History NightmareFuel / PokemonMysteryDungeon

** It's implied Team [[spoiler:Skull]] was killed by the ceiling Kabutops, depending on how you interpret the scene. Either way, they never reappear.

** Think of it, it doesn't get any better when it's the enemy Pokémon who are itemized, either. While they ''are'' wild aggressive Pokémon, they're still conscious creatures like the others and, by turning them into items, one is basically [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential sentencing them to becoming an inanimate object incapable of thought for one's own benefit]].
** Sometimes the item that is made can be an apple or other food item. [[FridgeHorror Now what do Pokémon do with food again?]]. Add this with the above, and this item is plain morbid.

[[AC:Red/Blue Rescue Team]]

[[AC:General]]

[[AC:Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky]]

[[AC:Gates to Infinity]]

[[AC: Super Mystery Dungeon]]

[[AC:Fanmade/Other]]

*** Then there's PokemonSuperMysteryDungeon, where there are "Clubhouse Missions." These are missions where you must find a certain room in a certain floor to meet and connect with it and its friends. However, some Pokemon [[{{Understatement}} aren't the nicest.]] Some lure you into a room full of treasures... [[DeathTrap only to reveal you walked right into a Monster House.]] The only way to get out of the trap is to find the stairs...which [[FromBadToWorse may be in the Monster House as well]].

*** Then there's PokemonSuperMysteryDungeon, where there are "Clubhouse Missions." These are missions where you must find a certain room in a certain floor to meet and connect with it and its friends. However, some Pokemon [[{{Understatement}} aren't the nicest.]] Some lure you into a room full of treasures... [[DeathTrap only to have a ton of enemy Pokemon fall from the ceiling and attack you.]] The only way to get out of the trap is to find the stairs. Guess where those are? In the trap.

* If you use an Itemizer Orb on an enemy that has used Mirror Move, [[AndIMustScream you're the one who gets turned into an item]] (as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CbAGvTgO2Q here]]). Sometimes food. This defeats you instantly with no chance of revival. Wonder how the team figures out how to resolve that one. [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything There's a specific game over message for it, too.]]

*** Then there's PokemonSuperMysteryDungeon, where there are "Clubhouse Missions." These are missions where you must find a certain room in a certain floor to meet and connect with it and its friends. However, some Pokemon [[Understatement aren't the nicest.]] Some lure you into a room full of treasures... [[DeathTrap only to have a ton of enemy Pokemon fall from the ceiling and attack you.]] The only way to get out of the trap is to find the stairs. Guess where those are? In the trap.

* So you're walking around a dungeon, and what's this? A Kecleon shop! Hey, wouldn't it be so funny to steal some stuff from the sucker? You're level 100 and already saved the world, so they wouldn't attack you, knowing that it's just a player having a little fun, right? WRONG! More and more of them come up to ''swarm'' you in ridiculous numbers. They ''will'' catch up to you, and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown gang up on you so they can slaughter you]]! A seemingly innocent Pokemon becomes a shopkeeper so determined that he will [[NeverSayDie defeat]] anyone who steals from him in a violent manner! [[FridgeHorror And where did all the other Kecleon come from?]]

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pemN5Sq10Q This fan-made video]] (an homage of Higurashi Matsuri's opening) seems to hit most of the creepiness of the Time/Darkness story. (Spoilers ahoy.)

''[[AC:General]]''

''[[AC:Red/Blue Rescue Team]]''

''[[AC:Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky]]''

''[[AC:Gates to Infinity]]''

''[[AC: Super Mystery Dungeon]]''

''[[AC:Fanmade/Other]]''

* If you use an Itemizer Orb on an enemy that has used Mirror Move, you're the one who gets turned into an item. Sometimes food. This defeats you instantly with no chance of revival. Wonder how the team figures out how to resolve that one. [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything There's a specific game over message for it, too.]]

* Directly after you defeat Groudon, [[Spoiler: Xatu contacts everyone via telepathy and informs them that a star is crashing towards their world, and that it has the possibility of destroying EVERYTHING. It doesn't help that a picture of the star is shown, and that it looks like a giant fireball that nearly fills the whole screen... Imagine [[ColonyDrop what could have happened]] if you didn't convince Rayquaza to save everyone!]]

* Directly after you defeat Groudon, [[spoiler: Xatu contacts everyone via telepathy and informs them that a star is crashing towards their world, and that it has the possibility of destroying EVERYTHING. It doesn't help that a picture of the star is shown, and that it looks like a giant fireball that nearly fills the whole screen... Imagine [[ColonyDrop what could have happened]] if you didn't convince Rayquaza to save everyone!]]

** Actually if you pay attention to the dialogue, it's heavily implied you were killed by the explosion of the meteor and that Gengar saves you. Still, the music and Gengar's lines about dragging you to 'the dark world' doesn't help.

* If you use an Itemizer Orb on an enemy that has used Mirror Move, you're the one who gets turned into an item. Sometimes food. This defeats you instantly with no chance of revival. Wonder how the team figures out how to resolve that one. [[TheDevsThinkOfEverything There's a specific game over message for it, too.]]

* You can't outrun Ghost-types because they can ''walk through walls'' and sometimes you may get in the way of one so that it can't get out of the wall for you to attack it, but it can ''still'' attack you. The same can be said for Fire- and Water-types for when they walk through lava and water, respectively.

* Some of the Friend Areas show clear signs of former human occupation; in particular, the Power Plant and Weird Laboratory even mention specifically that they were constructed in ancient times by humans, and then abandoned. In addition, the Pokémon of this world know what humans are but have never met one, as though they were a legend or relic out of the past. Implications are up to the players' own imagination.

* Joy Tower and similar places: You're without items, without your money, without your movesets... practically de-aged and sent into hell with no way out. And you have to endure 100 floors of this. 100 floors. That's torment.

* The events before and after the Mystical Forest show [[HeroKiller what kind of force the heroes are up against]], in case Rayquaza running away in fear wasn't enough. It starts out as [[DaylightHorror a beautiful day]] in which the team get to travel to a new land. Then they overhear a chat about the petrification epidemic that gets interrupted by two objects crashing down from the sky from out of nowhere. They manage to get into the impact site only to find that those objects are Latios and Latias turned into stone after they were caught by an unknown pursuer. Keep in mind, the twin dragons have SuperSpeed that rivals jet planes; if they couldn't escape... [[PsychoStrings The music]] doesn't help either.

* In short, almost the entire story of Time/Darkness/Sky.

* The fact that by the FinalBattle, [[spoiler:''everyone'' except you, your Partner, and Dark Matter are [[TakenForGranite technically]] ''dead''.]]

* The [[spoiler: [[KilledOffForReal death]] of Hydreigon]]. Even though [[spoiler: he comes back at the very end]].
** This deserves elaborating on: you've just been through several dungeons, you're mere moments away from safety, and then [[spoiler: Hydreigon]] says everything is starting to get colder. He dismisses it as nothing, and you keep moving only for [[spoiler: Kyurem to appear right in front of you, blast Hydreigon with ice and ''[[LiterallyShatteredLives shatter him right in front of you.]]'']] The fact that it's ''so'' sudden and unexpected makes it all the more terrifying. Furthermore [[spoiler: Hydreigon is killed ''instantly'', without even having a chance to react or even ''speak''. That kind of horrifyingly realistic death is very rarely seen even in the most mature of games, let alone ''Pokemon'' of all things]]. Then it gets even worse: [[spoiler: without even batting an eyelid, Kyurem proceeds to deliver a ''brutal'' NoHoldsBarredBeatdown ''to the protagonist'' by [[KickTheDog stomping on him]] [[MoralEventHorizon repeatedly.]] And the partner [[ForcedToWatch can only watch]], powerless to stop it, while this goes on for a while. ''Yeesh''.]]

* The fact that this game is even ''darker'' than Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky is this in itself. Yes, this includes the NightmareFuel shown in the above section.

* Doubles as a TearJerker, but realizing that someone who you consider a parental figure was brainwashed to decieve you from the beginning. The horror of realizing that any sort of love they have given you was a lie.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pemN5Sq10Q&feature=watch_response_rev This fan-made video]] (an homage of Higurashi Matsuri's opening) seems to hit most of the creepiness of the Time/Darkness story. (Spoilers ahoy.)

* The fact that EVERY SINGLE BOSS has the desire to murder you, and none seem to have any problem with it. Even [[spoiler: Team Skull at the '''very beginning'' of the game because your partner has a weird rock. Not to mention the Trio of Protectors (Mesprit, Uxie, Azelf) will basically do anything to protect the time gears, Uxie summoning a Mirage Groudon, while Mesprit prefers up and fighting you head-on, and the clan of Electric Pokémon in the Amp Plains just want to kill you for stepping on their land. Even after you defeat them all, they ''still'' want to slaughter you and your partner! And they would've, too, if Dusknoir hadn't stepped in.]]

* During a particular dream sequence, you do not get the particularly peaceful setting you get as you converse with Gardevoir. Instead you get an ominous purple setting, with the Player Character looking particularly uncomfortable, even saying that it hurts. It turns out to be Gengar's Dream Eater. Gardevoir manages to get rid of the pain, but imagine this: You're asleep comfortably expecting a pleasant dream from your Spirit Advisor. Instead you get pain and fear from an unknown nightmare, caused by your arch enemy without your knowing, and you have no idea what's going on or how it is happening. This troper always found that scary.