Line #4 NightmareFuel/Worm


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8	* The bullying of Taylor at Winslow High. You know that bit on the main page that says, "the story shifts away from the hellish landscape that is contemporary high school towards the more uplifting setting of a bombed out city at the mercy of a roving band of psychopaths"? ''[[NotHyperbole That's not a joke.]]'' When you read Taylor's [[LongList account of torments that the three bullies inflicted upon her]] that she gives to the school officials in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/hive-5-4/ Hive 5.4]], you don't have to wonder why Skitter seems so unfazed by the horrors described on the rest of this page: no situation that Skitter finds herself in since can surpass the level of combined horror and helplessness that she escaped from when she joined the Undersiders.
9	** The bullies' attitute makes it even worse: they honestly feel entitled to treat her like that. Sophia fully expects Taylor to take the abuse without any kind of escape, and straight-up ''assaults'' her partially as [[DisproportionateRetribution "punishment"]] for having a way out of the pain, as well as for getting her suspended.
10	* The Endbringers: Unstoppable, enormous monsters whose only goal is to kill as many people as possible. At their current rate of attrition they should destroy the world in several decades.
11	** Leviathan is a thirty-foot tall monster with macrohydrokinesis. Let's repeat that, he is a ''macro'' water user. He has sunk entire landmasses, has destroyed entire cities, has created tsunamis on cue. There is also a severe water crisis in the Wormverse because he is specifically aiming for and destroying sources of fresh water in the world. He is also impossibly durable, strong, fast and utterly relentless. When he first shows up in the story, a half a dozen capes are disabled within seconds. During the attack on Brockton Bay, the strongest capes in the world barely slow him down, and he destroys half the city, killing over forty parahumans. This is considered a victory compared to what he usually does. He may actually have the highest body count among the Endbringers as he has killed millions of people in one day. He destroyed Newfoundland in 2005, and not just the settlements on it; he actually ''sank the entire island in a day'', and this is ''not'' the most destructive thing he's done. Despite all of this, he is seen as the ''weakest'' of the three.
12	** Behemoth is a forty-five foot tall horned abomination with dynakinesis, and is the only confirmed 10 on the Brute scale. Which means he is pretty much invincible and he can turn any attack into energy that he can use against you. He can scream so loud, people are torn apart. If you get too close and he notices you, you combust. He also produces deadly radiation all of the time. This thing has killed more heroes than anything else, and turns the areas he attacks into a radiated wasteland before too long. The battle plan the heroes have when he shows up is basically to hit him from a long distance away and try their best to slow the thing down while praying for Scion to show up. He can also operate even when reduced to a fleshy skeleton, and the attack that did this was probably more powerful than every nuclear weapon in the world ''combined.'' And by "more powerful", we mean "''capable of destroying the Indian Subcontinent.''"
13	** The most feared of the Endbringers is the Simurgh. A creature that appears as a freakishly tall woman with a countless number of wings fanning out from her body, some fanning out from other wings. While she is a telekinetic powerful enough to toss buildings around, that's not why she is feared. She is the world's only telepath and is a precognitive so powerful she might be approaching omniscience. Unless you are a precog as well, or a certain class of thinker, she knows every single thing you will try against her. Every attack seems to miss, and every counterattack seems to hit. She is also telepathically screaming in the heads of everyone in her range. Imagine a voice screaming so loud that it is impossible to ignore and paying attention to it only causes it to distort and rise in volume. If you remain in her presence it gets even worse, becoming a very fast pattern that drives you temporarily insane. Emotions get ramped up, your inhibitions are lowered, and you have terrible flashbacks to old traumas. A canary literally smashes its head open when it hears the Simurgh's scream. But the worse thing is her precognitive powers. To quote one victim, "Every time she shows up. Every time, people who've heard this song that's in our head? Things go wrong. They snap, they break, their lives fall apart, or they do something, and it makes something else happen, and there's a major disaster. That guy who was supposedly making a clean energy source that could power whole cities? His wife and kids got killed and he became a supervillain who made it a life goal to murder anyone who tries to better society with their powers. There were others. Over and over, every time she shows up. She never does quite as much damage as Leviathan or Behemoth, not right away, but stuff always happens later." In other words, if you are in her presence for too long, you could have been chosen by her to play a role in making the world a worse place. While the extent of the damage she has done has not been revealed, it is very telling how freaking terrified/paranoid the world is of the people who who are in her presence for too long. They have killed trusted heroes, condemned the cities the Simurgh has attacked, and forced large numbers of survivors to basically become second class citizens for the rest of their lives in fear of what she could have them do. For quite a while, fans considered her the BigBad of the Wormverse, and her machinations have already nearly destroyed the world. And the quarantine countermeasures are incorporated into her plans anyway.
14	** The fourth Endbringer, Khonsu. Not a physical fighter like Behemoth or Leviathan, nor a planner like the Simurgh. He teleports vast distances (as in halfway across the planet) to get from place to place, making him almost impossible to pin down. He can create fields of accelerated time that cause people to starve to death and decay in ''seconds'', and can be used to massively speed up his natural regeneration. In his first appearance, rather than the usual tactics of appear, fight until injured, and leave, Khonsu simply teleported away each time things got bad for him. The first fight against him lasted for ''days.'' The time acceleration also works on himself, meaning he can speed up his natural healing. This means unlike other Endbringers, who accumulate damage before fleeing, he can escape and heal up before returning.
15	** And finally, the fifth/sixth Endbringer, Tohu and Bohu. Bohu is a 1300-foot-tall tower with a face, who takes over city-sized chunks of land and claims complete control. Spikes from the walls, blades in the ground, pits, anything. After she's finished with her first attack, she'll smooth the terrain out to brutally crush any injured. She fights with her sister Tohu, a woman made entirely out of tightly wound hair. Tohu has three torsos and heads, each a feminized version of a cape she picks each time she shows up. When she picks a cape's face, she gains (and possibly improves on) their powers.
16	** And none of them have actually been trying or putting any effort into anything. Simurgh, for instance, isn't meaningfully disrupted by other precogs, and even the one being she can't perceive at ALL, Scion, she can still predict by inference. She just doesn't care enough to put in the extra effort to get around precogs. Had they actually put effort into destruction from the very beginning, they would've destroyed everything in less than a decade.
17	** Fan calcs, confirmed by WordOfGod, have produced exact numbers for just how durable they are. Those numbers reveal that the pressure in the sun's core is too low to damage their cores by ''fifty-one orders of magnitude''. No wonder they never die; they literally cannot be killed by anything abiding by normal laws of physics. At least one fan calc put the necessary amount of pressure to destroy an Endbringer's core at 560 Novemdecillion [=MPa=]. That's a 56 with ''sixty-one'' zeroes on the end of it. That means in order to kill one, you'd need to hit it with more than twice the mass-energy of the ''observable universe''.
18	* The Slaughterhouse Nine: Sick and depraved serial killers with powerful superpowers who always manage to get away and rebuild their ranks. They include a invincible woman who eats you alive, a emotion controller that has made parents torture their children to death while enjoying it, a mad scientist who turned himself into a living CreepyDoll, and a creepy child surgeon who regularly gives out fates worse than death to innocent people. They've left cities in ruins and have killed thousands, probably ''tens'' of thousands, and are an S-Class threat just like the Endbringers. Why do they do this? [[ForTheEvulz Shits and giggles]]. At first. Then it becomes trying to jump-start the apocalypse.
19	** One of TheDreaded ancient horrors in the Slaughterhouse Nine was a villain called "Gray Boy". His power? He locks his opponents in tiny loops in time -- resetting every second or less to where they were before, their memories the only thing that persist as they remain trapped in a prison they cannot escape. If he is very generous, he will leave them in a loop long enough to speak, syllable after agonizing syllable, interrupted constantly by the resetting of their vocal cords and lungs; if he is not, there's nothing stopping him from lighting a match and letting them feel that first moment of horrible burning pain again and again and over and over.... He describes it thus:
20	--->'''Gray Boy:''' I could hurt you, like I do with most people. [[FateWorseThanDeath Hurt you while you’re looping through the same action, so you feel that pain over and over and over and over again. The only thing that doesn’t change is your brain.]] That keeps going. [[ToThePain The pain is always fresh, it never gets easier to deal with, but I’m told there’s a certain point where you crack, and you go around the bend.]] Takes a few days for most. Then you get to a point where you work through your issues. You don’t want to, but you do, because the only thing you have to occupy yourself with is the pain and your own thoughts… so you get mostly better, and then you crack up again, and you get better, and that becomes a loop of its own… [[AndIMustScream Until well after the sun goes out, they think.]] [[StoryBreakerPower Speed of thought, can’t turn it off unless I’m using it on myself, and I don’t think anyone’s immune.]]
21	** Crawler was extremely creepy to begin with, being an enormous, monstrous ''thing'' that can regenerate from nearly anything, and end up stronger for it. But [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/prey-14-4/ his threats to Skitter]] after she temporarily disables him are particularly chilling:
22	--->“Run, little girl!” Crawler’s broken voice carried, a rumble so low I could feel it. “I’ll get free! I’ll catch you! I’ll hold you down and lick your skin until it melts! [[EyeScream I’ll pluck your eyes out with the tip of my tongue!]] [[SuperPersistentPredator I have your scent and you cannot ever stop me! You cannot ever escape!”]]
23	** Crawler also spits acid containing a protein-denaturing poison that ''makes more of itself'' when inside the body. When he hits Glory Girl with this, the effects are portrayed in [[BodyHorror extremely graphic detail]].
24	** Bonesaw, the surgeon mentioned above. The other members of the Nine simply kill their victims; with Bonesaw, you're [[AndIMustScream not nearly so lucky]]. For just one example, after a few hours in her captivity, Grue's organs [[NauseaFuel weren't so internal anymore]], and yet he [[FateWorseThanDeath remained alive and conscious]].
25	** Shatterbird: Manipulates glass within a range of several miles. Every time the Nine attack a city, she kicks off the festivities by causing literally ''every single glass object in the city'' to violently explode, killing hundreds of people. As a general rule, this takes people completely by surprise, and in Brockton Bay happens in the middle of the night. [[ParanoiaFuel Now think about how many glass objects you have near you right now]]. She actually controls ''silicates''. Everything from sand to computer chips extends the range of her power and her micro-control over it all is extremely delicate. What makes it ''even worse'' is that she gained her powers in the Arabian Peninsula. It wrecks most electronic equipment, too, hampering police and other first responders' efforts to deal with the aftermath of her attacks and her companions' subsequent rampages. it's why Dragon was never able to take down the Nine until the Undersiders took Shatterbird out of the picture -- her suits couldn't survive Shatterbird's scream.
26	** Siberian, who is literally [[TheJuggernaut invulnerable and unstoppable]]. She is only affected by what she allows to affect her; everything else, like the force of incoming attacks, [[UnblockableAttack the force of flesh or armor pushing against her blows]], inertia, air resistance, even time being altered around her, does ''nothing''. She can also apply this effect to objects she touches, allowing her incredible SuperStrength. Her favorite killing method is to [[EatenAlive eat people alive]], which she does by [[CruelAndUnusualDeath holding people and taking bites out of them until they die]]. She's also taken on [[WorldsStrongestMan the Triumvirate]] and ''won''; by the time of the story, people have pretty much lost all hope of stopping her.
27	** King: His power transfers any damage he receives to anyone he's touched within 24 hours. Imagine bumping into someone on the street, then a few hours later, a giant wound opens on your chest. Your limbs break, skin burns, organs get crushed, and all you can feel is overwhelming pain. [[ParanoiaFuel All for what seems like no reason.]]
28	* Panacea's power. The public knows her as a healer, but her ''actual'' power is ''unlimited manipulation of biology''. She can turn any microbe that lands on her skin into plagues that can kill everyone around her. She threatens to inflict uncontrollable weight gain on Skitter more than once. And what she does to Glory Girl goes well beyond that even ignoring what she did to Glory Girl's mind. As described in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/interlude-15-donation-bonus/ the text:]]
29	-->A caricature. A twisted reflection of how Amy saw Victoria, the swan curve of the nape of the neck, the delicate hands, and countless other features, repeated over and over again throughout. It might even have been something objectively beautiful, had it not been warped by desperation and loneliness and panic. As overwhelming as the image and the situation had been in Amy’s mind, Victoria was now equally imposing, in a sense. No longer able to move under her own power, her flesh spilled over from the edge of the mattress and onto the floor.
30	** She can create ''new species''. One of the most feared characters in the setting is a [[TheMinionMaster monster-spawner]] named Nilbog (see below). Panacea can do everything he can and more.
31	--->'''[[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/queen-18-3/ Clockblocker:]]''' When Gallant died, Vista saw the body. When Aegis was mashed to a literal pulp by Leviathan, to the point that he couldn't function anymore, when he ''died'', despite his power? I got to see the remains to verify for myself. But Victoria Dallon was still alive and they ''didn't'' let us see. A select few adults and family members got to see her, they carted her off to a parahuman asylum and none of the rest of us got to say goodbye, because the end result was ''that'' fucked up.
32	* As pointed out by readers, and Skitter herself, the Undersiders themselves must be terrifying to others in the city.
33	** Bitch turns dogs into giant monsters that follow her every command. To put this in perspective, go near a very big and vicious dog. The kind of dog that inspired Cujo, that is growling with giant teeth. Now get on you knees so it is taller than you are. Picture that? Bitch can turn that into monsters as big as vans. She is known for having had her dogs tear her foster family apart, and she is very territorial. She doesn't care about you. She doesn't care if you have children with you. If you come in her territory, which is a ''very'' large part of the city, she will give her dogs the hurt command. Yes, she specifically trained her dogs how to hurt people. A dog barking in the night is a scary thing for the people in Brockton Bay.
34	*** Keep in mind, however, that the 'hurt' command is merciful; it means Bitch thinks you need a dose of physical violence, but that you ''don't'' need killing.
35	** Grue creates darkness. The darkness that is a primal fear, that everyone felt at some point in their lives. A complete and utter darkness, that also makes you deaf, and screws up your sense of touch. You are essentially transported into a complete and utter void with no sound, speech, or sight. Every now and then though, you can occasionally see a a horrifying face moving in the dark. You see, Grue can see you just fine, and he is very good at hurting people.
36	** Tattletale claims to be a mind-reader, and it's hard to dispute. The only confirmed telepath in this setting is the Simurgh (see above), so you can see why people are scared of her. She knows everything about you. All your greatest hopes, biggest secrets, and most terrible fears. She knows what makes you tick, what makes you angry, what makes you sad. You can't hide anything from her, and she'll use it to hurt you any way she can if you cross her. It doesn't matter who you are, she will get to you. This is the girl who scares the heroes more than any other Undersider, for good reason.
37	** Imp makes it so you aren't aware she is there, even when she is standing right in front you. How does she deal with enemies? It starts small at first. One day you start to lose things. You keep misplacing your keys, or your wallet. Than you start to lose very important things. Then the furniture starts be rearranged when you aren't watching. At this point you are probably very scared at what is happening. You check your rooms, and lock your doors. The paranoia starts to really build when you start getting injuries you don't remember. Paper cuts between the fingers, strange markings, bruises. Then the blood starts to show up. Gallons of blood all over your walls telling you to leave the city. Believe it or not, that is Imp being nice. If she wants to kill you, she simply slits your throat. But the scary thing is that from her enemies' perspective, their throats just appear to open up all on its own. It's probably a good thing for the mental health of the people in the city that the general public is unsure about what her power is.
38	** Regent can take over your body. He can make you a prisoner in your own mind as he forces you to do whatever he wants. All the terrible ideas that just popped in your head? When he was with his dad, he was probably pushed to do every single one of them. Even worse, once he takes you over, he can do it again instantly over a huge radius. You can never be safe if you come anywhere near him.
39	** Last but not least is Skitter. Oh, Skitter. Most people assume she is weak because, after all, what can bugs do? Well, one bug, not much. Two bugs, still not much. A dozen bugs, ''probably'' not much. But Skitter doesn't control a dozen, or a hundred, or a ''thousand'' bugs at a time--Skitter controls ''all the insects in sight'' ... and worse, she controls all the insects ''in hiding''. Sneaking up on her? Impossible. Running away from her? Impossible. ''Fighting'' her? Well, let me ask you a question: how well can you fight while being blanketed with stinging insects--insects that swarm into your nose, your mouth, your ears, and ''worse?'' This isn't getting into what she can do when she ''doesn't'' hold back. She can flay you alive with her bugs, have them burrow through your eyes, and send them through small wounds to do massive internal damage. Let's make this clear. She can destroy entire ecosystems, and could probably commit genocide if she truly wanted to. As one commenter put it:
40	--->'''[[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/cell-22-4/#comment-21785 Saintsant]]''': Fuck with Skitter, and you'll die wishing you had the breath to do so screaming.
41	* Throughout the story we have heard references to a Master class villain called Nilbog. He is spoken of as a monster and mentioned in the same breath as the Endbringers and the Slaughterhouse Nine. In [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/interlude-16-donation-bonus/ the first arc-16 donation interlude]] we finally meet him, and he does not disappoint. What is his power? He can create mutated living creatures that have powers and seem to have feelings. They run the gamut in size, and shape but they look vaguely like people. Things like armless pregnant women that vomit up creatures and babies that have spider legs. He made things that multiply when you burn them and the government has left him alone so they don't provoke him into expanding from his little town. For the past decade he has played God with the things he creates.
42	* What Bonesaw does to Blasto. She paralyzes him from his neck down, and completely takes control of all of his motor functions, turning him into a self-aware meat puppet. By shoving her ''prehensile '''spine'''[==]'' down his throat. She intends to use him to clone all of the dead members of the Nine, and maybe a few heroes. Then when she's done so, she forces him to sing a children's song over and over again until his body can't take it and gives out.
43	* On the subject of terrifying things that Bonesaw does, there's also what she does to Grue to cause his second trigger event. She flays the skin off his limbs, pries open his ribcage, removes some of his organs and shifts others out of place, and connects his nerves to artificial ones that cover the entire room he's in so that when the rest of the Undersiders come to rescue him, they can't reach him without adding another level of unbearable pain to the agony he is already in. As is typical of Bonesaw, she makes sure he is alive and conscious throughout.
44	* Hookwolf's recruitment to the Nine. They convinced him to work for them while he was under the effects of a plague that screwed up his ability to remember people. If he's recovered at all, he's probably realized he's stuck working with the Slaughterhouse Nine. He's surrounded by them, probably has devices implanted in him from Bonesaw to help him survive/enforce loyalty, and he can't leave because the kill order means everyone will try to kill him.
45	* What Bonesaw does to Cherish: lock her in a Mannequin life support chamber lashed to the bottom of Brockton Bay, paralyzed, with all the negative aspects of her power cranked up to the max.
46	** And now, thanks to her becoming Butcher 15, she has fourteen voices in her head that very probably hate her.
47	* What Skitter does to Valefor. Valefor's powers require that he look upon his target with his naked eye -- so she fills his eyeballs with maggots to blind him. Worse, as [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/imago-21-3/#comment-18480 Toast pointed out in the comments section]], maggots make noises that would be conducted straight through the matter of his brain to his ears -- noises that sound like ''chewing''.
48	* How Skitter gets revenge on Alexandria in Cell 22.4. Just imagine the feeling of thousands of bugs forcing themselves down your throat, doing their best to completely fill your lungs with their bodies and gluing themselves in place with spider silk..
49	** What she does to Lung. Now, keep in mind, Lung is a very powerful and dangerous parahuman, someone who once fought an Endbringer to a draw. Skitter ''tore him apart''. On her first encounter with him, she swarms him with all kinds of bugs, some of which are considered dangerous to people. These include black widows, brown recluses, fire ants, browntail moths, and so on. As Tattletale notes, just one bite from most of these things would be hazardous for a normal person, and Skitter made them bite Lung over and over. He was so badly off that, even though he could regenerate, he still developed severe necrosis of the skin and his heart even stopped a number of times. For added horror, Skitter had been making them bite Lung's more sensitive areas...yeah, that's not a pleasant image.
50	* Echidna. Oh Lord, Echidna. She looks vaguely like the mythical Scylla and vomits up mutated evil twins of everyone she touches. She started out as a girl named Noelle, and she's getting both bigger and more and more insane ...
51	** Had she won the battle, she would have become much more dangerous than all the Endbringers combined, being able to wipe out everyone on the planet in a few days. The Endbringers only trash a couple of cities per year, and Earth has over ten thousand cities, so humanity could endure the Endbringers for several decades, maybe even indefinitely. However, Echidna managed to capture Alexandria and Eidolon! If she won, or if she managed run away unhindered, she could find civilians or a cattle farm to feed, and could produce dozens of Alexandria and Eidolon clones every hour. She and her clones intended to completely wipe out all life on Earth Bet, and the thousands of Alexandria and Eidolon clones could have managed to do it very soon, without any chance of stopping them.
52	* Scion's rampage. To see the greatest force for good in the setting become such a nightmare is terrifying.
53	** Not to mention the sheer ''magnitude'' of the destruction. It starts with the entire island of Great Britain being completely destroyed and only gets worse from there; Scion's MO is to simply blast major cities out of existence without stopping for anything, likely killing tens of millions every ''hour''. The first two attacks alone, taking place within a minute of each other, kill ''eighty million people.'' By the time he's finally killed, entire alternate Earths (including Earth Bet) are rendered unlivable due to global cooling caused by all the debris in the air, continents have been blown up, everyone on Earth Bet who wasn't killed has fled to scattered settlements on other Earths, and the death toll is so incredibly huge that 500 million deaths on a given planet is considered ''mild.''
54	** Scion's motives and true powers are also terrifying. He's an EldritchAbomination decades past the DespairEventHorizon, and he's killing to give himself a sense of purpose. He can fly at hypersonic speeds, blow up whole continents, negate almost any form of attack or defense, regenerate instantly from any attack, and move between dimensions. He's almost like [[Manga/DragonBall Kid Buu]]: an ancient, eldritch being that's nigh-impossible to fight and wants nothing less than total destruction. [[OmnicidalManiac He'll wipe out every human on every possible Earth in the cruellest ways he can and then wait to die, and that will be the end]].
55	** It actually manages to be worse than that. Tattletale describes him as going through a sort of development. He starts off by destroying cities, and becomes crueler, at one point killing all the adults on the African coast, leaving 430,000 orphans in his wake. He's experimenting to see which forms of killing will give him the most pleasure. Trying personal touches, like killing people and their closest friends at the same time by crushing their skulls with his bare hands. Tattletale suspects that afterwards he will move from psychological torture to physical, then finally grow up and extinguish humanity. That last part is expected to happen over the course of a few days.
56	** And this is what happens when things went ''wrong.'' If everything had gone right, Scion and Eden would have quietly tricked all of Earth Bet into massive global conflicts just to learn more about potential powers. Then once they were done, they would depart the planet, blowing up every version of it in every reality. And worse yet, there are more Worms out there.
57	* The Irregulars' and the freed Cauldron's prisoners' own brand of justice: at least one of them indulges in [[BloodBath bathing in blood]] and they crucify the limbless parahuman that Cauldron uses to wipe memories.
58	* Skitter's unlocked powers. She doesn't have her pinpoint control of insects anymore, but she automatically takes control of anyone within 16 feet. Worse, said control also results in a MindMeld, where she seemingly peers into your memories and your Shard. You also happen to be fully aware while this is happening.
59	** It's also damaged her brain to the point where she can no longer speak, read written language, or even interact with another person within 16 feet. Also, unlocking her power has heightened her passenger's conflict-generating function, slowly overwriting her personality and changing her into a megalomaniacal, xenophobic monster.
60	* The misfired trigger events that start happening after Scion dies. Instead of the worms dancing/mating, the visions are of Scion's death and the events leading up to it, but that's not the problem. The powers aren't stable -- the one guy we see turns into a self-replicating blob of ooze and tendrils -- and when he's killed, the shard jumps to another person, giving a similar ability. This happens 3 times before the fourth person doesn't go berserk.
61	* The Sleeper. [[NothingIsScarier It's never made clear who he is or what he does aside from being dormant]], but he's mentioned along with the Endbringers and Nilbog as a Class S threat. In 30.4 when Taylor is scouring every possible Earth for parahumans to use against Scion her attention falls to Sleeper "sitting on a lawn chair on a balcony, reading a book out loud to himself". She decides against controlling him. The GodzillaThreshold goes past negotiating with serial killers and warlords with kill counts in the thousands, past opening the Birdcage, past recruiting the surviving Endbringers, past taking over the bodies of many thousands of people, but never quite gets to daring to interrupt the Sleeper's book. One of the signs of the pending apocalypse is that the Sleeper ''wakes up''. In the ongoing confusion, people try to evacuate from Earth into alternate dimensions and the last report of Sleeper is that he entered the dimension labeled Zayin and "subsumed" it. The very fact that he entered Zayin causes everyone else to write off the whole dimension as a lost cause. Presumably, everyone not on Zayin breathes a sigh of relief to know that it might be the end of the world, ''but at least they won't have to worry about dealing with the Sleeper any more''.
62	* Some trigger events are horrific enough to make you feel sympathy even for the monsters. Bonesaw/Riley provides an example. Jack Slash mutilated her family members, then gave her the chance to patch them up with her surgery powers. Then hurt them again. And again. She kept going until physically exhausted but was forced to eventually choose let them die, and to watch her mother's final moments. With nothing else left, she joined her tormentors, always maintaining a smile because with her last breath, her mother told her to "Be a good girl".
63	** Worse still we see her do something similar to Panacea, forcing her to use her powers in ways revolting to her, and wants her for a big sister.
64	* The "tests" the Nine inflict on their potential recruits (willing or otherwise) are horrifying, but Jack's test to Cherish is the worst of all. He has her do the tests again. For the rest: Mannequin asks you to alter (read: mutilate) yourself in some meaningful way, Siberian hunts you down and tries to eat you, Crawler has you kill someone. The tests gone into most specifically are Cherish's, including such gems as having to evade a moving shard of glass in a lightless room for 3 straight days, and having to drink unknown quantities of an unknown type of blood or be permanently depowered, ''while'' Siberian was trying to kill her.

Context NightmareFuel / Worm