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  • In "Something About Luigi's Mansion", Luigi encounters a large, screaming ghost more detailed than the series' usual standard with visible gums and fleshy stick-arms, complete with "music" from Silent Hill. When Luigi opens a door to escape, he meets E. Gadd, who isn't even able to introduce himself before the ghost crawls into his mouth and flings him all over the room, each hit accompanied with a smacking sound, breaking his neck. The fully-possessed professor then screeches and flies into the ceiling.
  • The Running Gag of Bowser getting slapped in the face becomes more disturbing and brutal as the series progresses; his face looks distorted as if a huge portion of his brain melted, the sounds are very loud and sudden, and in "Something About World of Light", he's slapped so many times, only his skeleton remains.
  • "Something About Kirby Super Star": Marx's Nightmare Faces are genuinely unsettling, the sheer whiplash with how he changes between them and his normal and adorable Kirby-esque face can be pretty freakish, to say nothing of the distorted voice and unhinged laughter.
    Marx: Kirby, ya gotta do S O M E T H I I I N G ! ! !
  • Something About COPPA starts innocent enough, with Kirbo on a pretty field, but that quickly changes as COPPA's restrictions start to apply themselves, demonstrating how easily the restrictions could be applied in such a heavy-handed manner as to strip all life out of something meant to appeal to multiple demographics. All the color in the background drains, and Kirbo is morphed into a dark grey square, screaming in agony and terror. Then 'Kirbo' and a rectangle spend the rest of the video talking about incredibly mundane things in an eerily monotonous tone, with a Shepard's Tone playing all the while. To really hammer the point home, the square and rectangle aren't even allowed to talk about things that everyone talks about (i.e. stories, asking questions about stuff that may remotely appeal to children), with each additional rule causing them to become increasingly hesitant and nervous.
  • Namielle's introduction in "Something About Monster Hunter World: Iceborne" involves its whiskers glowing for a bit in pitch darkness, then showing its toothy, glowing Nightmare Face and roaring loudly, mirroring its introduction in the expansion proper (albeit more intense); however, the effect is spoiled a bit by Bill going "Is that it?"
  • "Something About Super Metroid ANIMATED SPEEDRUN" shows how terrifying Samus can be when pissed off.
    • She makes a terrifying Death Glare when Ridley flees from Ceres Station with T H E B A B Y.
    • The Space Pirates that are watching her on their control room are unable to hold it together and start losing their shit when they witness Samus' speed and devastating power as she goes on her rampage throughout Zebes.
    • Phantoon and Kraid scream in horror as they're pelted to death by Samus' missiles.
    • The aftermath of Samus' assault on Norfair as she goes after Ridley, leaving a path of mutilated corpses of unfortunate Space Pirates and fauna that stood in her way.
    • Mother Brain being her Captain N: The Game Master incarnation makes her even more unsettling than her original version. If a single eye made her freaky, an entire face that seems to just hang from her brain is horrific, even more so once she goes One-Winged Angel.
    • The "Kill" ending has the creatures try to reach Samus' ship before it's too late, but fail. The Dachora and an Etecoon are crushed by falling debirs, while another Etecoon falls on a fiery pit. The last Etecoon just barely makes it to the surface, and he's only able to see Samus' ship leave him to his fate.
    • The "Save" ending starts with the Dachora and the Etecoons being infected by X parasites that were hidden in Samus' ship. The formerly cute creatures turn into horrific red masses of eyes, claws and teeth and attack Samus, making her lose control of her ship, which crashes in Titania. Samus survives, but her ship and her Power Suit are left in shambles. And it goes From Bad to Worse when the Goras attacks her and pins her to the ground. Samus tries to shoot at it, but her arm cannon is too damaged to function. If Slippy hadn't saved her at the last moment, Samus would've been killed by the beast.
    • The secret "Took Too Long" ending has a Space Pirate hijack Samus' ship while she was unable to decide. Samus tries to get back on her ship, but the Pirate knocks her off and shoots her with her own ship's guns, leaving her stranded on Zebes as it's about to explode.
  • In "Something About Sonic The Hedgehog", during Sonic's final confrontation with Robotnik, he absorbs the Chaos Emeralds and screams in pain before Super Sanic literally pops out of his body, and while spiraling around Robotnik, he makes a Nightmare Face reminiscent of both Fleetway Super Sonic and Sonic.exe with a roaring sound.
  • "Something About The Photon Aerospace Control Engineer" is a Halloween video, which naturally means scares about. The fact that it's actually a Pac-Man video does not change the fact that the "ghosts" are actually Eldritch Abominations in their own right and have made a pile of corpses in their wake.
  • The Mega Evolution Pokémon Battle Royale.
    • It plays with all of the Pokédex Entries straight... specifically the scariest ones from Sun/Moon/Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon. How about Mega Garchomp's arms and wings melting to form its scythe arms? Mega Gyarados only having its destructive instinct left? Mega Glalie's jaw snapping and only being able to spew out snow? Mega Manectric is also symbolized as some electricity because its body has so much electricity.
    • Several Mega Pokémon team up against Mega Rayquaza... only for them to be unceremoniously crushed under the latter's tail. The Legendary Pokémon then lets out a coarse, intimidating roar, hammering home how ineffective a bunch of ordinary mons' Mega Evolutions are against it.
  • "Something About The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Part 1" has the both horrifying and hilarious scenes of Fado and Mido being killed by Navi. Fado gets torn apart by her, as she shrieks in horror, while Mido is lifted upwards and dropped on the ground so hard his skeleton flies through his mouth.
    • The episode makes the Gohma infestation of the Great Deku Tree absolutely terrifying by having them force their way out of his mouth. The second one, in which the Tree vomits a massive swarm of Larvae horrifies Link so much that he throws a torch at them, setting both the Gohma and the Tree on fire, the latter screaming in agony as he burns to death.
    • "Part 2 - The Forest Temple" shows exactly why you don't go into the Lost Woods without a fairy. Link wanders the wrong way, and has a brief but genuinely unsettling nightmare about falling into a black void filled with dead silent Stalfos. The Stalfos are apparently not trapped there either, as a second wrong turn has them literally lunge outwards to attack Link.
  • In "Something About Street Fighter II", we have the Guile's Handcuffs glitch, which is depicted as Guile grabbing Ryu and warping around the screen multiple times. We even seen Guile laughing manically and his eyes turn red before the soft-locking hits. There's also a Freeze-Frame Bonus revealing that Guile's been possessed by the Speedrun Demon!
  • In "Something About Kirby 64", Adeleine doesn't have a particularly fun time on Shiver Star (which in the Something About universe is outright confirmed to be a post-apocalyptic Earth). Where everyone else sees it as a happy and colorful place full of cute creatures, she sees it for what it truly is: a dark and dismal place full of death, decay and mutated monsters (such as the froglike things in the pillars, which are actually muscular beasts with bloodshot eyes and stained teeth) Of special note is the skeleton in the mall, which has seemingly had its lower half ripped off by something, its mouth locked in a silent scream. And there's a decapitated skull next to an ajar cabinet door beside it, which raises some chilling implications about what happened to these two. No wonder Adeleine is left a quivering wreck by the time the party gets the hell out of there.
    • Ripple Star's state when Kirbo and Co arrive. The planet and the small hearts orbiting it are covered in Dark Matter goo, and even the subtitles change to say "Poor thing"
    • Zero-Two is portrayed exactly as dead serious and unsettling as it was in the game and delivers a Curbstomp Battle to Kirbo. Even at the worst of times, most Something About characters just get knocked down for a moment. But it's made clear that if Jesus Christ had not stepped in to help, that might've been the end for our heroes.
  • There is a lot to say about how manically unhinged Meta Knight becomes once his Sanity Slippage hits in full force in Something About Kirby's Dream Buffet, not helped by the fact that by that point, he's gotten so big, but his mask remained the same size, showing off a grinning maw with plenty of missing teeth. Remember, this is Meta Knight going bonkers over his Sweet Tooth tendencies being pushed to the brink.
    • After he wins due to constantly eating through his insanity, the Server Hands actually come down to carry him upwards, with no indication where he ended up at.
      • Thankfully, the Brawl Meta Knight vs Speedrunner Link fight shows he's not only alive, but okay. At the start of the battle that is...
  • "Something About Spam Bots" is genuinely disturbing, with robotic Jeremys on wires sprouting from a mechanical abomination. Even after the real Jeremy beats one up and reports the rest, they still keep coming as the mass just lets out an uncanny mechanical laugh.
  • Something About Donkey Kong Country 2 has a Jump Scare where Glimmer shines his light over a hole in a wall, only to reveal Kudgel behind it, giving a Death Glare before proceeding to burst through the wall and chase Diddy and Dixie.
    • After narrowly escaping the haunted mansion Diddy and Dixie look back and see themselves, dead on the ground and in a nearby tree. They've now become ghosts, and as a thunderstorm rolls in Kreepy Krow appears with blank white eyes and an ethereal scream. After failing to resuscitate their corpses it seems like the due are finished, if not for a random 1-Up balloon to float by and pop itself on a branch which jolts the pair back to life.

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