History NightmareFuel / XMenApocalypse

** His SuperEmpowering of Angel doesn't happen without some BodyHorror going on, particularly in Angel's back as his new metal wings grow.

*** [[spoiler:What we also need to remember is how this transfer was prevented. When Xavier was kidnapped, all the X-Men had literally no idea where Apocalypse had taken him. As well as being NightmareFuel for them because they'd just lost one of the most important figures in their lives and had absolutely no idea what horrible things Apocalypse and his Horsemen had in mind for him, think about how Xavier must have been feeling. The '''''only''''' reason Apocalypse wasn't able to complete the transfer was because Xavier had embedded his own message for Jean into Apocalypse's worldwide one for them to know where he was and save him]]. Thank god that being the world's most powerful telepath comes with benefits...

*** Apocalypse detects Charles contacting Erik through Cerebro. How does he show it? By staring right. AT. '''[[AsideGlance YOU]]'''. Apocalypse's glowing white eyes are '''''freaky''''', and since we're seeing him from [[POVCam Xavier's perspective]], it almost seems like Apocalypse is going to ''eat our souls''!

*** Even before the [[spoiler:transfer]], you can actually perceive how terrified he is. Whilst on the mountaintop, he remained steely-eyed and determined (you've got to remember he hasn't even been told what's going to happen to him yet), but this is less so when he's [[spoiler:brought into the pyramid Apocalypse had built]]. Although Xavier is protesting and trying to talk Apocalypse down, you can hear the terror in his voice and see it in his eyes. He has always remained a strong figure during whatever has happened to him, but in this case, it isn't hard to miss that he's cracking under so much fear of what's about to happen to him.

* [[spoiler: Quicksilver]] and Apocalypse take turns in being this to each other in the final battle:
** The all-powerful mutant is [[spoiler: reduced to Quicksilver's punching bag, whose smiling all the way. What's even worse is that while too slow to physically react to him, Apocalypse perception speed is high enough for him to see Quicksilver. Imagine, being beat up by a small teenage boy who is so fast that desite you knowing he is coming there is nothing you can do about it except get beat up.]]
** Apocalypse then uses his telekinetic powers to ensnare his foot, and then proceeds to do a SlowWalk towards him, while [[spoiler: Quicksilver]] is helplessly flailing against his bonds, then begins to beat him up and then break his leg
** Then grabbing his victim by the hair, Apocalypse has only two words to the approaching Psylocke:
--> ''End him''
** Thank god [[spoiler: she turned out to be Mystique in disguise.]]

** Creator/JamesMcAvoy [[https://in.movies.yahoo.com/post/137684622919/x-men-apocalypse-on-set-of-the-darker-heavier traumatic psychic elaborates]] on that last point.

* For Marvel's fans who stayed for the post-credits scene… [[spoiler:We get to see the aftermath of Logan's murderous rampage, with a clean-up team at work… and one man recovers a blood sample from Logan, putting it in a suitcase among several others. When closing it, we see the name 'Essex' in the suitcase; as in [[MadScientist Nathaniel]] [[EvilutionaryBiologist Essex,]] aka [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Mister Sinister]].]]

* In the opening, the original Four Horsemen using their powers to kill off the Egyptian guards involved in the plot to murder Apocalypse. Two of them get melted to their bones, others get burned, another one gets telekinetically crushed on himself like a pretzel. All of them get killed off in [[CruelAndUnusualDeath extremely brutal ways]] ''without'' a GoryDiscretionShot.
** Even bigger is the idea these men ''knew'' they had no chance and sacrificed themselves as the distraction so the Horsemen didn't realize the true plan to make the entire temple collapse.

*** Apocalypse detects Charles contacting Erik through Cerebro. How does he show it? By staring right. AT. '''[[AsideGlance YOU]]'''. Apocalypse's glowing white eyes are ''freaky'', and since we're seeing him from [[POVCam Xavier's perspective]], it almost seems like Apocalypse is going to ''eat our souls''!

*** Even before the [[spoiler: transfer]], you can actually perceive how terrified he is. Whilst on the mountaintop, he remained steely-eyed and determined (you've got to remember he hasn't even been told what's going to happen to him yet), this is less so when he's [[spoiler: brought into the pyramid Apocalypse had built]]. Although Xavier is protesting and trying to talk Apocalypse down, you can hear the terror in his voice and see it in his eyes. He's always remained a strong figure during whatever's happened to him, but with this it should be so hard to miss that he's cracking under so much fear of what's about to happen to him.
*** [[spoiler: What we also need to remember is how this transfer was prevented. When Xavier was kidnapped, all the X-Men had literally no idea where they'd taken him. As well as being NightmareFuel for them because they'd just lost one of the most important figures in their lives and had absolutely no idea what horrible things Apocalypse and his Horsemen had in mind for him, think about how Xavier must have been feeling. The '''''only''''' reason Apocalypse wasn't able to complete the transfer was because Xavier had embedded his own message for Jean into Apocalypse's worldwide one for them to know where he was and save him]]. Thank god that being the world's most powerful telepath comes with benefits...
*** [[spoiler: What's worse is that Charles has not got any possible way to get around after they take away his wheelchair. Since he doesn't have any use of his legs, even if he tried to escape, he wouldn't get far. He literally had to rely on his own students to save him from a certain FateWorseThanDeath, since he was completely sapped of all options to be able to save himself]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXHZqjkPXrA Mutants in East Berlin are forced to fight in cage matches]] on what seems to be a regular basis, and quite possibly to the death or at least maiming. Want to try to flee? The organizers have electrified the cage. No wonder poor Kurt is so terrified. Warren even warns his skittish opponent that he ''has'' to get his hands dirty, otherwise they'd be both ''gunned down''. To make matters worse, Nightcrawler and Angel are ''teenagers'', so the vile people who are running this fight club don't even give a rat's ass about the age of the mutants they're abducting. Since youngsters and the elderly are more likely to be weaker than adult mutants who are in their prime... well, the potential carnage is quite horrific.
* Xavier tries to fend off a homicidal mad man who has invaded his home and his school, and is a threat to him and everyone he cares about, and it turns out that he isn't powerful enough to stop the maniac. [[spoiler:In the mind battle that the two of them share, Apocalypse crushes Charles like a bug and smashes him against a wall like a rag doll. The sheer helplessness that Professor X feels over his inability to protect his friends and students is just as painful as any injury Apocalypse causes him.]]

* If you're a parent, watching a school explode to smithereens while class is ongoing is especially terrifying.
* Creator/JamesMcAvoy hints that Charles undergoes a [[https://in.movies.yahoo.com/post/137684622919/x-men-apocalypse-on-set-of-the-darker-heavier traumatic psychic experience.]]
-->[[spoiler:"Raven is on the verge of death. For me, I see Jennifer [Lawrence] on the verge of death. And I've known Jennifer and Raven for five years now, and I love them both. Peter [Maximoff] is on the verge of torture and death, and I feel that too. Erik and Michael, they're on the edge of this pivotal moment in their life, and I feel all this. I've got a good enough imagination that I can place my friends and these characters I've shared five years with in these situations, and it's fucking horrible. [...] It wasn't just the weight of the world I was feeling. It was the death of the world."]]
* For Marvel's fans who stayed for the post-credits scene… [[spoiler: We get to see the aftermath of Logan's murderous rampage, with a clean-up team at work… and one man recovers a blood sample from Logan, putting it in a suitcase among several others. When closing it, we see the name 'Essex' in the suitcase; as in [[MadScientist Nathaniel]] [[EvilutionaryBiologist Essex,]] aka [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Mister Sinister]].]]

** Thank god [[spoiler: she turned out to be Mystique in disguise.]]

** Apocalypse detects Charles contacting Erik through Cerebro. How does he show it? By staring right. AT. '''[[AsideGlance YOU]]'''.
** Professor X's BlackEyesOfEvil when he's able to ascertain through Cerebro just how ''immensely powerful'' Apocalypse is. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and although Xavier is clearly frightened by it, he's also ''completely awestruck'', as if he were stuck in a trance ("I've never felt power like this before"). [[EvilCounterpart Dark!Charles]], [[http://40.media.tumblr.com/932626316ddee4c988cef2411be51d39/tumblr_nrsvcqAs461s5jjv1o1_1280.jpg anyone?]] Creator/BryanSinger [[http://ca.ign.com/articles/2016/05/02/x-menas-professor-x-is-christ-and-apocalypse-is-a-false-god even acknowledges]] that Xavier "...could go inside Cerebro and rule the world, but he chooses not to," but this moment of weakness proves that even an AllLovingHero like Professor X isn't immune to being "seduced" to the dark side when he comes in direct contact with a plethora of god-like abilities
*** The moment that the professor realises that something's wrong - that Erik's not on his own - had this troper completely on edge with their heart beating so hard it made them feel sick.
----> '''Charles''': Hank...
----> '''Hank''': What?
----> '''Charles''': He's not alone...
*** And when Apocalypse does start connecting to Charles through Cerebro, Charles suddenly has the apocalyptic visions that Jean ''literally'' had the previous night. The horrified expression on his face when this happens is the exact moment it instantly brings everything into terrifyingly sharp clarity for him.
----> '''Charles''': (after witnessing the apocalyptic visions, horrified) '''Oh, god.'''

*** As explained above, Charles suffers a great deal in this movie, and possibly none more frightening than this [[spoiler: MindRape of him when Apocalypse decides to use him as his host for him to transfer his consciousness to. Imagine being in his position - physically restrained against your will whilst another person violates your entire mind, body and soul for their own desires - and you would be '''''terrified''''']].
*** Even before the [[spoiler: transfer]], you can actually perceive how terrified he is. Whilst on the mountaintop he remained steely-eyed and determined (you've got to remember he hasn't even been told what's going to happen to him yet), this is less so when he's [[spoiler: brought into the pyramid Apocalypse had built]]. As although he's protesting and trying to talk him down, you can hear the terror in his voice and see it in his eyes. He's always remained a strong figure during whatever's happened to him, but with this it should be so hard to miss that he's cracking under so much fear of what's about to happen to him.

** Professor X's BlackEyesOfEvil when he's able to ascertain through Cerebro just how ''immensely powerful'' Apocalypse is. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and although Xavier is clearly frightened by it, he's also ''completely awestruck'', as if he were stuck in a trance ("I've never felt power like this before"). [[EvilCounterpart Dark!Charles]], [[http://40.media.tumblr.com/932626316ddee4c988cef2411be51d39/tumblr_nrsvcqAs461s5jjv1o1_1280.jpg anyone?]] Creator/BryanSinger [[http://ca.ign.com/articles/2016/05/02/x-menas-professor-x-is-christ-and-apocalypse-is-a-false-god even acknowledges]] that Xavier "...could go inside Cerebro and rule the world, but he chooses not to," but this moment of weakness proves that even an AllLovingHero like Professor X isn't immune to being "seduced" to the dark side when he comes in direct contact with a plethora of god-like abilities.

--> ''Decapitate him''

** The all-powerful mutant is [[spoiler: reduced to Quicksilver's punching bag, whose smiling all the way. What's even worse is that while too slow to physically react to him, Apocalypse perception speed is high enough for him to see Quicksilver. Imagine, being beat up by a small teenage boy who is so fats that you know he is coming there is nothing you can do about it except get beat up.]]
** Apocalypse then uses his telekinetic powers [[spoiler: to ensnare Quicksilver's foot, and then proceeds to do a SlowWalk towards him, while Quicksilver is helplessly flailing against his bonds, then begins to beat him up and then break his leg]]

*** Thank god [[spoiler: she turned out to be Mystique in disguise.]]

----

* In the opening, the original Four Horsemen using their powers to kill off the Egyptian guards involved in the plot to murder Apocalypse. Two of them get melted to their bones, others get burned, another one gets telekinetically crushed on himself like a pretzel. All of them get killed off in [[CruelAndUnusualDeath extremely brutal ways]] ''without'' GoryDiscretionShot.

** The guy getting crushed (complete with sickening bone-crunching sound effects) was the point that a family with young children sitting near me got up and left. You can only say "fuck" ONCE, but horrifying onscreen deaths? Totally fine. Of course, ''Days of Future Past'' was the same, so I guess this family wasn't aware of it?

** Apocalypse's [[spoiler:MindRape of Charles]] is '''''disturbing as hell''''' because [[spoiler:Xavier's mind, body and soul are being violated]], not to mention that [[spoiler:MindRape is a metaphor for sexual assault. Pretty Boy Charles even shouts "GET OUT!!!" multiple times, which further reinforces his status as a victim who isn't strong enough to fight off his attacker.]] Seriously, this movie should've come with a trigger warning along with its PG-13 rating.

** Keep an eye on Stryker's men during Wolverines rampage. These are obviously highly trained and experienced combatants but while the first few maintain their professionalism and training even as they go down, the rest become increasingly terrified and desperate as Wolverine chops through more and more of them without missing a beat. No one except Stryker (who immediately escaped after the first group was killed) is shown having survived afterwards.

* Weapon X, a.k.a Wolverine's rampage through Stryker's facility. Jean wasn't kidding when she said he'd been turned into a living weapon; he completley ''slaughters'' everyone in his path, never saying anything that has any semblance of humanity, as it has been completely suppressed. The scene is considerable BloodierAndGorier than anything else in the film (or any of Wolverine's rampages in the previous movies), and it looks like something out of a slasher[=/=]horror movie. Who knows how many more he would've killed if it weren't for [[spoiler:Jean curing his mind.]]

** The guy getting crushed (complete with sickening bone-crunching sound effects) was the point that a family with young children sitting near me got up and left. You can only say "fuck" ONCE, but horrifying onscreen deaths? Totally fine. Of course, Days of Future Past was the same, so I guess this family wasn't aware of it?

** His [[RealityWarper reality warping]][=/=]MindOverMatter powers. He can ''behead'' humans with sand particles. He also causes a man to be absorbed into a wall, which is quite frighteningly reminiscent of what the Djinn would do in ''Film/{{Wishmaster}}''.

** His [[RealityWarper reality warping powers]]. He can ''behead'' humans with sand particles. He also causes a man to be absorbed into a wall, which is quite frighteningly reminiscent of what the Djinn would do in ''Film/{{Wishmaster}}''.

** His [[RealityWarper reality warping powers]]. Seeing him encase a man in a wall like if he was merging him with it is quite frighteningly reminiscent of what the Djinn would do in ''Film/{{Wishmaster}}''.
*** The man he encased into a wall near the beginning of the film? You can still see him move his eyes and his mouth remains open. Depending on what happened to him after, he was basically still buried alive inside that wall. AFateWorseThanDeath, indeed.

** His [[RealityWarper reality warping powers]]. Seeing him encase a man in a wall like if he was merging him with it is quite frighteningly reminiscent of what the Djinn could do in ''Film/{{Wishmaster}}''.

*** The man he encased into a wall near the beginning of the film? You can still see him move his eyes. Depending on what happened to him after, he was basically still buried alive inside that wall. AFateWorseThanDeath, indeed.

* In the opening, the original Four Horsemen using their powers to kill off the Egyptian guards involved in the plot to murder Apocalypse. Two of them get melted to their bones, others get burned, another one gets telekinetically crushed on himself. All of them get killed off in [[CruelAndUnusualDeath extremely brutal ways]] ''without'' GoryDiscretionShot.

*** Even before the transfer happens, you can actually perceive how terrified he is. Whilst on the mountaintop he remained steely-eyed and determined (you've got to remember he hasn't even been told what's going to happen to him yet), this is less so when he's brought into the pyramid Apocalypse had built. As although he's protesting and trying to talk him down, you can hear the terror in his voice and see it in his eyes. He's always remained a strong figure during whatever's happened to him, but with this it should be so hard to miss that he's cracking under so much fear of what's about to happen to him.

*** As explained above, Charles suffers a great deal in this movie, and possibly none more frightening than this MindRape of him when Apocalypse decides to use him as his host for him to transfer his consciousness to. Imagine being in his position - physically restrained against your will whilst another person violates your entire mind, body and soul for their own desires - and you would be '''''terrified'''''.
*** What we also need to remember is how this transfer was prevented. When Xavier was kidnapped, all the X-Men had literally no idea where they'd taken him. As well as being NightmareFuel for them because they'd just lost one of the most important figures in their lives and had absolutely no idea what horrible things Apocalypse and his Horsemen had in mind for him, think about how Xavier must have been feeling. The '''''only''''' reason Apocalypse wasn't able to complete the transfer was because Xavier had embedded his own message for Jean into Apocalypse's worldwide one for them to know where he was and save him. Thank god that being the world's most powerful telepath comes with benefits...
*** What's worse is that Charles has not got any possible way to get around after they take away his wheelchair. Since he doesn't have any use of his legs, even if he tried to escape, he wouldn't get far. He literally had to rely on his own students to save him from a certain FateWorseThanDeath, since he was completely sapped of all options to be able to save himself.

* In the opening, the original Four Horsemen using their powers to kill off the Egyptians involved in the plot to murder Apocalypse. Two of them get melted to their bones, another one gets violently crushed. All of them get killed off in [[CruelAndUnusualDeath extremely brutal ways]] ''without'' GoryDiscretionShot.
** Even bigger is the idea these men ''knew'' they had no chance and sacrificed themselves as the distraction so the Horsemen didn't realize the true plan to bury the entire temple.

* For Marvel's fans who stayed for the post-credits scene… [[spoiler: We get to see the aftermath of Logan's murderous rampage, with a clean-up team at work… and one man recovers a blood sample from Logan, putting it in a suitcase among several others. When closing it, we see the name 'Essex' in the suitcase; as in [[MadScientist Nathaniel Essex,]] aka [[NamesToRunAwayReallyFast Mister Sinister]].]]