Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)/Nightmare Fuel



The entire premise is about two kids who, respectively, lose an arm and a leg and their whole body while trying to bring back their dead mother (who came out like...well, this picture). Throw in some Eldritch Abomination, War Is Hell, Body Horror, Living Shadow, a sadistic god, and, ladies and gentlemen, we have the tank full of Nightmare Fuel that is Fullmetal Alchemist.

"Mustang: Ed: Mustang:"
 * The armours with souls attached to them that were guarding Laboratory #5. There are sixty-six, or possibly even more revived souls like Barry the Chopper and the Slicer Brothers that cost state alchemists an arm an and leg (or more) to bring back, a vast majority of those souls completely off their rocker, just like the...people... who brought them back.
 * The thing that Ed and Al created when trying to bring back their mother. All those twisted limbs, the pulsating, the horrible gaping mouth, the eyes and that strained, gasping noise... It's like the creature was struggling to breathe.
 * himself. The very thought that a man could is just nauseating in all sorts of ways. From 's garbled speech, she wasn't even fully aware of what had happened. And then.
 * Ed's nightmare after is turned Up to Eleven in the Brotherhood anime. It features . What made it infinitely worse is that he tried to play it off as Not So Different.
 * The fate of Greed. He got  . To make it worse, the Big Bad '. Greed's reaction to this? Insane laughter.'''
 * The making of the Philosopher's Stones... Those screams of despair aren't there for no reason...
 * Maria Ross's death. She gets in episode 17, and her  corpse is very graphically displayed.
 * Every single time Gluttony stares at the screen.
 * true form. As if the idea of wasn't scary enough, this consists of . The true form is Upped To Eleven in the anime. It's the way that
 * Envy's Sleep Mode Size. It's particularly abhorrent and uncanny..
 * The disturbing imagery gets turned up even further in Brotherhood in the scene where . Misshapen heads vomiting out misshapen heads and tortured screaming.
 * Gluttony's true form is shown several episodes/chapters before . His entire front half splits open, baring his open ribcage, which extends from his jawline to his groin and rakes forward. His entire lower jaw is gone, leaving tusk-like ribs near his jawline, and his exposed, Ouroboros-tattooed tongue slavering in the open air. Looking inside the opening reveals nothing but inky blackness and a single eye, exactly like the one in the Door of Truth. And then he goes on an insane rampage, erasing large sections of the landscape with what appears to be some sort of Kamehame Hadoken, but is actually him extending his ribcage faster than the eye can see and swallowing whatever he catches. From the most cheerful, childlike, and seemingly least dangerous and malicious Homonculus, this was a nasty surprise.
 * And then he eats, and we're treated to an inside view of his stomach; or rather, where everything he eats goes. It is an infinite, featureless plane, with chunks of all the evidence, ruins, and people Gluttony's ever eaten still intact inside. The plane is filled with a similarly infinite ankle-deep sea of blood. Worst of all is how, as fatalistically explains, there is no way out. The place is another dimension: literally infinite. The only thing normal people can do is wander in the sea of blood, waiting to die.
 * Pride . And all those Slasher Smiles after More so in Brotherhood than the manga, since apparently Studio BONES learned a bit when they animated Soul Eater; he grins like Medusa.
 * Especially in the anime, where he Worst part is, you watch it from  point of view, and
 * Here's one in the manga that is more psychological horror than a scary image, but still pretty scary. Riza discovers Pride's identity. Pride is and likes to rip people to shreds or eat them (that's the visually scary part). What makes it even scarier, is that Pride can basically appear anywhere there's a shadow, so for several scenes, Riza is paralyzed with terror just by seeing a shadow near her, as Pride could devour her at any time and could hear everything she said. Luckily, she is able to pass a coded message to Mustang and escape from this, but it's still pretty horrifying.
 * Some chapters after that, the sight of him.
 * What happened in Hohenheim's backstory. ? The Scream says it best.
 * The, which look like the unholy spawn of the Mass-Produced Evas and an especially ugly zombie. The Brotherhood anime has them all awaken with a chorus of horrible screeching. Like millions of souls screaming of unexplainable torture. Equally disturbing is their tendency toward creepy giggling and Psychopathic Manchild behavior which along with some of them calling for their parents strongly implies the ravenous monsters contain children's souls.
 * When.
 * Father's 'true' form in chapter 97. . Like this.
 * Chapter 102, when.


 * The... thing... which was created from Pride using the Gold-Toothed Doctor as 'raw materials' for the transmutation.
 * The Blind Alchemist Gaiden/OVA. Not just physical horror, either. The sheer psychological shock is pretty disquieting as well.
 * Chapter 104.
 * In Brotherhood, they show the Ishval Massacre. The parts that show the Ishabalan civilians being trapped in the city and mown down mercilessly while they scream for help (particularly images of the children being shot to pieces) is very haunting. The music and Deliberately Monochrome effect do not help.
 * This troper thought that one of the creepiest moments there was seeing the
 * In chapter 106 of the manga,
 * The Brotherhood version, where he gives his speech, then OWOWOWOWOW.
 * In chapter 107, This is a good thing, right? Except... if you look closely, you can see
 * Father's original form, ,because it seems like , more or less, is somewhat frightening.
 * The Brotherhood episode came out, and.
 * When Lust is burned in episode 19.
 * Then there's  , replaced by some wild primitive beast man that happened to look like him.  "How does it feel to have the liquid in your eyes boil?!"
 * The moment in chapter 107 when
 * Episode 41. The scene where Ed gets gored through the stomach by the beam. Edward's bone-chilling screams of pain as the Chimeras pulled it out of his stomach as he simultaneously healed himself. He was burning through his soul to do so. This with him screaming in agony and trying desperately to focus through the pain for just long enough to seal his wound.
 * The Sacred Star of Milos. There was one hell of a cure for insomnia when  And we later find out
 * The Gold Tooth Doctor's creepy Slasher Smile, from one of the most depraved characters in the series.
 * The . spoiler:Even after Cornello's defeat, Envy ended up impersonating him and used his charisma to turn the populace into a howling lynch mob obsessed with bring "the Father's word" to the world. Disagreements began, and what began as a simple riot became what is described as the single bloodiest conflict in the entire history of the world, full of massacres, destruction and [[Cold-Blooded Torture.
 * The . spoiler:Even after Cornello's defeat, Envy ended up impersonating him and used his charisma to turn the populace into a howling lynch mob obsessed with bring "the Father's word" to the world. Disagreements began, and what began as a simple riot became what is described as the single bloodiest conflict in the entire history of the world, full of massacres, destruction and [[Cold-Blooded Torture.

First anime

 * Shou Tucker's And the fact that Shou talks entirely in a WHISPER after this event.
 * in the first anime: "Edward, why does it hurt here?"
 * The scenes in the decaying, bombed out shell of a city. That's WWII era London. While that may not seem so disturbing, bear in mind that in the first anime series, it is said that every time alchemy is performed, someone in that world dies. Even if the manga/Brotherhood 'verse works differently, it's still creepy.
 * All the freaky shit from the first episode. When Al and Ed were in the Gate and Al was being forcibly pulled in, screaming for his brother to help him while Ed reached for him. Their hands barely touch for an instant and then Ed is screaming in disbelief, anger, and then bloodcurdling pain as he clutches the bloody stump of his leg.
 * The chimera that Cornello put together to resemble Rose's lover.
 * The time when It's a bit like the Tele Frag article when you think about it.
 * When he fuses himself with Sloth and
 * And Envy's freaking huge Slasher Smile as he was doing so.
 * The Mind Screw moment when you see the flashback of Izumi trying to bring her baby back to life:
 * Kimbley's method of dispatching his foes or just people who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
 * The death of
 * What happened to during the raid on Lior.
 * In the video game Curse of the Crimson Elixir, the Elric brothers are sent to investigate the village of Bord'wan with Riza. You find the place in complete shambles—all the houses are blown out and many are covered with bloodstains (even the path you're walking on). It's dark as night, infested with scores of inky-black Golems, and has some suitably creepy music in the background.
 * An early chapter has the brothers investigating Shou Tucker's house. Know Resident Evil? You'll be getting familiar vibes walking through the mansion, but not through zombies, you'll be looking at the files, and when you look at, it's clear that he's lost it.
 * Near the end of the game,
 * In The Broken Angel (of which Elixir is a prequel to),
 * "Can I...eat him??"
 * The episode where people in a town are infected with a disease that slowly kills a person by turning their skin into a stone-like substance. Made all the worse with the close up of one of its victims: Lydia, an innocent young woman, has her face disfigured so it resembles rotted, stony bark.
 * The whole thing with being stuck inside the Gate. Wrath described it pretty well. Stuck there. Sentient. No way to escape. And now lets think about Al's body being there, surrounded by all those eyes...
 * Envy's final form in Conqueror of Shamballa. To put it into simple terms,  Brrrr....'
 * Envy and Hohenheim in the movie. Especially the whole hanging up there, having something pierced through your body, waiting for finally something to happen... Highly unsettling, especially considering the time period Hohenheim hung there in Envy's mouth!
 * The expression on Mustang's face as he in the Ishval flashback episode is nothing short of haunting.
 * Barry The Chopper. Unlike in the manga/Brotherhood anime, his sadism is not only played seriously. It's terrifying. In episode 8, he kidnaps both Winry and Ed. He has Ed tied to a chair with his automail arm taken off and has Winry Bound and Gagged. He graphically talks about how he likes slicing people into pieces and makes several Nightmare Face's. He slices Ed's arm and mentally tortures him while trying to murder him. Seeing Ed crying and screaming makes it especially bad.
 * Martel's death.
 * The way Ed's scream of agony as  makes it all the more chilling.
 * is only a little different in this version, but in a way that largely changes the atmosphere.
 * That horrible thing that Ed and Al made when attempting to revive their mother? It.
 * in the movie.
 * Scar's older brother is revealed to have suffered Sanity Slippage. The combination of his lover's death, failing to revive her through human transmutation, and the imposing threat of a war on his home eventually pushed him over the edge. Using his own body, he planned to create a Philosopher's Stone out of Ishbal's people during the massacre. He wandered out onto the battlefield completely naked with Ax Crazy eyes and tears streaming down his face as Scar watched in horror. It didn't end well.