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[[File:worms_4063.jpg|frame|She's clearly enjoying this. <ref>The person in the picture is Dark Sakura, holding Zouken Matou.</ref>]]
Ah, [[Fate/stay night]] (and by extension [[Fate/Zero]]). Kinoko Nasu comes close to [[H.P. Lovecraft]] in creating both [[Humanoid Abomination|Humanoid Abominations]] and [[Body Horror]] in his settings. The bad endings that you can get range from depressing and [[Squick|squicky]] to pure, undiluted [[Nightmare Fuel]]. Have fun sitting through forty bad endings to get [[100% Completion]]...{{spoiler|and even that itself has [[Fridge Horror]]. See below for more details.}}
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* A lot of the game overs are like this. You have ''no idea'' what a violent, meaningless death is until you've played this game.
** And then there's Heaven's Feel. One shouldn't play it at night. As a whole, it is like the [[End of Evangelion]] of [[Fate/stay night]], plenty of [[Tear Jerker|Tear Jerkers]] with most of them made of [[Nightmare Fuel]]. From {{spoiler|[[Rape as Backstory|Sa]][[Body Horror|ku]][[The Corruptible|ra]] [[Break the Cutie|Ma]][[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|to]][[Super-Powered Evil Side|u]]}}'s Backstory, {{spoiler|her}} [[Start of Darkness]], the [[Bad Ending|Bad Endings]], a massive {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending]]}}, [[It Got Worse|everything in between]], [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|AND]] a {{spoiler|sympathetic [[Big Bad Duumvirate|Koto]][[Sinister Minister|mine]] [[Enemy Mine|AS AN ALLY]]!}} Good luck to NOT [[Go Mad from the Revelation]].
*** Whatever you do, don't think about the Makiri parasitic worms. Don't think about how, if you've had the comparative good fortune to be born male, they'll simply kill and eat you. And ''especially'' don't think about how, if you're unlucky enough to be female,  {{spoiler|they'll eat you alive (ovaries first) while essentially raping you at the same time}}. Even more, don't think about how {{spoiler|Sakura has had to spend practically every night for the last ''eleven years'' stuck in a room full of them....}} And this is [[It Got Worse|JUST the backstory]]!
**** Not to mention that these worms are ''[[Freud Was Right|PENISES with]]'' ''[[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family]]''.
**** You know, the game itself says it best. [[Death by Sex]], indeed:
{{quote|Once swarmed by these lust worms, men will have their spine crushed, brain sucked, and will be made into a cripple. The worms will transform when attacking a woman, so that they are only able to violate {{spoiler|her nerves. They will spread their tentacles all over her body and devour her spirit. The lust worms will wet the woman's skin with their mucus, excite and destroy her central nerves of pleasure, and satisfy their hunger. It must be their instincts, as the worms seem to love the woman's womb. They do not eat female flesh, but seek the organs within them. They give the woman huge enough orgasms to fry her brain, and they go into her body to devour her placenta}}. Unwilling to eat human flesh, the worms have only one way to get what they desire. As a result, the woman's mind and body are completely violated and destroyed.}}
*** Then there's the final bad ending you can get.  {{spoiler|Sakura inflicts on Rin all the pain that she went through for eleven years... and Sakura describes to Shirou how Rin is screaming "I'm sorry... I'm sorry..." all over and over again...}}
** Fate, Day 15 Church Basement.  {{spoiler|Shirou finds the orphaned children from the fire [[Fate/Zero|ten years ago]] still alive, but had undergone severe [[Body Horror]] for the sake of providing Gilgamesh with mana.}}
* Notable bad ends include any that involve [[Ax Crazy|Il]][[Token Loli|ya]], and the one where Caster turns Emiya into a living wand for projection magic and Rin ends up mercy-killing him. However, the most scary one was the completely out of nowhere bad ending (caused by just asking too much about Caster) where [[Those Two Guys|Issei]], under Caster's control, stabs Emiya and then slits his own throat.
** There's also the one where Kuzuki ''punches Rin's head off and blows a hole in Shirou's stomach''.
** The ones where the player's view fizzles out like a broken TV with appropriate sound effects.
* [http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=waDECuVcRN4&fmt=18 the first] [[Game Over]] you can get: simply put, you're reduced to a head and torso by Illya's Servant, cursed by Illya so that you can't die or lose consciousness unless your head is destroyed, and then taken captive to be ''tortured by her for eternity''. And all because you choose not to be Saber's Master. Well, [[You Can't Fight Fate|so much for free will]].
** [[Incredibly Lame Pun|You can't fight]] ''[[Fate/stay night]]''?
** It ''happens'' because you don't have Saber to defend you, but as Ilya cheerfully explains, she really just ''felt like doing it''. The fact that Shiro is being reduced to a disembodied head doomed to eternal suffering for what is, essentially, Ilya's vague whim just makes it a million times worse for me...
* Zouken. Matou. Most specifically, the scene where he sends worms after the drunk woman who has ''no'' idea what is going on while they devour her alive, and all the while there are these ''chewing'' noises.
** For more [[Fridge Horror]], {{spoiler|the [[100% Completion]] (and at the same token the [[Have a Nice Death|Tiger Dojo]] itself). Innocent enough until the end when you are told that the Hot Springs where Taiga and Ilya are at is in the Afterlife. WHAT IS TAIGA'S CAUSE OF DEATH?!}}
*** Except, Taiga is alive in Heaven's Feel True End. The " {{spoiler|afterlife}}" part might just be [[Rule of Fun]].
* Most of the [[Nightmare Fuel]] in this series comes from the sheer amount of [[Body Horror]] inflicted on people. For example, we have [[Smug Snake]] Shinji Matou getting horribly transformed into a living mass of flesh that's barely conscious, eventually becoming a vessel for [[The Corruption]]...
** The worst [[Body Horror]]?  {{spoiler|Shiro during ''Heaven's Feel''. Shiro, or rather Archer's reality marble protects his body by creating blades in the place of bones and muscles. As a result of the issues that come with having Archer's arm grafted onto his body, Shiro's body is slowly invaded by Archer's reality marble [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice|until the blades start bursting out of his skin and making it difficult for him to even move]]. [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100730173230/typemoon/images/2/29/Blades.jpg This] should give you an idea how bad it really is.}} "I am the bone of my sword" [[Fridge Horror|indeed]].
*  {{spoiler|True}} Assassin is creepy.
* Kotomine's ending in Fate/unlimited codes. He  {{spoiler|summons Avenger and effectively ends the world. It shows a void... thing above him as he does this}}. It even plays ''All The World's Evil'' instead of one of the standard ending themes during the credits!
* It's a real tribute to the writing that quite possibly the most chilling [[Bad Ending]] in the whole game is the "Superhero" ending on the ninth day of ''Heavens Feel'', which involves neither a gruesome and horrific death nor an [[And I Must Scream]] scenario. You reach that ending by choosing to {{spoiler|kill your [[Love Interest]] rather than fighting to protect her}}, and the last words are: "There's no need to talk about the obvious outcome. Emiya Shirou will [[Lack of Empathy|turn his mind to steel]], and become a superhero." [[I Did What I Had to Do|The]] [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|implications]] [[Utopia Justifies the Means|are]]... [[Knight Templar|unsettling]].

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