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  • The sequel's website's character page is animated using clips from the game. One charming instance has GLaDOS up in your face.
  • Brock's Twitchy Eye and Death Glare make a disturbing combination, especially up close.
    So, you want this pot? Go ahead; take it from me.
    • If beaten by a particularly good hand, he might stab the table and choke out, "Good hand", in the midst of barely-restrained rage.
    • When he's the last to be eliminated, he'll let out a deep Skyward Scream over the loss of his bounty item. And if he's not, he still glares and growls at you.
  • Ash questions why Sam doesn't hire an exorcist to handle the possessed DeSoto Adventurer. Sam informs that the subject drives Max to twist his head and vomit. Following this is an amusing but unnerving sequence of a fiery-headed Max floating by and droning ominously. Although it becomes Nightmare Retardant when he vomits offscreen.
    Winslow: I just had that cleaned!
  • In the Evil Dead room, Max awakens the Necronomicon by butchering the incantation. This drives the wicked tome to frantically fly around and consume the first player to bust (although he'll return come the next game). Ash's panic when the Necronomicon dives for him is particularly notable, considering what he's been through.
    • It doesn't help that when Ash is the victim, Max is unabashedly sadistic about siccing the Necronomicon onto him. Or that he's just as willing to do the same to Sam (although he then talks about editing the text, possibly to help Sam).
    • The Evil Dead room itself has creepy little touches. An Ominous Fog shrouds the stage. Instead of music, you get ambient background noises. And the Necronomicon's shrieks and murmurs are heard as you select the cards, chips, and table.
  • After Ash and Brock fail to recommend a good barber for him, Sam laments that Max will probably have to cut his hair from now on. The camera focuses as Max slowly tilts his head and locks on the lagomorph's more-sinister-than-normal Slasher Smile. Even worse, Max doesn't say a thing.
  • If you're unfamiliar with Borderlands, Claptrap's bit about getting hell from a club of robots with a Kill All Humans agenda can be a little jarring, after all the otherwise playful banter.

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