History NightmareFuel / Claymore

[[caption-width-right:350:Welcome to ''Claymore'', [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished Beauty]] [[{{Subverted}} WILL]] [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished be Tarnished]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Welcome to ''Claymore'', [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished Beauty WILL be Tarnished]]]]

** [[spoiler: Galatea]] blinds herself in both eyes in order to hide in a city that bars Claymores from within it's walls.

** Prior to her own transformation, Roxanne dukes it out with another recently-turned Awakened Being. That being is composed of what looks like several [[FanDisservice female bits of various scale]] [[BodyHorror stacked together randomly to create a]] {{CreepyCentipede}}s. Which proceeds to [[spoiler: momentarily]] kick Roxanne's ass. ''And Roxanne is still more terrifying than her opponent''. It does NOT help that Roxanne's ''completely human'' face is straight out of the UncannyValley.

** Prior to her own transformation, Roxanne dukes it out with another recently-turned Awakened Being. That being is composed of what looks like several [[FanDisservice female bits of various scale]] [[BodyHorror stacked together randomly to create a]] [[CreepyCentipede Creepy Centipede]]. Which proceeds to [[spoiler: momentarily]] kick Roxanne's ass. ''And Roxanne is still more terrifying than her opponent''. It does NOT help that Roxanne's ''completely human'' face is straight out of the UncannyValley.

* The Abyss Eaters. First, they are created out of [[WasOnceAMan human women]], and look like those, only [[FanDisservice almost naked]]and with their eyes and mouths sewn shut. In contrast to their looks, their behaviour retains not even the faintest traces of humanity or even individuality - they're reduced to mindless predators. What has been done to them is bad enough, but nothing compared to what they can do to ''you'': They are conditioned to crave the flesh of one particular individual, relentlessly tracking their target by scent. They have an immense HealingFactor and even if you manage to take them out, they will retreat if more than half of them are killed, only for their numbers to be replenished by their creators. When they do so, they scatter into all directions, so the best you can do is to follow and kill a single one of them. No matter how many times you kill them, they ''just keep coming'', never allowing you any rest, wearing you down little by little. They also share their experience, so that they get better and better at fighting you, until they '''''eat you alive'''''.

* The [[spoiler:recently resurrected]] #1, Roxanne, is just a pail full of high octane nightmare fuel by herself. Imagine that you're faced with crazy 'ol Ophelia again - only she's ten times [[DeceptiveDisciple more deceptive]], [[ManipulativeBitch more cunning]], and has ZERO [[FreudianExcuse redeeming qualities]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast or troubled back story]] (if she does, we don't care). Roxanne is quite possibly the series' '''first''' serious complete monster who still had the title of a claymore.

** Another claymore during Roxanne's time has a missing eye from an unknown cause, but it happened before she became a claymore. And then Roxanne [[spoiler: mimicked her by gauging her own eye out.]]

* The [[spoiler: Abyssal Feeders]] are your [[PrimalFear most basic nightmares]]...''[[TheEyesHaveIt come alive!]]''

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* Even though it's not as graphic as its [[SpiritualPredecessor spiritual]] [[{{Berserk}} forefather]], there is a pretty disturbing amount of EyeScream in ''Claymore''. Need examples?

* Chapter 153: Priscilla's mental breakdown results in a physical one. [[spoiler:She is now nothing but a twisted mass of limbs bursting out of the remains of her original body. The grape-like collections of [[FanDisservice displaced breasts]]]] only make it worse. It is truly [[SarcasmMode awe-inspiring]] how Nagi manages to turn naked women who would ''normally'' be attractive into such terrifying [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]]. It's hard to even consider the nudity gratuitous most of the time when it's usually the result of completely believable ClothingDamage and the fact that it's often made so ''horrifying''.

* Chapter 153: Priscilla's mental breakdown results in a physical one. [[spoiler:She is now nothing but a twisted mass of limbs bursting out of the remains of her original body.]]
** The grape-like collections of [[FanDisservice displaced breats]] only make it worse.

** The grape-like collections of [[FanDisservice displaced breats]] only make it work.

* Chapter 153: Priscilla's mental breakdown results in a physical one. [[spoiler:She is now nothing but a twisted mass of limbs bursting out of the remains of her original body.]]

** Kind of mitigated [[spoiler: when we see that Priscilla's survived being chopped into tiny pieces and is somehow attacking Raki!]]

** With the revelations of later chapters, it appears that Youma are literally the person that they most recently 'consumed'. With Youma being parasites that jump from body to body, the original host body's mind is subverted by the youma's, with the parasite making full use of the body's memories and mannerisms to play its part perfectly. Meaning not only were Zaki's memories still active, but Zaki was still the very Zaki that Raki grew up with, he was just no longer in control of his own body.

* We find out something else about Priscilla in chapter 142 because she wasn't frightening enough: [[spoiler:because her village wouldn't send food to her family after the yoki attack, she was stuck in a house for an entire month with just her and her family's corpses. [[ImAHumanitarian And YES, it seems she did end up eating some of her YOMA-INFECTED FATHER'S CORPSE during that month she was all alone]].]] So terrifying and [[AlasPoorVillain yet so tragic.]]

* Dae's casual reveal of the Organization's old modus operandi of finding Claymore recruits/test subjects by deliberately traumatizing children with exposure to yoma is probably the creepiest thing in the entire series. Dae in general is arguably the scariest thing in the series.

* The Abyss Eaters. First, they are created out of [[WasOnceHuman human women]], and look like those, only [[FanDisservice almost naked]]and with their eyes and mouths sewn shut. In contrast to their looks, their behaviour retains not even the faintest traces of humanity or even individuality - they're reduced to mindless predators. What has been done to them is bad enough, but nothing compared to what they can do to ''you'': They are conditioned to crave the flesh of one particular individual, relentlessly tracking their target by scent. They have an immense HealingFactor and even if you manage to take them out, they will retreat if more than half of them are killed, only for their numbers to be replenished by their creators. When they do so, they scatter into all directions, so the best you can do is to follow and kill a single one of them. No matter how many times you kill them, they ''just keep coming'', never allowing you any rest, wearing you down little by little. They also share their experience, so that they get better and better at fighting you, until they '''''eat you alive'''''.

** With the latest chapters it appears Youma were always that person. Meaning not only were Zaki's memories still active, but Zaki was still the very Zaki that Raki grew up with.

* Dae's casual reveal of the Organization's old modus operandi of finding Claymore recruits/test subjects by deliberately traumatizing children with exposure to yoma is probably the creepiest thing in the entire series.

* Every time one thinks an Awakened Being can't get more disturbing looking, Yagi proceeds to prove us wrong. Case in point: [[http://www.mangahere.com/manga/claymore/v23/c134/9.html here.]]

* We see [[spoiler:Riful's naked waist and legs]] going out for a nice leisurely stroll in [[http://www.mangahere.com/manga/claymore/v23/c132/25.html chapter 132.]] The series has officially gone SurrealHorror now.

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** Special mention goes to how Clare got assimilated by the Destroyer, which involved the [[spoiler: lower half of her body being infected and basically detached from the upper part of her body, with the remainder of her body being infected after that.]]

* The [[spoiler:recently resurrected]] #1, Roxanne, is just a pail full of high octane nightmare fuel by herself. Imagine that you're faced with crazy 'ol Ophelia again - only she's ten times [[DeceptiveDisciple more deceptive]], [[ManipulativeBitch more cunning]], and is an actual CompleteMonster with ZERO [[FreudianExcuse redeeming qualities]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast or troubled back story]] (and even if she does, we don't care). Roxanne is quite possibly the series' '''first''' serious complete monster who still had the title of a claymore. And since ''Claymore'' is already a DarkFantasy series that introduced a plethora of contenders for the place of CompleteMonster and the fandom has only ''just now'' reached a verdict with Roxanne - [[NothingIsScarier that's terrifying in its own right.]]
** Prior to her own transformation, Roxanne dukes it out with another recently-turned Awakened Being. That being is composed of what looks like several [[FanDisservice female bits of various scale]] [[BodyHorror stacked together randomly to create a]] [[CreepyCentipedes Creepy Centipede]]. Which proceeds to [[spoiler: momentarily]] kick Roxanne's ass. ''And Roxanne is still more terrifying than her opponent''. It does NOT help that Roxanne's ''completely human'' face is straight out of the UncannyValley.

* Cassandra, [[spoiler: after her Awakening]]. What is THAT?

* We find out what goes into making Yoma and Claymores in 126. It involves vivisection and brain parasites. In that order. [[AndIMustScream Sweet dreams.]]