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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zcO28JbHxI intro]] alone DEFINITELY qualifies, as it shows oh-so vividly just how utterly heartless the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Covenant]] were during the hellish Human-Covenant war when slaughtering innocent civilians, '''especially''' when it shows an Elite skewering one said civilian from behind the chest with its dreaded [[LaserBlade Energy Sword]].
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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zcO28JbHxI intro]] alone DEFINITELY qualifies, as it shows oh-so vividly just how utterly heartless the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Covenant]] were during the hellish [[HopelessWar Human-Covenant war war]] when slaughtering innocent civilians, '''especially''' when it shows an Elite skewering one said civilian from behind the chest with its dreaded [[LaserBlade Energy Sword]].
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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zcO28JbHxI intro]] alone DEFINITELY qualifies, as it shows oh-so vividly just how utterly heartless the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Covenant]] were during the hellish Human-Covenant war when slaughtering innocent civilians, '''especially''' when it shows an Elite skewering one said civilian from behind the chest with its dreaded [[LaserBlade Energy Sword]].
* Some of Cortana's rampant screaming.
-->'''Cortana:''' I will NOT. ALLOW YOU. To '''LEAVE THIS PLANET!'''
** This line may also give you chills.
-->'''Cortana:''' Do you know what that condescending bitch said to me after our first game of chess?!
*** To put it in perspective, she's talking about Halsey, her "mother." The words she said to her after the game were '"Quando il gioco è finito, il re e il pedone vanno nella stessa scatola. [[note]] Translated from Italian to English: When the game is over, the king and the pawn go in the same box.[[/note]]
** One of Cortana's lines in the level "Composer": "Why should we save them?" It's like something out of ''VideoGame/DeadSpace''.
** Which is then followed up with a chilling chuckle, and an order to insert her into the station's defense grid. The way she says it seems like she was about to turn the guns on the MARINES.
* Promethean Knights. Their helmets opens up to a glowing skull, which screams at you. Worse, they are made of the victims of the Composer. Definitely makes that skull more terrifying in hindsight...
* The Composer must be powered by Nightmare Fuel because it is positively ''oozing'' horror:
** Chief and Cortana are too late to stop the Didact from taking it, unable to keep him from firing it, and then get the horrifying image of the people around them on Ivanoff Station disintegrating in ashes. And not instantaneously. We get to see their skin '''peel away to their bones, layer by layer'''. You're even "treated" to a close look at its effects on Doctor Sandra Tillson - which is what serves as the page image, by the way. All of this being shown in pretty gruesome detail - and yes, they're screaming in agony.
** Worse, they weren't killed by the process at all, [[AndIMustScream which means they had felt the tremendous pain as their skin was being peeled apart from their flesh and their bodies]] ''[[AndIMustScream disintegrating]]'' [[AndIMustScream and still presumably felt the pain as they were cataloged by the Composer to later be turned into Promethean Knights and the sort by Didact to replace their dwindling ranks as Chief tore through their numbers]].
** Even worse, essentially, the Composer fatally digitizes people. Cortana is a digital lifeform. She's in shock afterward because she could hear the digitally fragmented minds/souls of the people, screaming in pain and terror. No wonder she was [[HeroicBSOD blue-screening]] when the Chief came to.
---> '''Cortana''': I was monitoring the data feeds. I could ''hear'' them...what was ''left'' of them...
** The Chief and Cortana are unable to prevent the Didact from firing it twice. The second time, it's on Earth, and the affected area in New Phoenix is still quarantined six months later.
** The people of New Phoenix were commonly believed to have received a MercyKill when Chief destroyed the Composer, but Episode 5 of Spartan Ops reveals that their memories were somehow transported to Requiem and transformed into Promethans...Spartan Thorn could be fighting his friends and family out there.
** A throwaway line in ''Literature/HaloSilentium'' will leave you with [[FridgeHorror endless horror once you realize the implications.]] When taking the personalities of humans defeated at Charum Hakkor, the Ecumene Council gave the Warrior-Servants and Lifeworkers "Composers"...as in ''plural''. That's right, folks. The Forerunners built ''more than one Composer!'' Every horrific thing you just read about the Composer? ''It could all happen again''...
*** Confirmed to be true in ''ComicBook/HaloEscalation'' Issue 9: The Didact is alive and operating from the Composer's Forge, where the Composers were built. He has ''six'' fully operational Composers. Fortunately, he seems to no longer want to Compose humanity. Unfortunately, he has since decided ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness he would rather use a Halo on Earth]]''.
** :The Ur-Didact's fate in ''ComicBook/HaloEscalation'' issue 10. Part of Installation 03 along with the Ur-Didact is dropped onto the Composer's Forge, causing all five Composers at nearby to detonate with the Ur-Didact seemingly disintegrating and ending up composed. However, WordOfGod has stated that he has not been completely composed in the way that is usually known due to the destruction of the Composers and the Ur-Didact's resistance to the Composer mentioned in the terminals in ''VideoGame/Halo4''. What exactly happened to him [[NothingIsScarier has not yet been revealed]] and the last shot of him was his glowing remains. All that is known is that he is still alive and will likely return to the narrative at some point.
* Related to one of the spoilered cases above, being killed in the other games wasn't that much of an issue, as the only thing shown is the character flying and\or collapsing, with not much resulting blood. The incinerating powers of the Forerunner weapons instead add the unnerving sight of Master Chief disintegrating as he burns to scattering ash. Even in the multiplayer it might be too much, as ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' noted ("Umm... Did, everyone else see that?" "You mean a man disintegrate right in front of us? Really wish I hadn't.").
* The cutscene for Spartan Ops Episode 2 has Dr. Glassman being sucked up by a Forerunner artifact, complete with Capt. Lasky futilely trying to save him. With how his body breaks into glowing orangle particles just before he gets pulled in, it looks disturbingly like he's being Composed.
** Episode 3 reveals Glassman's fate. On the plus side, he hasn't been composed. On the minus side, he's been captured by the Covenant, and apparently is offering to trade information for his life; with Jul 'Mdama suggesting he'll end up RewardedAsATraitorDeserves after helping them. Also, the Artifact is apparently accessing systems aboard the Infinity, gathering information and transmitting it to Requiem.
* Episode 5 shows that the Promethean Majestic Squad are fighting are not ancient humans, but the victims from the New Phoenix incident six months before. Thorne said he knew people there. He would have been "killing" his friends and family... ''again and again and again''.
** I'm pretty sure its just once per person. Its kind of hard to restore data after its contain has been blown apart by a half dozen 8-gauge shotgun shells. Still quite disturbing, though.
*** It's not only entirely possible for Knights to come back after their body is destroyed, it's the entire ''purpose'' of the Promethean Watchers. Which adds an entirely new urgency to killing Watchers in gameplay: not only do they bring enemies back, they're bringing back those same people who composed ''again and again and again...''
* Episode 6, Chapter 5 has Crimson sent in after another Spartan team, Switchback, needed help taking down a Harvester guarded by Covenant and Prometheans. When Crimson arrives, all that is found are Switchback's removed IFF tags, nothing else. No clues are given to what exactly happened to them. The fact that the IFF tags were removed seem to indicate that they were captured. For what purpose? Likely nothing good.
** Becomes NightmareRetardant when it's shown that they were just captured, and only the leader was killed.
* Episode 7 in general. The Infinity is attacked by Covenant and Prometheans.
* The Flood combat in the War Games. Especially on a dark map, like Shatter. [[NothingIsScarier You're just looking around, watching fo-]][[JumpScare WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!]]
** Doesn't help that the Flood can use Armor Abilities as well. Seeing a Flood rocket towards you using it's thruster pack is nerve racking. Especially if your CQC aim is bad.
*** Also, the Flood models themselves. Look at one close up, and you'll see what I mean.
*** Specifically, you're looking at the first-ever ''Spartan'' Combat-Forms. Thank god they're just based on speculation as far as canon is concerned.
* Imagine being Roland when Halsey activates the former's override. Chances are, he won't want to hear the phrase "undid iridium" ever again.
* Halsey's severed arm in the Spartan Ops epilogue.
