History NightmareFuel / KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords

-->'''Peragus Security Officer:''' The next one a' you Juma-heads to try and smuggle a blaster or so help me '''any''' sort of military-grade frag weapons into my facility is [[ThrownOutTheAirlock gonna take a long walk out the airlock!]] Why? Because in case you forgot, Peragian fuel explodes at high temperatures! That's what [[ShatteredWorld blasted that chunk out of Peragus II and created this asteroid field!]]

-->'''Colonel Tobin:''' There is nothing to be done, except wait. If you go to him, he will destroy you, and your last moments shall be of shadow and pain. There is, '''nothing''', to be done. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmzlqv6ZpL8 By coming here, you are already dead.]]

--> '''Kreia:''' "I was cast down. Stripped of my power. Exiled. I suffered... [[NothingIsScarier indignities]]. And fell into Darkness".
** The only other time Kreia uses the word "indignities" is when she refers to Atton's hum... more "base" [[ADateWithRosiePalms urges]], which raises '''disturbing''' implications about what kind of "[[RapeAsDrama indignities]]" she suffered at the hands of Sion.
** Really, the beating of Kreia in that cutscene is just BRUTAL, getting as violent as the game's engine allows. Normally, in Star Wars games, you get lightsabers clashing and instantly cauterizing wounds so that BloodlessCarnage is in effect and prevents things from seeming TOO violent. Here, if anything the lack of blood makes it all the worse - you can tell that Kreia is in deep, horrific pain, and all of it without a drop of blood being spilled, without showing any sign of injury in the traditional sense.

* The implication Kreia's analysis of The Force has for the whole Franchise/StarWars universe. What if the Force really is a [[GodIsEvil cruel entity]] that continually spawns life and demands war and blood sacrifices to sustain it, fed by a cyclical religious war between two over-simplistic schools of philosophy, playing both sides and manipulating all life so that it has a constant supply of death to feed on? And the best case scenario is continuing to doom the universe to more of the same?

* You may notice that as you progress through the game, the Sith Lord in the main menu will change between the Sion, Nihilus and Darth Traya. But what if you go through with a dark side run? Who becomes the Sith Lord on the title screen? [[TomatoInTheMirror YOU!]]

* You may notice that as you progress through the game, the Sith Lord in the main menu will change between the Sion, Nihilus and Darth Traya. But what if you go through with a dark side run? Who becomes the Sith Lord on the title screen? [[TomatoInTheMirror YOU!]

* You may notice that as you progress through the game, the Sith Lord in the main menu will change between the Sion, Nihilus and Darth Traya. But what if you go through with a dark side run? Who becomes the Sith Lord on the title screen? YOU!

** If the above doesn't stir you, then [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fl48HXJhSg this]] fanmade video of him consuming the '''entire life energies of Katarr''', both sentient and non-sentient, succinctly showcasing of how he... '''{{HumanoidAbomination it]]''' earned the namesake "Lord of Hunger" to consume Katarr in its entirety, save for Visas, whom, as she often says in conversations with with the Exile, was the [[SoleSurvivor only known survivor]] of that horrific catastrope...

** If the above doesn't stir you, then [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fl48HXJhSg this]] fanmade video of him consuming the '''entire life energies of Katarr''', both sentient and non-sentient, succinctly showcasing of how earned his namesake "Lord of Hunger" to consume Katarr in its entirety, save for Visas, whom, as she often says in conversations with her, was the [[SoleSurvivor only known survivor]] of that horrific catastrope...

-->'''Colonel Tobin:''' There is nothing to be done, except wait. If you go to him, he will destroy you and your last moments will be of shadow and pain. There is '''nothing''' to be done. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmzlqv6ZpL8 By coming here, you are already dead.]]

** Nihilus becomes so powerful by the end of the game that the only reason he doesn't immediately annihilate the protagonists when they invade his ship is because they are too small in his view to bother noticing and only large stations filled with life to feed on grab his attention anymore. At that point, only the Exile even has the slightest hope of stopping this monster and if they fail, the galaxy is done for.

* The first two stages make up an exercise in creepy. In the optional prologue, the player controls T3-M4 on the shattered wreck of the ''Ebon Hawk'', the only other occupants of which are another droid, one nearly-dead Jedi, several corpses, and something in a sealed cargo room that ''won't stop banging on the door.'' This is eerie enough, but when the player finally takes control of the main PlayerCharacter, it's to regain consciousness on a remote mining station and discover that someone or something has systematically crippled the station and murdered ''everyone else there'' while you were unconscious. Right around the time the tension is at its highest, the PC meets the [[spoiler:HK-50 assassin droid]] responsible... and, although the extensive dialogue that ensues makes it abundantly clear what went down, the PC isn't able to ''do'' anything about it until quite a bit later.

** SanitySlippage: "The visions. '''The visions!''' They thought to trick me by taking the form of my fellow Jedi, but my discipline is so strong - I tricked them back. One fell to the shyrack, and the others fell to my lightsaber"―Nebelish's datapad found on his body
*** WhatCouldHaveBeen and a peek at the game files just makes this ''worse.'' Take a very close look at Nebelish; the character model didn't change much. [[spoiler: Yup, that was supposed to be [[ContinuityCameo Dustil Onasi]] you encounter dead or gone insane in that tomb. Good thing you didn't have to deliver ''that'' news to the admiral, assuming an LS Revan.]]

*** What doesn't help at all is that, when alien characters speak in an alien language, like Wookies, Twi'leks or Hutts, it's translated in subtitles for players to read. Nihilus offers no such courtesy, and instead only produces unintelligable noises the player is left to interpret by themselves

** Oh the other hand. If you listen closely to his horrifying scream in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diO3HRGWbZI this audio clip]], you can hear human screams, both male and female. This could imply that being drained will leave your consciousness trapped within him forever, and him being a HumanoidAbomination diagnosed with HorrorHunger, is this fate any better than being obliterated?
** Nihilius becomes so powerful by the end of the game that the only reason he doesn't immediately annihilate the protagonists when they invade his ship is because they are too small in his view to bother noticing and only large stations filled with life to feed on grab his attention anymore. At that point, only the Exile even has the slightest hope of stopping this monster and if they fail, the galaxy is done for.

* After [[spoiler:Kreia kills the Jedi Masters, if the player approaches the bodies, the description for each would say "This master is dead... drained of life. His body [[FateWorseThanDeath is worse than lifeless]] it is like an absence in the force".]]

* The Dark Side endings to your party members can be pretty ominous. Atton goes back to being a killer and murders the Jedi for their compassion, the Handmaiden will be completely consumed by battling, the Disciple basically becomes early Palpatine, Visas goes on a rampage towards everyone that has slighted her, and if you somehow managed to make Mira fall to the Dark Side, which is quite difficult without getting Hanharr as Darksiders usually have him join unless one manages their [[KarmaMeter Dark/Light Side meter]] carefully before her fight with Hanharr, then she will no longer hold back on killing people. Congratulations, your influence has managed to make everyone who looked up to you into LackOfEmpathy AxCrazy [[BloodKnight Blood Knights]]

* You may notice that as you progress through the game, the Sith Lord in the main menu will change between the Sion, Nihilus and [[spoiler: Darth Traya]]. But what if you go through with a dark side run? Who becomes the Sith Lord on the title screen? YOU!

* Kreia invading Atton’s mind can be pretty unnerving to watch.

** Especially creepy is the fact that losing to a few of the illusions in there won't kill you, but it will give you a lot of Dark Side points and leave you with a few hitpoints left, although there '''are''' some illusion-events that '''can''' kill you after futilely asking Kreia for help for your failure to defend against the hostile illusions. Any of the non-illusory monsters you face while in there '''will''' kill you.

* Darth Nihilus. He devours entire planets and doesn't care who he devours. If not for the Exile, he would have devoured the Jedi, then the Republic, and all sentient life in the galaxy, including the Sith. What makes it worse is that he speaks one of the few languages in the game that isn't subtitled. It's hinted that he is speaking the language of the True Sith.
** His outfit is pretty scary too: totally black robes and a mask made of bone. It only makes it scarier when you hear from Visas that he doesn't have a body because he's devoured himself and all that remains is his essence, using the Force to keep his physical shape. He's essentially an evil soul-eating Sith version of a Force Ghost!

** Oh the other hand. If you listen closely to his horrifying scream in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diO3HRGWbZI this audio clip]], you can hear human screams, both male and female. This could imply that being drained will leave your consciousness trapped within him, and him being a HumanoidAbomination diagnosed with HorrorHunger, is this fate any better than being obliterated?

** How said wound occured. At the end of the Mandalorian Wars, a desperate Exile was forced to activate the [[WeaponOfMassDestruction Mass Shadow Generator]]. The Generator proceeds to ''collapse the planet, and nearly every single object in orbit into Malachor V.'' The sheer impact of this is why Malachor is such a wound in the force.

** SanitySlippage: "The visions. The visions! They thought to trick me by taking the form of my fellow Jedi, but my discipline is so strong - I tricked them back. One fell to the shyrack, and the others fell to my lightsaber"―Nebelish's datapad found on his body

** Especially creepy is the fact that losing to a few of the illusions in there won't kill you, but it will give you a lot of Dark Side points and leave you with a few hitpoints left, although there '''are''' some illusion-events that '''can''' kill you after futilely asking Kreia for help for her failure to defend against the hostile illusions. Any of the non-illusory monsters you face while in there '''will''' kill you.

-->'''Peragus Security Officer:''' The next one a' you Juma-heads to try and smuggle a blaster or so help me '''any''' sort of military-grade frag weapons into my facility is [[ThrownOutTheAirlock gonna take a long walk out the airlock!]] Why? Because in you forgot, Peragian fuel explodes at high temperatures! That's what [[ShatteredWorld blasted that chunk out of Peragus II and created this asteroid field!]]

So, in short, the '''entire mining station''' as well as the asteroid field around it can literally explode simultaneously like a space-based powder keg, with you deciding whether or not its [[YouBastard you that destroys the facility]] to throw off their Sith pursuers or the Sith-controlled Harbinger ship destroys it with a stray shot.

** Just the thought of Peragus is scary enough. You're on a mining planet and there's almost no way to escape until a ship appears...only it's full of assassins and dead people, with a powerful Sith Lord having done the killing. Escaping is basically going through a ''minefield''. So there's almost ''no way out''. It's definitely like something out of a horror game. Not to mention that, as the Security Officer mentions in one of his holo-logs: "The next one a' you Juma-heads to try and smuggle a blaster or so help me '''any''' sort of military-grade frag weapons into my facility is [[ThrownOutTheAirlock gonna take a long walk out the airlock!]] Why? Because in you forgot, Peragian fuel explodes at high temperatures! That's what [[ShatteredWorld blasted that chunk out of Peragus II and created this asteroid field!]]"

** Just the thought of Peragus is scary enough. You're on a mining planet and there's almost no way to escape until a ship appears...only it's full of assassins and dead people, with a powerful Sith Lord having done the killing. Escaping is basically going through a ''minefield''. So there's almost ''no way out''. It's definitely like something out of a horror game.

* Some of the cut content involving Atton and the Handmaiden should you have more influence with the Disciple/Visas has them be corrupted by Kreia and turned to the Dark Side, and [[MurderTheHypotenuse they attack their counterpart on Malachor]]. They're well aware of Kreia using them, but have fallen so far that they don't care as long as Kreia gives them a chance to kill the one who they see as having taken the one person they cared for. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcfoDmFw_xM Atton in particular is chilling]], returning to his roots as a Jedi killer.

** Malachor is such a raw, bleeding wound in the Force that Revan brought Jedi captives there, knowing the atmosphere alone would break them and make them easier to turn into Sith agents. And there are a '''lot''' of cells on that map. Imagine being one of those captive Jedi. Worse, Kreia tells you that Revan not only knew the power of such a place, he/she knew the value of making one, meaning he ''intended'' for Malachor to become a PsychologicalTormentZone for any Light-sided person he might wish to convert.

** Malachor is such a raw, bleeding wound in the Force that Revan brought Jedi captives there, knowing the atmosphere alone would break them and make them easier to turn Sith. And there are a ''lot'' of cells on that map. Imagine being one of those captive Jedi. Worse, Kreia tells you that Revan not only knew the power of such a place, he/she knew the value of making one, meaning he ''intended'' for Malachor to become a PsychologicalTormentZone for any Light-sided person he might wish to convert.

* Malachor V. Its surface is little more than a collection of jagged rocks and huge chasms, with storms up in the sky practically 24/7, and with cracks in the ground that release poisonous gas pockets if stepped on; the only form of life that one can find there is a species of hulking humanoid-reptilian monstrosities corrupted by prolonged exposure to the dark side of the Force. And there are corpses remaining from the end of the Mandalorian wars, ''all over the place'', as well as remnants of ships torn to pieces. And as for Trayus Academy, well, let's just say that an active Sith Academy full of students and Sith of all kinds that are out for your blood is not exactly the most welcoming place in the galaxy.

** Especially creepy is the fact that losing to a few of the illusions in there won't kill you, but it will give you a lot of Dark Side points and leave you with a few hitpoints left, although there '''are''' some illusion-events that '''can''' kill you. Any of the non-illusory monsters you face while in there '''will''' kill you.

** Especially creepy is the fact that losing to any of the illusions in there won't kill you, but it will give you a lot of Dark Side points and leave you with only a few hitpoints, so any of the real monsters you face while in there '''will''' kill you.

* The implication Kreia's analysis of The Force has for the whole StarWars universe. What if the Force really is a [[GodIsEvil cruel entity]] that continually spawns life and demands war and blood sacrifices to sustain it, fed by a cyclical religious war between two over-simplistic schools of philosophy, playing both sides and manipulating all life so that it has a constant supply of death to feed on? And the best case scenario is continuing to doom the universe to more of the same?

** Malachor is such a raw, bleeding wound in the Force that Revan brought Jedi captives there, knowing the atmosphere alone would break them and make them easier to turn Sith. And there are a ''lot'' of cells on that map. Imagine being one of those captive Jedi. Worse, Kreia tells you that Revan not only knew the power of such a place, he knew the value of making one, meaning he ''intended'' for Malachor to become a PsychologicalTormentZone for any Light-sided person he might wish to convert.