History NightmareFuel / Rayman

* The out-of-nowhere [[YouCanPanicNow sheer panic]] of Stage 1 of "The Swamps Of Forgetfulness" level in the first game, when you [[OhCrap realise that the rainwater is rising]] and you have very little time to get to higher ground. It's definitely one of the darker levels in the first game - the formerly beautiful and harmonious Dream Forest has become a [[MoodWhiplash dark and ominous place]] where death is chasing you, and it's very easy to mess up. The music doesn't help - it's dramatically suspenseful and ominous.

* [[spoiler: Some of The Magician's comments when you bop his top hat foreshadow his villainous qualities, or at least that he's not nearly as nice as other characters.]]

* [[spoiler:Hades' Hand]], the boss of Olympus Maximus in ''Rayman Legends''. [[spoiler: It's a giant floating cloud of the Dark Creatures from previous levels, which shape into the form of [[GiantHandsOfDoom a giant hand,]] two flying demons, and then a ''giant floating demon.'' The music is also very dark and low key, unlike most of the music in the game.]]

** It certainly doesn't help that this is the only level that the zombie chickens show up in this game, often in a place where your hands are busy with carrying an egg across the room where they show up in. Granted, you can put it down, but that doesn't make the fact that these zombie chickens glow eerily, that they come in packs of three or four, and [[http://hosting.raymanpc.com/raytunes/music/R3/082%20-%20Haunted%20~Carrying%20the%20Egg~.mp3 this music plays]] [[NothingIsScarier when they're not there]] (and [[http://hosting.raymanpc.com/raytunes/music/R3/083%20-%20Haunted%20~Zombie%20Chickens!~.mp3 THIS music plays]] when they are). Your nerves would already be in shreds after having to deal with Knaaren, and this one keeps hacking at them.

* The out-of-nowhere [[YouCanPanicNow sheer panic]] of Stage 1 of "The Swamps Of Forgetfulness" level in the first game, when you [[OhCrap realise that the rainwater is rising]] and you have very little time to get to higher ground. It's definitely one of the darker levels in the first game - the formerly beautiful and harmonious Dream Forest has become a dark and ominous place where death is chasing you, and it's very easy to mess up. The music doesn't help - it's dramatically suspenseful and ominous.

* The out-of-nowhere [[YouCanPanicNow sheer panic]] of Stage 1 of "The Swamps Of Forgetfulness" in the first game, when you [[OhCrap realise that the rainwater is rising]] and you have very little time to get to higher ground. It's definitely one of the darker levels in the first game - the formerly beautiful and harmonious Dream Forest has become a dark and ominous place where death is chasing you, and it's very easy to mess up. The music doesn't help - it's dramatically suspenseful and ominous.

* The boss of Olympus Maximus in ''Rayman Legends.'' [[spoiler: It's a giant floating cloud of the Dark Creatures from previous levels, which shape into the form of [[GiantHandsOfDoom a giant hand,]] two flying demons, and then a ''giant floating demon.'' The music is also very dark and low key, unlike most of the music in the game.]]

* The boss of Olympus Maximus in ''Rayman Legends.'' [[spoiler: It's a giant floating cloud of the Dark Creatures from previous levels, which shape into the form of [[GiantHandsOfDoom a giant hand,]] two flying demons, and then a ''giant floating demon.'' The music is also very dark and low key, unlike most of the music in the game. It's just too bad that it's a very easy boss.]]

''VideoGame/{{Rayman}}'' has several examples of NightmareFuel, notably most of them in the [[DarkerAndEdgier second game.]]

** Heck the [[GoddamnedBats little]] [[DemonicSpiders fuzzballs]] themselves. They follow whatever direction your going and there are sections you have to lure them into pits just to continue.

* Most of "Swimming with Stars" in Rayman Origins since it's the first level that isn't whimsical and cheery like everything else up to that point. If the creepy enemies didn't get you, then the oppressive darkness and [[http://hosting.raymanpc.com/raytunes/music/077%20-%20Sea%20of%20Serendipity%20~%20The%20Abyss.mp3 haunting music]] will.

** [[spoiler: Some of The Magician's comments when you bop his top hat foreshadow his villainous qualities, or at least that he's not nearly as nice as other characters.]]

* The boss of Olympus Maximus in Rayman Legends. [[spoiler: It's a giant floating cloud of the Dark Creatures from previous levels, which shape into the form of [[GiantHandsOfDoom a giant hand,]] two flying demons, and then a ''giant floating demon.'' The music is also very dark and low key, unlike most of the music in the game. It's just too bad that it's a very easy boss.]]

** Heck the [[GoddamnedBats little]] [[DemonicSpiders fuzzballs]] themselves. They follow whatever direction your going and there are sections you have to lure them into pits just to continue.

Most of "Swimming with Stars" in Rayman Origins since it's the first level that isn't whimsical and cheery like everything else up to that point. If the creepy enemies didn't get you, then the oppressive darkness and [[http://hosting.raymanpc.com/raytunes/music/077%20-%20Sea%20of%20Serendipity%20~%20The%20Abyss.mp3 haunting music]] will.

The boss of Olympus Maximus in Rayman Legends. [[spoiler: It's a giant floating cloud of the Dark Creatures from previous levels, which shape into the form of [[GiantHandsOfDoom a giant hand,]] two flying demons, and then a ''giant floating demon.'' The music is also very dark and low key, unlike most of the music in the game. It's just too bad that it's a very easy boss.]]

* Most of The Desert Of The Knaaren from the third game. The top is eyebrow-raising enough, with a land of lava and acid pools, but once you fall underground OHHH BOY. It's not just the fact that the place is completely dark and filled with skulls. The Teensies warn you that the Knareen are invincible, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck they are not joking]]. The Knareen are the scariest enemies in the entire series, being COMPLETELY INVINCIBLE and forcing you to sneak past them, being shrouded in hoods and having strange inhuman growls, and constantly screaming to devour Rayman.

* Most of The Desert Of The Knaaren from the third game.

* [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace The Cave of Bad Dreams]]. The cave itself is made from nightmarishly grotesque faces, for most of the level, you're riding on skulls across what's pretty much the river Styx. Next you have these wooden claw-like things that sweep out at intervals on the wall, if you get caught by one, it slams Rayman around before dragging him into its hole, where he loses some health and respawns. Next up, we get the mini-guardians, these things aren't much of a threat on their own, but if they get close enough to Rayman, they'll swallow him whole and alive for hp loss and a respawn. At the very end of the cave, the Guardian arrives and attempts to eat rayman, the camera switches to ShakyPOVCam of his mouth as you attempt to escape him on a slide.

''{{Rayman}}'' has several examples of NightmareFuel, notably most of them in the [[DarkerAndEdgier second game.]]

* [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace The Cave of Bad Dreams]]. The cave itself is made from nightmarishly grotesque faces, for most of the level, you're riding on skulls across what's pretty much the river Styx. Next you have these wooden claw-like things that sweep out at intervals on the wall, if you get caught by one, it slams rayman around before dragging him into its hole, where he loses some health and respawns. Next up, we get the mini-guardians, these things aren't much of a threat on their own, but if they get close enough to Rayman, they'll swallow him whole and alive for hp loss and a respawn. At the very end of the cave, the Guardian arrives and attempts to eat rayman, the camera switches to ShakyPOVCam of his mouth as you attempt to escape him on a slide.