Nightmare Fuel / Strike Witches: The Movie

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• The opening sequence depicts a unit of Allied infantry, tanks, and naval ships attacking a group of Neuroi ground units. Unfortunately for them, a massive capital class Neuroi air unit arrives and blasts the infantry and tanks into oblivion. Then, it attacks the naval fleet with a single blast through the ships and later destroys a nearby European city. That is a horrifying display of the power that a Neuroi of the second Neuroi war is potentially capable of...
• On the Amagi, an officer gets trapped in falling debris and the ship's captain is forced to close the watertight bulkhead, leaving him to drown as the compartment floods.
• When Yoshika and Shizuka enter a hospital in Gallia to help the injured, the latter witnesses firsthand the grisly nature of those injuries.
• Shizuka getting shot down from behind by the Neuroi.
• Yoshika's head is bleeding the moment she gets sent flying into the ground by the Neuroi.
• In a scene in the movie we see Karlsland Flak 88 crews and Liberion M4 Sherman's is the Ardennes of East Belgica and Bastogne South Belgica respectively trying their best to fight against Medium type Neruoi air units. Despite the brave and valet effort of both units, it's quickly apparent that the fighting is desperate and bloody for the allied forces against sudden and hyper aggressive neuroi attacks. The Karsland Flak 88 crews are wiped out to a man and the Liberion Sherman's are not only forced back after their initial hostile combat volley but are not long after destroyed with shocking ease by mere Medium class Neruoi air units. These scenes show the terrifying risks being a non-witch, conventional infantry man must face and fight in the Neruoi war.
  • On top of the above we also briefly see a Liberion M 1919 A 4 Machine gun position attached to an artillery unit that was in the treeline in front of the Sherman's that were just destroyed, consisting of a riflemen, the M 1919 A 4's gunner and one man on a radio who is desperately trying to contact another unit, likely for assistance, but getting no response. He tries again to make radio contact... but midway though his transmission an ominous red light glows with malevolent intent up in front of their fox hole just off screen, indicating that it's a beam attack from above from another Neruoi air unit. All the while the tone of his voice is nothing but pure, barely restrained terror and desperation. The rifleman sharing the foxhole with the other soldiers seems about to try and return fire, but it's a futile gesture as he doesn't have enough time to get his first round off, and even if he did, their's no assurance he would hit the Neruoi, and even if he did somehow manage to hit his target: the round from his M1 Garand likely wouldn't do very much if anything at all in his hands against such a Neruoi due to it's district, regenerating armored hide.
  • To cap all this off: the events of this battle, by the implications of the battle's themselves and their locations consisting of Belgica as well as regions of Gallia and the other accounts of the kind of fighting these soldiers, witches and personnel face: this is the Strike Witches World's version of the Battle of the Bulge. And it seems the whole situation is somehow even worse than it was in our Battle of the Buldge.
  • And just prior to the scenes in Belgica, is that of a cut to the 506th JFW's A-Unit in the middle of an air raid in Sedan Gallia, scrambling to sortie and a report coming in that the witches of B-unit's base in Dijon are not responding and the fear of the Commanders of A-unit that their witch comrades of B-unit were wiped out.

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