History NightmareFuel / TheDivision

** Rescuing the hostage at the West 42nd Street police station reveals they apparently made the cells into their own personal torture dungeon. Most of them are filled with the mutilated of JTF prisoners. One in particular has what looks like a ''headless'' JTF officer hanging from the ceiling, and a bloody baseball bat covered in ''barbed wire'' propped up outside. [[FridgeHorror Enjoy the implications of that, along with the idea that this is just ''one'' of what are probably ''dozens'' of such locations they have scattered all across their turf.]]

* Those supply drops for Division Agents in the Dark Zone that began dropping 1.1? Faye was informed about it out of the blue, and she doesn't even have a clue why they're being dropped inside of the DZ, instead of say, near the Base of Operations/Post Office. The fact that it's Division Tech has her even more worried, especially if someone (say, Rogue Agents) grabs them first.

** What's most frightening is that due to the nature of The Division as a de-centralized, stay-behind force that operates on near-total self-sufficiency (cells of four Agents maximum, at most), you're looking at a heavily armed force, highly-trained force with extremely advanced technology that answers to absolutely ''no one''. This ultimately includes their own command structure. Totalitarian secret police? Bad. Totalitarian secret police that operate with such impunity that, should they decide to do things for their own selfish motivations, up to and including terrorist activities, that the people supposedly in charge of them can do nothing about it? That's ''horrifying''.

** The Cleaners depicted in "Agent Origins: Ashes" are walking examples of this trope. Cold-blooded, well-armed and frighteningly efficient, all but one of them comes across as implacable monsters. [[spoiler: Even ''being one'' won't protect you: the moment one Cleaner is suspected to being infected (being found on top of a pile of plague victims will do that), his former comrades remorselessly turn their flamethrowers on ''him''.]] The clipboard-carrying Cleaner is arguably even worse: he seems to treat the whole murder-and-immolation business as just a tedious but necessary chore, complete with paperwork and an icy, [[TheSociopath detached]] expression the whole time.

* The Rikers on the whole. Led by a charismatic but psychotic DarkActionGirl with an EatTheRich mentality, they are both incredibly violent and boundlessly sadistic. They focus most of their hatred on the JTF (or anyone in authority for that matter, including [[OhCrap Division Agents]] ) who they all see as "pigs" and will not hesitate to kill in the most sadistic ways imaginable, to the point where JTF soldiers will openly state that they would rather [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled die than surrender or be captured by Rikers]]. That said, their violence isn't something they reserve just for their most hated enemies. It isn't uncommon in Riker territory to come across one of the escaped convicts wildly smacking a dead civilian with their AK for no discernible reason.

* The idea of the Division itself is this: a sleeper cell that infiltrates the civilian population, doesn't answer to any other branch of law enforcement, and is given permission to kill civilians (criminals and gang members, but still) at their discretion, without due process or even an attempt at non-violent resolution. That is straight up totalitarian.

* The Rikers on the whole. Led by a charismatic but psychotic DarkActionGirl with an EatTheRich mentality, they are both incredibly violent and boundlessly sadistic. They focus most of their hatred on the JTF (or anyone in authority for that matter, including [[OhCrap Divison Agents]] ) who they all see as "pigs" and will not hesitate to kill in the most sadistic ways imaginable, to the point where JTF soldiers will openly state that they would rather [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled die than surrender or be captured by Rikers]]. That said, their violence isn't something they reserve just for their most hated enemies. It isn't uncommon in Riker territory to come across one of the escaped convicts wildly smacking a dead civilian with their AK for no discernible reason.

* The Rikers on the whole. Led by a charismatic but psychotic DarkActionGirl with an EatTheRich mentality, they are both incredibly violent and boundlessly sadistic. They focus most of their hatred on the JTF (or anyone in authority for that matter, including [[OhCrap Divison Agents]] ) who they all see as "pigs" and will not hesitate to kill in the most sadistic ways imaginable, to the point where JTF soldiers will openly state that they rather [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled die than surrender or be captured by Rikers]]. That said, their volence isn't something they reserve just for their most hated enemies. It isn't uncommon in Riker territory to come across one of the escaped convicts wildly smacking a dead civilian with their AK for no discernible reason.

* The potential of Dollar Flu is some high quality ParanoiaFuel; a nation nearly killed itself without the usage of outside threat. Itself hard to detect and lethal and contagious.

* The Falcon Lost Incursion reveals the LMB has not only split into factions and took over a water plant, but Faye getting a call from the National Continuity Coalition to bomb the place is making her worried about what's happened with the President of the United States.

* The potential of Dollar Flu is some high quality ParanoiaFuel; a nation nearly killed itself without the usage of outside threat. Itself hard to detect and lethal and contagious.

* The potential of Dollar Flu is some high quality ParanoiaFuel; a nation nearly killed itself without the usage of outside threat, hadn't for The Division.

* You got to admit that Dollar Flu perpetrator is one MagnificentBastard; a nation nearly killed itself without the usage of outside threat, hadn't for The Division.

* The Subway Morgue mission can be particularly unsettling. Upon turning on the lights, you'll see the subway tunnels full of bodybags and coffins as far as the eye can see. In addition, many of the public parks in the city have been turned into mass graves, and with the hasty retreat of the JTF, most bodies at the graves weren't even fully buried.

* The idea that any of the SHD agents activated could turn on their own colleagues.

** The Intel video of Joe Perro is by far the worst of the lot. Taken from the POV of a random survivor, it shows [[spoiler: the survivor trying to hide from the Cleaner leader and his cohorts, and at first it seems they were successful. Then the POV turns to find another Cleaner looking right at them. Cue whooshing sound of napalm. The worst part is that this isn't even the end of the video.]]

* The Rikers on the whole. Led by a charismatic but psychotic DarkActionGirl with an EatTheRich mentality, they are both incredibly violent and boundlessly sadistic. They focus most of their hatred on the JTF (or anyone in authority for that matter, including [[OhCrap Divison Agents]] ) who they all see as "pigs" and will not hesitate to kill in the most sadistic ways imaginable, to the point where JTF soldiers will openly state that they rather [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled die than surrender or be captured by Rikers]]. That said, their volence isn't something they reserve just for their most hated enemies. It isn't uncommon in Riker territory to come across one of the escaped convicts wildly smacking a dead civilian with their AK for no discernible reason.

* Contaminated Zones, those red spots in certain areas; You see spots inside that are scanned as CONTAMINATED. Whats worse, if your air filter isn't strong enough, you'll die in seconds.

* The Dark Zone, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast which lives up to its ominous name]]. The place where the infection hit hardest, it is a completely lawless place where only the hardiest of people survive. As desolate as the streets in the rest of the city are, the Dark Zone is almost completely empty. You can't even count on your fellow Agents, who can [[ParanoiaFuel attack you for any time, for any reason]]. Of particular note are the subway tunnels of the Dark Zone, which are choked with body bags.

* Contaminated Zones, those red spots in certain areas; You see spots inside that are scanned as CONTAMINATED. Whats worse, if your air filter isn't strong enough, you'll die in seconds.
* The Cleaners' solution? Burn everything! You do ''not'' want to run into them unarmed.

* The Dark Zone, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast which lives up to its ominous name]]. The place where the infection hit hardest, it is a completely lawless place where only the hardiest of people survive. As desolate as the streets in the rest of the city are, the Dark Zone is almost completely empty. You can't even count on your fellow Agents, who can [[ParanoiaFuel attack you for any time, for any reason]]. Of particular note are the subway tunnels of the Dark Zone, which are choked with body bags.

* The idea that any of the SHD agents activated could turn on their own colleagues.