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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, goes to Nemuro Memorial Hall for her interview. She enters an elevator and, in anguished tears, divulges her attempts to make friends with Anthy as the elevator speeds past strange plaques ({{spoiler|actually mausoleum plots}}). Meanwhile, someone over a loudspeaker tells her to go [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|"Deeper. Even deeper"]] as the elevator accelerates more and more as it descends. Finally, [[Despair Event Horizon|poor Kanae reaches her breaking point]] and Mikage appears behind her from the door, telling her she has no choice but to revolutionize the world. '''And''' then before she can react, Mamiya stabs her in the chest with a black rose. [[The Woobie|Poor Kanae!]]

*** 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.

** 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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