Being that this is the SEED series, Destiny has plentiful terrifying moments to go.
- The deaths in Destiny are no less terrifying than its prequel.
- A pilot of a Dagger L is shown getting the Impulse's combat knife slammed into his cockpit, decapitating him and spilling blood over the massive blade.
- Djibril gets a particularly fitting one. As he prepares to abandon his men on the Lunar base the same way he did at Heaven's Base, Rey Za Burrel bursts out of nowhere in the Legend and sends two sword DRAGOONS through the bridge of the Girty Lue and manages to hit Djibril in the face. It cuts to him
screaming in agony and terror as his body is ripped apart by the beams. - Meer's death is graphically pretty tame by comparison... unless you look at it from Lacus' point of view: imagine how it must feel to watch yourself bleed out in front of your eyes and listen to yourself beg for your forgiveness. A lesser mind could snap — Lacus only becomes even more determined.
- When Shinn's family gets killed, all he's able to find is his little sister Mayu's arm, ripped clean from her body.
- And then there's what the bodies themselves look like when he does see them.
- In Episode 12, Shinn defeats the Zamzah-Zah, then calls for the Sword Silhouette. Thus begins a rampage through the entire Alliance fleet, chopping up each and every ship one by one.
- He even does a second, similar, but no less brutal rampage against the ORB Fleet midway into the series. He ends up slicing through M1 Astrays, Murasames, and personnel like they're punks. Captain Todaka's POV just before his death is arguably the worst of it all, as the last thing he sees are the glowing eyes of the Sword Impulse.
- Before that, let's talk about the Zamza-Zah itself: A Mecha-crab the size of a naval cruiser that can crush a mobile suit in it's four claws, or fold them into Anti-ship energy cannons. It's pretty much designed to literally tear ships apart, at close-range or at a distance. Not to mention it starts the fight by No-Selling the Minerva's Wave-Motion Gun thanks to its positron reflector.
- Shinn Asuka himself is a frightening concept. The closest thing in-setting to being a match for The Ace Kira Yamato, Shinn is most definitely not a Technical Pacifist. Instead, due to the horrifying experience he has been through ever since the start of the series, the guy has become a frothing mad berserker who is driven by pretty much an unrelenting, undying hatred of everything and everyone he sees as opposed to him. So here is a psychotic, mentally and emotionally shattered warrior who favors a BFS designed for cleaving spaceships in half, who won't stop until he has brutally murdered everything in sight, and will gladly disobey orders in his need to kill. And this character not only has access to a Super Mode that basically makes him capable of outfighting anyone who doesn't have the same trait, but is also driving one of the deadliest mobile suits in the series for the majority of it. So basically, this series takes an orphan with incredibly serious issues, completely wrecks his mind and heart, puts him in an incredibly powerful Gundam that is specifically designed for destruction, and then turns him loose.
- When the Minerva crew finds the lab at Lodonia, where they train the Extendeds, complete with video recordings of the process used to make them, which actually causes Arthur to vomit.
- When Shinn and Rey first enter the place, Rey has a full biological and nervous breakdown. Later, when the teams sweep in and start exploring, they find both scientists and kids who haven't even entered puberty yet, all dead from infighting. Some of them were still in tubes when they were shot or stabbed. The last room is filled with brains, all stuffed into jars and jammed with probes, along with a computer detailing just what they did there. It's absolutely no wonder that poor Rey simply splintered.
- Mild example, yet counts in contextAt the end of Durandal's New Era Speech regarding the Destiny Plan, there are close ups of individual cast members' reactions to it, but the last one before Durandal's himself, is Lacus...sporting a very uncharacteristically furious scowl. We've seen Lacus pissed before, but subtly so. Here, she is undeniably MAD, and given she just learned everything about Meer, and all simply for Durandal's mad schemes, it just became personal for her.
- The Requiem superweapon. We've seen space-based super lasers in the SEED continuity and witnessed them in other continuities, but this one showed how it could be used on civilians as Djibril used it to try to destroy Aprilus but succeeded in six other colonies instead, killing over a million Coordinators. When Durandal gets a hold of it, after obliterating the Earth Alliance's space base, he plotted to obliterate ORB from the face of the Earth with it.
