History NightmareFuel / TheAtomicTimeOfMonsters

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** Perhaps most striking of all is how this horror is so awful, so wretched in its appearence and power, Tyrantis is terrified of it. ''Tyrantis'', that FearlessFool. It's only due to his HeroicWillpower that he doesn't try and run away when facing it. And even then, it nearly kills him and his friends before the Writhing Flesh and Glypton intervene.

** By the time the arthropod kaiju show up, Promythigor hasn't slowed down, his foes are losing, and the entire arena they're in is covered head to toe in unyielding flames. Then the mad ape unleashes a shockwave of flame that causes a flurry of explosions to go off across the canyon, until one[[FromBadToWorse ignites a gas line.]] What follows instantly is a gigantic explosion of fire and destruction that leaves all of Area 51 a wreck and the battlefield, oh the battlefield, it's described literally as "a hellish vision of a world on fire", with Promythigor its flaming LaughingMad ruler. If it weren't for Kraydi showing up at the last minute, every kaiju there would have been incinerated.

** The build-up to its appearance isn't bad either. Up to that point, after Dr. Murnau leads everyone to a certain location, they find the Writhing Flesh and assume that's the monster they were called in to take care of. [[BaitAndSwtich It isn't.]] At that point, Murnau reveals that he was originally hired by the Spooks Organization to research reanimating viruses. The Langsuir was HIS creation, and he tested it on the Terror's corpse until it was to his liking. Sure, it could no longer infect other creatures as a result, but in the end, he gave rise to what he considers to be the perfect abomination. Wish granted.

* We've learned up to this point that A. kaiju have an amazing HealingFactor and B. nuclear weapons empower them instead of killing them. Well the U.S.S.R. didn't know that, and they dropped an atomic bomb on several of them. They took the hit, their healing went out of control next to each other...and they all merged into the BodyHorror-incarnate abomination known as the Writhing Flesh. Even without an illustration (you can find it in the Characters page, it ain't pretty), this THING is horrible to look at or even read about. It's basically a walking mound of malformed limbs and appendages aware of its pitiful existence. And oh, [[EyesDoNotBelongThere ''its eyes are located within its mouth''.]] The entire Siberian Monster Zone was created just to house abominations like it and Gorale. Frankly, it's a miracle it's such a GentleGiant. Which is more than we can say for...

* ...'''PATHOGEN'''. Made from a combination of a part of the Terror's corpse and the infusion of a special strain of a fictional virus known as the Langsuir, it's not just horrific to look at (and there IS an illustration for it in the book proper) with it having a belly mouth full of tentacles and MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily, it's actively ''evil.'' The virus is in control, and it seeks nothing more than to spread and destroy everything in sight. And that's not even getting into how it can heal even from the worst injuries. For example, take an arm off? It'll just spawn a new one full of bony spikes. Try and hurt it at all? Prepare to see it turn into an unholy mishmash of teeth and tentacles just to eat and/or kill you.

* The Beyonder Alliance and their kaiju descending upon Typhon Island to wipe out Earth's guardian monsters. One way or another, the planet's not walking out of this one unscathed.

** The Beyonder Alliance in general is quite terrifying to behold. It's a whole army of tyrannical aliens whom destroyed Mars after they deemed its civilization too unfit to take care of themselves. They plan to do the very same to Earth, [[EvilIsPetty all because it doesn't line up with their idea of perfection.]] The kaiju were bred precisely to take on this menace, and even then, both the Reptodites and the Martians have to rely on hope that it'll pay off.