Moments pages are Spoilers Off. You Have Been Warned.
- Nagini's origins: Voldemort's pet snake was not born a beast: she was once a witch, who became a Maledictus due to a family curse. She permanently transformed into a snake. Which makes her later actions with Voldemort even more disturbing considering she often eats the corpses of Voldemort's victims.
- If you think Grindelwald is already terrifying enough during the first film, the second film makes his nightmarish global level threat as a Dark Lord that much more intimidating to comprehend. It was already enough that the first film all but displayed him as on another level compared to Voldemort in terms of magical ability, but the second film not only takes it up to eleven in terms of power level, but also shows the stark difference between Grindelwald and Voldemort and why he was far more suitable to be compared to Dumbledore than Voldemort, along with why Dumbledore described Grindelwald as being very nearly equal to himself and how Grindelwald was considered to rival Dumbledore in brilliance. His intelligence and charisma made Voldemort look average in comparison and reminds us exactly why Grindelwald was able to terrorize the whole world for 25 years while Voldemort's two wars mixed together amounted to only 14 years and also shows why Dumbledore had to be the one to defeat Grindelwald, rather than being willing to let Harry do the job with Voldemort.... Because he is just too powerful and too clever for anyone but him!
- Grindelwald summons snakes that jump at his prison transport's coachman's face, with an Eat the Camera effect. Cue a scream.
- From the same scene: The first time the magical law enforcement officer escorting the (apparently) restrained Grindelwald to Europe knows something is seriously wrong is when Grindelwald’s grinning face appears outside the window of the coach while it's flying hundreds of feet in the air.
- The entire carriage scene is creepy: There's a storm outside creating an eerie lighting and Grindelwald is just sitting in the carrige staring unnervingly at his captors. Then he smiles...
- During Grindelwald's speech at the rally, he shows his audience a terrifying vision of what's to come if wizards don't put Muggles in their rightful place: World War II, which concludes with a nuclear explosion. Made even worse in that there is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot of hundreds of people being loaded onto trains. Not to mention that he also had been planning the Aurors to know of the rally and manipulated them to attack one of his followers so he could condemn them as extremists. Even Theseus despite having been advised by Dumbledore failed and he's a war hero! The whole thing generally displays just how immensely charismatic and cunning he was, promising a group of people a better future and manipulating his enemies and allies alike as if it was as natural as breathing. He just sounds so convincing, it's far too easy to momentarily forget how he can easily resort to being evil. There's probably a reason he's been called "Wizard Hitler" at times. And the worst part? He's not lying. (At least about the coming war.) Looking at it that way, it's tough to argue against his position.
- And who's most affected by this? Jacob Kowalski, veteran of what was supposed to be "The War To End All Wars", seeing that even greater destruction is yet to come.
Jacob: Not another war... - Shortly after the rally ends and his audience is gone, Grindelwald unleashes a firey Protego Diabolica spell so powerful, it would have destroyed all of Paris if not contained. This mirrors Dumbledore's earlier feat of casually conjuring mist through all of London, reminding us that Grindelwald was not any less powerful than Dumbledore, just a shade less skilled, and he basically proves that he can easily rival the power of a nuclear bomb and conjure a magical nuke in his own. This gets even worse when one remembers that Grindelwald casts that curse with the Elder Wand. Voldemort would later get a hold of that wand later in the Harry Potter series and proceeds to unleash powerful spells with it, but even then the wand was not displaying its full power there, as it will be later revealed that Harry is actually its owner, not Voldemort. Here, Grindelwald is the legitimate owner of the Elder Wand, and there's no limit to what it can do. That Protego Diabolica spell that could possibly doom Paris? Probably just a fraction of what Grindelwald is actually capable of with him being the Elder Wand's owner.
- Even more impressive in that Grindelwald just left the spell to run its course after he disapparated away! Nonetheless, it took five wizards employing their full power to negate the spell despite the fact Grindelwald was no longer doing anything to fuel it!
- Although subtle, the very idea of Grindelwald and Dumbledore being capable of city-level spells clashing can also be pretty terrifying. One must remember that it's called the greatest duel of all time, so when the duel is most likely finally shown in the final film, just how much destruction would the two greatest wizards of all time be able to cause in an all-out duel if alone they were already capable of such high-level magic without even really seriously trying?
- Grindelwald summons snakes that jump at his prison transport's coachman's face, with an Eat the Camera effect. Cue a scream.
- A henchwoman of Grindelwald's using the Killing Curse on a little boy after Grindelwald had his family murdered. Grindelwald and his followers then proceed to stay in that apartment for the rest of the movie.
- Even more terrifying is that, aside from their method of murder, Grindelwald's taking of the manor is no different than a real criminal and his associates taking a base by killing the real owners.
- It's even worse: they go around the house, killing one person at the door and one in one of the first rooms... then the last room turns out to be the nursery with a toddler boy in it. Grindelwald crouches, looks at the little boy... then stands up and gives a little nod to his henchwoman as he leaves, giving the go-ahead. The shot of the little boy is even eerily similar to flashback scenes from the early Harry Potter movies about the night Voldemort killed Lily and James and tried to kill Harry.
- The Matagots that the records keeper at the French Ministry sics on Newt, Tina, and Leta. If their large, soulless eyes weren't scary enough, they also multiply when attacked.
- This movie also contains the type of nightmare fuel that has parallels in the real world: what if someone you loved joined a cult or a terrorist organization, especially because they had been manipulated into thinking it was for a good cause, and there was nothing you could do to save them from themselves? The look on Jacob's face when Queenie joins Grindelwald says it all.
- It's only shown briefly, but Queenie enchanted her partner into marrying her despite his having refused - even if not because he didn't want to - and when he comes out of it, he isn't even aware of where he is or what he's been doing for the duration of the enchantment. He doesn't refrain from calling her out on the situation.
- Jacob: Oh, Queenie, honey? I'm curious when you were gonna wake me up, after we had five kids?
- The Black family are notoriously bigoted, but even they accept the women of the family (pictures on the tapestry and all!) and, as far as we know, have never actually resorted to rape. Leta's father Corvus Lestrange, however, does resort to rape, by kidnapping a woman away from her family and putting her under the Imperius Curse, and the Lestranges are incredibly sexist, only depicting the females of the family tree with beautiful flowers and reducing them to pretty set dressing. It's official; there's another family out there that (like the Gaunts) is worse than the Blacks.
