History NightmareFuel / GearsOfWar

** Worse? Some of said victims are clearly ''children''.

* ''Gears 2'' has the New Hope Outpost. It can be jarring, to say the least, to be playing ''Gears of War'' and suddenly walk right into something out of ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''. The old, decaying research facility is creepy enough, but then you reach the basement, and there are things in giant stasis tubes, and when you throw a lever to access the facility's computer, it trips some sort of failsafe on the tubes, and they start waking up.
-->'''Niles:''' "I would begin exiting the facility if I were you."

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[[caption-width-right:236:Look out! Corpser!]]

* Berserkers. 7 foot 3 inch-tall armour-plated monstrosities that makes a high-pitched scream as it charges; it's totally blind so it has to sniff you out. And sometimes you have to lure it towards you by shooting it, and watching the bullets bounce off, only for it to shriek towards you once more, and then diving just out of the way so she (yes, she) smashes a door down or something. Then you have to run past her through a tiny gap, while she flails wildly in all directions.

* The Riftworm. A monolithic monster that has been lying dormant beneath the earth undetected for perhaps centuries, and once its awakened leads the Locust's charge to destroy Jacinto by ''sinking entire cities'' as it devours the earth beneath them. As if the Corpsers weren't bad enough, now there's a creature that can do ten times the work in less than half the time, spelling certain doom for the thousands of survivors still seeking refuge in what little remains of human civilization.

** The [[spoiler: Lambant Humans]] shows up again with the same creepy suspense and tension in ''Aftermath''. Especially unnerving when you hear them whisper ''die!''.

* Leviathans, and not just the Lambent ones either. Imagine the shark from ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', but three times bigger with massive teeth. Leviathans also have pretty creepy eyes, either the pure blue ''Vampyroteuthis'' [[http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/wp-content/blogs.dir/470/files/2012/04/i-6ccf90c0455b735133f92f0aa1685bc4-vamp_open.jpg eyes]], or the Lambent Leviathan's GlowingEyesOfDoom.

** When you see the deep, bloody gashes all across his back, and the hooks embedded into his skin, one can only imagine the living hell Tai must've endured under his torture and the desperation he felt to end his own anguish.

* Tai is stated to be virtually unkillable. [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat He is shown to have survived many things that should've straight up killed him]], and [[HoldTheLine he got in a direct chainsaw duel with Skorge to give you time to make it to your objective.]] Turns out, he's not dead, and when you rescue him from the Locust Marcus tosses him a shotgun. [[spoiler: And Tai, who is visibly ''broken'' after only a few hours in Locust custody, blows his own head off without so much as a word.]] Which leaves you to question - ''what the [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]'' did the Locust [[FridgeHorror do to him]] to cause [[DrivenToSuicide that]]? ''What did they make him see?''

* ''Raam's Shadow.'' Right before a child is about to evacuate Ilima City on an APC full of civilians, Tai gives him encouraging words to help him survive the days to come. A cute, hopeful moment [[spoiler: that is brutally cut short. Not thirty seconds later he and you are forced to watch as that APC and everyone in it is pulled underground by a Corpser, spelling certain death for said child.]]

* Leviathans, and not just the Lambent ones either. Imagine the shark from ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', but three times bigger with massive teeth. Leviathans also have pretty creepy eyes, either the pure blue ''Vampyroteuthis'' [[http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/08/30/vamp_open.jpg eyes]], or the Lambent Leviathan's GlowingEyesOfDoom.

* Berserkers. 7 foot 3 inch-tall armour-plated monstrosities that makes [[HellIsThatNoise a high-pitched scream]] as it charges; it's totally blind so it has to sniff you out. And sometimes you have to lure it towards you by shooting it, and watching the bullets bounce off, only for it to shriek towards you once more, and then diving just out of the way so she (yes, she) smashes a door down or something. Then you have to run past her through a tiny gap, while she flails wildly in all directions.

*** No, the worst thing is that raping them is ''necessary'', because they really are just mindless killing machines. Any Locust that got close to one otherwise would only get ripped apart.

* Berserkers. A 12-foot armour-plated killing machine that makes a high-pitched scream as it charges; it's totally blind so it has to smegging sniff you out. And sometimes you have to lure it towards you by shooting it, and watching the bullets bounce off, only for it to shriek towards you once more, and then diving just out of the way so she (yes, she) smashes a door down or something. Then you have to run past her through a tiny gap, while she flails wildly in all directions.

* ''Raam's Shadow.'' Tai gives a child about to evacuate Ilima City on an APC, full of civilians, encouraging words to help him survive the days to come. A cute, hopeful moment [[spoiler: that is brutally cut short. Not thirty seconds later he and you are forced to watch as that APC and everyone in it is pulled underground by a Corpser, spelling certain death for said child.]]

* It doubles as a TearJerker, but imagine being in Dom's place for a second. His life is made of AdultFear. His ''entire'' family is dead, and the only part of it that could still be alive is his wife, the only woman in his life he's ''ever'' loved up to that point. She is [[DistressedDamsel missing]], possibly [[NeverFoundTheBody dead]], and he's been on a crusade to find her, or at least her fate, for years. And then in ''2,'' he finds out that the Locust have [[POWCamp taken prisoners]], which they [[LeaveNoSurvivors never do]], and via [[DrivenToSuicide Tai]], he finds out ''[[ColdBloodedTorture why.]]'' None of this points to a happy ending, but he keeps up [[HopeSpot hope]] despite that. And then he finds her. His [[DownerEnding wife]] has been [[spoiler: lobotomized, malnourished, and tortured into insanity, and she's been like this for]] ''[[spoiler: years.]]'' [[spoiler: The damage is clearly irreparable, and Dom has to MercyKill her.]] Dom is ''broken'' after this. DespairEventHorizon doesn't even begin to describe what happens to him.

* It doubles as a TearJerker, but imagine being in Dom's place for a second. His life is made of AdultFear. His ''entire'' family is dead, and the only part of it that could still be alive is his wife, the only woman in his life he's ''ever'' loved up to that point. She is [[DistressedDamsel missing]], possibly [[NeverFoundTheBody dead]], and he's been on a crusade to find her, or at least her fate, for years. And then in ''2,'' he finds out that the Locust have [[POWCamp taken prisoners]], which they [[LeaveNoSurvivors never do]], and via [[DrivenToSuicide Tai]], he finds out ''[[ColdBloodedTorture why.]]'' None of this points to a happy ending, but he keeps up [[HopeSpot hope]] despite that. And then he finds her. His [[DownerEnding wife]] has been [[spoiler: lobotomized, malnourished, and tortured into insanity, and she's been like this for]] ''[[spoiler: years.]]'' DespairEventHorizon doesn't even begin to describe what happens to him.

* It doubles as a TearJerker, but imagine being in Dom's place for a second. His family is dead, and the only part of it that could still be alive is his wife, the only woman in his life he's ''ever'' loved up to that point. She is [[DistressedDamsel missing]], possibly [[NeverFoundTheBody dead]], and he's been on a crusade to find her, or at least her fate, for years. And then in ''2,'' he finds out that the Locust have [[POWCamp taken prisoners]], which they [[LeaveNoSurvivors never do]], and via [[DrivenToSuicide Tai]], he finds out ''[[ColdBloodedTorture why.]]'' None of this points to a happy ending, but he keeps up [[HopeSpot hope]] despite that. And then he finds her. His [[DownerEnding wife]] has been [[spoiler: lobotomized, malnourished, and tortured into insanity, and she's been like this for]] ''[[spoiler: years.]]'' DespairEventHorizon doesn't even begin to describe what happens to him.

* It doubles as a TearJerker, but imagine being in Dom's place for a second. His family is dead, and the only part of it that could still be alive is his wife, the only woman in his life he's ''ever'' loved up to that point. She is [[DistressedDamsel missing]], possibly [[NeverFoundTheBody dead]], and he's been on a crusade to find her, or at least her fate, for years. And then in ''2,'' he finds out that the Locust have [[POWCamp taken prisoners]], which they [[LeaveNoSurvivors never do]], and via [[DrivenToSuicide Tai]], he finds out ''[[ColdBloodedTorture why.]]'' None of this points to a happy ending, but he keeps up [[HopeSpot hope]] despite that. And then he finds her. His [[DownerEnding wife]] has been [[spoiler: lobotomized, malnourished, and tortured into insanity, and she's been like this for]] ''[[spoilers: years.]]'' DespairEventHorizon doesn't even begin to describe what happens to him.

* The final boss of ''Gears of War 2''. [[spoiler:A Brumak gets overdosed on Imulsion and when it mutates its head violently deforms, with a second head bursting from its mouth, which is followed by the creature going berserk and growing tentacles from its body.]]

** Oh, and the way you're introduced to them? One of your random AI partners completely loses his shit, says "ScrewThisImOuttaHere" and runs into a convenient hallway, only to get pounced upon by the Berserker and '''eaten alive'''. All that remains of him when you go into the hallway is a bloody mass of leftover flesh and bones. The scene in question is effective enough that it's one of the rare occasions on which the spilling of way more blood than could possibly fit in a human body is MostlyNarmless.

** Oh, and the way you're introduced to them? One of your random AI partners completely loses his shit, says "ScrewThisImOuttaHere" and runs into a convenient hallway, only to get pounced upon by the Berserker and '''eaten alive'''. All that remains of him when you go into the hallway is a bloody mass of leftover flesh and bones.

*** Oh, and the way you're introduced to them? One of your random AI partners completely loses his shit, says "ScrewThisImOuttaHere" and runs into a convenient hallway, only to get pounced upon by the Berserker and '''eaten alive'''. All that remains of him when you go into the hallway is a bloody mass of leftover flesh and bones.

** The [[spoiler: Lambant Humans]] shows up again with the same creepy suspense and tension in 'Aftermath''. Especially unnerving when you hear them whisper ''die!''.

** The [[spoiler Lambant Humans]] shows up again with the same creepy suspense and tension in 'Aftermath''. Especially unnerving when you hear them whisper ''die!''.

* ''Gears 2'' has the New Hope Outpost. It can be jarring, to say the least, to be playing ''Gears of War'' and suddenly walk right into something out of ''ResidentEvil''. The old, decaying research facility is creepy enough, but then you reach the basement, and there are things in giant stasis tubes, and when you throw a lever to access the facility's computer, it trips some sort of failsafe on the tubes, and they start waking up.