History NightmareFuel / TheBatman

* Mr Freeze's state in the future. The bottom half of his body has rotted away, and without his HumongousMecha suit, he has to used spider-like legs to get around. He looks like a frozen, rotting, and yet living corpse.

* Joker’s nanobot clone. Especially the part where he removes his eyes and makes the Joker understandably grossed out. He then tries to KILL Joker and the others before melting down Gotham with his nanobots to turn it into his personal play pen.

* In ''Strange Minds'', Batman is overwhelmed within Joker's mindscape, and ''starts to go insane.''
** In addition, a Jokerized chicken can be seen, which is both scary and kind of unny at he same time.

-->'''Tony Zucco:''' ''(coldly)'' Well, one day... ''[[SelfMadeOrphan I missed]]''.

* The Riddler, especially with his eerily calm voice and whimsically murderous personality that crosses between childish and dangerously insane. Being voiced by [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] himself can do that...

* Ethan Bennett's treatment by the Joker near the end of the first season is just terrifying, especially near the end of the episode when [[BodyHorror Ethan's face]] ''[[BodyHorror melts]]'' as he turns into Clayface. Even worse is that Ethan's transformation was entirely accidental on Joker's part. Even he had no idea what his Joker Putty would do to humans. Not to mention Ethan only breathed in the fumes. Who knows what a direct application would’ve done?

-->''[[FridgeHorror We literally just watched the Joker eradicate the last remotely decent part of himself.]]''

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[[caption-width-right:350:Don't forget to [[SlasherSmile smile!]]]]

* Ethan Bennett's treatment by the Joker near the end of the first season is just terrifying, especially near the end of the episode when [[BodyHorror Ethan's face]] ''[[BodyHorror melts]]'' as he turns into Clayface. Even worse is that Ethan's transformation was entirely accidental on Joker's part. He was actually trying to kill him by turning him into dust after driving him insane.

* When Bruce Wayne tries to stop the contortionist villain Ragdoll, the latter creepily turns his head at a 180 degree angle, whilst he warns Wayne in a thinly veiled threat that "boys shouldn't play with dolls".

** [[https://youtu.be/09FOx0pyuqw The scene where Batman crosses paths with the man Joker once was]], and his unfortunate fate. One commenter put it best:

* Joker’s introduction in the first episode is incredibly creepy, with his face being [[SinisterSilhouettes hidden completely in shadow]], with the exception of his [[RedEyesTakeWarning eyes]] and SlasherSmile.

-->''We literally just watched the Joker eradicate the last remotely decent part of himself.''

-->'''Tony Zucco:''' Looks like “The Flying Graysons” might have to change their name...

** From the same episode, the death of Dick Grayson’s parents is this as much as it was a TearJerker. Because, unlike in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', you actually ''see them fall'', with Mary futilely calling out to her son. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Zucco’s brothers were horrified by what he’d done.]]

** From the same episode, the death of Dick Grayson’s parents is this as much as it was a TearJerker. Because, unlike in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', you actually ''see them fall''. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Zucco’s brothers were horrified by what he’d done.]]

** From the same episode, the death of Dick Grayson’s parents is this as much as it was a TearJerker. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Zucco’s brothers were horrified by what he’d done.]]

* In “A Matter of Family”, where Tony Zucco has Batman tied up on a giant dart board, while explaining and demonstrating the circus act he used to be a part of with his father; knife-throwing. He’d throw the knives, and his dad would “hope he wouldn’t hit him”. Creator/MarkHamill’s performance just makes it even creepier.

-->'''Tony Zucco:''' ''(coldly)'' Well, one day... ''I missed''.

* In “A Matter of Family”, where Tony Zucco has Batman tied up on a giant dart board, while explaining and demonstrating the circus act he used to be a part of with his father; knife-throwing. He’d throw the knives, and his dad would “hope he wouldn’t hit him”.

* Seeing Batman under the effects of Joker toxin in "The Laughing Bat" is just... wrong. ''Oh so very wrong''. And this isn't the first time we see [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker Batman infected by the toxin]]. Or [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight the]] ''[[ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal last]]''. Joker himself is displayed in the page image as even worse and even more deranged than usual, killing people with a new strain of Joker Gas and [[AllCrimesAreEqual targeting everyone who breaks any minor rules as a twisted mockery of Batman's Code.]] He gassed people for relatively minor offenses, such as leaving the turn signal on. It gets worse when he gasses the mayor’s wife and then later goes after two girls who were innocently making chalk drawings. Him later actively trying to make his own "Joker" by poisoning Batman and Batman slowly undergoing SanitySlippage only adds to the horror pile. And then Penguin gets poisoned...

* '''The Joker'''. From his inhuman red eyes to his disgusting mouth, everything seems off about him. The fact that his original outfit was modeled after a straightjacket doesn’t help and the fact he can actually combat the Caped Crusader in wits and brawn in this verse only makes him more dangerous.

* Seeing Batman under the effects of Joker toxin in "The Laughing Bat" is just... wrong. ''Oh so very wrong''. And this isn't the first time we see [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker Batman infected by the toxin]]. Or [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight the]] ''[[ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal last]]''. Joker himself is displayed in the page image as even worse and even more deranged than usual, killing people with a new strain of Joker Gas and [[AllCrimesAreEqual targeting everyone who breaks any minor rules as a twisted mockery of Batman's Code.]] He gassed people for relatively minor offenses, such as leaving the turn signal on. It gets worse when he gasses the mayor’s wife and then later goes after two girls who were innocently making chalk drawings. Him later actively trying to make his own "Joker" by poisoning Batman and Batman slowly undergoing SanitySlippage only adds to the horror pile.

* Ethan Bennett's treatment by the Joker near the end of the first season is just terrifying, especially near the end of the episode [[spoiler: when [[BodyHorror Ethan's face]] ''[[BodyHorror melts]]'' as he turns into Clayface]]. Even worse is that Ethan's transformation was entirely accidental on Joker's part. He was actually trying to kill him by turning him into dust after driving him insane.
** Speaking of which, [[spoiler: Ethan's shifting ability as Clayface is pretty creepy all its own... especially when you look at it '''''[[http://goodbyenorthernlights.tumblr.com/post/144291117281/so-hey-did-you-know-that-the-bit-where-ethan frame by frame]]'''''.]]

* "Strange New World". Hugo Strange's plan is to turn the city into a ZombieApocalypse, with [[OurZombiesAreDifferent one key difference- they would be his mindless drone army, and otherwise act like regular zombies, minus the ripping people to shreds]]. We see it actually in action and it's terrifying. And the zombies are frighteningly intelligent, capable of team combat and setting traps...[[spoiler: And then it turns out ''they're not zombies at all''. Strange just tricked Batman and Robin into breathing his hallucinating toxin, and everyone's perfectly normal. It's only the two of them that see them as zombies, and due to this, they almost complete Strange's plan of releasing more of the toxin in crowded Gotham.]]
** [[spoiler: Also doubles as Fridge Horror since Batman and Robin are in reality thrashing innocent people, the police, Batgirl and eventually one another while hallucinating everyone around them is a zombie. Fortunately, Commissioner Gordon and Batgirl are not hurt.]]

* Alfred [[spoiler:getting hypnotized]] by Spellbinder in "The Butler Did It". Especially when he moves in sync with the other butlers, and shoves the Batman ''off the top of a moving van.''

* The [[spoiler:plant clones]] in "Fleurs de Mal". They talk with the VoiceOfTheLegion, and there's one scene where Batman is fighting his clone with a sharp Batarang, and ''cuts his chest open, which then proceeds to close back up as Clone!Batman laughs demonically''.