Mook Horror Show / Anime & Manga

• In Aruosumente, Dante single-handedly killing 300 enemy soldiers when he was a child does not make for a pretty scene.
• Attack on Titan:
  • Chapter 64 clearly shows how utterly powerful the Survey Corps has become. A well-trained, fully equipped squad of 35 black-ops commandos in their element is decimated, outmaneuvered, and outwitted by seven teenagers with obsolete combat gear. The derailing train of thought from the squad leader's point of view says it all.
  • Chapter 81 has one when Levi shreds Zeke out of his Titan form. Zeke goes from being a Smug Super to actually being freaked out. Taken to another level in 83 when Levi arrives again, having ripped through a small army of Titans singlehandedly to try and stop Zeke from escaping. Zeke's reaction is to call him a monster and withdraw on the spot.
• In Baccano!, Claire Stanfield versus the Lemures and Ladd Russo.
  • One flashback scene shows Jacuzzi being threatened by Russo's thugs, and true to his Cowardly Lion nature, Jacuzzi ends up pleading with them to leave him alone so his friends won't kill them/pleading with his friends to show some mercy. The thugs, believing Jacuzzi is alone, don't take the hint and are taken out by Jacuzzi's gang, who all sport Glowing Eyes of Doom.
• In Berserk, this befalls Mooks trying to arrest or kill Guts. Even Apostles aren't immune sometimes — as the Black Swordsman, Guts can be easily seen as even worse than the beings he's going after.
• The gunfight between Revy and the Neo Nazis on board their ship in the Black Lagoon anime episode "Moonlight Hunting Grounds" quickly turns into this, with her cold-out murdering nearly everyone in her path while in the grip of full-on dead-eyed Whitman Fever. It's even more so in the manga, where Revy goes so far as to kill the main deck crew, who weren't even Neo Nazis, and were only doing it for the money.
  • In a later arc, Revy and her fellow badass Ginji start hunting mooks throughout a bowling alley. Revy herself lampshades this. "Better run or the bogeyman is going to get you!"
• Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense.:
  • Most New World Online players are absolutely shocked and terrified when facing Maple. In the first event, a large number of players team up to take her down like she's a multiplayer raid boss and fail horribly. Her ridiculous defense prevents anyone from dealing damage even if they manage to hit her, her Devour skill is a one-hit kill against anyone within arm's reach, and her Hydra skill deals massive poison damage even from a distance. The fight was so one-sided that the game developers soon patched the game specifically to nerf Maple and make it harder for other players to become like her.
  • Sally gains a reputation in chatroom rumors during the second event when she solos some in PVP. The shadows of the forests under the light of a red full moon gives a horror game vibe to her swift killing of loads of players.
• Casshern Sins: present in almost every fight scene and is a major plot point.
• A Certain Magical Index:
  • Whatever you do, do not seriously piss off Accelerator. He's a fairly laid back guy most of the time, but if you try and harm Last Order, this trope comes into effect in a BIG way. Hound Dog had the misfortune of kidnapping her and then trying to kill him: the result was absolutely horrifying.
  • Some of Touma Kamijou's fights are shown from his opponents' point of view. Many incredibly powerful beings become terrified of the boy with the unheard of ability to negate any ability or break any enchantment, punch hard enough to shatter concrete, and shrug off incredible punishment.
• In Claymore when a high ranking warrior is sent against anything that is not an Awakened being (and sometimes even then) this trope is extremely likely to occur, there are however a couple of moments worth of a special mention.
  • Teresa of the Faint Smile does this to a group of human bandits who previously had done nothing but harass her, when the bandits cross the line and hurt the child Teresa cared about. Teresa annihilates them even as they try to escape.
  • Much later another powerful Claymore, Miata, does this to a horde of Yoma who assaulted her after she ended up being disarmed. Miata merely tore the monsters apart with her bare hands and similarly to Teresa she cut her targets down even as they were running for their lives.
• The first two chapters of Dance in the Vampire Bund featured a couple of these. A squad of fully equipped (although clueless) mercenaries end up fleeing a trio of maids shrugging off machine-gun fire and tearing them bodily apart only to run into a contingent of Mina Tepes' personal werewolf guard. Meanwhile the assassins that were loaded for vampire and using the mercs as a distraction corner a seemingly preteen girl and her personal servant (who proves useless beyond giving a warning)... it doesn't matter.
• The hero of Darker than Black has a rather serious case of this. In his first appearance, we have a Cat Scare, Offscreen Teleportation, a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique, and leaving a guy dead (with the police baffled as to the methods) just because he pissed him off. What with the scary mask and scarier name (It's pretty safe to say that you don't want anything to do with someone called "The Black Reaper"), you could very conceivably construe him as the villain until the end of the second episode.
• Dragon Ball:
  • In the original Dragon Ball, Goku got in on the action, and he did as early as his childhood adventures. Just watch him plowing though the Red Ribbon Headquarters to get the Dragon Balls as proof. He dodged a projectile fired from a rocket launcher literally meters across, then slammed the soldiers into a wall; shrugged off a sniper shot as if it was a pellet from a BB gun, terrifying the sniper; then he kept punching through the ceiling to reach the leader's floor.
  • Dragon Ball Z:
    • Vegeta gets a scene when he stalks a completely outmatched Jeice throughout Frieza's ship horror movie style, including many instances of Offscreen Teleportation, before finally killing him as he vainly attempts to fly away. Neither of them are good guys at this point — Vegeta's in the middle of an Enemy Mine with the heroes, but doesn't let this stop him from being as sadistic as possible.
    • Vegeta is like this to many of Frieza's other Mooks. In particular Cui, Dodoria, and Appule, who was watching him heal in Frieza's ship.
    • And the only reason Trunks didn't achieve this with Frieza's henchmen was because it took him about 3 seconds to kill about 20 of them.
    • After undergoing rigorous training to try to take on Perfect Cell, Trunks invokes this when he returns to the future and takes on the evil Androids and Cell, intentionally making them know just how screwed and helpless they are against him, because this was exactly what they'd done to their victims.
    • Goku's arrival on Namek sees him mowing down the members of the Ginyu Force, leaving both Recoome and Burter down and Jeice visibly freaking out and forced to retreat.
    • Super Saiyan 2 Gohan, especially in the anime, where he takes his time killing the Cell Jrs. messing with his friends and family while they're shaking in fear. To drive the point home, the screen turns creepy blue whenever a mook dies.
• Elfen Lied starts out with half an episode of this trope courtesy of Lucy, who escapes from her cell, strips naked (except for her creepy helmet), and cuts a bloody swath of destruction through the facility. She encounters dozens of heavily-armed guards and kills them messily with what seems like very little effort. She also decapitates a bystander who had no idea what was going on and wouldn't have been an obstacle, just to make sure the audience finds it impossible to sympathize with Lucy... until her we learn of her backstory.
• Fist of the North Star has this every single time Ken faces common Mooks due his ability to make them explode with a single touch.
  • The greatest example of this is when Ken, madder than hell at Jackal and his gang for what they did to Taki and Toyo, utterly annihilates them, putting everyone involved through a showcase of just how horrifying Hokuto Shinken, an art explicitly designed for assassination, can actually be. The chapters in question bear names like "Rage! To the Depths of Hell!", "Death to Mad Dogs!", and "A Challenge to the Devils!", though the TV series episode featuring Kenshiro's Roaring Rampage of Revenge is a lot more fitting — "I am Death Itself! I'll Chase You to the Ends of Hell!"
• There's several instances of this in Fullmetal Alchemist:
  • Lan Fan has a She's Back moment in which she shows that she's recovered from the loss of her arm by rescuing Ed and his group from Gluttony by cutting Gluttony to ribbons with the blade attached to her automail. It's an awesome scene, but it's initially shown from the perspective of Gluttony, an Obliviously Evil Psychopathic Manchild who is overwhelmed with pain and fear.
  • Toward the end of the series, Mustang goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Envy, and despite Envy being one of the most sadistically cruel characters in the series, you actually feel kind of bad for it.
  • "Greedling" helps the rebel forces hold back the soldiers loyal to Central Command. This entails a Terminator-inspired scene where Greedling is in his Ultimate Shield form and smashes tanks like toys while the enemy soldiers futilely try to shoot him. Someone on the heroes' side even comments "Good thing he's on our side."
  • Badass Teacher Izumi has a couple of scenes where she takes out soldiers while sporting Glowing Eyes of Doom, and it's shown from their perspective.
  • In a humorous example, at one point, Ed is being hunted by soldiers from Central Command after going rogue. In a scene shown from their perspective, an unseen Ed calmly takes out the group looking for him, finishing up with the unfortunate soldier who, when describing Ed, just had to note his short stature.
• Gintama:
  • Sougo facing off against Itou's traitors in the Shinsengumi Crisis arc definitely counts. As it sinks in just who it is that they are about to fight, the traitors collectively start sweating. To Sougo's credit, at least he has the decency of granting them quick deaths: by ordering them to charge him all at once. In a matter of seconds, the traitors' corpses lie scattered across the train wagon, their blood splattered and their swords littered, while Sougo, who has nary a scratch upon him, licks off a little blood from his face.
  • Gintoki and Jirocho singlehandedly slaughtering Kada's Shinra bodyguards in the Four Devas arc becomes this for her, outright calling them monsters as the Shinra corpses begin to pile up. As the fight progresses, she becomes increasingly unnerved, and by the end of it Kada is utterly terrified, even though Gintoki and Jirocho are clearly on their last legs, and in complete disbelief that her strongest bodyguards were butchered by just two "base monkeys".
• Goblin Slayer is this in spades.
  • The goblins in the setting are the mookiest of monsters, considered rookie fodder but, at the same time, so dangerous and depraved that their numbers have exploded... or would have, if not for Goblin Slayer nearly single-handedly butchering every goblin he comes across. In fact, his introduction shot is shown from the perspective of a goblin, showing Goblin Slayer as this silent, imposing, unflinching monster... after which said goblin doesn't last 30 seconds before being crushed against a wall with a targe before having a flaming torch shoved through his face.
  • The Goblin Champion in Water Town's sewers gets hit with the full brunt of this trope when Goblin Slayer forces himself back to his feet from the brink of death and furiously strangles it with hair collected from a nearby skeleton, akin to using a garrote. Unable to shake off the damn thing that's killing it, the Champion can only see Goblin Slayer as a nightmarish, formless shadow, which then proceeds to punch one of its eyes off. Terrified and roaring in abject pain, the Champion decides to cut its losses and get the hell out of there. The rest of the goblins in the room become just as terrified from seeing the whole thing, and become even more terrified when a half-dead Goblin Slayer dares them to keep fighting, upon which they promptly follow the Champion's example and run for their lives.
    Goblin Slayer: Who's next? (throws the Champion's eye at the goblins) Is it you? Or you?!
• Happens not-infrequently in Gundam, particularly the series with more powerful Gundams, like Gundam Wing and Gundam 00.
  • This cutscene from SD Gundam G Generation Neo depicts a team of Hizacks being slaughtered one by one by an invisible assailant, which is revealed at the very end to be the Gundam Deathscythe. In many ways the video feels like an Homage to Predator, thanks to the jungle backdrop and infrared Impending Doom P.O.V..
  • Often, the scene will include a Mook screaming some variation of "It's a GUNDAM!" Memetic Mutation happened, and fans decided that saying this phrase means you are very quickly going to be killed by a Gundam.
  • The original series did it very well, by giving us Char 'Red Comet' Aznable, so feared that his entering the battle provoked an Oh, Crap! moment (and would continue doing so for the entire series), attacking the Gundam with everything he had and realizing he was Shooting Superman. Later Zeon mechas had weapons that could theorically destroy the Gundam, but by that point Amuro's body count justified his nickname of White Devil, and in one occasion we were treated to a Zeon force that outnumbered the heroes four to one and outgunned them by six to one being effortlessly destroyed by the Gundam, with the viewers' point of view being the one of the Zeon's commander having an Oh, Crap! moment.
  • MS IGLOO gives a nice example in the third episode, which takes place just a bit after the Gundam makes its debut on the battlefield. We see a three-second video of the Gundam chopping up a Zaku... from the Zaku's perspective. What with the Gundam's pitiless face, glowing yellow eyes, and the sheer terror in the pilot's voice, it's very obvious why Zeon decided to call it the "White Devil".
  • Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt plays a similar clip, with a Zaku being mercilessly torn apart by a Gundam far more powerful than it is. In this case the Gundam pilot was deliberately toying with the Zaku to maximize the pilot's fear before killing him.
  • Gundam Build Fighters Try plays it for laughs in Episode 8, where the Cold Opening shows the Try Fighters facing Team Angelfish, who only use amphibious mecha. However, the randomized battlefield they get is a tundra, so all the water is frozen over and far too thick to break. As the horror sets in in, Team Angelfish looks up and sees the silhouettes of the Try Fighters' Gundams through the snow and mist, walking slowly towards them with their eyes glowing...
• In Hellsing, this is usually how battles between Alucard and the mooks go. Indeed, Alucard seems to do this on purpose because he thinks it's funny.
  • Case in point: Walking very slowly down a corridor towards an elevator full of mooks despite having Super-Speed, or allowing enemies to shoot him up a bit, just to make sure they know they have zero chance of survival when they realize their weapons barely inconvenience him.
  • When Seras drinks Pip's blood and becomes a full vampire, her transformation is enough to terrify every Nazi vampire in the vicinity, to the point of them being frozen stiff.
  • Two words: Level Zero. Both the catholic paladins and the nazi vampires immediately realize that, if they can't kill Alucard then and there, they are all going to die. They fail miserably, of course, and Alucard proceeds to summon all of his familiars at once in order to paint London a nice shade of red.
• High School D×D has a few examples. In particular, Issei is often portrayed from the enemies perspective as a terrifying, inhuman monster who can rip through everything they throw at him with nothing but his fists.
• In Higurashi: When They Cry, Mamoru Akasaka to the Mountain Hounds. While the battle is pretty cool in the anime, it's in the visual novel that it truly is a Horror Show to the Mountain Hounds, as the "fight" is told from Tetsuro Okonogi's point of view and describes how one-sided the whole thing is for the group and the narration describes him as a monster more than once during the whole thing.
• The Irregular at Magic High School: Shiba Tatsuya, in his position as a special lieutenant of the JSDF, is known as "Maheshvara" (another name for Shiva, a Hindu deity) to the Chinese forces who tried to invade Japan in Okinawa and Yokohama. At the tender age of 13 he nearly single-handedly stopped the invasion of Okinawa, using his unique decomposition magic to quite literally erase the enemy soldiers from existence with his right hand, while resurrecting his allies with his left hand. This freaked the enemy out so much, they decided that the only way to salvage the situation would be to bring in the cruisers and bombard the beaches from afar. It didn't help them much. The higher ups even forbid the utterance of that name among the soldiers. Three years later China attacked again in Yokohama on 31 of October 2095, only to be repelled once more, this time also losing almost all of their land forces involved in the attack, a third of their entire fleet and an important naval base at the southern tip of the Korean peninsula. Along with a chunk of land which was obliterated in an event that was later called "The Scorched Halloween".
• Katanagatari: Episode 4 segues away from the main duo to focus on the Maniwa Insect Squad attempting to abduct Shichika's sister Nanami, to use her as a hostage. The episode takes the viewpoint of the Insect Squad, who are all fairly decent people for assassins. They all somewhat like each other, and one of them is even getting married after this mission. And then Nanami turns out to be an unstoppable, gifted, Cute and Psycho Instant Expert who just happens to look like a little ill girl. She tortures one for information, and then murders them all by mastering and then using their own ninjutsu against them.
  "There's no point in trying to commit suicide. I removed your poison molar while you were sleeping. ...I'm afraid I'm going to have to torture you now."
• In Log Horizon Shiroe realizes that to Kinjo and the rest of the Kunie clan the raid on their base of operations must have been horrifying: Two dozen warriors with inhuman abilities appear and start wiping out their defenses, and even if they die they'll get back up and keep fighting like zombies.
• During a flashback in Lycoris Recoil, the attack on the old radio tower is finally shown. At first, Majima's terrorists are actually winning against the Lycoris deployed to supress them due to his Super-Hearing letting him pinpoint their locations and give orders to counter them. And then Chisato shows up, effortlessly incapacitating every one of Majima's men while he is helpless to do anything about it, even dodging when he shoots her from near point-blank range. When his blindfold comes off, the first thing he sees is her red eyes seeming like they're glowing as they reflect the light. The real kicker is that Chisato was seven years old at the time.
• An interesting example on Metal Fight Beyblade. Reiji loves to torment and scare his enemies into broken wrecks during his battle. Gingka turns the tables on him during their fight by exploiting Reiji's own fear of his enemies not being afraid of him, sending him into a fear-induced Villainous Breakdown.
• Naruto of all people manages this during his fight with Pain, where he appears as a pair of glowing eyes in the darkness (Gamabunta's mouth) before killing one of Pain's bodies.
• Sayo being hunted as a dangerous ghost in Negima! Magister Negi Magi plays this up, giving a terrifying insight into how Setsuna and Mana handle their "work".
• No Game No Life introduces the two Badass Bookworm protagonists by witnessing their victory from a game master's point of view, along with multiple accounts of how this group of people is unbeatable and has set multiple world records, crushing lifelong professional players after studying / playing their game for less than 72 hours. Then we find out that said protagonists are two NEETS whose weakness is the real world.
• This usually happens in One Piece when a notable character launches a one-man charge on his enemies. A more literal example would be during a flashback on Thriller Bark, at the time of Brook's rampage as the Humming Swordsman five years prior to the story. Hilariously enough, the one doing the scaring is also scared (Having an admitted fear of ghosts) and is only moving with the speed and lightness of a skeleton so he won't have to look at the zombies.
  • Perhaps one of the biggest examples is Luffy charging into Enies Lobby and spending many chapters just running around and annihilating everything in his path while the Marines panic.
  • Heck, one of the best examples in the series has got to be the Straw Hats vs. the Franky Family, well, it can potentially be called a fight. Early in the Water 7 arc, the Franky family steals a sizable amount of money Usopp had been guarding, and proceed to beat him up and mock him when he shows up at their hideout to try and get it back. When Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, and Chopper learn of this, they immediately head off to said hideout themselves, and kick off their entrance by punching out a Giant Mook unlucky enough to have been leaving for an errand right when they get to the front door. After that, the four proceed to blow though the Franky Family's best defenses like they weren't even there, swatted aside their best attacks effortlessly, and then systematically block off every one of their escape routes, all the while beating the everliving crap out of them one by one. When one tries to point out that the stolen money isn't with them and beating them up won't solve anything, Luffy simply punches him out and informs the remaining members that he couldn't give a rat's ass; all he's interested in is revenge for Usopp. This sequence definitively shows that, as goofy as the Straw Hats are, it is a terrible, terrible idea to make enemies out of them.
  • A more recent anime example in the Punk Hazard arc. Luffy, Zoro, Robin, and Usopp are leaving the "fire" portion of a Hailfire Peaks-style island, and are crossing a freezing cold, shark infested lake to get to the "hail" side. On the way, Brownbeard and several Mooks manage to capsize their boat, sending them into the water. After Brook manages to distract the group at a critical moment, they then find that Zoro had easily cut apart all of the sharks that were after them, and all four are on a plateau above. They're all half-frozen over and look like death, but they still manage prominent Slasher Smiles at the group as they each calmly point out which Mook they're going to steal a set of winter clothes from, freaking said Mooks out to no end. Finally, Brownbeard recognizes Luffy, which is enough to convince everyone to just get the hell out of there, though too late to prevent the winter clothes from getting stolen anyway.
  • How Usopp beats most of his enemies (the most well known example being Perona).
  • Most of the time the Straw Hat Pirates have been in Totto Land has involved Big Mom and her family and crew relentlessly sending combatants, and waves of ordinary goons, at Luffy and his crewmates — whatever she sends out never seems to be enough, and as she and her personal army pursue them out to sea, they only become greater in number and raw strength...and Luffy and the others still pummel them all. You even get the occasional short scene of the Big Mom Pirates' rank-and-file, and citizens of Totto Land, asking just how scared the family must be of the Straw Hats as they see large crowds of Big Mom's fighters mobilize where they anticipate Luffy will go.
  • During her fight with Black Maria, Nico Robin utilizes a new technique called "Demonio Fleur" where she creates a gigantic and demonic-looking copy of her torso, complete with bat wings, horns and fangs. She then proceeds to wail on the Tobiroppo with total impunity culminating with her using "Grand Jacuzzi Clutch" to break Black Maria's back, to the sheer horror of all the mooks who witnesses that, truly living up to her epithet as the "Devil Child".
• One-Punch Man goes in to a mook's (Ground Dragon) point of view as he tries to escape Saitama by digging through the ground. In the anime, the viewer sees Saitama's face suddenly pop in to view, and in both the anime and manga he's deliberately drawn in an uncanny way. From Saitama's perspective, these were just some animal-beings that annoyed him by attacking him at his place and wrecking his apartment. From Ground Dragon's perspective, he's running for dear life from an unstoppable force of power, and suddenly found the guy staring right at him in a dark tunnel.
• Overlord (2012):
  • Ainz Ooal Gown is a level 100 MMORPG character Trapped in Another World where even something around level 60 would be considered godly, and most of his direct subordinates are either as powerful or really close. As such, any fight they get into usually devolves into either Ainz or one of his minions horrifically massacring everyone in their way as onlookers watch in terror, or their opponents exhausting every attack at their disposal only to find that they haven't put a single scratch on any of them.
  • Ainz spends most of his fight against the Sunlight Scripture effortlessly tanking everything they can throw at him. The one attack that manages to damage him? It elicits laughter. Nigun's reaction is that of sheer horror, since the Dominion Authority he summoned to attack Ainz was believed to be an invincible trump card by New World standards.
    Ainz: So this is what it feels like to take damage!
  • Sebas pays a visit to an Eight Fingers building where he believes Tuare has been taken. He's greeted by four of the Six Arms, the Eight Fingers security division and some of the strongest fighters in the Re-Estize Kingdom. Sebas doesn't give them the time to process their horror.
  • Sebas's fight against Zero, the last of the Six Arms, starts with Zero charging up and unleashing his strongest attack, which does precisely dick, and ends with Sebas lightly tapping Zero in the head with his foot. Zero can only weakly mutter "What the Hell Are You?" as he dies.
  • Volume 7 is an exercise in Mook Horror Show, the problem being that very few of the mooks are Asshole Victims. Even worse, Ainz had to set them up so they'd actually go to the tomb (he'd ordered it hidden away previously) to see how it'd perform against intruders, but the difference in power is still such that he barely learned anything past "we're much stronger than these guys".
    • One team runs into a swarm of zombies, and only gets past them with a barrage of spells. This triggers a trap where they're about to be crushed by exploding zombies, from which they barely escape. And then they run into an elder lich, an undead powerful enough to commands the vast swarms of zombies they fought. Seeing as it isn't attacking, they try to negotiate with it, addressing it as the tomb's master... only to see six more coming up behind them. The team breaks and runs, only to fall into a teleport trap and end up in a room full of cockroaches. The cockroach king is kind enough to tell them that they made it as far as the second floor before sending his minions to eat them alive.
    • One team consists of a Smug Snake and his team of mentally-broken elf slaves. He is effortlessly beaten by a giant hamster, and when he loses his arms, they make no effort to heal him, even kicking his corpse for good measure.
    • The last team faces off against Ainz himself. Not only does he fight them to a standstill, he then reveals he's not a warrior but a caster, and takes off the ring that was hiding his Power Level. The team's caster immediately vomits on realizing just how badly screwed they are. Oh, and then he shows that he can cast Time Stop...
  • Volume 9 provides, for everyone who isn't Ainz or one of his subordinates, the Battle of Katze Plains. Good lord, the Battle of Katze Plains...
    • For a little context, Emperor Jircniv of the Baharuth Empire formed an alliance with Ainz and roped him into participating in one of his annual wars with the Re-Estize Kingdom in order to show his power to the world and unite all of humanity against him. To say that it worked too well would be an understatement: because Jircniv asked Ainz to start the battle using his strongest spell, Ainz goes and casts a Super Tier spell that instantly kills 70,000 soldiers from the Kingdom. Both the remaining Kingdom brass and soldiers, along with the onlooking Imperial Knights, become absolutely horrified. Nimble, one of Jircniv's elite guards, tries to mask his fear by commenting to Ainz that it was a magnificent spell. When Ainz starts laughing at this, Nimble becomes terrified that he may have offended Ainz somehow, but Ainz gives him an answer that makes him realize this was just the tip of the iceberg:
      Ainz: You said that was a magnificent spell, just now? There's no need for you to be so wary, but... My spell is not over yet, you know?
    • While Ainz's spell did kill 70,000 soldiers, their deaths were just fuel to summon five Dark Young: gigantic goat-like monstrosities filled with mouths and tentacles that proceed to trample the Kingdom's army underhoof while their bleating and the sound of the soldiers being crushed try to drown one another. After-battle reports would indicate that the Dark Young went on to crush over 100,000 soldiers, with the total killcount adding up to around 180,000. Some of the survivors of the battle would end up suffering PTSD attacks at the sound of a goat's bleating, and a seer from the Slane Theocracy, who bore witness to the battle, would end up locking herself in her room, becoming too traumatized to ever dare leave.
    • If you think the Empire suffered no casualties, then clearly you haven't been paying attention: one of the Dark Young heads towards their camp in order to collect Ainz so that he may clean up the battlefield personally. The sight of the damn thing walking towards them makes the knights break formation and run for their lives; at least 100 knights were trampled to death by their comrades, who were too desperate to get away to notice or care.
    • And just in case it wasn't clear enough what kind of horror Ainz unleashed upon the battlefield... The name of the spell he used? "Iä! Shub-Niggurath!". As in, the Mother of a Thousand Young herself. Ainz describes the Dark Young as her "adorable little babies", and becomes elated at being able to summon five, calling it a new record. And it wasn't even his strongest spell!
    • Jircniv comes dangerously close to losing his sanity upon hearing the battle reports, and the anime portrays him Laughing Mad at how badly he screwed up.
• At one point in the anime of Phantom ~ Requiem for the Phantom, Zwei is chasing after Scythe Master completely from Scythe's perspective, with Zwei laughing creepily and flashing a deranged Slasher Smile the entire scene.
• Pumpkin Scissors: Randel Oland is very much a Gentle Giant... until he opens his blue lantern, a literal Berserk Button that sends him into a hypnotic trance in which he becomes an unstoppable killing machine who knows no pain or fear of death. As he slowly advances toward his targets, expect a lot of loss of confidence, quite a bit of pants-wetting, and screams to "Kill him! For the love of god, KILL HIM!"
• Scryed: Kazuma has been pictured like this on at least one occasion — during his Unstoppable Rage following Kimishima's death, when he tears into a squad of ordinary HOLD troops. We get to see his approach from Scheris's viewpoint — an unstoppable monster stalking out of the flames, spreading death and destruction in his wake...
• Both seasons of the anime Sekirei begin with one of these, as human soldiers come face-to-face with super-powered aliens. The second season, in particular, is noteworthy since the same incident is shown from the point of view of the Sekirei a few episodes later. This incident is the reason the Single Numbers inspire so much fear among the younger Sekirei. The first five wiped out a multi-national invasion force in a matter of minutes, with barely any effort. Witnessing the destructive power of their subjects filled Takehito with horror, triggering a My God, What Have I Done? moment. Big Bad Minaka, on the other hand, is inspired to begin the Sekirei Plan with the intention of forging a "New Age of the Gods".
• Tenchi Muyo: War on Geminar has Kenshi scaring the crap out of his enemies in Episodes 8 and 11. Episode 8 even shows closeups of two random Mooks crying and shivering in pure terror as Kenshi rips through them like tissue paper; he also does a convincing imitation of the tactics of the creature from Alien to take down a squad of mecha trying to hunt him down. (It's mentioned survivors of his attack quit even though their side actually won at the end of the episode.) In Episode 11, he goes berserk in response to a particularly dirty tactic and actually kills the guy who came up with that plan in the first place.
• Tokyo Ghoul features multiple examples reminding the audience just how scary Ghouls really are, when viewed through the eyes of CCG mooks.
  • Kaneki disarms several soldiers and then looms over them, drawn as a black figure with one glowing eye and a Slasher Smile. One mook promptly starts weeping and loses control over his bladder.
  • Whenever Yoshimura comes out of retirement to fight, the focus shifts to the Investigators facing him. It is a healthy reminder that even though he is a Vegetarian Vampire, Yoshimura is also considered to be one of the most dangerous Ghouls in Tokyo. Several mooks are seen weeping in terror, and more than one starts urinating when faced with the full horror of the elder of the two Owls.
• In Trigun, Vash the Stampede sometimes plays up the horror factor that his reputation gives him, since it gets him out of fights and he actually has a strict moral code against killing. He's done the sneak-around-and-pick-your-dudes-off thing and the Implacable Man advance-while-singing-a-terrifying-ditty-about-genocide song: "Total Slaughter, Total Slaughter, I won't leave a single man alive. Ladi-Ladi-Die, Genocide. Ladi-Ladi-dud, an Ocean of Blood. Let's begin the killing time." It didn't work, though kicking a rocket fired from an RPG by the terrified mook, AFTER singing that, into the ceiling DID work.
  • This is most explicitly shown in one episode, where Monev the Gale found out the hard way how scary a genuinely angry Vash can be when Monev gunned down a bunch of innocent civilians. He compared Vash's Glowing Eyes of Doom to the eyes of the devil himself.
• The Vision of Escaflowne has a scene in which Van goes completely apeshit and effortlessly slaughters all of Dilandau's Dragonslayers. Most of the action isn't shown — there is only the sound of the unfortunate soldiers' screams over Dilandau's intercom. Hint: when your heroic protagonist can make the villain (who's been established as a complete and utter lunatic) freak out, it's a sign that things have gone very, very wrong.
• It happens twice Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, with Yuya being the monster. The first time had him first go into Awakening, where he brushes off the Obelisk Force's attacks with an inhuman indifference. At first unnerved by this, the Obelisk Force keep attacking. But when Yuya unleashes his Odd-Eyes Rebellion Dragon, they're all wiped out at once.
  • The second time had Serena and Ruri duel against Yuya, who was entering his Awakened state after a villain threatened Yuzu. Serena and Ruri's monsters actually back away and whimper in fear of Yuya. Yuya unleashes Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon, who viciously destroys every other card on the field and attacks the girls with an inferno.