History NightmareFuel / TheDCU

* ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'': After stripping away his Robin costume and desperately attempting to pull the boomerang from his father's chest, Batman comes in and holds him. In that last page, all you can see is Tim, mostly in shadows, with the main focus being his eye and the tears streaming from it. Eerie, depressing, haunting, and a true TearJerker.

* Despite bad writing, the villain Harvest is buckets of Nightmare Fuel - Coming from the future, he's ''utterly, soul-crushingly obsessed'' with winning the war in his time between humans and meta-humans, due to the fact his son died in that war. For the purpose of winning the war, he travelled back in time, eventually snatching Superman's son Jon Lane-Kent from his parents by faking his death and turning the boy into a weapon of destruction Harvest intended to use on his hated meta-human enemies. Speaking of meta-mumans, his War Games suggest he just really likes making them kill each other, and gathering "The Best" to become even more human weapons against other meta-humans. As if compounding all of this, due to running out of chronal energy for his time travel mechanism, he ended up deteriorating and becoming the "futuristic grim reaper" we know him as, EyelessFace [[FridgeHorror and all]].

* Creator/GrantMorrison lampshades the horrific implications of the first DC reboot in his run on ''Comicbook/AnimalMan''. How? [[spoiler: By having the post-''Crisis'' version of Buddy Baker meet the old, [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] Buddy Baker, who says that thanks to the reboot he and billions of other beings no longer exist. What's even worse? The older version of Buddy is aware that he's a comic book character, so he knows that his death and the deaths of billions of others were done for our entertainment.]]

* ''Tales From the Dark Multiverse'' later explores more on what happens from the bowels of said multiverse, but this time focuses on notable DC Events and how they could've turned out if things were to go sideways. That said, the stories depicted from the one-shot miniseries emphasises the fact that hope is '''non-existent''' amongst the worlds being doomed to rot apart.

** The second panel of #2 where the Elongated Man recalls the memory of cradling his dead wife with an agonized stretched scream on his face. Edvard Munch has nothing on that panel.

** ComicBook/BlackestNight has the [[CalvalryOfTheDead Black Lanterns]] winning due to Sinestro refusing to share the white power's ring and thus becoming a Limbo Lantern, [[BodyHorror with half of his body being decayed]] to show that he [[NonHumanUndead isn't alive nor dead]]. Sinestro does manage to defeat Necron, but Dove, who should be prototype for new life, is killed, and he uses Lobo as a template, leading to universal war.

* {{Superman}} ''Beyond 3D'' certainly has its moments, particularly when [[spoiler: Supes comes to the realization that the Monitors are in fact a [[EldritchAbomination higher order of intelligence that feeds on our energy like an epic cosmic vampire]]. They've been cultivating the multiverse in a jar to keep their oldest enemy and original Monitor (yes, that original monitor from ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths) alive. He's now known as Mandrakk the Dark Monitor]].

* ''NightmareFuel/{{Justice}}''

* Despite bad writing, the villain Harvest is buckets of Nightmare Fuel - Coming from the future, he's ''utterly, soul-crushingly obsessed'' with winning the war in his time between humans and meta-humans, due to the fact his son died in that war. For the purpose of winning the war, he travelled back in time, eventually [[AdultFear snatching Superman's son Jon Lane-Kent from his parents]] by faking his death and turning the boy into a weapon of destruction Harvest intended to use on his hated meta-human enemies. Speaking of meta-mumans, his War Games suggest he just really likes making them kill each other, and gathering "The Best" to become even more human weapons against other meta-humans. As if compounding all of this, due to running out of chronal energy for his time travel mechanism, he ended up deteriorating and becoming the "futuristic grim reaper" we know him as, EyelessFace [[FridgeHorror and all]].

* Despite bad writing, the villain Harvest is buckets of Nightmare Fuel - Coming from the future, he's ''utterly, soul-crushingly obsessed'' with winning the war in his time between humans and meta-humans, due to the fact his son died in that war. For the purpose of winning the war, he traveled back in time, eventually [[AdultFear snatching Superman's son Jon Lane-Kent from his parents]] and turning the boy into a weapon of destruction Harvest intended to use on his hated meta-human enemies. Speaking of meta-mumans, his War Games suggest he just really likes making them kill each other, and gathering "The Best" to become even more human weapons against other meta-humans. As if compounding all of this, due to running out of chronal energy for his time travel mechanism, he ended up deteriorating and becoming the "futuristic grim reaper" we know him as, EyelessFace [[FridgeHorror and all]].

* ''NightmareFuel/TheSandman''

** ComicBook/BlackestNight has the [[CalvalryoftheDead Black Lanterns]] winning due to Sinestro refusing to share the white power's ring and thus becoming a Limbo Lantern, [[BodyHorror with half of his body being decayed]] to show that he [[NonHumanUndead isn't alive nor dead]]. Sinestro does manage to defeat Necron, but Dove, who should be prototype for new life, is killed, and he uses Lobo as a template, leading to universal war.

* ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'' introduces the '''Dark Multiverse''', where worlds are created from every bad decision or choice that the person makes, and said worlds are filled with a malformed contents of nightmare and despair, until they're doomed to rot apart. To illustrate, Batman has about '''eight''' '''[[EvilCounterpart Evil Counterparts]]''' of himself coming from the Dark into the Prime Multiverse, with their backstories ranging from being driven to madness form losing his entire family to becoming twisted and psychopathic whilst retaining his technological and intellectual prowess after killing ComicBook/TheJoker out of pure rage.

** ComicBook/BlackestNight has the [[CalvalryoftheDead Black Lanterns]] winning due to Sinestro refusing to share the white power's ring and thus becoming a Limbo Lantern, [[BodyHorror with half of his body being decayed]] to show that he [[NonHumanUndead isn't alive nor dead]].

** ComicBook/BlackestNight has the [[ArmyoftheDead Black Lanterns]] winning due to Sinestro refusing to share the white power's ring and thus becoming a Limbo Lantern, [[BodyHorror with half of his body being decayed]] to show that he [[NonHumanUndead isn't alive nor dead]].

* ''NightmareFuel/ForeverEvil''

* ''[[NightmareFuel/RobinSeries Robin]]''

* ''NightmareFuel/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}}''

** ComicBook/TheJudasContract depicts how one death can lead to a better world. To elaborate, instead of Tara Markov dying after going through a VillainousBreakdown, she manages to live on in the Dark Multiverse. This however was ''not'' a good indicator, as she proceeds to kill her mentor Slade Wilson and obtain his superhuman serum for her [[DishingOutDirt Earth-bending powers]], thus giving her a [[AGodAmI God complex personality]] with her cranked out powers against the Teen Titans and the world.

** ''NightmareFuel/{{Bizarrogirl}}''

** ''NightmareFuel/SupermanReborn''