History NightmareFuel / ShinMegamiTenseiIV

* When you defeat an opponent in a tournament, the audience expresses ''complete dismay'' if you don't kill them.

* Most of [[spoiler: Blasted Tokyo]] is pretty awful, what with it being a literal wasteland of poison and despair. On your way to combat the source of one of the problems affecting the place you're stopped by a trio with a request to put down a demon in Shibuya. Go there and you find [[spoiler:it's a literal ghost town, the human population long since killed off, but earthbound due to the intervention of a Mayan suicide deity. Kill her and some of them fade away, and most of the rest get angry with you for consigning them to the same fate.]]

* ThePurge the angels enact is justified in their eyes, as the literature the Black Samurai has been distributing turns humans into demons. The problem? [[spoiler:''It's normal, human world literature''. The people of East Mikado have their beliefs in social castes so ingrained that when an outside force like the books makes them realize there ''are'' alternatives to the CrapsackWorld, they go insane with horror, rage and grief, which ''is'' what triggers the demon transformation. This leads them to kill so many, in the Neutral route Isabeau notes all Luxurorsare dead by then.]]

* ThePurge the angels enact is justified in their eyes, as the literature the Black Samurai has been distributing turns humans into demons. The problem? [[spoiler:''It's normal, human world literature''. The people of East Mikado have their beliefs in social castes so ingrained that when an outside force like the books makes them realize there ''are'' alternatives to the CrapsackWorld, they go insane with horror, rage and grief, which ''is'' what triggers the demon transformation.]]

* [[spoiler:Hell, ''both'' Merkabah and Lucifer are both insane. Merkabah wants to kill Isabeau because she's read ''manga''.]]

* [[spoiler:Hell, ''both'' Merkabah and Lucifer are both insane. Merkabah wants to kill Isabeau because she's read ''manga''.]]

* [[spoiler: The process of making Neurishers and Demonoids can be one. Like normal demon fusion the surgery to make a Demonoid can result in ''fusion error'', which some poor soul ends up suffering from in Camp Ichigaya. The Neurishers have to deal with the fact that they'll die if the demon making them into one doesn't know the parts he's working with are faulty before he puts uses them in the surgery.]]

** [[spoiler: Much later in the game, one of The White takes his form... but ''permenantly crying''. It's a lot creepier than it sounds.]]

* Most of [[spoiler: Blasted Tokyo]] is pretty awful, what with it being a literal wasteland of poison and despair. On your way to combat the source of one of the problems affecting the place you're stopped by a trio with a request to put down a demon in Shibuya. Go there and you find [[spoiler:it's a literal ghost town, the human population long since killed off, but earthbound due to the intervention of a Mayan suicide deity. Kill her and some of them fade away, and most of the rest get angry with you for consigning them to the same fate.]]

* ThePurge the angels enact is justified in their eyes, as the literature the Black Samurai has been distributing turns humans into demons. The problem? [[spoiler:''It's normal, human world literature''. The people of East Mikado have their beliefs in social castes so ingrained that when an outside force like the books makes them realize there ''are'' alternatives to the CrapsackWorld, they go insane with horror, rage and grief, which ''is'' what triggers the demon transformation.]]

* The Ashura-Kai building and the secret of how they make Red. Go back there later [[spoiler: and you'll can listen to guys there talk about start using the ''children'' to make them since they normally wait until they're older before doing it. The demand's up and the women (which they openly call ''breeders'') just can't cope. The slaves there are imprisoned in tiny, bloodstained rooms with buckets of filth in inhuman conditions, brainwashed to love Tayama, used as seedbeds, and having their neurotransmitters ''harvested''. There are people strapped to chairs as they have their Red extracted. ''Friggin' Lilith'' herself is good and disgusted by this.]]

* ThePurge the angels enact is justified in their eyes, as the literature the Black Samurai has been distributing turns humans into demons. The problem? [[spoiler:''It's normal, human world literature''. The people of East Mikado have their beliefs so ingrained that when an outside force like the books makes them realize there ''are'' alternatives to the CrapsackWorld, they go insane with horror, rage and grief, which ''is'' what triggers the demon transformation.]]

* The Ashura-Kai building and the secret of how they make Red. Go back there later [[spoiler: and you'll can listen to guys there talk about start using the ''children'' to make them since they wait until they're older before doing it.]]

* The [[spoiler:Monochrome Forest]], mainly due to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zmOjkUQQ6Y This Music]], and what it represents to the game's story.
** To say nothing of its ''rulers''. [[spoiler:The White are OmnicidalNeutral [[TheHeartless embodiments of humanity's despair]] at the sheer [[CrapsackWorld suck]] of the Megami Tensi universe, and wish nothing more than to destroy it, since it's the only way out. And the thing is, they're just so ''reasonable'' about it, it's hard to not find yourself nodding along to their reasons for thinking the solar system needs to go. It's very easy to find yourself thinking like them, and that's the most terrifying aspect of all.]]

** To say nothing of it's ''rulers''. [[spoiler:The White are OmnicidalNeutral [[TheHeartless embodiments of humanity's despair]] at the sheer [[CrapsackWorld suck]] of the Megami Tensi universe, and wish nothing more than to destroy it, since it's the only way out. And the thing is, they're just so ''reasonable'' about it, it's hard to not find yourself nodding along to their reasons for thinking the solar system needs to go. It's very easy to find yourself thinking like them, and that's the most terrifying aspect of all.]]

* The [[spoiler:Monochrome Forest]], mainly due to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zmOjkUQQ6Y This Music]], and what it represents to the game's story.

* When you defeat an opponent in a tournament, the audience expresses ''complete dismay'' if you don't kill them.

* The Ashura-Kai building and the secret of how they make Red.

* The Ashura-Kai building and the secret of how they make Red.

* The music for [[spoiler: Merkabah]]'s second form is likewise very unsettling.

* Kasumigaseki in the [[spoiler:Blasted Tokyo world]]. The place is falling apart and haunted by the ghosts of its former citizens, while a subdued, off-key arrangement of the Law theme plays in the background.

* Kasumigaseki in the [[Blasted Tokyo world]]. The place is falling apart and haunted by the ghosts of its former citizens, while a subdued, off-key arrangement of the Law theme plays in the background.

** During the Lawful Ending, [[spoiler:you commit what is tantamount to genocide on the entire population of Tokyo and, most likely, the world.]].

** Towards the end of the game, [[spoiler:the Archangels initiate a bloody purge in Mikado in preparation for Merkabah's arrival. Anyone, whether Luxuror or Casualry, who has read any form of book is butchered]].

** And then after [[spoiler:you capture the Black Samurai]], you find out that [[spoiler:they consider ''public executions'' ''national holidays'']].

* East Mikado itself. Even at the beginning of the game, its clear that there's something very ''[[UncannyValley off]]'' about the whole place, from the brutally racist caste system, to the fact that demons live literally right underground the capital city, and the fact that, if Isabeau's comments about France are anything to go by, ''they believe themselves to be the only civilization in existence''.

* In the bad ending, [[spoiler:you are required to destroy the Yamato Gate to activate black holes that will consume the whole universe and destroy everything. The "battle" with the Yamato Gate, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown if you can even call it that]], is accompanied by very eerie music. While the background is the same as most bosses you fight throughout the game, the music coupled with the [[NothingIsScarier empty background]] makes it very unsettling.]]

** [[spoiler:Before he dies, you'll see his character portrait bleeding heavily]].

* When Issachar [[spoiler:gets possessed by a demon and his [[RedEyesTakeWarning eyes turn red]].]].