Nightmare Fuel / Mega Man (Archie Comics)

• Issue 28. You've just come off of a major, multi-part crossover with another blue hero and saved the day. Time for celebrations, right? WRONG. We pick back up where we last left off with Break Man and Mega Man ready to slug it out. It gets worse, though. Ra Moon ^note yes, the one from Super Adventure Rockman takes over and unleashes a powerful EMP wave. At the same time, Roll tries to save her brother from Break Man and ends up getting shot through the chest. As the wave hits, everything that wasn't built or rebuilt by Ra Moon goes dark. Even Mega Man, grieving for his sister, falls to it. Congratulations, Blues, you wanted to be Light's only child. You got it: you're an only child in a world that's greatly growing with death and destruction as all electronics go dark.
  • Adding to this are the small shots showing the full implications of a worldwide blackout. Examples shown are appliances and handheld devices failing, a ship being stranded at sea, cars crashing, an airplane diving out of the sky, and power going out at a hospital in the middle of surgery. It's safe to write off anyone who was on life support devices at the time.
  • Before that happens, we see Ra Moon invading Wily's mind and showing him how he came to Earth 20,000 years prior to the present. Manipulating a primitive society into seeing him as a god, which included, among other things, human sacrifices to him. Even worse, he caused the civilization to constantly go to war with other nations that wouldn't worship him, and eventually wiped out the society altogether. Why? They weren't suiting his needs quick enough. He planned to shut down the technology mankind had grown dependent on and predicted that any humans left after that will turn on and kill one another, so he'll leave them with guns and explosives so they can kill each other off as they struggle to survive. Oh, but wait, it gets better. He reveals to Wily that he'll make his EMP so strong that it'll soon be able to affect humans and melt their brains to kill off any survivors. And he's doing all this just because he can. Just...damn!
  • What happened to Sonic's world after the crossover; there's the thought that the very SAME could've happened to Mega Man's world if he was interrupted.
  • Pedro's flashback of his exploration team heading to the pyramids where Ra Moon lied. They figured it would just be a quick excavation, in and out. However, once they were in range, the EMP field crashed their helicopter. Pedro lived but lost an arm, and the rest of his team were killed when they tried to investigate the pyramids. There's nothing ambiguous about it, either; there are a lot of bodies with white sheets over them visible.◊
  • Several of the scenes of Robot Masters crashing and shutting down. Splash Woman's scene shows her washed up on a beach, with a lifeguard running up to save her — he can't see her tail and thinks she's a drowning victim.
• Also mixed in with Tear Jerker, following Ra Moon's death, Blues — sorry, Break Man, goes to Quake Woman to try and get some answers as to why on Earth she would forgive Dr. LaLinde for taking her emotions. Unfortunately, she doesn't tell him what he wants to hear. When she begins to question him in turn — asking if he can't forgive Dr. Light for what could have happened rather than what did — we finally see what's really eating him, in a frankly terrifying burst of unbridled fury.
  Tempo: Is the problem that you cannot forgive him for nothing?
  Blues: (drives his fist into a nearby picture of Dr. Light, barely missing her head) HE REPLACED ME!
  • One particularly noticeable detail in this shot is that his eyes can be seen through his normally-expressionless visor for a moment; revealing them in a half-crazed, half-devastated glare as he explodes at her. Considering that Break Man is usually so stoic, it really helps to make the scene that much more emotional.
• Dr. Cossack is becoming quite the hindrance to Dr. Wily's plan to trick the world into beliving he's innocent. Wily uses Kalinka's trauma of the Ra Moon events to make him mad. Anyone who's played the games knows that it will end in kidnapping; that can't be good for the little girl or for the very worried father.
• Issue #44. Just... Issue #44. Dr. Wily makes his move, and what he does, especially to Auto, is just...

  • A particularly dark one. When Wily ransacks the laboratory unattended, he dismantles Auto and stuffs the components in a locker. Which Roll then stumbles upon. It is treated exactly like the horrific murder scene it would otherwise be if Auto couldn't be put back together later.

• Issue #39. In the future, as Sigma, X, Zero, and Vile are fighting the rampaging Wily Walker, Vile blasts down part of a highways filled with driving civilians on top of the berserk mecha. He rightly gets chewed out for that by Zero and X, who dashes off to rescue as many humans as he can from the falling and crashed cars. While the comic is generally all-ages, and thus restricted, take a good look at the silhouettes inside the vehicles X inspects.◊ These are clearly mangled human corpses which X is visibly unnerved by.