History NightmareFuel / Hannibal

* Horses. With people in them. One of the 'victims' being left to crawl out of the horses gut while alive. Just. There is murder,and then there is literally stuffing people inside of dead animals. Watching the man crawl out past intestines and other organs is deeply disturbing.

* Lecter's attack on Krendler. He drugs him, removes his skull cap, cuts off a piece of his brain, cooks it, and feeds it to the drugged out Krendler. And Clarice has to witness this AutoCannibalism happen.

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* Lecter's attack on Krendler. He drugs him, removes his skull cap, cuts off a piece of his brain, cooks it, and feeds it to the drugged out Krendler. And Clarice has to witness this happen.

** Jack [[spoiler: wheezing with a slashed neck as his terminally ill wife attempts to call him]].

** The opening fight scene in "Kaiseki". [[spoiler:Crawford and Hannibal are beating the shit out of each other, until Hannibal fakes going unconcious when Crawford puts him in a chokehold. Hannibal suddenly stabs him in the neck with a shard of glass and, when the wounded Crawford stumbles into the wine cellar, ''Lecter grabs two knives and starts shouldering the door down.]]''

** Abigail's entire fate, as revealed by the end of Season 2, is pretty nightmarish. As if she hadn't already been through enough, she ends up entirely [[spoiler: mind wiped by Hannibal, after spending seven months in his care. Left little more than an empty shell that operates solely on his command alone, and then left to die by the very same person holding her captive the entire time. Simply because her role had been extinguished. It's pretty clear that things were never going to turn out any shade of good for her.]]

** Even worse when you consider it from Hannibal's point of view. He never expected this from Will, and he's completely helpless until [[spoiler:Jack arrives on the scene]]. While he is usually calm and collected, maintaining full control of the situation, this is the first time we see him genuinely frightened for his life.

** Even worse when you consider it from Hannibal's point of view. He never expected this from Will, and he's completely helpless. While he is usually calm and collected, maintaining full control of the situation, this is the first time we see him genuinely frightened for his life.

** [[spoiler: Amanda Plummer's quietly proud monologue where she reveals why, precisely, she was killing people and putting beehives in their skulls, is creepy.]]

** Abigail's entire fate, as revealed by the end of Season 2, is pretty nightmarish. As if she hadn't already been through enough, she ends up entirely [[spoiler: mind wiped by Hannibal, after spending seven months in his care. Left little more than an empty shell that operates solely on his command alone, and then left to die by the very same person holding her captive the entire time. Simply because her role had been extinguished. It's pretty clear that things were never going to turn out any shade of good for her.]]

** Abigail's entire fate, as revealed by the end of season two. is pretty nightmarish. As if she hadn't already been through enough, she ends up entirely [[spoiler: mind wiped by Hannibal, after spending seven months in his care. Left little more than an empty shell that operates solely on his command alone, and then left to die by the very same person holding her captive the entire time. Simply because he role had been extinguished. It's pretty clear that things were never going to turn out any shade of good for her.]]

* Mason's fate in "Tome-wan": [[spoiler: being convinced, under the influence of drugs, to skin his own face off, eating parts of it himself and feeding parts to Will's dogs. Then being left quadraplegic, and under the care of the sister he's tortured all his life.]] [[CompleteMonster Utterly deserved]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome and deeply satisfying]], but still, horrifying.

** Abigail's entire fate, as revealed by the end of season two. is pretty nightmarish. As if she hadn't already been through enough, she ends up entirely [[mind wiped by Hannibal, after spending seven months in his care. Left little more than an empty shell that operates solely on his command alone, and then left to die by the very same person holding her captive the entire time. Simply because he role had been extinguished. It's pretty clear that things were never going to turn out any shade of good for her.]]

** Right after discovering that [[spoiler: Abigail is alive, Will is forced to watch as Hannibal ruthlessly slices open the girl's throat, too grievously injured to protect her in any way. And this is the ''second'' time such a thing has happened to Will, although this time around he's bleeding out on the kitchen floor with Abigail -- a young girl who has become like a daughter to him -- desperately attempting to slow the blood flow from her lacerated throat while on the front porch an innocent woman dies/is dying: before Abigail's mother, this time Alana. [[AdultFear And there's absolutely nothing Will can do to stop it.]]]]

** Hannibal stalking a defenceless [[spoiler: Alana]] through the house while he's carrying several kitchen knives.

** Right after discovering that [[spoiler: Abigail is alive, Will is forced to watch as Hannibal ruthlessly slices open the girl's throat, too grievously injured to protect her in any way. And this is the ''second'' time such a thing has happened to Will, although this time around he's bleeding out on the kitchen floor with Abigail -- a young girl who has become like a daughter to him -- desperately attempting to slow the blood flow from her lacerated throat. [[AdultFear And there's absolutely nothing Will can do to stop it.]]]]

** [[spoiler: Alana]] dying outside Hannibal's house alone in the rain.

** Right after discovering that [[spoiler: Abigail is alive, Will is forced to watch as Hannibal ruthlessly slices open the young girl's throat, too grievously injured to protect her. And this is the ''second'' time such a thing has happened to Will, although this time around he's bleeding out on the kitchen floor with Abigail -- a young girl who has become like a daughter to him -- desperately attempting to slow the blood flow from her lacerated throat. [[AdultFear And there's absolutely nothing Will can do to stop it.]]]]

* Hannibal finally letting his appearance of humanity and civility dropping in the season 2 finale, hissing "He's in the pantry" to describe Jack to [[spoiler: Alana.]]

** [[spoiler: Alana]] dying outside Hannibal's house alone in the rain.

* Mason's fate in "Tome-wan": [[spoiler: being convinced, under the influence of drugs, to skin his own face off, eating parts of it himself and feeding parts to Will's dogs. Then being left quadraplegic, and under the care of the sister he's tortured all his life.]] [[CompleteMonster Utterly deserved]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome and deeply satisfying]], but still, horrifying.

* ''Amuse-bouche'': [[spoiler: The perp buried diabetics alive and grew mushrooms out of their bodies. Oh, and that first body we saw, the one that had duct-tape over its mouth which was subsequently ripped off, ALONG WITH HIS LIPS? Still alive. Enjoy.]]
* ''Coquilles'': [[spoiler: Angels whose "wings" are made from flesh stripped from their backs. It is specifically mentioned that the victims were still alive while this was being done to them.]]

* ''Sorbet'': [[spoiler: The killer was a part-time paramedic who wanted to be a doctor. That's why the organ removal was so badly done; he was actually trying to save his "patients" but lost control of the situation. He even cut a guy open so he could manually stimulate the heart in an effort to save him. Imagine dying while your organ-harvester is desperately trying to save your life.]]

* In ''Trou Normand'', Hannibal is comforting Abigail and telling her Will and he are going to protect her...right before he cocks his head and STARES INTO THE CAMERA.

* ''Rôti '':

* The end of ''Relevés''. [[spoiler:Hannibal tips his hand and Abigail finally realizes his true nature when they're alone in her house miles from Will, Jack or anyone who can intervene. When she says Will told her that the man who called her father was a serial killer. He tells her that he called her father to warn him they were coming and did so out of curiosity for the outcome (which resulted in Abigail's mother being killed). He tells her that he killed her best friend for the same, and that he hoped she would kill Nick Boyle to see how much she was like her father. He says it was a good thing she murdered Nick because it changed her. He takes her hand and tells her he has killed many more than her father did. On the verge of tears she asks him if he'll kill her. He caresses her face and apologizes for not being able to protect her.]] Episode over. The situation is scary enough, but Hannibal instantly switching gears from comforting friend to ice cold killer is very unnerving.
* In ''Savoureux'' we finally see the Ravenstag/Wendigo in its full glory. [[spoiler:And find out that it's been Hannibal all along]].

** The opening fight scene in ''Kaiseki.'' [[spoiler:Crawford and Hannibal are beating the shit out of each other, until Hannibal fakes going unconcious when Crawford puts him in a chokehold. Hannibal suddenly stabs him in the neck with a shard of glass and, when the wounded Crawford stumbles into the wine cellar, ''Lecter grabs two knives and starts shouldering the door down.]]''
* Two more examples of notes from ''Kaiseki'': the first is when Alana tries to bring back Will's memories, and he sees [[spoiler: an entire banquet of FoodPorn gone horribly wrong, at the head of which is the Wendigo]]. The second is even worse, with the newest victim of the Season 2 criminal [[spoiler: waking up in a ''silo of human bodies'', all neatly tied together and arranged in a spiral.]] It's his screams that really sell it, though.
* ''Sakizuke'':
** Thought the ending of ''Kaiseki'' was freaky? Well, this one begins right where it left off, with [[spoiler: the victim ''tearing chunks of his own flesh off'' in order to escape the human mural, whimpering and screaming with every motion, before being chased through a cornfield by the killer and forced to jump off of a cliff to escape, busting his head open on some rocks on the way down.]] Hope you weren't planning on sleeping any time soon...

* In ''Hassun'', Hannibal's {{yandere}} aspect emerges. The episode implies that his machinations and killings are depraved attempts to understand and show love for Will.
* In ''Hassun'', [[spoiler:an unknown killer murders a court bailiff and a judge, demonstrating that even authority figures are not beyond the murderous grasp of serial killers. The fact that he murdered the judge in his own office also show that the killer can penetrate and undermine places of authority.]]

* ''Takiawase''. We find out [[spoiler: Hannibal was inducing seizures in Will with drugs and epileptic strobe light therapy.]]

* ''Yakimono'' is terrifying. From [[spoiler:Miriam's]] brief recollections of her time in captivity to [[spoiler: Hannibal framing Chilton in the most horrific way possible.]]

* The EarlyBirdCameo of [[spoiler:Mason Verger]] in ''Su-zakana''. In just a few seconds, he casually breaks the arm of [[spoiler:his sister Margot]] and wipes away and collects her tears for sadistic reasoning: ''putting them in a martini glass and drinking it''. The more chilling is the sole piece of dialogue.

* ''Shiizakana'' is an episode that feels more like a classic horror. Randall Tier, the Killer of the Week, is a madman who believes that he is an animal born in a man's body. So he [[spoiler: builds a beast suit using bones of extinct Cave Bears and pneumatic engineering, and then hunts people in the dark with it. Seeing that suit stalk people in the dark, chase them across the snow and then tear them into pieces is terrifying. Especially when it's Will Graham's turn.]]
* Mason Verger's introduction in ''Naka-Choko'' is appropriately terrifying. He not only demonstrates the man-eating pigs he's cultivated, he does so by using a meat dummy [[spoiler: made to look like Margot. In front of Margot, while saying how she would have nothing without him.]]

* Mason's fate in ''Tomewan'': [[spoiler: being convinced, under the influence of drugs, to skin his own face off, eating parts of it himself and feeding parts to Will's dogs. Then being left quadraplegic, and under the care of the sister he's tortured all his life.]] [[CompleteMonster Utterly deserved]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome and deeply satisfying]], but still, horrifying.

** [[spoiler: Georgia walking in on Hannibal as he's essentially ripping Dr Sutcliffe's skull in two. He turns around to see her; since she can't recognise faces, she doesn't see his - only an blank expanse with hints of the skull underneath. Sleep well!]]

** Gideon [[spoiler:operates on Chilton while he's awake - admittedly with local anesthetic - and removes at least some of his organs, as well as ''showing them to him.'' After Gideon flees the scene, law enforcement officers find Chilton with his abdomen still open and his intestines bulging out.]]

* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1LzcS7Db68 trail]] [[http://tvline.com/2014/01/24/hannibal-season-2-promo-jack-killed-dies/ ers]] for season 2.

* Two more examples of notes from ''Kaiseki'': the first is when Alana tries to bring back Will's memories, and he sees [[spoiler: an entire banquet of FoodPorn gone horribly wrong, at the head of which is the Wendigo]]. The second is even worse, with the newest victim of the season 2 criminal [[spoiler: waking up in a ''silo of human bodies'', all neatly tied together and arranged in a spiral.]] It's his screams that really sell it, though.

** Will hallucinates a psychiatric session with Hannibal, in which Dr Lecter's face becomes distorted similarly to the clock drawings.
** Incidentally, the episode's killer also utilizes an EyeScream methodology similar to that employed by Doctor Gideon - plunge a metal skewer through the eye and scramble the brain behind it. But these victims are ''still alive''. One was found wandering in a park covered in bee stings and without eyes. The other had a hive grown in his head and torso.

** Even worse, it's clear that he does so by [[spoiler: having *all* her reproductive organs removed, rather than simply tying her tubes or something less invasive and destructive.]]

* Mason [[spoiler: forcibly sterilizing his sister.]]

* Mason Verger's introduction in ''Naka-Choko'' is appropriately terrifying. He not only demonstrates the man-eating pigs he's cultivated, he does so by using a meat dummy [[spoiler: made to look like Margot. In front of Margot, while saying how she would have nothing without him.]]

* ''Shiizakana'' is an episode that feels more like a classic horror. Randall Tier, the Killer of the Week, is a madman who believes that he is an animal born in a man's body. So he [[spoiler: builds a beast suit using bones of extinct Cave Bears and pneumatic engineering, and then hunts people in the dark with it. Seeing that suit stalk people in the dark, chase them across the snow and then tear them into pieces is terrifying. Especially when it's Will Graham's turn.]]

--> '''[[spoiler:Mason]]:''' You should have taken the chocolate, [[spoiler:Margot]].