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** Sector Bootes, the Frivolous Nation. A realm full of nauseating colors and horrible, smiling doors. The first two floors feature {{Sexy Silhouette}}s, giving off the impression of a brothel, but [[MoodWhiplash the subsequent floors feature corpses chained to the walls]]. It's Mitra's way of convicting humans for desiring pointless things. The worse part is Mitra's castle, the "Palace of Pleasure." It starts off with {{Sexy Silhouette}}s peeking through diaphanous curtains in the walls of lower levels. As you climb up, the silhouettes are replaced with Iron Maidens, silhouettes of demons holding torture devices, and metal slabs hanging from the ceiling with the chained-up (and disemboweled) corpses of fellow Strike Team members and crewmen of the Elve. Then you're captured a second time and get to see the results of those experiments...

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** Sector Bootes, the Frivolous Nation. A realm full of nauseating colors and horrible, smiling doors. The first two floors feature {{Sexy Silhouette}}s, giving off the impression of a brothel, but [[MoodWhiplash the subsequent floors feature corpses chained to the walls]]. It's Mitra's way of convicting humans for desiring pointless things. The worse part is Mitra's castle, the "Palace of Pleasure." Pleasure". It starts off with {{Sexy Silhouette}}s peeking through diaphanous curtains in the walls of lower levels. As you climb up, the silhouettes are replaced with Iron Maidens, silhouettes of demons holding torture devices, and metal slabs hanging from the ceiling with the chained-up (and disemboweled) corpses of fellow Strike Team members and crewmen of the Elve. Then you're captured a second time and get to see the results of those experiments...
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* Any path that isn't Neutral. Law? The Earth's population is converted into a mass of worshippers with absolutely no humanity left. Chaos? Earth dissolves into a barbaric anarchy unable to think of anything but getting ever stronger and stronger, thanks to Mem Aleph suffusing the whole planet and finally in a position to prevent infection by anything that could succor weakness and decay. [[PowerBornOfMadness Like sanity and calm]]. In a very real sense, ''both'' factions are hostile to the mind as we know it--because neither side regards there being more than one kind of good thought to have. While in either ending, the last shot you see is your Demonica telling you your mission is complete... yet you'll probably be [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone thinking otherwise]].
** The crewmen in either Law or Chaos. In either path, their minds have been utterly damaged by mindless devotion to "[[TheEvilsOfFreeWill the Lord]]" or [[TheUnfettered the demonic]] [[PowerBornOfMadness bloodlust]]. And it's made very, very obvious it's not something you can fix... ''[[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor because it is exactly what you wanted]]''.

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* Any path that isn't Neutral. Law? The Earth's population is converted into a mass of worshippers with absolutely no humanity left. Chaos? Earth dissolves into a barbaric anarchy unable to think of anything but getting ever stronger and stronger, thanks to Mem Aleph suffusing the whole planet and finally in a position to prevent infection by anything that could succor weakness and decay. [[PowerBornOfMadness Like sanity and calm]]. In a very real sense, ''both'' factions are hostile to the mind as we know it--because neither side regards there being more than one kind of good thought to have. While in either ending, the last shot you see is your Demonica telling you your mission is complete... yet you'll probably be [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone thinking otherwise]].
otherwise]]. There's a ''very'' good reason why the 3DS remake gave Law and Chaos more sympathetic "New" endings alongside Neutral so you can go these routes without making them look like bad endings.
** The crewmen in either Law or Chaos. In either path, their minds have been utterly damaged by mindless devotion to "[[TheEvilsOfFreeWill the Lord]]" or [[TheUnfettered the demonic]] [[PowerBornOfMadness bloodlust]]. And it's made very, very obvious it's not something you can fix... ''[[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor because it is exactly what you wanted]]''.

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** A similar event happens later in Sector Carina where she corners the protagonist as they are chasing after Horkos. This time Jiminez gets to watch as Alex brutally dispatches the protagonist's demons one by one, understandably horrified. Fortunately the protagonist has the phase shift this time and manages to escape.

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** A similar event happens later in Sector Carina where she corners the protagonist as they are chasing after Horkos. This time Jiminez Jimenez gets to watch as Alex brutally dispatches the protagonist's demons one by one, understandably horrified. Fortunately the protagonist has the phase shift this time and manages to escape.
* The ''Deathtament'' manga has its DoomedByCanon CruelTwistEnding. The ''Gigantic'', against all hope and odds, successfully restores enough systems and finds the escape route out of the Womb of Grief. And then, as the surviving teammates rejoice, one of them ruefully grins and accepts that, as well as everything went... he would have liked to have saved [[BigBad Azazel]], letting his disguise drop and revealing himself as Decarabia. Several more follow suit, showing themselves as more and more Fallen. As the Gigantic leaves the Womb of Grief, several explosions rock it in the dimensional tunnel, leaving it to crash into Bootes, killing every human on board.
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* The laboratories of Jack's Squad. When you hear the dying demons telling you what [[HumansAreBastards the resident scientists did]], with you [[TearJerker turning off their life support]], and when you see [[FusionDance what they were planning to do to Jimenez and Bugaboo]], you will be raging to return the favor to Jack. Which makes it doubly awesome when you do get to rip him a new one.
** "Give them back... My hands... My feet... Give them back to me..."

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* The laboratories of Jack's Squad.Squad and the results of their labors. When you hear the dying demons telling you what [[HumansAreBastards the resident scientists did]], with you [[TearJerker turning off their life support]], and when you see [[FusionDance what they were planning to do to Jimenez and Bugaboo]], you will be raging to return the favor to Jack. Which makes it doubly awesome when you do get to rip him a new one.
** -->'''Demon:''' "Give them back... My hands... My feet... Give them back to me..."
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* The Tower of Mitra, too. Seeing your former comrades stuck by hooks to stone slabs and the results of the "[[BodyHorror experiment]]" with [[TragicMonster Norris]]... No wonder Zelenin wasn't quite well after that.

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* The Tower of Mitra, too. Especially with its focus on demons not only being intelligent but conducting cruel experiments on humans to see how they tick. Some experiments include capturing and stripping humans before suffocating them, bloodletting them, and drilling in their brains, before mutating their subjects to remove supposed "weaknesses". Seeing your former comrades stuck by hooks to stone slabs and the results of the "[[BodyHorror experiment]]" with [[TragicMonster Norris]]... No wonder Zelenin wasn't quite well after that.
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->> ''When we dug into his skull, some grey stuff poured out and he stopped moving. Our conclusion is that humans need something called a "brain". But when you think about it... he's been reborn into a form that can no longer feel anxiety. We did a good thing! Look what a good thing we demons did!''

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->> --> ''When we dug into his skull, some grey stuff poured out and he stopped moving. Our conclusion is that humans need something called a "brain". But when you think about it... he's been reborn into a form that can no longer feel anxiety. We did a good thing! Look what a good thing we demons did!''

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* ''When we cut open his head, a gray fluid came out and he stopped moving. Our conclusion is that humans need something called a "brain". But we changed him into a form where he'll never get angry. What a good thing we demons did!''



->> ''When we dug into his skull, some grey stuff poured out and he stopped moving. Our conclusion is that humans need something called a "brain". But when you think about it... he's been reborn into a form that can no longer feel anxiety. We did a good thing! Look what a good thing we demons did!''



** A similar event happens later in Sector Carina where she corners the protagonist as they are chasing after Horkos. This time Jaminez gets to watch as Alex brutally dispatches the protagonist's demons one by one, understandably horrified. Fortunately the protagonist has the phase shift this time and manages to escape.

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** A similar event happens later in Sector Carina where she corners the protagonist as they are chasing after Horkos. This time Jaminez Jiminez gets to watch as Alex brutally dispatches the protagonist's demons one by one, understandably horrified. Fortunately the protagonist has the phase shift this time and manages to escape.
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** A similar event happens later in Sector Carina where she corners the protagonist as they are chasing after Horkos. This time Jaminez gets to watch as Alex brutally dispatches the protagonist's demons one by one, understandably horrified. Fortunately the protagonist has the phase shift this time and manages to escape.
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** It should also be noted that the forces of Chaos are what you are designed to go against. You had now pulled off the worst EtTuBrute against humanity and your mission.

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