History NightmareFuel / Smallville

* "Metamorphosis": We see [[VillainOfTheWeek Greg]] [[BodyHorror peel his skin off during a hot shower, with pieces of skin falling down like they were meat]] (ham cold cuts, according to WordOfGod). And that's not the only thing wrong with him. [[SelfMadeOrphan He kills his mother]] in a [[{{Squick}} horrible manner]].

* '''Bizarro'''. Unlike in the comics or in the Franchise/{{DCAU}}, where Bizarro is usually only confused and stupid rather than actually evil (he actually pulled a HeroicSacrifice in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''), in ''Smallville'', he could give ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} a run for his money, if not worse because this Bizarro radiates malicious joy of destruction and is dangerously intelligent. He first gorily assaulted ComicBook/MartianManhunter last season as mentioned before, and repeats his signature style on humans. When in his child host, he is the EnfantTerrible of the highest degree. You really want to skip the part when the child wakes up. There is no GoryDiscretionShot to protect your sanity. Keep the BrainBleach handy.

--->'''Chloe:''' Lana, hey, I've been looking for you.
--->(*Lana grabs her head and smashes it against the wall, then throws her down the stairs*)
--->'''Chloe:''' (*Struggles to her feet*) Lana, what are you doing!?
--->'''Lana:''' [[DissonantSerenity Killing Chloe Sullivan]].
* "Obsession": Seriously, Clark (and Lana and Chloe by extension) should learn by now that all their love interests other than each other ([[UnfortunateImplications no]], not including [[GirlOnGirlIsHot that]]) turn out to be psychos. Alicia goes after Lana with a [[PsychoKnifeNut knife]], using her [[VillainTeleportation teleportation powers]] in a manner eerily similar to Emily in season 2, "Accelerate".

* "Scare": ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, up to eleven. Lana comes to Clark in the loft, says that dating Jason is a mistake, they make out, Jason shows up and somehow manages to beat Clark up. Lana then stabs him with a pair of scissors. Chloe was sneaking around in a Luthor Corp plant when the lights went out. She finds a sitting figure, with its back to her and speaks in her mother's voice, saying that she could not escape. It then turns around...to show some horrible zombie-thingy. Chloe starts a bloodcurdling scream, and is then trapped in a straitjacket before fainting in Clark's arms. It is a LOT scarier than it sounds. Lana apparently [[WakingUpAtTheMorgue wakes up at the morgue]]. The covers on the bodies are pulled to show the corpses of her parents, Chloe and Jason. The last table contains another nightmarish zombie-like creature saying that everyone will leave her, and she also starts screaming. It is AllJustADream, caused by some fear gas. The antidote Lex's men made does nothing but making it worse and kills the first man they tried it on. In Clark's nightmare, the hospital is hit by another meteor shower. Lana finds out the meteor rocks hurt him, blames him for her parents death and stabs him with kryptonite.

%%* '''{{ComicBook/Darkseid}}'''. GodOfEvil, period.
%%** His other minions (Desaad, Granny Goodness, and Gordon Godfrey) are hardly any better.

* "Scare": ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, UpToEleven. Lana comes to Clark in the loft, says that dating Jason is a mistake, they make out, Jason shows up and somehow manages to beat Clark up. Lana then stabs him with a pair of scissors. Chloe was sneaking around in a Luthor Corp plant when the lights went out. She finds a sitting figure, with its back to her and speaks in her mother's voice, saying that she could not escape. It then turns around...to show some horrible zombie-thingy. Chloe starts a bloodcurdling scream, and is then trapped in a straitjacket before fainting in Clark's arms. It is a LOT scarier than it sounds. Lana apparently [[WakingUpAtTheMorgue wakes up at the morgue]]. The covers on the bodies are pulled to show the corpses of her parents, Chloe and Jason. The last table contains another nightmarish zombie-like creature saying that everyone will leave her, and she also starts screaming. It is AllJustADream, caused by some fear gas. The antidote Lex's men made does nothing but making it worse and kills the first man they tried it on. In Clark's nightmare, the hospital is hit by another meteor shower. Lana finds out the meteor rocks hurt him, blames him for her parents death and stabs him with kryptonite.

* "Static": The freak of the week rips all the bones from his victims. Bone marrow all over the place. [[UpToEleven Eating a guy alive.]] Better keep these entries short - season six seems to pack an unholy amount of unnecessary gore.

* "Obsession": Seriously, Clark (and Lana and Chloe by extension) should learn by now that all their love interests other than each other ([[UnfortunateImplications no]], not including [[GirlOnGirlIsHot that]]) turn out to be psychos. Alicia goes after Lana with a [[KnifeNut knife]], using her [[VillainTeleportation teleportation powers]] in a manner eerily similar to Emily in season 2, "Accelerate".

* The entire Jonathan and Martha Kent subplot in "Extinction" has AdultFear written all over it. Picture this just a few months ago you and your spouse lost the baby you never thought you had, and then out of nowhere some sniper shoots your adopted son because of some crazy vendetta. Further, if you can't get the bullet out in time, your son will die.

* "Shattered": Lex is attacked by assassins, so he hides at the Kents. Then he started hallucinating and singing lullabies to an imaginary baby. It is creepier than it sounds. When it's Lana's turn to watch over him, he goes berserk and throws her into the stable, where she is badly trampled by a horse.

** [[MoralEvenHorizon Lionel cutting off Adam's serum]], which keeps him alive. The non-chalant way he basically sentences the poor guy to death is chilling, and then he just leaves him alone to die in the dark. The last thing we hear before the episode ends is Adam ''screaming'' for help, while the lights go out one by one.

* "Metamorphosis": We see [[VillainOfTheWeek Greg]] [[BodyHorror peel his skin off during a hot shower, with pieces of skin falling down like they were meat]] (ham cold cuts, according to WordOfGod). And that's not the only thing wrong with him. [[spoiler:[[SelfMadeOrphan He kills his mother]] in a [[{{Squick}} horrible manner]].]]

* "Dichotic": A painfully long and unnecessary sequence of [[spoiler:Ian]] splitting himself into two.
* "Visage": The [[spoiler:shapeshifting Tina Greer returns]] with truckloads of soft nightmare fuel. Normally, you might be a little creeped out by Clark suddenly and violently kissing Lana, but it pales in comparison as you get to see Chloe apparently smelling Lana's underwear, then proceed to leer and grope at her (instant cure for Chloe infatuation), Lana beating Pete unconscious with a cold sneer, and Whitney beating an officer to death casually with a bat. Comes with generous doses of [[spoiler:ShapeshiftersDoItForAChange and ShapeshiftingSquick. Even her last words give you the creeps, and it is preceded by KarmicDeath by ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice.]]
* "Accelerate": True to the name, this episode features a freak of the week who [[spoiler:is a clone of a 10-year old girl, created by her father due to grief over her death, and is rapidly aged to 10, and as a side effect, she]] has SuperSpeed. Not scary? Every time she appears, it is accompanied with extremely "girly-ghost-creepy" music. And then they found the lab [[spoiler:with a few more cloned bodies]]. And then she gets Lana to play with her at the bridge over the river like how they used to. Lana tells her how the little girl [[spoiler:died, and [[TooDumbToLive said she wishes everyday that it was her who died]]]]. Big mistake.
-->[[spoiler:'''[[EnfantTerrible Emily]]''': This time, it will be. (Complete with murderous expression; proceeds to [[SuperDrowningSkills drown Lana with a push]])]]
** The episode was creepy from start to finish. When Lana was alone at the Talon some old movie suddenly started playing complete with creepy music. We didn't see the girl's SuperSpeed at first, she just appeared and disappeared. Her SuperSpeed was revealed when [[spoiler:Clark and Pete were discovering her grave.]] When she's at the bridge with Lana we know what happened and there's a cut to [[spoiler:the girl's father explaining that she doesn't have a concept of right and wrong. The original Emily's last entry in her diary said that she would go to the bridge and play with Lana tomorrow and she hoped it wouldn't rain. Cut to Lana explaining that they had already been to the bridge, it was raining and she slipped into the river. Emily saved her but drowned.]]

* "Exile" (and part of the next episode, "Phoenix"): A full episode of Clark doing horrible things (although it does have shades of {{Superdickery}}, the BewareTheSuperman tone seems stronger) including but not limited to [[BankRobbery robbing banks]] ([[KickTheSonOfABitch beating up the would-be robbers on the way]]), [[KickTheMoralityPet roughing up Chloe]] after [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight she spent two months trying to convince him to go home]], making a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with a crime boss to break into a high-security vault]] and [[CallingTheOldManOut coming to actual blows with Jonathan]]. Oh, he [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking stole and destroyed Chloe's class ring too]]. [[spoiler:He is actually affected by the red kryptonite in Chloe's ring, and breaking it finally frees him from his SuperpoweredEvilSide.]] This is all made worse by how he is burned by [[spoiler:Jor-El's mark]] every once in a while, which forces him to [[spoiler:take off the ring]]; but once he does so his grief and guilt makes him [[spoiler:put it on again]] in a self-destructive cycle reminiscent of heavy drinking.

* "Slumber": The Traveler, [[spoiler:even if he only appears in Clark's dreams]], is a horrifying GrimReaper-like figure in red, the manifestation of Sarah's fear of [[spoiler:her sociopathic uncle, Nicholas Conroy.]] Heck, he's one of the few villains that Clark ''can't'' defeat.

* "Delete": In a manner reminiscent of "Visage", an unknown assailant runs Chloe down with a truck, she narrowly avoids it when she falls to the ground; the driver steps out of the car seemingly to finish off the visibly terrified Chloe, then you see that he is [[{{Superdickery}} Clark]] [[WhatTheHellHero Kent]] (Chloe later admits she thought Clark actually wants to kill her for [[spoiler:her brief FaceHeelTurn earlier]] and almost thinks she [[TheAtoner deserves it]]). Then Lana gives her a long, brutal beating while being literally AxCrazy. And some woman stabs some guy in the head. ''Through his ear.'' [[spoiler:Jonathan tries to strangle Chloe with a chain and Martha goes after her with a sickle. They are all mind controlled, and horrified when they find out what they did.]]
--->'''Chloe''': Lana, hey, I've been looking for you.

--->'''Chloe''': (*Struggles to her feet*) Lana, what are you doing!?
--->'''Lana''': [[DissonantSerenity Killing Chloe Sullivan]].
* "Obsession": Seriously, Clark (and Lana and Chloe by extension) should learn by now that all their love interests other than each other ([[UnfortunateImplications no]], not including [[GirlOnGirlIsHot that]]) turn out to be psychos. [[spoiler:Alicia goes after Lana with a [[KnifeNut knife]], using her [[VillainTeleportation teleportation powers]] in a manner eerily similar to Emily in season 2, "Accelerate".]]

* "Crisis": Lana makes a time-traveling phone call as LightningCanDoAnything collides with the omnipotent GreenRocks. She is apparently fatally shot, but when Clark runs to the Talon she is with Chloe and is completely fine. After that it is a series of terrifying moments of YouCantFightFate. [[spoiler:Except Clark could, due to pure awesomeness.]]

* "Covenant": Near the end, while [[SoundtrackDissonance beautiful classic music plays]], everything goes in slow motion, WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong? [[spoiler:Lex thrashes on the floor dying from poisoned wine, Jonathan lies unconscious in the Kawatche Caves, Clark is [[{{Superdickery}} abducted by Jor-El]], Chloe and her father meet a fiery end in a [[StuffBlowingUp huge explosion]] the moment they arrive at a new house, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Lionel gets his head shaved]]. The worse part is when Chloe is apparently blown into a million pieces (the turning point of the slow motion sequence), ''nothing changed'', not the music, not the tempo. It is as if no one cares. It is that cold feeling of indifference that gets to you.]]

-->'''Lionel-as-Clark''': Don't you wish...Miss Sullivan.
* "Spell": An ''extremely'' creepy episode involving Lois, Lana and Chloe being possessed by evil witches. Special mentions goes to [[spoiler:A depowered Clark [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight begging Chloe to help him, she pretends to recognize him for a moment]] before cruelly denying it with a blood-chilling EvilLaugh. Chloe even digs holes in Clark's chest with her fingers then apparently ''sucks his blood''.]]

* "Scare": ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, UpToEleven. Lana comes to Clark in the loft, says that dating Jason is a mistake, they make out, Jason shows up and somehow manages to beat Clark up. Lana then stabs him with a pair of scissors. Chloe was sneaking around in a Luthor Corp plant when the lights went out. She finds a sitting figure, with its back to her and speaks in her mother's voice, saying that she could not escape. It then turns around...to show some horrible zombie-thingy. Chloe starts a bloodcurdling scream, and is then trapped in a straitjacket before fainting in Clark's arms. It is a LOT scarier than it sounds. Lana apparently [[WakingUpAtTheMorgue wakes up at the morgue]]. The covers on the bodies are pulled to show the corpses of her parents, Chloe and Jason. The last table contains another nightmarish zombie-like creature saying that everyone will leave her, and she also starts screaming. [[spoiler:It is AllJustADream, caused by some fear gas. The antidote Lex's men made does nothing but making it worse and kills the first man they tried it on. In Clark's nightmare, the hospital is hit by another meteor shower. Lana finds out the meteor rocks hurt him, blames him for her parents death and stabs him with kryptonite.]]

* In "Forever", the freak of the week has the power to freeze anyone he touches, almost like a wax figure. The scary part comes when whenever he freezes someone, they can still move their eyes and are so fragile, they break apart like the T-1000. [[spoiler:He seizes a petrified girl's head and ''shatters it like glass''. He eventually got a KarmicDeath.]]

* "Splinter": [[spoiler:Silver kryptonite]] makes Clark insanely paranoid. He hallucinates being stalked, and that Chloe told her secret to Lionel, which makes him shout that he should never had trusted her. He attacks just about everyone close to him with the exception of Chloe, who subdues him with green kryptonite just in time to save the Kents. This further convinces him that she betrayed him and he runs away saying they are all working against him.

** Then the corpse's face suddenly appears next to Clark, who is sitting on Chloe's bed. It then retreats into a wall and reveals that it is actually the ghost of whoever the remains behind the wall belongs to. [[spoiler:The creepiness continues as it possesses Chloe [[TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf revealed by a reflection.]] She ransacks Lana's room for a weapon and stuns Lex with a taser.]]
** Some random creepy guy [[spoiler:(actually the guy who is responsible for the skeleton in the wall)]] asked Lois if she had seen Chloe then stifles her into unconsciousness.
** Chloe [[spoiler:possessed by the ghost]] seeks out the guy and accuses him of murder, breaking down in tears and sobs in the progress. Then he ties up both Lois and Chloe and had another creepiness-filled conversation...

* "Zod": The Phantom Zone. [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace It is called the Phantom Zone for a reason.]] Zod also [[spoiler:stabs Lana with a pole. ''Through her hand''.]]

* "Static": The freak of the week rips all the bones from his victims. Bone marrow all over the place. [[spoiler:[[UpToEleven Eating a guy alive.]]]] Better keep these entries short - season six seems to pack an unholy amount of unnecessary gore.

* "Labyrinth": When [[EvilDetectingDog Shelby]] starts barking, Clark goes to investigate. Suddenly, he is ambushed by something and wakes up in a mental institute. Everything changed, Lex has amputation because of Clark, Martha is married to Lionel, etc. Chloe appears to be the only one who knows what is happening. Then there is a painful mental tug-of-war as Lana and Chloe tries to convince him that she is telling the truth. Chloe is then shot in the chest by officers, adamantly stating that she is as sane as he is, twitches a few times and [[DiedInYourArmsTonight dies in his arms.]] Throughout most of the episode there is no real music... just an extremely ominous hum. [[spoiler:It is an illusion by a phantom. The cracks in the fake reality begins to show as every name he finds - on books, noticeboards, etc. are people he knows]].
* "Freak": [[spoiler:ComicBook/LexLuthor has his people abduct Chloe to his secret lab then experiment on and painfully humiliate her. Chloe figures out she is the next in line to be killed and orders Clark to burn a hole in her shoulder to remove the tracking device, and is about to stab herself before Clark is forced to comply. Her screams of pain would make anyone's blood run cold. At the end of the episode, Lex watches a video of Chloe stripped naked and strapped to the experiment table. As she struggles, he delivers this line with a hint of Psychotic Smirk:]]
-->'''Lex''': [[spoiler:Regarding our most recent subject...keep a close eye on her.]]

* "Cure": "Dr. Curtis Knox" is compared to Jack the Ripper, to which he [[PsychoticSmirk psychotically smirks]] and replies "I ''was'' Jack the Ripper." [[FanNickname The Bee Girl]] from Season One showing up, happily reformed and now having an innocent, naive personality...and being horribly betrayed by Dr. Knox. And Chloe goes to a [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate him]] to be cured of her meteor infection. [[spoiler:He decides to cut out her heart instead. He is actually already cutting open her skin when [[BigDamnHeroes Clark]] rushes in.]]

* "Arctic": Lex showing up at the Fortress of Solitude. Chloe is forced to use kryptonite on Kara. [[spoiler:NoSell, because it is actually ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}. He uses his MindProbe fingers on her, rendering her catatonic.]]

* "Identity": Chloe finds the somewhat-sympathetic bad guy of the week in a hospital bed. Wearing ominous black gloves. [[spoiler:She takes those off and {{Mind Rape}}s him into a catatonic state. There is some kind of horrifying grandeur in seeing the resident NiceGirl does this with a tiny PsychoticSmirk.]]
* "Bloodline": The PhantomZone again. The fact that Kara has been stranded alone there against an army of ghastly phantoms for a year and is clearly traumatized by it. [[spoiler:Faora]] strangles Chloe and stabs Davis.
* "Legion": The shattered ruins of a happy wedding, destroyed by Doomsday's rampage.[[spoiler:Brainiac possesses Chloe. She coldly and cruelly announces that she is going to make Davis into Doomsday. Completely with glowing silver eyes and BloodSplatteredWeddingDress. Brainiac then taunts Clark of his inability to kill Chloe. Really, anything Brainiac does has their NightmareFuel rating tripled in Chloe's body.]]
* "Turbulence": Being on a private jet that is going down, with the pilot nowhere in sight. Jimmy wakes up on his hospital bed and hears Chloe's shouting. When he gets up, she runs past his room only to be locked into another room with Doomsday. All Jimmy could do is watch as she is dragged in, screaming and kicking, and [[GoryDiscretionShot her blood splatters all over the window]] he is watching through. [[spoiler:It is a hallucination, if you haven't figured out by now.]]
* '''Doomsday'''. What else did you expect from a creature of pure rage, strength and destruction? His very presences provides instant ignition of MassOhCrap. [[spoiler:Not to mention the whole transforming sequence.]]

* "Injustice": The Parasite looks more human than his usual comic book image, but manages to be downright creepy and disturbing anyway. Tess setting off an explosive chip inside Chloe's head. [[spoiler:It is actually Eva in disguise.]]

* "Pandora": General BadFuture stuff. Most of humanity either dead or enslaved, the Earth turned into a post-apocalyptic wasteland, the Kent Farm--aka the most homey, warm and loving place on the show--being used as a gulag by the Kryptonian invaders, ComicBook/GreenArrow likely getting shredded by a literal swarm of Kryptonians, and a very detailed shot of [[spoiler:Alia impaling Chloe on a sword.]]

* '''{{ComicBook/Darkseid}}'''. GodOfEvil, period.
** His other minions (Desaad, Granny Goodness, and Gordon Godfrey) are hardly any better.

* "Metamorphosis": We see that the freak of the week villain's skin comes off during a hot shower, with pieces of skin falling down like they were meat (ham cold cuts, according to WordOfGod). And that's not the only thing wrong with him. [[spoiler: He killed his mother in a [[{{Squick}} horrible manner]].]]
* Just the whole aspect of "Craving", where the power to suck the fat out of someone or an animal, in order to substance the HorrorHunger. The mutant in question has her face terrifyingly distorted when she does that. And you get to see the guy she attacked.
* The freak of the week's power in "Reaper", and the freak of the week's [[{{Yandere}} PERSONALITY]] in "Crush".

* "Covenant": Near the end [[SoundtrackDissonance beautiful classic music plays]], everything goes in slow motion, WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong? [[spoiler:ComicBook/LexLuthor thrashes on the floor dying from poisoned wine, Jonathan lies unconscious in a cave, Clark is [[{{Superdickery}} abducted by Jor-El]], Chloe and her father meet a fiery end in a [[StuffBlowingUp huge explosion]] the moment they arrive at a new house, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Lionel gets his head shaved]]. The worse part is when Chloe is apparently blown into a million pieces (the turning point of the slow motion sequence), ''nothing changed'', not the music, not the tempo, it is as if no one cares. It is that cold feeling of indifference that gets to you.]]
* "Slumber": The Traveller, [[spoiler: even if he only appears in Clark's dreams]], is a horrifying figure cloaked in red, the manifestation of Sarah's fear of [[spoiler: her sociopathic uncle, Nicholas Conroy.]] Heck, he's one of the few villains that Clark ''can't'' defeat.

* '''Bizarro'''. Unlike in the comics or in the {{DCAU}}, where Bizarro is usually only confused and stupid rather than actually evil (he actually pulled a HeroicSacrifice in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''), in ''Smallville'', he could give ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} a run for his money, if not worse because this Bizarro radiates malicious joy of destruction and is dangerously intelligent. He first gorily assaulted ComicBook/MartianManhunter last season as mentioned before, and repeats his signature style on humans. When in his child host, he is the EnfantTerrible of the highest degree. You really want to skip the part when the child wakes up. There is no GoryDiscretionShot to protect your sanity. Keep the BrainBleach handy.

** [[HeyItsThatGuy And it's]] Creator/AmyAdams doing it!

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* "Fracture": A full episode of NightmareFuel. To put it simply, like Franchise/{{Batman}}, SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor's mind [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague is NOT a nice place to be.]]

* "Pandora": General BadFuture stuff. Most of humanity either dead or enslaved, the Earth turned into a post-apocalyptic wasteland, the Kent Farm--aka the most homey, warm and loving place on the show--being used as a gulag by the Kryptonian invaders, GreenArrow likely getting shredded by a literal swarm of Kryptonians, and a very detailed shot of [[spoiler:Alia impaling Chloe on a sword.]]

* '''{{Darkseid}}'''. GodOfEvil, period.

* '''Bizarro'''. Unlike in the comics or in the {{DCAU}}, where Bizarro is usually only confused and stupid rather than actually evil (he actually pulled a HeroicSacrifice in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''), in ''Smallville'', he could give {{Brainiac}} a run for his money, if not worse because this Bizarro radiates malicious joy of destruction and is dangerously intelligent. He first gorily assaulted ComicBook/MartianManhunter last season as mentioned before, and repeats his signature style on humans. When in his child host, he is the EnfantTerrible of the highest degree. You really want to skip the part when the child wakes up. There is no GoryDiscretionShot to protect your sanity. Keep the BrainBleach handy.

* "Arctic": Lex showing up at the Fortress of Solitude. Chloe is forced to use kryptonite on Kara. [[spoiler:NoSell, because it is actually {{Brainiac}}. He uses his MindProbe fingers on her, rendering her catatonic.]]

* ''Metamorphosis'': We see that the freak of the week villain's skin comes off during a hot shower, with pieces of skin falling down like they were meat (ham cold cuts, according to WordOfGod). And that's not the only thing wrong with him. [[spoiler: He killed his mother in a [[{{Squick}} horrible manner]].]]
* Just the whole aspect of ''Craving'', where the power to suck the fat out of someone or an animal, in order to substance the HorrorHunger. The mutant in question has her face terrifyingly distorted when she does that. And you get to see the guy she attacked.

* The freak of the week's power in ''Reaper'', and the freak of the week's [[{{Yandere}} PERSONALITY]] in ''Crush''.

* ''Redux'': If you thought ''Craving'' was horrific enough, this time the freak of the week is able to suck the life force out of someone and make them physically aged to old age. And that's not counting what happens when you see what [[TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf the FOTW sees in the mirror]].
* ''Dichotic'': A painfully long and unnecessary sequence of [[spoiler:Ian]] splitting himself into two.
* ''Visage'': The [[spoiler:shapeshifting Tina Greer returns]] with truckloads of soft nightmare fuel. Normally, you might be a little creeped out by Clark suddenly and violently kissing Lana, but it pales in comparison as you get to see Chloe apparently smelling Lana's underwear, then proceed to leer and grope at her (instant cure for Chloe infatuation), Lana beating Pete unconcious with a cold sneer, and Whitney beating an officer to death casually with a bat. Comes with generous doses of [[spoiler:ShapeshiftersDoItForAChange and ShapeshiftingSquick. Even her last words give you the creeps, and it is preceded by KarmicDeath by ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice.]]
* ''Accelerate'': True to the name, this episode features a freak of the week who [[spoiler:is a clone of a 10 year old girl, created by her father due to grief over her death, and is rapidly aged to 10, and as a side effect, she]] has SuperSpeed. Not scary? Every time she appears, it is accompanied with extremely "girly-ghost-creepy" music. And then they found the lab [[spoiler:with a few more cloned bodies]]. And then she gets Lana to play with her at the bridge over the river like how they used to. Lana tells her how the little girl [[spoiler:died, and [[TooDumbToLive said she wishes everyday that it was her who died]]]]. Big mistake.

** The episode was creapy from start to finish. When Lana was alone at the Talon some old movie suddenly started playing complete with creapy music. We didn't see the girl's SuperSpeed at first, she just appeared and disappeared. Her SuperSpeed was revealed when [[spoiler:Clark and Pete were discovering her grave.]] When she's at the bridge with Lana we know what happened and there's a cut to [[spoiler:the girl's father explaining that she doesn't have a concept of right and wrong. The original Emily's last entry in her diary said that she would go to the bridge and play with Lana tomorrow and she hoped it wouldn't rain. Cut to Lana explaining that they had already been to the bridge, it was raining and she slipped into the river. Emily saved her but drowned.]]

* ''Exile'' (and part of the next episode, ''Phoenix''): A full episode of Clark doing horrible things (although it does have shades of {{Superdickery}}, the BewareTheSuperman tone seems stronger) including but not limited to [[BankRobbery robbing banks]] ([[KickTheSonOfABitch beating up the would-be robbers on the way]]), [[KickTheMoralityPet roughing up Chloe]] after [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight she spent two months trying to convince him to go home]], making a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with a crime boss to break into a high-security vault]] and [[CallingTheOldManOut coming to actual blows with Jonathan]]. Oh, he [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking stole and destroyed Chloe's class ring too]]. [[spoiler:He is actually affected by the red kryptonite in Chloe's ring, and breaking it finally frees him from his SuperpoweredEvilSide.]] This is all made worse by how he is burned by [[spoiler:Jor-El's mark]] every once in a while, which forces him to [[spoiler:take off the ring]]; but once he does so his grief and guilt makes him [[spoiler:put it on again]] in a self-destructive cycle reminiscent of heavy drinking.

* ''Shattered'': Lex is attacked by assassins, so he hides at the Kents. Then he started hallucinating and singing lullabies to an imaginary baby. It is creepier than it sounds. When it's Lana's turn to watch over him, he goes berserk and throws her into the stable, where she is badly trampled by a horse.
* ''Delete'': In a manner reminiscent of ''Visage'', an unknown assailant runs Chloe down with a truck, she narrowly avoids it when she falls to the ground; the driver steps out of the car seemingly to finish off the visibly terrified Chloe, then you see that he is [[{{Superdickery}} Clark]] [[WhatTheHellHero Kent]] (Chloe later admits she thought Clark actually wants to kill her for [[spoiler:her brief FaceHeelTurn earlier]] and almost thinks she [[TheAtoner deserves it]]). Then Lana gives her a long, brutal beating while being literally AxCrazy. And some woman stabs some guy in the head. ''Through his ear.'' [[spoiler:Jonathan tries to strangle Chloe with a chain and Martha goes after her with a sickle. They are all mind controlled, and horrified when they find out what they did.]]

* ''Obsession'': Seriously, Clark (and Lana and Chloe by extension) should learn by now that all their love interests other than each other ([[UnfortunateImplications no]], not including [[GirlOnGirlIsHot that]]) turn out to be psychos. [[spoiler:Alicia goes after Lana with a [[KnifeNut knife]], using her [[VillainTeleportation teleportation powers]] in a manner eerily similar to Emily in season 2, ''Accelerate''.]]
* ''Resurrection'': A guy was brought back to life by a secret serum. Then his eyes bleed as he started dying. Again.
* ''Crisis'': Lana makes a time-traveling phone call as LightningCanDoAnything collides with the omnipotent GreenRocks. She is apparently fatally shot, but when Clark runs to the Talon she is with Chloe and is completely fine. After that it is a series of terrifying moments of YouCantFightFate. [[spoiler:Except Clark could, due to pure awesomeness.]]

* ''Covenant'': Near the end [[SoundtrackDissonance beautiful classic music plays]], everything goes in slow motion, WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong? [[spoiler:ComicBook/LexLuthor thrashes on the floor dying from poisoned wine, Jonathan lies unconscious in a cave, Clark is [[{{Superdickery}} abducted by Jor-El]], Chloe and her father meet a fiery end in a [[StuffBlowingUp huge explosion]] the moment they arrive at a new house, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Lionel gets his head shaved]]. The worse part is when Chloe is apparently blown into a million pieces (the turning point of the slow motion sequence), ''nothing changed'', not the music, not the tempo, it is as if no one cares. It is that cold feeling of indifference that gets to you.]]

* ''Gone'': The freak of the week could transform his body to living metal and morph it into weapons. First he stabbed Lionel out of no where to [[SoundtrackDissonance beautiful music]], then he tracks down Chloe and strangles her with a metal claw while grinning widely.
* ''Transference'': It's more {{Squick}} than NightmareFuel, but...[[FreakyFridayFlip Lionel-in-Clark]] accidentally fires his heat vision (which indicates he is aroused) when hugging Martha. He also [[DirtyOldMan has a long flirt]] with Chloe, then pull back at the last possible moment when they are about to kiss, with the cruelest of manners. May count as a TearJerker.

* ''Spell'': An ''extremely'' creepy episode involving Lois, Lana and Chloe being possessed by evil witches. Special mentions goes to [[spoiler:A depowered Clark [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight begging Chloe to help him, she pretends to recognize him for a moment]] before cruelly denying it with a blood-chilling EvilLaugh. Chloe even digs holes in Clark's chest with her fingers then apparently ''sucks his blood''.]]
* ''Bound'': Lex wakes up to find a bloodied corpse of the girl he bedded last night next to him.
* ''Scare'': ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, UpToEleven. Lana comes to Clark in the loft, says that dating Jason is a mistake, they make out, Jason shows up and somehow manages to beat Clark up. Lana then stabs him with a pair of scissors. Chloe was sneaking around in a Luthor Corp plant when the lights went out. She finds a sitting figure, with its back to her and speaks in her mother's voice, saying that she could not escape. It then turns around...to show some horrible zombie-thingy. Chloe starts a bloodcurdling scream, and is then trapped in a straitjacket before fainting in Clark's arms. It is a LOT scarier than it sounds. Lana apparently [[WakingUpAtTheMorgue wakes up at the morgue]]. The covers on the bodies are pulled to show the corpses of her parents, Chloe and Jason. The last table contains another nightmarish zombie-like creature saying that everyone will leave her, and she also starts screaming. [[spoiler:It is AllJustADream, caused by some fear gas. The antidote Lex's men made does nothing but making it worse and kills the first man they tried it on. In Clark's nightmare, the hospital is hit by another meteor shower. Lana finds out the meteor rocks hurt him, blames him for her parents death and stabs him with kryptonite.]]
* ''Pariah'': Lana being suffocated in the shower by the shower curtains, then Jason is strangled by a scarf, both by apparently no one.
* ''Recruit'': Geoff uses his power to put a person under full paralysis. Twice. He kills one and tries to kill the other. [[AndIMustScream While they are conscious]].
* In ''Forever'', the freak of the week has the power to freeze anyone he touches, almost like a wax figure. The scary part comes when whenever he freezes someone, they can still move their eyes and are so fragile, they break apart like the T-1000. [[spoiler:He seizes a petrified girl's head and ''shatters it like glass''. He eventually got a KarmicDeath.]]

* ''Mortal'': The twin Belle Reeve escapees are made of creepiness.
* ''Thirst'': Lana gets turned into a vampire once she joins an exclusive sonority. She sucks half the blood out of Chloe then attacks Clark while he is weakened by kryptonite.
* ''Splinter'': [[spoiler:Silver kryptonite]] makes Clark insanely paranoid. He hallucinates being stalked, and that Chloe told her secret to Lionel, which makes him shout that he should never had trusted her. He attacks just about everyone close to him with the exception of Chloe, who subdues him with green kryptonite just in time to save the Kents. This further convinces him that she betrayed him and he runs away saying they are all working against him.
* ''Tomb'': Scenes starts with an [[EmpathicEnvironment ominous thunderstorm]]. [[GenreBlind Can't see this going wrong]]... Then you see dropped jeans, a shirt and girl's underwear... turns out it is only Chloe taking a shower. Then the lights went out. Some sort of walking corpse appears behind her. When Lois comes running after hearing her scream, she finds her on the floor whimpering and with her wrists cut.

* ''Void'': Lana takes a drug that literally brings someone to the [[TitleDrop Void]] and back. Said repeated death experiences is not exactly good for health. The other student who took it starts to choke when Chloe is questioning her, vomits blood and die painfully right in front of Chloe.

* ''Fragile'': The glass-controlling freak of the week [[EyeScream stabs a police officer with his own glasses.]]
* ''Mercy'': Some hacker appears in a scary metallic mask and plays hangman with Lionel's life, then trap him in his office and gives off the sense of being everywhere. Then he starts a series of {{DeathTrap}}s...

* Brainiac. Just about everything about him is NightmareFuel. The cold personality, the ruthless manipulation of everyone around him, the {{Squick}}-enducing ability to MindProbe/possess victims by thrusting liquid metal fingers into their eyes (also his preferred method of killing), the matter of fact way he talks about eradicating life, how he morphs to and from a black puddle...he's this trope personified. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Oh, he also enjoys]] using his [[EyeBeams heat vision]] to [[PyroManiac burn stuff up]] ForTheEvulz.

* ''Zod'': The Phantom Zone. [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace It is called the Phantom Zone for a reason.]] Zod also [[spoiler:stabs Lana with a pole. ''Through her hand''.]]
* ''Wither'': Chloe and Jimmy finds a dead girl with widely staring eyes in the dark woods [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled]] by large branches.

* ''Static'': The freak of the week rips all the bones from his victims. Bone marrow all over the place. [[spoiler:[[UpToEleven Eating a guy alive.]]]] Better keep these entries short - season six seems to pack an unholy amount of unnecessary gore.
* ''Subterranean'': The Freak Of The Week is pretty damned horrifying by himself, being a farmer keeping immigrants as slave labour and using his powers to drag any would escapees into the ground to suffocate. But Clark takes him down, problem solved. Cut to the guy on an operating table and Lex instructing a doctor to "put him with the others." Lex then strides out with total calm as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL09QGAMjE8 truely spine chilling music plays]], walking past cage after cage as hands desperately, pleadingly reach out at him. The door closes behind him with the fatal legend "33.1"[[note]]a.k.a. the Luthor secret lab on meteor freaks that has been haunting the series for several seasons[[/note]] enblazoned upon it. If there was any doubt which team Lex is now playing for [[MoralEventHorizon they are now gone.]]
* ''Labyrinth'': When [[EvilDetectingDog Shelby]] starts barking, Clark goes to investigate. Suddenly, he is ambushed by something and wakes up in a mental institute. Everything changed, Lex has amputation because of Clark, Martha is married to Lionel, etc. Chloe appears to be the only one who knows what is happening. Then there is a painful mental tug-of-war as Lana and Chloe tries to convince him that she is telling the truth. Chloe is then shot in the chest by officers, adamantly stating that she is as sane as he is, twitches a few times and [[DiedInYourArmsTonight dies in his arms.]] Throughout most of the episode there is no real music... just an extremely ominous hum. [[spoiler:It is an illusion by a phantom. The cracks in the fake reality begins to show as every name he finds - on books, noticeboards, etc. are people he knows]].
* ''Freak'': [[spoiler:ComicBook/LexLuthor has his people abduct Chloe to his secret lab then experiment on and painfully humiliate her. Chloe figures out she is the next in line to be killed and orders Clark to burn a hole in her shoulder to remove the tracking device, and is about to stab herself before Clark is forced to comply. Her screams of pain would make anyone's blood run cold. At the end of the episode, Lex watches a video of Chloe stripped naked and strapped to the experiment table. As she struggles, he delivers this line with a hint of Psychotic Smirk:]]

* ''Nemesis'': A [[EldritchAbomination phantom]] killing two people. More horrifying than it sounds.
* ''Prototype'': Same as ''Nemesis''... with freeze frames and nice close ups.
* ''Phantom'': A phantom possesses an old man and rips innards from the MartianManhunter. It then leaves the body in a rather bloody fashion.

* '''Bizarro'''. Unlike in the comics or in the {{DCAU}}, where Bizarro is usually only confused and stupid rather than actually evil (he actually pulled a HeroicSacrifice in SupermanTheAnimatedSeries), in ''Smallville'', he could give {{Brainiac}} a run for his money, if not worse because this Bizarro radiates malicious joy of destruction and is dangerously intelligent. He first gorily assaulted MartianManhunter last season as mentioned before, and repeats his signature style on humans. When in his child host, he is the EnfantTerrible of the highest degree. You really want to skip the part when the child wakes up. There is no GoryDiscretionShot to protect your sanity. Keep the BrainBleach handy.

* ''Cure'': "Dr. Curtis Knox" is compared to Jack the Ripper, to which he [[{{PsychoticSmirk}} psychotically smirks]] and replies "I ''was'' Jack the Ripper." [[{{FanNickname}} The Bee Girl]] from Season One showing up, happily reformed and now having an innocent, naive personality...and being horribly betrayed by Dr. Knox. And Chloe goes to a [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate him]] to be cured of her meteor infection. [[spoiler:He decides to cut out her heart instead. He is actually already cutting open her skin when [[BigDamnHeroes Clark]] rushes in.]]
* ''Fracture'': A full episode of NightmareFuel. To put it simply, like Franchise/{{Batman}}, SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor's mind [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague is NOT a nice place to be.]]
* ''Arctic'': Lex showing up at the Fortress of Solitude. Chloe is forced to use kryptonite on Kara. [[spoiler:NoSell, because it is actually {{Brainiac}}. He uses his MindProbe fingers on her, rendering her catatonic.]]

* ''Identity'': Chloe finds the somewhat-sympathetic bad guy of the week in a hospital bed. Wearing ominous black gloves. [[spoiler:She takes those off and {{Mind Rape}}s him into a catatonic state. There is some kind of horrifying grandeur in seeing the resident NiceGirl does this with a tiny PsychoticSmirk.]]
* ''Bloodline'': The PhantomZone again. The fact that Kara has been stranded alone there against an army of ghastly phantoms for a year and is clearly traumatized by it. [[spoiler:Faora]] strangles Chloe and stabs Davis.
* ''Legion'': The shattered ruins of a happy wedding, destroyed by Doomsday's rampage.[[spoiler:Brainiac possesses Chloe. She coldly and cruelly announces that she is going to make Davis into Doomsday. Completely with glowing silver eyes and BloodSplatteredWeddingDress. Brainiac then taunts Clark of his inability to kill Chloe. Really, anything Brainiac does has their NightmareFuel rating tripled in Chloe's body.]]
* ''Turbulence'': Being on a private jet that is going down, with the pilot nowhere in sight. Jimmy wakes up on his hospital bed and hears Chloe's shouting. When he gets up, she runs past his room only to be locked into another room with Doomsday. All Jimmy could do is watch as she is dragged in, screaming and kicking, and [[GoryDiscretionShot her blood splatters all over the window]] he is watching through. [[spoiler:It is a hallucination, if you haven't figured out by now.]]

* ''Eternal'': A black egg cracking open, pouring out a sickly yellow liquid, forming a small boy.
* ''Injustice'': The Parasite looks more human than his usual comic book image, but manages to be downright creepy and disturbing anyway. Tess setting off an explosive chip inside Chloe's head. [[spoiler:It is actually Eva in disguise.]]

* ''Metallo'': Corben getting hit by a truck and is made into Metallo. It is '''not''' pretty.
* ''Pandora'': General BadFuture stuff. Most of humanity either dead or enslaved, the Earth turned into a post-apocalyptic wasteland, the Kent Farm--aka the most homey, warm and loving place on the show--being used as a gulag by the Kryptonian invaders, GreenArrow likely getting shredded by a literal swarm of Kryptonians, and a very detailed shot of [[spoiler:Alia impaling Chloe on a sword.]]

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** [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking He also has a sick fixation]] on LoisLane and is aggressive towards her.

* ''Covenant'': Near the end [[SoundtrackDissonance beautiful classic music plays]], everything goes in slow motion, WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong? [[spoiler:LexLuthor thrashes on the floor dying from poisoned wine, Jonathan lies unconscious in a cave, Clark is [[{{Superdickery}} abducted by Jor-El]], Chloe and her father meet a fiery end in a [[StuffBlowingUp huge explosion]] the moment they arrive at a new house, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Lionel gets his head shaved]]. The worse part is when Chloe is apparently blown into a million pieces (the turning point of the slow motion sequence), ''nothing changed'', not the music, not the tempo, it is as if no one cares. It is that cold feeling of indifference that gets to you.]]

* ''Freak'': [[spoiler:LexLuthor has his people abduct Chloe to his secret lab then experiment on and painfully humiliate her. Chloe figures out she is the next in line to be killed and orders Clark to burn a hole in her shoulder to remove the tracking device, and is about to stab herself before Clark is forced to comply. Her screams of pain would make anyone's blood run cold. At the end of the episode, Lex watches a video of Chloe stripped naked and strapped to the experiment table. As she struggles, he delivers this line with a hint of Psychotic Smirk:]]

** [[EvilerThanThou And he actually plays]] TheCorrupter on LexLuthor, who is trying to pull a HeelFaceTurn.

** [[HeyItsThatGuy And it's]]Creator/AmyAdams doing it!

** [[HeyItsThatGuy And it's]][[Film/Enchanted Giselle]] doing it!