Line #33 NightmareFuel/StarWarsLegends


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6	* Works with their own pages:
7	[[index]]
8	** NightmareFuel/DeathTroopers
9	** NightmareFuel/DarkForcesSaga
10	** NightmareFuel/GalaxyOfFear
11	** NightmareFuel/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic
12	** NightmareFuel/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords
13	** NightmareFuel/{{Shatterpoint}}
14	** NightmareFuel/StarWarsCloneWars
15	** NightmareFuel/StarWarsTheOldRepublic
16	** NightmareFuel/FateOfTheJedi
17	** NightmareFuel/TalesOfTheJedi
18	[[/index]]
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20	* Durge is perhaps one of the scariest villains from Legends. A [[PsychoForHire psychopathic]] BountyHunter who made his first appearance on one of Naboo's moons, where he and Asajj Ventress massacred the the local Gungans in a test of their new chemical weapon.
21	** In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'', during the assault in the Muunilinst capital we're treated to the big reveal that Durge is more than some healing limb factored armored cladded goliath... Durge's reveal of tendrils of [[LightningBruiser muscle and speed]] are frightening and the music accompaning the scene sounds appropriately straight out of a [[PsychoStrings horror movie]]. His form of attack on Obi-Wan Kenobi is grotesque to say the least. [[spoiler: He [[BodyHorror uses his body]] and "consumes" him]]. Fortunately, though Obi-Wan manages to escape from within Durge. Albeit, in a brief squicktastic moment.
22	** The mere fact that this creature is a monster made entirely out of nerves with SuperStrength, [[NighInvulnerability regeneration, super durability, and seemingly endless stamina]]. When you think about it, this guy is basically a super alien!
23	%%* ''Literature/DeathTroopers'' and ''Literature/RedHarvest''.
24	* The ''Literature/NewJediOrder'', especially with a device called the Embrace of Pain. Also with [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill Chewie's death]]. [[HeroicRROD And Anakin's.]]
25	* The ''Literature/DarkNestTrilogy'' has Jacen MindRape Ta'a Chume in order to keep his family safe.
26	* ''Literature/LegacyOfTheForce''. The Embrace of Pain is back, along with evil Jacen (now Darth Caedus). Ben's tortured and forced to watch someone close to him die.
27	** Speaking of Ben, there's a really horrid scene that involves Tahiri playing TheVamp to the poor boy. When he refuses her advances, she then tortures his soldier buddy to death ''in front of him''.
28	** Sintas Vel, wife of Boba Fett, is revealed to have been [[HumanPopsicle frozen in carbonite]] for 40 years. 40 YEARS. Han was already a wreck after just ONE year of carbon freeze. Sintas is an absolute incomprehensible mess after being unfrozen.
29	* ''Literature/LukeSkywalkerAndTheShadowsOfMindor''. Why are Cronal's stormtroopers' armor black? Hint: That's not paint. It's a brainwashing armor, which Cronal used to throw all his forces in a suicidal run against his enemies. Luke (a commanding officer during the mission) had to ShootTheDog and kill them all, which breaks him so much that he quits military service.
30	** Also, Cronal controls the rocks of the planet, so he can [[AndIMustScream create a prison for Luke]]. He then [[MindRape forces]] Luke to see the death of the universe; Luke [[GoMadFromTheRevelation doesn't take it well]]. Throw in {{Body Surf}}ing, and you're looking at some serious horror, punctuated by {{Take That}}s to the fanboys.
31	%%* The cavern-monster scene from ''Traitor''.
32	* The ''Literature/TalesFromJabbasPalace'' anthology has the story, "Of the Day's Annoyances: Bib Fortuna's Tale", in which Jabba's former majordomo has been captured by the B'omarr monks, who plan to perform "enlightenment" surgery on him. See, the B'omarr are a cult of fanatical ascetics who have adopted advanced science to help them in their goal of pursuing enlightenment: they surgically extract peoples' brains and [[BrainInAJar place them in spidery life-support units]], in the belief that this severing from all fleshy pleasures will expand one's mind. You remember that creepy giant spider you saw scuttling through the door after C-3PO and R2-D2 entered Jabba's palace in ''Return of the Jedi"? That was a B'omarr "brain spider". Picture Bib, locked in the palace, sitting in the dark, hearing the slow, creaking approach of a surgeon's cart...
33	* InUniverse example in "The Krytos Trap", book three of the original Literature/XWingSeries novels. At the novel's climax, the Super Star Destroyer ''Lusankya'' emerges from its hiding place ''inside'' the [[CityPlanet planet-encompassing cityscape]] of Coruscant. As Wedge contemplates how in the world Emperor Palpatine managed to put it in there and have nobody aware of it, he comes to the conclusion that thre's two possibilities. Option 1: Palpatine was so ''powerful'' he was capable of using MoreThanMindControl on ''thousands'', maybe '''millions''' of sentients and wiping all memory of seeing ''Lusyanka'' installed. Option 2: Palpatine simply had every last one of those thousands to millions of witnesses ''KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade'' '''and nobody ever noticed'''. He's honestly not sure which option scares him the most.
34	* Wedge himself is suspected by his fellow republican pilots to be this for imperial pilots.
35	* The [[ThePlague Krytos virus]], an Imperial bioweapon designed to [[FantasticRacism only target aliens]], is a neverending source of BodyHorror and NauseaFuel. Designed to force the Republic to [[VirtueIsWeakness bankrupt themselves curing the affected population]], it inflicts the maximum amount of pain as it slowly kills the infected in the most grisly way possible. The chipper, {{Punch Clock Villain}}y of its [[MadScientist creator]] somehow makes it even ''worse''.
36	-->''The Quarren die more gracefully, if'' '''liquefaction can be seen as graceful...'''
37	** There was an even more lethal "Emperor's Plague" that only affected humans, and reportedly had [[EvenEvilHasStandards Palpatine]] horrified.
38	* The Dark Side ending of the first game from ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed''. [[spoiler: After killing Darth Vader, Starkiller tries unsuccessfully to attack Palpatine. Next thing he knows, Palpatine grips the Rogue Shadow with the Force and, with Juno Eclipse still inside the ship, throws it on top of Starkiller. The last thing Starkiller sees is darkness until he wakes up on an operating table, finding himself being clad in a suit of life support armor.]] Add some last-second EyeScream, and you'll wish [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Vr5jxUtak you'd chosen a different final boss.]]
39	** The second game's Dark Side ending would also count for some. Starkiller raises his lightsaber, ready to end the threat once and for all. Suddenly, [[BackStab a blood-red lightsaber emerges from Starkiller's chest.]] The attacker decloaks, revealing a hooded figure. [[CoolOldGuy Rahm]] [[BlindSeer Kota]] charges. The hooded figure whips around, blocks all his attacks, and flings him into his Rebel escort. Then, he sends them flying to the ocean below. Vader stands over Starkiller, and says that [[BatmanGambit he lied when the cloning process hadn't been perfected.]] The hooded figure reveals himself. His face is a perfect image of Starkiller, only devoid of ANY emotion. That has to give one chills.
40	* How about the downloadable Endor level from the ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' 2? It follows the alternate dark side ending of said game with how differently things would have played out in the movies had Vader's evil Starkiller clone been a success. Taking place during ''Return of the Jedi'', Vader sends the clone down to Endor to ''kill'' the Rebel forces trying to take out the shield. Throughout the level, evil Starkiller mows down ''all'' the rebel soldiers as well the Ewoks and successfully kills Han, Chewbacca, and Leia (it was implied that Luke froze to death on Hoth in this timeline). And of course there's a scene afterwards of the Emperor proudly announcing the Empire's final victory and killing Vader upon realizing his secret betrayal. The whole level is basically one huge case of "right in the childhood."
41	** Even worse is how evil Starkiller kills Chewbacca: by using him as a live shield when Han attempts to open fire at him.
42	** Just be thankful it didn't show what he did with C-3PO and R2-D2...
43	* ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' sequel has a level on a [[CoolStarship Nebulon-B frigate]]. The ship is boarded by unknown forces, led by Boba Fett, but as you go on through the level, you learn that what your facing is terrifying. The [[GoddamnedBats spider droids]] latch onto you with razor-sharp pincers. The [[CombatSadomasochist infantry]] can teleport away from your lightsaber strikes, and have cybernetic upgrades along the lines of Grievous. The [[TheBrute giants]] have scalding hot claws specifically designed to cleave through durasteel. The [[DiscOneFinalBoss walker]] could crush you like a bug, and has a screech that sounds like a demon had it's vocal chords ripped out, and combined with nails on a chalkboard. As you progress through this level, you'll learn that this contingent of EliteMooks are called the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Terror Troops]] for a very good reason.
44	* There was a webcomic called [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Evasive_Action Evasive Action]], which described the lives of three Padawans who survived Order 66 and went into hiding. They were on Felucia when Order 66 was issued, and in a convenient spot to watch Aayla Secura [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:ZonderOrder66.jpg get shot down by her own troops]]. Take a look at the background image of Aayla's DiesWideOpen expression... yeah.
45	* ''[[Literature/NewJediOrder Destiny's Way]]'' mentions some of the critters employed in the Yuuzhan Vong [[HumanSacrifice Sentient Sacrifice]]. Flaying knives, flesh-eating beetles... We knew already that it wasn't a barrel of laughs, these being the Yuuzhan Vong and all, but still...
46	** And it says that it takes several hours, and the victim is generally conscious for most of it--presumably, [[FridgeHorror the Vong have means to keep them from blacking out]].
47	* In ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'', Joruus C'baoth's MindRape of General Covell. Imagine a ''military officer'' having to relearn the concept of ''obedience''!
48	** From the same books, Joruus' fascination with controlling people and moulding their entire existence according to his wishes. And the fact that Thrawn wins him over to his side by bribing him with Leia's unborn children.
49	** "He would smile, and speak politely, and then he would ''take her children away.''
50	* The Ghorman Massacre, an event that brought the future Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin to the Emperor's notice. In the wake of the declaration of the Galactic Empire, tax protesters on the planet Ghorman staged a peaceful demonstration on a landing pad in order to prevent Tarkin's ship from landing. Tarkin simply had his ship land ''[[WeaponizedExhaust on top of the protesters]]''. In the ''Legends'' mythology, [[MoralEventHorizon this event was what shocked enough people]] that the Rebel Alliance was able to firmly establish itself.
51	* The whole entechment thing. Draining the life forces of living beings and prolonging their agony to use the energy to fuel the race's machines.
52	* In ''ComicBook/StarWarsTales'' #24, "Unseen, Unheard", Darth Nihilus strips a Miraluke colony world that's hosting a Jedi Enclave of all life: save one.
53	* [[HumanoidAbomination Abeloth.]] She used to be human, but now she's an EldritchAbomination powerful enough to take on and almost beat [[TheAce Luke himself]]. And [[SarcasmMode thanks to fanart]], we have an idea what her humanoid face looks like. Just...[[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/characterprofile/images/b/b7/Abeloth.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160919181918 just look.]]
54	* It is revealed that the Death Star was built using convict labor over the prison planet of Despayre. This labor force was executed and replaced with enslaved Wookiees once it turned out that they were incompetent. Once that was done, Tarkin transported the entire work crew, along with their supervisors, to Despayre...[[MoralEventHorizon which he then blew up, killing millions of prisoners and thousands of loyal Imperial personnel]], both to test the laser's power and to eliminate loose ends.
55	* In the audio book of "[[Literature/TalesFromTheMosEisleyCantina Nightlily]]", we hear Trevagg get his comeuppance. [[spoiler:It's as agonizing as you'd expect.]]
56	* The Hutt. They control a galaxy-spanning criminal empire that not even the Empire dares to take down... Because the alternative is their return to their ancient militaristic ways, during which they [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Ash_Worlds devastated dozens of worlds so hard that for millennia the rest of the galaxy thought it had been a supernova]] before they fought [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Hutt_Cataclysms a devastating civil war that pushed them to establish the basis of their criminal empire so they wouldn't risk to kill themselves again]].
57	* The [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Mnggal-Mnggal Mnggal-Mnggal]], [[EldritchAbomination something]] so horrid that the only reason using the Death Star on a planet it has consumed isn't appropriate is because ''you can't be sure you killed all of the thing''- better using a Base Delta Zero (that is, [[OrbitalBombardment hitting the planet from orbit with turbolasers]] until [[ApocalypseHow the entire crust is reduced to molten slag]]) rather than risk some of it from the wrong side of the planet has survived on an asteroid ready to infect some unaware individual. And in fact, that's what the Chiss do whenever they find a planet consumed by it. It's said that [[{{Precursors}} the Celestials]], who were so powerful to alter the very fabric of the universe, did just that and created the hyperspace anomaly that keeps the Unknown Regions unknown to ''isolate the thing''.
58	** Oh, and it's confirmed to be an extradimensional being, possibly related to Waroo!
59	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Droids}}''
60	** The made-for-TV movie, ''The Great Heep,'' is significantly darker than other episodes. It involves droids getting their power drained (the robotic equivalent of having someone suck out their life force) complete with the [[SarcasmMode lovely]] image of their colour fading to a sickly brown. The main villain of the episode, the eponymous Great Heep is far more sinister than the show's villains up to that point -- not to mention [[spoiler: his death scene]] is quite terrifying in itself, complete with lightning and rain. The episode also chronologically introduces [[KnightOfCerebus Admiral Screed]], who went on to become [[TheHeavy the central Imperial character on the show]]. He is only ''slightly'' less evil than the Great Heep.
61	** Bisad Koon's death. ''Holy Toledo,'' Bisad Koon's death. [[spoiler: The disease he's contracted causes him to simply...disappear, leaving his clothes behind. Think Obi-wan's death at Vader's hands, but more disturbing.]]
62	* ''Literature/ChooseYourOwnAdventure'' had a series of Star Wars gamebooks that featured [[TheManyDeathsOfYou many horrific endings]] depending on the choices the reader makes, but one ending that sticks out is in the ''A New Hope'' volume. After being taken captive by the Imperials, Tarkin will call for the reader's execution if the reader refuses to join them. But Vader will intervene and convince Tarkin to have the reader taken to Kessel, where they end up forced to work as a slave in the mines. Working conditions are extremely miserable and the reader finds themself living in fear of their extremely hostile taskmasters and even their fellow workers threatening to harm or rob them. Vader promised the reader's stay there was temporary, but the narration implies [[ILied Vader lied]] or forgotten. The last sentences of the ending even implied the the reader eventually was stuck on Kessel long enough that [[DespairEventHorizon they completely gave up any hope of escape from their nightmarish fate.]]
63	* Anyone who has played both ''VideoGame/DarkForces'' and the original ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront'' games has probably noticed that the Dark Troopers in the latter look and behave more like regular, living stormtroopers instead of droids or walking tanks with stormtroopers in them. A case of CanonDiscontinuity? Perhaps that was the case up until the guide for ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheForceUnleashed'' came out and identified ''Battlefront''’s Dark Troopers as “Phase Zero Dark Troopers”, who were Clone Troopers that were crippled during the Clone Wars, forcibly rebuilt using the same technology that went into Darth Vader, and forced back into Imperial service. In some cases, up to ''seventy percent '' of a trooper’s organic body would be replaced. Needless to say, the Phase Zero project [[DrivenToSuicide had a high suicide rate.]]
64	* The Unknown Regions. Huge uncharted regions of the galaxy that are difficult to travel to thanks to black holes and [[EldritchLocation bizarre planets]], many that are inhabitated by [[EldritchAbomination frightening monstrosities]] such as the aformentioned [[BlobMonster Mnggal-Mnggal]] and [[HumanoidAbomination Abeloth]], as well as the freaky looking [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Starweird/Legends Starweirds]].
65	* In ''Literature/ShadowsOfTheEmpire'', Xizor wants Darth Vader disgraced and dead because of what happened to his hometown: a bioweapon lab under Vader's authority situated in the city accidentally leaked a [[SyntheticPlague flesh-eating bacteria]], and to prevent it from spreading to the entire planet and possibly beyond [[ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure incinerated the entire city and everything within 40 kilometers of the labs from orbit]], killing 200,000 people including Xizor's family. But that's not the worst part, the worst part is that Vader ''held back'': the commander of his ship ''[[MeaningfulName Devastator]]'', captain Bolvan, wanted to use a weapon that would have [[AtmosphereAbuse incinerated the atmosphere of the planet]], but [[EvenEvilHasStandards Vader decided it was excessive]] and ordered a conventional OrbitalBombardment with turbolasers (and demoted Bolvan).

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