History NightmareFuel / WeHappyFew

** One sidequest is about a woman convulsing in the street from a Joy overdose, with the crowd having no idea what to do. If you inject her with Crash, she'll recover instantly, but people will insist that she takes her Joy right away. She refuses, knowing that taking more Joy would just trigger another seizure, so the crowd all pulls out weapons and starts to ''chase her down and beat her''.

* The [[NoodleIncident Very Bad Thing]], which even before the truth is revealed, is shown to be so horrible to the people of Wellington Wells that merely ''knowing about it'' causes severe depression from the sheer guilt. The mere ''mention'' of Germany and its people, and the war briefly causes [[BigBrotherIsWatching Uncle Jack's]] happy façade to slip. And then it's revealed just what the Very Bad Thing was: during the war, with German's armed forces invading Britain, the people of Wellington Wells were forced to ''give up'' their children to the enemy, not resisting their demands at all. They learned right after that the "army" sent to invade them was a complete fakeout, meant to trick Britanians that the enemy was bigger than it really was. Things went from horrible to Very Bad when the Wellies tried to get their children back, only to discover that the train carrying them had been ''destroyed in a bombing'', killing them all and rendering the town's surrender AllForNothing. Upon learning the truth, people understandably went mad trying to forget it, up to regularly drugging themselves to dull those memories. Losing your children to war is one thing, but unwittingly losing them to your own foolishness is another.

* The [[NoodleIncident Very Bad Thing]], which even before the truth is revealed is shown to be so horrible to the people of Wellington Wells that merely ''knowing about it'' causes severe depression from sheer guilt. The mere ''mention'' of Germans and the war briefly causes [[BigBrotherIsWatching Uncle Jack's]] happy façade to slip. It's eventually revealed just what it is: Wellington Wells ''gave up'' their children to the Germans, not resisting their demands at all. They learn right after that Britain was tricked by the Germans into sending their children to the deadliest battlefield known to men for ''nothing''. The country was fully capable of resisting the demand as the occupying force was a complete sham. Upon learning the truth, people understandably went mad trying to forget it. Losing your children to war is one thing, but unwittingly losing them to your own foolishness is another.

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* In general, her story is pure AdultFear. Fear of losing a child is bad enough, but Sally's surrounded by metaphorical wolves on all sides. The beginning of her story has a violent Wellie addicted to blackberry Joy ransacking her house and discovering the baby before Sally manages to knock him out, and General Byng is clearly trying to swindle Sally out of her child.

** One Bobby points out Downers who stopped taking Joy usually don't want to take Joy again because they start seeing eyes everywhere. On the bridge to Maidenholm, Arthur encounters a Downer who tries to rehabilitate himself. He's at his ''sixth'' try and all his answers to the quiz are about eyes.

** When you sabotage the last machine and run off while Mr. Cutty checks on it, he screams that [[Film/PlanetOfTheApes you've blown it all to hell]] and that people are gonna starve.

* Ollie's situation in general. He's been living in the wild by himself fending off wastrels just to survive for ''decades'' and has developed diabetes in a harsh and dangerous environment that has little to no medications to help control his blood levels. Not to mention, this, along with his experience with the German invasion, has taken a serious toll on his mind; he has serious memory problems, is implied to have PTSD, and [[spoiler: has been hallucinating his daughter Margaret, who was in fact the daughter of Uncle Jack that Ollie turned in to the Germans - something that left him with tremendous guilt and likely what caused to mentally deteriorate in the first place.]]

* Nick’s initial situation has high shades of this. He wakes up in his hotel room covered in blood with no memory from the night before. The story is centered around him trying to find out what he did but as the story goes on he gets more and more worried that he did something he doesn’t want to remember! It gets worse when he finds Virgil’s corpse and starts to remember. By the end of the game Nick is almost fully convinced that he is the serial killer Foggy Jack! [[spoiler:thankfully averted at the end when revealed Nick wasn’t the murderer but a witness. But Nick still has to deal with the real Foggy Jack who killed his fans, bystanders, and Virgil for the notoriety.]]

* [[spoiler:[[ApocalypseHow The Fall of Wellington Wells itself]], at the end of the DLC: after Victoria destroys Haworth Labs to stop Joy production once and for all, coincided with Uncle Jack's final broadcast being played, ''all hell breaks loose''. As predicted, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation many Wellies went mad from their bad memories returning]] and either [[DrivenToSuicide killed themselves]] or [[InsaneEqualsViolent slaughtered each other]] [[AxCrazy on the streets]], with any authorities trying to stop them being overwhelmed and killed off for their trouble, and [[AnarchyIsChaos the entire city went up in flames and anarchy]]. By the time Victoria returned to consciousness, the city is [[AfterTheEnd more or less destroyed]], and she wandered through the empty ruins to find burning buildings, piles of rubble and stacks of abandoned masks - And corpses. Corpses ''[[CorpseLand EVERYWHERE]]'', lying where the they were killed, including a wonderful sight of a dead Bobby ''hanging from a lamppost'' where he was lynched. When Victoria is confronted by those who remained at the end of the DLC, it's implied that [[EverybodysDeadDave VERY few people survived]] [[InferredHolocaust their withdrawal and the subsequent carnage]], [[WhatTheHellHero and even fewer of them]] [[UngratefulBastard are happy about it]].]]
** [[spoiler:And if Arthur chooses to return to Wellington Wells as a proper Wellie, [[YouBastard he may be caught up in the rabble as well]].]]

--> [[spoiler:And if Arthur chooses to return to Wellington Wells as a proper Wellie, [[YouBastard he may be caught up in the rabble as well]].]]

* [[spoiler:[[ApocalypseHow The Fall of Wellington Well itself]], at the end of the DLC: after Victoria destroys Haworth Labs to stop Joy production once and for all, coincided with Uncle Jack's final broadcast being played, ''all hell breaks loose''. As predicted, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation many Wellies went mad from their bad memories returning]] and either [[DrivenToSuicide killed themselves]] or [[InsaneEqualsViolent slaughtered each other]] [[AxCrazy on the streets]], with any authorities trying to stop them being overwhelmed and killed off for their trouble, and [[AnarchyIsChaos the entire city went up in flames and anarchy]]. By the time Victoria returned to consciousness, the city is [[AfterTheEnd more or less destroyed]], and she wandered through the empty ruins to find burning buildings, piles of rubble and stacks of abandoned masks - And corpses. Corpses ''[[CorpseLand EVERYWHERE]]'', lying where the they were killed, including a wonderful sight of a dead Bobby ''hanging from a lamppost'' where he was lynched. When Victoria is confronted by those who remained at the end of the DLC, it's implied that [[EverybodysDeadDave VERY few people survived]] [[InferredHolocaust their withdrawal and the subsequent carnage]], [[WhatTheHellHero and even fewer of them]] [[UngratefulBastard are happy about it]].]]
** Worse, if you decide to have Arthur take his Joy instead of leaving to find Percy, ''he'' will most likely be caught up in the rabble too.