History NightmareFuel / TetsuoTheIronMan

* The film's entire ''style,'' with it's jittery camera, even in the quieter moments, long stretches of NothingIsScarier, claustrophobic, almost abstract environments, and sudden, blurry images that only add to the surreal, dreamlike feeling of the film.

* The [[TankGoodness tank at the ending of the movie. As it rolls through the streets, [[AndIMustScream you can see the skinheads' faces and hear their screams coming out of it]]]].

* The film's entire ''style,'' with it's jittery camera, even in the quieter moments, long stretches of NothingIsScarier, claustrophobic, almost abstract environments, and sudden, blurry images that only add to the surreal, dreamlike feeling of the film

[[caption-width-right:350: This is probably the reaction you'd have watching this movie.]]

We're going to give you a head's up: This is ''not'' your average horror trilogy in the slightest. Well? Are you ready to ride, cowboy?

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[[caption-width-right:350: This is probably the reaction you'd have watching this movie.]]

-->'''Girlfriend''': Moshi moshi.\\
'''Salaryman''': Moshi moshi.\\

-->'''Girlfriend''': Hey, what's wrong?\\
'''Salaryman''': [[{{BlatantLies}} It's nothing. It's nothing.]]

-->'''Yatsu''': So you've done it again. Don't bother to hang up. I know all about you. You can't escape me. [[{{SuddenlyShouting}} DROP DEAD, YOU METAL BEAST!!]] [[{{LaughingMad}} MAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!]]

-->'''Doctor:''' [[{{PrecisionFStrike}} What the fuck is this?]] This is unbelievable! How did you make it here? There's a piece of metal stuck in your brain. I can't believe you're still alive! What genius inserted it? You'll die if it is removed. Think of it as jewelry. ''[[{{HellIsThatNoise}} (Loud static)]]''
* TheReveal that the Salaryman is far from an innocent victim in the film. Instead of calling the police or an ambulance after hitting Yatsu with their car, the Salaryman and his Girlfriend opt instead to [[WhatTheHellHero throw his mortally wounded body in a ditch]] and then [[FanDisservice have sex by a tree only a few meters away.]] [[{{DysfunctionJunction}} Not a single person is right in the head in this movie.]]

--->'''Old Man''': [[{{PreAssKickingOneLiner}} Hey sonny...]]

-->'''Yatsu:''' [[{{PrecisionFStrike}} Fuck you!]] Don't you understand?! Your future is ''metal!''
* [[{{GainaxEnding}} The ending,]] where Yatsu and the Salaryman fuse into [[MechanicalAbomination a gigantic rocket-propelled biomechanical penis on wheels]] like a Kanamara festival gone horribly, ''horribly'' wrong.
-->'''Salaryman''': Ahh, I feel great.\\
'''Yatsu''': We can mutate the whole world into metal.\\
'''Salaryman''': Ahh...\\
'''Yatsu''': We can rust the world into the dust of the universe.\\
'''Salaryman''': Let's do it...\\
'''Yatsu''': Our love can destroy this whole [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] world!\\
'''Salaryman''': ''(just drools)''\\
'''Yatsu''': LET'S GO GET 'EM!!! ''(fires the gun fused to his arm and their engines roar to life, propelling them down the streets of Tokyo at breakneck speed)''

* The {{flashback}} to [[spoiler:Tomoo and Yatsu's childhoods]].

** The dad mortally wounding his wife with a ''gun'' while raping her, only to discover that his kids were [[TroublingUnChildlikeBehavior watching the whole time.]] Their son [[spoiler:Tomoo]] does what any [[SarcasmMode normal kid]] would do in that situation: [[EnfantTerrible blasts the shit out of both of them with their finger-guns]]. While ''smiling.''

* [[spoiler:The [[TankGoodness tank]] at the ending of the movie. As it rolls through the streets, [[AndIMustScream you can see the skinheads' faces and hear their screams coming out of it]]]].

-->'''Wife''': It's so peaceful.

* Yatsu's [[spoiler:[[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness slaughter of the PMC team and his own mooks]]]] is both this and NauseaFuel.

-->'''Yatsu:''' Let's play one last little game. In one minute, I will push this button. You have two choices. Number one: Kill me! That way you save the wife and the woman you love, but that way the monster is loose. Choice number two: I blow this place to pieces. No more little monster. The world will have peace. Well? [[{{BadassBoast}} Are you ready to ride, cowboy?]]
* Anthony's final form: [[spoiler:a gigantic metallic beast with a cannon in his chest and a head that ''breaks itself'' to pieces, revealing what appears to be even smaller guns. ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill]].

* While shaving, the Salaryman [[OhCrap discovers]] a [[BodyHorror tiny metal needle poking out of his cheek]] while shaving. When he tries to pull it out, it sprays ''blood.'' This is his first clue that something is very, ''very'' wrong. When it gets worse, his attempts to remove it result in a chunk of his skin peeling off to reveal ''scrap metal beneath it.''

* The HighConcept of this movie: a man accidentally kills someone with his car, and as a punishment gets to witness and ''feel'' [[BodyHorror his entire body turning to metal from the inside out]] [[AndIMustScream while being unable to do anything about it]] while slowly [[SanitySlippage going insane]] as a result (probably from his brain turning to metal). It'd probably be easier to list the parts that ''aren't'' NightmareFuel.

-->'''Girlfriend''': Moshi moshi.
-->'''Salaryman''': Moshi moshi.
-->''(repeat several times)''

-->'''Girlfriend''': Hey, what's wrong?
-->'''Salaryman''': [[{{BlatantLies}} It's nothing. It's nothing.]]

* Before and After the Salaryman kills his girlfriend, the film [[JumpScare cuts to a CRT monitor view of Yatsu]] [[LaughingMad laughing like a deranged chipmunk.]] It comes straight out of nowhere.

-->'''Yatsu:''' Fantastic...
-->'''Salaryman:''' You didn't die!

** It comes to a momentary halt when the film cuts to a flashback of Yatsu getting abused as a kid by a homeless man, who calmly confronts him like a samurai crossing paths with an old rival...before wildly beating the ''shit'' out of him with an iron rod.
-->'''Old Man''': [[{{PreAssKickingOneLiner}} Hey sonny...]]

-->'''Salaryman''': Ahh, I feel great.
-->'''Yatsu''': We can mutate the whole world into metal.
-->'''Salaryman''': Ahh...
-->'''Yatsu''': We can rust the world into the dust of the universe.
-->'''Salaryman''': Let's do it...
-->'''Yatsu''': Our love can destroy this whole [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] world!
-->'''Salaryman''': ''(just drools)''
-->'''Yatsu''': LET'S GO GET 'EM!!! ''(fires the gun fused to his arm and their engines roar to life, propelling them down the streets of Tokyo at breakneck speed)''

* At the very end of the film, Tomoo and his wife stroll enjoy a casual stroll through the city with their new son many years later. Problem is, the city has been ''annihilated.''

* One scene early on in the film shows the Salaryman on the phone with his wife. Their conversation is just the two of them [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment saying "hello" to each other back and forth.]] [[{{SurrealHorror}} It's much creepier than it sounds.]]
-->'''Wife''': Moshi moshi.

-->'''Wife''': Hey, what's wrong?

* After the Salaryman kills his wife, the film [[JumpScare cuts to a CRT monitor view of Yatsu]] [[LaughingMad laughing like a deranged chipmunk.]] It comes straight out of nowhere.

* Yatsu dissolves the Salaryman's wife's corpse into metallic mulch before using the knife she was still clutching as a means of ''entering her body and bursting out of it.'' Then he straddles the Salaryman in an [[NoYay extremely uncomfortable way.]]

* TheReveal that the Salaryman is far from an innocent victim in the film. Instead of calling the police or an ambulance after hitting Yatsu with their car, the Salaryman and his Wife opt instead to [[WhatTheHellHero throw his mortally wounded body in a ditch]] and then [[FanDisservice have sex by a tree only a few meters away.]] [[{{DysfunctionJunction}} Not a single person is right in the head in this movie.]]

-->'''Yatsu''': LET'S GET 'EM!!! ''(fires the gun fused to his arm and their engines roar to life, propelling them down the streets of Tokyo at breakneck speed)''

* One of Yatsu's henchmen uses Tomoo's ''[[WouldHurtAChild son]]'' as a [[MoralEventHorizon human shield as the last second,]] causing him to utterly ''obliterate'' his own child. The sight of the LaughingMad mook holding his tiny, severed fists aloft ensures that the salaryman is ''doomed'' to [[DespairEventHorizon spend the rest of his life]] as a HumanWeapon [[BalefulPolymorph mutated by rage.]]

** The dad mortally wounding his wife with a ''gun'' during sex by accident. Only to discover that his kids were [[TroublingUnChildlikeBehavior watching the whole time.]] Their sons do what any [[SarcasmMode normal kid]] would do in that situation: [[EnfantTerrible blast the shit out of both of them with their finger-guns]]. While ''smiling.''
* The [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment brief scene]] of a [[FetusTerrible fetus]] in its womb, warped by the Tetsuo virus that clenches its fist and lets out a baleful cry.
* [[spoiler:The [[TankGoodness tank]] at the ending of the movie. As it rolls through the streets, [[AndIMustScream you can hear screams coming out of it]]]].

* Hell, pick any of the fight sequences. Tomoo's sheer psychotic anger turns most fights in the film into a one-sided beatdown where his foe is completely helpless. The fact that every single sound that comes out of his mouth during these scenes counts as a HellIsThatNoise doesn't help.

* The opening sequence, in which the Metal Fetishist SHOVES A METAL PIPE INTO HIS LEG, with sound effects that somehow invoke {{Squick}} all on their own. And then we get to see a gruesome shot of the Fetishist's mutilated leg with maggots crawling all over it. No wonder he freaked out and ran into the road...

We're going to give you a head's up: This is ''not'' your average horror trilogy in the slightest. Well? Are you ready to ride, cowboy?

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tetsuo_nightmare_fuel.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350: This is probably the reaction you'd have watching this movie.]]

[[caption-width-right:350: This is probably the reaction you'd have watching this movie]]

-->:'''Yatsu''': So you've done it again. Don't bother to hang up. I know all about you. You can't escape me. [[{{SuddenlyShouting}} DROP DEAD, YOU METAL BEAST!!]] [[{{LaughingMad}} MAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!]]

* [[{{GainaxEnding}} The ending,]] where Yatsu and the Salaryman fuse into a gigantic [[MechanicalAbomination rocket-propelled biomechanical penis on wheels]] like a Kanamara festival gone horribly, ''horribly'' wrong.

* [[{{GainaxEnding}} The ending,]] where Yatsu and the Salaryman fuse into a gigantic [[MechanicalAbomination biomechanical penis on wheels]] like a Kanamara festival gone horribly, ''horribly'' wrong.

* Yatsu's ShootTheDog [[note]] shooting a man using his ''finger'' [[/note]] at the beginning.

* One of Yatsu's henchmen uses Tomoo's ''[[WouldHurtAChild son]]'' as a [[MoralEventHorizon human shield as the last second,]] causing him to utterly ''obliterate'' his own child. The sight of the LaughingMad mook holding his tiny, severed fists aloft ensures that the salaryman is ''doomed'' to [[DespairEventHorizon spend the rest of his life]] as a [[HumanWeapon living weapon,]] [[BalefulPolymorph mutated by rage.]]