Nightmare Fuel / Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters

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• When Shendu destroys the Book of Ages as a last petty jab to foil Jade's victory over him, the laws of physics quickly start breaking down as space, time, and reality itself starts dying. The fact that Jade's page still exists also means that she's the only one unaffected as her reality starts tearing itself apart at the seams, helplessly watching as existence starts unraveling, giving her a front row seat to wonderful sights like her family and friends gaining and losing mass, color, and body parts at random. She then desperately bites onto her thumb and uses her own blood to try and use the last page to fix things.
  • Later, it's implied that the Cavalcade of Horrors and/or their master not only know of the old world before the remnants were mixed into the W.I.T.C.H. one, but may be from the chaotic mess that the destruction of the Book made.
  • The Cavalcade and their master in general, really, not the least being how they apparently empowered Tarakudo to Physical God levels.
• When Jade first lays eyes on Phobos, she notes that, at first glance, he looks the most "normal" out of his court, before getting a look into his eyes and seeing nothing but an all-consuming void, giving her the impression that something is just wrong about him.
• Wearing an Oni mask for an extended period has negative side effects upon removal, to say nothing of the other side effects, or what happens when the General takes full control.
• Tarakudo is basically a Physical God on the level of a Heart-user when he enters his full-bodied form, and if the Calvalcade's master didn't still need her, he would have killed Nimue and her apprentices.
• Tharquin has repeatedly tortured and killed shapeshifters, and does the same to Jade despite them supposedly being allies, ending up dead at Jade's hands when her friends and family track them down.
• Rhogular is an unrepentant rapist, and even mocks Lady Ishol's husband about what he did to his wife. No one is shedding any tears when Caleb kills him.
• Phobos wasn't exactly a paragon of mental stability before, but after Wong's betrayal, he starts to become a full-blown example of The Caligula, Hearing Voices and becoming paranoid, losing what little sanity he already had.
• The Samurai Khan's greater intelligence is rather unnerving, Cornelia in particular is rather disturbed by how human they act when they seem to cheer.
• Jade, if she tricks someone into consuming her blood, can manipulate their blood.
• A flashback shows that one of the Faithful present at Phobos's birth was so freaked out by him being born a boy that he tried to kill the infant in front of the Queen.
• Phobos, after taking the Heart of Meridian, is an insane Physical God who can reshape reality. He turns the Whisperers into humanoid monsters (each with a copy of his face) and unleashes them on the Guard, quickly puts the Guardians on the ropes, drags a meteor out of space and drops it on the capital, and finally stops time so that he can kill Uncle.
• Caleb being fully corrupted by the Sword of Thanatos by overusing it. He proceeds to go on a rampage, slaughtering everyone he comes across regardless of which side they're on, and doesn't even recognize his father or Blunk when they try to stop him.
• A bit of Fridge Horror — during a flashback to a time when Uncle is comforting a young Jackie over his parents' deaths, he tells Jackie that it's okay to cry, because the only people who don't cry are monsters who can no longer feel anything. And then at Uncle's funeral, it's specifically noted that Jade isn't crying.
• The Cavalcade of Horrors and their Master are shown overseeing all the latest developments alongside Tarakudo, and laughing about what's to come. Even Tarakudo is disturbed by this.
• The White Death is a horrifying example of The Plague that swept Meridian around two centuries ago, and when the cause is discovered to be a white insect infecting crops, these crops are burned despite the widespread famine this causes. Thankfully, this succeeds in stopping the plague.
• Nerissa's Start of Darkness chapter shows the act that led to the Oracle taking the Heart from her. She went to the world Creznac and launched a Decapitation Strike on its countless ever-battling warlords, killing most of them and their armies, killing thousands to try and forcibly bring about peace. And she sees nothing wrong with what she did.
• The Tracker poisoning Jade, and nearly managing to kill her while it weakens her. And he makes it clear that he will hunt down her and the others for denying him his revenge on Ikazuki.
• We finally meet the Master of the Cavalcade of Horrors — a moon-sized Eldritch Abomination called Samsara, which claims to pre-date the existence of The Multiverse. According to it, it created the Cavalcade from all the remnants of the JCA universe that Jade couldn't save by merging them with the W.I.T.C.H. universe, and worse, that the merger gave it a foothold into reality, which it's used to manipulate events in its favor. Its ultimate plan is to corrupt Jade and use her to consume Kandrakar and every world connected to it, before moving on as a Multiversal Conqueror... and it's already started this process, abducting Norton out of the shared soul world of Jade's past lives and corrupting Ben-Shui.

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