Come now, we'll have some…refreshments, foxes.
Being a mod based on a famous creepypasta, it’s no surprise that Vs. Scourge.EXE: The Misfits Reborn has more than a few frightening moments. However, due to how narmy the creepypasta is, though, it's said that it actually manages to improve over it.
- While Soul Scourge himself can be seen as Nightmare Retardant to some thanks to his unoriginal design and the fact that he's based on a So Bad, It's Good origin Creepypasta, this mod gives him some effective touch-ups in the form of Body Horror, given his hollowed-out eyes and mouth, and with him bending backwards at a horrific degree in his left pose, his neck contorting in a rather painful way in his down pose, the scratches on his stomach ripping off even more in his up pose, and his jaw extending to a ludicrous degree in his right pose, as well as directly staring at the screen and giving a Ghostly Gape when he does his Evil Laugh in Too Slow and (in You Can't Escape and Triple B Trouble) jumpscaring the player mid-song.
- Early on in Miles' section and the start of Scourge's, Patch's and Ovi Kintobor's sections in "Triple B Trouble", hyperrealistic pictures of their faces suddenly appear. Already unnerving by itself, you can already hear screams, presumably their last words before Torment killed them. Miles is that infamous bloodcurdling scream from the actual game, Scourge has 2 variations of him screaming in agony, Patxh gets a wheezing, agonized howl while Ovi Kintobor's sounds more like a Big "NO!".
- The DJ Studio's hallway Endless takes place in must be located somewhere in the middle of the uncanny club & bar, because everything about the stage (minus the song itself) is very unnerving, with unnatural black lighting and a seemingly endless hallway of no end. Speaking of which, Tenshi himself, while not gruesome eyesores like many of the other opponents, is unsettling with his perpetual smile and the fact that those human faces with beards and sunglasses do not belong on Sonic bodies.
- Should you lose in Endless, the game over screen gets slowly taken over by a hundred Tenshis as a timer slowly ticks down, with the real Tenshi warning you to restart before something bad happens. If you don’t retry before it runs out, then Bartholomew suddenly hunches over and covers his face…And reveals that he’s been turned into a Tenshi as a glitched out voiceline of Tenshi screaming B3's name in sheer horror plays. Oh, and the game crashes too for good measure.
- Cycles, on the other hand, takes place in a very weird section of a royal palace, with gem-like eyes, castles, fortresses, and oak tries that somehow have flesh under their bark. King S himself is a big gruesome eyesore, even compared to the other opponents—from his deep black empty eyes with unnerving magenta pupils in some of his poses, to his haggard appearance with his bandanna, shoes that look more like hunks of metal with spikes at the tips, to the metal spike literally driven into his chest.
- All his animations are freaky, too. Special mention goes to his up pose, which features a long, blade-like tongue coming out of his mouth, with another one that uses his back for a set of ligaments coming straight out of the gaping spine!
- Cycles itself might be one of the creepiest songs to appear in a Friday Night Funkin' mod. It's a slightly off-key piano piece peppered with droning ambient noises and distorted laughter (including a sample of Flowey's infamous laugh at the beginning of the track). King S' voice has an unsettling grainy filter (akin to Xanthus) that makes it almost indescribable, and it all comes together to give the song a very macabre vibe.
- At first, Faker (now scrapped) seems like a battle with an... off-brand, but normal Shadow. This changes at the end, however, as the Shadow doppelganger begins to twist and contort itself to reveal that it's another version of Scourge.exe; the director's own take, known as -PCX. A lanky, green-and-red abomination of Scourge with blood-stained claws, skin that only looks like gloves and shoes, and a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth. And if you lose to -ZIP you are treated to a close-up image of -PCX's face... which will eventually turn into a Jump Scare.
- The background concepts for -PCX are quite the sight as well. In "Faker" it's more subtle; the trees, the plant life seems to be dead or dying, a fountain seems to be pouring out some kind of dark blue liquid, and the sky is a blueish hue. However, after -PCX transforms, it gets much more apocalyptic in nature, with the scenery swapping to stone crags with black wisps of something curling around the hilltops, and the charred, rotted corpse of Miles on display next to Shaya.
- Dehydrated, one of the new scrapped opponents for 1.0 is a version of Ovi Kintobor who develops a strong taste towards animals and Mobians, managing to eat Scourge and later the end of one of Miles' tails. His Nightmare Face doesn't help either. There is the small comfort in that his hunger does not extend to humans, so she has no lethal intent towards Bartholomew unlike most of the other opponents in the mod.
- His actual song, even if not entirely finished, ended up being against Fiona and Miles and it is rife with horror. Not only is Scourge's cut-up corpse nearby Dehydrated himself and he has a heavily distorted voice to match his disturbing appearance, there is a Fear meter on the right side that grows over time, more so if you Miss, eventually to the point where Fiona and Miles will be permanently rendered a One-Hit Wonder and at that, the image for their losing icon is a creepy image in its own right, appearing mangled. Oh and the Misses in this are called Sacrifices, giving off scary implications on what happens whenever the duo mess up against Dehydrated. And if you fail? You’ll end up with a haunting Game Over that, even if censored to some degree, is still absolutely nightmarish, starting with Dehydrated taking a bite out of Miles, then lunging at Fiona mouth opening wide, all while distorted, electronic-sounding screaming can be heard in the background. You finally get the chance to move on after it settles on an animation of his teeth dripping with blood.
- The scrapped song "Prey" is fairly disturbing, thanks to being based on Dehydrated and his robotic accomplice, Blender. The song takes place in Wacky Workbench's Bad Future, which is a bad sign already, as Blender chases after Scourge. Scourge manages to shake him off, only for Dehydrated to arrive. Scourge tries to deliver his trademark snark at him, but Dehydrated brushes it off by saying Scourge does not even know his own fate, before laughing manically and then taking on Scourge himself. During one of Scourge's verses, however, Blender flies ahead of the both of them under the stage... leading to him cutting Scourge off once he manages to outrun Dehydrated, shooting him in open gunfire before he even notices what's going on. You win, but it's clear that the fate Dehydrated meant was, well...
- Dehydrated is supposed to be just an Ovi Kintobor with different, disturbing motivations. Unlike the various demons and other mystical beings of the mod, he is not supposed to be supernatural in the slightest. So why does he look so... off? Nothing more than the results of overfeeding and an unbalanced diet? Perhaps he contracted some kind of disease from eating Mobians that caused him to start rotting alive? Or maybe his compulsion to devour Mobians and his warped appearance are the result of some kind of curse? The world may never know.
- One disturbing detail is how he refers to Scourge, Fiona and Miles, not by their names, but by what creature they are. He doesn’t call them by their names because he doesn’t see them as foes to defeat anymore. They’re just animals to him. And thus, his meals.
