genocide, and learn the scary reality of what it means to be a sniper from Riza Hawkeye herself.
* Pride what with all the giant mouths and eyes. And the anthropophagy. And the homunculus cannibalism. And all those {{Slasher Smile}}s after eating Gluttony. EnfantTerrible indeed. More so in ''Brotherhood'' than the manga, since apparently Creator/StudioBONES learned a bit when they animated ''Anime/SoulEater''; he grins like Medusa.
** As Gluttony dies pleading for Pride to stop and crying out in pain, Edward and Ling stare in pure horror and disgust, realising just how ruthless Pride truly is.

** Don't forget, all of this is coming from a kid, whose first appearance is gushing over Ed. When you re-watch it, all of Selim's interactions prior to being found out as Pride are incredibly creepy.
* Here's one in the manga that is more psychological horror than a scary image, but still pretty scary. Riza discovers Pride's identity. Pride is a LivingShadow of eyes and mouths and likes to rip people to shreds or eat them (that's the visually scary part). What makes it even scarier, is that Pride can basically appear [[ParanoiaFuel anywhere there's a shadow]], so for several scenes, Riza is paralyzed with terror [[ProperlyParanoid just by seeing a shadow near her]], as Pride could devour her at any time and could hear everything she said. Luckily, she is able to pass a coded message to Mustang and escape from this, but it's still pretty horrifying.

* What happened in Hohenheim's backstory. Realizing way too late that you may have made a ''huge'' mistake in helping your friend in the flask, just before everyone starts dropping like flies, an ENORMOUS eye opens up beneath you that sucks you in, and your body is disassembled while you shriek in fear and agony. And ''then'' waking up to discover that you're the only one still alive in your ENTIRE COUNTRY, have been manipulated into practically causing genocide and thus share responsibility of the horror -- and ''then'' discovering you've become immortal and the souls of half of the inhabitants of your country are within you, screaming in pain, sorrow and anger ''every minute''? TheScream says it best.
** Add to that his realization that because Homunculus was made from his blood, it mirrored his desires: When he was a slave, he wanted freedom and knowledge, at least subconsciously.

* Father's 'true' form in Chapter 97, a black thing with huge eyes all over of his 'body', the mouth, and how the black goo-thingy came out of his body.

* Chapter 104. Everyone is dead. ''Everyone''. Havoc? Breda? Falman? Fuery? They're dead. The Briggs soldiers in Central and in the East? Dead. Winry? Dead. Pinako? Dead. Gracia and Elysia? Dead. The Ishvalans, the people in Rush Valley, the Youswell coal miners, every cast member that has ever made an appearance in the series is dead, their souls stored inside a monster. Their bodies? Empty.

* "What if I was to give birth to ''humans''?" The humans he means? ''Hohenheim's friends from Xerxes'', who are emaciated and barely conscious as they walk with a ZombieGait. The King is in there, still thinking that he is immortal. And then Father proceeds to nuke them all into oblivion. Those poor souls have been trapped for centuries in an endless torrent of crazed, screaming companions, only to abruptly obtain freedom -- giving them just enough time to see the world, and then be blown away to nothing.

** Half NightmareFuel and half TearJerker, but Izumi's reaction to the zombie ''baby'' trying to get her attention suggests that she's trying not to vomit.

** Pride is really, ''really'' angry in that scene. Moments before he tries to take over Ed's body, he ''screams'' furiously at him, with that creepy VoiceOfTheLegion of his.

* The armors with souls attached to them that were guarding Laboratory #5. There are sixty-six, or possibly even more revived souls like Barry the Chopper and the Slicer Brothers whose souls were sucked out of their bodies, in a process so painful that it prompts ''[[AxCrazy Barry the Chopper]]'' to say matter-of-factly that he wishes that they had just executed him. Unsurprisingly, a vast majority of those souls completely off their rocker, just like the... people... who brought them back.

* Dante's death, [[KarmicDeath as cathartic as it was]], is also pretty creepy--she's escaping in the elevator when suddenly Gluttony chews his way through the floor and grins at her hungrily. She tries to talk him down only [[OhCrap to realize]] that [[HoistByHisOwnPetard he doesn't even remember who she is because she alchemically destroyed his mind]], meaning that she can't control him anymore. He then lunges at her and she tries to defend herself with alchemy. We never see what happens next, but WordOfGod confirmed that Dante didn't make it out alive.

* Dante's death, [[KarmicDeath as cathartic as it was]], is also pretty creepy--she's escaping in the elevator when suddenly Gluttony chews his way through the floor and grins at her hungrily. She tries to talk him down only to realize that [[HoistByHisOwnPetard he doesn't even remember who she is because she alchemically destroyed his mind]], meaning that she can't control him anymore. He then lunges at her and she tries to defend herself with alchemy. We never see what happens next, but the shot of the [[DeadHandShot empty elevator]] is all the confirmation we need that she didn't survive.

** At the end of the series, Gluttony attacks Dante in the elevator as she tries to make her escape. When the doors open, all we see is a giant hole in the elevator floor. No blood, nothing. Whether Gluttony succeeded in eating his creator is left entirely unknown, doubling his appearance in the movie as FridgeHorror.

** When Roy Mustang tells Ed and Al about Tucker's first chimera, [[https://fma.fandom.com/wiki/Mrs._Tucker?file=Mother1.png there's a shot of a creature crouching in darkness]], its face a grimace of agony, as Roy sombrely adds that the only thing it ever said was "[[AndIMustScream I want to die]]", and that it either managed to starve itself to death or got someone to MercyKill it. Even worse, until Ed and Al found out the AwfulTruth, ''no one'' realised what Tucker had done, and Mrs. Tucker spent her last days as a mutated experiment suffering horrific pain.

** Consider this: it's pretty easy to figure out that something is wrong with Shou long before TheReveal, what with Roy's sombre recount of what happened to the first chimera i.e. Mrs. Tucker, the ScaryShinyGlasses, and his asocial personality which does not escape his five-year-old daughter Nina's notice and leaves her feeling lonely. Yet the sheer depths of Shou's depravity in his obsession to remain a State Alchemist is such that he ''still'' manages to be horrifying. A rare example of an ObviousJudas that still manages to shock viewers, because his actions are ''that'' horrible.

** Consider this: it's pretty easy to figure out that something is wrong with Shou long before TheReveal, what with Roy's sombre recount of what happened to the first chimera i.e. Mrs. Tucker, the ScaryShinyGlasses, and his asocial personality which does not escape his five-year-old daughter Nina's notice and leaves her feeling lonely. Yet the sheer depths of Shou's depravity is such that he ''still'' manages to be horrifying. A rare example of an ObviousJudas that still manages to shock viewers, because his actions are ''that'' horrible.

** Consider this: it's pretty easy to figure out that something is wrong with Shou long before TheReveal, what with Roy's sombre recount of what happened to the first chimera i.e. Mrs. Tucker, the ScaryShinyGlasses, and his asocial personality which does not escape his five-year-old daughter Nina's notice. Yet the sheer depths of Shou's depravity is such that he ''still'' manages to be horrifying. A rare example of an ObviousJudas that still manages to shock viewers, because his actions are ''that'' horrible.

* Shou Tucker himself. The very thought that a man could transmute his ''wife'' and later his ''5-year-old daughter'' and her dog into a chimera is just nauseating in all sorts of ways. From Nina's garbled speech, ''she wasn't even fully aware of what had happened''. Worse yet, remember, the chimera is half dog. It's hard to tell how much of her understanding is Nina, or her pet. And then Scar shows up and {{Mercy Kill}}s her.

** When Roy Mustang tells Ed and Al about Tucker's first chimera, [[https://fma.fandom.com/wiki/Mrs._Tucker?file=Mother1.png there's a shot of a creature crouching in darkness,]] its face a grimace of agony, as Roy sombrely adds that the only thing it ever said was [[AndIMustScream 'I want to die,']] and that it either managed to starve itself to death or got someone to MercyKill it. Even worse, until Ed and Al found out the awful truth ''no one'' realised what Tucker had done, and Mrs. Tucker spent her last days as a mutated experiment suffering horrific pain.

* Dante's death, [[KarmicDeath as cathartic as it was]], is also pretty creepy--she's escaping in the elevator when suddenly Gluttony chews his way through the floor and grins at her hungrily. She tries to talk him down only to realize that [[HoistByHisOwnPetard he doesn't even remember who she is because she alchemically destroyed his mind]], meaning that she can't control him anymore. He then lunges at her and she tries to defend herself with alchemy. We never see the aftermath, but the shot of the empty elevator is all the confirmation we need that she didn't survive.

* Ed's nightmare after Nina's death is turned UpToEleven in the ''Brotherhood'' anime. It features a front view of the NightmareFace of the resurrected "Trisha", while in the manga, it's only living Trisha with BloodFromTheMouth. What made it infinitely worse is that he tried to play it off as [[NotSoDifferent Not So Different]].

* In "Yet Another Man's Battlefield," a FreezeFrameBonus is one you may want to miss. When Maes Hughes shoots Heathcliff Erbe (who'd just shot Roy), the look on his face is one you'd never expect to see on the guy: unrestrained, sheer fury mirroring Heathcliff's own furious despair. Considering we never see anything quite like this with him, it's actually quite disturbing and terrifying to see, and makes one wonder what Maes might have gone on to do if Roy had been killed. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCWZ5Jxakts Take a look for yourself at 1:46 and say I'm wrong.]]

** Said nightmare then features Nina and Alexander turning into a chimera.

* The Liore Riot. Even after Cornello's defeat, Envy ended up impersonating him and used his charisma to turn the populace into a howling lynch mob obsessed with bring "the Father's word" to the world. Disagreements began, and what began as a simple riot became what is described as the ''single bloodiest conflict'' in the entire history of the world, full of massacres, destruction and ColdBloodedTorture. The fact that Liore is still around afterwards is nothing short than a miracle.

** This isn't even the first time Envy has pulled this off. The powder keg that was the annexation of Ishval only fully into a war of extermination after Envy took the guise of a soldier who had been ''against the occupation'', offered a seemingly friendly smile to a child [[FridgeHorror to come across like the same guy]], then shot that child in cold blood. The fact he can do this kind of thing taking the visage of someone who's either been shamed or who would seem completely OOC doing what he intends to do with his look, yet still get all the desired effects is extremely frightening. Imagine your staunchly anti-war relative initiating a shootout at the local police department which goes so bad it sets an entire town into lockdown. '''[[ParanoiaFuel Envy can do that. In fact Envy gets his kicks that way.]]'''

* The moment in Chapter 107 when Greedling punches God!Father in the eye and it shows ''his hand stuck in his [[EyeScream eye socket''. Nerves seem to be traveling from said eye-socket, under Greedling's skin, and up his arm, trying to take his Philosopher's Stone with him.]]

** It's even worse in ''Brotherhood'' than in the manga, since we see the riots ''immediately'' start at the end of the episode, and there's a ''huge'' raging mob outside the church... Not helping is how ''[[NiceGirl Rosé'' of all characters tries to pull a gun on the Elric brothers for what they did]].

* After Scar captures Tim Marcoh, he decides that it'll be easier to travel if Marcoh can't be recognized, so he ''[[FacialHorror blows the skin of his face off'']], complete with lots of blood and a close-up of Marcoh's eye between his fingers that clearly shows ''[[{{Squick}} exposed muscle]]''. And he's ''crying from the pain''. All of this happens without the slightest bit of warning beforehand.

*** Hell, his death in ''Brotherhood'' is pure nightmare fuel, particularly in how [[NotHyperbole it plays out]] almost ''''exactly'''' [[MoralEventHorizon like a rape scene between Selim and Ed]]: We are treated to such ''[[SarcasmMode wonders]]'' as a naked Pride (who's 10 or 12) and Ed, extremely suggestive lines ("Inside me", "You are mine"), and Pride crying out in growing horror for Ed to stop what he's doing. The conclusion of this? [[KickTheDog Ed calling him a "foolish boy" while Selim cries out weakly for "Mama", evidently traumatized severely by the experience. Cue the upbeat ending music]].

* Scar's M.O. as an alchemist killer. His right hand takes you apart from the inside out, which looks way more graphic and painful in the manga. Tucker's blood bursts from parts of his body, complete with a shot of his blank, dead eyed face. And then he was about to do this to Edward.