History NightmareFuel / TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask

**** That arguable makes worse given how many take it as a sign of Majora's insanity.

* When you first leave Clock Town on your way to the Swamp, you will come across a tree where Tatl will stop you and tell you about how she and Tael met Skull Kid in the first place. When they first met Skull Kid, he was [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z07jmgnRQl4 in a log, in the rain, maskless, and shivering]]. The combination of the sound effect for the shivering Skull kid, along with his minimalist face (compared to the mask he wears throughout the game), freaked this troper right out as a kid.

* When you first leave Clock Town on your way to the Swamp, you will come across a tree where Tatl will stop you and tell you about how she and Tael met Skull Kid in the first place. When they first met Skull Kid, he was [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z07jmgnRQl4in a log, in the rain, maskless, and shivering]]. The combination of the sound effect for the shivering Skull kid, along with his minimalist face (compared to the mask he wears throughout the game), freaked this troper right out as a kid.

* "You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?"

** As demonstrated by the page image, the Zora Mask arguably makes that cutscene [[ItGotWorse even worse]] than the other two. It's the most human-looking aside from the Fierce Deity Mask, which in this case [[UncannyValley is not necessarily a good thing]], the transformation sequence shows BlackEyesOfEvil surrounded by ''[[EyeScream cracks]]'', the fangs and complexion make it look notably similar to a vampire, etc.

* Both Swamp Spider Houses. They're abandoned buildings in areas where there are virtually no people, which raises all sorts of questions as to who lived in them and what happened to those inhabitants. They're terrifyingly silent, save for the scratching sound of the Gold Skullatulas wandering around. [[GuideDangIt God help you if you're in a place where one of those bugs is in a place that isn't easy to find]]. Otherwise, you're stuck in a room where you can hear one, but you have no idea how to get rid of it. In the Swamp Spider House, there's an unnamed man who went inside and was cursed into being this [[BodyHorror spider/human hybrid]]. If you talk to him, he's clearly in pain and terrified. In the Ocean Spider House, there are some Stalchildren who are investigating the history of the place on Captain Keeta's orders. What happened there that was so significant that the captain of the army of Ikana sent soldiers to investigate?

*** The eyes are particularly creepy. I can look at many of the things on the Nightmare Fuel pages of the Zelda series without flinching...but those bright, piercing eyes are why Majora's Masks scares me. If the eyes are the windows to the soul, then Majora is the incarnation of evil and nightmares.

** Even worse? If you fail to save the farm, the aliens take Romani. And when they bring her back, [[HeroicBSOD she's not]] [[CreepyMonotone the same]].

* The fourth day glitch. If you look into the telescope on the third night, and look away just a second or two before the moon hits, the clock will disappear and you have successfully done the glitch. No more time limit, so that's a good thing, right? Well... when the glitch is performed, ''every'' scheduled NPC disappears. All of Clock Town's residents (except for the guards), the Romani sisters... they're all gone. Sure, you have enough time in the world to do what you want, but it feels very eerie no longer having those NPCs around. On top of that, the moon gets pushed back way up high into the sky, so the sky feels empty as well. On top of that, the colour of the sky is stuck in perpetual dusk / dawn. The game feels so much emptier if you do the fourth day glitch.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[SarcasmMode Don't worry, he's just screaming for the hell of it. He is, in no way, in mind-numbing agony as his bones shift to suit the new form...]]]]

* Those [[spoiler:children on the moon]] ....eugh... You may notice that [[spoiler:they have the same hair color and clothing as the Mask Salesman]]...but don't think too hard about it.

** As demonstrated by the page image, the Zora Mask arguably makes that cutscene [[ItGotWorse even worse]] than the other two. It's the most human-looking, which in this case [[UncannyValley is not necessarily a good thing]], the transformation sequence shows BlackEyesOfEvil surrounded by ''[[EyeScream cracks]]'', the fangs and complexion make it look notably similar to a vampire, etc.

* The Deep Pythons. Are you afraid of the infamous eel from SuperMario64? Well, [[SarcasmMode great news]]: at Pinacle Rock, there are eight near-expies of it, in a very very deep, dark hole. And you have to kill, and thus get up close and personal with, a number of them to progress the game. Have un.

** Thank you, to whomever added that image. In fact, the Zora Mask arguably makes that cutscene [[ItGotWorse even worse]] than the other two. It's the most human-looking, which in this case [[UncannyValley is not necessarily a good thing]], the transformation sequence shows BlackEyesOfEvil which may or may not be [[TearsOfBlood bleeding]], the fangs and complexion make it look notably similar to a vampire, etc.
*** Zora Link's eyes during the transformation aren't bleeding. Those aren't TearsOfBlood. Those are ''[[EyeScream cracks]]''.

** Speaking of Woodfall Temple, how about those plant-like platforms to get over the poisonous water? Not only did they have teeth, not only did they have a blood-red, gaping mouth ready to snap you up, but they made a horrible ''fleshy gurgle'' every time you jump on them.
*** [[NightmareRetardant They explode if they eat Link in Goron form.]] So as long as you don't step on them as Human or Zora Link, you're fine.

** Speaking of Ikana Valley, its [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfqxpBTCB6Q&feature=related background music]] will chill your bones.

*** Well, the Ikana King fight had some Nightmare Retardant programmed in... when fighting the two guards, approach the king wearing the Captain's Hat or start marching with the Bremen's Mask. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fm4ZCDtZkE&feature=channel_video_title Retardant ensues at 12:19 and 12:48.]]

** No, what truly makes that terrifying is not what it can do, but why it does it. The Skull Kid is doing all of this out of his misplaced anger at his friends, to the point where you begin to pity him. But then, the mask shrugs off its wearer and abandons the plan to just crash the two together. Now it will "consume... consume everything". And why? You never do know why, but the meadow gives you a clue. Because it's all a game; it's just make-believe. This thing is destroying their lives [[ForTheEvulz because it's fun]]. A devastating act of slaughter comes from the imagination of a child.

*** And for the HONF cherry on top, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBSc-2w8564&feature=related Majora's theme]].
* Hell, the Happy Mask Man probably deserves his own section, too; suddenly appears out of nowhere at the start of the game? [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy Eerily complete knowledge]] of the way the {{ArtifactOfDoom}} was made and works? Near-constant creepy-ass smile and one of the most sinister laughs one has ever heard? Switching from emotion to emotion, going from jubilant to furiously screaming in your face in half a second? One of the creepiest moments was when you failed to get Majora's Mask back the first time. [[OhCrap "Don't tell me... you did... get it back..."]]
** Seriously, the Happy Mask Man. "I am counting on you to get [[HintDropping my mask]]..." He manages to follow Skull Kid to [[AnotherDimension Termina]] and identifies Link's [[SoundStone Ocarina]] as capable of playing the [[MagicMusic Song of Healing:]] "[A] melody that heals evil magic and troubled spirits, [[SoulJar turning them into masks."]] Oh, and he somehow gets hold of an [[MaskOfPower evil mask]] that was supposed to have been sealed "in shadow" by an ancient tribe of sorcerers lost to time. He also teleports. All this makes him suspicious, but not terrifying, but his random red-eyed outburst and eerie manner contribute to the fact that the more you think about him, the creepier the Mask Man becomes.
** Don't think too much about it, but have you noticed that the [[spoiler:kids on the moon]] have the same clothing and hair color as the mask salesman?
** The Happy Mask Salesman has a mask of [[SuperMarioBros Mario]] on his pack. Nice ShoutOut, right? Well, let us remember just how masks come to be. Someone dies rather traumatically. The [[MagicMusic Song of Healing]] gets played. The person's face [[SoulJar turns into a mask]]. Consider all that for a moment, and then start to wonder just how the Happy Mask Salesman [[FateWorseThanDeath got a Mario mask]]...
*** Pfft, he'll be fine after a couple of 1-ups.
*** If you want it worse? He has ''Elvis'' too. Maybe that peanut butter sandwich didn't kill the King after all...
**** Of course, [[SarcasmMode the idea that those masks might just be standard Halloween masks made out of plastic or something like that is completely impossible. Yep, there's no way that a mask can bear resemblance to Mario or Elvis withouth them having died horrible, traumatic deaths.]]

* The music in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e056R97svz8&feature=related Night Of The Final Day.]] It makes ''everything'' worse. A little girl who has been [[MindRape Mind Raped]] by aliens (or at least given a HeroicBSOD)? Worse. Fighting a seemingly-invincible dead guy who can take you out in one hit unless you have most of the heart containers, and full? Worse. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Trying to make it to the bank before daybreak]]? ''Worse''. And if you've ever seen the commercial where they play the music to live-action people in the countdown to the final day...
** Furthermore, that music supersedes any other background music that would otherwise be playing. It plays regardless of which place you happen to be in at the time.
*** There is one theme it does ''not'' replace: dungeon music. But if you're still working on a dungeon by that point, you're probably screwed anyway...
**** The tremors that constantly occur during the final day are pretty creepy too.

* The Elegy of Emptiness Statues, ''especially'' the Link statue.
** Which looks like it has the Happy Mask Man's grinning face.
*** I've always thought it resembled CD-i Link.

** The Link statue is made worse if you've seen the Creepy Pasta WebVideo/{{Ben Drowned}}.
*** '''Everything''' about this game is worse if you've seen Ben Drowned. You shouldn't have done that...

* The Gibdos. Just looking at the professor, you've got to wonder: what amount of mind-screwing-body-warping torture did you have to go through to become ''that''?! And imagine being Pamela where the ones you care about the most have to become hideous, nigh-mindless ''things'' that can just barely remember who you are. And the professor isn't even the worst case. What about the ''other'' gibdos you have to face? What kind of people were they before, and what happens when you can't save them except to kill them?
* Encountering a poe isn't that scary when you've seen worse before. Encountering one in a haunted well out of [[ShmuckBait tempting fate when told beforehand the well was haunted]], then encountering a poe whose surrounded by ominous music that is Zelda's equivalent to a really fast-paced version of [[{{Pokemon}} Perish Song]], now you get worked up where you feel brave only after you picked up your ocarina and start playing. [[spoiler:Realizing that playing Song of Healing only to learn the poe isn't affected and continues to slaughter you when you ''should'' have played the Song of Storms instead.]]
* How about the Mirror Shield? It is a shield that has the effigy of a [[FrozenFace person's face]] in what appears to be [[FateWorseThanDeath a constant state of torment]] or [[AndIMustScream screaming for eternity]]. Strap it to your back and have it stare at you through the TV screen. Good. Now turn off your lights and stare at it.
** And if that shield's face looks familiar, remember that the Happy Mask Salesman has a mask of that same face...

* Those [[spoiler:children on the moon]] ....eugh...
** You may notice that [[spoiler:they have the same hair color and clothing as the Mask Salesman]]...but don't think too hard about it.

** "[[WebVideo/BenDrowned You shouldn't have done that. Really, you shouldn't have.]]"

* This entire ''game'' is High Octane Nightmare Fuel for people who have maskaphobia ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOntheTin fear of masks]]). Especially the idea that you ''literally'' [[BecomingtheMask become the mask]].

[[caption-width-right:320:[[SarcasmMode Don't worry, he's just screaming for the hell of it. He is, in no way, in mind-numbing agony as his bones shift to suit the new form...]]]]