Please note that this page and all Accidental Nightmarefuel pages are intended for examples that WHERE NOT meant to be scarey by the maker of the media form. If it was intended to be scary that is High Octane Nightmare Fuel
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It's worse. It seems to be moved to pity...but then Dr. Light presses a button and forces him to fire.
At a point in Unicorn Jelly where everything was pretty much going to hell for everyone, the author created an Alternate Universe side story in which any number of catastrophes, both personal and global, had simply not happened, and the world was pretty much perfect. From that attempt to cheer up herself, her readers, and/or her characters, comes this strip and its inexplicably disturbing middle panel.
Achewood's creepiest moments, coincidentally, both feature Cheerful Child Philippe: the first was a story arc in which serial killer Nice Pete kidnaps him on a rainy Halloween night to take him to an abandoned ice-cream store. The second, "Philippe/Transfer Station", introduced the characters Zell and Cory, two drifters who are so badly mutilated after a terrible fire that they're "considered unlucky if [they] live". This strip in particular was greatly unsettling for this troper.
Achewood also has the Cartilage Head arc, a surreal 7-page detour from the main story where Ray reluctantly accepts tickets to watch a gaunt, weeping musician deform his wax-like head in an otherwise empty theater. Cartilage Head then invites Ray to have dinner with him, where the situation eventually goes from creepy to horrific.
Then there's this sobering offering in the middle of a lighthearted arc about time travel.
Another one-off strip featuring Philippe. Good lord, child. Good lord.
The in-comic explanation of the premise behind Misfile has to be nightmare fuel. Wrong cabinet, oops you're a fish!
Worse: everyone in the world accepts that you have always been a fish.
What's worse than this is that everybody else accepts that you have always been a fish and remembers you as such. You remember being a human and all of the things that now never happened, and can do nothing about it.
Penny Arcade also plays with the idea with The Merch, a cute little blue box who TURNS INTO A TORSO-EATING MONSTER if people don't buy enough Merch merchandise. Now just imagine if it was real...
Note that it doesn't eat torsos... it collects them. Best not to imagine to what purpose...
Jeanne finally lost the blank stare. Really wishing that wasn't the case, because Holy Jesus Christ.
After a couple of years in Gunnerkrigg Court, we have seen nothing to indicate that Annie was anything but a level headed, if slightly odd, girl. And then... then... she tortures Renard. Tortures him!
In the one the first person mentioned, a rather frightening fellow appears next to McNinja's ear, so that's probably the point. The pumpkin fellow doesn't bother me though.
Also, this one. The concept of a time traveling jetpack Thomas Jefferson with lasers who could break through the fourth wall and come after me at any time is oddly terrifying.
It's even worse if you remember the old news post of "In the original upload, the second panel was completely uncensored." Brrrr.... pass me the Brain Bleach...
This VG Catsstrip. Good god, this is frightening as all hell.
And this strip scared this troper just as much as the game it's parodying.
Would this be considered a "Funny Aneurysm" Moment now, considering how infrequently VG Cats is updated these days, to the point that it may as well be considered cancelled?
Not to mention Maytag's whole fairly nonchalant attitude to Bloody Mary slowly eating her alive is cringe-inducing as well (even Bloody Mary herself is freaked out by it initially.)
The User Friendly strip where aliens receive a TV broadcast they don't like and declare war on Earth... seconds before they would have intercepted Voyager 2 and its message of peace.
The recent Freefall arc involving testing Florence's brain (since she's technically an AI) is way, way scarier than it could possibly have been intended to be. It started getting weird when they blacked her out with a remote control and repeatedly wiped her memories to run tests, but by the time she's wandering around having to leave notes to herself all the time because they wiped out her short-term memory beyond about a minute, it's pure, nightmare-haunting Paranoia Fuel.
And now the latest chapter has unleashed Gardener in the Dark, an aggressive neural pruning program that erases a robot's personality and leaves them only capable of their original function. Keep in mind that Freefall robots are of the ridiculously human variety.
Concession: The arc With a Strong Hand and an Outstretched Arm, particularly the ending. "Bear witness to my sin ... and you become the breeding ground for my horror." Though one troper also found it to be an entirely different kind of Fuel at the same time.
For me the impact of that scene was diluted by the fact that she just used his powers to send the dragon to see every one of her relatives.
This strip, while commonly seen as Tarquin's Crowning Moment of Awesome, is undeniably disturbing. Not only are they twisting classic genre conventions, but Tarquin's gleefully talking about how his own son is going to kill him.
This. What probably makes it so unsettling is that this is the only time in the entire comic that Xykon is 100% serious.
The Chlorine Elemental really freaked me out. Something to do with the lower-case repeated catchphrase, and the way chlorine was really used in war...
The 10 Doctors has chapter 135. It had a deleted version, which was rejected because the creator thought it was too graphic and not like the comic's tone. It was Leela stabbing the Valeyard, over and over, the Valeyard regenerating and becoming more and more twisted with each regeneration until he MELTS.
Goblins has often flirted with this trope thanks to its rather...graphic depiction of the violence being inflicted. However, that's nothing to the insanity spawned from the town square battle in late 2008/early 2009. Face it, thesestripsarejusttoomuch.
From MS Paint Masterpieces: Cut Man's inner conflict while the Mind Control sets in and the aftermath, Wily during his crazier moments, and Quick Man, especially when he realizes Mega Man's worth fighting.
The Hansel and Gretel story arc in the webcomic, No Rest for the Wicked. The entire backstory behind the old woman made this troper have to walk away for a bit... And he's pretty desensitized.
Kaspall includes this in a story for children, Lampshadedhere. And why are the characters asking about that story. Because the monster is coming to life.
Loserz was a very lighthearted, funny high school strip. UNTIL HALLOWEEN. Scared the crap out of this troper when it suddenly became animated.
One troper, who has a bad habit of being a shmuck bait follower, foolishly checked out the link. Her reaction: "HOLY CHRIST ON A POGO STICK!" Yes, it's THAT BAD. Trust me, you DO NOT WANT TO CLICK THE LINK. Seriously. FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, DO NOT CLICK THE LINK!
Another troper will follow your advice and not click the link...but is now insanely curious as to what it is. Can someoen describe the comic?
You...you don't want to know...just...follow the advice, mmkay?
It's a normal comic, but then a picture of an eye flashes onto the screen to the sound of a scream. Then, it flashes back to the comic, where the characters have turned into zombies, staring slackjawed at you. Luckily, this troper's headphones were not actually on her head when she decided to click that link and thus the scariness was lessened.
To clarify this further, It has the characters talking, then near the end, one of them asks how long it has been since they watched the video. The other one says a week, and asks why. Suddenly, the ring will appear for a brief second, then an eye. Then all four panels will have them as zombies. Yeah, great to see at 2:10 in the fucking morning. >.> So much for sleep
It's also confirmed later that Lil' Cal haunts Dave's dreams. And due to a Stable Time Loop and MS Paint Adventures' blurring of the lines between dream and reality, Dream!Cal is Lil' Cal.
Cal's not the only one. With the End of Act 4 Flash update, Jack Noir joins in with the Accidental Nightmare Fuel when he goes from The Starscream to nigh-Omnicidal Maniac, looking absolutely terrifying in a few brief frames while killing Prospit and Derse soldiers left, right and center.
Later on, these seem relatively tame... mainly because of the fact that Homestuck now has its own High Octane Nightmare Fuel page.
Am I the only person who is very, very, disturbed by Sonichu?
It depends. Do you mean the actual comic or the author, Chris? If the former, yes. If the latter, VERY YES.
Both. A psychotic, delusional manchild trying to impose his views of utopia onto everybody around him? Check. Creepy stalker behaviour? Check. Drawing pornographic images of his friends and deliberately uploading them onto the internet? Check. Drawing pornographic images of his enemies and uploading them onto the internet? Check. And then there's the comic that he has created. The comic that is a look into the warped, frustrated mass of rage and lust that Chris carries with him at all times. There's the pseudofascist, homophobic hellhole that is CW Cville, the armies of recolors that patrol it at all times, making sure that nobody even thinks the "wrong" thoughts, and Chris using the comic as a springboard to write about his own Life Embellished, in which he takes brutal revenge on everybody who he believes has "wronged" him. Disturbed yet?
Throw in the part where he functionally rapes his future wife by having sex with her on false pretenses (she thinks it's him from her time, not 2009), eliminates homosexuality by spiking the water supply with a gay vaccine despite saying it was a choice he Sonichu didn't have a problem with in the last issue, and destroys two buildings, one he knew had people in it, the other he sealed in an impenetrable barrier which means that anyone who was in there couldn't get out. All done with the cheers and adulations of everyone around him?
And the second building (representing Tripod, the web hosting service) was destroyed for letting the author's websites that they hosted get hacked, which wouldn't have happened if he didn't give the passwords to his girlfriends who were actually trolls working with Clyde Cash. That building was destroyed because of shit that was nobody's fault but the author's.
The latest issue ended with four trolls being found guilty by a Kangaroo Court, then tortured and executed by most of the "good guys." Bonus points for one of the killers being a little girl who was born only a week prior (oh yeah, and it's worth mentioning that she castrated her victimâЂlovely).
The character Aunt Matilda from Kit 'n Kay Boodle. Considering that a bunch of cutesy, cartoony Funny Animals shouldn't be doing things they do in that comic, the whole thing is deeply unsettling, but Aunt Matilda is just terrifying— a seven foot tall ... possibly a bear-like thing... with gigantic, lactating breasts, whose mission in life is to force people to nurse from her, smiling a big, toony smile the whole time.
Cry Havoc has a scene where an angry and wounded werewolf manages to scale a battle tank. It then rips the hatch off and does something that can best be described by the word 'puree' to the vehicles crew.
SmilingMan. In Lightbringer, his first appearance story was looking a sort of a classic âЂњsupervillain curbstomps hero, forcing him to retrea,t but hero comes back to his headquarters and finds the way to stop himâЂ�. But when Carter comes back home, Smiling Man's just comes after him. May not sound too scary, but believe me, it is. In Crossoverlord he has his moments too. This page may not looks scary, until you realizes, that it's narrated by fricking SistersofTwillight âЂ Smiling Man actually turned monsters older than Elder Gods themselves into his personal cheerleaders! And of course, to top anything, there's this page, following by this one.
The Judiciatrix from Collar 6 is the very epitomy of this. I mean, a BDSM organization so powerful that their faceless representatives have "lethal" authority. That throws your fantasies for a loop.
Sawdust, a not so serious horror story, features The Terrible Killer Mime◊. At first it may not seem too scary, but every time you look at him you'll be more and more scared of going to a forest ever again. Either that, or you'll be afraid of mimes for the rest of your life.
Ctrl+Alt+Del, comic 9/5/2011. Look at Ted in the second panel...Even if he's a super intelligence penguin, it's still nightmare fuel and Eye Scream given his eyelids are pried open and there are sharp needles hovering over the eyeballs...and his beak is taped shut...
Crap! Did you have to describe it so explicitely without spolier tags???
In Skin Horse, an antisocial nerd with unusual thought patterns was kidnapped by the U.S. government to be literally made into a weapon (in this case, a self-piloting attack helicopter.) Placed inside a convincing virtual reality simulation, he was convinced he had been hired as a playtester for flight sims, and as he played them over and over, his body image slowly, unconsciously began to shift towards thinking of himself as a plane rather than a human being. Every element of this situation is deliberately undercut and Played for Laughs—for instance, the body-image revelation leads to a joke about what's represented by the "cockpit"—but if it were taken seriously, it would be highly disturbing.
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