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It appears that many Nightmare Fuel pages have problems, including:
1. Listing non-scary things that made the viewer feel slightly uncomfortable at worst.
2. Having spoiler tags on them (which is against the page's guidelines).
3. Listing Fridge Horror and fan theories.
And much more!
On a few occasions, people from outside the site's community have pointed out our overly lax usage of Nightmare Fuel to make fun of us, meaning that it can legitimately harm our reputation to let this go unchecked.
The TRS thread
meant for redefining Nightmare Fuel started to become a place for cleaning up Nightmare Fuel pages in general, so we may as well move these discussions to Long Term Projects where they belong.
Here are the guidelines to determine whether something is Nightmare Fuel or not.
Nightmare Fuel rules
- This is a page whose name is intended to be taken more literally than most. It's not enough for material to be scary; to truly qualify, it has to be frightening enough to legitimately unnerve/disturb the viewer, with actually being nightmare-inducing as the ultimate endpoint.
- Good signs that something IS Nightmare Fuel include if:
- It left you feeling shaken even after the credits had rolled, you turned the last page, or are otherwise done with the work.
- You have a hard time falling asleep if you think about it at night, or have a literal nightmare about it.
- You dread that episode, scene, level, chapter, or song during re-watches, and consider skipping it.
- With that said, don't add something just because it happens to be your personal phobia. For example, spiders can be scary and many people have arachnophobia, but just because a spider happens to be in the work, it does not make a Nightmare Fuel entry. It needs to reasonably be scary to someone without the phobia.
- Don't confuse tension with fear. If the hero is in trouble, but you know he'll make it out okay at the end, it's probably not Nightmare Fuel unless the threat is especially disturbing.
- Good signs that something IS Nightmare Fuel include if:
- Explain WHY the entry scared you. Try to convey your sense of fear to your readers. Avoid putting up Zero-Context Examples.
- Remember that Weblinks Are Not Examples, and neither are quotes on their own. You should explain the horror in your own words, rather than rely on others to do so.
- Don't add things that might have scared someone. If it didn't scare you, and you don't personally know anyone else who was scared, you shouldn't be adding it to Nightmare Fuel.
- Nightmare Fuel should stick to you even after you're done with the work.
- If something is initially presented as scary but turns out to be harmless, it's most likely not Nightmare Fuel since The Reveal makes the scariness vanish.
- Jump Scares are a good source of Nightmare Fuel, but not all of them automatically qualify: being startled is not the same as being scared.
- Hypotheticals are not Nightmare Fuel:
- Remember that Trailers Always Lie: a scene that is presented as scary in the trailer could very well turn out to be inoffensive in the finished work. Only add examples from unreleased works if they were especially terrifying in the previews.
- Fan theories do not belong on the Nightmare Fuel page under any circumstance. No matter how much evidence they have to support them, don't add them until they've been officially confirmed. In the meanwhile, take them to Wild Mass Guessing.
- Fridge Horror goes on the Fridge page, not Nightmare Fuel. Don't add it unless it's Ascended Fridge Horror.
- Keep in mind the work's intended audience when considering whether or not something is Nightmare Fuel.
- If something is normal or expected in the genre, it does not automatically qualify. Violence in a Fighting Series or gore in a horror movie must be especially disturbing or gruesome by the work's standards to be Nightmare Fuel.
- Remember that Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films. If a work is rated PG-13 or higher but would only be scary to young children, it's not Nightmare Fuel.
- The standards on what qualifies as Nightmare Fuel are especially stringent on works aimed at children and pre-teens: kids have hyperactive imaginations, so even something benign can give them nightmares.
- Spoiler tags do not belong on Nightmare Fuel pages. Much of what scares us comes from inherently spoilery stuff such as death and the unknown, so finding spoilers on these pages should be expected.
- Nightmare Fuel is an Audience Reaction, so it needs to be scary for the audience. Describing how the characters react to something scary isn't needed. Just because something scares them, that doesn't mean it scares us as well.
- Nightmare Fuel is a No Real Life Examples, Please! page. Meta-examples involving the actors, production, or behind-the-scenes incidents are not allowed.
Guidelines when proposing cleanup of a page:
- Some rules are pretty objective. If you see a Zero-Context Example, Fridge Horror, Real Life example, speculation, In-Universe reaction that isn't scary to the viewers, examples that explicitly describe themselves as not being very scary (including "mildly creepy", "somewhat unnerving", and other synonymous phrases), or examples that are just scene summaries without going into detail about why it's so scary, you can (and should) remove them immediately without coming here to ask.
- You should also strip all spoiler tags from the page. Itty Bitty Wiki Tools has a tool for that, but it can cause problems, so if you use it be sure to preview the page and thoroughly look it over.
- Once you've fixed the objective issues with the page, bring it here so we can look at the more subjective problems, such as examples that may not be scary enough to qualify. If a consensus is reached that a certain entry does not qualify, it can be removed.
Edited by Zuxtron on Aug 1st 2020 at 9:40:30 AM
plakythebirb
Plakis Morakis
from the Deep South
Since: Aug, 2021
Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
Plakis Morakis
#5652: Dec 11th 2023 at 1:46:38 PM
On the subject of keeping examples but not linking to them, I think something like that was decided on for the So Bad Its Horrible entry on that one anti-disection post PETA made that involved graphic imagery.
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WarJay77
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
(Troper Knight)
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
#5653: Dec 11th 2023 at 1:47:58 PM
Oh, yeah, I mean we can certainly do that. The entries themselves are... evocative on their own. I only watch the videos if I'm feeling brave ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
TroperNo9001
Lovely Legilimens
from MACUSA
Since: Oct, 2014
Relationship Status: If the gov't can read my mind, they know I'm thinking of you
Lovely Legilimens
#5654: Dec 12th 2023 at 3:19:55 AM
In YMMV.Toddlers And Tiaras: The spray tans being applied to a baby or toddler. There's just so much crying and screaming...
Feels like a shoehorn since while it's traumatizing to the babies, it doesn't look remotely scary in a show about child beauty pageants.
"I just want what everyone else has, that's all."
mightymewtron
Lots of coffee
from New New York
Since: Oct, 2012
Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Lots of coffee
#5655: Dec 14th 2023 at 5:48:45 PM
While the entry is currently written, I could see the show portraying it as such if they really focus on the children crying. I remember reading elsewhere that this show isn't a stranger to Manipulative Editing to emphasize the more unpleasant aspects of pageantry.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
#5656: Dec 30th 2023 at 9:12:39 AM
Here's something on NightmareFuel.Super Smash Bros Brawl I find off-putting (bolded part mine):
- Mr. Game & Watch's Final Smash involves him turning into a giant octopus that hovers around with its undulating tentacles, with a constant ominous and unnatural humming sound throughout the whole thing. Let's just hope you haven't seen anything..."not safe for work," or this could get even more uncomfortable. Granted it's a cartoon octopus at least but still.
Feels kind of crass and not connected to the actual game? I feel as if most people playing this game aren't going to make the Naughty Tentacles comparison. Maybe it's just me though.
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punkcrow
Tobias/TJ (He/Him)
from Northwest Indiana
Since: Dec, 2020
Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
Tobias/TJ (He/Him)
#5657: Dec 30th 2023 at 11:39:21 AM
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
Yeah, I'd say cut that part. Sounds something like "association" Nightmare Fuel (as in, "this is scarier if you're familiar with this unrelated work", which I don't think is allowed), and I agree that the Naughty Tentacles joke feels a little unnecessarily crass, especially if it's difficult to make that association in the context of the game itself.
Berserk Button: misusing Nightmare Fuel
#5658: Dec 30th 2023 at 12:38:25 PM
The Final Smash itself isn't scary. There's a big 2D octopus and you take damage if you touch it. Hardly the stuff of nightmares. I'd cut the whole thing, it feels like a huge exaggeration to make it sound "super dark and scary (and therefore cool)".
Edited by Zuxtron on Dec 30th 2023 at 3:38:52 PM
RandomTroper123
She / Her
from I'll let you guess...
(Not-So-Newbie)
Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
She / Her
#5659: Dec 30th 2023 at 7:25:37 PM
(x3) I agree that the bolded part is unneeded, partly since there isn't anything sexual about it.
However, because it's not scary or scary-looking (for the record I don't recall finding it creepy even as a kid), I feel the whole entry can be removed.
Edited by RandomTroper123 on Jan 5th 2024 at 7:15:03 AM
punkcrow
Tobias/TJ (He/Him)
from Northwest Indiana
Since: Dec, 2020
Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
Tobias/TJ (He/Him)
#5660: Dec 30th 2023 at 8:40:35 PM
After finding out that it's not even particularly scary at all (admittedly, I was considering asking that question given the last sentence describes it as "a cartoon octopus"), I agree with the decision made to cut the whole entry.
I'm not very familiar with Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but what Zuxtron described sounds pretty standard for your average video game.
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.
#5661: Jan 1st 2024 at 12:49:15 AM
I wanted to take a look at some of the various Marvel Cinematic Universe pages that there are:
- The overall theme of this movie is much darker compared to the theme of the previous movies. Not only was Thor's homeland destroyed, but at the same time, half of Asgard lost their lives!
But it's also Denser and Wackier than the previous movies, it's still a comedic film overall.
- The scene when Hela slashes out Thor's eye. The scene is so graphic that it could have been included in an R-rated film!
This is looking too much into that scene, it really isn't that violent since you don't actually see the slash, you see Hela slash his face and then he turns his head towards the camera to see his eye, and there is no blood spray when cutting. Granted his eye is still gross looking but this isn't really scary and later becomes a Moment of Awesome when he powers up.
- The ending of the movie in which half of the population has been blipped by Thanos’ snap. This is disturbing as it shows Scott Lang stuck in the Quantum Realm for 5 hours (in reality, he was stuck there for 5 years, meaning that a year passed in the real world equates to an hour passed in the Quantum Realm).
I'm not sure considering that Thanos' snap gets undone in the next movie, and Scott being stuck in the Realm for 5 years is more of a plot point than scary.
Nightmare Fuel/Eternals:
- The scene at the beginning where the Deviant attacks the ancient tribespeople, with the village chief quietly telling the others to run away as the Deviant suddenly rises from the ocean behind him and devours him whole. Thankfully the Eternals arrive and prevent it from getting worse, but it's still quite disturbing.
Again looking too much into this scene, there is no blood, no crunching sounds, and the Eternals show up too quickly after to let this moment even linger, which at that point it becomes a standard MCU fight scene.
- The scene in the Amazon where Sersi and Ikaris share a tender moment in the forest and Ikaris is about to tell her something... until the silence is suddenly broken by a winged Deviant nabbing Ikaris, making one hell of a Jump Scare.
Again a single Jump Scare, not something long lasting.
- At the end of the movie, Arishem suddenly appears and abducts the remaining Eternals, with his massive size making him visible to nearly everyone on Earth. Taking into account that Earth was still fresh off the heels of the Blip, the regular citizens of the MCU are understandably freaked out over the sudden appearance of a giant space robot that dwarfs their planet.
This is an in universe reaction, not an audience reaction.
#5662: Jan 2nd 2024 at 10:20:46 PM
The Ant-Man one could maybe be rewritten to cut out all the unnecessary detail and focus specifically on the dread of being trapped. It's definitely a shocking scene to end a lighthearted movie like that on.
Other than that, I would cut all of those.
punkcrow
Tobias/TJ (He/Him)
from Northwest Indiana
Since: Dec, 2020
Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
Tobias/TJ (He/Him)
#5663: Jan 3rd 2024 at 1:19:25 AM
Yeah, I feel like that example might be valid with a rewrite. It's been a while since I saw Ant-Man and the Wasp, but I specifically remember the ending being pretty scary by the standards of that movie due to the sheer Mood Whiplash.
He/Him
#5664: Jan 3rd 2024 at 8:38:40 PM
The Nightmare fuel page for The Executioner and Her Way of Life has bugged me for a while. examples below with my notes in bold after each.
- The opening of the anime seems dramatic and cool with its visuals... and it also shows Menou's desiccated corpse along with her flesh and eyes being brought back gradually over top of it when she is "resurrected". The scene in question can be seen here, occurring shortly after 1:12. Personally I see nothing scary about it, and actually think it's kinda cool. Cut, IMO
Volume 1: Thus, She is Reborn
- Menou's flashback to her hometown being "blanched." It isn't violent or gory, but the image of everyone turned to salt is an eerie image. What's worse is that the Lost One responsible for everything did it on accident, and reduced to moaning and sobbing things like "I didn't mean to..." in horror, so in shock that all she can do is helplessly try dusting the remains of people's bodies off of young Menou. Eerie and disturbing but not really scary. Not sure what should be done with it.
- When Flare kills the Lost One, her Guiding Force reacts by absorbing the "salt" around her body and transforming it into a massive, eerie titan in order to try and fight back, looking like something out of Drakengard. Example indentation and referencing a franchise I am unfamiliar with. It needs more detail about what's scary if it's going to stay.
- When Momo punches the dragon she overpowers into the wall, its eyeball is seen visibly hanging out. Should be rewritten to focus on Momo beating a dragon to death with her bare hands. The eyeball thing isn't scary in itself.
Volume 2: Whiteout
- The transformative effects of monstrine involve a painful transformation into a monster. Then Manon reveals that she's spiked the food she's served to the Fourth council members with this same substance, holding their bodies hostage and demonstrating its effects at a council meeting. It's as frightening as it is cathartic. Keep, though more detail on what the monstrine does to them would help a lot
- Flare’s murder of Manon’s innocent Lost One mother is quite chilling, especially as we seen young Manon’s reaction and Flare’s order to her mother to not use her power, lest Manon be hurt. Would need to rewatch, but at minimum it could stand more detail
- The "birthday party" of Pandemonium: as Manon lays dying, a hand erupts from her stomach, later followed by a smiling, cheerful little girl. Keep. Pandaemonium is fucking terrifying, especially here.
- Pandemonium is described as twisting and stretching her neck in the light novels until her head comes off. It's a disturbing enough image, but the anime runs with this and has her stretch her neck until it's longer than her entire body. Keep
- Pandemonium's first appearance: bursting her way out of Manon's body in gory fashion, before summoning a group of monsters by twisting her own head off her body. Not helped at all by her disconcertingly youthful design. Repeat of the above two examples.
- Even if Pandemonium is the embodiment of chaos, it's still disturbing to see a little girl's body being crushed into a bloody mess under the pressure of the etheric vein. Keep
- Pandemonium gathers all her energy and transforms into a grotesque giant centipede with writhing human arms for legs. Keep, though more detail wouldn't hurt
Any disagreement or other input?
Edited by Acebrock on Jan 3rd 2024 at 8:38:56 AM
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#5665: Jan 5th 2024 at 5:56:32 PM
i'm adding my rewrites to the square root of garfield page. please revert the page if they're not good or ideal.
Diamondeye218
QWEST!
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Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
QWEST!
#5666: Jan 7th 2024 at 6:04:33 AM
This deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball.
Looking through Battle for Dream Island, I felt like that that page needs some cleaning up:
General
- Any of the deaths in the later episodes can be this, especially the fact that most of the characters are fragile. What makes this scarier is the fact they get recovered, meaning they actually died, rather than having an Unexplained Recovery. It's worse that the characters might be kids. The deaths by fire are even more disturbing. Their ages are vague
- On top of that the overly violent nature of the show, even more than later season 1, in BFB. BFB is considered Darker and Edgier
- Ice Cube has her moments of being Ax-Crazy. She once left a bunch of contestants to fall off of a cliff for being mistreated by some. Another time, she imagines some of former FreeSmart burning to death. Ice Cube's Vengeance isn't out of spite, but to those that mistreat her
- Snowball, Eraser, and Blocky's disliking of Golf Ball has gotten them to try to kill her.
- There's something creepy about some of the music tracks. Valid
- The second soundtrack that plays in the series is "Minutes", which suddenly just shows unsettling urgency. Not to mention, it's played with the mentioned Pentagon scene below.
- There's "Night Mote" as well. It's a slow track that plays whenever we cut to the random waterfall where Roboty randomly teleports to sometimes. What's wrong about it? When it's sped up, it sounds a bit unsettling. Used to especially eerie effect in the montage of Taco trying to break out of the jawbreaker.
- The "Nice Mote" variant amps up the eerieness tenfold.
- The sudden Mood Whiplash that happens in "How A Future Bass House is made". It sounds like the sound of the world ending.
- Just the thought of being locked in a metal chamber with nothing to eat or drink, and this causes Flower to Go Mad from the Isolation and bite a chunk of metal off Announcer during BFDI 25, and yet the announcer leaves.
- Flower, particularly in the early seasons, is a narcissistic, Hair-Trigger Temper Alpha Bitch who does not hesitate to threaten the characters. She gets worse in BFDI 25 when she destroys all the recovery centers and pops Bubble.
- Blocky in the first few seasons. Just imagine an ax-crazy jerk jock, who would prank others, but on the other hand, keep on killing you, not to mention his signature slasher smile.
- In BFB 1, he literally grabs Tennis Ball and Golf Ball and rips them in half off-screen just because they were managing the team!
Battle for Dream Island
- How about that time a bunch of contestants willingly threw themselves into a pit of Hydrochloric Acid?
- Snowball unintentionally causing more than a single death he caused, due to Leafy's ball just bouncing off of Pencil in Don't Lose Your Marbles.
- Bug invasion in "Insectophobe's Nightmare 2". The bugs eat everyone alive (except Announcer and David), and if you're not horrified yet, the moment after Firey tries burning them should do it. Everything on screen is bugs. Seems valid
- Any time David gets angry. What's with his whole body turning red and lightning bolts flying out of him as he furiously screams "AW, SERIOUSLY!?" Also, these come at the least expected times, which makes this a Jump Scare.
- The contestants ripping Leafy in half to see the "real Leafy". It's played for laughs, but seems that would be cruel enough. However, all tension is thrown out the window when it’s revealed that she’s actually a football/rugby ball. Unsure
- Woody gets a heart attack over silver and grey colors in the Announcer Transportation Device, and it comes with him moaning to boot. Unsure
- Fridge Logic comes into play here, because Rocky, Needle, Announcer, and Golf Ball are gray and Woody doesn't seem to be scared of them. Probably
Battle for Dream Island Again
- Leafy's anger issues. Period. She tried to murder Gelatin, Needle and Puffball by throwing knives at them and successfully dodged several “Acid Spitballs” they shot at her. Just because Needle slapped her.
- This "alternate cut" of the "Leafy Detector" scene in BFDIA 1. Valid
- Evil Leafy. Sure, she’s just a color swap of Leafy with bulging eyes. But then she reappeared in “Get Digging”. In that episode, she chased down Book, Ice Cube and Spongy, teleported over to them over a long while away and then randomly sank into Spongy when he collapsed. Pencil and Match seemed pretty happy about the latter. Valid
- Special mention goes to the ending of Episode 5a. Freesmart gets swallowed up by Evil Leafy, and the remaining two minutes are Evil Leafy standing on the edge of a cliff with quiet music in the background. It's surprisingly unsettling. Valid
- It's implied she's a Genius Loci as well. Why? BFDIA 5B is a game set inside Evil Leafy after Freesmart, Golf Ball, Tennis Ball and Rocky are swallowed by her. It's actually pretty creepy. A red ground, grey skies, spike death traps... and what is with that music? Valid
- There's an Evil Leafy maze game made by Michael for Halloween 2013. It's very amateur, but the fact that everything is an expanse of grey tunnels with the only goal being to survive as long as you can before Evil Leafy gets you can give a cheap little game like this the creepy factor. There's not even any audio to accompany it. Valid
- Needle and Spongy's death scene in BFDIA 5c: due to Spongy being impaled on spikes and Needle being used to slap the rest of the W.O.A.H. Bunch to the top of the cliff, Yellow Face gleefully throws a flamethrower down at them to put them out of their misery, believing that they could just recover her afterward. The resulting scene is disturbingly well-animated, and the silence makes the gravity of the situation even worse. Valid
- The replacement Tiny Loser Chamber W.O.A.H. Bunch built-in "Intruder Alert", as it's filled with handcuffs, crushers, chainsaws, and Flower's hideous face. Not helping is Nickel imagining himself inside the torture device. Fortunately, it was destroyed. Valid
- Also, Yellow Face in the intro for this episode: "I AM IN YOUR WALLS." Valid
IDFB
- In “Welcome Back”, Ruby ends up shattering on the ground in an attempt to get down a spiral staircase quicker. Seems more a cartoonish element to me
- Golf Ball's flashback in the science museum, in IDFB 1. Not to mention that deep voice. Valid
- The stinger for the episode, Coiny approaches Fries and "deep fries" his breaths. And by "deep fries" we mean dunking his body into BOILING oil and screaming while Fries screams at him to stop. And then there is Leafy, who is still Ax-Crazy, and tries to stab both Fries and Coiny before being deeply disturbed by what she sees and hides away. Valid
Battle for BFDI/BFB
- The Stinger for BFB 27, where Income Tax Return Document's house (which turns out to be Two's apartment) gets poked out by a needle. This is a joke
- Four casually mutilating Pin in BFB 1 just to demonstrate how twisted and sadistic he is!
- Flower whispering at the end of A Taste of Space.
Flower: Saave yourself... Valid
- Lollipop also scams others with fork attractant. Think about it. Unsure
- The BFB eliminations in which a contestant is sucked up by Four. Bracelety's elimination is a special mention, as Four practically swallows her. Dora's elimination is also unsettling, what with her whole body being sucked slowly and painfully into Four as if she was being sucked into a black hole, complete with spaghettification. Valid
- Pencil's elimination where she screams and gets sucked into Four in a split second.
- Liy "restraining herself" in Fortunate Ben. Needs a bit more context
- Even without Four, the eliminations are still unsettling. Case in point's 8-Ball he flat out dies from getting crushed by the earth and the moon. While the death itself isn't scary, halfway through being crushed, his face goes to a teeth frown with his eyes spreading out, indicating he died sad. He gets better in BFB 10, but is sucked into Four not even a second after being resurrected. Loser gets eliminated as well, and got trapped in a giant jawbreaker like how Taco did.
- Speaking of sucking up, Pen's death in BFB 3 is violent and unsettling and does not match the overall sillyness of the scene. Valid
Bottle: And Pen is dead!
- Taco has to eat part of herself in order to survive being stuck in a jawbreaker in the stinger of episode 2. Also, as explained in Episode 7, sound can come inside the jawbreakers, but can't come out of them. Now, imagine being stuck in one like Taco was... Valid
- There's something pretty creepy about the Jump Scare of the pentagon shaking around in the first few seconds of "Getting Teardrop to Talk". Valid
- Pretty much the entirety of BFB 7. Loser getting trapped in an inside out jawbreaker by Donut, the "data void" Robot Flower is in (and then it downloads a bomb), Remote's glitch, Loser flying off into endless space, Stapy popping Balloony's head, Woody ripping Foldy in half (this is his first kill by the way), Naily impaling Bell just to take the Liar Ball from her (and Needle doing the same thing to Naily off-screen), and, albeit very brief, the giant Four coming towards the screen in space. His small, spread-apart eyes (compared to his cartoony, big eyes) bring up uncanny vibes. Unsure about this
- Also, notice how Fanny gets angrier and angrier as she rants toward Loser? It makes her sound serious and rather intimidating. This definitely falls into He Really Can Act.
- The ways the contestants try to bring Four back are usually silly (Pillow licking Lollipop, Bottle hitting Golf Ball with a club, Gelatin bending a fork...). Then the contestants try breaking one of X's legs to make the shape of Four. Keep in mind that the leg X had broken was the same one he had bandaged up in “Fortunate Ben”. The last attempt is Firey stabbing Donut with a syringe and then getting whatever is inside of him through it. Sure, they got Four back (albeit liquified), but it looked like they sucked out some of Donut’s cherry filling along with it. He looks like an onion ring when Four is sucked out. Unsure
- Fanny's death by decapitation in BFB 11 is rather unsettling. Rather than dying violently or cartoonishly like other contestants, she just lays there lifelessly after she is killed. In BFB 12, it's revealed she survived her decapitation, but she has to drag her head on the ground because it's only connected to her body by its cable. The way she looks when decapitated is both disturbing and funny. Valid
- Eraser's fear of pentagons. Sure, it's mostly Played for Laughs, but it can be pretty unsettling, e.g. the stinger of BFB 12.
- Firey getting stuffed into the sun. ZCE
- In BFB 14, several arms wriggle out of Four's mouth one by one like snakes as the background gets darker and the music slows down. Fortunately, it's just the arms of Death P.A.C.T. members inside Four.
- In Fortunate Ben, Four literally tears X's leg off off-screen. Unsure
- Also, during the airplane challenge, Four says that no flying contestants are allowed and flat-out obliterates the flying contestants with no care. Until he gets to Puffball, to which Fries says to simply disable her. This causes Four to get angry and says "Fine!" as if he is annoyed at the fact that he can't kill contestants for his own personal gain.
- Ice Cube and Teardrop's "happy thoughts" in "The Four is Lava" are disturbing. Ice Cube thinks of her own friends burning for revenge. Teardrop's is her disturbingly smashing windows with a hammer, and Pillow tells her she can't do that, but smashes Pillow anyway. To make matters even worse, she screams. Pillow does come off as a psychopath in TPOT, so unsure
- Four becoming even thinner than Donut did when he was sucked out of him and killing Basketball off-screen just because she called him pudgy! He resembles leafless branches. Valid
Four: Pudgy?! You think this is PUDGYYYYYY?!
- Four becoming next-level mad. Definitely the angriest we ever see Four. Holy crap. The sky turning red with the menacing angle and Four's eyes becoming black help sell the scene. Valid
Four: (absolutely furious) I. AM NEXT LEVEL. MAD.
- Four pulling four fingers out of Balloony's hand. It's just unexpected and it sounds like Four is doing something questionable with him when taken out of context. Not to mention how he's sounding like he's in pure agony. Valid
- Lollipop's head is made of candy, so it's fragile, and can break. This means the stick doesn't just hold the body, but it is. Valid
- Four's acid trip-like mirage from getting hurt by Firey Jr.'s flames in BFB 16. Perhaps also doubles as a funny moment as Four acts like a child who accidentally put his finger on something hot
- In BFB 14, you get to see characters get disintegrated and burned alive by lava on-screen, and there's not even a dead body. Imagine getting your head burnt off by that thing. Valid
- In the stinger for Take the Tower, Lollipop has to put up with Ruby and Leafy's awful singing, and she falls into a Sanity Slippage. Valid as it Crosses the Line Twice
Lollipop: Get me outta here... Somebody help...
- Gaty burning to death in BFB 15. Despite it being only on-screen for a second, her scream is feminine compared to her voice actress' vocal dissonance. Valid
- In Getting Teardrop to Talk, Flower gets Black Hole to get the cyanide jar to open by moving him close to the earth, nearly causing the world to end. Valid
- In Take the Tower, when Leafy is faced with fighting Firey, she begins to suffer some sort of trauma. Some viewers have commented that it looks like she is having a panic attack. Valid
- Much like BFB 7, BFB 19 is also chock full of Nightmare Fuel. Lollipop's continued (and arguably worse than before) torment in the beginning, Woody burning to death (all on screen, no less), X still burning (and he survives it), and the Have Nots burning to death near the sun. The cherry on top? This is Loser's first death. Ye gods... Not Sure
- BFB 20 has the Have Cots (except Lollipop, who got obliterated by a laser from Leafy) nearly suffocate due to lack of oxygen in space. The entire scene can really make you wonder "what were Cary and Micheal thinking?". Valid, but there is some natter there
- In BFB 21, one of the Have Nots' gifts is a cardboard box for Woody. Woody ends up getting really angry, thinking that he's not being treated right, and he scrunches up the box. While doing so, his face turns red and a kettle sound effect plays He's that angry.
- To top it all off, the fact that in this scene it's Woody, the one who is normally a shy coward and is afraid of everything, actually being downright livid makes matters even worse. O.O.C. Is Serious Business indeed.
- At the end of every Battle for BFB episode, we get to hear what it's like in the BRB. It starts off with just Balloony screaming combined with metallic clanging. As the episodes go on, more of the eliminated contestants join in this screaming.
- It gets even worse. In BFB 21, it is revealed that not even Loser can stand it.
- We find out in BFB 22. It's a big rotating building in the sky spinning the eliminated contestants around in cages. While it's not as bad as isolating others, it still is torturing the characters with their fears, though at seem to get over it once Blocky releases 58 pages of Donut's diary online.
- During Woody's testimony in BFB 22, both Leafy and Taco look really creepy. Leafy has red eyes and Taco has snakes coming out of her shell (although, they were actually jumping rope together). Four on the other hand... Valid
Imaginary Four: (demonic voice) Hello everyone. Protect my diary, or I will eat all of you!
- His eyes also get really crazy with that last part. Also Valid
- In BFB 23, Purple Face escapes from his box, chasing the members of the Have-Cots around the warehouse, and eventually eating them. Alive (although they manage to protect themselves from the stomach acid with Flower's sweaters).
- We also see a talking Portable Music Player, and Gelatin dissolve alive in acid.
- Four's ultimate Sanity Slippage moment in BFB 28, in which he sinks into the desert, contaminating it (and possibly the rest of the world) with his presence. The ominous way in which he speaks before doing this sells it. Valid
Four: The Announcer was right; we lost all control...X: Four... It'll be okay.Four: BUT! In the end, this show is MINE! So it's time for you to leave! You can't make this show without me!Announcer: Wanna bet?Four: Just watch this: I'll be a constant presence! You'll NEVER get rid of me! (Melts into the floor) Mwahahahahaha, I'll be here FOREVER!
- The face Four creates when he talks through the earth in the BFB finale. Something about it looks a bit... off. Valid
The Power of Two
- In BFDIA 5d, Yellow Face's corpse was left glued down in the desert. Cake encounters its skeleton ten years later in Gardening Zero. Also, any water it touches is apparently cursed. The Funny Plant immediately disintegrates upon coming into contact with the cursed water. Valid
- Snowball can be considered unhinged in TPOT 3 and TPOT 4. Especially towards Grassy. In TPOT 3, he punches Grassy so hard that Grassy flies through the sky and off-screen. Then, when Grassy returns, Snowball ties him up and tries to get Two to punch him next. In TPOT 4, he lights Grassy on fire! What makes it worse? No one, except Basketball, finds anything wrong with it. Valid
- Marker eating a cheesecake covered in glass in the stinger for TPOT 3. He also catches on fire in TPOT 4 after accidentally coming in contact with Grassy. Valid
- Puffball forcing Death P.A.C.T Again to make a Sadistic Choice, either they save Ice Cube from slowly dying in a very horrible and painful way, or complete their challenge, in TPOT 4.
- Lightning zapping Puffball in TPOT 4.
- Pillow. Yes, most of her moments are Played for Laughs, but imagine a human genuinely acting like her.
- While the actions of the narrator of "Just Not's Journey" are Played for Laughs, it doesn't change the fact that it's relentlessly tormenting Just Not for seemingly no reason and even tries to get them to commit suicide. Unlike all of the other nightmare fuel characters on this list, the narrator is a narrator, so there's absolutely no hiding from them either if they decide to torment someone.
- Pretty much the entirety of TPOT 7. It is considerably Darker and Edgier than most of the show, and although it was played for Black Comedy, Tree's death is likely to scare even the teens.
- Lightning's reaction to getting eliminated in TPOT 7. He zaps multiple people in anger and then flies up into the sky, exploding into a huge thunderstorm and destroying seven landmarks.
- TPOT 9 involves a full-blown Zombie Apocalypse that strangely gets played mostly straight after a zombified Barf Bag begins to infect the other contestants, leading the survivors to flee from their former friends to avoid getting turned themselves.
- What makes TPOT 9 more terrifying is the fact that this is the first time a host truly has no control over the challenge, even the lava incident from BFB 14 doesn't cross this threshold because Four was never in any real danger from it. Valid
- Pillow's Ax-Crazy personality is taken up a notch when she starts murdering the rest of her team one by one, since she believes the challenge is really about "two teams—completely wiped out—". She eventually decides to cover herself in Book's remains and, on top of that, gets a chunk torn out of her by Price Tag, making her look almost terrifying. Valid
- Two in their zombified state is... unnerving, to say the least. They're locked into a blank pose with an equally-blank facial expression, the few lines they get before we actually see them are whispered by Niall Burns in a voice that barely sounds anything like them, they glide instead of walking, they only seem to care about teleporting the contestants to the elimination area, and they get more sloppily-drawn between the two times they appear — almost as if their appearance is uncontrollably degrading. Valid
- The eliminated contestants are revealed to be sent to an upside-down hotel. Don't see the Nightmare Fuel? The contestants are likely trapped there forever, since even the door is upside down. And while being trapped in a hotel is arguably better than being trapped in a box, it still is terrible. Unsure about this, feels like complaining
- What's more, the contestants have their own room. Now combine that with everything said above, and you get an absolute Fate Worse than Death: being alone forever while your friends don't know where you are, and not having anything to kill yourself with, and not being able to starve to death because your species is unable to. This just proves that Two was never the Nice Guy we knew them to be, this whole time, they were worse than Four ever was. Feels like speculation
Misc.
- In "Happy Birthday, Battle for BFDI", the contestants literally eat their friend and fellow competitor, Cake. His line really sells it.
Cake: I CAN'T HANDLE THIS TORMENT ANYMORE!!!
kiby :]
#5667: Jan 7th 2024 at 7:39:07 PM
That last bit in the TPOT folder about the hotel rooms...what?? This feels like it's completely missing the point of how they characterize Two as being much nicer than the other hosts by not just forcing them into an empty box, or even worse, forced to do algebra.
Edited by ATricksterArtist on Jan 7th 2024 at 10:40:11 AM
(Don't) take me home.
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#5668: Jan 7th 2024 at 7:41:06 PM
That example is pure Fridge Horror speculation anyway.
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#5669: Jan 12th 2024 at 10:13:17 PM
i am questioning the page for Monsters University, there are examples that ignore the context and what the audience might have seen before or after it, examples that are only tense, examples that bring no context, and examples that admit they're funny.
i go into spoilers when i talk about this. i also need figuring out how children would react to these scenes. i am willing to hear other people's thoughts on this. my commentary is in green.
examples from page
- In the prologue, Mike's teacher's worries when she found out that Mike has followed the Scarer into the Human World.
- The crash test dummy-esque child models used in the scare simulators. Although the tampered-with one was played for laughs, the screaming noise they make is quite loud, coupled with the the fact that they jerk up so suddenly. Also, the tampered-with model has been broken to the point that EVERY motion sets it off...
- The extremely grotesque swelling from being simply touched by the poison urchins.
- The results of the OK Fraternity when hit by them aren't pretty...
- Though when Squishy swallows one, it's pretty funny.
- The scene where Mike realizes that none of the human girls at the camp are scared by him and slowly come closer to him as he cowers in fear due to his belief that human children are deadly.
- Props to the scene where Mike and Sulley successfully scare the adults. Definitely tops the "TOYS ARE ALIVE" scene from the first Toy Story.
- Sulley trying to escape from the humans chasing him, thinking he is a bear. The bit where he frantically tries and tries to get up the small cliff just puts that fear that he is feeling into you.
- Extra props towards the filmmakers for managing to create legitimate tension in the human world scenes, despite the audience knowing from the first movie that humans aren't actually poisonous to monsters.
- That librarian is possibly one of the most horrifying monsters in any of the movies.
- "I said, QUIET."
- Some of the scare tactics employed on the test dummies. Particularly the ones employed by Terri and Terry Perry, assuming a Slender Man-like shadow silhouette, and by Squishy, sneaking up behind and providing an unsettling Jump Scare with his creepy staring.
- The Roar Omega Roar Fraternity's tactics aren't to scoff at either. Special mention goes to Johnny whose roar is comparable to Sulley's.
- The members of Python Nu Kappa may seem like bubbly, cheerleader-esque girls, but at points in the film, they provide a Jump Scare by baring their fangs and making their eyes glow red. That reminds one of succubi… It is stated in the essential guide that the PNK girls are looking for jobs AT THE CREMATORIUM!!
- When Sulley is practicing scare tactics and makes the jazz clown, it's truly unsettling.
- And when Professor Knight was quizzing Mike on the different types of scaring techniques...imagine if a more frightening monster adopted those techniques...
- Sulley is shown practicing one of them later, so there you go.
- And when Professor Knight was quizzing Mike on the different types of scaring techniques...imagine if a more frightening monster adopted those techniques...
- When Hardscrabble "tests" Sulley in the Scare Exams, she mentions that a wrong scream at the wrong time would mean more than toxicity from a child. If a parent, or God forbid, the Human World ever finds out that the existence of monsters, let alone the Monster World is both real and scientifically valid, it would be the end of monster civilization. Being a Scarer just became a whole lot more terrifying, not for the child, but for the monster. It's like something along the lines of a nuclear technician having to operate the cooling rods by hand, every minute having to utilize a completely different strategy, and the slightest slipup could mean disaster ranging from spending the rest of your life in fear of getting killed by humans to a possible mass-extinction level event of biblical proportions.
- Abigail Hardscrabble, the Dean of the School of Scaring. She looks like a centipede combined with a dragon...and one has to wonder how she would look like when she's scaring kids... Even Professor Knight, who states that he doesn't scare easily, has obvious fear on his face when Hardscrabble arrived. Wazowski was probably onto something when he called her out to Randall about her being a legend in the scaring community.
- The Eta Hiss Hiss Sorority (or better known as HSS in the film). Goth look, spikes and piercings...and apparently Abigail Hardscrabble was one of its members before she became the Dean of the School of Scaring. When their Sorority's name was announced in the Scare Games, the leader Rosie Levin, let out a hiss that was unsettling like a snake... Word of God states that Rosie Levin has a black belt in Chew-jitsu.
- Just...this. This is the scene where Mike scares the scare test dummy. And it is, actually intimidating! This is perhaps the only time Mike Wazowski came off as actually SCARY!
- The buildup to the Jump Scare also deserves mention. After baiting the animatronic child to wake up and scan the room and hearing Johnny's roar outside as he completes his round, He lays below the robot's line of sight, almost appearing to have last-second cold feet. As he closes his eye, he begins to have auditory flashbacks of every doubter who has ever discouraged him from being a scarer, and when he opens his eye, everything just stops. The cheers and jeers outside fall silent, the voices fade, and the music stops. THEN his lets out his Magnum Opus of a fright!
- Even if Sulley didn't rig the test dummy, Mike would've actually scared it for sure and proved everyone wrong fair and square anyway.
- Hardscrabble yelling at Squishy when he protests her deactivating the door Mike and Sulley are in. It's effective because it's the only time she raises her voice in the film.
"I want this area cleared NOW!"
- The whole setpiece Mike puts together to try and return home from the human world by scaring the cop squad into screaming. He makes some impressive use of Hell Is That Noise, Creepy Doll and Nothing Is Scarier, all of it topped off by a blue Shambler doing a Jump Scare right after they're tripped by a wire.
- How effective was Mike at this scare? First he makes the cops believe there is a ghost in the room with them, moving things and playing music creepily, not that bad. Then comes the door and the doll, before he flips over the beds; making them think it is some sort of poltergeist, all the while scratches and gouges are appearing all around them. Whatever it is, it is in that room with them. These cops are being freaked out and their body language shows it, huddling back to back so they can see all angles; as well as them calling in backup. Then the big scare: something big drops down in front of them, they fall over from being tripped up, and this big horned demon of a monster roars at them. Mike may not have finished the scare, but it was all thanks to his setup that Sulley was able to finish them off. The irony is that the Nothing Is Scarier approach worked up until they needed the actual scream. Jump Scares and ghostly antics weren't going to cut it, they needed something truly frightening like Sulley getting in their faces.
- A small one, but for anyone with a fear of spiders it's probably a huge one. When OK decides to go to Monsters Inc to get themselves some mojo for the final challenge, there's a really creepy monster that starts off as an adorable pink puffball, cutesy smile and all, only to turn into a truly horrifying spider not even a second later, complete with a Slasher Smile and ridiculously long legs.
- Speaking of arachnophobia, Earl "The Terror" Thompson can be particularly unnerving, given that his face somewhat resembles that of a wolf spider's.
- Speaking of arachnophobia, Earl "The Terror" Thompson can be particularly unnerving, given that his face somewhat resembles that of a wolf spider's
Edited by akumeakumeakume on Jan 13th 2024 at 3:23:11 AM
yarisflat is a pretty cool ship lol
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#5670: Jan 14th 2024 at 3:04:44 PM
The intro to NightmareFuel.Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory seems absurdly gushy and exaggerated to me. The film has some freaky moments — it's not that scary, though. The only deeply horrific scene might be the tunnel one.
Edited by WarJay77 on Jan 14th 2024 at 6:05:15 AM
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#5671: Jan 14th 2024 at 3:06:15 PM
The line about being scarier then The Thing is very hyperbolic.
EDIT: I just cut it.
Edited by generation81 on Jan 14th 2024 at 6:09:26 AM
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#5672: Jan 14th 2024 at 3:09:03 PM
It seems that the line was originally added by a ban evader (Joji MC) anyway, so, works out.
Edited by WarJay77 on Jan 14th 2024 at 6:09:13 AM
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Very Spooky
#5673: Jan 14th 2024 at 3:55:11 PM
To go over the page's entries themselves:
long post
- The Oompa-Loompas are just little people in the book and other versions, but in this film they're orange-skinned, green-haired little demons. Your child was just mutated by a freak accident? That's terrible. Say, this will cheer you up: Men with irradiated skin singing in monotone about how he or she deserved it and how terrible a parent you are! Was anyone scared by the Oompa-Loompas as a kid? Because I certainly wasn't. Of course, I wasn't (i.e. others could've been), but I'm unsure if this is valid or not. I know the Oompa-Loompas are Memetic Psychopaths, but this entry seems exaggerated.
- The Oompa-Loompa song for Violet Beauregarde in particular has a creepy musical arrangement, and the fact that it is the slowest and most somber among the Oompa-Loompa songs does not help. The Mike Teevee Oompa-Loompa song is also a little strange. The way the words flash during the Augustus Gloop and Veruca Salt Oompa-Loompa songs is also a little creepy. It is worse in the book and 2005 film though, because the songs are literally for the children considering their names appear in the songs.
- Even if the Oompa-Loompas themselves don't scare you, the way that they're first mentioned to the audience is pretty deeply unsettling. Think about it: a giant factory has stayed closed for decades, and absolutely no one knows what goes on inside... but every so often, people see the silhouettes of some inhuman, dwarf-like creatures in the windows, with no way of knowing what they are or where they came from. "We daren't go a-hunting, for fear of little men," indeed... Kind of spooky, but does it really belong here?
- The first we see of the factory is rather ominous in and of itself. When Charlie approaches the gates and looks in, all we see is the dimly lit factory accompanied by a sign that reads WONKA. Maybe? As with the previous entry, the titular factory is presented in a very mysterious manner that can make it come off as eerie, but I'm not sure how scary it really is.
- Then comes the tinker. He appears from out of nowhere and spouts a rather eerie poem when describing the factory:
Up the airy mountain, down the rushing glen, we dare not go a hunting...for fear of little men. You see...Nobody ever goes in, Nobody ever comes out!
- The fact that he approaches Charlie with a cart of knives and sharp tools, really adds to his already creepy demeanor.
- Then comes the tinker. He appears from out of nowhere and spouts a rather eerie poem when describing the factory:
- The Wonkamoblile foam scene seems to take a concept of total wackiness, the wacky car, and distort it into disturbing madness. All the odd bit make a really jarring noise to young ears but it's probably because of the way Mrs. Teavee kept screaming. Wasn't scared by this as a kid, but maybe some were? Subbullet can go, though.
- It's even MORE disturbing when you consider what happened AFTER the scene was shot: Per the making-of book Pure Imagination, the foam spurting out of the machine (the same stuff that's in fire extinguishers- or at least was in the early 70s) caused the actors to break out in horrible, stinging rashes that were so severe that filming had to be halted for a few days to allow them to seek medical attention and recuperate. Why nobody thought to check into the safety of something meant to be sprayed all over human beings beforehand is anyone's guess.
- The scene where Grandpa Joe and Charlie drink the Fizzy Lifting Drinks and almost get axed by the fan. Tension, but this may be valid. Needs more context, though, and no need for a spoiler tag.
- The simple fact that Charlie's teacher gave him nitric acid and glycerin to mix. If it wasn't obvious by the name, the two combined make nitroglycerin. And they make an amount that could easily have killed the entire classroom. Fridge Horror
- The first thing many people of a certain age will mention when the topic of "things that scared the crap out of you as a child when you didn't expect it" will be the boat ride sequence of the movie. It's even more frightening than the book's version of events and no child alive saw it coming. Definitely valid, but is a classic case of a Nightmare Fuel entry that accumulates an absurd number of subbullets.
- How is the scene anything but? The boat enters a dark tunnel, and despite the parents' protests, the boat goes faster, and psychedelic colors swirl around the boat.
- Suddenly, we are seen images of stuff that could easily scare the daylights out of a child, along with unnerving sound effects accompanying each one. In order:
- A roach flying through some trees.
- A millipede crawling on a man's face (as shown above).
- A close-up of a human eyeball.
- A chicken being beheaded by a butcher knife. (Yes, they actually show it and it is very much real, but the image cuts to black before any blood comes out.)
- Slugworth.
- A chameleon chomping down on a bug.
- A scorpion's face.
- Finally, Wonka begins to recite a poem to the scared-out-of-their-wits passengers, with a Scare Chord gradually growing in the background, it's also the only poem from the book that is used:
Wonka: There's no earthly way of knowing... which direction we are going... There's no knowing where we're rowing... or which way the river's flowing... Is it raining? Is it snowing? Is a hurricane a-blowing? ...Not a speck of light is showing, so the danger must be growing... Are the fires of hell a-glowing? Is the grisly reaper mowing? YES! The danger must be growing, for the rowers... keep on rowing... And they're certainly not showing... ANY SIGNS... THAT THEY ARE SLOWING!!! *deranged scream*
- Also, notice the tone in which Wonka recites his poem. It looks like if he's slowly turning insane, which simply cranks up all of the horror up to eleven!
- End result? One of the ultimate examples of Nightmare Fuel to this day. It even made Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments list (it was #74).
- The "nice" thing is that this is the only song whose lyrics are actually taken from the book, although the movie added some of the darkest lines such as the ones about the fires of hell and the grisly reaper.
- You know it's bad when Marilyn freakin' Manson decides to include his own reading of that monologue on his debut album, completely unchanged. And it doesn't come off as even remotely out of place.
- After Wonka just straight up screams, Veruca yells "Make him stop, daddy!" in an absolutely terrified voice.
- Eli Roth said as much: "This is the moment when the movie takes a turn. You're no longer kids on a whimsical adventure. You are now the prisoners of a madman."
- "Daddy, I do not want a boat like this!"
- It was even nightmare fuel for the other actors — they were told that they would be on a boat, and that Gene would do something, after which they had their lines. And that's all they were told! When everything went batshit crazy and everyone didn't seem to be able to even speak right, it's because they COULDN'T.
- The look on the character's faces were of genuine fright; the actors weren't told that Gene Wilder was going to start monologuing at that point, much less doing it in such a weird and creepy manner. That's how terrifying the scene was.
- Also, the way Grandpa Joe and the other parents hold their kids a little tighter when Wonka starts singing. With the fear being real, you can tell the adults are ready to jump overboard with them if it means getting off this hell ride.
- When Disney Channel ran the movie in the 80's and 90's, they kept this scene (though they cut the chicken decapitation part) and slapped a content warning in front of it, literally the only time this was done for anything that wasn't rated PG-13 or up.
- Willy Wonka himself is pretty freaky at times — even — scratch that, ESPECIALLY — when portrayed by Gene Wilder. Aside from the aura of barely-veiled madness, the guy engineers some pretty disturbing fates for his ill-mannered guests. His unconcerned attitude toward the horrible fates of his guests are certainly unnerving, along with his general Nightmare Fetishist behavior. Memorable quotes include: Maybe, though much of this is Black Comedy and dry wit.
Wonka: The suspense is terrible... I hope it'll last.Wonka: (completely monotone voice) Stop, don't, come back.Mr. Salt: What is this, Wonka, some kind of funhouse?Wonka: Why, are you having fun?Mrs. Gloop: He'll be made into marshmallows in five seconds!Wonka: Impossible, dear lady! That's absurd! Unthinkable!Mrs. Gloop: WHY?!
- Augustus falling into the chocolate river and being sucked up into the clear tube, where he gets stuck. Drowning, suffocation, trapped in plain sight, screaming for help but unheard, seen but not helped... Abandoned to deadly fate... Was not scared by this, but maybe some were? IDK.
- Violet getting turned into a blueberry. Sure, it's funny when you're older, but when you're a kid the only thing you can think about is that she might explode, and how the Oompa-Loompas are pushing her out of the room, singing a song and seemingly indifferent. The reactions of the other guests also seem a bit unnerving, as well as her behavior itself, despite how scared and shocked she was, she remained to stay calm at the least; the other guests were not that apathetic towards her, but they did not seem that compassionate either, Grandpa Joe publicly mocked her, Willy Wonka seemed apathetic at the most, and at one point, Mike decided to poke her swelling stomach causing her to tip back a bit, the other kids Charlie and Veruca seem a bit shocked when he does this, but none of the adults (adults mind you) even move a muscle in response, and this was happening to another child. Mike's mother even suggests out loud to stick her with a pin, maybe she thought that would genuinely help (one of the fathers even originally said this from the book), but it was most likely possible that she knew it would cause her to explode in the process. Same as the previous entry.
- The arrangement of the Oompa-Loompa song also is a little creepy. As mentioned previously, the way she handles it is also a little unnerving, sure she is scared and shocked, but she seems somewhat calm (similarly this applies to the other brats, Mike enjoyed his punishment, Veruca does not scream when she falls down the chute, and Augustus is nervous but not as jumpy as his 2005 counterpart). She does swat her hands up rapidly up and down at them when they start touching her and in some of the places where you would not want to be touched, after she waddles a bit, her face says it all, so you can obviously see that she is uncomfortable, utterly looking humiliated and defeated, but considering how the other guests seemed more concerned at this point, you can obviously tell that it would not have gone well at this point.
- Watch closely, and it looks like Violet is screaming in fear when the Oompa-Loompas lower her onto her side.
Wonka: It always goes wrong when it comes to the dessert. Always.
- Given that Wonka mentions that Violet would explode if they didn't squeeze her, and the fact that it had been tested before and 'always goes wrong with the dessert', this could only mean that at least one of his previous test subjects had indeed exploded.
- A minor real-life example. Immediately after filming the blueberry scene, Denise Nickerson flew home. Two days later, she was sitting in math class when suddenly her skin started turning blue, in front of her classmates. The makeup had seeped deep into her pores and resurfaced. This continued for weeks, with Denise being extremely concerned as to whether it would be permanent. Fortunately, it wasn't.
- It can still be unsettling to watch the infamous meltdown scene in Wonka's office, especially due to how uncharacteristically angry he gets. No wonder when they ran it on The Disney Channel, they warned parents that the movie contains scenes that might be too intense for young children. (The boat scene might have sealed the deal there.) Don't recall being scared by this as a kid, but this is probably valid; it's a rather infamous moment.
Wonka: WRONG, SIR, WRONG. Under section 37B of the contract signed by him, it states quite clearly that all offers shall become null and void IF, and you can read it for yourself in this photostatic copy: "I, the undersigned, shall forfeit all rights, privileges, and licenses herein and herein contained, et cetera, et cetera... Fax mentis incendium gloria cultum, et cetera, et cetera... Memo bis punitor delicatum!" IT'S ALL THERE, BLACK AND WHITE, CLEAR AS CRYSTAL! YOU STOLE FIZZY LIFTING DRINKS! YOU BUMPED INTO THE CEILING, WHICH NOW HAS TO BE WASHED AND STERILIZED, SO YOU GET NOTHING! YOU LOSE! GOOD DAY, SIR!
- Grandpa Joe's shocked and then livid reaction is no less unsettling. Not helped by Wonka interrupting him immediately afterwards.
Grandpa Joe:... You're a crook... you're a CHEAT and a SWINDLER..! THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE!! HOW CAN YOU DO A THING LIKE THIS?! Build up a little boy's hopes and then SMASH all his dreams to pieces?! YOU'RE AN INHUMAN MONSTER-Wonka: I SAID GOOD DAY!!!
- Grandpa Joe's shocked and then livid reaction is no less unsettling. Not helped by Wonka interrupting him immediately afterwards.
- Grandpa Joe was afraid when the Wonkavator was going to hit glass roof. Charlie and Grandpa felt horrified when they would be cut to ribbons. Well, They survived from the broken glass as Wonka warned them in caution to hold on tight. Simply not scary.
Wonka: Hold on tight, Everybody. Here it comes!
Edited by jandn2014 on Jan 14th 2024 at 6:55:20 AM
back lol
WarJay77
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#5674: Jan 14th 2024 at 3:57:23 PM
Good analysis; yeah a lot of it is exaggerated for sure.
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#5675: Jan 22nd 2024 at 3:43:06 PM
I'm thinking about working on a potential cleanup of the NightmareFuel.Fairy Tail page (the sandbox is at Sandbox.Fairy Tail Nightmare Fuel). The entries below are spread out into folders.
In General
- Extalia in general and Minister of State Nadi in particular are really, skin-crawlingly creepy.
- Midnight. Especially in that illusion of his One-Winged Angel form.
- Made scarier in the anime with those demons emerging. Plus, there are illusions of Rob and Simon getting sliced up, Jellal getting eaten, illusions of more than one Midnight and kid Erza.
- The Gorn that was Gajeel's fight against Yomazu and Kawazu.
- All the way through and then he grabs it and auuugh... Translation: when it looks like Gajeel's winning the fight, Yomazu skewers his arm with his sword, to the point that the tip was protruding from Gajeel's shoulder. And then he grabs it and breaks it by bending his arm (which, by now, is bleeding like there's no tomorrow.
- Wendy hanging out with a guy who looked like he was thinking about pushing her off a cliff. The Dissonant Serenity in his face.
- During the Tower of Heaven arc, Juvia's screams as Vidaldus Taka forcibly takes over her mind and uses her to attack Lucy. The Mind Rape overtones are not subtle in the slightest.
- Everything that Monsieur Sol of the Element 4 did to Elfman during their battle in the anime.
- Merci la Vie in the anime: You are slowly being turned into stone (not even petrified; just turned into a shapeless rock) and at the same time forces you to revive the worst moments of your life forever.
- Zero is really, really creepy. From the omnicide to how he beat up Team Natsu with a big Slasher Smile on his face.
- It's not just a beat up: first, he totally dominates the both Natsu and Gray and knocks them senseless, then he briefly look at Lucy (who's frozen in fear) and knock her out too. Then he keeps beating them up and hitting them with his darkness magic, again and again, just for fun. Then there's his final spell, Genesis Zero, which unleashes a tsunami of shadows who tears the target apart by biting him.
- Acnologia, in spades. Let us count the ways:
- The thing is Nightmare Fuel in-universe with its alien-like appearance for a dragon. Even Zeref does not want to be around when it appears.
- It's known as the Black Dragon of the Apocalypse.
- Was ridiculously close to killing all of Fairy Tail's top-tier mages at the time without even trying.
- It's an Omnicidal Maniac who sees other living things so beneath it, it prefers to just scorch them right on the spot instead of having a conversation.
- It is revealed that it killed Dragons in droves and earned both the title of their ruler and being a terror to them. Bonus points in that it used to be a human.
- Also, if you go back to just before the Edolas arc and listen to Gildarts explain how badly his fight with Acnologia went, just his tone and the grim look in his eyes tells you about how hellish of a fight it was, plus he was fighting the behemoth alone. It was a very brilliant piece of Foreshadowing for what happens at the end of the "fight" at the end of the Sirius Island saga, unintentional or not. The dark music playing during that scene only makes it even more disturbing.
- Chapter 415: The Reveal of the nature of his Dragonslaying magic: Apparently having something to do with souls. What makes this horrifying is that he could literally reap Dragon souls with it and leave them in a half-dead, weakened state, leaving them to waste away. Worse is the fact that he did this to all of the Dragonslayers' Dragon parents, and by releasing themselves from their children, they used up their remaining time. Who knows how many other Dragons suffered the same fate by his hands?
- Fairy Tail of the Dead Meeeeeeeeen Special: Has a bit reference to those of Raccoon City Incident in Resident Evil (2 and 3) and Phineas and Ferb movie episode Night of the Living Pharmacist.
- Guttman Kubrick is surprisingly creepy for a Filler Villain. His appearance may be humorous, as a giant anthropomorphic giraffe thing, but something is clearly off with him and he gets sick enjoyment out of torturing others. His magic itself just causes pain by making your own magic—a part of you—explode. And then there's the fact that he can only communicate through Telepathy, which means he gets inside your mind and ...!
- The fact that he's named after Stanley Kubrick is also rather telling, both in personality and for the nature of Kubrick's films, which notably include A Clockwork Orange and The Shining.
- The Eclipse Spirit King from the Eclipse Celestial Spirit Arc!
- For one, it is insanely powerful! Being made of a substance that is neither hard nor soft, so it's already tough to take out. As well as being strong enough to casually destroy planet-sized meteors with ease, and create whirlwinds by waving it's arms!
- Secondly, just it's design alone makes it look so alien that it gives Acnologia some stiff competition. Then it starts changing into different forms
- Finally, the inside of the Eclipse Spirit King is a galaxy that fires constant projectiles at anything inside of it and was slowly dissolving the Celestial Spirit King and the other Celestial Spirits via a core in it's body.
Sirius Island
- In Chapter 228, Juvia hears that Meredy wants to kill Gray. Her response is, to say the least, absolutely terrifying.◊
- In the anime version, Juvia's eyes go red, her voice becomes much deeper, and she starts walking like a limp puppet. Erza sounds either worried or scared when she sees her.
- Ultear being sent into a psychotic rage when Grey mentions how much Ur loved her during their battle.
- The ending of Chapter 249, when Zeref finally starts acting like an apocalyptic monster of legend.
Grand Magical Games
- The merciless beatdown Minerva gave Lucy in Chapter 291 is pretty damn horrifying to watch...
- We see where she gets her cruelty from in Chapter 300. Jiemma, her father, is a MONSTER.
- Let's just say both of them in general. They are bad enough that everyone in the guild is in a cold silence when they are angry, fearing for not only being kicked out of the guild, but for their lives.
- The moment Sting truly snaps is rather horribly well portrayed too. He doesn't scream or howl, on the contrary, he suddenly falls silent and looks up with a blank stare as you realize that in that exact instant, Jiemma's life just became worthless to him.
- Chapter 316: Minerva spent the time waiting for Kagura and Erza to finish fighting torturing Millianna. Her screams were music to her ears. This causes Erza to violentlly SNAP.
- Although it's Justified, Erza's rage to Minerva for torturing Milliana is also very scary. It's clear that you don't mess with the Fairy Tail Members, but if you nearly beat Erza's friends to death and torture them, She will END YOU.
- A herd of 10,000 dragons are coming to attack the entire Kingdom of Fiore. Oh, Crap! doesn't even begin sum this up.
- However, only seven of them got past the gate. Seeing how those seven were enough to give the best guilds absolute hell, imagine if it was all 10,000....
- Chapter 318: Rogue being possessed by his own shadow!
- Gajeel as the Iron-Shadow Dragon Slayer. His appearance ring any bells? He looks like friggin' Venom!
- No matter how hilarious Zirconis removing Lucy's clothes was, you do have to remember, he's planning to eat her.
- Chapter 334: The rather horrible way Gray apparently dies.
- Chapter 335: On the first page, the mini-dragons are apparently eating Macao alive. And to make it worse, his son is right there! Also a tearjerker since Macao is assuring him that he's fine and telling his friend he leaves his son to him.
- A Fridge Horror and sort of nightmare fuel, but Chapter 337: It is implied Future!Rogue's Start of Darkness involved Frosch's death. Then this chapter reveals it wasn't a death, but a murder. So who will take Frosch's life?
- As of Chapter 425, it's apparently Gray
- Chapter 340: There is something really unnerving about the look in Mavis's eyes when she gives Zeref the threat of '''annihilation''' if chooses to wipe out humanity. Yes, she gave a full-blown death threat.
- I'm sorry, is no one disturbed by the fact that the man who can kill you with just a look is threatening to massacre every living being on the planet?
- Personally, I'd be more disturbed by the normally cheery and optimistic ,and let's not forget dead, Mavis giving said man who can kill you with just a look a death threat and fully intending to follow through with it.
- I'm sorry, is no one disturbed by the fact that the man who can kill you with just a look is threatening to massacre every living being on the planet?
Sun Village Arc
- Chapter 348: As if the masked man's face wasn't bad enough, he wants to ''eat'' Gray!!
- In Chapter 354 we meet a member of Tartaros who took out all of Succubus Eye using her power to turn them all into shriveled-up, black, doll-things. Minerva shows up, is scared as hell, and appears to be the next victim. When you can make readers feel bad for a Jerkass like Minerva, that's a scary damn villain.
Tartaros Arc
- In Chapter 356, we have another member of Tartaros named Jackal who single-handedly massacred the entire Magic Council except for Doranbolt, who was lucky to escape with his life, all while sporting a Slasher Smile that would give the entire Deadman Wonderland cast chills. And if that's not bad enough, all of Tartaros's higher-tier mages are demons from the Book of Zeref, and their Guild Master is none other than E.N.D., the most powerful demon Zeref has ever created, who even Atlas Flame was terrified of and supposedly even kicked ''Igneel's'' ass. Tartaros is really starting to make Grimoire Heart look tame by comparison.
- Speaking of Jackal, in Chapter 361 (appropriately named The Two Bombs) has Jackal placing one of the surviving Council members and a pregnant woman inside of explosive spheres and then forcing Lucy and Wendy into a Sadistic Choice—choose who lives or who dies. What makes it horrifying is the way he just watches all involved squirm and plead for their lives, especially the woman who is pleading not for her life but for that of her unborn child and the Council guy who tells them the woman doesn't matter because he's more important—all the while Jackal is cackling and giggling in the background. Thank goodness Natsu survived Jackal's earlier attack, because if he hadn't...
- In Chapter 363, Seilah of Tartaros uses Elfman's hand to try and choke Lisanna to death. Elfman is very much awake while this is happening.
- The mere concept that the protagonists, barely over 20 even with the Time Skip, are coming across dead bodies of ex-Council members that require a Gory Discretion Shot for us...
- Chapter 365: We see Erza tied up at Tartaros's HQ, completely at their mercy. And then, she's interrogated for Jellal's location. How effective is the torture? Turns out Kyôka can control feelings and increased pain sensitivity to maximum. It has Erza, one of the most powerful mages in Fiore screaming in agony and it reduces her to tears.
- Kyôka decides that the shallow cuts she was torturing Erza with before aren't enough, and has moved to electrocution.
- It's even more horrifying when you remember that the very reason Erza likes to wear armour is because of her trauma from the Tower of Heaven. And now she is completely stripped, restrained and tortured, it's Tower of Paradise all over again, if not worse.
- Chapter 416 reveals that she was in fact reliving the Tower of Heaven.
- Chapter 376: Just when you think the Tartaros Arc can't get any worse, Ezel, already having had his Establishing Character Moment as an Ax-Crazy nutcase whose moniker is Child Slicer, has a fight with Wendy. It starts off about as bad as you'd think it would go, but right before he goes for the finishing blow, Carla tries to stop him. How does Ezel respond? By trying to eat her. Right in front of Wendy, who has been best friends with her for years.
- Chapter 382: That flying island Tartaros has as their headquarters? Use a curse called "Alegria", and it becomes a flying Eldritch Abomination that turns almost all of Fairy Tail to stone and assimilates them into the architecture of the guild hall. And this gets so much worse when you remember just how many other skulls, skeletons, and other assorted Scenery Gorn there are already built into the walls.
- Chapters 383 & 384: Lucy is all alone with Lamy, Torafuzar, and Jackal all after her head. Even as she strains herself to open three gates simultaneously, she can only keep them at bay for so long. Eventually, she's left defenseless from overusing her magic, and while willing herself to stand up, Jackal suddenly blows up her left leg, leaving her fighting back tears of pain while Jackal and Lamy laugh at her suffering. Then as Lamy offers to help Jackal finish her off, Jackal suddenly blows her up without a trace, horrifying Lucy. If not for Aquarius, Lucy would have suffered the same fate.
- Even worse, before that Lamy suggested Jackal [[Gorn blow Lucy's breasts up]] and for a moment it looked like he really was going to do it!
- The "Face" magic pulse bomb looks really creepy, even without taking into account its purpose as a weapon of mass destruction designed to remove all of the magic from the continent. Chapter 387 makes it worse by revealing there are multiple Faces. A few of which are grinning. Who designed these things?
- There are said to be THREE THOUSAND Faces. Wendy (who put everything she had into destroying ONE of them) starts crying out of sheer despair.
- Chapter 390: The Reveal concerning Silver: he's actually Deliora possessing the reanimated corpse of Gray's father. To think he was originally portrayed as the nicest member of Tartaros too. The Slasher Smile he gives while explaining this only makes it worse.
- The colored page at the beginning of the chapter shows that the scar on Silver's forehead was from a fairly graphic gash ironically created by the very demon now possessing him.
- Also, the sheer DEATH GLARE Gray gives off upon hearing this would put anything that Erza's made thus far in the series to shame. Juvia gives a smaller one to Keyes upon him saying that Gray's story would come to an end.
- The final page of Chapter 390 has Gray reaching Unstoppable Rage levels as he charges with pupilless eyes while Deliora laughs maniacally; a horrifying change from the calm air he presented for most of his appearance.
- In the end though, it all turns out to be a lie. Silver's just the Reanimated corpse of Gray's father. But we do get some Nightmare Fuel from Keyes and his experiments instead. As well as the Skeletons he summons to bind Lucy.
- Chapter 396 gives us Torafuzar's Curse ability, Tenchi Kaimei, which is a sea of black water enveloping everyone nearby. Not only does it combine fear of the dark as well as drowning, but it's also fatal poison to boot.
- In Chapter 399 Acnologia returns and induces a Mass "Oh, Crap!" in everyone, even Tartaros and especially the Fairy Tail members, which is justified considering their past experience with it. Even Marde Geer is visibly nervous.
- Chapter 405: Mard Geer's Slasher Smile at the end of the chapter is one for the manga history books.
- Chapter 413: The very concept of Dragon Slayer magic... Knowing you turn into the very being you are slaying one day is horrifying to think about not to mention how Acnologia must feel in his current form and body.
- Chapter 415:The Reveal of the nature of his Dragonslaying magic: Apparently having something to do with souls. What makes this horrifying is that he could literally reap Dragon souls with it and leave them in a half-dead, weakened state, leaving them to waste away. Worse is the fact that he did this to all of the Dragonslayers' Dragon parents, and by releasing themselves from their children, they used up their remaining time. Who knows how many other Dragons suffered the same fate by his hands?
- Chapter 414: Igneel's very, very Family-Unfriendly Death, and it was right in front of Natsu. Zeref's not-so-subtle threat to Natsu right before that only makes things worse.
- Chapter 416: We finally learn what E.N.D. truly stands for: Etherious Natsu Dragneel.
Revival/Avatar Arc
- Chapter 424: Gray has seemingly pulled a Sasuke and joined a cult dedicated to Zeref. His demon slaying magic also has grown taking over more parts of his body.
- The similarities only grow with Chapter 426. The whole reason he's joined the cult is to get at the Book of E.N.D., and he's willing to do whatever it takes to do it. The blow is softened somewhat by the realization that it's partially due to over-usage of his Devil Slayer Magic and getting hit with Mard Geer's Memento Mori that's corrupted him, but that's a whole different can of nightmares...
- Thankfully, it turns out he was a Fake Defector the whole time, but those growing marks really were a threat, considering he had to go to Porlyusica to get them checked out.
- Chapter 428: Mary looks way, way too happy about putting Lucy through pain, her eyes literally glimmer. Glimmer.
- Chapter 429 has Gômon thinking of ways to torture some info out of Lucy and Natsu. He considers using the goat method which if look up medieval torture shows it actually can be gruesome and Gômon explains the painful process to Lucy. Eventually, he just decides to cut her into while Natsu is helpless to watch... until Gray shows his real agenda.
- Chapter 433: Alok of Avatar provides some frighting concepts in just one chapter. The fact he burned his own face which forced him to wear a mask is one thing. Then not only did he harm his own body it was in fact a requirement to summon the War God Ikusatsunagi. This god would then kill everything in it's path including his cultists and followers including Mary! All of that just to bring Zeref to the priest...
- Chapter 436: Oh boy. You know about the terror of E.N.D. and Zeref's magic right? Well turns out E.N.D. was Zeref's intention of reviving his long dead brother, who IS Natsu, by the way. Oh and Acnologia has a humanoid form and he looks just as frightening as does his dragon state.
- The very conversation between Zeref and Acnologia. Not only was Acnologia planning to just kill everyone but Zeref decided to 'help' him in his homicidal crusade!
Alvarez Empire Arc
- 439: Hey guys you remember that weapon called Face which took the effort of Dragons to destroy before it sucked away all the magic on Fiore. Well... turns out this weapon along with the Magic Council were the only things stopping the combined might of the Alvarez Empire a combination of 730 guilds from invading and taking Lumen Histore. Good job Makarov went to stall them for time right!?
- Chapter 443: The Alvarez Empire might be this cranked up.
- Chapter 444: The Reveal that Emperor Spriggan, the guy who rules the Albereth Empire mentioned above is apparently Zeref himself. The Omnicidal Maniac Big Bad who is in an alliance with another Omnicidal Maniac, who is a nigh unstoppable Dragon to boot, has an entire empire at his disposal and has twelve of the most powerful mages alive as his Praetorian Guard. Fairy Tail has its work cut out for them.
- Chapter 450: Can we talk about the fact Mavis has the Curse of contradiction? Because of this she now kills everything she ever loves like the mother of Makarov or several innocent people. We then see the image of a Mavis who tried to stave herself to death to end her suffering, but only for the efforts to fail completely. We need to discuss Zeref seeing her as a person he can both walk with and love for the rest of his immortal life. So we need to think a paring people wanted to become canon only then for the Kiss of Death to end Mavis's life. I think we really need to talk about this...
- To elaborate, the effects of the Ankhseram curse have always been rather horrifying to behold, but it is in this chapter that the sadism and injustice of it are really fleshed out. Within a year of its activation, Mavis was reduced from an innocent and cheerful girl to a disheveled, death-seeking shell of her former self. She wanted to die so desperately that she tried starving herself for half a year, and when Zeref finally found her, she full out begged him to kill her. Also consider that Zeref himself went through the exact same thing in the beginning, but unlike Mavis, no one with a similar condition would be coming to him for several centuries yet.
- When they met for the third time, Zeref appeared rather well-adjusted compared to Mavis at first glance. He was dressed immaculately, telling her that there was nothing they could do to escape the curse and calmly advising her to change her perspective. Seems as if one could get used to it given the time? God no. Turned out, the entire thing screwed with his mind so much that he couldn't even notice contradictions in his own thoughts, and the moment Mavis pointed it out, he went into a breakdown. Mavis, despite her disheveled, pitiful appearance, was the far saner of the two. Those extra centuries of coping with the curse had only turned Zeref into an even greater mental and emotional wreck beneath his calm demeanor. Then consider that this guy is one of the most magically and politically powerful people on the planet.
- To elaborate, the effects of the Ankhseram curse have always been rather horrifying to behold, but it is in this chapter that the sadism and injustice of it are really fleshed out. Within a year of its activation, Mavis was reduced from an innocent and cheerful girl to a disheveled, death-seeking shell of her former self. She wanted to die so desperately that she tried starving herself for half a year, and when Zeref finally found her, she full out begged him to kill her. Also consider that Zeref himself went through the exact same thing in the beginning, but unlike Mavis, no one with a similar condition would be coming to him for several centuries yet.
- Chapter 453: As mentioned on the Awesome page; Alvarez managing to sneak fifty airships right over the Fairy Tail guild completely caught everyone off guard, even Mavis.
- Chapter 455: After a brief Hope Spot in the previous chapter, Fairy Tail finds out just how utterly outmatched they really are. Those fifty airships led by Ajeel? They were only the vanguard. A few hundred more airships are on their way. Along with an army of over a million troops. And all of the Spriggan Twelve are part of the assault. One of them is curbstomping Erza. Another is effortlessly breaking through Freed's barrier. A third is casually taking a bath in Lucy's home. The enemy forces vastly outnumber them, are far more powerful, and are already in their midst. Barring a miracle, outside aid, or both, Fairy Tail is screwed. Even Mavis can't see a way out of this disaster.
- Chapter 466: We see the first deaths of this war by Bradman the God of Death. Then Marin goes batshit after Brandish's treatment of him, causing him to try to choke her to death. Keep in mind this manga, is (supposedly) for children.
- Chapter 470: God Selena effortlessly survives the attacks of the other top 4 mages of the continent and utterly crushes them. But that is not the terrifying part. That comes when Acnologia of all people appears and effortlessly cleaves Serena almost in half in the span of one panel, reminding the readers yet again how absurdly powerful he is. He also seems to be homing in on the remaining Dragon Slayers whom he wants to kill.
- Chapter 480: Gajeel's group heads to aid Sabertooth and Blue Pegasus... only to find them utterly defeated. Not only that, they were also ''crucified'' and paraded around like war trophies.
- Made worse in Chapter 483. One of the Spriggan Twelve members present was Bradman, a Knight of Cerebus whose Establishing Character Moment had him brutally killing one of Sabertooth's Red Shirts right in front of Yukino as the Red Shirt pleaded with her to run for her life. One of the others present? Irene Belserion, an EvilIdenticalStranger who bears a striking resemblance to Erza, whom was stated by Neinhart to possibly even be related to Erza, and whom Brandish said has enough power to rival [[TheArchmage August. It's no wonder Sabertooth and Blue Pegasus were so thoroughly destroyed; being defeated off-screen was probably done to spare the reader the carnage of the actual fight.
- Chapter 486 has a minor but chilling one: As Acnologia is preparing to join the battle between Sabertooth, Fairy Tail, Bradman, and Irene, Alvarez's strongest woman starts messing with the magic of the very planet to such an extent that Zeref senses it. Not only that, he sweats at the thought while wondering what she's planning. ZEREF is afraid.
- Chapter 502
- Dimaria has both Natsu and Lucy chained up, a sword to Natsu's neck and ready to kill them both. The entire time saying they killed 0 . The mixture of being defeated and imprisoned, while it was LaserGuidedKarma, made Dimaria thirsty for revenge and watching the same comrade to whom she TookALevelInKindness secretly helping their nation's enemies must have really broken her mind. Before, Dimaria delighted in just stripping her foes just to humiliate them and now? She is going most likely to kill Natsu right in front of Lucy out of pure sadism.
- Porlyusica realizing that the growth inside of Natsu was not an anti-Ethernano tumor, but something MUCH worse...
- Chapter 503
- And we finally get the answer for what the growth inside Natsu was, it was of Etherious origin, and it's power kicks right as Dimaria attempts to gouge Lucy's eyes out with a dagger... The next thing Lucy sees is Dimaria completely beaten and singed, muttering "monster" to herself and realizing what kind of person could do that. E.N.D. has awakened and is out for Zeref's head. The look upon Natsu's face as he is searching for him is unsettling, with black flame aura covering his hands, which become much more demonic, as he is muttering Zeref's name constantly. And then comes Gray...]]
- Natsu as E.N.D is very frightening, even more than the demons of Tartaros. The Nine Demon Gates might have been a bunch of psychopaths and sadists but they were still rational individuals. E.N.D on the other hand walks around searching for Zeref in order to kill him like if he was Brainwashed and Crazy and hurting or even killing anyone that stands in his way, like what he did to Dimaria and those poor Alvarez troops.
- As stated on the Awesome page: E.N.D.'s sheer power. The last time Dimaria was defeated, it required both a Dragon Slayer and a God Slayer, mages trained in Magic specifically made to kill Gods, at her full power with the intervention of another Time Mage who could only cancel out a Time Stands Still spell and cost the Time Mage and the God Slayer their magic and even then it was a very close battle. E.N.D. on the other hand had only just awoken, moved through the Time Stand Still spell and curb stomped a PhysicalGod so hard she had a VillainousBreakdown, muttering about how strong he was. Natsu was stronger before but END is a whole other level,
- Natsu starts spewing out smoke, and when Lucy tries to justle him, remarks that he's cold as ice. Natsu, the fire mage, is COLD to the touch, and Lucy can't wake him.
- What? No mention for when Acnologia started stepping on Irene's corpse in Chapters 524 and 528? Pure Wendy can only stare on in sheer horror as Irene's corpse is viciously mutilated.
- Zeref with Fairy Heart. He was already the world's most powerful mage before, but Fairy Heart has boosted him. How strong is he? Certainly strong enough to punch a hole through Natsu's sternum.
- Chapter 538: Just when you thought the war was over, Zeref had been destroyed, and the Black Dragon defeated for good, the Time Lapse cracks open again. Acnologia ain't done yet.
- Chapter 542: The Mages devise a plan to lure Acnologia's dragon form to Port Hargeon and make it land on a ship so he will succumb to motion sickness. It's also established that the body is operating on a sort of autopilot without the mind governing it. He completely annihilates the lot of boats docked there out of pure instinct to destroy his weaknesses with a tremendous number of devastating magical blasts. And then laughs at his destruction.
- Acnologia's key motive for destroying things? He wants to, pure and simple. Well, at least till we learn he had loved ones before the meanest of the dragons came along and ruined all that. Buy even so, he's lived for so long now that he doesn't really care about the past and what has been lost and now gets his jollies out of causing total destruction.
Which of these entries can be kept, rewritten and/or removed?
Edited by gjjones on Jan 22nd 2024 at 8:03:35 AM
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