History NightmareFuel / FinalFantasyX

Out of all the games in the [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasy hair-raisingly]] popular ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy'' series, this one is possibly the most frightening.

* Speaking of Anima: Baaj Temple, the abandoned, ruined temple you can find her at, and also at which Tidus ends up at after being removed from Zanarkand early on in the game. [[NothingIsScarier Creepy music and absolutely no one present]] save for the resident Fayth, [[spoiler:the aforementioned mother of Seymour]], as well as Geosgaeno, who terrorizes Tidus at the beginning of the game and nearly succeeds in swallowing him.

* Geosgaeno, who terrorized Tidus at the beginning of the game and nearly succeeded in swallowing him.

* "The Scar" in the Calm Lands: A ''huge'' tear in the land, caused by a previous battle between Sin and the Final Aeon. A terrifying testament to just what kind of monsters we're talking about.

In the [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasy hair-raisingly]] popular ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy'' series, this is the most possibly frightening.

In the [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasy hair-raisingly]] popular FinalFantasy series, [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyX This]] is the [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyIV most]] [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyV possibly]] [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyVI frightening out]] [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyVII of all of]] [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyVIII the previous]] [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyIX installments.]]

By the time you finish reading this, you'll be wanting to play with the lights on. And the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII twelfth]]
installment is ''[[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyXII no better.]]''

* [[spoiler:Sin]] itself. A human soul, changed into a monstrous summon to defeat [[spoiler:the previous Sin, then forced to kill the person that summoned them, someone they loved enough to die for]]. And this goes on for a thousand years.
** The [[HellIsThatNoise sound]] it makes is equally unnerving.

** Even worse is the version that plays before you fight [[spoiler:your Aeons + Yu Yevon]]. It's the same as the previous, except even more distorted, with a creepy echo effect.

* [[spoiler: Jyscal talking about Seymour's plan to kill him, with the haunting music of Macalania temple.]]

** Made worse by how quickly it happens. One moment you hear the telltale sounds of battle, and then those sounds ''stop'' without so much as an echo as crusader and Sinspawn alike are vaporized. It's practically one of Sin's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment defining moments]] - a testament to how insignificant any human short (besides a summoner) really is.

** [[http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/d/d3/FFX2-Anima.png Anima]]. Just...every last thing about her. A massive, twisted humanoid giant, chained and hideous. Its appearance is disquieting, but the real nightmare fuel comes when you learn what Anima is: [[spoiler:Seymour's mother, who gave herself as Seymour's Final Aeon because she saw no other way to redeem Seymour in the world's eyes - and later, when Seymour made his FaceHeelTurn, she couldn't stop him from using her as a weapon. Now look at Anima again, and see the pain and helplessness in her face...and then watch her [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbJJCZQ3hso Overdrive,]] and see her '''anger...''']]

In the [[{{NightmareFuel/FinalFantasy}} hair-raisingly]] popular FinalFantasy series, [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyX This]] is the [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyIV most]] [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyV possibly]] [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyVI frightening out]] [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyVII of all of]] [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyVIII the previous]] [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyIX installments.]]

* Yu Yevon. [[spoiler:He created Sin as sort of an 'object lesson'; it was never meant to be permanent. He also created Dream Zanarkand. Unfortunately, he did both at once and it wiped his mind clean, overwriting it with his instructions for Sin. He can't stop. Ever. He's been rendered braindead to the extent that he's essentially a machine following a program. He died at some point. ''He never noticed.'']]

* [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 Final Fantasy X-2]]'s BonusDungeon has Elder Drakes which can wipe you out without breaking a sweat unless you've been LevelGrinding like mad. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem, as there's always the Flee command... except, it doesn't work on fiends you can see before you fight them. You have to time your run perfectly to avoid them, and they keep jumping out at you - and the ''noises'' they make as they pounce... *shudder*

* Seeing the characters get {{Swallowed Whole}} by the Worm type enemies is really disturbing. Seeing them get regurgitated back out is even more disgusting and nightmare fuel inducing.
* ''[[DemonicSpiders Freaking]]'' Greater Malboros. Giant desert worms are relatively common. Giant flesh-eating tentacular blobs with dozens of eyes? Not so much, outside HPLovecraft.
* Geosgaeno, who terrorized Tidus at the beginning of the game and nearly succeeded in swallowing him.

** [[http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/d/d3/FFX2-Anima.png Anima]]. Just...every last thing about her. A massive, twisted humanoid giant, chained and hideous. Its appearance is disquieting, but the real nightmare fuel comes when you learn what Anima is: [[spoiler:Seymour's mother, who gave herself as Seymour's Final Aeon because she saw no other way to redeem Seymour in the world's eyes - and later, when Seymour made his FaceHeelTurn, she couldn't stop him from using her as a weapon. Now look at Anima again, and see the pain and helplessness in her face...and then watch her Overdrive, and see her '''anger...''']]

** [[http://th03.deviantart.com/fs18/300W/i/2007/127/6/f/Final_Fantasy_X__s_Anima_by_Brazilian_Ninja.jpg Anima]]. Just...every last thing about her. A massive, twisted humanoid giant, chained and hideous. Its appearance is disquieting, but the real nightmare fuel comes when you learn what Anima is: [[spoiler:Seymour's mother, who gave herself as Seymour's Final Aeon because she saw no other way to redeem Seymour in the world's eyes - and later, when Seymour made his FaceHeelTurn, she couldn't stop him from using her as a weapon. Now look at Anima again, and see the pain and helplessness in her face...and then watch her Overdrive, and see her '''anger...''']]

** And this goes double for those ''[[DemonicSpiders freaking]]'' Greater Malboros. Giant desert worms are relatively common. Giant flesh-eating tentacular blobs with dozens of eyes? Not so much, outside HPLovecraft.
** Don't forget Geosgaeno, who terrorized Tidus at the beginning of the game and nearly succeeded in swallowing him.

* The Chocobo Eater. Just the idea that there is something out there that eats chocobos is terrifying, and just before the fight it picks one up.

* [[spoiler:Sin]]. A human soul, changed into a monstrous summon to defeat [[spoiler:the previous Sin, then forced to kill the person that summoned them, someone they loved enough to die for]]. And this goes on for a thousand years.

** [[http://th03.deviantart.com/fs18/300W/i/2007/127/6/f/Final_Fantasy_X__s_Anima_by_Brazilian_Ninja.jpg Anima]]. Just...every last thing about her. A massive, twisted humanoid giant, chained and hideous. Its appearance is disquieting, but the real nightmare fuel comes when you learn what Anima is: [[spoiler:Seymour's mother, who gave herself as Seymour's final aeon because she saw no other way to redeem Seymour in the world's eyes - and later, when Seymour made his FaceHeelTurn, she couldn't stop him from using her as a weapon. Now look at Anima again, and see the pain and helplessness in her face...and then watch her Overdrive, and see her '''anger...''']]
** Seymour summonning her in Luca. When she kills the monsters in the arena, ''she's crying tears of blood!'' Her mannerisms are also pretty heart-rending in a disturbing sort of way.
* Watching Crusaders get reduced to black particles on a white screen at Operation Mi'ihen is extremely disturbing. Then Tidus started doing their autopsies.
* The Chocobo Eater. Just the idea that there is something out there that eats Chocobos is terrifying, and just before the fight it picks one up.
* Once you finally get inside Sin, there's a cutscene where the characters marvel at how surprisingly beautiful it looks in there...then suddenly it turns dark, an EvilLaugh is heard and you see a brief-but-horrible extreme close-up of [[spoiler:Seymour Guado]], complete with GiantEyeOfDoom.
* Sin itself. RPG villains can never be that truly scary - they may be cruel and ruthless, but you just know that, as long as you level up enough and have good equipment, you'll defeat him. Sin ''wasn't'' like this. In fact, the game did its best to show the player that Sin is not defeatable - he has a powerful barrier and, ''if'' you can pierce it, the thorned up parts of the monster will become new monsters to kill the aggressor. Doesn't help the fact that the only known method of putting him on hold for a couple of years requires the sacrifice of [[spoiler:two people]]. In fact, if no one had noticed that Sin [[spoiler:got weakened by the Hymn of the Fayth]], the game probably wouldn't have ended well. It's basically comparable to a natural disaster.

* Listen carefully to the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWVST7P37IM Hymn of the Fayth]] in each shrine. Near the end of the game, it becomes clear that the singer is the Fayth itself. Now listen to the version that plays in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgnrXKSOd-Y Yunalesca's chamber.]] It's not only being sung by a full chorus, they're ''off-key.'' [[spoiler:It's all the guardians who sacrificed themselves to create the Final Aeons. And they're in ''despair.'']]
* Occasionally in the Bikanel Desert, you run across a GIGANTIC SANDWORM that is only rivaled by the Nintendo 64 [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Peahats]] for scariness.

* Seeing the characters get {{Swallowed Whole}} by the Worm type enemies was really disturbing. Seeing them get regurgitated back out is even more disgusting and nightmare fuel inducing.

* Occasionally in the Bikanel Desert, you run across a GIGANTIC SANDWORM that is only rivaled by the Nintendo 64 [[LegendOfZelda Peahats]] for scariness.

installment is ''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/FinalFantasyXII no better.]]''

In the [[{{HighOctaneNightmareFuel/FinalFantasy}} hair-raisingly]] popular FinalFantasy series, [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyX This]] is the [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyIV most]] [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyV possibly]] [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyVI frightening out]] [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyVII of all of]] [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyVIII the previous]] [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyIX installments.]]

installment is ''[[{{HighOctaneNightmareFuel/FinalFantasyXII}} no better.]]''