Line #18 NightmareFuel/Claymore


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Welcome to ''Claymore'', [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished Beauty]] can [[{{Subverted}} be Tarnished]]]]
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4	* From the very first chapter, the Youma that took Zaki's identity and its attack on Raki. Zaki's memories are still active within the monster's body, forcing it to cry. Zaki can watch, but can't act on what the Youma is going to do. [[AndIMustScream Now that is horrifying.]]
5	** With the revelations of later chapters, it appears that Youma are literally the person that they most recently 'consumed'. With Youma being parasites that jump from body to body, the original host body's mind is subverted by the youma's, with the parasite making full use of the body's memories and mannerisms to play its part perfectly. Meaning not only were Zaki's memories still active, but Zaki was still the very Zaki that Raki grew up with, he was just no longer in control of his own body.
6	** It's even worse than that. The Youma are really mindless parasites that merely mutate their hosts and drive them insane with a HorrorHunger that only human entrails can satisfy. Meaning Zaki was still in control of his own body, but was so damn hungry for human flesh that he no longer even cared if he killed and ate his own little brother.
7	* Clare got assimilated by the Destroyer, which involved the lower half of her body being infected and detached from the upper part of her body, with the remainder of her body being infected after that.
8	* The Abyss feeders. First, they are created out of [[WasOnceAMan human women]], and look like those, only [[FanDisservice almost naked]]and with their eyes and mouths sewn shut. In contrast to their looks, their behaviour retains not even the faintest traces of humanity or even individuality - they're reduced to mindless predators. What has been done to them is bad enough, but nothing compared to what they can do to ''you'': They are conditioned to crave the flesh of one particular individual, relentlessly tracking their target by scent. They have an immense HealingFactor and even if you manage to take them out, they will retreat if more than half of them are killed, only for their numbers to be replenished by their creators. When they do so, they scatter into all directions, so the best you can do is to follow and kill a single one of them. No matter how many times you kill them, they ''just keep coming'', never allowing you any rest, wearing you down little by little. They also share their experience, so that they get better and better at fighting you, until they '''''eat you alive'''''.
9	* Imagine coming home to find your mother lying on the floor dead, ripped open, with your father eating her insides. Welcome to the typical Claymore backstory.
10	* The recently resurrected #1, Roxanne, is just a pail full of high octane nightmare fuel by herself. Imagine that you're faced with crazy 'ol Ophelia again - only she's ten times [[DeceptiveDisciple more deceptive]], [[ManipulativeBitch more cunning]], and has ZERO [[FreudianExcuse redeeming qualities]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast or troubled back story]] (if she does, we don't care). Roxanne is quite possibly the series' '''first''' serious complete monster who still had the title of a Claymore.
11	** Prior to her own transformation, Roxanne dukes it out with another recently-turned Awakened Being. That being is composed of what looks like several [[FanDisservice female bits of various scale]] [[BodyHorror stacked together randomly to create a]] [[CreepyCentipedes Creepy Centipede]]. Which proceeds to momentarily kick Roxanne's ass. ''And Roxanne is still more terrifying than her opponent''. It does NOT help that Roxanne's ''completely human'' face is straight out of the UncannyValley.
12	* Even though it's not as graphic as its [[SpiritualPredecessor spiritual]] [[{{Manga/Berserk}} forefather]], there is a pretty disturbing amount of EyeScream in ''Claymore''. Need examples?
13	** Rafaela gets her left eye clawed out when her older sister, Luciela, awakened after an experimental soul-linking attempt [[GoneHorriblyWrong went horribly wrong.]]
14	** Galatea blinds herself in both eyes in order to hide in a city that bars Claymores from within its walls.
15	** When they were up against the Abyss Eaters for the first time, Helen gets her eye scratched out. Luckily for her, she was able to regenerate it later.
16	** Another Claymore during Roxanne's time has a missing eye from an unknown cause, but it happened before she became a Claymore. And then Roxanne mimicked her by gouging her own eye out.
17	** It's implied that when she was slashed to death, Cassandra had one of her eyes sliced in half.
18	** In the anime, [[BloodierAndGorier which was far more graphic than the manga,]] Noel got impaled through the eye by an awakened Priscilla. It was made extra squeamish in this format.
19	* All of Cassandra's scenes with Roxanne in 120 after she awakens. [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence Nasty.]] Just... [[{{Squick}} ew.]]
20	* Even though the anime adaptation is a pretty accurate representation of the first nine or so volumes of the manga, there are just some scenes that are made all the more squeamish when put in full color and motion.
21	** When Clare, Miria, Helen, and Deneve are sent to fight a voracious eater, which actually turns out to be a male awakened being due to the organizations "[[UriahGambit misinformation]]", Clare, Helen, and Deneve are all struck down. Miria fights the monster with her phantom technique, but she is eventually pinned down by the awakened being, which then proceeds to impale her with its tongue, making her writhe in utter agony as it [[NauseaFuel supposedly probes around inside of Miria.]]
22	*** [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything It's even more disgusting when you think about]] [[RapeAsDrama what this scene is implying.]]
23	** Sophia and Noel's deaths are depicted quite gruesomely in the anime.
24	* We find out what goes into making Yoma and Claymores in 126. It involves vivisection and brain parasites. In that order. [[AndIMustScream Sweet dreams.]]
25	** We see Clare's body very nearly split in half in 129. Yikes.
26	* We see Riful's naked waist and legs going out for a nice leisurely stroll in [[http://www.mangahere.com/manga/claymore/v23/c132/25.html chapter 132.]] The series has officially gone SurrealHorror now.
27	* Every time one thinks an Awakened Being can't get more disturbing looking, Yagi proceeds to prove us wrong. Case in point: [[http://www.mangahere.com/manga/claymore/v23/c134/9.html here.]]
28	* Dae's casual reveal of the Organization's old modus operandi of finding Claymore recruits/test subjects by deliberately traumatizing children with exposure to yoma is probably the creepiest thing in the entire series. Dae in general is arguably the scariest thing in the series.
29	* We find out something else about Priscilla in chapter 142 because she wasn't frightening enough: because her village wouldn't send food to her family after the yoki attack, she was stuck in a house for an entire month with just her and her family's corpses. [[ImAHumanitarian And YES, it seems she did end up eating some of her YOMA-INFECTED FATHER'S CORPSE during that month she was all alone]]. So terrifying and [[AlasPoorVillain yet so tragic.]]
30	** Kind of mitigated when we see that Priscilla's survived being chopped into tiny pieces and is somehow attacking Raki!

Context NightmareFuel / Claymore