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  • Oichi in the third game. She looks like a pale, emotionless ghost woman that drifts around the battlefield like a broken puppet singing creepy lullabies. Her weapon? Huge hands made of utter darkness (sometimes with 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 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.
    • 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 "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 hide and seek.
    "Ready or not, here I come. Now where oh where could you be?"
    • But wait, it goes From Bad to Worse in the fourth game. In her Drama Route, she finds Nagamasa, who was killed by Katsuie, and hoo boy, she does NOT take it well. Translation  She goes screaming into a fit of rage, and surprisingly, even adapts Nagamasa as a second personality, and hearing Oichi talking with that voice and switching back and fourth is seriously unsettling, and she ends up 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 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 demonic version of Oda Nobunaga, 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 one more time 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 Ax-Crazy behaviour, Oichi becoming a "puppet of the shadows" and then...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. 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 unsettling dark sclera and gray irises that stare down your very soul, with unsettling ramblings about bringing misery and suffering to the whole world like a madman, speaking in a very monotone tone of voice, almost devoid of emotion, he breaks out of it when someone 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 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 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? GYAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
  • You thought Mitsunari, Mitsuhide, Hisahide or Yoshitsugu were deranged? They are literally nothing compared to Goto Matabe. A former Toyotomi general who was 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 torture his enemies as painfully as possible, while 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 smile all the way through. And do you want to know what's the best part? He kills BOTH Kenshin AND Masamune, 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 theme is just as deranged and uncontrolled as he is.

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