History NightmareFuel / OZ

** Two skinheads BuriedAlive in an escape attempt when the tunnel collapses on them.

* Ryan's obsession with Dr. Nathan.

* Beecher's long nails that he deliberately does not cut while in the hospital and files to razor sharp points. Which he then uses to kill Metzger by slicing into his body, making huge gashes and leaving him to slide down the wall while he ''claws at his mutilated throat, trying desperately to stop the blood from spurting out and failing miserably before dying in a pool of his own blood''. Horrifying doesn't even begin to describe it. Granted, Metzger had it coming.

* When Schillinger's loyal right hand man, Robson, finds out that his gum implants came from the mouth of an African American, he is immediately cast out from the group. Desperate to return, he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti5fTPsdIOA uses a shiv]] to [[AttackTheMouth PEEL OUT HIS OWN GUMS]]! His [[HellIsThatNoise horrifically painful screaming, chilling music and incredibly gruesome sound effects]] don't help!

* Dino Ortolani's death in season one (being burned alive while not able to do anything about it)
** The aftermath of Dino was downright dreadful. The pictures shown of his [[BodyHorror charred remains are gritty and his face]]... Gah* In fact, [[FromBadToWorse it's made even worse]] when we get to see Dino's charred remains up close in the next first seasoned episode.

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* Timmy Kirk and his little "accident" with the spotlight.

* Peter Schibetta's rapes. The first time, at the hands of Adebisi, is bad enough (and we get a brief glimpse of him in the psych ward later showing the toll it's taken on him). The second one, where he's held against the pool table in preparation to be gang raped by Schillinger and the Aryan Brotherhood, takes it UpToEleven. His BigNo (as he's undoubtedly flashing back to the previous rape) is haunting, and he looks simply ''broken'' afterward.

* When Ryan kills keenan you can see a piece of his skull caught on the dumbbell.

* When Schillinger's loyal right hand man, Robson, finds out that his gum implants came from the mouth of an African American, he is immediately cast out from the group. Desperate to return, he uses a shiv to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti5fTPsdIOA PEEL OUT HIS OWN GUMS.]]

* Nino Schibetta ate grounded glass that Ryan and Adebisi secretly put into his food for months until he dies from internal hemorrhaging, suddenly realizing one day that he's bleeding from the ears, nose, mouth,...

* The numerous rapes and attempted rapes. One of the worst ones didn’t even occur in prison but in a flashback of Adam Gunzel and Franklin Winthrop’s crime of brutally raping Gunzel’s girlfriend and then beating her within in a inch of her life. Gunzel raped and beat her while Winthrop held his hand over her her mouth despite the fact she was crying and screaming for them to stop. Even though Gunzel and Winthrop [[LaserGuidedKarma get a well deserved taste of their own medicine later on]] both of their rapes and repeated rapes by the Aryans do venture into this territory as well.

*** Initial Macbeth Father Daniel Meehan is cursed by Peter Schibetta and dies of an aneurysm in his sleep.

* It is revealed late in the series that despite Cyril O'Reilly's brain damage, he sometimes has the abstract thought of his former self. But it seems impossible for him to communicate in an intelligent manner, as if he's trapped inside of a five year old instead of having the mind of one.

* Shillinger telling [[SexSlave Beecher]] "You belong to me. I make all your decisions."

** Alvarez [[EyeScream gouges out a prison guards eyes]], complete with gratuitous shots of his bleeding, empty eye sockets.

* '''Malcolm "Snake" Coyle'''. Though he got into Oz on relatively minor charges, he later revealed he's actually a deranged killer who murdered an entire family, the father by stabbing, the mother by stabbing before raping her corpse, two children, an old grandfather, and a baby by gutting it in its crib, all for fun. Worse off, he never got caught for the murders and threatened anyone who even thought of ratting him out. Hill and the others were visibly disturbed by this and tried to have him killed immediately.

* Peter Schibetta's rapes. The first time, at the hands of Adebisi, is bad enough (and we get a brief glimpse of him in the psych ward later showing the toll it takes on him). The second one, where he's held against the pool table in preparation to be gang raped by Schillinger and the Aryan Brotherhood, takes it UpToEleven. His BigNo (as he's undoubtedly flashing back to the previous rape) is haunting, and he looks simply ''broken'' afterward.

* Peter Schibetta's rapes. The first time, at the hands of Adebisi, is bad enough (and we get a brief glimpse of him in the psych ward later showing the toll it takes on him). The second one, where he's held against the pool table in preparation to be gang raped by Schillinger and the Aryan Brotherhood, takes it UpToEleven. His BigNo (as he's undoubtedly flashing back to the previous rape) is haunting, and he looks simply *broken* afterward.

* Peter Schibetta's downfall.

* The fact that the entire staff that runs the Oswald Penitentiary's "Emerald City" cell block are filled with jerkasses left and right that it's enough to make one heads spin. The Nightmare Fueled part? [[HumansAreBastards None of them care for the health or sanctity of the inmates' well-beings from season one and onward; hell, they don't barely care for themselves unless if it conflicts and effects their positions.]] The fact that this series has no heroes or any decency (logic is nearly and completely thrown out the window along with the inmates and the viewers given state of sanity)and with only one character depicted to being as close to TheWoobie (Tobias Beecher) as possible is even hard to sympathize with him; in fact, he is just as worst if not the worst of the rest of the prison population. The whole time one watches this series is good enough to cause some well deserved [[ParanoiaFuel paranoia]] after every viewing. [[SarcasmMode Sweet Dreams!]]

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* Tobias Beecher's '''entire''' storyline. Sure, all the inmates suffer, but he is [[TheWoobie the character people would sympathize with most]], because he is vulnerable, tries his best to stay sane, and [[ButtMonkey goes through so much]]. All through season 1, you watch a respectable man (a lawyer, how ironic is that) being sent to jail, getting raped and humiliated in many ways by a Nazi who threatens his family, and who wants then to have him dead. Beecher's breakdown is both awesome and terrifying, because of what Oz turned him into. And it worsens in later seasons: [[spoiler:his wife kills herself, his children are kidnapped, one of them and his father are killed, [[HopeSpot he loses his chance to leave Oz]], and falls in love with a manipulative SerialKiller who commits suicide to get him charged with murder and possibly put on death row]]. You'll see few to no episodes where Beecher doesn't suffer in some way.

* Robson and another Aryan killing [[spoiler:Ahmad Lalar]], the youngest and weakest of the Muslim 'herd' just to prove a point to Said. They slice him to death by repeatedly making shallow cuts with a knife, while his screams are muffled by his gag and he (as well as we, the audience) can only watch this horrifying scene.
* Beecher's long nails that he deliberately does not cut while in the hospital and files to razor sharp points. Which he then uses to kill [[spoiler:Metzger]] by slicing into his body, making huge gashes and leaving him to slide down the wall while he ''claws at his mutilated throat, trying desperately to stop the blood from spurting out and failing miserably before dying in a pool of his own blood''. Horrifying doesn't even begin to describe it. Granted, Metzger had it coming.
* After having arranged the death of [[spoiler:Vern Schillinger, the leader of the Aryan Brotherhood]], as a twisted display of his love for Beecher, Keller still was rejected, so he [[spoiler:[[ThanatosGambit kills himself via purposely falling to his death while screaming Beecher's name in order to make it look like Beecher murdered him]]. Then, as Beecher waits to find out if he'll be charged with Keller's death (with the implication that he might face the death penalty), the second part of Keller's gift arrives, in the form of mailed packages of anthrax, which would kill all the mailroom staff -- all of whom were also members of the Brotherhood]].
* Kenny: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFm6oakSPf4 "Happy Birthday to me. Happy motherfuckin' Birthday to me. Happy Birthday..." Adebisi: "''To Kenny''...'''Happy birthday to you'''...]] *blows out candle and then later (off-camera) ties Kenny face down on his bunk and rapes him repeatedly in retaliation for how Kenny murdered his guru and framed him for said murder*

* [[spoiler:Beecher]]'s little son being killed and his cut off hand sent to him into the prison...

* Much like Ryan's obsession with Dr. Nathan, Keller's obsession with Beecher fell into this at times. [[spoiler: Keller ultimately commits suicide]] after [[NotGoodWithRejection Beecher rejects him for the final time]].

* In the sixth season a production of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' is being put on by a number of prisoners with Schillinger in the lead role and Beecher as Macduff. Keller takes a job backstage managing the props. He tells Schillinger that they will kill Beecher then later tells Beecher that he is being friends with Schillinger to keep Beecher alive. He then kisses Schillinger and tells him that he will switch Schillinger's prop knife with a real one so he can kill Beecher onstage. [[spoiler:However, during the final fight scene, Keller switches Beecher's knife with a real one. Beecher stabs Schillinger unintentionally during a fight scene, thinking the knife in his hand is a prop. Keller claims to have no idea how a real knife got onto the set. Schillinger's death is considered an accident]].
** Really the entirety of the Macbeth play storyline. [[spoiler:Keeping in tradition of Macbeth being a cursed play, all the inmates who take on the title role die]].

*** [[spoiler:And then Schillinger]].
*** You might also consider all the deaths in the final season a part of this. [[spoiler:Said, Glynn, Morales, White, Hoyt, Cyril, Schillinger, and Keller]] were all main characters who died. Did the Scottish play bring death to all those we loved and hated?

* Yuri Kosygin who is a [[BewareTheQuietOnes quiet, subtle and troubling man]]. Even though he doesn't look it, he is a very [[ProfessionalKiller deadly cunning infamous hitman]]. Nikolai Stanislofsky found that out the hard way [[spoiler: He nearly was his 50th victim in the library by being stabbed by his makeshift reading glasses.]]. Yuri was later PutOnTheBus for the rest of the series but seeing him just one time will leave quite a mental scar on both the viewer and the inmates of Oz.

* The numerous rapes and attempted rapes. One of the worst ones didn’t even occur in prison but in a flash back of Adam Gunzel and Franklin Winthrop’s crime of brutally raping Gunzel’s girlfriend and then beating her within in a inch of her life. Gunzel raped and beat her while Winthrop held his hand over her her mouth despite the fact she was crying and screaming for them to stop. Even though Gunzel and Winthrop [[LaserGuidedKarma get a well deserved taste of their own medicine later on]] both of their rapes and repeated rapes by the Aryans do venture into this territory as well.

* The numerous rapes and attempted rapes. One of the worst ones didn’t even occur in prison but in a flash back of Adam Gunzel and Franklin Winthrop’s crime of brutally raping Gunzel’s girlfriend and then beating her within in a inch of her life. Gunzel raped and beat her while Winthrop held his hand over her her mouth despite the fact she was crying and screaming for them to stop. Even though Gunzel and Winthrop get a taste of their own medicine [[LaserGuidedKarma later on]]both of their rapes and repeated rapes by the Aryans do venture into this territory as well.

* The numerous rapes and attempted rapes. One of the worst ones didn’t even occur in prison but in a flash back of Adam Gunzel and Franklin Winthrop’s crime of brutally raping Gunzel’s girlfriend and then beating her within in a inch of her life. Gunzel raped and beat her while Winthrop held his hand over her her mouth despite the fact she was crying and screaming for them to stop. Even though Gunzel and Winthrop get their [[LaserGuidedKarma]] later on, both of their rapes and repeated rapes by the Aryans do venture into this territory as well.

* The numerous rapes and attempted rapes.

* Tobias Beecher's '''entire''' stroryline. Sure, all the inmates suffer, but he is [[TheWoobie the character people would sympathize with most]], because he is vulnerable, tries his best to stay sane, and [[ButtMonkey goes through so much]]. All through season 1, you watch a respectable man (a lawyer, how ironic is that) being sent to jail, getting raped and humiliated in many ways by a nazi who threatens his family, and who wants then to have him dead. Beecher's breakdown is both awesome and terryfying, because of what the jail turned him into. And it worsens in later seasons: [[spoiler:his wife kills herself, his children are kidnapped, one of them and his father are killed, [[HopeSpot he loses his chance to leave Oz]], and falls in love with a manipulative serial killer, who commits suicide to get him charged with murder and possibly put on death row]]. You'll see few to no episode where Beecher doesn't suffer in some way.

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