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  • In Adastra, Cato becomes a walking example of this after Amicus tears away his facial prosthetics. Considering the kind of audience the Visual Novel was aimed at, most reading it would probably find Cato a Silver Fox (well, Silver Wolf) for his muscular yet pudgy build he barely covers up... but then you move on to what he looks like under the visors he wore for most of the game, and his scarred skin and glass-like eyes will make you wish he put them back on. What further makes it a disservice is that this is also around the time we find that he's a complete psychopath.
  • Crescendo (JP) is an eroge Visual Novel, so h-scenes are a given. However, you're not exactly supposed to be aroused by scenes like Ryo raping his adoptive sister Ayame, Yuka's gangrape, Yuka being half-naked and with Dull Eyes of Unhappiness after you-as-Ryo make him crush her hopes or Yuka being fully naked — after slitting her wrist and being stopped from going the Bath Suicide way. Worse, Ryo himself isn't a bastard off the bat, so if you make him the cause of some of these scenes... well, it's your own damn fault.
  • Danganronpa:
    • Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: The beginning of chapter 3 includes a picture of Asahina on her bed in her underwear, which would be Fanservice if she weren't in a Troubled Fetal Position, crying herself to sleep after seeing one of her friends get brutally executed for murdering another one of her friends.
    • Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: The beach episode has a few examples.
      • One of the CG pictures is a bikini pic of Akane... covered in blood after suffering a head injury.
      • Another picture is of Peko, soaking wet, in a bikini... immediately after having murdered Mahiru by bashing in her skull with a bat.
    • Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony:
      • Chapter 2 sees the player given a scene of an attractive Meido suffering Clothing Damage, exposing her bra and legs. Too bad Kirumi Tojo is at the same time being executed via being cut up by razor blades and then plummeting several feet to her death.
      • After the third trial, there's a shot of Korekiyo and his lover, both quite attractive, cuddling naked. Which would have been nicer if the third trial hadn't revealed they're brother and sister.
      • Chapter 5's closing argument shows a brief shot of a cute pretty boy without a shirt on. This is Kokichi Oma right before he's crushed into an unrecognizable pulp by a hydraulic press.
    • In Super Danganronpa Another 2 the second victim Kokoro is found half-naked on a bed... with her hands and feet severed.
  • If the protagonist of Daughter for Dessert doesn’t have much success with any girl throughout the game (besides the railroaded successes with Amanda), a nearly nude scene with Mortelli is unlocked.
  • Doki Doki Literature Club!:
    • One CG in the game has Sayori, your Childhood Friend, wearing a reasonably cute outfit including very form-fitting short pants. Part of her top is also loosened just enough that her shoulder and collarbone are exposed. It's the one where the player character finds her after she's committed suicide by hanging, which is a major Wham Shot that marks the game revealing its true colors.
    • A more subtle one involves Yuri. If you decide to help her for the school festival preparations, she wears a form-fitting sweater (with tight blank pants, although it's not the most important here): while this gives her a Cute Bookworm design, it also covers her arms at maximum, and she seems extremely shy about them. The reason behind them is because she cuts herself with her knife collection and naturally, she doesn't want anybody to know about it.
  • In Far Beyond the World, the first true sex scene between Caelan and Ranok becomes this seconds after the fact because it's immediately followed by Ranok tearfully confessing that he plans to abbandon Caelan at Strandbard for the human's own good. A Mood Whiplash that leaves us and Caelan distressed, confused and devastated and, through all this, the poor guy was still covered in the seed of the wolf that just admitted he wants to leave him forever.
    • Mercifully averted with Aldris. In a Visual Novel where most of the cast, male and female, don very revealing outfits, Aldris is one of the few major characters to have most of her body completely covered, which is very fortunate since a Silver Fox and a Big Beautiful Woman she is Not. Unfortunately, her equally as fat and unpleasant right-hand Dran dresses just as revealingly as most of the actually attractive guys. The Visual Novel does have actual Big Beautiful Men in it, but Dran is clearly not meant to evoke that.
  • Fate/stay night:
  • In The Eden of Grisaia there's a bonus sex scene with Yuuji's pretty mom in an area of the game reserved for stuff that didn't really happen. She's pretty enough, so you'd think it would be attractive, but throughout it she's hating herself because she's basically forcing herself on her son, who has no idea what she's doing. She ends the scene crying. Yeah, that's sexy alright.
  • Hiveswap Friendsim's sexual humour is intentionally uncomfortable, to the point that the point-of-view character muses on the "poor Let's Players" who have to read it aloud in public. Highlights include a character persuading the PC into an awkward Spaghetti Kiss with a hotdog made of insects, two especially filthy homeless teenagers making out with the PC at once in order to drain their life force, and an interminable fetishistic description of the PC sniffing the armpit of a Monster Clown who is actively in the process of trying to stab them.
  • In Kara no Shoujo more than once you get to see pretty naked girls, just like you'd expect. Sounds good until the bit where they get their limbs hacked off, their heads twisted around or their eyes slashed, doesn't it?
  • Katawa Shoujo has a couple of examples. It should be noticed that it's generally less about the artwork and/or girls's physical disabilities, and much more about the emotional turmoil and very sad/troubled circumstances.
  • Minotaur Hotel: You first meet Asterion naked. This wouldn't be a bad image if it weren't for the fact that he's malnourished and injured beyond belief.
  • Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney:
    • In the second case Sexy Mentor Mia Fey is murdered. The game makes sure we get a good look at her corpse slumped against a wall in a way that displays her cleavage and her long legs. We later get a nice shot of her younger sister Maya, a rather pretty young woman, crying her eyes out over the victim's body... a few moments before she is accused of being the killer.
    • Maya gets several more instances of fan disservice, including channeling the spirit of a busty and attractive woman in the second game... while covered in blood after having apparently just murdered someone. It's actually the true culprit disguised as Maya doing the channeling, but it still counts
    • In the same case as above with Maya, Mia makes an unexpected appearance in all of her curvy glory. This would normally be a good thing... except she channels in through her cousin Pearl, an eight-year-old child. Mia in the clothes of a child rides right on the line between Fanservice and Fan Disservice.
    • Downplayed for laughs in the case of Sister Bikini in the third game. Some characters initially assume she's, well, a woman wearing a bikini... only to find out she's a short, plump, middle-aged woman. The mental image of her in a bikini is enough to make them reach for the Brain Bleach.
    • In Turnabout Reclaimed, a female character has a Wardrobe Malfunction... that lady being the plump middle-aged Norma DePlume. It's bad enough to put Phoenix in his 'despair' animation.
  • Meryl's breasts in Policenauts. If you can beat her high score on the shooting range she'll let you grope them, but they make a sound like elephants or tigers (rather than the usual boob-grope reverse-onomatopoeia you would expect) and Jonathan is alarmed by how they feel. Played for Laughs.
  • Rosetta and the Well: Mermaids are shown topless, but given that they are used as puppets by Pygmalion to draw in potential victims when they least expect it, it turns much more horrifying which is not helped by the fact that the shells can rot away.
  • Saya no Uta:
    • The h-scenes are actually somewhat less horrifying than what you see through regular gameplay (as well as censored), but the Squick is still rather high when you realize that these scenes involve literal mindscrewing, Saya looks like she isn't legal in the least, and the fact the sex is merely supposed to be a punctuation mark on how fucked up the game is (though if one runs the h-scenes through a heavy self-denial filter on what they represent, they actually are bearable in terms of being able to stomach them by a wide margin as opposed to the regular game play). And just imagine how the h-scenes would look like from a normal character's perspective.
    • The scene of Yousuke raping Saya. Not over an hour ago, he was your friendly neighborhood family man. After having his senses altered to be just like Fuminori's, the guy goes insane, kills his family, and the next thing you know he's sadistically raping the first girl he sees. Him getting excited over Saya's struggling to break free from him induces the need for a few barrels of Brain Bleach. And it gets worse when Fuminori finds out... and he believes that Yousuke is a purple Eldritch Abomination with its penis in her. Ewwwww.
    • Not to mention, the h-scenes involving poor Yoh. Who is first raped by Saya, then by Fuminori, and then by both of them. And in at least one ending, she becomes a Sex Slave for them. Noooooooo!
  • In the School Days Visual Novel, more than one sex scene is extremely awkward and/or horrible not due to bad character design or any gross fluids, but because of the Dysfunction Junction.
    • It's terrible to see Kotonoha's huge breasts and stocking-covered legs when she's actually being raped by Taisuke while she's too shocked and broken to scream for help.
    • A certain scene where Kotonoha gives Makoto a blowjob in the metro counts as this since she's under the VERY mistaken belief that, if she offers sex to Makoto repeatedly, he will stay with her. Plus, letting her do so leads to one of the bad endings where she's Spurned into Suicide when Makoto and Sekai prove her wrong.
    • In one of Sekai's routes, Kotonoha is seen near-naked and very angry at Makoto... because she's trying to use her sex appeal to punish Makoto for cheating on her with Sekai. The scene relays on Kotonoha stripping half-nude, forcing Makoto to grope her boobs (and he feels so guilty that he can easily be roped into this), taking pictures of such an awkward position and sending them to Sekai to force her break it off.
    • The Cross Days Spin-Off game isn't lacking on this, either. Yuuki Ashikaga is cute-looking enough to make a gorgeous Wholesome Crossdresser, but this becomes horribly unsettling if you get the sex scene where Yuuki as "Yuu" is gangraped by Taisuke and another bunch of male students. And there's the scene where he's not crossdressing, but still barely escapes being violated by a Huge Schoolgirl... only to be raped by his older sister's Girl Posse.
  • In Snatcher, Gillian junks a beautiful female Snatcher. In the original Japanese version, her dress tears as she falls, and her corpse lies on the floor with a nipple slip on display and its head exploded in a mess of artificial blood, matted hair and broken mechanics.
  • Spirit Hunter series:
    • Spirit Hunter: Death Mark features plenty of attractive women in various stages of nudity in the game... as the ghosts are either slowly killing them, or they're already dead.
    • Spirit Hunter: NG:
      • The Killer Peach case features a CG of a woman in a lacy black bra, which is disturbing for multiple reasons; there are mouths all over her body, she's barely alive, and it's the protagonist's aunt.
      • Would you like to see a CG of a naked Rosé? How about a shirtless Ban with his hair down? The Demon Tsukuyomi case has them if you destroyed Killer Peach previously, leading her to seek revenge against your companions - Rosé is found naked with a katana gored through her stomach, while Ban is literally split in two from head to waist.
  • Swan Song has quite a few h-scenes for the player. However, multiple scenes are rape.
  • Thousand Dollar Soul: In ending #24, Todd watches Angela, a girl he may or may not have a crush on, come out of the shower and get dressed. Except Todd is currently in the body of his future self, a 60-something man, while Angela is just about to graduate high school, and it's a virtual reality simulation that said old man (who is a creepy yandere for Angela) has watched several times obsessively before you took over his body.
  • Tsukihime: In Shiki's dream, he rapes a 'doll' that is either Hisui or Kohaku. There is so little response, that even Shiki is dissatisfied. It's actually not a dream, it's Shiki sharing perceptions with SHIKI, who actually is having sex with Kohaku, and is setting up that she's, well, screwed up.
  • Many of the sexual scenes of Wonderful Everyday fall squarely into this due to involving rape, harassment, bullying, torture, or happening during hallucinations.

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