History NightmareFuel / Warehouse13

* Just pray and hope you'll never run afoul of an [[ArtifactOfDoom artifact]] from ''[=Warehouse 13=]''. Or a previous warehouse. You could be [[AndIMustScream turned into a glass statue]], prematurely aged to death, the victim of ''SpontaneousCombustion'' or ''mummified alive''. And these are just some examples...
** Artifacts in general are ParanoiaFuel incarnate. Thanks to the powers they hold, even the most benign of artifacts can cause serious injuries. That's ignoring their appearances, which can be literally anything. In more than one episode, things like candles or books have killed dozens of people. Watch some of the scarier episodes in a row and you ''will'' start to get scared of things around your home.
*** As an example, one episode had a ''completely unremarkable glass jar'' cause a ZombieApocalypse. It was sitting right out in the open in multiple scenes, but most viewers probably never even considered that it might be the artifact.

** What adds to the fear factor, as well as making it a massive TearJerker, is that her worst fear wasn't 'just' being trapped by a scary doctor, but the idea that her life up to this point is a delusion and she's still in the mental institution she grew up in. [[ParanoiaFuel Imagine thinking that, that your whole life is just a figment of your imagination, and the idea that you can't tell reality from madness]]. Adding to that, the familiarity she had with the doctor also implies that, during her time with the institution, [[FridgeHorror she underwent electroshock treatment]].

* Near the end of ''"Personal Effects"'', only five of the six loose artifacts were shown. The unseen one was a waffle iron whose waffles made your skin melt. [[FridgeHorror How did they find this out?]] Why was it mentioned as an aside so nonchalantly?

* Mrs. Frederic choking Leena in "Time Will Tell". After the commercial break we find out it was to disconnect her from the Pearl of Wisdom, but the first time you see it there's no way to know. It's quite frightening.
* In a case of FridgeHorror once you think through the implications: in "The Ones You Love", when Mrs. Frederic and Steve go to the Vatican to investigate Adrian and the Brotherhood, they discover all of them have been trapped inside of a painting for months. But Mrs. Frederic explains how this particular artifact worked: it was the frame, which had been built by a framist who worked with Rembrandt, thus explaining why so many of his paintings seem "so remarkably life-like"...suggesting that all of those paintings also contain people who have been trapped for centuries. Now, it doesn't ''seem'' as if those trapped are aware of being so, or the passage of time, but...

* Mrs. Frederic choking Leena in "Time Will Tell". After the commercial break we find out it was to disconnect her from the Pearl of Wisdom, but the first time you see it there's no way to know. It's quite frightening.

* [[spoiler:Evil!Artie]]. Imagine [=MacPherson=], only even more evil with a personal knowledge of the entire cast and a willingness to use all their faults against them.

** Similarly, it's later revealed that before [[spoiler: Paracelsus]] refined the technique, bronzing only lasted a few hours before the subject slowly began to crumble into dust. Imagine feeling yourself fall apart and being unable to do anything to stop it?! Talk about AFateWorseThanDeath!

* Just pray and hope you'll never run afoul of an [[TheArtifact artifact]] from ''[=Warehouse 13=]''. Or a previous warehouse. You could be [[AndIMustScream turned into a glass statue]], prematurely aged to death, the victim of ''SpontaneousCombustion'' or ''mummified alive''. And these are just some examples...

* Mrs. Frederic choking Leena in "Time Will Tell". After the commercial break we find out it was to disconnect her from the Pearl of Wisdom, but the first time you see it there's no way to know. It's quite frightening.

*** As an example, one episode had a ''completely unremarkable glass jar'' cause a ZombieApocalypse.

* The downside of the levitation artifact in "The Sky's the Limit". Anyone levitated by it later flies up into the sky to either asphyxiate or fall to their doom. We even see one character rocket into the stratosphere while he screams helplessly. To anyone even mildly phobic of heights this scene can be...difficult to watch.

* ''The 40th Floor''. It starts with a Regent being tortured to death by an artifact [[KillItWithFire that graphically burns the victim alive]]. Then, while its effect isn't all ''that'' graphic in execution, one artifact featured was from [[MenBehindTheSun Unit 731]]. Finally, we've got the sight of a man [[DrivenToSuicide spraying the inside of his mouth with a corrosive spray paint artifact, complete with convulsions, anguished gurgling and on-screen disintegration]]. If there last one wasn't bad enough, we get to see two more victims meet a similar end.

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* [[spoiler:Evil!Artie]]. Imagine [=MacPherson=], only even more evil with a personal knowledge of the entire cast and a willingness to use all their faults against them.

* Just pray and hope you'll never run afoul of an {{artifact}} from ''{{Warehouse 13}}''. Or a previous warehouse. You could be [[AndIMustScream turned into a glass statue]], prematurely aged to death, the victim of ''SpontaneousCombustion'' or ''mummified alive''. And these are just some examples...

* Just one line: "You're in my way." Oh, ''Artie'' ...

* Near the end of ''"Personal Effects"'', only five of the six loose artifacts were shown. The unseen one was a waffle iron whose waffles made your skin melt. [[FridgeHorror How did they find this out?]] Why was it mentioned as an aside so nonchalantly?

* "A New Hope" has Claudia trapped in a small dark space with no light and no way out and her legs are buried under rubble. She manages to have the presence of mind to tell the others to never mind about her because they're chasing after a giant reset button that'll make it so that she never got trapped in the first place. Followed up shortly by Pete's "I won't remember dying" discussion with Artie. HOLY CRAP. I've never been so grateful for a {{reset button}}.

* "Don't Hate the Player" is, all in all, a very lighthearted episode with lots of nerd humour in it. You can imagine the MoodWhiplash, then, when the game starts exploiting the players' fears via its neural interface and we're suddenly "treated" to the sight of Claudia strapped to an asylum hospital bed, shrieking in abject terror as a doctor is about to apply a giant set of rusty electrodes to her head. The subsequent "Myka to the rescue" moment was sorely needed and could've happened a bit sooner. Allison Scagliotti is truly a gifted actress as, while Claudia's previous breakdowns were heartrending in their subtlety and understatedness (see S2 finale, scene near the end with Artie bandaged up), pulling out all the stops isn't a problem for her either - no {{Narm}} to be had here, just an all-too-believable portrayal of someone's worst fear putting them through the wringer. It doesn't help that the other fears were either played for laughs, introduced InMediasRes, or applied to one-off guest characters who didn't have much involvement. This one they showed in its entirety, and they lingered on it a bit too long for comfort.

* ''The 40th Floor''. It starts with [[spoiler: a Regent being tortured to death by an artifact [[KillItWithFire that graphically burns the victim alive]]]]. Then, while its effect isn't all ''that'' graphic in execution, one artifact featured was from [[MenBehindTheSun Unit 731]]. Finally, we've got the sight of a man [[spoiler: [[DrivenToSuicide spraying the inside of his mouth with a corrosive spray paint artifact]], complete with convulsions, anguished gurgling and on-screen disintegration]]. If there last one wasn't bad enough, [[spoiler: we get to see two more victims meet a similar end]].
* Claudia's [[spoiler:scream/ BigNo when she sees Steve's dead body.]] Crosses over big-time with TearJerker.
* Ms. Fredrick [[spoiler: dying. She rapidly desiccates in front us, pretty much being reduced to a mummy.]]

* "Don't Hate the Player" is, all in all, a very lighthearted episode with lots of nerd humour in it. You can imagine the MoodWhiplash, then, when the game starts exploiting the players' fears via its neural interface and we're suddenly "treated" to the sight of [[spoiler: Claudia strapped to an asylum hospital bed, shrieking in abject terror as a doctor is about to apply a giant set of rusty electrodes to her head. The subsequent "Myka to the rescue" moment was sorely needed and could've happened a bit sooner. Allison Scagliotti is truly a gifted actress as, while Claudia's previous breakdowns were heartrending in their subtlety and understatedness (see S2 finale, scene near the end with Artie bandaged up), pulling out all the stops isn't a problem for her either - no {{Narm}} to be had here, just an all-too-believable portrayal of someone's worst fear putting them through the wringer.]] It doesn't help that the other fears were either played for laughs, introduced InMediasRes, or applied to one-off guest characters who didn't have much involvement. This one they showed in its entirety, and they lingered on it a bit too long for comfort.

* The young woman we see getting turned into a ''glass statue''.

* [[spoiler: Claudia's scream/ BigNo when she sees Steve's dead body. Crosses over big-time with TearJerker.]]
* [[spoiler: Ms. Fredrick dying. She rapidly desiccates in front us, pretty much being reduced to a mummy.]]