History NightmareFuel / Ib

* The ending "A Painting's Demise" is very disturbing. With Garry driven insane by the Doll Room and Ib too distraught to leave, Mary abandons them and leaves the Fabricated World. Only, as she steps into the "Alternate Gallery", the writing on the walls threatens and warns her not to leave. When she ''does'' step out into the "Real Gallery", there's no-one around and the Gallery's door out is locked. As Mary gets frightened and tries to find another way out, it slowly gets darker, and dark paint drips from the ceiling like blood. The "Embodiment of Spirit" rose sculpture is faded into a withered and grey husk with a warning about Mary's "fabricated heart", the poster advertising Guertena's Art Exhibition at the entrance has turned into [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ibgame/images/c/c1/ApaintingsDemise.png/revision/latest an image of a face-down (dead?) Mary]], the windows overflowing with a creepy bloodlike red liquid, the creepy crooked writing saying things like "[[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ibgame/images/b/b9/BYE_BYE_MARY.jpg/revision/latest B Y E B Y E M A R Y]]", the painting of "Abyss of the Deep" bleeding out into the Gallery, "A Well-Meaning Hell" turns into [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ibgame/images/d/db/TonesoftheDarkGallery.png/revision/latest Tones of the Dark Gallery]], and then if you repeatedly examine [[SchmuckBait Mary's inventory screen]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ibgame/images/8/8c/Mary_Scribbled_Inventory.png/revision/latest as things]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ibgame/images/2/23/Mary_Smeared_Inventory.png/revision/latest get darker...]]

* ''Carrie Careless and the Galette des Rois''. A charming little storybook, drawn in crayon, about a little girl celebrating her birthday. There is a coin in one of the cake slices and she accidentally swallows it. But that's okay, because it was a lucky coin, so now she'll have good luck. Then one of the girl's friends goes back to her mother, and she can't find the key to the study now. The friend, realizing that they'd baked the key into the cake by mistake and Carrie had swallowed it instead of the coin, decides the best way to get the key back is to kill her. The end. It's also scary in a meta way, as some people have had it [[GameBreakingBug crash their game.]]

** TheReveal that Mary is a painting is disturbing in and of itself, but one of the things that makes it so frightening is that Garry learns about this while he is separated from the girls, meaning that if Mary were to attack Ib right now, [[AdultFear there would be nothing Garry could do about it]].

* The ending "A Painting's Demise" is very disturbing. With Garry driven insane by the Doll Room and Ib too distraught to leave, Mary abandons them and leaves the Fabricated World. Only, as she steps into the "Alternate Gallery", the writing on the walls threatens and warns her not to leave. When she ''does'' step out into the "Real Gallery", there's no-one around and the Gallery's door out is locked. As Mary gets frightened and tries to find another way out, it slowly gets darker, and dark paint drips from the ceiling like blood. The "Embodiment of Spirit" rose sculpture is faded into a withered and grey husk with a warning about Mary's "fabricated heart", the poster advertising Guertena's Art Exhibition at the entrance has turned into [[http://media.tumblr.com/36a1151b393da5fa9651a4e75c50ad8c/tumblr_inline_mmzn51HW6B1qz4rgp.png an image of a face-down (dead?) Mary]], the windows overflowing with a creepy bloodlike red liquid, the creepy crooked writing saying things like "[[http://media.tumblr.com/25cd255872fb9d423801731e87915b32/tumblr_inline_mmzn50gXZ31qz4rgp.png B Y E B Y E M A R Y]]", the painting of "Abyss of the Deep" bleeding out into the Gallery, "A Well-Meaning Hell" turns into [[http://media.tumblr.com/838f5a4ed679fffe3016ac0e110145d7/tumblr_inline_mmzn5bflYS1qz4rgp.png Tones of the Dark Gallery]], and then if you repeatedly examine [[SchmuckBait Mary's inventory screen]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ibgame/images/8/8c/Mary_Scribbled_Inventory.png/revision/latest as things]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ibgame/images/2/23/Mary_Smeared_Inventory.png/revision/latest get darker...]]

* The ending "A Painting's Demise" is very disturbing. With Garry driven insane by the Doll Room and Ib too distraught to leave, Mary abandons them and leaves the Fabricated World. Only, as she steps into the "Alternate Gallery", the writing on the walls threatens and warns her not to leave. When she ''does'' step out into the "Real Gallery", there's no-one around and the Gallery's door out is locked. As Mary gets frightened and tries to find another way out, it slowly gets darker, and dark paint drips from the ceiling like blood. The "Embodiment of Spirit" rose sculpture is faded into a withered and grey husk with a warning about Mary's "fabricated heart", the poster advertising Guertena's Art Exhibition at the entrance has turned into [[http://media.tumblr.com/36a1151b393da5fa9651a4e75c50ad8c/tumblr_inline_mmzn51HW6B1qz4rgp.png an image of a face-down (dead?) Mary]], the windows overflowing with a creepy bloodlike red liquid, the creepy crooked writing saying things like "[[http://media.tumblr.com/25cd255872fb9d423801731e87915b32/tumblr_inline_mmzn50gXZ31qz4rgp.png B Y E B Y E M A R Y]]", the painting of "Abyss of the Deep" bleeding out into the Gallery, "A Well-Meaning Hell" turns into [[http://media.tumblr.com/838f5a4ed679fffe3016ac0e110145d7/tumblr_inline_mmzn5bflYS1qz4rgp.png Tones of the Dark Gallery]], and then if you repeatedly examine [[SchmuckBait Mary's inventory screen]] as things get darker...

* Perhaps the creepiest aspect of the game is the ''background music itself''. It's basically ParanoiaFuel on its own. Throughout the whole Cursed Gallery there are a handful of [=BGMs=] played for each area, but they are uniformly ominous music that ''always'' set you into thinking that something very bad will happen or a JumpScare moment will pop out of nowhere. Sure, there are several jump scares or sudden loud voices around and they do not happen that frequently, but the soundtrack is creepy enough that you won't stop thinking about it.

* The "Together Forever" ending, while cutesy, has its fair share of FridgeHorror. Garry is dead and becomes a painting like in the "Forgotten Painting" ending and everyone who knew him supposedly forgets him. Mary becomes real and is remembered as being Ib's sister. Ib and Mary become loving sisters and go on together. Okay, that's kinda cute and not too terrible except for Garry, but Mary is ''insane'', or at the least just runs on BlueAndOrangeMorality due to being a drawing. Who's to say that her insanity just went away? Worse yet, she most likely lacked any moral agency or human understanding, and becoming real may not be enough to fix her broken mind. It's entirely possible that she would grow up to be a {{serial killer}} just because she couldn't comprehend why it's bad, and even if she doesn't, that doesn't change the fact that the kind-hearted Garry had to die to let this crazy person have access to the real world.