Nightmare Fuel / Primal (2019)

Kill, or be killed.

Primal (2019) is set in a Death World full of Prehistoric Monsters, so expect a whole fuckton of nightmarish moments.

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Season 1

Spear and Fang

• In the first five minutes of the very first episode, Spear's wife and children get eaten by a pack of terrifying-looking horned tyrannosaurs. Made even worse with how one of his children is eaten; the tyrannosaur tosses them in the air, and you can see the terror in their eyes (the only distinct part of them visible) before the jaws crunch down.
• The entire intense encounter at Fang's nesting grounds. Spear could have almost gone on an implied rage induced 'infanticide' on Fang's younglings before witnessing the parallels and seeing the real killers of his family. The Horned Tyrannosaurs enter and begin their assault. And as the image seen above demonstrates, it only gets worse from there with Fang's babies being killed despite her best efforts and both the Tyrannosaurus and Spear almost dying before they turn the tide and graphically tear every single one of their foes into bloody piles of gore.
• Something needs to be said about this episode: for as violent as this one episode is, with Spear and Fang's families being eaten alive by the horned tyrannosaurs and the predators themselves being graphically killed in turn, it's only a small taste of what's to come. If one was turned off of the series just by the first showing of violence here, then they hadn't seen anything yet.

River of Snakes

• In the second episode, Spear's brief relapse of his family's death at the jaws of the horned tyrannosaurs causes him to give an intense Death Glare at Fang. His rage is so strong it actually wakes her up. She gives as good as she gets with a low, threatening growl and a threat display right back at him.
  • This of course leads into a battle between the two later in the episode when at various times it appears as if they are actually trying to kill one another for dominance. At one point Spear is in Fang's mouth as she appears to try and crush him in her jaws.
  • Some of the furious faces Spear makes during the fight look absolutely terrifying. In his rage he looks a lot more, well, primal than usual.
• The wall of snakes in the second episode. Both Spear and Fang have visible oh crap reactions and slowly back away before fleeing for their lives. Only for the flood to hit and send those snakes right at them.

A Cold Death

• The grueling bout in the third episode. The pack of enraged wooly mammoths manage to track Fang and Spear to a cave and nearly collapse it on them. As the caveman and the dinosaur get out of the collapsing cave, the mammoths proceed to give a literal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to the duo. And, the nail biting moment comes when two mammoths pin Fang between them and start crushing her slowly and painfully near death. All as she desperately struggles and frantically claws at one of her attackers.

Terror Under the Blood Moon

• The huge megalith Spear and Fang come across at the beginning, a towering slab of rock with the visage of huge ghastly skulls carved into it. One gets the feeling it was meant to serve as a warning...
• The giant bats that pursue Spear and Fang, as well as terrorizing the ape-men. Though easily summed up as "bats" they look far more like classical demons, with human-like anatomy, skull-shaped heads, blood-red skin and glowing green eyes. Coupled with the strength to carry even Fang into the air, they feel far more like supernatural horrors than anything naturally evolved.
• The giant spider that commands the bats would give an arachnophobe nightmares. It's bigger than Fang (who is a Tyrannosaurus Rex) and creepy-looking, and its death actually causes the bats to chase Spear and Fang out of revenge.

Rage of the Ape-Men

• Krog, the ape-man drinks a drop of the magic potion that turns him into a giant ape-monster, then initiates an extremely one-sided Curb-Stomp Battle towards Fang. Fang gives it her all, but has no chance against Krog, who appears to kill her. The very fact and plausibility that Fang might actually be dead is a nightmare (to both Spear and the audience) in itself.
  • A tiny, but chilling moment: when Krog chooses Fang as his opponent and prepares to drink the Super Serum, he licks his lips with a hungry look in his eyes. It can be interpreted as lust for the potion - or as lust for Fang's blood.
• When Spear Hulks Out and unleashes his Unstoppable Rage on the ape-men after they seemingly kill Fang, we get what is easily the most blood-soaked and violent fight scene in a series full of such scenes. He essentially commits genocide on the ape-men, sparing none at all even after they try to flee.
  • It's not just the sheer rage and strength that's frightening, but the fact that the Super Serum takes creatures to levels of ferocity beyond that of other creatures, an unnatural, hideous form of instant evolution. Spear hasn't just become a beast, he's become an actual MONSTER, one who kills, smashes, rips, tears, breaks and destroys everything that moves, not for survival, but out of pure, blistering hate. He doesn't eat any of the apes. All he can think of is killing. An unnatural form of life that would obliterate all others if it had the chance. It's fortunate for this world that the effect is temporary.
• This almost certainly isn't the ape-men's first rodeo. They have the skulls of a Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, and an elephant to use as helmets for their champions (Krog chooses the Triceratops). The implication that they've killed such formidable giant beasts before establishes the threat that they pose.

Scent of Prey

• While Spear carries the injured Fang, they're relentlessly followed by a silent but menacing wild dog, staring at them with glowing red eyes, waiting for a moment when it can strike. Then more and more dogs show up, until there's a pack of hundreds of dogs surrounding the duo.
• As Spear sleeps in a cave, he wakes up to a large bug crawling on his body. As he sweeps it off, another one shows up. Then he realizes that both he and Fang are attacked by a whole swarm of these bugs that crawl all over their bodies.

Plague of Madness

• Even by the standards of Primal, "Plague of Madness" is practically non-stop nightmare fuel; there's a reason why so many people say that this is the darkest episode of the series. Enjoy that little montage of the sauropods living their lives in the first few minutes--it's the only pleasant scene in the entire episode.
• The plague infected Argentinosaurus. A mutated monster that wouldn't look out of place on a Nurglite Daemon World: zombie green with red eyes, torn lips, and seems to be in agony just by existing. Its own flesh appears to be covered in sores while rotting/melting off of its still-living body, and we get to see a lovely Gross-Up Close-Up of that when Spear and Fang sneak past it at one point. Horrific to look at, and nigh-impossible to stop. Spear and Fang for the first time have to just Run or Die, because nothing they try could possibly put it down and this is the first instance of an Advancing Boss of Doom in the show being played straight since Spear and Fang have no hope of killing the zombie Argentinosaurs on their own.
• The plague itself is terrifying, especially in how fast it works. The Argentinosaurus is bitten by the infected hadrosaur, casually kills it, inspects its wound, and then it's immediately starting to show symptoms. This goes from zero to a hundred between shots as it first appears to have just acquired a lethargic gait and then suddenly it's green, rotting, and violently vomiting blood before the disease completely takes over. Even worse, we don't know what caused the plague in the first place and we never find out.
  • When the infected Parasaurolophus gets killed by the Argentinosaurus it bit, its eyes morph into a normal-looking one. This suggests the plague may be something more than just a disease.
  • For a show that unashamedly embraces the inaccuracies of its Hollywood Prehistory setting, the depiction of the titular disease is disturbingly realistic, aside from how quickly it progresses. The infected Parasaurolophus and Argentinosaurus act less like reanimated zombies driven by an unnatural will and more like delirious, terrified animals, and the first sign the disease is affecting the brain isn't an inexplicable desire to bite someone - it's severe dehydration, which drives the Argentinosaurus to obsessively gulp down water at an oasis, likely dooming the next animal to drink there...
• The sheer massacre inflicted on the sauropod herd by the infected one. Special mention should go to the very last one that's killed—it doesn't even try to fight, it's running away but can't move fast enough. The plague monster catches up and body-slams it from the side, and it gives a bloodcurdling scream of terror as it's sent flying into a spiky tree and is impaled on it. The plague monster stops and just stands there panting for a while. Enter Spear and Fang, stage left....
  • The way the infected sauropod mutilates a corpse despite that one already being dead. It's practically using it as a punching bag, repeatedly stomping on its intestines. This suggests that it isn't just killing out of madness, it's just straight-up violent out of madness.
• Spear's reaction also bears note. He's shown fear in the last episodes, but only for brief moments; otherwise we're talking about a caveman that charged at giant tyrannosaurs and flocks of monster bats with only a mere blade on a stick. Here? He is fucking terrified throughout the entire episode. O.O.C. Is Serious Business indeed.
• Spear and Fang coming across the slaughtered Argentinosaurus herd. Upon seeing the carnage, the duo can immediately tell something is wrong. The Argentinosauruses clearly died violently and recently, and as far as they can infer, from something at least as big as them and definitely bigger than Fang, something that unnerves them even before they approach the corpses. And whatever it was, it didn't kill them for food. When Fang approaches one of the carcasses, expecting a free meal, she immediately recoils in disgust at the stench. She clearly senses that something is wrong here.
  • Not just Fang. Normally, flies would be all over corpses like this and you would expect there to be a literal all-you-can-eat buffet of decomposers and scavengers coming far and wide to taste the dead Argentinosaurs, but here? Literally the only living things in the vicinity of the bodies are Spear, Fang, and the Plague Monster. Even flies, which carry diseases with almost no issue, know something is just wrong with the bodies and stay the hell away. While this does soothe the fears of continued infection through consumption of infected material, it begs the question; How unnatural is the Plague that not even bugs known to transmit diseases effortlessly want anything to do with it ?
  • The infected Argentinosaurus wakes up behind Spear and Fang as they stand there in shocked horror, clearly wondering what could have caused all this carnage of what are clearly some of the biggest animals in the world. They don't notice the monster until they hear it dripping behind them, and the camera pans up to show us the zombie dinosaur about to embark on its next rampage, looming high above them and cast in shadow with demon-like red eyes, and then it roars right at the camera, and at us! About thirty seconds later, we also get our first look at a particular bit of animation that's reused a few more times in the episode, but the sheer intimidating malevolence on the sauropod's face as it charges straight at the camera, plowing through gigantic trees like they're not there, completely makes up for it.
• Spear's Nightmare Sequence where he and Fang get bitten by the Argentinosaurus and contract its plague. We're shown images of our protagonists having their flesh melting off their bones...
  • Not to mention just how gruesome those bites are, given the size of the Argentinosaurus' jaws. It bites such a huge chunk off Spear's torso that it almost cuts him in half.
• The tension of the scene immediately after the nightmare sequence. Spear and Fang wake up and look down at the canyon floor below them—the sauropod is apparently still dead, or at least unconscious, and they start sneaking past it. You'll be expecting a jump scare basically every time the camera cuts as they finally walk past the titanic zombified body of the thing. It looks like they're in the clear as they fully start walking away from it, but then it wakes up....
• There's a couple of scenes in this episode where Spear goes through near-death situations. During the first encounter of the Argentinosaurus in the forest chase, Spear was almost trampled underfoot by the beast while jumping over fallen trees. In the second chase, there's one moment where Spear look behind himself to see boulders getting launched onto him but he luckily dodges most of them... except a smaller one that struck the side of his head, making him briefly bleed. He rolls and tumbles for a bit but jumps out of way from the Argentinosaurus' foot that could've easily crushed him.
• As Spear and Fang are running away from the Argentinosaurus for the second time in the crevice, the diseased monstrosity can be seen slowly approaching in the background by the second and it's gaining on them. That alone is truly terrifying to look at considering how enormous it is just to have it peek around at the corner. It brings a whole a new meaning to the phrase "rearing its ugly head".
• The infected Argentinosaurus appears to die when it lands into lava and gets fully submerged. Nope. If anything, the burning from the lava drives it even crazier as its neck suddenly bursts out of the lava, with its skin turned from a sickly green to an equally disgusting burned-flesh red, and it continues the attack, even submerging and surfacing from the lava rock just to attack our heroes!
  • Even worse, at one point Spear sees, through a hole in its flesh, that past its skeleton, there is nothing there. No organs, no muscle. Just empty space. The infected Sauropod is both literally and figuratively a shell of its former self. Spear's expression of confused horror says it all.
• As Spear and Fang are running away from the plague monster, Spear nearly falls into a small open lava pit, but Fang saves him.
• The infected Argentinosaurus' death after it falls into lava a second time and fails to escape is no slouch either. We get to see a close up of its rotting flesh burn off of its leg bones before said bones break apart and the whole thing catches fire - and the poor thing is screaming the entire time. It's not until it slumps forward and turns to ash that it truly dies. Even in its last moments, the Argentinosaurus is in absolute, horrifying agony, with both Spear and Fang only able to watch as it's finally released from its suffering. It's as mortifying as it is tragic.

Coven of the Damned

• The episode opens in a dark forest as Spear and Fang see a pillar of ominous green light in the distance. They approach it and find that some kind of sacrificial ritual is being conducted by a group of creepy horned witches with Nightmare Faces that resemble the Morlocks' from The Time Machine (1960). Another caveman is tied to the altar, painted with green symbols, and is screaming in terror. The apparent leader of the witches arrives on a toothy Pteranodon and transforms into a huge black and green monstrosity with more than a passing resemblance to Aku or the Beast and proceeds to shove a magical snake down the caveman's throat. It hangs around there for a bit before returning to the witch, and as it does, the caveman immediately dries up into a desiccated corpse and his head falls off. And what happened to the snake? It transforms into a human baby. The ritual is a twisted form of procreation. What a way to introduce the first real humans in the series after Spear and his family....
  • Oh, and the matriarch? She has a distinctly inhuman air to her. For one, most of her screentime suggests that, except for her glowing-green eyes, she doesn't have a face. By the end of the episode, though, we see that she does.
• After the witches learn that Spear and Fang are watching their ritual, they chase them into the forest. Spear seemingly kills a lot of them (they keep evaporating into green magical mist) but they won't let up, and he becomes separated from Fang. Fang is attacked by another witch, who hits her with some kind of spell that takes over her mind, leading to Spear's capture. He wakes up the next day to find himself tied to the altar, unable to free himself and can only wait for his doom.
• After seeing the spell that she's put on Fang weaken in response to Spear yelling to her, Lula (the witch who cast the spell) uses her magic to time travel and visit Fang's past as an observer, watching the fight from the first episode as the horned alpha tyrannosaur eats her offspring. Then she goes back to see Spear's past, watching him introduce one of his newborn children to the world before flashing-forward to the day the horned tyrannosaurs ate his family. And then she travels to one more place in the past: her own. We see that Lula was given a baby by the leader of the witches, the result of one of their rituals, and she raised this child as her own daughter. Flash-forward a few years and the two of them are walking through a field of flowers. Suddenly, the little girl screams, and Lula finds that she's fallen off a ledge at the end of the field to her death.
• In the end, not unlike the Argentinosaurus in the previous episode, it turns out that the Coven of the Damned is one enemy that even Spear and Fang can't fight. As the witch who ended up helping them does a Heroic Sacrifice by fighting the matriarch, all they can do is run away.

The Night Feeder

• Just the way Fang reacts to the smilodon's corpse... Or what's left of it, anyway. She looks really agitated and it's obvious that she wants nothing more than to get as far away from it as she can. To see such a force of nature acting like that is unsettling, to say the least.
  • Fang basically reiterates this later as the Night Feeder is attacking the ceratopsians, detailed below. Spear and Fang hear the commotion and Spear gets up, running and roaring to kill whatever is doing this, but then Fang blocks his path and roars at him, refusing to let him leave the safety of their campfire as if she's saying "NO. STOP. We are not doing this." This is coming from a tyrannosaurus which up to now has only refused to engage with what amounted to a zombie kaiju.
• The titular beast itself, especially when it starts on a herd of Ceratopsian dinosaurs. It doesn't stop at one. It doesn't stop at two. It keeps killing and killing, even when the herbivores are fleeing in fear. It just keeps going. It wasn't hunting for food, since one kill would fill its belly and anything beyond that would just be rotting meat. It wasn't hunting to scare them away from its territory, or it would have stopped once they fled. It killed all of them, one by one, because it simply enjoyed killing, and the Ceratopsians had no means by which to stop it. The Night Feeder wasn't a predator, it was a psychopath.
  • Up until this episode, the tone of the series has largely been that of an (extremely dark and violent) action cartoon. But once the Night Feeder gets involved, it shifts to outright horror. Neither the audience nor Spear and Fang ever get a good look at the monster, which only serves to make it more terrifying. It can massacre entire herds of dinosaurs with ease, and Fang, a Tyrannosaurus rex, is afraid to confront it. Nothing Is Scarier, indeed.
• Spear realizing he is at the Night Feeder's mercy after recovering from its shriek, all he can do is search for his spear on the ground and randomly flailing it as Fang watches in horror as she is too far to save him. If it wasn't for the spark from his spear striking the ground Spear would have been butchered.

Slave of the Scorpion

• Nature is a fearsome foe. But ultimately, the most fearsome enemy of mankind is itself. This episode introduces a more advanced society to the Primalverse. And while Mira herself is unambiguously benevolent, human cruelty follows close after. Strong warriors who enslave and torment the weak... not for survival or insanity like the other threats seen, but to sate their own greed and sense of conquest. Humanity evolves. But evil evolves along with it.

Season 2

Sea of Despair

• When Spear dives into the ocean to look for food, he finds...nothing. Just empty, bottomless ocean, as far as he can see. Thalassaphobic viewers would be advised to look away.
• Once Spear and Fang do make it to an inhabited part of the ocean, their situation does not improve. The Archelon they face is pretty menacing, but they manage to kill it. Then they are set upon by a flock of vicious pterosaurs. Then, finally, a freaking Megalodon shows up to destroy their raft.
• During the night, Spear and Fang find themselves amid a pod of whales. Although the creatures are harmless, they have no way of knowing this, and suddenly being surrounded by gigantic monsters that spout jets of water and emit eerie cries terrifies them almost more than anything else they see on the water.
• The megalodon successfully devours Spear. The only reason why he survives is because he's so small that the predator's teeth miss him.
  • Most paleontologists know that a Megalodon's jaws are wide enough for an adult human to be Swallowed Whole without getting punctured by the teeth. Really, Spear was only saved because of that fact. If it were Fang instead...

Shadow of Fate

• Red goes from an endearing, rather goofy mate for Fang to an eerie mirror of the horned tyrannosaurs in seconds as he begins slaughtering the human guards.
  • Him deviously targeting the Celtics was so gruesomely sudden and quick that even Fang looked perplexed from what she's seeing. Red had gone fully rogue - a man-eater with no fear whatsoever of humans - and even Fang didn't understand this utterly alien mindset. To kill in battle and eat the corpses as prizes was one thing. To hunt humans as prey was beyond Fang — at first. He very, very nearly turned her rogue as well...
• Some of the Celtic warriors' deaths are nothing short of brutal. Red attacks the first one by biting the upper half of his body and tosses his body, having it splattered across the concrete wall. Another one gets his head chewed off by Red. One of them tries to make a run for it only to have his back held down by Fang while Red ends his life by decapitating him with his jaws.
• Red's complete lack of fear of humans showed in his savage fighting style, something Spear was not prepared for. His battle with the tyrannosaur quickly turned into a Curb-Stomp Battle... the same Spear that had taken down many, many predatory beasts over the course of the series. Red administers a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on Spear, identifying and attacking his every weak point. He finally finished it off with a raptor-like slash of claws across Spear's back - something that actually made Spear scream in pain. He was prepared to administer the killing bite, drooling over Spear, before Fang finally caught up and intervened to save her friend.

Dawn of Man

• The long gone tribe. Given how they clearly live within the raiders' territory, did they simply disappear with time or were they too victims of the raids?
• An unseen creature is heard growling towards the end. Stock big cat growls and roars can be used for anything in this show, leaving it completely open as to what it is. The slaves' only line of defense is Spear.

The Red Mist

• Throughout the fight there's a growing sense of dread, as the villagers continue to pile on our protagonists who become very clearly more and more angry. Moments where their rage could have broken (like Spear's shock at accidentally killing Rikka's son or their attempt to escape into the mist blocked by a cliff face) are undermined with repeated attacks until they snap and the villagers goes fully from evil slavers to helpless victims. As the red mist descends, both literally and figuratively, the scene becomes a nightmarish mirror of the first episode with characters represented only as silhouettes. The parallel is clear with Spear and Fang in the eyes of this tribe becoming mirror images of the horned tyrannosaurs.

The Primal Theory

• Everything about the Madman. For starters, he looks more like some kind of ogre than a human being (right down to fangs, sickly pale greyish skin, and Glowing Eyes of Doom), and his entire invasion of the Historical Society's manor and systematic slaughter of its members plays out like the most horrifying kind of slasher flick. He's also a borderline-unstoppable juggernaut of destruction, shrugging off the impact of bullets, arrows, and hurled furniture as if they're absolutely nothing. Oh, and did we mention that he eats people? Not only that, but he appears to take a great deal of pleasure in doing so. He's only defeated when Lord Darlington matches his primal energy and, after a tense physical brawl between the two, impales him through the head with the splintered shaft of his improvised spear.

Vidarr

• In the chieftain’s dream, the image of a demonic figure appears out of the campfire. Its only distinct features are its large horns and glowing eyes. Given the resemblance to Mira’s drawing from “Slave of the Scorpion”, this means the Scorpion isn’t a mere Viking but something else entirely. Just what the hell is it?
  • For that matter, the Scorpion has an uncanny resemblance to the matriarch of the Coven of the Damned, one of the only enemies Spear and Fang have faced that they couldn't and didn't defeat. And they're probably gonna have to actually fight this guy....
• No detail is spared when Spear throws the Chieftain from his mount, he crashes through several branches, slams into a tree trunk, and ends the crash with his head smashed against a boulder. Oh, and he survives this, which makes one wonder just what kind of man Spear and Fang have been unfortunate enough to incur the wrath of...

The Colossaeus, Part I

• The chieftain, dying on a rock, is dragged down to Hel, where he finds the souls of his fallen comrades adrift in the magma. With nowhere else to go, he approaches a mysterious dimensional door, where he finally encounters the entity he saw in the fire, in all his terrifying glory. A colossal demon, easily the size of the Argentinosaurus, while sitting down. Bathed in shadow, eyes burning with malevolent flame, the entity offers the chieftain one final chance for vengeance, showing him his son Eldar tormented in the magma, while Spear and Fang yet live. The chieftain kneels before the monster. A bargain has clearly been struck. And the chieftain, after burning in hellish agony, arises in the form of a pitch-black humanoid, his body wrapped in fire. So great was his lust for vengeance that he cast away all that remained of his humanity, becoming a demon. Only rage and a ravenous hatred remains.
• In the fight with the giant, one of Fang's eggs is knocked free and smashes against the side of the both. We see a partially formed fetus slowly slide down the wood.
• Spear and Fang, trapped and coerced, are turned loosed upon an army defending its home from invaders. What follows is a stark demonstration of just how deadly they are as they once again slaughter their way through their human opponents with brutal ease. The defenders are able to hold the line against the invaders, but these two? They breach the walls with almost disturbing ease.
• Ima, the Egyptian Queen is one of the more vile characters with almost no redeeming qualities. She has no qualms about holding children hostage when it comes to getting what she wants and she's never satisfied. Spear and Fang are coerced by the Queen holding Fang's eggs hostage.

The Colossaeus, Part II

• The scene with the peaceful South Indians Expies is unadulterated Nightmare Fuel. They attempt to appease the Egyptian High Priestess/Queen with generous offerings and submission, but she wants more then just supplies - she wants blood sacrifices, and orders Kamau to execute them all on pain of his OWN daughter's death. It's obvious he doesn't want to do it, but then his eyes turn cold, and the Ludicrous Gibs begin to fly. Despite Kamau's ice-cold demeanor, you see a periodic Smash Cut that shows that even he, with his blood-soaked visage, is horrified by this atrocity. It's such a sadistic act that even Fang roars and walks away in complete disgust.

The Colossaeus, Part III

• Ima demonstrates that when pushed to her breaking point, she absolutely Would Hurt a Child, as she was ready to cut Amal down just to spite Kamau and the rebelling slaves.
• Conversely, Kamau has no compunction, once his daughter is safe and his tribesmen freed, to spare Ima. After everything she's put him through and forced him to commit atrocity upon atrocity, he goes right for the kill. How? By throwing her off the main deck of her own ship and sending her crashing through the roof of the smaller ship Spear and co. were on. And in doing so, she thoroughly subverts Disney Villain Death as we're shown the grisly image of her body lying in a pool of her own blood, limbs bent in all the wrong ways and even splintered bone perforating the skin. Graphic? Yes. Well-deserved? Abso. fucking. lutely.
• Just when things started to look up, for both Spear's group as well as Kamau's tribe, the newly-freed people see a plume of smoke on the horizon and a blazing fire getting closer and closer. The Chieftain, the walking disaster that he's become, is closing in on his prey and he's not going to stop for anything, not the least including innocent people getting in his way...

Echoes of Eternity

• When the episode begins, Spear has a nightmare, which is a flashback to his childhood. As a child, he had to watch his father and his tribe be attacked by a pack of Saber-toothed tigers. His father was the only one killed. When he died, Spear snapped and killed the remaining three tigers on his own.
• The Viking Chieftain's new form causes Spear and Fang to visibly hesitate. Here is a Humanoid Abomination, made of lava and able to set fire to things just by touching them. His opening move is to slam a sword he made with his new powers into the ground, causing volcanic eruptions that knock Fang to the ground. This is followed by a massive flamethrower that Spear and Fang just narrowly manage to dodge! Clearly out of their depth, Spear and Fang make a run for it.
• The Viking Chieftain's final fate is horrifying. After he loses his empowerment following him inflicting a mortal injury on Spear, the demon's giant hand emerges from the ground without warning and drags him back to his realm, a result that was implied to happen regardless of whether or not the Chieftain accomplished his mission of vengeance which makes it so much worse.
• The empowered Chieftain, in the end, manages to do what various vicious prehistoric monsters (both natural and unnatural), a tribe of ape-men, the Plague Monster, the Coven of the Damned, the Night Feeder, an entire tribe of Vikings, and several literal armies couldn't do: he kills Spear. And not in any noble way, either; he covers Spear in a torrent of flames that results in the caveman's body becoming nothing but horrific burn wounds and scar tissue from top to bottom. While we're not shown Spear passing away on-screen, that he could possibly live in such a state is arguably much worse, as he's most likely capable of feeling only immense pain or nothing at all from having his nerve endings burned away.

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