YMMV / Sodor: Dark Times

• Awesome Moments: Gordon killing Alfred thus ending his terror for good.
• Complete Monster: Alfred the Loaned B12 is one of the vilest engines to run on Sodor rails. Alfred once worked on Sodor as 98462 and was sent away due to bad behaviour, giving him a desire to pay The Fat Controller out by making the North Western Railway go under. To this end, Alfred kills the sickly Henry to take his place and bombs the populated Knapford Station to force The Fat Controller to resign. When Alfred's associate and brother Cecil is horrified by Alfred murdering innocent people and vows to have him stopped, Alfred kills Cecil and goes on a bombing spree across the North Western Railway and the Mainland to kill everyone who could be used to link his crimes back to him. Lacking any of the comedic qualities of the source material's antagonists while amassing a higher body count, Alfred serves as a depraved villain to emphasize the series' intended darker tone.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Alfred in both this and Sodor the Early Years. So much so that he has appeared in many other Trainz Thomas & Friends fan-videos ever since.
• Heartwarming Moments: The LNER engines offering to let Toby work with them out of pity for him being the only engine left on the NWR after Gordon sacrificed himself to stop Alfred.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The second half of "The Enemy, Anger," revolves around Alfred's plot to blow up Knapford Station. Three year later, a Thomas the Tank Engine-inspired sketch that premiered on Robot Chicken had a similar plot, with a noticeable difference being that the perpetrator is a human; an engine was only an instrument in the plot.
• Nightmare Fuel: To be expected from a series that dives into a darker side of the Island of Sodor that is never seen in the source material, including sociopathic B12s and the engines we've come to know and love getting Killed Off for Real.

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