History NightmareFuel / CallOfDutyWorldAtWar

[[caption-width-right:350:And you think what the Nazis do to prisoners are bad, this is what the IJA would do.]]

* And it's not like the Americans are any better either. Roebuck's solution when they have to punch through maze of trenches and artillery:[[KillItWithFire We'll burn'em out.]]

* Then there's the opening of the Russian Campaign: Vendetta. You start off, face-down in a courtyard fountain, [[AtopAMountainOfCorpses surrounded by your dead and dying comrades]]. From your position, you can barely see German soldiers, [[DissonantSerenity casually strolling past]], [[ViolenceDiscretionShot shooting any Bolshevik they missed in the initial fight]]. Then, one hops into the fountain, [[ObligatoryWarCrimeScene fills a few more of your squadmates full of lead]], and barely misses you by that much. Unlike Miller, Dmitri doesn't survive his opening by [[BigDamnHeroes friendly reinforcements riding to the rescue]], but by pure, dumb luck. And if it wasn't for [[MentorArchetype Reznov's guidance in evading the Germans]], [[FridgeHorror said dumb luck probably wouldn't have lasted much longer]] [[EverythingTryingToKillYou in that carpet-bombed hell-hole of a city]].

* And in the rest of the Russian campaign, [[YouBastard YOU AND REZNOV are doing the same thing to the Germans!]] When Reznov said [[IronicEcho "Their Land, Their Blood"]], he wasn't kidding - the Red Army is shown [[CurbstompBattle blowing away wave after wave of German soldiers]], ([[LoweredRecruitingStandards who aren't even actual soldiers anymore]] but "[[ChildSoldier the young]], [[ShellShockedVeteran the old]], and [[CannonFodder the weak]]"), while [[WeHaveReserves perfectly willing to sacrifice millions of their own troops to drown Germany in their blood, and smother them with their corpses]]. In a game where [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality the player character often got an automatic pass for being the good guy]], [[ButThouMust in spite of needing to shoot up HUNDREDS of enemies]], World at War takes great pains to emphasize the EvilVersusEvil the Eastern Front was in real life.

** On multiple instances in the Pacific Campaign, Japanese soldiers falsely surrender so as to be able to ambush the Marines. What would tend to happen? The Marines become suspicious of any surrender attempt, even of the few soldiers and civilians who did genuinely surrender, and may instead execute such soldiers attempting a genuine surrender instead. Imagine if you were one of the few who did want to do this and the Americans refused on the basis that it had happened poorly so many times before.

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* Being the DarkerAndEdgier version of the original Call Of Duty, World at War has this in spades:
** The VERY FIRST mission has the first-person view of Miller and his recon team being captured and... [[ColdBloodedTorture "interrogated"]] by the Japanese. One of your squadmates is being [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brutally hit in the face]] by a Japanese {{Mook}}, to the point it seems [[{{Squick}} most of the skin is cut off and bleeding]]. Then, [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu when he spits (Blood!) in the face of the the Japanese officer interrogating you]], the officer [[EyeScream shoves a burning cigarette into his eye]], and orders the Mook to execute you both. Once the Mook [[SlashedThroat slits your friend's throat]], (complete with [[PaintTheTownRed blood splattering the nearby wall]], he grabs you by the neck, and is about to do the same thing to you. [[BigDamnHeroes If it wasn't for Sgt. Sullivan and the other Marines]], [[DoomedProtagonist your game would've been over before it even began]].
** Then there's the opening of the Russian Campaign: Vendetta. You start off, face-down in a courtyard fountain, [[AtopAMountainOfCorpses surrounded by your dead and dying comrades]]. From your position, you can barely see German soldiers, [[DissonantSerenity casually strolling past]], [[ViolenceDiscretionShot shooting any Bolshevik they missed in the initial fight]]. Then, one hops into the fountain, [[ObligatoryWarCrimeScene fills a few more of your squadmates full of lead]], and barely misses you by that much. Unlike Miller, Dmitri doesn't survive his opening by [[BigDamnHeroes friendly reinforcements riding to the rescue]], but by pure, dumb luck. And if it wasn't for [[MentorArchetype Reznov's guidance in evading the Germans]], [[FridgeHorror said dumb luck probably wouldn't have lasted much longer]] [[EverythingTryingToKillYou in that carpet-bombed hell-hole of a city]].
** And in the rest of the Russian campaign, [[YouBastard YOU AND REZNOV are doing the same thing to the Germans!]] When Reznov said [[IronicEcho "Their Land, Their Blood"]], he wasn't kidding - the Red Army is shown [[CurbstompBattle blowing away wave after wave of German soldiers]], ([[LoweredRecruitingStandards who aren't even actual soldiers anymore]] but "[[ChildSoldier the young]], [[ShellShockedVeteran the old]], and [[CannonFodder the weak]]"), while [[WeHaveReserves perfectly willing to sacrifice millions of their own troops to drown Germany in their blood, and smother them with their corpses]]. In a game where [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality the player character often got an automatic pass for being the good guy]], [[ButThouMust in spite of needing to shoot up HUNDREDS of enemies]], World at War takes great pains to emphasize the EvilVersusEvil the Eastern Front was in real life.
** And it's not like the Americans are any better either. Roebuck's solution when they have to punch through maze of trenches and artillery:[[KillItWithFire We'll burn'em out.]]

** And it's not like the Americans are any better either. Roebuck's solution when they have to punch through maze of trenches and artillery:\\
-->'''Roebuck''': Flamethrowers. [[KillItWithFire We'll burn'em out.]]

** And it's not like the Americans are any better either. Roebuck's solution when they have to punch through maze of trenches and artillery: -->'''Roebuck''': Flamethrowers. [[KillItWithFire We'll burn'em out.]]

** And it's not like the Americans are any better either. Roebuck's solution when they have to punch through maze of trenches and artillery: '''Roebuck''': Flamethrowers. [[KillItWithFire We'll burn'em out.]]

** And it's not like the Americans are any better either. Roebuck's solution when they have to punch through maze of trenches and artillery: [[KillItWithFire We'll burn'em out.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:And you think what the Nazis do to POWs are bad, this is what the IJA would do.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:And you think Nazis are bad already, THIS is the IJA.]]

** The VERY FIRST mission has the first-person view of Miller and his recon team being captured and... [[ColdBloodedTorture "interrogated"]] by the Japanese. One of your squadmates is being [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brutally hit in the face]] by a Japanese {{Mook}}, to the point it seems [[{{Squick}} most of the skin is cut off and bleeding]]. Then, [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu when he spits (Blood!) in the face of the the Japanese officer interrogating you]], the officer [[EyeScream shoves a burning cigarette into his eye]], and orders the Mook to execute you both. Once the Mook [[SlashedThroat slits your friend's throat]], (complete with [[PaintTheTownRed blood splattering the nearby wall]], he grabs you by the neck, and is about to do the same thing to you. [[[BigDamnHeroes If it wasn't for Sgt. Sullivan and the other Marines]], [[DoomedProtagonist your game would've been over before it even began]].

* The [[UsefulNotes/KatanasOfTheRisingSun Imperial Japanese Army]] as a whole. While the German forces are initially just as ruthless, as shown in "Vendetta", by 1945 they're mostly reduced to desperate, tired, and weakened units, retreating or trying to surrender when the Red Army overwhelms them. These soldiers? Quite the opposite. Rather than grow desperate and kick the towel as the Allies get closer and closer to the Japanese mainland, they'll literally [[DefiantToTheEnd fight to the death]], through any means necessary. Fighting an enemy with nothing to lose ''and'' with a determination to stop you and your buddies at all cost is pretty unsettling.
** The Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service is arguably just as bad. Their solution to taking down American ships with nothing but obsolete planes and inexperienced pilots? Why simply [[SuicideAttack use kamikaze tactics]]. As shown in the second half of "Black Cats", the effects are devastating, with several American ships either dead in the water or sunk.

** Roebuck's solution when they have to punch through maze of trenches and artillery: [[KillItWithFire We'll burn'em out.]]

* The [[UsefulNotes/KatanasOfTheRisingSun Imperial Japanese Army]] as a whole. While the German forces are initially just as ruthless, as shown in "Vendetta", by 1945 they're mostly reduced to desperate, tired, and weakened units, retreating or trying to surrender when the Red Army overwhelms them. These soldiers? Quite the opposite. Rather than grow desperate and kick the towel as the Allies get closer and closer to the Japanese mainland, they'll literally [[DefiantToTheEnd fight to the death]], through any means necessary. Fighting an enemy with nothing to lose ''and'' with a determination to stop you and your buddies at all cost is pretty unsettling.

* The [[UsefulNotes/KatanasOfTheRisingSun Imperial Japanese Army]] as a whole. While the German forces are initially just as ruthless, as shown in "Vendetta", by 1945 they're mostly reduced to desperate, tired, and weakened units, retreating or trying to surrender when the Red Army overwhelms them. These soldiers? Quite the opposite. They'll literally [[DefiantToTheEnd fight to the death]], through any means necessary. Fighting an enemy with nothing to lose ''and'' with a determination to stop you and your buddies at all cost is pretty unsettling.

** Roebuck's solution when they have to punch through maze of trenches and artillery: [[KillItWithFire We'll burn'em out.]]

* The audio logs in the Nazi Zombies bonus mode In VideoGame/CallOfDuty World at War, ''especially'' the logs in Der Riese.
** And of course, the Hell Hounds. "FETCH ME THEIR '''SOULS'''!!". It does not help that they can easily kill you, and half of them EXPLODE.

* FridgeHorror: After the Battle of Berlin, [[WarIsHell several German women were raped or otherwise brutalized by the Soviet soldiers.]] So, Dimitri, the character you ''just played as'', and Reznov, one of the biggest Badasses of the series? Yeah, for all you know, they could be rapists.
** [[ObligatoryWarCrimeScene "Several?"]]
** Worse, it's not altogether unimaginable that Reznov would rape a German woman, not for his own pleasure, but simply to [[{{RevengeByProxy}} inflict pain on the Nazis.]]

** The VERY FIRST mission has the first-person view of Miller and his recon team being captured and... [[ColdBloodedTorture "interrogated"]] by the Japanese. One of your squadmates is being [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brutally hit in the face]] by a Japanese {{Mook}}, to the point it seems [[{{Squick}} most of the skin is cut off and bleeding]]. Then, [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu when he spits (Blood!) in the face of the the Japanese officer interrogating you]], the officer [[EyeScream shoves a burning cigarette into his eye]], and orders the Mook to execute you both. Once the Mook [[SlashedThroat slits your friend's throat]], (complete with [[PaintTheTownRed blood splattering the nearby wall]], he grabs you by the neck, and is about to do the same thing to you. [[spoiler: [[BigDamnHeroes If it wasn't for Sgt. Sullivan and the other Marines]], [[DoomedProtagonist your game would've been over before it even began]].]]

** And in the rest of the Russian campaign, [[YouBastard YOU AND REZNOV are doing the same thing to the Germans!]] When Reznov said [[IronicEcho "Their Land, Their Blood"]], he wasn't kidding - the Red Army is shown [[CurbstompBattle blowing away wave after wave of German soldiers]], ([[LoweredRecruitingStandards who aren't even actual soldiers anymore]] but "[[ChildSoldier the young]], [[ShellShockedVeteran the old]], and [[CannonFodder the weak]]"), while [[WeHaveReserves perfectly willing to sacrifice millions of their own troops to drown Germany in their blood, and smother them with their corpses]]. In a game where [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality the player character often got an automatic pass for being the good guy]], [[ButThouMust in spite of needing to shoot up HUNDREDS of enemies]], World at War takes great pains to emphasize the EvilVersusEvil the Eastern Front was in real life.