History NightmareFuel / GodOfWarRagnarok

** On that note, the end result of Sindri's mental breakdown after Brok is rendered DeaderThanDead. By the end of the game, he's completely transformed into a terrifying mirror of Kratos's old self. He's stopped caring about being clean and now has blood and grime all over his body, just like Kratos's ash-infused skin. He becomes inconsolably bitter towards his former friends, rejecting any and all attempts at reaching out to him and making it very clear that he now hates ''all'' of them equally, seeing them only as allies of convenience because in his eyes that's how they all saw him, little more than a tool to be used and discarded. And discard them he does both during and after the war finally ends. He spitefully goes against their orders against killing innocents just because it will give him even the slightest bit of pleasure knowing he's destroying what Odin has created. Finally when all is said and done, he cruelly snatches Odin's SoulJar out of Atreus's hands and destroys it with his hammer, turning to everyone present in a manner that looks like he's about to kill them all before vanishing. And they do nothing in response because they know that everything he just did and what he could have done then and there is justified in comparison to their past mistakes, especially when those mistakes are what made him this way in the first place. They all must now live with the fact that their actions not only cost them a friend, but turned them into a monster of revenge.

* The Raven Tree. A location in Nifilhiem that houses the souls of every spectral raven Kratos has destroyed throughout this game and the last one, already half-populated by his prior efforts, and the ravens speaking to him in a VoiceOfTheLegion that sounds like a [[CreepyChild chorus of children]] rhyming in unison. Though unsettling, they're still [[CreepyGood beneficial to the heroes]] and reward them for every group of ravens destroyed, speaking of their enslavement under Odin's command by the Raven Keeper, his most devoted disciple. The ''real'' horror however, comes when they finally reveal what they used to be. They sound like children because '''[[PoweredByAForsakenChild they are]]'''. The ravens are the souls of children, hanged painfully by the neck until death by their fanatical parents in Odin's name, so their souls could be pulled from the afterlife and made to tell him the secrets of what lay beyond, before being re-fashioned into ghostly spies to serve him. Even Mimir and Freya, who are no strangers to Odin's cruelty, are shaken upon hearing this. ''Kratos himself'', an aggressively stoic figure even after he's learned to open up more, for once can barely emote properly not from keeping his emotions controlled, but by being too shocked to fully process this revelation. Having killed one child by accident and hating himself for it for ''years'' afterwards, and fearful for Atreus' well-being throughout both games, he can barely comprehend the mindset that would have lead the parents of these poor souls to knowingly murder them out of fanatical devotion to a mad god, who had ordered this just to sate his curiosity of what lies beyond the veil of death without actually crossing it himself. Calliope's death was mercifully quick, done in an instant -- these children were ''hanged'', and they -- at least a hundred of these ravens over both games -- make it clear that their demise was a drawn-out affair for each one of them. Needless to say, the player will become as equally driven as Kratos to find and destroy every last Raven after learning this, but even then, their suffering is not finished. Kratos and Mimir's conversation after finally killing the Raven Keeper implied that the transformed nature of the Ravens' existence might have resulted in them being BarredFromTheAfterlife, meaning all Kratos' party can do for them is free them from their spectral shackles and kill their long-time tormentors, yet still unable to truly grant them a peaceful existence after what was inflicted upon them. It tells how horrible the Raven Keeper is when this of all villains is one of the very few who manage to qualify as a ''CompleteMonster'' in a setting rife with JerkassGods and Kratos being a mass murderer himself despite being just a minor NPC and far from being apocalyptic, because she's just ''that'' vile.

** When executing a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent wulver]] Kratos will beat it down before grabbing it by the snout and forcibly tearing its mouth open breaking its jaws, and ''then keeps ripping its mouth further apart'', tearing off the wulver's entire chest along with its bottom jaw, exposing its organs and ribcage. Worst of all, ''this'' is the kill that manages to horrify and intimidate the otherwise [[SeenItAll nigh-unflappable]] Brok, should he happen to behold it during the group's journey through Vanaheim.

** He forces Kratos and Atreus to ''run for their lives'' in an intense chase sequence featuring him bursting through the structures they’re running in after father and son think they've taken care of the issue, making the two godly heroes feel like rats chased by a cat. Worse yet, it shows it's not dead by hitting Kratos with its now unfastened chain - the only thing that was still slowing him down.
** ''Both'' sides of the conflict see its rampage as a fuck-up of colossal proportions for ''everyone'', on Atreus' part, just to convey the sheer ''[[TheDreaded terror]]'' this thing generates, thus giving a ''very good'' reason for his imprisonment in Helheim. It's a ''very'' good thing that loyal Fenrir's soul ended up occupying this otherwise empty husk of a beast.

* If one looks closely at the scene where Atreus escapes back to the treehouse before he gets attacked by Thor, it shows that Ingrid blocked Thor's strike just before he got sent back. Which may mean that if it wasn't for Ingrid Atreus might have died and would have been sent back to his father as a corpse.

* Near the start of the Valhalla DLC, Mimir vanishes and is replaced by none other than [[UnexpectedCharacter Helios]] and the landscape warps into the room in the original game where Kratos had to sacrifice a soldier in a cage in an incinerator, classic greek enemies and all, Kratos gets the idea to put Helios's head into the cage in order to progress as Helios taunts him about how this is a bad idea. When Kratos turns away to turn on the incinerator he looks back and Helios is switched with Mimir again with Kratos struggling to get him out of the cage before the incinerator fires. Mimir and Kratos end up falling through a void with Mimir saying that Kratos apparently broke reality and they're going to die for real this time. If not for Sigrun showing up and saving them, the two would've died, and it would've been ''Kratos' fault.''

* While also rather impressive, Atreus proves to be just as terrifying as Kratos when using his Spartan Rage, if not moreso - Kratos "merely" lets out all of his strenth to break foes with his bare hands, but Atreus taps into his Jotnar shapeshifting to maul enemies as a wolf or bear. His two favored executions in wolf form? Knocking an enemy on its back and ripping their head off with a powerful bite, or clamping his jaws around the enemy's waist and thrashing them against the ground until the repeated impacts rip them in half, the latter being a legitimate kill tactic real wolves can use on smaller prey. And unlike Kratos, Atreus does these executions automatically, ignoring the victim's stun bar completely. As a bear... we only see "Bjorn" fight three times in-game, once as a boss against Kratos, once during the final QTE against the vakyries Hrist and Mist, and a final, fully-controllable moment against several Einherjar during Ragnarok itself. But these battles all give us some insights into how Atreus fights - sledgehammer paw blows, savage bites, using his bulk in relentless bull-rush charges, and he executes Mist by following his father's example and removing her wings, literally '''''chewing them off at the shoulder joints''''', even as Kratos himself goes for the (comparatively) kinder NeckSnap on Hrist.

** The camera angle hovering close to Kratos' head and Heimdall's lack of visible pupils give another aspect to the scene -- without a direct line of sight, it almost looks like Heimdall is looking at ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou you, the player]]'', his powers letting him see into your head and see how much [[CatharsisFactor enjoyment and satisfaction]] you're gaining from his demise. In that regard, his last words are as equally directed at [[YouBastard the player]] as much as Kratos, calling them out for wanting him dead so badly, and underlying that no matter how deserving, every death has long-lasting consequences in the norse saga.

** Look closely and you'll notice Heimdall's makeshift Bifrost arm is fading from existence at the same rate "the light is fading from his eyes." He couldn't even hold Kratos off of him at this point if he wanted to.