History NightmareFuel / MadnessCombat

* Krinkels' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BqJPSn4YCM most]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mer5M4JZwcY&t=2s recent]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USxoSzr3CNs&t=2s shorts]] starring Deimos are extremely dark and almost bleak compared to most of his other works to date. The shorts star Deimos traversing an eerie EldritchLocation [[spoiler: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 danger of dying over and over again, to the point he gets killed at the end of every short. Worse off, his on-screen deaths and subsequent sudden revivals show him getting [[BodyHorror progressively more mutilated]] without let-up, to the point it's painful to watch. And that doesn't ''begin'' to cover the horrific sights he comes across while wandering...
** 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 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 [[black void where his face should be]], and then everything goes to hell again.

* Krinkels' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BqJPSn4YCM most]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mer5M4JZwcY&t=2s recent]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USxoSzr3CNs&t=2s shorts]] starring Deimos are extremely dark and almost bleak compared to most of his other works to date. The shorts star Deimos traversing an eerie EldritchLocation [[spoiler:implied to be a kind of hellish "afterlife" following his death in the main series.]] The place[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GravityScrew doesn't abide]] [[AlienGeometries to the laws of physics]] and Deimos is in a constant state of disorientation and danger of dying over and over again, to the point he gets killed at the end of every short. Worse off, his on-screen deaths show him getting [[BodyHorror progressively more mutilated]] without let-up, to the point it's painful to watch. And that doesn't ''begin'' to cover the horrific sights he comes across while wandering...

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlJfr_YuCuE ROMP.FLA]] starts of 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 launching itself at the screen.

* While the L33T Crew is generally just a bunch of faceless mooks whose only purpose is to be slaughtered by Hank, 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 grafitti near it saying "DISSENTER BE DAMNED". Seems defection is not treated kindly in the Crew...

** Fortunately, [[spoiler:the majority of the Auditor's scenes are more [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Crowning Moments of Funny]] more than anything, with the Auditor and tech support having to deal with his [[ArtificialStupidity computer]].]]

** There's an area in Club M, where you can step through a chalk portal in the wall. You'll find yourself in one of the most eeriest areas in the game...[[Series/TheTwilightZone a dark void filled with stars]]. Oh, and it's completely silent.

* The Auditor is pretty unsettling as a whole, given [[BigBad who]] [[TheManBehindTheMan and]] [[LivingShadow what]] [[RealityWarper he]] [[HumanoidAbomination is]]. His unusual design and eerily fluid way of moving sets him apart from the rest of the cast, suggesting he really isn't of their world. His unexplained supernatural powers also aren't to be taken lightly given how much damage he can potentially do with them [[spoiler: such as setting up the death of Deimos using MindControl]]. He starts off pretty much NighInvulnerable and continues to show new powers that make him almost impossible to defeat properly in battle. And once he gets backed into a corner he turns to [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibalising]] [[CannibalismSuperpower living and dead]] to power himself up and [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever grow to a gargantuan size]]. It has to be remembered that this… ''thing'', whatever he is, has been running the show from the start and already had Nevada in an iron grip dystopian military regime before the protagonists showed up: If it weren't for the chaos the AAHW, Tricky and Jesus caused, it's likely there was nobody who could've stopped him - ''because he'd already won''.

** [[spoiler:Fortunately, the majority of the Auditor's scenes are more [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Crowning Moments of Funny]] more than anything, with the Auditor and tech support having to deal with his [[ArtificialStupidity computer]].]]

-->[[spoiler: The words ''tactical nuke'' flash on the screen]]

** The room where you find a dead grunt stabbed to death in his bed, presumably by the crowd of agents who are now facing your team. It's very possible that this was a hazing ritual that went horribly wrong.

** And in the ATP Facility, the final area has a bloody and destroyed prison cell, with one locker containing [[SchmuckBait a single keycard]], ripe for the picking. Take it...and you'll be ambushed by ''four'' MAG Zombies.

** In Club M, if you fight your way past two MAG Agents and a zombie Clown, you'll find the infamous "Dissenter be Damned" corpse impaled on the ceiling of a hidden room, implied to be his ''cell.''

** The infamous "Dissenter be Damned" corpse is impaled on the ceiling of a hidden room.

** You'll be able to enter a freezer area in one section. Among other things, you'll discover a severed clown head and two hanging, extremely detailed cow carcasses.

-->ABANDON ALL HOPE

** And once you've followed a useful hint on the walls and gotten to the Auditor's office, there's nothing but a desk and the DNA vials your team has been sent to retrieve. Take it and suddenly the Auditor will pop up, setting off the final battle.
** The scariest part of the final battle is arguably this little line of dialogue.
-->'''Auditor:''' NOT BAD. OH LOOK. '''I CAN KILL YOU NOW.'''

** In one darkened room, you'll find Tricky's brutally stabbed (with ''three'' knives sticking out of his body), shot and hanged corpse. And from the graffiti on the wall, it's implied that the Savior did this.

-->[[spoiler: Activates ''tactical nuke.'']]

** In one darkened room, you'll find Tricky's brutally stabbed and hanged corpse. And from the graffiti on the wall, it's implied that the Savior did this.

-->'''Auditor:''' NOT BAD. OH LOOK. ''''I CAN KILL YOU NOW.'''
-->*He prepares to deploy a [[spoiler: tactical nuke.]]

* Tricky. And the huge agent with spikes through his head. And maybe Hank's gradual physical degeneration from death to death, especially after he becomes a half-headed zombie for a bit. It increases as the series becomes DarkerAndEdgier. The spinoff movie Tricky Madness 2 is [[MindScrew nothing]] ''[[{{Gorn}} but]]'' [[NightmareFace this]]. Really takes the "madness" element to heart, it does.

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

** As a matter of fact, Hank's injuries seem to only make him even more unhinged. By late in Antipathy, his once expertly efficient take on melee combat has started involving indiscriminately beating his victims senseless before killing them. Once Tricky has [[UnwantedRevival resurrected him]] in Consternation, he begins tearing chunks of flesh off of people with nothing but his hands.

* Hank himself, especially in episode six. He starts out as [[http://images.wikia.com/madnesscombat/images/e/e7/Hank06.png little more than a sack of skin and exposed teeth held together by bloody gauze]]. And he gets ''worse'' after the train crash, with smashed glasses, more missing teeth, and part of his brain cavity exposed. But the real kicker? [[ImplacableMan None of this impedes his fighting ability in the slightest]].

* Krinkels claims he'll never pull anything like that again.

* The clown can get kind of creepy, but the moments were the entire world seems to start falling apart is also creepy.
* Incident:111a is downright [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/621022 horrifying.]] [[spoiler: The Savior is killed without any struggle by an unknown force and he's terrified of it.]]