History NightmareFuel / Markiplier

** In their first investigation, after Sean has already died, [[https://youtu.be/TlQ84jvjz2c?t=701 Mark returns to the van briefly]], and he and Wade realize that Bob isn't responding on the radio. After several seconds, Bob briefly makes contact and says that he's trapped in a room somewhere in the house. Suddenly, Mark loses radio contact with ''both'' of them. He approaches the house to investigate, seeing only flickering lights inside the house and [[NothingIsScarier hearing only static on the radio]]. He regains contact with Bob, but immediately after hears Wade screaming "[[BigNo Nooooo--!]]" before being [[DisconnectedByDeath cut off]]. Bob, audibly panicking, repeats that he's still trapped inside and can't find Wade, and Mark opens the door to find Wade dead. He frees Bob, and the two of them flee. It's the ominous music that really drives the scene home.

** [[https://youtu.be/TlQ84jvjz2c?t=701 In their first investigation]], Mark returns to the van briefly, and he and Wade realize that Bob isn't responding on the radio. After several seconds, Bob briefly makes contact and says that he's trapped in a room somewhere in the house. Suddenly, Mark loses radio contact with ''both'' of them. He approaches the house to investigate, seeing only flickering lights inside the house and [[NothingIsScarier hearing only static on the radio]]. He regains contact with Bob, but immediately after hears Wade screaming "[[BigNo Nooooo--!]]" before being [[DisconnectedByDeath cut off]]. Bob, audibly panicking, repeats that he's still trapped inside and can't find Wade, and Mark opens the door to find Wade dead. He frees Bob, and the two of them flee. It's the ominous music that really drives the scene home.

** In their first investigation, Mark returns to the van briefly. Wade and Bob are separated. Everything kicks off when Bob complains of being stuck in a room. Suddenly, Mark loses radio contact with both of them. He approaches the house to investigate, seeing only flickering lights inside the house. He regains contact with Bob, but shortly after only hears Wade screaming "Nooooo--!" Mark opens the door and finds Wade dead and Bob still trapped.

* The entirety of his video on Maple County and the Mandela Catalogue is nightmarish, but special mention goes to the end when his face starts to heavily distort, [[DeadAllAlong Alternate-style]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXgJ4Oq7CVw heh.exe]] is Mark's MilestoneCelebration for 30 million subscribers but in an utterly creepy way that makes anything Darkiplier has done in the past look tame.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZwoHOBzlrI "I AM THE WORST!!"]] has Markiplier tell the audience a story of his time spent on a movie set while in Austin, Texas. The location they scouted was apparently known to the locals as "[[SpidersAreScary Spider]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Woods]]", which he repeatedly insists wasn't an exaggeration, as he and his film crew soon found out after turning on a single floodlight late at night. The light drew in not only spiders, but also moths, mosquitoes, and whatever other bugs were in the area (oh, and also [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes snakes]]), and later the crew discovered a literal breeding ground of mosquitoes close by Mark and another [[Website/YouTube YouTuber]], who were there in short shorts with no bug spray on (due to costume requirements), [[OhCrap came to the slow realization]] that they were probably not getting off the set unscathed. Whether or not one fears bugs and/or snakes, his story will likely at least set off goosebumps.

** After Lixian returned from his hiatus, the video released immediately afterward, 3 Scary Games #61, has him trap Lunky in a cage to take back his editing role. Not long after, however, we got [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J4Rl2sU_lY He Escaped...]], a short video where Lunky escapes by ''[[StuffBlowingUp exploding out of his cage]]'' before killing Lixian with a [[PlayingWithFire giant fireball]]. Both Markiplier and Lixian also made changes to correspond with this video, with both YouTube channels experiencing a HostileShowTakeover by Lunky, and Lixian's Twitter was even renamed to "LIXIAN IS DEAD".

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC0xVc7Mso8&ab_channel=Markiplier Hello Kitty Island Adventure]] + Markiplier's [[KubrickStare Kubrick Stare]] + unsettling commentary + [[SoundtrackDissonance dissonant music that plays alongside a colorful, cheerful game.]] The creepy part? His camera wasn't frozen. He was just sitting there the entire time, not moving at all, ''[[SlasherSmile and slowly grinning wider and wider as the video went on]]''. For the entire two minute and eighteen-second video, ''he did not blink once''!

Markiplier: Charming, funny, all-around good... and scary as all hell.

* Some of the endings in his ''Five Nights at Freddy's'' videos have terrifying stingers that have [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment no context behind them.]] One such example is the end of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b0S0S9wUxk Part 6 of the third game]], where his horror outro music cuts out just after he signs off. This is followed by the lights in the animatronic heads turning back on, the droning sound from [=FNAF=] 2 growing louder, before it cuts to a close up of Phantom Marionette with the mechanical laughter from 2 echoing in the background.

* During one of his slow-motion replays in Turbo Dismount, the "Flappy Bird" vehicle he's driving falls apart and the face lands looking toward the camera. It then slowly zooms into the bird's lifeless eyes, while the "ITS ME" hallucination from Five Nights at Freddy's flashes in the background.
* The intro for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frpg8WewVCI Part 12]] of Mark's VideoGame/YandereSimulator playthrough has him, Tyler, and Ethan acting out a happy anime intro while wearing Sailor Fuku, which would be funny under normal circumstances... except it repeatedly cuts to Mark murdering the other two, with the music and video becoming distorted every time it happens. It doesn't help that Mark was able to effortlessly replicate Yan-chan's infamous twitching.

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* The intro for Part 12 of Mark's VideoGame/YandereSimulator playthrough has him, Tyler, and Ethan acting out a happy anime intro while wearing Sailor Fuku, which would be funny under normal circumstances... except it repeatedly cuts to Mark murdering the other two, with the music and video becoming distorted every time it happens. It doesn't help that Mark was able to effortlessly replicate Yan-chan's infamous twitching.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZwoHOBzlrI "I AM THE WORST!!"]] has Markiplier tell the audience a story of his time spent on a movie set while in Austin, Texas. The location they scouted was apparently known to the locals as "[[SpidersAreScary Spider]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Woods]]", which he repeatedly insists wasn't an exaggeration, as he and his film crew soon found out after turning on a single floodlight late at night. The light drew in not only spiders, but also moths, mosquitoes, and whatever other bugs were in the area (oh, and also [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes snakes]]), and later the crew discovered a literal breeding ground of mosquitoes close by Mark and another [[Website/YouTube YouTuber]], who were there in short shorts with no bug spray on (due to costume requirements), [[OhCrap came to the slow realisation]] that they were probably not getting off the set unscathed. Whether or not one fears bugs and/or snakes, his story will likely at least set off goosebumps.

* During the second part of his return to Minecraft series, Mark is exploring a mineshaft when the game plays one of its standard ambient sounds, a wailing note similar to the wind blowing through the mineshaft. Mark is taken off guard by it, as he has been with other ambient sounds when they crop up. But, out of playfulness, asks Lixian to mess with the audio a couple of ways, speeding it up, changing the pitch, playing it in reverse, anything to just take the wind out of it. Then he offhandedly asks Lixian to play it alongside Siren Head's warning Siren. The two damn near sync. The [[OhCrap face]] Lixian makes shows how jarring it was to find something like that in an otherwise light hearted play session.

*** One Redditor decided to take the scene- this time, from Sean’s perspective- and edited some creepy music over it. [[https://www.reddit.com/r/jacksepticeye/comments/ks0w4i/i_put_spooky_music_over_one_of_jacks_phasmaphobia/ The result]] arguably makes the scene ''even worse.''

* Hello Kitty Island Adventure + Markiplier's [[KubrickStare Kubrick Stare]] + unsettling commentary + [[SoundtrackDissonance dissonant music that plays alongside a colorful, cheerful game.]] The creepy part? His camera wasn't frozen. He was just sitting there the entire time, not moving at all, ''[[SlasherSmile and slowly grinning wider and wider as the video went on]]''. For the entire two minute and eighteen-second video, ''he did not blink once''!

** In the same map as the above, Mark uses a smudge stick to (unsuccessfully) cleanse the ghost room. Almost immediately after, the ghost starts hunting. Bob quickly retreats into a nearby room, but before Mark has a chance, he hears footsteps and groaning right behind him, forcing Mark to ''sprint'' as fast as he can, the ghost hot on his tail for the entirety of the hunt. Mark is left completely rattled by the experience.

---> '''Mark:''' You swear that there is...things lurking right behind you, looking at you, [[OminousVisualGlitch (screen briefly glitches)]] [[VoiceOfTheLegion watching you.]] And you forget that you're supposed to not look at them [[NauseaFuel (eyes slowly appear from the sides of the screen with a sickening squelching sound).]] You're supposed to not acknowledge them. [[VoiceOfTheLegion The monsters in the corners of your eyes.]] [[ParanoiaFuel They're very real. But you're not supposed to like them...]]

---> '''Mark:''' You swear that there is...things lurking right behind you, looking at you, [[OminousVisualGlitch (screen briefly glitches)]] [[VoiceOfTheLegion watching you.]] And you forget that you're supposed to not look at them [[NauseaFuel(eyes slowly appear from the sides of the screen with a sickening squelching sound).]] You're supposed to not acknowledge them. [[VoiceOfTheLegion The monsters in the corners of your eyes.]] [[ParanoiaFuel They're very real. But you're not supposed to like them...]]

---> '''Mark:''' You swear that there is...things lurking right behind you, looking at you, [[OminousVisualGlitch (screen briefly glitches)]] [[VoiceOfTheLegion watching you.]] And you forget that you're supposed to not look at them (eyes slowly appear from the sides of the screen with a [[NauseaFuel sickening squelching sound).]] You're supposed to not acknowledge them. [[VoiceOfTheLegion The monsters in the corners of your eyes.]] [[ParanoiaFuel They're very real. But you're not supposed to like them...]]

---> '''Mark:''' You swear that there is...things lurking right behind you, looking at you, [[OminousVisualGlitches (screen briefly glitches)]] [[VoiceOfTheLegion watching you.]] And you forget that you're supposed to not look at them (eyes slowly appear from the sides of the screen with a [[NauseaFuel sickening squelching sound).]] You're supposed to not acknowledge them. [[VoiceOfTheLegion The monsters in the corners of your eyes.]] [[ParanoiaFuel They're very real. But you're not supposed to like them...]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZwoHOBzlrI "I AM THE WORST!!"]] has Markiplier tell the audience a story of his time spent on a movie set while in Austin, Texas. The location they scouted was apparently known to the locals as "[[SpidersAreScary Spider]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Woods]]", which he repeatedly insists wasn't an exaggeration, as he and his film crew soon found out after turning on a single floodlight late at night. The light drew in not only spiders, but also moths, mosquitoes, and whatever other bugs were in the area (oh, and also [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes snakes]]), and later the crew discovered a literal breeding ground of mosquitoes close by. Mark and another [[Website/YouTube YouTuber]], who were there in short shorts with no bug spray on (due to costume requirements), [[OhCrap came to the slow realisation]] that they were probably not getting off the set unscathed. Whether or not one fear bugs and/or snakes, his story will likely at least set off goosebumps.
* Who would've thought that Lixian, Mark's editor and fun little animated companion, could dish out some nightmare fuel for us? In recent videos, Lixian has started to riddle in jumpscares and spooks of his own. It eventually culminates in [[https://youtu.be/dQWB0pZrnoE 3 Scary games #46]]. Just looking at the thumbnail should give you an idea of what you're in for. Lixian's avatar appears in flashes and glitches across the screen at random, toting human eyes and [[ScaryTeeth bloody human teeth]]. The video itself is very creepy, with an unsettling atmosphere. The end of the video has Lixian stabbing Mark to death, which, is animated to seem somewhat humorous, can catch people off guard.
** Hell, even the ''description'' falls under this. With Mark calling out for help and stating that "The old [containment] methods aren't working anymore," it makes it sound like Lixian is a ''goddamn SCP!''
* During the second part of his return series to Minecraft, Mark is exploring a mineshaft when the game plays one of its standard ambient sounds, a wailing note similar to the wind blowing through the mineshaft. Mark is taken off guard by it, as he has been with other ambient sounds when they crop up. But, out of playfulness, asks lixian to mess with the audio a couple of ways, speeding it up, changing the pitch, playing it in reverse, anything to just take the wind out of it. Then he offhandedly asks Lixian to play it alongside Siren Head's warning Siren. The two damn near sync. The [[OhCrap face]] Lixian makes shows how jarring it was to find something like that in an otherwise light hearted play session.

* Anytime [[OminousVisualGlitch creepy]] [[VoiceOfTheLegion elements]] reminiscent of Darkiplier start showing up in Mark's videos out of nowhere, especially in [[MoodWhiplash otherwise funny or normal situations]]. What makes it scarier is that these moments have a tendency to happen whenever [[{{Foreshadowing}} another instalment of]] ''WebVideo/WhoKilledMarkiplier'' is on its way, with it becoming more common as the release date draws closer.

!!Go [[NightmareFuel/WhoKilledMarkiplier here]] for anything pertaining to ''Who Killed Markiplier?'' (that page Main/NeedsWikiMagicLove)

** In the same map as the above, Mark uses a smudge stick to (unsuccessfully) cleanse the ghost room. Almost immediately after, the ghost starts hunting. Bob quickly retreats into a nearby room, but before Mark has a chance, he hears footsteps and groaning right behind him, forcing Mark to "sprint" as fast as he can, the ghost hot on his tail for the entirety of the hunt. Mark is left completely rattled by the experience.

** In the same map as the above, Mark uses a smudge stick to (unsuccessfully) cleanse the ghost room. Almost immediately after, the ghost starts hunting. Bob quickly retreats into a nearby room, but before Mark has a chance, he hears footsteps anf groaning right behind him, forcing Mark to "sprint" as fast as he can, the ghost hot on his tail for the entirety of the hunt. Mark is left completely rattled by the experience.

** In the same video as above, Mark and Bob are both leaving the haunted school while their sanity is at 0. Bob, already outside the door, [[DeadlyPrank decides to say the ghost's name repeatedly and attempts to close the door on Mark.]] While it's all fun and games at first, the exact second Mark steps out of the doorway, the door slams shut and is locked. Mark was literally an inch away from death.

---> '''Mark:''' Oh my God, Wade, I thought you were dead, you were behind me, and oh m- YOU ASSHOLE!