History NightmareFuel / Dishonored2

* Some of Emily's powers are... [[BlackMagic disquieting]], to say the least. One might say that her skillset is a straight-up a mockery to her role as a ruler:

* Some of Emily's powers are... [[BlackMagic disquieting]], to say the least. One might say that it is straight-up a mockery to her role as a ruler:

* Some of Emily's powers are... [[BlackMagic disquieting]], to say the least.

* The Grand Conservatory gives you a bit of an understanding about why pre-enlightenment era society (parts of which Dunwall's culture was based upon) was ''terrified'' of witches. For people who didn't play the DLC for the previous game, this is their [[SurpriseCreepy first introduction to said witches]]. First there's the lore, which mentions that they can control you through nothing more [[ParanoiaFuel than your discarded hair and nail clippings]], that they seduce and kill countless victims for potion and spell ingredients, and they can curse people without them being any the wiser until they die. And in combat, they display all sorts of BodyHorror as their bodies reconfigure themselves to handle spells without the Outsider's Mark (such as all their blood and veins turning deep green as their eyes bulge out of their sockets, or turning bright red and appearing to ''boil'', ink leaking out of every orifice as the color drains from them, and so on).

* When you kill/knock out the Howlers' leader Paolo for the second time during the Dust District mission, Corvo/Emily picks up the black magic charm that gave the gangster his arcane ability to survive assassination at least once a day: ''a rotted, severed hand''. But that's not the worst part. Mere moments after picking it up, the hand ''comes to life, crawling around and up the player character's arm like a demented spider'' before they rip it away and stomp it on the ground. Behold, the Outsider-marked hand of Vera Moray, aka ''Granny Rags'' from ''Dishonored''.

*** Additionally, trying to peek into the room while in the ruined mansion shows nothing but pitch black.

* Let's talk about Bloodflies themselves. They're parasitic [[WickedWasps wasp]]-{{mosquito|Miscreants}}... things that have all the worst qualities of both, and then some. Like wasps, they make [[HellIsThatNoise horrible buzzing sounds]] and build giant nests, sting, are ''extremely'' aggressive, and attack in ''[[ScaryStingingSwarm swarms]]''. And like mosquitos, they suck your blood and transmit an illness. They're also the size of small birds, glow a hellish red, and will infest corpses in order to make more of themselves. The game actively encourages you to KillItWithFire. The rats in Dishonored were bad enough, but they were imported from the Pandyssian Continent with the plague; the bloodflies are ''native to Serkonos''.

* High Chaos playthroughs in this game (particularly Very High) make the original's High Chaos run look like a soap opera. It's ''much'' more notable with Emily — the more Chaos you have, the more nightmarishly evil and petty she becomes. Corvo is more restrained, but the callousness is there.
-->'''Emily''': Perhaps we need an eighth Stricture. ''[[DisproportionateRetribution DEFY YOUR EMPRESS AND BE BURNED ALIVE.]]''

* The Howlers aren't called Howlers for no reason; when sneaking around their encampments, you will occasionally be treated to them screaming up at the sky like crazed animals. The fact that the voices are clearly human while also sounding animalistic is [[UncannyValley very disturbing]].

* At the Recuperation chamber in Addermire Institute, near where you find Hypatia's assistant Vasco, an audiograph machine sits with a recording made by [[Grim Alex, the alter ego of Hypatia]] where the Crown Killer describes [[{{Gorn}} just]] [[ILoveTheDead what]] they plan to do to the corpse of their friend when they finally get around to killing him. It's... disturbing, to say the least.

** In addition, it is heavily implied (mainly by the Nest Keepers' immunity to them) that their venom is what gives the sting to stinging bolts; guards affected by these say that they ''burn'', and their explicit in-game effect is that the stinging bolts blind and cause forgetfulness. These things are essentially blood-sucking [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_hawk tarantula hawk wasps]].

** And knowing all this, seeing how many places are infested with bloodflies is horrifying. Every level has at least one infested building or area that is blocked off, poorly, right next to areas where people are going about their normal lives. It's like everyone is living next to the beginnings of a ZombieApocalypse, and some of them aren't even aware of it.

* At the end of "Good Doctor" mission, you can find a recording where Crown Killer describes [[{{Gorn}} just]] [[ILoveTheDead what]] they are going to do to the corpse of their friend when they finally get around to killing him. It's... disturbing, to say the least.
* The droning sound that happens just before a dust storm any time you're in the Dust District.
* When you kill/knock-out Paolo for the second time during the mission in the Dust District, you are treated to a mummified hand with an Outsider mark jumping off of him and crawling all over you like a spastic spider before being thrown off and stomped. Meet Granny Rags' Outsider-marked hand.

*** It gets worse: [[spoiler:if you start taking out the chanting witches, their chant will change to correctly represent the number of hands still working on the mixture. Somehow, ''they know you're there and what you're doing'', but don't do anything unless they detect you. ''[[NothingIsScarier Why?]]'']]

*** It gets worse: [[spoiler:if you start taking out the chanting witches, their chant will change to correctly represent the number of hands still working on the mixture. Somehow, ''they know you're there and what you're doing''.]]

* The Outsider's appearances and more active role in the game. First off, remember the first game and the time you woke up, stepped outside, and found yourself in the Void? This time, there's more, [[spoiler:even an occasion where ''Delilah'' visits to show she's aspiring to usurp the Outsider and become a new god]]. Any time you sleep between missions, you can't be sure what or who you'll wake up to. And second, the mere fact that the Outsider is actively helping you against Delilah and is basically giving you his blessing to take her down is pretty neat, but it’s also gives you an idea on how high the stakes are in the story. In the last game, the Outsider gave both Corvo and Daud his mark and talked to them once in a while, but he never directly helped them apart from that and he was basically an impartial neutral spectator watching the story unfold [[BlueAndOrangeMorality for his own reasons and amusement]]. It also helps that the [[BigBad main antagonists]] of the last game, [[spoiler: The Lord Regent and Admiral Havelock]], weren’t as dangerous or ambitious as Delilah, so the stakes weren’t as high. However, in this game, The Outsider actually decides to help you and takes an active role in helping you stop Delilah, because he knows that he made a big mistake in giving her his mark and that his “game” has gone too far. If an eldritch entity who operates on BlueAndOrangeMorality like The Outsider is willing to break his neutrality stance to actively involve himself in the plot, then that alone should tell you how high the stakes are in this story and how dangerous Delilah is. Because it’s not just the Empire Of The Isles that’s at stake like in the first game. ''This time, it’s the entire world that’s at stake and The Outsider knows it''.

* Let's talk about Bloodflies themselves. They're parasitic [[WickedWasps wasp]]-{{mosquito|Miscreants}}... things that have all the worst qualities of both, and then some. Like wasps, they make [[HellIsThatNoise horrible buzzing sounds]] and build giant nests, sting, are ''extremely'' aggressive, and attack in ''swarms''. And like mosquitos, they suck your blood and transmit an illness. They're also the size of small birds, glow a hellish red, and will infest corpses in order to make more of themselves. The game actively encourages you to KillItWithFire. The rats in Dishonored were bad enough, but they were imported from the Pandyssian Continent with the plague; the bloodflies are ''native to Serkonos''.

* Let's talk about Bloodflies themselves. They're parasitic [[BeeAfraid wasp-mosquito]]... things that have all the worst qualities of both, and then some. Like wasps, they make [[HellIsThatNoise horrible buzzing sounds]] and build giant nests, sting, are ''extremely'' aggressive, and attack in ''swarms''. And like mosquitos, they suck your blood and transmit an illness. They're also the size of small birds, glow a hellish red, and will infest corpses in order to make more of themselves. The game actively encourages you to KillItWithFire. The rats in Dishonored were bad enough, but they were imported from the Pandyssian Continent with the plague; the bloodflies are ''native to Serkonos''.

* The Outsider's appearances and more active role in the game. Remember the first game and the time you woke up, stepped outside, and found yourself in the Void? This time, there's more, [[spoiler:even an occasion where ''Delilah'' visits to show she's aspiring to usurp the Outsider and become a new god]]. Any time you sleep between missions, you can't be sure what or who you'll wake up to.

** The ritual performed three years ago was so fundamentally ''wrong'' that Emily/Corvo's Void powers, [[LovecraftianSuperpower already considered by most of the setting to be unholy spells that mock all that is sane and good]], cease to function at all. [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Whatever Delilah's inner circle did to make it happen was worse than anything the Outsider would have done.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNFtACeifcU The 2016 E3 Gameplay Trailer]] finally gives a third-person look of how pant-shittingly terrifying going up against [[OneManArmy Corvo]] can be. In short, the Lord Protector is facing off against three guards with swords drawn, less than a foot away from him. Before we can blink, Corvo dispatches them all simultaneously. Sure, killing three guards at once quickly became old hat in the first game. But actually seeing it, and so quickly that it's over before the viewer can register what just happened? Brr...

** And knowing all this, seeing how many places are infested with bloodflies is disquieting. Every level has at least one infested building or area that is blocked off, poorly, right next to areas where people are going about their normal lives. It's like everyone is living next to the beginnings of a ZombieApocalypse, and some of them aren't even aware of it.

* Let's talk about Bloodflies themselves. They're parasitic [[BeeAfraid wasp-mosquito]]... things that have all the worst qualities of both, and then some. Like wasps, they make [[HellIsThatNoise horrible buzzing sounds]] and build giant nests, and sting. And like mosquitos, they suck your blood and transmit an illness. They're also the size of small birds, glow a hellish red, and will infest corpses in order to make more of themselves. The game actively encourages you to KillItWithFire. The rats in Dishonored were bad enough, but they were imported from the Pandyssian Continent with the plague; the bloodflies are ''native to Serkonos''.

* When you kill/knock-out Paolo for the second time during the mission in the Dust District, you are treated to a mummified hand with an Outsider mark jumping off of him and crawling all over you like a spastic spider before being thrown off and stomped. Meet Granny Rags' Outsider-marked hand.

** There's also a note to be found that indicates that the Crown Killer wants to do things to [[spoiler:Vasco's (hopefully) corpse]]. Graphically sexual things. [[{{Squick}} With his bones.]]