History NightmareFuel / MissionImpossibleFilmSeries

* The underwater vault sequence. Ethan nearly drowns and almost dies until Ilsa comes in and saves him. It can not be stressed enough how terrifying this can be for people with a huge fear of drowning, even with the possibility of waking up in major confusion after passing out.

* Krieger pushing the helicopter blades toward Ethan's neck. It's one of the few times in the whole film series where Ethan is ''absolutely helpless'' with nothing he can do to stop a gruesome death, and he only survives from the luck of the helicopter's tail hitting the Channel Tunnel roof.

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* [[NightmareFuel/MissionImpossibleFallout Has its own page.]]
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* [[NightmareFuel/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne Has its own page.]]
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* Hugh's death near the end of the film. [[spoiler:Ethan knocks him out and then puts him in an Ethan Hunt mask (and puts on a Hugh Stamp mask himself) and gags him.]] He then takes him to Sean, who proceeds to torture "Ethan" by kneecapping him and then stepping on his knees and grinding his foot into them before shooting him dead as "Hugh" watches, looking visibly uncomfortable/nauseated as "Ethan" screams repeatedly in agony. It's only when Sean notices the bandage on "Ethan"'s finger that he realizes who he actually killed.

** There's also how terrifying the scenario is from [[spoiler:the translator's]] perspective as she's [[spoiler:forced to wear a mask of a woman she doesn't know]], threatened by [[spoiler:[[BadBoss her boss]] who also uses her as leverage against a man she doesn't know]], shot in the leg and then eventually shot dead. Regardless of what happened, the circumstances dictated that Davian was [[ForegoneConclusion always going to kill her]].
* The moment when Ferris is killed by the explosive inside her head is just... [[{{Squick}} No]]. [[spoiler: Made worse due to the ways her eyes suddenly spasm into opposite directions.]]

* The way [[spoiler: Moreau]] dies. Sure, she ''kind of'' deserves it, but just imagine yourself falling several hundred meters. Her scream is not helping.

* Ethan seeing Benji [[spoiler:strapped to a bomb, in tears, and forced to read out what Solomon Lane wants to say]].
-->'''Benji:''' [[spoiler:This is the end, Mr. Hunt]].

* Kurt Hendricks' [[TheEndOftheWorldAsWeKnowIt plan]]. He wanted to invoke World War II [[StartXToStopX to show how dangerous nuclear weapons are]]. This plan means the death for most living humans and being the most monstrous plan in the series, even surpassing Lark's plan in ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]].''

* Hugh's death near the end of the film. [[spoiler:Ethan knocks him out and then puts him in an Ethan Hunt mask (and puts on a Hugh Stamp mask himself) and gags him. He then takes him to Sean, who proceeds to torture "Ethan" by kneecapping him and then stepping on his knees and grinding his foot into them before shooting him dead as "Hugh" watches, looking visibly uncomfortable/nauseated as "Ethan" screams repeatedly in agony. It's only when Sean notices the bandage on "Ethan"'s finger that he realizes who he actually killed.

* [[spoiler:Hugh's death]] near the end of the film. [[spoiler:Ethan knocks him out and then puts him in an Ethan Hunt mask (and puts on a Hugh Stamp mask himself) and gags him. He then takes him to Sean, who proceeds to torture "Ethan" by kneecapping him and then stepping on his knees and grinding his foot into them before shooting him dead as "Hugh" watches, looking visibly uncomfortable/nauseated as "Ethan" screams repeatedly in agony. It's only when Sean notices the bandage on "Ethan"'s finger that he realizes who he actually killed.]]

* The death of [[spoiler: Jack.]] While on the elevator, it suddenly starts to move, and in a blink-and-you-miss-it shot, he gets ''impaled through the eye by the ceiling''. Easily one of the most brutal deaths in the entire series, similar to [[spoiler: August Walker]] in ''Fallout''.

* The whole plot is made of Nightmare Fuel. [[spoiler:You just watched your whole team die. A list of half the world's secret agents is out in the open. And you just realized that your agency thinks you've done it. You get away, but where do you go? Everyone you can trust is either dead or thinks your a traitor. You're on your own.]] What do you do?
* While deserved, there's an absolutely brutal blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment where we see [[spoiler: Jim's horrified face as the exploding helicopter smashes his body against the train tracks. Then his body horribly contorts in an almost horseshoe shape and is blasted offscreen.]]

-->'''Ethan Hunt:''' [[ItsPersonal I know you, Lane]]. Somewhere along the line you had a crisis of faith. [[TheSociopath Human life didn't matter anymore, or maybe it never really did]]. [[FreudianExcuse Either way, you killed too many innocent people without ever asking who is giving the orders. Or why]]. You blame the system for what you are. Instead of yourself. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist You wanted revenge.]]

* The whole plot is made of Nightmare Fuel. [[spoiler:You just watched your whole team die. A list of half the world's secret agents is out in the open. And you just realised that your agency thinks you've done it. You get away, but where do you go? Everyone you can trust is either dead or thinks your a traitor. You're on your own.]] What do you do?

* The still above.

* While deserved, there's a absolutely brutal blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment where we see [[spoiler: Jim's horrified face as the exploding helicopter smashes his body against the train tracks. Then his body horribly contorts in an almost horseshoe shape and is blasted offscreen.]]

* The underwater vault sequence. Ethan nearly drowns and almost dies until Ilsa comes in and saves him.

* Kurt Hendricks' [[TheEndOftheWorldAsWeKnowIt plan]]. He wanted to invoke 3 World War [[StartXToStopX to show, how dangerous nuclear weapon]]. This plan means the death for most of living humans and being the most monstrous plan in series, even surpassing Lark's plan in ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]''