Line #1 NightmareFuel/Persona2


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Meet [[BodyHorror Dark Joker]].]]
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6	* Both Jokers. ''Innocent Sin's'' Joker sports a cruel smile that makes your skin crawl, and it's especially unsettling that this Joker is really an emotionally and mentally tortured Jun Kurosu, who is in turn being controlled by the real ManBehindTheMan, who has taken the form of Jun's dead father. And ''Eternal Punishment's'' serial-killer JOKER [[http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/JOKER wears a bloody paper bag over his head]] with drawn-on features (including a hole where another eye should be) and a huge wicked smile that is NightmareFuel all by itself. And let's not even get started on his persona.
7	* How about [[Main/TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon the Xibalba?]] You have this spacecraft filled with nothing but vile monsters, aliens, and the darkest truths about the whole adventure you've taken so far. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FsMFY9Futs The]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en7X0NU9iU0 music]] just makes you feel all alone inside an alien world that's really the collective unconscious.
8	* [[EldritchAbomination Nyarlathotep]] as [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080619210642/megamitensei/images/5/54/JokerNyarla.jpg Jun's Persona]]. Y'know, the fella gets [[FridgeHorror extra fear points]] for a reason: [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve we made him]]. Every single tiny act of evil you've ever experienced or acted upon... [[MadeOfEvil it just makes him bigger]]. ''We'' made him. [[ParanoiaFuel And he lives inside of us]]. Funny thing... didja know he was the one who arranged the events of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 1}}'', too? Just to give us a chance to destroy all of reality? A mass of unrepentant madness and evil, hating everything and everyone... is it any wonder he wants it all to die? And even funnier... didja know [[TheBadGuyWins he wins?]]
9	* [[HumanoidAbomination Great Father]] [[EldritchAbomination Nyarlathotep]]. All of the party's fathers fused by [[BodyHorror Nyarlathotep's]] tentacles [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090904095447/megamitensei/images/d/da/Nyarlathotepfatherfusion.jpg into a single entity]].
10	* The [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110817012820/megamitensei/images/4/46/1545605-13.jpg Moon Howler]].And the Crawling Chaos form is ''worse''. An entity of [[MadeOfEvil pure fear, hate and despair]] ''and'' a LivingShadow... [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090609083034/megamitensei/images/e/ea/Nyarlathotep.jpg with hundreds of screaming faces]]?
11	* The [[https://youtu.be/sWZPmW43Tz8?t=184 Grand Cross]]. ''''' [[ApocalypseWow Oh God,]] [[DepopulationBomb the]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Grand]] [[MayanDoomsday Cross!]]''''' The cutscene has to be seen to be believed...
12	** Even worse, it's based on a real-life simulation of what would happen if the Earth suddenly stopped moving (which an NPC mentions what would happen should the prophecy is fulfilled.) Inertia would literally blow everything apart on the Earth's surface; buildings would collapse, vehicles and people would be suddenly be flung at violent speeds, pretty much killing off most of humanity and society.
13	** Also, tsunamis would swamp the land, drowning anyone who somehow managed to survive. And even beyond the initial effects, it would result in a world that would be [[DeathWorld inhospitable at best]]. Seawater would be displaced to the poles, exposing a megacontinent at the equator far below where anyone would think to live, drowning continents near the poles, and air would settle in a way that makes tropical and subtropical settlements uninhabitable due to low air pressure. Aside from transitional areas, the land alternates between being blowtorched by the sun and being a SlippySlideyIceWorld for six months at a time. Weather systems would collapse due to the lack of planetary motion, meaning only a select few areas of the world would be even vaguely livable because everywhere else that isn't underwater and has breathable air would be in a perpetual drought. Finally, the Earth's magnetic field will weaken because there's nothing maintaining it, causing the planet to be irradiated and in time making it extremely vulnerable to solar flares. Even if it were somehow possible to escape to Xibalba, dying in the initial catastrophe would be the best-case scenario.
14	* ''Eternal Punishment's'' JOKER-possessed victims aren't exactly a walk in the park either. They end up with a white-face with no features except for that wide, creepy smile, and speak in a sing-song high-pitch voice. Add to the fact if they cast Old Maid, your own party will temporarily turn Joker and kill everyone if you're not careful.
15	** "You IDIOT! You still don't get it? YOU'RE the one I want to kill, MA-YA!"
16	** Let's not forget how Jun's dad was said to have died in ''Innocent Sin'': crushed to death in the gears of a clock tower. Or when he appears before the party - crucified alongside Jun's mother (as [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Queen Aquarius]]) - before one of the final boss battles. One starts to think that Jun's entire life has been one NightmareFuel moment after another.
17	* ''Eternal Punishment'' had a scene in which the Manager ends up melting into a puddle of [[BodyHorror concentrated black hatred goo]].
18	* The very idea your life ''could completely change'' because of a careless rumor. Picture that for a moment.
19	** To elaborate: The changes are retroactive and have no sense of scale. As long as enough people believe it, the world will change to accommodate. Your entire life could be rewritten and become a huge TraumaCongaLine, and you wouldn't even know why. After all, your life's always been like that. [[RetGone Hasn't it?]]
20	** Another part of the rumors that are pure ParanoiaFuel happens if you spread the rumor that Principal Hanya didn't survive the jump out the window. It is then revealed that some students saw him running in the woods before seeing him suddenly just drop dead. Yes, you could drop dead at any moment just from a stray rumor saying you died.
21	* The Joker's curse. To stand in place, devoid of dreams or hope, as everyone you cared for forgets you existed at all.
22	* Tatsuya Sudou's life. His father decided to hide the poor guy away in a failing sanitarium, though he clearly needed medical attention, and tried to actively kill him! It's suggested that his father's men followed him to the Aviation Museum (part of the reason the blimp blew up instead of just crashing). His moments of clarity are far more frightening than his psychotic rage. Even worse, it's implied he's just as much a victim, as he ''was'' targeted by many rumors in his childhood...
23	* The slow degeneration of Dark Joker in ''Eternal Punishment''. First seen [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_jokerpersona1.jpg here]]. and from there on... [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_jokerpersona2.jpg it goes to this]], [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_jokerpersona3.jpg to this]], [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_jokerpersona4.jpg and finally this]]. VillainousBreakdown rarely is so literal.
24	* [[EvilOldFolks Tatsuzou Sudou]], father of the above-mentioned Tatsuya Sudou, got an underling to join him by promising him [[ImmortalityImmorality immortality]]. Y'know what he ''didn't'' promise him? [[FateWorseThanDeath Immortality]] [[AndIMustScream as a]] ''[[BodyHorror human]]''.
25	* Hey! The Spear of Longinus is real! AllMythsAreTrue! [[WoundThatWillNotHeal Even the part of what happens when it cuts you!]]
26	* There is a legend explained during ''Eternal Punishment''-the story of Kiyotada Sumaru, the tyrant ruling over the area of Sumaru City in the Period of Warring States. He was so bad, his servant Tatsunoshin Suou, and Suou's retainer Junnosuke Kuroda and his lover Maihime Amano, teamed up and killed him, but not before Sumaru managed to gore Amano with a spear, leaving Suou broken as he told Kuroda to burn down Sumaru Castle. Interesting story, huh? After scattering the rumors of the spirits, you find the mummies in the ruins of Sumaru Castle and gain the ability to summon them as Personae. The problem? It's ''very'' heavily implied the history is entirely false... [[FridgeHorror and you've altered history by scattering the rumors]].
27	* During the final segments of ''Eternal Punishment'', as the Torifune is in the collective consciousness, you can see the people utterly terrified at their current situation. Especially the ones who have been brainwashed by the Kegare removals. Their brainwashing can't even protect them from the horrors they are facing. One NPC in particular tries to be optimistic that it will all work out; that or else he'll take everybody down with him.
28	* The Alaya Shrine incident from Maya's point of view. Your friends locked you in the shrine with another one of your friends. You think someone will come along tomorrow, so you play with your friend until you get rescued. Then you try to get your friend out so that he can unlock the doors for you. Once he climbs out, you hear him shout in pain. There's someone else out there. You can't tell what happened, but suddenly you start smelling smoke. Someone set the shrine on fire. You start pounding on the doors, shouting for your friend to help, but for some reason he isn't answering. You start suffocating from the smoke, still screaming for help. No one answers. A shriek of pain reaches your ears. You don't know what happened to your friend. It's not called TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening for nothing. Maya survives in the end, but not unscathed. She has severe pyrophobia from then on.
29	** The real events are disturbing enough, but then there's the alternate take on it. Jun's memories of that day were altered. He remembers watching his best friend murder their surrogate sister by burning her to death. Then Tatsuya, Lisa and Eikichi laugh and walk off while Jun sobs his eyes out over Big Sis. Is it any wonder that Joker turned out like he did?
30	* The sheer horror involved in The Alaya Shrine incident. Say you're Maya's mother. You and your daughter are moving away tomorrow, and you let her go visit her friends for one last time. She stays out a bit late, but you think she's just lost track of time playing. You allow her because it's her last night. Hours pass. You think something's wrong. Then you get a call from the police. They inform you that your daughter is in the hospital. She was locked in by her friends because they didn't want her to leave, and by complete coincidence, the serial arsonist you heard about on the news set fire to the building she was in.
31	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji5YeY_3-Hw The music]] in the Leo Temple. Unlike the other temple BGM, this nightmarish track is unusual for a temple that is suppose to be a holy place. It doesn't help that part of the track has voices that can't be fully understood and the blood-red architecture it gives off. Perhaps it is created through Tatsuya Suou's feelings of being lost in life and fear of becoming like Tatsuya Sudou if he lost everyone he cares about.
32	* There was originally going to be an anime adaptation titled ''Persona 2: Another Side''. While the full anime was sadly never released, the trailer came on the second disc of the US release to ''Eternal Punishment''. During said-trailer, a particular scene stands out where a random high school student is sobbing while on her knees, her face buried in her hands. Seconds later, she reveals her face, which appears fine at first...until the right side starts ''melting like clay'', eye included. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_persona_2_nightmare_4010.png It can be seen here]].
33	* Ulala has a steadily-worsening OhCrap moment when she realises that the Joker curse is for real, because she drunkenly cursed Maya with it. She didn't actually want Maya dead and just wanted to let out some frustration, but when she realises that the curse is real, she also realises that she's put Maya in a huge amount of danger. And then she finds out that the users of the curse will ''become'' Jokers, leading to a full-on breakdown as she tries to keep her mind long enough to warn Maya.

Context NightmareFuel / Persona2