History NightmareFuel / TheOwlHouse

** Belos had ample opportunity to kill Raine in the time after taking over the heart. Instead, he left them pinned within the growing corruption, injured, [[BlindWithoutEm blind]], and terrified, as if he decided to punish them for resisting by leaving them to die slowly.

* Belos tries to blast the Collector with his corruption beam, but Luz flies in and takes the hit instead. The corruption burrows into her body like an infection, crawling up her arm to consume the rest of her body from the inside out, and dissolving her into tiny balls of light. And from the sounds Luz made while it was happening, we can tell it wasn't ''painless'' either

* Kikimora manages to capture Luz, and the episode ends on the cliffhanger of Kiki taking her to Belos. Unlike the last season finale, though, Belos has already shown that he will kill Luz if given the chance, since she's already done all she needs to help him and poses only opposition.

* Belos tries to blast the Collector with his corruption beam, but Luz flies in and takes the hit instead. The corruption burrows into her body like an infection, crawling up her arm to consume the rest of her body from the inside out, and dissolving her into tiny balls of light. And from the sounds Luz made while it was happening, we can tell it wasn't ''painless'' either.
** Looking closely, one can see that as soon as the corruption fully envelopes Luz, her head breaks off of her body before she dissolves into light.

** Gets worse when you consider what owl pellets actually are. Like most birds, owls swallow their prey whole, where it goes to the gizzard (main stomach) and is digested. Rather then sending the indigestable bits - fur, feathers, and bone - through the digestive tract, they're wadded up in the gizzard, then "cast" (vomited) up as compact pellets. In short, Hooty swallowed King and Amity, allowing them to enter his digestive system and essentially purged them in [[NauseaFuel cases of compact vomit]]. Relatively unharmed though they seemed, it couldn't have been a pleasant experience.

-->'''Luz:''' Luz Noceda 2.0! Doppleganger! Ugh, why won't you work?!

** Just the fact that Belos is trying to force even ''child'' witches into Covens before the Day of Unity. If his personal demonstration of [[WouldHurtAChild malicious lethal intent]] towards Luz and Hunter in "Hollow Mind" didn't make it clear, this shows that he clearly intends to make sure that ''no one'' escapes, all because of his [[FantasticRacism personal outdated values]] and sheer inability to see the natural resisdents of the Boiling isles as anything less than monsters who deserve death, even though he's spent ''[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld centuries]]'' living amongst them, and never once faltered in his convictions.

** When Luz proposes they get the Titan's blood themselves, Hunter tells Flapjack to go get the rebus from Amity. Flapjack hesistates... And Belos gets impatient.

** Luz gets placed in the role of Belos, in a version of events where he ''won''. As she wanders through the castle, the stained glass windows showing Belos ruling over the Isles now show ''her'' figure instead, and as she steps outside and looks down into the castle's moat, she sees practically the entire population of the Isles down there, petrified in stone with their final moments seemingly spent clinging to eachother and trying to flee -- before being confronted by and forced to fight Amity. She's then confronted by each of her friends in turn, and each one is more harrowing than the last.

** The only thing more chilling is Luz's response: a DeathGlare without even moving, and a complete and utter apathy towards Belos and his false pleas for mercy. Even when Eda, King and Raine swoop in to firmly curbstomp him into a fine paste along the ground, Luz ''never'' moves an inch or changes her expression. She effectively sentenced him to death without having to so much as say a word after how far he had gone, and being in the [[CuteMonsterGirl Titan form]], it makes even ''her'' look like the culmination of the Demon Realm itself passing final judgment for his sins.

** Doubles as a Tearjerker when he gets slapped in the face by the reality of what death means to mortals, when Luz takes a bullet for him and dies to Belos's infection.

** And 'Meat Moss' isn't a euphemism here: Belos' infection goes from looking like goo to an overfed, hyper-aggressive lichen. After so many centuries, he's truly become the epitome of the cancerous rot on the Boiling Isles that he's always been.

** The effect is not limited to the physical world, either; as Belos assimilates the Boiling Isles, the Titan's spirit in the [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds In Between]] grows a hole in his chest, from which more Meat Moss begins to grow. Belos is not just corrupting the Titan's corpse: he's corrupting ''his very soul''.

** The effect is not limited to the physical world, either; as Belos assimilates the Boiling Isles, the Titan's spirit in the [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds In Between]] grows a hole in his chest, from which more Meat Moss begins to grow.

* We've gotten a promo for the final episode, and it's quite unsettling:
** The Collector is terrifying in this promo, expressing their TranquilFury via DissonantSerenity. Their use of their power also becomes MUCH more frightful and violent.
** The heroes appear to be trapped in their worst nightmares.
** We then see a '''[[TheBerserker completely, ferally BERSERK]]''' King and Owl Beast Eda with GlowingEyesOfDoom as well as a ThroatLight for each, there's also the barely note worthy detail that King is ''[[BerserkerTears crying]]'' as he charges, hinting that something ''terrible'' has happened to what their reactions heavily imply to be Luz. After going through the TraumaCongaLine that the series became for them since 'Edge of the World' they seem to have finally hit their biggest RageBreakingPoint since 'Agony of a Witch' only unlike Luz, [[UnstoppableRage their rage is absolutely NOT Tranquil]].

** Eda wakes up in the Conformatorium, and uses her harpy form to break out and go look for her kids, only to get shot out of the sky by a giant net. Lilith and Gwen appear, and while she tries to get them to help her, Lilith simply states that wild beasts should be imprisoned. Cissy Jones chillingly channeling her Season One coldness and cruelty. As Eda is trying to plead with them, they suddenly step aside, and Dell Clawthorne, his remaining eye torn out and bleeding, blindly stumbles towards her.

*** Finally, Luz is confronted by Hunter on the roof of Belos's castle, the Titan's skull in the background replaced by a gigantic, broken statue of Flapjack. Zeno Robinson's performance ''really'' shines here, as the sheer amount of rage and pain in Hunter's voice is almost palpable.

** Eda wakes up in the Conformatorium, and uses her harpy form to break out and go look for her kids, only to get shot out of the sky by a giant net. Lilith and Gwen appear, and while she tries to get them to help her, Lilith simply states that wild beasts should be imprisoned. As Eda is trying to plead with them, they suddenly step aside, and Dell Clawthorne, his remaining eye torn out and bleeding, blindly stumbles towards her.

* The Collector honestly doesn't ''get'' what death means to mortals, thinking that he can simply bring back anyone who dies like a broken toy. Him demonstrating this by ripping the head off a doll shaped like himself and then repairing it just drives it home.
** Doubles as a Tearjerker when he gets slapped in the face by the reality of what death means to mortals, when Luz takes a bullet for him and dies to Belos's infection.
* As Belos heads towards the Titan's heart, the Collector's mark on Raine's foreheads falls off, with the clear implication that his PossessionBurnout caused it, and that Raine would probably be ''dead'' already if it hadn't lasted as long as it did.
* The Collector inadvertently gives Belos the idea to possess the ''Titan's heart'', and despite Raine's best efforts to stop him, he succeeds, covering the Isles in MeatMoss and forming a giant {{Kaiju}}-sized form around the palace that he uses to fire blasts of energy, planning on personally wiping out every witch and demon. The fact that what the Boiling Isles becomes looks like it came straight from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos or the imagination of Creator/JunjiIto doesn't help at all. And while he doesn't say much in this form, he is given a voice to match it:
-->'''Belos:''' Finally! I can cleanse this perdition '''''MYSELF!'''''
** And 'Meat Moss' isn't a euphemism here: Belos' infection goes from looking like goo to an overfed, hyper-aggressive lichen. After so many centuries, he's truly become the epitome of the cancerous rot on the Boiling Isles that he's always been.
** Not just that. He makes the body of the Titan ''move'', raising one of its arms all the way up into the sky. This might not sound impressive, but the Titan is the size of a ''country'', and that arm alone held ''multiple'' large towns, including the town of Latissa. Just raising that arm would have likely killed a lot of the witches who remained there.
** The way the Owl House gang and the Collector learn about this is equally horrifying. While Luz is teaching the Collector about how kindness and forgiveness go a long way towards making friends, the Collector suddenly hears a deep rumble. The four of them go quiet as the trees in the distance start to sway, and right as Belos's eye lights up the Titan's skull, the Collector realizes what that rumbling sound was.
--->'''The Collector:''' ...''[[OhCrap Breathing]].''
* Belos ends up hitting Luz with a blast that twists her body and makes ''her'' disappear into light like Flapjack did. The process isn't instant either, he burrows into her body like an infection, crawling up her arm to consume the rest of her body from the inside out. And from the sounds Luz made while it was happening, we can tell it wasn't ''painless'' either.

*** Finally, Luz is confronted by Hunter, on the roof of Belos's castle, the Titan's skull in the background replaced by a gigantic, broken statue of Flapjack. Zeno Robinson's performance ''really'' shines here, as the sheer amount of rage and pain in Hunter's voice is almost palpable.
---->'''Hunter:''' I've always just... followed orders. I never thought about making friends, or... going to school. Then I met Flapjack. He was more than a Palisman. He was my best friend. And then I ''lost him'', helping YOU. But you still get to have your own Palisman?! ''(falls to his knees)'' Why, Luz?! Why do you get to have it all?!

* We get a reminder that the rains on the Isles are boiling hot when Belos tries to trick Luz one final time. The falling rains melt away the skin of his illusory form, and makes his real form look more like a melted rotting corpse... which, it basically is by that point.

--->'''The Collector:''' ...''[[WhamLine Breathing]].''

** Not just that. He makes the body of the Titan ''move'', raising one of its arms all the way up into the sky. This might not sound impressive, but the Titan is the size of a ''country'', and just that arm alone held ''multiple'' large towns. Just that alone would have likely killed whoever was left in there.

* Some of the Collector's "games" are legitimately horrifying.

* We get a reminder that the rains on the Isles are acidic when Belos tries to trick Luz one final time. The falling rains melt away the skin of his illusory form, and makes his real form look more like a melted rotting corpse....which, it basically is by that point.

** Luz gets placed in the role of Belos, in a version of events where he ''won''. As she wanders through the castle, the stained glass windows showing Belos ruling over the Isles now show ''her'' figure instead, and as she steps outside and looks down into the castle's moat, she sees practically the entire population of the Isles down there, petrified in stone with their final moments seemingly spent clinging to eachother and trying to flee -- before being confronted by and forced to fight Amity.
** Eda wakes up in the Conformatorium, and uses her harpy form to break out and go look for her kids, only to get shot out of the sky by a giant net. Lilith and Gwen appear, and while she tries to get them to help her, Lilith simply states that wild beasts should be imprisoned. As Eda is trying to plead with them, they suddenly step aside, and Dell Clawthorne, his entire face torn open, stumbles towards her, saying that he ''tried'' to forgive her.

* We get a reminder that the rains on the Isles are acidic when Belos tries to trick Luz one final time. The falling rains melt away the skin of his illusory form, and makes his real form look more like a melted rotting corpse.