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-->'''Cartagia''': Completely irresponsible! The chains weren't properly secured. I can't have it getting out, [[KillEmAll they'll have to be killed]]!\\

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[[caption-width-right:350:A spider, big as death and twice as ugly.]]

* In the span of few weeks (most of which G was in coma), G went from celebrating his best friend getting engaged to having a trusted CI killed, being shot in the back by his protege, failing to stop the assassination of president Santiago, his friend being reassigned, his attacker getting successfully freed, and G doesn't know if Major Lianna Kemmer was on board (Word of God, no, she wasn't)

* Telepathy in general is depicted as pretty damned frightening on the show, with even an 'average' P5-rated telepath being able to slip into a person's mind and rifle it for their secrets, or cause intense pain. Garibaldi is considered one of the toughest characters on a series replete with badasses, but the telepaths of the Psi Corps were able to abduct him and craft a sleeper personality so convincing ''it fooled the entire command staff and nearly got Sheridan killed''. And what's worse? He couldn't take revenge on Bester because Bester had him programmed with what he termed 'an Asimov', rendering Michael incapable of harming Bester or even allowing him to come to harm. Telepathy in Babylon 5 is ''terrifying.''

[[caption-width-right:350:"It was jet-black. A shade of black so deep, your eye just kind of slides off it. And it shimmered when you looked at it. A spider, big as death and twice as ugly. When it flies past, it's like you hear a scream in your mind."]]

*** The Minbari are the only one of the Younger Races that can detect Soul Hunter ships, and fire on them on sight. ''This may have caused the Earth-Minbari War'', as Jankowski ordered to open fire on the Minbari flagship when he was told they had powered their weapons and the Minbari had just detected a group of Soul Hunter ships. In the novelization, [[OhCrap the Grey Council reacted with horror when they were told there were Soul Hunter ships just as they had open gunports in front of alien warships whose language they didn't speak]], with Dukhat's order to close the gunports coming right before the first shots were fired.

** To make it worse, there are even rumors that there is... ''something''... living in Hyperspace. [[spoiler: The rumors are true, although the Shadows are more haunting it than anything. The actual things we see living in Hyperspace, the giant jellyfish things in Crusade, are benign, if silly.]]

** The ending of the episode is particularly brutal. Sheridan's spent the entire episode being tortured by Clark's regime, his torturer a bureaucrat who tries to make Sheridan confess that alien influence compelled his rebellion. After being tortured viciously and continually refusing to break and sign the confession, his torturer urgently presses that it's last chance before he's sent to Room 17 to be executed. Sheridan refuses and is wheeled to Room 17. [[spoiler:Where he's secured to a chair and a completely new bureaucratic torturer comes into the room to begin the cycle of torture all over again, repeating the exact same opening speech the first torturer said verbatim.]]

* The ''[[ExpandedUniverse Passing of the Techno-mages]]'' trilogy had its share of nightmare fuel, particularly in the final novel with the things Galen saw on Z'ha'dum in its industrial hub surrounding the Eye: masses of live sentients herded down grim corridors to be dismembered and used to make the "substrate" of Shadow vessels, or their neural systems being made into [[spoiler: Technomage chrysalises]]. As horrible an imagining of hell as anything, in those vast underground corridors. Then imagine [[spoiler: Weirden]] (who Galen was intended to replace) being forced to be the neural hub of the Eye, which directed all that activity, for [[spoiler: 1000 years]].

*** And that as pure and unsullied a spirit as [[spoiler: young Vir]] had to commit murder to stop him.

* FreezeFrameBonus: When Lieutenant Keffer [[spoiler:is killed by the Shadow vessel]], just as the scene ends his body [[CruelAndUnusualDeath burns red from the water in his body vaporizing from the light of the Shadow vessel.]] Freeze-framing it clearly shows the [[SarcasmMode lovely image]] of Keffer's burning body just before the Shadow blows him to atoms. JMS points this out in the commentary. JMS felt sorry for the actor. Still did it. Took much satisfaction from it, it seems.

* Kosh during "Interludes and Examinations", [[spoiler:and the Shadows' retaliation]]. When Sheridan first confronts Kosh, asking the Vorlon to send a fleet into a single battle with the Shadows for a morale boost, Kosh acts like his regular enigmatic self and says the Vorlons are not prepared yet. When Sheridan presses on with the issue and demands the Vorlons should start pulling their own weight:

** When the Shadows [[spoiler:attack Kosh and kill him]], we don't get to see the struggle [[spoiler:as Kosh is assailed by three Shadows at once.]] Only brief flashes between Kosh's room [[spoiler: and Kosh w/the image of Sheridan's father in pain at every strike]]. [[spoiler:Once the Shadows are done, the aftermath is a wave of energy rippling across the length of the station, and Kosh's mutiliated encounter suit.]]

-->'''Talia Winters''': "Psi Cops are trained to make people feel uncomfortable. Bester makes ''[[UpToEleven other Psi Cops]]'' feel uncomfortable!"

* Wasn't there an episode where Garibaldi had to confront a psycho dummy? If that were the case, then that was likely one of the most scariest episodes.
** That was Gray 17 is Missing. So, no. :/
** [[FanonDiscontinuity We don't talk about Garibaldi's weird acid trip adventure in Grey 17.]] [[OldShame JMS doesn't really like to either.]]