We are brothers, Mason... We are the same...
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- The single-player trailer
for Black Ops. Especially somewhere in the middle, where the background is a hellish red, and the scientists are just dying from no apparent cause other than the air? Or the GKNOVA6 zombie videos, with the zombies apparently becoming a world-wide problem, business-suit zombies, and swarming zombies everywhere in cities, soldiers getting swarmed and falling back? - Speaking of Black Ops... Dimitri Petrenko's death. Seeing the once-invincible "heart of the Red Army" desperately pounding on a glass wall as his face liquefies into blood is not a sight that is easily forgotten. Considering how frequently Petrenko cheated death in World at War, also drives home the point that Anyone Can Die.
- The bits with Mason's Sanity Slippage are also quite unsettling. Particularly a hallucination in U.S.D.D, during his meeting with John F. Kennedy, as when he told Mason to sit, there is a small hallucination in which the screens behind him projects the news on his assassination in Dallas, alongside Oswald and Ruby's mugshots, and shows a picture of his mourning wife, Jacqueline, right before everything turns back to normal. And then there is the part where he imagines himself drawing a pistol, and then pointing it at JFK's head, set to a loud, ear-splitting screech, right after JFK mentioned Dragovich.
- Fridge Horror kicks in when you realize this mission took place on November 10, 1963, and you realize that the next mission, Executive Order, was a Presidential Order, and took place on November 17, and involved an assassination attempt, a failed one, on Dragovich, by locating his escaping limousine, and then turning him into a charcoal briquette, as Woods called it. Despite that, Dragovich is still alive and kicking by 1968, and probably would want revenge against the U.S. for the attempt on his life. Guess what happens five days after the latter, on November 22, 1963.
Mason: You tried to make me kill my own president!
Dragovich: "Tried"? - During one of the moments you team up with "Reznov" he states he's breaking away which has Mason tell him to be careful. The Soldier he's crawling with turns around and asks Mason bluntly "What the fuck is wrong with you?" Without the context of The Reveal this looks like he's complaining about the two talking while their sneaking but when you realize it's really just the two of them and Mason is talking with himself it becomes an incredibly disturbing foreshadowing.
- Really, anything with Nova-6 counts, as its nature as a bioweapon lends it perfectly well to scare potential. Just by breathing it in, it rapidly makes your body fall apart, as if it's melting you from the inside out! Dimitri gets a very Cruel and Unusual Death via Nova-6, as previously mentioned. And later in the campaign, the Russian forces deploy Nova-6 on the island Hudson and company are assaulting, forcing them to don gas masks to avoid being affected. But it's not permanent - taking damage steadily wears away at the hazmat suit's integrity, meaning that even fully regenerating health means nothing if you still take too much damage. Once your suit is fully compromised, Hudson will make a really nasty gurgling/choking noise as he collapses and succumbs. It's really not pretty.
- Kravchenko's log in "Victor Charlie." You know the guy was bad when you see him slicing captured German throats for the fun of it a mission earlier, but the fact that they were gassing random villages with the compound, performing lab tests on infants, and removing infected tissue from exposed victims, read: slicing them apart while they were still alive and dying, all to see how much longer they could keep the victims alive proves that this man was a sick bastard among sick bastards.
- Zombies mode manages to be this just by selecting it on the menu. As you select it, the lights take on an orange tint. The monitors on the right change, now showing panicking civilians, soldiers in hazmat suits fighting, and occasional glimpses of the monstrosities the soldiers are shooting at. Your interrogator moves off to the side for a second; when he comes back, he's a zombie. When he notices you, he starts pounding on the window, trying to get to you. Also, you're no longer able to escape from your chair...
- The normal title screen does just as well. As soon as you launch the game, you are strapped in a chair, being interrogated - and of course, because you haven't played yet, you don't know the answers. Assuming, of course, that you're not in-the-know regarding secrets, you start the game in a position which would, in real life and for most of the game too, be one of total helplessness - trapped, with no apparent way out, being tortured, with no way to abate the torturer.
- Speaking of Black Ops: You are a Soviet agent. You don't know that, of course, which is what makes this even worse. You find that you can't get a set of numbers from repeating in your head over and over again. It gradually begins to erode your grasp of reality. People around you begin to be visibly weirded out by your behavior, even when you aren't experiencing anything unusual. It's almost too late when you realize you're speeding towards a Tomato in the Mirror situation. You are going to assassinate the President of the country you have sworn your life to protect. And there is nothing you can do about it.
- There are actually some pretty disturbing sounds in Rebirth and a couple other levels were you see hallucinations of Viktor Reznov. It sounds like a bloody scream from a demon.
- The lab where Nova 6 victims are studied is where you see everything that weapon can do. You can see corpses on surgical tables with their chests sliced open, showing their near-liquified organs. And most were dissected while they were alive. And though all the corpses shown in the level were adult males, Kravchenko's aforementioned log indicates women and children were among those studied. Perhaps Mason would have killed Steiner even if he wasn't brainwashed...
- The horror movie-esque music in when you play as Mason in the lab doesn't help either.
- The lab where Nova 6 victims are studied is where you see everything that weapon can do. You can see corpses on surgical tables with their chests sliced open, showing their near-liquified organs. And most were dissected while they were alive. And though all the corpses shown in the level were adult males, Kravchenko's aforementioned log indicates women and children were among those studied. Perhaps Mason would have killed Steiner even if he wasn't brainwashed...
- The "Revelations" mission was pretty freaky. After you punch out your interrogator, Hudson, you stumble through the NSA building that they've been keeping you in. You see the numbers in the air, hear them being spoken over Mason's screams that he keeps "HEARING THE FUCKING NUMBERS!", hear flashbacks from earlier in the game, and you can hear Mason yelling "Proceed to target" and "Oswald compromised", then you walk into a room and see footage from your escape from Vorkuta while Reznov speaks to you.
- Mason remembering the torture he underwent in Vorkuta is already disturbing enough. But Sam Worthington's delivery of the line that he says afterwards is... chillingly realistic.
Mason: The pain... Oh my God... - The ship in "Project Nova". We start with the lovely sight of a dead body suddenly entering your field of vision as you navigate the dark entrance tunnels. Then you enter the main part of the ship, which has these huge fuck-off V2 rockets which were meant to unleash Nova-6 upon Allied command-and-control centers. While that's going on, Dragovich and Steiner have this creepy little chat about the weapon, and Dragovich praises Steiner for his "ambition". It finishes with the gas chambers, where Dragovich orders Dmitri to be gassed because he's outlived his usefulness. It would have happened to Reznov, too, if the British didn't show up.
- In the multiplayer, one of the killstreak rewards is a napalm strike, which, as would be expected, consists of an F-4 flying by and engulfing the area of your choice in napalm fire. Taking damage from this causes your soldier to audibly scream in agony, just to hammer home how notoriously painful this stuff really was.
- "Payback" is this in droves. Mason, Woods, and Bowman are all captured by the Viet Cong and Spetsnaz, being held captive and tortured for about a week. Bowman is mentally broken beyond repair, and when he acts a bit too defiant against his captors, a Russian soldier bashes his brains in with a pipe. Seeing the resulting gore and his lifeless face can be a lot to take in. Woods then enters the scene, and is forced to play Russian Roulette in Bowman's place. He acts a bit more jumpy than usual, indicating that the situation is able to even scare Woods of all people. When it's his turn to play, he gives a massive Atomic F-Bomb as he believes the gun will fire.. but thankfully, he gets an empty chamber.
