History NightmareFuel / TheAvengers

-->"''If you fail, if the Tesseract is kept from us, there will be no realm, no barren moon, no crevasse where we '''can't find you'''. You think you know pain? He will make you long for that '''[[FateWorseThanDeath so sweet as pain]]'''.''"

-->'''Loki:''' I won’t touch Barton. Not until I make him kill you slowly, intimately, in every way he knows you fear. And then he’ll wake just long enough to see his good work. And when he screams, I’ll split his skull! That is my bargain, you mewling [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain quim]]!

* Natasha's leg is pinned under some debris... and then Bruce starts to groan and the real panic begins; the mere threat of the Hulk is the only thing that's made her show genuine fear in the film so far, and now she's trapped in an enclosed space while he's on the way. What makes it worse is that Bruce manages to give her an agonized look, powerless to stop what's coming, before he hulks out ''practically right next to her''. (And also, as par for the course, the transformation looks ''extremely'' painful as he tries to fight it.) She manages to free herself before she gets squashed, but what follows is a nightmare chase that ends with her huddled in a dark walkway, very nearly whimpering with pain and shock. This is Black Widow, who beat up three men while tied to a chair and faced down Loki, and she's traumatised.

* [[spoiler: {{Thanos}}... [[TheReveal Just Thanos]]. [[OneSceneWonder Two shots of him in the whole movie.]] [[TheVoiceless Not one line of dialogue.]] More than enough to wet your undies.]]

* When Tony gets back to Stark Tower and Loki, the god who already killed at least one of his friends, is there. Tony's alone, his armor is damaged too badly to use, and the others won't be there for a few minutes yet. He goes in anyway and banters coolly, but the second Loki approaches him with the scepter, just for a second, you see Tony's bravado slip badly, and you realize then just how scared he really is. It just sends shivers up your spine to imagine being in that position.

-->"''If you fail, if the Tesseract is kept from us, there will be no realm, no barren moon, no crevasse where we '''can't find you'''. You think you know pain? He will make you long for that '''so sweet as pain'''.''"
* The first look we get of Loki. It's this extremely disturbing look in his eyes and a smile terrifyingly similar to the profile picture for NightmareFuel.

* The first look we get of Loki. It's this extremely disturbing look in his eyes and a smile terrifyingly similar to the profile picture for [[NightmareFuel]].

-->"''If you fail, if the Tesseract is kept from us, there will be no realm, no barren moon, no crevasse where we '''can't find you'''. You think you know pain? He will make you long for that '''so sweet as pain'''.''"

* The "cage" Loki is placed in. Manages to hit both claustrophobia (nigh-unbreakable enclosed space) AND acrophobia (designed to be dropped ''30,000 feet'') triggers. There's also a side of FridgeHorror in Bruce Banner's ''total lack of surprise'' when Loki mentions the cage was originally designed to contain the Hulk, like he's just resigned to the fact that his "curse" justifies such extreme precautions.

** And even if you have no idea who he is, the "''challenge accepted''" look on his face is unsettling enough.

-->'''Loki:''' I won’t touch Barton. Not until I make him kill you slowly, intimately, in every way he knows you fear. And then he’ll wake just long enough to see his good work. And when he screams, I’ll split his skull! That is my bargain, you mewling quim!

** Bonus points for the subtle implications that being unconscious undoes the MindControl, meaning that unless Loki was re-possessing them every morning anyone under his control was awake the entire time. [[FridgeBrilliance Which also explains]] why Clint looked more and more worn down every time we saw him: he hadn't slept for days.

* Natasha's leg is pinned under some debris... and then Bruce starts to groan and the panic begins; the mere threat of the Hulk is the only thing that's made her show genuine fear in the film so far, and now she's trapped in an enclosed space while he's on the way. What makes it worse is that Bruce manages to give her an agonized look, powerless to stop what's coming, before he hulks out ''practically right next to her''. (And also, as par for the course, the transformation looks ''extremely'' painful as he tries to fight it.) She manages to free herself before she gets squashed, but what follows is a nightmare chase that ends with her huddled in a dark walkway, very nearly whimpering with pain and shock. This is Black Widow, who beat up three men while tied to a chair and faced down Loki, and she's traumatised.

* Natasha's leg is pinned under some debris... and then Bruce starts to groan and the panic begins; the mere threat of the Hulk is the only thing that's made her show genuine fear in the film so far, and now she's trapped in an enclosed space while he's on the way. What makes it worse is that Bruce manages to give her an agonized look, powerless to stop what's coming, before he hulks out ''practically right next to her''. (And also, as par for the course, the transformation looks ''extremely'' painful as he tries to fight it.) She manages to free herself before she gets squashed, but what follows is a nightmare chase that ends with her huddled in a dark walkway, very nearly whimpering with pain and shock.

* Bruce becoming the Hulk in the above scene is bad enough, but the way he looks at Natasha right before the transformation is complete is absolutely horrifying because he knows what's happening and that there's a huge possibility that she's about to get hurt. And there's nothing he can do because it's too late.
* Hawkeye needs the eye scan of a certain man to open a certain door. He gives a hand held scanner to Loki, who proceeds to crash the man's party, hold him down over a decorative slab and - possibly not understanding precisely how the thing works, probably just for kicks - ''stick the scanner right into the man's eye''. On Hawkeye's end, the scan comes through ''and the eye is jerking around in death throes.''

* No mention of the [[EyeScream Eye Scream]] Loki inflicted on that guy in Germany so he could get an eyeball scanner to unlock the door that holds a meteorite shard. He does this in front of a terrified crowd at a Museum's party and its thankfully [[NothingisScarier not show on screen.]]

* Loki's MindControl in general. Not only do his victims get creepy BlankWhiteEyes, they retain all their personality traits while under his control, creating a very unsettling effect, since most examples of mind control have the victim acting noticably out of it. It's like an UncannyValley of mind control.

* One of Captain America's flashbacks while he's attacking the punch-bag has him recalling a scientist exclaiming he's still alive over his ''still half frozen'' body, implying he was conscious for at least some of his defrosting.

* One of Captain America's flashbacks while he's attacking the punch-bag has him recalling a scietist exclaiming he's still alive over his ''still half frozen'' body, implying he was conscious for at least some of his defrosting.

* The scene in which Natasha interrogates Loki, and in an incredibly menacing speech Loki lists off all her sins, belittles her attempts at redemption, and ends by describing his plans for Clint, whom he has under MindControl.

* Bruce becoming the Hulk in the above scene is bad enough, but the way he looks at Natasha right before the transformation is complete is absolutely horrifying because he knows what's happening and that there's a huge possibility that she's about to get hurt.

-Not quite. While hard to tell, the final line of the movie is in fact delivered by the character in question.

-Who else would want to 'court death'?

-Not quite. While hard to tell, the final line of the movie is in fact delivered by the character in question.

* [[spoiler: {{Thanos}}... [[TheReveal Just Thanos]]. [[OneSceneWonder Two shots of him in the whole movie.]] [[TheVoiceless Not one line of dialogue.]] More than enough to wet your undies.]]