Transformers: Prime/Nightmare Fuel: Difference between revisions

* Starscream's murdering of Cliffjumper. Usually one of the good guys dying in a kids series is rare or dramatic. Not here. A villain simply tears out a vital organ and casually orders his goons to clean it up ''in the first ten minutes of the series''.

* Zombie Cliffjumper in the second episode of "Darkness Rising".

** The fact that they're incredibly tiny and ''caused three Autobots to pull their guns out on '''one''''' should tell you something about them.

** Bulkhead's description of what they do to a Transformer is truly terrifying:

** As a bonus, remember that a fair amount of the ''human'' population has metal in their bodies. Pins, plates, braces, the works. Nice, warm, metal.

* Energon Harvester used on Cybertronians. Liquid Energon is essentially their blood, so its a device which sucks your blood out right through the skin until you die. In a matter of seconds. *shudder*

** Scarier is that ''it was supposed to be a mining tool''.

* Airachnid. Think [[Beast Wars|Black]][[Transformers Animated|arachnia]] with "sexy" switched out for "TERRIFYING!"

** Dear God, in her debut episode, it's shown that she tortured Arcee ala flashbacks and has come to Earth to seek human trophies, and Jack just happens to be around, which delivers a fine and very tense chase scene. Yeah, it's one of the darkest episodes in the series by far.

** And in case she wasn't disturbing enough, rather than finding endangered species to hunt, she ''makes'' them. So she basically decided ''genocide'' would make a nice hobby.

** Oh, and one of her favorite methods of attack? Tunneling under the enemy and, once beneath them, opening the ground and ''burying them alive.'' [[Claustrophobia|Claustrophobic much?]]

** Also, she has a spine-chilling [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDpVdvT8ESg theme song] which helps make her even more terrifying.

* In "Out of His Head", the now revived Megatron dragging off Starscream to do presumably horrible things to him.

** The next episode shows Starscream badly damaged, but given medical treatment specifically so that Megatron can gloat over it.

** One of Megatron's flashbacks is of Starscream ripping out the Dark Energon shard from the Decepticon leader's broken body, only this time it's from his point of view; After the shard is torn out, Starscream turns to the camera and gives the most terrifying [[Slasher Smile]] he can make. [http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/132/8/1/tfp__starscream_by_delgatron-d3g6bmp.png Just look at it.]

* How about the possibility of being trapped in an alternate dimension with a giant robot zombie chasing you in circles for all eternity sound?

* In "Operation: Breakdown", MECH manages to capture Breakdown. Turning off his pain receptors, they plan to cut him open alive, while he's still awake. Decepticon or not, the look on Breakdown's face is one of pure horror.

** And the fact that they remove one of his ''[[Eye Scream|eyes]]'' too...

** From a human/mook perspective: The [[Mook Horror Show]].

* "Cut her up." Damn you, Silas.

** The death threats to June must certainly have scared people. As well as the fact that Silas and Airachnid found Jack and June by looking at a ''social networking page'', [[Truth in Television|something that has happened in real life]].

* Megatron comes across as pretty damn terrifying during "Rock Bottom", and not just to Starscream. Even when he's trapped under some rubble he STILL manages to taunt Jack for not taking advantage of the opportunity to kill him. And that whole ending sequence just... guh.

** It's a blink and you'll miss it notice, but you'll notice Megatron actually [[Psychotic Smirk|smirk]] right before the episode cuts to credits. And that smirk makes him all the more terrifying.

*** Heck, Megatron ''in general'' is a whole cavalcade of HONM. Many people have been seen and heard praising this characterization simply because of this trope; unlike other versions of Megatron who were [[Affably Evil]] or [[Even Evil Has Standards|a little less than sinister]], this Megatron is ruthless, deadly, frightening, dark, and isn't afraid to kill ''one of his own men'' if it means having less incompetence to worry about. If you thought this show was [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|inappropriate for its target demographic]], then this will [[Up to Eleven|do nothing but strengthen that belief.]]

** Going back to "Rock Bottom", Starscream's tormenting of poor, suffocating Miko is just horrific.

* Back in episode 6, Megatron's nearly dead body floating in space... And then, after Starscream plucks the Dark Energon from his spark, Megatron briefly awakens, with what appeared to be an ''absolutely frightened'' expression. Megatron was almost ''pitiable'' in this situation

** [[Complete Monster|He's also inconsiderate of the humans living around him]]. He thinks we're all parasites, and it's not going to be hard to exterminate them.

** Megatron's [[Evil Laugh]], which is ''completely terrifying''.

** Oh, and let's not forget that Unicron looks horrifyingly demonic, possibly even more so than he did in [[Transformers: The Movie|his debut appearance]]. Very fitting that the Chaos Bringer should look like the devil.

** In other words, {{spoiler|Unicron IS Earth}}. Remember when you were a kid watching Transformers and the thought of a planet sized monster from space was scary? Well, {{spoiler|you've been living on one your whole life!}}

** What gave this editor the chills was the fact that you could hear {{spoiler|''Unicron's goddamn heartbeat'' as Dark Energon ''visibly'' pulsed through the slumbering beast's veins.}}

* The season 2 opener has {{spoiler|Knock Out engraving a Decepticon symbol onto ''an [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|amnesiac]] Optimus Prime''.}}

** That [[Hell Is That Noise|wailing noise they make]] when attacking. Geez.

** Even though the Insecticon was bad, his fate was unnerving at best. Remember way back when Bulkhead said that Miko hadn't seen Scraplets devour a bot? Now we have. {{spoiler|To clarify, in their debut episode the Scraplets simply started gnawing on you. In this they all start chewing the Insecticon's joints until it is nothing more than a torso and head shrieking in pain.}}

** Nemesis Prime is this, as can be expected. Highly looks like an undead version of Optimus, goes on a terrifying rampage on a military base (and almost certainly killed the majority of the military personnel, if not a fair number of them), takes down all the Autobot team par Optimus with horrifying efficiency and then '''guts Optimus'''.

** MECH in general has dived head-first into HONF territory. If it's one of their projects, it's guaranteed to be at least eight different kinds of sick and wrong.

** The worse part is that now, they're {{spoiler|loyal to Megatron again}}.

** {{spoiler|Airachnid getting locked into [[And I Must Scream|stasis]]}} can be a little unnerving.

** The ship putting everyone on board into stasis was also unnerving to say the least. Even if everybody was eventually restored...

** When Knock Out wakes up from stasis, he sees Jack trying to remove the transfer drive from the control panel. He then puts on a [[Slasher Smile]], activates his drill, and then starts ''inching it closer to Jack''. Thankfully, though, Ratchet arrives before Knock Out can do any damage.

* Starscream, trying to replace his t-cog with one he {{spoiler|swiped from his traitorous clone}} by performing surgery ''on himself''. As in, he's fully conscious. And then there are those few tense moments when he's holding that drill over his torso, trying not to lose his nerve. Mercifully (for us and in-universe), he's interrupted before he can start.

* Soundwave during "Triage". The little bit of Soundwave we normally get is eerie enough, but Triage is the first episode to give him heavy focus. And his silence makes that focus damn scary.

 

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