Roommates (2007 webcomic)/Nightmare Fuel

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Roommates normally isn't that scary but...

• The Erlkönig Arc and der Erlkönig in general (even his son calls him this in-universe!). With added Paranoia Fuel after applied Fridge Logic and / or research. There IS something out in the dark that could get the characters... and is the father of that goofy Trickster who lives next door. The new Mind Screw arc (Such Stuff as Dream Are Made On) isn't helping either.
  • Worse. Think about how self-aware this comic is. Are we sure that the fourth wall can protect us?
  • So the Mind Screw arc Such Stuff as Dream Are Made On made him more likable but also cemented his creepy as hell status... He is a highly powerful amoral Dream Weaver who isn't above to steal a mortal soul if he sees any benefit in it. Even the hero's who saved his son.
• Also Dark! Jareth is creepy in his power and fatalism... he's just truly and deeply alien. He is understandable and logical if you can think in the Theory of Narrative Causality, not that it makes him less scary, it's just method in the madness.
• The attack of the vine borders. What better way to establish the danger of a thing than letting it take out (at least temporally) one of the scariest characters of the series?
• OK. With "Odile" in the picture. Maybe we can safely say that Each-And-Every-One of The Fair Folk is creepy to some degree in this series (probably a sign that they are well written). The only one who didn't creep out anybody yet seems to be Jareth's sister, who only had 2 lines of dialog in a "flash-back" and only appeared on two pages (and a cover).