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* The scary thing about Warren Mears is that he's the most realistic BigBad. Imagine your stereotypical toxic, misogynistic entitled embodiment of all the worst traits of geek culture becoming a supervillain.
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* The scary scariest thing about Warren Mears is that he's the most realistic true to real life BigBad. Imagine your stereotypical toxic, misogynistic misogynistic, entitled embodiment of all the worst traits of male geek culture becoming a (wannabe) supervillain.
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** The scene where Buffy is walking through Sunnydale and sees the Buffybot being torn apart and set on fire?? It's no wonder her first words to the Scoobies are, "Is this hell?"
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** The scene where Buffy is walking through Sunnydale and sees the Buffybot being torn apart and set on fire?? It's no wonder her first words to the Scoobies spoken are, "Is this hell?"
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* An in-universe example in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E13DeadThings}} Dead Things]]", where Buffy realizes the way she's acting (she's described elsewhere on the site as being the same as arch-nemesis Faith) has nothing to do with Spike, or what was done to her, this is her true self. She's so scared and distraught by this that when she opens up to Tara she begs not to be forgiven.
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* An in-universe example in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E13DeadThings}} Dead Things]]", where Buffy realizes the way she's acting (she's described elsewhere on the site as being the same as arch-nemesis Faith) has nothing to do with Spike, or what was done to her, being back "wrong", this is her true self. She's so scared and distraught by this that when she opens up to Tara she begs not to be forgiven.
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* The last scene of "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E17NormalAgain}} Normal Again]]" is truly psychologically frightening, in fact, the entire premise of the episode is just disturbing. Buffy going berserk. The true horror of the very last scene in the episode is wondering if everything up to this point, and for the future of both characters and show, was all just in her head! Damn you Joss for that ending!
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* The last scene of "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E17NormalAgain}} Normal Again]]" is truly psychologically frightening, in fact, the entire premise of the episode is just disturbing. disturbing, including Buffy going berserk.psycho murderer on her friends and sister. The true horror of the very last scene in the episode is wondering if everything up to this point, and for the future of both characters and show, was all just in her head! Damn you Joss for that ending!
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** And that's not even the worst part of the episode. The infamous bathroom rape scene is terrifying, uncomfortable, and very hard to watch. It continues the trend of the scariest ''Buffy'' moments being the ones that could pretty much happen in real life. Creator/JamesMarsters found that scene so distressing that he had it in his contract that he would never film rape scenes again.
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E21TwoToGo Two to Go]]", Xander confesses to Anya that he saw the gun, but froze up. This is, sadly, how most of us would react in such a situation. And he clearly carries the guilt of getting two of his friends shot.
* "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E20Villains Villains]]": The final appearance of "bored now", as she auditions for a spinoff, [[FlayingAlive Willow the Vampire Flayer.]] Make no mistake, Warren had it coming (oh he SO had it coming), but still, sends the chills down the spine every time.
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E21TwoToGo Two to Go]]", Xander confesses to Anya that he saw the gun, but froze up. This is, sadly, how most of us would react in such a situation. And he clearly carries the guilt of getting two of his friends shot.
* "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E20Villains Villains]]": The final appearance of "bored now", as she auditions for a spinoff, [[FlayingAlive Willow the Vampire Flayer.]] Make no mistake, Warren had it coming (oh he SO had it coming), but still, sends the chills down the spine every time.
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** And that's not even the worst part of the episode. The infamous bathroom rape scene is terrifying, uncomfortable, uncomfortably long, and very hard to watch. It continues the trend of the scariest ''Buffy'' moments being the ones that could pretty much happen in real life. Creator/JamesMarsters found that scene so distressing (and this was before intimacy coordinators on sets) that he had it in his contract that he would never film rape scenes again.
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E21TwoToGo Two to Go]]", Xander confesses to Anya that he saw the gun, but froze up. This is, sadly, how most of us would react in such a situation. And he clearly carries the guilt ofgetting feeling he got two of his friends shot.
* "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E20Villains Villains]]": The final appearance of "bored now", as she auditions for a spinoff, [[FlayingAlive Willow the Vampire Flayer.]]Make no mistake, Warren had it coming (oh he SO had it coming), coming, but still, sends the chills down the spine every time.time--a CruelAndUnusualDeath is a cruel and unusual death, regardless of the victim.
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E21TwoToGo Two to Go]]", Xander confesses to Anya that he saw the gun, but froze up. This is, sadly, how most of us would react in such a situation. And he clearly carries the guilt of
* "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E20Villains Villains]]": The final appearance of "bored now", as she auditions for a spinoff, [[FlayingAlive Willow the Vampire Flayer.]]
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* FridgeBrilliance: Being buried alive is one of the few things Buffy fears. How much you want to bet that getting dragged out of Heaven (off-handedly mentioned as actually being called Paradise in ''Angel'') wasn't the only reason she was traumatized at the start of S6? She just relived one of her worst nightmares, after all.
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* FridgeBrilliance: Being buried alive is one of the few things Buffy fears. How much you want fears, as revealed in [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E10Nightmares Nightmares]]. So coming back to bet that getting dragged out of Heaven (off-handedly mentioned as actually being called Paradise life in ''Angel'') wasn't the only reason she was traumatized at the start of S6? her still six feet under coffin? She just relived one of her worst nightmares, after all.courtesy of her best friends.
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* Poor Shelia from "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E3SchoolHard School Hard]]". Sure, she was a delinquent and had it coming, but even she has the common sense to know she screwed up big time after she's kidnapped by Spike, bound, gagged, and wondering who the hell these people even are. By the time she's fed to Dru, she has a look of utter horror on her face as she realizes she's about to die, turning to Dru, only now seeing the face of a monster staring back at her before the fangs comes.
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* Poor Shelia from "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E3SchoolHard School Hard]]". Sure, she was a delinquent and had it coming, delinquent, but even she has the common sense to know she screwed up big time after she's kidnapped by Spike, bound, gagged, and wondering who the hell these people even are. By the time she's fed to Dru, she has a look of utter horror on her face as she realizes she's about to die, turning to Dru, only now seeing the face of a monster staring back at her before the fangs comes.
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** The end of the episode, where some MenInBlack lead Marcie into a seemingly empty classroom, only for the teacher to tell the class to open their books. Then ''all'' the textbooks open and the chapter under study is "Infiltration and Assassination." Which is scarier: That ignored kids turning invisible isn't limited to happening on the Hellmouth, or that it happens often enough that the government is finding them so they can train them as invisible assassins?
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** The end of the episode, where some MenInBlack [[TheMenInBlack Men in Black]] lead Marcie into a seemingly empty classroom, only for the teacher to tell the class to open their books. Then ''all'' the textbooks open and the chapter under study is "Infiltration and Assassination." Which is scarier: That ignored kids turning invisible isn't limited to happening on the Hellmouth, or that it happens often enough that the government is finding them so they can train them as invisible assassins?
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* Vampires and the fate of becoming one are pretty horrifying. It is constantly hammered in that the person you were is dead, leaving your body a soulless husk with a demon walking around in your skin, embracing the worst aspects of your personality (or twisting the good ones towards sadism and cruelty) to slaughter innocents possibly for centuries.
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* "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E10Amends Amends]]": Angel's torment by the First Evil is utterly agonizing. He's reminded of his past murders and tempted to lose his soul by making love to Buffy. Creator/DavidBoreanaz truly sells how harrowing the situation is for Angel. It gets to the point where Angel decides to kill himself by waiting for the sun to rise. In response, the First Evil tells Angel that isn't part of the plan..."but it'll do." This thing does not give zero shits about the people it manipulates. It truly is the embodiment of evil.
** Awesome as it also is, Giles going full-on PapaWolf on Spike is positively chilling. Seeing this otherwise mild-mannered man show his dark side is harrowing.
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* The Shadow Puppets from "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E15GetItDone Get It Done]]" are some of the most disturbing imagery in the show, ominous music building and pictures forming all around of demons eating humans and a girl being killed.
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* The Shadow Puppets from "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E15GetItDone Get It Done]]" Done]]": The Shadow Puppets are some of the most disturbing imagery in the show, ominous music building and pictures forming all around of demons eating humans and a girl being killed.killed.
** Buffy's vision: A horde of Turok-Han growling and snarling and clamoring beneath the Hellmouth. Forget "From beneath you, it devours"; these things are ready to get out and do some devouring.
** Buffy's vision: A horde of Turok-Han growling and snarling and clamoring beneath the Hellmouth. Forget "From beneath you, it devours"; these things are ready to get out and do some devouring.
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* The First Evil. It can appear anywhere. It can be anyone. And it is very, very good at getting you to do what it wants. At any time, it could show up and brainwash someone into doing something horrible. And once you outlive that frail usefulness or interfere in the plans too much? An Implacable Evil Priest is coming after you. If you are female, this is doubly bad, since said priest has some messed up habits involving women.
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* The First Evil. It can appear anywhere. It can be anyone. And it is very, very good at getting you to do what it wants. At any time, it could show up and brainwash someone into doing something horrible. And once you outlive that frail usefulness or interfere in the plans too much? An Implacable Evil Priest is coming after you. If you are female, this is doubly bad, since said priest has some messed up habits messed-up views involving women.women.
** Its Bringers. Their appearance as black-robed, knife-wielding men with runes in place of eyes is bad enough. But the worst bit about them? They're silent, and they seem to appear right out of fucking nowhere. Take Rona's first scene, for example. Good thing Buffy showed up when she did.
** Its Bringers. Their appearance as black-robed, knife-wielding men with runes in place of eyes is bad enough. But the worst bit about them? They're silent, and they seem to appear right out of fucking nowhere. Take Rona's first scene, for example. Good thing Buffy showed up when she did.
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* The last scene of "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E17NormalAgain}} Normal Again]]" is truly psychologically frightening, in fact, the entire premise of the episode is just disturbing. Buffy going berserk. The true horror of the very last scene in the episode is [[spoiler: wondering if everything up to this point, and for the future of both characters and show, was all just in her head! Damn you Joss for that ending!]]
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* The last scene of "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E17NormalAgain}} Normal Again]]" is truly psychologically frightening, in fact, the entire premise of the episode is just disturbing. Buffy going berserk. The true horror of the very last scene in the episode is [[spoiler: wondering if everything up to this point, and for the future of both characters and show, was all just in her head! Damn you Joss for that ending!]]ending!
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* Spike's painful laughter as he [[spoiler:bursts into flames and crumbles to dust]] in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E22Chosen Chosen]]". TearJerker, sure, but also so, so disturbing.
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* Spike's painful laughter as he [[spoiler:bursts bursts into flames and crumbles to dust]] dust in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E22Chosen Chosen]]". TearJerker, sure, but also so, so disturbing.
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*** An added bit of FridgeHorror, just what has Buffy gone through to turn her into this kind of person? TrainingFromHell? [[BrokenBird A series of horrific events]]?
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* The hell dimension Buffy encounters in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E1Anne Anne]]". Desperate, down-on-their-luck teenagers who are already without a home are tricked into entering a dimension where [[YearOutsideHourInside 100 years equal one human dimension day]]. Here, [[FateWorseThanDeath they are imprisoned, forced into grueling manual labor in a decrepit factory, have their identities beaten out of them and, after numerous decades have passed, are spit back out into the world to live on the streets until they die old and driven mad]]. All this and no one even has the time to look for them because ''they've only been missing for a day''.
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* The hell dimension Buffy encounters in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E1Anne Anne]]". Desperate, down-on-their-luck teenagers who are already without a home are tricked into entering a dimension where [[YearOutsideHourInside [[YearInsideHourOutside 100 years equal one human dimension day]]. Here, [[FateWorseThanDeath they are imprisoned, forced into grueling manual labor in a decrepit factory, have their identities beaten out of them and, after numerous decades have passed, are spit back out into the world to live on the streets until they die old and driven mad]]. All this and no one even has the time to look for them because ''they've only been missing for a day''.
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* "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E19SeeingRed}} Seeing Red]]": Creator/AdamBusch put it best: On a show full of monsters and demons, the scariest thing is a guy showing up with a gun in broad daylight. This, of course, leads to the two words that still pack a punch to any ''Buffy'' fan. "Your shirt..." Over a decade later, still one of the cruelest if not the cruelest kill Creator/JossWhedon ever had.
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* "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E19SeeingRed}} Seeing Red]]": Creator/AdamBusch put it best: On a show full of monsters and demons, the scariest thing is a guy showing up with a gun in broad daylight. This, of course, leads to the two words that still pack a punch to any ''Buffy'' fan. "Your shirt..." Over a decade two decades later, still one of the cruelest if not the cruelest kill Creator/JossWhedon ever had.
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* The hell dimension Buffy encounters in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E1Anne Anne]]". Desperate, down-down-on-their-luck teenagers who are already without a home are tricked into entering a dimension where [[YearOutsideHourInside 100 years equal one human dimension day]]. Here, [[FateWorseThanDeath they are imprisoned, forced into grueling manual labor in a decrepit factory, have their identities beaten out of them and, after numerous decades have passed, are spit back out into the world to live on the streets until they die old and driven mad]]. All this and no one even has the time to look for them because ''they've only been missing for a day''.
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* The hell dimension Buffy encounters in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E1Anne Anne]]". Desperate, down-down-on-their-luck down-on-their-luck teenagers who are already without a home are tricked into entering a dimension where [[YearOutsideHourInside 100 years equal one human dimension day]]. Here, [[FateWorseThanDeath they are imprisoned, forced into grueling manual labor in a decrepit factory, have their identities beaten out of them and, after numerous decades have passed, are spit back out into the world to live on the streets until they die old and driven mad]]. All this and no one even has the time to look for them because ''they've only been missing for a day''.
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->'''Doctor:''' Do you know where you are, Buffy?
->'''Buffy:''' ''[confused]'' Sunnydale.
->'''Doctor:''' No, none of that's real, none of it. You're in a mental institution. You've been with us now for six years. Do you remember?
->'''Doctor:''' Do you know where you are, Buffy?
->'''Buffy:''' ''[confused]'' Sunnydale.
->'''Doctor:''' No, none of that's real, none of it. You're in a mental institution. You've been with us now for six years. Do you remember?
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->'''Doctor:''' Do you know where you are,
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'''Buffy:''' ''[confused]''
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'''Doctor:''' No, none of that's real, none of it. You're in a mental institution. You've been with us now for six years. Do you remember?
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** Xander doesn't like clowns and Nazis. The school gets covered in swastikas. Worse, the knife-wielding clown is utterly TERRIFYING!
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** Xander doesn't like clowns and Nazis. The school gets covered in swastikas.
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** Xander doesn't like clowns and Nazis. The school gets covered in swastikas. Worse, the knife-wielding clown is utterly TERRIFYING!
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* Dawn holding a knife in her bloodied hands, having cut herself just to prove that she's still a human in "[[Recap/BuffyTheampireSlayerS5E13BloodTies Blood Ties]]". Hell, her whole situation, finding out that she's ''not'' a human being, that until recently she hadn't even existed and that all her memories and all the memories of other people about her are fake - that's not something you'd wish your mortal enemy to experience.
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