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Yes, even in a dark, bleak, and downright depressing series like this, Fatal Frame does have some amusing moments.
- Female Head from the first game. It's the ghost of a woman's head. That rolls in midair.
- Miku in the first Fatal Frame witnesses a ghost run up the stairs. Her reaction to it is less than what you would expect
. - Floating Woman in the second game, when hurt, makes a loud gasping noise. Logical enough, and a bit creepy considering she drowned. However, on some versions of the game, it sounds rather like a duck quacking, which is just hilarious.
- In the PS2 version of Fatal Frame II, the Taboo Tome reads like this:The gate to hell is called the ✻Gaze not upon the ✻.Eyes that glimpse the ✻ will be blinded by the ✻.Speak not of the ✻.The mouth which utters ✻ will be made speechless by the ✻.Listen not to the ✻.Those who heed the ✻ are turned heartless by the ✻.
- Besides the unintentionally humorous chiding tone of the text, the asterisk vaguely resembles an anus. (In the Japanese version, an X is used in place of the asterisk.)
- Markiplier decided to retch the asterisks. It must be seen for the hilarity.
- When fighting Sae at The Abyss, she sometimes approaches Mio... by flailing her arms and stumbling around. This girl, who unleashed The Repentance upon the village. Flailing around like a little kid on a sugar high.
- After Rei defeats Yoshino for the first time, she wakes up to see Yoshino grabbing her wrist. It would be terrifying as hell if it wasn't for their expressions during the scene. Yoshino sports a comically unamused expression as if to say "Dude, not cool." and Rei's expression is just a confused "O_O".
- In Fatal Frame III, there is a point where Miku enters a room full of hanging doll/body-looking things. The look on her face isn't so much "abject terror" as it is "...what is it NOW?" You can see it here.
- Using the Festival function along with the Blast, Blow, Zero, or Crush Lens against a high health ghost can be quite hilarious to watch, with it basically being the equivalent to a camera machine gun. Even funnier if it's Kei using it.
- In IV, upon defeating a ghost, Ruka and Misaki will sometimes pant for breath, one hand to their chest and the one holding the flashlight aimed down. From the right angle, it can look rather like they're pointing at the vanishing ghost and laughing.
- Fatal Frame IV has an absolute gem of a scene early on in Chapter 10:
- At one point, Choushiro has to examine a painting found at the end of a dead-end hallway. When the player turns him around, the previous empty hallway now has a single, unattended red wheelchair blocking his path. By this point in the game, the player is already aware that where this wheelchair appears, a particularly frightening ghost follows. When the player has Choushiro try to walk by, it triggers a cutscene where the ghost in question, Sendou Kageri, appears. Choushiro doesn't have any sort of visible reaction when this happens. Instead he just stands completely still, staring blankly at rest of the empty hallway like a person on a subway who is trying to avoid making eye contact with other passengers.
- For her part, Kageri doesn't react immediately. It takes a couple of seconds before she turns to him with an expression that is as close to baffled as any ghost in this series has ever looked.
- Once she does look at him, a few more moments of awkward silence follow while Choushiro just continues to stare straight ahead and not acknowledge her existence. Only after that little exchange does the fight start.
- It becomes even funnier if you see this scene on a second playthrough and you know Choushiro was Dead All Along. Kageri may have done a double-take because she was just plain confused what his deal was.
- While the scene was made less funny in the remaster, it's still worth a laugh as Kageri instead turns to look at Choushiro almost immediately while he still awkwardly stares ahead.
- While it shouldn't be funny, the way the Woman Who Fell ghosts in V scream and flail while falling and then hit the ground can be unintentionally hilarious, especially when they start dropping like flies.
- A more lighthearted moment takes place in V, via a dialogue between Ren and Rui after a tutorial about using Ren's Camera Obscura, with taking photos of Rui as practice.Rui: Is the camera working?
Ren: Well, you look like you, so... yeah?
Rui: *chuckle* Is that a good thing?
Ren: Uh, we should go. - One of Hisoka's notes on past cases is one where a man soon to be married hired her to locate his missing engagement ring.Hisoka's Notes: Found ring on client's desk. It was in an obvious place, but somehow eluded the client.
