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* After the events of ''ComicBook/NewKrypton'', Supergirl has a nightmare in which she's fighting Superwoman again. Then Superwoman's flesh melts off her face and she becomes a skeleton. All of sudden, Kara finds herself in a hellish landscape, surrounded by flames and skeletons. Her dead mother accuses her from letting them die, and her murdered father wants to take her with them.
* Shortly later ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}} threatens with eating Jimmy Olsen. She may not understand the implications of this threat, but the sight of a defective, irrational Kryptonian grabbing your collar, pulling closer to her face and showing her glowing-red eyes and her flame-spewing mouth while she announces that you're going to be her meal...

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* In ''Comicbook/ActionComics'' #402 "Feud of the Titans", Superman and Supergirl are accidentally exposed to a bio-chemical weapon which makes them hate each other. This story is both hilarious (both cousins are incredibly and ridiculously petty) and scary (imagine they--two Earth-1 Kryptonians--decide to fight seriously. They would tear the planet apart).
* The Alternate Zod's genocide of the entire planet at the end of Creator/JohnByrne's run. We only see bits of it in flashback, but it's just as horrific as one can imagine.
* "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, & the American Way?": [[NinetiesAntiHero The Elite]] are, indeed, {{AntiHero}}ic assholes who have no problem killing their enemies and blow off Big Blue for being so [[GoodIsOldFashioned behind the times]]. Superman appears to agree with them, and proceeds to take ''them'' out one by one in some ''incredibly'' chilling methods, before using a ''very'' restrained use of his powers to [[MindRape de-power]] Manchester Black [[spoiler: And show him that he actually ''didn't'' kill The Elite, just made it look like he did to [[DeconReconSwitch prove a point]]--if he allowed himself to adopt NinetiesAntiHero tactics, the whole world would be screwed and [[BewareTheSuperman never trust caped heroes at all.]]]]
* Kryptonian Thought-Beasts. They're rhino-sized, triceratops-like, ''carnivorous'' critters. And they're ''more powerful'' than a Kryptonian human. Plus, a weird bony neck frill around their necks display their thoughts and intentions... usually eating whoever they're facing.

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* [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Thought-Beasts Kryptonian Thought-Beasts]]. They're rhino-sized, triceratops-like, ''carnivorous'' critters. And they're ''more powerful'' than a Kryptonian human. Plus, a weird bony neck frill around their necks display their thoughts and intentions... usually eating whoever they're facing.
!!!Golden Age
* In ''Superman'' #65 (1950), the Man of Steel comes upon Kryptonian survivors for first time... three outlaws who attempted to blackmail their way into ruling the planet by making the atmosphere unbreathable.

!!!Silver Age
* ''Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane'' #55 epitomizes why you never, ever, let Krypts near from Red-Kryptonite. ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} hypnotizes her cousin into making whatever she wants, lock Lois up in a coffin and is going to freeze her into suspended animation for a thousand years. Luckily that's when Kara snapped out of K-induced craziness... but notice if a Kryptonian goes insane and wants to bury you alive you can't outrun him, overpower him or doing anything, really.

!!!Bronze Age
* In ''Comicbook/ActionComics'' #402 "Feud of the Titans", Superman Franchise/{{Superman}} and Supergirl ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} are accidentally exposed to a bio-chemical weapon which makes them hate each other. This story is both hilarious (both cousins are incredibly and ridiculously petty) and scary (imagine they--two Earth-1 Kryptonians--decide to fight seriously. They would tear the planet apart).
* ''Adventure Comics'' #408 -titled "The Face At The Window"- is a bona fide ghost story: an old mansion owned by a happy-trigger old man who hates visitors, a mysterious little girl wandering over the halls in the dark and requesting to help her find her parents, and corpses murdered and hidden in the basement by the house-owner several decades ago. [[http://comicboxcommentary.blogspot.com.es/2011/10/happy-halloween-back-issue-box.html Reviewed here]].
* In ''Superman (Volume 1)'' #414 "Revenge Is Life -- Death To Superman!", Superman takes his cousin's body to [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Rokyn Rokyn]]. When he lands, his uncle and his aunt usher him in asking what is that cloth-wrapped bundle he's carrying. Readers don't see their reaction but they can hear their cries.

!!!Post-Crisis Era
* The Alternate Zod's genocide of the entire planet at the end of Creator/JohnByrne's run.''ComicBook/TheSupergirlSaga''. We only see bits of it in flashback, but it's just as horrific as one can imagine.
* ''Action Comics'' #775: "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, & the American Way?": [[NinetiesAntiHero The Elite]] are, indeed, {{AntiHero}}ic assholes who have no problem killing their enemies and blow off Big Blue for being so [[GoodIsOldFashioned behind the times]]. Superman appears to agree with them, and proceeds to take ''them'' out one by one in some ''incredibly'' chilling methods, before using a ''very'' restrained use of his powers to [[MindRape de-power]] Manchester Black [[spoiler: And show him that he actually ''didn't'' kill The Elite, just made it look like he did to [[DeconReconSwitch prove a point]]--if he allowed himself to adopt NinetiesAntiHero tactics, the whole world would be screwed and [[BewareTheSuperman never trust caped heroes at all.]]]]
* Kryptonian Thought-Beasts. They're rhino-sized, triceratops-like, ''carnivorous'' critters. And they're ''more powerful'' than a Kryptonian human. Plus, a weird bony neck frill around their necks display their thoughts and intentions... usually eating whoever they're facing.

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* ''NightmareFuel/{{Supergirl}}'' [-(see that page for individual Supergirl storylines)-]

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* The Phantom Zone is an interdimensional realm outside the normal space/time continuum where Krypton locked up their worst criminals. It is a barren and insubstantial null area where the laws of physics are nonexistent. People who travel into the negative zone become virtually inmortal ghosts.
** Once in a while, rifts open between the Zone and the real world, though... letting a bunch of super-powered mass murderers (Zod, Jax-Ur, Faora Hu-Ul, Ursa, Non...) loose.
* In ''Comicbook/ActionComics'' #402 "Feud of the Titans", Superman and Supergirl are accidentally exposed to a bio-chemical weapon which makes them hate each other. This is story is both hilarious (both cousins are incredibly and ridiculously petty: Kara puts up an energy barrier to keep Kal off her side of the Fortress, and he retaliates by smashing her trophies) and scary (imagine they -two Earth-1 Kryptonians- decide to fight seriously. They would tear the planet apart).

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* The Phantom Zone is an interdimensional realm outside the normal space/time continuum where Krypton locked up their worst criminals. It is a barren and insubstantial null area where the laws of physics are nonexistent. People who travel into the negative zone become virtually inmortal ghosts.
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immortal ghosts. Once in a while, rifts open between the Zone and the real world, though... letting a bunch of super-powered mass murderers (Zod, Jax-Ur, Faora Hu-Ul, Ursa, Non...) loose.
* In ''Comicbook/ActionComics'' #402 "Feud of the Titans", Superman and Supergirl are accidentally exposed to a bio-chemical weapon which makes them hate each other. This is story is both hilarious (both cousins are incredibly and ridiculously petty: Kara puts up an energy barrier to keep Kal off her side of the Fortress, and he retaliates by smashing her trophies) petty) and scary (imagine they -two they--two Earth-1 Kryptonians- decide Kryptonians--decide to fight seriously. They would tear the planet apart).



* "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, & the American Way?": [[NinetiesAntiHero The Elite]] are, indeed, {{AntiHero}}ic assholes who have no problem killing their enemies and blow off Big Blue for being so [[GoodIsOldFashioned behind the times]]. Superman appears to agree with them, and proceeds to take ''them'' out one by one in some ''incredibly'' chilling methods, before using a ''very'' restrained use of his powers to [[MindRape de-power]] Manchester Black [[spoiler: And show him that he actually ''didn't'' kill The Elite, just made it look like he did to ''[[DeconReconSwitch prove a point]]'' - if he allowed himself to adopt NinetiesAntiHero tactics, the whole world would be screwed and [[BewareTheSuperman never trust caped heroes at all.]] ]]

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* "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, & the American Way?": [[NinetiesAntiHero The Elite]] are, indeed, {{AntiHero}}ic assholes who have no problem killing their enemies and blow off Big Blue for being so [[GoodIsOldFashioned behind the times]]. Superman appears to agree with them, and proceeds to take ''them'' out one by one in some ''incredibly'' chilling methods, before using a ''very'' restrained use of his powers to [[MindRape de-power]] Manchester Black [[spoiler: And show him that he actually ''didn't'' kill The Elite, just made it look like he did to ''[[DeconReconSwitch [[DeconReconSwitch prove a point]]'' - if point]]--if he allowed himself to adopt NinetiesAntiHero tactics, the whole world would be screwed and [[BewareTheSuperman never trust caped heroes at all.]] ]]]]]]
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* Kryptonian Thought-Beasts. They're rhino-sized, triceratops-like, ''carnivorous'' critters. And they're ''more powerful'' than a Kryptonian human. Plus, a weird bony neck frill around their necks display their thoughts and intentions... usually eating whoever they're facing.
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* Once in a while, rifts open between the Zone and the real world, though... letting a bunch of super-powered mass murderers (Zod, Jax-Ur, Faora Hu-Ul, Ursa, Non...) loose.
* In ''Comicbook/ActionComics'' #402 "Feud of the Titans", Superman and Supergirl are accidentally exposed to a bio-chemical weapon which makes them hate each other. This is story is both hilarious (both cousins are incredibly and ridiculously petty: Kara puts up an energy barrier to keep Kal off her side of the Fortress, and he retaliates by smashing her torphies) and scary (imagine they -two Earth-1 Kryptonians- decide to fight seriously. They would tear the planet apart).

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* ** Once in a while, rifts open between the Zone and the real world, though... letting a bunch of super-powered mass murderers (Zod, Jax-Ur, Faora Hu-Ul, Ursa, Non...) loose.
* In ''Comicbook/ActionComics'' #402 "Feud of the Titans", Superman and Supergirl are accidentally exposed to a bio-chemical weapon which makes them hate each other. This is story is both hilarious (both cousins are incredibly and ridiculously petty: Kara puts up an energy barrier to keep Kal off her side of the Fortress, and he retaliates by smashing her torphies) trophies) and scary (imagine they -two Earth-1 Kryptonians- decide to fight seriously. They would tear the planet apart).
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* The Alternate Zod's genocide of the entire planet at the end of John Byrne's run. We only see bits of it in flashback, but it's just as horrific as one can imagine.

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* "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, & the American Way?": [[NinetiesAntiHero The Elite]] are, indeed, {{AntiHero}}ic assholes who have no problem killing their enemies and blow off Big Blue for being so [[GoodIsOldFashioned behind the times]]. Superman appears to agree with them, and proceeds to take ''them'' out one by one in some ''incredibly'' chilling methods, before using a ''very'' restrained use of his powers to [[MindRape de-power]] Manchester Black [[spoiler: And show him that he actually ''didn't'' kill The Elite, just made it look like he did to ''[[DeconReconSwitch prove a point]]'' - if he allowed himself to adopt NinetiesAntiHero tactics, the whole world would be screwed and [[BewareTheSuperman never trust caped heroes at all.]] ]]

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* ''NightmareFuel/{{Supergirl}}''
** ''NightmareFuel/{{Supergirl 1972}}''
** ''NightmareFuel/{{Supergirl 1982}}''
** ''NightmareFuel/{{Supergirl 2005}}''
** ''NightmareFuel/{{Supergirl 2011}}''
** ''NightmareFuel/SupergirlRebirth''
** ''NightmareFuel/DemonSpawn''
** ''NightmareFuel/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl''
** ''NightmareFuel/ManyHappyReturns''
** ''NightmareFuel/RedDaughterOfKrypton''
** ''NightmareFuel/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInTheEightGrade''
** ''NightmareFuel/YoungLove''

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* ''NightmareFuel/{{Supergirl}}''
** ''NightmareFuel/{{Supergirl 1972}}''
** ''NightmareFuel/{{Supergirl 1982}}''
** ''NightmareFuel/{{Supergirl 2005}}''
** ''NightmareFuel/{{Supergirl 2011}}''
** ''NightmareFuel/SupergirlRebirth''
** ''NightmareFuel/DemonSpawn''
** ''NightmareFuel/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl''
** ''NightmareFuel/ManyHappyReturns''
** ''NightmareFuel/RedDaughterOfKrypton''
** ''NightmareFuel/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInTheEightGrade''
** ''NightmareFuel/YoungLove''
''NightmareFuel/{{Supergirl}}'' [-(see that page for individual Supergirl storylines)-]



* In ''Comicbook/ActionComics'' # 402 "Feud of the Titans", Superman and Supergirl are accidentally exposed to a bio-chemical weapon which makes them hate each other. This is story is both hilarious (both cousins are incredibly and ridiculously petty: Kara puts up an energy barrier to keep Kal off her side of the Fortress, and he retaliates by smashing her torphies) and scary (imagine they -two Earth-1 Kryptonians- decide to fight seriously. They would tear the planet apart).

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* In ''Comicbook/ActionComics'' # 402 #402 "Feud of the Titans", Superman and Supergirl are accidentally exposed to a bio-chemical weapon which makes them hate each other. This is story is both hilarious (both cousins are incredibly and ridiculously petty: Kara puts up an energy barrier to keep Kal off her side of the Fortress, and he retaliates by smashing her torphies) and scary (imagine they -two Earth-1 Kryptonians- decide to fight seriously. They would tear the planet apart).
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!![[Franchise/{{Superman}} The storylines]]
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* ''NightmareFuel/AllStarSuperman''
* ''NightmareFuel/TheBlackRing''
* ''NightmareFuel/ForTheManWhoHasEverything''
* ''NightmareFuel/KryptonNoMore''
* ''NightmareFuel/SupermanBirthright''
* ''NightmareFuel/SupermanSecretOrigin''
* ''NightmareFuel/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan''
* ''NightmareFuel/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow''
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!!The supporting cast
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* ''NightmareFuel/{{Superman}}''
** ''NightmareFuel/AllStarSuperman''
** ''NightmareFuel/TheBlackRing''
** ''NightmareFuel/ForTheManWhoHasEverything''
** ''NightmareFuel/KryptonNoMore''
** ''NightmareFuel/SupermanBirthright''
** ''NightmareFuel/SupermanSecretOrigin''
** ''NightmareFuel/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan''
** ''NightmareFuel/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow''

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* ''NightmareFuel/{{Superman}}''
** ''NightmareFuel/AllStarSuperman''
** ''NightmareFuel/TheBlackRing''
** ''NightmareFuel/ForTheManWhoHasEverything''
** ''NightmareFuel/KryptonNoMore''
** ''NightmareFuel/SupermanBirthright''
** ''NightmareFuel/SupermanSecretOrigin''
** ''NightmareFuel/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan''
** ''NightmareFuel/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow''
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** ''NightmareFuel/RedDaughterOfKrypton''
** ''NightmareFuel/SupergirlRebirth''
* ''NightmareFuel/{{Superman}}''
** ''NightmareFuel/AllStarSuperman''
** ''NightmareFuel/TheBlackRing''
** ''NightmareFuel/ForTheManWhoHasEverything''
** ''NightmareFuel/KryptonNoMore''
** ''NightmareFuel/SupermanBirthright''
** ''NightmareFuel/SupermanSecretOrigin''
** ''NightmareFuel/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow''

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* The Phantom Zone is an interdimensional realm outside the normal space/time continuum where Krypton locked up their worst criminals. It is a barren and insubstantial null area where the laws of physics are nonexistent. People who travel into the negative zone become virtually inmortal ghosts.
* Once in a while, rifts open between the Zone and the real world, though... letting a bunch of super-powered mass murderers (Zod, Jax-Ur, Faora Hu-Ul, Ursa, Non...) loose.
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