Nightmare Fuel / Codename: Sailor V

• Sailor V's first kill was not only the sempai she was crushing on, he looked perfectly normal even in youma form-and was amassing a harem of brainwashed girls. And he nearly got Minako too.
  • The Dark Agency youma tend to use brainwashing more often than the main Dark Kingdom-and it wasn't the only time they nearly got Minako.
• Pandora casually brainwashing most of Minato Ward through their televisions. And she too also almost got Minako...
  • Pandora's true face - and death, dissolving into a stinking goop.
• Petit Pandora, Pandora's sister, shares her face... But makes the death worse, as her fumes are actually poisonous. Good thing Sailor V could purify that...
  • She was also amassing a harem of cute boys, and didn't get Amano only because his glasses make him look horrible.
  • Petit Pandora, her face half-melted to reveal her skull, exclaims she won't die until she's properly avenged her sister. Even as all the skin falls off her skull, she won't die.
    Petit Pandora: Revenge for Pandora...
• Cyber Warrior Luga emerging from the stolen motherboard of one of her arcade machines and demanding who dared. And when Sailor V appears, she traps her in the game and starts a fight, with V unable to fight back because, as the player character, she needs someone at her VR helmet and gloves controllers. Had Amano not got the commands and revealed himself a formidable martial artist, she would have died.
• Vivian's two-fold death, which ends with what looks like her head exploding in a shower of blood.
• The Pet Diaries are for the most part silly... But contain huge amounts of nightmare:
  • Nyan Nyan targets a school by having every ticket for the treasure hunt changed into a cat... And filling the area with her kitty minions, ready to drain any unlucky student to death.
    • Topped by Sailor V's retaliation, the Venus Sulphur Smoke. It just stuns everyone with its horrible stink, and Artemis thinks she farted... Except V describes it as summoning a cloud of Venus' atmosphere. And this was her holding back for fear of harming the drained students.
  • Wan Wan's plan is to put his dog minions into all the houses of Minato and, at the right moment, drain everyone to death. And the only reason he's doing this is to avenge his sister Nyan Nyan's death.
    • And once again, Sailor V's counterattack is nightmarish: after her "In the Name of Venus" Speech, Wan Wan starts protesting it had been too long... And she suddenly pulls a katana and cuts him in two mid-protest while shouting she's sentencing him to harakiri.
  • Chuu Chuu easily tops everything pulled so far in the Pet Diaries: she not only goes around draining people's blood in large quantities, when exposed she unleashes billions of demonic mosquitoes.
    • And then Sailor V tops that: while drained of over a liter of blood, she climbs the hospital on whose top Chuu Chuu is hiding and annihilates her and all her minions with a chemical attack (namely a magically powered mosquito incense).
• The Grand Finale is a long sequence of such moments:
  • The Reveal that Danburite is none else than Kaitou Ace, and has his strongest youma Princess Linlin posing as his manager.
  • Princess Linlin going Yandere on Minako... And upon realizing who she's dealing with, she brainwashes thousands of minions. Or more-Linlin brags she's unleashing the whole of China against her. And then she starts gaining the upper hand on Sailor V...
  • Danburite wounding Linlin because he wants to kill Sailor V himself.
  • When Sailor V, for the first time in the series, cuts loose she reverses Linlin's brainwashing... And accidentally demolishes part of the Forbidden City as collateral damage.
    • Made worse because this triggers an actual nightmare in Sailor V, the Fall of the Silver Millennium. At least it it Awakened both her past life's memories and true power...
  • Danburite explaining he did all he did because of his love for Sailor Venus that endures from his past life.
  • Knowing he's Ace, Venus pleas for Danburite to stand down. He makes to attack... And she fires her Crescent Beam with no exhitation.
    • Made worse when one reads the main manga: this is the moment Sailor Venus lost any qualms at taking a life. The moment where she casually kicked a brainwashed Makoto into a wall, or the time she opened Beryl in two in cold blood? All a consequence of the moment she choose to slay Danburite, rather than trying to capture and redeem him.
  • Danburite's slow disintegration is bad enough, but him admitting that he joined the Dark Kingdom and did everything he did because his love for Sailor Venus had convinced him that the best way to help Sailor Venus was to die at her hands and remind her that she'd always choose duty over love makes this even worse. No wonder Minako is so messed up during the main series...