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=== '''The Series''' ===
* 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!]]
** 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.
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* 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 {{spoiler|Dios became the [[Magnificent Bastard]] Akio and has been [[Rape Is Love|forcing himself]] on his [[Brother
** 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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* In episode 37 Anthy casually mentions Cantarella, a deadly poison. In response, Utena comments that she "put a lot of poison" in Anthy's tea.
** In the same episode there's also {{spoiler|Anthy trying to commit suicide by jumping off a building}}. Thankfully, Utena saves her.
* Anthy and Akio are siblings but they [[Brother
** Nanami rightly has a [[Heroic BSOD]] after finding this out and says that [[Strange Girl|Anthy scares her]]. Anthy's response is to say [[Dissonant Serenity|perfectly pleasantly]]: "I do? Thanks so much!" And she's still holding a massive saw that she'd been using to cut up a block of ice...
** Utena also has a [[Break the Cutie]] moment after finding this out.
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* The way Souji Mikage and Mamiya Chida recruit the Black Rose Duelists, preying on people who are at the lowest points of their lives and using their insecurities to make them join the Black Rose cause.
* Akio and Anthy (who was actually posing as poor Mamiya) inflicting a [[Mind Rape]] on Mikage himself in the end of the Black Rose arc.
** Rather, really they'd been mind raping him the whole time, since Mikage had been talking to Anthy-as-Mamiya the whole time. Just in the last episode, they start [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|taunting him]] about it before disposing of him.
* Speaking of that arc, there's the way the Black Rose duellists draw swords from the student council members, complete with intensely creepy sexual subtext. The most notable ones are {{spoiler|Shiori drawing Juri's sword}} (''very slowly'', at that, and the noises of pain Juri makes almost sounds like [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|something]] [[Near Rape Experience|else]]), {{spoiler|Wakaba drawing Saionji's sword}} (she suddenly dashes forward and pulls it out ''with her own hands!''), and {{spoiler|Keiko drawing Touga's sword}} (which is mostly just extremely sexualised).
* {{spoiler|Wakaba}}'s elevator scene, if you think about it. Most elevator scenes in the Black Rose arc feature a picture of a butterfly on the wall that turns into a chrysalis, then a caterpillar, then a leaf (presumably with eggs on it) as the duelist-to-be comes closer and closer to their breaking point; therefore, it says a lot about how damn hard {{spoiler|Wakaba}} snaps when that picture is ''already a caterpillar'' when we see her in there!
* Also, in the first arc when Anthy's alone in the classroom singing that bunnies all in a row or whatever song and doing the thing with her hands.
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