History NightmareFuel / LimbusCompany

!!Intervallo III

!!Intervallo IV

** On the topic of Vergilius, getting to see him in action since dismembering Lion and Wolf all the way back in the prologue can be rather scary no matter how [[Awesome/LimbusCompany badass]] it is, as he demonstrates precisely why he's a Color Fixer, and as Roland describes him, '''the most dangerous one of the lot''', when he joins the battle against the Wild Hunt. Every single numerical value you can find upon examining his profile in combat [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale are only denoted as "?" or "???"]] besides his skills' attack weights and coin counts, and he's packing NINE skills, all Wrath affinity, across both his base form and after he activates his E.G.O, EIGHT passives, and [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale will similarly inflict "???" damage every time he strikes]], turning whatever he's hitting into paste no matter what. And that's before he unleashes a StormOfBlades using spears of blood before capping it off with one last spear strike to wipe out an entire horde of enemies in one go, giving the Sinners the opportunity to book it and chase Erlking Heathcliff. You will never want to cross a Color Fixer ever again after seeing Vergilius take the field.

** On the topic of Vergilius, getting to see him in action since dismembering Lion and Wolf all the way back in the prologue can be rather scary no matter how [[Awesome/LimbusCompany badass]] it is, as he demonstrates precisely why he's a Color Fixer, and as Roland describes him, '''the most dangerous one of the lot''', when he joins the battle against the Wild Hunt. Every single numerical value you can find upon examining his profile in combat [[ReadingsOffTheScale are only denoted as "?" or "???"]] besides his skills' attack weights and coin counts, and he's packing NINE skills, all Wrath affinity, across both his base form and after he activates his E.G.O, EIGHT passives, and [[ReadingsOffTheScale will similarly inflict "???" damage every time he strikes]], turning whatever he's hitting into paste no matter what. And that's before he unleashes a StormOfBlades using spears of blood before capping it off with one last spear strike to wipe out an entire horde of enemies in one go, giving the Sinners the opportunity to book it and chase Erlking Heathcliff. You will never want to cross a Color Fixer ever again after seeing Vergilius take the field.

** On the topic of Vergilius, getting to see him in action since dismembering Lion and Wolf all the way back in the prologue can be rather scary no matter how [[Awesome/LimbusCompany badass]] it is, as he demonstrates precisely why he's a Color Fixer, and as Roland describes him, '''the most dangerous one of the lot''', when he joins the battle against the Wild Hunt. Every single numerical value you can find upon examining his profile in combat [[ReadingsOffTheScale are only denoted as "?" or "???"]] besides his skills' attack weights and coin counts, and he's packing NINE skills, all Wrath affinity, across both his base form and after he activates his E.G.O, EIGHT passives, and [[ReadingsOffTheScale will similarly inflict "???" damage every time he strikes]], turning whatever he's hitting into paste no matter what. And that's before he unleashes a StormOfBlades using spears of blood before capping it off with one last spear strike to wipe out an entire horde of enemies in one go, giving the Sinners the opportunity to book it and chase Erlking Heathcliff. You will never want to cross a Color Fixer ever again after seeing Vergilius in action.

* While Hindley being sent to a mental facility is funny... We have no idea how M Corp actually works, other than their moonlight stones, and with a name like "Abyss Trauma Center"... it's probably not a pleasant place. But the bigger one is the fact that Cathy booked him a ''WARP Train'' there, and you can look at this two ways: either Cathy ''knows'' about what happens on the trains and purposefully gave him that ticket to have him suffer ''10,000'' years of torment as a last bit of revenge, or genuinely didn know and just wanted to help her brother. Even worse, we don't know if it's a first-class seat.

** The cinematic of Heathcliff using his extended Bodysack E.G.O. doubles as nightmare fuel and FiveSecondForeshadowing; once he begins to lay into Heathcliff? in earnest, his damage type turns from Envy to ''Wrath'', the ''corrosion'' damage counter appears in the corner, and the background begins to turn red as well before shattering. He's so manic he manages to '''corrode his base E.G.O.'''; something no other Sinner has done so far.

** Notably, this is the first time we actually see what Carmen is saying when she talks to someone on the verge of Distortion. And it's... practically ''nothing''. She only asks a few questions and gives a few nudges. All those times we've seen someone talk to her before they Distort? Carmen wasn't giving them any kind of BreakingSpeech to make them cross the DespairEventHorizon. ''They came to that conclusion all on their own''.[[note]] Not to say that Carmen ''isn't'' capable of dialogue, as her and Vergilius have an entire back-and-forth before he summons his E.G.O. in Leviathan. [[/note]]

* While Hindley being sent to a mental facility is funny... We have no idea how M Corp actually works, other than their moonlight stones, and with a name like "Abyss Trauma Center"... it's probably not a pleasant place. But the bigger one, is the WARP Train, and you can look at this two ways. Either Cathy ''knows'' about what happens on the trains and purposefully gives him that ticket to have him suffer ''10,000'' years of torment without even remembering it as a last revenge, or doesn't know, and just wants to help her brother, not knowing about the hideous nature of WARP Trains. Even worse, we don't know if it's a first-class seat.
* The entire truth behind the Dead Rabbits is several degrees of AndIMustScream. Imagine being abducted off the streets, subjected to who knows what kind of experiments to synchronize you to the Mirror Worlds, eventually having your own identity completely overridden by someone completely different from a different timeline entirely. Even their ''boss'' isn't immune to this, with Mirror!Heathcliff's corpse having long blonde hair that didn't belong to the original. That aforementioned NoHoldsBarredBeatdown? Delivered on someone who was ultimately being controlled by external forces and who for all extents and purposes was ''completely innocent''.

* While Hindly being sent to a mental facility is funny... We have no idea how M Corp actually works, other than their moonlight stones, and with a name like "Abyss Trauma Center"... it's probably not a pleasant place. But the bigger one, is the WARP Train, and you can look at this two ways. Either Cathy ''knows'' about what happens on the trains and purposefully gives him that ticket to have him suffer ''10,000'' years of torment without even remembering it as a last revenge, or doesn't know, and just wants to help her brother, not knowing about the hideous nature of WARP Trains.
** Even worse, we don't know if it's a first-class seat.

* Like in the previous game, the concept of Distortions is terrifying. But somehow, the fact that '''Heathcliff Distorts''' is even more terrifying, given how rageful, angry, and emotional Heathcliff gets. The fact that the game [[NothingIsScarier doesn't show you what Heathcliff looks like]] during the scene where he's talking to Carmen but you hear the noise of breaking bones and skin, and it's the end of Part 2, so for seven days no one knew what form he took, making it worse.

** Notably, this is the first time we actually see what Carmen is saying when she talks to someone on the verge of Distortion. And it's... practically ''nothing''. She only asks a few questions and gives a few nudges. All those times we've seen someone talk to her before they Distort? Carmen wasn't giving them any kind of BreakingSpeech to make them cross the DespairEventHorizon. ''They came to that conclusion all on their own''.

** Special shot-out to the one CG art where she is staring at the camera in the grass. In Lobotomy Corp, this was the Artwork when she was talking to Ayin about how warm the grass is, and her looking at the camera would have been her looking at Ayin. Instead, she is staring at ''you, the player''. No dialog going on. She is just staring while your game loads.

* During the end cut scene of 6-33, Artwork of Carmen from Lobotomy Corp and Library of Ruina briefly flashes. This counts as CG Art, so your reward for beating that level means that Carmen can now show up on your loading screens. If you didn't catch the flashes the first time, this can be terrifying to randomly see for those who played the other games.

* Like in the previous game, the concept of distortions is terrifying. But somehow, the fact that ''Heathcliff'' distorts is even more terrifying, given how rageful, angry, and emotional Heathcliff gets. The fact that the game doesn't show you what Heathcliff looks like during the scene where he's talking to Carmen but you hear the noise of breaking bones and skin, and it's the end of part 2, so for a full week and a few days, no one knew what form he took, makes it worse.
* During the end cut scene of 6-33, Lobotomy Corp and Libray of Ruina Artwork of Carmen briefly flashes. This counts as CG Art, so your reward for beating that level means that Carmen can now show up on your loading screens. If you didn't catch the flashes the first time, this can be terrifying to randomly see for those who played the other games.
** Special shot-out to the one CG art where she is staring at the camera in the grass. In Lobotomy Corp, this was the Artwork when she was talking to Ayin about how warm the grass is, and her looking at the camera would have been her looking at Ayin. Instead, she is staring at ''you, the player''. No dialog going on. She is just staring while your game loads.
** Notably, this is the first time we actually see what Carmen is saying when she talks to someone on the verge of Distortion. And it's... practically ''nothing''. She only asks a few questions and gives a few nudges. All those times we've seen someone talk to her before they Distort? Carmen wasn't giving them any kind of BreakingSpeech to make them cross the DespairEventHorizon. ''They came to that conclusion all on their own''.
* Heathcliff unleashing an extended NoHoldsBarredBeatdown using Bodysack on his Mirror counterpart. Unlike Yi Sang or Ishmael using their E.G.O.s in the previous two Cantos, there's no big emotional speech or music swell; just Heathcliff beating his counterpart with Bodysack over, and over, and ''over'' in eerie silence as the damage counter gets higher and higher until it outright [[InterfaceScrew breaks entirely]]. And it gets even worse when you remember the person he's beating this severely is ''himself''.

* The cinematic of Heathcliff using his extended bodysack EGO doubles as nightmare fuel and FiveSecondForeshadowing; once he begins to lay into Heathcliff? in earnest, his damage type turns to ''wrath'', the ''corrosion'' damage counter appears in the corner, and the background begins to turn red as well before shattering. He's so manic he manages to ''corrode his base EGO''; something no other sinner has done so far.

* While Hindly being sent to a mental facility is funny... We have no idea how M Corp actually works, other than their moonlight stones, and with a name like "Abyss Trauma Center"... it's probably not a pleasant place. But the bigger one, is the WARP Train, and you can look at this two ways. Ethier Cathy ''knows'' about what happens on the trains and purposefully gives him that ticket to have him suffer ''10,000'' years of torment without even remembering it as a last revenge, or doesn't know, and just wants to help her brother, not knowing about the hideous nature of WARP Trains.

* Heathcliff unleashing an extended NoHoldsBarBeatdown using Bodysack on his Mirror counterpart. Unlike Yi Sang or Ishmael using their E.G.O.s in the previous two Cantos, there's no big emotional speech or music swell; just Heathcliff beating his counterpart with Bodysack over, and over, and ''over'' in eerie silence as the damage counter gets higher and higher until it outright [[InterfaceScrew breaks entirely]]. And it gets even worse when you remember the person he's beating this severely is ''himself''.

!! In General

!! Abnormalities and E.G.O.

!! Mirror Dungeon Events

!! Intervallo I
* ''Hell's Chicken'' might be a silly story, with the Sinners having a comically disastrous cooking contest and the primary "enemy" being a Distortion of a chicken-headed man who commands headless chickens. However, even a Distortion as relatively harmless and goofy as Papa Bongy is still dangerous to the populace at large, with his chickens sending multiple people running and screaming as they get killed and have their bodies hijacked.

!! Intervallo II
* As if to remind everyone that this is the City, U Corp.'s waterfront is a beautiful beach with blue skies and a glittering sea -- if you're in the Nest. The Backstreet's, on the other hand, is worse than a dump, with trash heaped everywhere, water that looks like sewage, and swarmed with large, hostile crabs that will attack people on sight. However, that's not all -- the Nest's beach is divided from the Backstreet's with an ''invisible plasma barrier'' that obliterates anything that comes into contact with it, as the Sinners realize upon seeing their volleyball get reduced to scraps by it. And as Rodya points out, there shouldn't be anything stopping the Nest's technology from simply causing any would-be intruder to disappear completely instead of leaving behind a shredded mess, meaning it only functions that way so the wealthy inhabitants of the Nest can have a laugh seeing unsuspecting Backstreet dwellers get gruesomely killed trying to trespass.
* Ishmael's [[SanitySlippage increasingly neurotic and panicked state]] as the story progresses is more than a little unsettling. While she doesn't make her sheer dread immediately apparent, she steadily grows more and more unstable as she desperately tries to make everyone reconsider heading into the Great Lake, believing they'd all be killed without ''at least'' six months of time to prepare and get stronger, and even implores Dante to help her convince Vergilius of all people to go after another Golden Bough instead. It ultimately culminates in her getting into a nasty argument with Heathcliff that quickly turns violent, ending with Ishmael about to ''bash in his skull'' in a fit of neurotic wrath. Afterwards, Vergilius says he's only barely capable of keeping her in line after having a "talk" with her about her brawl with Heathcliff -- even ''he'' is just a little bit scarier than whatever she had to endure out there.
** Ishmael's description of the Great Lake itself. The Lake is apparently plagued with all kinds of natural disasters (among which are ''typhoons of acid)'', death was so omnipresent that she could look away for just a moment and her crewmate would be dead, and everyone gets driven insane and ''transformed'' by something. And then there's Dante's brief vision of Ishmael's past on the boat -- bloodied and terrified, gripping the boat for dear life with a harpoon in hand, and in a storm that is ''shredding people's flesh and limbs off''. And during all of it, there's a colossal eye looming over the ship and staring right at her. Say hello to Moby.

--> '''Dante''': And in a world perceived through their own █████ ██ ███ ████████ ███ ███ ██████, the ███████ shall be unveiled: to █████ their egos ███ ████████... ██ ██ melt into ███ █████ by ████████ ████ ██ ████ ██████ ██████ of sin... Only those who define their own ████... Only those who are awakened to their own █████...

* If you're the type who does things and hobbies for the sake of satisfying intellectual curiosity, then the story of how the League of Nine Litterateurs eventually met their end is definitely a huge nightmare fuel. It is a slow, gradual sort of horror, but nevertheless, there is the reason ''why'' people tend to keep their funky tech in their own little Syndicates -- the Wings ''will'' go out of their way to grab them for their own use in ways that would make ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' look like child's play. To put in some detail when many parties began to caught wind of the technologies invented by the Nine Litterateurs, they eventually caught attention of T Corp's tech agency due to their inventions being "unregistered". While at first they only received the notice that the technology needs to be registered to the agency, what followed afterwards basically amounted to ''witch hunt'' to the point its members eventually disappeared one by one after several visits from them. T Corp simply read their past, present and future and landed exactly in their direction to capture and vanish them, and the only members who survived are the ones who sold themselves to other Wings like K Corp and N Corp. They also didn't immediately arrest the targeted members, but instead decided to work in such way that ''utterly crushed'' the hopes and spirit of the target. It is both nightmarish and depressing to think that the thing they initially built as nothing but pure expression towards their love for technology ultimately became the Litterateurs' downfall.

** She also stabs you in the back and has Queequeq try and off you. While that doesn't work, and the team meets with her again, Dante sees what she did to get there. She has constantly sacrificed crewmates for the slightest reason, and she still goes on about how she gave them purpose

* At one point, the Sinners run into larger versions of the Peccatula, specifically Irae and Morositasis. They start to discuss [[WasOnceAMan what the Peccatula are]] and why they seem to be getting stronger as more Golden Boughs are collected, which caused Dante to [[GoMadFromTheRevelation snap into a frightening ramble]] about Sin and E.G.O. which was [[CensorBox mostly blocked out]]. At this point, it became apparent that the fire on Dante's clock was growing dangerously hot, with the Sinners worrying that their self-destruct sequence might go off on its own. They were able to get Dante to calm down from this panic (which he couldn't remember), but since they [[NothingIsScarier couldn't understand]] why this happened, the Sinners had no choice but to not bring it up again for the rest of the Intervallo.

** To start, she constantly gaslights her crew and with her incredible charisma draws them into her delusional quest no matter how sane they are. It's essentially what Carmen did, but at least she hid her nature well. It's to the point where it's likened to a Whale turning people into it's Mermaids.

** The scariest part? Ahab is a realistic villain in a world that usually exaggerates characters' evil characteristics to the point of intentional absurdity. Remove the fantastic whale-hunting, and Ahab's egocentric and destructive behavior becomes [[RealismInducedHorror disturbingly close to home]] compared to Kromer's zealotry in Canto III, which makes her horrid actions feel more real and haunting than ridiculous. Shady cults of personality like Ahab's Pequod exist in real-life, and their leaders are often backstabbing, self-serving pricks like Ahab who are willing to sacrifice their own believers and hide entire cabinets of skeletons under their premise of salvation.

** The scariest part? This is a realistic villain in a world that usually exaggerates characters' evil characteristics to the point of intentional absurdity. Ahab's egocentric and destructive behavior is disturbingly close to home compared to Kromer's zealotry in Canto III, which makes her horrid actions feel more real and haunting than normal.