History NightmareFuel / SoulEater

* His name is Soul Eater. And he does. With great pleasure. And nobody sees anything wrong with it.

** A mere hallucination of Asura ''rips the faces'' off of Free and Eruka with its ''teeth'' and then just disappears. Then later his actual body emerges, slowly, ''painfully'', creeping across the floor towards the protagonists in a way that is completely inhuman. Oh yeah, and this is after Shinigami flayed him alive and put him in a bag made of his own skin. And when the hallucination ends, Eruka is seen holding a sharpened spike at her throat, and Free has a large ass blade half way down his neck.

* Just the thought of what the [[PrecisionFStrike FUCK]] happened to Crona and Ragnarok to get Ragnarok melted with the black blood, and then replace ALL of Crona's original blood with that black blood. Not only that, but what about the effects? Because of the Black Blood, Crona would be literally 'cold-blooded'. They wouldn't give off that same human ''warmth'' that most people would. It would basically make Crona inhuman. It's no wonder Spirit was so pissed at Medusa for what she did.

** Crona going berserk and [[spoiler:killing Medusa. It should be a CrowningMomentOfAwesome (don't lie, we all know the old witch didn't deserve to live), but the way it happens (Crona ranting about Medusa forcing them to give up Maka, proceeding to hack Medusa to pieces with a completely blank expression and Medusa's massive SlasherSmile and the revelation that this was exactly what she wanted) makes it horrifying]].

* Not as bad as the other examples on the page, but creepy nonetheless: The [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome fourth ending to the anime]], as well as having some apocalyptic opening images, has a long pan of all the secondary characters lying dead amongst wreckage and decay. Combined with the much darker tone of the music, it makes for an intense ninety seconds.

* Just the thought of what the [[PrecisionFStrike FUCK]] happened to Crona and Ragnarok to get Ragnarok melted with the black blood, and then replace ALL of Crona's original blood with that black blood. Not only that, but what about the effects? Because of the Black Blood, Crona would be literally 'cold-blooded'. He/She wouldn't give off that same human ''warmth'' that most people would. It would basically make Crona inhuman. It's no wonder Spirit was so pissed at Medusa for what she did.

* In the manga, Crona's [[spoiler:MagnificentBastard mother Medusa]] forced him/her to KILL A RABBIT IN ONE FLASHBACK. Back to the present, he/she's leaning over Maka, holding Ragnarok over his/her head, wearing his/her scariest face yet, Maka's head replaced by that of a rabbit.
** Oh, it gets worse. After Crona kills it, Medusa says something along the lines of, "We'll have rabbit for dinner tonight." That's right, she didn't just make him kill the rabbit, ''she made him eat it too.''
* In episode 39, when the meister and weapon teams are talking about the madness-afflicted Stein, Crona (who knows it's his fault) panics and runs from the group. He drops the things he was carrying, and when he bends over to pick them up [[spoiler: ''[[JumpScare a hallucination of Medusa comes right the fuck out of nowhere behind him]]'', complete with ScareChord and GlowingEyesOfDoom. It then proceeds to taunt Crona about how she is the only one he can return to, visibly freaking the poor kid out.]]

* The manga has the Clown chapters where Maka is under a hallucination which starts out as a harmless-seeming flashback, filling in a couple of bits about her past. And then everyone falls down dead. Amidst the other Body Horror and Madness tropes, my worst/best bit of nightmare fuel in this series is seeing a little Maka trying to get her daddy to wake up.

** Why does he start suffering from madness? Well, the insanity clown that nearly took Maka complained that it didn't work on her, like it did someone else... Justin spends most of the series under MoreThanMindControl and, instead of Tezca [[PowerOfFriendship managing to save him]], kills at least two people he'd normally consider friends and [[spoiler: dies fighting against everything he once believed in]]. AndIMustScream, already, but does anyone ever figure out what really happened to him in-story? Not [[TearJerker on-screen, anyway]]. It's worth noting that the Clown/Clowns not being around is one of the major differences between the manga and anime, and Justin stays good in the anime. This might just be to keep the story compact enough to fit in it's 40ish episodes... or the people in charge of the anime adaptation agree with the above.

** Crona going berserk and [[spoiler:killing Medusa. It should be a CrowningMomentOfAwesome (don't lie, we all know the old witch didn't deserve to live), but the way it happens (Crona ranting about Medusa forcing hir to give up Maka, proceeding to hack Medusa to pieces with a completely blank expression and Medusa's massive SlasherSmile and the revelation that this was exactly what she wanted) makes it horrifying]].
** The entire sequence starting [[http://www.mangareader.net/soul-eater/87/18 here]]. Crossing over with TearJerker and AdultFear, it is perhaps the most horrifically realistic example of [[AbusiveParents child abuse]] in the series. Simply put, Medusa gives Crona a SadisticChoice; s/he either kills three bunnies in three different ways or ''starves''. Crona refuses to kill the bunnies, so Medusa locks hir in a room and refuses to give hir food for ''five days''. When Crona is finally let out, s/he is given the choice again. If s/he kills the bunnies s/he can eat. If s/he doesn't?

* The fact that, in order to put Ragnarok into Crona's body, Medusa literally had to ''[[AndIMustScream melt him down]]'' like he was an inanimate piece of metal, then mixed him with the black blood and injected him into Crona (who was drained of all his/her own blood). And this while he was apparently a ''child''. Exactly how terrifying and painful must it have been to go through all of that? It's surprising Ragnarok is just a Jerkass and not a mindless, bloodthirsty wretch.

* The bit where Spirit explains that there is a natural bond between the souls of parent and child leads up to a CMOA for him and Maka, but also a fair dose of Nightmare Fuel and Tearjerker for poor Crona. [[spoiler: Crona is horrified that zhe has apparently ''broken'' that bond by killing Medusa, and is even more convinced there's noone left for him/her.]] What's more, from the readers' perspective [[spoiler: it's quite clear the fault lies with Medusa alone, whose Thanatos Gambit was the result of a series-long endeavour to put her own child into a position of breaking that natural bond himself/herself in order to get the result Medusa wanted; a new avatar of Madness created of human suffering.]] It also emphasises why Spirit was so furious with Medusa. Along with him being a over-sensitive Doting Parent, he sees the witch's evil towards her own child as subversive, and ''truly'' unnatural.

* And let's not forget, from the anime, the town of Sarcophagus. The entire population of the town disappears with no trace or explanation. Later, it turns out that the people were EATEN by giant robotic clowns. Yeah...

* In the manga, Crona's [[spoiler:MagnificentBastard mother Medusa]] forced him to KILL A RABBIT IN ONE FLASHBACK. Back to the present, he's leaning over Maka, holding Ragnarok over her head, wearing his scariest face yet, Maka's head replaced by that of a rabbit.

* His name is Soul Eater. And he does. With great pleasure. And nobody sees anything wrong with it.

* Just the thought of what the [[PrecisionFStrike FUCK]] happened to Crona and Ragnarok to get Ragnarok melted with the black blood, and then replace ALL of Crona's original blood with that black blood. Not only that, but what about the effects? Because of the Black Blood, Crona would be literally 'cold-blooded'. He/She wouldn't give off that same human ''warmth'' that most people would. It would basically make Crona inhuman. It's no wonder Spirit was so pissed at Medusa for what she did.

* In the manga, Crona's [[spoiler:MagnificentBastard mother Medusa]] forced him/her to KILL A RABBIT IN ONE FLASHBACK. Back to the present, he/she's leaning over Maka, holding Ragnarok over his/her head, wearing his/her scariest face yet, Maka's head replaced by that of a rabbit.

** An extra bit of FridgeHorror accompanies Kid's temporary insanity as of chapter [[WhamEpisode 107]]. Asura is revealed [[spoiler: to have been created similarly to Kid from a fragment of Shinigami's "terror".]] Kid's descent into insanity focused solely on order because he was a fragment of Shinigami's obession with law. The ''same thing happened to Asura'', except that there seemed to be no one willing or able to bring him back to his senses and now it is almost certainly too late.

** Crona going berserk and [[spoiler:killing Medusa. It should be a CrowningMomentOfAwesome (don't lie, we all know the old witch didn't deserve to live), but the way it happens (Crona ranting about Medusa forcing hir to give up Maka, proceeding to hack Medusa to pieces with a completely blank expression and Medusa's massive SlasherSmile and the revelation that this was exactly what she wanted) makes it horrifying]].
** The entire sequence starting [[http://www.mangareader.net/soul-eater/87/18 here]]. Crossing over with TearJerker and AdultFear, it is perhaps the most horrifically realistic example of [[AbusiveParents child abuse]] in the series. Simply put, Medusa gives Crona a SadisticChoice; s/he either kills three bunnies in three different ways or ''starves''. Crona refuses to kill the bunnies, so Medusa locks hir in a room and refuses to give hir food for ''five days''. When Crona is finally let out, s/he is given the choice again. If s/he kills the bunnies s/he can eat. If s/he doesn't?

* The fact that, in order to put Ragnarok into Crona's body, Medusa literally had to ''[[AndIMustScream melt him down]]'' like he was an inanimate piece of metal, then mixed him with the black blood and injected him into Crona (who was drained of all his/her own blood). And this while he was apparently a ''child''. Exactly how terrifying and painful must it have been to go through all of that? It's surprising Ragnarok is just a Jerkass and not a mindless, bloodthirsty wretch.

* The bit where Spirit explains that there is a natural bond between the souls of parent and child leads up to a CMOA for him and Maka, but also a fair dose of Nightmare Fuel and Tearjerker for poor Crona. [[spoiler: Crona is horrified that zhe has apparently ''broken'' that bond by killing Medusa, and is even more convinced there's noone left for him/her.]] What's more, from the readers' perspective [[spoiler: it's quite clear the fault lies with Medusa alone, whose Thanatos Gambit was the result of a series-long endeavour to put her own child into a position of breaking that natural bond himself/herself in order to get the result Medusa wanted; a new avatar of Madness created of human suffering.]] It also emphasises why Spirit was so furious with Medusa. Along with him being a over-sensitive Doting Parent, he sees the witch's evil towards her own child as subversive, and ''truly'' unnatural.

* Here's one more reason to be afraid of the Moon. [[spoiler:The KISHIN is LIVING ON IT!]]

** Not to mention the [[UndeadChild ghost girl]] that Liz meets on the ship, who leads her back to Kid and Patty. [[spoiler: In the end when Crona uses Ragnarok to [[YourSoulIsMine vacuum all of the souls the Dutchman has captured]], she gets a cameo, telling Liz goodbye before being assimilated]]. Nightmare Fuel with a dash of TearJerker to go with it.
** In the anime, directly after Kid shows off his Mortal Sin stance in this episode, Crona turns Ragnarok back into his weapon form. There's a brief red flash, and if you pause it for those 6 or so frames, you can see ''all the souls inside Ragnarok screaming their heads off'' until they dissipate into green smoke.

** Everything Crona and Ragnarok. ''Everything''. Ragnarok manifests by ''tearing himself out of Crona's flesh''.
*** This counts in-universe as well. After Soul gets infected with the Black Blood, he has nightmares about bursting out of Maka's abdomen and killing her.

** As for him, so for the other Weapons. The manga more-so than the anime mentions that, while there are rules about which souls can be eaten, the origin of these rules--Lord Death--makes the whole business arguably suspect depending on how you view the Dumbledore-ish EldritchAbomination Grim Reaper. Mifune, for example, was said to be a legitimate target despite his peculiar circumstances (he only fought to protect Angela, a witch too young to be a threat to Shibusen or anyone else).
** At least this is the case in the manga. In the anime, Mifune is never suggested as being a target of soul collection. It's more an issue of the fact that (as of the Arachne arc) he works for the villain, so they were allowed to kill him if necessary, but taking his soul was off limits. In the manga, though, Lord Death totally suggests that Black☆Star should take Mifune's soul, as well as Angela's, right from the very beginning. (Though, to be fair, it's implied that he only suggested it because he knew Black☆Star wouldn't do it.)

** Why does he start suffering from madness? Well, the insanity clown that nearly took Maka complained that it didn't work on her, like it did someone else... Justin spends most of the series under MoreThanMindControl and, instead of Tezca [[PowerOfFriendship managing to save him]], kills at least two people he'd normally consider friends and [[spoiler: dies fighting against everything he once believed in]]. AndIMustScream, already, but does anyone ever figure out what really happened to him in-story? Not [[TearJerker on-screen, anyway]].

** A minor moment right after he's freed. Both Black☆Star and Kid try to take the newly-reborn Asura down, and his response is to... flick them. Gently. Which causes ''their faces to become completely concave'' for a brief moment, followed by blood gushing from their noses and mouths, taking them down for the count.

** "Remember how I said you were gonna be a hot piece of ass in ten years...? Well, shit! Why wait!? I got the urge to make you all slick an' gooey right now!!

* The bit where Spirit explains that there is a natural bond between the souls of parent and child leads up to a CMOA for him and Maka, but also a fair dose of Nightmare Fuel and Tearjerker for poor Crona. [[spoiler: Crona is horrified that zhe has apparently ''broken'' that bond by killing Medusa, and is even more convinced there's noone left for hir.]] What's more, from the readers' perspective [[spoiler: it's quite clear the fault lies with Medusa alone, whose Thanatos Gambit was the result of a series-long endeavour to put her own child into a position of breaking that natural bond ''hirself'' in order to get the result Medusa wanted; a new avatar of Madness created of human suffering.]] It also emphasises why Spirit was so furious with Medusa. Along with him being a over-sensitive Doting Parent, he sees the witch's evil towards her own child as subversive, and ''truly'' unnatural.

* In episode 39, when the meister and weapon teams are talking about the madness-afflicted Stein, Crona (who knows it's his fault) panics and runs from the group. He drops the things he was carrying, and when he bends over to pick them up [[spoiler: [[JumpScare A HALLUCINATION OF MEDUSA COMES RIGHT THE FUCK OUT OF NOWHERE BEHIND HIM,]] complete with ScareChord and GlowingEyesOfDoom. It then proceeds to taunt Crona about how she is the only one he can return to, visibly freaking the poor kid out.]]

*** While thematically the Power of Friendship/Love/Morality Pet thing fits, and has been shown to work for Stein, there's still the question of ''how far'' it works. What if something happens to Marie? What if something happens [[spoiler: to their child, because of Stein?]] Too much could go wrong. That being said, one of the general messages at the end of the series seems to have been that, where humans are concerned, a lot could go ''right'' as well.

** Just the sheer MindRape that Asura's madness can cause is the stuff of nightmares. There's no way to know when it'll strike, you can't stop it, it infects you and destroys your personality until there is nothing left, making you a danger to those around you and sometimes driving you to suicide. The music in those scenes, namely [[HellIsThatNoise "Victor"]], does not make things better.