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- Durge is perhaps one of the scariest villains from Legends. A psychopathic Bounty Hunter who made his first appearance on one of Naboo's moons, where he and Asajj Ventress massacred the the local Gungans in a test of their new chemical weapon.
- In Star Wars: Clone Wars, during the assault in the Muunilinst capital we're treated to the big reveal that Durge is more than some healing limb factored armored cladded goliath... Durge's reveal of tendrils of muscle and speed are frightening and the music accompaning the scene sounds appropriately straight out of a horror movie. His form of attack on Obi-Wan Kenobi is grotesque to say the least. He uses his body and "consumes" him. Fortunately, though Obi-Wan manages to escape from within Durge. Albeit, in a brief squicktastic moment.
- The mere fact that this creature is a monster made entirely out of nerves with Super-Strength, regeneration, super durability, and seemingly endless stamina. When you think about it, this guy is basically a super alien!
- The New Jedi Order, especially with a device called the Embrace of Pain. Also with Chewie's death. And Anakin's.
- The Dark Nest Trilogy has Jacen Mind Rape Ta'a Chume in order to keep his family safe.
- Legacy of the Force. The Embrace of Pain is back, along with evil Jacen (now Darth Caedus). Ben's tortured and forced to watch someone close to him die.
- Speaking of Ben, there's a really horrid scene that involves Tahiri playing The Vamp to the poor boy. When he refuses her advances, she then tortures his soldier buddy to death in front of him.
- Sintas Vel, wife of Boba Fett, is revealed to have been frozen in carbonite for 40 years. 40 YEARS. Han was already a wreck after just ONE year of carbon freeze. Sintas is an absolute incomprehensible mess after being unfrozen.
- Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor. Why are Cronal's stormtroopers' armor black? Hint: That's not paint. It's a brainwashing armor, which Cronal used to throw all his forces in a suicidal run against his enemies. Luke (a commanding officer during the mission) had to Shoot the Dog and kill them all, which breaks him so much that he quits military service.
- Also, Cronal controls the rocks of the planet, so he can create a prison for Luke. He then forces Luke to see the death of the universe; Luke doesn't take it well. Throw in Body Surfing, and you're looking at some serious horror, punctuated by Take Thats to the fanboys.
- The Tales from Jabba's Palace anthology has the story, "Of the Day's Annoyances: Bib Fortuna's Tale", in which Jabba's former majordomo has been captured by the B'omarr monks, who plan to perform "enlightenment" surgery on him. See, the B'omarr are a cult of fanatical ascetics who have adopted advanced science to help them in their goal of pursuing enlightenment: they surgically extract peoples' brains and place them in spidery life-support units, in the belief that this severing from all fleshy pleasures will expand one's mind. You remember that creepy giant spider you saw scuttling through the door after C-3PO and R2-D2 entered Jabba's palace in ''Return of the Jedi"? That was a B'omarr "brain spider". Picture Bib, locked in the palace, sitting in the dark, hearing the slow, creaking approach of a surgeon's cart...
- In-Universe example in "The Krytos Trap", book three of the original X-Wing Series novels. At the novel's climax, the Super Star Destroyer Lusankya emerges from its hiding place inside the planet-encompassing cityscape of Coruscant. As Wedge contemplates how in the world Emperor Palpatine managed to put it in there and have nobody aware of it, he comes to the conclusion that thre's two possibilities. Option 1: Palpatine was so powerful he was capable of using More than Mind Control on thousands, maybe millions of sentients and wiping all memory of seeing Lusyanka installed. Option 2: Palpatine simply had every last one of those thousands to millions of witnesses Killed to Uphold the Masquerade and nobody ever noticed. He's honestly not sure which option scares him the most.
- Wedge himself is suspected by his fellow republican pilots to be this for imperial pilots.
- The Krytos virus, an Imperial bioweapon designed to only target aliens, is a neverending source of Body Horror and Nausea Fuel. Designed to force the Republic to bankrupt themselves curing the affected population, it inflicts the maximum amount of pain as it slowly kills the infected in the most grisly way possible. The chipper, Punch Clock Villainy of its creator somehow makes it even worse.The Quarren die more gracefully, if liquefaction can be seen as graceful...
- There was an even more lethal "Emperor's Plague" that only affected humans, and reportedly had Palpatine horrified.
- The Dark Side ending of the first game from The Force Unleashed. After killing Darth Vader, Starkiller tries unsuccessfully to attack Palpatine. Next thing he knows, Palpatine grips the Rogue Shadow with the Force and, with Juno Eclipse still inside the ship, throws it on top of Starkiller. The last thing Starkiller sees is darkness until he wakes up on an operating table, finding himself being clad in a suit of life support armor. Add some last-second Eye Scream, and you'll wish you'd chosen a different final boss.
- The second game's Dark Side ending would also count for some. Starkiller raises his lightsaber, ready to end the threat once and for all. Suddenly, a blood-red lightsaber emerges from Starkiller's chest. The attacker decloaks, revealing a hooded figure. Rahm Kota charges. The hooded figure whips around, blocks all his attacks, and flings him into his Rebel escort. Then, he sends them flying to the ocean below. Vader stands over Starkiller, and says that he lied when the cloning process hadn't been perfected. The hooded figure reveals himself. His face is a perfect image of Starkiller, only devoid of ANY emotion. That has to give one chills.
- How about the downloadable Endor level from the The Force Unleashed 2? It follows the alternate dark side ending of said game with how differently things would have played out in the movies had Vader's evil Starkiller clone been a success. Taking place during Return of the Jedi, Vader sends the clone down to Endor to kill the Rebel forces trying to take out the shield. Throughout the level, evil Starkiller mows down all the rebel soldiers as well the Ewoks and successfully kills Han, Chewbacca, and Leia (it was implied that Luke froze to death on Hoth in this timeline). And of course there's a scene afterwards of the Emperor proudly announcing the Empire's final victory and killing Vader upon realizing his secret betrayal. The whole level is basically one huge case of "right in the childhood."
- Even worse is how evil Starkiller kills Chewbacca: by using him as a live shield when Han attempts to open fire at him.
- Just be thankful it didn't show what he did with C-3PO and R2-D2...
- The Force Unleashed sequel has a level on a Nebulon-B frigate. The ship is boarded by unknown forces, led by Boba Fett, but as you go on through the level, you learn that what your facing is terrifying. The spider droids latch onto you with razor-sharp pincers. The infantry can teleport away from your lightsaber strikes, and have cybernetic upgrades along the lines of Grievous. The giants have scalding hot claws specifically designed to cleave through durasteel. The walker could crush you like a bug, and has a screech that sounds like a demon had it's vocal chords ripped out, and combined with nails on a chalkboard. As you progress through this level, you'll learn that this contingent of Elite Mooks are called the Terror Troops for a very good reason.
- There was a webcomic called Evasive Action, which described the lives of three Padawans who survived Order 66 and went into hiding. They were on Felucia when Order 66 was issued, and in a convenient spot to watch Aayla Secura get shot down by her own troops◊. Take a look at the background image of Aayla's Dies Wide Open expression... yeah.
- Destiny's Way mentions some of the critters employed in the Yuuzhan Vong Sentient Sacrifice. Flaying knives, flesh-eating beetles... We knew already that it wasn't a barrel of laughs, these being the Yuuzhan Vong and all, but still...
- And it says that it takes several hours, and the victim is generally conscious for most of it—presumably, the Vong have means to keep them from blacking out.
- In The Thrawn Trilogy, Joruus C'baoth's Mind Rape of General Covell. Imagine a military officer having to relearn the concept of obedience!
- From the same books, Joruus' fascination with controlling people and moulding their entire existence according to his wishes. And the fact that Thrawn wins him over to his side by bribing him with Leia's unborn children.
- "He would smile, and speak politely, and then he would take her children away.
- The Ghorman Massacre, an event that brought the future Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin to the Emperor's notice. In the wake of the declaration of the Galactic Empire, tax protesters on the planet Ghorman staged a peaceful demonstration on a landing pad in order to prevent Tarkin's ship from landing. Tarkin simply had his ship land on top of the protesters. In the Legends mythology, this event was what shocked enough people that the Rebel Alliance was able to firmly establish itself.
- The whole entechment thing. Draining the life forces of living beings and prolonging their agony to use the energy to fuel the race's machines.
- In Star Wars Tales #24, "Unseen, Unheard", Darth Nihilus strips a Miraluke colony world that's hosting a Jedi Enclave of all life: save one.
- Abeloth. She used to be human, but now she's an Eldritch Abomination powerful enough to take on and almost beat Luke himself. And thanks to fanart, we have an idea what her humanoid face looks like. Just...just look.
- It is revealed that the Death Star was built using convict labor over the prison planet of Despayre. This labor force was executed and replaced with enslaved Wookiees once it turned out that they were incompetent. Once that was done, Tarkin transported the entire work crew, along with their supervisors, to Despayre...which he then blew up, killing millions of prisoners and thousands of loyal Imperial personnel, both to test the laser's power and to eliminate loose ends.
- In the audio book of "Nightlily", we hear Trevagg get his comeuppance. It's as agonizing as you'd expect.
- The Hutt. They control a galaxy-spanning criminal empire that not even the Empire dares to take down... Because the alternative is their return to their ancient militaristic ways, during which they devastated dozens of worlds so hard that for millennia the rest of the galaxy thought it had been a supernova before they fought a devastating civil war that pushed them to establish the basis of their criminal empire so they wouldn't risk to kill themselves again.
- The Mnggal-Mnggal, something so horrid that the only reason using the Death Star on a planet it has consumed isn't appropriate is because you can't be sure you killed all of the thing- better using a Base Delta Zero (that is, hitting the planet from orbit with turbolasers until the entire crust is reduced to molten slag) rather than risk some of it from the wrong side of the planet has survived on an asteroid ready to infect some unaware individual. And in fact, that's what the Chiss do whenever they find a planet consumed by it. It's said that the Celestials, who were so powerful to alter the very fabric of the universe, did just that and created the hyperspace anomaly that keeps the Unknown Regions unknown to isolate the thing.
- Oh, and it's confirmed to be an extradimensional being, possibly related to Waroo!
- Droids
- The made-for-TV movie, The Great Heep, is significantly darker than other episodes. It involves droids getting their power drained (the robotic equivalent of having someone suck out their life force) complete with the lovely image of their colour fading to a sickly brown. The main villain of the episode, the eponymous Great Heep is far more sinister than the show's villains up to that point — not to mention his death scene is quite terrifying in itself, complete with lightning and rain. The episode also chronologically introduces Admiral Screed, who went on to become the central Imperial character on the show. He is only slightly less evil than the Great Heep.
- Bisad Koon's death. Holy Toledo, Bisad Koon's death. The disease he's contracted causes him to simply...disappear, leaving his clothes behind. Think Obi-wan's death at Vader's hands, but more disturbing.
- Choose Your Own Adventure had a series of Star Wars gamebooks that featured many horrific endings depending on the choices the reader makes, but one ending that sticks out is in the A New Hope volume. After being taken captive by the Imperials, Tarkin will call for the reader's execution if the reader refuses to join them. But Vader will intervene and convince Tarkin to have the reader taken to Kessel, where they end up forced to work as a slave in the mines. Working conditions are extremely miserable and the reader finds themself living in fear of their extremely hostile taskmasters and even their fellow workers threatening to harm or rob them. Vader promised the reader's stay there was temporary, but the narration implies Vader lied or forgotten. The last sentences of the ending even implied the the reader eventually was stuck on Kessel long enough that they completely gave up any hope of escape from their nightmarish fate.
- Anyone who has played both Dark Forces and the original Star Wars: Battlefront games has probably noticed that the Dark Troopers in the latter look and behave more like regular, living stormtroopers instead of droids or walking tanks with stormtroopers in them. A case of Canon Discontinuity? Perhaps that was the case up until the guide for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed came out and identified Battlefront’s Dark Troopers as “Phase Zero Dark Troopers”, who were Clone Troopers that were crippled during the Clone Wars, forcibly rebuilt using the same technology that went into Darth Vader, and forced back into Imperial service. In some cases, up to seventy percent of a trooper’s organic body would be replaced. Needless to say, the Phase Zero project had a high suicide rate.
- The Unknown Regions. Huge uncharted regions of the galaxy that are difficult to travel to thanks to black holes and bizarre planets, many that are inhabitated by frightening monstrosities such as the aformentioned Mnggal-Mnggal and Abeloth, as well as the freaky looking Starweirds.
