History NightmareFuel / Overwatch

** Even Sigma's cosmetics are disturbing."Damage" shows a diagram of his brain activity with the image of a black hole, "Diagnosis" shows him tied up in wires while seemingly undergoing ''painful'' shock treatment. "Sigma's apple" is an apple peeled into rings; the outer skin shows a red shade giving a menacing gaze while the inside is him in normal skin color screaming in terror, and "Spaghetification" shows him getting distorted and sucked into a black hole.

* The video opens with Mauga kicking back with a drink and relaxing on a yacht... and ends with the camera zooming out to reveal that [[WhamShot it's covered in the corpses of its previous owners.]] He may seem like a laid back guy, but that nonchalant attitude only serves to make his atrocities all the more disturbing, especially compared to the rest of Talon. While Widowmaker and Sigma have both succumbed to Talon's manipulations, Doomfist and Moira believe their actions serve some kind of greater good, Sombra has her own mysterious agenda, and Reaper wants revenge on a world he believes has wronged him, Mauga has no reason to murder, steal, and destroy other than the fact that [[ForTheEvulz he enjoys every second of it.]]

*** Genji is the only one who explicitly kills Talon grunts in the intro cutscene, sheathing his sword as the last guard in the room falls over. Add that to his complete non-reaction to seeing Reyes kill Antonio, and a disturbing image of his personality prior to meeting Zenyatta is painted.

*** Genji is the only one who explicitly kills in the intro cutscene, sheathing his sword as the last guard in the room falls over. Add that to his complete non-reaction to seeing Reyes kill Antonio, and a disturbing image of his personality prior to meeting Zenyatta is painted.

* The Omnic Crisis. You wonder why people distrust Omnics so much and just can't put aside their petty grievances? Well, for starters, Omnics were built by Omniums - huge, self-operating factories that produced everything from basic construction to state-of-the-art military robots. There were several Omniums, at least one in every continent, possibly more. Originally Omnics were just subservient robots, created to make life easier and to bring about a new industrial and economic golden age. For a time, this was good. However, over time the Omniums developed "faults" and fell severely short on what the Omnica Corporation - the company that designed & made the Omniums - had promised. The Omniums were shut down as the corporation that owned them went under. For reasons unknown the Omniums somehow reactivated themselves and just started a war of extermination against humankind, churning out Bastion units and other monstrosities at alarming rates. The Omnic Crisis wasn't something that happened "out of sight, out of mind", anyone alive during the Omnic Crisis would remember seeing robots slaughtering innocent people; man, woman and child. This was happening everywhere, in the streets of your hometown, possibly even next door to you. The human armies were about evenly matched with no obvious technological superiority against the Omnics, so at best they could fight the Omnics to a standstill, but that wasn't nearly always the case. This was one of the reasons that Overwatch was founded - to find a way to neutralize and contain the threat of the Omnics for good. So when you think about the Omnic Crisis, think about the battle scenes from the Terminator movies - merciless, never-tiring and nearly endless armies of machines out for your blood (with, as seen in the flashbacks in "The Last Bastion", ''airlifts like assembly lines'' delivering [[WeHaveReserves reinforcements to the battlefield]]). Countless cities and whole countries (including Australia) were nearly completely decimated after the war, and thus people have ample reasons to hate Omnics and be distrustful of them, particularly those who were around the time it happened.

* For a peacekeeping organization, it can be rather disturbing to know that many Overwatch personnel let Blackwatch's gruesome activities happen within their walls for so long, either out of ignorance or because they saw it as a NecessaryEvil and willingly turned a blind eye for the greater good.
* [[NebulousEvilOrganization Talon.]] They're a worldwide terrorist organization with enough technology to rival that of Overwatch. They use that to kill innocent people, and have enough connections to ensure that they can get away with it. They've made it their goal to spark the fires of war across the world, and if it means having to assassinate peaceful leaders to cause a crisis, then they will make it happen. The scariest part however, is that if they want you to join them, [[MindRape you]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy WILL]] [[ReforgedIntoAMinion join]]. If that means kidnapping you, putting you through an [[ColdBloodedTorture extensive process of torture and abuse to break your will]], then neurally reconditioning you into killing your closest loved one, then so be it. This is what became of Amélie Lacroix, the harmless civilian wife of Overwatch agent Gérard Lacroix, who now serves as their top assassin after going through this "program". Whatever it took to break her, it must've been brutal, as the details have been scarce and probably wouldn't be appropriate for a T-rated game. Just the sheer fact that they can subject this FateWorseThanDeath on anyone makes Talon truly terrifying.

* Winston's backstory has those rampaging gorillas in the moon colony where he used to live as a child. Said gorillas were genetically enhanced to increase their intelligence and give them human-like capabilities, but when they saw Winston being given special treatment for being smarter than them, they developed a hatred for humanity and well, they went apeshit. Thing is, they didn't just take over, they ''murdered the human scientists'' including Winston's adoptive human father Dr. Harold Winston, and Winston himself narrowly escaped with his life.

* Reaper may be NightmareFuel incarnate. One, he's dressed up like the Grim Reaper, only he wields dual shotguns instead of a scythe. Two, in the cinematic trailer, he didn't have qualms attacking Tracer and Winston in a public area where there could be children around. Three, how he kills his victims is as stated in his profile: "The few bodies recovered of those he kills are pale, empty husks drained of life, their cells showing signs of intense degradation." Brr. Four, he moves and acts like a wraith; he could pop up behind you unawares and the only clue that he's there is his evil laughter before he shoots you dead. He can teleport and become intangible.
** He also has the ability to come back from seemingly fatal injures through FromASingleCell. However, it's a double-edged sword - if something kills him, no problem! He'll just go back to being Reaper and filling his enemies with bullets in a matter of minutes. The bad part comes in the form of [[BlessedWithSuck having a severely screwed-up body where cells constantly die and regenerate, ensuring that every time Reaper revives himself, he will experience excruciating pain]]. A respawning voice line indicates that he acknowledges it as being CursedWithAwesome, but at the same time he's not happy about having it either.

** When Ana sees his face in the comic ''Old Soldiers,'' she's horrified. As a reminder, Ana is a veteran that's fought for decades, and has likely seen a lot of awful things, and she's ''still'' horrified. [[BodyHorror Doesn't imply good things]] [[FacialHorror about what happened to him.]]

** And one more? Reaper is a member of Talon. What makes him more terrifying is that unlike Widowmaker who had to be severely conditioned to be loyal, Reaper has no such excuse - their goals align, to hell with morals, he's in. His only apparent complaint is that his [[FromASingleCell method of reviving himself]] kind of hurts, but aside from that, he's wholeheartedly friends with such a terrifying terrorist organization.

*** [[FridgeHorror What in God's name did Reaper do in Blackwatch?]] The fact that Blackwatch was [[NoSuchAgency a sister black ops branch of Overwatch]] was bad enough. The fact that apparently Blackwatch's activities helped destroy public opinion of Overwatch was also bad enough. But what's worse is that as Gabriel Reyes, he apparently did ''[[NoodleIncident something]]'' ...or ''enough'' things... that even [=McCree=], a former arms dealer and gang member, [[EveryoneHasStandards was disgusted by him.]]
*** ''Retribution'' sheds some light on one of possibly many things that Reyes did as head of Blackwatch: killing his targets without just cause. All it took was one small TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to make Reyes snap and kill Talon agent Antonio in cold blood. And to top it all off, Antonio's calm tone throughout the encounter gives heavy implications that Talon set the entire scenario up, having been one step ahead of Overwatch the entire time. Reyes not only killed out of anger, but also a damaged ego.

* Everything about Widowmaker's backstory. Imagine being a harmless civilian, only to be kidnapped, tortured until your will is broken, experimented on, and neurally reconditioned into being a living weapon, all for the sake of murdering your closest loved one. That's what became of Amélie Lacroix, the wife of prominent Overwatch agent Gérard Lacroix, who thwarted the plans of terrorist organization Talon at every turn, so they made her into their assassin just to kill him. It's hinted that the old Amélie still exists on some level and [[AndIMustScream that she is at least partially aware of what she has done]], and [[DeathSeeker wishes she could die]]. Truly a FateWorseThanDeath, as even if the old Amélie were ever revived, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone she would have to live with the guilt of murdering so many people in cold blood]], the first being her own husband, followed by countless others.

* [[AntiHero Soldier: 76]] is no slouch either. Originally an IdealHero, Overwatch's fall into disgrace and destruction, as well as his "death", turned him into a cynical WellIntentionedExtremist obsessed with catching the people responsible. What's more, 76's real name is John Francis "Jack" Morrison, the once celebrated Overwatch hero and leader. After the conflict with his former best friend, Gabriel Reyes (who would soon become Reaper) and Overwatch's destruction, Jack became disillusioned at this turn of events and intended to uncover the truth behind Overwatch's fall, no matter the cost, how many rules he has to break, and what brutal methods he has to use. Likewise, he starts to use violent methods of dealing with criminals, and he has zero qualms about killing them if it means ridding a city of their influence. Doesn’t help that he embodies GoodIsNotNice. [[FridgeHorror It's what happens when you realize how much trauma he has been put through.]]
* What happened to Tracer pre-Overwatch could send chills down your spine. Imagine becoming a ghost, unable to interact with your surroundings and never knowing how long you might disappear. If Winston hadn't fixed her "problem", Tracer could disappear for good. What's worse, Tracer probably had friends and family, so if Tracer "died", they'll probably be sent in a state of grief never knowing what happened to her along with how and why she just suddenly vanished one day and never came back.

** Before he got sent to prison, he took on Winston, Genji, and Tracer while barely moving, easily downing Genji and is even able to grab Tracer ''midfight'', having timed things out to grab the back of the Chronal Accelerator and tear it out, effectively '''destroying it'''. Only Winston in his Primal Rage is able to stop him.
** At present time, when he '''sensed''' that the time had come for him to return, he had simply punched his way out of his prison cell with his single bare-yet-to-be-reequipped with his gauntlet hand, busting a gigantic hole through the cell door.

** Did we mention that he is a ''leader'' of Talon, and he got both the Gauntlet and his position by '''killing Doomfist II'''? And that his goal is to plunge the entire world into conflict, sincerely believing in SocialDarwinism? His belief that humanity will grow stronger through war is a mixture of Talon's ideals and ''his'' own experiences. This is a man who's mastered two forms of martial arts, beat every tournament he was in, all while doing so as a ''hobby''. He seems very disconnected with the norms of the human species.

** ''Overwatch 2'' adds some more horrifying details about Doomfist's actions as a Talon leader. Remember his rivalry with Efi Oladele and Orisa? Yeah, it turns out that it's a ''lot'' more [[ItsPersonal personal]] than intiially believed: Doomfist corrupted Efi's cousin Sibi, manipulating him into becoming a Talon soldier, and then left him to rot in prison. There's also this interaction with Hanzo.
-->'''Doomfist:''' The Shimada could rise again, if you so choose.
-->'''Hanzo:''' There is nothing to that name, but pain.
-->'''Doomfist:''' Pain...and a sleeping dragon. '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Wake. Him. Up.]]'''''

** His entire origin short is an unnerving mind-screw from start to finish, to the point where it would make the perfect horror movie trailer. Typically, new heroes inform the audience of their backstories and motivations from their perspective in their origin stories. Sigma seemingly starts off like this in the first few seconds... then it quickly becomes clear that he's not telling his story; ''it is happening to him.'' His character image ''[[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness and his very perspective]]'' constantly switch from him beginning his gravitation experiment, to that experiment going wrong, to him being carted though a hallway lying in a comatose state in handcuffs and a prison jumpsuit [[AndIMustScream while fully conscious]], to short glimpses of him unleashing untold violence as a villain. What ''exactly'' had happened to him is left ambiguous, but the point is clear; he is trapped in his own mind, ''he's steadily losing his sanity, and is completely terrified throughout the entire thing.''

** AffablyEvil though he may be, Ramattra is solely fueled by his rage and grief at his people's suffering, and all that untempered fury has turned him dangerously insane. Case in point, in "Rammatra: Reflections", it's revealed that ''he'' was the one behind the ''Uprising'' event. Null Sector was once a group with many members leading the charge alongside Ramattra, until the day Ramattra planned to take an omnium in King's Row and use it to create a robotic army to strike back at humanity, letting them know that the organization emant business. The other leaders all objected to the plan, under the pretense that the omnics that would be created by the omnium would be significantly out of date, and they would effectively be creaated just to die. Ramattra refused to listen to them, and sure enough, Overwatch not only soundly defeated him, but killed one of the other Null Sector leaders who chose to battle alongside his forces. In the wake of his wrath and indignation of his own failure, the others realized Ramattra's growing madness would end up hurting not only human-Omnic relations, but also himself. Unable to watch someone who was once their friend do this to himself anymore, the other leaders left Null Sector. And Ramattra continued on alone, a one-man crusade who will make a peaceful world for omnics, whether they like it or not.

* Winston's Primal Rage ultimate briefly reduces him to his hostile primal instincts, turning him from a gorilla who can speak human languages and perform scientific duties into a roaring, terrifying monster with GlowingEyesOfDoom who will stop at nothing to beat his opponents into a pulp. Even Winston himself seems completely terrified of reverting to his baser instincts once he returns to normal, as well as the consequences every time he uses his ult. For extra unsettling points, remember the gorillas who took over the human colony on the moon in Winston's backstory? Winston was shown to be ''terrifying'' whenever he uses his ult (as Reaper found out in the cinematic trailer). To gain a sense of understanding how destructive the moon gorillas can be, imagine a group of Winstons in constant Primal Rage mode. With none of his morals, restraint, or empathy. Or his love for humans. Or his desires to be a hero and [[IJustWantToHaveFriends fight alongside his friends and mentors to make the world a better place]]. Who happens to be genetically enhanced AND in control of an entire moon colony with resources we know nothing about yet. Sleep tight...

** What makes this worse? Apparently King's Row wasn't like that before. There had been efforts to make the place acceptable for Omnics, but thanks to Widowmaker and ultimately Talon, any hopes of peace between humans and Omnics were effectively squashed and as a result, King's Row became an absolute hellhole for Omnics.

** To further add to the terrifying combination of ultimates, Lucio can also speed boost the Nanoboosted Target. This has produced horrifying [[NightmareRetardant yet strangely visually humorous]] sights such as Reaper reaping at the speed of sound.

* One of Roadhog's primary abilities, Chain Hook, stuns and grabs a target into Scrap Gun meatshot range. Not only is being ambushed by a Chain Hook a huge jumpscare, many fragile characters such as Hanzo and Tracer can be killed instantly with a single Scrap Gun shot without any time to return fire or dodge.

* There is something slightly unnerving about the fact that, out of all the R.I.P. victory poses, Reaper is the only one to crawl ''out'' of his grave.

* Any sort of 1v1 match. The chaotic and fun firefight becomes a tense, paranoid bout of looking around constantly for red outlines, worried your singular foe could pop out from behind any wall, with no one to watch your back. Especially if it's the Mystery Duel in Antarctica, which is a confined and almost mazelike area with no safe spots and no healing items, complete with creepy atmosphere...

** The anniverary update makes it worse by adding the loud siren sound effect to these modes, playing whenever you or a teammate is eliminated. Duel with its "your opponent can be anywhere waiting to snipe you in one hit" nature becomes a tad more [[JumpScare terrifying]].

* Snipers in general, excluding for the most part [[CombatMedic Ana.]] As noted in YMMV, a team may be stuck with that [[TheLoad one player who chooses a sniper, isn't good with them, and ''refuse'' to switch]]. On the other hand, you could come across a sniper that's actually ''good'' at what they do. Great. Only for the opposing team, this means any of them who [[MadeOfIron isn't a tank]] could [[BoomHeadshot die instantly]] without warning. Its possible that they could consistently change their position too, [[ParanoiaFuel so you won't know where they might fire next until it's too late.]]
** Widowmaker herself adds more fuel to it because of her Infra-Sight. Imagine that you're just coming out of spawn, or your whole team gets wiped out and you're trying to escape. Then she softly whispers and now she ''and'' her team know where you are. It even worse if you don't know where ''she'' is. A player would have to hide in cover until the Ultimate ends or risk getting headshotted. While she and her teammates are possibly moving in to finish you. It should reminded that Widow [[AxCrazy enjoys killing people]] and that, from the perspective of the player using her, she's '''very''' much aware of the terror her target could be feeling.

** On that note, Hanzo can be arguably ''worse''. His sonic arrow detects enemies as well. While it has a ''far'' smaller scale than Widow's ultimate, it's a secondary ability and can use it more frequently. Widomaker can convert her rifle from sniping mode to an automatic fire that deals relatively low damage in case she's gets into close combat. Hanzo has no automatic mode. ''Every one'' of his arrows still do massive damage and you risked being killed instantly every time you fight him. And unlike Widowmaker, who's whereabouts from be traced through the red trail and thundering sounds left by her shots, the only warning you get from him is a near silent "swoosh".
** Although Ana doesn't have the killing power of the two above, she can still induce terror in other ways. She can negate healing with her ''Biotic Grenade'', which is particularly bad if you're low on health in the middle of a fight and have no protection. Then there's her sleep dart. It'd be enough if she were alone or trying to escape if it hits you, but it's claustrophobic when you're in the middle of a firefight or if the rest of her team surrounds you. It's ''worse'' in Total Mayhem where her cooldown is reduced enough so that she can use it [[AFateWorseThanDeath again and again with out pause.]] The devs even thought this was too much and increased the cooldown for Total Mayhem in the Moira patch.
* For more anti-omnic locations, there's [[WretchedHive Junkertown]]. The first parts is pretty tame, if not low tech and run down. Then comes the final stage of it, where you can find an ''actual pile of Omnic corpses'' under a bridge. One of the hands are ''still twitching.'' [[AndIMustScream Think about the implications.]]

* Anything that renders you immobile, like being frozen, put to sleep with a tranquilizer dart, trapped by a bear trap or stunned with a flashbang, in such a fast paced game in which every second counts and blinking might get you killed, [[AndIMustScream makes you feel truly helpless]]. Sometimes all you can do is just watch stressfully, listen to your heart pounding and wait for the [=McCree=] to empty the revolver's cylinder on you, or the Doomfist to crush you to paste against a wall or for the Mei to stick an icicle through your skull.

* The Christmas brawl: Mei's Snowball Offensive. A 6v6 of Meis on Ecopoint: Antarctica with modified abilities that makes for a SnowballFight sounds adorable, right? '''Wrong'''. These snowballs are silent [[OneHitKill one-hit eliminations]], and if you die, you ''stay'' dead until the next round. You only get one snowball before having to reload on glowing snow piles that are usually out in the open, meaning every moment and every shot counts. One of the maps is set in Ecopoint: Antarctica at nighttime with an [[NothingIsScarier eerily minimal music box version of Jingle Bells playing as the ambience,]] though this is occasionally broken by Mei's creepily cheerful lines throughout the match like "Come out..." and "I'm gonna get you!" It's likely meant to be playful in tone, [[AccidentalNightmareFuel but the end result is]] ParanoiaFuel at its finest.

** The Null Sector Omnics are unsettling - the [[HellIsThatNoise sounds]] they make in particular are often disturbingly human-sounding. What's worse is not only the OR-14 units' distorted growls, but the Bastions in Tank configuration, whose otherwise cute chirping of the "Charge!" fanfare has become chillingly distorted. It straight-up sounds like they're ''wailing in pain''.
** Want to get a taste for how grim and hopeless the Omnic Crisis was? Play ''Uprising'' on Legendary and ''suffer''. Statistics at the end of the event showed that more ''Uprising'' matches - across all difficulties - were ''lost'' rather than won.
* Retribution gives us a hint as to what started Overwatch's downfall. A Blackwatch Strike Team comprised of Reyes, [=McCree=], Genji and Moira was secretly dispatched on a black ops mission to Venice to covertly capture and extract a Talon executive responsible for the bombing of an Overwatch facility. According to Morrison, something went horribly wrong.

---> '''Antonio''': Good evening, Commander Reyes. (''chuckle'') How will this look on the news? Overwatch ''unlawfully'' abducting a well respected business man? Even if you take me now, my friends would have me released within the week. All these...theatrics, have been a waste of our time.
---> '''Reyes''':...You're right. ''(BLAM)''

* The Endless variant of Junkenstein's Revenge involves you surviving 12 waves in order to ensure that the people you're protecting escape unharmed. Then you get to the bonus waves. Ever thought Witch Mercy reviving everybody was annoying? Especially on harder difficulties? Now you have to fight ''two'' of each boss at once. That means 2 Reapers, 2 Roadhogs, 2 Symmetras, 2 Junkrats, and yes, 2 Mercies reviving everyone. And that's only the first few waves. After surviving the Mercies, the number goes up by one, so in the second cycle you have to contend with '''3''' Symmetras[=/=]Junkrats[=/=]etc., on top of the enemies you normally fight increasing in numbers.

* Brian taking the Doomfist and punching Widowmaker across the room with it was indeed a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. What's less awesome and more horrifying to think about however, was that Widowmaker got up several seconds later, looking visibly angry at the 15-year-old. What does she do? She picks up her gun and aims it at Brian. Fortunately, Winston came in just in time to save him. Still, it's scary to think that if Winston hadn't shown up when he did, we would've had to find out if Widowmaker would've simply made Brian hand over the gauntlet at gunpoint, [[MoralEventHorizon or if she would've opened fire on a defenseless person who is less than half her age]].

* The ending reveals another reason why Reaper is NightmareFuel personified. He has the ability to come back from the dead, so as long as FromASingleCell is in full effect, since he was able to survive being disintegrated by Winston's Tesla Cannon.
* Before that, it's revealed that since Overwatch's destruction Reaper has been hunting down and killing anyone associated with Overwatch, and would've succeeded with Winston if he hadn't decided to hold the VillainBall and rub it in his would-be victim's face.

* Widowmaker is shown to get off from killing her targets, saying the act of killing make her feel [[TitleDrop alive]]. Her response to killing a greatly respected Omnic rights leader?. ''Laugh''.

* Overlapping with TearJerker, if you look at Winston's set of images involving the various current crisis around the world, we get some truly horrifying images, including a monorail that was blown up by terrorists with its passengers still inside while bystanders look in in horror; a group of children being held at gunpoint while crying over the body of their dead Omnic guardian; and a city in the Middle East implied to have been hit by a plague. It's at this point where Winston's speech turns into a desperate call for help.

* This short reveals another reason why Soldier: 76 is NightmareFuel incarnate. His beatdown of the Los Muertos gang, firstly by stealth (including a punk who's dragged into an alleyway screaming for his life), then in brutal hand to hand combat involving [[CombatPragmatist bashing his opponents into walls, electrical outlets, each other and with their own weapons]] and then in ranged combat where he outright blows up one of the punks with his Helix Rockets (said punk was firing a minigun at him, so fair game) and kills three more attempting to shoot him from the rooftops (if the bullets didn't kill them, [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou the fall certainly did]]). What caps it off is the way he beats the last conscious punk (who's now begging for his life) over the head with a burnt piñata while shouting [[PunctuatedPounding "These! Aren't! Your! Streets! Anymore!"]]. His actions utterly terrify the little girl witnessing the whole ordeal, so much so that when he looks at her, she immediately thinks that she's next. Fortunately, the horror is softened when 76 shows that he's [[KnightInSourArmor still a hero]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold at heart]] when faced with the decision to chase the remaining punks down or save the girl from a thrown grenade, and things turn [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming shortly after that]].
* Early in the trailer, a group of thugs beat up a lone Omnic, and try to coerce the little girl mentioned above into "giving what he deserves". Even worse? The Omnic they were beating up was simply in the wrong place, at the wrong time. After the events of "Alive", attacks like this have become extremely common. Another horrifying detail: you can see the poor, beaten Omnic flashing a peace sign to his attackers. He could have been aggressive and taken them down to get them off his back, but instead opted for pacifism.

** There are millions of other Bastion units opening fire towards the humans, ''millions'' of them firing all at once. A Crusader uses his Fire Stike to take out some of them, but it's virtually NOTHING compared to the horde still fighting. Battleships bigger than any ship made today are flying in the sky, deploying more Omnic troops so fast you'd swear they were raindrops. In the background, you can see ''gigantic'' Omnics slowly stomping their way towards the human city. The few jets the humans are using are shot down within ''seconds.'' And throughout the entire thing, there is not a single frame where bullets are not flying. Oh, and for EXTRA added horror? This is just ONE city. ONE. The Omnic Crisis was a world-wide event. So just imagine this one twenty-five second long clip of horror - and then impose it over every other city on the planet.

* There's one that's filled with FridgeHorror after the flashback, too. After it "snaps out of it", Bastion's eye turns red and it straightens up, resuming the mindless, genocidal programming it had when it fought during the Omnic Crisis. It then cocks its machine gun and starts marching towards the city in the distance. If Ganymede hadn't found Bastion and snapped it out of the Crisis-programming...how devastating would that have been? The FridgeHorror deepens when you remember the "Mission Statement" comic and exactly what the Anubis God Program could do, that is to say Hijack Omnics and make them serve it. Bastion's "resuming" of it's wartime programming might have been it being ''re-infected'' with the orders of a God Program, only escaping through willpower and ThePowerOfFriendship. Now imagine the fact that every single Omnic in the flashback described above was to some degree sentient, [[AndIMustScream and may have been forced to move and fight against their will.]]

** To further explain, imagine yourself as a simple trooper who's just doing his job. All of a sudden, you're assaulted by the moving shadow of death that is Reaper, who then effortlessly massacres your friends. And even if you survived that, suddenly, BoomHeadshot from Widowmaker. Katya just narrowly avoided being shot—"narrowly" meaning Widowmaker's would-be killshot taking off half an earring instead—and even then the near-miss was only out of ''pure luck''.

* The second half of the short is basically one massive punch of fear, especially with how crystal clear Sombra makes her threat to Volskaya without ever saying it aloud: either do what she wants, or say goodbye to your child.

* Doomfist does ''not'' mess around. In the flashbacks of the fabled fight with Winston strewn throughout the trailer, he was [[TheJuggernaut able to simultaneously take on Winston, Genji and Tracer with minimal effort,]] and he's even able to grab Tracer ''midfight'', having timed things out to tear off her Chronal Accelerator. And to make things worse, we see Tracer glitch around... before ''fading out'' (albeit ''that'' is shown reflected in Winston's glasses). The trailer then ends revealing that he had simply punched his way out of his prison cell with his single bare, yet-to-be-reequipped-with-his-gauntlet hand, busting a gigantic hole through the cell door. And if you remember Orisa's backstory, Doomfist wrecked the whole squad of OR-15 units with just bare hands.
** It wasn't just how Doomfist attempted to kill Tracer, but notice Genji noticeably starts short circuiting and clutching at his chestpiece after getting punched in the chest by Doomfist. It's heavily implied Doomfist's objective wasn't to play around with our heroes, but flat-out kill them in cold-blood. Watching Winston's horrified expression turn to absolute animalistic rage at seeing his friends nearly get killed by Doomfist just shows how scary the match-up is. Just thinking what about what was going through Winston's head, that two of his family members are dying right infront of him due to the man infront of him, at that point is a bit terrifying to think about. It makes you wonder how Winston managed to come back from that particular bout of his primal rage...

* The OR-14s up the nightmare fuel level set by the Bastion units. The first one is introduced emerging from the smoke of a high altitude insert, emitting a terrifying distorted tone as a warcry. It then proceeds to stop a Crusader's charge dead and nearly kills Reinhardt with a nasty looking blade. And then more of them appear, creeping through the ruins and leaping from rooftops with far more agility than such bulky machines should be capable of, all while emitting their terrible distorted howls.

** Take a moment to let the FridgeHorror sink in. Numbani Omnics showing up in Germany. Whatever caused the Omnic Crisis, it was coordinating on a ''global'' scale, and was starting to mix it's forces to trip up defenders.

* Hana's flashback to fighting the Gwishin is pretty terrifying (and a far cry frown how Korean news media portrayed the fight). Stormy, pounding rain, with the only thing visible being the gigantic Gwishin itself dwarfing D.Va...all the while hearing the panic of her teammates as they're going down. There's little wonder that she ends up [[FlashbackStares taking pause]] as she remembers she's the only one healthy enough to respond to another threat.
* The Gwishin's evolving strategy comes into play. It knows how many MEKA are left after the attack while also knowing about the intervals between when it can attack next. So it almost caught everyone off guard by keeping a reserve squad of missile armed fighters and sending them out while the main MEKA force is still reeling. Had D.va not been the workaholic she is, they would have killed thousands before anyone could respond.

** One sequence his comatose state while the room he's in flashes red from alarm lights while sounds of sirens and gunshots occur in the background. In a blink and you'll miss it moment, you can see him ''smiling'' as he rises from his stretcher.

** One enforcer grabs the little girl and flings the old man into the path of gun fire. Although no blood is shown, this seems to be a fatal shot.

** Junkrat and Roadhog's situation is terrifying in context. An honest and hard-working employee gets screwed over people in the legal system who use loopholes in said system to fire and ruin him. In revenge, he goes on a rampage killing everyone he feels have wronged him in some way or another. Even those who are innocent are targeted anyway simply through association or were just in the way. Granted, Junkrat and Roadhog were criminals to begin with, but the connections are there.

* Also with this, it could be implied that this is the legal system running in the world, meaning all companies, even Vishkar Corporation, had to comply with this system, meaning that such corrupt system and abuses to the honest workers are standards. All of the sudden, Vishkar just looks like it has a lot of competitions for 'the most despicably amoral company' and it paints the darkness of the business world in that world...

* There's Anubis, which is what's called a "God Program", which were presumably built to serve as some sort of command units during the Omnic Crisis. But somewhere down the line, Anubis went rogue, forcing Overwatch to quarantine and contain it (but not destroy it, which they should've done in retrospect). One of the things Anubis can do as a God Program is hack and freely control any Omnic within his range of operation into doing his bidding by turning them all into his own personal HiveMind. Imagine being one of the Omnics who only wants to live in peace with humans and having that thing wake up near you, suddenly turning you into the KillAllHumans stereotype you've been trying to fight off for years. It's implied that God Programs are powerful than the ordinary Omnic, as Pharah and her team ''barely'' manage to defeat Anubis and shut his system down. Made worse by how one of Pharah's soldiers for the mission was an Omnic... who shoots himself in the head when he detects Anubis trying to take over him.

* Remember how Omnics were previously shown to be self-aware? Well here, it's revealed that some Omnics are giant-sized enough to be ''piloted by humans'', a la ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}''. Which means it's possible for anyone to go and lay waste to countries by using these things, and pin the blame on innocent Omnics, further stirring up FantasticRacism. Torbjörn's former partner Sven used one such Omnic to lay waste to Kurjikstan's captial city, bringing destruction and death. Sven claims that he's doing this to prevent [[LensmanArmsRace a greater evil]], but his true motives are actually fueled by greed - specifically, the cash bonus offered by whomever hired him to destroy countless of innocent people. And the worst part? Torbjörn was responsible for the creation of these Omnics.

* Although it's [[OneSceneWonder brief]], we see Genji during his time with Overwatch. He has a darker color palette, there are tubes protruding from his body, and his left arm and face are exposed, revealing numerous scars and [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]]. And there's a Blackwatch insignia on his chest. ''Blackwatch'', the black ops branch that did things hidden from the public that disgusted [[BoxedCrook McCree]] and factored into Overwatch's downfall. ''This'' is who Genji was before he met Zenyatta and found peace, when he was just dismembered by his own brother and went to topple his clan's empire. All in a few panels. So if you look in Hanamura where the first "fight" between Genji and Hanzo happened, there is the torn flag of the Shimada clan. With the release of the new skin, implications of the confrontation between the two get worse. Judging how much is left of Genji's body and how he was cut, Genji was not facing Hanzo when he was slashed. There is also how the slash on the flag is positioned and the blood splatter that stained it signifies that it was an upward slash. Hanzo slashed him in the back so Genji never saw it coming at worst. There is also the line where if you have Genji attack someone with his sword in the back, he'll say ," I learned that from my brother."

* The entire comic has an ominous tone, taking place in the Overwatch's twilight, and [[ForegoneConclusion while we all know it's going to end badly]], [[FromBadToWorse the clarity makes things even more horrifying]]. Gérard is nearly killed by a bombing within the Blackwatch facility, Overwatch is running out of legal options to combat Talon as innocents are still dying, and the Blackwatch squad of Reyes, [=McCree=], Genji, and Moira are headed off on an unsanctioned mission to hunt down a Talon operative in Venice. Given the confidential treatment of the "Venice Incident", this could very well be a leadup to [[FallenHero Blackwatch's final descent]], punctuated by a final frame: he's not wearing a mask, but [[{{Foreshadowing}} the hooded Reyes]] [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil already looks just like Reaper]].

* TheReveal in the Toronto mission that Ramattra has been pushed to utterly ''monstrous'' extremes. Not only is he kidnapping Omnic civilians, he's ''co-opting'' what Aurora sacrificed for his own purposes. His ultimate plan is to [[AssimilationPlot merge all Omnics' minds together through the Iris]], stripping them of their free will and becoming a HiveMind, effectively "saving" them by committing mass genocide on his own kind. The devices he places on their heads effecitvely strip their souls away, killing the part of them that's "alive" and leaving only an empty husk as their minds are uploaded...somewhere else. Their bodies are still alive, but there's no mind inhabiting them anymore.
** The thing that causes this is even more terrifying. Enter the Subjugator, a new type of Null Sector weapon that is literally a brain-sucking alien robot designed to forcibly upload the minds of Omnics out of their bodies. We get to see a helpless Omnic civilian fall victim to it, and there's nothing Overwatch can do but look on as te Subjugator approaches its target and places itself atop their head. The poor Omnic struggles in vain to get it off for a few brief moments, only for his body to suddenly go limp and fall to the ground, lifeless.

* TheStinger. Zenyatta is seen meditating inside a temple, reminiscing on the day Ramattra left the Shambali. But while he's lost in thought, a pair of familiar looking silhouettes sneak up right behind him. The shot pans, and it's none other than ''Sombra and Widowmaker''. Talon already has their sights set on Zenyatta, and whatever reasons they may have for wanting him, they're ''definitely'' not good.

** Worse still is the fact that Ramattra is doing all of this without having any real knowledge of what exactly the Iris entails. He's doing all of this on a hunch, what he ''believes'' is [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence guiding his fellow Omnics to enlightenment and safety from human cruelty]]. There is a very real possibility that he is not only being manipulated by Talon, but he also might be playing into the hands of another dormant entity with malicious intentions for humans and Omnics alike - the God Porgram Anubis.
* TheStinger. Zenyatta is seen meditating inside a temple, reminiscing on the day Ramattra left the Shambali. But while he's lost in thought, a pair of familiar looking silhouettes sneak up right behind him. The shot pans, and it's none other than ''Sombra and Widowmaker''. Talon already has their sights set on Zenyatta, and whatever reasons they may be for wanting him, they're ''definitely'' not good.

* TheReveal in the Toronto mission that Ramattra has been pushed to utterly ''monstrous'' extremes. Not only is he kidnapping Omnic civilians, he's ''co-opting'' what Aurora sacrificed for his own purposes. His ultimate plan is to [[AssimilationPlot merge all Omnics' minds together through the Iris]], stripping them of their free will and becoming a HiveMind. The devices he places on their heads effecitvely strip their souls away, killing the part of them that's "alive" and leaving only an empty husk as their minds are uploaded...somewhere else. Their bodies are still alive, but there's no mind inhabiting them anymore

* TheReveal in the Toronto mission that Ramattra has been pushed to utterly ''monstrous'' extremes. Not only is he kidnapping Omnic civilians, he's ''co-opting'' what Aurora sacrificed for his own purposes. His ultimate plan, through using his own free will, is to [[AssimilationPlot merge all Omnics' minds together through the Iris]], stripping them of ''their'' free will and becoming a HiveMind. The devices he places on their heads effecitvely strip their souls away, killing the part of them that's "alive" and leaving only an empty husk as their minds are uploaded...somewhere else.

* TheReveal in the Toronto mission that Ramattra has been pushed to utterly ''monstrous'' extremes. Not only is he kidnapping Omnic civilians, he's ''co-opting'' what Aurora sacrificed for his own purposes. His ultimate plan, through using his own free will, is to [[AssimilationPlot merge all Omnics' minds together through the Iris]], stripping them of ''their'' free will and becoming a HiveMind. The devices he places on their heads effecitvely strip their souls away, killing the part of them that's "alive" and leaving only an empty husk.

** What's worse? He's purple, ''[[KillAllHumans Null Sector]]'' purple.

* The Year of the Rooster updates feature the "Tal" skin for Ana and "Sanzang" skin for Zenyatta, based off of Korean Hahoetal masks and the character of Xuanzang Sanzang of ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest.'' These wouldn't be so bad, except their faces are [[UncannyValley absolutely creepy as hell,]] [[https://gfycat.com/SaneCleanJaguar with Tal Ana's mask in a perpetual smile]], and [[https://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/overwatch.gamepedia.com/9/96/Zenyatta_Skin_Sanzang.png?version=18dd56e4037fc2f500577f7a0a4d4d59 Sanzang Zenyatta's face that looks to be made of porcelain looks just as unnerving as Nutcracker Zenyatta.]]

** ''Overwatch 2'' adds more fuel to the fire through her and Moira's interactions with each other. Although it's all but stated that Widowmaker is getting some of her emotions back, Moira seems to press her ''constantly'' about whether or not she has regained them. Widowmaker claims the notion is ridiculous, but the instant Moira mentions "getting ideas" about her loyalties to Talon, she suddenly and hastily says "[[BadBadActing No. Never.]]" While Widowmaker may work with Moira and respect her as a Talon colleague to some extent in the current time, she very clearly fears her as the one who turned her into what she is now and as the one holding the proverbial leash on her, only keeping up appearances because disobedience could lead Moira to do even worse things to her in order to reset her back into a truly emotionless killer, instead of her being allowed to take some form of pleasure in it, as twisted as it sounds.