History NightmareFuel / DeadmanWonderland

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[[caption-width-right:259: If you see her making [[SlasherSmile that face]], don't even bother running away: [[BrutalHonesty you're already dead.]]]]

** Not least of which is the truth behind [[spoiler:Shiro. There is no SplitPersonality, never was. The real Shiro still loves Ganta, but she is also livid and resentful toward her childhood friend for being able to live the happy life she never had. This not only adds loads of complexity to Shiro, but also makes her a rather disturbing character to watch in hindsight.]]

* Just the whole concept of it. It's like ''Oz'' meets ''Elfen Lied'' meets more insanity.
* The SlaveCollar that a prisoner has to wear is nightmare inducing for a reason. It produces a constant flow of poison that injects into their body on a daily basis, which is lethal if enough is accumulated in three days. The only way to get rid of the poison is eating special candies that contain an antidote. Keep in mind that even after taking it, the collar is ''still'' injecting poison into an inmate, meaning that they either have to take one candy within the three day period or take the death, which overall makes sense if you are a death row inmate. Ganta witnesses firsthand an inmate dying from the poison after desperatly demanding candy.

* If you have a little sister, niece, daughter, etc. do not, do NOT watch Shiro's backstory.
* Hibana's backstory was sick!!! And also the image of her dead hanging mother.

* Are you a KnightInShiningArmor? Thinking of white-knighting? Do ''NOT'' ever, under any circumstances, try to help someone in Deadman Wonderland this way...you'll end up dead due to the seemingly {{moe}} but really AxCrazy [[spoiler: Minatsuki]].

** Speaking of the Carnival of Corpses, the entire idea is similar to the dog race, except that it's a one-on-one match between contestants. The preview shows a woman ''having her arm ripped off as she screams in agony.'' This is directly followed by a man having his face stomped flat. Also, if you lose, [[spoiler:you are tortured simply for losing. Specifically, you're forced into a punishment game where you have a random body part or organ removed, with absolutely no anesthetics used (It ''is'' called a Punishment Game after all. Crow has his right eye gouged from his head after losing to Ganta.]]

* In episode 11,[[spoiler: after Genkaku captures Shiro and Karako he sends a video to Ganta.]] [[spoiler:In the video that he sends to Ganta he threatens to have his guards rape both Karako and Shiro if Ganta doesn't show up to fight him.]] [[spoiler:After Genkaku says that, he moves the camera to where we can see Shiro and Karako being held down by a few of the guards as the rest of the guards tear at their clothing. (A few of the guards even push the barrels of their guns into Karako's breast and other patches of already revealed skin.)]] Remember that [[spoiler: Shiro is only 15-17 years old when she is being sexually harassed in the video (her exact age is never mentioned but she is somewhere in that age range.)]] [[spoiler: The video ends soon after that.]]

* Chapter 53: [[spoiler:Hagire's death. He totally got what he deserved, but boy did LaResistance brutally curbstomped the ''crap'' out of him.]]

** The true purpose of the Mother Goose system. [[spoiler:Yes, it does limit the powers that Shiro could muster. However, the real purpose of the system is so that Shiro will always regenerate and thus never die (as the aftermath of the Great Tokyo Earthquake reveals). Because Sorae (Ganta's mother) grew too attached to Shiro to see her die, Sorae had condemned the poor girl to continue being used as a lab rat for even more dehumanizing experiments.]]

[[caption-width-right:259: If you see her making [[SlasherSmile that face]], don't even bother running away : [[BrutalHonesty you're already dead. ]] ]]

* Shiro as a little girl [[spoiler: having her [[http://www.mangareader.net/deadman-wonderland/45/37 arm fall apart]] and trying to put it back together.]]
* If you have a little sister, niece, daughter, etc. [[http://www.mangareader.net/deadman-wonderland/46/22 do not]], [[http://www.mangareader.net/deadman-wonderland/46/33 do NOT]] watch Shiro's backstory.

** Speaking of the Carnival of Corpses, the entire idea is similar to the dog race, except that it's a one-on-one match between contestants. The preview shows a woman ''having her arm ripped off as she screams in agony.'' This is directly followed by a man having his face stomped flat. Also, if you lose, [[spoiler:you are tortured simply for losing. Crow has his right eye gouged from his head.]]

* The SlaveCollar that a prisoner has to wear is nightmare inducing for a reason. It produces a constant flow of poison that injects into their body on a daily basis, which is lethal if enough is accumulated in three days. The only way to get rid of the poison is eating special candies that contain an antidote. Keep in mind that even after taking it, the collar is ''still'' injecting poison into an inmate, meaning that they either have to take one candy within the three day period or take the death. Ganta witnesses firsthand an inmate dying from the poison after demanding candy.

* The dog race from episode 2. The fact that the audience were watching real people die, and convinced themselves it was all an act.

* Episode 1: Exactly ''three'' minutes into the first episode you get to see a classroom of middle school kids mutilated into shredded corpses covered in glass, concrete, and their own dismembered bones and blood. And ''then'' you see [[spoiler: Mimi's]] bloadsoaked head clutched in the Red Man's hand like a trophy... with the most horrified look on her face. What does that imply? ''[[FridgeHorror She saw the whole thing and begged not to be killed.]]'' But the Red Man found it more pleasing to his sick gullet to just [[MercyKill put her out of her misery]].
** And then comes the trial. Not only is Ganta a helpless little kid under the mercy of an iron-fisted court, he has ''nobody'' with any moral fiber to defend him. On top of that, he's seamlessly impersonated ''and'' incriminated with evidence he's an insane killer. After panicking at the sight of everyone ready to convict him, he looks like he's lost his mind... which of course, causes the grief-stricken parents of the victims to think he has no remorse (for a crime that wasn't even his doing), and beat the hell out of him. Next, his corrupt bastard lawyer deserts him and he gets a life sentence. Then, of all things, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking he gets egged]]. Finally, he's placed in a jail that can only be described as Satan's playhouse. Think ''you're'' having a bad day?? Like ''hell'' you are compared to this shit.

[[caption-width-right:259: If you see her making [[SlasherSmile that face]], don't even bother running away : [[BrutalHonesty you're still gonna die. ]] ]]

* Are you a KnightInShiningArmor? Thinking of white-knighting? Do ''NOT'' ever, under any circumstances, try to help someone in DeadmanWonderland this way...you'll end up dead due to the seemingly {{moe}} but really AxCrazy [[spoiler: Minatsuki]].

* ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland''. The entire show is based off the manipulation of your own blood as a weapon, for starters. And then, we have [[spoiler: Shiro, the wretched egg]] who maniacally goes about slaughtering people: their remains take the form of decapitated bodies, mutilated half forms, with blood everywhere, and random body parts, vividly drawn with accurate detail. Let us also recall [[spoiler: Toto, who mimics others' Branch of Sin by eating/sewing on body parts to take on their blood!]] Or how about when Toto took someone's head, and then proceeded to jam his arm up it, and make it a puppet.

** The true purpose of the Mother Goose system. [[spoiler:Yes, it does limit the powers the Shiro could muster. However, the real purpose of the system is so that Shiro will always regenerate and thus never die (as the aftermath of the Great Tokyo Earthquake reveals). Because Sorae (Ganta's mother) grew too attached to Shiro to see her die, Sorae had condemned the poor girl to continue being used as a lab rat for even more dehumanizing experiments.]]

[[caption-width-right:259: If you see her having [[SlasherSmile that face]], don't even bother running away : [[BrutalHonesty you're still gonna die. ]] ]]

* Are you a KnightInShiningArmor? Thinking of WhiteKnighting? Do ''NOT'' ever, under any circumstances, try to help someone in DeadmanWonderland this way...you'll end up dead due to the seemingly {{moe}} but really AxCrazy [[spoiler: Minatsuki]].