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* ''[[Bokurano]]'' by [[Mohiro Kitoh]] has a guy getting half his hand sliced off, in detail. In the manga, there's also the scene where {{spoiler|Chizu}} slits {{spoiler|Kako's}} throat.

* ''[[Naruto]]'':

* You thought volume 13 of ''[[Berserk]]'' was bad enough, then you haven't read ''[[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]'', which brings up the nausea fuel to [[Up to Eleven|level eleven]] right around chapters 74-76.... and ''[[Rape as Drama|it]]'' lasts for several more chapters.

* Lest we not forget [[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty And Stocking With Garterbelt]]. Monsters in the beginning of the series always were some sort of personified Nausea Fuel. Shit monster, sperm ghosts who died during masturbation, bulimia monster who had boobs for eyes, vomit monster that causes others to retch all over Tokyo, etc.

 

* Some of the ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' comics, such as one about a super-pimple, and one about a gross-out luncheon at a fancy restaurant.

* An ''awful'' lot of [[Darker and Edgier]] bloodsplatter comics from the [[The Dark Age of Comic Books|Iron Age.]] This trend hasn't really ended (it hasn't been that long since a demonic version of Wonder Dog ate Marvin in ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'').

 

== [[Fan Works]] ==

* ''[[ARSENAL]]'': The Black Bunnies, both what they do and {{spoiler|what eventually gets done to them}}. Some of the other characters, especially Shinji, can edge into this as well.

* ''[[Poke Wars]]''. Every battle has at least one close-up on the effect of a brutal attack, and with the dampeners off.

* ''[[Hogwarts Exposed]]'' has copious amounts of both forms of Nausea Fuel. It's most infamous as a [[Gross-Out Show]] of a [[Dark Fic]] complete with rape, paedophilia, torture and bodily functions. When it takes a break from this, it instead assaults the reader with strangely out-of-place, [[Tastes Like Diabetes|sickly-sweet]] [[Glurge]].

* ''[[Final Stand of Death]]'', Geri was about to explain about the scene in ''[[Re-Animator]]'' when she saw what Melanie was going under. Melanie quickly shuts Geri up just before Geri could talk about the [[Squick]] scene.

 

* The ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]'' series. The chestbursters, of course. Also, for some, the white, milky stuff the androids spew everywhere when they're damaged.

* The ''[[American Pie]]'' series:

** You know, for kids!

* ''[[Requiem for a Dream]]'': Harry shooting heroin directly into the infected area of his arm.

* Many of the traps from the ''[[Saw]]'' series.

** {{spoiler|The scene where decomposing pig corpses were fed into the grinder and the resulting goo was used to drown a victim}}.

* ''[[Gummo]]'' is mostly about this. The bathtub scene in particular has deeply disturbed a lot of viewers.

 

* The book ''Totally Wicked!'' has worm-like monsters that suck out the insides of both humans and animals. It's even worse when the main characters find the skin of a dog floating in the wind.

* Speaking of the other ''[[Wicked (novel)|Wicked]]'', it has several examples, the most prominent of which being that not only is Elphaba born green, she is also born with vicious teeth. She likes biting, and has to be restrained to stop her hurting herself, and can't be breastfed.

** "Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans", some of which taste like boogers, vomit, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|or even earwax]]. Their real-life counterpart (made by Jelly Belly), contain regular flavors as well as grosser ones like Spinach, Spaghetti, Grass and yes, Boogers, Vomit and Earwax. [[It Tastes Like Feet|They're actually pretty spot on.]]

** Apparently, the (as-yet unrevealed) ritual for creating a [[Soul Jar|Horcrux]] acted as nausea fuel for [[J. K. Rowling]]'s editor. Rowling has said that the ritual will be spilled to the general public in the ''Harry Potter Encyclopaedia'' when it eventually puts in an appearance.

* In ''[[Twilight (novel)|Breaking Dawn]]'', the part where {{spoiler|Bella's vampire Death Baby is being born: it breaks her spine and ribs, and then Edward performs a Vampiric C-Section ''with his teeth, and even chows down on the afterbirth.''}}

* ''The Things They Carried'' by Tim O'Brien falls into this through brutal honesty, going so far as to tell the reader that if you would censor the word "shit," you would censor the truth. That doesn't mean the death of {{spoiler|Kiowa}} is any less disgusting—he literally {{spoiler|drowns in excrement.}}

* K.A. Applegate's ''[[Remnants]]'' series was full of this. From the first book with the horrible fungus-filled cryopods of {{spoiler|character's family members}}, to the live flesh-eating worms, to the guy with all his skin painstaking burned off and replaced with a clear coating...

* Jeremy Robert Johnson's short story compilation Angeldust Apocalypse, in which a character takes horse tranquilizers and begins to cut disembowel himself with a scalpal, pulling out his intestines while his parents watch in horror. And that may be one of the tamer stories in the book.

* The original French version of Frédéric Beigbeder's award-winning novel, ''Windows On The World'' features one of the squickiest sex scenes in literature. An adulterous couple on one of the upper floors of the South Tower of the World Trade Center having sex is probably questionable enough. The author, however, decides to turn up the squick by having the lovers surrounded by poisonous smoke (they're called "asbestos lovers" at one point during the scene), purple corpses of their former co-workers, and water levels reaching up to their thighs. The scene was so unsettling that it was removed in the American translation of the Novel.

* Joseph Conrad's ''[[Heart of Darkness]]''

 

* ''[[Cheers]]''. Coach's reaction to his daughter Lisa's fiance.

{{quote|'''Sam:''' Where ya goin', Coach?

** The self-surgery-in-a-bathtub scene.

* Many of the injuries exhibited by emergency patients in ''[[ER]]'' were this. The mangled, peeling, brain-splattered condition of {{spoiler|Gant's}} head was probably the worst of all: his injuries were so severe that no one even recognized him until {{spoiler|[[Nightmare Fuel|they paged him to assist, and were subjected to slowly dawning horror when their own patient's beeper went off.]]}}

* Two of ''[[The Daily Show]]'''s favorite props are the jar of Baconnaise and the Jimmy Dean breakfast product consisting of a sausage-on-a-stick ''wrapped in a chocolate-chip pancake''. Both of which ''really exist''. (John Oliver also refers to them in his stand-up, citing them as weapons in our arsenal in the War on Terror, along with an inflatable barbecue for use in swimming pools. According to him, they are the equivalent of telling the terrorists, "There is nothing you can do to us that we are not already doing to ourselves.") There was also the episode where Steve Carell ate Crisco out of a can.

* ''[[Fridays]]'': It had a very Nausea Fuelled (and possibly [[Nightmare Fuel]]led) sketch where a married couple (played by John Roarke and Maryedith Burrell) on a road trip stop by a diner filled with zombies eating dismembered body parts. The sketch was said to be so disgusting that six ABC affiliates stopped airing ''Fridays'' after only three episodes (the "Diner of the Living Dead" sketch aired on the third episode in April of 1980). The other affiliates continued to air Fridays until its cancellation in 1982, but when the episode that had that sketch re-aired, the sketch was cut. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o_LlmYoBdE Here's the video.]

* In an episode of ''[[The Hard Times of RJ Berger]]'', R.J. imagines what his life will be like in the future if he married Lily. We see an animated imagination sequence done in the style of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' in which R.J. and Lily (who are both overweight) are living in a trailer home, and one of Lily's children is a "toilet baby". Yuck.

 

* [[Tori Amos]]' "Raspberry Swirl" seems to be just a fun electronic dance song at first, until you attempt to decipher the lyrics and discover that the song might be about having sex with a woman on her period. If this interpretation is anything to go by, one could reasonably assume that the titular "raspberry swirl" is a mixture of menstrual blood and semen.

* [[Death Metal]] and goregrind lyrics as a rule. Particularly notable is UK band Carcass, with songs with names like "Genital Grinder" and "Oxidized Razor Masticator".

* The music video for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unrn-wf4cDg "In Decay"] by the obscure band Phedre aims for this - it even ends with actual vomiting over animal carcasses.

 

* Tommy Dreamer's early run in the WWE involved him doing disgusting acts such as eating discarded hair, sharing a toothbrush with a dog, and drinking the Undertaker's tobacco spit.

* The Bastion Booger was an obese, ugly slob of a wrestler who wore a dingy singlet and not only smelled like a pig, but ate like one too.

* Darren Drozdov's nickname was "Puke" because he could, and did, puke on command.

 

* For the love of the Emperor, how did we miss nasty, pus-filled, disease-carrying, bowel-voiding [[Warhammer 40,000|Nurgle]]?

 

* The Freak Show level of the arcade game ''[[Carn Evil]]''. If the Bearded Lady's corpse doesn't make you sick, the worms with human faces that come out of her body, and the gimp-grinding machines, will.

* ''[[Dead Space (series)|Dead Space]]'', There are several sections of the game that involve running around solving puzzles and fighting creatures in zero gravity. You're able to jump around and stick to surfaces, so what was the ceiling a minute ago may become the floor. Especially pukeworthy if you have to fight while doing it.

* The inside of [[Ocarina of Time|Lord Jabu-Jabu]] ain't pretty either. Especially in the Master Quest, in which we see [[Nightmare Fuel|LIVE COWS TRAPPED IN THE STOMACH WALLS]].

* Must...[[Brain Bleach|bleach brain]] of...[[Spirit Tracks|Toon Puppet Zelda]]...

** The legendary fetus-eating scene. [[Gory Discretion Shot|Nothing is really shown]], but just the ''idea'' that someone is scarfing a fetus is Nausea Fuel.

** All the monsters are purposefully designed to be as nauseating as possible. The third game once again provides the best examples, including but not limited to hulking, vaguely humanoid bloated masses of flesh (appropriately named "insane cancers"), a massive, grotesquely phallic worm, and horribly burnt, loosely-bandaged dogs with ''their heads split in half''.

* ''Boogerman''. It's...basically a superhero game. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|With toilet humor.]]

* Chaos from ''[[Primal Rage]]'', a [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|giant ape]] whose arsenal of special moves includes "[[Fartillery|the Fart of Fury]]", and a [[Finishing Move]] where he ''[[Urine Trouble|urinates]]'' on his opponent's carcass.

* ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'' also has the camera get blurry and shaky every time you decide to get drunk with a friend, making especially driving a cause for motion sickness. It is amusing however to see Roman walk into a pole and fall over.

* ''[[First Encounter Assault Recon|FEAR]] 2'':

** Or toppling cover onto a corpse, only to have it twitch spasmodically as if it were still alive and in pain. At least, after you stop laughing at it.

* ''[[Saya no Uta]]''—Play this and try not to get ill at least once. Trust me, unless you have the morals of Hannibal Lecter, it's hard.

* ''[[Mohawk And Headphone Jack]]'' gave many players motion sickness thanks to its heavy abuse of Mode 7.

* ''[[Phantasy Star IV]]''. [[Womb Level|Garuberk Tower]]. What more can I say?

* ''[[Pokémon]]'':

** Read some of the Pokédex entries in the series.{{context}}<!-- MOD: What's a "Pokédex"? Does it have a URL? -->

* In ''[[Amnesia: The Dark Descent]]'', when your sanity starts to go down when you're in the dark, the screen gets all wibbly-wobbley and you hear a strange gravelly noise. {{spoiler|The sound you are hearing is protagonist grinding his teeth together.}}

* In [[Maniac Mansion]] one of the ways you die is to play the Tentacle Mating song with Green Tentacle in the room. [[Naughty Tentacles|Let that sink in.]]

* ''[[Yoshi's Island]]'' is a cute, heartwarming game all the way through, except for the boss battle where you are eaten by the frog and have to kill it from the inside. The part inside the frog isn't the gross part. Not even close. The gross part comes after you defeat it, Yoshi goes down the intestine and then comes out the other end, and looks completely disgusted while the frog is lying there dead.

* [[Wax Works]] has some [[Nightmare Fuel|pretty unsettling]] [[The Many Deaths of You|ways to die]]. Especially any that involve the [[Body Horror|plant mutants]].

 

* The ''[[Looking for Group]]'' comic [http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/291 #291], (and its implications) generally caused two reactions. Some people were saying [[Squee]]. The rest of the population was reaching for the [[Brain Bleach]].

* A recent{{when}} ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'' strip had Fenton's mother draining spinal fluid away from an injury. And how did she do this? Well, [[Gory Discretion Shot|she's a vampire bat.]]

 

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090603005132/http://consumerist.com/consumer/privacy/aol-user-927-illuminated-192502.php User 927]. If you don't know who he is, I'll tell you. Back in '06, AOL accidentally released the archived search results of several thousand of its users. They were are anonymous, but a lot searched their own name, address, or social security number. Anyways, User 927 was one of those, and had effectively the creepiest search habits ever. If you want to know what they are, look for it yourself. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120722043616/http://consumerist.com/2008/04/aol-user-927-the-theatrical-production.html It even inspired a play!]

{{quote|'''[[Retsupurae|slowbeef]]''':It's like you're in his lap! And he's eating the pizza rolls off you!}}

* Enter ''[[Retarded Animal Babies]]'', who not only [[Crossing the Line Twice|cross the line thrice]], they screw on it each time.

* Lotus Breast, a photoshopped image combining a woman's breast with the holes of a lotus bud. Search for it at your own risk.

* Das Blau Waffel. Don't eat anything when you look at it.

* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]'s style of analogies for video games is pretty much built on this trope.

** The G-Mod video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkgR1RI-Mkk SCOUT GETS ROBBED BY 2 BANDITS] has a scene where the robbers force Scout to eat his own feces.

* A ''lot'' of ''[[SCP Foundation]]'' articles, particularly what they do to [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-231 SCP-231-7]. ''Regularly.'' And whatever you think it is that Procedure 110-Montauk is - it's worse than that. Oh, and by the way, there's a note on the letter on that page, reading "Don't believe it when they say they're trying to save her. Why would they bother? They've got exactly what they want exactly where they want it." You may vomit when ready.

 

** Many of the injuries, such as when Pud'n gets an eye full of cactus and pulls it off, revealing a hideous, skinless red eye.

** Or Billy's nose popping.

** "The Splinter": Spongebob gets a splinter at work. Rather than making the best of this sure-to-be-disgusting plot and having him try to get it out in a silly fashion, we're treated to 11 minutes of it getting infected, swelling, and oozing pus all over the place until Krabs walks up and pulls it out, thus causing gallons and gallons of puke green pus to shoot out and cover everyone. Honorable mentions include "Plankton's Regular", in which [[SpongeBob]] and Plankton both are ''peeled'', quite disgustingly, and "House Fancy", in which Squid '''loses a toenail''' in the grossest way he can.

** To elaborate on the "Toenail Removal Scene" from "House Fancy": Squidward gets the leg of a couch on his toe, and it's ripped off by Spongebob pulling the couch away too soon. It had blood and veins still attached, even. To make it all worse, ''Squidward slips on the bloody nail''.

** [http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp5/rawwrMitchMAYHEM/nastypatty.jpg "I call it, the nasty patty!"]

** The episode where Spongebob adopts a worm and it has babies, which he then tries to get other people to adopt. Normally worms are fine in the series, but for this episode? They purposely made them incredibly disgusting. It was horrible.

** An episode featured Patrick tearing the entire front half of his skin off, revealing his bones and organs underneath, after a misunderstanding; SpongeBob [[Lampshade Hanging|looks suitably grossed out]]. It's kind of tame compared to most of the examples in this list (and ''definitely'' tame compared to "The Splinter"), but it could still cause instant gag reflexes in some.

** [[SpongeBob]]—as ''a fetus''—eating a Krabby Patty—through his ''umbilical cord -- in his mom's womb in ''Truth or Square. The notion isn't particularly bad... it's the presentation. The Krabby patty travels through the umbilical cord, and it's pretty straight-forward, until Spongebob rips the umbilical cord out of his abdomen and puts it in his mouth to suck it like a straw!

** Quite a lot of the episodes after the movie have Nausea Fuel in them, actually.

** The episode where Plankton hides out in a machine designed to look like a milkshake, and is then drank by a fish. Guess how he gets out.

* Despite extensive use of rats, ''[[Ratatouille]]'' has only one nausea-inducing scene: lots of sewer rats invading a pantry and climbing up the shelves.

** It has had a few, with Homer's eyes crusting over after Lasik surgery (though it becomes Nausea Fuel [[Nightmare Retardant|Retardant]] when the next scene with Homer {[[Continuity Nod|still blind from the scabs over his eyes]]} being driven to the liquor store by Kearney and his [[Gang of Bullies]] for Jack Daniels and cigarettes) and the wound from his ACL injury growing over Ralph's hand ("It knows you're afraid!") being among the worst.

** Also, when Willie strangles Homer with a pipe, and his eyeball pops halfway out of his socket (a la Mr. DeMartino from ''[[Daria]]'') resulted in an immediate gag reflex.

* The [[Gorillaz]] MTV cribs skit, starring [[Uncleanliness Is Next to Ungodliness|Murdoc of course,]] had some thoroughly gross moments; such as Murdoc peeing over the side of the bathroom stall and ''into the next one,'' and the [[Fan Disservice|ending close-up on his ass]]. Interestingly, this is not the last time we would see him in a thong, nor the only time he's portrayed playing the piano naked. [[Walking Shirtless Scene|Murdoc's an interesting fellow.]]

* The ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' episode "Curse Of Shirley" features Eustace having a raincloud cursed onto him and it follows him everywhere to the point where he has fungus growing on his body. As if that wasn't bad enough, he proceeds to pluck out his own body fungus and shove them into Muriel's mouth.

* ''[[Shrek]]'' thrives on this (both the character and the movies).

 

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