History NightmareFuel / TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker

Despite its art style, WindWaker sure does have its share of horrors

** The worst encounter with them would have to be under your Cabana. You need to go through this mini-dungeon of sorts to get a Triforce Chart. You have to drop into one area and... Two Redeads are waiting for you at the bottom. Dick move game, dick move...

** But the most nightmarish area has to be the Ghost Ship. Just...that place. It appears at night at certain islands, fair enough. But when you get the ghost chart (tells Link where it will appear), the guy giving it to him warns Link that the previous owner of the map "died suddenly" with no explanation. It all goes downhill from there. The actual ship's appearance is accompanied by some extremely unsettling music. Link goes in to find himself in a mostly deserted room, before all the game's undead enemies ambush him at once.
And then, there's the treasure chart room itself, a whole new league of nightmare fuel. There's a mask on the wall that resembles a face. If Link looks at it, it seems to be a calm-faced mask. But once he turns his back to it, it gains a horrific SlasherSmile. And the ultimate icing on the cake (in the GCN version)? If Link jump attacks near the chest to get closer to the mask, '''the game freezes'''. It locks up with no way out but a hard reset. ''This does not happen with any other chest in the game''.

* No mention of the private oasis? That place seems fine and dandy, till you turn off the fire... Now we know why the teacher was so happy to be rid of it. [[NightmareFuel Or maybe she had a reason to give it to you...]]
** The places where you get the [[spoiler:Triforce Charts]] in general are horrifying. We have; a holiday home with a flooded basement full of rats, Redeads and claustrobic crawlspaces, a ghost ship, the savage labyrinth, other creepy basements full of enemies, a maze full of [[DemonicSpiders Floormasters that chuck you back to the beginning if they grab you]]... Might be Fridge Brilliance seeing as Link's Triforce piece is the Triforce of Courage.

** They generally make the same sounds as the Tektites from [=OoT=]... which somehow doesn't make the sound any less creepy.

** They generally make the same sounds as the Tektites from OOT...which somehow doesn't make the sound any less creepy.

* Sailing around the Great Sea and dealing with most of the enemies isn't a problem, with one exception: The seahats. They're bigger than Link and his boat combined and WILL chase you until you're out of the area even if you clip their propellers! It's bad enough running into them in clear weather, but it's even more bone-chilling during a storm- day or night.

* The [[GiantSquid Big Octos]]. No matter what they are always terrifying. If you don't know the secret to finding them, they seem to COME OUT OF NO WHERE AND START SUCKING IN YOUR BOAT. Even if you do figure out where they appear- [[spoiler: A large flock of seagulls circle their locations]]- an intentional sail toward them is full of a mixture of ParanoiaFuel, anxiety, and a generally foreboding feeling. The fact that their markers- [[spoiler: The seagulls]]- go away just before you arrive at their locations makes you none-too-sure of just when the beast will show up and doesn't help the "STOP AND TURN BACK YOU IDIOT" feeling your brain is telling you. And then the whirlpool appears.

** The places where you get the [[spoiler: Triforce Charts]] in general are horrifying. We have; a holiday home with a flooded basement full of rats, Redeads and claustrobic crawlspaces, a ghost ship, the savage labyrinth, other creepy basements full of enemies, a maze full of [[DemonicSpiders Floormasters that chuck you back to the beginning if they grab you]]... Might be Fridge Brilliance seeing as Link's Triforce piece is the Triforce of Courage.
* [[spoiler: The KING COMMITS SUICIDE RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU!]]
* [[spoiler: [[AndIMustScream Ganon is stuck in the bottom of the ocean possibly aware of everything]]!]]

** Also, as you can tell from the picture, these Redeads are more cartoonish, but [[NightmareFace they don't wear the masks]] that make other Redeads faces look like coconuts.

* Molgera. Imagine walking into a ''massive'' room full of sand. Then you hear a flutey tune play, and sand starts pouring our of the ceiling, and the Triforce disappears under a sea of sand. Then an ''enormous'' fleshy worm-thing erupts out of the ground and starts flying around. The worst part is its mouth -- the jaws are just whipping around like crazy -- and the noise it makes. It sounds like a cross between a donkey braying loudly and an agonized scream. See it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enSXbSwFEG8 here]].

* [[spoiler: Ganon is stuck in the bottom of the ocean possibly aware of everything!]]

* The Floormasters in ''The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker'' are skinny, black hands on arms that pop up when you walk close, latch onto your head, and drag you into a black abyss while making some kind of inhuman screech.

* The Redeads in Wind Waker. The scary part isn't that they're hard to fight. They're actually rather easy. It's that, if you try to shoot them from afar or from behind, they'll look up and ''stare into your fucking soul with their empty eyes''... before turning back harmlessly to stare into the ground again. Pretty horrifying if you're standing less than two yards behind one of them.

* Molgera. Imagine walking into a ''massive'' room full of sand. Then you hear a flutey tune play, and sand starts pouring our of the ceiling, and the Triforce disappears under a sea of sand. Then an ''enormous'' fleshy worm-thing erupts out of the ground and starts flying around. The worst part is its mouth -- the jaws are just whipping around like crazy -- and the noise it makes. It sounds like a cross between a donkey braying loudly and an agonized scream. See it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enSXbSwFEG8&feature=related here]].

** For maximum pants-browning, simply take the most direct route possible to Windfall after reaching Greatfish Isle. The DarkReprisal of the sailing theme will have you on edge, the incessant storm will obscure the lone tell-tale sign of its location to you, and you ''will'' plow right into it. (Oh, and it's the 12-eyed variety, the ''biggest'' of the Big Octos.)

* Molgera. Imagine walking into a ''massive'' room full of sand. Then you hear a fluty tune play, and sand starts pouring our of the ceiling, and the Triforce disappears under a sea of sand. Then an ''enormous'' fleshy worm-thing erupts out of the ground and starts flying around. The worst part is its mouth -- the jaws are just whipping around like crazy -- and the noise it makes. It sounds like a cross between a donkey braying loudly and an agonized scream. See it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enSXbSwFEG8&feature=related here]].

** On that note, remember OcarinaOfTime? How you got to be friends with most of the Kokiri? Well, one of them was chosen to be the Sage, and Molgera '''ate him!'''

** At least in this game, the pigs stop after a short time, and they're alone. In OcarinaOfTime, attacking the Cuccos will trigger a cutscene of it crowing, and then Cuccos will comes flying at you from literally nowhere. '''And they don't stop until you die or leave the area.'''

** The worst part of the redeads is that there's just no way to defeat them without getting some kind of terrifying effect. Attack them directly and they let out a chilling scream that will haunt your dreams. Attack them from afar with bombs or arrows and they walk around for a bit (which is way more scary than it sounds). The worst is if you use light to paralize them first: their normally expressionless faces will twist into expressions of extreme agony, complete with a frowning mouthful of teeth.
*** Walk around? When you bomb them, they just recoil from the blast and go back to just sitting there, hunched over. This is probably obvious, but if you just watch them from a bit of a distance away, their...''deadness'' gets really unnerving. It makes me sad for them.
*** What about Ice Arrow+Skull Hammer? It freezes it, so it can't do anything, then you smash it.
*** Whatever you do, [[SchmuckBait DO NOT use your Hookshot]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tix86B5GPYc on a]] [=ReDead=]!
*** In this game, they have one of the freakier screams. Some think it sounds like an elephant, but compared to Ocarina, where they let out a little shriek, in this game they let out a ''very loud'' banshee-like wail.

** These Redeads are scarier than the ones in OcarinaOfTime.

** For maximum pants-browning, simply take the most direct route possible to Windfall after reaching Greatfish Isle. The DarkReprisal of the sailing theme will have you on edge, the incessant storm will obscure the lone tell-tale sign of its location to you, and you ''will'' plow right into it. (Oh, and it's the 12-eyed variety, the ''biggest'' of the Big Octos.) This troper [[OhCrap flat-out panicked]] the first time that happened, especially since I didn't have the Bow at that time. [[spoiler: How was I supposed to know you're supposed to use the Boomerang on them?]]