This episode is one of my favorites. First off, Aki screenshots cause of course
Look at him! He’s scared!
And when finally admitting he’s scared to Dr. Light:
This expression hurts me! My son, my baby boy! Dr. Light give him a hug, please!!!!
But also, this episode is fucked up if you think about it. Because what Night and Namagem are doing is flat out psychological torture. On the one hand, its sleep deprivation, which is recognized by the Geneva Convention as a form of torture (and Night already used sleep deprivation in the Elec Man debut episode). And two, he’s being forced not only to watch himself and sometimes his family die it seems also feels it! And bear in mind, the victim in this IS A CHILD!
Then there’s Namagem. Vincent Tong’s voice acting is amazing, making a character with no facial expressions emote with only his voice and some body language. But this episode revealing that Namagem’s greatest fear is his own father (yes yes I know the twist, but he calls Night his father and Night raised him). Knowing how Night is, and seeing how Namagem is treated, like, we don’t see him physically hurt this kid but its heavily implied by this and later episodes.
Wily may be cruel, ask Quint, but that’s to his enemies. He says in Super Adventure Rockman that he loves his robots. Bass can defeat him and he’ll still fix him up. Heck, when he found the dying Proto Man he could have reprogrammed him but didn’t! And when he kidnapped Kalinka, he didn’t physically hurt her, or at least its not implied. But Night? The reveal that he hurts Namagem enough for the boy to fear him, to me, proves he is more evil than Wily. Wily has a few redeeming qualities. Night is an irredeemable monster. And that’s what I love about him as a villain.
Well, this one got long. But the world needs more FC content that isn’t negative and if this is what it takes I will continue to post images from random episodes and give thoughts!
Commish for @thebigboy71 continuing the MegaMan FF AU with MegaMini's past as Captain Mega.
The specifics of Sergeant Breaker's "true" name come from a couple of places: the comical yet unflattering full name reveal of Professor Poopypants from Captain Underpants, as well as borrowing Sonic's full name from a peculiar Ken Penders scene in the Archie Comics. Incidentally, while Ogilvie seems to have been rightfully ignored even in Archie for the most part, SEGA did apparently (?) confirm recently Sonic's middle name is indeed Maurice... which is lifted from a gag in the early Archie Comics funnily enough.
As for where "Schartzmugel" came from, I just looked up the most bizarre boy name I could find, and that felt appropriate. I didn't want to lean too much into Mandark's real name is Susan territory, and found something comically absurd instead.
Imagine if Lord Obsidian used to be a cringy oc that Sergeant Night made when he was a teen and then remembered about, cringed, but took the name from the oc (Lord Obsidian) and just made it his “robot version” (or whatever) because it sounded cool
Sergeant Breaker Night (Mega Man: Fully Charged) vs Dahlia Hawthorne (Ace Attorney)
Sergeant Breaker Night
Dahlia Hawthorne
Voting ended onSep 23, 2023
Propaganda under the cut
Sergeant Breaker Night
I don't know what it says about me that he's the first character I thought of besides "this show might have too much of a hold on my brain."
Sgt. Night is a veteran from the Hard Age, a war that took place in recent history where robots fought for their rights as citizens. Supposedly "nobody lost" and "everybody won" the war because robots did get rights, but things still aren't really... equal. Tensions still exist, and Sgt. Night plays on this throughout the entire show. As the war veteran, he claims that humans built robots and therefore are superior to them, but in his disguise as Lord Obsidian - who by all accounts seems to be a robot - he urges robots to prove that ROBOTS are superior and that following him will let them take back what is theirs (in some capacity). In reality, he's doing all of this to get at a device Dr. Light has that allows for complete control over a robot and the ability to do things like wipe their memory. Night lies to his followers and is only revealed to the heroes as being Obsidian in the last episode. "I lied to all of you, to put you back in your place!"
There's also "More, More, More!" in which he literally gatekeeps the city, creating a barrier to divide humans and robots and moving them around as necessary to create this division. He doesn't play all his cards at once, either, not showing his followers the "Lord Obsidian" armor/persona until challenged into doing so and proving that he's not just sitting around. He regularly calls Mega Man a "traitor to his kind" as Obsidian but never elaborates, which plays its part in drawing the hero in and trying to learn more which is perfect for staging an attack. We as the audience don't even know what all information he has, and he's not planning on sharing it, either.
The sergeant might not be a girl, but he does girlboss. He has an evil lair and gets his followers through charisma or promises of helping them out in some fashion, and will do whatever it takes to succeed. He'll get his own hands dirty as Lord Obsidian, no questions asked. He's more than willing to sow problems as Sgt. Night, too, whether that's convincing others robots are dangerous and shouldn't be equal to humans, or that time he purposefully interfered with a robot's thermoregulator in order to make him more unstable and was only able to do so by claiming there was a "mad robot on the loose" to get rid of as many witnesses as possible. Ice Man didn't even do anything to him. My guy was just existing and trying to get better and Night wanted to make his life worse (possibly in an attempt to get Ice to join the evil team, but it's never made super clear and it fails anyway). There was an entire episode where the plot was "back Mega Man into a corner and get him to use all his powers together and fail so I can try and recruit him", which only failed because Mega Man got backup.
also he canonically abused a (robot) child who acts as his second-in-command. said child was also kidnapped and calls Obsidian "father" which makes the fact that the kid is terrified of him so much worse. Daini gets hit with a power that makes him see his fears because it messes with the mind and he's already in a dream fighting Mega Man (don't question it too much), and he sees Sgt. Night AKA Lord Obsidian. He falls to his knees and his hands go to cover his head. He’s scared. He’s whimpering and he’s terrified, almost trying to block him out. He's NEVER acted like this before. Daini was confidently standing by Obsidian's side and talked back just a few episodes ago, and now he's terrified. Once he gets booted out, he's confident again facing Sgt. Night, but the moment the Obsidian armor goes on Daini flinches. He pulls back and shrinks away slightly, and his hands rise to protect himself. He sounds scared. He wasn’t afraid of Night normally, confronting him on the plan being a failure, but then was called a failure himself and was intimidated into backing down by Obsidian. Obsidian didn’t have to say anything.
this is still by all accounts a kids show and this is even before the comic continuation added on "oh btw this incarnation of mega man was made specifically to kill his own kind in the war for robot civil rights and had his memories wiped and then had them wiped again after his twin brother was kidnapped" because why the hell not. i love it. this is also propaganda for mmfc as a whole, it's honestly really fun and the fact that there's a precedent for humans and robots not always getting along makes things even more interesting. some episodes (Guts Man episodes) are weird but others are genuinely really really good ("Enter the Wood Man", "Watt's Happening?!", "Big Bad Dreams", and "Hide and Secrets" are personal reccomendations!)
Dahlia Hawthorne
she lived. faked her own kidnapping and killed multiple people in unrelated situations. was executed. got her spirit channelled. tried to kill even more people as revenge
Girlypop has done a shit ton of manipulation, committed at least four murders (even one from the grave!) A man’s eaten glass for her, another’s knowingly drank poison. She also puts on the “Weak little girl” act to get away with it all
she is literally THE gaslight gatekeep girlbosser ever. don't wanna spoil anything but like. she is the definition of the words,
"At 14, Dahlia arranged a staged kidnapping (in order to attain a Very High ransom from her wealthy father) with a guy she'd seduced, her stepsister Valerie, and her twin sister Iris (who chickened out) that purposefully landed the guy in jail for her supposed murder. Five years later, the guy broke out of jail and Dahlia framed him for the murder of Valerie (which she committed) and when this truth was exposed in court, the guy killed himself rather than break the promise they'd made to believe in each other no matter what. A few months later, she poisoned one of the attorneys involved in that case (putting him into a years-long coma instead of killing him) and got away with it by planting the evidence on a guy she just met by convincing him she'd fallen in love with him at first sight. She then guilted Iris into pretending to be her while dating the guy for the next several months, which culminated in her attempting to murder him, only to then try to frame him for the murder of one of her exes instead (which she also committed). She didn't get away with this one because superior girlboss (her cousin Mia) exposed her plot and Dahlia was executed for it a few years later, but she continued to GGG from beyond the grave. While she was still alive, Dahlia and her also-incarcerated but not on death row mother planned to murder the head of their clan (Maya, the younger sister of Mia) so that Dahlia's younger half sister (Pearl) could take Maya's place as head of their clan; Dahlia was also doing this because in the interim, Mia had been murdered by someone else, and Dahlia decided the best way to get revenge on her after her death was to kill the person she loved most. The mother and daughter schemed to write to Pearl (who was only about 9 at the time) and convinced her to channel Dahlia after her execution without telling her why (their family has the ability to channel the spirits of the dead, and they cannot remember what their bodies do during the time they're possessed) so that Dahlia could use her little sister's body to kill the head of the family, who Pearl loved very much. They also guilted Iris into working with them on this. The attempt failed because she girlbossed too close to the sun (a combination of her still-living ex, Maya, the channeled Mia, and the now-awake guy she'd poisoned) but she still GGG-ed all her life and even into her death (she also managed to get Mia & Maya's mom killed in the process and the coma guy (who Mia was in love with) convicted for it, but Maya lived so ultimately a failure). Throughout all this, she gives off an air of innocence and kindness and naivete, wearing white, high femme clothes, convincing the men inside and outside of the legal courts that she couldn't possibly do anything because she's just a sweet little girl. I fucking hate her <3 the vibes are both rancid and terrifying"
"Wow." The idol stared ahead into the poorly-concealed figure in the alleyway. Her voice dripped with sarcasm just like how the shadowy sky was dripping with rain. "A seven-foot-tall guy with glowing lights all over him trying to hide in a dark alley. So spooky."
"Some manners would suit you well, Angel," the figure responded. "I," he continued, "am Lord Obsidian."
Angel blinked, gripping her pink umbrella tighter while trying not to laugh. "Quite the, um... imposing name you have there." More like an edgelord's attempt at being cool, she thought, but she didn't say that part aloud. "I know who you are, though. You're the guy that's sending his goons to mess up the city."
"That I am," he said, "but I am also showing the world that humans have been in power for far too long. They are power-hungry fools, using robots for their dirty work while they sit on heaps of money and laugh at our misery. Surely you see it too."
Angel blinked at the tall man. "I mean, sure, human singers are a lot more famous, but I don't think the odds are really stacked against us."
Obsidian's face gave nothing away, his glowing eyes only narrowing just a sliver. "That's all she cares about, isn't it..." he muttered, although Angel could easily hear him. "What about those human idols chasing you out of business. I've seen how they talk about you - 'the most stereotypical cutesy idol they've ever seen', they said. I can put an end to all of that. I can get you anything you want." He extended his arm to her for a handshake. "What do you say to a deal? You join my cause, and I make you the greatest idol Silicon City has ever seen."
Angel's eyes widened. She had been stuck on the bottom for so long, only booking little gigs in the park or on rooftops, clawing her way up the ratings inch by inch. But this guy was just going to... hand her dreams to her on a silver platter?
She thought back on the destruction he had caused. On the one hand, if she joined Obsidian's team, she would inevitably have to fight Megaman and contribute to the growing hate towards robots.
But on the other hand... her life's goal was right there. Fame! Fortune! Adoring fans! No more performing at senior homes or high school reunions!
There would never be another repeat of tonight. Never again would she book a popular venue with several hundred seats only to end up with an audience of fifteen and applause from only three.
How could she possibly say no?
"All right," Angel said. She took Obsidian's massive gauntlet in a firm grip and shook it professionally. "I'm in."
