Nightmare Fuel / Sandman Mystery Theatre

• Many of the prophetic dreams Wesley and later Dian have are literal examples of this.
  • During "The Crone," Dian has a dream about an old woman who begins jamming torn paper into her mouth until her stomach grotesquely bulges. It ends with said woman strapped to a bed as a doctor slices her open and pulls an entrails-covered book out of her stomach.
• "The Tarantula" pulls no punches as the opening arc showing just how brutal and horrible the villains can be. Dian's friend Catherine spends days, if not weeks, being held captive and tortured when she's not forced to watch other women being murdered to make her more cooperative.
• "The Phantom Of The Fair" arc is one of the most brutal stories in the entire series, given the killer dresses in a leather gimp suit and preys on unsuspecting gay men whom he brutally tortures before castrating and killing. Wesley later discovers he keeps their severed penises preserved in jars. One of the victims is Wesley's good college friend, Robert Ling, and this breaks Wesley into a sobbing mess in Dian's arms. The killer also has some severe Daddy Issues, hearing his father's voice coming from his mask when he's not wearing it. The last issue blatantly implies Gerald Zimmerman (the Phantom) was either in an incestuous relationship with his cousin when he was younger, or his cousin raped him. When his father found out he beat Gerald, but would then dress up in that very same gimp suit and would make Gerald have sex with his cousin while he watched.
  • The issues implied Gerald eventually murdered his father and is keeping his corpse preserved in formaldehyde somewhere in his apartment.
• Wesley's breakdown in "The Goblin" due to a head injury, which leaves him walking around asleep yet wide awake and in constant Sandman mode. When Dian is able to get through to him, it's implied half of what happened was due to Wesley's guilt over Dian aborting their unborn child.

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