History NightmareFuel / MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor

* Seeing [[spoiler: Celebrimbor's death]] from his perspective is pretty unnerving. Also counts as a TearJerker, considering both the event and what happened just before.

** There's also the murder of their son Dirhael, which literally overflows with AdultFear: Talion and Ioreth being forced to watch as their son is held down like a pig for slaughter and they can do nothing to help him.

** One the more disturbing and grosser examples come from the uruks with nicknames that involve maggots (lord of the maggots, maggot-nest, and of the maggots). Some of these uruks are convinced they have been chosen by the maggots to act on their will. When in reality, they are suffering from flystrike, a painful and oftentimes fatal disease where flies lay eggs in a host that grow into maggots which then eat the host's flesh. These uruks complain about the pain they are enduring and wish to pass their pain on by killing Talion.

* The final words of the main game: [[spoiler: "[[SequelHook The time has come]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters for a]] [[HereWeGoAgain new Ring.]]"]] This ''cannot'' end well. [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar It]] [[[[NightmareFuel/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar doesn't.]]]]

* The final words of the main game: [[spoiler: "[[SequelHook The time has come]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters for a]] [[HereWeGoAgain new Ring.]]"]] This ''cannot'' end well. [[spoiler:It doesn't.]]

* It's a rainy night. You've just barely escaped from a fortress swarming with orcs, and are now running for your life from an angry horde intent on ending your miserable existence. Just as you stop to catch your breath, the camera pans to reveal [[TheDreaded your nemesis]] -- and he has zero qualms about killing you again. To top it off, he's immune to melee, ranged, and stealth, never flees, and has a poisoned weapon. [[RunOrDie Run.]]

* The final words of the main game: [[spoiler: "[[SequelHook The time has come]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters for a]] [[HereWeGoAgain new Ring.]]"]] This ''cannot'' end well.

* The pitiful, terrified, sobbing screams of [[spoiler: Bruz, after [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Celebrimbor]] performs a MindRape on him]] are absolutely horrifying.

** In fact, [[AdultFear the way Talion's family are murdered]] (in front of him before dying nonetheless!) just sends a chill down many spines, especially its very dark nature and tone of the execution scene and it's just the first few minutes into the game!

** In fact, the way Talion's family are murdered (in front of him before dying nonetheless!) just sends a chill down many spines, especially its very dark nature and tone of the execution scene and it's just the first few minutes into the game!

* The final words of the main game: [[spoiler: "The time has come for a new Ring."]] This ''cannot'' end well.

* The Slaughter Tribe manage to be much more disturbing than the Terror Tribe. At least the Terror Tribe won't butcher you for lunch later.

** An Uruk's motives for running away from Talion are rightfully understandable. This troper was going to a branded captain's duel with a rival Uruk when he came upon another of his branded captains, vomiting uncontrollably, rambling about how he "saw the groveling" and "heard the whispering" and begged that "the filth" would not touch him anymore. The [[SanitySlippage effect of branding]] is truly a terrible force to be reckoned with that no man, monster or beast should have to endure.

** He also says other lines, mainly in Elvish, such as "Edwenno o gwath! - Ochedin Valannor! - Nan iChir Gelair!". [[note]] For those who understand/looked up Elvish, they say: "March forth from the shadow! - Renounce the blessed realm! - I am the Bright Lord!". [[spoiler:And yes, Bright Lord as an opposite to Dark Lord.]] [[/note]]

* The way Talion's wife is killed by the Black Hand - just a slight slash of the throat that almost seems like a caress. The gentleness of the murder makes it that much more horrific.

** And if you slip into the Wraith World when the Tower hasn't spawned in? You will see things. Shapes at the edge of vision, red forms like men or Uruks but thin, amorphous, charging in the distance towards you but never growing closer. ''Something'' is in Ered Glamhoth, something mortal eyes cannot see... much like how later, Legolas would describe seeing shapes of men/horses, along with the dead soldiers that killed them, in the Paths of the Dead; a pretty chilling CallForward.

* The final words of the game: [[spoiler: "It is time for a new ring."]] This ''cannot'' end well.

* The final encounter with Gollum. Talion is handed one more artifact from him that he's discovered that links to Celebrimbor's past and after the scene and Talion starts to wake up, Gollum attempts to bash his head in with a brick whilst demanding to know where his precious is.

* The final encounter with Gollum. Talion is handed one more artifact from him that he's discovered that links to Celebrimbor's past and after the scene and Talion starts to wake up, Gollum attempts to bash his head in with a brick whilst demanding to know where his precious is.

* Graugs. Massive monsters that literally eat trolls for breakfast, and can squash the above Caragors like flies - and you, if you are not careful. Then you have ''horned'' Graugs...

** To clarify: [[spoiler: Sauron, in his Annatar guise, beats Celbrimbor to death with a smithing hammer. By "his perspective" we mean a first person view. And then there's a wet-sounding crunch on the third or so swing, which ''still'' doesn't kill him, and you get a nice view of Sauron flipping the hammer around to the pointy end before he finishes the job.]] Immediately before this, [[spoiler: you get to see Celebrimbor bound in chains and forced to watch as Sauron kills his captive wife and daughter with a single swing from his mace -- there's a GoryDiscretionShot but that doesn't stop you from hearing their desperate screaming as he approaches them.]]