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Though most of the show is just [[Mind Screw|surreal]], some segments have [[Nightmare Fuel|twisted the surreal a little too far]].
* A few moments are quite scary, most of them involving Anthy and Akio.
* The first real example of nightmare fuel came with the first episode of Black Rose arc, showing us how [[Mind Rape|Mikage and Mamiya recruits the Black Rose Duelists]]. Akio's fiancee Kanae
** Pretty much any time anybody goes into the elevator and crosses the [[Despair Event Horizon]].
*** To add some extra [[Fridge Horror]] to that, {{spoiler|the Mamiya we see throughout most of this arc, including this scene, is an illusion acted out by none other than Anthy; in other words, ''Anthy'' is the one who stabbed Kanae!}} Brr.
*** Not to mention you can hear
* Some of the later shadow girl plays sneak into this territory. There's even a borderline [[Gory Discretion Shot]] when one of the shadow girls ''breaks the other one in half''. [[Hell Is That Noise|A disturbingly realistic squishy, snapping sound is included, of course]], and somehow, B-ko's deadpan "ow" afterwards makes it even worse.
* [[Hell Is That Noise|The sound of the Ohtori academy bell ringing]].
* In the first episode, Utena recognizes Dios's scent on the Rose Bride. Later, we find out that
** Oh, and there's also the fact that {{spoiler|Akio}}, who is [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]], is posing as the principal of a high school where he frequently coerces the students into sex in the back of his [[Cool Car]]...''while he's driving''. He even slept with three students on-screen and was engaged to one of them (whom he {{spoiler|had POISONED. Again, poor Kanae.}})!
* Utena and Anthy [[Freaky Friday Flip|switch bodies]] in one episode. The switch lasts for at least a couple of days, if not a week. And once a week Anthy goes to visit her brother... {{spoiler|Therefore, it's highly likely that Akio got a taste of Utena far earlier than even she thought. And without her consent.}}
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*** And finally, there's a theory that {{spoiler|Akio killed Utena's parents. Can't get more monstrous than that. They died ''in a car crash''. And whose symbolism is most prominently cars?}}
* In the ''very first minute'', we see {{spoiler|Akio is up to his old tricks again. First, we see Akio and Anthy standing together, looking out the window of the tower. The next moment, he's no longer there, and we switch to him appearing as Dios to Utena, who is mourning as a child.}}
* A flashback shows that {{spoiler|Akio slipped a drug into his sister Anthy's drink and then took advantage of her sexually}}. This is icky enough, but it then goes on to show that afterwards {{spoiler|he realized that she was awake and began to panic, and wound up stabbing her and then falling out a window to his death}}. Yikes.
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** And just after that scene, Anthy is swinging an axe and looks ''very close'' to decapitating Utena.
* The first ''Utena'' light novel has a rather creepy sex scene between {{spoiler|Touga and Miki(!)}}. The consent is dubious, it's obviously manipulative, and then there's {{spoiler|Touga}}'s evil little smile at the end of the scene.
* Also from the novel: Kozue's breakdown at the piano, where she keeps slamming on the keys and screaming for Utena to get out of her and Miki's special place.
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