History NightmareFuel / MadnessCombat

* The BodyHorror that comes with the MAG Agents, especially the first one, Torture, who has ''two massive nails'' smashed into his skull! The next iterations, while not as gruesome, are still quite imposing in their own right, whether through disturbing appearances or their inhuman durability.

* Incident:111a is downright [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/621022 horrifying]] with the SurpriseCreepy ending (well, Surprise Creep''ier''). The Savior is killed without any struggle by an unknown force and he's terrified of it.

** Tricky is also here, and while not even close to his former menacing status, he more than makes up for it with sheer MindScrew. He is introduced with his hairs coming out of the ground and they look organic for some reasons. The hairs appear near a dead guy, which begins seizing up as if reanimating before Hank shoots him, and the corpse embeds itself further in the rock as Tricky appears from the ceiling.

** We get a glimpse of what seems to happen when one dabbles with [=S-3LFs=]. Doc's tracking mechanisms don't look for Hank; they look for ''a'' Hank, as in, at least one of his resurrections wasn't actually him, but a ''copy'' of him. One of them (the one whom we've been following in the first part) bears his ''Consternation'' outfit with a full face mask, and another his ''Antipathy'' look with the gore-soaked metal jaw on full display. While they have a brief BackToBackBadasses moment against Tricky, once there's nothing else to fight in the area, they just start fighting each other as the music starts to fade out and replaced with a droning static.

** We get a glimpse of what seems to happen when one dabbles with [=S-3LFs=]. Doc's tracking mechanisms don't look for Hank; they look for ''a'' Hank, as in, at least one of his resurrections wasn't actually him, but a ''copy'' of him. One of them bears his ''Consternation'' outfit with a full face mask, and another his ''Antipathy'' look with the gore-soaked metal jaw on full display. While they have a brief BackToBackBadasses moment against Tricky, once there's nothing else to fight in the area, they just start fighting each other as the music starts to fade out and replaced with a droning static.

** We're also given a look into how broken Tricky has become not psychologically, but ''existentially''. Once he gets frustrated, he starts to warp and twist into something that's barely recognizable as a person anymore, and he's doing it ''at will'' to prolong Hank's suffering and to silence anyone messing with his fun, up to and including the Retainer in charge of keeping Hank retained. Furthermore, it seems the same duplication Hank went through also happened to him, but while one of them is only now twisting and elongating himself in unnatural ways, the other's been there so long that he resembles a flesh-covered version of the skeletal demon form he takes when he later possesses the Auditor in ''Expurgation''. The most unsettling part is that despite their bloodlust (and unlike the two Hanks), they ''don't'' slaughter each other, instead working together like pack hunters to chase down Hank.

* The BodyHorror that comes with the MAG Agents, especially the first one, Torture, who has ''two massive nails'' smashed into his skull! The next iterations, while not as gruesome, are still quite imposing in their own right.

* While the [=L33T=] Crew is generally just a bunch of faceless mooks whose only purpose is to be slaughtered by the heroes, there are certain hints in the background of some episodes that demonstrate the inner workings of the agency. In ''Consternation'', one room contains the corpse of an agent, ''pinned to the wall'' by spikes, with graffiti near it saying "DISSENTER BE DAMNED". Seems defection is not treated kindly in the Crew...

** You may notice a first as well: agents with visible facial scars. They show up more and more over the course of the episode, sometimes with the same scars but wider. This implies that WeHaveReserves isn't in effect; in an effort to keep Hank retained, the same few agents are likely being stitched back together and [[AndIMustScream sent right back into the meat grinder to stall him.]]

* How Jesus disposes of the GiantMook in Incident:110a is equal parts awesome, horrific, and squicky. He cuts through the top half of its head with the Binary Sword, tears off its scalp, and then ''rips out its brain'' as it flails around blindly. By extension, this also shows just how scarily-durable the Mag Agents are compared to almost everyone else in this universe; nothing short of Jesus systematically disassembling the Mag made it stop trying to kill him!

** The grunt's (nicknamed "Scrapeface", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin for good reason]]) behavior during the ordeal could unnerve some. While the enclosed hands are fighting back hard to try and rejoin its body, painting every surface it touches with blood, the body has seemingly much less cognitive thought, twitching and ramming itself into any surface available until their face is ground down to nothing. Then, [[FromBadToWorse when their hands come back...]]

* How Jesus disposes of the GiantMook in Incident:110a is equal parts awesome, horrific, and squicky. He cuts through the top half of its head with the Binary Sword, tears off its scalp, and then ''rips out its brain'' as it flails around blindly.

** We get a glimpse of what seems to happen when one dabbles with [=S-3LFs=]. Doc's tracking mechanisms don't look for Hank; they look for ''a'' Hank, as in, at least one of his resurrections wasn't actually him, but a ''copy'' of him. One of them bears his ''Consternation'' outfit with a full face mask, and another his ''Antipathy'' look with the gore-soaked metal jaw on full display. While they have a brief BackToBackBadasses moment against Tricky, once there's nothing else to fight in the area, they just start fighting each other as the music starts to fade out and get replaced with a droning static.

** You may notice a first as well: agents with visible facial scars. They show up more and more over the course of the episode, sometimes with the same scars but wider. This implies that WeHaveReserves isn't in effect; in an effort to keep Hank contained, the same few agents are likely being stitched back together and [[AndIMustScream sent right back into the meat grinder to stall him.]]

* ''An Experiment'' answers a question many ''Madness'' fans have had since the series started: are the characters' hands really [[FloatingLimbs floating?]] Could you, say, seal them inside a box? And then pull that box away from the person's body? Turns out, the answer is yes... but the grunt subjected to this experiment was rapidly driven insane by it, smashing their face against the wall [[FacialHorror until the skin is completely gone]] while[[OminousVisualGlitch their surroundings glitch out]]. When an [[EliteMooks ATP engineer]] goes in, they get effortlessly ripped in two (as pictured above), followed by the grunt repeatedly dashing themselves against the wall until they're nothing but a fine mist. And then the whole building explodes, with an effect very similar to the Normality Restoration Beams seen in ''Inundation''. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Bet you wish you hadn't asked now.]]
** The grunt's (nicknamed "Scrapeface", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin for good reason]]) behavior during the ordeal could unnerve some. While the enclosed hands are fighting back hard to try and rejoin its body all while painting every surface it touches with blood, the body has seemingly much less cognitive thought, twitching and ramming itself into any surface available, grinding their face down to nothing. Then, [[FromBadToWorse when their hands come back...]]
** After Scrapeface is put back together again, their movements just become ''completely'' inhuman. They're still erratically [[OminousVisualGlitch spasming and glitching about]], all while cracking the room they're in while [[InterfaceScrew filling the screen with red static]]. Their movements jump between twitching painfully, to lunging across the room with ''absolutely no movement'' as [[HellIsThatNoise distorted, feral screaming noise plays]]. One can only imagine the sheer terror the Engineer felt when they were locked in the same room as them.

--->"'''''HE DOESN'T BELONG.''''' BUT THEN AGAIN, NEITHER DO YOU. [[EnemyMine WE CAN SURVIVE TOGETHER.]] THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT. JUST GET HIM OUT OF HERE. YOU CANNOT KILL CLOWN. THIS IS WHY. HE'S RUINING THIS PLACE LIKE HE RUINED NEVADA. JUST GET HIM OUT OF HERE. REMOVE HIM."
--->"'''''REMOVE CLOWN'''''. HE CANNOT BE HERE. HE DOESN'T BELONG. HE DOESN'T FIT. REMOVE THE CLOWN. HIS PRESENCE IS DESTROYING THE WHOLE OF EVERYTHING. YOU WILL DESTROY THE CLOWN. YOU WILL COMPLY. KILL. REMOVE. EXPUNGE. [[NeverMyFault THIS IS PROBABLY YOUR FAULT.]] KILL HIM. STOP HIM. [[YouWillBeSpared I MIGHT EVEN LET YOU LIVE.]] ''[[VillainousBreakdown HE CAN'T BE INSIDE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE]]''

[[folder:Main series]]

* The moments where the entire world seems to start falling apart are also creepy. It's like you can see into the Matrix. Reality just falls apart and physics breaks down, revealing the base code that reality operates on.
* You know that hellish "afterlife" mentioned above? That insane hellscape full of wacko physics, holes full of chain-blade death and bizarre architecture? Ever wondered what would happen if [[AxCrazy Tricky]] got to a similar place? Well, wonder no more as ''Expurgation'' gives us the answer: [[RealityIsOutToLunch Absolute high-octane nightmare fuel.]]
** First, there are undead skeleton creatures with glowing red eyes and Tricky-esque haircuts always trying to kill you. Then you might just spontaneously (and painfully) generate weapons out of your body because why not. Physics makes even less sense than previously, so a floor you get shoved into might connect to a wall and you get to see your own feet. The holes and chain blades mentioned above still are around too.
** Tricky himself is still around too, now crazier and stronger than he should ever be. His new form is particularly disturbing, resembling a skeletal version of his old ''Antipathy'' and ''Consternation'' demon form. The most unsettling part is his change in mannerisms. The ''only'' real line of dialogue he speaks is the SayMyName quote shown below, and his movements seem ''even more'' erratic and insane than in previous episodes. These two aspects imply that whatever awareness or rationality there was in Tricky's insanity is now completely erased. He's nothing but a wild animal now, intent on murdering Hank in the worst way possible rather than just killing, reviving and generally screwing around with him.
--->'''Tricky: [[SayMyName HANK!]] ''[[HellIsThatNoise HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK!]]'''''
** Before this form is revealed, a skeleton wearing the halo that is strongly implied to be the remaining vestige of the Auditor's grip on the fusion appears, barely able to pull himself out of a portal to tell Hank and Sanford one classic adage before Tricky consumes him.
--->'''The Auditor: ''CANNOT KILL CLOWN'''''
** Worst of all however, is the fact that this place is implied to belong to and be run by the Auditor... just what is this guy, and how powerful is Tricky if he could usurp him?
** Once inside the Auditor's Hell, the Auditor (the ''owner'' of this place) has barely any control, except for the fact that he can manifest his presence in the form of spikes. He was quite content to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impale Hank and leave him there to die]], before freeing him and healing his injuries after realising that his archenemy was also the [[EnemyMine only one who could free him from his plight]].
** Even the ''posters'' are freaky, written by the Auditor himself to all the denizens within... and he's very carefully dancing around the fact that, while he sounds intimidating and threatening as usual, he's essentially begging everyone for help because he's being used to power Tricky.
--->"'''''HE DOESN'T BELONG.''''' BUT THEN AGAIN, NEITHER DO YOU. [[EnemyMine WE CAN SURVIVE TOGETHER.]] THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT. JUST GET HIM OUT OF HERE. YOU CANNOT KILL CLOWN. THIS IS WHY. HE'S RUINING THIS PLACE LIKE HE RUINED NEVADA. JUST GET HIM OUT OF HERE. REMOVE HIM."
--->"'''''REMOVE CLOWN'''''. HE CANNOT BE HERE. HE DOESN'T BELONG. HE DOESN'T FIT. REMOVE THE CLOWN. HIS PRESENCE IS DESTROYING THE WHOLE OF EVERYTHING. YOU WILL DESTROY THE CLOWN. YOU WILL COMPLY. KILL. REMOVE. EXPUNGE. [[NeverMyFault THIS IS PROBABLY YOUR FAULT.]] KILL HIM. STOP HIM. [[YouWillBeSpared I MIGHT EVEN LET YOU LIVE.]] ''[[VillainousBreakdown HE CAN'T BE INSIDE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE]]''
** According to WordOfGod via his Curious Cat page, the Auditor is a living flaming avatar and living gateway to his own personal hell dimension. His smaller version of hell has a more curated audience and his role is more custodial, but Hank and the other protagonists' actions have caused him to become more proactive as of late. [[NothingIsScarier All of which explains nothing about who he is, where he comes from, or how he came to be.]]
** The ending. Hank finally manages to defeat and kill Tricky, maybe at the cost of his and Sanford's lives in the process. A bit [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]], yes, but it's a fitting way to put the Madness down for good, right? '''No.''' The Auditor, who had merely spectated the conflict, [[BackFromTheDead suddenly comes back to life]] ''and'' gets his halo back. After all this conflict, neither Hank, Jebus, Tricky, Sanford or Deimos could do anything to stop the Auditor. While Jebus and Tricky might have temporarily killed Hank once in a while, they never managed to outright ''[[TheBadGuyWins win]]'' like the Auditor did.

* ''9.5'' takes place in Hell as well, this time showing what Hank goes through anytime he dies. The place is nothing but chaos, chains and fear as far as the eye can see.
** In the first part, Hank's entrance to the realm of the dead is represented by a panicking person with a black liquid on its face running out to his companions, erupting into more scars, before being pulled back and exploding into Hank J. Wimbleton himself, who immediately proceeds to redirect an Engineer's swipe into one of the other grunts' [[{{Fingore}} fingers]].
*** Tricky is also here, and while not even close to his former menacing status, he more than makes up for it with sheer MindScrew. He is introduced with his hairs coming out of the ground and they look organic for some reasons. The hairs appear near a dead guy, which begins seizing up as if reanimating before Hank shoots him, and the corpse embeds itself further in the rock as Tricky appears from the ceiling.
*** Several of the background graffiti are pretty scary too, seemingly being written by Agents and other AAHW members who've become trapped in Hell and lost all hope of getting out.
---->'''WE ARE ABANDONED'''
---->(Beside a poster refuting the above) '''LIAR'''/'''NEVER COMING BACK'''
*** The Retainer. An enigmatic [[GasMaskMooks Gas-Masked Mook]] fast and strong enough to effortlessly [[CurbStompBattle wipe the floor with]] ''[[OneManArmy Hank]]'', of all people. If that wasn't pants-browning enough, they display similar powers to the Auditor and Tricky, teleporting through Hell and displaying telekinetic powers strong enough to render the otherwise nigh-unstoppable Hank completely helpless.
* The second part of ''9.5'' follows up from the first part, and carries with it several unsettling realizations, one of which ties the main series and ''Project Nexus'' together: "[[MechanicalAbomination The Machine]] is Watching."
** We get a glimpse of what seems to happen when one dabbles with [=S-3LFs=]. Doc's tracking mechanisms don't look for Hank; they look for ''a'' Hank, as in, at least one of his resurrections wasn't actually him, but a ''copy'' of him. One of them bears his ''Consternation'' outfit with a full face mask, and another his ''Antipathy'' look with the gore-soaked metal jaw on full display. While they have a brief BackToBackBadasses moment against Tricky, once there's nothing else to fight in the area, they just start fighting each other as the music starts to fade out and get replaced with a droning static.
*** Speaking of Doc, there's the question of why the hell he plugs a device into an ATP Soldat's corpse strung up in his shelter as he does this, and what role it might play in Hank's resurrection.
** We're also given a look into how broken Tricky has become not psychologically, but ''existentially''. Once he gets frustrated, he starts to warp and twist into something that's barely recognizable as a person anymore, and he's doing it ''at will'' to prolong Hank's suffering and to silence anyone messing with his fun, up to and including the Retainer in charge of keeping Hank retained. Furthermore, it seems the same duplication Hank went through also happened to him, but while one of them is only now twisting and elongating himself in unnatural ways, the other's been there so long that he resembles a flesh-covered version of the skeletal demon form he takes when he later possesses the Auditor in ''Expurgation''. The most unsettling part is that despite their bloodlust (and unlike the two Hanks), they ''don't'' slaughter each other, instead working together like pack hunters to chase down Hank.
** The way Tricky kills the Retainer menacing Hank is vicious in the extreme, further underscoring how utterly unhinged and dangerous he is. We're treated to the sight of Tricky driving a chainsaw clear through the Retainer's neck, before he revs it up and hacks the Retainer into bloody pieces [[GoryDiscretionShot offscreen]] and sends them flying through a door as an apparent taunt to Hank, [[CurbStompBattle all in the space of about fifteen seconds]]. The way the Retainer desperately tries to push Tricky off of them and pull his chainsaw out of their throat before being killed doesn't really help, either.
** You may notice a first as well: agents with visible facial scars. They show up more and more over the course of the episode, sometimes with the same scars but wider. This implies that WeHaveReserves isn't in effect; in an effort to keep Hank contained, the same few agents are likely being stitched back together and [[AndIMustScream sent right back into the meat grinder to stall him.]]

[[folder:Incidents]]
* How Jesus disposes of the GiantMook in Incident:110a is equal parts awesome, horrific, and squicky. He cuts through the top half of its head with the Binary Sword, tears off its scalp, and then ''rips out its brain'' as it flails around blindly.
* Incident:111a is downright [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/621022 horrifying]] with the SurpriseCreepy ending (well, Surprise Creep''ier''). The Savior is killed without any struggle by an unknown force and he's terrified of it.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlJfr_YuCuE ROMP.FLA]] starts off as amusing, then gets more horrifying as the extent of the mustached star's power is revealed. Once they're zombified, it's just nightmare faces galore as Sanford and Deimos are killed. And the ending has the grinning, shaking star [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou launching itself at the screen.]]

[[folder:''Dedmos Adventure'']]
* The ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiR6E6Cs79JpyW1ICAvHo_cqZreAg6D3k Dedmos Adventure]]'' shorts, staring the titular Deimos, are bleak and dark even when compared to most of Krinkels' other works, if not the single darkest and bleakest episodes in the entire series. The shorts star Deimos traversing an eerie EldritchLocation implied to be a kind of hellish "afterlife" following his death in the main series. The place [[GravityScrew doesn't abide to]] [[AlienGeometries the laws of physics]] and Deimos is in a constant state of disorientation and in danger of dying over and over again to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice flying blades on chains]] which seem to have a mind of their own in how they seek him out. He gets caught by said chains ''a lot'', almost at the end of every short and even a few times within the shorts in quick succession. Worse off, his on-screen deaths and subsequent sudden revivals show him getting [[BodyHorror progressively more mutilated]] without let-up. And that doesn't ''begin'' to cover the horrific sights he comes across while wandering...
* The second installment ''SACRIFICE.fla'', starts off with a somewhat funny moment [[MoodWhiplash and then quickly turns the tone on its head]] to show just how screwed up the place Deimos is in now can be. The GainaxEnding has Deimos emerge outside of a desolate version of the Bakery from ''Avenger'', where a corpse which resembles Hank falls down. Deimos touches it, then appears to be overcome with [[InterfaceScrew flashing, disorientating visions]] before being utterly destroyed by multiple flying chain-blades without warning.
* In the third short, ''ANAMNESIS.fla'', there's a particularly unsettling moment where Deimos spots Sanford through a gap in another room, [[ForcedToWatch only to watch him get brutally killed]]. Then he manages to get into the room, which seems to be in a kind of GroundhogDayLoop, and saves Sanford from his would-be killer. [[HopeSpot Deimos seems to have saved his best friend]]... only for Sanford to turn around and reveal a [[FacialHorror black void where his face should be]], and then everything goes to hell again.
** In particular, Deimos' body language in this episode is pretty telling to how terrified he feels in all of this. When "Sanford" turns around and starts advancing on Deimos, the latter falls over and waves his hand as if pleading for "Sanford" not to hurt him. From his point of view, Deimos is seeing his faceless best friend stalking towards him, supposedly to kill him. He then watches reality utterly freak out, "Sanford" included, which ends with "Sanford" unceremoniously splattered into the floor (with Deimos following shortly after).
* The fourth short, ''POWERLESS.fla'' is almost nothing but a conga line of disturbing imagery and events. Deimos gets attacked by a strange claw/tentacle, then encounters ATP Agents who flicker in and out of looking like they are Auditor-possessed - i.e. ''like the same Agent that killed him''. When Deimos shoots one down, it suddenly turns into a version of himself wearing an ATP Mask (like that time he pranked Sanford). The episode ends with Deimos suddenly embedded into a wall by the claw-tentacle, [[AndIMustScream and it doesn't look like he's getting out of there alone anytime soon]].
** The claw which seems to have it out for Deimos looks an awful lot like Hank's mutant claw arm, which brings up an unsettling thought: Deimos was shot down before he saw Hank come out of the MAG chamber, so how did he know what Hank's new arm looked like... [[FridgeHorror unless he wasn't completely dead then, including when Hank impaled his body on that very same claw.]]
* While Deimos [[CameBackStrong coming back strong]] in ''[=DedmosRebuilt=].fla'' is undeniably [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome]], the sheer damage his new fists can cause is disturbing due to ArtEvolution really emphasizing the injuries. With every punch, Deimos ''caves in'' his opponents' skulls and torsos. The worst part is that these blows rip right through their skin, giving us a [[SarcasmMode lovely]] look at their [[BodyHorror utterly mangled skeletons underneath]], particular attention being given to their skulls.

[[folder:Other]]
* The spin-off movie ''Tricky Madness 2'' is [[MindScrew nothing]] ''[[{{Gorn}} but]]'' [[NightmareFace this]]. Really takes the "madness" element to heart, it does.
** Krinkels claims he'll never pull anything like that again. He apologizes for the {{Gorn}} at the end of the video. It's as if he got half-way through making the video and stopped because he realized he crossed back over the line to "uncool, not cool."
* ''An Experiment'' answers a question many ''Madness'' fans have had since the series started: are the characters' hands really [[FloatingLimbs floating?]] Could you, say, seal them inside a box? And then pull that box away from the person's body? Turns out, the answer is yes... but the grunt subjected to this experiment was rapidly driven insane by it, smashing their face against the wall [[FacialHorror until the skin is completely gone]] while[[OminousVisualGlitch their surroundings glitch out]]. When an [[EliteMooks ATP engineer]] goes in, they get effortlessly ripped in two (as pictured above), followed by the grunt repeatedly dashing themselves against the wall until they're nothing but a fine mist. And then the whole building explodes, with an effect very similar to the Normality Restoration Beams seen in ''Inundation''. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Bet you wish you hadn't asked now.]]
** The grunt's (nicknamed "Scrapeface", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin for good reason]]) behavior during the ordeal could unnerve some. While the enclosed hands are fighting back hard to try and rejoin its body all while painting every surface it touches with blood, the body has seemingly much less cognitive thought, twitching and ramming itself into any surface available, grinding their face down to nothing. Then, [[FromBadToWorse when their hands come back...]]
** After Scrapeface is put back together again, their movements just become ''completely'' inhuman. They're still erratically [[OminousVisualGlitch spasming and glitching about]], all while cracking the room they're in while [[InterfaceScrew filling the screen with red static]]. Their movements jump between twitching painfully, to lunging across the room with ''absolutely no movement'' as [[HellIsThatNoise distorted, feral screaming noise plays]]. One can only imagine the sheer terror the Engineer felt when they were locked in the same room as them.
** Scrapeface's hatred is so feral and intense that he manages to ''scrape himself down to the stumps of his legs'' on the floor and walls. And even that's not enough to keep him from flinging what remains of himself at the scientist responsible in a desperate bid to make them suffer. In a series filled with comedic gore and copious bloodstains on three-fourths of the architecture, it is one of the few instances of such that is played as straight psychological horror.

** The way Tricky kills the Retainer menacing Hank is vicious in the extreme, further underscoring how utterly unhinged and dangerous he is. We're treated to the sight of Tricky driving a chainsaw clear through the Retainer's neck, before he revs it up and hacks the Retainer into bloody pieces [[GoryDiscretionShot offscreen]] and sends them flying through a door as an apparent taunt to Hank, [[CurbStompBattle all in the space of about fifteen seconds]]. The way the Retainer desperately tries to push Tricky off of them/pull the chainsaw out of its throat before being killed doesn't really help, either.

*** There's also the question of why the hell Doc has a heavily-mutilated ATP corpse strung up behind him as he does this, and what role it might play in Hank's resurrection.

* ''An Experiment'' answers a question many ''Madness'' fans have had since the series started: are the characters' hands really [[FloatingLimbs floating?]] Could you, say, seal them inside a box? And then pull that box away from the person's body? Turns out, the answer is yes... but the grunt subjected to this experiment was rapidly driven insane by it, smashing their face against the wall [[FacialHorror until the skin is completely gone]] while[[OminousVisualGlitch their surroundings glitch out]]. When an [[EliteMooks ATP engineer]] goes in, they get effortlessly ripped in two (as pictured above), followed by the grunt repeatedly dashing themselves against the wall until they're nothing but a fine mist. And then the whole building explodes, with an effect very similar to the Normality Restoration Beams seen in ''8''. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Bet you wish you hadn't asked now.]]

When the series literally has "madness" in its name, it should be obvious that it would often become [[NightmareFuel horrifying]].

* ''An Experiment'' answers a question many Madness fans have had since the series started: are the characters' hands really [[FloatingLimbs floating?]] Could you, say, seal them inside a box? And then pull that box away from the person's body? Turns out, the answer is yes... but the grunt subjected to this experiment was rapidly driven insane by it, smashing their face against the wall [[FacialHorror until the skin is completely gone]] while[[OminousVisualGlitch their surroundings glitch out]]. When an [[EliteMooks ATP engineer]] goes in, they get effortlessly ripped in two (as pictured above), followed by the grunt repeatedly dashing themselves against the wall until they're nothing but a fine mist. And then the whole building explodes, with an effect very similar to the Normality Restoration Beams seen in ''8''. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Bet you wish you hadn't asked now.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuFrq5e5WMU An Experiment]] explores the concept of what happens when a Madness Combat character has their hands separated from their body. When the hands are forcefully taken away from the mook's body via a box and pulley system, the pain is so immense that the mook [[DrivenToSuicide slams it's head into the corner of a desk.]] Upon surviving this, it [[BodyHorror scrapes it's face off against the wall.]] An ATP Engineer is forced into the room at gunpoint, and watches in utter horror as the faceless corrupted creature slides over to him with no animation whatsoever. It then proceeds to kill everyone overseeing the experiment, before successfully committing suicide via scraping itself into paste, throwing it's bottom half at the last scientist. The entire building then cracks in half, the top portion burying itself in the ground as the bottom portion detonates, much to the amusement of Deimos and Sanford.