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* '''Xeexi''', a Mutraddi that looks like a {{Cthulhumanoid}} who likes to [[OrificeInvasion force his entire body down people's throats]][[MindRape to probe their minds]]. And it's not even implied or offscreen, we get a front row seat for this. Twice. For Ilana's father and Lance respectively. Take into account the fact that Xishi is slightly taller than a full grown man and you've got a recipe for a moment that can make even a seasoned Adult Swim addict cringe. Worse is how a person's veins darken and convulse and their body spasms horribly if they try to resist Xeexi's mental control.

* '''Xishi''', a Mutraddi that looks like a {{Cthulhumanoid}} who likes to [[OrificeInvasion force his entire body down people's throats]][[MindRape to probe their minds]]. And it's not even implied or offscreen, we get a front row seat for this. Twice. For Ilana's father and Lance respectively. Take into account the fact that Xishi is slightly taller than a full grown man and you've got a recipe for a moment that can make even a seasoned Adult Swim addict cringe. Worse is how a person's veins darken and convulse and their body spasms horribly if they try to resist Xinshi's mental control.

* In episode "I Am Octus", when [[spoiler: everyone in the entire world becomes paralyzed]] by the MonsterOfTheWeek except Octus who is struggling to find a way to save his friends. [[spoiler:Yes, everyone. Which would therefore include every person in any flying anything (a crashed helicopter is even shown), doctors in the middle of surgery, and buses full of people careening off the road or off bridges.]] Quite possibly the most horrific day in human history.

** Side note is how General Steel goes from a HarmlessVillain to a BewareTheSillyOnes maniac when he gets his own mecha and nearly kills Lance and Ilana with it. Not to mention his access to nearly endless amounts of army mooks and artillery which he uses liberally. He also gets more physically grotesque the more malicious he becomes.

* In "Steel Foe", Kimmy depressingly notes that Newton has been "absent" from school for several weeks after "A Family Crisis". Just before the episode in question, Kimmy had dumped Newton (who obviously loved her). If you dumped somebody who obviously loved you, only for the person to suddenly go missing for several weeks, [[DrivenToSuicide what would you think happened to him/her?]] And wouldn't you blame yourself for it?

* In "Steel Foe", Kimmy depressingly notes that Newton has been "absent" from school for several weeks after "A Family Crisis". Just before the episode in question, Kimmy had dumped Newton (who obviously loved her). If you dumped somebody who obviously loved you, only for the person to suddenly go missing for several weeks, [[DrivenToSuicide what would you think happened to him/her?]] And wouldn't you blame yourself for it?

*** It may be worse if the ultrasonic waves could reach underwater as well. Sharks, for example, ''have'' to keep moving in order to ''breathe''.

* Ilana's transformation in "The Demon Within" into a Mutraddi is horrifying especially in how she becomes more feral and reptilian due to an injury gained from a Mutraddi creature that effectively lacerated her leg. Ilana pre-transformation snaps a mutated alligator's jaw, especially jarring for a [[FriendToAllLivingThings animal lover like herself]]. No shadowy discretion shot, no offscreen shot. When her transformation is complete, [[BodyHorror her brain was exposed and she became a feral bloodthirsty animal with two sets of eyes and an exposed chest cavity.]]

* Ilana's transformation into a Mutraddi is horrifying especially in how she becomes more feral and reptilian due to an injury gained from a Mutraddi creature that effectively lacerated her leg. Ilana pre-transformation snaps a mutated alligator's jaw, especially jarring for a [[FriendToAllLivingThings animal lover like herself]]. No shadowy discretion shot, no offscreen shot. When her transformation is complete, [[BodyHorror her brain was exposed and she became a feral bloodthirsty animal with two sets of eyes and an exposed chest cavity.]]

* Ilana's transformation into a Mutraddi is horrifying especially in how she becomes more feral and reptilian due to an injury gained from a Mutraddi creature that effectively lacerated her leg. Ilana pre-transformation snaps a mutated alligator's jaw. No shadowy discretion shot, no offscreen shot. When her transformation is full her brain is exposed.

* A bit of reverse AdultFear is that for every moment Lance, Ilana, and Octus spend on Earth, the Galulunan resistance on their homeworld is getting weaker, more people are dying, and the King, Ilana's father, is being tortured endlessly by [[BigBad General Modula]] to get more information on how to kill off the team for good.
* The very first minutes of the first episode has Ilana stop Lance from killing the American soldiers that show up to their landing site to arrest them once she finds out that they're humanoid. However, Lance was already shown blowing up a number of tanks that fired at him, so it's pretty clear he killed at least a few already.
** Ilana is the last successor to the Galalunan throne. Assuming their monarchy is like most on Earth, the princess is just first in line and many other relatives are in line for the throne. Given Modula's [[KillEmAll personality]], it's not hard to guess what's become of the others. Lance himself lampshades that the Galaluna was already lost by the time they left and that everyone they knew may have been dead already despite any resistance being present. Becomes even more jarring as "Shadows of Youth" showed how Modula was a cherished friend of the royal family who was a CoolUncle figure to Ilana and helped Lance become a soldier to begin with.

* There's neck snapping in the second episode, starting with a NeckLift by Modula after he beat a team of Galulunan resistance fighters and ending with a GoryDiscretionShot of their leader. Furthermore, the GoryDiscretionshot ''does not'' omit the wet, crunchy sound of a neck getting wrung like a sponge and the dead body dropping to the ground. Modula's SlasherSmile before act makes the whole thing worse.
* '''Xishi''', a Mutraddi that looks like a {{Cthulhumanoid}} who likes to [[OrificeInvasion force his entire body down people's throats.]] And it's not even implied or offscreen, we get a front row seat for this. Twice for Ilana's father and Lance respectively. Take into account the fact that Xishi is slightly taller than a full grown man and you've got a recipe for a moment that can make even a seasoned Adult Swim addict cringe. Worse is how a person's veins darken and convulse and their body spasms horribly if they try to resist Xinshi's mental control.
** Not to mention Lance had to break his own wrist in order to get out Xishi's prison hold. A visible crack is heard.
* Shaman of Fear. The entire episode is basically a Mutraddi sent to use the worse fears of the team to eventually break them. They suffer a slew of horrible hallucinations surrounding their worst fears, Ilana watching her kingdom and father die and Lance watching his father die while being chased by monsters, while a cloaked monster stalks and hunts them. If not for Octus grounding the two, both Ilana and Lance would have been killed.
** Ilana gets the worst of it. She has horrible visions such as the one displayed in the page image of her people crying out to her and blaming her for leaving them behind to die on Galaluna as well as a horrible scene of her father being being carried by hooded black ooze spewing pallbearers and cremated before her eyes before he hops up to attack her and blame her for not coming back to help her people. It bears great resemblance to the PTSD visions of Samurai Jack in Genndy's later work where Jack would experience visions of his people blaming Jack for not saving them.
* Watching a young Lance get brutalized in "Shadows of Youth" by bullies, one scene shows him beaten and left in the rain, is true AdultFear for any parent that worries about what will happen to their child while absent, even worse when one bully [[DisproportionateRetribution tries to murder Lance because Lance beat him in the war games.]] And gets off scot free for the attempt!

* Again in "Scary Mary", the boy who was supposed to play Scary Mary, "Toad", is knocked out and replaced by the assassin. Later, the assassin crashes into the farmhouse where Toad was lying. The lot is evacuated, but did anyone remember to get Toad?

* In episode "I Am Octus", when [[spoiler: everyone in the entire world becomes paralyzed]] by the MonsterOfTheWeek. [[spoiler:Yes, everyone. Which would therefore include every person in any flying anything (a crashed helicopter is even shown), doctors in the middle of surgery, and buses full of people careening off the road or off bridges.]] Quite possibly the most horrific day in human history.

** Ilana is the last successor to the Galalunan throne. Assuming their monarchy is like most on Earth, the princess is just first in line and many other relatives are in line for the throne. Given Modula's [[KillEmAll personality]], it's not hard to guess what's become of the others. Lance himself lampshades that the Galaluna was already lost by the time they left and that everyone they knew may have been dead already despite any resistance being present.

[[caption-width-right:350:Note that this is the least horrifying scene you'll see in this series.]]

* There's neck snapping in the second episode, starting with a NeckLift by Modula after he beat a team of Galulunan resistance fighters and ending with a GoryDiscretionShot of their leader. Furthermore, the GoryDiscretionshot ''does not'' omit the wet, crunchy sound of a neck getting wrung like a sponge and the dead body dropping to the ground. Modula's Slasher Smile before act makes the whole thing worse.
* '''Xishi''', a Mutraddi that looks like a {{Cthulhumanoid}} who likes to [[OrificeInvasion force his entire body down people's throats.]] And it's not even implied or offscreen, we get a front row seat for this. Twice. Take into account the fact that Xishi is slightly taller than a full grown man and you've got a recipe for a moment that can make even a seasoned Adult Swim addict cringe.
* In "I am Octus", a giant space bat has [[spoiler: paralyzed every human on Earth,]] and the scene pans over crashed cars and a mangled helicopter - what about the airplanes?
** The larger planes with autopilots should be fine. The ones that are about to take-off, about to land, don't have autopilots engaged, or don't have autopilots at all though... yeah, they're screwed. And even ones with autopilots keeping them in the air would have been in trouble depending on the amount of fuel they were carrying.
*** Since Octus mentions having over 3 months of time trying to "Wake Up" Ilana and Lance, pretty much anyone in any form of transportation above a bike is screwed.
*** On that note, if they've out for three months, human civilization should be extinct. No matter what kind of state they were in, the human body flat-out cannot live that long without sustenance.
** For that matter, there should have been ''millions'' of accidents around the whole world, caused by people suddenly freezing (mainly car accidents.)
** Well we are shown some accidents, just not every single one that occured. It's possible that the creators want to show more far reaching effects, but might have been shot down by the Network because it was too graphic.
** Not only that, but tons of infrastructure has been left running on its own for over three months. Power, Water, Gas, all broken down.
** For comparison, WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex had a similar plot, and it was all but stated that people were dying, even with Rex running himself ragged. And that was over the course of ''one day''.
** '''When''', exactly, did he say three months? I watched the episode again and I didn't hear Octus say three months.

* Ilana is the last successor to the Galalunan throne. Assuming their monarchy is like most on Earth, the princess is just first in line and many other relatives are in line for the throne. Given Modula's [[KillEmAll personality]], it's not hard to guess what's become of the others. Lance himself lampshades that the Galaluna was already lost by the time they left and that everyone they knew may have been dead already despite any resistance being present.

* Ilana is the last successor to the throne. Assuming their monoarchy is like most on Earth, the princess is just first in line and many other realitives are in line. Given Modula's personality, it's not hard to guess what's become of the others...
* In Escape to Sherman High, Ilana stops Lance from killing the soldiers once she finds out that they're humanoid. Presumably she would have let him go on killing them had they landed on an equally peaceful planet populated by non-humanoid (but also non-Mutraddi) beings.
** Not necessarily. I mean, if you had just escaped your now war torn world, only to land on another with people pointing guns at you, would you be "Hey! We're nice!".
*** That's not the point. She '''only''' made them stop when she say that they were explicitly humanoid. What if the same misunderstanding happens with a non-humanoid species that, barring a paranoid initial response to first contact by a certain military organization, is otherwise generally peaceful?
*** It's probably that they just could have noted their "mistake" later than with a humanoid race, but the main reason could be that they knew already that the earth was an humanoid planet since his father order her and the other to hide in another planet and Octus even knew that the planet's name was ''earth'' which means the planet was already studied...a little.
*** How would they have known it beforehand when the revelation that they were humanoid comes as a shock to them? And you're still missing the point, and you said it yourself. They might just discover that the people their killing are not Mutraddi "later." Which sounds nice except that later = more dead bodies. Congratulations.
*** Her first reaction might've just been 'oh,they've sent their defenses'. She could have thought those were robots or drones. Those soldiers looked pretty robotic enough for a person who just escaped from her own war-torn planet.
*** And, again, so? That's still besides the point. The core point is still that they only stopped because they're humanoid. It doesn't matter what they thought they were at first.
*** She probably said "they are humanoid" without thinking it a lot. she probably wanted to say "they aren't Mutraddi"
*** Though Ilana's father did seem to plan it somewhat. Not sure how he knew they'd be humanoid, but the later episodes at least ''implied'' that.
*** It is reasonable to assume that they knew that the people of Earth were humanoid before departing, hence why they chose to hide there. Ilana pointing out that the soldiers are humanoid means that these are the natives, not a team of mutraddi sent after them(and not mechanical drones).

If anything thought this was a lighthearted series about a team of alien heroes fighting monsters, '''they were wrong'''. The series is one of Genndy's darker works and actually set the tone for how dark the fifth season of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' would become.