History NightmareFuel / Yakuza0

** In Chapter 12, Majima has just fled back to Sotenbori after seeing Biliken and Nishitani killed by the police offer who was supposed to serve them, and runs into Sagawa, who then drags him into a nearby bathroom and starts choking him while lecturing him on not leaving Sotenbori without permission.

* Kiryu's confrontation with Hiroki Awano, immediately after Kiryu's second fight with Kuze, starts off rather silly: Awano's disco dancing alone with a woman. Then he turns everything off to try and make a deal with Kiryu, who refuses to bite. In an attempt to intimidate Kiryu as he's leaving, [[KickTheDog Awano shoots said woman dead in cold blood]] and makes a bluff of an ambush waiting for Kiryu outside. When Kiryu doesn't fall for it and leaves, we're briefly shown the woman's corpse with Awano casually taking a smoke break, who's more annoyed that Kiryu wasn't intimidated.

-->''We cut from Kiryu confronting Shibusawa: As Majima punches out a gaggle of Dojima thugs, a whole bunch more rush into the room.''\\

** Kiryu is mostly his stoic self during the counter-raid on the Shibaura port, but his fight with Shibusawa shows off a really ugly side to him. Many of the [=QTEs=] are incredibly brutal, and the final one is almost difficult to watch, with Kiryu slamming the guy against a railing and beating him to within an inch of his life. And then, during the final cutscene, it all comes to a head: Kiryu knocks Shibusawa to the floor and starts whaling on him as he flashes back to all the people he's hurt. As Shibusawa lies on the floor, bloody and bruised, he urges Kiryu to finish the job and satisfy his bloodlust and become the Yakuza Kazama wanted him to be. Kiryu starts shaking... and, as he lets out a nigh-inhuman '''''ROAR''''' of pure rage and pain, lets fly with what was almost a killing blow. If Nishiki hadn't tackled him, the new Dragon of Dojima might have turned out very differently like Nishiki in Yakuza 1.

* The "Mystery Caller" substory with Majima. Majima finds a ringing PayPhone, and the caller, simply calling himself "Simon" in the English version[[note]]a pun of "Simon Says", as he's telling you what to do[[/note]], offers to pay Majima hefty sums to DeadDrop various illegal weapons. After this, Simon tricks Majima into taking care of some loose ends (read: beating up some prior associates he backstabbed). As thanks, he sends an unknown frightened woman to Majima to work for his cabaret as a reward on the threat of her death. This nets you a new hostess, but it's easy to guess what kind of "[[SexSlave work]]" Simon probably meant. Even Majima is left wondering what kind of person is this Simon.

* A relatively mundane example, but one of which can strike a chord with [[AdultFear parents]]: One of Majima's substories has him trying to help a mother reunite with her daughter, the latter of which joined a cult. The cult engages in brainwashing members to purge them of memories of their families, requiring them to make steep donations, and anyone who tries to leave gets dragged back in, including one hapless victim that Majima sees on the way inside. It's then revealed that the leader of the cult [[ScamReligion uses it to profit]] (hence the 100,000-yen donation that was asked of the daughter) and to groom and sexually assault young women, something that could've happened to the daughter had Majima not intervened. After Majima rescures the daughter, she reveals that her father is dead and her mother had been grieving over him, and the cult made promises of bringing back the dead, so she joined not realizing at the time that it was a scam group led by a DirtyOldMan.

** While torturing Majima, Sagawa tells a childhood story about an injured bird he took home to take care of, despite having been forbidden by his parents to have his own pets. Everything seemed to be going well, and he even gave the bird a name, Mametaro. Unfortunately, his parents found out, and he came home to see the family cat eating Mametaro, much to his horror. His idea of revenge wasn't much better: he ''[[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior killed the cat]].''

** While torturing Majima, Sagawa tells a childhood story about an injured bird he took home to take care of, despite having been forbidden by his parents to have his own pets. Everything seemed to be going well, and he even gave the bird a name, Mametaro. Unfortunately, his parents found out, and he came home to see the family cat eating Mametaro, much to his horror. His idea of revenge wasn't much better: he ''killed the cat.''

* The higher echelons of the Dojima Family and Omi Alliance are willing to kill Makoto Makimakura, ''a blind, defenseless young woman'' all because [[SinsOfOurFathers she happened to inherit a plot of land from her late grandfather]] that's interfering with their attempts to conquer Kamurocho. When she finds out about this inheritance, it's no wonder she, Majima, Kiryu, and Tachibana do everything they can to get her name out of that Empty Lot so that she can be done being in the yakuza's crosshairs.

** At the end of Chapter 8, Lee tries to start his van up in a bid to flee Sotenbori with Makoto...and then [[CarBomb his van explodes]] the moment he starts the engine, which kills him and sets the neighborhood ablaze. Out of the smoke comes Sagawa, who's wised up to Majima's failure to kill Makoto and was the one who rigged Lee's van, and nearly puts a bullet in Majima, only stopped by a timely intervention from an unknown man in white (later revealed to be Sera). When the game cuts back to Majima in Chapter 11, Sagawa is shown [[ColdBloodedTorture beating the shit out of Majima with a bat, the latter's abdomen covered in nasty bruises]]. If not for the fact that he still needs Majima for some unfinished business, he would've just bashed his head in completely.

** At the end of Chapter 8, Lee tries to start his van up in a bid to flee Sotenbori with Makoto...and then [[CarBomb his van explodes]] the moment he starts the engine, which kills him and sets the neighborhood ablaze. Out of the smoke comes Sagawa, who's wised up to Majima's failure to kill Makoto and was the one who rigged Lee's van, and nearly puts a bullet in Majima, only stopped by a timely intervention from an unknown man in white (later revealed to be Sera). When the game cuts back to Majima in Chapter 11, Sagawa is shown [[ColdBloodedTorture beating the shit out of Majima with a bat, the latter's abdomen covered in nasty bruises]].

** At the end of Chapter 8, Lee tries to start his van up in a bid to flee Sotenbori with Makoto...and then [[CarBomb his van explodes]] the moment he starts the engine, which kills him and sets the neighborhood ablaze. Out of the smoke comes Sagawa, who's wised up to Majima's failure to kill Makoto, and nearly puts a bullet in Majima, only stopped by a timely intervention from an unknown man in white (later revealed to be Sera). When the game cuts back to Majima in Chapter 11, Sagawa is shown [[ColdBloodedTorture beating the shit out of Majima with a bat, the latter's abdomen covered in nasty bruises]].

** At the end of Chapter 8, Lee tries to start his van up in a bid to flee Sotenbori with Makoto...and then [[CarBomb his van explodes]] the moment he starts the engine, which kills him and sets the neighborhood ablaze. Out of the smoke comes Sagawa, who's wised up to Majima's failure to kill Makoto, and nearly puts a bullet in Majima, only stopped by a timely intervention from an unknown man in white (later revealed to be Sera). When the game cuts back to Majima in Chapter 11, Sagawa is shown beating the shit out of Majima with a bat, the latter's abdomen covered in nasty bruises.

* The higher echelons of the Dojima Family and Omi Alliance are willing to kill Makoto Makimakura, ''a blind, defenseless young woman'' all because [[SinsOfOurFathers she happened to inherit a plot of land from her late grandfather]] that's interfering with their attempts to conquer Kamurocho. When she finds out about this inheritance, it's no wonder she, Majima, Kiryu, and Tachibana do everything they can to get her name out of that Empty Lot so that she can be done being in the yakuza's crosshairs.

* The higher echelons of the Dojima Family and Omi Alliance are willing to kill Makoto Makimakura, ''a blind, defenseless young woman'' all because [[SinsOfOurFathers she happened to inherit a plot of land from her late grandfather]] that's interfering with their attempts to conquer Kamurocho. When she finds out about this inheritance, it's no wonder she, Majima, Kiryu, and Tachibana do everything they can to get her name out of that Empty Lot so that she can be done being in the yakuza's crosshairs...and when she attempts a revenge plot on the Dojima Family by offering the Empty Lot in exchange for the deaths of Dojima's lieutenants, Lao Gui shoots her near-fatally. Even being in a coma ''does nothing'' to stop them from going after her blood, as shown in the final chapter when Sera transfers her and her doctor are transferred onto a cruise ship belonging to the Nikkyo Consortium to keep her safe...and then the Dojima family finds out and instigates all-out war against Nikkyo. You get a brief shot of Makoto's unconscious body on life support in a room aboard the ship, along with her doctor...followed by the sound of gunshots outside.

* The higher echelons of the Dojima Family and Omi Alliance are willing to kill Makoto Makimakura, ''a blind, defenseless young woman'' all because [[SinsOfOurFathers she happened to inherit a plot of land from her late grandfather]] that's interfering with their attempts to conquer Kamurocho. Even falling into a coma ''does nothing'' to stop them from going after her blood, as shown in the final chapter when Sera transfers her and her doctor are transferred onto a cruise ship belonging to the Nikkyo Consortium to keep her safe...and then the Dojima family finds out and instigates all-out war against Nikkyo. You get a brief shot of Makoto's unconscious body on life support in a room aboard the ship, along with her doctor...followed by the sound of gunshots outside.

* The higher echelons of the Dojima Family and Omi Alliance are willing to kill ''a blind, defenseless young woman'' all because [[SinsOfOurFathers she happened to inherit a plot of land from her late grandfather]] that's interfering with their attempts to conquer Kamurocho. Even falling into a coma ''does nothing'' to stop them from going after her blood.

* The "Mystery Caller" substory with Majima. Majima finds a ringing PayPhone, and the caller, simply calling himself "Simon" in the English version[[note]]a pun of "Simon Says", as he's telling you what to do[[/note]], offers to pay Majima hefty sums to DeadDrop various illegal weapons. After this, Simon tricks Majima into taking care of some loose ends (read: beating up some prior associates he backstabbed). As thanks, he sends an unknown frightened woman to Majima to work for his cabaret as a reward on the threat of her death. This nets you a new hostess, but it's easy to guess what kind of "[[SexSlave work]]" Simon probably meant. Even Majima is left wondering what kind of person is this Simon.