History NightmareFuel / GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas

** Tenpenny commonly likes to think of himself as a "good man", but at his core, he's an incredibly corrup individual who intimidates, and terrorizes in a very similar manner to how a mob boss would.

* [[PsychoForHire Pulaski]] and ''especially'' [[CompleteMonster Tenpenny]] are '''pure''' NightmareFuel. They are {{sadist}}ic and {{sociopath}}ic {{Dirty Cop}}s who blackmail the gangs and can do what they want without fear of the consequences. What makes them exceptionally awful is that, unlike most criminals in the series, they don't have a FreudianExcuse behind their actions. Heck, they don't even have redeeming or sympathetic traits.

** This also grades as [[RealismInducedHorror real-life nightmare fuel]], because Tenpenny and Pulaski are members of C.R.A.S.H. (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums), the anti-gang task force that Los Angeles instituted in the 80s and 90's. Very little of their actions needed to be exaggerated, because based on testimony from former members and victims, this is basically how a lot of the C.R.A.S.H. officers behaved.

* Tenpenny and Pulaski are creepy in themselves. They are sadistic and sociopathic {{Dirty Cop}}s who blackmail the gangs and can do what they want without fear of the consequences. What makes them exceptionally awful is that, unlike most criminals in the series, they don't have a FreudianExcuse behind their actions. Heck, they don't even have redeeming or sympathetic traits.
** And of course, what makes them even more horrific is that unlike the criminals of previous games, they have the full protection of the law and abuse that authority. Tenpenny and Pulaski make it clear that they can do these horrible things to CJ, his friends and his family and get away with it, because they are cops.
** This also grades as RealLife nightmare fuel, because Tenpenny and Pulaski are members of CRASH (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums), the anti-gang task force that Los Angeles instituted in the 80s and 90's. Very little of their actions needed to be exaggerated, because based on testimony from former members and victims, this is basically how a lot of the CRASH officers behaved.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtonoUoh-Tc CJ walking in the woods]]. Yeah......enabling the GHOSTTOWN and CFVFGMJ cheats may not be the best idea ever.

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* "The Green Sabre" -- i.e., the mother of all {{Mood Whiplash}}es. Things go all the way from Grove Street's near-triumph over the Ballas... to Ryder and Smoke's FaceHeelTurn, CJ and Sweet's DarkestHour, and Tenpenny and Pulaski's NearVillainVictory.

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** Then there's the wheelchair located in Fisher's Lagoon, as pictured. [[NothingIsScarier It's just...sitting there. In a place a wheelchair has no reason to be.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:NothingIsScarier at its creepiest.]]

** One can simply enable riot cheats sending the whole San Andreas into a state of emergency. Adding with appropriate cheats would cause riots to escalate into a ''warzone''!

** The riot is even more terrifying if you have the ''FOOXFT'' (everybody has weapons) cheat enabled. Now, instead of simply fighting CJ and each other, pedestrians are attacking with anything from baseball bats to shotguns to ''rocket launchers''. It starts to feel less like a riot and more like a real life warzone. At any possible moment CJ could find himself under attack from a rocket laucher wielding pedestrian, which will almost certainly result in death given how destructive they can be.

** One can simply enable riot cheats sending the whole San Andreas into a state of emergency.

* The death of one of the heads of a San Fierro construction crew in the mission "Deconstruction", where he is buried alive in cement by CJ. Because supposedly, [[DisproportionateRetribution he and others were harassing CJ's sister.]]

** Finally, the riots in Los Santos are [[TruthInTelevision based on]] the ''very real'' 1992 L.A. Riots after the murder of Rodney King. The absolute chaos that ensues? '''It actually happened.'''

* "The Green Sabre" -- i.e., the mother of all {{Mood Whiplash}}es. Things go all the way from Grove Street's near-triumph over the Ballas... to [[spoiler:Ryder and Smoke's FaceHeelTurn, CJ and Sweet's DarkestHour, and Tenpenny and Pulaski's NearVillainVictory]].

** There is a LetsPlay of San Andreas written in the POV of CJ, and his description of Toreno is not only nightmare fuel, but you can easily imagine that this is exactly what CJ is thinking. Toreno might look like a pudgy, middle aged white guy, but he is a killer far worse than anything you'll find on the streets of Los Santos. Toreno is a ''government agent'', an authority figure so far removed from CJ's social group that he might as well be from another planet, and he ends up pulling CJ into various government faction conflicts, where he's forced to fight against CIA operatives doing their own little wars. It's disturbing because all you've ever fought for is Grove Street, your own little piece of Los Santos. Toreno? He's a '''shark''', and you're an '''amoeba'''. You get a glimpse of some international horror ''far beyond your scope.''

* Near the end of the game right after you [[spoiler:kill Big Smoke]], [[MoralEventHorizon Tenpenny now willingly intends to kill CJ and left him to die by burning down the Crack fortress by shooting one of the engines of this building]] is pretty harrowing, CJ would have burned alive painfully if he had never escaped unscathed.

** Then there's the wheelchair located in Fisher's Lagoon. [[NothingIsScarier It's just...sitting there. In a place a wheelchair has no reason to be.]]

* The PC and Mobile version may occassionally encounter the infamous ''Red Fog'' or ''Hellish Sky'' during rainy weather at evening, giving a bizarre bloody atmosphere that surrounds the entire San Andreas.

** The riot is even more terrifying if you have the ''FOOXFT'' (everybody has weapons) cheat enabled. Now, instead of simply fighting CJ and each other, pedestrians are attacking with anything from baseball bats to shotguns to ''rocket launchers''. It starts to feel less like a riot and more like a real life warzone. At any possible moment CJ could find himself under attack from a rocket laucher wielding pedestrian, which will almost certainly result in death given how destructive they can be.

** The riot is even more terrifying if you have the ''FOOXFT'' (everybody has weapons) cheat enabled. Now, instead of simply fighting CJ and each other, pedestrians are attacking with anything from baseball bats to shotguns to ''rocket launchers''. It starts to feel less like a riot and more like a real life warzone. At any possible moment CJ could find himself under attack from a rocket laucher wielding pedestrian, which will almost certainly result in death given how destructive they can be.
* [[https://youtu.be/QpBAfXyuLEM "The entire GTA SA story but CJ has schizophrenia"]] by Creator/FlyingKitty is incredibly eerie. The video is basically CJ in a post apocalyptic San Andreas where he is the only survivor and has clearly lost his mind due to this. The creepy ambience throughout just makes it worse. The scene where he's begging Catalina not to shoot him is just plain disturbing now as it makes it look like CJ's having a complete mental breakdown.

* [[https://youtu.be/QpBAfXyuLEM "The entire GTA SA story but CJ has schizophrenia"]] by FlyingKitty is incredibly eerie. The video is basically CJ in a post apocalyptic San Andreas where he is the only survivor and has clearly lost his mind due to this. The creepy ambience throughout just makes it worse. The scene where he's begging Catalina not to shoot him is just plain disturbing now as it makes it look like CJ's having a complete mental breakdown.

[[caption-width-right:350:NothingIsScarier at its most creepiness.]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtonoUoh-Tc CJ walking in the woods]]. Yeah......enabling the GHOSTTOWN and CFVFGMJ cheats may not be the best idea ever.

* Tenpenny and Pulaski are creepy in themselves. They are sadistic and sociopathic [[DirtyCop dirty cops]] who blackmail the gangs and can do what they want without fear of the consequences. What makes them exceptionally awful is that, unlike most criminals in the series, they don't have a FreudianExcuse behind their actions. Heck, they don't even have redeeming or sympathetic traits.

* After threatening CJ into compliance, Mike Toreno eventually reassures him that if Sweet so much as gets touched, a Prison Guard will go home to discover that [[DisproportionateRetribution his wife and daughter have been murdered]]. It really goes a long way to show how connected he is, how he really isn't a "good guy", and how much you don't want to get on his bad side.
** There is a LetsPlay of San Andreas written in the POV of CJ, and his description of Toreno is not only nightmare fuel, but you can easily imagine that this is exactly what CJ is thinking. Toreno might look like a pudgy, middle aged white guy, but he is a killer far worse than anything you'll find on the streets of Los Santos. Toreno is a ''government agent'', an authority figure so far removed from CJ's social group that he might as well be from another planet, and he ends up pulling CJ into various government faction conflicts, where he's forced to fight against CIA operatives doing their own little wars. It's disturbing because all you've ever fought for is Grove Street, your own little piece of Los Santos. Toreno? He's a '''shark,''' and you're an '''amoeba'''. You get a glimpse of some international horror ''far beyond your scope.''

*** As if it wasn't enough, dialogue and mission details heavily hint that Toreno is not even a government agent, but most likely works for some nebulous, international secret group and only pretends to work for Uncle Sam just to be on the safe side. Suddenly, The Truth's ramblings about the Illuminati and worldwide conspiracies cease to look that crazy.

* Near the end of the game right after you [[spoiler: killed Big Smoke]], [[MoralEventHorizon Tenpenny now wilingly to kill CJ and left him to die by burning down the Crack fortress by shooting one of the engines of this building]] is pretty harrowing, CJ would have burned alive painfully if he had never escaped unscathed.

** One can simply enable riot cheats causing the whole San Andreas under state of emergency.