History NightmareFuel / YuGiOhZEXAL

* Tron/Vector's defeat of Droite/Dextra in Episode 54. She's seemingly got him on the ropes with her combo (unless he summons a monster, he'll take 1000 damage, and take 1500 should he attack), only for him to get up with an EvilLaugh. Turns out that's just what he needed to summon his Number: Heraldic King- Genome Heriter/Heritage, having a card that could Xyz summon from his graveyard. He then uses her own combo against her, [[MindRape Mind Raping her memories of Kite as he does]]. The dub even manages to make this scary with [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Battle of the Dragons]] and his line as he's summoning Number 8:
-->'''Vector:''' Someone's tournament will end here, but it ''won't'' be mine! [[EvilLaugh Ahahaha!]] Welcome to the beginning of the end!

* The effect of Giant Killer... Or it would be if the animation was graphic and not incredibly stylized. It also would have been much worse if its only on-screen victims were not machine monsters. To elaborate, Giant Killer's effect has it using strings to pull opposing monsters into its chest mechanism and then ''shredding them'', and its victims are usually seen struggling to some degree as they get pulled in. Understandably, every scene of Giant Killer/[[DubNameChange Giant Grinder]] shredding other monsters was [[{{Bowdlerize}} cut entirely from the dub]], usually [[GoryDiscretionShot leaving only the reactions of the onlookers]].
* The Giant Killer eats Hope. Sweet dreams kids.

* Tron/Vector's defeat of Droite/Dextra in Episode 54. She's seemingly got him on the ropes with her combo (unless he summons a monster, he'll take 1000 damage, and take 1500 should he attack), only for him to get up with an EvilLaugh. Turns out that's just what he needed to summon his Number: Heraldic King- Genome Heriter/Heritage, having a card that could Xyz summon from his graveyard. He then uses her own combo against her, [[MindRape Mind Raping her memories of Kite as he does]]. The dub even manages to make this scary with [[AwesomeMusic Battle of the Dragons]] and his line as he's summoning Number 8:

* [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/b/bb/StrayCat-EN-Anime-ZX-NC-2.png/revision/latest?cb=20121011002358 Stray Cat's face, oh god!]]

* The effect of Giant Killer... Or it would be if the animation was graphic and not incredibly stylized. It also would have been much worse if its only on-screen victims were not machine monsters.

* Kaito's debut. One moment some jerk is holding up a store. the next? TimeStandsStill and the only noise is Kite's footsteps, and his whistling. The only ones immune are Kite himself, the jerk, Yuma and Astral. Doesn't help that the jerk is panicking the whole time.

* Kite's debut. One moment some jerk is holding up a store. the next? TimeStandsStill and the only noise is Kite's footsteps, and his whistling. The only ones immune are Kite himself, the jerk, Yuma and Astral. Doesn't help that the jerk is panicking the whole time.

* The duel between Yuma and Trey....the sheer amount of MindRape that Yuma goes through is akin to what Jaden did just before he became the Supreme King.

* The effect of Giant Killer... Or it would be if the animation was graphic and not incredibly stylized. It would have been much worse if its only on-screen victims were not machine monsters.

** E Rah, his Benefactor, is no slouch Herself. She's the Goddess of Despair, basically [[VisualNovel/DanganRonpa Junko Enoshima]] deified, and outright stated to be able to smell hope...and crush it. Her monsters thrive by being destroyed themselves, and then turning into overlay units that spawn twisted E Rah versions of the protagonists' monsters. She is also mentioned to be able to override people's protection against negative effects of Number monsters and make them go crazy.

* In Episode 63, Tron takes off his [[MaskOfPower mask]] to reveal [[spoiler: a very [[CreepyChild creepy]] AR rendition of Haruto's face. The distinct SicklyGreenGlow is just the start, since Haruto's face just... [[OffModel doesn't fit right on Tron's head]]. It only gets more nightmarish as Tron and Haruto's voices [[VoiceOfTheLegion begin to speak in unison]].]]
* Then in Episode 64 [[spoiler: the Tron in Haruto's mental world. Behind his mask he doesn't even seem to have a face, just darkness. Then he turns into a dragon, which Hope kills. But then he starts stalking towards Yuma with the most nightmarish expression possible. Fortunately he collapses into sludge before it can get worse, but that was easily the most nightmarish segment of the episode.]]

** [[spoiler: Just before revealing himself as Vector in Episode 96, Rei has a [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/0/04/ReiScaryFace.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130401034545 truly horrific looking]] NightmareFace. And once he reveals himself, Vector's eyes have some incredibly creepy movements.]]
* [[spoiler: Astral turning evil in episode 97 is quite disconcerting, especially when he starts to manically chant "ZEXAL, ZEXAL, ZEXAL!" while making a NightmareFace and forcefully grabbing onto Yuma's shoulder. The next episode preview gives us [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130331091517/yugioh/images/f/f2/ZX-98-Preview.jpg this gem]] too.]]
** [[spoiler: Dark Zexal is also quite creepy, mostly due to being utterly insane and self-destructive.]]
* Episode 101 was like something out of a horror show. The scream-filled flashbacks to the prince who executed large amounts of people before killing himself [[spoiler: (heavily implied to be Vector's past life)]], along with the wall paintings of executions were bad enough, but the ruins in this episode are also home to an extremely large execution chamber, with the walls covered in bloody weaponry. [[spoiler: This is in-universe nightmare fuel for ''Vector'', of all characters, who shivers and hugs himself after entering]].

** Episode 110 sees Black Mist [[spoiler: going mad with the power of Chaos, and trying to lay waste to all three worlds. To put this in perspective, even ''Vector'' was not liking the looks of this at all. He then steals '''[[GameBreaker Heart Earth Dragon]]''' and '''[[PowerCopying Coat of Arms]]''' and turns them into even more terrifying Chaos Number versions of themselves.]]

* Although {{Narm}} for some, we get to see a naked Mr. Heartland in episode 112, [[spoiler: who was transformed from a fly back into a human form. The fact that it looked like a magical girl transformation did not help.]]
** FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler: He has a Barian Form. It is utterly disgusting looking, mirroring his new Ace monster, Baal Zebul.]]
** Possibly ''even worse'' is [[spoiler: him burning to death. The dark power from the fake Numbers coalesces inside Heartland and he is seemingly obliterated in a dark blaze which forms into the shape of Don Thousand for good measure.]]
** Furthermore, [[spoiler: anyone who held a Fake Number was converted into energy and used as a sacrifice for the Barians. Including one of the hero's friends, though one who had been a JerkAss.]]
* The plight of [[spoiler: Shark and Rio]] brings pretty scary ParanoiaFuel. Just imagine it, you're a normal person with memories of your life and friends and you're fighting aliens from another dimension with those friends. Then, suddenly, [[spoiler: you find out that in fact, your life is a lie, your memories may well be false, and that you're actually the leaders of the aliens you've been fighting.]]
** Further, what they enabled once in the Barian World, changing drastically from who they used to be, outright leading a fullscale invasion, [[spoiler: and that they ''choose'' this.]] ''Woah.''

* The {{Really Dead Montage}}s are a combination of this and TearJerker. A ''massive'' amount of the supporting cast has died, and likely, an obscene amount of civilians and random duelists, are probably dead due to the Barian Invasion and [[TheVirus The Fake Numbers]]. [[spoiler: Even the protagonist's best friend died, his rival died, the Heel Face Turned Tron Family is dead, and all of the QuirkyMinibossSquad is dead except Nasch]]. Sure, the story nonetheless has a happy ending [[spoiler:with most of those deaths undone]], but even then, those montages hurt to watch.

* In episode 66, Tron, the main villain of the story for the past 20 or so episodes, [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7zb5nYbZE1r18qjao1_500.png finally has his face (Normally covered by a mask) revealed]]. [[spoiler: It consists of a creepy black hole [[EyeScream where his eye socket would normally go]], with an image of a nebula surrounding it. And yes, [[BodyHorror it's exactly as creepy as it sounds]].]]

** [[spoiler: Nihilistic and insane Kyoji Yagumo revealing his "original sin" - the fact that he became a professional duelist and then reunited with his brother...only to discover his "brother" was an identical stranger who ''killed his brother and replaced him.'' Kyoji by all appearances goes batshit insane and strangles a ten year old to death in extremely brutal fashion.]]
** [[spoiler: E Rah, his Benefactor, is no slouch Herself. She's the Goddess of Despair, basically [[VisualNovel/DanganRonpa Junko Enoshima]] deified, and outright stated to be able to smell hope...and crush it. Her monsters thrive by being destroyed themselves, and then turning into overlay units that spawn twisted E Rah versions of the protagonists' monsters. She is also mentioned to be able to override people's protection against negative effects of Number monsters and make them go crazy.]]

** [[spoiler: Just before revealing himself as Vector in Episode 96, Rei has a [[NightmareFace truly horrific looking Nightmare]] [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/0/04/ReiScaryFace.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130401034545 Face]]. And once he reveals himself, Vector's eyes have some incredibly creepy movements.]]

* Kaito Tenjo obtains numbers by stealing their owners' souls. Although Kaito doesn't know it, all of his victims are completely innocent. Anyone who loses their soul ages rapidly and falls into a comatose state. But the worst part is, we never see these people get returned to normal, leading to some incomfortable FridgeHorror: were these people returned to normal, or did they stay like that forever?
* In the Japanese version, Yuma asks where the souls go. Kaito replies that he does't know because it's "beyond his power." [[JerkassGods Exactly what power]] [[MindRape such souls would be]] [[AndIMustScream subject to...]]

** [[spoiler: Just before revealing himself as Vector in Episode 96, Rei has a [[NightmareFace truly horrific looking Nightmare]] [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/b/bb/StrayCat-EN-Anime-ZX-NC-2.png/revision/latest?cb=20121011002358 Face]]. And once he reveals himself, Vector's eyes have some incredibly creepy movements.]]

** [[spoiler: Just before revealing himself as Vector in Episode 96, Rei has a truly horrific looking NightmareFace. And once he reveals himself, Vector's eyes have some incredibly creepy movements.]]

* Stray Cat's face, oh god!