History NightmareFuel / PuellaMagimadokaMagica

* Madoka is drawn into Elly's barrier... by being torn apart and drawn into the barrier, ''piece by piece'' through several monitors, before being reconstituted within. If that wasn't enough, Elly preys on Madoka's grief by replaying Mami's death over and over, to convince her to give up as she's stretched and nearly torn apart for good. Lovely little BodyHorror there, all pictured in this folder. For a change, all of these horrors are strangely absent from the manga.

* Gertrud's entire [[EldritchAbomination appearance]] is disgusting and horrifying, as pictured.

Considering [[Creator/GenUrobuchi the]] [[Creator/StudioShaft pedigrees]] behind ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', some creep factors are to be expected. However, the sheer level of NightmareFuel to be found in the series has been rather terrifying. Do NOT be fooled by Creator/UmeAoki's sweet [[PuniPlush character]] [[ArtStyleDissonance designs]]; this show is "''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY with]] {{Magical Girl}}s; a TearJerker with tears made of pure NightmareFuel." [[RunningGag Yeah, it's that kind of show.]]

* Sayaka's bad end. She has been deprived of her Soul Gem for so long that by the time her friends retrieve it, her body had already started to decompose. She hurries to go see Kyosuke. It does not end well. [[https://images.puella-magi.net/1/1d/Sayaka_rotten_body_PSP_game_shadow.jpg?20120320081828 Her decomposed body is]] [[GoryDiscretionShot not completely shown]], but [[NothingIsScarier that just leaves how nightmarish it is to the imagination]].

* The [[EldritchAbomination Witches]] and their Familiars, of course. It would be easy to just say "all of them", but since this is the NF page, we might as well describe in detail how they're scary, just like we described how the characters are Woobies in TheWoobie page. The fact that many of them are animated in [[MediumBlending cut-and-paste]] animation courtesy of Gekidan Inu Curry (the graphic studio that animated ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'''s [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs trippier]] [[DerangedAnimation sequences]]) have helped earn this anime a seat in Japan's NightmareFuel Hall of Fame.

** Think about every witch that has appeared until now. Gertrud, Charlotte, Kirsten, Elsa Maria and every other. Every single one of them was like Sayaka: a girl with hopes and dreams who made a wish and became a magical girl, only to succumb to inescapable despair, transform into an EldritchAbomination and be put out of her misery by other magical girls. Magical girls who either never knew her and only saw her as a monster to be killed, or magical girls who ''did'' know her and may have been her allies and friends.

** Think about every witch that has appeared until now. Gertrud, Charlotte, Kirsten, Elsa Maria and every other. Every single one of them was once a girl with hopes and dreams, just like Sayaka, who made a wish and became a magical girl. And she inevitably succumbed to inescapable despair, transformed into an EldritchAbomination, and had to be put out of her misery by other magical girls who only saw her as a monster to be killed, or who may have been her allies and friends.

* Madoka, now Kriemhild Gretchen, is '''not''' simply a witch; and Walpurgisnacht (easily the most powerful witch in the Madoka universe up to this point) is merely a ''blip'' compared to her. She's become something that [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Yui Ikari]] would envy and that [[Manga/HellStarRemina Remina]] would fear. To make things even ''worse'', take a look at her [[http://images.puella-magi.net/c/c5/Card_Kriemhild.png?20110324100002 witch's card]]. That thing? That giant, mountainous thing? That's the witch of [[LetThemDieHappy SALVATION]].

** Albertine (seen only in the video game) resembles a CreepyDoll. Her familiar Anja is a living childish scribble (also animated in a flighty style, with a creepy laugh provided by none other than Madoka's seiyuu Creator/AoiYuuki), who turns her human victims into ''[[BalefulPolymorph balls]]'' that bounce for each lie they've ever told.

* With Sayaka's fate sealed, the ugly truth about magical girls is finally exposed: they are the "larval stage" of witches and destined to become them when they fall into despair. Every witch the girls have encountered up to now? Once a former magical girl, just like them. [[EvilAllAlong And this is what Kyubey wanted to happen from the very beginning.]] Sayaka making her wish to heal Kyosuke's hand, realizing the truth about her Soul Gem and that she'd rejected her humanity, falling into despair, becoming a witch and having to be killed by her friends? '''He planned every step of it, and nobody realized until it was too late.'''

* While most remember the nightmare fuel from Episode 3 onwards, the Nightmare Fuel was there as early as Episode ''1,'' with the Anthonies: Freaky, mustachioed little shits who look like {{Creepypasta}} someone would claim to witness while watching ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. Now look at them in action -- the animation for them is [[UncannyValley deliberately jittery]], and their babble translates to ''planning to cut Sayaka and Madoka up and present them to Gertrud.'' Then their cheerful chanting gives way to them making horribly deformed faces and attacking the main characters with scissors. Brr.

** When the storm clouds burst from Madoka's Soul Gem and [[http://images.puella-magi.net/9/97/Madoka-witch-first.jpg?20110310174437 form into]] a [[UncannyValley lumpy, amorphous]] shape just ''barely'' resembling her.

* The [[EldritchAbomination Witches]] and their Familiars, of course. It would be easy to just say "all of them", but since this is the NF page, we might as well describe in detail how they're scary, just like we described how the characters are Woobies in TheWoobie page. The fact that many of them are animated in UncannyValley-riffic [[MediumBlending cut-and-paste]] animation courtesy of Gekidan Inu Curry (the graphic studio that animated ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'''s [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs trippier]] [[DerangedAnimation sequences]]) have helped earn this anime a seat in Japan's NightmareFuel Hall of Fame.

** Albertine (seen only in the video game) resembles a CreepyDoll. Her familiar Anja is a living childish scribble (also animated in a flighty UncannyValley style, with a creepy laugh provided by none other than Madoka's seiyuu Creator/AoiYuuki), who turns her human victims into ''[[BalefulPolymorph balls]]'' that bounce for each lie they've ever told.

* Madoka is drawn into Elly's barrier... by being torn apart and drawn into the barrier, ''piece by piece'' through several monitors, before being reconstituted within. If that wasn't enough, Elly preys on Madoka's grief by replaying Mami's death over and over, to convince her to give up as she's stretched and nearly torn apart for good. Lovely little [[BodyHorror]] there, all pictured in this folder. For a change, all of these horrors are strangely absent from the manga.

* Madoka is drawn into Elly's barrier... by being torn apart and drawn into the barrier, ''piece by piece'' through several monitors, before being reconstituted within. If that wasn't enough, Elly preys on Madoka's grief by replaying Mami's death over and over, to convince her to give up as she's stretched and nearly torn apart for good. Lovely little [[BodyHorror BodyHorror]] there, all pictured in this folder. For a change, all of these horrors are strangely absent from the manga.

* There's an event that happens if Charlotte eats Sayaka's Soul Gem and Madoka and Homura, being inexperienced, can't find Charlotte's barrier. We learned in Episode 6 that Soul Gems are [[SoulJar Soul Jars]], and the body is useless without it. Add that to the fact that Magical Girls die when they lose contact with their Soul Gems for 2 days, and that's pretty creepy on it's own. They had to make it ''[[UpToEleven even creepier]]'' by adding that when a Magical Girl loses contact with her soul gem, she starts to '''decompose'''. Luckily, Kyoko kills Charlotte before Sayaka dies. Happy ending, right? '''Wrong'''. Sayaka's body had already started decomposing before her Soul Gem came back. So she wakes up, unaware of what she looks like, and just happens to meet Kyousuke. Who '''FREAKS. OUT.''' [[DespairEventHorizon You can guess what happens next.]]

Considering [[Creator/GenUrobuchi the]] [[Creator/StudioShaft pedigrees]] behind ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', some creep factors are to be expected. However, the sheer level of NightmareFuel to be found in the series has been rather terrifying. Do NOT be fooled by Creator/UmeAoki's TastesLikeDiabetes [[PuniPlush character]] [[ArtStyleDissonance designs]]; this show is "''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY with]] {{Magical Girl}}s; a TearJerker with tears made of pure NightmareFuel." [[RunningGag Yeah, it's that kind of show.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350: No one could have kept their head screwed on after that moment.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[DontExplainTheJoke The tension has never been so real for the protagonist.]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:MindRape incarnate.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350: No one could have kept their head screwed on after that moment]]