History NightmareFuel / CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow2

* The Gorgon Sisters (Euryale, Stheno, and Medusa) seem to have taken a lesson from ''Film/TheRing''; they look like human girls, but they have snakes poking in and out of their bodies and the way they move [[UncannyValley is very unnatural, their bodies twisting and contorting in spastic, twitchy movements; they can't move in any way that isn't some kind of freaky spider-walk]]. Even more, their very presence seems to screw with one's vision (they are gorgons, after all), as the [[CameraScrew camera freaks out, skipping and going into static every time they stop moving or contort to stand up, further accenting their nightmarish and alien movements]].

* Once you open the '[[FridgeHorror fridge]],' Dracula himself becomes this when you realize that the [[HeroAntagonist technical good guys]] of the setting, like the Order, have just about no chance of beating him because, if it wasn't enough that he's the most powerful vampire to ever walk the earth, then TheReveal that {{God}} STILL favors him as [[TheChosenOne His champion]], rendering him almost completely immune to holy weapons and thus making him effectively immortal, makes things that much worse for anyone who dares face him. Maybe in the grander scheme of things, it's for the best, but it's not so great for the vast majority of ordinary people who lived under constant threat of him during the height of his power. Think about it: A nigh-unstoppable monstrosity who ravaged the land and has consumed countless innocents has [[PlotArmor God's total protection]].

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* {{Satan}} himself, is arguably the most terrifying character in the entire Lords of Shadow series. He is a self-centered FallenAngel who feel's entitled to rule above God, and is responsible for almost every atrocity to happen across the games, from the creation of the Lords of Shadow themselves, the death of Marie, the separation of the Heavens and Earth that drives the plot of the first game, to Gabriel's downfall into villainy. In the first game, after being defeated by Gabriel, he threatens him by saying "I will have such fun with your Marie. I will introduce her to such great pleasure!", heavily implying that he intends to ''rape and torture'' Maries soul, which thankfully didn't happen. He only gets even more heinous and scary in the sequel. When he is finally summoned to Earth by Guido at the end of the game, how does he repay his loyal son for freeing him from Hell? By ''[[UngratefulBastard slowly and graphically ripping]] [[OffingTheOffspring his face off]]'' (Granted he didn't kill him without reason, as Guido failed to have Dracula killed, and even failed to notice that Dracula and Alucard were in the same room as him while he was summoning Satan, but still). It certainly doesn't help that [[RuleOfScary Guido's face is still alive]] when he throws it aside. Not long after, Satan reveals his intentions to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy Earth]] for no other reason than out of spite for Dracula thwarting his plans for the last time, and summons the Leviathan, an Old God that he tortured into being loyal to him, to do the deed. After Dracula and Alucard destroy the Leviathan, Satan possesses Alucard, and forces Dracula to fight his own son, all the while taunting him with cruel references to child abuse.

* {{Satan}} himself, is arguably the most terrifying character in the entire Lords of Shadow series. He is a self-centered FallenAngel who feel's entitled to rule above God, and is responsible for almost every atrocity to happen across the games, from the creation of the Lords of Shadow themselves, the death of Marie, the separation of the Heavens and Earth that drives the plot of the first game, to Gabriel's downfall into villainy. In the first game, after being defeated by Gabriel, he threatens him by saying "I will have such fun with your Marie. I will introduce her to such great pleasure!", heavily implying that he intends to ''rape and torture'' Maries soul, which thankfully didn't happen. He only gets even more heinous and scary in the sequel. When he is finally summoned to Earth by Guido at the end of the game, how does he repay his loyal son for freeing him from Hell? By ''[[UngratefulBastard slowly and graphically ripping]] [[OffingTheOffspring his face off]]'' (Granted he didn't kill him without reason, as Guido failed to have Dracula killed, and even failed to notice that Dracula and Alucard were in the same room as him while he was summoning Satan, but still). It certainly doesn't help that [[RuleOfScary Guido's face is still alive]] when he throws it aside. Not long after, Satan reveals his intentions to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy Earth]] for no other reason than out of spite for Dracula thwarting his plans for the last time, and summons the Leviathan, an Old God that he tortured into being loyal to him to do the deed. After Dracula and Alucard destroy the Leviathan, Satan possesses Alucard, and forces Dracula to fight his own son, all the while taunting him with cruel references to child abuse.

* {{Satan}} himself, is arguably the most terrifying character in the entire Lords of Shadow series. He is a self-centered FallenAngel who feel's entitled to rule above God, and is responsible for almost every atrocity to happen across the games, from the creation of the Lords of Shadow themselves, the death of Marie, the separation of the Heavens and Earth that drives the plot of the first game, to Gabriel's downfall into villainy. In the first game, after being defeated by Gabriel, he threatens him by saying "I will have such fun with your Marie. I will introduce her to such great pleasure!", heavily implying that he intends to ''rape and torture'' Maries soul, which thankfully didn't happen. He only gets even more heinous and scary in the sequel. When he is finally summoned to Earth by Guido at the end of the game, how does he repay his loyal son for freeing him from Hell? By ''[[UngratefulBastard slowly and graphically ripping]] [[OffingTheOffspring his face off]]''.[[note]]Granted he didn't kill him without reason, as Guido failed to have Dracula killed, and even failed to notice that Dracula and Alucard were in the same room as him while he was summoning Satan, but still.[[/note]] It certainly doesn't help that [[RuleOfScary Guido's face is still alive]] when he throws it aside. Not long after, Satan reveals his intentions to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy Earth]] for no other reason than out of spite for Dracula thwarting his plans for the last time, and summons the Leviathan, an Old God that he tortured into being loyal to him to do the deed. After Dracula and Alucard destroy the Leviathan, Satan possesses Alucard, and forces Dracula to fight his own son, all the while taunting him with cruel references to child abuse.

* {{Satan}} himself, is arguably the most terrifying character in the entire Lords of Shadow series. He is a self-centered FallenAngel who feel's entitled to rule above God, and is responsible for almost every atrocity to happen across the games, from the creation of the Lords of Shadow themselves, the death of Marie, the separation of the Heavens and Earth that drives the plot of the first game, to Gabriel's downfall into villainy. In the first game, after being defeated by Gabriel, he threatens him by saying "I will have such fun with your Marie. I will introduce her to such great pleasure!", heavily implying that he intends to ''rape and torture'' Maries soul, which thankfully didn't happen. He only gets even more heinous and scary in the sequel. When he is finally summoned to Earth by Guido at the end of the game, how does he repay his loyal son for freeing him from Hell? By ''[[UngratefulBastard slowly and graphically ripping]] [[OffingTheOffspring his face off]]''.[[note]]Granted he didn't kill him without reason, as Guido failed to have Dracula killed, and even failed to notice that Dracula and Alucard were in the same room as him while he was summoning Satan, but still[[/note]]. It certainly doesn't help that [[RuleOfScary Guido's face is still alive]] when he throws it aside. Not long after, Satan reveals his intentions to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy Earth]] for no other reason than out of spite for Dracula thwarting his plans for the last time, and summons the Leviathan, an Old God that he tortured into being loyal to him to do the deed. After Dracula and Alucard destroy the Leviathan, Satan possesses Alucard, and forces Dracula to fight his own son, all the while taunting him with cruel references to child abuse.

* Nergal Meslamstea, the second Acolyte, may be the scariest enemy in the entire LOS trilogy. With his calm, assured demeanor and initially overwhelming power, the only thing you can do is crawl away from him like a whipped dog while he casually stalks after you, [[ShockAndAwe zapping your very soul with lightning]]. And what happens if he catches you? He'll open a portal and ''send you to the pits of Hell''. His taunts during your boss fight with him certainly don't help, considering that, as a child of Satan, ''he knows exactly what he's talking about''.

* At the end of the game, when {{Satan}} is finally summoned from Hell, the first thing he does is slowly and graphically rip Guido's face off. [[RuleOfScary The face is still alive]] when he throws it aside.

* Once you open the '[[FridgeHorror fridge]],' Dracula himself becomes this when you realize that the [[HeroAntagonist technical good guys]] of the setting, like the Order, have just about no chance of beating him because, if it wasn't enough that he's the most powerful vampire and Lord of Shadow to ever walk the earth, then TheReveal that {{God}} STILL favors him as [[TheChosenOne his champion]], rendering him almost completely immune to holy weapons and thus making him effectively immortal, makes things that much worse for who anyone who dares face him. Maybe in the grander scheme of things, it's for the best, but it's not so great for the vast majority of ordinary people who lived under constant threat of him during the height of his power. Think about it. A nigh-unstoppable monstrosity who ravaged the land and has consumed countless innocents and with [[PlotArmor God's total blessing]].
* Soon after he wakes up in the present, a starved-of-blood and half-berserk Dracula is given a meal by his old friend Zobek; it consists of a family of three, including a daughter who couldn't be older than thirteen. After the husband tries in vain to beat Dracula to death with a metal pipe, Dracula slits his throat in a single strike, killing him. He then drinks the mother's blood until she's little more than a desiccated husk, then he turns on the daughter and the screen cuts to black as he lunges for her (did we mention ''you'' have to be the one press the O button to make him feed?) When he regains consciousness and looks into the room, the quick expression to cross his face makes it seem as if even Dracula was disturbed by what he did while he was insane from bloodlust.
* Dracula's eyes. Especially when you see them up close and he's mad or angry. The mere fact that [[RedEyesTakeWarning they're red]] doesn't make them scary. The pupils and irises in his eyes dilate and look utterly inhuman. This, in conjunction with the fact that [[GlowingEyesOfDoom his eyes glow red]] more or less depending on how enraged the Prince of Darkness is, adds to just how fucking scary they look.
* The Blood of the Castle is a very disturbing form of corruption that proves that not only is the Castle now a GeniusLoci, it's ''very'' angry and wants to kill you. Standard fare for possessing something is to wait until they prove their intentions are to help Dracula, then a giant clawed hand shoots out of a pool of blood and drags them downward, and they re-emerge a moment later possessed by the Blood. This is a force with so much hatred in it that even Dracula's servants who have held UndyingLoyalty for nigh-on a millennia are turned into his enemies in a matter of seconds.
** Every time Dracula enters or leaves the castle, it speaks in schizophrenic echoing madness, ranging from Yandere tendencies to outright hatred. All while Dracula is walking through a tunnel of blood.
** It gets even worse when you fight Inner Dracula; a blood-tentacle monster with Dracula's face, puppeteering a giant flesh golem. The worst part? This is Dracula's dark side manifested. This scary factor somehow manages to get even higher, when it starts whispering "I'll always be with you..." Over and over again.
*** And to top it off, Dracula cannot destroy it. He can win a fight against his dark side, but it's too integrated with him to truly destroy. [[WeWillMeetAgain He all but swears he'll be back before casually disappearing.]]
* The Three Gorgon sisters seem to have taken a lesson from ''Film/TheRing''; they look like human girls, but they have snakes poking in and out of their bodies and the way they move [[UncannyValley is very unnatural, their bodies twisting and contorting in spastic, twitchy movements, they can't move in any way that isn't some kind of freaky spider-walk.]] Even more, their very presence seems to screw with one's vision (they are gorgons, after all), as the [[CameraScrew camera freaks out, skipping and going into static every time they stop moving or contort to stand up, further accenting their nightmarish and alien movements.]]
* Dracula is stalked twice; by Camrilla and Agreus. Camrilla is a collection of Gabriel's nightmares of the actual Lord of Shadow, given form by the castle and turned into a creepy Yandere. Agreus has been driven mad by the death of his brother Pan, and hunts Dracula down in a garden maze.
** The level where Dracula has to make his way through a maze and elude Agreus is not only annoying as hell, but pretty damn scary as well, especially when Agreus detects you, swiftly catches up to you, attacks you, and sends you right back where you started, meaning you'll have to go through the maze all over again.
* Each of the acolytes has a moment when they pray in BlackSpeech to Satan, Hell, and everything unholy for their ultimate [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans dystopia]], where good is dead, no man is equal, and suffering is eternal. It's an unnerving BadassBoast before they make their move and show their true powers.
* Satan's daughter gets in on the promises of a FateWorseThanDeath for our Prince of Darkness, and anyone standing next to him.

* The first time you fight the Riot Police qualifies as a classic example of the MookHorrorShow. Put yourself in one of those men's shoes; you and two of your buddies are tasked with killing civilians that are infected with a [[TheVirus demonic virus]] that is turning your home into a literal HellOnEarth. Before too long, you come across a dark-haired man in a red coat who's apparently immune to the virus, so you ask him to come with you. [[SarcasmMode He politely tells you no.]] So you decide to bring him in by force, and find out the hard way just who you're dealing with when he starts tearing into you and your mates with a whip that looks like it's made of solid blood, zipping around far faster than any human should be able to, and occasionally swapping out for a glowing sword that saps the life from you and a pair of flaming gauntlets that shoot fireballs that turn your jetpack into a useless lump of metal. Next thing you know, he tears one of your friend's throats open with his mouth and drinks his blood and fries your other friend's skull inside his helmet with those gauntlets. He sends you flying with another blow from that whip and you quickly get back up, already knowing how completely and utterly '''''screwed''''' you are... But he's gone. [[HopeSpot Maybe he decided to let you live so you could warn the rest of the police to stay away.]] Suddenly, you feel his hand plunge through your chest from behind, and the last thing you see before you die is [[AndShowItToYou your still-beating heart, clutched in his fist.]]
** The lore reveals that most of the riot police are {{SociopathicSoldier}}s who will shoot any civilians they can find, so you won't feel too bad about killing them... except of course, they were turned into sociopaths by a combination of institutionalized sadism at the academy, and dark magics covertly integrated into their battleframes. They've been turned into trigger-happy psychos by an Acolyte ruling through a mega-corporation, just like the mutated humans that they hunt.
* The second Acolyte may be the scariest enemy in the entire LOS trilogy. With his calm, assured demeanor and initially overwhelming power, the only thing you can do is crawl away from him like a whipped dog while he casually stalks after you, zapping your very soul with his force lightning. And what happens if he catches you? He'll open a portal and ''send you to the pits of Hell''. His taunts during your boss fight with him certainly don't help, considering that, as a child of Satan, ''he knows exactly what he's talking about''.

* And then there's what the third Acolyte did to the Church; corrupt sermons, rewritten histories, a hidden cult of evil hiding beneath the church, and the most devout members of Hell are buried alive so they can turn into liches that guard the cult with mass demon-summoning. What should be a quick jaunt through the church turns into a harrowing battle against four liches who burst out of statues and merge into a ghost-demon.

* The ''Revelations'' DLC adds a ''whole new area's'' worth of NightmareFuel with the Forbidden Wing. According to Marie, Gabriel shut himself away in here after he trounced the Forgotten One -- and lost his mind. Entire rooms are flooded with blood and there are phrases written in it in Latin, scattered all over the floor and walls, which are Dracula's insane ravings and curses of doom upon humanity, the Brotherhood, and Zobek. And it doesn't help that you can hear barely audible screaming and occasional laughter.

* Once you open the '[[FridgeHorror fridge]],' Dracula himself becomes this when you realize that the [[HeroAntagonist technical good guys]] of the setting, like the Order, have just about no chance of beating him because, if it wasn't enough that he's the most powerful vampire and Lord of Shadow to ever walk the earth, then TheReveal that {{God}} STILL favors him as [[TheChosenOne his champion]], rendering him almost completely immune to holy weapons and thus making him effectively immortal, makes things that much worse for who anyone who dares face him. Maybe in the grander scheme of things, it's for the best, but it's not so great for the vast majority of ordinary people who lived under constant threat of him during the height of his power. Think about it. A nigh-unstoppable monstrosity who ravaged the land and has consumed countless innocents and with [[PlotArmor God's total blessing]].

* At the end of the game, when {{Satan}} is finally summoned from Hell, the first thing he does is slowly and graphically rip Guido's face off. [[RuleOfScary The face is still alive]] when he throws it aside.
* The ''Revelations'' DLC adds a ''whole new area's'' worth of NightmareFuel with the Forbidden Wing. According to Marie, Gabriel shut himself away in here after he trounced the Forgotten One -- and lost his mind. Entire rooms are flooded with blood and there are phrases written in it in Latin, scattered all over the floor and walls, which are Dracula's insane ravings and curses of doom upon humanity, the Brotherhood, and Zobek. And it doesn't help that you can hear barely audible screaming and occasional laughter.
* Dracula's eyes. Especially when you see them up close and he's mad or angry. The mere fact that [[RedEyesTakeWarning they're red]] doesn't make them scary. The pupils and irises in his eyes dilate and look utterly inhuman. This, in conjunction with the fact that [[GlowingEyesOfDoom his eyes glow red]] more or less depending on how enraged the Prince of Darkness is, adds to just how fucking scary they look.
* Each of the acolytes has a moment when they pray in BlackSpeech to Satan, Hell, and everything unholy for their ultimate dystopia, where good is dead, no man is equal, and suffering is eternal. It's an unnerving BadassBoast before they make their move and show their true powers.
* The second Acolyte may be the scariest enemy in the entire LOS trilogy. With his calm, assured demeanor and initially overwhelming power, the only thing you can do is crawl away from him like a whipped dog while he casually stalks after you, zapping your very soul with his force lightning. And what happens if he catches you? He'll open a portal and ''send you to the pits of Hell''. His taunts during your boss fight with him certainly don't help, considering that, as a child of Satan, ''he knows exactly what he's talking about''.
-->'''Nergal:''' Your suffering will make Hell itself cry! Your soul will go mad in eternal agony! Your existence will know only pain! My father eagerly awaits you in his kingdom. ''Don't'' make him wait. Perhaps my Lord will allow me to...''look after you'', once he's tired of your soul.

* During the boss battle with the Necromancer, he summons a bunch of zombies to battle Gabriel. Cripes.
* The level where Dracula has to make his way through a maze and elude Agreus is not only annoying as hell, but pretty damn scary as well, especially when Agreus detects you, swiftly catches up to you, attacks you, and sends you right back where you started, meaning you'll have to go through the maze all over again.

** Once you open the '[[FridgeHorror fridge]],' Dracula himself becomes this when you realize that the [[HeroAntagonist technical good guys]] of the setting, like the Order, have just about no chance of beating him because, if it wasn't enough that he's the most powerful vampire and Lord of Shadow to ever walk the earth, then TheReveal that {{God}} STILL favors him as [[TheChosenOne his champion]], rendering him almost completely immune to holy weapons and thus making him effectively immortal, makes things that much worse for who anyone who dares face him. Maybe in the grander scheme of things, it's for the best, but it's not so great for the vast majority of ordinary people who lived under constant threat of him during the height of his power. Think about it. A nigh-unstoppable monstrosity who ravaged the land and has consumed countless innocents and with [[PlotArmor God's total blessing]].
* The Blood of the Castle is a very disturbing form of corruption that proves that not only is the Castle now a GeniusLoci, it's ''very'' angry and wants to kill you. Standard fare for possessing something is to wait until they prove their intentions are to help Dracula, then a giant clawed hand shoots out of a pool of blood and drags them downward, and they re-emerge a moment later possessed by the Blood. This is a force with so much hatred in it that even Dracula's servants who have held UndyingLoyalty for nigh-on a millennia are turned into his enemies in a matter of seconds. It gets even worse when you fight Inner Dracula.
** The worst part? This is Dracula's dark side manifested. This scary factor somehow manages to get even higher, when it starts whispering "I'll always be with you..." Over and over again.
*** And to top it off, Dracula simply 'beats' him in a fight. But outright destroy him? Not a chance. [[WeWillMeetAgain He all but swears he'll be back before casually disappearing.]]

* The part where you have to elude Carmilla as she pursues you in the castle library with a lantern.

* The Three Gorgon sisters seem to have taken a lesson from ''Film/TheRing''; they look like human girls, but they have snakes poking in and out of their bodies and the way they move [[UncannyValley is very unnatural, their bodies twisting and contorting in spastic, twitchy movements, they can't move in any way that isn't some kind of freaky spider-walk.]] Even more, their very presence seems to screw with one's vision (they are gorgons, after all), as the [[CameraScrew camera freaks out, skipping and going into static every time they stop moving or contort to stand up, further accenting their nightmarish and alien movements.

* Soon after he wakes up in the present, a starved of blood and half-berserk Dracula is given a meal by his old friend Zobek, it consists of a family of three including a daughter who couldn't be older than thirteen. After the husband tries in vain to beat Dracula to death with a metal pipe, Dracula slits his throat in a single strike, killing him. He then drinks the mother's blood until she's little more than a desiccated husk, then he turns on the daughter and the screen cuts to black as he lunges for her (did we mention ''you'' have to be the one press the O button to make him feed?) When he regains consciousness and looks into the room, the quick expression to cross his face makes it seem as if even Dracula was disturbed by what he did while he was insane from bloodlust.

* The Blood of the Castle is a very disturbing form of corruption that proves that not only is the Castle now a GeniusLoci, it's ''very'' angry and wants to kill you. Standard fare for possessing something is to wait until they prove their intentions are to help Dracula, then a giant clawed hand shoots out of a pool of blood and drags them downward, they re-emerge a moment later possessed by the Blood. This is a force with so much hatred in it that even Dracula's servants who have held UndyingLoyalty for nigh-on a millennia are turned into his enemies in a matter of seconds. It gets even worse when you fight Inner Dracula.

* The Three Gorgon sisters seem to have taken a lesson from ''Film/TheRing'', they look like human girls, but they have snakes poking in and out of their bodies and the way they move [[UncannyValley is very unnatural, their bodies twisting and contorting in spastic, twitchy movements, they can't move in any way that isn't some kind of freaky spider-walk.]] Even more, their very presence seems to screw with one's vision (they are gorgons, after all), as the [[CameraScrew camera freaks out, skipping and going into static every time they stop moving or contort to stand up, further accenting their nightmarish and alien movements]].

* The ''Revelations'' DLC adds a ''whole new area's'' worth of NightmareFuel with the Forbidden Wing. According to Marie, Gabriel shut himself away in here after he trounced the Forgotten One--and lost his mind. Entire rooms are flooded with blood and there are phrases written in it in Latin, scattered all over the floor and walls, which are Dracula's insane ravings and curses of doom upon humanity, the Brotherhood, and Zobek. And it doesn't help that you can hear barely audible screaming and occasional laughter.
* Dracula's eyes. Especially when you see them up close and he's mad or angry. The mere fact that [[RedEyesTakeWarning they're red]] doesn't make them scary. The pupils and irises in his eyes dilate and look utterly inhuman. This, in conjunction with the fact that [[GlowingEyesOfDoom his eyes glow red]] more or less depending on how enraged the Prince of Darkness is; adds to just how fucking scary they look.

* The first time you fight the Riot Police qualifies as a classic example of the MookHorrorShow. Put yourself in one of those men's shoes; you and two of your buddies are tasked with killing civilians that are infected with a [[TheVirus demonic virus]] that is turning your home into a literal HellOnEarth. Before too long, you come across a dark-haired man in a red coat who's apparently immune to the virus, so you ask him to come with you. [[SarcasmMode He politely tells you no.]] So you decide to bring him in by force, and find out the hard way just who you're dealing with when he starts tearing into you and your mates with a whip that looks like it's made of solid blood, zipping around far faster than any human should be able to and occasionally swapping out for a glowing sword that saps the life from you and a pair of flaming gauntlets that shoot fireballs that turn your jetpack into a useless lump of metal. Next thing you know, he tears one of your friend's throats open with his mouth and drinks his blood and fries your other friend's skull inside his helmet with those gauntlets. He sends you flying with another blow from that whip and you quickly get back up, already knowing how completely and utterly '''''screwed''''' you are... But he's gone. [[HopeSpot Maybe he decided to let you live so you could warn the rest of the police to stay away.]] Suddenly, you feel his hand plunge through your chest from behind, and the last thing you see before you die is [[AndShowItToYou your still-beating heart, clutched in his fist.]]

* The beginning of the game, when a blood-crazed Dracula is locked in a room by Zobek and given a family of three to sate his hunger. Terrifying.

* The living blood that pursues Dracula throughout his castle definitely qualifies. It turns his own monsters against him and even destroys portions of the castle in its attempts to keep him from leaving. It gets even worse when you fight Inner Dracula.

* The Gorgons (Eurayle, Stheno, and Medusa) all are on the side of Dracula at first, but their [[UncannyValley movements]] and InterfaceScrew make them some of the scariest monsters in the entire game.

* At the beginning of the game, when a blood-crazed Dracula is locked in a room by Zobek and given a family of three to sate his hunger. Terrifying.
** Once you open the '[[FridgeHorror fridge]]' Dracula himself becomes this when you realize that the [[HeroAntagonist technical good guys]] of the setting like the Order have just about no chance of beating him, because if it wasn't enough that he's the most powerful vampire and Lord of Shadow to ever walk the earth, then TheReveal that God STILL favors him as [[TheChosenOne his champion,]] rendering him almost completely immune to holy weapons,thus making him effectively immortal - makes things that much worse for who anyone who dares face him. Maybe in the grander scheme of things it's for the best, but it's not so great for the vast majority of ordinary people who lived under constant threat of him during the height of his power. Think about it. A nigh-unstoppable monstrosity who ravaged the land and has consumed countless innocents and with [[PlotArmor God's total blessing]].

* The Gorgons, Eurayle, Stheno, and Medusa, all are on the side of Dracula at first, but their [[UncannyValley movements]] and InterfaceScrew make them some of the scariest monsters in the entire game.
* At the end of the game, when Satan is finally summoned from Hell, the first thing he does is slowly and graphically rip a man's face off. [[RuleOfScary The face is still alive]] when he throws it aside.
* The Revelations DLC adds a ''whole new area's'' worth of nightmare fuel with the Forbidden Wing. According to Marie, Gabriel shut himself away in here after he trounced the Forgotten One -- and lost his mind. Entire rooms are flooded with blood and there are phrases written in it in Latin, scattered all over the floor and walls, which are Dracula's insane ravings and curses of doom upon humanity, the Brotherhood, and Zobek. And it doesn't help that you can hear barely audible screaming and occasional laughter.
* Dracula's eyes. Especially when you see them up close and he's mad or angry. The mere fact that they're red doesn't make them scary. The pupils and irises in his eyes dilate and look utterly inhuman. This, in conjunction with the fact that his eyes glow red more or less depending on how enraged the Prince of Darkness is; adds to just how fucking scary they look.
* The second Acolyte may be the scariest enemy in the entire LOS trilogy. With his calm, assured demeanor and initially overwhelming power, the only thing you can do is crawl away from him like a whipped dog while he casually stalks after you, zapping your very soul with his force lightning. And what happens if he catches you? He'll open a portal and ''send you to the pits of Hell''. His taunts during your boss fight with him certainly don't help, considering that, as a child of Satan, ''he knows exactly what he's talking about.''
-->'''Nergal:''' Your suffering will make Hell itself cry! Your soul will go mad in eternal agony! Your existence will know only pain! My father eagerly awaits you in his kingdom. ''Don't'' make him wait. Perhaps my Lord will allow me to... ''Look after you'', once he's tired of your soul.