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  • For Halloween of 2020, we get a lyric video for "Green Hill Zone", which is actually a Sonic.exe-themed song from SiIvaGunner's King for Another Day Tournament, with all the thinly-veiled horrors played for all they're worth.
    • It starts off innocent enough, being the advertised "Green Hill Zone" theme with upbeat lyrics befitting of Sonic the Hedgehog. Then things go off the handle when the song starts to repeat its main melody, with the lyrics drifting into Madness Mantra, complete with Ominous Visual Glitch exposing Sonic as the bloodied demon with the game-play changing from the original Sonic the Hedgehog to the Creepypasta Rom-hack.
      Now it's time for a new game
      The Genesis won't be the same
      R-R-R-Rolling on rolling green hills
      HIDE AND SEEK ON THE GREEN HILLS
      CHASING YOU ON THE GREEN HILLS
      FIRE UPON THE GREEN HILLS
      BRIMSTONE UPON THE GREEN HILLS HILLS HILLS HILLS HILLS HILL HILLS
    • The second act has the song become "Scrap Brain Zone", an ironically still upbeat tune set to lyrics which have .exe cockily boast how he cannot be escaped, nor beaten by the player's actions. By the end of this section, we're treated to another Madness Mantra from .exe, with the voice becoming more lower pitch and distorted as the song slows to a crawl:
      YOU CAN'T RUN FROM ME
    • The third act, featuring the song originating from Sonic.exe "Hill Act 1", completely drops the facade that was barely kept together until now, with .exe boasting his godhood status by stating his intentions of forever "playing" with the souls trapped in his game and how they'll never know peace.
      YOUR WILL IS MINE, FOR I AM GOD
    • By the end, the original cheerful Green Hill Zone melody fades back in, with the lyrics repeating the upbeat lyrics of Sonic ...except Tails and Eggman are gone from the cover art, with their names being glitched out of the song lyrics as well, all the while keeping the upbeat tone like nothing's wrong.
  • While to be expected from a song based off of a creepypasta, Juno's interpretation of Monochrome really takes the cake. Juno's artstyle makes Gold even more detailed, giving the viewer a close look at the flesh that lines his mouth. The lyrics detail how despite being able to accomplish tons of things in life, death is inevitable and your achievements will be lost to time. Finally, we get the lovely Troubled Backstory Flashback of Gold's limbs being torn apart before being thrown down a cliff.
    • In the DX remastered version of the cover, all Pokémon protagonists from Gen 3 and beyond made cameos via Freeze-Frame Bonus and all of their fates do not look pretty, with most being a grim Mythology Gag of the fates that could befall the protagonists had they failed in their journeys. Brendan looks like he's shriveled up by heat and May is drowning, Dawn is dealing with Hell Bell and her ears are bleeding, Hilda's now scarred and she ends up crucified, Calem suffers eternal life thanks to Xerneas and Serena is turned to a lifeless husk, Elio and Selene are massacred by Beast Lusamine, Victor got stabbed in the mouth with a sword and Gloria got stabbed in the chest with a shield, and Juliana is getting mauled by a Koraidon.
  • While Juno made "Prey" Lighter and Softer, it's implied through Sonic's lyrics that he's terrified of Starved, making it at least an in-universe example of Nightmare Fuel.
  • While the concept of Hell Bell is already nightmarish enough, with the player who helped Beelze having their soul being owned and suffering an eternal torment as a result, Juno's rendition of Death Toll somehow manages to makes things even worse having Dawn be an actual person rather than just the player's avatar. Not only does Boyfriend get his soul stolen, but Dawn suffers a Death of Personality after Beelze uses her body to trap Boyfriend's soul.
    • Worse, during the segment where Dawn starts morphing into Boyfriend, she stops speaking actual lyrics and instead starts communicating in Boyfriend's unintelligible beeps and bops. Seems silly until one realizes that she's aware during the entire thing, and was calling for help just a few moments prior, meaning that she was likely still trying to do so, but is unable to do so due to becoming The Unintelligible.
    • Another thing that makes it even creepier is the fact Gold is aware of Dawn's situation and is likely unable to do anything (not that he believes his efforts could amount for something), as seen in a Freeze-Frame Bonus in "Monochrome DX". And the fact Gold is showing Dawn's situation to Boyfriend is further implying that Dawn and Boyfriend are completely separate entities. This means Beelze erased Dawn from existence. His reason? Completely selfish (getting Boyfriend's soul). Moral Event Horizon, anyone?
  • Snowgrave NEO has one particular set of lyrics that showcase just how much more vile Spamton is in this fangame in comparison to the original Snowgrave route.
    I'll LIQUIDATE ALL YOUR ASSETS
    A [HOT HOT DEAL!] YOU WILL [REGRET]
  • The Kirby and the Forgotten Land Finale Collection includes every boss battle theme from Forgo Dedede to Fecto Elfilis — and we do mean every one. That's right, Fecto Forgo gets their own cover of "Hunted by the Beast" here, and the added vocals make them even scarier than they were in the base game! Forgo's amalgamated form is given an absolutely horrifying Voice of the Legion that combines Leongar's deep-voiced growls with breathy whispers and high-pitched, unearthly screams that sound like someone being strangled! The lyrics are appropriately hellish, too, one part Madness Mantra, one part Motive Rant that spells out Fecto Forgo's bloodlust in no uncertain terms whatsoever. Good luck sleeping at night when they scream, "GIVE IT BACK!!" at the top of their many, many lungs...
    CONSUME! DEVOUR! ASS-IM-I-LATE!
    FLESH AND BLOOD, IN A FLOOD OF HATE!
    THE UNENDING HUNGER OF FATE!
    CONSUME! DEVOUR! ASS-IM-I-LATE!
  • The second half of The Area Zero Lab. While the first half is more sad than scary, the moment when the Paradise Protection Protocol activates jumps the song from tense to terrifying. With everyone's Pokeballs locked by the protocol, the horrified A.I. begs the children to flee since they can't defend themselves anymore. The Professor's personality reasserts itself with a furious "YOU ARE NOT GETTING IN MY WAY!" and transitions from wanting to simply prevent the kids from stopping the time machine to outright threatening their lives with the same Legendary that killed the original Professor. So in case you missed that, a group of children are trapped alone with a murderous wild animal that they can no longer protect themselves from.

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