History NightmareFuel / PORTAL

** [[spoiler: and after they begin playing music, the elevator rises, and you can see multiple floors flash by containing dark, shadowy rooms with various odd types of turrets, which isn't so bad at first.]] But then there are two floors which also contain strangely misshapen masses - one of which looks almost fleshy.

* The ''crunch''when a metal moving part crushes you

** This troper didn't believe her when she said she had Chell backed up. I bet she was trying to scare her into not harming her taking into account all the other tricks she tried to pull. And how does that explain respawning in portal 2 when she already deleted your backup?

* This troper found [[spoiler: Wheatley's]] fate at the end of the game, [[spoiler: being stranded in space forever and ever]] to be very unsettling. Worse, he seems to show genuine remorse for he's put the player through. Since he can't die, he has nothing to think about but his transgressions [[AndIMustScream until the end of time]].
* One of the songs on the new ''Portal 2'' soundtrack, ''Ghost of Rattmann,'' is very scary. If [[CreepyMonotone the]] [[HellIsThatNoise music]] [[NothingIsScarier itself]] doesn't make you shit your pants, the indiscernible gibberish (which gets louder as the song progresses) will. It sounds like a combination of a turret and a mentally retarded Donald Duck. Or maybe just the latter.
** You can just barely make out a little bit of what he says - for example, at around 2:19-2:21 [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcDuPxTltRY here]], it sounds like he's saying "everybody is dead, it's the end"... no matter if he's saying that or something else, though, it definitely sounds like he's sobbing uncontrollably - imagine what must it have been like for him to realize that everybody else in the facility has been killed at once, and that he's the only one left, alive and trapped in there...

* Also from the soundtrack: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ibpppFJr0I "Self Esteem"]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ibpppFJr0I "Android Hell"]] are pretty creepy. But [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8KFh_-P98E "No Cake For You"]] stands out as both the best and creepiest ambient music in the entire game.

* [[spoiler: The turret-cube creatures Wheatley pumps out. Just look at them. ''They want to die.'']]
** [[spoiler: Two turrets mashed together inside a cube? Not so bad. Realizing their original purpose was to stand in one place and shoot, and now they can't shoot and are forced to walk for the first time? Frightening. All of that coupled with [[HellIsThatNoise that miserable chirping sound they make]], as if [[ICannotSelfTerminate they're begging for the incinerator]]? Horrifying.]]
** [[spoiler: When you pick one of these things up, they withdraw into their cubes a bit and tremble. Their eyes blink on and off, too. Deliberate choice on the dev team's part, that was. [[AndIMustScream And while normally talkative, they cannot even scream out in pain now.]] Thanks for little details, Valve. Thanks for ALWAYS turning any turret-cube to face you eye-to-eye, Chell.]]
**** You know when you first see them, when POTaTOS attempts to paradox Wheatly? All the Frankencubes are still twitching, their eyes flickering on and off...
**** The most horrifying part of that whole scene is that, while Wheatley is [[TooDumbToFool too dumb to fall for GLaDOS's paradox]], you can see the Frankenturrets spark a little. That's right; those things are ''smarter than Wheatley''.

* [[spoiler: And now I'm onto all your little tricks. So there's nothing to stop us from testing for the rest of your life. After that, who knows? I might take up a hobby. Reanimating the dead, for instance.]]

** I inverted that. I felt really relaxed in lower Aperture. This is because unlike the modern chambers where the main AI could kill you right then. Ou also have Cave Johnson's funny quotes, and even when GLaDOS gets attached to your portal gun, she is just a powerless potato.

* [[spoiler: The four turrets you meet right after [=GLaDOS=] sends you off can give you a jump if you aren't expecting them.]]
** [[spoiler: and after they begin playing music, the elevator rises, and you can see multiple floors flash by containing dark, shadowy rooms with various odd types of turrets, which isn't so bad at first. But then there are two floors which also contain strangely misshapen masses - one of which looks almost fleshy]]

* [[spoiler: Wheatley's takeover and subsequent betrayal. Imagine having a friend end up getting taken over by power like that. The music, [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome awesome as it is]], really sets the tone for the scene and sets the nightmare factor a bit higher. Even worse is when he flips out about being called a moron, the first time you actually see him angry, and tosses [[FanNickname PotatOS]] in the escape lift with you. And then Wheatley punches your escape lift to the condemned laboratories miles underneath Aperture. You'll be wishing that you hadn't plugged him in. Pleasant dreams...]]
** [[spoiler: Watching him slowly get driven mad with power is bad enough, but when he suddenly comes to the conclusion that you've been working against him and sabotaging him, and suddenly all the walls in the room shift to reveal hundreds of glowing red eyes, all glaring at you in insane rage...]]

* Wheatley's fate at the end of the game, [[spoiler: being stranded in space forever and ever]] to be very unsettling. Worse, he seems to show genuine remorse for he's put the player through. Since he can't die, he has nothing to think about but his transgressions [[AndIMustScream until the end of time]].

** It's a coded message [[spoiler:that explains the rules of an ARG that involves potatoes.]] Portal is just that weird.

* It's made all the worse because we've heard [[spoiler:him]] use that line before. When you reach the [[spoiler:neurotoxin generator with him, Wheatley cheerfully says [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65p6UBbBPQs&t=0m30s "let the games begin!"]] before attempting to "hack" the computer by pretending to be a neurotoxin inspector. The effect is light-hearted, silly and endearing, as Wheatley can often be. However, the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_NhIdCL_XA&t=0m20s second time]] we hear the line, he's ''doing absolutely everything he can to murder you''. It's no longer a throwaway joke, it's a challenge, and it's issued in a deeper and more ominous tone of voice than you'd believe silly little Wheatley was capable of. There's such a huge, huge difference in the two ways the line is said that it barely sounds like the same character -- and then it hits you in a single spine-chillingly ironic moment. The "silly little Wheatley" who once came to your rescue really has disappeared once and for all beyond the point of no return, transformed into something ten times as dangerous as GLaDOS ever was by his own stupidity and insecurities. No matter what your opinion of him is now, your friend is gone for good. All you can do is try and destroy the only AI who was ever on your side, however briefly, before he destroys you. '''''Let the games begin.''''']]
** It gets even worse [[FridgeHorror when you realize]] that this happened to him ''[[BrainwashedAndCrazy against his will]]'' - [[spoiler: [[AxeCrazy Axe Craziness]], paranoia, and an addiction to testing are programmed into GLaDOS' body.]]

* Wheatley screaming "GRAB ME! GRAB ME!" before he is sucked up into space and Chell is rescued by GLaDOs.
** It comes back to haunt you when you remember that none of it's his fault. Apparently Aperture Mainframes causes all AIs to become psychopathicly dependent on testing.

** Which would be...who? [[spoiler:Recovering addicts? Sexual abuse victims?]]
*** [[spoiler: I was thinking of the latter.]]

* The preview videos for ''Portal 2'' look funny and cool, especially repulsion gel and propulsion gel. Wowee, can't wait to try those out! What does that tiny tiny text on the screen say? These were originally developed as [[LethalChef diet pudding]] foodstuffs. And they didn't work because they stuck to the stomach lining, causing food to ''oh my god stop stop imagination NO''

* The ending theme, "Still Alive", manages to be both cutesy and very disturbing. [[VGCats Someone]] made [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/413839 a video]]. [[http://www.lyricspy.com/j/Jonathan_Coulton/lyrics/Still_Alive/ Lyrics here.]] "We do what we mut - because we can. For the good of all of us. Except the ones who are dead..." Yeah...

* One of the first things GLaDOS tells you upon being woken up is that she has a feature she never knew about until you killed her: A black box. For however long you've been away- a conservative estimate is 200 years- she has been forced to relive the last two minutes of her runtime, over and over again. That is, you killing her. Over and over again. You were the last thing she saw as she was violently ripped apart, and you were the first thing she saw after the endlessly repeating fifteen minute experience of it ended. How much does GLaDOS hate you? [[IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream A phrase involving the words "nano-angstrom" and "hate" come to mind]].

* The fate of [[spoiler: Wheatley]] is pretty damn horrifying when you get to thinking about it. [[spoiler: You awaken this person, work with her through a variety of life-threatening situations, [[FireForgedFriends and you two become each others' only friend]]...then, after it seems you've succeeded in escaping, the system you're plugged into]] ''[[spoiler: [[BrainwashedAndCrazy corrupts your mind]]]]'' [[spoiler: with paranoia, [[AxCrazy Ax Craziness]], and an addiction to testing, [[FaceHeelTurn and you immediately begin trying to kill her]]. Then, when she finally gets you out of the system and you can think clearly, you're [[TheAtoner genuinely sorry]]...but you get shot into space, [[FateWorseThanDeath to spend the rest of your existence with only Space Core and your own regrets for company.]]]]

** It gets even worse [[FridgeHoror when you realize]] that this happened to him ''[[BrainwashedAndCrazy against his will]]'' - [[spoiler: [[AxeCrazy Axe Craziness]], paranoia, and an addiction to testing are programmed into GLaDOS' body.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' isn't that much of a creepy game. It almost completely takes place in a series of brightly lit rooms, which are all white and very clean. There are even opaque windows to observation rooms, but you soon realize that the entire facility seems to be completely deserted, except for you and a slightly malfunctioning AI. Of course, [[ItGotWorse things get worse]]. Later on, you can climb into the machinery behind the movable walls, which I found even much more discomforting.

* One of the songs on the new ''Portal 2'' soundtrack, ''Ghost of Rattmann,'' is very scary. If [[CreepyMonotone the]] [[HellIsThatNoise music]] [[NothingIsScarier itself]] doesn't make you shit your pants, the indiscernible gibberish [[ItGotWorse (which gets louder as the song progresses)]] will. It sounds like a combination of a turret and a mentally retarded Donald Duck. Or maybe just the latter.

* [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Early in the game's development]], Wheatley (back when he was called Pendleton) would tell Chell that "...a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-Man_%28Half-Life%29 man with a brief-case]] was just here to see you!" This raises a lot of questions about what's been going on in Aperture.

** [[spoiler: ItGetsWorse: she didn't. DummiedOut sound files show her pleading with Cave not to be put into [=GLaDOS=].]]

***** This is made EVEN worse when one realizes that not only are the Cave Johnson lines not there, but that the reason for this is that J.K. Simmons, who once played a Neo-Nazi rapist, REFUSED to record the lines for that scene, saying they were too disturbing. Just food for thought.

** It's [[Narm]] for me. I use it when I try to find out how a game crashed.

** I SO second this! Can you imagine? You've met someone, a helper, a ''friend'', in this gosh-forsaken place. You get to know each other and help each other out. Even though your friend is kind of a moron, he's still lovable and makes you laugh. Even when it appears he's died, he manages to survive that thanks to a bird and you disable the turrets and neurotoxin that could very well ''kill'' you! You got to confront GLaDOS and it ends up with your friend and her "switching" bodies in a sense. But then, just as your friend calls the esacpe lift so the two of you can get out of here, [[spoiler: he suddenly goes mad with power, turns GLaDOS into a potato, and, when she enrages him, pounds both you and PotatOS into the deep, dark, abandoned depths of Aperture. When you finally get out, you find out that the entire place has gone to heck! Your friend has renamed the facility after himself and has combined turrets and cubes together into this... ''monstrosity'' that is just '''begging''' for death... When you finally confront him after several of his failed attempts to kill you, he practially snarls at you to hold still so he can kill you! And if you wait long enough he begins ranting, hysterically claiming that you've been selfish, doing nothing but using him, not catching him when he disconnected from his management rail and claims that you and GLaDOS are best friends and that you two plan on running off together.]] What makes it even worse, though? [[spoiler: His untimely fate: Getting trapped in space forever and ever and '''ever'''!]] This also doubles as a TearJerker since you've lost your only friend in that entire facility to power... If there's a lesson to be learned from this entire situation, it's to be '''''very''''' careful with power!

* Almost all of Chapter 6, but especially the first part (before you make your way into the sealed chambers, and thus have Cave Johnson's deranged ramblings to keep you company). You're miles below the surface, absolutely no idea where to go, and most of all: [=GLaDOS=] gets carried off, and for once you go without her constant attempts to "assist" and "encourage" you. ''[[ThisIsSPARTA You. Are.]]'' '''[[ThisIsSPARTA ALONE]]'''. in the [[EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace crazy place]], more so than you ever have been.