v4:
- Fate loses to Archer, despite her best efforts. She... doesn't take it well
. - Stormer's reaction after a Double Knockout from Calia's impaling crystal finisher. Thankfully, they get medical attention in time."Looks like...we'll die together...my dear Chii..."
- Yet another dramatic Puella Magi death. Mami tries desperately to save everyone around from her Witch Form, but is ultimately saved by Madoka anyway.
- Pastry Person mercilessly keeps beating on Milo and Duckus (the duo of the Duck Hunt dog and duck that appear in Super Smash Bros.), even though the two are exhausted, on the brink of death and pleading to be left alone, and had not done anything to him in the first place. Even merciless and sadistic Queen Chrysalis thought he was going overboard!
- The tragic friendship between Mog from Final Fantasy VI and Walter from Hellsing that ends with Walter sacrificing himself to try and kill Porky.
V5 (Spinoff)
- Starting here, the Girl is betrayed by Hazama when the evil bastard Mind Rapes her, giving her a flashback of her brother's untimely death. He then proceeds to kick her in the head... multiple times. It remains to be seen if there's any hope of recovery for the poor Girl. Also counts as Nightmare Fuel.
- engie defiantly self-destructs his drone to kill a vengeful MIKI, the dying shard contained within fleeing into the arms of Daydre.
- The interactions between Femji and The Black King can only end in tears. Start reading from here.
- Speaking of the Black King... Turns out his motive is also quite a sob story.
- Speaking of the Black King... Turns out his motive is also quite a sob story.
- Sabitsuki has been Killed Off for Real, and it seems to have had an unexpectedly profound effect on Engie, both in-game and in real life.
- Starting here, a mechanized Shin Godzilla is sent out by Doctor Eggman to terrorize the Arena and finds opposition in the form of Scaos the Sinkeeper, a kaiju from the ill-fated Colossal Kaiju Combat!. Scaos is an Emotion Eater used as a dumping grounds for the negative emotions of an entire race, and understandably a pretty tragic figure. After a battle laden with enough character development to fill an arc, Scaos finally gets his "good ending".
- During a visit to the realm of dreams, Sarah is forced to fight her own sleep paralysis demon in order to open a path to the adjacent nightmare realm. During the battle, it knocks her unconscious (don't ask how that works) and she ends up in a bar full of characters her player, Bolded1, introduced whose story arcs were ultimately abandoned. It's a somber nod to his own inability to retain interest in given characters or series, with what feels like an in-universe half-hearted attempt to make light of the situation, like even the characters themselves have given up hope of returning to the spotlight.
- It gets worse when "SAMAEL," a creature from a book Bolded intends to write, appears before Sarah while in the nightmare-queen's palace and tells her she will join the faces in the bar someday. It's immediately followed by KiriK playing out a very similar situation with a character from a novel-length story he nearly finished only to abandon, alongside the antagonist of a story that never got past the idea phase in 2016. The characters in the roleplay ultimately manage to shrug off these warnings and threats, but it should be clear the players weren't feeling so lighthearted and flippant when they wrote them.
- It gets worse when "SAMAEL," a creature from a book Bolded intends to write, appears before Sarah while in the nightmare-queen's palace
- Starting here, Psyco's Chara comes under attack by Arachnos's OMORInote. What follows is a Battle in the Center of the Mind over the course of which Omori ruthlessly dredges up all of Chara's deep-seated regrets and sorrows and weaponizes them against the Fallen Child, all the while absolutely destroying them on an emotional level by giving a voice to all their insecurities and negative thoughts. It's not so much a battle as it is a long string of magic-assisted bullying, and Arachnos said that he felt disgusted while writing Omori's lines. Just a few pages earlier, Omori does the same to Taranza and succeeds.
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