Even Star Command has its share of horrors. Sometime courtesy of the hammy galactic conqueror himself!
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- Bloodless as it may be, Ty Parsec's torturous transformation into the Wirewolf is pretty gruesome for a show that is normally so G-rated that it's promoted with children's bed sheets.
- The gruesome dismemberment of Sentry-Bot 2. The show runners wouldn't have gotten away with showing a humanoid character suffering the same fate...
- In a later episode, NOS-4-A2 has Ty forcibly turned into Wirewolf for an extended period of time by putting a piece of the only moon capable of invoking the transformation (which had previously thought to have been destroyed) around his neck. The poor guy is seriously freaked out when he realizes that he's about to be turned into Wirewolf again.
- During "Revenge of the Monsters", Ty's obviously in a great deal of pain every time NOS-4-A2 uses his super weapon. Unfortunately NOS-4-A2 simply doesn't care.
- NOS-4-A2's lair, with the many deactivated robots lying around. Just imagine how gruesome it would be if they were the bodies of people instead of robots...
- The bit in "The Slayer" where NOS-4-A2 describes what he's going to do to XR as revenge for defeating him. The description is brutal enough, but Craig Ferguson's delivery makes it all the more chilling.NOS-4-A2: Now I will have my revenge. I'm going to drain your energy slowly, so that you feel every amp as it leaves your body. Then, as you're nearly offline, I will recharge you, and do it all over again! (Evil Laugh)
- Any time that Zurg actually ACTS evil is a chilling reminder that beneath the goofy exterior he was a Galactic Conqueror. Especially when he gleefully tries to enslave a planet's populace or kill countless innocents by having them crushed inside a black hole.
- "The Crawling Flesh" has Zurg use an alien gas to turn Buzz and Mira into a slug-like blob. They try to use as much Nightmare Retardent as possible (e.g. the gas making a farting noise as it’s pumped into the chamber, victims burping before they transform). But the sequence is still horrific. Mira begins to melt, and we see Buzz's horrified expression before a sludge-like substance bursts out of his suit. His glove falls off and more of the stuff is seen leaking out of it. The last thing Buzz attempts to do before he and Mira are completely transformed is turn to bang his fist against the glass.
- The Gargantian Militant Movement terrorists led by Tremendor and his second-in-command, Monumentus, are capable of creating android duplicates of just about anyone, which are completely accurate to the point one can't tell the difference between the duplicate and the original by appearance alone.
- You and your spouse are attacked by an energy vampire, in full view of your adopted daughter. Or, as a parent, realizing your child has started messing with phasing through energy.
- Out of the Brain pods, one is mentioned as having volunteered to be made one, with the promise of benefits he apparently didn't receive...What are the odds of an evil emperor only accepting volunteers?
- Mira's Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique on an informant: she phases her hand into his head and puts her hand on his brain, threatening to pull it out or otherwise mess it up.
- The Shape Stealer from the episode of the same name. Its original form is a black cloak with glowing blue eyes. Anytime it possesses someone also counts. In the climax, it possesses Buzz of all people... and makes him blow up Star Command via the Combat Control Center.
- The Carebots in "Speed Trap." They pop out of nowhere, clean something, say their repetitive "Carebot is Online" and then disappear. And then when they turn out to be driven to freeze organic lifeforms because they consider them to be part of the mess. Even worse is they did so to their creators and trapped and stranded Buzz and his crew on a ship speeding right towards the Sun. Moreover, said ship is Made of Indestructium, as shown when it collided with a moon with enough force to make it explode... and kept going without so much as slowing down. It's feared that, if it were to collide with the sun, it'd cause a supernova.
- The Evil Buzz Lightyear and the Alternate Universe he created is nightmarish. Especially since it takes what would be The Ace and Big Good a la Buzz Lightyear in the main universe and simply turns him into an evil Omnicidal Maniac. The Evil Buzz reduced planet after planet into barren wastelands, killed billions including Mira and Booster's planets and family, destroyed Star Command and reduced Capitol Planet and its people to space dust, and took over Zurg's Evil Empire for himself. After coming into the main universe, he captures Good Buzz and nearly destroys Star Command again! In "Sunquake", Evil Buzz tried to use Gravitina to cause solar flares to roast the entire solar system. Had the series continued, it’s implied that since he survived by clinging to a piece of his destroyed base, he likely would’ve returned a third time to menace the Galactic Alliance!
