History NightmareFuel / PerfectBlue

'''Rumi:''' What are you talking about, Mima? I was just here yesterday.

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Oh Holy Mother of GOD. Where to begin?!

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* The grotesque appearance of Mima's stalker, Me-Mania, and just Me-Mania in general. Hell, [[spoiler: Rumi's]] appearance is even flinch worthy.

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*** All but two or three of the fish were dead. [[spoiler:The full tank of fish in Rumi's replica of Mima's apartment is what helped Mima realize she wasn't actually in her own room.]]

*** The scene where she supposedly [[spoiler: stabs Murano in the eye and then his crotch before chasing the man throughout his house and then repeatedly stabbing him to death with an vicious look on her face as he screams in terrible agony.]]

* The ''precise moment'' when Mima realizes that [[spoiler: Rumi's made [[LoonyFan an exact replica of her room]]]]. *shudder* Can we say reverse-[[Film/AllAboutEve Eve Harrington]]?
* In a major twist, the true villain in the movie [[spoiler:turns out to be Mima's middle-aged female manager Rumi, who was a former pop idol who didn't last and now thinks she's the real Mima. The climax of the film where Rumi chases Mima in the illusory form of Mima's giggling, pop-idol alter-ego while trying to kill her is genuinely disturbing.]]
** [[spoiler:Of course, that's if you think that Rumi ''isn't'' in fact the real Mima. By that point in the movie, it's no longer possible to be sure.]]
** [[spoiler:Just to review, Rumi at one point chases Mima down a street in front of a series of storefront windows. In the foreground chasing Mima is Rumi in the idealized form of Mima's pop-star alter ego, laughing and skipping down the street without a care in the world. In the background, every time Rumi passes in front of a window, you see her real form reflected: an older woman clutching an ice-pick/umbrella, gasping and snarling while in a dead sprint.]]
*** [[spoiler:The worst part is that this appears to be a shared hallucination; Rumi thinks she's Super-Innocent-Magical-Avenging-Angel Mima, and Mima ''also'' thinks Rumi is Super-Innocent-Magical-Avenging-Angel Mima. For once, the ''viewer'' is shown the truth, while the characters can't see it -- and ''you'' of course can't do a God damn thing about it.]]
** [[spoiler:Mima getting stabbed ''with an umbrella.'']]
*** Rumi [[spoiler:getting [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled]] on a piece of broken glass]] was just as [[NauseaFuel nauseating]].
* The guy in the parking lot who heard fragments of one of Mima's songs, then discovered a radio on the elevator's floor, when the doors opened. [[spoiler: And a few minutes later the doors opened again to reveal him dead, covered in his own blood, and his eyes gouged out]]. He was the man who wrote Mima into a rape scene; "justified" would be absolutely the wrong word to use here, but there's a fairly obvious ''reason'' why [[spoiler: Rumi (or was it Me-Mania?)]] killed him.

* The ''precise moment'' when Mima realizes that [[spoiler: Rumi's made [[LoonyFan an exact replica of her room]]]]. *shudder* Can we say reverse-[[AllAboutEve Eve Harrington]]?

'''Rumi:''' What are you talking about, Mima? I was just here yesterday.
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*** It's ind of minor, but the sheer lack of concern her former bandmates show about Mima meeting the leery photographer. It makes the invasive nature of the media seem 'normal', and that's a message that still resonates.

----> Mima: It's been a while, Rumi.
----> Rumi: What are you talking about, Mima? I was just here yesterday.

* ALTRNATE IDEA: Perhaps most of the movie actually describes Rumi's delusions. Rumi is the one with alternate personalities. I suggest perhaps that Rumi may have not just the Pure-Mima personality, but also her own version of mima, Rumi-Mima. Perhaps the scenes where Mima hallucinates it is truly Rumi that has a battle between her multiple personalities. Then many of the scenes depicting Mima may be Rumi's own real-Mima personality. Its an open question if the stalker is also one of Rumis personalities. Remember that towards the end, actual Mima isnt really fooled by Rumi's outfit (just chocked). And how to conclude this; In the end, in Rumis copy apartment, I see the fish in the fish tank being (still) dead. This must mean that the scene where Mima cry after the rape-shoot is in fact Rumi crying. But we just see it from Rumis twisted perspective.

* The scenes where she is being photographed naked by the borderline-rapist pornographer Murano.
* The scene where she supposedly stabs Murano in the eye and then his crotch before chasing the man throughout his house and then repeatedly stabbing him to death with an vicious look on her face as he screams in terrible agony.

* The ''precise moment'' when Mima realizes that Rumi's made [[LoonyFan an exact replica of her room]]. *shudder* Can we say reverse-[[AllAboutEve Eve Harrington]]?

* The guy in the parking lot who heard fragments of one of Mima's songs, then discovered a radio on the elevator's floor, when the doors opened. [[spoiler: And a few minutes later the doors opened again to reveal him dead, covered in his own blood, and his eyes gouged out]]. He was the man who wrote Mima into a rape scene; "justified" would be absolutely the wrong word to use here, but there's a fairly obvious ''reason'' why Rumi (or was it Me-Mania?) killed him.

* The grotesque appearance of Mima's stalker, Me-Mania, and just Me-Mania in general. Hell, Rumi's appearance is even flinch worthy.

* In the anime's denouement, Rumi is permanently delusional and institutionalized. It's quite unsettling.

* In a major twist, the true villain in the movie turns out to be Mima's middle-aged female manager Rumi, who was a former pop idol who didn't last and now thinks she's the real Mima. The climax of the film where Rumi chases Mima in the illusory form of Mima's giggling, pop-idol alter-ego while trying to kill her is genuinely disturbing.
** Of course, that's if you think that Rumi ''isn't'' in fact the real Mima. By that point in the movie, it's no longer possible to be sure.
** Just to review, Rumi at one point chases Mima down a street in front of a series of storefront windows. In the foreground chasing Mima is Rumi in the idealized form of Mima's pop-star alter ego, laughing and skipping down the street without a care in the world. In the background, every time Rumi passes in front of a window, you see her real form reflected: an older woman clutching an ice-pick/umbrella, gasping and snarling while in a dead sprint.
*** The worst part is that this appears to be a shared hallucination; Rumi thinks she's Super-Innocent-Magical-Avenging-Angel Mima, and Mima ''also'' thinks Rumi is Super-Innocent-Magical-Avenging-Angel Mima. For once, the ''viewer'' is shown the truth, while the characters can't see it -- and ''you'' of course can't do a God damn thing about it.

** One of the worst parts of the rape scene was seeing Rumi crying while watching it being filmed. The FridgeHorror comes in when you're given time, near the climax of the movie, to remember that scene: you realize that Rumi may already have been unstable and delusional, but ''this'' and the racy photo shoot were the things that pushed her permanently over the edge.
*** Or even ''worse'', if Rumi was already delusional, she thought she was seeing ''herself'' getting raped.

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Bloody_Mima.jpg
[[caption-width:300: I'm the '''''REAL''''' Mima.]]


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* Mima holds a tea cup in her hands in one scene and squeezes so hard that she breaks it. She's out of touch with reality at this point and while Rumi reacts with horror Mima simply looks at the blood with a blank look and says "This blood...Rumi is it real?"

* In a major twist, the true villain in the movie turns out to be Mima's overweight, middle-aged female manager Rumi, who was a former pop idol who didn't last and now thinks she's the real Mima. The climax of the film where Rumi chases Mima in the illusory form of Mima's giggling, pop-idol alter-ego while trying to kill her is genuinely disturbing.

** Just to review, Rumi at one point chases Mima down a street in front of a series of storefront windows. In the foreground chasing Mima is Rumi in the idealized form of Mima's pop-star alter ego, laughing and skipping down the street without a care in the world. In the background, every time Rumi passes in front of a window, you see her real form reflected: an older female with far too much flesh trying to fit in far too little an outfit, clutching a knife, gasping and snarling while in a dead sprint.

* If the movie itself had to be edited to '''receive''' the '''R'''-Rating you '''know''' this trope is in play. [[http://movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=4873 Here is the link of the comparisons.]] ([[NightmareFuel Warning!]] [[NotSafeForWork NSFW]]!)

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBxsRiG5eYU&feature=related Virtua Mima]]. If this song does not make you want to crawl under your bed and stay there for a while, nothing will.

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* The guy in the parking lot who heard fragments of one of Mima's songs, then discovered a radio on the elevator's floor, when the doors opened. [[spoiler: And a few minutes later the doors opened again to reveal him dead, covered in his own blood, and his eyes gouged out.]]
** That's not just "a guy," that's the guy who wrote Mima into a rape scene. "Justified" would be absolutely the wrong word to use here, but there's a fairly obvious ''reason'' why Rumi (or was it Me-Mania?) killed him.
*** One of the worst parts of the rape scene was seeing Rumi crying while watching it being filmed. The FridgeHorror comes in when you're given time, near the climax of the movie, to remember that scene: you realize that Rumi may already have been unstable and delusional, but ''this'' and the racy photo shoot were the things that pushed her permanently over the edge.
**** Or even ''worse'', if Rumi was already delusional, she thought she was seeing ''herself'' getting raped.
*** In the anime's denouement, Rumi is permanently delusional and institutionalized. It's quite unsettling.

** The depiction of Mima loosing touch with reality.

* If the movie itself had to be edited to '''receive''' the '''R'''-Rating you '''know''' this trope is in play. [[http://movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=4873 Here is the link of the comparisons.]] ([[NightmareFuel Warning!]] [[NotSafeForWork NSFW]] is an {{Understatement}} !!)