History NightmareFuel / PsychoPass

* In episode 14 a woman is beaten to death with a hammer on a busy street. The closest she gets to help is one of the police drones asking if she needs assistance as she seems to be under severe stress. The worst part is that [[TruthInTelevision incidents like this have happened in the real world.]]

* Episode 19: it's revealed that the entire Hokuriku Region (a mostly rural area on Japan's west coast approximately the size of some U.S. states) has been converted into one huge genetically-engineered "Hyper-Oats" factory/farm. Japan may (at least now) be self-sufficient in food production, but [[FridgeHorror just think of how many cities had to be]] ''[[FridgeHorror destroyed]]'' [[FridgeHorror and families be uprooted from their homes for this to come about]].

** Although somewhat obvious, it should be noted Makishima is planning to cloud all Japanese peoples' Psycho-Passes and make the Sibyl System obsolete by ''making all of Japan starve and have to fight over food''! ...At least until the Sibyl System imports its food from other countries, giving other countries much control over Japan, which would also make exposing the Sibyl System and its countless violation of human rights, and dismantling it easy for other countries.

** Speaking of the Dominator, why does it kill in such an extreme, explosive way when it has a) the Decomposer function that could kill in an instant and without splattering guts all over the place and b) the Paralyzer function that works perfectly? Why kill people without proper trial anyway? Intimidation. Plain old, scare tactics. If just thinking about committing a crime can drive your Crime Coefficient then seeing or hearing about someone literally exploding for a too high CC will make people way easier to control.

Given this show's [[Creator/GenUrobuchi creator's]] [[LightNovel/FateZero track]] [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica record]], it was only a matter of time before ''Anime/PsychoPass'' would get its own NightmareFuel section.

** Speaking of the Dominator, why does it kill in such an extreme, explosive way when it has a) the Decomposer function that could kill in an instant and without splattering guts all over the place? Or why not increase the Paralyzer function? Why kill people without proper trial anyway? Intimidation. Plain old, scare tactics. If just thinking about committing a crime can drive your Crime Coefficient then seeing or hearing about someone literally exploding for a too high CC will make people way easier to control.

** There's also the crazed look in Makishima's eyes while he's beating Touma. A pretty sharp contrast to the always calm Makishima we're used to.

** There's also the crazed look in Makishima's eyes while he's beating Kogami. A pretty sharp contrast to the always calm Makishima we're used to.

* The exhibit case: Victims are dismembered ''alive''. Then, the parts are put through Plastination[[note]] a process by which flesh is basically turned into plastic and frozen in place[[/note]] after which the killer would leave them in a public place. In at least one instance the killer arranged the body under a holographic light so people walked past not realising it was real.

* Senguji (Rikako's murderer) could be a poster boy for the UncannyValley, especially during his news interview in Episode 9. CyberneticsWillEatYourSoul, indeed.

* In episode 14 a woman is beaten to death with a hammer on a busy street. The closest she gets to help is one of the police drones (with their UncannyValley-riffic happy faces) asking if she needs assistance as she seems to be under severe stress. The worst part is that [[TruthInTelevision incidents like this have happened in the real world.]]

* Words cannot express the terror of [[AdultFear seeing your friend die of a slit throat before your eyes and being unable to do anything about it.]]

* ''First Inspector'' also has Chief Hosorogi throwing herself off the NONA tower to deter Jackdaw from revealing her true nature. While all Psycho-Pass veterans know that she's really an android, but the characters (except for Mika and possibly Homura) certainly do not, and having to physically see her suicide is fairly disturbing.

* Everything about "Eternal White". While the name is fairly innocent, the purpose of the procedure is decidedly not. Essentially, the procedure forcibly induces Eustress Deficiency [[note]] a disease that causes a person to enter a serene comatose state as a result of living a stress free life or losing the will to live [[/note]] through an overdose of hue-clearing drugs. The worst part about it? They specifically target dissenters of Heaven's Leap in order to make sure that the organization gets found out.

* ''First Inspector'' lets us see what happens when Arata goes in way too deep with his Mental Trace, specifically when it came to himself. Namely, he starts sinking the metaphorical sea of the Sibyl System and just goes deeper and deeper, with [[NothingIsScarier no end in sight]].
* ''First Inspector'' also has Chief Hosorogi throwing herself off the NONA tower to deter Jackdaw from revealing her true nature. While all Psycho-Pass veterans know that she's really an android, but the characters (except for Mika and possibly Homura) certainly do not, and having to physically see her intentional suicide is fairly disturbing.

** Probably the most terrifying part is that Heaven's Leap keeps these patients in life preservation pods in order to keep them alive for their usages. [[FridgeHorror If it wasn't for the CID...]]

* Yonehara and Sasagawa intentionally causing Rick Fellows to commit suicide by ''jumping off the transport plane''.

** The truth behind the Sibyl system is perhaps a more thought-based instance. Think about it: the system is the backbone of society. Your job, how law enforcement will function, your performance assessments, it's all done by the psycho-pass scans. Whether or not you'll find yourself on the receiving end of a Dominator is determined by a number, which you can easily get to if you were guilt-ridden or traumatized - if, say, as it happens in Episode 1, you are raped, the Inspectors that should be there to save you may just subject you to Euthanasia for being traumatized by it. And what's the basis for this system? A hive mind forged by the brains of "[[TheSociopath asymptomatic criminals]]", who don't experience the negativity of crimes. That's the true horror - the entirety of Japan, many of the core aspects of Japanese society, is being run by a hive mind of total sociopaths, ala ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.

* The next time we see MadArtist Rikako Oryo, the person responsible for the plastination killings, her bones have been turned into a pipe.

* In episode 14 a woman is beaten to death with a hammer on a busy street. The closest she gets to help is one of the police drones (with their UncannyValley-riffic happy faces) asking if she needs assistance as she seems to be under severe stress.]] The worst part is that [[TruthInTelevision incidents like this have happened in the real world.]]

* [[spoiler:Masatake Mido's]] method of body disposal; chop 'em into little pieces and flush 'em down the toilet or sink. Made worse, of course, [[NothingIsScarier by how we never see the dismembered bodies]], just the small explorer robots crawling into the drains.
** Not to mention the culprits' death. The second person gibbed...[[spoiler: after the real big bad uses his own holo-cracking to end him.]]

* The next time we see MadArtist [[spoiler:Rikako Oryo, the person responsible for the plastination killings, her bones have been turned into a pipe]].
** Senguji (in the English dub at least) says he had [[spoiler: Rikako's bones]] made into ''a'' pipe, he has a minimum of ''nine''.
* Senguji [[spoiler:(Rikako's murderer)]] could be a poster boy for the UncannyValley, especially during his news interview in Episode 9. CyberneticsWillEatYourSoul, indeed.
* Words cannot express the terror of [[spoiler: [[AdultFear seeing your friend die of a slit throat before your eyes and being unable to do anything about it.]]]]
** Words cannot express the terror of [[spoiler:[[ILetGwenStacyDie seeing your friend die of a slit throat before your eyes and knowing you]] ''[[ILetGwenStacyDie could]]'' [[ILetGwenStacyDie have done something about it.]]]]
*** Words can, although scarcely, express the terror of [[spoiler: trying to fire your gun while the crime coefficient/criminality ratio of the man killing your friend in front of you keeps ''going down steadily'' the more he hurts your friend.]]
* Watching Akane [[spoiler:relive the moments of Yuki's murder]] is... more than a little unsettling. It's almost literal MindRape...only this time it's ''done by the protagonists at her own request''.
* In episode 14 [[spoiler: a woman is beaten to death with a hammer on a busy street. The closest she gets to help is one of the police drones (with their UncannyValley-riffic happy faces) asking if she needs assistance as she seems to be under severe stress.]] The worst part is that [[TruthInTelevision incidents like this have happened in the real world.]]
** And then there's [[spoiler:her killer's StalkerShrine...]]
* Episode 15. All of it. [[spoiler:Makishima succeeds at making society break down, by mass producing the helmets and allowing numerous people to commit crimes without Sibyl's judgment. Some people commit crimes for the fun of it while many others commit crimes due to feeling disenfranchised by Sibyl's society (many people are shown to have not been able to have good jobs or are outcasts due to Sibyl's judgment and take their "revenge" on normal citizens). Citizens fight back, and some become just as bad. And yet this is all a ruse to distract from his real plan...]] This can be particularly unsettling for people who have lived through real life riots and have seen societal breakdowns with their own eyes.
* Episode 16: [[spoiler:the Chief's RoboticReveal is ''pretty'' unnerving.]]
** There's also [[spoiler:the crazed look in Makishima's eyes while he's beating Kogami. A pretty sharp contrast to the always calm Makishima we're used to]].
** The truth behind [[spoiler: the Sibyl system is perhaps a more thought-based instance. Think about it: the system is the backbone of society. Your job, how law enforcement will function, your performance assessments, it's all done by the psycho-pass scans. Whether or not you'll find yourself on the receiving end of a Dominator is determined by a number, which you can easily get to if you were guilt-ridden or traumatized - if, say, as it happens in Episode 1, you are raped, the Inspectors that should be there to save you may just subject you to Euthanasia for being traumatized by it. And what's the basis for this system? A hive mind forged by the brains of "[[TheSociopath asymptomatic criminals]]", who don't experience the negativity of crimes. That's the true horror - the entirety of Japan, many of the core aspects of Japanese society, is being run by a hive mind of total sociopaths, ala ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.]]
* Episode 19: [[spoiler:it's revealed that the entire Hokuriku Region (a mostly rural area on Japan's west coast approximately the size of some U.S. states) has been converted into one huge genetically-engineered "Hyper-Oats" factory/farm. Japan may (at least now) be self-sufficient in food production, but [[FridgeHorror just think of how many cities had to be]] ''[[FridgeHorror destroyed]]'' [[FridgeHorror and families be uprooted from their homes for this to come about]].]]
** [[spoiler:And Makishima's plan is to destroy it all, force Japan to import most of its food again, and darken Japanese citizens' Hues, mirroring [[RealitySubtext the current controversy over "Frankenfoods"]].]]
** [[spoiler:Although somewhat obvious, it should be noted Makishima is planning to cloud all Japanese peoples' Psycho-Passes and make the Sibyl System obsolete by ''making all of Japan starve and have to fight over food''! ...At least until the Sibyl System imports it food from other countries, giving other countries much control over Japan, which would also make exposing the Sibyl System and its countless violation of human rights, and dismantling it easy for other countries.]]
** [[spoiler:There's also the FridgeHorror that 22nd century Japan is almost like a closed-off, technologically enhanced version of [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea North Korea]] that can feed itself.]]
* Episode 20, [[spoiler:Makishima's meeting with Professor Kudama. It seems all friendly, until Kudama tells Makishima what he wants to know about a lab Makishima needs to get into for his plan. Makishima reveals he knows to get into the lab, one would need Kudama's eyes and hands. Makishima turns his back and pulls out a switchblade...no points for guessing what happens next. To make it worse, Kudama's corpse is shown later in the episode...without eyes or hands.]]
** And for that matter, Kogami [[spoiler:hid his message in the poor guy's throat. ''After'' he finds the body, but still]]!
* Episode 21 has [[spoiler:Masaoka's death.]] Although it is mainly a TearJerker, what the body of [[spoiler:Masaoka]] looks like just before death is not pretty, due to a close-range explosion. Not to mention the [[spoiler: the state of Ginoza's horrifically mangled arm.]]
* Episode 22 has one small moment. This whole time [[spoiler:we've heard the Sibyl System speak in the detached, mechanical voice of the Dominator, so hearing it ''giggle'' when Akane says that society will outgrow the need for it is rather unnerving]].

* [[spoiler:Inspector Aoyanagi]] is brutally beaten by a man with a clear hue in episode 3. And just like when a similar situation occurred in the first season, no one helps her.
* And [[spoiler: Inspector Shisui]] wakes up to an eyeball and a Dominator. [[spoiler: It's ''her'' right eyeball and Dominator being pointed back at her.]]
* Episode 4 just became so painful that all the hostages in the mental care facility [[spoiler:are killed by the Dominators when they got out due to their high crime coefficients which they got when they're being locked in the building. Inspector Aoyanagi is not even exempted most especially when she got killed by the newest version of the Dominator, the Assault Dominator]].
* Episode 5 seems worse because you're just playing an innocent mobile game [[spoiler:without realizing that you're controlling a bunch of drones which ended up shooting innocent civilians]].
* The ending to episode 8, Mika has made a ''huge'' mistake in [[spoiler: sharing that information with the very system that set up a trap for her.]].
** Not to mention the way Tougane [[spoiler:holds Mika against a desk in a way suggestive of rape while Chief Kasei just looks on amused.]]

** [[spoiler: In case more needs to be said, this episode includes corrupt politicians being tricked into eating human body parts so their Crime Coefficients will rise and Kamui and his followers can brutally kill them with denominators, people trapped in mechanical animal being set on fire at their own request, Tougane killing two puppies in a flashback, and Akane being given a box that contains her grandmother's ear. And if all that isn't enough, the episode ends with Tougane opening a trunk, revealing Akane's still living grandmother, lifting his Dominator, and the screen cutting to black. The last thing we hear sounds like a Dominator passing through brain matter.]]
* Episode 11 has the Sibyl System [[spoiler:being calmly DrivenToSuicide by its own logic being used against it. Only some of the brains are killed but seeing a brain dissolve while it is being implied numerous others are as well, and the Sibyl System is speaking calmly about preserving its perfection shows that the Sibyl System's utilitarianism is just screwed up even for itself.]]
** [[spoiler: Then again, there is another interpretation of this. Did Sibyl just kill the ones with a high Crime Coefficent that were not Criminally Asymptomatic?]]

* Episode 19: [[spoiler:it's revealed that the entire Hokuriku Region (a mostly rural area on Japan's west coast approximately the size of some U.S. states, has been converted into one huge genetically-engineered "Hyper-Oats" factory/farm. Japan may (at least now) be self-sufficient in food production, but [[FridgeHorror just think of how many cities had to be]] ''[[FridgeHorror destroyed]]'' [[FridgeHorror and families be uprooted from their homes for this to come about]].]]

** Not to mention the culprits' death. The second person gibbed..[[spoiler: After the real big bad uses his own holo-cracking to end him.]]

** * The truth behind [[spoiler: the Sibyl system is perhaps a more thought-based instance. Think about it: the system is the backbone of society. Your job, how law enforcement will function, your performance assessments, it's all done by the psycho-pass scans. Whether or not you'll find yourself on the receiving end of a Dominator is determined by a number, which you can easily get to if you were guilt-ridden or traumatized - if, say, as it happens in Episode 1, you are raped, the Inspectors that should be there to save you may just subject you to Euthanasia for being traumatized by it. And what's the basis for this system? A hive mind forged by the brains of "[[TheSociopath asypmtomatic criminals]]", who don't experience the negativity of crimes. That's the true horror - the entirety of Japan, many of the core aspects of Japanese society, is being run by a hive mind of total sociopaths, ala Literature/NineteenEightyFour.]]

* Episode 9

** [[spoiler: Then again, there is another interpretation of this. Did Sibyl just kill the ones with a high Crime Coeeficent that were not Criminally Asymptomatic?]]