History NightmareFuel / ElfenLied

* The bit where Mayu is subject to [[AbusiveParents sexual abuse at the hands of her step father]] while her mother does ''nothing to help'' is both this, especially for those with androphobia (fear of men), and also a {{Tearjerker}}. When Mayu finally works up the nerve to complain to her mother about the abuse, her mother indifferently views her own rape-victim daughter as a sexual competitor.

** The puppy's death drove Lucy to [[DriventoMadness sheer insanity]] that she [[TheDogBitesBack murdered]] her [[KidsareCruel abusers]] out of rage.

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* Starting off with Lucy pretty much going on a rampage through the research facility where she just steam-rolls everyone who go against her. Then she gets her hands on the Secretary who's the love of her most hated enemy. The scene varies in the manga and anime. In the manga she holds the girl hostage and the girl ''actually requests'' that they shoot her to get at Lucy just for the sake of being useful. To which Lucy just pulls her head off like a doll, granted it's not gory but it's pretty sudden. The anime however, the poor girl just trips in the middle of the stand off between the guards and Lucy. Lucy, recognizing her, uses her powers and rips the girl's head off before she even knows she's in danger. If that wasn't bad enough she uses the girl's body as a BulletproofHumanShield. Pretty much an indication what you're in for if you're watching this.

* At one point a special response unit arrives at an apartment complex and the first thing they come upon is a children's tricycle with a human head in the basket. Inside the apartment they only find a crying three year old girl in pajamas left alive. Who then rips a policeman apart before they open fire with submachine guns.

* And then there was that man known only as [[NoNameGiven The Unknown Man]], who unexpectedly barged into Kouta's house, proceeded to incapacitate Nana by [[AbnormalAmmo firing a spiked iron ball from a crossbow]] and [[ColdBloodedTorture coated in toxins that induce a searing pain on the victim]], smashed Wanta to the point the pup began [[BloodFromTheMouth puking blood]] and seemed catatonic, and [[AttemptedRape would have raped]] and murdered Mayu (and very likely Nana as well, [[ForTheEvulz just because he could]]) had it not been for some [[VillainousRescue last minute intervention from Bandou]].
** The severed head and chest in the box, which he uses as a diclonius detector. Except she was ''still alive'' and had had her vocal cords cut out [[AndIMustScream so that she couldn't scream]]. Oh, and there was extra pain being inflicted just to make sure she couldn't attack him with her diclonius arms (Even though it had been stated that ''she can't generate vectors''). And he raped her repeatedly before cutting off her lower half just so 'her body wouldn't go completely to waste'.

* The Research Facility, which is a textbook definition of a TailorMadePrison. The girls in there are held like animals, much like the RealLife concentration camps of [[ThoseWackyNazis Germany]] or [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan Japan]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, or the merchant ships of the Early Modern Times where black slaves were held. And one of the favourite experimentation method is to ''fire cannonballs at them'' in order to test the strength of their vectors.
* To sum a very lowly opinion of this series up: ''Puppets, creepy girls, psychopathy, hands, and death.''
** Let's just say '''everything''' in this series is Nightmare Fuel.

* Starting off with Lucy pretty much going on a rampage through the research facility where she just steam-rolls everyone who go against her. Then she gets her hands on the Secretary who's the love of her most hated enemy. The scene varies in the manga and anime. In the manga she hold the girl hostage and the girl ''actually requests'' that they shoot her to get at Lucy just for the sake of being useful. To which Lucy just pulls her head off like a doll, granted it's not gory but it's pretty sudden. The anime however, the poor girl just trips in the middle of the stand off between the guards and Lucy. Lucy, recognizing her, uses her powers and rips the girl's head off before she even knows she's in danger. If that wasn't bad enough she uses the girl's body as a BulletproofHumanShield. Pretty much an indication what you're in for if you're watching this.

* The things that [[MadScientist Nousou]], a scientist from the later parts of the manga, does to create his perfect Mariko clones, including ripping the spines out of Diclonii and creating many clones that are deformed and faceless. These clones are horrifying in and of themselves, as they have no free will of their own and appear to love Nousou but are revealed to have been fully aware of the horrible way he has treated them all along when he tries to redeem himself by releasing one of the clones from mind control and she kills him.

* The bit where Mayu is subject to [[AbusiveParents sexual abuse at the hands of her step father]] while her mother does ''nothing to help'' is both this, especially for those with androphobia (fear of men), and also a {{Tearjerker}}. When Mayu finally works up the nerve to complain to her mother about the abuse, her mother ''strikes her down, and then makes it abundantly clear that she views her own rape-victim daughter as a sexual competitor''.

** [[NothingIsScarier It's worth pointing out that we ''never'' see the faces of the failed clones.]] This is one of ''very'' few things in the series that were so horrid, ''Lynn himself'' couldn't bear to draw it.

* The Vector Crafts used as weapons against the Diclonius [[spoiler: are made from Diclonius brains and alive]].

* Anna looks like a huge head that lives within the sea with a constant nonchalant glare. She was [[spoiler:turned into this when she was a little girl.]]
* The ending to the Manga is downright nightmarish. Especially with [[spoiler: Lucy[=/=]Nyu's body rotting and decaying near the end as [[ICannotSelfTerminate she begs Kouta to kill her]].]] During the final scene, [[spoiler:what is left of her body]] is covered by a jacket as it's too gruesome a sight for anyone to watch. And then it comes off. OhCrap, ''indeed''.

** Let's just say '''EVERYTHING''' in this series is Nightmare Fuel.
* Kouta's backstory as revealed in episode 12 of the anime: [[spoiler:Imagine being a young child and watching your father and sister be slaughtered (and only being spared yourself because the murderer considered you a friend) - all because you lied to her about the gender of your cousin. And then you have to stop her from killing your cousin too. No wonder the poor kid developed TraumaInducedAmnesia.]]

* The ending to the Manga is downright nightmarish. Especially with [[spoiler: Lucy[=/=]Nyu's body rotting and decaying near the end as [[ICannotSelfTerminate she begs Kouta to kill her]].]] During the final scene, [[spoiler:what is left of her body]] is covered by a jacket as it's too gruesome a sight for anyone to watch. And then it comes off.

* The Research Facility, which is a textbook definition of a TailorMadePrison. The girls in there are held like animals, much like the RealLife concentration camps of [[ThoseWackyNazis Germany]] or [[ImperialJapan Japan]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, or the merchant ships of the Early Modern Times where black slaves were held. And one of the favourite experimentation method is to ''fire cannonballs at them'' in order to test the strength of their vectors.

* The bit where Mayu is subject to [[AbusiveParents sexual abuse at the hands of her step father]] while her mother does ''nothing to help'' is both this and {{Tearjerker}} worthy. When Mayu finally works up the nerve to complain to her mother about the abuse, her mother ''strikes her down, and then makes it abundantly clear that she views her own rape-victim daughter as a sexual competitor''.