* [[DarkActionGirl Oichi]] in the third game. She looks like a [[StringyHairedGhostGirl pale, emotionless ghost woman]] that drifts around the battlefield like a broken puppet singing [[IronicNurseryRhyme creepy lullabies]]. Her weapon? Huge hands made of utter darkness (sometimes with [[BodyHorror nails driven through them]]) that can claw, crush and grab enemy soldiers, smashing them into the ground or dragging them down to hell itself. And her strongest attack summons a [[EldritchAbomination shadow being]] that carries her around sucking the life out of anyone in its path. Dulcis in fundo, her victory pose consists in her lying on the ground and ''playing'' with said demonic arms before they engulf her in blackness.
--> "[[VoiceOfTheLegion LET ME HEAR YOU]] ''[[VoiceOfTheLegion SCREAM!]]'' [[DarknessEqualsDeath LET ME SEE YOU]] ''[[DarknessEqualsDeath ROT!]]''"
** On the other end of the spectrum there's the eerie sobbing noises she sometimes makes for no reason, or the way every time an attack misses her she'll suddenly whisper '''''[[DeathSeeker "Kill me!"]]'''''
** At the beginning of any stage in which an opponent runs away (like Yoshihiro or Haruhisa) she turns it into a very creepy game of [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hide and seek]].
--> "Ready or not, here I come. Now ''where'' oh ''where'' could you be?"
** But wait, it goes FromBadToWorse in the fourth game. In her Drama Route, she finds Nagamasa, who was [[MurderTheHypotenuse killed by]] Katsuie, [[http://youtu.be/P_ey60VLgTo?t=17m53s and hoo boy, she does NOT take it well.]] [[labelnote:Translation]]Oichi: Lord... Nagamasa? Katsuie: Lady Oichi, please acknowledge this moment… I will protect you… I can take in everything– Oichi: No…. Katsuie: The you who plays with flowers during the day, Oichi: No…! Katsuie: Or the you who embraces the night! Because I– Oichi: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! (After Oichi takes down Katsuie with one of her dark hands) Oichi: (in Nagamasa’s tone of voice) Injustice! I won’t give my wife to the like of you![[/labelnote]] She goes screaming into a fit of rage, and surprisingly, [[SplitPersonality even adapts Nagamasa as a second personality,]] and hearing [[TheStoic Oichi]] talking with that voice and switching back and fourth is seriously unsettling, and she ends up [[HeroKiller killing Hideyoshi, Ieyasu]] and Nobunaga again, and gets granted the title of "Azai Protector of the Bizen Province" by Yoshiteru, which really makes you wonder, how morally messed up is Yoshiteru to grant the title of "Protector" to an emotionally broken girl with nothing to live for? By the end of the route she's seen wandering around aimlessly with nothing to do and live for, emotionally scarred, talking with her second personality about her becoming stronger. Yeah. This route is fucked up.
* Mitsunari Ishida's constant death threats and vows of vengance against Ieyasu Tokugawa are very intimidating and unnerving. There is also the scene when Mitsunari discovers that Kanbe Kuroda has taken over Hideyoshi Toyotomi's castle. Yes, the castle of Mitsunari's lord. When Mitsunari finally encounters Kanbe, he gives Kanbe such a scathing diatribe that his pupils dilate and [[RedEyesTakeWarning turn red]]. There's also his move "Reverence", where Mitsunari is overtaken by rage and dark energy, and his fighting style changes from quick and graceful to violent and bestial.
* The Incident at Honnoji stage, where you fight a [[DemonKingNobunaga demonic]] version of UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga, is extremely unnerving the first time you go through it. Starts normally, with you running forth, fighting enemies, and trying to unlock a door by defeating a camp commander... only to be interrupted when all the enemies collapse in pain, dissolve in red energy, and vanish. Then you run around to five other camps, trying to keep this from happening, because as your officers note, Nobunaga is eating the souls of his soldiers. And if you're too late to beat a camp commander, the entire area erupts and kills all the enemies. And the kicker? Every time that happens, that's [[NotQuiteDead one more time]] [[OhCrap you have to kill Nobunaga]].
* The sheer thoughts that must go through Matsunaga Hisahide's mind as he calmly strolls about the country, psychologically crushing people and then setting them on fire for kicks, are enough to make one shudder.
** Not to mention absolutely everything he does in ''Utage''. From killing Kojuro and Sasuke in front of Yukimura and Masamune, to stealing Mitsuhide's very name and identity... nothing seems too terrible for him to do just in the name of his own amusement.
* Nobunaga lives up to his name when it comes to the anime. Anywhere he goes is wrought with blood and fire. Special points go to his blowing Imagawa's head off and the aftermath of the Church of Xavism.
* From ''The Last Party'', Ishida's AxCrazy behaviour, Oichi becoming a "puppet of the shadows" and then...[[spoiler:The Flower of the People. A spiky, flower-shaped formation that jabs into every soldier within a giant "bowl" and drains their energy to give immortality to the now reborn Nobunaga, who is crazier than before. Thankfully this all ends with him fatally wounded, Oichi holding him close and the two going back to whence they came: Hell.]]
* In ''Judge End'', when Oichi loses control of her powers, she turns the entire Oda Remnants into an army of gray-skinned, groaning zombies thralls. And, as the battle of Sekigahara shows, these zombies won't die not even when Masamune or Yukimura, the iconic heroes, slashes at them, leaving our normally confident heroes shaking with fear, unable to fight on. [[spoiler: To cap it all, Tenkai's ritual goes awry and Oichi becomes fully possessed by Nobunaga's ghost, ready to shred apart Matsu, Keiji and Magoichi.]]
* Yoshitsugu Otani. The man is an almost inhuman floating living mummy wrapped in bandages with [[BlackEyesOfCrazy unsettling dark sclera and gray irises]] [[DeathGlare that stare down]] [[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yw71LeGuzZM/sddefault.jpg your very soul]], with unsettling ramblings about [[MisanthropeSupreme bringing misery and suffering to the whole world]] like a madman, [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CreepyMonotone speaking in a very monotone tone of voice, almost devoid of emotion,]] he breaks out of it when someone [[spoiler:like Motonari in his own Blue Path]] does something so inhumane when it even tips off him of all people, or when he *reaallly* gets into his ramblings, he can follow it up with a [[EvilLaugh deranged cackle.]] He's also really good at manipulating and controlling people, right around his little finger, like Oichi in her Blue Route for example. Oh and his very sinister and ominous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go8bl1XZe98 theme]] is just the cherry on top. This speech by him in his Blue Path sums it all up quite well:
--> Yoshitsugu: Almost here... Infinite miseries are about to descend! In the sky they congregate, soon they will wreak havoc on this world! Motonari... I see death! I see famine! I see stone hearts, beating to sinister RHYTHMS! CAN YOU SEE THEM TOO? [[EvilLaugh GYAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!]]
* You thought [[UnstoppableRage Mitsunari]], [[CombatSadomasochist Mitsuhide]], [[SerialKiller Hisahide]] or [[MisanthropeSupreme Yoshitsugu]] were deranged? They are literally nothing compared to Goto Matabe. A former Toyotomi general who was [[BrokenBird broken by his constant losses]], now he is an utterly insane psychopath who barely clings on to his sanity, he really likes talking and is obsessed about how he's going to [[AxCrazy torture his enemies as painfully as possible]], while [[GigglingVillain giggling with his signature laugh]] like a maniac, changing his tone of voice to an insane low to an ear-screechingly high, while he has his signature eerie and off [[TheUnsmile smile]] all the way through. And do you want to know what's the best part? [[spoiler:He kills BOTH Kenshin AND Masamune, [[HeroKiller some of the most powerful characters in the entire series]] in his Drama route!]] That's how you know he definitely isn't the one to be messed with in the slightest! Oh, and his theme, his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIiMNzrMzA8 theme]] is just as deranged and uncontrolled as he is.
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