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Okay this is only in the 40k, warma/hordes, WHF and LOTR

Basicly choose the scariest minter/monster from any of those.

For me it has to be Shelob. Huge spider that immobilises you and then eats you? I'll take DE any day

Weeping Angels

I think it's the 40k Tyranid parasite of Mordrax-giant flying wasp-thing that impales you and lays eggs in your guts that eat you alive? oh yeah!

Tyranid Hive Fleet, hands down. The joy of being eaten alive, or at least partially digested, regardless of how you die.

You shouldn't limit the thread to those four, expand the horror!

derke56 wrote:
Okay this is only in the 40k, warma/hordes, WHF and LOTR

Toruk says hi!

Toruk makes the d&d Tarrasque look like a frog. In pretty much every aspects.

I have always been scared of Medusa... I feel like I can fight for life against all sorts of supernatural beasts and ghoulies. I'll punch a skeleton and run from a ghost...

But Medusa got you beat, especially if she sneaks up on you and goes "BAM! You stone bitch!".

I always had nightmares about those pull-down blinds suddenly going up and medusa would be outside my window and I would be stone and there nothing I could do.

Yeah, So Medusa.

Arachnids from Starship troopers the first movie. Dont wanna be mauled to death in mass on the ground? Cool get sucked into the void of space while you are in orbit... both to me seem like aweful ways to die. Oh and brain sucking slugs and acid spraying mega beetles.... oh and they are lead by an intellegent brain sucking slug/slugs as mentioned earlier.

Not among the the settings you suggested but thats my pick.

In 40k, I think Devourers and Fleshborers are pretty horrific.

I also found this WHFB model to be a little disturbing.

 Ouze wrote:
In 40k, I think Devourers and Fleshborers are pretty horrific.

I also found this WHFB model to be a little disturbing.

Now that's just gnarly. Why can't we have more models like that :(

His toes are really big...

I think his toes are the least of his problems...

He doesn't seem to mind though.

She has sharp knees.

Because warmachine is on the list I also go with Toruk. The Dragonfather isn't even small enough to be labeled "huge". As far as I know he would out-mass the new Godzilla, who is 150 meters tall.

 purplefood wrote:
His toes are really big...

Or are your toes just really small?

And limited to those four, I'd go genestealers. Taking everything into account - The Thing.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:
Weeping Angels

Oh my god yes! I had nightmares after that episode don't know if it's as scary as The Shining though.

 Cheesecat wrote:

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:
Weeping Angels

Oh my god yes! I had nightmares after that episode don't if it's as scary as The Shining though.

I was trying not to mention those guys but fine lets open it up to any universe, oh and I think Vasconurada are scary as Hell

In the settings you mentioned:
I'd least like be on the front lines against Nids. An never-ending army of giant bugs... not my idea of fun.
I'd sooner die than be taken alive by DE.

Any setting?
Weeping Angels (especially in multiples)
The Silents, you can't fight what you can't remember.
Alien, those things are just nasty.
Any kind of giant spider/arachnid.

Hearing a descending Dalek fleet would also be massively scary, just because you cannot beat them... at all.

Ya but Daleks you can try, and if you aim for the eyestalk then you might be able to kill some...


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For Warmachine Cryx are kinda scary to fight, if Bob dies he then kills you!

40k enslavers.

Any setting?

The fly.

derke56 wrote:

 Cheesecat wrote:

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:
Weeping Angels

Oh my god yes! I had nightmares after that episode don't if it's as scary as The Shining though.

I was trying not to mention those guys but fine lets open it up to any universe, oh and I think Vasconurada are scary as Hell

To be fair, The Shining is a different kind of scary to the Angels.

And yeah, the Vashta Narada can be quite scary, since they merely make you have 2 shadows prior to devouring you, however generally, you need to be in a forest of some variety to do that


I will also second the Xenomorph larvae... I rather like my internal organs where they are, and my rib cage intact

Yeah, the shining doesn't really have a movie monster (unless you consider jack to be it or the ghosts/hallucinations).

 Ouze wrote:
In 40k, I think Devourers and Fleshborers are pretty horrific.

I also found this WHFB model to be a little disturbing.

Yup the devourer was going to be my suggestion. Just reading the fluff on those makes me shudder

I stopped watching Doctor Who a while ago and I think only saw part of the episode featuring the Vashta Nerada but I remember them being scary I would add that cybermen, the empty child and the Ood are pretty scary as well.

The old-school tyranids and their methods.

There was none of this 'turning biomass into a nice stew for the hive fleet to eat', they reworked your flesh, melded you into their walls or turned you into a human lampshade whilst you mewled and cried and gurgled and your sanity fled from your parasite filled, 'improved' body.

The 'willing' walking into hiveships on planets in the Watson novels, the fate of the Lamenter marines (lambsssssss).

Yep, the oldschool nids were totally bonkers and weird and scary and above all, alien.

40k? I guess the animus vitae is pretty creepy. It's a sentient coil of barbed wire that expands as it goes over its victim, before retracting. That creeps me out a fair bit.

Other stuff? I really didn't like the movie prometheus. I know it's probably a bit tame for some people, but I was significantly weirded out by it.

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
The old-school tyranids and their methods.

There was none of this 'turning biomass into a nice stew for the hive fleet to eat', they reworked your flesh, melded you into their walls or turned you into a human lampshade whilst you mewled and cried and gurgled and your sanity fled from your parasite filled, 'improved' body.

Wow...

That's... just... twisted. And here I was thinking the newer Tyranids were disturbing.

40k:
3. Genestealers. They mutate you into them or make you give birth to them.
2. POM: I hate the idea of having something grow inside me, especially the nomnomnom variety.
1. Deathleaper: it's the deathleaper

Any setting:
3. Zombies.
2. xenomorphs
1. Licker from res evil: first saw when 9 years old.

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
The old-school tyranids and their methods.

Jones is acting strangely. I miss the old Tyranid Event table.

The most terrifying thing in 40k, just as in the real world, is the Imperial Auditor. I hope you kept all your receipts! MWAHAHAHAHA

Weeping Angels are for pussies. They send you back in time, where you can start a whole ne wlife. Not terrifying at all.

I find the idea of Lucius the Eternal kind of scary.

 Easy E wrote:
Weeping Angels are for pussies. They send you back in time, where you can start a whole new life.

For about 3 months before you contract an illness that was wiped out in your lifetime, or an older version of one you have no built up resistance to. Odds are the 'doctor' of the time will kill as much as the disease. Of course, if the disease doesn't get you the people probably will, since the chances of speaking the same language (or the same that is different enough that it might as well be) are pretty small, and they may not like the way you look, with your funny clothes and crazy accent. Just suddenly popping into the past randomly with no preparation or control would suck pretty bad, though I agree terrifying wouldn't necessarily be the word to describe the ordeal.