History NightmareFuel / MadnessCombat

** The grunt's (nicknamed "Scrapeface", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin for good reason]]) behaviour 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...]]

* The spinoff movie Tricky Madness 2 is [[MindScrew nothing]] ''[[{{Gorn}} but]]'' [[NightmareFace this]]. Really takes the "madness" element to heart, it does.

--> Tricky: '''[[SayMyName HANK!]]''' '''[[HellIsThatNoise HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK!]]'''

--> The Auditor: '''''CANNOT KILL CLOWN'''''

--> "'''''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]]''

* ''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 until the skin is completely gone and then proceed to [[OminousVisualGlitch glitch out their surroundings]], ripping an ATP engineer in two, and destroying the building they're in and everything in it, all the while repeatedly dashing themselves against the wall until they're nothing but a fine mist. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Bet you wish you hadn't asked now.]]

** 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. This looks exactly as horrible as it sounds.

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** 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]]. They soon notice the (arguably) poor engineer shoved into the same room with them and glide statically across the room with their hands outstretched as if lunging for them, overwhelming the engineer and [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe proceed to rip their torso off their legs]]. ''Yeesh.''

* ''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 person will rapidly be driven insane by it, smash their face against the wall until the skin is completely gone, then proceed to [[OminousVisualGlitch glitch out their surroundings]], rips an ATP engineer in two, and destroy the building they're in and everything in it, all the while repeatedly dashing themselves against the wall until they're nothing but a fine mist. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Bet you wish you hadn't asked now.]]

** 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. FridgeHorror kicks in when you realize; it being there means it's ''dead.'' Meaning someone, or some''thing'' [[AlwaysABiggerFish killed it.]] Of course, this is assuming it's even Nevadean in the first place or is [[HumanoidAbomination just pretending.]]

** 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. FridgeHorror kicks in when you realize; it being there means it's ''dead.'' Meaning someone, or some''thing'' [[AlwaysABiggerFish killed it.]]

** 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 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. Capping it all off. According to Krinkels, Retainers will appear if someone 'fucks around a LOT' in Hell.

* You know that hellish "afterlife" mentioned above? That insane hellscape full of wacko physics, holes full of chain-blade death and bizarre architecture? [[RealityIsOutToLunch Ever wondered what would happen if Tricky got to run the place?]] Well, wonder no more as Episode 11: Expurgation gives us the answer. [[NightmareFuel 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 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 get to see your own feet. The holes and chain blades mentioned above still are around too. Sometimes the rooms ''become sentient'' and demand that you GetOut.

** Once inside Hell, the Auditor 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]].

* 9.5 Part One takes place in Hell as well, this time showing what Hank goes through anytime he dies. Even in a non-clown-controlled state, the place is nothing but chaos, chains and fear as far as the eye can see, and 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 appears 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 [[MonsterClown Tricky]] appears from the ceiling.
** Worse yet, Tricky seems just as confused by the place he is in as the viewer, his second appearance after getting his face blown off being of him muttering to himself while glitching out, barely even responding when Hank fires a burst through him with an assault rifle before seizing up and being teleported out.

** 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. Capping it all off, [[NothingIsScarier there's little to no explanation of exactly what the hell these things are]]. According to Krinkels, Retainers will appear if someone 'fucks around a LOT' in Hell, but this still begs the question of just who these denizens are, and who they're working for... just ''what'' are they?

* You know that hellish "afterlife" mentioned above? That insane hellscape full of wacko physics, holes full of chain-blade death and bizarre architecture? [[RealityIsOutToLunch Ever wondered what would happen if Tricky got to run the place?]] Well, wonder no more as Episode 11: Expurgation gives us the answer. [[NightmareFuel Absolute high-octane nightmare fuel.]] First, there are undead imp-like creatures with glowing red eyes and Tricky-esque haircuts always trying to kill you. Then you might just spontaneously 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 get to see your own feet. The holes and chain blades mentioned above still are around too. Sometimes the rooms ''become sentient'' and demand that you GetOut.

** Before this form is revealed, an imp 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 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. Capping it all off, [[NothingIsScarier there's little to no explanation of exactly what the hell these things are]].

* Krinkels' [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiR6E6Cs79JpyW1ICAvHo_cqZreAg6D3k most recent 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 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 instalment ''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 ''Madness Combat 3: 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.

** 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. Capping it all off, [[NothingIsScarier there's little to no explanation of exactly ''what'' the hell these things ''are'']].

* For starters, Tricky on the whole. He's a goddamn ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot reality-warping demonic zombie clown]]'' who gives AxCrazy a whole new definition. He has a obsession with torturing Hank in any way he can, which can easily bring the Batman-Joker dynamic to mind, and he can even transform into a ''massive NighInvulnerable flaming demon'' as a last-ditch effort.

* [[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 launching itself at the screen.

* 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, 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 protagonists, Tricky, and Jesus caused, it's likely there was nobody who could've stopped him - ''because he'd already won''. And by the time of ''Expurgation'', it's shown that ''he '''did''' win regardless.''

* 9.5 Part One takes place in Hell as well, this time showing what Hank goes through anytime he dies. Even in a non-clown-controlled state, the place is nothing but chaos, chains and fear as far as the eye can see, and Hank's entrance to the realm of the dead is represented by a panicking grunt 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 disgusting meat-like growths erupting from the ground around a dead grunt's head, which begins seizing up as if reanimating before Hank shoots it, and it embeds itself further in the rock as [[MonsterClown Tricky]] appears from the ceiling.
** Worse yet, Tricky seems just as confused by the place he is in as the viewer, his second appearance after getting his face blown off being of him muttering to himself while glitching out, barely even responding when Hank fires a burst through him with an assault rifle before seizing up and being teleported out, presumably by the [[ImplacableMan Retainer]].

** 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 disgusting meat-like growths erupting from the ground around a dead grunt's head, which begins seizing up as if reanimating before Hank shoots it, and it embeds itself further in the rock as [[MonsterClown Tricky]] appears from the ceiling.

** 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 disgusting meat-like growths erupting from the ground around a dead grunt's head, which begins seizing up as if reanimating before Hank shoots it, and it embeds itself further in the rock as [[MonsterClown Tricky]] appears from the ceiling.

* ''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 person will rapidly be driven insane by it, smash their face against the wall until the skin is completely gone, then proceed to [[OminousVisualGlitch glitch out their surroundings]], rips an ATP engioneer in two, and destroy the building they're in and everything in it, all the while repeatedly dashing themselves against the wall until they're nothing but a fine mist. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Bet you wish you hadn't asked now.]]

* ''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 person will rapidly be driven insane by it, smash their face against the wall until the skin is completely gone, then proceed to [[OminousVisualGlitch glitch out their surroundings]], defeat an ATP agent bare-handed, and destroy the building they're in and everything in it, all the while repeatedly dashing themselves against the wall until they're nothing but a fine mist. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Bet you wish you hadn't asked now.]]