History NightmareFuel / Persona5Strikers

** On that note, the Okinawa jail itself. The jail itself takes the research lab and twists it into an abandoned human experimentation facility, with melted shadows appearing out of nowhere to ambush you ''[[ActionBomb by exploding.]]'' Throughout the jail you can find dairy entries that highlight just how horrifying various people found the experiments, records someone being experimented on ''for leaking intel'', tapes that highlight the Monarch's mental state as he's driven to ''suicide'' as well as an optional tape recorder with SOMETHING screaming. Futaba responds the same way the player probably did.

* Shadow Alice at first looks totally fine...until she transforms into what is shown in the page image. When she transforms, a pair of human-like carrots manifest followed by a tail that resembles those of a ''Persona 4'' Hablerie. And then when you look at her face...[[FacialHorror she has her left eye and her mouth stitched shut]]. Her second form is even worse, since she just turns into a vicious beast that does ''insane'' amounts of damage by slashing or running over you.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Oh my, I'm late for a very important date. Come along, come along! [[DisproportionateRetribution I have such wonders to show you!]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Oh my, I'm late for a very important date. Come along, come along! [[ColdBloodedTorture I have such wonders to show you!]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:And you thought [[VideoGame/Persona4 Shadow Rise]] [[FanDisservice was bad]]...]]

* Just like the previous game, there's a secret person monitoring the Jails, confirmed by Futaba when Zenkichi hands her Alice and Natsume's phone. Unlike the previous one, this one pops out right after the line is said because they can clearly hear Morgana talk even if they've previously not encountered the Phantom Thieves in the Metaverse. Again, this is the true culprit - of all things - who has been secretly counting on your downfall since Sendai.
* The justification for the RoadTripPlot counts as major ParanoiaFuel. Zenkichi informs the team that, now that their crusade against the Monarchs is public knowledge, crazed Monarch followers all over the country will be on the lookout for them, and they could be literlly ''anyone,'' such as the captain of a plane or the engineer of a bullet train, who could crash their vehicles and kill everyone on board if they knew the Thieves were on board. What's more, we see that Akira Konoe has several high-ranking police and politicians mesmerized, and he could just as easily do the same to critical transportation officials assuming he hasn't already; all he'd need to do then is learn which train or plane the Thieves were on and orchistrate an "accident", not unlike the train crash from the original game which got the Minister of Transport fired so that he would no longer be in Shido's way. Making matters worse, there's at least four times throughout the story where the Thieves have to get on boats (going either way between Honshu and Hokkaido, and then again from Kobe to Okinawa and then back to Kyushu), whose captains could have sunk the vessel had their desires been taken by a Monarch.

** Akane herself is also nothing short of AdultFear nightmare fuel, and one of the very reasons that the EMMA app is actually an incredibly dangerous public hazard. Her mother got killed by Jyun Owada, one of Shido's cronies, and the incident was conveniently covered up with a patsy. Zenkichi tried to go into it, only to be sent death threats that Akane would die as well if he continued to investigate. Based on how Shido was still an untouchable god during that time, investigating Owada meant the whole police force would automatically be crossing Shido's path, and so the one writing the death threats absolutely '''meant it'''. Small wonder why she's so resentful about the Police that she basically prays for the Phantom Thieves to dissect them, and the fact that they are now cooperating with Police alone puts her into a heavy desperation that is enough to ask someone to save her... then the first thing that reached out to her is nothing other than the EMMA app ''without her consent''. Konoe proceeds to turn her into the Monarch of Kyoto because EMMA said so. In fact, the app doesn't even let Konoe know that he's manipulating Zenkichi's daughter! And then it all goes downhill from here, since the Phantom Thieves, Zenkichi, and Akane herself were put into danger without anyone's knowledge.

* While Konoe isn't that terrifying by himself and is just merely an overzealous and delusional person, his story is another prime AdultFear nightmare fuel. His father hated him so much that he tried to kill him, and since he's the former CEO of Madicce, he's basically untouchable...until young Akira accidentally killed him instead. Sounds like Konoe is horrid, taking a life and covering it up at childhood and then using a MindRape app to establish a OneWorldOrder as an adult, but it is ''very'' chilling at the same time to know that Akira's only choices were to fight back and put his own father to rest, or ''die at the hands of the man who betrayed and killed his mother for money''. Small wonder that he didn't want anyone to end up like him once he got his hands on EMMA. Think about why he modified EMMA to what it became and kickstarted the events of the game.

* Mariko Hyodo's real-world self looks fine, but her Shadow is outright terrifying. Unlike Alice before her, not even her humanoid form looks like a person. She's morbidly obese, outright ugly, and is constantly eating on her dinner table with pieces of oversized food. Her OneWingedAngel form is even worse, as it just turns her body into a bloated, tentacled blobfish that can [[EatenAlive swallow your party members whole]] and you are not getting them back unless you stun her. What also doesn't help is that, just like Alice, she felt so resentful and wronged that it caused her Shadow to look so hideous.

* The whole of Okinawa is now a feverish group of savages that pray for the return of their god because they were being used as human guinea pigs by Konoe; and their Monarch, the state ward, even committed suicide because Konoe simulated a CallingCard on him. Think about that.

** On that note, the Okinawa jail itself. The jail itself takes the research lab and twists it into an abandoned human experimentation facility, with melted shadows appearing out of nowhere to ambush you ''[[ActionBomb by exploding.]]'' Throughout the jail you can find dairy entries that highlight just how horrifying various people found the experiments, records someone being ''experimented'' on for leaking intel, tapes that highlight the Monarch's mental state as he's driven to ''suicide'' as well as an optional tape recorder with SOMETHING screaming. Futaba responds the same way the player probably did.

** Akane herself is also nothing short of AdultFear nightmare fuel, and one of the very reasons that the [=EMMA=] app is actually an incredibly dangerous public hazard. Her mother got killed by Jyun Owada, one of Shido's cronies, and the incident was conveniently covered up with a patsy. Zenkichi tried to go into it, only to be sent death threats that Akane would die as well if he continued to investigate. Based on how Shido was still an untouchable god during that time, investigating Owada meant the whole police force would automatically be crossing Shido's path, and so the one writing the death threats absolutely '''meant it'''. Small wonder why she's so resentful about the Police that she basically prays for the Phantom Thieves to dissect them, and the fact that they are now cooperating with Police alone puts her into a heavy desperation that is enough to ask someone to save her... then the first thing that reached out to her is nothing other than the EMMA app ''without her consent''. Konoe proceeds to turn her into the Monarch of Kyoto because EMMA said so. In fact, the app doesn't even let Konoe know that he's manipulating Zenkichi's daughter! And then it all goes downhill from here, since the Phantom Thieves, Zenkichi, and Akane herself were put into danger without anyone's knowledge.

* While Konoe isn't that terrifying by himself and is just merely an overzealous and delusional person, his story is another prime AdultFear nightmare fuel. His father hated him so much that he tried to kill him, and since he's the former [=CEO=] of Maddice, he's basically untouchable...until young Akira accidentally killed him instead. Sounds like Konoe is horrid, taking a life and covering it up at childhood and then using a MindRape app to establish a OneWorldOrder as an adult, but it is ''very'' chilling at the same time to know that Akira's only choices were to fight back and put his own father to rest, or ''die at the hands of the man who betrayed and killed his mother for money''. Small wonder that he didn't want anyone to end up like him once he got his hands on EMMA. Think about why he modified EMMA to what it became kickstarted the events of the game.

** There's an animated scene before this happens in earnest, and it closes up to the mesmerized public. They literally stare at their phone's EMMA app with ''dead blank eyes'', none the less.

** The last mid-boss you fight before reaching [=EMMA=] is Metatron. Yes, '''that one'''. Not to say that this is the first time Metatron acts as an enemy in any ''Persona'' game, bar the ''Royal'' Challenge Quests.
** And then we get to see [=EMMA=] herself... and she's disturbingly calm and [[AffablyEvil affable]], unlike Yaldabaoth. She's so [[DissonantSerenity eerily calm]] and speaks in the same flat, monotonous, and softly feminine tone even in incredibly tense situations such as her pre-confrontation. It's even worse when the thing is announcing to exterminate you; she never raises her volume, and just speaks in the same monotonous, soft voice.
** When Emma traps Joker in an illusion to "prove" the world's pain, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the objective indicator on the HUD changes to simply read "Obey"]].

** This is also a true-to-the-bone portrayal of the hypothetical AI takeover, where [=AIs=] become so smart that they effectively rule over humanity and becoming its new overlord. While [=EMMA=] isn't exactly malevolent unlike Yaldabaoth, it's still fairly terrifying to think about.

* While an awesome moment, Sophia's Persona awakening might be one of the most disturbing yet, even with the lack of blood. In both the English and Japanese versions, but it might be arguable worse in the English version, due to the unsettling and raw delivery of it all, her screams are disturbingly realistic, and make her sound like she's in complete agony. Keep in mind that all of those painful screams are coming from, what is basically a child, and it sounds a lot like she's violated too... Let that sink in.

** Zenkichi finds Shuzo Ubukata's body, the Monarch of the Okinawa Jail, at the base of some cliffs. He casually mentions that he was dead for months, a fact which unsettles the P-Thieves. Even as a PubSec Inspector, his casual banter at finding a corpse is unnerving.

** Zenkichi finds Shuzo Ubukata's body, the Monarch of the Okinawa Jail. He casually mentions that he was dead for months, a fact which unsettles the P-Thieves. Even as a PubSec Inspector, his casual banter at finding a corpse is unnerving.

** While this is only noticeable via RewatchBonus, Shadow Akane also repeats Konoe's "Operation Oracle"...'' word by word''. She claims that she will change the Phantom Thieves' hearts (and later on, kill them), and then she will target "her mother's killer," the ''same man'' Konoe was going after. The fact that she passes this off as herself displays how terrifying the extent of EMMA's MindRape can actually reach.
* While Konoe isn't that terrifying by himself and is just merely an overzealous and delusional person, his story is another prime AdultFear nightmare fuel. His father hated him so much that he tried to kill him, and since he's the former [=CEO=] of Maddice, he's basically untouchable...until young Konoe accidentally killed him instead. Sounds like Konoe is horrid, but remember that if Konoe didn't put him to rest, he will ''die''. Small wonder that he didn't want anyone to end up like him once he got his hands on [=EMMA=] and kickstarted the events of the game.
** Apparently, Konoe's father killed his mother to get her money...think about why he's modifying [=EMMA=] to what it is now.
* Last but not least, once Konoe takes down [=EMMA=], it fires itself up.... and it turns out that it became a PhysicalGod. It draws people to Tokyo Tower and mesmerizes them so they go to the promised land. Everyone just starts making deranged moanings, similar to the inmates within the Holy Grail shrine.

* At the start of the game, Sophia told the Phantom Thieves to kill Alice's Shadow to induce a mental shutdown - and midway into the game, EMMA was proposing Konoe to manipulate Akane by using her Jail as bait to capture the Phantom Thieves. While this might seem like nothing other than an innocently cruel decision on Sophie's end and an outright one on EMMA's end, both Sophie and EMMA share the same creator. Based on the circumstances surrounding Ichinose about how she shut down her emotions and people just saw her as a "thing" for her mannerisms, it's not surprising that these are just her mindset integrated into her creations.

** When Emma traps Joker in an illusion to "prove" the world's pain, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the objective indicator on the HUD changes to simply read "Obey".]]

** This is also a true-to-the-bone portrayal of the hypothetical [=A.I.=] takeover, where AIs become so smart that they effectively rule over humanity and becoming its new overlord. While [=EMMA=] isn't exactly malevolent unlike Yaldabaoth, it's still fairly terrifying to think about.

* Frankly speaking, the [=EMMA=] application is a literal public hazard that defines the very pinnacle of FromNobodyToNightmare. It's the very origin of the Monarchs and Jails of this game, and what actually happens is as much of a TearJerker as it is NightmareFuel. Unlike ''Persona 5'', where corrupt people automatically manifest a realm of their distortions as soon as they go so corrupt to the point of no return, the Jails and Monarchs in this game form as soon as someone feels resentful and sad enough to actually ask [=EMMA=] for salvation. Bully the wrong people in your school, and the next thing is if that person asks [=EMMA=] to "save them"... good luck, because you made an EldritchAbomination that'll mesmerize or affect up to ''millions'', and you will most certainly become one of the victims.

* While an awesome moment, Sophia's Persona awakening might be one of the most disturbing yet, even with the lack of blood. In both the English and Japanese versions, her screams are disturbingly realistic, and make her sound like she's in complete agony. Keep in mind that all of those painful screams are coming from, what is basically a child, and it sounds a lot like she's violated too... Let that sink in.

* While an awesome moment, Sophia's Persona awakening might be one of the most disturbing yet, even with the lack of blood. In the English version, Megan Taylor Harvey's screams are disturbingly realistic, and make her sound like she's in complete agony. Keep in mind that all of those painful screams are coming from, what is basically a child, and it sounds a lot like she's violated too... Let that sink in.