Nightmare Fuel / Hitman 2

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• Some of the kills are absolutely sadistic. Some examples include:
  • Gassing Alma Reynard and Nolan Cassidy inside their houses.
  • Tricking Robert Knox into murdering his daughter.
  • Shredding Jorge Franco inside his cocaine machine.
  • Feeding Andrea Martínes to piranhas in front of her ex-lover, making him think his letter drove her to suicide, or feeding Rico Delgado to his pet hippo.
  • Rerailing a train track that causes a train to crash through Vanya Shah's trainyard, potentially killing her, The Maelstrom, and several innocent civilians.
  • Shutting Sophia Washington in an iron maiden.
  • Burning Zoe Washington alive in her phoenix effigy. As she screams in pain, the audience (who don't know she's trapped) applauds. The atmosphere is like an upper-class version of The Wicker Man (1973). At least Sophia's potential demise in an iron maiden is silent.
  • Kicking Athena Savalas through the clock panel. Unlike the other falling kills, which have the targets standing in front of open spaces like a cliffside or balcony, 47 kicks Savalas through the glass, which cracks and gives way. The glass and Savalas make a crinkling sound when they crash to the ground floor and as often shown through the kill cam, blood pools underneath Savalas's head.
• In the first mission, if you go into the garage, you'll find a pair of corpses, clearly executed by Alma Reynard. Even Diana is clearly disturbed.
  • Alma successfully goading a man into killing his boss, a Providence operative, by kidnapping his wife and daughters under the threat of executing them if he refuses.
• Boasting among the most...manifold ranges of assassination methods in the Hitman franchise, 2 appropriately features a copious number of skull motifs for your regrettable convenience .
  • The paintings in Alma Reynard's bedroom make one wonder how anyone could sleep in there in the first place. One by the entrance features a distorted figure whose head is taken up large by a large hole where its face should be, then there's the massive painting in the corner of the room which depicts a rotted face with distorted skulls where its eyes and mouth should be.
  • This delightful snippet of the briefing for "The Finish Line"◊ is a more subtle example, as Diana closes out the segment detailing how the Knoxes personally sold a firsthand drone to Jin Po, the brutal dictator of Khandanyang, which was then used to conduct a missile strike on a ''crowd of protestors''.
  • For some reason, the disguises for Jebediah Block and the rest of the Original Five members of the Ark Society have golden skull masks on them. This is already startling enough, but fairly par for the course for apocalyptic quasi-cults...until you account for the Gold Masks of Doom on the backs of the Five's heads that perpetually stare at the player◊.
• If you go into the aquarium inside the Kronstadt building and aim at the “Live Exercise In Progress” window above the hanging shark with a sniper rifle, the sign will suddenly change to “Live Exorcism In Progress” and the facial-recognition dummy will turn its head to the sign, then raise its arm, then slowly drop it when it notices you. If you exit aiming the sniper rifle, the facial recognition dummy will suddenly teleport behind you with its arms raised.
• If you decide to eavesdrop on Sierra Knox's meeting with the blackmailer, she’ll snap and murder him by throwing him into a garbage chute.
  • Worse than that. If you chose to eavesdrop by hanging on the garbage chute, Sierra will notice and will stomp on your fingers, sending you falling to your death. This makes her the first target who can deliberately kill you, not counting Patrick Morgan from the Sarajevo Six DLC in the first game.
  • Similarly, Dawood Rangan's murder of the spy in Mumbai.
• In Santa Fortuna, there's a shack in the fishing village near a pair of sicarios talking about a group of rival gangsters getting let off. If you sneak into the shack, you find the room covered in blood, and in one corner, a "Meaty Bone" that seems to be a severed human limb. You can even take it and use it as a weapon!
• Oybek Nabazov was the main antagonist of the Patient Zero DLC campaign for 2016 (in spite of being a target in the first mission), conspiring with his cult to issue a deadly wave of bioterrorism attacks worldwide. What with civilization still existing - and the Nabazov hit being confirmed as canon in 3 - it’s safe to assume that 47 successfully nipped that problem in the bud, but at the end of Patient Zero, Diana muses that a larger power was at play in Nabazov's actions. What with its rosy optimism about a world free of the middle- and lower- classes and a book about Nabazov being on relatively prominent display in "The Ark Society", we may finally have, very terrifyingly, confirmed Diana's theory.
• The muffin-baking old lady in Whittleton Creek has an ominous murder-basement and killed the previous occupant of the vacant house, and it's implied that she puts human brains into her muffins.
• The Mills Reverie escalation, trailer here. Sweet dreams, Orson...
• When she realises that one of her employees plans to whistleblow on the bank, Athena Savalas subjects her to a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, which suddenly takes a violent turn:

  Savalas: I should shoot you where you stand. A single shot. Right between the eyes, into that ratlike brain of yours. It would be so easy. So easy...

  • Luckily, she never actually hurts the employee or orders her to security to do so, but it really shows the kind of sociopathic monster Savalas is deep inside, beneath her posture and sophistication.
• The trailer for Haven Island is rather unnerving, the narrator's calm, posh tone contrasted by her describing the resort's "reputation management" and "complete erasure" services, with plenty of shots of tourists being attacked by 47 as a storm approaches.
  • There's also the disturbing image of then-unknown Tyson Williams peering through the curtains with binoculars before the narrator says the penultimate sentence of the trailer.
    Ljudmila: We can't wait to see you disappear.
• Haven Island's end cutscene: 47 meets Grey alone on an island. Meanwhile, Hall and Diana track down the Partners's bank accounts and realise that all their money had been transferred to the Constant. Diana rushes to the room where they were keeping him prisoner, but learns that he’s gone. Hall calls Grey, who tells 47 that everything’s going to plan.