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[[File:136_full_6002.png|frame|All the Kings of Evil are decking their castles out with giant rotting corpses nowadays.]]

 

* Dracula's castle itself can be seen as one. Due to its always different inner structure in every game, it has been referred by Alucard as a "Creature of Chaos".

* In ''[[Castlevania: Symphony of the Night]]'', after descending far underground to the deepest part of the castle, you encounter Granfalloon/Legion in the catacombs. It is a Cosmic Horror creature covered in a "shell" of naked, faceless corpses, and they're screaming.

** This monster may look both fucking scary and funny at the same time...

** Legion returns in Portrait of Ruin, only this time, to add to the nightmare, the bodies ''fall off'' as you damage the boss, disappearing into nothing. Try to not think about how those might have been innocent souls you just murdered.

** In [[Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow|Dawn of Sorrow]], there's a really creepy underwater Homunculus enemy. It just sits there until you approach it. Then, it starts thrashing wildly and trying to chase and kill you, while attached to this tube thing that gives it oxygen. That's not the worst part, though. If you don't kill the guy, he'll still follow you. Eventually, if you wander far enough from its spawn point, the tube will stretch too far and pop off the creature's back. The creature will be reduced to spending the last parts of its life thrashing and chasing you and turning purple as it slowly drowns to death.

** Some of SotN's songs themselves are terrifying to listen to. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlDp9gElLnI Door of Holy Spirits], the background music to the Reverse Colosseum, sounds like something you'd hear in a horror movie. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOq9bODf_UY Abandoned Pit] has the potential to drive you insane if you're listening to it in real catacombs, and to worsen matters, it's played not only in the normal Abandoned Pit, but also the Cave (the reverse Pit). And should you go through that area, beyond the boss battle with Death, into the Floating Catacombs, you're greeted with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8TR_ZsDdBc Curse Zone], which starts to get more chaotic and freakish at the 0:41 mark. The ''Symphony'' soundtrack does a much better job of setting eerie atmospheres than the more cheerful tracks of the later titles in the series. It's like Michiru Yamane became a completely different composer sometime between SotN and ''Aria of Sorrow''.

* ''[[Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow]]'' features a horrific boss named Gergoth that was apparently chained in captivity for thousands of years in a tower. It looks like a half-rotten dinosaur, with exposed ribs and skin on its face that peels off when it's making an attack. You fight it, seeing its rotten flesh and dripping blood further emphasizing its cursed existence. Made even more disturbing when you read the text in the bestiary and find out it was [[Break the Cutie|once gentle, but was driven insane by years of imprisonment.]]

** The Japanese manual is even worse -- Simon's not just got unhealing nasty injuries, his body is starting to decay. And the guardian spirit cautions you that the exorcism ritual might not work.

* ''[[Castlevania III]]'' seems innocuous enough. Then you meet freaky monster thing Grant, and find out that Dracula turned him into a megafreak for the lulz. And there's hints that Sypha-the-statue was ''conscious'' in spite of being, you know, a rock. There's also the music in the catacombs where you find Alucard.

** The music is also scary, reaching its peak as the massive abomination is slowly revealed. Thankfully, the following boss, [[Light Is Not Good|Nuculais]], may be eerie, but is far less scary. Actually, when you see him opening his mouth, he'll fall into the [[Nightmare Retardant]] category!

* In ''Circle of the Moon'' there are the magic cards Nathan can collect and use for differing effects. If he uses one particular combo, Pluto and Black Dog, Nathan will become a skeleton that can throw bones, [[One-Hit Wonder|is killed by any hit while in this form]], [[Magikarp Power|but also has a random chance of throwing an uber-sized bone that does max damage]], [[Game Breaker|even to bosses]]. While most would see [[Lethal Joke Character|nothing wrong with this]], try [[Fridge Logic|thinking a little deeper in Nathan's shoes for a moment]]... {{spoiler|On the otherhand, [[Nightmare Retardant|using the aforementioned combo with the Bear Ring will turn Nathan into a stuffed teddy bear instead]].}}

* One of the sidequests in Portrait of Ruin involves retrieving "The Statue's Tear". You get the item from a statue of the Virgin Mary in the Nation of Fools. All you have to do is press "up" and {{spoiler|a massive amount of blood spills out of the statue}}.

* Lords Of Shadow, the single darkest and most depressing of the series: The idea of losing your childhood love, who was so dear to you for your entire life, to a brutal, tragic death {{spoiler|at your own hands, and subsequently suffering a 1000-year life cursed with immortality without her around to heal your emotional wound, just like Gabriel?}}

** In the first part of the Menace battle, {{spoiler|he's trying to stab you with his ribs.}}

 

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