The Number Nine issues some Laser-Guided Karma.
- The concept of being "sprouted", which involves shooting a dead soul with a special bullet that causes flowers to bloom out of their bones and consume them. The event itself is disturbing enough, with the victim usually writhing in pain and terror until weakening and falling silent, but the ambiguity of it is far, far worse. Death within death guarantees pretty much no chance of ever being allowed to move on to the Ninth Underworld (unless said deathception just brings you to another level of the Afterlife), implied to be stuck forever with no mouth with which to scream...
- According to some commentaries in the remastered edition, a definitive answer on what happens to victims of sprouting was never thought of, but Tim Schafer says it may result in reincarnation. While not as horrible as a Cessation of Existence, it's still a punishment because, instead of being able to move on, you are pulled back and forced to live another existence.
- At the start of Year 2, Manny fancies he sees Meche standing on the terrace of the casino, facing away from him, accusing him of abandoning her. Then she turns around, delivering a Jump Scare as she turns out to be a skull-headed raven sitting on the telescope.
- Right at the beginning of Year 3, you receive an emergency message warning you that assassins have just boarded your ship. Immediately after this, you travel downstairs, only to find the hallways littered with piles of flowers. What's worse is that you actually spoke to one of your crew members only a matter of seconds beforehand, who couldn't have been more than fifteen.
- How Chepito met his end: stranded at sea due to faulty equipment, without food, water or shelter from the sun, being one of the last two survivors. Don’t worry though, he doesn’t suffer for long; He was then killed in his sleep by a fellow sailor.
- Granted he really deserved it, and it was very quick and brief, but Domino's "death" is still pretty unpleasant to witness, during their fight, Domino berates Manny for stabbing his squid in the eye and demanding why he won’t listen to him and why he can’t just act like him, completely unbeknownst to the SS Lamacha drifting behind him, leading him to be dragged into its coral crushers, immediately being crushed to death along with his scythe, all the while screaming in sheer agony.
- In Year 4, a Number Nine train carrying passengers who illegally bought (fake) tickets instead of earning them turns into a demon and dives off the tracks into Hell.Manny: What happened to that train?!The Gate Keeper: Your destiny... cannot be purchased.
- "What you haven't seen... you haven't seen the Meadow." With the implications of the above examples in mind, just imagine how many bodies it must have taken to fill that entire field...
- Near the end of the game, Manny is shot by Hector. It's unnerving enough watching the normally suave and collected Manny stagger about in agony until he collapses on a hillside, but the casual way Hector informs him that he's out of fast-acting bullets because Bowlsley ran off with them, so his misery will last at least an hour, and then walks away chuckling is just downright chilling. Then you get to watch Manny writhing on the ground while you search his inventory to find something you can use to help him. The pained groans that punctuate his usual dialogue are just the icing on the cake.
- Granted, he really deserved it, but Hector's death is pretty gruesome. You can try to shoot him through the greenhouse's glass window, but he's too quick. So you simply use the sprouting gun to shoot the tank that provides his greenhouse with water, while he's in said greenhouse... in other words, in a sense, you basically boil him in gaseous acid. And what little we see of his remains isn't pretty.
- The monsters under the sea are terrifying, and the giant octopus Domino uses to gather lost souls to work in the coral mines isn't much better.
- The Land of the Living. Everything appears to have been made from magazine cutouts, the people all have eerily disproportioned bodies and faces, and the music is nothing but a sad, muffled piano tune that lasts ten seconds before switching to endless record player silence. Fortunately, you only have to see it once, and you don't have to spend much time there.
