Nightmare Fuel / Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

• Prague's Shoplift and Die behavior of its police initially seems like it mostly exists to antagonize the player solely, though it's apparently entirely legal to summarily execute Augs for even remotely stepping out of line. Then the curfew due to the Golem City uprising occurs, and this already tense city becomes a lit powder keg as the police start murdering every person they catch right there in cold blood. The police are effectively military with full authority and no supervision preventing them from doing as they please, a nasty bit of Foreshadowing for how much executive power the authorities would come to gain by the time of the original Deus Ex.
• Depending on player choices, you can hack Georgian mobster Otar Botkoveli's computer near the end of the game. Along with emails, it contains an IM chat log of a man being tortured to death by one of Otar's men, who is forcing him to describe to Otar what's being done to him.
• The implications of what the police in Utulek do to suspects - who can be virtually anyone, just some poor schmuck they took off the street. When you're rescuing Dusan Sokol and you see the room he's in, you can find an aug arm just lying on a crate and several others hanging on a wall, hammers, stains of some kind on a desk, bloodstains, a large bucket, and power tools. It looks for all the world like a torture chamber. If you were afraid of Police Brutality before, Utulek won't do you any favors.
• How Talos Rucker, leader of the ARC, died after being poisoned by the Orchid in his alcoholic drink. Like what Adam Jensen later mentioned, the way Talos died was as though he was experiencing a ramped up form of rejection syndrome. Adam as well as the players of the game had a nice front row seat to that particular chilling scene.
• A few times in the game, you're given the chance to listen in on a meeting of the Council of Five. The previous game established the Illuminati as being in firm control of the situation. But now, thanks to Darrow, their power is starting to slip. Just consider how bad things have to be getting for even the Illuminati to start losing their grip on society. Of course, this is foreshadowing the MJ12 coup that occurs just a few years after the events of Mankind Divided.
• The Harvester mission. The side mission's activation location is at Adam's backalley, where you discover a corpse that looks like it got the Black Dahlia murder treatment. Lovely... turns out that the serial killer, The Harvester, doesn't just target any random person; The Harvester targets augmented people and harvests their augments. And given how Adam is heavily augmented, who's to say he isn't next...
• The Last Harvest mission too. First off, you start the mission during a rainy evening in Prague, with Daria getting in contact with you via your infolink. She clearly sounds distressed, and pleads for you to come save her. Upon arriving at her place you notice that her apartment is in shambles, blood is splattered almost everywhere, and inspection of the crime scene indicates that the killer has been here. However, upon reading an email on her laptop, you notice that a doctor wants to speak with her, implying that perhaps Daria has a few screws loose herself. Once you get to the doctor, it is revealed that Daria was originally one of his patients at Tai Yong Medical, and the company was working on neural implants that were supposed to be social enhancers intended to help people with social disorders. However, they needed to isolate certain personality traits to make the implants, and the only people willing to volunteer for the experiment were penitentiary criminals. Of course, who happened to have their personality written into Daria's neural implant? None other than the Harvester himself!
  • What makes it even creepier? When you first search Daria's apartment, you see that there is a telescope situated outside the window. When you look through it, you notice that it's looking in the general direction of Adam's apartment. She's been watching you the whole time, and you are probably her next target...
    • On that note, Daria's apartment in general during the second half of the quest, especially when you get to reading her diary. Dear lord...
  • Oh, you want more creepy? How about the fact that if you decide to choose the violent path to complete your objective, Daria will aim a revolver at you, and trap you in a room filled with lasers, sentry turrets and cameras, and smoke mines. Add onto the fact that she has the TITAN augmentation, and you have one obsessed psychopath that's armed to the teeth enough to give Adam a run for his money.
    • That's not even the worst part. Even if you kill or incapacitate Daria, you then have to deal with Detective Montag, who now has every reason to think you're the Harvester due to an epic case of Not What It Looks Like. Then you realize this was probably part of Daria's plan, too, and you just walked right into it.
    • When you first enter Daria's apartment during the Last Harvest Mission, one of the first things you notice is the huge puddles and splatters of blood on the wall and floor. It's doubtful that's it's Daria's, because while she's augemented, she's mostly flesh and blood, so that begs the question, whose blood is it?
    • Leading into Fridge Horror, when you confront Dr. Nicholas Cipra, he tells you that despite Daria being given the Harvester's personality, she is willingly acting on the Harvester's memories and desires, so it begs the question... which personality was the dominant personality during all the victim killings, The Harvester's or Daria's?
    • If you seek out all the evidence and talk Dr. Capria into giving you Daria's chip's shutdown code, then talk her down as the chip shuts down, you find that she would have never killed anyone. It was the Harvester's personality chip taking over her and using her to continue his murders. But more Nightmare Fuel is that Daria, once free of the chip's influence, is FULLY AWARE of what she did while under the chip's control. Plus, since she tells Adam that the murderer is a man, that he was "coming back", left clues like the Harvester's patient number that allows Adam to figure out the fully story, it can be gathered that she is actively trying to fight back against the personality, trying to stop it from killing anyone else. Fighting from the Inside, indeed.
• Although the information needed to make the conclusion in-game is few and far between, it is possible to piece together enough to figure out that Adam's VTOL pilot, Elias Chikane, most likely is a deep-cover operative for the Illuminati. By searching through emails in Chikane's apartment, the IP address corresponds to other messages sent by the Illuminati meeting room at various points, it's also revealed that they preyed on him because he was having trouble making payments for his brother's specialized medical needs, and it is also implied in an email found in the GARM facility that he was the one who tipped off Adam's arrival to Marchenko. This reveal is also stated for a fact in the Art of Deus Ex Universe book.
  • It has been hinted that Adam Jensen's memories have been subtly altered by the Illuminati, and they were planning to use Adam as a unwilling mole to find Janus for them.
    • It goes further than that, it may well be possible that the Adam Jensen depicted in Mankind Divided is not who he appears to be. This video from the Versalife vault shows a hidden body in a crate; this body is missing its limbs and the facial features are frightenignly familiar. You guys can draw your own conclusions.
  • The fact that Dr. Delara Auzenne is revealed to be a deep cover agent for the Illuminati during The Stinger certainly counts as this.
• The player gets a sense of the full impact and horror of the Aug Incident that we only got snippets of during Deus Ex: Human Revolution throughout this game. From the very start, we see a hotel that has since become a tomb. While Jensen comes across plenty of the mummified corpses of augmented workers, who have simply been left there for two years, Macready comes across an area which he describes as looking like someone tilled up a graveyard. It's stated at one point that as many as 85% of the augmented died during the incident, with those surviving still attempting to process the full scope of what they did while under the broadcast's influence. The point is further driven home by some of the augmented characters' own recollections of the Incident:
  • Edward Brod, one of the two people Jensen can secure a permit for, was with his family when the signal went out and killed his youngest grandchild. He is now estranged from his family and is still in denial over what happened.
  • In A Criminal Past, Jensen can overhear a conversation between inmates in the exercise yard, one of whom is a former teacher... and happened to be in the middle of a class during the Aug Incident. He says that what he did that day isn't what landed him in prison, but it was the start of a downward spiral that led to what did.
• The last mission of the game where Adam and his team confront the terrorists in London. When the player arrives they are instructed to meet up with the security chief and figure out what is going on. Only problem is, something feels off... the guards should be expecting you, but they don't even seem to realize who you are and are oddly cheerful given the situation. After moving a bit further the player comes across a room filled with the actual security personnel... all dead and stripped of their weapons and uniforms. That's right, not only did the enemy know you were coming, they had already infiltrated the conference and simply hadn't started shooting yet. Even worse, if Adam is detected a massive firefight will erupt with civilians getting caught in the crossfire. As if all that wasn't bad enough Viktor then contacts the player and informs him that he has rigged enough explosives in nearby residential areas to kill hundreds of innocent people if Adam doesn't meet with him soon. This leads to the last major Sadistic Choice in the game where the player has to choose between stopping Viktor and saving hundreds of lives or saving Brown and preventing Augs from becoming public enemy number one. It's possible to do both if the player moves fast, but good luck figuring that out when it happens.
• In Northern Prague, there is a establishment called Praha Unneda Cleaning Supply, which belongs to a pest control company, which, for some absolutely idiotic reason, decided to put gigantic fake cockroaches that looks like it comes straight from a Fallout game all over their walls and on the inside. Anybody who has a phobia of bugs, cockroaches in special, are guaranteed to be legitimately freaked out by their size and detail, even if they're fake.
• Once the riot begins in A Criminal Past, Jensen can find emails to and from various prison staff concerning it. Some are from admin and other non-security personnel, worried about whether they'll be evacuated or if they're safe where they are, and even the ones from corrections officers show them in contact with a spouse or family member, saying "I love you" or asking them to pray for their safety. Some of these emails are either cut off in the middle or, in the case of archived conversations, have the other person asking in increasingly worried language if the recipient is there and alright.

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