All is not well in the FFVII Verse, as even more nightmares and monsters related to Shinra Inc. and SOLDIER are on the rise. Not to mention you end up playing as Vincent Valentine of all people to fight such monsters.
- Weiss, the leader of Deepground, is pretty creepy especially with his Establishing Character Moment being a pirated broadcast where he details how he's going to kill everyone who isn't pure enough for his plans in a variety of nasty ways while showing a consistent blank stare, Slasher Smile, and a nasty Evil Laugh.Weiss: The time has come to cleanse this world. The pure will be spared for the cause, while the tainted will be hunted down and exterminated. They shall be slashed, strangled, and slaughtered. Beaten, stabbed, and crushed. Garroted and Impaled. Shot and executed without mercy. The time has come to cleanse this world! (Evil Laughing)
- The fate of those kidnapped by Deepground, which Cait Sith witnesses in person. The "pure" (those not tainted by Jenova's cells, such as the Geostigma survivors) are loaded into containers and dropped directly into the Lifestream, where a massive arm emerges, crushing the container and dragging it under the surface. And those victims included children - if it weren't explicit enough, there's an Empathy Doll Shot immediately afterwards. It's implied the arm belongs to Omega, though it's not entirely clear.
- And the purpose of this plan is another insane experiment by Professor Hojo to see if they could summon Omega and cleanse the Planet of all life. The projected consequences are seen in the image above: the Planet crumbling into massive fragments, stripped of the Lifestream in a dark twist on Jenova's MO.
- Nero the Sable is as weird looking as he is creepy since he looks like a mental patient complete with complementary straight jacket and a bandaged face with mechanical wings. Not to mention he speaks in a Creepy Monotone voice while expressing borderline lust for his brother Weiss.
- What he does to those he brings into his darkness is never shown. The implications, however, leave it in the air that it's either instant death, or a torturously slow murder. Given how Ax-Crazy he is, it's probably better to not know.
- After the Shinra Mansion stage in Dirge, Vincent's Proto-Materia (the one thing that keeps Vincent's will from being overtaken by Chaos) is stolen. He almost immediately
starts to spasm and writhe in pain. Later on, while aboard the Shera, from Vincent's perspective, Chaos very much wants out (the screen is washed over red and blurred), but Vincent manages to muster enough strength to restrain himself. When he regains full consciousness, there are huge claw marks on the wall with fresh chaos-related energy seeping from them...Vincent: (in pain) Am I losing... control...? - Vincent's backstory runs on this, crossed with a tearjerker and one long Trauma Conga Line. We don't see what he did as a Turk beforehand, but he's assigned to bodyguard Lucrecia and at first they seem to be becoming friends... until he finds out she was involved in the experiment that resulted in the lab accident that got his own father killed and after barely bringing herself to talk about it, their cordial relationship falls apart and it's all downhill from here: Lucrecia gets together with Hojo, but Vincent respects her decision even despite his qualms about the next experiment the two are deciding to do: child experimentation. While pregnant Lucrecia injects her fetus with JENOVA cells (and it's left ambiguous if she genuinely believed JENOVA was an Ancient or not) which makes her very ill. When Vincent voices his objections more angrily to Hojo, Hojo retaliates by shooting him, experimenting on him and leaving him for dead. Only Lucrecia's intervention saved his life - and when he first discovers this he was left fearing that the one person he still loved had used him as a test subject, since he was at death's door and unable to speak to her or consent into being turned into Chaos. From Vincent's perspective he believed the body Hojo transformed was a punishment for failing to save Lucrecia, and it's a body he doesn't fully understand since he didn't even know the protomateria was embedded in him. From Lucrecia's perspective it's the nightmare of being unable to face her one friend and ally in the manor since she blames herself for his father's death, then discovering JENOVA was not an Ancient after already being infected with her sins, and having nightmares/visions of the future destruction Sephiroth was going to cause, getting sick, having her child taken away from her by Hojo and seeing Hojo shoot the one person left that she cared about - and having to implant him with Chaos for a chance at saving his life, even if it came with the risk of losing him for good. It's little wonder the two of them are in the state they're in when first encountered by the party in the original game.
