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* Everything about the Shroud. Imagine every single science fiction HordeOfAlienLocusts[=/=]TheVirus[=/=]parasite trope ever created rolled into one and taken UpToEleven. They regularly devour ''entire galaxies'' on a regular basis. And BodyHorror [[NauseaFuel barely begins to describe their effects]]. It's very telling that both Maledict and ''Jesus Christ'' fear the Shroud more than they fear each other [[spoiler: and are willing to temporarily work together to stop them]].
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* Everything about the Shroud. Imagine every single science fiction HordeOfAlienLocusts[=/=]TheVirus[=/=]parasite trope ever created rolled into one and taken UpToEleven. They regularly devour ''entire galaxies'' on a regular basis. And BodyHorror [[NauseaFuel barely begins to describe their effects]]. It's very telling that both Maledict and ''Jesus Christ'' fear the Shroud more than they fear each other [[spoiler: and are willing to temporarily work together to stop them]].them.
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* The trope is acknowledged in-universe. Hearing the voice of [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]] is so unimaginably horrific that it either [[BrownNote kills his victims outright from terror]], [[GoMadFromTheRevelation makes them go completely insane]], or [[MindRape Mind Rapes]] them into serving him. Tails [[spoiler: and Cosmo]] are the only people immune to it.
** Episode 66 has a very disturbing example (that also happens to be a ShoutOut to ''Film/EventHorizon''). Astorath is called away from his fight with Sonic and friends by a distress signal from his flagship. When he arrives, he finds the bridge deserted and his escorting fleet gone. He soon discovers a security tape of [[spoiler: his crew [[{{Gorn}} graphically tearing each other apart and mutilating themselves]] as Dark Tails speaks to them]].
* The beginning of Episode 62 is a flashback of Cosmo escaping her colony ship when Tsali attacks it, and watching in horror as he shoves her sister Galaxina's face into a ruptured fuel pipe and burns her alive. All described in graphic detail. And then it gets [[FridgeHorror even scarier]] when you realize [[spoiler: Galaxina (and Cosmo) is technically his ''little sister'']]...
* Episode 67. The ''entire episode'' is NightmareFuel, especially the rewrite. When Beelzebub attacks Chris and Cosmo and drags them into his lair, he strips both of them naked and ties Cosmo to his desk with razor wire. She hears buzzing and notices his skin is turning black. Cue a swarm of flesh-eating flies coming out of Beelzebub's skin pores and feeding everywhere on both of their bodies, including [[RapeAsDrama sexually assaulting]] them in the genitals. ''[[FromBadToWorse And that's not the end of it]]''; after his "children" are done, Beelzebub drags the unconscious Chris out of his chamber. [[spoiler:[[FanDisservice What happens]] [[RapeAsDrama next]] is [[NothingIsScarier fortunately not described]]]]. Cosmo is seconds away from the same fate - and is ''begging Beelzebub to kill her instead'' - when Tails finally reaches them. It's rather telling that in a story filled with violent and dark content, Episode 67 is the [[ThisIsGonnaSuck only chapter with its own content warning]].
** And the kicker? [[spoiler: Beelzebub's stinger - which he used for the deed - is described as being the [[NauseaFuel length of a man's arm and dripping with corrosive acid]]. [[NightmareFuel Now imagine that being used for male-on-male rape]]]]. And just to pile on the horror, [[spoiler: neither Chris nor Cosmo ever find out what he did, because Beelzebub healed their wounds and wiped their memories of the torture with neurotoxins before he [[KarmaHoudini escaped]]]].
** Beelzebub alone is creepy - a fat PsychopathicManchild and MadScientist all rolled up into one. Hearing him crack extremely dark jokes while he tortures [[spoiler: and rapes]] [[WouldHurtAChild children]] is quite disconcerting.
* [[spoiler: Tails' HeroicSacrifice]] is both this and a powerful TearJerker. [[spoiler: Dark Tails attempts to [[DemonicPossession possess]] him in a last-ditch attack. As Tails fights back with all his power, the Shroud parasite inside him - and then his body - begins to rapidly mutate from the Dark Chaos Energy surging through him. His bones slowly shatter one by one, his limbs turn to goo, and tentacles burst from his eye sockets as he tries to talk to Cosmo one last time - [[AndIMustScream before they start to regrow and fall off over and over again]]]]. It's honestly a relief when [[spoiler: Cosmo finally gives him a MercyKill with the Sonic Driver - and takes down Dark Tails with him]].
* At one point, Tsali mentions the fate of Muslim women in the Emirate of Mecca. Because their religious beliefs revolve around [[SexIsEvil sex is evil]], the Muslims turned their women into living baby factories who are [[MedicalRapeAndImpregnate surgically impregnated]] and forced to give birth ''[[{{Squick}} every few seconds]]''. It's [[NothingIsScarier not shown directly]], but it doesn't make it any less disturbing. [[spoiler: Until it actually gets shown in the Episode 71 rewrite, when Eric and friends find a damaged Miriam pod littered on a battlefield. ''[[AndIMustScream With the woman still alive inside it and still pushing out half-formed fetuses]]'']].
** Episode 66 has a very disturbing example (that also happens to be a ShoutOut to ''Film/EventHorizon''). Astorath is called away from his fight with Sonic and friends by a distress signal from his flagship. When he arrives, he finds the bridge deserted and his escorting fleet gone. He soon discovers a security tape of [[spoiler: his crew [[{{Gorn}} graphically tearing each other apart and mutilating themselves]] as Dark Tails speaks to them]].
* The beginning of Episode 62 is a flashback of Cosmo escaping her colony ship when Tsali attacks it, and watching in horror as he shoves her sister Galaxina's face into a ruptured fuel pipe and burns her alive. All described in graphic detail. And then it gets [[FridgeHorror even scarier]] when you realize [[spoiler: Galaxina (and Cosmo) is technically his ''little sister'']]...
* Episode 67. The ''entire episode'' is NightmareFuel, especially the rewrite. When Beelzebub attacks Chris and Cosmo and drags them into his lair, he strips both of them naked and ties Cosmo to his desk with razor wire. She hears buzzing and notices his skin is turning black. Cue a swarm of flesh-eating flies coming out of Beelzebub's skin pores and feeding everywhere on both of their bodies, including [[RapeAsDrama sexually assaulting]] them in the genitals. ''[[FromBadToWorse And that's not the end of it]]''; after his "children" are done, Beelzebub drags the unconscious Chris out of his chamber. [[spoiler:[[FanDisservice What happens]] [[RapeAsDrama next]] is [[NothingIsScarier fortunately not described]]]]. Cosmo is seconds away from the same fate - and is ''begging Beelzebub to kill her instead'' - when Tails finally reaches them. It's rather telling that in a story filled with violent and dark content, Episode 67 is the [[ThisIsGonnaSuck only chapter with its own content warning]].
** And the kicker? [[spoiler: Beelzebub's stinger - which he used for the deed - is described as being the [[NauseaFuel length of a man's arm and dripping with corrosive acid]]. [[NightmareFuel Now imagine that being used for male-on-male rape]]]]. And just to pile on the horror, [[spoiler: neither Chris nor Cosmo ever find out what he did, because Beelzebub healed their wounds and wiped their memories of the torture with neurotoxins before he [[KarmaHoudini escaped]]]].
** Beelzebub alone is creepy - a fat PsychopathicManchild and MadScientist all rolled up into one. Hearing him crack extremely dark jokes while he tortures [[spoiler: and rapes]] [[WouldHurtAChild children]] is quite disconcerting.
* [[spoiler: Tails' HeroicSacrifice]] is both this and a powerful TearJerker. [[spoiler: Dark Tails attempts to [[DemonicPossession possess]] him in a last-ditch attack. As Tails fights back with all his power, the Shroud parasite inside him - and then his body - begins to rapidly mutate from the Dark Chaos Energy surging through him. His bones slowly shatter one by one, his limbs turn to goo, and tentacles burst from his eye sockets as he tries to talk to Cosmo one last time - [[AndIMustScream before they start to regrow and fall off over and over again]]]]. It's honestly a relief when [[spoiler: Cosmo finally gives him a MercyKill with the Sonic Driver - and takes down Dark Tails with him]].
* At one point, Tsali mentions the fate of Muslim women in the Emirate of Mecca. Because their religious beliefs revolve around [[SexIsEvil sex is evil]], the Muslims turned their women into living baby factories who are [[MedicalRapeAndImpregnate surgically impregnated]] and forced to give birth ''[[{{Squick}} every few seconds]]''. It's [[NothingIsScarier not shown directly]], but it doesn't make it any less disturbing. [[spoiler: Until it actually gets shown in the Episode 71 rewrite, when Eric and friends find a damaged Miriam pod littered on a battlefield. ''[[AndIMustScream With the woman still alive inside it and still pushing out half-formed fetuses]]'']].
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* The trope is acknowledged in-universe. Hearing the voice of [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]] is so unimaginably horrific that it either [[BrownNote kills his victims outright from terror]], [[GoMadFromTheRevelation makes them go completely insane]], or [[MindRape Mind Rapes]] {{Mind Rape}}s them into serving him. Tails [[spoiler: and Cosmo]] Cosmo are the only people immune to it.
** Episode 66 has a very disturbing example (that also happens to be a ShoutOut to ''Film/EventHorizon''). Astorath is called away from his fight with Sonic and friends by a distress signal from his flagship. When he arrives, he finds the bridge deserted and his escorting fleet gone. He soon discovers a security tape of[[spoiler: his crew [[{{Gorn}} graphically tearing each other apart and mutilating themselves]] as Dark Tails speaks to them]].
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* The beginning of Episode 62 is a flashback of Cosmo escaping her colony ship when Tsali attacks it, and watching in horror as he shoves her sister Galaxina's face into a ruptured fuel pipe and burns her alive. All described in graphic detail. And then it gets [[FridgeHorror even scarier]] when you realize[[spoiler: Galaxina (and Cosmo) is technically his ''little sister'']]...
sister''...
* Episode 67. The ''entire episode'' is NightmareFuel, especially the rewrite. When Beelzebub attacks Chris and Cosmo and drags them into his lair, he strips both of them naked and ties Cosmo to his desk with razor wire. She hears buzzing and notices his skin is turning black. Cue a swarm of flesh-eating flies coming out of Beelzebub's skin pores and feeding everywhere on both of their bodies, including [[RapeAsDrama sexually assaulting]] them in the genitals. ''[[FromBadToWorse And that's not the end of it]]''; after his "children" are done, Beelzebub drags the unconscious Chris out of his chamber.[[spoiler:[[FanDisservice What happens]] [[RapeAsDrama What happens next]] is [[NothingIsScarier fortunately not described]]]].described]]. Cosmo is seconds away from the same fate - and is ''begging Beelzebub to kill her instead'' - when Tails finally reaches them. It's rather telling that in a story filled with violent and dark content, Episode 67 is the [[ThisIsGonnaSuck only chapter with its own content warning]].
** And the kicker?[[spoiler: Beelzebub's stinger - which he used for the deed - is described as being the [[NauseaFuel length of a man's arm and dripping with corrosive acid]]. [[NightmareFuel Now imagine that being used for male-on-male rape]]]]. rape]]. And just to pile on the horror, [[spoiler: neither Chris nor Cosmo ever find out what he did, because Beelzebub healed their wounds and wiped their memories of the torture with neurotoxins before he [[KarmaHoudini escaped]]]].
escaped]].
** Beelzebub alone is creepy - a fat PsychopathicManchild and MadScientist all rolled up into one. Hearing him crack extremely dark jokes while he tortures[[spoiler: and rapes]] rapes [[WouldHurtAChild children]] is quite disconcerting.
*[[spoiler: Tails' HeroicSacrifice]] HeroicSacrifice is both this and a powerful TearJerker. [[spoiler: Dark Tails attempts to [[DemonicPossession possess]] him in a last-ditch attack. As Tails fights back with all his power, the Shroud parasite inside him - and then his body - begins to rapidly mutate from the Dark Chaos Energy surging through him. His bones slowly shatter one by one, his limbs turn to goo, and tentacles burst from his eye sockets as he tries to talk to Cosmo one last time - [[AndIMustScream before they start to regrow and fall off over and over again]]]]. again]]. It's honestly a relief when [[spoiler: Cosmo finally gives him a MercyKill with the Sonic Driver - and takes down Dark Tails with him]].
him.
* At one point, Tsali mentions the fate of Muslim women in the Emirate of Mecca. Because their religious beliefs revolve around [[SexIsEvil sex is evil]], the Muslims turned their women into living baby factories who are [[MedicalRapeAndImpregnate surgically impregnated]] and forced to give birth ''[[{{Squick}} every few seconds]]''. It's [[NothingIsScarier not shown directly]], but it doesn't make it any less disturbing.[[spoiler: Until it actually gets shown in the Episode 71 rewrite, when Eric and friends find a damaged Miriam pod littered on a battlefield. ''[[AndIMustScream With the woman still alive inside it and still pushing out half-formed fetuses]]'']].fetuses]]''.
** Episode 66 has a very disturbing example (that also happens to be a ShoutOut to ''Film/EventHorizon''). Astorath is called away from his fight with Sonic and friends by a distress signal from his flagship. When he arrives, he finds the bridge deserted and his escorting fleet gone. He soon discovers a security tape of
* The beginning of Episode 62 is a flashback of Cosmo escaping her colony ship when Tsali attacks it, and watching in horror as he shoves her sister Galaxina's face into a ruptured fuel pipe and burns her alive. All described in graphic detail. And then it gets [[FridgeHorror even scarier]] when you realize
* Episode 67. The ''entire episode'' is NightmareFuel, especially the rewrite. When Beelzebub attacks Chris and Cosmo and drags them into his lair, he strips both of them naked and ties Cosmo to his desk with razor wire. She hears buzzing and notices his skin is turning black. Cue a swarm of flesh-eating flies coming out of Beelzebub's skin pores and feeding everywhere on both of their bodies, including [[RapeAsDrama sexually assaulting]] them in the genitals. ''[[FromBadToWorse And that's not the end of it]]''; after his "children" are done, Beelzebub drags the unconscious Chris out of his chamber.
** And the kicker?
** Beelzebub alone is creepy - a fat PsychopathicManchild and MadScientist all rolled up into one. Hearing him crack extremely dark jokes while he tortures
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* At one point, Tsali mentions the fate of Muslim women in the Emirate of Mecca. Because their religious beliefs revolve around [[SexIsEvil sex is evil]], the Muslims turned their women into living baby factories who are [[MedicalRapeAndImpregnate surgically impregnated]] and forced to give birth ''[[{{Squick}} every few seconds]]''. It's [[NothingIsScarier not shown directly]], but it doesn't make it any less disturbing.
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** The conspicuous {{demonization}} of Muslims in general is [[FridgeHorror surprisingly chilling]] considering real life politics, especially for religious readers. According to the creator, they're basically ISIL combined with the [[Tabletopgame/Warhammer40000 Dark Eldar]].
* The [[spoiler: Shroud "larder"]] in Episode 69. And [[spoiler: [[BodyHorror the fate of Baalra and his team]]]].
--> '''[[spoiler: Baalra]]''': '''YOU... SHALL MEET... YOUR ENDS... YOU SHALL JOIN... THE ARMIES OF FLESH...'''
* The [[spoiler: Shroud "larder"]] in Episode 69. And [[spoiler: [[BodyHorror the fate of Baalra and his team]]]].
--> '''[[spoiler: Baalra]]''': '''YOU... SHALL MEET... YOUR ENDS... YOU SHALL JOIN... THE ARMIES OF FLESH...'''
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** It's [[spoiler: Tsali's memories of his roboticization, ''[[AndIMustScream alive and awake the entire time]]''.]]
* The nadir of ''Dark Chaos''' horror are the Tsali Endoskeletons, pretty much the twisted lovechild of [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Necron Flayed Ones]] and the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' animatronics. The fact that they're all little more than gibbering animals with [[HorrorHunger an endless hunger for Seedrian flesh]] and a [[{{Squick}} fetish for wearing organs and skin as clothes]] doesn't help. Even if there are only a handful left, the sheer FridgeHorror behind them is enough.
* The nadir of ''Dark Chaos''' horror are the Tsali Endoskeletons, pretty much the twisted lovechild of [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Necron Flayed Ones]] and the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' animatronics. The fact that they're all little more than gibbering animals with [[HorrorHunger an endless hunger for Seedrian flesh]] and a [[{{Squick}} fetish for wearing organs and skin as clothes]] doesn't help. Even if there are only a handful left, the sheer FridgeHorror behind them is enough.
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** It's [[spoiler: Tsali's memories of his roboticization, ''[[AndIMustScream alive and awake the entire time]]''.]]
time]]''.
* The nadir of ''Dark Chaos''' horror are the Tsali Endoskeletons, pretty much the twisted lovechild of [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Necron Flayed Ones]] and the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' animatronics. The fact that they're all little more than gibbering animals with [[HorrorHunger an endless hunger for Seedrian flesh]] and a [[{{Squick}} fetish for wearing organs and skin as clothes]] doesn't help. Even if there are only a handful left, the sheer FridgeHorror behind them is enough.
* The nadir of ''Dark Chaos''' horror are the Tsali Endoskeletons, pretty much the twisted lovechild of [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Necron Flayed Ones]] and the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' animatronics. The fact that they're all little more than gibbering animals with [[HorrorHunger an endless hunger for Seedrian flesh]] and a [[{{Squick}} fetish for wearing organs and skin as clothes]] doesn't help.
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* At one point, Tsali mentions the fate of Muslim women in the Emirate of Mecca. Because their religious beliefs revolve around [[SexIsEvil sex is evil]], the Muslims turned their women into living baby factories who are surgically impregnated and forced to give birth ''[[{{Squick}} every few seconds]]''. It's [[NothingIsScarier not shown directly]], but it doesn't make it any less disturbing. [[spoiler: Until it actually gets shown in the Episode 71 rewrite, when Eric and friends find a damaged Miriam pod littered on a battlefield. ''[[AndIMustScream With the woman still alive inside it and still pushing out half-formed fetuses]]'']].
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* At one point, Tsali mentions the fate of Muslim women in the Emirate of Mecca. Because their religious beliefs revolve around [[SexIsEvil sex is evil]], the Muslims turned their women into living baby factories who are [[MedicalRapeAndImpregnate surgically impregnated impregnated]] and forced to give birth ''[[{{Squick}} every few seconds]]''. It's [[NothingIsScarier not shown directly]], but it doesn't make it any less disturbing. [[spoiler: Until it actually gets shown in the Episode 71 rewrite, when Eric and friends find a damaged Miriam pod littered on a battlefield. ''[[AndIMustScream With the woman still alive inside it and still pushing out half-formed fetuses]]'']].
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* Episode 67. The ''entire episode'' is NightmareFuel, especially the rewrite. When Beelzebub attacks Chris and Cosmo and drags them into his lair, he strips both of them naked and ties Cosmo to his desk with razor wire. She hears buzzing and notices his skin is turning black. Cue a swarm of flesh-eating flies coming out of Beelzebub's skin pores and feeding on both of them. ''[[FromBadToWorse And that's not the end of it]]''; after his "children" are done, Beelzebub drags the unconscious Chris out of his chamber. [[spoiler:[[FanDisservice What happens]] [[RapeAsDrama next]] is [[NothingIsScarier fortunately not described]]]]. Cosmo is seconds away from the same fate - and is ''begging Beelzebub to kill her instead'' - when Tails finally reaches them. It's rather telling that in a story filled with violent and dark content, Episode 67 is the [[ThisIsGonnaSuck only chapter with its own content warning]].
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* Episode 67. The ''entire episode'' is NightmareFuel, especially the rewrite. When Beelzebub attacks Chris and Cosmo and drags them into his lair, he strips both of them naked and ties Cosmo to his desk with razor wire. She hears buzzing and notices his skin is turning black. Cue a swarm of flesh-eating flies coming out of Beelzebub's skin pores and feeding everywhere on both of them.their bodies, including [[RapeAsDrama sexually assaulting]] them in the genitals. ''[[FromBadToWorse And that's not the end of it]]''; after his "children" are done, Beelzebub drags the unconscious Chris out of his chamber. [[spoiler:[[FanDisservice What happens]] [[RapeAsDrama next]] is [[NothingIsScarier fortunately not described]]]]. Cosmo is seconds away from the same fate - and is ''begging Beelzebub to kill her instead'' - when Tails finally reaches them. It's rather telling that in a story filled with violent and dark content, Episode 67 is the [[ThisIsGonnaSuck only chapter with its own content warning]].
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** Beelzebub alone is creepy - a fat PsychopathicManchild and MadScientist all rolled up into one. Hearing him crack extremely dark jokes while he tortures [[spoiler: and rapes]] children is quite disconcerting.
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** Beelzebub alone is creepy - a fat PsychopathicManchild and MadScientist all rolled up into one. Hearing him crack extremely dark jokes while he tortures [[spoiler: and rapes]] children [[WouldHurtAChild children]] is quite disconcerting.
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* The entire setting and backstory. The CrapsackWorld does not hold back or pull any punches, especially the background materials. Rape, murder, torture, genocide, famine, and fundamentalism are all considered routine. Parts of it (particularly anything to do with the Muslims/Emirate of Mecca) could very easily rival ''Warhammer 40K'' in the darkness department.
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* The entire setting and backstory. The CrapsackWorld does not hold back or pull any punches, especially the background materials. Rape, murder, torture, genocide, famine, and fundamentalism are all considered routine. Parts of it (particularly anything to do with the Muslims/Emirate of Mecca) could very easily rival ''Warhammer 40K'' in the darkness department. And all this is based on a children's TV show!
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** The rewrite of Episode 68 reveals what the Muslims do to pacify worlds under their control - they perform [[httsp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation female genital mutilation]] on a ''planetary'' scale.
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** The rewrite of Episode 68 reveals what the Muslims do to pacify worlds under their control - they perform [[httsp://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation female genital mutilation]] on a ''planetary'' scale.
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* How about the '''entire setting and backstory''' to start? The CrapsackWorld does not hold back or pull any punches, especially the background materials. Rape, murder, torture, genocide, famine, and fundamentalism are all considered routine. Parts of it (particularly anything to do with the Muslims/Emirate of Mecca) could very easily rival ''Warhammer 40000'' in the darkness department.
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* How about the '''entire The entire setting and backstory''' to start? backstory. The CrapsackWorld does not hold back or pull any punches, especially the background materials. Rape, murder, torture, genocide, famine, and fundamentalism are all considered routine. Parts of it (particularly anything to do with the Muslims/Emirate of Mecca) could very easily rival ''Warhammer 40000'' 40K'' in the darkness department.
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* At one point, Tsali mentions the fate of Muslim women in the Emirate of Mecca. Because their religious beliefs revolve around SexIsEvil, the Muslims turned their women into living baby factories who are surgically impregnated and forced to give birth ''[[{{Squick}} every few seconds]]''. It's [[NothingIsScarier not shown directly]], but it doesn't make it any less disturbing. [[spoiler: Until it actually gets shown in the Episode 71 rewrite, when Eric and friends find a damaged Miriam pod littered on a battlefield. ''[[AndIMustScream With the woman still alive inside it and still pushing out half-formed fetuses]]'']].
** The rewrite of Episode 68 reveals what the Muslims do to pacify worlds under their control - they perform [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation female genital mutilation]] on a ''planetary'' scale.
** A recent piece of background information actually [[SerialEscalation upped that one]] - the ''Ankaboot'', a gigantic robot spider with lobotomized women attached to the legs, with large pistons molesting them as the robot moves across the battlefield.
** Hell, the conspicuous {{demonization}} of Muslims in general is [[FridgeHorror surprisingly chilling]] considering real life politics, especially for religious readers. According to the creator, they're basically ISIL combined with the [[Tabletopgame/Warhammer40000 Dark Eldar]].
* The [[spoiler: Shroud "larder"]] in Episode 69. On that note, [[spoiler: [[BodyHorror the fate of Baalra and his team]]]].
** The rewrite of Episode 68 reveals what the Muslims do to pacify worlds under their control - they perform [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation female genital mutilation]] on a ''planetary'' scale.
** A recent piece of background information actually [[SerialEscalation upped that one]] - the ''Ankaboot'', a gigantic robot spider with lobotomized women attached to the legs, with large pistons molesting them as the robot moves across the battlefield.
** Hell, the conspicuous {{demonization}} of Muslims in general is [[FridgeHorror surprisingly chilling]] considering real life politics, especially for religious readers. According to the creator, they're basically ISIL combined with the [[Tabletopgame/Warhammer40000 Dark Eldar]].
* The [[spoiler: Shroud "larder"]] in Episode 69. On that note, [[spoiler: [[BodyHorror the fate of Baalra and his team]]]].
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* At one point, Tsali mentions the fate of Muslim women in the Emirate of Mecca. Because their religious beliefs revolve around SexIsEvil, [[SexIsEvil sex is evil]], the Muslims turned their women into living baby factories who are surgically impregnated and forced to give birth ''[[{{Squick}} every few seconds]]''. It's [[NothingIsScarier not shown directly]], but it doesn't make it any less disturbing. [[spoiler: Until it actually gets shown in the Episode 71 rewrite, when Eric and friends find a damaged Miriam pod littered on a battlefield. ''[[AndIMustScream With the woman still alive inside it and still pushing out half-formed fetuses]]'']].
** The rewrite of Episode 68 reveals what the Muslims do to pacify worlds under their control - they perform[[http://en.[[httsp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation female genital mutilation]] on a ''planetary'' scale.
** A recent piece of background information actually [[SerialEscalationupped that one]] takes it to the next level]] - the ''Ankaboot'', a gigantic robot spider mech with lobotomized women attached to the legs, with large pistons molesting them as the robot moves across the battlefield.
**Hell, the The conspicuous {{demonization}} of Muslims in general is [[FridgeHorror surprisingly chilling]] considering real life politics, especially for religious readers. According to the creator, they're basically ISIL combined with the [[Tabletopgame/Warhammer40000 Dark Eldar]].
* The [[spoiler: Shroud "larder"]] in Episode 69.On that note, And [[spoiler: [[BodyHorror the fate of Baalra and his team]]]].
** The rewrite of Episode 68 reveals what the Muslims do to pacify worlds under their control - they perform
** A recent piece of background information actually [[SerialEscalation
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* The [[spoiler: Shroud "larder"]] in Episode 69.
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* Everything about the Shroud. Imagine every single science fiction HordeOfAlienLocusts/TheVirus/parasite trope ever created rolled into one and taken UpToEleven. They regularly devour ''entire galaxies'' on a regular basis. And BodyHorror [[NauseaFuel barely begins to describe their effects]]. It's very telling that both Maledict and ''Jesus Christ'' fear the Shroud more than they fear each other [[spoiler: and are willing to temporarily work together to stop them]].
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* Everything about the Shroud. Imagine every single science fiction HordeOfAlienLocusts/TheVirus/parasite HordeOfAlienLocusts[=/=]TheVirus[=/=]parasite trope ever created rolled into one and taken UpToEleven. They regularly devour ''entire galaxies'' on a regular basis. And BodyHorror [[NauseaFuel barely begins to describe their effects]]. It's very telling that both Maledict and ''Jesus Christ'' fear the Shroud more than they fear each other [[spoiler: and are willing to temporarily work together to stop them]].
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** Hell, the conspicuous {{demonization}} of Muslims in general is [[FridgeHorror surprisingly chilling]] considering real life politics, especially for religious readers. They're basically ISIL combined with the Dark Eldar.
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** Hell, the conspicuous {{demonization}} of Muslims in general is [[FridgeHorror surprisingly chilling]] considering real life politics, especially for religious readers. They're According to the creator, they're basically ISIL combined with the [[Tabletopgame/Warhammer40000 Dark Eldar.Eldar]].
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** What makes it even worse is that the story notably shies away from HumansAreBastards - there are far more moral and decent characters than evil ones. All that horror and tragedy? It's all InherentInTheSystem, and [[CosmicHorrorStory nothing can be done to stop it]].
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** On that note, Shroud Omegas - which are basically the [[Franchise/DeadSpace Brethren Moons]] except ''the size of the Sun''.
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* The nadir of ''Dark Chaos'''s horror are the Tsali Endoskeletons, pretty much the twisted lovechild of [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Necron Flayed Ones]] and the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' animatronics. The fact that they're all little more than gibbering animals with [[HorrorHunger an endless hunger for Seedrian flesh]] and a [[{{Squick}} fetish for wearing organs and skin as clothes]] doesn't help. Even if there are only a handful left, the sheer FridgeHorror behind them is enough.
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* The nadir of ''Dark Chaos'''s horror are the Tsali Endoskeletons, pretty much the twisted lovechild of [[TabletopGames/{{Warhammer40000}} Necron Flayed Ones]] and the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' animatronics. The fact that they're all little more than gibbering animals with [[HorrorHunger an endless hunger for Seedrian flesh]] and a [[{{Squick}} fetish for wearing organs and skin as clothes]] doesn't help. Even if there are only a handful left, the sheer FridgeHorror behind them is enough.
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* The nadir of ''Dark Chaos'''s horror are the Tsali Endoskeletons, pretty much the twisted lovechild of [[TabletopGames/{{Warhammer40000}} [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Necron Flayed Ones]] and the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' animatronics. The fact that they're all little more than gibbering animals with [[HorrorHunger an endless hunger for Seedrian flesh]] and a [[{{Squick}} fetish for wearing organs and skin as clothes]] doesn't help. Even if there are only a handful left, the sheer FridgeHorror behind them is enough.
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** Hell, the conspicuous {{demonization}} of Muslims in general is [[FridgeHorror surprisingly chilling]] considering real life politics, especially for religious readers.
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** Hell, the conspicuous {{demonization}} of Muslims in general is [[FridgeHorror surprisingly chilling]] considering real life politics, especially for religious readers. They're basically ISIL combined with the Dark Eldar.
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* The [[spoiler: Shroud "larder"]] in Episode 69. On that note, [[spoiler: [[BodyHorror the fate of Baalra and his team]]]].
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--> '''[[spoiler: Baalra]]''': '''YOU... SHALL MEET... YOUR ENDS... YOU SHALL JOIN... THE ARMIES OF FLESH...'''
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** The beginning of Episode 62 is a flashback of Cosmo escaping her colony ship when Tsali attacks it, and watching in horror as he shoves her sister Galaxina's face into a ruptured fuel pipe and burns her alive. All described in graphic detail. And then it gets [[FridgeHorror even scarier]] when you realize [[spoiler: Galaxina (and Cosmo) is technically his ''little sister'']]...
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* How about the '''entire setting and backstory''' to start? The CrapsackWorld does not hold back or pull any punches, especially the background materials. Rape, murder, torture, genocide, famine, and fundamentalism are all considered routine. Parts of it could very easily rival ''Warhammer 40000'' in the darkness department.
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* How about the '''entire setting and backstory''' to start? The CrapsackWorld does not hold back or pull any punches, especially the background materials. Rape, murder, torture, genocide, famine, and fundamentalism are all considered routine. Parts of it (particularly anything to do with the Muslims/Emirate of Mecca) could very easily rival ''Warhammer 40000'' in the darkness department.
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* The nadir of ''Dark Chaos'''s horror are the Tsali Endoskeletons, pretty much the twisted lovechild of [[TabletopGames/{{Warhammer40000}} Necron Flayed Ones]] and the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' animatronics. The fact that they're all little more than gibbering animals with [[HorrorHunger an endless hunger for Seedrian flesh]] and a [[{{Squick}} fetish for wearing organs and skin as clothes clothes]] doesn't help. Even if there are only a handful left, the sheer FridgeHorror behind them is enough.
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** Hell, the conspicuous {{demonization}} of Muslims in general is [[FridgeHorror surprisingly chilling]] considering real life politics, especially for religious readers (even if much of it is [[BlackComedy rather tongue-in-cheek]]).
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** What makes it even worse is that the story notably averts HumansAreBastards. All that horror and tragedy? It's all InherentInTheSystem, and [[CosmicHorrorStory nothing can be done to fully stop it]].
** What makes it even worse is that the story notably averts HumansAreBastards. All that horror and tragedy? It's all InherentInTheSystem, and [[CosmicHorrorStory nothing can be done to fully stop it]].
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routine. Parts of it could very easily rival ''Warhammer 40000'' in the darkness department.
** What makes it even worse is that the story notablyaverts HumansAreBastards. shies away from HumansAreBastards - there are far more moral and decent characters than evil ones. All that horror and tragedy? It's all InherentInTheSystem, and [[CosmicHorrorStory nothing can be done to fully stop it]].
** What makes it even worse is that the story notably
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* In Episode 71, Trinity starts hacking into Tsali's hideout computers when he is left alone. He discovers a number of recorded memories that Tsali uploaded. The ones he finds are scary enough, including one of him setting Seedrians on fire while he massacres an entire ship, but the last one takes the cake; [[NothingIsScarier nothing but static and distorted electronic screaming]].
** It's [[spoiler: Tsali's memories of his roboticization, ''[[AndIMustScream alive and awake the entire time]]''.]]
** It's [[spoiler: Tsali's memories of his roboticization, ''[[AndIMustScream alive and awake the entire time]]''.]]
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* How about the '''entire setting and backstory''' to start? The CrapsackWorld does not hold back or pull any punches, especially the background materials. Rape, murder, torture, genocide, famine, and fundamentalism are all considered routine. The fact that a lot of it relies on FridgeHorror doesn't help.
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* The nadir of ''Dark Chaos'''s horror are the Tsali Endoskeletons, pretty much the twisted lovechild of [[TabletopGames/{{Warhammer40000}} Necron Flayed Ones]] and the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' animatronics. The fact that they're all little more than gibbering animals with [[HorrorHunger an endless hunger for Seedrian flesh]] doesn't help. Even if there are only a handful left, the sheer FridgeHorror behind them is enough.
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* The nadir of ''Dark Chaos'''s horror are the Tsali Endoskeletons, pretty much the twisted lovechild of [[TabletopGames/{{Warhammer40000}} Necron Flayed Ones]] and the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' animatronics. The fact that they're all little more than gibbering animals with [[HorrorHunger an endless hunger for Seedrian flesh]] and a fetish for wearing organs and skin as clothes doesn't help. Even if there are only a handful left, the sheer FridgeHorror behind them is enough.
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* The '''entire setting and backstory'''. The CrapsackWorld does not hold back or pull any punches, especially the background materials. Rape, murder, torture, genocide, famine, and fundamentalism are all considered routine.
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* The nadir of ''Dark Chaos'''s horror are the Tsali Endoskeletons, pretty much the twisted lovechild of [[TabletopGames/{{Warhammer40000}} Necron Flayed Ones]] and the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' animatronics. The fact that they're all little more than gibbering animals with [[HorrorHunger an endless hunger for Seedrian flesh]] doesn't help. Even if there are only a handful left, the sheer FridgeHorror behind them is enough.
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* The '''entire setting and backstory'''. The CrapsackWorld does not hold back or pull any punches, especially the background materials. Rape, murder, torture, genocide, famine, and fundamentalism are all normal.
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* Simply put, the '''entire setting'''. The CrapsackWorld does not hold back or pull any punches, especially the background materials. Rape, murder, torture, genocide, famine, and fundamentalism are all normal.
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** Hell, the conspicuous {{demonization}} of Muslims in general is [[FridgeHorror surprisingly chilling]] considering real life politics, especially for religious readers (even if much of it is rather tongue-in-cheek).
** The nadir of ''Dark Chaos'''s horror are the Tsali Endoskeletons, pretty much the twisted lovechild of [[TabletopGames/{{Warhammer40000}} Necron Flayed Ones]] and the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' animatronics. The fact that they're all little more than gibbering animals with [[HorrorHunger an endless hunger for Seedrian flesh]] doesn't help.
** The nadir of ''Dark Chaos'''s horror are the Tsali Endoskeletons, pretty much the twisted lovechild of [[TabletopGames/{{Warhammer40000}} Necron Flayed Ones]] and the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' animatronics. The fact that they're all little more than gibbering animals with [[HorrorHunger an endless hunger for Seedrian flesh]] doesn't help.
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** * The nadir of ''Dark Chaos'''s horror are the Tsali Endoskeletons, pretty much the twisted lovechild of [[TabletopGames/{{Warhammer40000}} Necron Flayed Ones]] and the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' animatronics. The fact that they're all little more than gibbering animals with [[HorrorHunger an endless hunger for Seedrian flesh]] doesn't help.
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* ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos'' and its expanded universe is filled with this. Considering its [[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei primary]] [[TabletopGames/{{Warhammer40000}} influences]], this is to be expected.
** The trope is acknowledged in-universe. Hearing the voice of [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]] is so unimaginably horrific that it either [[BrownNote kills his victims outright from terror]], [[GoMadFromTheRevelation makes them go completely insane]], or [[MindRape Mind Rapes]] them into serving him. Tails [[spoiler: and Cosmo]] are the only people immune to it.
*** Episode 66 has a very disturbing example (that also happens to be a ShoutOut to ''Film/EventHorizon''). Astorath is called away from his fight with Sonic and friends by a distress signal from his flagship. When he arrives, he finds the bridge deserted and his escorting fleet gone. He soon discovers a security tape of [[spoiler: his crew [[{{Gorn}} graphically tearing each other apart and mutilating themselves]] as Dark Tails speaks to them]].
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** Episode 67. The ''entire episode'' is NightmareFuel, especially the rewrite. When Beelzebub attacks Chris and Cosmo and drags them into his lair, he strips both of them naked and ties Cosmo to his desk with razor wire. She hears buzzing and notices his skin is turning black. Cue a swarm of flesh-eating flies coming out of Beelzebub's skin pores and feeding on both of them. ''[[FromBadToWorse And that's not the end of it]]''; after his "children" are done, Beelzebub drags the unconscious Chris out of his chamber. [[spoiler:[[FanDisservice What happens]] [[RapeAsDrama next]] is [[NothingIsScarier fortunately not described]]]]. Cosmo is seconds away from the same fate - and is ''begging Beelzebub to kill her instead'' - when Tails finally reaches them. It's rather telling that in a story filled with violent and dark content, Episode 67 is the [[ThisIsGonnaSuck only chapter with its own content warning]].
*** And the kicker? [[spoiler: Beelzebub's stinger - which he used for the deed - is described as being the [[NauseaFuel length of a man's arm and dripping with corrosive acid]]. [[NightmareFuel Now imagine that being used for male-on-male rape]]]]. And just to pile on the horror, [[spoiler: neither Chris nor Cosmo ever find out what he did, because Beelzebub healed their wounds and wiped their memories of the torture with neurotoxins before he [[KarmaHoudini escaped]]]].
*** Beelzebub alone is creepy - a fat PsychopathicManchild and MadScientist all rolled up into one. Hearing him crack extremely dark jokes while he tortures [[spoiler: and rapes]] children is quite disconcerting.
** [[spoiler: Tails' HeroicSacrifice]] is both this and a powerful TearJerker. [[spoiler: Dark Tails attempts to [[DemonicPossession possess]] him in a last-ditch attack. As Tails fights back with all his power, the Shroud parasite inside him - and then his body - begins to rapidly mutate from the Dark Chaos Energy surging through him. His bones slowly shatter one by one, his limbs turn to goo, and tentacles burst from his eye sockets as he tries to talk to Cosmo one last time - [[AndIMustScream before they start to regrow and fall off over and over again]]]]. It's honestly a relief when [[spoiler: Cosmo finally gives him a MercyKill with the Sonic Driver - and takes down Dark Tails with him]].
** At one point, Tsali mentions the fate of Muslim women in the Emirate of Mecca. Because their religious beliefs revolve around SexIsEvil, the Muslims turned their women into living baby factories who are surgically impregnated and forced to give birth ''[[{{Squick}} every few seconds]]''. It's [[NothingIsScarier not shown directly]], but it doesn't make it any less disturbing. [[spoiler: Until it actually gets shown in the Episode 71 rewrite, when Eric and friends find a damaged Miriam pod littered on a battlefield. ''[[AndIMustScream With the woman still alive inside it and still pushing out half-formed fetuses]]'']].
*** The rewrite of Episode 68 reveals what the Muslims do to pacify worlds under their control - they perform [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation female genital mutilation]] on a ''planetary'' scale.
*** A recent piece of background information actually [[SerialEscalation upped that one]] - the ''Ankaboot'', a gigantic robot spider with lobotomized women attached to the legs, with large pistons molesting them as the robot moves across the battlefield.
*** Hell, the conspicuous {{demonization}} of Muslims in general is [[FridgeHorror surprisingly chilling]] considering real life politics, especially for religious readers (even if much of it is rather tongue-in-cheek).
*** And the kicker? [[spoiler: Beelzebub's stinger - which he used for the deed - is described as being the [[NauseaFuel length of a man's arm and dripping with corrosive acid]]. [[NightmareFuel Now imagine that being used for male-on-male rape]]]]. And just to pile on the horror, [[spoiler: neither Chris nor Cosmo ever find out what he did, because Beelzebub healed their wounds and wiped their memories of the torture with neurotoxins before he [[KarmaHoudini escaped]]]].
*** Beelzebub alone is creepy - a fat PsychopathicManchild and MadScientist all rolled up into one. Hearing him crack extremely dark jokes while he tortures [[spoiler: and rapes]] children is quite disconcerting.
** [[spoiler: Tails' HeroicSacrifice]] is both this and a powerful TearJerker. [[spoiler: Dark Tails attempts to [[DemonicPossession possess]] him in a last-ditch attack. As Tails fights back with all his power, the Shroud parasite inside him - and then his body - begins to rapidly mutate from the Dark Chaos Energy surging through him. His bones slowly shatter one by one, his limbs turn to goo, and tentacles burst from his eye sockets as he tries to talk to Cosmo one last time - [[AndIMustScream before they start to regrow and fall off over and over again]]]]. It's honestly a relief when [[spoiler: Cosmo finally gives him a MercyKill with the Sonic Driver - and takes down Dark Tails with him]].
** At one point, Tsali mentions the fate of Muslim women in the Emirate of Mecca. Because their religious beliefs revolve around SexIsEvil, the Muslims turned their women into living baby factories who are surgically impregnated and forced to give birth ''[[{{Squick}} every few seconds]]''. It's [[NothingIsScarier not shown directly]], but it doesn't make it any less disturbing. [[spoiler: Until it actually gets shown in the Episode 71 rewrite, when Eric and friends find a damaged Miriam pod littered on a battlefield. ''[[AndIMustScream With the woman still alive inside it and still pushing out half-formed fetuses]]'']].
*** The rewrite of Episode 68 reveals what the Muslims do to pacify worlds under their control - they perform [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation female genital mutilation]] on a ''planetary'' scale.
*** A recent piece of background information actually [[SerialEscalation upped that one]] - the ''Ankaboot'', a gigantic robot spider with lobotomized women attached to the legs, with large pistons molesting them as the robot moves across the battlefield.
*** Hell, the conspicuous {{demonization}} of Muslims in general is [[FridgeHorror surprisingly chilling]] considering real life politics, especially for religious readers (even if much of it is rather tongue-in-cheek).
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Simply put, ''Sonic X: Dark Chaos'' lives up its name as a DarkerAndEdgier retelling of Sonic X's third and final season.
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* ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos'' and its expanded universe is filled with this. Considering its [[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei primary]] [[TabletopGames/{{Warhammer40000}} influences]], this is to be expected.
** The trope is acknowledged in-universe. Hearing the voice of [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]] is so unimaginably horrific that it either [[BrownNote kills his victims outright from terror]], [[GoMadFromTheRevelation makes them go completely insane]], or [[MindRape Mind Rapes]] them into serving him. Tails [[spoiler: and Cosmo]] are the only people immune to it.
*** Episode 66 has a very disturbing example (that also happens to be a ShoutOut to ''Film/EventHorizon''). Astorath is called away from his fight with Sonic and friends by a distress signal from his flagship. When he arrives, he finds the bridge deserted and his escorting fleet gone. He soon discovers a security tape of [[spoiler: his crew [[{{Gorn}} graphically tearing each other apart and mutilating themselves]] as Dark Tails speaks to them]].
** The beginning of Episode 62 is a flashback of Cosmo escaping her colony ship when Tsali attacks it, and watching in horror as he shoves her sister Galaxina's face into a ruptured fuel pipe and burns her alive. All described in graphic detail. And then it gets [[FridgeHorror even scarier]] when you realize [[spoiler: Galaxina (and Cosmo) is technically his ''little sister'']]...
** Episode 67. The ''entire episode'' is NightmareFuel, especially the rewrite. When Beelzebub attacks Chris and Cosmo and drags them into his lair, he strips both of them naked and ties Cosmo to his desk with razor wire. She hears buzzing and notices his skin is turning black. Cue a swarm of flesh-eating flies coming out of Beelzebub's skin pores and feeding on both of them. ''[[FromBadToWorse And that's not the end of it]]''; after his "children" are done, Beelzebub drags the unconscious Chris out of his chamber. [[spoiler:[[FanDisservice What happens]] [[RapeAsDrama next]] is [[NothingIsScarier fortunately not described]]]]. Cosmo is seconds away from the same fate - and is ''begging Beelzebub to kill her instead'' - when Tails finally reaches them. It's rather telling that in a story filled with violent and dark content, Episode 67 is the [[ThisIsGonnaSuck only chapter with its own content warning]].
*** And the kicker? [[spoiler: Beelzebub's stinger - which he used for the deed - is described as being the [[NauseaFuel length of a man's arm and dripping with corrosive acid]]. [[NightmareFuel Now imagine that being used for male-on-male rape]]]]. And just to pile on the horror, [[spoiler: neither Chris nor Cosmo ever find out what he did, because Beelzebub healed their wounds and wiped their memories of the torture with neurotoxins before he [[KarmaHoudini escaped]]]].
*** Beelzebub alone is creepy - a fat PsychopathicManchild and MadScientist all rolled up into one. Hearing him crack extremely dark jokes while he tortures [[spoiler: and rapes]] children is quite disconcerting.
** [[spoiler: Tails' HeroicSacrifice]] is both this and a powerful TearJerker. [[spoiler: Dark Tails attempts to [[DemonicPossession possess]] him in a last-ditch attack. As Tails fights back with all his power, the Shroud parasite inside him - and then his body - begins to rapidly mutate from the Dark Chaos Energy surging through him. His bones slowly shatter one by one, his limbs turn to goo, and tentacles burst from his eye sockets as he tries to talk to Cosmo one last time - [[AndIMustScream before they start to regrow and fall off over and over again]]]]. It's honestly a relief when [[spoiler: Cosmo finally gives him a MercyKill with the Sonic Driver - and takes down Dark Tails with him]].
** At one point, Tsali mentions the fate of Muslim women in the Emirate of Mecca. Because their religious beliefs revolve around SexIsEvil, the Muslims turned their women into living baby factories who are surgically impregnated and forced to give birth ''[[{{Squick}} every few seconds]]''. It's [[NothingIsScarier not shown directly]], but it doesn't make it any less disturbing. [[spoiler: Until it actually gets shown in the Episode 71 rewrite, when Eric and friends find a damaged Miriam pod littered on a battlefield. ''[[AndIMustScream With the woman still alive inside it and still pushing out half-formed fetuses]]'']].
*** The rewrite of Episode 68 reveals what the Muslims do to pacify worlds under their control - they perform [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation female genital mutilation]] on a ''planetary'' scale.
*** A recent piece of background information actually [[SerialEscalation upped that one]] - the ''Ankaboot'', a gigantic robot spider with lobotomized women attached to the legs, with large pistons molesting them as the robot moves across the battlefield.
*** Hell, the conspicuous {{demonization}} of Muslims in general is [[FridgeHorror surprisingly chilling]] considering real life politics, especially for religious readers (even if much of it is rather tongue-in-cheek).
** The nadir of ''Dark Chaos'''s horror are the Tsali Endoskeletons, pretty much the twisted lovechild of [[TabletopGames/{{Warhammer40000}} Necron Flayed Ones]] and the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' animatronics. The fact that they're all little more than gibbering animals with [[HorrorHunger an endless hunger for Seedrian flesh]] doesn't help.
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* ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos'' and its expanded universe is filled with this. Considering its [[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei primary]] [[TabletopGames/{{Warhammer40000}} influences]], this is to be expected.
** The trope is acknowledged in-universe. Hearing the voice of [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]] is so unimaginably horrific that it either [[BrownNote kills his victims outright from terror]], [[GoMadFromTheRevelation makes them go completely insane]], or [[MindRape Mind Rapes]] them into serving him. Tails [[spoiler: and Cosmo]] are the only people immune to it.
*** Episode 66 has a very disturbing example (that also happens to be a ShoutOut to ''Film/EventHorizon''). Astorath is called away from his fight with Sonic and friends by a distress signal from his flagship. When he arrives, he finds the bridge deserted and his escorting fleet gone. He soon discovers a security tape of [[spoiler: his crew [[{{Gorn}} graphically tearing each other apart and mutilating themselves]] as Dark Tails speaks to them]].
** The beginning of Episode 62 is a flashback of Cosmo escaping her colony ship when Tsali attacks it, and watching in horror as he shoves her sister Galaxina's face into a ruptured fuel pipe and burns her alive. All described in graphic detail. And then it gets [[FridgeHorror even scarier]] when you realize [[spoiler: Galaxina (and Cosmo) is technically his ''little sister'']]...
** Episode 67. The ''entire episode'' is NightmareFuel, especially the rewrite. When Beelzebub attacks Chris and Cosmo and drags them into his lair, he strips both of them naked and ties Cosmo to his desk with razor wire. She hears buzzing and notices his skin is turning black. Cue a swarm of flesh-eating flies coming out of Beelzebub's skin pores and feeding on both of them. ''[[FromBadToWorse And that's not the end of it]]''; after his "children" are done, Beelzebub drags the unconscious Chris out of his chamber. [[spoiler:[[FanDisservice What happens]] [[RapeAsDrama next]] is [[NothingIsScarier fortunately not described]]]]. Cosmo is seconds away from the same fate - and is ''begging Beelzebub to kill her instead'' - when Tails finally reaches them. It's rather telling that in a story filled with violent and dark content, Episode 67 is the [[ThisIsGonnaSuck only chapter with its own content warning]].
*** And the kicker? [[spoiler: Beelzebub's stinger - which he used for the deed - is described as being the [[NauseaFuel length of a man's arm and dripping with corrosive acid]]. [[NightmareFuel Now imagine that being used for male-on-male rape]]]]. And just to pile on the horror, [[spoiler: neither Chris nor Cosmo ever find out what he did, because Beelzebub healed their wounds and wiped their memories of the torture with neurotoxins before he [[KarmaHoudini escaped]]]].
*** Beelzebub alone is creepy - a fat PsychopathicManchild and MadScientist all rolled up into one. Hearing him crack extremely dark jokes while he tortures [[spoiler: and rapes]] children is quite disconcerting.
** [[spoiler: Tails' HeroicSacrifice]] is both this and a powerful TearJerker. [[spoiler: Dark Tails attempts to [[DemonicPossession possess]] him in a last-ditch attack. As Tails fights back with all his power, the Shroud parasite inside him - and then his body - begins to rapidly mutate from the Dark Chaos Energy surging through him. His bones slowly shatter one by one, his limbs turn to goo, and tentacles burst from his eye sockets as he tries to talk to Cosmo one last time - [[AndIMustScream before they start to regrow and fall off over and over again]]]]. It's honestly a relief when [[spoiler: Cosmo finally gives him a MercyKill with the Sonic Driver - and takes down Dark Tails with him]].
** At one point, Tsali mentions the fate of Muslim women in the Emirate of Mecca. Because their religious beliefs revolve around SexIsEvil, the Muslims turned their women into living baby factories who are surgically impregnated and forced to give birth ''[[{{Squick}} every few seconds]]''. It's [[NothingIsScarier not shown directly]], but it doesn't make it any less disturbing. [[spoiler: Until it actually gets shown in the Episode 71 rewrite, when Eric and friends find a damaged Miriam pod littered on a battlefield. ''[[AndIMustScream With the woman still alive inside it and still pushing out half-formed fetuses]]'']].
*** The rewrite of Episode 68 reveals what the Muslims do to pacify worlds under their control - they perform [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation female genital mutilation]] on a ''planetary'' scale.
*** A recent piece of background information actually [[SerialEscalation upped that one]] - the ''Ankaboot'', a gigantic robot spider with lobotomized women attached to the legs, with large pistons molesting them as the robot moves across the battlefield.
*** Hell, the conspicuous {{demonization}} of Muslims in general is [[FridgeHorror surprisingly chilling]] considering real life politics, especially for religious readers (even if much of it is rather tongue-in-cheek).
** The nadir of ''Dark Chaos'''s horror are the Tsali Endoskeletons, pretty much the twisted lovechild of [[TabletopGames/{{Warhammer40000}} Necron Flayed Ones]] and the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' animatronics. The fact that they're all little more than gibbering animals with [[HorrorHunger an endless hunger for Seedrian flesh]] doesn't help.
