Hellsing/Nightmare Fuel

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Well, seeing as how this is Hellsing we're talking about, this is going to take a little while. Alright buckle up, let's get the ball rolling...

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• Alucard. He's more the Anthropomorphic Personification of Nightmare Fuel than a vampire.
  • Granted, it's not a bad thing since vampires have suffered a serious case of Nightmare Retardant over the years; it's good to see that there's a vampire out there that can still scare people shitless.
  • And here I say, shame on all of you. Whenever Alucard gets into his full monster mode, shooting, biting, flaying, breaking his way through whatever unfortunate mooks happen to be in his way. No one, not even a vampire Nazi, deserves to die like that. And then he gets angry when one of the GATE soldiers commits suicide out of fear...
    • Well, the Nazis more or less deserved it. They committed horrible atrocities when they where alive, and became vampires so they could commit even worse atrocities for eternity.
  • Alucard is one of the main sources of Nightmare Fuel in the series... So, when Alucard enters the stage, automatically the fuel comes in, too.
    • So much so, that Alucard's face on the DVD cover for the first series can freak one out even before watching the first episode.
  • It is heavily implied that he has no true form, and the more power he is allowed to unleash the more he tends to resemble an Eldritch Abomination. One would have thought that it was impossible to actually depict a Lovecraftian horror, but Kohta Hirano gets damn close.
    • And then there's Luke Valentine's death. Eaten by a doggy indeed.
      • "HURRY! HURRY HURRY!! HURRY HURRY HURRY!!!"
        • Not to mention Rip van Winkle.
  • Seras is perhaps more frightening than Alucard. Alucard is a Blood Knight, true, and a real horror show when fully released, but he really only does that when he's following orders, meaning he has some form of self control. An angry Seras, on the other hand, is disturbingly akin to an EVA unit gone berserk. Not that she has no motive to be in that state, which brings us to...
• Seras watching all her police friends die in the first episode. And then dying and coming back as a vampire.
  • And then being stabbed through the chest with God knows how many silver blessed bayonets that deliberately miss the heart so that she suffers, watching her master's head get cut off, who's the only thing resembling family and connections at this point, and pulling out the bayonets one by one as she limps away from the crazy priest with her master's decapitated head and would have probably been killed a second time if Integra hadn't entered at the right time.
  • And then watching all her Hellsing friends die in the Valentine arc. With her personally ripping dozens of them apart in her Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
  • And then watching all the Geese die in the blitz. With her eating Pip's soul to restore herself.
  • And watched her parents be murdered in front of her and then her mother's corpse raped. With her stabbing one of the killers in the eye with a fork, and then getting shot.
    • In conclusion... the girl is a goddamn saint for not losing her shit after the first time this happened, let alone the second, the third, the fourth...
      • Someone give the poor kid a break already!
• Rip getting impaled on her own rifle.
  • Rip van Winkle's fight against Alucard was unique for a number of reasons, not the least of which being that she spends half the fight sobbing uncontrollably in sheer terror. Then she shoots Alucard ONCE. Then she goes back to sobbing as Alucard impales her with her own musket. It doesn't have a bayonet, he just jams the barrel through her left boob.
  • And the HANDS. GOOD GOD, THE HANDS. I counted at least ten and I'm damn sure that they weren't helping with the fight.
  • "Look what I just caught. *CLANG* I just caught you... Rip... Van... Winkle!"
    • What's even creepier is that catching the bullet apparently broke his jaw.
    • Place yourself in Rip's shoes. An unstoppable, terrifying enemy has his sights set firmly on you. You know he is going to do horrible, unspeakable things to you. And there is NOTHING you can do to prevent it from happening. And that my friends, is High Octane Nightmare Fuel.
• Zorin getting cheese grated against a wall.
  • This video Here's the video summing it all up. Though it could be a little narmish. And yes, you're hearing it correctly. It's the death with the audio of The Princess and the Frog's "Friends on the Other Side."
    • To be more specific, it's the Dark Reprise version where Dr. Facilier is dragged kicking and screaming into what appears to be Hell by his 'friends,' who are somewhat disappointed by his failure to pay his 'debt' to them.
  • And of course, it's also quite grisly to see Zorin trying to punch away Seras, just to have most of her fist crunched off.
• Alucard getting raped as a child then selling his soul to the devil.
• Basically any scene where the Nazi mooks are winning. Tag, somebody else is it.
  • I do believe there's a shot in the manga of one of the Nazis eating a baby.
    • I repeat, NAZI VAMPIRES EATING BABIES.
      • What's more disturbing was that it was still NOTHING compared to what the SS did in Real Life.
  • The "War Declaration" scene. The fate of the old guard Nazi officer Heer is simply grisly, if not Nausea Fuel.
    • Not to mention the images we get before we get to him. A pile of dead bodies, ripped to pieces.
• Schrodinger decapitates himself with a huge grin on his face, and his severed head keeps laughing as it and his body fall into a river of blood running through London.
• In the anime, the rather graphic depiction of a man being turned into a vampire by the chips is... well, quite disturbing, to say the least.
  • If you wanna talk about the anime... Incognito. He has no skin over his left eye whatsoever. He walks around naked, and does not appear to have any genitals. He pulls his own gun out of his arm, can bend his spine like a rat to stand up, and can shoot evil lasers from his empty eye socket. He likes things as painful as they can possibly be. Need I say more?
• The chapter in the manga of the Millenium vampires massacring the entire population of London.
  • Let's expand the horror a bit. Imagine you're a normal citizen of London, walking around on a cool evening. Suddenly, you hear the sound of airships. And then Nazis, a group that everyone thought was done for good, come flying down and begin killing everyone in sight. Worse still, they seem to be absolutely invincible, and are turning the entire populace into zombies. Then you see more blimps hovering overhead. Thank goodness, it's the Catholic Church! And then they join in the slaughter as well. Face it, any civilian in London is boned.
    • Heck, just imagining what being a regular human being in Hellsing's demented world would be like is enough Nightmare Fuel to keep anyone up for a few hours.
• Rip Van Winkle's incredibly disturbing face as she is killing the soldiers on the ship. Take a look: ^{[dead link]}
  • Oh and top it off with her jauntily humming an opera tune as she paints a swastika on the ship using the blood of the soldiers she just killed.
  • While we're still on the ship, imagine being there as your captain and two officers suddenly turn into monsters and start killing your fellow crew, who only rise again to keep killing. You're basically trapped on your own coffin, folks, without even the time to make your peace with God.
  • Plus van Winkle's questioning of the newly vampirized captain. She asks him how he feels after committing high treason against his own country, slaughtering the men he worked with and condemning them all to Hell by turning them into ghouls...
• Anderson's regenerative powers and the Major's cyborg conversion are most definitely Body Horror and Fridge Horror in the same package. Especially considering how damn painful it seems to be.
• Zorin Blitz herself, and the illusions in which she traps her enemies.
• This one crosses with Fridge Horror: in the very beginning of the story, a vampire infects an entire village and turns its inhabitants into ghouls. However, when a virgin is bitten and drained of blood, he or she will become another vampire instead of a ghoul. The village of course had its share of children, yet Alucard met only one vampire, the originator, during his purge. So what did the vicar do to the children?
  • Well, He's a Sinister Minister, do the math!
  • Actually asked and explained later on: Millennium's artificial vampires do not reproduce; their every victim turns into a ghoul, virgin or not.
• From the eighth OVA: Maxwell's death. And how!
  • Forget Maxwell, just imagine what it would be like if you were there when Alucard unleashes his hoards. Literally a Hell on earth.
• There's also the scene with Jan Valentine in Hellsing Ultimate OVA 2. During his infamous "I highly recommend pissing yourselves, followed by a course of praying to your impotent God!" spiel, he places his thumb atop the eye of the decapitated head he's playing with and presses down hard causing the eyeball to burst and blood to shoot out.
• Seras's Mind Rape at the hands of Zorin Blitz as well as when Zorin mutilates her afterwards and planned on killing her before killing Pip.
• The vampire preacher planned on raping Seras Victoria before killing her, since she was a virgin and he didn't want an "equal" vampire. Fortunately Alucard steps in before it gets to that, although the preacher gets a few good gropes in for effect.
• Then there's Jan wanting to rape, kill, and rape Integra again. In that order.
  • "Come out little Ms. Hellsing. We only want to torture you, kill you, maybe skull fuck your corpse a couple of times and go home and masturbate O.K."