Line #11 NightmareFuel/XKCD


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10	* That goddamn [[http://xkcd.com/78/ Garfield]] comic. While smiling, Garfield looks at the reader and says "The world is burning. Run."
11	* [[http://xkcd.com/82/ Frame]]: There’s something [[SurrealHorror bizarrely terrifying]] about the frames of a webcomic, which are typically perceived as not actually existing in-universe, growing tendrils inward to tear apart the inhabitant of the comic.
12	* [[http://xkcd.com/390/ When I got used to the regular nightmares, my subconscious got creative.]] By having someone tell him not to wake up so she won't die. The alt text makes it worse by having her insist she's real and pleading with him not to go.
13	%%* The isolation in the [[http://xkcd.com/505/ "A Bunch of Rocks"]] strip.
14	%%* [[http://xkcd.com/597/ The alt text]]. Because it might be ''true''.
15	%%* The aptly-named [[http://xkcd.com/647/ #647: "Scary"]], in which a child uses to beat his uncle's ghost story.
16	%%* The [[http://xkcd.com/777/ "Pore Strips"]] strip. [[GoneHorriblyRight It works quite well]].
17	%%* [[HarsherInHindsight The mouseover text]] on [[http://xkcd.com/875/ this strip.]]
18	%%* [[http://xkcd.com/883/ "One."]] When you ask someone to rate their pain with 10 being the worst they can imagine, it puts some things in perspective for them.
19	* [[http://xkcd.com/926/ Time Vultures.]] To them, we're all moments away from death.
20	* [[http://xkcd.com/1013/ Sheeple.]] When someone yells "Wake up, sheeple" three times, they accidentally awaken something horrifying...
21	* [[http://xkcd.com/1115/ "I looked down."]] And looked into the bottomless abyss.
22	* [[http://xkcd.com/513/ "Friends."]] It may seem like a typical, kind of sad comic about dating, until the line "Bit by bit, I'll make you depend on me."
23	* [[http://xkcd.com/751/ This]] is a true nightmare depending on your own views on morality, culture and progress. It illustrates a nightmare many parents have now: you can't know (and by extension, control) what your kids will find on the internet and when. Your child may "learn" some grown-up stuff online and try it out not knowing what they're really doing.
24	%%* [[http://xkcd.com/1245/ 10-Day Forecast.]]
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26	* [[http://xkcd.com/1139/ "I'm rubber, you're glue."]] The Guy with the Hat exploits what that would mean as the guy's [[AndIMustScream entire body is glue and bonds with the rubber person forever]].
27	%%* [[http://xkcd.com/1377/ Fish.]] The world is only a speck.
28	* [[http://xkcd.com/1530/ Keyboard Mash.]] Imagine thinking you're chatting with a friend, unaware that something has taken their place.
29	* [[http://xkcd.com/1541/ Voice.]] I can only control my voice once every six years, AndIMustScream. What makes it worse is that the mouseover text for this strip is very similar to the one from "Keyboard Mash". Could those giant spiders be ''spreading?''
30	* [[http://xkcd.com/652/ The alt text on this one]] points out that we've already invented unstoppable robot assassins.
31	* [[http://xkcd.com/1393 "Timeghost"]] might not seem scary, but then you read the last panel...
32	-->"[[TomatoInTheMirror The staaaaart of my haunting is now further away than your deaaaths!]]"
33	* [[https://xkcd.com/944/ "Hurricane Names"]] takes place in a scenario where so many hurricanes happen in a single season that the meteorologists exhaust both the yearly list of standard names and the Greek letter backups, resulting in them deciding to name storms with random dictionary words instead. The alt text makes things worse, as they run out of words in the Oxford English Dictionary (implying that hundreds of thousands of hurricanes have formed) and start numbering them, only to be foiled by hurricanes somehow appearing on every possible point on the Earth's surface and making it impossible to assign numbers to all of them. At this point, the meteorologists give up and decide to name all of the hurricanes [[FluffyTheTerrible "Steve"]].
34	-->"[[OhCrap Your local forecast tomorrow is "Steve". Good luck.]]
35	* [[https://xkcd.com/1732/ Earth Temperature]] for two main reasons.
36	** The first one is the implication that despite all the existing overwhelming evidence, non-scientific arguments AGAINST the theories of man-made global warming are proliferating and causing severe obstacles to efforts towards solving the problem.
37	** And the second one, which makes the first a true nightmare for anyone under 60, is that while it took over 11000 years for the average temperature to rise 4 degrees and reach 0°C, it'll take humanity a little less than a century to achieve the same effect and get to 4°C.
38	** What is worse is that unlike previous entries on this list, this is real, and according to projections that "Cretaceous hothouse" may be a reality if the current path continues.
39	* [[https://xkcd.com/472/ House of Pancakes.]] It's like a document you'd find in a SurvivalHorror game, and it's made worse by the fact that ''[[NothingIsScarier it's never explained.]]''
40	** Given the title and that clicking on the image leads to the Amazon listing for it, it's a clear ShoutOut to Literature/HouseOfLeaves.
41	* [[https://xkcd.com/1619/ Watson Medical Algorithm]]. The AltText cranks it up to AndIMustScream levels.
42	* [[https://xkcd.com/1242/ Scary Names]], which plots the scariness of a name versus the actual scariness of what is describes, mentions that somewhere far off to the right of the chart lies the benign-sounding [[Series/LookAroundYou Helvetica Scenario.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y-yKmzP-4U Which involves]] a man's eyes, mouth and nose somehow being blocked off by his own skin.

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