10 Scariest Enemies In Non-Horror Games

10. Epitaph - Final Fantasy 9

The broader Final Fantasy series is home to a lot of rather frightening recurring monsters. The sneaky-sneaky stabby-stabby Tonberry is an excellent example, known for taking considerable punishment and slowly shuffling forward before instantly taking down a party member. These little pests, though, are at least up front about it, in here's a big knife. Guess where it’s going kind of way. Final Fantasy 9’s Epitath is rather more insidious than that.

There’s something tragically beautiful about these little stone memorials. At least, at first. They’re found only in Oeilvert, a magic-warding realm that Kuja, completely understandably, noped all the way out of. Coerced into going there in his stead, Zidane and his friends battle these little horrors, which can spawn copies of a party member on its own side. Disturbing as it is to be attacked by a doppelganger of a beloved team member, the truly horrifying thing happens when that random copy happens to be of a party member currently in the battle. 

When this happens, that party member will be struck by a 9,999 damage attack, KOing them instantly. The copies even have battle dialogue, in which they announce “I’m the real [party member’s name]” before attacking. Epitaph and its horrifying friends, apparently, want to not only kill the party, but then proceed to assume their identities.