History NightmareFuel / SomethingAbout

** After narrowly escaping the haunted mansion Diddy and Dixie look back and see themselves, dead on the ground and in a nearby tree. They've now become ghosts, and as a thunderstorm rolls in Kreepy Krow appears with blank white eyes and an ethereal scream. After failing to resuscitate their corpses it seems like the due are finished, if not for a random 1-Up balloon to float by and pop itself on a branch which jolts the pair back to life.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVZsbE4E68w Something About COPPA]] starts innocent enough, with Kirbo on a pretty field, but that quickly changes as COPPA's restrictions start to apply themselves, demonstrating how easily the restrictions could be applied in such a heavy-handed manner as to strip all life out of something meant to appeal to multiple demographics. All the color in the background drains, and Kirbo is morphed into a dark grey square, screaming in agony and terror. Then 'Kirbo' and a rectangle spend the rest of the video talking about incredibly mundane things in an eerily monotonous tone, with a Shepard's Tone playing all the while. To really hammer the point home, the square and rectangle aren't even allowed to talk about things that everyone talks about (i.e. stories, asking questions about stuff that may remotely appeal to children), and their hesitance even through the monotonous [=TTS=] voices says it all.

** Example:

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* In "Something About Luigi's Mansion", Luigi encounters a large, screaming ghost [[NonstandardCharacterDesign more detailed than the series' usual standard]] with visible gums and fleshy stick-arms, complete with "[[HellIsThatNoise music]]" from ''Franchise/SilentHill''. When Luigi opens a door to escape, he meets E. Gadd, who isn't even able to introduce himself before the ghost crawls into his mouth and flings him all over the room, each hit accompanied with a smacking sound, breaking his neck. The fully-possessed professor then screeches and flies into the ceiling.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVZsbE4E68w Something About COPPA]] starts innocent enough, with Kirbo on a pretty field, but that quickly changes as COPPA's restrictions start to apply themselves, demonstrating how easily the restrictions could be applied in such a heavy-handed manner as to strip all life out of something meant to appeal to multiple demographics. All the color in the background drains, and Kirbo is morphed into a dark grey square, screaming in agony and terror. Then 'Kirbo' and a rectangle spend the rest of the video talking about incredibly mundane things in an eerily monotonous tone, with a [[HellIsThatNoise Shepard's Tone]] playing all the while. To really hammer the point home, the square and rectangle aren't even allowed to talk about things that everyone talks about (i.e. stories, asking questions about stuff that may remotely appeal to children), and their hesitance even through the monotonous [=TTS=] voices says it all.

* In "Something About Sonic The Hedgehog", during Sonic's final confrontation with Robotnik, he absorbs the Chaos Emeralds and screams in pain before [[MemeticMutation Super Sanic]] literally pops out of his body, and while spiraling around Robotnik, he makes a NightmareFace reminiscent of both [[ComicBook/SonicTheComic Fleetway Super Sonic]] and VideoGame/SonicEXE with [[HellIsThatSound a roaring sound]].

* The Mega Evolution Pokemon Battle Royale.
** It plays with all of the Pokedex Entries straight... specifically the scariest ones from Sun/Moon/Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon. How about Mega Garchomp's arms and wings melting to form its sycthe arms? Mega Gyarados only having its destructive instinct left? Mega Glalie's jaw snapping and only being able to spew out snow? Mega Manectric is also symbolized as some electricity because its body has so much electricity.
** Several Mega Pokemon team up against Mega Rayquaza... only for them to be unceremoniously crushed under the latter's tail. The Legendary Pokemon then lets out a coarse, intimidating roar, hammering home how ineffective a bunch of ordinary mons' Mega Evolutions are against it.

* In "Something About Street Fighter II", we have the Guile's Handcuffs glitch, which is depicted as Guile grabbing Ryu and warping around the screen multiple times. We even seen Guile laughing manically and his eyes turn red before the soft-locking hits. There's also a FreezeFrameBonus revealing that ''Guile's been infected by the Speedrun Demon''!
** M. Bison's entrance is an easily fear-driving sight, descending from the heavens using Creator/RaulJulia's ChewingTheScenery moment from the ''Film/StreetFighter'' movie before using his Psycho power to toss the giant bell into the crowd and wrench Ryu's leg around like a pretzel. If it wasn't for the car returning, Bison would have easily shown why he's the UrExample of the SNKBoss.

** Kirbo receiving PTSD flashbacks to the Egyptians using Israelites as slaves upon seeing the pyramid spaceship and promptly [[UnstoppableRage flying into a rage]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:Yep. [[BlatantLies This is normal.]] Well, what's normal for the series, anyway. [[note]]That's supposed to be a parody of [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Dharkon]] up there, [[DerangedAnimation in case you couldn't tell.]][[/note]]]]

* In "Something About Kirby 64", Adeline doesn't have a particularly fun time on Shiver Star (which in the Something About universe is outright confirmed to be a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic Earth]]). Where everyone else sees it as a happy and colorful place full of cute creatures, ''she'' sees it for what it truly is: a dark and dismal place full of death, decay and mutated monsters (such as the froglike things in the pillars, which are actually muscular beasts with bloodshot eyes and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking stained teeth]]) Of special note is the skeleton in the mall, which has seemingly had its lower half ''ripped off'' by something, its mouth locked in a silent scream. And there's a decapitated skull next to an ajar cabinet door beside it, which raises some chilling implications about what happened to these two. No wonder Adeline is left a quivering wreck by the time the party gets the hell out of there.

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** Zero-Two delivers a CurbstompBattle to [[InvincibleHero Kirbo]]. Even at the worst of times, most ''Something About'' characters just get knocked down for a moment. But it's made clear that if Jesus Christ had not stepped in to help, that might've been the end for our heroes.

* In "Something About Kirby 64", Adeline doesn't have a particularly fun time on Shiver Star. Where everyone else sees a happy place full of friends, ''she'' sees it as a dark and dismal place full of death and mutated monsters. Of special note is the skeleton in the mall, which has seemingly had its lower half ''ripped off'' by something.

%%* There are also both times when Mario's inner speed demon comes out in ''Something About Super Mario 64'' and ''Something about Super Mario World'', the former having a rather vicious JumpScare close up of Mario's speed demon face.
%%* Tyranitar's MadeOfIndestructium nature in both of its appearances in the Battle Royale videos can be a brutal reminder as to '''why''' this thing has been competitively viable for so long even with 7 weaknesses as of Gen VI onward. Its EvilLaugh it does when Mewtwo can't even so much as injure it in the Mega Battle Royale is the icing on the cake. It only loses (on-screen) by a RingOut, as in off-screen simulations it '''wins''' with it being implied getting a RingOut on it is the only way to remove it from play in these cases. Just what does it take to ultimately '''''kill this thing?!'''''

* In "Something About Sonic The Hedgehog", during Sonic's final confrontation with Robotnik, [[spoiler:he absorbs the Chaos Emeralds and screams in pain before [[MemeticMutation Super Sanic]] literally pops out of his body]], and while spiraling around Robotnik, he makes a NightmareFace reminiscent of both [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/SonicTheComic Fleetway Super Sonic]] and VideoGame/SonicEXE with [[HellIsThatSound a roaring sound]].]]
* "Something About The Photon Aerospace Control Engineer" is a Halloween video, which naturally means scares about. [[spoiler:The fact that it's actually a Pac-Man video]] does not change the fact that the "ghosts" are actually {{Eldritch Abomination}}s in their own right and have made a pile of corpses in their wake.
* The Mega Evolution Pokemon Battle Royale plays with all of the Pokedex Entries straight ... specifically the NightmareFuel ones from Sun/Moon/Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon. How about Mega Garchomp's arms and wings melting to form its sycthe arms? Mega Gyarados only having its destructive instinct left? Mega Glalie's jaw snapping and only being able to spew out snow? Mega Manectric is also symbolized as some electricity because its body has so much electricity.