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Arc 1

  • There were some questions directed at Kyle that turned out to be so disturbing, that Kyle wanted to leave the blog. After convincing from his friends, Kyle stays on the blog, with Cartman giving anons a "disturbing three strike" rule, which predictably gets broken, and Cartman bans the anons for a while.
  • After Butters makes a post about Cartman's private exploits to explain to the "peers" why he is hurt after getting called a whore by them (as well as why he has acted strange at some points), Cartman is absolutely furious (more so after Butters accidentally outed him during a Q&A session) and is under the impression that Butters is out to humiliate him further. So after Butters tells him that he needs to be honest once in a while, he grabs him by the shoulders and screams in his face (with accompanying text) "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I FUCKING NEED, YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT!!", then continues to scream at him about "ruining" him. The emphatic text reappears when Cartman yells at the boys "ALL OF YOU GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE NOW!!" after Butters punches him in self-defense. The image of his rage face during this is absolutely terrifying.
  • Patty Nelson's Halloween costume: a blood-splattered Creepy Doll, complete with empty eyes.

Arc 2

  • The Darker and Edgier tone of this blog gets turned up to eleven with only two words: Trent. Boyett. The author pulled absolutely no punches in changing the game for the second arc, and it shows. It really, really shows. Here's a breakdown of his finest moments:
    • In an offscreen post, Cartman is walking towards a rat-infested locker to find Kenny's disemboweled, bloody, rat-ridden corpse! Cartman's eyes are also dark blue as opposed to light blue, meaning Kenny has possessed him again. He awakens, frightened, but later on, he demands Kenny (in his bathroom mirror) to explain why he's acting strange... and Kenny's voice comes out of his mouth to explain that he's been murdered. Before he can give away the murderer's identity, we're treated to a visual of one of Cartman's eyes rolling into the back of his head as he gets cut off. This actually hurts Cartman, and he is left screaming at Kenny to explain his unexpected condition.
      • Oh, yeah, and it gets all downhill from here: another post reveals that the person who murdered Kenny is none other than a hellbent-on-revenge Trent. Kenny (from his POV) watches as he hides from Trent, with the latter calling out that he will not leave until he finds him. When he does, Kenny's POV shows not only his hands covered in his blood, but a seething-with-rage Trent as well, having been stabbed by his knife. Trent then shoves his body in his locker, leaving him to be eaten alive by his pet rats. When Kenny (who, by the way, has a slit throat and a disemboweled stomach, talking to Cartman like he's Jack Goodman from An American Werewolf in London) tells Cartman that he has possessed Cartman, the latter goes off on him (complete with another rage face that fills up an entire panel), which results in Kenny yelling back at him to tell the boys that Trent is on the loose and that they should keep themselves safe.
    • In the background of the first panel where Wendy visits Stan in the school cafeteria to talk to him about looking for Kenny, Trent is standing to the right.
    • Trent confronts Kyle in a bathroom, wearing Cartman's jacket and Kenny's necklace. He'd turned out to be a hulking, tattooed, juvenile menace—with a scarred-up face, piercing blue-gray eyes, a blond Mohawk/growing buzzcut and goatee triple combo, and a teardrop tat on the corner of one of his eyes. When asked by Kyle what he'd done to them, Trent reveals that he murdered Kenny by revealing his necklace that he stole off his person. When Kyle is about to lunge at him, he pulls a switchblade and tells him to join his friend, giving Kyle the ultimate hint. He then goes on to tell him that he's going to kill him, and that there is no escape. After preventing himself from getting stabbed (but he still gets his arm sliced open), an extremely enraged Kyle suddenly kicks him in the face (giving him a bloodied eye in the process) and proceeds to kick the absolute shit out of him. When he's about to deliver a finishing blow, Trent catches his fist ("BIG MISTAKE, RUNT!") and kicks Kyle in the shin, breaking it!! This causes the latter to emit a prolonged, blood-curdling scream (complete with him being visually illuminated in a blue-white glow and his scream filling up every panel involved) that everyone in the school hears. At that point, you could practically hear the literal bone-crunching sound and his agonizing scream.
      • Kyle's rage face as he's about to deliver his finishing blow. Keep in mind that while Cartman's two bouts of rage in the blog are terrifying, Kyle's is probably a bit more frightening, considering how nice of a guy he is. (Though, it would've been more frightening if his entire face was shown, and not just his mouth.)
      • On a different note, while we're on the topic of nice guys getting frighteningly enraged, that's nothing compared to when Stan calls Butters to notify him about Kyle's attack and hospitalization, as well as Cartman's disappearance and possible murder. Having spending every night looking for Kenny, getting chloroformed by Cartman, and in his words, the boys "turning [Kenny] into a fucking T-shirt design", Butters rips into him in an unexpectedly profane way. Eesh... imagining a nice, innocent boy being that pissed off would be enough to scare you.
    • When Kyle finds Trent's location via his laptop (he has Cartman's phone), he grabs a gun and is about to head out of the bunker that the boys are staying in when Stan tries to stop him. Kyle snaps at him that he's going to shoot Trent's legs off and drag him to jail himself. As he says that, watch his face. It has Ax-Crazy written all over it, he's that vengeful. He's even more pissed off when Stan disarms him by shoving him to the ground. (Again, it would've been more effective if, this time around, it'd been in color.)
      • After Stan disarms him and heads out of the bunker, Kyle manages to get out himself after a couple of attempts to climb the ladder despite his broken leg. When he climbs out of the hole, that manner he does it in is reminiscent of Sadako in The Ring. And he growls Trent's name while looking very deranged.
    • Kyle shooting Trent dead (after an unseen Cartman stabs him) while screaming in fury. (Once again, would've been more frightening if his face matched his screaming that's depicted in a speech bubble, so it seems that the author has something against depicting Kyle's rage properly for some reason.) He even manages to shoot the top of his head after he falls to the ground. After he's done, he's visibly traumatized and shaken at what he's done.

Arc 3

  • As Bathos as Cartman's sloppily-drawn slideshow of escaping from and killing Trent after he was kept captive by him is, there's still some horrifying shit. For starters, Trent carves "NEVER FORGET" on Cartman's back, and plans to do the same to Stan and Kyle once he gets to them! Then there's Cartman's proposal, which he used so that he could outsmart him. He convinces him to burn them alive like they inadvertently did to Ms. Claridge back in the "Pre-School" episode. And Trent accepts the proposal, like Cartman knew he would. Mind you, this is only the beginning of the third arc—which leaves some skeptical questions on whether the grisly trouble is over or not.
  • Kyle mentions his younger brother Ike causing an incident where he made all the school's computers play deaths set to Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek" and get two students in trouble for it... at age six. He then goes on to mention him picking on a black-clothes and mascara-wearing kid (most likely Firkle Smith of the Goth Kids), going so far as to carve "fag" in his hair wax. Yeah, there's no doubt that he'll turn out to be another Eric Cartman.
    • He's basically himself from back when he was unknowingly hormonal imbalanced in the "Taming Strange" episode, if he went on to commit more debauchery.
  • Ike's introduction when answering questions. He's close to the camera, staring at it with dark eyes, his eyebrows positioned in a sinister manner, and a damn big Slasher Smile. Imagine waking up to that face looking right at you!
  • The blog's epilogue reveals that Patty Nelson is a sociopath, and Stan is unaware of this fact even after Cartman tells him that—the latter already suspicious of her in the first place. God knows if Stan will suffer by her hands. This makes him completely out-of-character, as Stan is straight-minded—therefore, another victim of Sibyl's piss-poor characterization.
    • Though that's nothing compared to Patty's twin sister Tammy, who's completely batshit psychopathic to the point of burning their house down with them inside it. The two escape, but not without Tammy suffering horrific burns as a result.

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