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  • While the Weeping Angels mod eventually turned to hilarity, the Angels' initial pursuit of Simon was pretty creepy.
    Simon: Hello, Lewis! I've made a Minecraft video!
    Lewis: Hello!
    Simon: Do you know what it's about?
    Lewis: Oh... What's that, over there?
    Simon: Did you see that?
    Lewis: What's that over there...
  • The Helicopter mod spotlight has an earlier segment where Lewis is set up for execution. Thanks to the Pincushion mod, he has tons of arrows sticking out of him that don't disappear.
  • Lewis seems to have turned evil in their Yoglabs series, and offhandedly mentions doing horrible things like chopping up dragons for food and shooting Testificate_MD since the doctor wouldn't let him renew his combat license. Then there's Dr. Srivaramen, who's covered in blood the entire time and has a giant pet mutant zombie named Bort, who he treats like a dog as he asks if it wants any Testificate children to eat.
    • In earlier Yoglabs episodes, Lewis was often in Suspiciously Specific Denial, claiming that they 'aren't evil or anything', until the Fuerellos' Guns Mod, where he makes Simon join him as he massacres several government agents within Yoglabs who had shut it down, then fully admits that Yoglabs is evil. And he does it in such a nonchalant way it's creepy.
  • The basilisk attack in "Girlfriend Island". They just suddenly turn up and start killing everything, yet Lewis and Simon have captured them and are bringing them back to the main lab for cloning.
  • The Soul Absorbers and Clone Lab Wham Episodes:
    • Two Yoglab employees betray Lewis and Simon and plan to make their deaths permanent. Our heroes try to stop them, but the real Simon is killed, forcing the clone we've been following to sacrifice himself and his memories to replace him, allowing respawning to continue.
      • Simon's death is genuinely disturbing, in that he screams and screams and screams, and his corpse doesn't evaporate but continues to lie on the floor.
      Simon: ...That was the most horrifying thing I've ever seen.
    • This revelation makes a lot of Simon's mishaps much Harsher in Hindsight. Every clone of his that died is gone. They're all the same hilarious, fun-loving, hole-digging, Jaffa-munching guy we know and love. And there is no shortage of ways they've died.
    • The very end of that episode as well, starting from Simon's "Hang on...is that a ro—?". It then zooms in on the robot in question, which has the sign "Nothing Lives Forever" on it. As if we weren't worried enough for Simon before... (and worried about how evil Lewis has been acting)
    • 'Lalnibal Hector' deserves a mention as well. A bad clone of Lalna, who's killed more testificates than Simon, and is now locked up in Yoglabs. According to Lewis, he escaped once. If this is a bad clone of someone who already likes exploding things with nukes, who knows how evil Lalnibal Hector really can be?
      • Not much better is the fan-theory that there's nothing wrong with "Lalnable Hector" at all, and that Lewis is keeping him imprisoned in order to (ab)use Duncan's inherent creativity. After all, we only have Lewis' word that he's evil, and Lewis is hardly a paragon of virtue himself.
  • In the aptly-named Midas Touch episode, Lewis and Simon have been using replacers, which replaces any block of material with another material. Out of curiosity, Simon replaces the floor with bacteria.... which spreads and devours the world before being stopped.
  • In these episodes of YogLabs, Lewis is about to remove the hard drive containing the data for the YogDonalds Simon is in (long story). Simon glances upwards and sees Israphel himself glaring down at him right before the hard drive is removed. When Simon's screen returns to normal, Israphel is gone.
    • Two more points from those episodes. One: Lewis completely controls Simon's brain functions. We see multiple times that he has a control panel that simply hacks Simon's brain which he has demonstrated can mentally change Simon's age backwards, at least. We also see and hear of him programming in false memories and giving multiple Simon clones the same exact belief that they are the real Simon. Now, while we know Lewis is Simon's friend and he wouldn't use this technology for irresponsible purposes... although he is hovering close to the Moral Event Horizon... the fact remains that Lewis could simply tell Simon to stop breathing. Two: that vision of Israphel that Simon saw? He wasn't wearing his usual dark robe/cloak. He's wearing Lewis' clothing.
    • Lewis is eerily calm about the fact that he can trap Simon within a hard drive.
    • Now that you think about it, the fact doesn't act like he does in the labs could kinda point to him actually being Israphel in disguise which could explain everything above. Hmmmm, maybe that explains why is calm at even the scariest times. And even if Simon were to eventually catch on, there's nothing stopping Israphel wiping his memory, killing him by stopping his heart, torturing him and other malicious things. With Simon unable to do anything about it. If Israphel hasn't crossed the Moral Event Horizon yet, he has now or soon will.
    • And there's the simple fact that Simon has been the guinea pig for many experiments over Yoglab's run. Which just adds to the Fridge Horror.
  • The episode "Block Gun Mod" has Lewis seemingly cross the Moral Event Horizon by trying to order Simon to destroy a real, non-simulated Testificate village with TNT-firing weaponry. This is an act so horrendous that Simon tries rebelling against Lewis, angrily destroying what appears to be their base, then trying to free some trapped commandos, only to kill most of them and himself in the effort. To top this off, Simon's twenty-ninth clone doesn't remember just what happened.
  • Cooking With Simon seems pretty cute at first...until you find out what thy were actually making. And remember that Simon ate one of the sandwiches.
  • Everything about the Teletubbies episode. For one thing, the episode starts with one of the Simon clones waking up in his own grave outside of Yoglabs (and a Freeze-Frame Bonus reveals that this particular one is Simon Clone #8937; remember, seven episodes ago they were on clone number 29). Then Lewis heavily implies that Yoglabs has bought the right to Teletubbies, and is using it to transmit subliminal brainwashing to children around the world, as part of yet another vaguely defined evil scheme. THEN, we have Lewis becoming increasingly angry as Simon fails to eat the custard, ultimately leading to him being accidentally killed with a flamethrower and another clone being produced. AND THEN we find out that Lewis has created massive holding pens filled with Tubby clones, and implies that there are similar pens all over the facility. AND FUCKING THEN Simon accidentally gives them meat, causing them to become bloodthirsty monsters and overrun the entire facility. The worst part, though is the very ending, which shows exactly how far off the deep end Lewis has gone: he tricks Simon into activating the Yoglabs self-destruct mechanism in order to purge the Tubbies, then jumps into the escape pod. The one-person escape pod. The last shot of the episode is Lewis half-heartedly telling Simon "You'll be fine" while Simon bangs on the escape pod door and desperately begs Lewis to help him...followed by the sound of a massive explosion and a smash to black.

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