History NightmareFuel / MafiaIII

* The ending of the prologue mission "The Home Fire Burns" ends with the Federal Reserve heist being successful and the Black Mob, Lincoln, Danny, Giorgi and Sal Marcano celebrating, only for [[spoiler:[[FaceHeelTurn Giorgi to suddenly shoot Lincoln Clay in the head, Richie Doucet stabbing dead Ellis, Danny being stabbed to death, Sal shooting Sammy dead, and Giorgi setting the bar on fire]], and while Danny isn't seen either, he was murdered as well.]] That's right, [[spoiler:Lincoln not only has his adopted family murdered right in front of him, but [[KickTheDog is brutally betrayed by his friend and has the money Sammy went through so much effort to obtain stolen from him]].]]

** Later on, when you meet Burke, [[spoiler:he gets upset about Danny's death and mentions Danny's body was so badly burned the coroner refused to let him look at it a second time.]]
* [[spoiler: How Thomas Burke killed Barbieri. Maguire notes that his body wasn't found until the mid-1980s, where it was found in the trunk of an old car sunken in the Mississippi River. According to him, his legs were beaten so hard that there was hardly any bone left.]]

* There's something about the fact that the encounter with Aldridge is so personal and traumatizing to Donovan, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness that a man who openly admitting to helping Lincoln Clay murder hundreds of people lies to the Senate about encountering Connor again.]]

* The cultists are just plain ''disturbing'' with animal masks, female members jumping out at you, and their weird savage reactions to everything. They're a possessed of a SuicidalOverconfidence and are AxCrazy one and all. The fact they're all implied to be high as a kite doesn't help matters. They're squarely in the UncannyValley.

* Lincoln himself is rather scary if you adopt a stealthy approach to missions. A quiet, hulking brute who lures people away from their friends before pouncing, brutally slitting their throats and leaving without a sound? Are we describing Lincoln Clay or a slasher movie villain?

* Lincoln and Donovan's AdultFear conversation that a nuclear weapon in the hand of a rogue power could result in a MutualKill of all humanity by triggering nuclear war. This is a real-life fear many people have to today, even with the end of the Cold War.

* Almost everything about [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain the Dixie Mafia and the Southern Union]].

* The destruction of Uncle Lou's steamboat in "Real Nice Time", especially since it's the only mission where civilians are bound to be killed either in the gunfight between his goons, from the fire on the boat, or by falling into the bayou water and being eaten by alligators.

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* Your first encounter with Connor Aldridge's handiwork is a Cuban restaurant where he murders every single patron, waiter, and person inside in a disgusting massacre. It is a good EstablishingCharacterMoment that shows him to be a monster with absolutely no regard for human life.
* Your second encounter with him has him massacre an entire CIA sub-station, slaughtering and torturing the people inside. It's somehow even more grizzly than the initial massacre and helped by the fact all of the people were nothing more than paper pushers who couldn't put up a fight against Connor or his mercenaries.
* There's something about the fact that the encounter with Aldridge is so personal and traumatizing to Donovan, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness that a man who openly admitting to helping Lincoln Clay murder hundreds of people lies to the Senate about encountering Connor again.]]
* When you finally meet with Aldridge face-to-face, he tortures a safe's location from a man before executing him. This despite Donovan warning the man that Connor will kill him anyway.
* Lincoln and Donovan's AdultFear conversation that a nuclear weapon in the hand of a rogue power could result in a MutualKill of all humanity by triggering nuclear war. This is a real-life fear many people have to today, even with the end of the Cold War.

* [[spoiler: How Thomas Burke killed Balbieri. Maguire notes that his body wasn't found until the mid-1980s, where it was found in the trunk of an old car sunken in the Mississippi River. According to him, his legs were beaten so hard that there was hardly any bone left.]]

* There's something about the fact that the encounter with Connor is so personal and traumatizing to Donovan, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness that a man who openly admitting to helping Lincoln Clay murder hundreds of people lies to the Senate about encountering Connor again.]]
* When you finally meet with Connor face-to-face, he tortures a safe's location from a man before executing him. This despite Donovan warning the man that Connor will kill him anyway.

* There's something about the fact that the encounter with Connor is so personal and traumatizing to Donovan, [[OCCIsSeriousBusiness that a man who openly admitting to helping Lincoln Clay murder hundreds of people lies to the Senate about encountering Connor again.]]

** Oddly the scariest may be a Mardi Gras warehouse where the decorations, darkness, and difficulty navigating make it NothingIsScariest.