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* The stories set in Hell is more than a little frightening. We have Anton Arcane's torment mentioned down below but beyond that, we see corpses impaled on giant hypothermic needles, nasty demons that go far beyond the more traditional descriptions, mutilations, rape, and more.
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* Alan Moore's description of the ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' in his crossover issue gets to the heart of just how terrifying such a thing would be:
--> ''It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, and it was '''all of them at once'''.''
--> ''It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, and it was '''all of them at once'''.''
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*** Abby's reaction also belongs here: after increasingly hysterical attempts to wash herself clean of Matt/Anton's touch, she tries to scrape it off with a ''[[OutDamnedSpot wire brush]]''.
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* Abby and The Swamp Thing's baby by way of Constantine, Tefe, decomposes into the ground while mimicking her new Swamp Thing daddy entry into the Green, causing her soul to drift into Hell while her body is left behind to break apart and die in front of Abby's eyes. While Swamp Thing goes to Hell to rescue Tefe's soul, Abby is seen cradling her daughter's decomposing viscera mess of body in her arms, traumatically weeping before putting it in a bag. The sheer trauma of the event is UpToEleven nightmare fuel for any parent with an infant.
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* Abby and The Swamp Thing's baby by way of Constantine, Tefe, decomposes into the ground while mimicking her new Swamp Thing daddy entry into the Green, causing her soul to drift into Hell while her body is left behind to break apart and die in front of Abby's eyes. While Swamp Thing goes to Hell to rescue Tefe's soul, Abby is seen cradling her daughter's decomposing viscera mess of body in her arms, traumatically weeping before putting it in a bag. The sheer trauma of the event is UpToEleven up to eleven nightmare fuel for any parent with an infant.
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* There's also the bit at the end of Moore's run on the series where a CorruptCorporateExecutive responsible for disrupting Swamp Thing's connection to the Green, effectively killing him for a while, makes the mistake of eating a sandwich with lettuce as Swamp Thing's consciousness returns to Earth.
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* There's also the bit at the end of Moore's run on the series where a CorruptCorporateExecutive responsible for disrupting Swamp Thing's connection to the Green, effectively killing him for a while, makes the mistake of eating a sandwich with lettuce tomatoes as Swamp Thing's consciousness returns to Earth.
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* "The Tomorrow Children" showcases humanity's capacity for prejudice and cruelty at its most extreme, shifting between this and TearJerker/SwampThing.
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--->And she thinks, "How long have I been married to...?" And she thinks "How many times did...?" And she knows what the bad thing is, and where that stench is coming from. It's her... She ripped all of her clothes off, tearing them up. They were dirty. They'd touched her skin. She tried to burn them, but her hands were shaking and the matches kept going out. In truth, she was a little crazy by this time. It was the smell. She couldn't get rid of the smell. In the shower she used up all of the soap, the shampoo, the bubblebath, the perfume... the smell was still there. Have you ever burned an insect with a magnifying glass? Just once, long ago, when you were a kid and didn't know any better? There. You know it. You know the smell. When the soap wouldn't get rid of it, she went to the kitchen and fetched the wire brush that she used for scraping the potatoes... twenty minutes later she passed out. Twenty whole minutes. Even then she could still smell it. She could smell it in her dreams.
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--->She ripped all of her clothes off, tearing them up. They were dirty. They'd touched her skin. She tried to burn them, but her hands were shaking and the matches kept going out. In truth, she was a little crazy by this time. It was the smell. She couldn't get rid of the smell. In the shower she used up all of the soap, the shampoo, the bubblebath, the perfume... the smell was still there. Have you ever burned an insect with a magnifying glass? Just once, long ago, when you were a kid and didn't know any better? There. You know it. You know the smell. When the soap wouldn't get rid of it, she went to the kitchen and fetched the wire brush that she used for scraping the potatoes... twenty minutes later she passed out. Twenty whole minutes. Even then she could still smell it. She could smell it in her dreams.
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!!The Bronze Age
* The original story that started it all in ''The House of Secrets #92'' is a true GothicHorror classic. There's no MadScientist here, no hidden conspiracy, just a best friend consumed by his own jealousy and lust for a man's wife, to the point he sabotages his friend's lab and then smuggles the unconscious victim out into the nearby swamp and [[BuriedAlive buried the still-living man alive]]. The end sequence, where the Swamp Thing bursts in and chokes the life from the murderous Damian to stop him from killing the Swamp Thing's former wife, is as terrifying as it is [[TearJerker/SwampThing tragic]].
* Our first introduction to Anton Arcane's servants, the Un-Men; nightmarish homunculi crafted from either alchemy or dead flesh in forms so twisted and warped that even [[Film/{{Reanimator}} Dr. Herbert West]] would consider it excessive. Perhaps the most grotesque is their leader-figure, Craniac; a ''disembodied brain with a human face on it'', the malformed organ subsequently mounted on a single oversized human hand so it can crawl/drag itself along by its fingers.
* Anton showing Swamp Thing his other experiments, a room full of disfigured, decaying zombies.
* When Anton Arcane falls to his apparent death, the Un-Men watch for a moment, and then swarm to follow him, raising two equally horrifying thoughts: either they are ''that'' loyal to him that they cannot help but be compelled to commit obvious suicide... or being a Patchwork Man is so horrible that granting them freedom resulted in them choosing to commit suicide to the last.
* Our first introduction to Anton's brother, Gregori; prior to any of the future retcons, he's a mute, brain-damaged FrankensteinsMonster... and Anton turned him into this as a ''kindness'' because he was trying to save Gregori's life, after Gregori wandered into a minefield and blew himself up.
* In "Monster on the Moors!", we have the [=MacCobb=] family. Desperate to save their son Ian from his cursed life as a werewolf, Scottish Angus and Jenna create a false landing strip to lure planes to try and land in their isolated highland home, hoping to capture a survivor from the inevitable crash and perform a total blood transfusion on their son, transferring his curse to a new host. They care nothing for the misery this will inflict on the victim of the procedure, nor of the casualties that amass until they finally manage to capture living survivors.
** Ian as a werewolf is also a terrifying figure, shown to not just be a mindless beast, but a cunning and actively sadistic predator that enjoys tormenting its victims before the kill.
* "The Last of the Ravenwind Witches!" has the town of Divinity, Maine, where a modern day witch-hunt has engulfed the few remaining occupants of the pitiful little scrabbling town. The murderous ferver is egged on by the town's leader, Gideon, who is convinced that local girl Rebecca Ravenwind is the last witch in a family who cursed his own line to be born with only a single functioning leg. Dragged before a KangarooCourt, on the strength of such crimes as being born a Ravenwind, keeping herself away from the other locals, talking to animals, having a flourishing garden, and living in Divinity when Gideon's son was born with a missing leg, Rebecca is swiftly condemned to be [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]].
** Then the revelation at the climax: Rebecca isn't a witch... but her mentally handicapped brother Timothy ''is''. Rebecca is merely his familiar, the conduit for Timothy's powers. Denouncing the people of Divinity as ignorant, bloodthirsty, backwards savages, she ends their cruelty once and for all by turning every man, woman and child [[AndIMustScream into a simple flower]]. Thanking Swamp Thing for his kindness towards them, the last Ravenwinds leave the now-empty town to head to Boston.
* At the climax of "A Clockwork Horror", driven utterly mad with rage and grief at their beloved creator Hans Klochmann's brutal murder at the agents of the Conclave, the clockwork people of Burgess betray their creator's fervent wish to be free of man's dark impulses by closing in on the gunmen in a frenzied mob, sacrificing their lives to tear the terrified humans limb from limb with their own bare hands.
* "The Lurker in Tunnel 13" opens with Swamp Thing stumbling across an old man being mauled to death by a bear in a cave. He kills the beast and tries to help the old man, but is too late. With his last breath, the old man explains he escaped from a nearby mining town called Perdition, and warns Swamp Thing to stay away: when the mines ran dry, his father tried to revive the town through dark sorcery, only to vanish with nothing more than a hellish scream that echoed deep out of the mine. Ever since then, more and more people have vanished, and the town lies under a suffocating veil of fear. This is just the start of the creepiness.
** The behavior of the people of Perdition, who go from attacking Swamp Thing to apologizing and inviting him into a party with sudden swiftness. Then there's their eerie, unnatural behavior during the party.
** Swamp Thing's face-to-face confrontation with the cause behind Perdition's problems; the EldritchAbomination M'Nagalah, a writhing, suppurating mass of pulsing flesh, organs, tentacles and eyes, speaking in tones that Swamp Thing likens to "a guttural whisper from beyond the grave, like a flesh-curdling '''hissing''' out of hell..."
** The descriptive text could come straight out of a story by Creator/HPLovecraft:
-->'''He''' is '''satisfied'''... '''most''' satisfied... for '''He''' is M'Nagalah... and he lives... Dear, dear God in Heaven... '''He LIVES!!!'''
** M'Nagalah claims to have spawned life on Earth, and to have bestowed humanity with the "gift" of its capacity for mindless violence. He claims that the works of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, Creator/AmbroseBierce and Creator/HPLovecraft were all the result of his brushing their minds.
** M'Nagalah was locked away amongst the distant stars, until the foolish sorcerer Abraham Monroe summoned him to earth. He manifested as a cancerous growth on Abraham's arm, then devoured him whole, absorbing his summoner's mind and mass and subsuming them into himself. Ever since then, he has sought only to feed, to grow with the flesh and minds of every human and animal he can reach. Why? Because [[WhenThePlanetsAlign the stars will soon be right]], and if M'Nagalah can achieve his full physical form before then, he will be able to use the arcane circuit that will create to become the master of all that is.
** The very last panel shows Jason, grandson of Abraham, scratching at a very unhealthy looking arm -- one sporting a very ''familiar'' growth. The narrator's final speech bubble is "It's '''never''' over!", followed by "The End?"
* "The Man Who Would Not Die!":
** The story of Samson Parminter, a slave owner whose cruelty and depravity stood out even amongst those of his era. One of his favorite "amusements" was to have disobedient slaves literally torn limb from limb, fastening ropes or chains around their arms or legs before having strong men pull on the bindings until the victim's limbs were torn from their sockets and they bled to death. When he decided he wanted to bed one of his female slaves named Elspeth, but she refused because she was promised to wed one of his male slaves, he had her torn apart this way. When Elspeth's intended husband, Black Jubal, who had lost his arm to Parminter's "games" when he was a child, stood up and denounced the monster, Parminter had him burned at the stake. Jubal died cursing Parminter, vowing that he and his breed would pay in kind for their sins. Initially, Parminter got even crueler... but then ''something'' rose up in the middle of the night and came to Parminter's home. When people came running to investigate the "unhuman agonized screaming", they found Parminter had been ripped to pieces and scattered through the house.
** The Un-Men return, and with them their creator, Anton Arcane, who has been placed into one of their bodies to survive.
** Anton's new Un-Man body; a misshapen, ape-ish ghoul, with one disproportionately long arm, a missing eye, hunched back, missing nose, lipless mouth, twisted, jutting jaws and gnarled fangs.
** At the climax of Anton and Swamp Thing's battle, they are interrupted by an unexpected party: the vengeful ghosts of the slaves who died on Samson Parminter's estate. Swamp Thing is spelled into unconsciousness, whilst the ghosts turn to the Un-Men and tear them apart before burying them in the old slave graveyard.
** The very last panel of the story has Swamp Thing's departure being watched by a hideous ''thing''; somewhere between a snake, a caterpillar and a disembodied octopus tentacle.
* "The Conqueror Worms!":
** The comic opens with Swamp Thing discovering his body is starting to put down roots if he stays in one place too long.
** The titular worms; giant, slithering things with grotesque faces, combining disturbingly human eyes, pinching mandibles framed by writhing cilia, a bizarre "third eye" like orifice that can discharge psionic blasts, and short, elephantine trunks.
** The madman, Professor Zachary Nail, a returnee from ''Comicbook/ThePhantomStranger #14'', who believes that the world is destined to be destroyed by humanity's pollution and moral corruption, so he has attempted to set up a dome city in the depths of the swamp to weather the end of the world. Having been defeated by Dr. Thirteen in his previous appearance, he's resorted to using the titular worms -- the last remnants of a prehuman race -- to kidnap people to repopulate the dome and start his project again.
** TheReveal that the worms aren't Professor Nail's allies, but exploiting him; they wish to harvest humanity ''for food''. This revelation drives Nail absolutely mad, and he retaliates by detonating the nuclear reactor powering his city, committing suicide to wipe out the worms.
* The fate of Milo Mobius from "The Eternity Man"; having betrayed the woman he loved to acquire a mystical jewel that grants immortality, he has been cursed to live an endless looping of lives, returning to the dawn of time each time he perishes to live out his endless life again and again, re-experiencing each failed death in each time loop. His only hope for the release of death is if it comes at the hand of a friend.
-->'''Gretel:''' You have '''chosen''' your path -- and you will soon '''regret''' it ! For there will come a day, Milo, when you will '''tire''' of your eternal life and actively seek to '''end''' it -- but you will seek only in '''vain''' -- for only the hand of a '''friend''' can ever put you to your final rest -- and, Milo my love, you '''have''' no friends! Still, you '''try''' to die -- and each '''failure''' will draw you back to time's '''beginning''' -- to '''relive''' that failure -- and the ones that will surely '''follow''' -- and '''that''', my darling, is the cruelest form of -- '''Hell!'''
** At the story's end, he finally comes to Swamp Thing in the present day and begs Swamp Thing to help him; due to the Swamp Thing's own recent misadventures through time and his consistent efforts to save Milo Mobius from dying, the Swamp Thing is the closest thing that Milo has to a friend. He begs Swamp Thing to kill him and end his curse, but Swamp Thing refuses. Chasing after Swamp Thing to try and make him reconsider, he stumbles into a quicksand bog, and even as he sinks he pleads with Swamp Thing to kill him before he can drown, so he won't have to return to his endless looping of life. When Swamp Thing dies in to try and save him, however, he finds that Milo has simply... vanished!
* The hideous mutants that Swamp Thing is shown battling at the start of "The Leviathan Conspiracy".
* "The Tomorrow Children" showcases humanity's capacity for prejudice and cruelty at its most extreme, shifting between this and TearJerker/SwampThing.
* "The Soul-Spell of Father Bliss" revolves around a fanatical Christian priest trying to restore humanity's faith in God by summoning demons and attempting to bring about the apocalypse. It concludes with him making a HeroicSacrifice by inviting his conjured fiend Nebiros to take his own body... which is too weak to house the fiend's essence, causing the priest to simultaneously rot into nothing and burst into flames from the inside out whilst begging his near-victims for forgiveness.
* The army of zombie revolutionaries from "Night of the Warring Dead".
* "The Destiny Machine":
** The {{Mechanical Monster}}s created by Dr. Pretorius at the behest of Nathan Ellery. They include a tentacled tank that attempts to drag victims into a high-velocity shredding turbine in its chest, a flying drone armed with a heat ray, and the worst of the lot; a pack of "mechanical wolves", which [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters slaughter Ellery's men and even their creator]] after the Swamp Thing proves to be too strong for them to defeat.
** Nathan Ellery's ultimate plan: to use Dr. Pretorius' "Ultra-Cerebralociter" to remotely lobotomize every person on Earth who emits "E-waves" and is thus biologically selected as a leader by the rest of humanity. This will effectively cull humanity's entire population of dominant personalities, leaving only Nathan Ellery, who will step into the vacuum and use his force of will to unite humanity under his own rule.
** Dr. Pretorius is so insane that he genuinely supports Nathan Ellery's plan; he believes that it's the only way to save humanity from destroying itself through pollution and political strife. When Nathan Ellery is killed, Pretorious is left a broken man, still clinging to his crazed plan... shortly before his own mechanical wolves arrive and rip him apart in their cybernetic jaws.
** The death of Nathan Ellery; accidentally touching exposed high-voltage electricty cable causes the energy to discharge into him, the voltage amplified by his mechanical life-support systems and burning him to ashes in seconds.
** The two panels depicting the end of Dr. Pretorius as Swamp Thing and his companions flee are surprisingly chilling, combining ominous narration with a final shot of the mechanical wolves closing in on their oblivious creator.
-->'''Portrait''' of a little man: an unstable ego held together by the string of contemporary paranoia -- the too-real dread of '''living''' in a world seemingly beyond the reach of human understanding -- a situation that diffident Dr. Pretorius will soon have no '''reason''' to fear...
* "Village of the Doomed" has Swamp Thing and his human companions stumble across an experimental retirement community in Louisiana whose resentful elderly inhabitants have turned to black magic, performing {{Human Sacrifice}}s to demonic patrons to drain the youth from others to restore their own youth.
* The premise of "A Second Time to Die"; the arm that was hacked off of Swamp Thing back in "The Last of the Ravenwind Witches" has regenerated into a mindless clone of Swamp Thing, and has been hunting its progenitor ever since, driven by an overwhelming instinct to reunited with its original body.
** Our first encounter with the real Swamp Thing in this story has him standing over a natural pit of lime, contemplating committing suicide over his revulsion and grief at his state.
* Solus, the villain of the story "Requiem"; an alien PsychopathicManchild with incredible PsychicPowers, including potent MindControl abilities, who was set adrift on a space station prison for murdering his own brother to try and seize the throne. To alleviate his loneliness, he began abducting aliens, whom he treats as little more than living toys. His last abductee is Swamp Thing, who gets to pay witness as Solus' victims finally break free and lash out against him. In the struggle, Solus is nearly knocked off into space, and Swamp Thing, seeing something of himself in the loneliness-crazed alien, tries to help. Solus attempts to use this as a chance to destroy Swamp Thing, but finds himself meeting a KarmicDeath, as Swamp Thing's nature as a MuckMonster made of swamp matter triggers the surgically implanted kill switches in Solus' body, which causes him to be disintegrated by a surge of radiation from within.
* The titular disease from ''The Solomon Plague'', which first turns the victim into a disfigured ghoul before plunging them into acute psychopathic paranoia. Worse still, they emit a secondary strain of the virus that is rapidly lethal in any human exposed to it.
* Swamp Thing's nightmare from the opening pages of "The Earth Below", where he races through the night, engulfed in flames and looking desperately for salvation, but finding only endless hands that brutally rip and tear at his burning flesh.
* The crossover with ''ComicBook/ChallengersOfTheUnknown'', which sees the return of Perdition, Pennsylvania and the EldritchAbomination known as M'ngala. In particular, chapter 3 opens with the Challengers interrupting as the monstrous Cancer God is about to devour a HumanSacrifice.
** The discovery of Professor Mark Haley, almost completely devoured by the FesteringFungus that is M'ngala's infection, feebly pleading for mercy through a face that is barely recognizable under its mat of putrefying flesh and fungal growths.'
!!The Saga of the Swamp Thing[[note]]the pre-Creator/AlanMoore issues in the 1980s[[/note]]
!!The Alan Moore Age
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* Creator/ScottSnyder has introduced all sorts of lovely things in his run on the title. Let's start with the Rot, the embodiment of all dead matter. It comes in various forms: a swarm of mosquitos that get into people's ears, force the victim's body to break its own neck, and then animate the corpse; a giant creature made from flies, dead shrubbery, rotten meat and a mammoth skeleton; or, probably its most terrifying form - William Arcane, Abby's sickly little brother who can manipulate any and all dead matter. He is, to all intents and purposes, the Rot's equivalent of Swamp Thing. Consider for a moment how many dead cells are in your body, how many skin cells you shed...and imagine what he can do with that. [[SarcasmMode Nice, isn't it?]]
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* After the Bogeyman drowns in quicksand, there's a quick glimpse of what the afterlife is like for him: an eternity of being tormented by his victims, all the while still drowning in mud. [[AndIMustScream Forever.]]
* After the Bogeyman drowns in quicksand, there's a quick glimpse of what the afterlife is like for him: an eternity of being tormented by his victims, all the while still drowning in mud. [[AndIMustScream Forever.]]
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* Abby and The Swamp Thing's baby by way of Constantine, Tefe, decomposes into the ground while mimicking her new Swamp Thing daddy, causing her soul to drift into Hell while her body is left behind to break apart and die in front of Abby's eyes. While Swamp Thing goes to Hell to rescue Tefe's soul, Abby is seen cradling her daughter's decomposing viscera mess of body in her arms, traumatically weeping before putting it in a bag. The sheer trauma of the event is UpToEleven nightmare fuel for any parent with an infant.
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** Matthew!Arcane revealing to Swamp Thing who he really is.
--> '''Swamp Thing''': ''Arcane!''
--> '''Matthew!Arcane''': '''AAAARCAAAANE!!'''
** A later short story shows some of Arcane's punishments in Hell, now reduced to just a disembodied head being tossed around for sport by demons. Neron gives him a vision of Abby having a run-in with the dying Patchwork Man, who she realizes is her father.
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--> '''Matthew!Arcane''': '''AAAARCAAAANE!!'''
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** One prime example is Nukeface, introduced during Saga of the Swamp Thing #35. Very little information is given about the guy, which ultimately makes him ''more'' disturbing, but he's basically a mad, disfigured old vagrant with a gaping mouth fall of half-rotted teeth and flesh rotting off of his face, courtesy of having become addicted to drinking nuclear waste. He's so full of radiation that his presence irradiates others, his touch can kill (especially when used against Swamp Thing), and he's so crazy he's oblivious to the fact he (frequently) ends up killing people in a horrific way by either touching them, his mere presence, or offering them a swig of his own toxic "moonshine". And then there's the scene where Wallace Monroe, accidental "creator" of the nuclear vagrant, discovers his heavily pregnant, gentle and very religious wife actually found Nukeface out in the swamp and tried to keep him warm with her shared body warmth, resulting in him and the police with him backing away from the now heavily-irradiated woman, who has no idea why they're running from her and begging them to tell her what's going on...
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** Abby learns the reason her husband Matt Cable has become much more assertive, capable, and passionate: he's been possessed by her uncle, Anton Arcane. The fact that she'd unknowingly had sex with her evil uncle isn't the worst part. Matt was possessed ''willingly'' as he lay dying after a car accident.
*** Abby's reaction also belongs here: after increasingly hysterical attempts to wash herself clean of Matt/Anton's touch, she tries to scrape it off with a ''[[OutDamnedSpot wire brush]]''.
** There's also the bit at the end of Moore's run on the series where a CorruptCorporateExecutive responsible for disrupting Swamp Thing's connection to the Green, effectively killing him for a while, makes the mistake of eating a sandwich with lettuce as Swamp Thing's consciousness returns to Earth.
** The stories set in Hell is more than a little frightening. We have Anton Arcane's torment mentioned down below but beyond that, we see corpses impaled on giant hypothermic needles, nasty demons that go far beyond the more traditional descriptions, mutilations, rape, and more.
*** Abby's reaction also belongs here: after increasingly hysterical attempts to wash herself clean of Matt/Anton's touch, she tries to scrape it off with a ''[[OutDamnedSpot wire brush]]''.
** There's also the bit at the end of Moore's run on the series where a CorruptCorporateExecutive responsible for disrupting Swamp Thing's connection to the Green, effectively killing him for a while, makes the mistake of eating a sandwich with lettuce as Swamp Thing's consciousness returns to Earth.
** The stories set in Hell is more than a little frightening. We have Anton Arcane's torment mentioned down below but beyond that, we see corpses impaled on giant hypothermic needles, nasty demons that go far beyond the more traditional descriptions, mutilations, rape, and more.
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*** Abby's reaction also belongs here: after increasingly hysterical attempts to wash herself clean of Matt/Anton's touch, she tries to scrape it off with a ''[[OutDamnedSpot wire brush]]''.
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** ''Mommie needunt no....''
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** Arcane: "How... how many years have I been here?" Swamp Thing: "Since yesterday." Arcane: "...yesterday?" That exchange, [[BloodyBowelsOfHell in context]], remains completely horrifying.
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*** Abby's reaction also belongs here: after increasingly hysterical attempts to wash herself clean of Matt/Anton's touch, she tries to scrape it off with a ''[[OutDamnedSpot wire brush]]''.
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** ''Mommie needunt no....''
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* Creator/ScottSnyder has introduced all sorts of lovely things in his run on the title. Let's start with the Rot, the embodiment of all dead matter. It comes in various forms: a swarm of mosquitos that get into people's ears, force the victim's body to break its own neck, and then animate the corpse; a giant creature made from flies, dead shrubbery, rotten meat and a mammoth skeleton; or, probably its most terrifying form - William Arcane, Abby's sickly little brother who can manipulate any and all dead matter. He is, to all intents and purposes, the Rot's equivalent of Swamp Thing. Consider for a moment how many dead cells are in your body, how many skin cells you shed...and imagine what he can do with that. [[SarcasmMode Nice, isn't it?]]
* Creator/ScottSnyder has introduced all sorts of lovely things in his run on the title. Let's start with the Rot, the embodiment of all dead matter. It comes in various forms: a swarm of mosquitos that get into people's ears, force the victim's body to break its own neck, and then animate the corpse; a giant creature made from flies, dead shrubbery, rotten meat and a mammoth skeleton; or, probably its most terrifying form - William Arcane, Abby's sickly little brother who can manipulate any and all dead matter. He is, to all intents and purposes, the Rot's equivalent of Swamp Thing. Consider for a moment how many dead cells are in your body, how many skin cells you shed...and imagine what he can do with that. [[SarcasmMode Nice, isn't it?]]
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** Arcane: "How... how many years have I been here?" Swamp Thing: "Since yesterday." Arcane: "...yesterday?" That exchange, [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BloodyBowelsOfHell in context]], remains completely horrifying.
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** Arcane: "How... how many years have I been here?" Swamp Thing: "Since yesterday." Arcane: "...yesterday?" That exchange, [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BloodyBowelsOfHell [[BloodyBowelsOfHell in context]], remains completely horrifying.
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** The young victims of the Monkey King had some pretty horrific fears, even ''before'' the little shit started to make them manifest in those poor kids' bedrooms.
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** The young victims of the Monkey King had some pretty horrific fears, even ''before'' the little shit started to make them manifest in those poor kids' bedrooms.bedrooms.
* Two ''ComicBook/SwampThing'' stories stand out: The Anatomy Lesson and My Blue Heaven. Slasher films don't bother me, but those two single issue comics get inside my head.
** Arcane: "How... how many years have I been here?" Swamp Thing: "Since yesterday." Arcane: "...yesterday?" That exchange, [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BloodyBowelsOfHell in context]], remains completely horrifying.
** What Arcane did just before finding himself in Hell. Short version: He arranged for his niece Abby's husband Matthew to be in a car accident, and offered him a DealWithTheDevil: Arcane would save Matthew's life in exchange for Matthew becoming his [[DemonicPossession new vessel]]. At first, Abby is impressed by her husband's newfound confidence and passion, until she realizes just what happened and [[CreepyUncle just who]] she had been sleeping with. Arcane tells her every detail about what he has done and what he will do, then tears her soul out and forces it into Hell. Arcane's punishment was too good for him.
--->She ripped all of her clothes off, tearing them up. They were dirty. They'd touched her skin. She tried to burn them, but her hands were shaking and the matches kept going out. In truth, she was a little crazy by this time. It was the smell. She couldn't get rid of the smell. In the shower she used up all of the soap, the shampoo, the bubblebath, the perfume... the smell was still there. Have you ever burned an insect with a magnifying glass? Just once, long ago, when you were a kid and didn't know any better? There. You know it. You know the smell. When the soap wouldn't get rid of it, she went to the kitchen and fetched the wire brush that she used for scraping the potatoes... twenty minutes later she passed out. Twenty whole minutes. Even then she could still smell it. She could smell it in her dreams.
** ''Mommie needunt no....''
* Two ''ComicBook/SwampThing'' stories stand out: The Anatomy Lesson and My Blue Heaven. Slasher films don't bother me, but those two single issue comics get inside my head.
** Arcane: "How... how many years have I been here?" Swamp Thing: "Since yesterday." Arcane: "...yesterday?" That exchange, [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BloodyBowelsOfHell in context]], remains completely horrifying.
** What Arcane did just before finding himself in Hell. Short version: He arranged for his niece Abby's husband Matthew to be in a car accident, and offered him a DealWithTheDevil: Arcane would save Matthew's life in exchange for Matthew becoming his [[DemonicPossession new vessel]]. At first, Abby is impressed by her husband's newfound confidence and passion, until she realizes just what happened and [[CreepyUncle just who]] she had been sleeping with. Arcane tells her every detail about what he has done and what he will do, then tears her soul out and forces it into Hell. Arcane's punishment was too good for him.
--->She ripped all of her clothes off, tearing them up. They were dirty. They'd touched her skin. She tried to burn them, but her hands were shaking and the matches kept going out. In truth, she was a little crazy by this time. It was the smell. She couldn't get rid of the smell. In the shower she used up all of the soap, the shampoo, the bubblebath, the perfume... the smell was still there. Have you ever burned an insect with a magnifying glass? Just once, long ago, when you were a kid and didn't know any better? There. You know it. You know the smell. When the soap wouldn't get rid of it, she went to the kitchen and fetched the wire brush that she used for scraping the potatoes... twenty minutes later she passed out. Twenty whole minutes. Even then she could still smell it. She could smell it in her dreams.
** ''Mommie needunt no....''
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There's a lot of Nightmare Fuel in ''ComicBook/SwampThing'', especially after Creator/AlanMoore took over and turned it into an active horror series for the ''Creator/{{Vertigo|Comics}}'' subverse.
** One prime example is Nukeface, introduced during Saga of the Swamp Thing #35. Very little information is given about the guy, which ultimately makes him ''more'' disturbing, but he's basically a mad, disfigured old vagrant with a gaping mouth fall of half-rotted teeth and flesh rotting off of his face, courtesy of having become addicted to drinking nuclear waste. He's so full of radiation that his presence irradiates others, his touch can kill (especially when used against Swamp Thing), and he's so crazy he's oblivious to the fact he (frequently) ends up killing people in a horrific way by either touching them, his mere presence, or offering them a swig of his own toxic "moonshine". And then there's the scene where Wallace Monroe, accidental "creator" of the nuclear vagrant, discovers his heavily pregnant, gentle and very religious wife actually found Nukeface out in the swamp and tried to keep him warm with her shared body warmth, resulting in him and the police with him backing away from the now heavily-irradiated woman, who has no idea why they're running from her and begging them to tell her what's going on...
** Abby learns the reason her husband Matt Cable has become much more assertive, capable, and passionate: he's been possessed by her uncle, Anton Arcane. The fact that she'd unknowingly had sex with her evil uncle isn't the worst part. Matt was possessed ''willingly'' as he lay dying after a car accident.
*** Abby's reaction also belongs here: after increasingly hysterical attempts to wash herself clean of Matt/Anton's touch, she tries to scrape it off with a ''[[OutDamnedSpot wire brush]]''.
** There's also the bit at the end of Moore's run on the series where a CorruptCorporateExecutive responsible for disrupting Swamp Thing's connection to the Green, effectively killing him for a while, makes the mistake of eating a sandwich with lettuce as Swamp Thing's consciousness returns to Earth.
** The stories set in Hell is more than a little frightening. We have Anton Arcane's torment mentioned down below but beyond that, we see corpses impaled on giant hypothermic needles, nasty demons that go far beyond the more traditional descriptions, mutilations, rape, and more.
** [[http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/6/66037/2030963-photo_oct_05__5_41_35_pm_large.png Meet Sethe, the new Big Bad]].
** The young victims of the Monkey King had some pretty horrific fears, even ''before'' the little shit started to make them manifest in those poor kids' bedrooms.
** One prime example is Nukeface, introduced during Saga of the Swamp Thing #35. Very little information is given about the guy, which ultimately makes him ''more'' disturbing, but he's basically a mad, disfigured old vagrant with a gaping mouth fall of half-rotted teeth and flesh rotting off of his face, courtesy of having become addicted to drinking nuclear waste. He's so full of radiation that his presence irradiates others, his touch can kill (especially when used against Swamp Thing), and he's so crazy he's oblivious to the fact he (frequently) ends up killing people in a horrific way by either touching them, his mere presence, or offering them a swig of his own toxic "moonshine". And then there's the scene where Wallace Monroe, accidental "creator" of the nuclear vagrant, discovers his heavily pregnant, gentle and very religious wife actually found Nukeface out in the swamp and tried to keep him warm with her shared body warmth, resulting in him and the police with him backing away from the now heavily-irradiated woman, who has no idea why they're running from her and begging them to tell her what's going on...
** Abby learns the reason her husband Matt Cable has become much more assertive, capable, and passionate: he's been possessed by her uncle, Anton Arcane. The fact that she'd unknowingly had sex with her evil uncle isn't the worst part. Matt was possessed ''willingly'' as he lay dying after a car accident.
*** Abby's reaction also belongs here: after increasingly hysterical attempts to wash herself clean of Matt/Anton's touch, she tries to scrape it off with a ''[[OutDamnedSpot wire brush]]''.
** There's also the bit at the end of Moore's run on the series where a CorruptCorporateExecutive responsible for disrupting Swamp Thing's connection to the Green, effectively killing him for a while, makes the mistake of eating a sandwich with lettuce as Swamp Thing's consciousness returns to Earth.
** The stories set in Hell is more than a little frightening. We have Anton Arcane's torment mentioned down below but beyond that, we see corpses impaled on giant hypothermic needles, nasty demons that go far beyond the more traditional descriptions, mutilations, rape, and more.
** [[http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/6/66037/2030963-photo_oct_05__5_41_35_pm_large.png Meet Sethe, the new Big Bad]].
** The young victims of the Monkey King had some pretty horrific fears, even ''before'' the little shit started to make them manifest in those poor kids' bedrooms.
