History NightmareFuel / Skullgirls

** Her backstory: A [[ChildSoldier Child Slave]] turned into a highly disturbed killing machine who kills with old timey cartoon antics. One of her victory poses has her taking a [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour puff off her cigar]] and exhales the smoke ''from the corner of her eye''. And speaking of those eyes, those dots on her face ''were'' her eyes, and she actually sees with [[EyesDoNotBelongThere the eyes on her arms]].

** Her Story Mode ending shows [[spoiler: her enjoying a delicious meal. What's on the menu, you ask? [[ImAHumanitarian You don't really need to know]].]] And [[spoiler: Ms. Fortune is among the characters getting eaten. Note that Ms. Fortune has the Life Gem, which allows her to regenerate instantly.]] Which would either mean that [[spoiler: [[AndIMustScream Ms. Fortune is constantly regenerating while being digested]],]] or that [[spoiler: If Double wasn't immortal already, it is now.]]

:: This leaves the entire operating curtains splattered with her victim's blood. Just what the hell did Valentine do to her victim to spill that much blood in a blink of an eye?!

-->-- '''Parasoul''', referring to [[EldritchAbomination Double]].

* From some of the potential characters from fan-vote

** The true horror of the Skull Heart is that anyone wants it at all. People know about this, it's a famous artifact that creates unstoppable killing machines. The song "In A Moment's Time" is sung from it's perspective about how you're nothing but a pawn. People know that if you wish on it, you turn into a Skullgirl. But people chase after it ''anyway'' because all they want is a wish... Despite knowing that wish is utterly pointless and they'll be a mindless monster in just a few months.

[[caption-width-right:350:[-"Gee, those are some nice thumbs you've g--''*[[EyeScream SPLURTCH]]*''"-] ]]

*** Even worse is how this ends up happening. After fighting [[spoiler: a duplicate of himself]] Beowulf decides to confront his manager, Zane. After a short rant Zane [[spoiler: shows his true colors. And by that we mean that his face ''splits open'' revealing Double's face. Any NightmareRetardant that comes from Zane removing his shades to reveal that Double is wearing shades too is negated entirely by the fact that Double [[PersonalSpaceInvader wraps around Beowulf like a tongue]] while the rest of her body shapeshifts into a crocodile like form and ''[[EatenAlive eats him whole!]]'']]

* Robo-Fortune, of all people, displays a surprising amount of this in her ending: [[spoiler: under Brain Drain's command, she successfully retrieves the Skull Heart for his own agenda. What is it, you ask? He intends to create an army of giant Robo-Fortunes in order to take over the Canopy Kingdom. It eventually gets so bad that survivors from both the Black Egrets and Lab 8 are forced to team up under the combined leadership of Annie, Stanley and Adam to delay the oncoming force for as long as possible.]] Beware the Silly Ones, indeed.

* Robo-Fortune, of all people, displays a surprising amount of this in her ending: [[spoiler: under Brain Drain's command, she successfully retrieves the Skull Heart for his own agenda. What is it, you ask? He intends to create an army of giant Robo-Fortunes in order to take over the Canopy Kingdom. It eventually gets so bad that survivors from both the Black Egrets and Lab 8 are forced to team up under the combined leadership of Annie, Stanley and Adam to delay the oncoming force for as long as possible.]] BewaretheSillyOnes, indeed.

* Robo-Fortune, of all people, displays a surprising amount of this in her ending: [[spoiler: under Brain Drain's command, she successfully retrieves the Skull Heart for his own agenda. What is it, you ask? He intends to create an army of giant Robo-Fortunes in order to take over the Canopy Kingdom. It eventually gets so bad that survivors from both the Black Egrets and Lab 8 are forced to team up under the combined leadership of Annie, Stanley and Adam to delay the oncoming force for as long as possible.]] [[Beware the Silly Ones]], indeed.

* Peacock. A [[ChildSoldier Child Slave]] turned into a highly disturbed killing machine who kills with old timey cartoon antics. One of her victory poses has her taking a [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour puff off her cigar]] and exhales the smoke ''from the corner of her eye''. And speaking of those eyes, those dots on her face ''were'' her eyes, and she actually sees with [[EyesDoNotBelongThere the eyes on her arms]].
** And speaking of eyes, in her Story Mode there's a sequence in which the player is treated, from Peacock's point of view, to a flashback in which one of the slave traders reaches his thumbs towards her eyes. [[{{EyeScream}} It ends with the screen going red and a sickening squelch.]]
** Though she seems to be content with her new lot in life, unlike Painwheel. Though [[DissonantSerenity that might just make her]] [[StepfordSmiler scarier]].
*** That seems to be explained by the reality-warping modifications on her body. She loved cartoons so much, ''she became one''.

* Ms. Fortune. Her attacks are extremely graphic compared to the rest of the cast's, with blood and muscle fibers exposed whenever she [[DetachmentCombat detaches her limbs]], and her backstory has her being dismembered by the Mob shortly after attempting to steal and subsequently eating their treasured Life Gem. It's unknown if she happened to feel any sort of pain during that ordeal and she retains the scars from her dismemberment.

* Painwheel. Like Peacock, she was kidnapped in order to be turned into the killing machine she is today. She's in perpetual torment, so she's mentally controlled by Brain Drain, a girl trapped in her own body. She's like a nightmare that you can never wake up from.
** And her fighting style makes it so she's constantly contorting her body into positions that would be excruciatingly painful in real life. For example, at least one move involves [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2fwucZMtj1qgv33r.jpg pulling her leg up to the point it seems to snap and sprouting a huge spike through the back of her leg.]]
* Valentine's Level 3 Blockbuster. She stuffs her opponent into a body bag and [[SpinningPiledriver Izuna Drops]] her onto an operating table. The screen goes into a cinematic sequence with the victim looking up at her through dim operating lights. And then...

** There's also the fact that she leaves the entire operating curtains splattered with her victim's blood. Just what the hell did Valentine do to her victim to spill that much blood in a blink of an eye?!
** She also has one particular Story Mode portrait that's a bit creepy. The one where she clenches her mask between her teeth in a SlasherSmile.

** Her Story Mode ending shows [[spoiler: her enjoying a delicious meal. What's on the menu, you ask? [[ImAHumanitarian You don't really need to know]].]]
*** A bit of FridgeHorror: During Double's ending it shows [[spoiler: that Ms. Fortune is among the characters getting eaten. Note that Ms. Fortune has the Life Gem, which allows her to regenerate instantly. Which would mean that [[AndIMustScream Ms. Fortune is constantly regenerating while being digested]].]]
*** Here's some [[IncrediblyLamePun Double]] FridgeHorror on that - [[spoiler: Ms. Fortune gained immortality by swallowing the Life Gem - so if [[EldritchAbomination Double]] wasn't immortal already, it is now.]] [[DeadpanSnarker Fan]]-[[PrecisionFStrike FUCKIING]]-[[ThisIsGonnaSuck tastic!]]
*** Considering Annie's implied to be pretty old and Alex Ahad said she's crossed paths with Double multiple times (likely while on her way to kill the various Skullgirls that have popped up through the ages) it's pretty likely she WAS immortal. And if she was, how many rejected Skullheart candidates has she consumed over the years...?

** Her new voice quotes versus Beowulf and Eliza. Her voice mixed with Tranquil Fury? *shudder*
* The story glosses it over, but Filia essentially ''[[BodyHorror has a second face growing out of the back of her head.]]'' Not only that, but Samson's sentient and implied to be manipulating Filia for his own purposes.
** If you think it's bad in the current storyline, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the original was a HELL of a lot worse!]] Not only is Samson explicitly depicted as a ManipulativeBastard, but [[spoiler: it's shown he deliberately mind-wiped Filia in the first place, [[MoreThanMindControl used the state to manipulate]] Filia into a more overtly sinister goal, and ''[[ImAHumanitarian he devoured]]'' ''[[YouKilledMyFather her parents]]'' in the process!]] What's worse is that this is coming dangerously close to returning to canon, if the Samson DLC has anything to say about it!
*** If Fukua is taken into account, ending and all, it would appear as if [[SealedEvilInACan Samson is holding back someone WORSE than himself.]]
* Squigly's story mode starts with [[spoiler: Black Dahlia and some goons in costumes attacking her family. Then there's a GoryDiscretionShot where [[NothingIsScarier the only things heard]] are gunshots, breaing glass, and ''screams''. Next, Black Dahlia is shown holding a gun to a crying Squigly's head. The picture zooms out and '''*[[GoryDiscretionShot BANG]]*'''.]]
** To double that horror, it's implied that when Squigly first got Leviathan [[spoiler: she had to help put down her skullgirl mother. On her mother's birthday. Yeesh.]]

** [[spoiler: Eliza's story mode ends with her having killed about half the main cast (Cerebella's death is especially brutal). Squigly is now entombed in her house, Miss Fortune is her slave, and Filia is trapped in some sort of blood mummification until Eliza finds a more obedient host for Samson. Not to mention the scene where she turns herself into a blood creature of Godzilla proportions. Coupled with her hunger for conquest, the world is pretty much ''screwed''.]]

* [[WombLevel Gehenna]]. Everything about Gehenna; the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoGOl56qcw4 sparse soundtrack]], the vast lake of blood in the background, the twitching eyes, the pulsating organs...
** If one looks closely at the eyes of the stage while moving about in the game they can notice the eyes following the fighters wherever they move on the stage. Not to mention the insane sounding, unintelligible gibberish and screaming in some parts of the soundtrack.
* In Beowulf's story mode, a good chunk of the cast (including the Wulf himself) are [[spoiler: consumed by Double]]. This leads to a fight [[spoiler: inside her stomach,]] which is represented [[RuleOfScary (of course)]] by [[WombLevel Gehenna.]] Additionally, there are [[spoiler: long strings of intestines all over the place]] that [[TentacleRope ensnare the characters,]] some of which [[BodyHorror have]] [[LampreyMouth mouths. ]]

** The first time you see her in a character's story: Creepy ambient music play over shots of the catacombs until we see a close-up of Marie's face, a single red eye staring at you.

** Filia, naturally disturbed by this, gets out of bed and calms herself in the bathroom. [[spoiler: She looks in the mirror, and it flashes to Fukua [[https://24.media.tumblr.com/8bb6a9d331a1f7c438083e703995e78f/tumblr_n5jbcsNI9t1sobb1do8_500.jpg smiling like a killer right back at her]], shattering the mirror in the process. [[OrWasItADream Seems we haven't seen the last of Fukua]].]]

** In all the original character's trailers, the shot with their name and image art at the start where they say one of their own lines has a number of phrases related to the character written in the background. Peacock's include '-ED WITH BLO-', '-N, SPOILED AND EXTREME-', 'CARTOON CRONIES' and, highly visibly, 'PEACOCK IS DAMAGED'.

** If you look closely at Samson in the "mask", you'll [[EvenEvilHaveStandards notice that he's]] ''[[TearJerker crying]]''...

** If you look closely at Samson in the "mask", you'll notice that he's ''[[TearJerker crying]]''...

** If one looks closely at the eyes of the stage while moving about in the game they can notice the eyes following the fighters wherever they move on the stage