History NightmareFuel / PandoraHearts

** It's visually implied that the form of a chain reflects their mental stability. For example, White Alice takes the form of a demented White Rabbit when tormenting her sister earlier in the manga, complete with psychotic eyes that bleed, and towards the end of the manga her form becomes more and more demented as [[spoiler: the Core throws a temper tantrum over possibly losing Alice]]. Why is this important to mention in regards to Oz? [[spoiler: Because when Oz first takes the form of a true Chain and emerges through the Gate for the first time, B-Rabbit is large, solid, majestic, and honestly kind of posh in his red waistcoat - but over the course of the tragedy his body deforms; his limbs and body parts lose their proportions, his eyes lose their definition, until B-Rabbit is nothing but a vague, horrendously warped shade begging for help, with all of his defining physical features gone except for two protruding shapes that may have once been rabbit ears. This isn't a quirk of the visual style unique to this Oz-perspective flashback, either: when time begins to fall apart towards the end of the series and the cast encounters Past!Jack and Past!Oswald fighting in front of the tower, Past!B-Rabbit is shown being forced to attack and kill Oswald and appearing utterly demented while doing so. The horror is that this visual state ''[[MindRape is a physical manifestation of what Jack's actions are doing to Oz's mind.'' At least the reader can take comfort in knowing that once Oz's friends regroup to stop the second tragedy, Oz manifests as B-Rabbit again several times and shows very clearly that B-Rabbit is back to looking posh as hell.]]

** Then, there's also the chance that you will end up having a [[ApocalypseMaiden Child of Ill Omen]] for a sibling, whom you will have to [[ShootTheDog send into the Abyss]] to be killed DeaderThanDead. The Worse part is that the entire narrative about their deaths being necessary was a pack of lies created by the Jurors. The Jurors, who try to decide the "story" of the world, consider the Children of Misfortune a threat not because they are inherently dangerous to the world but because they're actually ImmuneToFate and completely unpredicatable, and thus tend to ruin the Jurors' plans just by existing. In other words, the Children of Misfortune only die for the sake of the Jurors' control complex.

** Then, there's also the chance that you will end up having a [[ApocalypseMaiden Child of Ill Omen]] for a sibling, whom you will have to [[ShootTheDog send into the Abyss]] to be killed DeaderThanDead.The Worse part is that everything about the Children of Ill Omen were lies by the Jurors as they were a thereat to their plans being irregulars created by the cores basically all the Baskervilles were just tools for their stories and they were sacrificing innocent people for nothing.

* As we have already said, Chains are for all intents and purposes, [[OurDemonsAreDifferent this series' equivalent of demons.]] Let's solidify this comparison further, shall we ? Since Chains can't stay outside the Abyss on their own, they form [[DealWithTheDevil contracts with humans]] by claiming if enough lives are sacrificed, history can be changed.

* The Bloody Black Rabbit/B-Rabbit: The most powerful chain in existence, the B-Rabbit has the power to destroy the world. Not by blowing it up, but by destroying what keeps the Abyss out. It wields a scythe and a floating VariableLengthChain as weapons and its power reduces everything, even other Chains, to dust.

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Then there's what he thinks during another FreakOut in the ruins of Sabier. He thinks this all while cutting people down and looking very deranged.

* This [[http://www.mangareader.net/pandora-hearts/70/42 image]] of Oz being [[spoiler:soaked in blood with the revelation of him being B-rabbit. It is incredibly disturbing.]]
* [[spoiler:Oz was B-rabbit once upon a time, right? He must've been a total psycho who loved killing. Nope. The entire time Jack orders him to kill people, you can hear Oz shouting, "No, I don't want to kill people!" Then, when Jack runs into Alice, she gets completely stiff and asks him what he's done to Oz. She says, "Can't you see Oz screaming through his tears?" Then you get this image: [[http://www.mangareader.net/pandora-hearts/74/44 Sweet dreams]].]]

* The more obvious it becomes that Jack is not outright evil or yandere-ish but [[spoiler: empty,]] the more unnerving his character gets. His confession during the last volume that [[spoiler: he's obsessed with Lacie not because he loves her but because he hates her,]] as well as that [[spoiler: extreme resentment is the only thing that successfully allows him to feel alive,]] is absolutely bone-chilling.

** [[spoiler:Elliot's rather-bloody HeroicSacrifice and Leo's subsequent... [[SanitySlippage change]] in [[StoppedCaring characterization]]]] weren't exactly happy either.

* The Tragedy of Sablier. It's a massacre, after all. [[spoiler:And said massacre happened to double as a MercyKill to save the people within Sablier from AFateWorseThanDeath, as Sablier starts to fall into the Abyss.]] Poor Oz is understandably disturbed [[spoiler:,even when he was still B-Rabbit]].
* The fact that [[spoiler:Jack]] completely stripped [[spoiler:Oz]] of free will and forced him to slaughter an ''entire city.'' [[spoiler:Oz]] [[AndIMustScream couldn't do a thing about it,]] as he was completely under [[spoiler:Jack's]] control. Also, [[SarcasmMode it must have been fun]] to watch [[spoiler:Alice]], his most beloved person, [[spoiler:stab [[DrivenToSuicide herself]] to death with scissors.]]
** It also must have been fun for Alice to [[spoiler:hear her best friend Oz's tortured screams while he was forced to slaughter her Uncle Oswald right outside her window. And we know she heard this, because we see an image of her desperately trying to cover her ears during Oswald's murder in Retrace 99, and it's the very first thing she questions Jack about when he storms into her tower immediately after her uncle's murder (as seen in Retrace 74). When Alice demands to know how and why Jack's ignoring Oz's screams, tears, and pleas to stop ([[https://www.mangareader.net/pandora-hearts/74/44 complete with an absolutely horrifying image]] of the now super-deformed B-Rabbit in ''absolute agony),'' Jack simply replies: [[TheSociopath "Who cares about that?"]]]]

** Also doubles as a twisted CrowningMomentOfFunny. Vincent's face is priceless.

** It also must have been fun for Alice to [[spoiler:hear her best friend Oz's tortured screams while he is forced to slaughter her Uncle Oswald right outside her window. And we know she heard this, because we see an image of her desperately trying to cover her ears during Oswald's murder in Retrace 99, and it's the very first thing she questions when Jack storms into her tower immediately after her uncle's murder (as seen in Retrace 74). When Alice demands to know how and why Jack's ignoring Oz's screams, tears, and pleas to stop ([[https://www.mangareader.net/pandora-hearts/74/44 complete with an absolutely horrifying image]] of the now super-deformed B-Rabbit in ''absolute agony).'' Jack's reply? [[TheSociopath "Who cares about that?"]]]]

** It also must have been fun for Alice to [[spoiler:hear her best friend Oz's tortured screams while he is forced to slaughter her Uncle Oswald right outside her window. And we know she heard this, because we see an image of her desperately trying to cover her ears during Oswald's murder, and when Jack comes into her tower immediately after, she demands to know how and why he's ignoring them (complete with an absolutely horrifying image of the now super-deformed B-Rabbit in ''absolute agony).'' [[TheSociopath Jack replies with a complete non-understanding of why he should care.]]]]

** It also must have been fun for Alice to [[spoiler:hear her best friend Oz's tortured screams while he is forced to slaughter her Uncle Oswald right outside her window. And we know she heard this, because we see an image of her desperately trying to cover her ears during Oswald's murder, and when Jack comes into her tower immediately after, she demands to know how and why he's ignoring them (complete with an absolutely horrifying image of the now super-deformed B-Rabbit in ''complete agony.'' [[TheSociopath Jack replies with a complete non-understanding of why he should care.]]]]

* [[BewareTheSillyOnes Break]] is usually a [[SweetTooth sweet-craving]] Troll who [[StealthHiBye appears and disappears out of freakin' nowhere]]. Unless you're his enemy or an UnwittingPawn. If you're the latter, then he'll be as [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative as possible to make his plans go well]] ([[MagnificentBastard and he'll even tell you that he's only using you]]). If you're the former, then [[BloodKnight he'll gladly fight you]], [[SoftSpokenSadist torture you]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking AND]] make some [[SlasherSmile frightening]] [[PsychoticSmirk expressions]]. [[DissonantSerenity His silly behavior's still around though]].

* Whenever Oz has FreakOut, things quickly become violent and disturbing.

* What is it that [[http://mangasaurus.com/view/50041-01418485 Gil is cradling]] after he's [[spoiler: regained all his memories? Oswald's head.]]

* As we have already said, Chains are, for all intents and purposes, [[OurDemonsAreDifferent this series' equivalent of demons.]] Let's solidify this comparison further, shall we ? Since Chains can't stay outside the Abyss on their own, they form [[DealWithTheDevil contracts with humans]] by claiming if enough lives are sacrificed, history can be changed.

* The fact that [[spoiler:Jack]] completely stripped [[spoiler:Oz]] of free will and forced him to slaughter an ''entire city.'' [[spoiler:Oz]] [[AndIMustScream couldn't do a thing about it,]] as he was completely under [[spoiler:Jack's]] control. Also, [[SarcasmMode it must have been fun]] to watch [[spoiler:Alice]], his most beloved person, [[spoiler:stab herself to death with scissors.]]

* The Tragedy of Sablier. It's a massacre, for Pete's sake! [[spoiler:Said massacre happened to double as a MercyKill to save the people within Sablier from AFateWorseThanDeath, as Sablier starts to fall into the Abyss.]] Poor Oz is understandably disturbed [[spoiler:,even when he was still B-Rabbit]].
* The part where Alice has a horrifying daydream about a bunch of hands dragging her down into the abyss was pretty horrifying in its own right. And why did no one mention poor Cheshire? [[spoiler:Having your eyes cut out by a psycho boy with scissors is [[CruelAndUnusualDeath not a great way to die]].]]

*** There ''is'' an explanation for this scene, but it's only revealed many, many volumes later, [[MindScrew and it's not even revealed directly]]--the readers have to infer by themselves. [[NothingIsScarier The fact that both the readers and Oz are forced to go for an incredibly long time without have any idea what this scene was supposed to represent makes it even more unnerving.]]

*** There ''is'' an explanation for this scene, but it's only revealed many, many volumes later, [[MindScrew and it's not even revealed directly]]--the readers have to infer by themselves. [[NothingIsScarier The fact that both the readers and Oz are forced to go for a very long time without knowing what this scene is supposed to mean makes it even ''more'' unnerving.]]

* There's a nightmare-inducing scene in the ''first volume.'' Oz falls into a hole and finds a mysterious grave, and then he starts hearing a strange music-box tune that he recognizes in his heart, even though he swears he's never heard it before. Then he starts to ''hallucinate'' [[spoiler:(although this "hallucination" is actually in all likelihood a distorted flashback)]] and ends up in a room full of extremely unnerving dolls who are ''speaking'' and telling him nonsensical things like "she's going to be so happy" and "she's been waiting for you." Then a disturbing young girl with hair over her eyes and a white dress comes and tells him she's been waiting for him for many years and that's she's so happy to finally see him again. Oz, obviously having no idea what's happening, asks what and who she is, and she goes ''berserk.'' Her eyes turn into empty, bloody sockets and she tries to strangle him, telling him that she will never forgive him and that no matter where he runs, ''she will always find him.''

* There's a nightmare-inducing scene in the ''first volume.'' Oz falls into a hole and finds a mysterious grave, and then he starts hearing a strange music-box tune that he recognizes in his heart, even though he swears he's never heard it before. Then starts to ''hallucinate'' [[spoiler:(although this "hallucination" is actually in all likelihood a distorted flashback)]] and ends up in a room full of extremely unnerving dolls who are ''speaking'' and telling him nonsensical things like "she's going to be so happy" and "she's been waiting for you." Then a disturbing young girl with hair over her eyes and a white dress comes and tells him she's been waiting for him for many years and that's she's so happy to finally see him again. Oz, obviously having no idea what's happening, asks what and who she is, and she goes ''berserk.'' Her eyes turn into empty, bloody sockets and she tries to strangle him, telling him that she will never forgive him and that no matter where he runs, ''she will always find him.''

* There's a nightmare-inducing scene in the ''first volume.'' Oz falls into a hole and finds a mysterious grave, and then he starts hearing a strange music-box tune that he recognizes in his heart, even though he swears he's never heard it before. Then starts to ''hallucinate'' [[spoiler:(although this "hallucination" is actually in all likelihood a distorted flashback)]] and ends up in a room full of extremely unnerving dolls who are ''speaking'' and telling him nonsensical things like "she's going to be so happy" and "she's been waiting for you." Then a disturbing young girl with hair over her eyes and a white dress comes and tells him she's been waiting for him for many years and that's she's so happy to finally see him again. Oz, obviously having no idea what's happening, asks what and who she is, and she goes ''berserk.'' Her eyes turn into empty, bloody sockets and she tries to strangle him, telling him that she will never forgive him and that no matter where he runs, she will always find him.

*** There ''is'' an explanation for this scene, but it's only revealed many, many volumes later, and it's not even revealed directly--the readers have to infer by themselves. The fact that both the readers and Oz are forced to go for a very long time without knowing what this scene is supposed to mean makes it even ''more'' unnerving.

* Normally yanderes visibly go ''nuts'' when their loved one is threatened. and the madness stays with them. Alternatively, sociopaths are extremely good at faking emotion and acting friendly but go a little deeper and they simply don't care . ''Jack is neither''. He is completely, utterly rational and reasonable in his actions regarding Lacie even when they're obviously insane and he never shows anything other than a genuine smile even when he's planning something incredibly twisted. He is a DoggedNiceGuy taken to the ''extreme'' and gets creepier when you think about it. The fact that he creeps out a ''Baskerville'' should clue you in about how disturbing this guy is.

* At in times of extreme distress he will scratch at his empty eye socket causing it to bleed. He's also going blind in his remaining eye.

* [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon Vincent]] [[PsychopathicManchild still shows some]] of his [[JerkassWoobie childhood]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast issues]]. As a kid, he had the habit of cutting things up with scissors ([[AndYourLittleDogToo cats]] [[DisproportionateRetribution are NOT]] [[EyeScream immune]] and as an adult he cuts dolls and [[TortureTechnician people]]. [[DissonantSerenity All sweet]] [[SoftSpokenSadist and polite]].

* The aforementioned [[TheLostLenore Lacie]] danced under raining 'blood' and often was CuteAndPsycho. [[CharacterDevelopment She stopped after growing up]].