Nightmare Fuel / Æon Flux

• From the pilot:
  • One of the dying enemy soldiers hallucinates a strange, Steamboat Willie-style scene of a little creature on a boat paddling its feet in the sea. Suddenly, the scene shifts, and we see that what the soldier was actually seeing was a bullet hole and streak of blood on a wall, a gun floating in the literal lake of blood that Æon has shed, and a glove, or perhaps dismembered arm. The soldier sheds a Single Tear of horror and dies.
  • Another hallucinates a bomb in front of him inflating like a balloon (which we see from his POV). It turns into a big helpless fish that swells inexorably as it lies on the floor, just waiting to explode as it gasps for water. Tears gush from the fish's eyes, as if it knows it's about to die, and we see its gills and scales open from the swelling. And then it explodes (which we see flash-frames of the bomb in mid-explosion), and the screen goes white with a thunderous boom.
• The ending to "Thanatophobia." In the beginning of the episode, there's a young boy who helps his friends enact pretend fights by clapping his hands in order to mimic the sound of punching. But then he has both arms cut off by the government after he messes with Bregna's sentry guns too many times, resulting in the now armless boy watching helplessly as his friends start fighting and beating each other up for real.
• Pretty much the ending of any of the shorts where Flux dies in some horrific fashion. Though a few are more Black Comedy than disturbing.
  • In "Leisure," she has an uncontrollable urge to torture and kill a baby alien, and she enjoys it. Almost like Laser-Guided Karma, she ends up getting killed by an adult version of the alien.
• Just the idea of Bregna keeping its people in using sentry guns, which are later replaced with traps that amputate people's limbs.
• Æon's And I Must Scream fate at the end of "Ether Drift Theory": floating in the lake of paralytic fluid, paralyzed but still conscious, watching the device and key float past and narrowly miss each other.

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