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Abusive Parents? Ghosts? Death? Strange supernatural occurrences and accidents that follow Misfortune wherever she goes? Yikes forever...
  • When Misfortune goes to George's "party" to tell him about the dog, she walks towards the edge of the house to find he hanged himself.
    Misfortune: Are you the owner of a puppy, because I bring really bad news...
    Mr. Voice: Oh no, wait! It looks like he hung himself.
    Misfortune: Hanged himself, like a piñata? Should I hit him like a piñata?
    Mr. Voice: No, Misfortune... He's dead.
    Misfortune: Dead? But he's wearing a pair of sweet boots, he can't be dead!
  • Misfortune is too young and innocent to realize the truth behind Kevin's father: he's a pedophile who gets his rocks off watching children from the playground. The fact that he's willing to do it completely naked only makes it much worse.
  • The Paranoia Fuel as you go back and notice just how many scenes have crows flying in the background... The scenes without them are more notable. Morgo is always watching you.
  • The way Morgo acts when Misfortune learns the truth and confronts him about it. He stubbornly insists that she "play with [him]" and shoves her around like a child throwing a tantrum. His coming and going also starts to be accompanied by a brief but creepy Interface Screw.
  • At the end of the game, where Morgo chases Misfortune into her bedroom, complete with him screaming at her and making the walls splinter and crack apart. Morgo's form is then revealed, and it is shown that he is a large, demonic creature with a skull for a head and red eyes. His voice when he's showing his true colors is the worst part, as his speaking patterns start sounding less like a calm, eloquent and mature speaker and more like a scratchy, disjointed voice pieced together from recordings.
    Morgo: Knock knock! Who's there? Knock knock! Who's there? KNOCK KNOCK! WHO'S THERE?!
  • Morgo is merely one of several hundred thousand beings just like him, and assuming that his code from his case file refers to which parasite he is, he’s only the one-hundred and one thousand, two hundred and twenty second parasite that the organization in Senersedee has managed to specifically identify, and he likely isn’t the last.
  • If you choose the unicorn ride at Phantasmagoria, Misfortune will touch the unicorn's horn in a suggestive manner. Sure it could be just taken as innocent, but given Misfortune's mature vocabulary and already known abuse, it doesn't leave much to the imagination why she touches the unicorn like that. A couple of the comments she makes strongly suggest her mother is a prostitute.
  • The truth behind Misfortune's death: she wasn't killed directly through supernatural means, but rather by simply crossing the road at the wrong time and being hit by a car. That she dies in such a terrifyingly normal way - not to mention the worries any good parent has of their children crossing the street - really hits. It's even worse when you consider the game's implications: Morgo likely lured her into the road in the first place during their game, given the terrifying image she sees when she stands on the spot of her death; and given the skid marks, Misfortune was likely hit and killed by her own father, who was most probably drunk-driving.

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