History NightmareFuel / TeenTitans

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* The very episode "Haunted" gives a whole new definition to the word "nightmare", considering how Slade is slowly killing Robin [[spoiler:only for Robin to discover that it's his own mind destroying him]].

** Even creepier is the fact that the above quote is said in a very similar tone to Batman's "I am vengeance! I am the night! I am Batman!" meaning that that was probably where [[spoiler: Robin's subconscious]] got the idea from, meaning that he literally considers Slade to be Batman's counterpart.

*** [[spoiler:Then we find out he's doing it to himself.]]
** The ending of "Haunted" is the creepiest part of the entire series. [[spoiler:We never find out what triggered the mask.]]
*** [[spoiler:It's strongly implied that Slade himself triggered the mask since only he would know of the hallucinogenic dust on it. The scarier part is that this means he triggered it while in Purgatory with his new master, Trigon.]]
*** At the ending we also get this [[BlatantLies wonderful scene]] [[spoiler:The viewer down to the basement with creepy music playing showing the light flickering as we zoom in on the mask that caused this problem in the first place and then the eye piece on it turns red and the screen fades to black,]]

** Interestingly, Slade almost gets creepier in Season 4. While he still talks like the emotionless ManipulativeBastard he was in the first two seasons, [[spoiler:his movements when in combat seem much more primal and at times mimic some downright zombie-esque moves due to being undead.]] It's downright jarring to compare exactly what he has become to what he was before.

-->'''Slade''': She wanted control, and that's what I gave her; my control, her body.
* In the episode "Nevermore", when Robin goes into the roof of Titans Tower to tell Raven about [[spoiler: her door being broken down]], she breaks out into hysterical laughter which sounds just like something out of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'', then she just abruptly stops and goes inside. Hell, the whole episode itself is pretty frightening.

** Then there's the reveal at the end of the season, after Trigon escaped and ''razed the entire planet in under a minute'': Slade may have returned, [[spoiler:but it was only what he had of a soul, inhabiting his ''undead fleshless, muscleless skeleton, wrapped up nicely in his normal outfit.'']]

** Raven, despite reaching her [[EleventhHourSuperpower White]] [[SuperMode Raven]] form permanently as a result of her increased strength and presumably [[spoiler:[[ScrewDestiny stopping the prophecy of "the jewel of Trigon"]] [[TheArchmage alone]]]], has suffered from major trust issues with the loss of her friends, and [[GoMadFromTheIsolation isolated herself from the world]] so that [[BrokenBird she doesn't have to be hurt anymore]], though Cyborg still knows where she is due to her transmitter in her cloak. Apparently her friends really were what she needed to keep from complete and total isolation from humanity, as is implied later in [[HowWeGotHere "Go!"]] and the season 4 [[CosmicHorrorStory Trigon arc]].

* The horrible moment when [[spoiler: Slade's mask was knocked off in Season 4 to reveal a ''monstrous dead skull'']] can freak out even the most tough-as-nails viewers.
* In "Hide & Seek," Raven's flat and stoic recounting of most of the season 4 events, which include [[spoiler: the aforementioned undead Slade unmasked, global apocalypse, and unfathomable evil that is Trigon]] to a group of ''innocent little kids and a toddler''. Naturally, all three kids are ''very'' freaked out.

* Madame Rouge is actually in-show nightmare fuel considering Titans and members of the H.I.V.E. Five alike are shown to be absolutely terrified of her, for good reason since she is a murderous shapeshifting rubber woman who is effectively indestructible. Exceptionally displayed in "Trust" where she relentlessly hunts down Honorary Titan Hot Spot no matter where he goes or what he throws at her, chasing him and beating him down until he exhausts himself like an unstoppable predator hunting their prey. Not to mention she can actually shapeshift to effectively drive her victims crazy by perfectly pretending to be figures they trust before revealing herself to strike. In "Calling All Titans", Robin freezes her, then shatters her into little frozen pieces. She then reforms herself in a manner similar to [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay the T-1000]]. She also managed to wear down Kid Flash when the entire Hi-Five couldn't even touch him.

* Brother Blood's obsession with Cyborg. What started out was an interest in Cyborg due to him being his best student, turned into a fixation on recruiting him, eventually to him creating a robot army of Cyborg look-alikes, and finally with him turning himself into a cyborg and trying to turn others into one as well
* The design of Killer Moth deserves at least a courtesy nod. One of the silliest Batman villains ever created, so utterly pathetic that when he was down-graded to fight what is essentially a spin-off of Batman, that being Robin, nobody even cared. But his design is legitimately unnerving, being insanely creepy and actually kinda cool, like some kind of organic moth-human beast, half-insect and half-man

* Mother Mae-Eye. It's actually a pretty creepy episode, what with zombie cookiemen, the menacing, hopeless music, what could actually be in the pies (They're red, [[HumanResources think about it]]), and there's the Mean Green Mother herself, who is difficult to explain, but scary none the less, think [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Wicked Witch of]] [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating the West]], then give her MindControl.

* In "[[HowWeGotHere Go!]]", the alien who has just come to Earth. Shackled and scared, and yet she's destroying the city just trying to break the shackles, and if anyone interferes she starts throwing cars and ''bus'' at them. And once the shackles are damaged, she adds energy bolts to the mix, with even the future Titans being helpless against her. And even when she calms down after Robin frees her from the shackles all she says is "[[DontMakeMeDestroyYou If you don't want to be destroyed, leave me alone!]]". But the scariest part is who the alien is: it's ''[[NiceGirl Starfire]]''.

*** Take a closer look at Cyborg's face in that scene. He's not upset with Raven, he looks '''[[OhCrap shocked.]]''' And the next second, he's gone. [[NothingIsScarier What exactly caused him to have that reaction, and what made him vanish a moment later...?]]

* Madame Rouge is actually in-show nightmare fuel considering Titans and members of the H.I.V.E. Five alike are shown to be absolutely terrified of her, for good reason since she is a murderous shapeshifting rubber woman who is effectively indestructible. Exceptionally displayed in "Trust" where she relentlessly hunts down Honorary Titan Hotspot no matter where he goes or what he throws at her, chasing him and beating him down until he exhausts himself like a unstoppable predator hunting their prey. Not to mention she can actually shapeshift to effectively drive her victims crazy by pretending to be figures they trust before revealing herself to strike. In "Calling All Titans", Robin freezes her, then shatters her into little frozen pieces. She then reforms herself in a manner similar to [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay the T-1000]]. She also managed to wear down Kid Flash when the entire Hi-Five couldn't even touch him.

* Madame Rouge in "Calling All Titans". Robin freezes her, then shatters her into little frozen pieces. She then reforms herself in a manner similar to [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay the T-1000]].

* Terra and Raven's mudfight. Sure, it sounds kinky in text, but poor Raven... The episode really drives home the feeling of betrayal through the dialogue, where Terra's cold taunts push Raven far enough that she goes into demon mode, and ''even that'' doesn't help her in the fight. She's then helplessly [[PrimalFear drowned]] in mud by her former friend, onscreen, the first time one of the Titans in the show actually looked like they were about to be successfully killed off. None of the other fights in that episode are as prolonged or vicious.

** Even more unsettling is when Cyborg manages to pull aside Fixit's cloak... we see a truly ''bizarre'' show of biology: nothing but pulsating/beating organs ala [[StarWars General Grievous]]... no blood/bones or anything remotely like nerves or muscles, and a ''deformed third arm'' randomly jutting out. How Fixit ended up like this, no one knows.
** It doesnt help that the parts Fixit wants to replace Cyborgs human parts with are not exactly top of the line, and look more like junkyard rejects.

** Monsieur Mallah actually manages to catch the kids when Raven has her back turned for five minutes. FridgeHorror kicks in when you wonder what would have happened to them if Raven didn't get suspicious and turn back.

* Starfire going through alien puberty in "Transformation" and the scene in the same episode where she meets the lady who looks like the benevolent DC character White Witch - but who turns out to be a [[OneWingedAngel bug-like creature]] who ''eats young Tamaranians going through said Chrysalis type alien puberty''. Just imagine it. You're being enclosed a chrysalis for reasons you don't understand and nobody can explain, nobody is there to help you, and just as the cocoon closes, ''you're going to be eaten by an alien''.

* Mother Mae-Eye. It's actually a pretty creepy episode, what with zombie cookiemen, the menacing, hopeless music, what could actually be in the pies (They're red, [[SoylentGreen think about it]]), and there's the Mean Green Mother herself, who is difficult to explain, but scary none the less, think [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Wicked Witch of]] [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating the West]], then give her MindControl.

** His death was even creepier; he shouts "No! The magic! Without it, I'm just a--" [[KilledMidSentence and then he just flops over and dies]] with his eyes ''wide open''.

** What's worse?, they have all of the memories, thoughts, and emotions, so they know about there losses, insecurities, and tics that make them sloppy in combat.

* Madame Rouge in "Calling All Titans". Robin freezes her, then shatters her into little frozen pieces. She then reforms herself in a manner similar to [[Film/TheTerminator the T-1000]].

* In the episode "Nevermore", when Robin goes into the roof of Titans Tower to tell Raven about [[spoiler: her door being broken down]], she breaks out into hysterical laughter which sounds just like something out of ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'', then she just abruptly stops and goes inside. Hell, the whole episode itself is pretty frightening.

--> '''Beast Boy''': (''as he's dragged away by shadow monsters'') What did I tell you! Funny guy goes first!
** Starfire's "disappearance" scene is pretty creepy- a bunch of what look like mutated rats jump on her, and even though she frantically tries to zap them with Starbolts, there are just too many of them and they ''drag her down into the ground'', and Starfire lets out a terrified scream before getting totally submerged by monsters. And when Cyborg jumps in to try and save her, the monsters part to reveal nothing but the floor beneath them left.

* "The Sum Of His Parts" is quite terrifying. Here's Cyborg, a guy who's had most of his body replaced with robotic parts, and a man named Fixit has kidnapped him with the intent to ''finish the job''. It's a total horror movie premise made even more frightening by the fact that it's not part of the seasonal arc and [[MoodWhiplash starts out as]] one of the more light-hearted filler episodes. On top of everything, Cyborg's worst fear is losing his humanity and when he begs for release on those grounds, Fixit calls his humanity "flawed". Plus, there's something chilling about that mask Fixit tries to replace Cyborg's face with (And at the climactic moment, he presses it on, muffling Cyborg's speech so that no one can hear his screams).