History NightmareFuel / DeathStranding

* Just the concept of the Bridge Baby alone. There's something legit horrible on a base level of being forced to carry around babies with you into direct danger of terrorist groups or alien beings.
** In the spotlight trailer for the Bridge Baby and Deadman, we learn that [=BBs=] are physically removed from their "stillmothers"--who are lying braindead in the Capital Knot City ICU--and placed inside womb-like glass pods. This means to keep a BB "functioning", Sam has to synchronize the BB pod with its corresponding stillmother's womb via the chiral network. And even then...no BB has been in service for more than a year. Deadman comments that Sam will lose his BB before his journey is complete.

* Even your Private Rooms aren't NightmareFuel-free. Interacting with your BB may instead trigger a Nightmare--a hallucination of something going wrong. The Nightmare shown in the Tokyo Game Show 201o involves Sam and the BB playing knock-knock...which results in the BB ''bashing its head against the inner wall of its pod, breaking it.'' [[ParanoiaFuel And then Sam wakes up from the Nightmare.]]

* The Game Awards 2017 trailer introduces {{Invisible Monster}}s known as [=BTs=], some of which are [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever absolutely enormous]]. One of them tries to grab a member of Sam's team, and his teammate's response is to [[MercyKill shoot him in the head before he's fully taken away]]. Whatever happens to those who get taken by the [=BTs=], [[FateWorseThanDeath death is a preferable alternative]]. This character is then grabbed by another BT, and he furiously tries to kill himself with his knife, screaming and begging while floating away, but doesn't manage to commit suicide before being EatenAlive.
* At one point in the [=E3 2018=] trailer, Sam needs to get out of an area before a group of [=BTs=] find him. To do this, he uses his encryptobio baby to serve as a detector when they turn invisible. If Sam bumps into one, it and the rest of its companions will lunge at Sam and drag him down into the ground while it turns into a dark pit. The seemingly tranquil hillside could be hiding a ''herd'' of these things right in your face and you wouldn't know it until it's too late.

* Just the concept of the Bridge Baby alone. It's unknown if they're actual babies that are born or "grown" for the purposes of detecting BT's, but there's something legit horrible on a base level of being forced to carry around babies with you into direct danger of terrorist groups or alien beings.

-->''"A cryptobiote a day keeps the timefall away." [eats it]''

-->''"An encryptobio a day keeps the timefall away." [eats it]''

* Another one from the [=E3=] 2018 trailer is the Voidout, which was first shown off way back in the 2017 Game Awards. It's not wholly explained what a Voidout is, but the end result is the craters that dot the landscape. And they're apparently ''everywhere''. One portion of the trailer shows an area that's littered with craters, implying multiple Voidouts. Sam is somehow perfectly fine when he undergoes it, but the surrounding area is ''obliterated''. And with so many, it just begs the question: is the Voidout ''Death Stranding'''s equivalent to a ''natural disaster''?

* Another one from the [=E3=] 2018 trailer is the Voidout, which was first shown off way back in the 2017 Game Awards. It's not wholly explained what a Voidout is, but the end result is the craters that dot the landscape. And they're apparently ''everywhere''. One portion of the trailer shows an area that's littered with craters, implying multiple Voidouts. Sam is somehow perfectly fine when he undergoes it, but the surrounding area is ''obliterated''. And with so many, it just begs the question: is the Voidout ''Death Stranding'''s equivalent to a '''natural disaster'''?

* Another one from the [=E3=] 2018 trailer is the Voidout, which was first shown off way back in the 2017 Game Awards. It's not wholly explained what a Voidout is, but the end result is the craters that dot the landscape. And they're apparently ''everywhere''. One portion of the trailer shows an area that's littered with craters, implying multiple Voidouts. Sam is somehow perfectly fine when he undergoes it, but the surrounding area is ''obliterated''. And with so many, it just begs the question: is the Voidout Death Stranding's equivalent to a '''natural disaster'''?
* The [=TGS 2018=] trailer gives us one of the terrors of the dead, summoned by The Man in the Golden Mask: a massive lion (or sphinx) ooze creature with a golden face, and said face opening ''sideways'' to reveal a gushing-black maw and [[HellIsThatNoise an unearthly roar]]. Cut to black.
** Worse is the timing: Sam's escorting someone on his back [[OhCrap when the Man shows up]]. Now he has to deal with a death monster trying to eat him, ''and'' the woman getting eaten with him... or killed in the resulting Voidout.

* At one point in the [=E3 2018=] trailer, Sam needs to get out of an area before a group of BTs find him. To do this, he uses his encryptobio baby to serve as a detector when they turn invisible. If Sam bumps into one, it and the rest of its companions will lunge at Sam and drag him down into the ground while it turns into a dark pit. The seemingly tranquil hillside could be hiding a ''herd'' of these things right in your face and you wouldn't know it until it's too late.

* The Game Awards 2017 trailer introduces {{Invisible Monster}}s known as BTs, some of which are [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever absolutely enormous]]. One of them tries to grab a member of Sam's team, and his teammate's response is to [[MercyKill shoot him in the head before he's fully taken away]]. Whatever happens to those who get taken by the BTs, [[FateWorseThanDeath death is a preferable alternative]]. This character is then grabbed by another BT, and he furiously tries to kill himself with his knife, screaming and begging while floating away, but doesn't manage to commit suicide before being EatenAlive.

* The Game Awards 2017 trailer introduces {{Invisible Monster}}s, some of which are [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever absolutely enormous]]. One of them tries to grab a member of Sam's team, and his teammate's response is to [[MercyKill shoot him in the head before he's fully taken away]]. Whatever happens to those who get taken by the monsters, [[FateWorseThanDeath death is a preferable alternative]]. This character is then grabbed by another entity, and he furiously tries to kill himself with his knife, screaming and begging while floating away, but doesn't manage to commit suicide before being EatenAlive.
* At one point in the [=E3 2018=] trailer, Sam needs to get out of an area before a group of strained floating humanoids find him. To do this, he uses his encryptobio baby to serve as a detector when these humanoids turn invisible. If Sam bumps into one, it and the rest of its companions will lunge at Sam and drag him down into the ground while it turns into a dark pit. The seemingly tranquil hillside could be hiding a ''herd'' of these things right in your face and you wouldn't know it until it's too late.
--->''"An cryptobiote a day keeps the timefall away." [eats it]''

* From the Game Awards 2016 Trailer, we have, in no particular order: Creator/GuillermoDelToro harboring a UterineReplicator with an infant; a tank rolling by covered in ''whale intestines and human bones'' alongside what appear to be ambulatory skeleton soldiers; and the reveal of Creator/MadsMikkelsen in a dim drain tunnel controlling four of these soldiers through wires, while giving possibly the best DeathGlare of his entire career.
** [=YongYea=] later pointed out that the tank has ''teeth'' on it, implying that it's not quite a tank with biological technology as we tend to think of, but a literally ''living'' tank.
** Del Toro's character sports a nice surgical scar across his forehead. And since it extends from hairline to hairline, it's possible that the scar goes ''all'' the way around his head. However far it goes, there's a seriously creepy implication of brain surgery going on.
** Mads' character's DeathGlare, combined with his unnerving smile, is ''very'' creepy. The actor sure knows how to pull it off.
** The cords seen through the second trailer appear to belong to some higher power that Mikkelsen's character [[TheDragon answers to]]. Several cords other than those that come from his own body surround him and bring over a baby doll, seemingly as a sign. And before we're introduced to all those undead connected together by strange cords and an inanimate doll being brought to life by them, we see several dead crabs with random thin cords suspiciously attached to them. What could be doing this? Some EldritchAbomination...or something worse...?

* From the [=E3 2018=] trailer:
** At one point, Sam needs to get out of an area before a group of strained floating humanoids find him. To do this, he uses his encryptobio baby to serve as a detector when these humanoids turn invisible. If Sam bumps into one, it and the rest of its companions will lunge at Sam and drag him down into the ground while it turns into a dark pit.
*** The seemingly tranquil hillside could be hiding a ''herd'' of these things right in your face and you wouldn't know it until it's too late.
** Lea Seydoux's character eating a squishy... thing that looks like a bug that [[Disney/TheLionKing Timon and Pumbaa]] would eat, except it also looks like a human fetus. And she has no problem [[NauseaFuel slowly chewing it and enjoying the taste of it]] while the camera lingers on her face.

%%* From the Game Awards 2016 Trailer, we have, in no particular order: Creator/GuillermoDelToro harboring a UterineReplicator with an infant; a tank rolling by covered in ''whale intestines and human bones'' alongside what appear to be ambulatory skeleton soldiers; and the reveal of Creator/MadsMikkelsen in a dim drain tunnel controlling four of these soldiers through wires, while giving possibly the best DeathGlare of his entire career.
%%** [=YongYea=] later pointed out that the tank has ''teeth'' on it, implying that it's not quite a tank with biological technology as we tend to think of, but a literally ''living'' tank.
%%** Del Toro's character sports a nice surgical scar across his forehead. And since it extends from hairline to hairline, it's possible that the scar goes ''all'' the way around his head. However far it goes, there's a seriously creepy implication of brain surgery going on.
%%** Mads' character's DeathGlare, combined with his unnerving smile, is ''very'' creepy. The actor sure knows how to pull it off.
%%** The cords seen through the second trailer appear to belong to some higher power that Mikkelsen's character [[TheDragon answers to]]. Several cords other than those that come from his own body surround him and bring over a baby doll, seemingly as a sign. And before we're introduced to all those undead connected together by strange cords and an inanimate doll being brought to life by them, we see several dead crabs with random thin cords suspiciously attached to them. What could be doing this? Some EldritchAbomination...or something worse...?

** Worse is the timing: Sam's escorting someone on his back [[OhCrap when the Man shows up]]. Now he has to deal with a death monster trying to eat him, ''and'' the woman getting eaten with him...or killed in the resulting Voidout.

-->''"An cryptobiote a day keeps the timefall away." [eats it]''

-->''"An encryptobio a day keeps the timefall away." [eats it]''

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-->''"An encryptobio a day keeps the monsters away." [eats it]''