History NightmareFuel / GirlsFrontline

** ...the Military finally betrays the G&K PMC, and attacks the AR Team. The Carcano sisters are seemingly killed off, [=RO635=] is killed by a headshot from the back, and M4 SOPMOD II goes missing [[spoiler: in reality gets shot up to hell and back, barely surviving the damage done to her.]] Sangvis Ferri retreats but not before releasing a stronger parapluie virus, causing vast majority of Griffin dolls and Military dolls nearby to go rampant from the Parapluie virus, randomly attacking everything in sight. The situation is so bad that Helian orders an emergency retreat and evacuation to all Griffin Commanders and their non-infected T-Dolls.

* The Parapluie, a Sangvis Ferri creation designed to directly subvert Griffon dolls' AI. ST AR-15 is infected with it, causing things to ''really'' go to hell. The Arctic event implies that they are carried by inactive equipment lying around in the field.
* ''The Elder Brain itself'' arrives in search of [=M4A1=] in the end of Zone 07. It uses something ''even worse than the umbrella virus'' to stun every single doll in the area except for [=M4A1=], and then [[MindRape Mind Rapes]] [=M4=].

** The sheer firepower of the military that was implied until now is finally shown in the true might of the elite KCCO infantry forces. Their squad combat capability stats range between ''650k~970k'', while even fully leveled up and trained player squads are somewhere around 40k. They can tear through huge amounts of Sangvis Ferri dolls and mechs without a scratch. They are so strong that one can only wonder what it would be like if they had to fight something like this, until...
** ...the military finally betrays the G&K, and attacks the AR team. The Carcano sisters are seemingly killed off, [=RO635=] is killed by a headshot from the back, and M4 SOPMOD II goes missing. Sangvis Ferri retreats but not before releasing a stronger parapluie virus, causing vast majority of Griffon dolls and Military dolls nearby to go rampant from the parapluie virus, randomly attacking everything in sight. The situation is so bad that Helian orders an emergency retreat and evacuation to all Griffin Commanders and their non-infected T-Dolls.
** The soundtrack is by far one of the darkest themes in the entire game, and along with the KCCO's one-sided massacre of the Sangvis Ferri, almost verges upon nightmare fuel itself.
* At the third part of the Continuum Turbulence event, you finally get to see the effect of the Collapse Fluid up close. This is the first time you'll have to fight against the [[OurZombiesAreDifferent ELID Infectees]], flesh-and-blood KCCO military personnel who are turned into zombies after [=M4A1=] detonates the Collapse Fluid during the Singularity event. It's also implied that [[TechnicallyLivingZombie they're technically still alive]], only with their skin silicified and their higher brain functions eroded, until they are left as nothing more than shambling husks.

* Shattered Connexion is your standard event with your usual dark narrative with interesting lore- WAIT IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING TRAIN WITH A RAILGUN!? The sheer sight of these things caused many player's jaws to drop in fear, and as shown in gameplay, they are not complete slouches. At least you get a railgun train of your own to make up for it until it gets destroyed during the events of ''Polarizing Light'', but yours only has the railgun section and is significantly weaker than KCCO's ones.

[[caption-width-right:350:See that arm in the lower right? That's ''your's''. [[PunyEarthlings A little more pressure is all she needs to cave your chest in with her foot.]] ''That'' is the sort of strength discrepancy you're dealing with.]]

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** This did not, however, stop some impatient players from charging into them anyway. Then one guy in the fandom came up with the combination of one high-level damage dealer and four level 1 two-star dolls as meat shield. These four dolls are blasted away while the damage dealer takes down the Jupiter cannons from safety. Then, said dolls are dismantled or used as powerup ingredients en masse, thus saving the resources needed to repair them. Another thing worth mentioning is how the damage dealer doll is a low-star, high-level doll that is no longer used in the main forces of the player, in order to avoid the loss of affinity from all the dolls in her squad being blasted.
** Things get even more horrific when one takes into account what the canonical explanation for 'T-doll dismantling' really is; it is the dolls' weapons and targeting chips that are recycled, while the dolls themselves retire and return to civillian society, thus the term 'T-doll retire' in the actual game. The same also goes for all dolls that are used for augmentation. So, the meat shield dolls used in the above strategy are basically being thrown away, just after being critically wounded in battle! No wonder the majority of the fandom is so thoroughly disgusted with this strategy.
** Imagine what this must feel like from the damage-dealer doll's perspective; seeing her teammates constantly get blasted and thrown away with no treatment whatsoever for all their gruesome injury, and seeing it over and over and over again. When 'Hell Run' became a Memetic Mutation, the doll FNC is often depicted as the shell-shocked survivor. Cue massive numbers of fan-arts involving a previously innocent, chocolate-craving child FNC being slowly stripped of her sanity from sheer PTSD.

* [[CuteAndPsycho M4 SOPMOD II]] is a Tactical Doll that has an interest in collecting Sangvis Ferri parts and [[BloodKnight takes sadistic glee in reducing SF Dolls to scrap]]. She is also able to graft those same parts to her body with seemingly no compatibility issues, and (in the ''Healing Chapter'' anime) can make a miniature version of herself and a TransformingMecha that can tank shots from a Jupiter Cannon. Consider yourself lucky that she has a sense of empathy, doesn't have an interest in biology, and is firmly on your side, as well as Anti-Rain's. If she lacked those traits and/or [[AIIsACrapshoot went haywire]], she would've been a terrifying enemy that could replace damaged limbs whenever needed and applied that same bloodlust on G&K Dolls and even humans.

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* Shattered Connexion is your standard event with your usual dark narrative with interesting lore- WAIT IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING TRAIN WITH A RAILGUN!? The sheer sight of these things caused many player's jaws to drop in fear, and as shown in gameplay, they are not complete slouches. At least you get a railgun train of your own to make up for it [[spoiler:until it gets destroyed during the events of ''Polarizing Light'']], but yours only has the railgun section and is significantly weaker than KCCO's ones.

* Shattered Connexion is your standard event with your usual dark narrative with interesting lore- WAIT IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING TRAIN WITH A RAILGUN!? The sheer sight of these things caused many player's jaws to drop in fear, and as shown in gameplay, they are not complete slouches.

* The ''sheer magnitude'' of how badly Griffin is outclassed by KCCO in ''Polarized Light'' - your forces last only ten minutes against them in a fight so brutal that CurbStompBattle [[{{Understatement does not even begin to describe how badly things go.]] Hell, this isn't just the story over exaggerating KCCO, later maps have ''300k CE death squads!''

* The ''sheer magnitude'' of how badly Griffin is outclassed by KCCO in ''Polarized Light'' - your forces last only ten minutes against them in a fight so brutal that CurbStompBattle [[{{Understatement does not even begin to describe how badly things go.]]

** ...the military finally betrays the G&K, releases their own version of the parapluie virus, and attacks the AR team. The Carcano sisters are seemingly killed off, [=RO635=] is killed by a headshot from the back, and M4 SOPMOD II goes missing. The vast majority of Griffon dolls go rampant from the parapluie virus, randomly attacking everything in sight.

** ...the military finally betrays the G&K, releases their own version of the parapluie virus, and attacks the AR team. The Carcano sisters are seemingly killed off, RO635 is killed by a headshot from the back, and M4 SOPMOD II goes missing. The vast majority of Griffon dolls go rampant from the parapluie virus, randomly attacking everything in sight.

* The Parapluie. A Sangvis Ferri creation designed to directly subvert Griffon dolls' AI. ST AR-15 is infected with it, causing things to ''really'' go to hell. The Arctic event implies that they are carried by inactive equipment lying around in the field.

* [[spoiler: The Parapluie. A Sangvis Ferri creation designed to directly subvert Griffon dolls' AI. ST AR-15 is infected with it, causing things to ''really'' go to hell.]] [[spoiler: The Arctic event implies that they are carried by inactive equipment lying around in the field.]]
* [[spoiler: ''The Elder Brain itself'' arrives in search of [=M4A1=] in the end of Zone 07. It uses something ''even worse than the umbrella virus'' to stun every single doll in the area except for [=M4A1=], and then [[MindRape Mind Rapes]] [=M4=].]]
* The entire chapter 10. [[spoiler: This is where the military appears for their first time. Their extreme firepower and general indifference and cruelty makes this chapter one of the darkest parts of the entire story, and chapter 10 marks a major turning point of the story.]]
** [[spoiler: The sheer firepower of the military that was implied until now is finally shown in the true might of the elite KCCO infantry forces. Their squad combat capability stats range between ''650k~970k'', while even fully leveled up and trained player squads are somewhere around 40k. They can tear through huge amounts of Sangvis Ferri dolls and mechs without a scratch. They are so strong that one can only wonder what it would be like if they had to fight something like this, until...]]
** [[spoiler: ...the military finally betrays the G&K, releases their own version of the parapluie virus, and attacks the AR team. Carcano sisters are seemingly killed off, RO635 is killed by a headshot from the back, and M4 SOPMOD II goes missing. The vast majority of Griffon dolls go rampant from the parapluie virus, randomly attacking everything in sight.]]
** [[spoiler: The soundtrack is by far one of the darkest themes in the entire game, and along with the KCCO's one-sided massacre of the Sangvis Ferri, almost verges upon nightmare fuel itself.]]
* At the third part of the Continuum Turbulence event, [[spoiler:you finally get to see the effect of the Collapse Fluid up close. This is the first time you'll have to fight against the [[OurZombiesAreDifferent ELID Infectees]], flesh-and-blood KCCO military personnel who are turned into zombies after [=M4A1=] detonates the Collapse Fluid during the Singularity event. It's also implied that [[TechnicallyLivingZombie they're technically still alive]], only with their skin silicified and their higher brain functions eroded, until they are left as nothing more than shambling husks.]]

** Imagine what this must feel like from the damage-dealer doll's perspective; seeing her teammates constantly get blasted and thrown away with no treatment whatsoever for all their gruesome injury, and seeing it over and over and over again. When 'Hell Run' became a Memetic Mutation, the doll FNC is often depicted as the shell-shocked survivor. Que massive numbers of fan-arts involving a previously innocent, chocolate-craving child FNC being slowly stripped of her sanity from sheer PTSD.

* At the third part of the Continuum Turbulence event, [[spoiler:you finally get to see the effect of the Collapse Fluid up close. This is the first time you'll have to fight against the [[OurZombiesAreDifferent ELID Infectees]], flesh-and-blood KCCO military personnel who are turned into zombies after [=M4A1=] detonates the Collapse Fluid during the Singularity event. It's also implied that [[TechnicallyLivingZombie they're technically still alive]], only with their skin silicified and their higher brain functions eroded, until they are left as nothing more than shambling husks.

* [[spoiler: The entire chapter 10. This is where the military appears for their first time. Their extreme firepower and general indifference and cruelty makes this chapter one of the darkest parts of the entire story, and chapter 10 marks a major turning point of the story.]]

* At the third part of the Continuum Turbulence event, you finally get to see the effect of the Collapse Fluid up close. This is the first time you'll have to fight against the [[OurZombiesAreDifferent ELID Infectees]], flesh-and-blood KCCO military personnel who are turned into zombies after [=M4A1=] detonates the Collapse Fluid during the Singularity event. It's also implied that [[TechnicallyLivingZombie they're technically still alive]], only with their skin silicified and their higher brain functions eroded, until they are left as nothing more than shambling husks.