Nightmare Fuel / The Bad Guys

• The Bad Guys (2022)

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• The Bad Guys list of crimes on their files. They’re pretty horrifying.
  • Snake even has one where he breaks into a store. Not only does he eat all the animals there, he tried to eat Mr Ho (the owner) and everyone who tried to stop him.
• When they try to save the cat. The pointy teeth they show when they try to smile make it ver disturbing. No wonder the cat go scared.
• Pretty much Marmalade in general. His first appearance is the end of Book 2, where he laughs like a maniac and vows revenge on the Bad Guys after they leave.
  • Then it’s revealed that he’s a hideous alien, with butt hands and slime covering his body.
  • But even as a Guinea pig he is scary
• The zombie kitten (or Zitten) apocalypse. Even cute animals can be scary, and it’s not even limited dot just kittens!
• Book 5. Wolf nearly dies from running out of air in his spacesuit, which is a pretty horrible way to die, if he actually did.
• Book 6, where we get to see more of Marmalade’s hideousness, and the fact that there’s more of them! Planning to take over planet Earth!
• The start of Book 7, where Fox gets incinerated by an alien cannon. Luckily the Bad Guys time travel back into the moment before Fox gets incinerated, pushing her out of the way.
  • The dinosaurs in the episode itself are mildly scary.
  • Also, when they travel back the present, the figures affected by the button Pirahna accidentally pressed look kind of horrifying and disturbing.
• Wolf’s rampage in Book 9, where he is brainwashed and terrifying. He’s called the Big Bad Wolf for a reason.
• When Snake emerges from the shadows a Deus ex Machina to save everyone, one can’t help but notice how shadowy and evil he looks, which foreshadows his Start of Darkness in the second arc.
• The second arc is a lot darker, so it gets even worse.
• DREAD OVERLORD SPLAARGHON! The freaking centipede! He is terrifying!
  • First off, he is the Bad Guys equivalent of Satan. There’s a deafening guitar riff ever time someone says his name, which discourages others from saying it. Not only that, the people who say his name (and surrounding people) see a brief, but terrifying vision of the centipede, enough to send shivers down anyone’s spine.
  • He. Is. HUGE! At the end of Book 18, when Wolf confronts him and says that he’s not that big, the centipede grows and grows and eventually, Wolf is just a tiny dot in comparison.
  • Before then, in Book 17, we get to see Splaarghön in full view for the first time. And then, without saying a word, he crushes Fox to death before slipping away into the crowd. His face when he does it is outright demonic.
  • Just how easy it is for him to find corrupt someone. With Snake and Shaard, all it takes for him is to manipulate and tip them over the edge. And for the Good Guys, just some bass riff.
  • In Book 11, we don’t actually see him yet, but all we get if him is an ominous voice in Snake’s head, along with dialogue whose text appears as if the pages were filled with stained blood.
• Each of the Underlords, and their universes, are terrifying in their own right.
  • Shaard is a giant demon with covered with spikes and blades all over his body. And his universe is filled with incredibly deadly spikes. Had it not been for unknown intervention, all the characters would have been impaled.
    • Later on, had Kitty Kat not been suspicious of the unguarded doorway, they would’ve all had a serious jump scare.
  • Then there’s Queen Bee Onsaay, especially with her whole horde of bees. Anyone with fear of insects will understand.
  • Drillaargh is and absolutely deranged, sadistic maniac, whose teeth are enough to scare young viewers. Not only that, his universe is particularly macabre, with oversized drills, ‘flossing’… EVERYTHING! And not to mention, a giant sentient tooth as well. In fact, his book marks the start where things begin to get darker, as Wolf notes.
  • Esmeralda Ghaastly. As Abe describes her, she brings bad luck, bad moods, and even hair. That should say enough. But if one needed something extra terrifying, then she has a box that whoever opens and looks inside, they immediately die of fright. Let that sink in.
  • Eaar is just a hideous combination of ears put together. He is literally ‘all ears’!
    • His dimension (and Book 17 itself) is no better. The ‘spectators’ are all deranged, oversized worms. Their faces are outright demonic, and the fact that there are plenty of those faces just make it scarier.
  • In the games itself, the bass being played while trying to ‘corrupt’ the remaining A Team is nearly deafening, and the floor seems to open up and consume them as they run. And engulf them with lava.
• Then there’s Snake himself. He has fallen so far deep since Book 11 that he can be ouright sociopathic at times.
  • From Book 15 onwards, we barely, if ever see anymore of Snake’s humanity. Remember in Books 12 and 13, where Snake says that he wants to protect Wolf but can’t due to his now loyalty to the Underlords? Well, the Snake from Book 15 is apathetic and purely callous, even towards Wolf, his former best friend. His expressions, his gleeful smile, say it all.
  • The Nightmare Realm; (presumably) Snake’s own dimension. First of all, it’s an eerie, pure white and empty space that seemingly stretches on forever. Then huge figures pop up and jump scare you, seemingly trying to kill you before abruptly disappearing.