History NightmareFuel / PokemonMysteryDungeon

* Onix and Steelix. They're ''huge!'' ([[NightmareRetardant though they're also cakewalks if you use the right moves).]]

* The events before and after the Mystical Forest show [[HeroKiller what kind of force the heroes are up against]], in case Rayquaza running away in fear wasn't enough. It starts out as [[DaylightHorror a beautiful day]] in which the team get to travel to a new land. Then they overhear a chat about the petrification epidemic that gets interrupted by two objects crashing down from the sky from out of nowhere. They manage to get into the impact site only to find that those objects are Latios and Latias turned into stone after they were caught by an unknown pursuer. Keep in mind, the twin dragons have SuperSpeed that rivals jet planes; if they couldn't escape... [[DroneOfDread The music]] doesn't help either.

* So you're walking around a dungeon, and what's this? A Kecleon shop! Hey, wouldn't it be so funny to steal some stuff from the sucker? You're level 100 and already saved the world, so they wouldn't attack you, knowing that it's just a player having a little fun, right? WRONG! More and more of them come up to ''swarm'' you in ridiculous numbers. They ''will'' catch up to you, and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown gang up on you so they can slaughter you]]! A seemingly innocent Pokemon becomes a shopkeeper so determined that he will [[NeverSayDie defeat]] anyone who steals from him in a violent manner! Not only that. but enemy Pokemon won't even try to stop him! Even so, they'd probably be [[CurbStompBattle maimed by thousands of Kecleon swarming their butts.]] [[FridgeHorror And where did all the other Kecleon come from?]]

** Sometimes the item that is made can be an apple or other food item. [[FridgeHorror Now what do Pokémon do with food again?]] Add this with the above, and this item is plain morbid.

*** If you talk to Gulpin and ask for information about remembering moves, he mutters about how you, the player, are quite forgetful and how he wants you to forget a lot of moves so you have to see him a lot. Then he remembers that everyone decided to get rid of you... while by this point it's fairly likely Gulpin would've thought your team were already chased out of town, it's a rather ominous line that could also be taken as meaning in Gulpin's dream, the townspeople have already ''killed'' you.
* The whole fugitive sequence in general. You are forced to survive several extremely inhospitable environments filled with hostile foes, have no real safe place to sleep and presumably no reliable source of food or clean water, and almost everyone you know is relentlessly hunting you and your best friend down with the heavily implied intent of slaughtering you both.

** The Lapis Cave sequence. Just when you and your partner [[HopeSpot think you’re safe]], you’re immediately greeted by [[NothingIsScarier unknown voices]] that have discovered you and are now going to kill you. Your only chance of surviving is to go into this unfamiliar cave full of hostile Pokémon. The [[https://youtu.be/E2IS00UZXA8 music]] certainly doesn’t help, as while it may not sound creepy on its own, it definitely provides a sense of anxiety that’s fitting for the situation you’re in.

** Gengar's lines about dragging you to 'the dark world' don't help at all, and the fact that of all people, the one who's done the most to try and get rid of you and done nothing but try to hurt you is who finds your spirit is a rather uneasy concept to begin with... though the implication [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Gengar's talk of the dark world is complete nonsense and he was actually saving you]] helps subvert it at least a bit.

* The mere fact that your character gets '''''killed''''' at one point in the story. Sure, they come back, and the fact they die through petrification makes it a little less shocking, but it's a nasty surprise for a Pokémon game.

[[caption-width-right:350: [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Well, we're boned!]] ]]

** Then it gets even worse: without even batting an eyelid, Kyurem proceeds to deliver a ''brutal'' NoHoldsBarredBeatdown ''to the protagonist'' by [[KickTheDog stomping on him]] [[MoralEventHorizon repeatedly.]] And the partner [[ForcedToWatch can only watch]], powerless to stop it, while this goes on for a while. ''Yeesh''.

** It makes Gengar [[AdultFear pretty terrifying in a real sense]] compared to a lot of other villains, too - he isn't a powerful Pokémon, you've already handed his butt to him ''and'' his team in combat long before this point, and compared to other [[BigBad major antagonists of the series]] he seems relatively pathetic. He's just a malicious and spiteful bully who knows how to twist a situation to benefit him and holds grudges, and your character was just unlucky enough to cross paths with him and end up taking the brunt of that.

*** Last but not least, it's '''heavily implied''' that this isn't the first time this happened. Kyurem and his gang has been known to take down countless human-Pokémon summoned by Hydreigon, and you're just one in his long list of victims. You should be glad that he decides to stop just because he thought you can't fight back.