History NightmareFuel / NierAutomata

** Fang of the Twins, which is another Drakengard holdover, starts out talking about the twin souls sacrificed to make the halberd. The second entry in the story even says it's what the twin souls wanted. Then you fully upgrade the weapon, and it goes straight into horror territory:

* The ending of the innocuous-seeming sidequest "The Wandering Couple" is full of this. You spend much of the game-line helping this pair of Resistance androids, who wish to leave the Resistance and just eke out a peaceful existence together, until finally they decide that they can't survive on their own and that they need to reformat themselves in order to return to the Resistance. Cue TheReveal: This entire set-up was just an elaborate ploy by the female android to get her boyfriend to get reformatted, so she can erase his personality and reconstruct it into a form more to her liking. In fact, this is her ''sixth'' time doing so. And you can't intervene to stop it, so she gets away with it. The final entry for the quest in the Journal is an almost cheerful observation that this has taught Pascal that "females can be scary". This is a level of DomesticAbuse beyond the reach of humans, and you can image the uproar it would elicit [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale if the genders were reversed]].

-->'''9S:''' 2B models? ''[nearly breaks down in tears before clutching his face and starting to laugh]'' Ha ha ha ha ha... I'm glad I got to see you here. I truly am. ''[takes off his blindfold]'' I'll tear you apart... '''Every last''' '''[[SuddenlyShouting ONE OF YOU!!!]]'''
-->'''9S:''' 2B! 2B!! Don't worry... '''I'M GOING TO KILL YOU NOW!!!'''

-->'''9S:''' 2B models? ''[nearly breaks down in tears before clutching his face and starting to laugh]'' Ha ha ha ha ha... I'm glad I got to see you here. I truly am. ''[takes off his blindfold]'' I'll tear you apart... '''Every last'' [[SuddenlyShouting '''ONE OF YOU!!!''']]

-->'''9S:''' 2B models? ''[nearly breaks down in tears before clutching his face and starting to laugh]'' Ha ha ha ha ha... I'm glad I got to see you here. I truly am. ''[takes off his blindfold]'' I'll tear you apart... '''Every last [[SuddenlyShouting '''ONE OF YOU!!!''']]

-->'''9S:''' 2B models? ''[nearly breaks down in tears before clutching his face and starting to laugh]'' Ha ha ha ha ha... I'm glad I got to see you here. I truly am. ''[takes off his blindfold]'' I'll tear you apart... '''Every last ONE OF YOU!!!'''

* 9S's SanitySlippage in Branches C/D. Particularly, the scene in the tower where a room full of 2B models attack him, and his response is to ''laugh'' and rip off his blindfold, giving the camera a SlasherSmile that would even make [[VideoGame/Drakengard Caim]] blush, before saying how happy he is to finally get to ''kill'' her...

* 9S's SanitySlippage in Branches C/D. Particularly, the scene in the tower where a room full of 2B models attack him, and his response is to ''laugh'' and rip off his blindfold, giving the camera a SlasherSmile before saying how happy he is to finally get to ''kill'' her...

-->'''9S:''' 2B! 2B!! '''I'M GOING TO KILL YOU NOW!!!'''

* After 2B and Pascal narrowly escape the extremists at the Abandoned Factory and 2B goes back to the Resistance Camp, you're treated to a horrifying cutscene of the machines attacking and nearly overwhelming the Resistance androids (some machines are even ''eating'' them!)...
** What's really scary about it is that [[ArtImitatesLife humans in real-life are capable of sinking that low]]. The Machine Cult, for one, may reminds some players of suicide pact culture or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack a subway gas attack in Tokyo carried out by an extremist cult during 1995]].

** After defeating So-Shi, you see dozens of machines throwing themselves into the molten metal.
* The attack on City Ruins right after you deliver oil to Pascal. Giant freaking Goliath out of nowhere, tearing a massive hole in the middle of the map! Turns out the aliens have been hiding underground right below the Resistance for centuries.
* The lead in to final boss battle of A route, specifically the loud scream in City Ruins when you approach Eve in the center of the map. If you're lucky to see some machines loitering around him, you'll notice that they exploded when this happens. ''Eve just killed every single Machines connected to him in one fell swoop out of nothing but sheer spite.''

* If you choose to mind-wipe Pascal in Route C, he can later be found wandering his old village, clearing up and selling on all the "junk" lying around the place. Said junk includes machine body parts and a ''single children's core''. Brr...doubles as a huge TearJerker.

* 9S's SanitySlippage in Route C/D. Particularly, the scene in the tower where a room full of 2B models attack him, and his response is to ''laugh'' and rip off his blindfold, giving the camera a SlasherSmile before saying how happy he is to finally get to ''kill'' her...

-->'''Kierkegaard's Followers:''' [[MadnessMantra Become as Gods! Become as Gods! Become as Gods! Become as Gods!]]

-->'''Machines:''' [[MadnessMantra Become as Gods! Become as Gods! Become as Gods! Become as Gods!]]

* The Machine Cult. A religious group of machines in the depths of the Abandoned Factory ask Pascal to come discuss a peace treaty. 2B and Pascal go to meet their leader...who is already dead. Then the machines announce that their leader has become a God, and start chanting...and then their eyes all turn red. Next thing you know, you're surrounded by a flood of hostile machines intent on making 2B and Pascal become as gods.

** The androids treat machines as simple and barbaric, and their words are merely mimicking human speech, among other things. However, ''very'' early on, 2B and 9S encounter a machine that expresses fear in both words and mannerism, fleeing to its friends/allies. And that's only the start of it, essentially "revealing" a human mindset of war. NotSoDifferent now, are you?