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Hatoful Boyfriend, the "pigeon dating game"? Pretty much anything involving Dr. Shuu takes a syringe of Nightmare Fuel and injects it in the worst places possible, then takes meticulous notes on your agonized writhing.

• Let's start with the rumors that students in his infirmary frequently vanish, never to be seen again-- and yakitori is inevitably on the menu the next week, and shiny new quill pens show up in the school store. You find plenty of evidence that these rumors are true, but no authorities ever investigate because the entire school is run by the Hawk Party specifically for Shuu's... "research".
• If you are actually on the doctor's romance route, you accidentally condemn Yuuya to this fate, and in gratitude the doctor sends you a lovely Christmas dinner months later. Then, on Valentine's Day, he allows you to find the remains of yet another student, only to reveal that You Have Outlived Your Usefulness... your usefulness living, that is. He then describes in loving detail how he plans to dissect you, preserve your head as a gesture of affection, and examine your insides most... intimately.
• The "Bad Boys Love" route in the paid game starts with the heroine's death, then lovingly sandwiches layers of this trope with breaking every cutie in the game, and the player as well. Mostly courtesy of Shuu. Highlights include Ryouta crossing the Despair Event Horizon and consenting to being modified by Shuu into a bioweapon for use against the rest of humanity when they attempt to slaughter everybirdy left in the school, a graphic (described) flashback to the heroine's death by suffocation via The Virus that Ryouta is now a host for, an even more heartbreaking flashback to the previous host of said virus, Nageki, being Driven to Suicide and setting himself on fire so that nothing will remain of himself to spread the virus (which fails), Kazuaki aka Hitori flipping out and trying to vivisect Ryouta, untrained, to remove Nageki's transplanted organs and keep what's left of Nageki for himself, and the horrifying, bloody, sickle-clawed robot Labor-9 lurching after Ryouta and the other birds until they short-circuit it with a taser... and are then informed that Labor-9 was actually a cyborg with the heroine's missing brain and they just murdered the heroine again.
  • The scarecrow-like monster in the Bad Boys Love route. You will jump when you first see it. So much more nightmarish when you learn its origins.
  • There's little of Bad Boys Love that doesn't fall under this trope, and most of what does falls under a much more depressing category. The humorous bits that would be perfectly at-home in the normal routes actually come off as being completely out of place at this point.
• Did I mention that failing to complete a romance route or begin the "Bad Boys Love" route gets humanity condemned to extinction, with the heroine being surprised and murdered in her own home, followed by a Game Over screen with a surprisingly creepy pigeon-Grim-Reaper? Or that this presumably happens in the post-game after finishing Nageki's route, since the Hawk Party cannot see you wooing a ghost?
• The Game Over screen when you get killed at your home. It looks like something out of Yume Nikki.

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