Hello! I'm a Canadian guy with autism (Asperger's diagnosis, but I don't like that term).
Special interest works
I'm a bit more than your average fan of the following works (or have been at some point)! People who are "on the spectrum" tend to be very passionate about certain subjects, and these works are some of my special interests:
- Atelier
- Cytus II (and Rhythm Games in general)
- Danganronpa
- Dota 2
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
- Persona
Worst of Nightmare Fuel:
I started the Nightmare Fuel cleanup thread
because some of the examples we have are really just embarrassing.
No, making your favorite show's Nightmare Fuel page as long as possible doesn't make it look cooler. It just makes us all look like easily-frightened cowards. So please, think before adding something to the page.
Here are a few of the most mind-bogglingly bad examples that were removed by the cleanup thread.
Initial D
- During a practice run saddled with an inferiority complex, Iketani ends up crashing into a guardrail. Ouch. He survives, but is unable to race in the upcoming SpeedStars vs. RedSuns race.
- Shingo's Establishing Character Moment: Bumping into Iketani's car on purpose while the latter's just going for a practice run. Shingo later causes Itsuki to crash even though he was on a date.
- When Shingo attempts to crash Takumi's Sprinter and fails, resulting in his EG 6 Civic taking heavy damage. And that was a lucky break- at worst, he could have been killed by falling off.
- When Iketani and Itsuki go for rides with Takumi to see how he races, they both kick and scream at best and faint at worst. If Takumi's driving can make the average racer faint, imagine not having had any racing experience before and going for a ride with him to see his racing skills first-hand; it would be like a roller coaster without all the safety features! Fortunately, he only does this when the passenger asks to demonstrate his abilities; when driving normally he's one of the smoothest and least scary drivers on the road, as Natsuki can attest to.
- Similarly, Bunta casually going for a smoke in the middle of a corner, using his knees to navigate, while a passenger (Yuichi) is with him grabbing onto the handholds for dear life.
- Kai's MR 2 spins on fallen leaves.
- Takumi's tactic of switching off his AE 86's headlights can count as this. Remember, this is the touge (mountain road), a narrow, winding, twisting road with perilous hazards on either side, and it has taken many lives. The danger goes Up to Eleven at night, and it's even worse at high speeds. However the true scare lies here: Imagine that you are in the middle of a race, and you cannot see your opponent who was just behind you seconds ago. Suddenly, you see a light beside your car. You look at it and there he is, beside your car. If even a full-time pro racer is freaked out by this, what does that say about the others who get to witness this tactic first hand?
- Keisuke's RX-7 crashes when practicing, and that was caused by those bastards who drive Evos who tricks everyone by slicking the road with oil.
- Almost everything about "Shinigami" Hojo Rin. His Leitmotif is pure Nightmare Fuel, as well as his personal appearance and car (deep gray) and deadly driving style.
Injustice: Gods Among Us
- The Supermoves look terrifyingly painful.
- Aquaman: He floods the stage, impales you with his trident, holds you up and lets a shark chomp down on you. Holy sardine, right?
- Ares: Being teleported to a barren battlefield to suffer a Rain of Arrows and a giant Ares' palm attack? Brutal.
- Bane: A two-hit Venom-enhanced air juggle, plus one rather sickening Metronomic Man Mash (emphasized all the more by lingering on it for a moment), and all concluded with the infamous Bat-Breaker. Oh, and the damage can be boosted by his Character Power if you time it right.
- Batgirl: From a jump, she hits you with her gauntlets, plants a sling onto your chest, climbs onto you, fires her grappling gun skywards, reels herself and you up, lets go, and as the sling pulls you down, drives her shoes' retractable blades into your back!
- Batman: After stunning you with a smoke batarang and tapping his coordinates into his wrist computer, he zaps you with a couple of stun batons, knees you in the chin, and lobs a beacon batarang at your face all before jumping out of the way to allow the Batmobile to run you over!
- Black Adam: A punch to the head to stun you, a launching uppercut, a knee to your doubtlessly aching chin, and a Metronomic Man Mash coupled with a lightning attack, culminating with an M. Bison-esque double-footed stomp to the back. Now you know why you should Beware the Superman.
- Catwoman: She blinds you with powder, launches you into the air with a somersault, catches you with her whip, and brings you crashing down onto the ground. No matter how durable somebody is, being slammed head-first into said ground so hard that your neck jerks over at a 90-degree angle has got to hurt! Not to mention the follow-up of being yanked to your feet for two claw swipes to your still aching cranium, itself followed up with a Frankensteiner.
- Cyborg: A giant fist to the face followed by a massive point-blank energy cannon blast.
- Deathstroke: He starts off with a sword swipe to the gut, another to the head, throws his sword upward, shoots you twice in the head at point-blank range with handguns, kicks his sword into you, and machine-guns you into submission.
- Doomsday: He pounds you through the Earth's crust and mantle through the Earth's core to the opposite side of the Earth, then pounds you back up to conclude with a Metronomic Man Mash!
- The Flash: Struck with an uppercut at an obscene amount of speednote , then being punched directly to where you just stood as you start to fly away? The whiplash alone would be hell, let alone the actual impacts.
- Green Arrow: An exploding arrow to start off, a bolo arrow to bring you back down, and three more exploding arrows to leave you vulnerable to a followup combo.
- Green/Yellow Lantern: Regardless of whether you're fighting Hal Jordan or John Stewart, or whether Hal takes you to Oa or Qward, you're in for a world of hurt as you get pounded in all sorts of directions with hammer, bus, and fighter jet constructs.
- Harley Quinn: One or two hits with her massive mallet, followed up with a pie landmine. Enjoy your flight.
- Hawkgirl: She carries you into the air, then delivers two midair mace swipes to your head.
- The Joker: A Pie in the Face, a few whacks to the head with a crowbar, a point-blank headshot with his revolver, and a downward swipe of a canister of Joker Toxin to the cranium before the Clown Prince of Crime finishes it all off with another point-blank head-shot, this time with a rocket launcher. Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor, indeed.
- Killer Frost: She pins you in place with an ice stalactite, encloses the immediate area in a snowy vortex, slams you in between a pair of spiked walls, and ends with a spiked ceiling.
- Lex Luthor: He hits you with a three-hit punch combo, starts up a stasis field that makes you writhe in pain, then has an orbital laser fired on himself to create an Energy Ball that he throws at you. The explosion can be seen from orbit and is the size of a small country.
- Lobo: The Main Man hitting you with one of his hooked chains, ramming you with his bike, and shooting you with his gun while you're still airborne is bad enough, but then he proceeds to burn you alive with Weaponized Exhaust as he flips his (censored) finger at you before riding off. Add the fact that the gunshot can be enhanced by his Character Power…
- Martian Manhunter: He takes you to Mars, assumes your form, punches you twice, changes back, uppercuts you into the air, grows giant, and sandwiches you between a pair of rocks.
- Nightwing: Regardless if it's Dick Grayson or Damian Wayne you're facing, having Nightwing stun you with his eskrima sticks and perform multiple ride-by slashings on you with his spiked gauntlet before slamming his not-so-Simple Staff into your chest has gotta hurt!
- Raven: Not only does she appear to be influenced once again by her father Trigon, but her Supermove has her dragging you into an abyss and pummeling you with copies of herself before "daddy dearest" towers over you and fires you back into the real world with gigantic Eye Beams.
- Scorpion: He teleports, kicks you from behind, takes you to the Netherrealm, summons up pillars of rock on either side of a narrow causeway, throws both of his kusarigunai at you, ignites them—and you, and process to fling you into the pillars before finishing with a ground slam unto the causeway.
- Shazam: He uppercuts you into the stratosphere, throws a one-two, elbows you in the back, catches you by your ankle, and executes a supersonic Giant Swing for a bit before slinging you directly into the ground.
- Sinestro: He stuns you with a plate construct, makes a portal, and drags you struggling through the gate, which exits into outer space. He then seizes two asteroids with telekinesis, smashes them together with you in between, and then constructs a giant laser cannon which shoots you with a beam powerful enough to propel you back down to Earth with the speed of a meteor.
- Solomon Grundy: A knife slice to the belly, a Metronomic Man Mash, and a tombstone to the head, all while swamp gas floods the screen. And need we mention that between the activation and connection of this particular Supermove, Grundy is practically invulnerable?
- Superman: It doesn't matter if you're fighting Justice League!Superman, Regime!Superman, or Cyborg Superman, being punched hard enough to reach at least the thermosphere and then slammed all the way back down is sure to be a painful experience. Not to mention the fact that Superman flies across the horizontal portion of the screen in fewer frames than most other attacks.
- Wonder Woman: A Shield Bash, followed by her binding you with the Lasso of Truth long enough for her Amazon Brigade to knee you in the back and whack you in the face with a wooden staff before she reels you in to deliver the final blow with her sword. Yikes.
- Zatanna: She stuns you with a spark from her wand, takes you into a pocket dimension, binds you in a double pyramid with you spread out like Christ on his cross, turns you upside down while chanting a spell backwards, and sends you slamming headfirst onto the floor.
- General Zod: He carries you into space, then follows it up by smashing you through the moon and blasting you back down to Earth with his Eye Beams.
- Stage transitions can be pretty nasty as well.
- Metropolis: Museum to Street. Being smashed through a building is bad enough, but those are very loud clangs of your head bouncing off those pipes.
- Fortress of Solitude:
- Laboratory to Menagerie. Similar story to the above Metropolis transition, only it's ice crystals in place of pipes. Again, very loud.
- The other way around. You get sent to the Phantom Zone, hit an asteroid, then hit a mirror, freeing the inmate trapped within, who then proceeds to maul you before more space debris knocks him off of you just before you return to the Fortress.
- Batcave: Crime Lab to Lagoon. Bouncing off rocks? Ouch. Breaking part of those rocks? Ow. Leaving a massive dent in a steel girder? Iya! Oh, and you bounce off the sparking and damaged Batboat immediately afterwards.
- Insurgency: Command Center to Luthor's Lab. Smashed into an empty cavern? That's not so bad. After a Beat comes the Drill Tank, grinding you straight through to the lab. That's no "mere" drill, either; that's multiple quasi-blunt digging saws.
- Watchtower:
- Bridge to Reactor. You get launched through a row of starfighters, and as you take a freefall down to a cooling fan below, the starfighter closest to the edge tips over, takes out bridge after bridge on its way down, and slams into you nose-first, destroying the fan and driving you through a miniature sun that then spits you out onto the floor.
- The other way around. You get launched into space, breaching the Watchtower's hull, hit an artificial satellite, and slam into a starfighter that then spins out of control as it, too, breaches the hull to thrust you back into the bridge.
- Arkham Asylum/Joker's Asylum:
- Cell Block to Mess Hall. After being knocked into Scarecrow's cell, the good doctor himself pops up and injects you with his fear toxin. Next thing you know, you're in his dream world from Batman: Arkham Asylum, and Scarecrow, now giant, smashes you with his fist, picks you up (with his syringe fingers!), and tosses you through the platform into the void... only to land in the cafeteria with no explanation on how the hallucination relocated you from his cell to mid-air near the kitchens.
- The other way around. You can get the shit smacked out of you in one room by the famous residents. You fly right into Killer Croc who pays you back for it with a thrashing and tosses you into the air where you land face first on the point of Penguin's umbrella, then Two-Face smashes a TV over your head and even the Riddler gets a shot in at you before Croc throw you back into the Cell Block.
- Gotham City: Rooftop to Alley. After you get launched into a brick wall, a wrecking ball smashes into you. Once you land on an elevated train track, you are unfortunate enough to see a monorail train drive into you and crash through a building.
- Themyscira: Temple to Port. You slam into a statue, fall down a rather long staircase, bounce off a lit brazier, hit a number of trees while falling down a cliff, and finally, when you land in the pier, the head of the statue you hit crashes onto you before it lands in the sea in the background!
- Hall of Justice:
- Plaza to Great Hall. You slam into a robot that throws you into the middle in a fight between a giant-sized Atom-Smasher and Giganta. Giganta grabs you, beats Atom-Smasher with you, then throws you into the Hall.
- The other way around. You get sent via Boom Tube to Darkseid's throne room on Apokalips, where Darkseid himself thrashes you for a moment, tosses you out, and blasts you with his Omega Beam.
- Stryker's Island: Cell Block to Yard. Going through a wall and the watchtower is bad enough, but then you go into a helicopter with such force that it spirals out of control, hits a wall, and crash-lands, spitting you out onto the pavement as soon as it hits the ground.
Mortal Kombat X: this example is too long to write down, as the page used to list every single Finishing Move and X-Ray Attack in the game (and there are a lot of them). OK, sure, maybe a few of the fatalities really are gory enough to be genuinely disturbing to all but the most hardened of souls, but if you're playing Mortal Kombat, you're probably desensitized enough to not flinch when a fictional character gets decapitated.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Previously, there was at least one example for every single episode of the show. Now, the show can actually get surprisingly dark with some of its villains, but the majority is a Slice of Life affair in a Sugar Bowl-like setting. Here are a few of the more ridiculous shoehorn attempts:
My Little Pony
Applebuck Season
- It's actually kind of disturbing how far the animators push Applejack's failing condition onscreen. More than just tiredness, it comes across as her succumbing to exhaustion as even her hearing starts playing up, in addition to her falling asleep on the spot.
- This gets worse if you've ever come across information regarding a Russian Sleep Experiment...
- Those baked bads. Applies in-universe as well. Oh, and Spike was eating them like potato chips.
- Gilda treating the citizens of Ponyville like dirt can hit close to home for those who have been bullied. The worst of it is when she picks on and then roars at Fluttershy simply because they bumped into each other.
- That roar is quite scary in and of itself.
- Gilda's other bullying is not to be trifled either. When she crashes Pinkie's helicopter, any other pony would have been seriously hurt. Except, well, she's Pinkie.
- Griffons eat horses in traditional mythology. Think about that.
- Pinkie's joy buzzer may remind some of the Joker.
- Twilight making potions. Becomes even worse if you've seen Double Rainboom.
- You've poured your heart and soul into a gift for your best friends. They don't like it at all.
- You then work yourself to exhaustion, trying to make the gift exactly how your friends want it. You stake your professional career on the results. The critics hate it.
- When Rarity enters the Best Young Flier Competition, she boasts some over-the-top makeup and clothing for her performance. This makes her look unsettling◊ to say the least.
- The entire scene where Rarity plummets to her doom. It starts when her wings disintegrate by bursting into flames after she flies too close to the sun. Then, as she plunges to the ground, she lets out some terrifying screams. Three Wonderbolts attempt to save her but she knocks them out cold with her flailing hooves. Thank Celestia for Rainbow Dash being able to perform the Sonic Rainboom when she needed to most.
- Celestia doesn't do anything to help during the entire scene. An inversion of Royals Who Actually Do Something, a Reclining Reigner, The Caligula, or something even worse?
- And it's not just Celestia. This is Cloudsdale, home of the Pegasi, and nopony did anything to help.
- Celestia doesn't do anything to help during the entire scene. An inversion of Royals Who Actually Do Something, a Reclining Reigner, The Caligula, or something even worse?
- Imagine being one of the weather factory workers who had all your work blown away by some stranger with a fancy new pair of magic wings. That would certainly suck. A regular day of work is enough to invoke bad dreams in many people, let alone a day in which you're put behind schedule by someone else's incompetence.
- The Cutie Mark Crusaders getting caught on Pinkie Pie's candy machine in "The Show Stoppers" is really frightening, especially with their bodies disappearing in the rainbow goop and only their eyes left visible. They came out intact (albeit sticky) but still.
- Becomes more horrifying once Rainbow Factory came out.
- Congratulations, you just embarrassed yourselves on stage in front of the entire town! Like that dream of being on stage in your underwear, or going to school naked. Only real.
- It's a miracle none of the Crusaders were hurt during that collapse.
- Despite it being Played for Laughs, Twilight Sparkle poking her eye with her hoof while reciting the Pinkie Promise is unsettling.
- The moment when Rarity interrupts the Mane Six's joking in the train car, with a mud mask and cucumber slices on her face. It... isn't pretty.
- Sweetie Belle manages to burn juice. Which literally should not be possible. And she liquefies toast. Lethal Chef taken Up To Eleven. And apparently her mother is just as bad or worse.
- Sweetie Belle has done her absolute best to help Rarity and be a good sister; unfortunately, her innocent nature means she can't understand what she's done wrong. It only makes Rarity angrier and angrier with every mistake. Finally, Rarity explodes and tells Sweetie Belle she no longer wishes to be sisters at all! Sweetie agrees and leaves; the realism of their argument and anger is incredible.
- After a while, Rarity finds Sweetie Belle's picture, takes back the horrible things she said and looks all over town so she can apologize. When she finds Sweetie Belle, she doesn't accept her apology and wishes to be Applejack's sister instead. Rejection is hard no matter what, but being disowned by a family member is worse yet.
- This episode features a split-second closeup of a Salvador Dali-esque painting of ponies being horrifically stretched and melted. And Rarity approves of it!
- Big Macintosh falling on the treadmill and getting stuck on the belt. While an amusing injury, it rolled him around like a rag doll because he was going so fast.
- Film and Flam showing No OSHA Compliance when they make tainted cider with rocks and twigs, and serve it to ponies.
- There is something unnerving about Granny Smith stretching her face back making herself look much younger.
- Applejack's entire family on a cart about to crash into the barn, after which the barn collapses on top of it and possibly kills off her entire family? Voilà, a family reunion to remember.
- The Mane Six go out of their way to accommodate a random pony and make her feel welcome in the Crystal Empire... only to discover that she isn't the games inspector. Had Ms. Harshwhinny not had a change of heart, they would have been responsible for screwing the Crystal Empire out of their bid to host the Equestria Games.
- Everything with Goldie Delicious is either this or a Crowning Moment Of Funny, or a "Funny Aneurysm" Moment. Her hoarding is played in a disturbingly realistic way, and her animal abuse is likewise played as such; she's downright neglectful of her cats (not cleaning up after them, leaving one's corpse just sitting by some books), and seems to see them as no different than the items in her house, throwing them outside with junk.
- "Dusty", the cat that was dead for so long it just blew into dust.
- Although some people think it was actually just dust shaped like a cat, like a "dust bunny".
- Just to say, in Italian dust bunnies are called "gatti di polvere" that translates in "dust cats"
- Although some people think it was actually just dust shaped like a cat, like a "dust bunny".
- A "Slenderman" type character makes a very quick cameo near the end.
- The Scariest Cave in Equestria. It's given a Nothing Is Scarier presentation that lets us imagine any horrific things we want that would leave the Apples so traumatized. Becomes Nightmare Retardant when Pinkie decides to take a picture (and they don't seem to suffer any ill effects afterwards, aside from trauma).
- The raft plunging over the waterfall a la Splash Mountain, complete with an Eat the Camera take from Applejack as the Apples scream. Even with the steering wheel broken off, they're given only seconds to steer their raft out of the way when they discover it and their panicked behavior doesn't help. Pinkie even takes pictures of their terrified expressions.
- In a display of extreme Toon Physics, Pinkie gets so worked up that her head inflates like a balloon and she floats away on it.
- This has enough resemblance to the way the clones in "Too Many Pinkie Pies" blew up when Twilight zapped them (see above) to make it just that little bit worse.
- Rarity's descent into insanity as she tries more and more to be like Applejack, even going so far as to leap into a mud puddle. Played for Laughs, or this?
- YMMV for some, but Trenderhoof's mannerisms towards Applejack as the episode goes along turns more from 'absolutely gobsmacked' to 'borderline stalkerism'.
- At least the episode makes it clear that this is not acceptable behavior.
The now-cut page for My Youthful Sicko Test didn't even try to list Nightmare Fuel. And I don't mean that it overexaggerated non-scary things, or listed Fridge Horror, or speculation, or anything like that. I mean that it literally did not even remotely resemble Nightmare Fuel in any way, shape, or form. What was actually on there was what looked like an incomplete walkthrough of the game. ...Well, okay, there was one thing that maybe was vaguely nightmarish, a brief mention that the first decoration you get is a bucket full of severed body parts. But then the rest of the example just described how to unlock it, and other in-game info about it. None of the other decorations listed on the page sounded even mildly creepy.
