"Interesting reaction, but what does it mean?!"

Rumoured to be able to push a Warworld into hyperspace, Nightmare Fuel is a potent liquor for Cybertronians.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

Trailbreaker once offered to share some Nightmare Fuel with Tailgate only to find him frozen in place. The Reluctant Specialist When Rewind held a storytelling session in Swerve's bar to try and repair the neural connections in Rung's brain, Swerve purloined a bottle of Nightmare Fuel from Trailbreaker's secret stash to serve to the participants. He had to wear protective gloves to do so. An Intimate Beheading Blurr requested a shot of Nightmare Fuel when he visited Swerve's bar following the defeat of the Necrotitan. The Becoming

When the time came for the Lost Light to return to Cybertron at the end of its quest, Swerve revealed that he had a bottle of "vintage Nightmare Fuel" that he'd found, believing that Trailcutter had intended for it to be drunken at the end of the quest, making it an extremely appropriate serving for the crew to toast the end of their mission with. How To Say Goodbye And Mean It: Part 2

Beast Wars: Uprising

During his days as a pirate, Star Dasher indulged heavily in Nightmare Fuel to "take the edge off". Safe Spaces

Notes

• "Nightmare Fuel" is a term coined by Mystery Science Theater 3000 and popularized by the website TV Tropes to describe horrifying scenes in fiction. The issue in which it is introduced includes an extremely apposite example.
• Nightmare Fuel comes with a picture of the Pretender Skullgrin (formerly thought by fans to be the Liege Maximo but confirmed by Alex Milne in an interview (at 1:48:35) to be Skullgrin) on the bottle.