Trailers
Anarchy in Yara
- The entire cinematic reveal trailer. Anton Castillo walks into his study to find his son Diego putting together a model car. Dismissing it as useless, he presents his son with a more "appropriate" gift, a live grenade that he slips into his son's hands, and then pulls out the pin, forcing his nervous son to hold on tight to the grenade before leading him upstairs onto the rooftop, where Diego nearly trips on a cable after following his father. There, his father lights up a cigar while overseeing the current massive protests between bare-chested protester throwing Molotov cocktails, and riot police with shields and batons, including one bloodstained protester being forced to his knees, who happens to look a lot like Vaas. He then warns his son that the people of Yara are like the grenade in his hands, "and you must hold them nice and tight, or we all go boom. Do you understand? Prove it..." And he leaves his son clutching onto the grenade in plain sight of the protesters on the edge of the rooftop. And just as we cut to the title, Diego appears to be starting to loosen his grip...
- Ubisoft Forward 2021 revealed that future DLC is called "Become The Villain" that includes playing as previous villains Vaas, Pagan Min and Joseph Seed all stuck within their own personal hells as well as a case of Through the Eyes of Madness as now Vaas gets to see himself getting pushed down the ravine like he did to Jason. Think about further implications of this, too- now Joseph might be forced to undergo his own Bliss hallucinations. How will the normally cold and collected priest remain calm? If this is Joseph Seed post-New Dawn, then this is his "reward" for the Captain killing him.
Main Game
- The opening shows just how brutal and horrifying Castillo's regime is. After a press release extolling the "best" parts of Yara, we see Castillo's forces raiding the town Dani and their friends are hanging out in, looking for people to press gang (read:enslave) into working in the Viviro camps, and Dani is on the list. As they sneak and run through the city to an escape boat, you can see the soldiers murdering anyone who resists (and even some who don't), with Dani's friend Alejo being shot in the head purely for insulting Castillo!
- The realization that Diego has that every person onboard the smuggler's boat is going to be executed because of him.
- At the end of the prologue, Julio is captured after having stayed behind to detonate the boats controlling Castillo's barricade, and he's already horribly beaten and bloody when Castillo comes into his cell and encourages Diego to shoot him. When Diego refuses, Castillo nonchalantly orders Raul to beat Julio to death while making Diego watch.
- Camillo Montero leads Dani to discover Jose's personal torture room where he films himself torturing "Fake Yarans."
- "Dead Drop" is a mission that results in Dani being captured by General Raul and Anton Castillo before being subjected to Cold-Blooded Torture that removes their molars. While not executed, Dani ends up being trapped in a burning lighthouse basement that can very easily kill them in a horrifying way if they're not fast enough navigating the underground location.
- During the Legends arc, you are sent to investigate a laboratory where medical experiments are being performed. You can find live human testing as well as the massive numbers of bodies that have been dumped in a resevoir. This is apparently just the tip of the iceberg for viviro's human cost.
- "Balance the Books" has Dani come across a hotel that is serving as a torture and execution spot for the Yaran military. There are numerous body bags spread around the place and blood everywhere. The fact they had to convert a hotel into such a place says a lot about their standard operating practice.
- "Break the Chains" reveals that the Yaran military is keeping prisoners in a literal zoo where they regularly starve, beat, and execute them. They even release dangerous animals on them. Thankfully, you can return the favor. This is apparently where Maria sends Yarans to be "re-educated."
- Dr. Edgar Reyes's entire mission arc is chock full of grotesque terror.
- First, Dani gets to see his work throughout the game with the "Outcast camps" where he oversees experimentation on thousands of Yaran prisoners to perfect the PG-240 poisonous chemical. Then Dani finds the letters where Reyes requests more and more test subjects, including the innocent children of rebels. Then, when Dani actually confronts him, he drugs them, cuts their stomach open, and stuffs a syringe strapped to a phone into their open cavity, allowing him to release PG-240 into Dani's bloodstream any time of his choosing. This forces Dani to deal with agonizing pain and intense hallucinations as they try to escape him. When Dani later locates his primary lab, it is littered with corpses and people dying horribly from Reyes's vile experiments. It's no wonder that he's called "Angel De La Muerte".note
- The pained horror in Dani's voice is palpable, after they are rescued from Reyes' improvised lab after their "surgery".Dani: "He put something inside me! He put something...inside me!"
- The F.I. Escudo Steel Mill. Hoo, boy.
- At first it seems like your average run-of-the-mill...er, mill, albeit with a few of those strange sculptures laying around. So this is where they make those ugly things! Boy, there sure are a lot of them...just sitting there next to the vats of molten metal, among the piles of...what are these? Belongings? Clothes?....body parts? It turns out they weren't using it to produce steel for the war effort here; instead, members of the regime were pouring molten metal over live Outcasts, and selling the contorted, mangled remains as abstract art.
- There's another bit in the follow up Yaran Story "Model Citizen". A woman named Chica Núñez says that the artist responsible, Rodrigo Lecoste, has been rounding up people from various towns to make his statues. She begs you to kill him and save her friends, who were among those taken. After you take him out, Chica reveals that she was actually Lecoste's wife, and that she actually ''loved'' the statues and watching him make them. She didn't want him killed because he kidnapped her friends, or because she had a change of heart, but because she found out he was planning to make her into one. It's clear by the end that she's still no less Axe-Crazy than her husband.Chica: I enjoyed watching you work too, Dani.
- Given that Lecoste asks you to cast his own body in metal as well after you kill him, it's not clear whether he planned to kill her out of malice, or because he genuinely saw it as an expression of his love for her.
- A more humorous example is your amigo Chicharrón. Most civilians are scared shitless of him and the FND has orders to kill him on sight. note Even a hardened baddass like Dani thinks he is in their own words 'fucking terrifying'.
- Sent up with Elvis' quests in the Montero camp. Dani is sent to recover some spurs and ends up in a horrifying cavern filled with weird lighting, relentless monsters, darkness, and death. What causes this? Roosters. Dani acts genuinely scared throughout and is traumatized by the time she escapes.
- An all too realistic one for a fascist regime is the revelation that not only are LGBT Yarans expelled from the military but there is a faction actually executing them. There is no confirmation one way or another whether the military is doing this officially or not too. Even worse? According to Paolo, even regular Yaran citizens have no qualms with this, which can make his decision to move to America despite Talia's wishes more understandable.
- Some of the machete animations are truly gruesome with Dani carving up countless Yarans in particularly horrifying ways. Their reactions are also the opposite of Dull Surprise with their faces being Dies Wide Open.
- Sometimes you could be going for a swim or trying to get a collectible underwater and you can find people's drowned corpses weighed down by cinderblocks.
DLC
- The intro for the Insanity DLC depicts the final battle between Jason and Vaas in Far Cry 3, but from the latter's perspective. What's creepy about is how Jason has a blank yet crazed look on his face as he stabs Vaas in the gut repeatedly, turning a cool action moment in 3 into something truly horrifying, and showing how much of a Blood Knight Jason was becoming at the time.
- Vaas' mind is a hellscape of ghostly warriors, changing vistas, and repeating violence. We get into the corruption of Vaas and how much of his insanity is a result of being Brainwashed and Crazy into a Blood Knight. It turns out Citra's as much The Corruptor as Hoyt.
- The secret ending of Pagan's DLC ends with a chilling message- it turned out that Pagan bought a massive stockpile of nukes that he aimed directly at Montana. It's now incredibly clear what happened at the end of 5: whatever screwball was in control of Kyrat, be it the Golden Path or Ajay, chose to fire them and destroyed Hope County and everyone in it. As to why? It's never made clear. Pagan got the nukes to use as retaliation (and assurance) against the United States meddling in his affairs in Kyrat, but with him out of the picture, the nukes were left in the hands of either Ajay or the Golden Path...
