Steins;Gate/Nightmare Fuel

• Main
• Characters
• Trivia
• YMMV
• Fridge
• Headscratchers
• Memes
• WMG
• Crowners
  • Awesome
  • Funny
  • Heartwarming
  • Nightmare Fuel
  • Tear Jerker
• Wikipedia
• All Subpages
• Create New

• From Kurisu's perspective, you're stood there minding your own business waiting for your lecture to begin, when some guy in a lab coat walks up to you, starts ranting about he saw you dead moments ago, then he starts grabbing your hair, prodding your cheeks, and poking around in your jacket (around the chest area no less), checking for stab wounds. Considering she's still a fairly young girl, the terrified look on her face is more than justified.
• Moeka herself gives off some pretty eerie vibes even just a few episodes in; she is for the most part emotionless, very quiet, speaks in fragmented sentences, can appear before you suddenly, gets defensive if you try to snatch her phone from her hands, and will snap pics without your consent. Even just close-ups of her blank, lifeless eyes are rather unsettling. Is it any wonder why Okarin wanted Kurisu to watch over her?
• Jellyman report, with pictures of jellified humans who were used as experiments for a time machine.
  • What about JELLIFIED MAYURI?!
• Let's not forget the threatening email SERN sent to Okabe, complete with a picture of a severed, bloody head. All of this from a research organization too.
• The letter written by the suicidal Aname was particularly haunting. Her constantly writing "I failed" and the revelation that she became mentally unstable after 25 years of bliss are enough to induce nightmares.
• In Episode 17, Faris is being pursued by a gang of thugs after beating them in a RaiNet match. The VN gives a better understanding of what these guys are like, but regardless, imagine what they would've done with Faris if either A) Okabe wasn't there to help, or B) her dad hadn't showed up. She could've been beaten, killed, or any other unspeakable acts which we will avoid mentioning.
• Episode 23: The fact that Dr. Nakabachi hates his daughter so much that he was willing to steal her work, beat her, and even murder her, purely out of envy is horrific.
• The mere thought of transporting memories into the past to alter the timeline is a scary thought in some ways. Especially when it has the potential to mess up your memory bank so much to were it can cause you to blip out of existence at any point.
  • In fact, this is the main conflict of Load Region of Deja Vu: because Okarin's Reading Steiner is overloaded, the current line world line won't acclimate him, causing him to just vanish into thin air in the blink of an eye.
  • The description on the back of the film's case tells you everything you need to know about the film's driving plot point: "Would you remember me if I never existed?" Life goes on, but all traces and memories of you are retroactively removed from the timeline as if you were never part of this world to begin with? Terrifying to think about!
  • Okabe does just that at the dry cleaners; as he is talking to Kurisu about his ability to retain memories from other world lines, and she tells him to let her know when he has another headache, he suddenly just vanishes mid-conversation without warning. Imagine what that looks like through Kurisu's eyes...

Linear Bounded Phenogram

• Mr. Tennouji has on many occasions threatened Okabe with eviction, or a rent hike if he continued to cause him trouble; in his story, he outright threatens to kill everyone in the room when he kicks them out after disagreements with the lab's renovations turns hostile.
• In Ruka's story, we learn that Mayuri suddenly died of a heart attack while attending ComiMa. Worse still, we are shown what that looks like; she's clutching her chest with a look of sheer agony on her face (which is just in frame). For heart attack survivors, this would be painful to look at.
• The game itself is much darker than most of the other visual novels or anime adaptions in the series, with characters dying, being stalked, swearing more frequently - even dropping F-bombs here and there - and other dark themes. Is it any wonder the game was bumped up to a PEGI 16 rating in Britain?