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As one of the darkest comic books of TheNineties about a government assassin who came back from {{Hell}}, ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' it has some pretty scary stuff.
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As one of the darkest comic books of TheNineties about a government assassin who came back from {{Hell}}, ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' it has some pretty scary stuff.
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** TheFourHorsemenOfTheApocalypse. They don't look anything like their biblical counterparts, instead resembling something like a cross between {{Kaiju}} and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. And the death they leave in their wake is probably some of the most gruesome stuff in the comic yet. Even worse is that they're bonafide examples of HeroKiller, [[spoiler:killing Sam through slow starvation, eviscerating Twitch and his family, and killing Granny Blake after she's resurrected as an Angel forced to serve God.]]
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** TheFourHorsemenOfTheApocalypse. They don't look anything like their biblical counterparts, instead resembling something like a cross between {{Kaiju}} and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. And the death they leave in their wake is probably some of the most gruesome stuff in the comic yet. Even worse is that they're bonafide examples of HeroKiller, [[spoiler:killing killing Sam through slow starvation, eviscerating Twitch starvation and his family, and killing Granny Blake after she's resurrected as an Angel forced to serve God.]]swarming Twitch.
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* Let's start out with Spawn himself. In life, he was Al Simmons, a trained killer eliminating threats to the US government on orders from his diabolical and corrupt superior, Jason Wynn. He was already ''plenty'' scary back then, but then he came back as a [[BodyHorror burnt walking corpse]] with a hellborn parasite attached to him that gives him the powers of Hell itself, CastFromLifespan. He's not the nicest guy around, either, but he's the ''[[HorrifyingHero good guy]]'' here.
* '''Violator'''. One of Spawn's most enduring enemies, effectively being BewareTheSillyOnes incarnate who oscillates between being a crass and perverted jokester and ButtMonkey to the violent and sadistic demon he really is. Getting tired of Spawn's interference, Violator [[HiackedByGanon took control over Jason Wynn]] and has him hire prostitutes that looked like Wanda and then murder them. Violator then used his powers to turn random citizens into "clowns" using a supernatural HatePlague, which made them extremely homicidal, and has them go on a violent rampage throughout NYC, resulting in massive property damage and several deaths. The stress of the carnage and having to MercyKill several of the clowns possessed victims temporarily drove Spawn to a HeroicBSOD.
* '''Violator'''. One of Spawn's most enduring enemies, effectively being BewareTheSillyOnes incarnate who oscillates between being a crass and perverted jokester and ButtMonkey to the violent and sadistic demon he really is. Getting tired of Spawn's interference, Violator [[HiackedByGanon took control over Jason Wynn]] and has him hire prostitutes that looked like Wanda and then murder them. Violator then used his powers to turn random citizens into "clowns" using a supernatural HatePlague, which made them extremely homicidal, and has them go on a violent rampage throughout NYC, resulting in massive property damage and several deaths. The stress of the carnage and having to MercyKill several of the clowns possessed victims temporarily drove Spawn to a HeroicBSOD.
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* Let's start out with Spawn himself. In life, he was Al Simmons, a trained killer eliminating threats to the US government on orders from his diabolical and corrupt superior, Jason Wynn. He was already ''plenty'' scary back then, but then he came back as a [[BodyHorror burnt walking corpse]] with a hellborn parasite attached to him that gives him the powers of Hell itself, CastFromLifespan.CastFromLifespan which will send him back to Hell for eternal slavery when the cast hits zero. He's not the nicest guy around, either, but he's the ''[[HorrifyingHero good guy]]'' here.
* '''Violator'''. One of Spawn's most enduring enemies, effectively being BewareTheSillyOnes incarnate who oscillates between being a crass and perverted jokester and ButtMonkey to the violent and sadistic demon he really is. Getting tired of Spawn's interference, Violator[[HiackedByGanon [[HijackedByGanon took control over Jason Wynn]] and has him hire prostitutes that looked like Wanda and then murder them. Violator then used his powers to turn random citizens into "clowns" using a supernatural HatePlague, which made them extremely homicidal, and has them go on a violent rampage throughout NYC, resulting in massive property damage and several deaths. The stress of the carnage and having to MercyKill several of the clowns possessed victims temporarily drove Spawn to a HeroicBSOD.
* '''Violator'''. One of Spawn's most enduring enemies, effectively being BewareTheSillyOnes incarnate who oscillates between being a crass and perverted jokester and ButtMonkey to the violent and sadistic demon he really is. Getting tired of Spawn's interference, Violator
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* '''Violator'''. One of Spawn's most enduring enemies, effectively being BewareTheSillyOnes incarnate who oscillates between being a crass and perverted jokester and ButtMonkey to the violent and sadistic demon he really is. Getting tired of Spawn's interference, Violator [[HiackedByGanon took control over Jason Wynn]] and has him hire prostitutes that looked like Wanda and then murder them. Violator then used his powers to turn random citizens into "clowns" using a supernatural HatePlague, which made them extremely homicidal, and has them go on a violent rampage throughout NYC, resulting in massive property damage and several deaths. The stress of the carnage and having to MercyKill several of the clowns possessed victims temporarily drove Spawn to a HeroicBSOD.
* Billy Kincaid, who's even worse in death than he was in life and in life he was an unrepentant pedophile and child SerialKiller. After his earned death and rebirth in Hell, Kincaid happily accepted a task from Hell to gather more souls for their army and the chance to stick it to Spawn. Using the Diabolus Interium curse, Kincaid possessed innocent people and made them act out their worse impulses, forcing them to commit murders, resulting in dozens of innocent lives lost and the damnation of those people to Hell while Kincaid got stronger tormenting the damned souls. After Malebolgia was killed by Spawn, Billy Kincaid started acting on his own, making a hobby out of torturing the souls of children and continued to return to torment the soul of one of Spawn's allies.
* Billy Kincaid, who's even worse in death than he was in life and in life he was an unrepentant pedophile and child SerialKiller. After his earned death and rebirth in Hell, Kincaid happily accepted a task from Hell to gather more souls for their army and the chance to stick it to Spawn. Using the Diabolus Interium curse, Kincaid possessed innocent people and made them act out their worse impulses, forcing them to commit murders, resulting in dozens of innocent lives lost and the damnation of those people to Hell while Kincaid got stronger tormenting the damned souls. After Malebolgia was killed by Spawn, Billy Kincaid started acting on his own, making a hobby out of torturing the souls of children and continued to return to torment the soul of one of Spawn's allies.
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** TheFourHorsemenOfTheApocalypse. They don't look anything like their biblical counterparts, instead resembling something like a cross between {{Kaiju}} and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. And the death they leave in their wake is probably some of the most gruesome stuff in the comic yet.
* The ''Voice Hearers'' arc, set shortly after Armageddon has come to pass, once Spawn has used his newfound godly power to recreate the Earth, bringing back everyone who died, closing the portals to both Heaven and Hell, things still haven't improved much. If anything, they've steadily gotten worse, both with an even grittier ArtShift, and with Clown corrupting the tenants of a filthy apartment into acting out on their worst impulses.
* The ''Voice Hearers'' arc, set shortly after Armageddon has come to pass, once Spawn has used his newfound godly power to recreate the Earth, bringing back everyone who died, closing the portals to both Heaven and Hell, things still haven't improved much. If anything, they've steadily gotten worse, both with an even grittier ArtShift, and with Clown corrupting the tenants of a filthy apartment into acting out on their worst impulses.
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** TheFourHorsemenOfTheApocalypse. They don't look anything like their biblical counterparts, instead resembling something like a cross between {{Kaiju}} and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. And the death they leave in their wake is probably some of the most gruesome stuff in the comic yet.
yet. Even worse is that they're bonafide examples of HeroKiller, [[spoiler:killing Sam through slow starvation, eviscerating Twitch and his family, and killing Granny Blake after she's resurrected as an Angel forced to serve God.]]
* The ''Voice Hearers'' arc, set shortly after Armageddon has come to pass, once Spawn has used his newfound godly power to recreate the Earth, bringing back everyone who died, closing the portals to both Heaven and Hell, things still haven't improved much. Especially since Spawn made sure everyone kept their memories of the Apocalypse, forcing much of humanity to act in denial and believe the entire Armageddon arc was a mass hallucination even to stay remotely sane. If anything, they've steadily gotten worse, both with an even grittier ArtShift, and with Clown back in action and corrupting the tenants of a filthy apartment into acting out on their worst impulses.
* The ''Voice Hearers'' arc, set shortly after Armageddon has come to pass, once Spawn has used his newfound godly power to recreate the Earth, bringing back everyone who died, closing the portals to both Heaven and Hell, things still haven't improved much. Especially since Spawn made sure everyone kept their memories of the Apocalypse, forcing much of humanity to act in denial and believe the entire Armageddon arc was a mass hallucination even to stay remotely sane. If anything, they've steadily gotten worse, both with an even grittier ArtShift, and with Clown back in action and corrupting the tenants of a filthy apartment into acting out on their worst impulses.
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As one of the darkest comic books of TheNineties about a government assassin who came back from {{Hell}}, ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' and its [[WesternAnimation/{{Spawn}} animated adaptation]] has some pretty scary stuff.
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As one of the darkest comic books of TheNineties about a government assassin who came back from {{Hell}}, ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' and its [[WesternAnimation/{{Spawn}} animated adaptation]] it has some pretty scary stuff.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Such a sweet boy.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Such a sweet boy.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Such a sweet boy.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Such a sweet boy.]]
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** A beautiful tenant named Celia [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Eddowes]] has a bad habit of chewing at her fingers, but Clown manages to make it worse by goading her to keep chewing away. It all culminates in her ''peeling off her own skin with a knife'', telling her boyfriend that she "had to see what was underneath".
!!The HBO series:
* Violator's transformation (which depicts him as tearing through the body he has like its paper) and CreepyMonotone arguably make him more terrifying here than in the comics.
* Some of the human villains also count. Namely, Billy Kincaid. Especially when he kidnaps Cyan. His dialogue and behavior when he's talking to her makes him sound like a child molester. Not helped by the eerie echo his voice has.....
-->'''Billy Kincaid:''' Time to have that ice cream. Such a pretty one. Do you like the music? I like the music very much. Would you like to you dance? Just you and me. But first...I scream, you scream. We all scream for ice cream! Chocolate pecan, strawberry whirl! All...very good!
* Spawn himself is even more terrifying than he is in the comics. When he first shows up, he hovers in the air, his cape and chains resembling CombatTentacles, and he proceeds to brutally dispatch the mobsters in the alleyway before letting the reporter go. But the reporter — soaked in gasoline — doesn't listen, and fires a gun at him, promptly and graphically catching on fire and burning to death.
* One episode has a serial killer who's picking off minorities, all while being apologetic to his victims, reassuring them that it's not their fault that they were born the way they were and he doesn't hold anything against them personally. And this is all before he lynches them and leaves them to join the rest of the rotting corpses in his lair.
!!The HBO series:
* Violator's transformation (which depicts him as tearing through the body he has like its paper) and CreepyMonotone arguably make him more terrifying here than in the comics.
* Some of the human villains also count. Namely, Billy Kincaid. Especially when he kidnaps Cyan. His dialogue and behavior when he's talking to her makes him sound like a child molester. Not helped by the eerie echo his voice has.....
-->'''Billy Kincaid:''' Time to have that ice cream. Such a pretty one. Do you like the music? I like the music very much. Would you like to you dance? Just you and me. But first...I scream, you scream. We all scream for ice cream! Chocolate pecan, strawberry whirl! All...very good!
* Spawn himself is even more terrifying than he is in the comics. When he first shows up, he hovers in the air, his cape and chains resembling CombatTentacles, and he proceeds to brutally dispatch the mobsters in the alleyway before letting the reporter go. But the reporter — soaked in gasoline — doesn't listen, and fires a gun at him, promptly and graphically catching on fire and burning to death.
* One episode has a serial killer who's picking off minorities, all while being apologetic to his victims, reassuring them that it's not their fault that they were born the way they were and he doesn't hold anything against them personally. And this is all before he lynches them and leaves them to join the rest of the rotting corpses in his lair.
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** A beautiful tenant named Celia [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Eddowes]] has a bad habit of chewing at her fingers, but Clown manages to make it worse by goading her to keep chewing away. It all culminates in her ''peeling off her own skin with a knife'', telling her boyfriend that she "had to see what was underneath".
!!The HBO series:
* Violator's transformation (which depicts him as tearing through the body he has like its paper) and CreepyMonotone arguably make him more terrifying here than in the comics.
* Some of the human villains also count. Namely, Billy Kincaid. Especially when he kidnaps Cyan. His dialogue and behavior when he's talking to her makes him sound like a child molester. Not helped by the eerie echo his voice has.....
-->'''Billy Kincaid:''' Time to have that ice cream. Such a pretty one. Do you like the music? I like the music very much. Would you like to you dance? Just you and me. But first...I scream, you scream. We all scream for ice cream! Chocolate pecan, strawberry whirl! All...very good!
* Spawn himself is even more terrifying than he is in the comics. When he first shows up, he hovers in the air, his cape and chains resembling CombatTentacles, and he proceeds to brutally dispatch the mobsters in the alleyway before letting the reporter go. But the reporter — soaked in gasoline — doesn't listen, and fires a gun at him, promptly and graphically catching on fire and burning to death.
* One episode has a serial killer who's picking off minorities, all while being apologetic to his victims, reassuring them that it's not their fault that they were born the way they were and he doesn't hold anything against them personally. And this is all before he lynches them and leaves them to join the rest of the rotting corpses in his lair.underneath".
!!The HBO series:
* Violator's transformation (which depicts him as tearing through the body he has like its paper) and CreepyMonotone arguably make him more terrifying here than in the comics.
* Some of the human villains also count. Namely, Billy Kincaid. Especially when he kidnaps Cyan. His dialogue and behavior when he's talking to her makes him sound like a child molester. Not helped by the eerie echo his voice has.....
-->'''Billy Kincaid:''' Time to have that ice cream. Such a pretty one. Do you like the music? I like the music very much. Would you like to you dance? Just you and me. But first...I scream, you scream. We all scream for ice cream! Chocolate pecan, strawberry whirl! All...very good!
* Spawn himself is even more terrifying than he is in the comics. When he first shows up, he hovers in the air, his cape and chains resembling CombatTentacles, and he proceeds to brutally dispatch the mobsters in the alleyway before letting the reporter go. But the reporter — soaked in gasoline — doesn't listen, and fires a gun at him, promptly and graphically catching on fire and burning to death.
* One episode has a serial killer who's picking off minorities, all while being apologetic to his victims, reassuring them that it's not their fault that they were born the way they were and he doesn't hold anything against them personally. And this is all before he lynches them and leaves them to join the rest of the rotting corpses in his lair.
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Symbiotes and demons are two different species, but they're both from Hell.
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* Let's start out with Spawn himself. In life, he was Al Simmons, a trained killer eliminating threats to the US government on orders from his diabolical and corrupt superior, Jason Wynn. He was already ''plenty'' scary back then, but then he came back as a [[BodyHorror burnt walking corpse]] with a demonic parasite attached to him that gives him the powers of Hell itself, CastFromLifespan. He's not the nicest guy around, either, but he's the ''[[HorrifyingHero good guy]]'' here.
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* Let's start out with Spawn himself. In life, he was Al Simmons, a trained killer eliminating threats to the US government on orders from his diabolical and corrupt superior, Jason Wynn. He was already ''plenty'' scary back then, but then he came back as a [[BodyHorror burnt walking corpse]] with a demonic hellborn parasite attached to him that gives him the powers of Hell itself, CastFromLifespan. He's not the nicest guy around, either, but he's the ''[[HorrifyingHero good guy]]'' here.
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* Violator's transformation (which depicts him as tearing through the body he has like its paper) and Creepy Monotone arguably make him more terrifying here than in the comics.
* Some of the human villains also count. Namely, Billy Kincaid. Especially when he kidnaps Cyan. His dialogue and behavior when he's talking to her make's him sound like a child molester. Not helped by the eerie echo his voice has.....
* Some of the human villains also count. Namely, Billy Kincaid. Especially when he kidnaps Cyan. His dialogue and behavior when he's talking to her make's him sound like a child molester. Not helped by the eerie echo his voice has.....
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* Violator's transformation (which depicts him as tearing through the body he has like its paper) and Creepy Monotone CreepyMonotone arguably make him more terrifying here than in the comics.
* Some of the human villains also count. Namely, Billy Kincaid. Especially when he kidnaps Cyan. His dialogue and behavior when he's talking to hermake's makes him sound like a child molester. Not helped by the eerie echo his voice has.....
* Some of the human villains also count. Namely, Billy Kincaid. Especially when he kidnaps Cyan. His dialogue and behavior when he's talking to her
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* Hell, even Spawn gets one in the animated series, he basically had Chapel, his former partner and killer, dead to rights and Chapel realizing who Spawn is, tried to commit suicide, but fails since his gun has no bullets left. Chapel literally begs Spawn to kill him, knowing what he learned will forever haunt him, what does Spawn do? He let Chapel live, leaving him to wander away crying, knowing that death would have been kinder.
--> '''Chapel:''' Kill me... KILL me, Finish It! There's no going back.\\
'''Spawn:''' No. I'm going to let you live, longer than you like.
--> '''Chapel:''' Kill me... KILL me, Finish It! There's no going back.\\
'''Spawn:''' No. I'm going to let you live, longer than you like.
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* Hell, even Spawn gets one himself is even more terrifying than he is in the animated series, comics. When he basically had Chapel, first shows up, he hovers in the air, his former partner cape and killer, dead to rights chains resembling CombatTentacles, and Chapel realizing who Spawn is, tried he proceeds to commit suicide, but fails since his brutally dispatch the mobsters in the alleyway before letting the reporter go. But the reporter — soaked in gasoline — doesn't listen, and fires a gun has no bullets left. Chapel literally begs Spawn to kill at him, knowing what he learned will forever haunt him, what does Spawn do? He let Chapel live, leaving him promptly and graphically catching on fire and burning to wander away crying, knowing death.
* One episode has a serial killer who's picking off minorities, all while being apologetic to his victims, reassuring them thatdeath would have been kinder.
--> '''Chapel:''' Kill me... KILL me, Finish It! There's no going back.\\
'''Spawn:''' No. I'm goingit's not their fault that they were born the way they were and he doesn't hold anything against them personally. And this is all before he lynches them and leaves them to let you live, longer than you like.join the rest of the rotting corpses in his lair.
* One episode has a serial killer who's picking off minorities, all while being apologetic to his victims, reassuring them that
--> '''Chapel:''' Kill me... KILL me, Finish It! There's no going back.\\
'''Spawn:''' No. I'm going
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-->'''Billy Kincaid:''' Time to have that ice cream. Such a pretty one. Do you like the music? I like the music very much. Would you like to you dance? Just you and me. But first...I scream, you scream. We all scream for ice cream! Chocolate pecan, strawberry whirl! All...very good!\\
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-->'''Billy Kincaid:''' Time to have that ice cream. Such a pretty one. Do you like the music? I like the music very much. Would you like to you dance? Just you and me. But first...I scream, you scream. We all scream for ice cream! Chocolate pecan, strawberry whirl! All...very good!\\good!
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'''Chapel:''' Kill me... KILL me, Finish It! There's no going back.
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--> '''Chapel:''' Kill me... KILL me, Finish It! There's no going back.\\
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As one of the darkest comic books of TheNineties about a government assassin who came back from {{Hell}}, ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' and its [[WesternAnimation/{{Spawn}} animated adaptation]] has some pretty scary stuff.
'''As per Wiki Policy, spoilers are off on moments pages. You've been warned.'''
!!The Comic:
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xpqx023.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Such a sweet boy.]]
* Let's start out with Spawn himself. In life, he was Al Simmons, a trained killer eliminating threats to the US government on orders from his diabolical and corrupt superior, Jason Wynn. He was already ''plenty'' scary back then, but then he came back as a [[BodyHorror burnt walking corpse]] with a demonic parasite attached to him that gives him the powers of Hell itself, CastFromLifespan. He's not the nicest guy around, either, but he's the ''[[HorrifyingHero good guy]]'' here.
* The Armageddon arc. This was the series' first ArtShift in a while, giving it a far grittier appearance than previous issues. Even Spawn, who had been temporarily been given back his human appearance, has changed. Now he's not just a burnt corpse, he's fused with his costume, giving him a mouth full of sharp teeth, and his head is ''burrowing with insects that speak to him.''
** It's based on the biblical depiction of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, complete with rivers of blood, swarms of frogs with mouths on their bellies, zombies, and all the monsters known to man being spotted across the globe.
** Wanda's new children have turned out to be monsters. They regularly get into fights, delivering wounds that would prove to fatal to any normal human being, tormenting Cyan, and finally attempting to kill their family members. And this is all ''before'' they find out that they're the human hosts for [[GodAndSatanAreBothJerks God and Satan]], with much of their monstrous pastimes coinciding with the carnage spreading across the globe.
** TheFourHorsemenOfTheApocalypse. They don't look anything like their biblical counterparts, instead resembling something like a cross between {{Kaiju}} and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. And the death they leave in their wake is probably some of the most gruesome stuff in the comic yet.
* The ''Voice Hearers'' arc, set shortly after Armageddon has come to pass, once Spawn has used his newfound godly power to recreate the Earth, bringing back everyone who died, closing the portals to both Heaven and Hell, things still haven't improved much. If anything, they've steadily gotten worse, both with an even grittier ArtShift, and with Clown corrupting the tenants of a filthy apartment into acting out on their worst impulses.
** To start with, a man beat his roommate to a bloody pulp with a statuette [[DisproportionateRetribution for leaving the cap for his toothpaste off]].
** A beautiful tenant named Celia [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Eddowes]] has a bad habit of chewing at her fingers, but Clown manages to make it worse by goading her to keep chewing away. It all culminates in her ''peeling off her own skin with a knife'', telling her boyfriend that she "had to see what was underneath".
!!The HBO series:
* Violator's transformation (which depicts him as tearing through the body he has like its paper) and Creepy Monotone arguably make him more terrifying here than in the comics.
* Some of the human villains also count. Namely, Billy Kincaid. Especially when he kidnaps Cyan. His dialogue and behavior when he's talking to her make's him sound like a child molester. Not helped by the eerie echo his voice has.....
-->'''Billy Kincaid:''' Time to have that ice cream. Such a pretty one. Do you like the music? I like the music very much. Would you like to you dance? Just you and me. But first...I scream, you scream. We all scream for ice cream! Chocolate pecan, strawberry whirl! All...very good!\\
* Hell, even Spawn gets one in the animated series, he basically had Chapel, his former partner and killer, dead to rights and Chapel realizing who Spawn is, tried to commit suicide, but fails since his gun has no bullets left. Chapel literally begs Spawn to kill him, knowing what he learned will forever haunt him, what does Spawn do? He let Chapel live, leaving him to wander away crying, knowing that death would have been kinder.
'''Chapel:''' Kill me... KILL me, Finish It! There's no going back.
'''Spawn:''' No. I'm going to let you live, longer than you like.
'''As per Wiki Policy, spoilers are off on moments pages. You've been warned.'''
!!The Comic:
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xpqx023.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Such a sweet boy.]]
* Let's start out with Spawn himself. In life, he was Al Simmons, a trained killer eliminating threats to the US government on orders from his diabolical and corrupt superior, Jason Wynn. He was already ''plenty'' scary back then, but then he came back as a [[BodyHorror burnt walking corpse]] with a demonic parasite attached to him that gives him the powers of Hell itself, CastFromLifespan. He's not the nicest guy around, either, but he's the ''[[HorrifyingHero good guy]]'' here.
* The Armageddon arc. This was the series' first ArtShift in a while, giving it a far grittier appearance than previous issues. Even Spawn, who had been temporarily been given back his human appearance, has changed. Now he's not just a burnt corpse, he's fused with his costume, giving him a mouth full of sharp teeth, and his head is ''burrowing with insects that speak to him.''
** It's based on the biblical depiction of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, complete with rivers of blood, swarms of frogs with mouths on their bellies, zombies, and all the monsters known to man being spotted across the globe.
** Wanda's new children have turned out to be monsters. They regularly get into fights, delivering wounds that would prove to fatal to any normal human being, tormenting Cyan, and finally attempting to kill their family members. And this is all ''before'' they find out that they're the human hosts for [[GodAndSatanAreBothJerks God and Satan]], with much of their monstrous pastimes coinciding with the carnage spreading across the globe.
** TheFourHorsemenOfTheApocalypse. They don't look anything like their biblical counterparts, instead resembling something like a cross between {{Kaiju}} and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. And the death they leave in their wake is probably some of the most gruesome stuff in the comic yet.
* The ''Voice Hearers'' arc, set shortly after Armageddon has come to pass, once Spawn has used his newfound godly power to recreate the Earth, bringing back everyone who died, closing the portals to both Heaven and Hell, things still haven't improved much. If anything, they've steadily gotten worse, both with an even grittier ArtShift, and with Clown corrupting the tenants of a filthy apartment into acting out on their worst impulses.
** To start with, a man beat his roommate to a bloody pulp with a statuette [[DisproportionateRetribution for leaving the cap for his toothpaste off]].
** A beautiful tenant named Celia [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Eddowes]] has a bad habit of chewing at her fingers, but Clown manages to make it worse by goading her to keep chewing away. It all culminates in her ''peeling off her own skin with a knife'', telling her boyfriend that she "had to see what was underneath".
!!The HBO series:
* Violator's transformation (which depicts him as tearing through the body he has like its paper) and Creepy Monotone arguably make him more terrifying here than in the comics.
* Some of the human villains also count. Namely, Billy Kincaid. Especially when he kidnaps Cyan. His dialogue and behavior when he's talking to her make's him sound like a child molester. Not helped by the eerie echo his voice has.....
-->'''Billy Kincaid:''' Time to have that ice cream. Such a pretty one. Do you like the music? I like the music very much. Would you like to you dance? Just you and me. But first...I scream, you scream. We all scream for ice cream! Chocolate pecan, strawberry whirl! All...very good!\\
* Hell, even Spawn gets one in the animated series, he basically had Chapel, his former partner and killer, dead to rights and Chapel realizing who Spawn is, tried to commit suicide, but fails since his gun has no bullets left. Chapel literally begs Spawn to kill him, knowing what he learned will forever haunt him, what does Spawn do? He let Chapel live, leaving him to wander away crying, knowing that death would have been kinder.
'''Chapel:''' Kill me... KILL me, Finish It! There's no going back.
'''Spawn:''' No. I'm going to let you live, longer than you like.
