History NightmareFuel / TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope

*** A terrifying implication of this path, crossing over into FridgeHorror, is Nagano, in addition to his brutal crackdown on the Chinese/Zhujin inhabitants of Guangdong, is perfectly willing to carry out brutal actions against ''other Japanese'' in Guangdong in the form of his executions of the corporate executives of the region. This terrifying implication is made worse with how it shows that even ethnic Japanese with wealth and status in Japanese society are not safe from the brutality of the IJA, with this having terrifying implications going forward in Japan proper with how the executions of business leaders in Guangdong illustrating how even prominent and wealthy Japanese are not safe from the wrath of the IJA, given that they have just canceled all flights and boats leaving the country. This is especially the case if the IJA Coup in Guangdong is coupled with Muto or hardliners within Kaya's cabinet taking over Japan as well.

** The Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführer-SS is a state led by Klaus Barbie, who engages in [[CrushingThePopulace extremely brutal tactics like torture, murder and outright massacres,]] to cow the local partisans to submission. [[KickTheSonOfABitch They, of course, are more than willing to respond in kind, with SS Officers being found killed and mutilated]].

* October 2020 gave us the Halloween update, which features a special event: a massive ZombieApocalypse with the decaying corpses of historical figures. [[TheWorfEffect First]] taking ''[[KickTheSonOfABitch Burgundy]] out'' to prevent ensured nuclear disaster from foiling their plans, the Horde is led by an undead Joseph Goebbels and intends to consume and[=/=]or assimilate the world into their numbers.

*** An impoverished worker writes in his journal about the horrific working conditions under Hitachi. In the factories, he and the others are worked to the bone all day, only given a block of flavorless instant ramen to subsist on and hearing the screams of people, including children, being tortured by the Kempeitai. Lamenting the abuses he's endured and witnessing the suicides of those who lose all hope, the author thinks to himself that he can only "sing of horror".

* Niccolo Giani's fascist regime has been described as being the "worst path for Italy" with the devs stating that Giani's regime "will take away your soul" with it being implied that he would brainwash the entire population of Italy into becoming fanatical Fascists. It gets worse as teasers regarding Giani's regime would note that he is a talented orator who would use his mastery of rhetoric to brainwash the populace and uses anti-Semitic rhetoric in his speeches and policies.

* Should the Iberian Union fail to reform or dissolve itself peacefully, the result is the Iberian Wars, in which the entire country [[BalkanizeMe violently collapses into various factions and breakaway states]]. This is considered to be Iberia's [[DownerEnding failstate]] as it marks the beginning of a multi-front civil war, one that has the potential to become ''even worse'' as the war drags on and more radical factions such as the [[ChurchMilitant National Redemption Front]] or the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Government of National Salvation]] rise up and enter the fighting. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd1q0gUpIHE accompanying superevent]], which doubles as a TearJerker, features Adagio for Strings played over sounds of gunshots and chanting soldiers, highlighting the total collapse into chaos that occurs. And if you know enough of Spain's history to recognize some of the actual chants, things get more chilling, as many are straight from the first civil war, and terrible signs of death and disunity to the older Spanish generation.
* The [[TheFundamentalist National Redemption Front]], which can emerge if the Iberian Wars drag on for long enough, is described as ''the'' worst faction, even compared to the Falangists, for a reason. Comprised of ultrareligious Catholics, it aims to end the conflict by bringing about the Kingdom of God in Iberia. In practice, this translates into a reign of terror as the NRF fanatically imposes its brand of Catholicism on the populace, including the destruction of monuments and ''all'' forms of secular culture, even any semblance of a functional state. It not only [[IronicEcho bears more than a passing resemblance]] radical Islamist movements, but is almost like a perverse parody of Alexander Men's Divine Mandate only serves to drive home the hell that awaits those who survive the initial carnage.

* While a bog-standard reactionary dictatorship in earlier versions of the mod, a Russia unified by Chita if Mikhail fails to rein in the White Generals as of [=TT3=] can be extremely horrifying with the rework clarifying that Shepunov is a [[EvilReactionary reactionary nationalist]] (an Ultranationalist in game terms) rather than simply a bog standard reactionary White General. Rather than simply [[FullCircleRevolution restoring the old status-quo as if the October Revolution never happened]], a Russia unified by Chita would thereby be one dominated by the most extreme reactionary and ultranationalistic elements of the Tsarist regime personified during the turn of the century by the Black Hundreds and the most reactionary Slavophiles, absolute monarchists and White Generals. It will be a Russia where minority groups, Jews, and any one suspected of liberal or socialist thought are mercilessly hunted down, and where [[BloodKnight hyper-revanchist and militaristic ideas]] are instilled as the ''main way of life'' for all unfortunately to find themselves within the borders of the new Russian Empire.

** Of the collaborators, SS-Charlemagne is notably the most loyal to Himmler, despite being seen as barely better than untermenschen. Should Reinhard Heydrich win the German Civil War, defeat Burgundy and subsequently die, however, not only would the surviving elements of SS-Chalemagne remain organized and cohesive enough [[TheRemnant to become the last holdout of Nazism]] in the ashes of the dead Reich, but they could potentially take on and ''usurp'' the rump French State to the south. Ensuring that even in a warped Francified form, [[VillainousLegacy Himmler's legacy would endure]].

* Doubling as a Main/TearJerker, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F7t1wCnJpw World War 3 superevent]] combines the outro of [[Music/{{Nena}} 99 Luftballons]] with sounds of church bells ringing, air raid sirens, and jet planes taking off, before fading into distant gunfire. It's a fittingly chilling and sad superevent for what will likely be the lead-up to nuclear war.

---->The person who was my previous neighbor - I wish I learned his name - jumped. Another used knives. One more went to the river. All wanted to go anywhere but here. So do I. You know, I once wanted to sing. How can I do so now, when I bear witness to horror all around me? I can only sing of horror. Horror to which I live, horror to which I die.

--> ... the Gang treats him as a fool and a puppet, a disgrace to Hitler's vision and nobody of importance.\\

----> With the death of Hans Huttig, the Reichstaat has now completely collapsed. Huttig - and the fear of crossing him - was the only component holding the state together, and his death has led to a total breakdown of Germany authority in Africa.\\

---> "[[HeelRealization Yazov wanted to be proud. But he just felt empty.]]"

---> "In a hundred years time, perhaps, [[DarkMessiah a great man will appear who may offer them a chance at salvation]]. [[VillainousLegacy He'll take me as a model, use my ideas, and follow the course I have charted.]]"

--> “The ReignOfTerror marches on.”

--> The person who was my previous neighbor - I wish I learned his name - jumped. Another used knives. One more went to the river. All wanted to go anywhere but here. So do I. You know, I once wanted to sing. How can I do so now, when I bear witness to horror all around me? I can only sing of horror. Horror to which I live, horror to which I die.

*** A terrifying implication of this path, crossing over into FridgeHorror, is Nagano, in addition to his brutal crackdown on the Chinese/Zhujin inhabitants of Guangdong, is perfectly willing to carry out brutal actions against ''other Japanese'' in Guangdong in the form of his executions of the corporate executives of the region. This terrifying implication is made worse with how it shows that even ethnic Japanese with wealth and status in Japanese society are not safe from the brutality of the IJA, with this having terrifying implications going forward in Japan proper with how the executions of business leaders in Guangdong illustrating how even prominent and wealthy Japanese are not safe from the wrath of the IJA, given that they have just canceled all flights and boats leaving the country. This is especially the case if the IJA Coup in Guangdong is coupled with Muto or hardliners within Kaya’s cabinet taking over Japan as well.

--> You are not in control.
--> Look at the mess you made.
--> Look what you made us do.

* The update 'The Ruin' features the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/14to2v3/another_tno_lir_britain_leak/ Operation Sealion II superevent]], which occurs if Germany invades Britain following a HMMLR victory and if the U.S Navy retreats from the English Channel as a result of the Channel Crisis, is absolutely horrifying. The sound of gunfire and overhead aircraft roars alongside the eerie minimalist music of Brian Eno, as Britain falls under an openly Nazi government even more totalitarian than the collaborationist government that the resistance had defeated. Doubles as a {{Tearjerker}} as well since it means the resistance's efforts, alongside all the bloodshed and destruction that occurred during the British Civil War, were all for nothing.
--> '''{{Creator/Arthur C Clarke}}:''' ''[[Literature/ChildhoodsEnd The most terrible of all legends had come to life, out of the unknown past. Yet now it stood smiling, in ebon majesty, with the sunlight gleaming upon its tremendous body, and with a human child resting trustfully on either arm.]]''

* And should you play as Burgundy, the focus tree and every decision will be a tanker full of Nightmare Fuel all around, a complete opposite to the politically neutral base game. Even the earliest societal decisions will post events upon completion about how a German mother's baby was executed, the news delivered by the apathetic nurse who clearly ignores her agony. It only gets worse with every plot focus: initially unlocking death camps using "skilled workers", a.k.a disposable, educated Frenchmen pre-UsefulNotes/WW2 being worked to death to build Burgundy's Brutalist cities, weapons factories and infrastructure. Then as Ukraine is freed from Nazi control, more Burgundian population is needed to be worked to death to produce food to offset the upcoming famine. The game makes it very clear that the locals need to be worked to death to cull their numbers so the player doesn't experience a rebellion, and investigate and interrogate slave workers who are reported off-hand as "having their weak hearts not withstand a mere seven-hour torture".

* The update 'The Ruin' features the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/14to2v3/another_tno_lir_britain_leak/ Operation Sealion II superevent]], which occurs if Germany invades Britain following a HMMLR victory and if the U.S Navy retreats from the English Channel as a result of the Channel Crisis, is absolutely horrifying, with the sound of gunfire and overhead aircraft alongside depressing music in the background as Britain falls under an openly Nazi government even more totalitarian than the collaborationist government that the resistance had defeated. Doubles as a {{Tearjerker}} as well since it means the resistance's efforts, alongside all the bloodshed and destruction that occurred during the British Civil War, were all for nothing.

** What's even worse than that is how, as time passes and almost in a perverse inversion of Taboritsky's SanitySlippage, Rodzaevsky begins to get more composed, drop his more self-destructive habits and generally become much more ''sane'', though no less vile. Russia united under him would not only be a totalitarian danger to the world, but it would be one that's run by someone ''stable''. This makes the Russian National State possibly worse than [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Yazov's Russian National Reclamation Government]], [[TheTheocracy Velimir's Hyperborea]], [[FourthReich Vagner's Russkiy Reykh]], or [[TheNecrocracy Taboritsky's Holy Russian Empire]] in that it will actually ‘’last''. While both the Russian National Reclamation Government and Hyperborea have a high likelihood of ending the human race in nuclear flames, the Russkiy Reych is likely to collapse as a result of its oppression of anyone who acknowledges themselves as Russian, and the Holy Russian Empire ''will'' collapse when Taboritsky dies, the Russian National State will probably remain a stable entity after Rodzaevsky dies and have relatively restrained goals regarding the reclamation of land from Germany, giving it a longer life expectancy than all four of these regimes.

* Crossed with being a {{TearJerker}}, but there's a grim sense of finality should the Poles, whether in Poland itself or Nowa Polska, fail in their struggle for independence. As a loss would almost certainly mean the destruction of the entire ''idea'' of a Polish nation, and perhaps the end of the Polish people; horrifying considering how Polish nationalism is ''literally intertwined'' with the Polish identity.

%%* Some of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXS5n1WV0xA reworked British Reunification superevents]] have horrifying implications: [[DirtyCommies Reg Birch's]] reunification has [[CrushingThePopulace full-on machinegunning of screaming crowds]] to the [[SoundtrackDissonance upbeat]] "The Red Flag"[[note]]Which shares its melody with the (German) Christmas carol “''O Tannenbaum’’” (“Oh Christmas Tree”)[[/note]]. Meanwhile, [[IronLady Margaret Thatcher]] reunifying England is marked by the authorities breaking down the door of a house and shooting its occupant while “Rule Britannia” plays on a piano in the background, and [[BlackShirt Arthur Kenneth Chesteron's]] is scored with the downbeat [[SimpleScoreOfSadness "The Wand of Youth Suite No. 1, Op. 1a: VI. Slumber Scene"]], which halts on two gunshots and ChirpingCrickets, ending with a woman's sobs to ram home [[DayOfTheJackboot Britain's fall to fascism]].

* The upcoming update 'The Ruin' features the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/14to2v3/another_tno_lir_britain_leak/ Operation Sealion II superevent]], which occurs if Germany invades Britain following a HMMLR victory and if the U.S Navy retreats from the English Channel as a result of the Channel Crisis, is absolutely horrifying, with the sound of gunfire and overhead aircraft alongside depressing music in the background as Britain falls under an openly Nazi government even more totalitarian than the collaborationist government that the resistance had defeated. Doubles as a {{Tearjerker}} as well since it means the resistance's efforts, alongside all the bloodshed and destruction that occurred during the British Civil War, were all for nothing.

** Even worse if Wallace is succeeded as president by Yockey. Already, thanks to Wallace's policies, Fascist vigilantes connected to the NPP's National Vanguardist wing are launching a wave of racial violence just to prevent black children from going to school and are making themselves known throughout the nation. Now, with Yockey to suceed Wallace, the chickens unleashed by Wallace's attempts to enact universal segregation have come home to roost and all Wallace could do, as evident in his presidential transition letter to Yockey, is [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone break down in horror and regret]] at the monster that he has unleashed on the American people, wishing that he had died in the Second World War instead of live long enough to bring America to ruin.
** Universal segregation being followed by a Phyllis Schlafly presidency over either more saner candidates or Gus Hall may prove to be even more unsettling than if Wallace is succeeded by an out and out Nazi. While a saner candidate could work to reverse the damage that Wallace has done, universal segregation might make Gus Hall's radical reforms preferable to what came before, and Yockey's naked attempts to implement totalitarian Fascism will provoke a backlash from all across American society and among the CIA, the FBI, and the military that could facilitate his downfall, Schlafly both likely maintains the fascade of American democracy under a segregationist regime while putting her own extremely reactionary policies on top of it. Despite being a nominal democracy, reactionary, racist and outright Fascist ideas are normalized in the United States. Even worse is the possibility of Schafly's alleged real-world ties to the John Birch Society potentially playing a role in [=TNO2=] assuming said organization exists in the TNO universe, as it could potentially give avenues for the NPP-ANV, already empowered by universal segregation, to influence Schlafly to adapt even more of their insane ideas given the fact that some of their own members were radical John Birchers themselves.

** Even worse if Wallace is succeeded by Yockey. Already, thanks to his policies, Fascist gangs connected to the NPP's Sovereigntist wing are launching a wave of racial violence just to prevent black children from going to school and are making themselves known throughout the nation. Now, with Yockey to suceed Wallace, the chickens unleashed by Wallace's attempts to enact universal segregation have come home to roost and all Wallace could do, as evident in his presidential transition letter to Yockey, is break down in horror and regret at the monsters that he has unleashed on the American people.

[[caption-width-right:728:[[TheCaligula God save Russia, for no one else can]]]]

[[caption-width-right:728:[[TheCaligula ALEXEI LIVES]]]]

[[caption-width-right:728:[[TheCaligula ALEXEI LIVE]]]]

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* The image for Yagoda uniting the Russian Far East shows [[ThePoliticalOfficer an NKVD executioner]] [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou pointing a gun at the screen]]. Even if Yagoda is [[ALighterShadeOfBlack not the worst communist warlord in Russia (let alone the worst warlord in Russia)]], the image is still somewhat terrifying, especially considering the executions of Sablin, Mikhail, Rodzaevsky, and Matkovsky which occur after Yagoda defeats them. Not helped by the reaction text:

* The upcoming 'Chimes of Midnight' update features the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/14to2v3/another_tno_lir_britain_leak/ Operation Sealion II superevent]], which occurs if Germany invades Britain following a HMMLR victory and if the U.S Navy retreats from the English Channel as a result of the Channel Crisis, is absolutely horrifying, with the sound of gunfire and overhead aircraft alongside depressing music in the background as Britain falls under an openly Nazi government even more totalitarian than the collaborationist government that the resistance had defeated. Doubles as a {{Tearjerker}} as well since it means the resistance's efforts, alongside all the bloodshed and destruction that occurred during the British Civil War, were all for nothing.

--> God Save England.

* Should the Resistance win the English Civil War, the ensuing Oxford Trials have the potential to devolve into a KangarooCourt should the victors give in to their thirst for revenge. Just about ''all'' of the captured collaborators, with the exception of [[BeneathNotice Margaret Thatcher]] and [[TokenGoodTeammate Reginald Maudling]], can wind up facing summary execution regardless of what they did. Instead of justice, what ensues is a showcase of man's inhumanity to man, especially as the victims of the Oxford Trials, with the exception of [[TokenEvilTeammate A. K.]] [[AssholeVictim Chesterton]], were not ideological collaborators with the Nazis.

* Some of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXS5n1WV0xA reworked British Reunification superevents]] have horrifying implications: [[DirtyCommies Reg Birch's]] reunification has [[CrushingThePopulace full-on machinegunning of screaming crowds]] to the [[SoundtrackDissonance upbeat]] "The Red Flag"[[note]]Which shares its melody with the (German) Christmas carol “''O Tannenbaum’’” (“Oh Christmas Tree”)[[/note]], and the rabidly anti-German [[GeneralRipper David Stirling]] does the same with “Soldiers of the Queen”. Meanwhile, [[IronLady Margaret Thatcher]] reunifying England is marked by the authorities breaking down the door of a house and shooting its occupant while “Rule Britannia” plays on a piano in the background, and [[BlackShirt Arthur Kenneth Chesteron's]] is scored with the downbeat [[SimpleScoreOfSadness "The Wand of Youth Suite No. 1, Op. 1a: VI. Slumber Scene"]], which halts on two gunshots and ChirpingCrickets, ending with a woman's sobs to ram home [[DayOfTheJackboot Britain's fall to fascism]].

* The upcoming 'Chimes of Midnight' update features the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/14to2v3/another_tno_lir_britain_leak/ Operation Sealion II superevent]], which occurs if Germany invades Britain following a HMMLR victory and if the U.S Navy retreats from the English Channel as a result of the Channel Crisis, is absolutely horrifying, with the sound of gunfire and overhead aircraft alongside depressing music in the background as Britain falls under a openly Nazi government even more totalitarian than the collaborationist government that the resistance had defeated. Doubles as a {{Tearjerker}} as well since it means the resistance's efforts, alongside all the bloodshed and destruction that occurred during the British Civil War, were all for nothing.

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%%* Should the Resistance win the English Civil War, the ensuing Oxford Trials have the potential to devolve into a KangarooCourt should the victors give in to their thirst for revenge. Just about ''all'' of the captured collaborators, with the exception of [[BeneathNotice Margaret Thatcher]] and [[TokenGoodTeammate Reginald Maudling]], can wind up facing summary execution regardless of what they did. Instead of justice, what ensues is a showcase of man's inhumanity to man, especially as the victims of the Oxford Trials, with the exception of [[TokenEvilTeammate A. K.]] [[AssholeVictim Chesterton]], were not ideological collaborators with the Nazis.
%%--> God Save England.
%%* Some of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXS5n1WV0xA reworked British Reunification superevents]] have horrifying implications: [[DirtyCommies Reg Birch's]] reunification has [[CrushingThePopulace full-on machinegunning of screaming crowds]] to the [[SoundtrackDissonance upbeat]] "The Red Flag"[[note]]Which shares its melody with the (German) Christmas carol “''O Tannenbaum’’” (“Oh Christmas Tree”)[[/note]], and the rabidly anti-German [[GeneralRipper David Stirling]] does the same with “Soldiers of the Queen”. Meanwhile, [[IronLady Margaret Thatcher]] reunifying England is marked by the authorities breaking down the door of a house and shooting its occupant while “Rule Britannia” plays on a piano in the background, and [[BlackShirt Arthur Kenneth Chesteron's]] is scored with the downbeat [[SimpleScoreOfSadness "The Wand of Youth Suite No. 1, Op. 1a: VI. Slumber Scene"]], which halts on two gunshots and ChirpingCrickets, ending with a woman's sobs to ram home [[DayOfTheJackboot Britain's fall to fascism]].
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