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The [[Nightmare Fuel]] page for [[
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=== ''[[King's Quest I
* When I realized those kids outside the cupcake hut were exactly what I dreaded they were. This is a game where being [[Genre Savvy]] can make things much easier - or much nastier.
* And also the suspense of going through Dahlia's woods used to TERRIFY me as a child. As I've said before, that's when I needed to be on Daddy's lap and be holding Big Sister's hand. I still hate it, my knees go weak when I hear her "swooping down" music!
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* The ogre. In the original, he just shakes you around. In the Sierra remake, you get into a Big Ball Of Violence, with him holding your limp body. Neither of these are particularly terrifying. But in the AGDI remake, the ogre just grabs your head, literally crushes it, and blood trails out of his hands. It kept me out of the forbidding darkness of the forest for a few years.
=== ''[[King's Quest II
* Raiding the Vampire's castle is nerve-wracking in the canonical game, but AGD cranked it up a few notches. Seeing what you were expecting to be the friendly monk from the canonical game transform into a werewolf? [[Oh Crap]]. Seeing Graham pinned to the wall, Caldaur's hand around his neck, the music shrieking in the background? [[Oh Crap|Oh, CRAP!]] Being pinned down by the Brotherhood between the swamp and their jaws? [[Rule of Three|OH, CRAP!]]
* Navigating the Sharkees land is an equally frustrating experience.
=== ''[[King's Quest III
* Half-expecting, half dreading you miscalculated by just that much and that Manannan would come back at any second and turn you to ash. The ominous organ music that plays when he appears doesn't help. Worse, was this was a timed game, and you had a lot to do with very little time to do it. Miscalculate the margin of error, and poof!
* Screwing up the spells. A [[Everything Trying to Kill You|''typo'']] could be [[The Many Deaths of You|lethal in this game]]. Sometimes led to [[Have a Nice Death]] - but not usually. Add it to the time limit of knowing Manny could come back at any second and strike you dead just added to the tension.
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=== ''[[King's Quest IV
* The cave troll. Oh, dear Gods, the cave troll. You heard that music, and there was no escape. you could try running, and it would never be enough!
*** I was always on the edge of my seat, waiting impatiently for Rosella to make it safely to next screen. Then, all of the sudden, the scary music kicks in...
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* How about if you eat the magical fruit and take the amulet back to Genesta, {{spoiler|then get sent home to watch Graham die anyway}}?
=== ''[[King's Quest V
* The gypsy showing Graham what was going on with his family. Mordak is ''torturing'' Alexander, and threatening to feed him to the cat. Said cat [[Baleful Polymorph|used to be the same son-of-a-witch]] who had enslaved and brutalized Alexander for ''years.'' [[This Is Wrong
* The scream used when Graham calls to his death
** Definite case of YMMV here, as eventually it happens so many times for such inane reasons that it becomes '''hilarious'''.
* Yes, [[The Scrappy|Cedric]], we know it's a [[Memetic Mutation|poiiisonous snake]]. It still is a nasty death.
=== ''[[King's Quest VI
* Alexander being captured by the Druids and put up in a wicker cage to burn to death. There are times when being a mythology geek adds a few new ways to wince. This would be one of them. Burning to death is not a pleasant way to go, either.
* Just about anything on the Land of the Dead. Creeping zombies of those whose torments drove them mad, and having to dodge them, lest a single touch cause Alexander's flesh to dissolve! There's the door death, the River Styx death, seeing the walls and twisted passages of the Land of the Dead and realizing they are literally Samhain's flesh as he has ''fused with his hellish throne'' and the [[Body Horror|land he rules is literally his body]].
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* We know from the first meeting Alhazred is [[Jerkass|no gentleman]]. When we find out what he did to Cassima's parents, he turns into "detestable slime bag." When we see that he was behind the islands' discord and colluded with Mordak, he jumps up to "pile of shit." When we realize that he plans to "dispose" of Cassima after the wedding night, Alhazred turns into "Alex, skewer the bastard NOW!"
=== ''[[King's Quest VII
* The Boogey Man character in ''[[
** For the record, not quite accurate. Whether or not he appears is determined by whether or not some plant or other is standing up straight when you use the horn, not whether you've used it before, and that changes when leave the screen. Still correct about the rest. Also you forgot his last appearance--if you forget to re-don your disguise after sneaking into and out of the witch's house, he'll pounce you out of nowhere the moment you step out into the open, giving you the only real closeup he has.
* KQ7: The death messages rolled before anything too frightening was seen, but the scorpion made me jump, as did the Boogeyman.
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