Speaking of escalation, I have this fantasy in which I'm a little kid who is randomly snatched off the street by a crazed psychopath who, driven by an intense hatred of life and reproduction, is compelled to barbarically annihilate the young.
He would stuff me in the back of his brown '74 Chrysler New Yorker and drive me to his secret underground dungeon, where I will be strapped to an antique embalming table and brutally mutilated alive until my innocent kid body is painfully devoid of life, at which point the cadaver will be beheaded and left to rot in the crypt with it's bones broken, eyes torn out, brains mangled beyond recognition, and intestines wrapped around it's limbless torso.
The Pedomutilator would then wait for a couple of weeks before starting to mail my rotting and maggot infested body parts to my parents over the course of months, as a reoccurring gruesome reminder of their loss and the intense suffering inflicted upon their slain offspring before it's meaningless death in vain at the hands of the criminally insane lol.