Halo (series)/Nightmare Fuel: Difference between revisions

* Everything Flood-related. Especially the oozing infected pustules which spewed enemies when shot, and getting to see living allies and enemies mutate into Flood on screen.

** Not to mention that if you manage to shoot an infected soldier in a way that doesn't make it explode, and walk up to its body, you can see one clinging to the spine...

** Fun fact: according [[The Wiki Rule|Halopedia]], the Flood are extragalactic. ''They've already destroyed at least one galaxy.''

*** That's actually a bit in question with the revelations of the newest Halo -book (canonical status unconfirmede) - but it's no less nightmare fuel, as the Flood in this book is apparently a misplaced revenge from Ancient Aliens - precursors to even the Forerunner, possibly precursors to even the actual Precursor race of the series.

* Adding to the creepiness of ''Halo 3'', nearly all of Cortana's transmissions are either outright skin-crawling in their delivery, if not outright terrifying, with some carrying threatening tones in her voice.

** What's worse is that in "Cortana," as the level progresses, Cortana's transmissions become more and more frantic and confusing, eventually becoming incoherant screams of pain... before she suddenly starts speaking in a lifeless monotone, rattling off her serial number. Not only that, at that point, her graphics turn from blue to green.

** In Halo: Anniversary, under him there's a terminal containing his last moments from his point of view. He's repeating his serial number, and they're rifling though his memories...We see Miranda, and Dr. Halsey, and those memories are being stolen, and he knows it, and his voice keeps switching between normal and Flood-toned. And then at the end, he swears "You will not have me." And then the Flood speak again, and ''now it's the Gravemind'': '''"We already do."'''

* Possibly Gravemind's creepiest line in any game. After Truth dies and Gravemind betrays you, massive tentacles burst up from beneath the platform the Chief and the Arbiter are on. This is then followed by insane, diseased laughter, followed by this:

** ''This is not your grave...*incomprehensible gurgle*...but you are welcome in it.''

** Or the Grunts. Yes, you heard right. They look really vicious without their mask, and we've all had at least one time where a Grunt saw us without knowing it and shrieked, causing us to jump. Fiends.

** Or when the Elites (especially camouflaged Zealots) roar, or when they're right next to you and you bump into them (in Halo 2 they give a shriek of surprise as well!). To be fair, all the aliens look pretty frightening in some way, whether they actually look scary like the Jackals, or are just scary to fight against, like the Hunters. It's made even worse in the first game by the fact that half the time you're in dim corridors and it's incredibly quiet, because of the suspense.

*** The Hunters have no actual limbs. They're comprised of a bunch of worm-like things (1.4 meters) called Lekgolo that come together under their armor. They also make up the Scarabs.

* When you kill a Brute, [[Jump Scare|you may see his eyes twitch]].

* Halo Reach is introducing a new piece of wildlife called the Gueta that could give the Flood a run for its money. For those not in the know, think a [[Fallout|Deathclaw]] but with elongated features, and are actually capable of killing entire ''squads'' of Elites, which are still feared at this point. The kicker? You encounter these things at [[Darkness Equals Death|night]].

* The hidden messages in the second and third game. In Halo 2's soundtrack, we have ''Mausoleum Suite'', a song that plays during the intro cut-scene of the ''The Arbiter'' and during the confrontation with Tartarus in ''The Great Journey''. In this track, a voice can be heard in the background. At first, it seems intelligible, but play the song in reverse and you get this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[[C Bd A Ay X Em Jg]]. Fans like to speculate that this is Mendicant Bias. In Halo 3, we have ''Dread Intrusion'', played during the level ''Flood Gate''. A voice similar to that of Gravemind's is heard. Play it in reverse and you get this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[[Ysp Mc Ff Cm ZA]]. In the level ''The Covenant'', when the flood shows up, the song ''Black Tower'' is played. Again, a voice is heard. Play it backwards, and be treated to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[[RH 39 l 43 p W Gw]]. This appears to be a reference to T.S Elliot's poem ''The Hollow Men''.

* The Flood in the Forerunner novels. Apparently, before they were the twisted space zombies [[Blatant Lies|we all know and love]], it was simply a dust which genetically altered certain animals and spread benignly via concumption. Eventually, it spread to humans, subtly altering their behaviour, until, when it became a widely known problem, it didn't bother concealing its nature. To quote a description of how it was spread:

** What it did to some Forerunners was closer to the version seen in the games, thought more horrific. One variation was basically dozens of Forerunners mashed together into a huge snake... centipede-beast... ''thing'', complete with scales grown over their skin, which moved using dozens of limbs stuck in its side. And the Forerunner (at least, the one whose head was melted into its chest) was [[And I Must Scream|''fully conscious'']].

 

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