Line #23 NightmareFuel/SporeWikiFictionUniverse


1	Being a setting where TheLegionsOfHell are literally right next door, the ''Literature/SporeWikiFictionUniverse'' has a couple of scary moments. And sometimes, they are ''scarier'' than TheLegionsOfHell.
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5	* The universe's very beginning introduced the Xhodocto. They are an entire species of [[EldritchAbomination eldritch]], [[NighInvulnerable invincible]], [[TheOmnipotent omnipotent]] [[GodOfEvil dark gods]] who reign over the Eleventh Dimension. In other words, they are '''the''' most powerful entities in the setting. A Xhodocto can literally destroy a galaxy with a flick of a finger, and they cannot be stopped, only slowed down at very best. And their favorite hobby? Causing [[ApocalypseHow Class X-5 apocalypses]], and they are more than capable of causing a Class Z. The reason they have not yet done so to the Onuris Universe is possibly because they just enjoy tormenting it too much. And that's not going to the implication that [[MindScrew they exist because mortals imagined them, or that they may not actually exist at all]].
6	** Angazhar, second-in-command and most known of the Xhodocto, is a top-grade OmnicidalManiac who revels in war and bloodshed, spreads misery across reality simply because [[ForTheEvulz he wants to]], and has so much [[UnstoppableRage wrath]] within him that he can caused the entirely of reality to have a transdimensional equivalent of an earthquake when aggravated enough.
7	** Santorakh, fourth-in-command of the Xhodocto, is a MadGod who enjoys torturing individuals for no specific reason but to [[ForTheEvulz have fun at their expense]], but unlike Angazhar, Santorakh prefers to keep his victims alive and under eternal suffering. His cheerful, CloudCuckoolander attitude hides an AxCrazy monster who causes terror because he simply enjoys terrorizing life.
8	** And then there's their god, Kamik'Shi. He's not an [[PhysicalGod Essential God]] like all the other gods in the setting. No, the GodEmperor of the OmnicidalManiac {{Eldritch Abomination}}s is ''the'' [[GodIsEvil capital-G God]].
9	* The Corruptus are demons born from nightmares, so causing NightmareFuel is literally their job. Their most basic demons are [[BlobMonster blobs]] who can possess mortals to turn them into Kikra Caste slaves, who are more or less ever-decaying zombies. Their sheer presence is enough to cause insomnia on their victims, not that you would want to sleep when a demon who can create nightmares is at your general vicinity. Every demon in the Corruptus is packed with CombatTentacles and their ultimate desire is to take over reality, turning all of it into a nightmarish kingdom for their god, Shu'ulathoi.
10	** [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Shu'ytrogarva]] deserves special mention because of the nightmares he caused on other individuals, digging deep into their minds, playing with their greatest fears and then humiliating them before him. Examples include causing nightmares where he tortured President Apollo by replacing all senators of the URC with copies of himself and then ordered him to be executed, and when he haunted Uriel Ultanos and ate the egg of his youngest son in front of him. And after he did so, Shu'ytrogarva informed that his original idea was to make [[NauseaFuel Uriel eat the egg himself]].
11	* Everything involving Kol Daren. He is a deprived, monstrous demigod Zazane who '''[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapes]]''' anyone. He has a HordeOfAlienLocusts as well as an army of [[SuperSoldier Super Zazane]] obeying his every word. He sees himself as a WellIntentionedExtremist who wants to bring ultimate peace to the universe, but to do so, he wants to absolutely cleanse the universe of all life but his own creations.
12	** Kol Daren's fame as one of the most dreaded villains of the setting was enough for him to get his own HalloweenEpisode, appropriately called ''[[http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction%3ANew_Dawn/Kol_Daren%27s_House_of_Horror Kol Daren's House of Horror]]''.
13	* You should know that the Zazane race's [[TheCorruption Descension Energy]] is dangerous when the Zazane themselves refer to it as "Sin". The energy can be used to transform creatures into a [[SuperMode Demon Form]], which are empowered, demonic versions of the essence's wielder. "Awakening" this power leads to the birth of an inner demon inside the user, who is more or less a SuperpoweredEvilSide constantly fighting for control. Losing control to this inner demon leads to the user becoming a demented, insane monster who has no desire but to destroy everything around them. Most cases of being descended by Descension Energy leads to the 'infected' to achieve a Demon Form immediately, so chances are that if you have this essence, you already have an inner demon inside you.
14	** A late discovery in ''History Reawakens'' revealed that [[spoiler:the beating, black heart of a Descended Draconis]] was installed in the Imperial throne. There is no clear indication of how long ago it was put in there but likely generations of paragons felt it.
15	* Moxix Breek is an [[OurZombiesAreDifferent undead]] Zazane demigod who is more or less TheGrimReaper of the setting. Not counting his sickly appearance, he is basically omnipresent, as he can teleport to anywhere where corpses are present. He enjoys reshaping himself using flesh and bones to taunt his enemies, can possess corpses and use them to talk/fight with, can reanimate the dead via his mere presence and can spread diseases and plagues which can cause a ZombieApocalypse really fast. And there's the fact he's one of the individuals Santorakh is the friendliest with.
16	* The Dominatus essentially '''control''' using this idea. After a huge slave rebellion crippled their ever-expanding empire they tried a new idea - entombing slaves and captured sapient populations inside "biodrones" under their complete control. These biodrones use the sensations of pain and suffering felt by their hosts to power them. That's right, the Dominatus created cyborg servants that ''use suffering as an energy source''.
17	** If that wasn't bad enough, there are the "Overseers": [[SuperSoldier Super Soldiers]] cloned from a captured alien used as both a template and de-facto general. Not only are overseers modified to be twice as tall and ten times more powerful than the species they came from, most are developed to induce some form of bowel-voiding terror. Examples include:
18	*** The Sons of Hedon, who can somehow make beautiful music from the screams of their foes.
19	*** The Prophets of Dra'Erath, who use PsychicPowers to turn any battlefield into something from the pages of ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante's Inferno]]''
20	*** The Titans of Corpulus, who harbour miasmas and fly swarms capable of devouring though solid metal
21	*** The Anathemus of Xenomortis, who combine a facehugger with mind-control parasite to turn a population's own people against them.
22	** Demogorgon Prime itself is easily something out of the mind of H.P. Lovecraft thanks to Ultima serum (the biological agent which turned the Drakodominatus into the Lovecraft-esque Dominatus we see today) runoff, which has made the terrestrial flora and fauna as nightmarish as the Dominatus themselves.
23	* ''Dysnomia'' is one of the more richly portrayed ''Realities Altered'' settings and the first episode of the main story makes it '''''very''''' clear that 2890-2900s Andromeda is not for the faint of heart.
24	* When the Omega Commander took over UNO, its entire population was turned into an army of mindless drones by [[{{Nanomachines}} The System]]. If you are performing under or watching a performance by Xaltsa, either you will be forced to applaud it no matter how bad it is, or you will have no say in performing as hostile aliens slaughter and/or devour the audience.
25	* The Borealis Galaxy has a number of mentions:
26	** Regnatus, one of the [[BigBad main villains]], of the ''Second Borealis Galactic War'', is considered as a source of nightmare fuel in-universe. A GeneralRipper who lost his mind after his [[{{Precursors}} race]] was wiped out by the Grox and Zargoth, merging himself with the Galactic Grid to become an EldritchAbomination GodOfEvil. His goal was to [[AssimilationPlot turn all life of the galaxy]] into ''[[BodyHorror living, conscious goo]]'', and then place said goo inside [[SpiderTank arachnid]]-shaped, obedient Dreadnoughts. After achieving this, he planned to lock the galaxy away in a pocket dimension, where he would stay the rest of his eternal life alone with his slaves, in complete and utter solitude.
27	** Vorius, one of the main villains of the ''Ice Age'', is a BlobMonster [[TheWormThatWalks Worm That Walks]] born from a shard of Regnatus' destroyed body who still held some of his soul within it. One laconic explanation of what he is would be "BlobMonster with VillainTeleportation". Vorius is a gigantic, completely insane Wranploer turned into a chimera-like abomination who devours other creatures alive to add their genetic material into his own, becoming stronger, larger and tougher with each new race absorbed. He is NighInvulnerable due to the Regnatus Shard's psychic powers being what holds his atoms together, meaning harming his "shell" deals no damage to him, and actually attacking his body causes the faces of those he has devoured to form and start screaming loudly in pain. Basically, his body is one giant amalgamation of people mashed together, and they are all [[AndIMustScream fully conscious]] of it. Oh, by the way, his ultimate plan is to become a GeniusLoci.
28	*** The short substory ''Logs of a Wranploer Vessel'' starts with a Wranploer captain on a mission to take a valuable, unknown cargo to an unknown individual. It all starts well until the ship starts presenting problems, the crew goes missing and crazy, and the captain is stranded alone in space for three months, slowly [[SanitySlippage going insane from isolation]]. His writing becomes more and more like gibberish, and he notes that despite running out of food for weeks, he has not died of hunger yet. Then we find out that the cargo he was taking was actually Vorius, and that the chimera has actually been feeding the Wranploer ''[[{{Squick}} parts of himself]]'' while he was asleep all these weeks. For what reason? [[ForTheEvulz He's just that much of a sick bastard]].
29	* For a supposed comedy story, Distant Planet was pretty damn disturbing. It had a team of Borealis war veterans crash land on a planet with EverythingTryingToKillYou and some downright disturbing creatures. And let's not get started on [[NighInvulnerable the]] [[EldritchAbomination Perterrent]].
30	* After returning from Insomnia, Billig - who was a cannibal beforehand - had become not only eternally hungry (and a zombie), but eating someone reverses any damage he sustains.
31	* The Champions of the Aetomarchis. Being able to influence the minds of entire armies is one thing, but each champion brings a disturbing quality to the table. All four had a nasty habit of turning ordinary civilians into loyal fanatics.
32	** '''Thevixuias''' even after fully recovering from her ressurection had frostbitten extremities, dead black eyes and weeps with a banshee's wail. Her tears were so cold they froze around her eyes and were coloured to suggest she was ''bleeding''.
33	** '''Dralkithus''' even at his apex he remains visibly a walking half-rotten corpse. Not that disturbing? How about the ability to dominate entire swarms of insects, or summon forth swarms from inside his body. Bodies he left behind were often flayed and infested with flesh-eating nasties.
34	** '''Valchoria''' is a temptress so persuasive that during the Champions' campaign in the modern day she could enthrall entire cities. Every mind she dominates becomes a thrall chained to her will and their soul likely stolen to make her stronger. Worse, she once told a hostage that despite captivating ''millions'' of souls by the point of the conversation, ''no known quantity of souls could ever fully satisfy her.''

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