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  • Corpsetaker, a psychotic necromancer who specializes in stealing the bodies of victims. Before Harry meets her, she was impersonating a professor of antiquities, and while we don't see it onscreen (thankfully), we see the bloody aftermath of her last Body Surf: Corpsetaker swapped bodies with a probably-innocent grad student, who suddenly found herself trapped in an unfamiliar body, and was kept alive as she was gutted and tortured by her own body. Her fellow "assistant" turned out to be a ghoul who took the opportunity to carve himself some steaks.
  • A low-key but damn disturbing moment is when Harry is briefing Butters on the supernatural situation of the world. He points out that the rate at which people go missing, as in flat out disappear, is roughly equivalent to the rate at which herd animals in Africa are killed by large predators.
    • Even worse - that was a real-world statistic that Jim Butcher quoted.
  • The scene in the museum. (No one is coming to save you, Harry.)
  • The Red Court hitting a hospital with Sarin gas.
    • And on top of that, the fact that they also gassed everything else in a six-block radius of their target to be at a safe distance from retribution, and this was in the heart of a bustling city.
    • Result: Forty-five thousand people died. And their targets were less than two-hundred people. A terrifying example of the results of being The Unfettered.
      • The comic adaptation War Cry makes it worse by showing it, and its aftermath - streets littered with corpses. See here.
  • Pretty low-key compared to all of the above, but Chicago that Halloween night- with all those zombies and the Wild Hunt running around, who knows how many people were killed.

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