History NightmareFuel / ResidentEvil2

** And the worst thing? Brian Irons isn't even a bio-organic threat. He's not a zombie, he's not a BOW, he's not a Tyrant. He's literally just a '''fuck-off cop with no superpowers whatsoever''', which makes him even more chilling in a setting where every other villain is a diabolical mastermind or a serial killer.

** Here's the thing: The G-Virus doesn't create zombies - it creates the unholy spawn of [[http://projectumbrella.net/files/imagecache/preview/1677019.jpg Satan]] [[http://projectumbrella.net/files/imagecache/preview/images/Birkin_form_2.jpg and some]] [[http://projectumbrella.net/files/imagecache/preview/images/Birkin_form_3.jpg kind of]] [[http://projectumbrella.net/files/imagecache/preview/images/Birkin_form_4.jpg devastating]] [[http://projectumbrella.net/files/imagecache/preview/images/Birkin_form_5.jpg cancer]] - trying to kill the damn thing is preposterously risky, as the G-Virus was meant to have regenerative properties and every one of those is a different mutation of the same creature brought on by fighting it without eliminating it. Oh, and in the second image? His ''head has started deteriorating and being replaced with a new one'' - that's his ''face'' you'll notice on the left side of his chest if you look close enough. That new head, as seen in the third stage, looks like a freaking ''devilish skull'', and starting there, it starts developing multiple limbs, all tipped with foot-long sickle claws, and MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily until it finally morphs into its last form, a shapeless toothy blob of flesh with corpselike arms sticking out all over it. It also creates embryos that are launched into people's mouths once it gets an opening, which then develop inside said people until they reach maturity and burst out of their host's chest, subsequently growing rapidly into something like [[http://residentevil.wikia.com/wiki/File:G-adult.png this]] (or, more famously, [[http://projectumbrella.net/files/imagecache/preview/images/babyG_0.jpg this]]). It just gets worse and worse when you hear [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwnqmjLuabs&feature=related its theme music]]. Or, for that matter, if you remember that, like most of the main boss monsters, it WasOnceAMan (albeit a truly vile man), an Umbrella scientist with a fellow MadScientist for a wife and a DelicateAndSickly kid, both met through the game in which it appears, who injected it into himself both in an attempt to save himself (again, its regenerative properties) after surviving a machine gun spray and to keep Umbrella getting ahold of this thought-to-be masterpiece of his (it in itself was obviously not as planned).

-->"If you're stranded in the desert with this song on your iPod, you'd most likely survive the heatstroke. It's just that [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] cold."

* Dear lord, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgzKbctSuIg music]] that plays in the police station basement is so chilling. You go down the stairs and the music comes on. Scary enough, but then you hear a [[HellIsThatNoise "tap... tap... tap"]] noise. You are now frozen in fear at this point and know that zombie dogs await you. The combination of the dogs and the music is enough to drive a player to complete their tasks and move on from the basement as quickly as possible. A Website/YouTube comment explains it best:
-->"If you're stranded in the desert with this song on your iPod, you'd most likely survive the heatstroke. It's just that fucking cold."

* Experiment room, anyone? It doesn't help that it's filled with three Lickers, gruesome failed experiments, dead Umbrella soldiers that look like [=HUNK=], and one lone, empty capsule that's been broken open... from the inside. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szQkCtHze8c incredibly unsettling music]] does not help.

* When you step back outside to progress across the police station to hear the howls and moans of the undead, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtGPlxe6XW0 the haunting ambience of what was once Raccoon City]]. It hammers home the fact the first game was for all its horrors a ClosedCircle, an isolated incident no one else in this U.S state would ever know of, let alone suffer. But the second Resident Evil, the whole city and its inhabitants [[AfterTheEnd are already doomed before you arrived]].

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[[caption-width-right:349: Sherry? Sweetie? Your daddy's here...]]

Just as the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 original game]] managed to terrify people, this game continues this trend, but ups the scare factor ''significantly''. And the remake is ''even worse''...

* ''NightmareFuel/ResidentEvil2Remake''
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** More about Annette. While her sending Sherry to the precinct was fairly reasonable an assumption, the novelization expands her mindset on this by explaining that while she thought Irons a moron, he at least was semi-competent and even if he couldn't be trusted, the men and women under him WERE capable. Oh you poor misinformed child...too bad the zombies and monsters easily overwhelmed the police, and not only was Irons so batshit insane and [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]], but he both began slowly seeing to his officers' demise by spreading out the supplies to out of the way locations, hiding crucial resources behind ridiculous puzzles, and ''actively hunting some of his men down like he's on a psychotic safari'', and you just sent your daughter into that mess. {{Adult Fear}}, thy name is ''Resident Evil 2''...

--> ''(loud, inhuman roar suddenly cuts through the air)''
** Arguably, it's actually not all that inhuman. It just sounds like a person making a "RAAAR!" sound. Which makes it [[UncannyValley so much worse]], rather than the {{Narm}} you might think it would be.

** Here's the thing: The G-Virus doesn't create zombies - it creates the unholy spawn of [[http://projectumbrella.net/files/imagecache/preview/1677019.jpg Satan]] [[http://projectumbrella.net/files/imagecache/preview/images/Birkin_form_2.jpg and some]] [[http://projectumbrella.net/files/imagecache/preview/images/Birkin_form_3.jpg kind of]] [[http://projectumbrella.net/files/imagecache/preview/images/Birkin_form_4.jpg devastating]] [[http://projectumbrella.net/files/imagecache/preview/images/Birkin_form_5.jpg cancer]] - trying to kill the damn thing is preposterously risky, as the G-Virus was meant to have regenerative properties and every one of those is a different mutation of the same creature brought on by fighting it without eliminating it. Oh, and in the second image? His ''head has started deteriorating and being replaced with a new one'' - that's his ''face'' you'll notice on the left side of his chest if you look close enough. That new head, as seen in the third stage, looks like a freaking ''devilish skull'', and starting there, it starts developing multiple limbs, all tipped with foot-long sickle claws, and MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily until it finally morphs into its last form, a shapeless toothy blob of flesh with corpselike arms sticking out all over it. It also creates embryos that are launched into people's mouths once it gets an opening, which then develop inside said people until they reach maturity and burst out of their host's chest, subsequently growing rapidly into something like [[http://residentevil.wikia.com/wiki/File:G-adult.png this]] (or, more famously, [[http://projectumbrella.net/files/imagecache/preview/images/babyG_0.jpg this]]). It just gets worse and worse when you hear [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwnqmjLuabs&feature=related its theme music]]. Or, for that matter, if you remember that, like most of the main boss monsters, it WasOnceAMan (albeit a truly vile man), an Umbrella scientist with a fellow MadScientist for a wife and an IllGirl kid, both met through the game in which it appears, who injected it into himself both in an attempt to save himself (again, its regenerative properties) after surviving a machine gun spray and to keep Umbrella getting ahold of this thought-to-be masterpiece of his (it in itself was obviously not as planned).

*** The novelization is INFINITELY worse, as Irons is so completely batshit NUTS that he thinks everything to be an Umbrella plot [[ItsAllAboutMe to elaborately destroy him and everything he loves]]. As a result, he believes Claire to be an Umbrella spy and when holding her at gunpoint, immediately believes the STARS were all spies as well, with Chris being the ringleader since they all left before the outbreak. In his madness, he basically intends to ''rape and skin Claire alive and basically take excruciating joy in listening to her screaming throughout it'' before he's killed by Birkin, saving Claire. However, it takes her a few moments to recover, and NOBODY can blame her...

* When you step back outside to progress across the police station to hear the howls and moans of the undead, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtGPlxe6XW0 the haunting ambience of what was once Raccoon City]]. It hammers home the first game was for all its horrors a ClosedCircle, an isolated incident no one else in state would ever know of. But the second Resident Evil, the whole city and its inhabitants [[AfterTheEnd are already doomed]].

* Fan-made iterations of the unfinished ''Resident Evil 1.5'' show that the basement area was originally two levels, with the cellblock being on B2 and filled with zombies that would reach out through the bars to grab at your character with disturbingly long arms. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vmRHsDuwkA&t=24m10s The main corridor on B1]], meanwhile, was going to be nowhere ''near'' as well-lit compared to the already eerie basement corridor in the final release, with only a few very dim fluorescents sparsely illuminating the sickly bluish-green walls, as zombies quietly hide in waiting in the darkened areas. Adding to that, the fact that the rest of the police station looked so much more like a real office building in this version (as opposed to its more gothic look of the final game) adds a level of mundanity to the surroundings that sharpens the horrific effect and quietly reinforces just ''how'' badly the situation has deteriorated in Raccoon City.

* Fan-made iterations of the unfinished ''Resident Evil 1.5'' show that the basement area was originally two levels, with the cellblock being on B2 and filled with zombies that would reach out through the bars to grab at your character with disturbingly long arms. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vmRHsDuwkA&t=24m10s The main corridor on B1]], meanwhile, was going to be nowhere ''near'' as well-lit compared to the already eerie basement corridor in the final release, with only a few very dim fluorescents sparsely illuminating the sickly bluish-green walls, as zombies quietly hide in waiting in the darkened areas. Adding to that, the fact that the rest of the police station looked so much more like a real office building in this version (as opposed to its more gothic look of the final game) adds a level of mundanity to the surroundings that sharpens the horrific effect and quietly establishes just ''how'' badly the situation has gotten in Raccoon City.

* Fan-made iterations of the unfinished ''Resident Evil 1.5'' show that the basement area was originally two levels, with the cellblock being on B2 and filled with zombies that would reach out through the bars to grab at your character with disturbingly long arms. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vmRHsDuwkA&t=24m10s The main corridor on B1]], meanwhile, was going to be nowhere ''near'' as well-lit compared to the already eerie basement corridor in the final release, with only a few very dim fluorescents sparsely illuminating the sickly bluish-green walls, as zombies quietly hide in waiting in the darkened areas.