History NightmareFuel / Dishonored

* The fate of Timsh's mother. It is unclear what had happened to her or where she is. There is only a note from the family doctor, explaining that he will no longer serve the family since Timsh actively makes his mother's insanity worse. And an audio log of Timsh adressed at his mother where he asks her to go back to sleep with the explanation that the Plague is gone, everything is alright, he is married, etc.

** From the images above, one can ily that most- if not all- of the Dunwall City Trials are Corvo's ''actual nightmares'', based on his fears-his failure to protect Jessamine, of losing Emily, of becoming a mindless killing machine...

** Many of the killmoves are violent as well- lopping off heads, slicing necks, breaking limbs and snapping sinew.

** Even Creepier is the mask for an important character in that mission. The mask looks like a crude bag with hairs sticking out of it. He's important because he provides the nonlethal option for that mission. The nonlethal option itself being several layers of creepy. He is a StalkerWithACrush who offers to take Lady Boyle away to his own secret location where he will love her for ever and ever and ever and ''she will never be heard from again.'' The Outsider even explains that - if she doesn't die - she will live a long life that is apparently so unpleasant that she will fully regret her choices. Though there is less of a sting to it when you are informed she was in on the plan to [[AssholeVictim kill the Empress.]]

** Speaking of the Abbey: Corvo can find a book quite early that explains how the Abbey recruits Overseers. Young children with "talent" will be send to the Abbey for some undisclosed training or ritual. If they succeed, they become an Overseer, if not they will [[ImprobableInfantSurvival be]] [[WouldHurtAChild killed]].

* Go ahead and empathize with your targets to realize just how pants-shittingly ''terrifying'' it is to have a visit from Corvo. For example, when you go to abduct Sokolov, you can make the choice to talk to him instead of just straight-up knocking him out. Just stand there for a minute, silent, watching, and eventually he'll freak out and run past you, screaming for help...only to find that all of the dozen-plus guards are dead. The entire map is empty. Just him, [[AloneWithThePsycho Alone With The Assassin.]] This is a big reminder of what happens if Corvo is wronged in both Chaos. '''Either way, the results are not pretty for the other side.'''

* Go ahead and empathize with your targets to realize just how pants-shittingly ''terrifying'' it is to have a visit from Corvo. For example, when you go to abduct Sokolov, you can make the choice to talk to him instead of just straight-up knocking him out. Just stand there for a minute, silent, watching, and eventually he'll freak out and run past you, screaming for help...only to find that all of the dozen-plus guards are dead. The entire map is empty. Just him, [[AloneWithThePsycho Alone With The Assassin.]]

*** [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy The Guards Must Be]] [[SubvertedTrope Bad]][[BadassNormal ass]]

* The Fallen Letter you find in the Void beside the Empress' body is just a ''mite'' bit unsettling.

-->[[AdultFear "Nobody ever mentioned the missing boys. He's confident he got away with it."]]

* The Heart. Not only is it a talking undead human heart kept alive by magic and clockwork, it also knows every secret, no matter how dark or terrifying about every place and every person it encounters, it knows what it is, but wishes it was dead, and to top it all off [[spoiler: it's the remains of the Empress!]]

** Even Creepier is the mask for an important character in that mission. The mask looks like a crude bag with hairs sticking out of it. He's important because he provides the nonlethal option for that mission. The nonlethal option itself being several layers of creepy. [[spoiler:He is a StalkerWithACrush who offers to take Lady Boyle away to his own secret location where he will love her for ever and ever and ever and ''she will never be heard from again.'' The Outsider even explains that - if she doesn't die - she will live a long life that is apparently so unpleasant that she will fully regret her choices. Though there is less of a sting to it when you are informed she was in on the plan to [[AssholeVictim kill the Empress.]]]]

* While most of "The Hand That Feeds" is pretty damned disturbing, it's the end [[spoiler:where the boy is lying on his back in a growing pool of blood, while blood runs freely from his eyes]] that is pure NightmareFuel.

*** No, [[FromBadToWorse it is far worse than that.]] While some of Sokolov's experiments may be performed on plague victims, he specifically chooses ''healthy'' citizens to test out his cures for the rat plague, experiments which involve him first infecting them with the disease itself. During the [[spoiler: mission to capture him, Corvo (and therefore the player) is treated to the sight of several civilians being held in electric cages waiting to be experimented upon.]] Add to the fact that the guards pretty much dismiss these poor people as "pigs" to be slaughtered except for one [[EvenEvilHasStandards obviously disturbed man who is horrified at the idea of doing this to innocent people.]]
** Sokolov's conversation with one of his victims [[spoiler: when you break into his chamber to kidnap him]] is this and pure TearJerker if you let it go on long enough. He asks a woman in a cage how she is feeling, to which she responds that she is much worse. She says she is in terrible pain and asks for a remedy, to which he [[AffablyEvil gently responds that while he does have painkillers, using them would taint the experiment.]] If you let her go, she just asks to be left alone and rest until the pain subsides. But if you listen to what he said earlier, you know...[[TearJerker that it won't...]]

* Some of the non-lethal version for eliminating the targets. [[spoiler:Lady Boyle's fate -- being handed over to her StalkerWithACrush -- was already bad enough, but at least she's more or less unharmed...for the moment. With Campbell, however, your turning him into a heretic gets him kicked out by the Abbey and as a result he catches the plague and dies in agony, while you leave the Pendleton twins to be abducted by Slackjaw's goons, ''have their tongues cut out'' and be sent off to be worked to death in their own mines.]] PayEvilUntoEvil and all that, but still, ''sheesh''.
* Go ahead and empathize with your targets to realize just how pants-shittingly ''terrifying'' it is to have a visit from Corvo. For example, when you go to abduct [[spoiler:Sokolov]], you can make the choice to talk to him instead of just straight-up knocking him out. Just stand there for a minute, silent, watching, and eventually he'll freak out and run past you, screaming for help...only to find that all of the dozen-plus guards are dead. The entire map is empty. Just him, [[AloneWithThePsycho Alone With The Assassin.]]

** When [[spoiler: returning to the bar once you had been betrayed]], it is actually possible to overhear two guards from the Watch discuss exactly this. One guy is terrified, praying that Corvo will not come back but fearing that it is in vain while the other just states that they are all well-trained, have their war machines and he is only one man. The first guy is very quick in pointing out that the second man will be the first to run away crying, if Corvo actually comes.

** [[spoiler: Daud's version is no better.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''[[MadnessMantra YOU KILLED HER YOU KILLED HER YOU KILLED HER YOU KILLED HER YOU KILLED HER YOU KILLED HER YOU KILLED HER YOU KILLED HER YOU KILLED HER YOU KILLED HER YOU KILLED HER YOU KILLED HER YOU KILLED HER YOU KILLED HER YOU KILLED HER YOU KILLED HER YOU KILLED HER YOU KILLED HER YOU KILLED HER YOU KILLED HER YOU KILLED HER]]''']]

* In the "Burglar" mission of ''Dunwall City Trials'', you can find a hidden nook behind a wall if you pull a switch. Enter the room, grab what's in there, turn around to leave... [[spoiler:and suddenly the exit is instead a pitch-black void filled with busts of Hiram Burrows hanging in mid-air, with a "shrine" to him in the middle that looks like a mockery of an Outsider Shrine. And there's no apparent other way out]].
* Same mission: [[spoiler:There's a safe with no combination that you need to open for a few ingots. On and around said safe are several busts of Burrows. Walk into the corner to hide from a guard, turn around... And the busts have turned to stare at you.]]
* Same mission: there's a hidden room behind a bookshelf in a bedroom. [[spoiler: The walls inside are covered in rotating paintings of Emily Kaldwin's face, and there's a ragged women's outfit strewn on the floor. [[FridgeHorror Try not to think about]] what might have gone on in there.]]
* Every time you finish Kill Cascade, you're [[spoiler:drop-assassinating ''Empress Jessamine'' right in front of Emily]].

-->[[spoiler: When Pretty Emily woke one day,]]
-->[[spoiler: She saw a world a different way.]]
-->[[spoiler: Her eyes now looked with a stranger's guile,]]
-->[[spoiler: Her dainty mouth smiled a stranger's smile,]]
-->[[spoiler: Her hands now worked the stranger's wrath,]]
-->[[spoiler: Her feet now walked a stranger's path.]]
-->[[spoiler: Emily fed, another grew stronger.]]
-->[[spoiler: The stranger's cravings drove her onward,]]
-->[[spoiler: And no one who looked on Emily's face]]
-->[[spoiler: Ever guessed who ruled in Emily's place.]]
* The non-lethal solution to the final mission of The Brigmore Witches: [[spoiler:Daud swaps the painting of Emily with a painting of The Void, [[AndIMustScream trapping Delilah inside, presumably forever]]]].
** Turns out, the ''forever'' part was [[VideoGame/Dishonored2 exaggerated]], but [[spoiler:it can be done again, hopefully permanently this time]].

-->'''Delilah''': [[spoiler: I see you, Emily Kaldwin. I breathe your breath, I can feel what you do. Bright mornings in the pub. I feel the cold night air, of the ruin where you sleep, and the stink of the river. I feel your love for Corvo Attano, and your lost mother. For your caretaker Callista. I feel your fear at night. Your hunger to learn. To become someone important. My hunger too. My fear. You are becoming mine. We are nearly finished! Close your eyes, Emily. Sleep forever. Feel the void open beneath you. Make room for me, give in to me, Emily. Give in to me now!]]

* In Brigmore Manor, [[spoiler:Daud can find the sole survivor of an Overseer team sent to scout out and monitor the compound for heretical activity. He's curled up in the corner of a side room, raving madly, and surrounded by piles of gnawed on flesh. Delilah's coven spotted and captured both men, and attempted to torture information on the Abbey's knowledge of the witches out of them. When neither talked, they killed one Overseer and force fed the other his flesh until he nearly burst. What's worse, if you choose to meet and trigger a conversation with the surviving Overseer, a witch will instantly teleport to the room and kill him.]]

* The Outsider looks ''especially'' demonic, if not outright Satanic when he appears before you after finding the Rune in [[spoiler: Granny Rags']] shrine to him in the Old Dunwall Sewers towards the end of the Flooded District level; He's bathed in an eerie red light from the shrine's candles, but because he's hovering in the air and looking down at Corvo, his eyes are heavily shadowed, as are two points on his forehead, giving him the impression of horns. It's probably the single-most unnerving of his appearances, which seems fitting considering the Flooded District ends up pitting you against [[spoiler: two other people who have received his Mark; Daud and Granny Rags.]]

** Pendleton's mentioned nightmare involves his brother Morgan "lurking in the storm sewer". Implying that, [[spoiler: even with his brothers gone]], he is still terrified of them.

** Speaking of the Abbey: Corvo can find a book quite early that explains how the Abbey recruits Overseers. Young children with "talent" will be send to the Abbey for some undisclosed training or ritual. If they succeed, they become an Overseer, if not they will [[InfantImmortality be]] [[WouldHurtAChild killed]].

** Delilah's monologue in Brigmore Manor.
-->'''Delilah''': [[spoiler: I see you, Emily Kaldwin. I breathe your breath, I can feel what you do. Bright mornings in the pub. I feel the cold night air, of the ruin where you sleep, and the stink of the river. I feel your love for Corvo Attano, and your lost mother. For your caretaker Callista. I feel your fear at night. Your hunger to learn. To become someone important. My hunger too. My fear. You are becoming mine. We are nearly finished! Close your eyes, Emily. Sleep forever. Feel the void open beneath you. Make room for me, give in to me, Emily. Give in to me now!]] '''Yikes'''.

-->'''Delilah''': [[spoiler: I see you, Emily Kaldwin. I breathe your breath, I can feel what you do. Bright mornings in the pub. I feel the cold night air, of the ruin where you sleep, and the stink of the river. I feel your love for Corvo Attano, and your lost mother. For your caretaker Callista. I feel your fear at night. Your hunger to learn. To become someone important. My hunger too. My fear. You are becoming mine. We are nearly finished! Close your eyes, Emily. Sleep forever. Feel the void open beneath you. Make room for me, give in to me, Emily. Give in to me now!]]
'''Yikes'''.

* The non-lethal solution to the final mission of The Brigmore Witches: [[spoiler:Daud swaps the painting of Emily with a painting of The Void, [[AndIMustScream trapping Delilah there forever]]]].
** [[VideoGame/Dishonored2 Or not.]]

** It gets even better when combined with [[TimeStandsStill Bend Time]]. Imagine that you're an officer of the guard who's just having a casual conversation with a couple of your fellow mooks while keeping an eye out for intruders when all of a sudden, several of them just - poof - disappear into thin air before your eyes, some of them possibly KilledMidSentence, leaving no trace behind but a pile of ash where they once stood. You'd be forgiven for thinking [[EldritchAbomination the Outsider]] himself had decided to [[BoltOfDivineRetribution smite them]].

** Many of the lethal kills are violent as well- lopping off heads, slicing necks, breaking limbs and snapping sinew.

** When [[spoiler: returning to the bar once you had been betrayed]], it is actually possible to overhear two guards from the Watch discuss exactly this. One guy is terrified, praying that Corvo will not come back but fearing that it is in vain while the other just states that they are all well-trained, have their war machines and he is only one man. The first guy is [[GenreSavvy very quick in pointing out]] that the second man will be the first to run away crying, if Corvo actually comes.

* Some of the non-lethal version for eliminating the targets. [[spoiler:Lady Boyle's fate was already bad enough, but at least she's more or less unharmed, for the moment. Campbell, however, you turning him into a heretic, kicked by the Abbey and as a result he catches the plague and dies in agony, while you leave the Pendleton twins to be abducted by Slackjaw's goons, ''have their tongues cut out'' and be sent off to be worked to death in their own mines.]] PayEvilUntoEvil and all that, but still, ''sheesh''.

* Corvo's build of [[TimeStandsStill Bend Time 2]] combined with [[DisintegratorRay Shadow Kill]] can be one for his targets when you think about it. A guard leaves a room to grab some wine. When he gets back, all three of his friends have vanished. He only sees what looks like black ash falling to the ground. Said guard is joined by two more friends, who witness what looks like death incarnate blinking into existence, making a complicated gesture and vanishing again. Poor guards barely have enough time to know death is coming and there's absolutely nothing they can do about it.

* In Brigmore Manor, [[spoiler:Daud can find the sole survivor of an Overseer team sent to scout out and monitor the compound for heretical activity. He's curled up in the corner of a side room, raving madly, and surrounded by piles of gnawed on flesh. Delilah's coven spotted and captured both men, and attempted to torture information on the Abbey's knowledge of the witches out of them. When neither talked, they killed one Overseer and force fed the other his flesh until he nearly burst.]] What's worse, if you choose to meet and trigger a conversation with the surviving Overseer, a witch will instantly teleport to the room and kill him.

*** The worst statue is the one in the crypt, which has a bone charm at it's feet. That particular statue won't alert enemies, but it starts out covering it's face, in a manner reminiscent of [[NightmareFuel/DoctorWho the Weeping Angels]]. And like the Weeping Angels, when you look down to grab the bone charm, and look back at it again, it will be reaching out to grab you(accompanied by a sudden high pitched, ''inhuman'' scream).

** You can summon rats to devour your enemies alive and whole. You can even watch as the clothes and skin are stripped off to reveal the muscles and bones, which doubles neatly as NauseaFuel.

** The front kill of Edgar Wakefield in the Brigmore Witches deserves mention. Daud ''[[EyeScream plunges his sword into his eye]]'', then slooowly pulls it out as Wakefield makes these ungodly sounds of pain.

** Even Creepier is the mask for an important character in that mission. The mask looks like a crude bag with hairs sticking out of it. He's important because he provides the nonlethal option for that mission. The nonlethal option itself being several layers of creepy. [[spoiler:He is a StalkerWithACrush who offers to take Lady Boyle away to his own secret location where he will love her for ever and ever and ever and she will never be heard from again. The Outsider even explains that - if she doesn't die - she will live a long life that is apparently so unpleasant that she will fully regret her choices. Though there is less of a sting to it when you are informed she was in on the plan to [[AssholeVictim kill the Empress.]]]]

* During the chapter of Lady Boyle's party, one can hear the conversation between two watchmen about a singer that got targeted by the Abbey. She was singing outside, only to stop when Overseers close-by played their music boxes, leading them to instantly believe she was related to the Outsider. She was later returned when others vouched for her, but she apparently never got better and isn't even speaking anymore. The men both murmur deeply disturbed about what kind of MindRape she must have been subjected to to result in her being this different.

** Once Lord Regent Burrows has been dealt with, announcements can be heard outside the Hounds Pit calling for young children age 8 to 10 for this very purpose. In a city that's horribly sick and dying, the Abbey still cares first and foremost about having enough Overseers instead of enough children that might one day stabilize the population.

* Some of the non-lethal version for eliminating the targets. [[spoiler:Lady Boyle's fate was already bad enough, but at least she's more or less unharmed, for the moment. Campbell, however, you effectively turn into an unperson, and as a result he catches the plague and dies in agony, while you leave the Pendleton twins to be abducted by Slackjaw's goons, ''have their tongues cut out'' and be sent off to be worked to death in their own mines.]] PayEvilUntoEvil and all that, but still, ''sheesh''.

* In Brigmore Manor, [[spoiler:Daud can find the sole survivor of an Overseer team sent to scout out and monitor the compound for heretical activity. He's curled up in the corner of a side room, raving madly, and surrounded by piles of gnawed on flesh. Delilah's coven spotted and captured both men, and attempted to torture information on the Abbey's knowledge of the witches out of them. When neither talked, they killed one Overseer and force fed the other his flesh until he nearly burst.]]

*** The worst statue is the one in the crypt, which has a bone charm at it's feet. That particular statue won't alert enemies, but it starts out covering it's face, in a manner reminiscent of [[NightmareFuel/DoctorWho the Weeping Angels]]. And like the Weeping Angels, when you look down to grab the bone charm, and look back at it again, it will be reaching out to grab you.

*** Even worse, if you see a swarm of rats running around a level, better be careful - they're hungry and if there's no corpse around to distract them, they'll eat ''you''.

** The front kill of Edgar Wakefield in the Brigmore Witches deserves mention. You don't just kill him. You ''[[EyeScream plunge your sword into his eye]]''. Then you slooowly pull it out as he makes these ungodly sounds of pain.

** Once Lord Regent has been dealed with, announcements can be heard outside the Hounds Pit calling for young children age 8 to 10 for this very purpose. In a city that is horribly sick and dying, the Abbey still cares first and foremost about having enough Overseers instead of enough children that might one day stabilize the population.

* The setting in general. You've got a steampunk/dieselpunk, dystopian city run by a corrupt regime while swarms of rats spread a plague that causes people to turn into coughing, [[TearsOfBlood blood crying]] psychopaths nobody can find an inexpensive cure for. Not to mention these victims are quarantined by guards authorized to use lethal force and electrical walls and pylons that turn anyone who gets too close to them into ash. Plus, don't forget Dunwall's class based system, as the poor are left to rot with this plague while the rich ignore the problem and throw lavish parties.

* Weepers. These are not zombies, but being a zombie would be a mercy compared to what they have become: they shamble around, continuously vomiting, their vomit being highly caustic (it injures you if they vomit on you), and their bodies have become home to large numbers of flies. Maggots are literally devouring their flesh while they are still alive. When they clutch you when they attack, they aren't trying to hurt you, they're begging for help, or at least for you to put them out of their misery.
* Some of the non-lethal version for eliminating the targets. [[spoiler:Lady Boyle's fate was already bad enough, but at least she's more or less unharmed, for the moment. Campbell, however, you effectively turn into an unperson, and as a result he catches the plague and dies in agony, while you leave the Pendleton twins to be abducted, ''have their tongues cut out'' and be sent off to be worked to death.]] PayEvilUntoEvil and all that, but still, ''sheesh''.

** It can make your rat-summoning ability even worse, in some cases. If you use it on a guard or toss a body to an already existing pack of rats (they are ''everywhere''), they will devour the poor lad/corpse (which is already ''[[PrecisionFStrike fucking]]'' gruesome by itself), you may hear this verse play.

* Corvo build of [[TimeStandsStill Bend Time 2]] combined with [[DisintegratorRay Shadow Kill]] can be one for his targets when you think about it. A guard leaves a room to grab some wine. When he gets back, all three of his friends have vanished. He only sees what looks like black ash falling to the ground. Said guard is joined by two more friends, who witness what looks like death incarnate blinking into existence, making a complicated gesture and vanishing again. Poor guards barely have enough time to know death is coming and there is absolutely nothing they can do about it.

* In Brigmore Manor,[[spoiler:Daud can find the sole survivor of an Overseer team sent to scout out and monitor the compound for heretical activity. He's curled up in the corner of a side room, raving madly, and surrounded by piles of gnawed on flesh. Delilah's coven spotted and captured both men, and attempted to torture information on the Abbey's knowledge of the witches out of them. When neither talked, they killed one Overseer and force fed the other his flesh until he nearly burst.]]

* The Outsider looks ''especially'' demonic, if not outright Satanic when he appears before you after finding the Rune in [[spoiler: Granny Rags']] shrine to him in the Old Dunwall Sewers towards the end of the Flooded District level; He's bathed in an eerie red light from the shrine's candles, but because he's hovering in the air and looking down at Corvo, his eyes are heavily shadowed, as are two points on his forehead, giving him the impression of horns. It's probably the single-most unnerving of his appearances, which seems fitting considering the Flooded District ends up pitting you against [[spoiler: two other people who have received his Mark; Daud(the Empress's assassin, no less)and Granny Rags.]]

* During the chapter of Lady Boyle's party, one can hear the conversation between two watchmen about a singer that got targeted by the Abby. She was singing outside, only to stop when Overseers close-by played their music boxes, leading them to instantly believe she was related to the Outsider. She was later returned when others vouched for her, but she apparently never got better and isn't even speaking anymore. The men both murmur deeply disturbed about what kind of MindRape she must have been subjected to to result in her being this different.
** Speaking of the Abby: Corvo can find a book quite early that explains how the Abby recruits Overseers. Young children with "talent" will be send to the Abby for some undisclosed training or ritual. If they succeed, they become an Overseer, if not they will [[InfantImmortality be]] [[WouldHurtAChild killed]].
** Once Lord Regent has been dealed with, announcements can be heard outside the Hounds Pit calling for young children age 8 to 10 for this very purpose. In a city that is horribly sick and dying, the Abby still cares first and foremost about having enough Overseers instead of enough children that might one day stabilize the population.

* While playing the final chapter of The Knife of Dunwall, it is possible to kill your own men as one way to end the chapter. Or sit close enough to the scene that the Overseers start talking to the captured assassins until getting bored and executing them. Among others, with a grenade. And no matter whether you do it yourself or watch, the entire time those assassins don't betray you and remain silent until their bitter end.

--> "If she lives until tomorrow, her day off, she will be mauled by Weepers and left for dead."

-->[[AdultFear "Nobody ever mentioned the missing boys. He's confident he got away with it."]]