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Nightmare Fuel / Avengers: Infinite Wars

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In a war, the need to win will make monsters of men, and when you bring superheroes along, it's only going to get worse.

  • Briefly referenced when Rex is shown to be disturbed at the notion that the Separatists may try to recreate the Ant-Man technology after they capture Scott and remove his suit (fortunately, others are able to rescue Scott in time).
  • While the Avengers are still strong warriors more than capable of helping out, the Separatists still have their share of heavy hitters to challenge them.
    • First, we have Durge, a Nigh-Invulnerable Psycho for Hire who calls most living beings "meat" and relishes in the opportunity to butcher clone troopers for their (technically) Mandalorian heritage. He's the first heavy hitter they have to constantly fight, and boy does he prove himself one of the toughest foes they have ever faced off against.
    • Next, we also have General Grievous, a cunning fighter who you do NOT want to face thanks to his cybernetic enhancements and combat skills courtesy of Count Dooku's training. With his willingness to slaughter anyone to get his way with killing Jedi, he's a threat even to a speedster like Quicksilver.
    • Savage Oppress is no less terrifying due to his brutal savagery in combat and superhuman durability from Mother Talzin's magical enhancements. In the chapter he's introduced in, he manages to take out an entire Republic outpost by his lonesome without needing to use his lightsaber. If he wasn't so single-mindedly ruthless in killing everyone in sight, he'd be a foe that even the Avengers would be hard-pressed to defeat
  • The hidden chamber inside the abandoned Siberian HYDRA base, where Celeste Morne's oubliette (with the Muur Talisman!!!) was kept. The very same base where Bucky was brainwashed into the first Winter Soldier...
    SaRCOphagus

    taliSMaN

    DaRK lorD
  • Karness Muur, in a bid to work around his curse, uses the Strange Supreme method of consuming interdimensional creatures to then usurp the body he's using into a regular body for him to then return to power. The results are less than pleasant to see, much to horror of Celeste Morne and Karl Mordo.
  • Ghost Rider is full-on Creepy Good. Given his power set, the Penance Stare doesn't make things nice for those caught in the gaze.
    • Then there's what it does to someone with a millennia of sins on his hands. Staring Muur punishes not just him, but the creatures, causing him to disintegrate to dust.
  • In what is the only time the heroes would agree with Palpatine on anything (if they knew all his plans) is when he reflects that it's a relief Ultron hasn't discovered the plans for the "battle station" that will become the Death Star, as Palpatine is keeping that on a separate physical storage device without access to any networks. Just the idea of Ultron getting access to the Death Star... "nightmare" is too mild a term for it, considering that he could probably find the flaws in its construction on his own and assemble it far more quickly than the first was created in canon.
    • In the same scene, Palpatine uses the Force to reach Vision and watch him in the Jedi Temple, while reflecting about acquiring the Mind Stone. If a powerful Sith Lord with an Infinity Stone is very bad news, imagine a near-omnipotent Emperor with all six Infinity Stones…
      • Luckily, this is mitigated by the fact that the Infinity Gauntlet is so volatile that only someone on the level of the Hulk could even hope to survive using it even once, and since Palpatine is obsessed with immortality...
  • Spider-Man finds a familiar black ooze on Mortis, which results in him receiving a new black version of his suit. Readers aware of the comics will be aware that not only will that suit increase Spider-Man’s aggression and rage, but it will eventually become the distinctive look of his personal enemy, Venom.
    • Granted, Word of God has confirmed that Venom himself will not appear, and so far "Simby" appears to be relatively stable compared to most examples in other continuities, but there is still the potential for things to go wrong...
  • Anakin's Flash Forward on Mortis includes visions of new enemies coming to his galaxy, concluding with a vision of a figure that can't possibly be anyone besides Thanos himself, followed by a nightmarish dread-filled rendition of the Snap as Anakin watches everyone he holds dear turn to dust. Vision of Thanos and his Snap terrified ''even The Son.'' On a personal level, Anakin also engages in a duel with a figure in black armor who is clearly intended to be Darth Vader.
  • Ultron decides, as part of his new strategy, to make peace through "evolution", as the Republic and the Avengers discover his newest project at The Citadel: A Transmogrification Process of turning living beings into countless man/machine hybrid abominations chock full of Body Horror that could give Karl Heisenberg a run for his money.
    • He also takes mental control of the Padawan Pack, keeping them totally under his control, but still distinctly human to unnerve anyone facing them. Barriss is able to confirm that there's nothing left of her former friends in them before she performs a Mercy Kill, but it's clearly still a traumatizing experience for her.
    • On a lesser but not less disturbing level is his conversion of Admiral Trench into a cyborg arachnid-like form, making him far more powerful and combat-effective, with Natasha wondering out loud if Ultron deliberately intended Trench to be Peter's Evil Knockoff.
    • As of later chapters, Ultron's method of converting flesh into metal is revealed to be no stranger to either Star Wars or Marvel: It's the goddamn TECHNO-ORGANIC VIRUS, derived in this story from the works of the Sith Scientist Belia Darzu. And anyone who has either read Cable or even Ghosts of the Past knows exactly what kind of terror is now at Ultron's disposition...
  • Back on Earth, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Danny Rand witness the results of a brutal attack in an Irish restaurant in New York that left the place riddled with bullets, explosions, and corpses. The next scene, set minutes earlier, all but states that this was the work of Frank Castle, A.K.A. The Punisher.
  • The Jedi suspect that thirty missing Jedi, mostly Padawans, and over seven hundred MIA Clones have been captured by Ultron.
    • The next chapter informs, that it's not just Jedi and clones disappearing but ordinary people from across the galaxy as well as Kyber crystals and artifacts connected to the Sith.
  • When Maul makes a direct appearance, his words suggest that he is not only in an alliance with Thanos (whom he calls master), but also with the Yuuzhan Vong...
    • What's more concerning are that his meeting with Deechi and Scintel suggests that two species that where already horrifying on their own, will now have access to the technology and resources of Thanos.
    • To make things worse, later Maul recruits Pre Vizsla and Prince Xizor, gaining access to the Death Watch's and Black Suns' resources, soldiers and technology.
    • And, if it wasn't terrible enough, chapter 90 reveals that the survivors of Outbound Flight were rescued and now they serve Thanos - including Jedi masters, knights and padawans.
  • In chapter 89, Grievous and the Techno Union take a page from Ultron's book and create a laboratory in Nelvaan to mutate Nelvaanian warriors with a blaster grafted to their arm and some form of control device on their chest. If Peter and the Symbiote weren't able to rip the control device, they would be forced to kill the mutated warriors in self-defense, just like Barriss in the Citadel.
    • Even after said warriors were rescued, Obi-Wan points that they will have not only physical scars, but psychological ones, and now it's up to them to heal themselves.
  • While spying the enemy forces in Onderon, the Avengers discover that the invading army includes a very familiar foe… the Chitauri. It means one thing: Thanos will show his face in the Galaxy Far Far Away very soon.
    • Earlier, the rebels were ambushed by a insectoid/humanoid unknown alien… whose description match (later confirmed) the Sakaarans.
    • On top of that, another of the attackers the rebel camp was ambushed by, if one pays attention to their description were the Outriders.
  • In Chapter 92, we finally see why Maul was on Onderon. All the tyranny and fear he spread through Sanjay Rash, the sacrifice of pawns, the collection of rare Sith artifacts, even the revival of Freedon Nadd, a very feared and Sith Lord that causes every individual attuned to the Power Cosmic to react, were merely stepping stones to his true goal, the Soul Stone. This question even makes Freedon Nadd uncomfortable.
    • The sheer strength of the Sith ritual used by Maul and Savage to awaken Freedon Nadd, to the point that every Force user in the Galaxy could feel it, plus beings like the Celestial siblings, the Bendu, the Symbiote, the Avengers touched by the Mind Stone, Spider-Man and Ego's children.
    • In addition to all that, the chapter ends on the disappearance and likely kidnapping of Ahsoka Tano, making the "liberation of Onderon" a hollow victory with Dendup effectively dead and Ahsoka taken.
  • The Trandoshans already have a bad reputation in both Canon and Legends as ruthless hunters, but here they prove to be more sadistic and sociopathic by allying themselves with Ultron and receiving cybernetic enhancements only to have more targets to hunt.
    • If, in the Canon, the Fortnite-style Trandoshan Moon was already a Hellish Jungle, here we have not only the cybernetic-enhanced-Trandoshan hunters, but also Ultron Drones acting like prison guards…
  • In chapter 94, we see that Grievous, completely enraged with the prospective ceasefire between the Republic/Jedi/Avengers, the Mandalorians, and the Separatists/Sith, decides to open himself to the idea of leaving the CIS and join the True Sith if only to have a chance of killing more Jedi.
  • Chapter 95 reveals that Ultron has found a way to harness the Force himself; by turning captured Jedi and Sith into extensions of himself and keeping their minds alive while trapped inside their bodies. He's able to harness their powers on his own merits until they're killed by the original transformation.
  • Chapter 96 reveals that Ultron has destroyed Geonosis and rendered the natives basically extinct (unless any of them were offworld at the time); the only thing that stops it being worse is that Ultron didn't find what he was looking for (he had heard rumours of secret plans being on that planet at one point, but they had fortunately already been removed).
    • The fact that Ultron knows that the secret plans exist is terrifying, because anyone who has watched the Star Wars movies knows that the plans are for the Death Star, one of the most terrifying weapons in sci-fi history. The Avengers are running out of time…
  • Chapter 97 has the World Between Worlds brought up by Momin and his Sith faction, with Rebels fans no doubt remembering how it can be used to alter time significantly. The Son knows how to access it, though fortunately, he refuses to let his Sith allies actually use it for their goals. But when Gethzerion asks why, the Son reveals that there is something, or rather someone, imprisoned within the World Between Worlds, someone even the Celestials are afraid of.
  • Chapter 98 has Anakin have a second duel with the manifestation of Darth Vader he encountered on Mortis. While it's soon clear that this Vader isn't definitively from Anakin's personal future, Anakin is clearly horrified when he realises who this Sith actually is, and various Jedi and Avengers deny that Anakin could ever become something that terrible.
  • In chapter 99, during his third duel with Vader, Anakin experiences a Force Vision of the Canon Timeline, including him killing Count Dooku, Sidious directing Force Lightning to Mace Windu, Operation: Knightfall, all the events on Mustafar, Vader and Ahsoka's duel on Malachor and Alderaan's destruction by the Death Star.
  • In chapter 100, IW!Spider-Man and Jedi!Spider-Man are sent to an alternate New York City... where 1610!Spider-Man was murdered by the Kingpin.
    • And then you remember that all the displaced Spider-people need to return to their home universes before they die from cellular decay.
  • Chapter 101:
    • Whatever is going on in this version of Spiderverse is somehow worse than mere universal glitching. Whatever the Kingpin unleased in the collider is affecting EVERY spider person. And that includes Miles.
    • IW!Peter is feeling the greater weight of the promise he made to his Aunt about coming home where he is faced with the Universe of 1610!Spider-Man, who died in the line of duty, something that has always hung over his head but is a clear and present reality that he now has to contend with in passing on and leaving his loved ones behind.
    • Jedi!Peter cuts off Hammerhead's arm during the battle on Alchemax, much to the horror of both the Spider-Gang and the Sinister Six. Being a survivor of a war that lasted six years, he is more on the edge after all the loss and pain in his life.
      • Seeing his other self's skill with a blade prompts Peter B. to muse that he fears this version of him meeting Wade (Wilson, A.K.A. Deadpool)… let's not talk about it anymore, for everybody's sake.
  • Chapter 102:
    • The consequences of Kingpin's actions on Earth-1610 are happening not only there, but also on Earth-IW: the Clones report strange glitches on ships and buildings all over Coruscant, and Iron Fist and White Tiger travel through the Infinity Gate to warn the Avengers that New York is having glitches as well.
    • During the battle of Brooklyn against the Sinister Six (or Ten in this case), Jedi!Peter is gravely injured by the Green Goblin, and an already-traumatized Miles Morales suffers a flashback of the night when 1610!Peter was killed, making him unleash an electric wave that strikes both the Goblin and Park'r.
      • To add insult to injury (or trauma), Miles also witnesses his uncle Aaron Davis/Prowler being murdered by the Kingpin after he spares his nephew. Worse: Miles has to leave Aaron's body behind in an alley after being almost arrested by his own father (to be fair, Jefferson didn't know who this Spider-Man was).
    • The mysterious energy being is captured by Doc Ock... and God knows how the mad scientist will use it to fuel the Collider.
  • Chapter 103:
    • Kingpin's Villainous Breakdown when the Spider-Gang obliterates his plan is very scary, even more than the original movie since, this time, he's facing ALL the eight Spiders at once than only Miles in canon.
      Kingpin: You damned INSECTS! YOU'VE RUINED EVERYTHING!
    • Doc Ock ends up in the IW universe, where she meets the Sith cult being formed by The Son and Darth Momin. The sheer fact that the Sith now have a deadly scientist with an understanding of the multiverse and a strong hatred for Spider-Man under them is terrifying.
    • On Nar Shaddaa, we see one of the local criminals trying to crawl away and leaving a blood trail, only to be shot by Frank Castle. Given Frank's hatred of crime, the Star Wars criminal underworld is now a target for the Punisher's one man vigilante crusade.
  • The end of Chapter 104, as it's revealed that Ultron is attacking Kamino itself. Considering his demonstrated ability to convert organic matter into new drone bodies for himself, coupled with the control chips in the clones, whether Ultron intends to take the cloning facilities and turn them into his new production line or "hack" the clones to find some way to turn them against the Republic, the mere concept of him being on Kamino raises several terrifying possibilities.
  • All of Chapter 105 where Ultron invades and successfully conquers Kamino, converting millions of Clones into his army and to add insult to injury, made sure the entire galaxy witnesses the death and rebirth of 99.
    • In the chapter finale, Son's faction of Sith plans to resurrect Darth Nihilus.
  • Chapter 106 reveals a disturbing revelation that Ultron converted upwards of seven to eight hundred million clones after the fall of Kamino.
  • Chapter 107: The ease in which Ultron takes the resources of Kamino before glassing it and exterminating all life on the planet, the death of the world sending a reverberation through the Force felt by all Force Users. It's so horrible that even the Dark Side of the Force is repulsed by it.
    • In the Post Credit scene, the Chapter ends with Crossbones, Taskmaster, and Cad Bane being offered a position within Maul's organization. The Idea that Crimson Dawn now has in its services of three dangerous bounty hunters that can stand against the Avengers is concerning.
  • Chapter 108 ends with The Son, Momin, Gethzerion and Ovair successfully reviving the Ancient Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Nihilus.
  • Chapters 109 & 110 reveal what's in store for Season 4, and they show that despite Ultron being defeated, the Sith are about to unleash destruction in scale that rivals the one caused by the genocidal AI. Highlights go to:
    • The arrival of other revived Sith Lords, such as Tulak Hord, Darth Malgus, Exar Kun and Naga Shadow and their fights against heroes. Gethzerion takes Wanda, Strange and other sorcerers; Nihilus fights the Ghost Rider and Steve fights alongside Anakin against Tulak Hord.
    • The Jedi Temple and Coruscant itself burning once again, bodies and destruction everywhere. One of the shots shows Barel Ovair and dozens of True Sith acolytes inside the temple before a fight breaks out.
    • Peter being confronted by Doc Ock, as well her own newly formed Sinister Six.
    • Finally, Maul and the rest of the Crimson Dawn start to make their move, ready to show the the cosmos a new kind of terror. Starting with Maul showing himself before a horrified Kenobi.
    • To make matter worse, Ultron mockingly, while shutting down, lampshades it:
      "You think that beating me is the end?"
      "Do you truly believe I am the be-all and end-all of your struggles?"
      "Oh, you truly are as pathetic as you are foolish."
      "I know you will all perish, one way or another."
      "If not by my hand, by those whose grudge is thousands of years old."
      "And I only wish I could be there to witness your fall."
  • The entirety of Chapter 114! As Ultron falls, so rises the might of the Sith from the past, the present and the future:
    • Palpatine having access to the World Between Worlds. His mania about regaining his foothold within the galaxy drives him to new heights of madness, but with that madness, his infamous cunning and scheming seems to return in fullness.
    • Dr. Octavius turning Darth Galvan into the Sith version of Electro under the watchful eyes of Darth Malgus. Yes, the Darth Malgus!
    • Ovair and The Son, alongside Momin, Gethzerion and the Son, also known as Lord Bogan, resurrecting Naga Sadow and Exar Kuun. Now one of the greatest Sith Magicians, as well as one of the most skilled duelists among both Jedi and Sith walk amongst the living once again!
      • And they're not alone: Joining their side are none other than Darth Wyyrlok III., Darth Maladi and Darth Nihl, some of Darth Krayt's most influential members from the Rule of One. The future Lords of the Sith are here, ready to wreak havoc upon the galaxy of the present alongside their predecessors of the past.
      • The Massassi - the fearsome, highly force-sensitive subspecies of the so-called Pureblooded Sith of Korriban, so formidable that they once made up all of the Sith Warrior Caste by themselves - are BACK!
    • Darth Maul, not just finding, but also upgrading an Orbalisk and bestowing it upon Savage Oppress, on top of being confirmed as a follower of Thanos with the mention of Ebony Maw.

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