History TearJerker / AmnesiaAMachineForPigs

--->[[spoiler: "[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI I have stood knee deep in mud and bone, and filled my lungs with mustard gas.]] [[AMillionIsAStatistic I have seen two brothers fall.]] [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict I have lain with holy wars]] and [[AtomicHate copulated with the autumnal fallout]]. [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII I have dug trenches for the refugees]], [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheUSSR I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws, and starved the masses into faith.]] [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork.]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields A house of skulls in the jungle.]] The innocent, ''the innocent'', Mandus, ''[[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved!]]'' [[HumansAreBastards This is your coming century!]] They will eat them Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will '''eat. Your. Hearts!'''"]]

--->[[spoiler: "[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI I have stood knee deep in mud and bone, and filled my lungs with mustard gas.]] [[AMillionIsAStatistic I have seen two brothers fall.]] [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict I have lain with holy wars]] and [[AtomicHate copulated with the autumnal fallout]]. [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII I have dug trenches for the refugees]], [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheUSSR I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws, and starved the masses into faith.]] [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork.]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields A house of skulls in the jungle.]] The innocent, ''the innocent'', Mandus, ''[[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved!]]'' [[HumansAreBastards This is your coming century!]] They will eat them Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will '''eat. Your. Hearts!'''"]]

--->[[spoiler: "[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI I have stood knee deep in mud and bone, and filled my lungs with mustard gas.]] [[AMillionIsAStatistic I have seen two brothers fall.]] [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict I have lain with holy wars]] and [[AtomicHate copulated with the autumnal fallout]]. [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII I have dug trenches for the refugees]], [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheUSSR I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws, and starved the masses into faith.]] [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork.]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields A house of skulls in the jungle.]] The innocent, the innocent, Mandus, [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved.]] [[HumansAreBastards This is your coming century!]] They will eat them Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will '''eat. Your. Hearts!'''"]]

** Just ''think'' about what he had seen, [[spoiler:and this is someone the mindset of a ''child'']]. This [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone was]] our [[TheTwentiethCentury coming century]].

--->[[spoiler: "[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI I have stood knee deep in mud and bone, and filled my lungs with mustard gas.]] [[AMillionIsAStatistic I have seen two brothers fall.]] [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict I have lain with holy wars]] and [[AtomicHate copulated with the autumnal fallout]]. [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII I have dug trenches for the refugees]], [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheUSSR I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws, and starved the masses into faith.]] [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork.]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields A house of skulls in the jungle.]] The innocent, the innocent, Mandus, [[TheHolocaust trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved.]] [[HumansAreBastards This is your coming century!]] They will eat them Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will '''eat. Your. Hearts!'''"]]

--->[[spoiler: "[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI I have stood knee deep in mud and bone, and filled my lungs with mustard gas.]] [[AMillionIsAStatistic I have seen two brothers fall.]] [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict I have lain with holy wars]] and [[AtomicHate copulated with the autumnal fallout]]. [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII I have dug trenches for the refugees]], [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheUSSR I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws, and starved the masses into faith.]] [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork.]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields A house of skulls in the jungle.]] The innocent, the innocent, Mandus, [[TheHolocaust trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved.]] This is your coming century! They will eat them Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will '''eat. Your. Hearts!'''"]]

--->[[spoiler: "[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI I have stood knee deep in mud and bone, and filled my lungs with mustard gas.]] [[AMillionIsAStatistic I have seen two brothers fall.]] [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict I have lain with holy wars]] and [[AtomicHate copulated with the autumnal fallout]]. [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII I have dug trenches for the refugees]], [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheUSSR I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws, and starved the masses into faith.]] [[AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork.]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields A house of skulls in the jungle.]] The innocent, the innocent, Mandus, [[TheHolocaust trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved.]] This is your coming century! They will eat them Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will '''eat. Your. Hearts!'''"]]

-->[[spoiler: "[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI I have stood knee deep in mud and bone, and filled my lungs with mustard gas.]] [[AMillionIsAStatistic I have seen two brothers fall.]] [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict I have lain with holy wars]] and [[AtomicHate copulated with the autumnal fallout]]. [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII I have dug trenches for the refugees]], [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheUSSR I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws, and starved the masses into faith.]] [[AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork.]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields A house of skulls in the jungle.]] The innocent, the innocent, Mandus, [[TheHolocaust trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved.]] This is your coming century! They will eat them Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will '''eat. Your. Hearts!'''"]]

-->[[spoiler: "[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI I have stood knee deep in mud and bone, and filled my lungs with mustard gas.]] [[AMillionIsAStatistic I have seen two brothers fall.]] [[TheWarOnTerror I have lain with holy wars and copulated with the autumnal fallout]]. [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII I have dug trenches for the refugees]], [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheUSSR I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws, and starved the masses into faith.]] [[AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork.]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields A house of skulls in the jungle.]] The innocent, the innocent, Mandus, [[TheHolocaust trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved.]] This is your coming century! They will eat them Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will '''eat. Your. Hearts!'''"]]

-->[[spoiler: "[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI I have stood knee deep in mud and bone, and filled my lungs with mustard gas.]] [[AMillionIsAStatistic I have seen two brothers fall.]] [[TheWarOnTerror I have lain with holy wars and copulated with the autumnal fallout]]. [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII I have dug trenches for the refugees]], [[HistoryOfTheUSSR I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws, and starved the masses into faith.]] [[AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork.]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields A house of skulls in the jungle.]] The innocent, the innocent, Mandus, [[TheHolocaust trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved.]] This is your coming century! They will eat them Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will '''eat. Your. Hearts!'''"]]

** Even this last factor is impossibly made even more tragic when you find out the main reason he did this. [[spoiler: He saw their horrifying deaths in the Battle of the Somme in UsefulNotes/WW1 and was desperate to spare them this agony... so he decided to kill them himself.]] It is rare to see the concept of PapaWolf be so horrifyingly and tragically deconstructed.

** Just ''think'' about what he had seen[[spoiler: , and this is someone the mindset of a ''child'']]. This [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone was]] our [[TheTwentiethCentury coming century]].

-->[[spoiler: "[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI I have stood knee deep in mud and bone, and filled my lungs with mustard gas.]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks I have seen two brothers fall.]] [[TheWarOnTerror I have lain with holy wars and copulated with the autumnal fallout]]. [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII I have dug trenches for the refugees]], [[HistoryOfTheUSSR I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws, and starved the masses into faith.]] [[AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork.]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields A house of skulls in the jungle.]] The innocent, the innocent, Mandus, [[TheHolocaust trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved.]] This is your coming century! They will eat them Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will '''eat. Your. Hearts!'''"]]

-->[[spoiler: "[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI I have stood knee deep in mud and bone, and filled my lungs with mustard gas.]] I have seen two brothers fall. [[TheWarOnTerror I have lain with holy wars]] and copulated with the autumnal fallout. [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII I have dug trenches for the refugees]], [[HistoryOfTheUSSR I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws, and starved the masses into faith.]] [[AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork.]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields A house of skulls in the jungle.]] The innocent, the innocent, Mandus, [[TheHolocaust trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved.]] This is your coming century! They will eat them Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will '''eat. Your. Hearts!'''"]]

** It's also revealed that Mandus has a bit of a love-hate relationship with his sons, since [[spoiler: he promised his late wife that he would take care of them - but it's ''because'' of them that [[DeathByChildbirth he's a widower to begin with]]]].

-->[[spoiler: "[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI I have stood knee deep in mud and bone, and filled my lungs with mustard gas.]] I have seen two brothers fall. [[TheWarOnTerror I have lain with holy wars]] and copulated with the autumnal fallout. [[WorldWarTwo I have dug trenches for the refugees]], [[HistoryOfTheUSSR I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws, and starved the masses into faith.]] [[AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork.]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields A house of skulls in the jungle.]] The innocent, the innocent, Mandus, [[TheHolocaust trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved.]] This is your coming century! They will eat them Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will '''eat. Your. Hearts!'''"]]

-->[[spoiler: "[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI I have stood knee deep in mud and bone, and filled my lungs with mustard gas.]] I have seen two brothers fall. [[TheWarOnTerror I have lain with holy wars]] and copulated with the autumnal fallout. [[WorldWarTwo I have dug trenches for the refugees]], [[HistoryOfTheUSSR I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws, and starved the masses into faith.]] [[AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork.]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields A house of skulls in the jungle.]] The innocent, the innocent, Mandus, [[TheHolocaust trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved.]] This is your coming century! They will eat them Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will '''eat. Your. Hearts!'''"]]

-->[[spoiler: "[[WorldWarOne I have stood knee deep in mud and bone, and filled my lungs with mustard gas.]] I have seen two brothers fall. [[TheWarOnTerror I have lain with holy wars]] and copulated with the autumnal fallout. [[WorldWarTwo I have dug trenches for the refugees]], [[HistoryOfTheUSSR I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws, and starved the masses into faith.]] [[AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork.]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields A house of skulls in the jungle.]] The innocent, the innocent, Mandus, [[TheHolocaust trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved.]] This is your coming century! They will eat them Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will '''eat. Your. Hearts!'''"]]

*** Just ''think'' about what it had seen. It spoke in lengths about it:
->[[spoiler: "[[WorldWarOne I have stood knee deep in mud and bone, and filled my lungs with mustard gas.]] I have seen two brothers fall. [[TheWarOnTerror I have lain with holy wars]] and copulated with the autumnal fallout. [[WorldWarTwo I have dug trenches for the refugees]]; [[HistoryOfTheSovietUnion I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws, and starved the masses into faith.]] [[AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork.]] [[Cambodia A house of skulls in the jungle.]]
The innocent, the innocent, Mandus, trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved. This is your coming century! They will eat them Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will '''eat. Your. Hearts!'''"]]

** Similarly, [[spoiler: the first lines of the game are him saying "Daddy, please dont kill me!" as Mandus attempts to shut down the machine which indicate it is still just a child at heart.]]

** Even this last factor is impossibly made even more tragic when you find out the main reason he did this. [[spoiler: He saw their horrifying deaths in the Battle of the Somme in WW1 and was desperate to spare them this agony... so he decided to kill them himself.]] It is rare to see the concept of PapaWolf be so horrifyingly and tragically deconstructed.

* The Engineer's MotiveRant seen in the Quotes Section. While an utterly despicable entity who has committed disgusting crimes against both man and nature and plans to turn the whole world into a stinking charnel house, his final VillainousBreakdown reveals how utterly broken he was by seeing [[spoiler: the unspeakably bloody and nightmarish wars and genocides that the 20th century would bring and the countless innocents who will suffer and die because of this]] and how utterly desperate he is to [[StartXToStopX "save" humanity from this fate]].

** Similarly, [[spoiler: the first lines of the game are him saying "Daddy, please dont kill me!" as Mandus attempts to shut down the machine which indicate it is still just a child at heart.]]

** And take a closer look at the Mexican-styled pig mask that serves as the cover. While it's lying in a puddle of water, the only sight of such on the mask itself is at the corner of the eye, making it look as though the mask ''itself'' is weeping.

* The Engineer's MotiveRant seen in the Quotes Section. While an utterly despicable entity who has committed disgusting crimes against both man and nature and plans to turn the whole world into a stinking charnel house, his final VillainousBreakdown reveals how utterly broken he was by seeing [[spoiler: the unspeakably bloody and nightmarish wars and genocides that the 20th century would bring and the countless innocents who will suffer and die because of this]] and how utterly desperate he is to "save" humanity from this fate.