Nightmare Fuel / Apex Legends

"I am blessed to have such great support behind me."

Gameplay

• Revenant. Just... Revenant. Almost anything he says or does is just oozing with Squick or For the Evulz. At least Caustic maintains some professionalism and doesn't hate his teammates.
• Some of the legend finishers are just brutal. Especially disturbing is that some of the worst offenders belong to legends who are otherwise shown to be genuinely kind or heroic.
  • Wraith throws you through a portal that leads into god-knows-where. Could be another dimension, could be off a cliff...
  • Lifeline stabs a syringe slowly through your neck. Or, she hooks you up to her D.O.C. and lets it fry you with its defibrillator.
  • Wattson just freaking disintegrates you.
  • Horizon casually uses her drone to suck you into a singularity. It's quick, but you can catch a glimpse of your character getting spaghettified.
  • Catalyst will either, A: use her ferrofluid to Neck Lift you, and then crush anything above your shoulders with it. B: form two blocks of ferrofluid and squish you between them. Take your pick.
• The ring. If players are unlucky enough, it is possible to end up in a pocket of temporarily safe space, all exits blocked off by the orange death field. You have two options; stay where you are and wait for the ring to fill your safe spot, or try and rush through the field to the edge of the new boundary. If this happens late in a match, when the ring damage has increased, you're pretty much doomed either way.
• Being attacked by another squad, or “third partied”, can mean either being caught in a sandwich position (where both squads surround you with no escape), or a lucky diversion for the other squad when they fight, allowing you and your own squad to silently escape and heal. Most of the time though, the danger comes when you’ve just finished with one or two squads, exhausting all your ultimates and ammo and health, and another squad arrives, attracted by the battle, before you and your squad have time to heal and load up. There’s something scarier than that though, and that’s fighting ANOTHER squad after that, and on and on and on.
  • On the topic of being third partied, new quotes were recently added for the Legends in the event another squad attacks. Most of them stay focused, but some are especially panicked and can be literal nightmare fuel during a heated battle.
  Bangalore: Ambush, AMBUSH! There’s another squad!
  Octane: Oh, no no no no no! There’s another squad!!
  Caustic: We’re being attacked by TWO different squads!
  Bloodhound: The fight is not even! Multiple squads attack!

• By design, the LTM Fight or Fright mode is chock full of scary moments:
  • From the moment you launch from the dropship and land, the arena itself has an odd feeling about it. The previously bright and sunny King's Canyon with tall green mountains and sun-scorched deserts is now shrouded in darkness and an ethereal fog, glowing monsters towering over the canyon, and an announcer who sounds straight out of your worst nightmares...
  • Also the fact that in this nightmarish world of darkness and eternally spawning zombies with super-speed and One-Hit Kill ability...you are totally alone. Many players have noted that in a team-based survival game, the lack of any backup to rely on and the total silence and lack of communication with anybody makes the already eerie game mode that much tenser
  • And then there's the Shadows themselves. Husks of the champions they were with only small red lights for eyes, a deep, guttural breathing (or panting) sound, their appearance is frightening enough. Combine that with the fact that they don't have a limit on how long they can climb for, speed that not even a boosted Octane can keep up with, totally quiet footsteps and jetpacks that make barely any noise (meaning you can't hear them land right next to you) and the ability to see prey highlighted in red means that nowhere is safe.
  • Despite the fact that they have low health and take only one or two shots to kill, Shadows will continually respawn... and they will have a tracker placed on whoever killed them, meaning that it's almost a guarantee that if you kill a shadow, they'll be back momentarily to enact revenge.
    • On top of this, Shadows can all see icons for both Champion and Shadow deaths... meaning that the minute you get a kill, be prepared to hear the sound of heavy breathing as ten more shadows land near you, each hoping to find and slaughter you.
  • And when the dropship finally begins its approach, be prepared to have to rush into an area full of shadows running around, all eager to dog pile you. And since you're placed on a team if you make it to the final ten players, if you're downed you don't instantly die... instead you must sit there helplessly as you watch a mob of shadows rush towards you to finish you off.
• The flavor text included with Revenant's loading screens, with him describing how he tortures his victims, is... not pleasant.
• Another Revenant moment. If you have him as the Featured Legend while in queue, he will occasionally (and randomly) bull-rush the screen. The sudden transition from his slow walk will cause it to startle you.
• Inside the Icarus ship on the Olympus map, you can see decaying corpses in the wreckage. It's not pretty.
• The Broken Ghost quest line from season 5. Where do we begin?
  • How about we start with the overall concept. Remember that Fight or Fright LTM? Yeah, apparently, there are pieces of something known as "The Broken Ghost”, trapped with the alternative dimension the LTM takes place in. Your mission? Go in, get the artifact piece, and get out. Easy, right? Yeah, no.
  • First things first, normally, when entering the game, the triumphant You Are The Jumpmaster theme plays. In the quest missions? You get an ominous version of that theme that makes it sound like you aren't supposed to be here.
  • And when you do make landfall? What else is greeting you but the prowlers from Bloodhound’s trials, and they tend to come in hoards.
  • Assuming you manage to get the fragments, you slowly begin to shape this “Broken Ghost” in the mission select screen. While it looks like one of Revenant’s heads in the beginning, assembling more of the head displays that this isn’t anything like him at all. Come the final mission, it turns out the Broken Ghost isn’t Revenant, it's Ash. And once you get the final piece, you're treated to a Playable Epilogue, where you find one last bunker in the main dimension and armed with a P2020 and nothing else. Enter a decaying, abandoned bunker, while you hear the deranged voice of... something, spouting random glitchy quotes that are sure to send a shiver down your spine, while your connection to Loba begins to cut out. Once you progress further, it turns out a barely functional, half mutilated Ash is spouting these horrific Non Sequitur phrases. In order to complete the quest, you have to put her head back on, where she starts truly freaking out, twitching and spasming before staring right into you.
    Failsafe... Failsafe... Who's got the Failsafe?
    ''Do you fear me, Pilot?''
    Ah. Just a wee bit of betrayal before breakfast, eh dearie?
    • Once you put on the head:
      Ashes to Ashes. Ashes to Ashes. Ashes to Ashes. Ashes to Ashes...

    • Hell, the interface isn’t above being messed with! As you enter the bunker, the text that would normally display what kind of loot you would get from the area (Basic Loot, Rare Loot, Very Rare Loot) Simply reads, in dark red text: “A Secret Place”.

Trailers

• Forge's trailer. Well played, Respawn. Well played.
  • To explain: Forge was teased as the newest hero for season 4 in a dev live stream. No less than a few days later, we see forge being interviewed, when suddenly the lights flicker. A few seconds later, and we a mysterious red-cloaked figure (Think Bloodhound but horrifying) STAB FORGE DIRECTLY IN THE SPINE With a Gory Discretion Shot. Ladies and gentlemen: Revenant.
  • Apparently, the interview was filmed in the sorting factory in the "World's Edge" map. There you can find Forge's deathbox near a large puddle of blood, still surrounded with cameras.
• Season 4 launch trailer shows why Revenant is the most dreaded assassin in the Outlands. Crashing in on a restaurant, he proceeds to massacre an entire room full of guards and bystanders with ruthless precision. One such gruesome murder involves slamming and scraping one man's face across a screen, leaving a bloody smear.
  • It's also implied that he would've murdered the young Loba, since he did kill Marcos Andrade and his wife.
  • The sound of Marcos Andrade’s neck snapping when Revenant kills him will haunt your nightmares.
  • For all the gory violence in his rampage, the most disturbing moment is one without blood. After finishing off Marcos Andrade, Revenant sees the reflection of himself in his original human body, but with a shard of glass jammed in his neck. He’s surprised and slightly horrified by it, as he hadn’t even realized it was there. But when he pulls it out and inspects it, he notices that he isn’t bleeding. At all. That's when Revenant realizes that he’s been a simulacrum all along, his human body having long since perished with only his mind left in the shell of a robotic being.
• "The Old Ways" has a young Bloodhound being chased through a tunnel by a horned Yeti-like creature nearly the size of a Titan. One that can take a shot to the face from a Charge Laser.
• Horizon's backstory, detailed in the short "Promise". While on a mission to solve the energy crisis in the Outlands, Horizon was betrayed by her own assistant and left for dead in the orbit of a black hole. Even though she managed to devise a way to escape using a modified cleaning drone, Horizon returned home to find that almost a century had passed, with her son having grown up and passed away without her. Now, she's taking part in a dangerous blood sport in the hopes of being able to somehow return home.
• The Season 8 Launch Trailer. Fuse's former pal Maggie hacks into the arrival ship and fires its guns into the crowd. After he manages to shut it down, she retaliates by blowing up the mountain behind them. At least one child was shown before the shooting started (she seems to make it out thanks to Lifeline). This is not the first (or last) time a hostile third party has been allowed to infiltrate and violently disrupt the games. Are the people who run the games incompetent, or do they just not care?
• "Northstar" has Valkyrie as a kid taking her dad's Titan out for a spin through the skies(without his permission), then IMC and Militia ships show up, and you can guess what happens next. Now she's in the middle of a war zone thousands of feet in the air, missiles, tracer fire, and jet fighters flying everywhere, and she's stuck a combat machine (i.e. a legitimate target). And she didn't bring a Titan weapon. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
  • Now imagine that from Viper's point of view: Your daughter is suddenly stuck in the middle of a battle, somebody is going to target her sooner or later, and the best machine you had to get to her in is unavailable (because she's in it).
• Seer's trailer. Compared to the trailers for Valk, Fuse, and Horizon, it's quite dark and focuses on how terrible he is from an enemy point of view, as Fuse can testify Seer seems very much an unstoppable force in nature even without technology. The trailer includes:
  • Fuse being chased and knocked down, with Obi not showing that he was going to attack, just watching and dancing, indicating a furious Bloodhound about to decapitate Walter.
  • Wattson and Caustic being surrounded, trying to fend off Valkyrie's air attack, only to have the abilities negated by Obi's technology. You can see from the explosion that they probably suffered a lot.
  • Crypto being pushed alive in lava after Horizon was knocked out.
  • Loba annihilating Revenant's team, more specifically she uses her own staff to pierce Wraith's body.
• The Ashes to Ash STFO in general has an extremely creepy vibe to it with the glitching visuals and Ashleigh Reid and Ash arguing over their actions. The ending is also horrifying from the perspective of Horizon as she just awakened what she thought was her friend turned into a simulacrum, Lillian Peck, but instead found out that Ash was the person whom completely ruined her life. The shock and horror in Horizon's face as she realizes who Ash actually is says it all.
  • Ash herself in this trailer in sheer contrast to Ashleigh Reid. Ash shows nothing but contempt for her human side despite them both being pretty villainous in their own ways and are technically the same person. Ash says that she wishes to erase Reid for her perceived weakness holding Ash back. The background to this line does not help as it shows Ash getting ripped out of her Titan and crushed by B.T. and Cooper during Titanfall 2.
• The Season 11 trailer starts out innocent enough with the legends enjoying a day at the beach... But it all takes a darker turn once Ash shows up, continuing the previous season's string of brutal deaths, highlights including...
  • Revenant getting shot through the temple and surviving... only for Ash to decapitate him with his sword. Unlike Fuse's death in the previous season, you actually get to see his headless body.
  • A lovely silhouette of Ash stabbing Wattson with her sword.
  • Seer gets back up and prepares for a second go at Mirage and Bangalore only to be suddenly grabbed by a giant spider and ensnared in webs.
    Seer: Ah!
    Mirage: Well that's terrifying.
    Bangalore: MOVE!!
  • A Flyer charges towards her and she simply cleaves it in two with a single sword swing. The Flyer's halved corpse, leaking glowing green blood from the slashed parts of its body, falls into the cliff below.
  • Ash's sword is so sharp it can rip holes in reality, which she uses to her advantage to kill Horizon after she ambushes her team.
  • Mirage, having had enough of all of the brutal violence, turns to leave only to be suddenly stabbed through the back by Ash. He wakes up, apparently having just been dreaming... only to find himself surrounded by the corpses of his fellow legends. Except Fuse, who appears to just be conked out on a beach chair.
• The Season 12 trailer trades quantity for quality compared to the previous trailers, as Maggie responds to a Syndicate soldier taunting her about her imminent death by biting into his neck and tripping him so he falls out of the dropship to his evident death. Her spitting out the flesh she took from the guy does not help.
  • Mirage's death. Unlike his deaths in other trailers this is not Played for Laughs. The fact that he's the only source of humor at the beginning of the trailer almost feels like Kill the Cutie. The fact that Crypto and Horizon (who tried to save him during the fall) can just observe only makes it worse.
  • Regardless of your opinion of Maggie, it's still horrible to see her being hunted for a crime she didn't commit. For a second it seems less like the usual friendly competition and more like everyone against Maggie, even Lifeline who is Maggie's teammate would try to kill her if Octavio didn't intervene.
• The finale of Kill Code has Revenant unleashing his army of endless spare bodies. Their slow walk towards the rest of the cast is creepy enough and him backstabbing Duardo is startling, but what really ups the terror ante isn't that Duardo dies on the spot. He's fatally wounded, but alive enough for Revenant to finish him off: siccing a number of his spares onto Duardo's prone position, clawing, stabbing, and tearing him apart like a bunch of rabid animals. His body is largely offscreen or from a distance where it's not discernable and there isn't even any gore, but Duardo's spine-chilling screams and Octane's utter shock (enough shock to make him frozen in fear for once) make the scene an absolute nightmare that burns right into one's brain.