History NightmareFuel / CrisisCore

** And a SpookyPainting of a girl in Zack & Cloud's room. Despite not doing anything (that we know of) walking up to it prompts you to push X to examine it. Whereupon Zack will comment on how creepy it is. No other paintings in the room are considered noteworthy enough for examination.

[[caption-width-right:350: "I'm coming to get you..."]]

* The Genesis Copies. These were [=SOLDIERs=], regular guys, that got injected with just a bit of Genesis' cells, stuffed in Mako tanks, and get turned into mindless drones, stripped of everything that give them their individuality, even their physical appearance, in a process that is potentially very painful. Gah. Made even worse when you think that, when Genesis first deserted Shinra, the [=SOLDIERs=] he took with him came of their own free will out of loyalty to him and ''they were the ones that wound up as the Copies''. And some fans say Genesis isn't that evil.

** Zack's entire confrontation with Sephiroth. While the player wins in gameplay, the cutscenes show Sephiroth having the upper hand the entire time. Even if Zack does better as the scenes for the original ''Final Fantasy 7'' implied, the game still makes it clear Sephiroth is one enemy he can't surpass.

* The very first mission actually involves the titular NiceGuy Zack slaughtering the final resistance force of Wutai against the malevolent MegaCorp of the Shinra Electric Power Company, securing their dominance over the Planet and unintentionally sparking Yuffie Kisaragi's BreakTheCutie moments due to Shinra turning her home into a neutered tourist trap soon after. All of this is played with a [[MoodDissonance disturbingly cheerful tone]] despite being a case of TheBadGuyWins.
* Poor Zack's dilemma throughout the game is a nonstop TraumaCongaLine. He has to watch all of his superiors and role models turn into horrible and insane murderous monstrosities, has to fight every single one and watch all of his former mentors die in disgrace, gets experimented on like a lab rat by Hojo along with his new friend for five years, gets tailed and attacked by the very group he swore loyalty, struggles to come to terms with whether he'll turn into a monster too, and eventually gets mowed down by gunfire in an empty field for defending a comatose friend and wanting to see his new girlfriend. All this pain because he wanted to be a hero.

* ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'' recreates the game's famous Nibelheim disaster with better 3D. And a SpookyPainting of a girl in Zack & Cloud's room. Despite not doing anything (that we know of) walking up to it prompts you to push X to examine it. Whereupon Zack will comment on how creepy it is. No other paintings in the room are considered noteworthy enough for examination.

** Zack's entire confrontation with Sephiroth. While the player wins in gameplay, the cutscenes show Sephiroth having the upper hand the entire time. Even if Zack does better the scenes for the original Final Fantasy 7 implied, the game still makes it clear Sephiroth is one enemy he can't surpass.

* The Genesis Copies. These were [=SOLDIERs=], regular guys, that got injected with just a bit of Genesis' cells, stuffed in Mako tanks, and get turned into mindless drones, stripped of everything that give them their individuality, even their physical appearance, in a process that is potentially very painful. Gah. Made even worse when you think that, when [[spoiler:Genesis first deserted Shinra, the [=SOLDIERs=] he took with him came of their own free will out of loyalty to him and ''they were the ones that wound up as the Copies'']]. And some fans say Genesis isn't that evil.

[[caption-width-right:350: "I'm coming to get you."]]

[[caption-width-right:350:See where everything went to Hell]]

* Poor Zack's dilemma throughout the game is a nonstop TraumaCongaLine. He has to watch all of his superiors and role models turn into horrible and insane murderous monstrosities, has to fight every single one and watch all of his former mentors die in disgrace, gets tailed and attacked by the very group he swore loyalty, struggles to come to terms with whether he'll turn into a monster too, and eventually gets mowed down by gunfire in an empty field for defending a comatose friend and wanting to see his new girlfriend. All this pain because he wanted to be a hero.

* The very first mission actually involves the titular NiceGuy Zack slaughtering the final resistance force of Wutai against the malevolent MegaCorp of the Shinra Electric Power Company, securing their dominance over the Planet and unintentionally sparking Yuffie Kusanagi's BreakTheCutie moments due to Shinra turning her home into a neutered tourist trap soon after. All of this is played with a [[MoodDissonance disturbingly cheerful tone]] despite being a case of TheBadGuyWins.

** Sephiroth's KubrickStare and SanitySlippage during the disaster is nothing to scoff at either. He goes from an aloof but clearly friendly and warmhearted friend to a ruthless and crazed madman rambling and laughing about his newly found alien monster mother, being superior to humanity, and calling himself a god destined to rule over the planet. All because he found out to many awful revelations about being a lab experiment and unable to decide if he was even human anymore.

** Sephiroth's KubrickStare and SanitySlippage during the disaster is nothing to scoff at either. He goes from an aloof but clearly friendly and warmhearted friend to a ruthless and crazed madman rambling about his mother, being superior to humanity, and calling himself a god destined to rule over the planet. All because he found out to many awful revelations about being a lab experiment and unable to decide if he was even human anymore.