History NightmareFuel / SonicX

* ''Sonic's Scream Test''. Eyes aren't supposed to look like that...The ghosts from that episode definitely wouldn't be out of place in a horror film.

** [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=xVYqGtsbPcQ Don't forget about that moment where]] [[DemonicPossession Amy gets possessed!]] [[NotHerself Sweet]] [[NightmareFace dreams]]...

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[[caption-width-right:273: [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Sonic? Is that... you?]]]]

[[caption-width-right:273: Sonic ? Is that... you ?]]

** [[spoiler: Its final form is a gisnt ball of energy with a gravitational pull so strong, it would have imploded and take the whole galaxy with it.]]

* [[spoiler: Its second form is a giant seed that can very slowly drain life energy and feed it to plants, making them grow as tall as mountains. And it can even control plants as seen when it uses vines to grab Cosmo, who is immune to the energy draining waves.]]

* For some people, Dark Super Sonic. OH YEAH, [[PunctuatedForEmphasis ''The. Dark. Super-Sonic.'']] You know all that fanart depicting a [[PaintItBlack black]] Super Sonic with [[BlankWhiteEyes whited-out eyes]] and an indigo/black aura? Yeah, this is where they originated from. Even Eggman was worried and unsettled about it, to the point of convincing Sonic to [[GetAHoldOfYourSelfMan calm down.]] For all he knew, Dark Super Sonic might've gone on to kill the rest of them. This may have only lasted for a few seconds, but it left such a mark on the fanbase because of how [[DarkerAndEdgier dark]] and [[MoodWhiplash unexpected]] it was.

* Episode 1x17: Knuckles getting electrocuted by E-91 and screaming in pain while flashback cuts show the fallen Master Emerald shrine during a thunderstorm. His screams of pain don't help either.

** The episode also has some incredibly unsettling reveals - At first we have minor things, like [[spoiler: Cosmo turning out to belong to the same species as the Metarex]], but then things go downhill really fast - namely, the backstory of Dark Oak/[[spoiler:Lucas]] - [[spoiler:his home planet was basically stuck in a never-ending war against an unknown threat, with many of his fellow seedrians either getting killed off en masse, or dying from overexertion after entering their [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Final]] [[OneWingedAngel Form]] - the latter seemingly being even more threatening, because even '''children''' were entering their Final Forms despite knowing what consequences it will bring. As a result, the leader of the seedrians, Earthia (Who was also Lucas' wife and the mother of Cosmo and Galaxina) decides that the seedrians must abandon their home planet, while Lucas insisted that the seedrians stay behind and fight, and as a result, the seedrians split into two factions - Earthia's followers (Seemingly all female), who decided to abandon the doomed planet, and Lucas' followers(Likely all male), who decided to fight no matter what. Eventually, all of the vegetation on the planet begins to quickly die out - a result of Lucas [[PoweredByAForsakenChild harvesting the planet's life energy]], all for the purpose of using it to stabilize the seedrians' Final Forms. Needless to say, Earthia wasn't very pleased with this, which results in the conflict between the two factions escalating even further, to the point where, even after the war was over, Earthia ordered to ''[[NukeEm nuke the planet]]'' before she and her followers left the planet, so that no survivors whatsoever will be left. Unfortunately for her, Lucas' followers and Lucas himself had survived, and later became the Metarex.]]
** So, in short, in that episode alone, we have [[spoiler: a both [[UnwittingPawn unwilling]] ''[[UnwittingPawn and]]'' [[UnwittingPawn unwitting betrayal]], a chilling possibility of an innocent eight-year old ending up in an AndIMustScream scenario, and a villain backstory that involves both interplanetary and civil war, planetary-scale environmental abuse, child soldiers sacrificing their own lives, and an '''attempted genocide''' by usage of '''[[NukeEm nuclear weapons]]'''.]] You know...[[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids For kids!]]

** There's an interesting note in the music. In the shot where we see Dark Sonic's [[SarcasmMode lovely]] [[SlasherSmile smile]], what sounds like Shadow's jingle plays behind his voice. There's something to be said about the AllLovingHero borrowing the tune of such an edgy AntiVillain.

** There's an interesting note in the music. In the shot where we see Sonic's [[SarcasmMode lovely]] [[SlasherSmile smile]], what sounds like Shadow's jingle plays behind his voice. There's something to be said about the AllLovingHero borrowing the tune of the AntiVillain.

* For some people, Dark Super Sonic. OH YEAH, [[PunctuatedForEmphasis ''The. Dark. Super-Sonic.'']] Even Eggman was worried and unsettled about it, to the point of convincing Sonic to [[GetAHoldOfYourSelfMan calm down.]] For all he knew, Dark Super Sonic might've gone on to kill the rest of them.

** The episode also has some incredibly unsettling reveals - At first we have minor things, like [[spoiler: Cosmo turning out to belong to the same species as the Metarex]], but then things go downhill really fast - namely, the backstory of Dark Oak/[[spoiler:Lucas]] - [[spoiler:his home planet was basically stuck in a never-ending war against an unknown threat, with many of his fellow seedrians either getting killed off en masse, or dying from overexertion after entering their [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Final]] [[OneWingedAngel Form]] - the latter seemingly being even more threatening, because even '''children''' were entering their Final Forms despite knowing what consequences it will bring. As a result, the leader of the seedrians, Earthia (Who was also Lucas' wife and the mother of Cosmo and Galaxina) decides that the seedrians must abandon their home planet, while Lucas insisted that the seedrians stay behind and fight, and as a result, the seedrians split into two factions - Hertia's followers (Seemingly all female), who decided to abandon the doomed planet, and Lucas' followers(Likely all male), who decided to fight no matter what. Eventually, all of the vegetation on the planet begins to quickly die out - a result of Lucas [[PoweredByAForsakenChild harvesting the planet's life energy]], all for the purpose of using it to stabilize the seedrians' Final Forms. Needless to say, Earthia wasn't very pleased with this, which results in the conflict between the two factions escalating even further, to the point where, even after the war was over, Earthia ordered to ''[[NukeEm nuke the planet]]'' before she and her followers left the planet, so that no survivors whatsoever will be left. Unfortunately for her, Lucas' followers and Lucas himself had survived, and later became the Metarex.]]

** So, in short, in that episode alone, we have [[spoiler: a both [[UnwittingPawn unwilling]] ''[[UnwittingPawn and]]'' [[UnwittingPawn unwitting betrayal]], a chilling possibility of an innocent eight-year old ending up in an AndIMustScream scenario, and a villain backstory that involves both interplanetary and civil war, planetary-scale environmental abuse, children sacrificing their own lives, and an '''attempted genocide''' by usage of '''[[NukeEm nuclear weapons]]'''.]] You know...[[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids For kids!]]

** So, in short, in that episode alone, we have [[spoiler: a both [[UnwittingPawn unwilling]] ''[[UnwittingPawn and]]'' [[UnwittingPawn unwitting betrayal]], a chilling possibility of an innocent eight-year old ending up in an AndIMustScream scenario, and a villain backstory that involves both interplanetary and civil war, planetary-scale environmental abuse, and an '''attempted genocide''' by usage of '''[[NukeEm nuclear weapons]]'''.]] You know...[[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids For kids!]]
* Knuckles punching Zelkova so hard that ''the spikes on his knuckles break off'', followed by both combatants screaming in pain.

** The episode also has some incredibly unsettling reveals - At first we have minor things, like [[spoiler: Cosmo turning out to belong to the same species as the Metarex]], but then things go downhill really fast - namely, the backstory of Dark Oak/[[spoiler:Lucas]] - [[spoiler:his home planet was basically stuck in a never-ending war against an unknown threat, with many of his fellow seedrians either getting killed off en masse, or dying from overexertion after entering their [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Final]] [[OneWingedAngel Form]] - the latter seemingly being even more threatening, because even '''children''' were entering their Final Forms despite knowing what consequences it will bring. As a result, the leader of the seedrians, Hertia (Who was also Lucas' wife and the mother of Cosmo and Galaxina) decides that the seedrians must abandon their home planet, while Lucas insisted that the seedrians stay behind and fight, and as a result, the seedrians split into two factions - Hertia's followers (Seemingly all female), who decided to abandon the doomed planet, and Lucas' followers(Likely all male), who decided to fight no matter what. Eventually, all of the vegetation on the planet begins to quickly die out - a result of Lucas [[PoweredByAForsakenChild harvesting the planet's life energy]], all for the purpose of using it to stabilize the seedrians' Final Forms. Needless to say, Hertia wasn't very pleased with this, which results in the conflict between the two factions escalating even further, to the point where, even after the war was over, Hertia ordered to ''[[NukeEm nuke the planet]]'' before she and her followers left the planet, so that no survivors whatsoever will be left. Unfortunately for her, Lucas' followers and Lucas himself had survived, and later became the Metarex.]]

** The worst part? [[spoiler: They finally get Shadow off the vessel, via using the Chaos Control cannon. They think they're safe... and then [[ImplacableMan Shadow]] arrives again. It's just due to coincidence that he didn't murder the entire crew.]]

* Episode 60 had an eerie tone to it, even going so far as to have one [[UncannyValley giant creepy eyeball watching over Sonic, Knuckles, and Amy through most of the episode,]] and the disembodied ScaryTeeth floating in the air near the end. What's even creepier was that the [[DarkCastle "scary" castle]] they were in for the whole episode was [[GeniusLoci indeed self-sentient.]] Granted, it WAS just a Metarex, but still...

* ''Sonic's Scream Test''. Eyes aren't supposed to look like that... although these ghosts wouldn't look too bad in Paranormal Activity or any other horror film.

* Episode 27 showing Eggman's iconic method of placing animals into his badniks ''while they are still conscious, [[AndIMustScream frantically screaming and trying to get out]]''. Granted the blow is lessened when you realize the badnik is [[MinionWithAnFInEvil E-102]] [[IronWoobie Gamma]].

*** This is the same reason why [[AlterEgo Super Sonic!Iblis]] (from the "Fleetway Comics") is terrifyingly unsettling, and also similarly freaky… [[spoiler:tag Because it's Super-Sonic presumably fused with Iblis (Hence on why they refer to this BadFuture version of Super Sonic as a reincarnation of the same entity).]] (It's even implied that he killed own [[FaceHeelTurn beloved one successfully and]] ''[[MoralEventHorizon mercilessly]]''.)
* [[spoiler:The three-headed plant dragon that Dark Oak, Black Narcissus and Pale Bay Leaf [[FusionDance transforms]] into is absolutelty scary in appearance. Not only that, near the ending of the show, they literally ate Sonic alive!]] [[OhCrap Cue the shots of the whole cast watching with outright fear and shock!]]
* Episode 60 had an eerie tone to it, even going so far as to have one [[UncannyValley giant creepy eyeball watching over Sonic, Knuckles, and Amy through most of the episode,]] and the disembodied ScaryTeeth floating in the air near the end. What's even creepier was that the [[DarkCastle "scary" castle]] they were in for the whole episode was indeed self-sentient. Granted it WAS just a Metarex, but still...

** It's Especially scary, because, Sonic is normally a pretty laid-back guy; seeing him get [[RageBreakingPoint so angry]] [[SanitySlippage to the point]] where he transform into '[[SuperPoweredEvilSide some monstrous kind of self-supreme being ]]' (via Jekyll and Hyde) who's dark, [[SuperStrength super-powerful]], and also eventually AxCrazy, that's [[BewareTheNiceOnes uttery frightening]].
** In the English Dub, Sonic's voice doesn't change to much aside from sounding very pissed about what happened to Chris and Cosmo. Japanese Dub, however, Sonic's voice turns dark, very quick. After seeing a terrified Cosmo and unconscious Chris, his voice trembles with shock at first, but it soon becomes [[TranquilFury silently indignant]]. And when the carnage begins, he [[ScreamingWarrior screams bloody murder]] as he [[UnstoppableRage rips the robots apart.]]
*** This is the same reason why [[AlterEgo Super-Sonic!Iblis]] (from the "Archiel Comics") is terrifyingly unsettling, and also similarly freaky… [[spoiler:tag Because it's Super-Sonic presumably fused with Iblis (Hence on why they refer to This BadFuture version of Super Sonic as a reincarnation of the same entity), Scrounge and even Melphieus also.]] (It's even implied that he killed own [[FaceHeelTurn beloved one successfully and]] ''[[MoralEventHorizon mercilessly]]''.)

* [[spoiler:The three-headed plant dragon that Dark Oak, Black Narcissus and Pale Bay Leaf [[FusionDance transforms]] into is absolutelty scary in appearance. Not only that, near the ending of the show, they litterely ate Sonic alive!]] [[OhCrap Cue the shots of the whole cast watching with outright fear and shock!]]