History NightmareFuel / SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries

* '''Spider-Carnage'''. He happens to be one of the darkest Spider-Man villains ever made and it's not hard to see why. Imagine a Peter Parker who has lost everyone he loved and found out he'd been cloned and was led to believe he was a clone, having gone so insane with rage and grief he decides to fuse with the Carnage symbiote, become a deranged cackling maniac working with the Kingpin (who describes Spider-Carnage as too evil by even his standards), Hobgoblin, and the Green Goblin to destroy New York and take over the world. The New York of his world is literally a wasteland on fire and Spider-Carnage actually plans to set off a chain reaction that will eventually destroy the all of reality and actually '''succeeds.''' [[DeusExMachina The Beyonder]] actually intervened and used almost all of his power to reset time just for the chance he could be stopped.

** The plot involves a former actress named Miranda Wilson who went missing during the filming of an action movie. Due to MJ and Miranda looking alike, MJ is cast as her replacement to film the remaining scenes. The creepiness begins when MJ witnesses a vision of her own abusive father, which later leads her into a series of catacombs underneath the film studio, through a series of dank caves and rocky passages until she reaches an underground lab... where we see it was nothing more than an animatronic, in all it's disturbing glory, with wires and pistons protruding from across it's body

-->''Forgive me! FORGIVE '''MEEEEEEE!!!'''''

-->'''Eddie:''' No...NO! YOU ''DARE''--!\\

'''Venom:''' '''''GAAAAAAH!''''' We'll ''crush'' you like a ''WORM''...!

[[caption-width-right:350:'''The Punisher:''' I looked the devil square in the eyes... and I blinked.]]

--->'''Spider-Man:''' '''Get back ''HERE, SHOCKER!! SHOOOCKEEERRRRRRRR!!!'' YOOOU CAAAN'T ESCAAAAPE MEEE!! I'LL CHASE YOU TO ''THE ENDS OF THE EAAAAAARTH!!!!'''''

* Spider-Man's reaction to him watching Mary Jane fall into one of the portals, presumably to her death. He's out to ''kill'' Green Goblin. It's not black suit Spidey, being controlled and crossing the lines. It's Peter Parker, having watched the woman he loves die, and wanting to kill the man responsible, literally ''pushing'' him toward a portal that threatens to suck him in.

** More overtly disturbing is the fact Morris Bench is defined in this series as Mary Jane's former BastardBoyfriend, whom she dumped for being a ControlFreak who tried to run her life. And this is the exact same mentality he maintains when he appears; an obsessive, vindictive, controlling stalker who feels EntitledToHaveYou is scary enough. Add in his ''vast'' power and watching him chasing after Mary Jane becomes terrifying.

* While he may have been significantly toned down, Carnage was still pretty terrifying. In fact, back when he was just known as Cletus Kasady, he was specifically quoted to have done things even the post wouldn't print.

[[caption-width-right:350:'''The Punisher''': I looked the devil square in the eyes... and I blinked.]]

** Spider-Man himself [[BodyHorror mutating]] into a [[ParanoiaFuel hideous, vicious, terrifying man-spider]]. The change doesn't happen until the very last minute of the episode, but it's still a horrific scene, with Peter's gloved hands mutating into distorted claws before he starts HulkingOut. TheReveal of the new Man-Spider is like something out of a horror movie, with the Punisher, who had been chasing Peter along effortlessly for most of the episode, suddenly finding himself effortlessly manhandled by a towering arachnoid horror. The OhCrap face as he grabs Spiderman's torn, discarded mask and holds it up, realizing what this ''thing'' was. And then there's the very last shot of the scene; Man-Spider, lit from behind so he's just a silhouette, with the only features distinguishable being his ''huge'' fangs and six glowing blood-red eyes, leaning down in an EatTheCamera shot...

* There's something subtly disturbing about the storylines involving Hydro-Man -- his [[ImplacableMan sheer relentlessness combined with the fact that anything Peter does to him will only stall him for a few minutes]] is bad enough, but then he dies because Mary-Jane tricks him into spending so long away from water that he evaporates, and Spider-Man just ''has'' to say that water is so common that it's possible he'll come back one day, which means a) it's possible that he's still ''sentient'' in his evaporated form, b) he might return having learned from that defeat, rendering him genuinely impossible to get rid of. And then he ''does'' come back. And it turns out that he and the current Mary-Jane are both clones of the originals, and they both just disintegrate into water.

** Not to mention Mary-Jane's fate herself. She spends the rest of the series falling through a wormhole with no escape. And seeing as obvious weeks and months have passed and it still shows her falling, [[AndIMustScream she obviously cannot die in there]].

* While he may have been significantly toned down, Carnage was still pretty terrifying. In fact, back when he was just known as Cletus Kassady, he was specifically quoted to have done things even the post wouldn't print.
** As the police force are about to storm Kassidy's hideout, Lt. Lee gets a warning from the Chief that perfectly establishes the [[SerialKiller kind of man]] Kassidy is.
-->'''Chief''': Terri, you like your job? [...] Kassidy ''loves'' his.

'''Spider-Man:''' You ''will.'' (''shoots a webline at a metal door and reels it in'') It's like this, I'm through with not getting what I want!\\

'''Spider-Man:''' That's funny. I give up, too. (''lifts the metal door above Rhino'') I give up trying to be a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.\\

** NarmCharm, ChewingTheScenery and MemeticMutation aside, the scene where symbiote!Spider-Man gives chase to Shocker can be downright ''terrifying'' in the latter's perspective. To see that humble, quippy lighthearted hero who stopped you non-lethally, now wearing all-black, having resorted to one brutal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown after another, and ''screaming your name at the top of his lungs out of a lust for your blood'' is downright horrifying. Not to mention, this is a man with spider-esque powers, having gone DrunkWithPower: you? You're just [[BadassNormal a guy with vibro-shock gauntlets.]]
-->'''Spider-Man''': '''Get back ''HERE, SHOCKER!! SHOOOCKEEERRRRRRRR!!!'' YOOOU CAAAN'T ESCAAAAPE MEEE!! I'LL CHASE YOU TO ''THE ENDS OF THE EAAAAAARTH!!!!'''''

-->'''Eddie''': No...NO! YOU ''DARE''--!\\
''(turns into Venom and smashes through a wall)''\\
'''Venom''': '''''GAAAAAAH!''''' We'll ''crush'' you like a ''WORM''...!

* 'The Haunting Of Mary-Jane Watson'. Easily one of the spookiest episodes of the show

** Mysterio and Spider-Man arrive to save the day, revealing that the machine Mysterio built was actually a giant ruse. It was never going to work, but he did it because it made Miranda happy. He loved her, and wanted her to be able to enjoy something in her life... but in the end, it isn't enough, and she triggers a self-destruct mechanism to destroy the hideout, and her too. Mysterio even willingly stays with her. It's revealed in a later episode that Mysterio canonically died in the explosion. That's right, this episode not only featured at least one confirmed death, but it's unlikely Miranda made it out either, meaning there was also a ''suicide''

[[caption-width-right:350:DIE YOU DEMON FROM HELL!!!]]

* Venom makes his grand debut in TV in this show, and even though he does have his funny moments and eventual HeelFaceTurn, he turns out just as he did in canon: ''terrifying on a personal level''. After his first encounter with Venom, Peter continuously hallucinates him everywhere, from a billboard to a magazine, and as his influence continues, Eddie goes as far as to ''visit Aunt May'' just to track down Peter. And once Spidey retaliates by defiling his hideout, Venom ''flips the hell out'' and is completely single-mindedly set on ''killing the spider''.

** The costume acting on its own accord and knocking Rhino over a ledge and down to his death with a tendril. Peter is horrified.

* Dr. Connors [[GrotesqueGallery visibly mutating]] into The Lizard in the first episode.

** Peter's recollections of his own origin story. He has a dream in which first his limbs turn red from the spider bite, then he mutates into a {{Drider}}, gets flushed down the drain by Aunt May while screaming for help, then washes up in the river, having grown to monstrous size, and is chased by the army who shoot ''missiles'' at him.