Nightmare Fuel / Just Cause 3

• The opening cutscene of "A Terrible Reaction" has a chilling version of You Have Failed Me. When Di Ravello comments that the failure of Vis Electra cannot go unpunished, he doesn't kill the commander directly. Instead, he hands the gun over to the commander, who promptly shoots himself in the face as soon as Di Ravello turns away from him. Not only does this show how much pull Di Ravello has over his forces (and/or how much his own men fear him), but nobody present even acknowledges that it happens.
• The Di Ravello audio diaries, which you can find strewn across the gameworld, show in no uncertain terms that the good general is a murderous, manipulative, egomaniac asshole who finds it perfectly acceptable and even desirable to kill people for his own ends. He committed his first cold-blooded murder of a Medician soldier before he even left boot camp.
  • It gets worse. During his plotting stage, Di Ravello watches a young racecar driver win a race he'd rigged in order to kill off an opponent. Later on, when striking a deal with the Agency, he remembers this driver and burns down his house with the family inside, leaving the kid (He's explicitly referred to as "boy" in the tapes) alive in order to uphold his end of the deal with the Agency (giving them more members). The kid's name? Rico Rodriguez.
  • Worst of all is how fast it all happens. In just under 5 years, he's gone from a boot camp trainee to a general and the most influential man in the country, and highly respected by the people and the soldiers in the army. He crafted the illusion of a reasonable, fair-minded, respectable man from day one, and no one sees through it. By the time he goes from seemingly benevolent hero of the people to nightmarish tyrant, he's so heavily entrenched that no one can resist him. He even goes so far as to manufacture two separate revolutions— putting down the first (against the democratically elected, but corrupt, President Dante) is what ultimately catapults him into his position of power, and the second (the one that Rico gets involved with) is designed to create an acceptable target to show the world his military might and catapult Medici into the position of a global superpower without sparking an international incident.
    • Di Ravello's logs go into great detail about how he manipulated his way into becoming Medici's dictator, and it proves that the psychopathic general played just about EVERYONE he ever met like a fiddle. Within two months, he wormed his way into a high-ranking military position by playing one of his fellow trainees against their Drill Sergeant, ultimately making him a national hero by saving the Sergeant from the Private (in an attack Di Ravello himself orchestrated). Within a year, he began an elaborate Gaslighting of the Brigadier-General, which over the next two years resulted in him disgracing himself in a way that led to Di Ravello becoming the de facto leader of the Medician military. He then worked with the Agency (yes, the same organization Rico was working with in the previous two games) to ramp up the gaslighting, ultimately convincing the ex-General that there was an elaborate conspiracy to threaten Medici's sovereignty, and prodded him into starting the first revolution. Just after four years after he set his plan into motion, the revolution had escalated to terrorist attacks and riots in the streets, causing wide-spread disapproval against the current president. Once the President's main political opponent forced a snap election to try to restore order, Di Ravello had the president killed in a riot that he successfully framed on his opponent, successfully putting martial law into effect, before successfully squashing the revolution, offering Rico up to the Agency as an Agent to keep them quiet after having his family killed, and ultimately ensuring that he faced minimal resistance as the supreme ruler of Medici for years. This is all before he learned that Medici was home to the unique element Bavarium, which is basically even more powerful Uranium, which he then used as a bargaining chip, trading small quantities to the USA and Russia in exchange for vetoing any UN Security Council attempts to limit his power, making him effectively untouchable to the international community. By the time of Just Cause 3, even his manufactured revolution has started to sputter out, forcing him to put the squeeze on the revolution's de facto leader and convincing him to try to make Rico leave the Agency (who, as an American institution, is powerless to interfere directly and is forced to feed Di Ravello information via Sheldon in order to keep American/Medician relations sweet) and serve as a catalyst to bring the Revolution Back from the Brink, just so he can show off his new superweapons to the world. Goddamn. The only thing that truly goes wrong for him is underestimating Rico's badassery. If not for that, it's hard to imagine what could have ever stopped him.
• There is a location where you can find the Weeping Angels, and they move closer and closer to the center of the location they're in as long as you stand in front of it and look away from them. And to top it off? At the center, there's a carcass of a goat. What happened here?
• After completing "Bavarium on a Plane", Di Ravello has a Villainous Breakdown, where he kicks one of his men to death while screaming how he's Surrounded by Idiots before yelling to the dead man, "Look what you made me do!" It's given a Gory Discretion Shot, but that does nothing to change how disturbingly childish Di Ravello acts or how much of a Sadist he is in regarding other human beings.
• The northern half of Insula Striate, separated from the rest of Medici by a massive military-guarded wall. Every town within has been bombed to shit, clearly a long time ago from the greenery. Only military installations and the Bavarium mines remain operational, and the only people you meet, aside from a handful of civilians picking through the rubble, are soldiers and militiamen. No explanation is given for what happened.
  • There actually is an explanation. A large part of the backstory of the game is the 'cleansing flame' and 'the Burning of the North'. These incidents refer to a moment early in Di Ravello's reign where for whatever reason, he torched the entire north of the country, killing and displacing hundreds of thousands.

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