History NightmareFuel / Runaways

* During the ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' tie-in miniseries, SHIELD declares war on the Runaways (because the agency's been taken over by [[LawfulStupid Maria Hill]].) In their opening salvo, SHIELD shoots up Victor, tearing his body apart in a horrific manner. As a follow-up, they send a genocidal alternate-universe Kree soldier who ''snaps Xavin's neck'' and then captures Xavin and Karolina, as well as Wiccan and Hulkling of the ComicBook/YoungAvengers, and sends all four of them to a black site where they're tortured in front of each other by a fat, ugly, mind-rapey creep.

* In the "Escape to New York" arc, the Runaways' ally Dagger is attacked (and possibly sexually assaulted) by someone impersonating her partner Cloak. And it turns out that the culprit was [[spoiler:a hospital orderly who had access to her room...]]

** Also worth mentioning is his kidnapping of Lotus and forcing her to help him find the Gibborim and ask to resurrect Gert. While Lotus wasn't totally innocent, it still was creepy to see him threaten her with Old Lace and seem to seriously contemplate [[spoiler:sacrificing her]]. The cold way he tells her to "set [herself] on fire for all I care" after they part ways is also pretty chilling, considering how he'd never shown anywhere near that level of venom towards anyone before.

* TheStinger to Issue #3: [[spoiler:Molly's grandmother is keeping someone locked up in her basement.]]
* Everything about Molly’s grandmother: The way she not only seemed unfazed by her daughter’s relationship with her foster son but it’s implied actively encouraged it, the way her cats have the exact same eye glow as Molly and her parents, [[spoiler:the fact she gave Alice and Gene their powers, meaning she experimented on her children. That she plans on doing the same to Gert makes it worse. And wants Victor’s genetic material as well due to his being a cyborg.]]

* During the "Cannon Fodder" arc, Old Lace has been taking neighborhood pets, [[spoiler:sacrificing them to Gib,]] and eating them.
* Issue #30 has Gert doing some investigating into Doc Justice's files to find out more about the other J-Teams, and it's worse than she could've imagined. [[spoiler:The individual files all have notations about specific projects and percentages, but relating to events where members of the groups were killed off. Gert has discovered that Doc's spent decades exploiting each and every person he ever recruited based on their marketability and whether or not killing them would boost the team's overall image. What makes this truly sociopathic on his part is that he's implied to have murdered the first three women to be Princess Justice, including Matthew's mother, simply because he stopped loving them or they proved to be more popular than him. And he wants Karolina dead the moment he realized she was getting more attention than him.]]
** [[spoiler:Gert's discovery puts a more horrifying light on the implications regarding how Doc must've raised Matthew, treating his own son like a hired hand and having successfully broken him into believing all those people Doc murdered, including his friends ''and his mother'', was for a good cause.]]

* Nico's powers seem to grow more and more lethal with each arc. In just the first issue of volume 2, she splits the supervillain Wrecker into several pieces,[[AndIMustScream while keeping him alive.]] At the end of volume 2, [[spoiler:she essentially traps the Yorkeses in a timeline where they're doomed to witness their future selves' evil and foolish actions, unable to change anything, until their deaths.]]

** In the post-Whedon arcs, Nico becomes increasingly comfortable with using her magic on her own teammates - attempting to stop Xavin's heart after believing that the latter had turned against the team, trying to use a spell to compel Chase to tell the truth, and, in the last story arc, using what amounts to MindRape on Klara because the poor girl is suffering from a panic attack and her crying is getting on other people's nerves. And then there's the short story from ''Breaking into Comics The Marvel Way'', "It's Not Lupus", where Nico loses her temper at Molly and Chase and accidentally poisons them with magic.
** During the new series "Cannon Fodder" arc, Old Lace has been taking neighborhood pets, [[spoiler:sacrificing them to Gib,]] and eating them.

** In the post-Whedon arcs, Nico becomes increasingly comfortable with using her magic on her own teammates - attempting to stop Xavin's heart after believing that the latter had turned against the team, trying to use a spell to compel Chase to tell the truth, and, in the last story arc, using what amounts to MindRape on Klara because the poor girl is suffering from a panic attack and her crying is getting on other people's nerves. And then there's the short story from ''Breaking into Comics The Marvel Way'', "It's Not Lupus", where Nico loses her temper at Molly and Chase and accidentally poisons them with magic.

* One word: ComicBook/Ultron. It's only because of Gert's [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight speech]] to a BrainwashedAndCrazy Victor and the [[BigDamnHeroes timely intervention]] of Excelsior that he didn't win.

* TheStinger to Issue #3: [[spoiler:Molly's grandmother is keeping someone or something locked up in her basement.]]

* Everything about Molly’s grandmother: The way she not only seemed unfazed by her daughter’s relationship with her foster son but it’s implied actively encouraged it, the way her cats have the exact same eye glow as Molly and her parents, [[spoiler:the fact she gave Alice and Gene their powers, meaning she experimented on her children! That she plans on doing the same to Gert makes it worse. And wants Victor’s genetic material as well due to his being a cyborg.]]

* Everything about Molly’s grandmother: The way she not only seemed unfazed by her daughter’s relationship with her foster son but it’s implied actively encouraged it, the way her cats have the exact same eye glow as Molly and her parents, [[spoiler: The fact she gave Alice and Gene their powers, meaning she experimented on her children! That she plans on doing the same to Gert makes it worse. And wants Victor’s genetic material as well due to being a cyborg.]]

* In "Mollifest Destiny", Molly is kidnapped by third-rate supervillain who tried to challenge her parents years earlier... and was psychically forced to watch as his entire team was slaughtered by the Hayeses. And then they left him locked-in, unable to move, for ''seven years'', to the point that his eyes are permanently bloodshot and he requires the use of PoweredArmor in order to move.

* TheStinger to Issue #3: [[spoiler:Molly's grandmother is keeping someone locked up in her basement.]]

* During the ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' tie-in miniseries, SHIELD declares war on the Runaways (because the agency's been taken over by [[LawfulStupid Maria Hill]].) In their opening salvo, SHIELD shoots up Victor, tearing his body apart in a horrific manner. As a follow-up, they send a genocidal alternate-universe Kree soldier who ''snaps Xavin's neck'' and then captures Xavin and Karolina, as well as Wiccan and Hulkling of the ComicBook/YoungAvengers, and sends all four of them to a black site where they're tortured in front of each other by a fat, ugly, mind-rapey creep.
** Said torture is ''vivisection''. Which it's implied he performed on a still-conscious Wiccan and is attempting on Hulkling. Because of Hulkling's healing factor, his organs keep shifting and the cuts on his body keep closing up, meaning that he's repeatedly sliced open. The scene opens with this, as an incredibly unresponsive and [[HeroicBSOD dazed-looking]] Wiccan repeats over and over "I want him to go to sleep, I want him to go to sleep, I want him to go to sleep..." (the doctor realized his magic only works if he can hear the commands, so he plugged Wiccan's ears). Oh, and Xavin's body is left on the floor for no reason other than to psychologically torture Karolina.

* Nico's powers seem to grow more and more lethal with each arc. In just the first issue of volume 2, she splits the supervillain Wrecker into several pieces,[[AndIMustScream while keeping him alive.]] At the end of volume 2, [[spoiler:she essentially traps the Yorkeses in a timeline where they're doomed to witness their future selves' evil and foolish actions, unable to change anything, until their deaths.]]
** In the post-Whedon arcs, Nico becomes increasingly comfortable with using her magic on her own teammates - attempting to stop Xavin's heart after believing that the latter had turned against the team, trying to use a spell to compel Chase to tell the truth, and, in the last story arc, using what amounts to MindRape on Klara because the poor girl is suffering from a panic attack and her crying is getting on other people's nerves. And then there's the short story from ''Breaking into Comics The Marvel Way'', "It's Not Lupus", where Nico loses her temper at Molly and Chase and accidentally poisons them with magic (and then tries to blame the whole thing on Klara, postulating that Klara brought some sort of disease with her to the 21st century.

* The last arc begins with a party, albeit a kind of depressing one... and then something crashes into the Runaways' house. Right off the bat, Old Lace is dead, and Klara is injured. And then Klara wakes up, scared, bloodied, and confused, and lashes out. The last panels show the beach erupting in a forest of vines. BewareTheNiceOnes, indeed...

** In the post-Whedon arcs, Nico becomes increasingly comfortable with using her magic on her own teammates - attempting to stop Xavin's heart after believing that the latter had turned against the team, trying to use a spell to compel Chase to tell the truth, and, in the last story arc, using what amounts to MindRape on Klara because the poor girl is suffering from a panic attack and her crying is getting on other people's nerves. And then there's "It's Not Lupus", where Nico loses her temper at Molly and Chase and accidentally poisons them with magic (and then tries to blame the whole thing on Klara, postulating that Klara brought some sort of disease with her to the 21st century.

* Nico's powers seem to grow more and more lethal with each arc. In just the first issue of volume 2, she splits the supervillain Wrecker into several pieces,[[AndIMustScream while keeping him alive.]] At the end of volume 2,[[spoiler:she essentially traps the Yorkes in a timeline where they're doomed to witness their future selves' evil and foolish actions, unable to change anything, until their deaths.]]

* Nico's powers seem to grow more and more lethal with each arc. In just the first issue of volume 2, she splits the supervillain Wrecker into several pieces,[[AndIMustScream while keeping him alive.]] Come Volume 3,[[spoiler:she essentially traps the Yorkes in a timeline where they're doomed to witness their future selves' evil and foolish actions, unable to change anything, until their deaths.]]

* In the "Live Fast" arc, Chase temporarily turns against his teammates in an effort to resurrect Gert. The scary thing is how competent he was at being a villain, easily hobbling Nico and Victor and leaving the rest of the team scrambling to catch up.

* In the "Escape to New York" arc, the Runaways' ally Dagger is attacked and (it's implied) sexually assaulted by someone impersonating her partner Cloak. And it turns out that the culprit was [[spoiler:a hospital orderly who had access to her room...]]
* During the ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' tie-in miniseries, SHIELD declares war on the Runaways (because the agency's been taken over by a LawfulStupid cow.) In their opening salvo, SHIELD shoots up Victor, tearing his apart in a horrific manner. As a follow-up, they send a genocidal alternate-universe Kree soldier who ''snaps Xavin's neck'' and then captures Xavin and Karolina, as well as Wiccan and Hulkling of the ComicBook/YoungAvengers, and sends all four of them to a black site where they're tortured in front of each other.