There are some people in the cosmos that you just shouldn't mess with...
Sure, Mashima could dip into some dark territory now and then in Fairy Tail, but it was mostly light-hearted fun. Surely this series has to be the same, right?
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- The Chronophage, both in design and in concept, is like something out of a nightmare. It's a pure black Energy Being in the vague shape of a serpentine dragon with no defining characteristics besides a maw of jagged teeth, drifting through space to feast on the time of planets, which erases anyone unlucky or stupid enough to stay on them. This isn't so bad for planets like Norma, where its citizens had enough time and resources to evacuation. But as is shown to be the case with Guilst, they can strike with little to no warning at all, to speak nothing of any civilizations with no means of space travel whatsoever. And even if you're fortunate enough to have still been on the planet at the point where its history is rewound, it wouldn't be "you" at all; it'd be a copy of who you were in the past, meaning you'd have to get out of their way if you want to survive—which is all anyone can do, as there's no way of stopping the monster or reversing its effects.
- The anime gives alternative shots of the Chronophage's approach towards and consumption of Guilst. From the surface, it looks like a stain of blackness growing and gradually covering the sky. Then when it finally comes, its jaws unhinge like and the planet is immersed in a Blank White Void as the black vortex of its body envelops it. The soundtrack's abrupt fade-out, with no sound but Xiaomei's voice-over narrating the calamity, helps make the scene all the more eerie.
- Drakken Joe is a Card-Carrying Loan Shark who always looks for ways to wring money out of people so long as they have the tiniest bit of value to him. Problem is, almost all of these ways involve a Fate Worse than Death, because killing others means they can't make his money back. And if that weren't bad enough, he's also one of the top six most formidable warriors in the cosmos, so there'd be little hope of any ordinary person ever beating him through sheer force alone. Because of this, the lengths he'd go to get what he wants lead to some of the most disturbing, nightmarishly cruel scenes not just in the series, but anything Mashima has written in years.
- In his introductory scene, he's shown shaking some poor sap down after already stripping him to his boxers and shoving a glass bottle into his mouth for failing to pay back a loan worth millions. At first, Drakken tortures the guy by turning the bottle—still in his mouth—into ore that's so heavy it cracks the floor beneath him, yet miraculously his skull and spine don't crack. Then, after determining the guy doesn't need his mouth to earn money, he smashes the glass bottle with his foot, treating us to a lovely shot of the guy shrieking in agony, his teeth broken and mouth shredded with shards. And we're left knowing this is only the beginning of whatever fate the guy's about to go through as Drakken has him escorted away to slave off his debt...
Sakura Cosmos Saga
Intro arc
Norma arc
Skull Fairy arc
Guilst arc
Digitalis arc
Mildian arc
Sun Jewel arc
Belial Gore arc
Edens One arc
Aoi Cosmos Saga
Red Cave arc
Foresta arc
- Shura casually murdering two hookers by using his gravity control to launch them into the ceiling, causing their blood to rain down.
Sandra arc
Nero 66 arc
- Lyra seems like your average cheeky teen with a garish fashion sense, but as her game of "Lost Card" unfolds, she's shown to be a truly disturbed girl. The rules of the game are standard Fanservice fare where every wrong answer costs the player a piece of their clothes, but the kicker is that the first to lose all their clothes also loses a body part. Not only does she look happy about this, but she later reveals to Rebecca—with a creepy and disturbing grin—that she's played this game over a hundred times and only lost once to Nero (which cost her her left eye), and is just as eager to take Rebecca's legs.
- When Shiki's group comes to rescue Witch from Shura's torture, they find the prince proudly standing over her badly beaten body, with a chunk missing from her abdomen.
- Ziggy's face when he shows up on screen to tell Shiki he's made the wrong choice. That eye is haunting.
- The state of Rebecca's body after her futile attempts to reverse time and rescue Witch. A quarter of her body is cracking like porcelain meaning that she jumped multiple times past her normal limit. Even just a small crack caused her intense pain before, so there's no telling how much agony she put herself through to try and save her friend, only to find out she couldn't.
Kaede Cosmos Saga
X495 arc
Lendard Arc
- The implication that the Shining Stars and Dark Stars all used to be human before being converted into androids based on the memories Shiki drew into himself via his gravity. What's truly scary is the androids themselves have no recollection of this, meaning they had their memories erased after the fact.
- Deadend Crow being a 400 meter tall mechanical colossus that dwarfs even the Edens Zero and he EATS humans.
- Acnoella seemingly controls every dragon in the cosmos. With that kind of power, she could easily destroy an entire planet.
- Killer's suicide attack on Hermit after his defeat. Her reaction and dialogue make it clear that he's violating her from within as he's killing her.
- Clown's ability, the appropriately named Nightmare, traps its target in a sub-space where they are subjected to extreme mental torture. Sister in particular gets the worst of it as her mouth is invaded by horrible tentacle/leech creatures, until her full belly explodes leaving only her body from the chest up intact.
- Ziggy's collection of mothers. The hall is shown to have hundreds, if not thousands, of pods each with a body inside. To add insult to injury, Ziggy went out of his way to collect the corpses of the Edens Zero crew's mothers just to mess with their heads. His ultimate goal for doing this is forcibly collecting Mother Ether to locate Mother, kill her, and in turn wipe out living organisms across the entire universe.
Universe Zero Saga
