what do you think is the most creepy doom sprite

[LOST SOLE]

mine is the scrolling faces 

[The Doommer]

That is technically texture

Other than that, the guy with a stick up his ...

[out_of_service]

The hanging Mussolini corpse.

[The Doommer]

That's a doom sprite?

[NiGHTS108]

Actually Mussolini is a G. I. Joe 

 

[The Doommer]

36 minutes ago, NiGHTS108 said:

Actually Mussolini is a G. I. Joe 

I just watched the vid
I also think that there's more of a chance of them being based on that than G.I. Joes

Then again idrk

[The Doommer]

OK, I did a little bit of a digging and this is what I found

 

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/post/2502956

 

@NiGHTS108 @Piper Maru

[Redneckerz]

Not a sprite but this

always gets me.

[The Doommer]

I'm surprised it's not the Doom Wiki logo

[Nathan Silver]

Always thought this specific sprite from Doom 64 was unsettling

 

[Murdoch]

30 minutes ago, Nathan Silver said:

Always thought this specific sprite from Doom 64 was unsettling

 

 

Yes, it leaves you in no doubt that getting decapitated and jammed on a spike really ruined that guy's day.

[The Doommer]

45 minutes ago, Murdoch said:

getting decapitated and jammed on a spike

Poor soul got chunk of his head bitten too

 

Guess they were hungry

[Hitboi]

Not really a sprite but it's the unused Doom texture on the right:

It's not that creepy in my opinion, just strange and a little disgusting.

Edited July 3, 2022 by Hitboi

[Dark Pulse]

One that was unused: In that huge sprite dump Romero posted, there was all sorts of bodies in a pile.

[Endless]

Hanging victims are just creepy in general.

 

Pity the id guys deleted/removed so many other sprites and textures from the early versions of Doom. Some of them are unnerving, like the pile of corpses.

[enigma101]

Either one of these. The first one is just a bit disgusting and the second is pretty eerie.

[The Doommer]

19 minutes ago, Endless said:

the pile of corpses.

These are actually pretty good imo

 

It would make the atmosphere on Doom II even more creepy

 

 

[Unregistered User]

Flat 14 is so blue it's sus. The UAC interior decorator was definitely partially responsible for the outbreak of hell.

[VoanHead]

You should take a look at Doom 4 Vanilla's version of the wall of faces, OP. It's even spookier.

Spoiler

 

[Nikku4211]

Ghoul's Forest.

[Ozcar]

doomguy bloody is creepy tho.

 

Edited July 4, 2022 by Ozcar

[gwain]

I think the archvile's death is the most unsettling series of sprites maybe because its proportions look most human like it always striked me as wow you just killed a being

[Snaxalotl]

27 minutes ago, gwain said:

I think the archvile's death is the most unsettling series of sprites maybe because its proportions look most human like it always striked me as wow you just killed a being

Maybe that is why killing archviles is so satisfying

[Thelokk]

The floating eye is creepy as heck. Runner up is the N64 pain elemental.

Edited July 4, 2022 by Thelokk

[Dubbag]

The Doom 64 Pinky. In my opinion it is the scariest thing I've ever imagined. Especially when it's running at you down a dark hallway. If Pennywise could take the form of my deepest fears this would be one of them. I've had multiple nightmares of this thing chasing me. It is so buried and ingrained in my subconscious it's ridiculous. When I think of the word "Demon" this is what I see. I hope to get it tattooed on me one day. Imagine being 7 years old when this game came out and you first played it, asking your father who is a stern catholic nut to rent this game and then seeing this...also this is your first time ever playing Doom and this is in Map 01.

Edited July 4, 2022 by Dub Bag

[Captain Keen]

I don't know about creepy, but the pink distorted faces textures (posted above by enigma101) is my favorite one from the original games. I got into The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery because the cover of that game reminded me of those Doom textures, too. (Great game btw, it's my favorite non-Lucasarts adventure game of the 90s.)

 

That unused pile of bodies is pretty good, too. Feels very arcade-y, like something from Mortal Kombat.

[Solmyr]

The hanging, half eaten corpse decoration that has its brain exposed, bloodied face and mouth agape. The other "non-Gi-Joe" hanging bodies look like they went through a prolonged, excruciating agony before dying. On the other hand, this one looks like it went through much worse and then the demons toyed with the poor bastard remains until they got bored.

[Zulk RS]

A weird choice but the Doom sprite that creeps me out the most (even after playing for so long) is Doomguy smiling at very low health. Something about that entire mouth full of blood gets me. It's also probably one of, if not the rarest, hud face.

[pcorf]

Cacodemon Pog

Sjasface Ghoul

[DavidN]

On 7/3/2022 at 10:53 PM, Ozcar said:

doomguy bloody is creepy tho.

 

My daughter was watching me playing Doom and she wasn’t scared of any of it except Doomguy’s dead face! It’s odd because I hadn’t ever considered that disturbing.

 

The Ouchface, though, still unsettles me to this day - it’s a shock when it appears, because of its unpredictable nature in the games and my just having a reaction to shocked faces in general (I really didn’t like the same thing happening in other DOS games like Lands of Lore or The Legacy).