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** Breaking them is bad enough, but if they manged to not break from being shamed then run into Talion again, they'll really start holding a grudge on Talion for doing this. Even worse is that you can keep shaming them and provided they don't break, some of their lines when you shamed them more than once will show just how pissed off, if not how close they are to insanity they are.

-->'''The Tower:''' You claim to have toppled the Tower, Ranger, but behold. Now I wear his armor, and the Tower rises again eith an Uruk inside!

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* Shaming Uruks. As a bid to make too-strong Nemeses more suceptible to Domination or [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential sheer spite and sadism]] Celebrimbor can MindRape an Uruk to reduce his level and willpower with a chance to [[VillainousBreakdown make them utterly Deranged in the process.]] Brûz is the first to suffer this power, and the ''TranquilFury'' in Celebrimbor's voice when he does it is horrifying -- it's a dead-level, flat "no". Not to mention the pitiful, terrified, sobbing screams of Bruz after the act, which are absolutely horrifying.
-->'''Brûz''': Enough, kill me! Just end it.
-->'''Celebrimbor''': ''(slams his other hand down on Brûz's face)'' [[LittleNo No.]]
** With Brûz, this [[spoiler: literally breaks his mind, causing him to wander around muttering "It's your fort. I never wanted the fort!" or variations thereof]].

--> '''Celebrimbor''': This fortress is once again under my command. An attempted rebellion has been put down. Its conspirators have been put to the sword! Its leader will soon suffer the same fate! You now hold this fortress... FOR THE BRIGHT LORD!! Here, my enemies will find NO WEAKNESS!! NO. MERCY!! ONLY THE UNASSAILABLE STRENGTH '''OF MY... ARMYYY!!!'''

* Shelob literally drips with this trope: her spider form looks like a [[GiantSpider gargantuan]] fusion of a tarantula and the Xenomorph Queen, with a [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily mouth packed to the brim with razor-sharp fangs]] in addition to the mouthparts of a spider, and she appears powerful enough to injure the Nazgul in battle. Her human form isn't much better; [[FemmeFatale oozing seductive malevolence]], she tries to sway Talion to her side with a web as intricate as anything she could weave as a spider. [[ProperlyParanoid Celebrimbor is openly afraid of her]], and makes his views plain to Talion that [[WithFriendsLikeThese Shelob cannot be trusted, and any benefits they would gain from an alliance with her are not worth the cost]]. Her response to him is equally scary, since she blatantly hints that even the wraith is not above suspicion ([[spoiler: and the middle of Act 3 proves that she's ''right'']]).
-->'''Celebrimbor''': She is ''not'' our ally!
-->'''Shelob''': Certainly not ''yours''.
** The cinematic awarded to those who find all of Shelob's memories proves [[FearIsTheAppropriateResponse just how right you are to be unnerved by her]], displaying just what happens when she gets fed up with subtlety. [[spoiler: Betrayed by Sauron and surrounded by Númenórean warriors]], the beautiful, elegant woman who's been your ally throughout the game [[spoiler: sprouts ''[[EyesDoNotBelongThere spider eyes out of her forehead]]'' and proceeds to [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge butcher the soldiers]] with merely her teeth, fingernails and enough brutality to make [[PayEvilUntoEvil Talion]] look like a rank amateur by comparison]].

-->'''Talion''': What a beast this must have been!
-->'''Celebrimbor''': And I doubt it was the last of its kind.

* The Rumbler. A wyrm of gigantic size, large enough to cave in an entrance to the valley with ease. Luckily it never appears in gameplay, but there's a reason it's feared across Lithlad. Undercut by Torvin, who treats it like any dangerous animal, and has even ''sexed it''. [[spoiler:It's a girl]].

--->'''Orc:''' Let me rest!

* One Uruk type, called "[Uruk Name] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Death Bone,]]" has [[TheSpeechless no voice lines]], just [[RoarBeforeBeating a deep, bestial roar]] that would fit better if it came from a balrog or troll than [[VocalDissonance from a normal-sized orc.]] Even by Uruk standards, it just sounds ''[[HellIsThatNoise wrong]]''.