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Nightmare Fuel / Invasion! (2016)

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    The Flash 
  • The Reveal that Flashpoint is way worse than anyone realized. Barry's meddling with time didn't just alter the present, it caused an impact that will be felt 40 years in the future, which is what his message to Rip Hunter was about.
  • The Dominators. They look more like Slenderman than anything else; a single scout ship killed "hundreds" of soldiers in the 50s and almost took out the heroes. They're also frighteningly well-organized, setting up several ambushes within hours of touching down.
    • Worse still, they exist in other universes. They came to Krypton, killing and performing experiments before either leaving or being driven off.
    • How easily Supergirl surrenders to the Dominators brainwashing device and how willingly she becomes an obedient slave for them, trying to kill off Barry and Oliver without a moments hesitation or any signs of resistance to her new masters' commands. In a world with no Superman and no knowledge of Kryptonite or any of her other weaknesses she would have been practically unstoppable and could have conquered The Flash's version of Earth for the Dominators literally single handed. Kara herself is horrified how readily she submitted and gave up her free will but Barry consoles her that she's hardly the first superheroine to yield herself to the lure of mind control and undoubtedly won't be the last.

    Arrow 
  • Oliver and Sara remembering the horrifying events in their life; namely seeing Laurel in her hospital gown. Doubles as a Tear Jerker.
  • "Deathstroke" attacking Oliver and Diggle at the Queen Mansion. The music during this scene does not make it any better.
  • When the group tries to leave, they are confronted by Malcolm Merlyn, Damien Darhk, The Ghosts, Deathstroke (again), and the Deathstroke goon. Each attacks Thea, Sara, Diggle, Ray, or Oliver not only physically, but psychologically: Malcolm brainwashed Thea into killing Sara, Darhk killed Sara's sister, Deathstroke killed Oliver's mother and nearly destroyed his city, the Ghosts turned Diggle's brother Andy, and the Deathstroke goon killed Ray's fiancee. This really was an example of facing their worst nightmares.
    • The fact that the Dominators were aware of their weaknesses and used them the way they did...

    Legends of Tomorrow 
  • From Caitlin's point of view, this is how Stein comes off when he reveals how his daughter Lilly shouldn't exist. Stein is cold about how he's going to make sure to go back and prevent Lilly from existing in the first place, defending it as "setting the timeline right." As far as he's concerned, Lilly isn't even real, just a blot of some sort. But from Caitlin's point of view, Lilly is a friend and someone she knows and thus the idea of her being erased is horrifying.
    • Worse is to consider Lilly's perspective. As far as she knows, she's lived 30 years and had a wonderful relationship with her dad. Suddenly, her father is colder to her and not into her help or talking of the past. Stein is covering for now but the idea that she's now a stranger to the father she loves is disturbing.
  • Smith and the NSA torturing the Dominator the Legends had captured with the intent to question what its species' motives were in coming to Earth. The man is completely cold about the alien's screaming in pain, which Steel, Amaya, and Cisco are all disgusted by.

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