History NightmareFuel / JusticeLeague

* Brainiac bursting his way out of Lex Luthor in a manner very reminiscent of [[TheThing1982 The Thing]]. Bonus points for the fact that Brainiac was hiding in Luthor all along.

* Brainiac bursting his way out of Lex Luthor in a manner very reminiscent of [[TheThing1982 TheThing]]. Bonus points for the fact that Brainiac was hiding in Luthor all along.

* Brainiac bursting his way out of Lex Luthor in a manner very reminiscent of TheThing.

* Brainiac bursting his way out of Lex Luthor.

* In "Flashpoint," Lex Luthor hijacks the Watchtower's Binary Fusion Generator, forcing it to fire on an (abandoned) Cadmus facility. When the gun goes off, the scene cuts to a peaceful suburban neighborhood...that suddenly goes very quiet as the sky starts to light up. The resulting shockwave nearly levels the entire city. Aside from the fact that, somehow, nobody dies, the entire sequence is frighteningly realistic.

--> '''Martian Manhunter:''' [[PreAssKickingOneLiner Ask yourselves: is this truly where you want to be?]]

** What about what Doctor Destiny did to his wife? She left him to be with another man, but upon getting his powers, he paid her a visit and unveiled his costumed, skull-faced appearance. [[NothingIsScarier Whatever he does to her, she is left screaming in a sleep no one can wake her from]]. [[spoiler:She dies not too long afterwards.]]

** Superman accidentaly destroying Metropolis and ''snapping Jimmy Olsen's spine'' in his nightmare should also count. Not to mention accidentally frying Lois with heat vision at the very beginning. Both horrifying and heartbreaking, especially given what we see of his reactions - of all the Leaguers, his is the most outwardly pronounced. After he accidentally kills Lois, we cut to his apartment where we see him screaming and flailing around [[TearJerker as if in agony.]]

* [[TimeMaster Chronos]] from "The Once and Future Thing." I think it's the wide open CreepyBlueEyes and [[SoftSpokenSadist the soft voice]] that really sell the whole "Mad With Power" thing.

* The portrayal of {{Darkseid}} in the DCAU is often seen as the definitive portrayal of his character outside of comics and for good reason as he is a terrifying character. Not even just because he's the only one who can take Superman at his full power but because of how relentlessly evil he is. Other villains such as SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker and LexLuthor had reasons that you could like them whether it be because how funny The Joker was, or how suave Luthor was, etc. Darkseid was not that kind of villain, being just the absolute embodiment of evil.

* Being a homage to the CthulhuMythos, "The Terror Beyond" is ''stuffed to the gills'' with it. The Screamers, oh god, the Screamers! [[ItGotWorse It only gets worse]] when you realize that the Screamers are basically [[EldritchAbomination Y'golonac, Lovecraftian God]] of [[ErectionRejection Rape and Sexual perversion]].

* The twist of "Wild Cards" gives a healthy does of ParanoiaFuel: [[spoiler:SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker set up the bombs in Las Vegas just to increase viewership so that he could broadcast Ace's hypnotic waves to drive them all insane. And guess [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou who's watching the television while Ace blankly stares at the screen...]]]].

'''John:''' You know, I never liked that name, it's so ordinary, I'm someone with a destiny. Oh, I like that: ''Dr.'' Destiny. What do you think?\\

'''Penny:''' You're crazy.'''\\

'''Penny:'''You're crazy.'''\\
'''John:''' I think you're finally seeing the real me. *clothes turn into spooky robes*'' And now that I'm a doctor ''*face falls off revealing a skull*'' I think I'll perform some surgery.

'''John:''' You know, I never liked that name, it's so ordinary, I'm someone with a destiny. Oh, I like that: ''Dr.'' Destiny. What do you think?'''
'''Penny:'''You're crazy.'''

'''John:''' You know, I never liked that name, it's so ordinary, I'm someone with a destiny. Oh, I like that: ''Dr.'' Destiny. What do you think?

--->'''Penny (wife):''' You're crazy, John.\\
'''John:''' You know, I never liked that name, it's so ordinary, I'm someone with a destiny. Oh, I like that: ''Dr.'' Destiny. ''*clothes turn into spooky robes*'' And now that I'm a doctor ''*face falls off revealing a skull*'' I think I'll perform some surgery.

** Superman accidentaly destroying Metropolis and ''snapping Jimmy Olsen's spine'' in his nightmare should also count. Not to mention accidentally frying Lois with heat vision at the very beginning. Both horrifying and heartbreaking.

** The Question being tortured ''period'' was chilling.

* [[{{Darkseid}} Dark]][[CompleteMonster seid]] describing what he's going to do to Superman while he's writing on the ground in pain from the Agony Matrix. Specifically, Darkseid pulls out a kryptonite knife and tells Superman that he's going to carve out his heart and place it on a pike as a trophy.
* The portrayal of {{Darkseid}} in the DCAU is often seen as the definitive portrayal of his character outside of comics and for good reason as he is a terrifying character. Not even just because he's the only one who can take Superman at his full power but because of how relentlessly evil he is. Other villains such as SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker and LexLuthor had reasons that you could like them whether it be because how funny The Joker was, or how suave Luthor was, etc. Darkseid was not that kind of villain, [[CompleteMonster being just the absolute embodiment of evil.]]

* The portrayal of {{Darkseid}} in the DCAU is often seen as the definitive portrayal of his character outside of comics and for good reason as he is a terrifying character. Not even just because he's the only one who can take Superman at his full power but because of how relentlessly evil he is. Other villains such as TheJoker and LexLuthor had reasons that you could like them whether it be because how funny The Joker was, or how suave Luthor was, etc. Darkseid was not that kind of villain, [[CompleteMonster being just the absolute embodiment of evil.]]

* The vision the Question sees while being TORTURED is pretty chilling.

** ** What about what Doctor Destiny did to his wife? She left him to be with another man, but upon getting his powers, he paid her a visit and unveiled his costumed, skull-faced appearance. [[NothingIsScarier Whatever he does to her, she is left screaming in a sleep no one can wake her from]]. [[spoiler:She dies not too long afterwards.]]

* A rather small one, but the Justice League women being pitted together in Grudge Match. Huntress and Black Canary manage to free Fire and Vixen pretty easily, but then they find out they have to fight Wonder Woman (who could match Superman in terms of power). [[OhCrap Their reaction is entirely justified.]] During a rather brutal fight, a few of the league girls come frighteningly close to a bloody death. Hawkgirl almost getting her head smashed by her own mace, for example.

* A rather small one, but the Justice League women being pitted together in Grudge Match. Huntress and Black Canary manage to free Fire and Vixen pretty easily, but then they find out they have to fight Wonder Woman (who could match Superman in terms of power). [[OhCrap Their reaction is entirely justified.]] During a rather brutal fight, a few of the league girls come frighteningly close to a bloody death. Hawkgirl almost getting her head smashed by her own mace, for example.