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** To give you an idea of how much of a MoralEventHorizon this is, Wily's own robots -- robots he designed, programmed to be loyal and subservient to him and everything -- [[EvenEvilHasStandards vocally object to the moon plan.]] Considering these are the same bumbling dunderheads who are all too willing to try to destroy Mega Man on-sight and cause collateral damage without a care in the world, that's saying a lot.
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** To give you an idea of how much of a MoralEventHorizon this is, Wily's own robots -- robots he designed, programmed to be loyal and subservient to him and everything -- [[EvenEvilHasStandards vocally object to the moon plan.]] plan]]. Considering these are the same bumbling dunderheads who are all too willing to try to destroy Mega Man on-sight and cause collateral damage without a care in the world, that's saying a lot.
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* The episode "Curse of The Lion Men" were not well-received, but they have one moment of genuine scariness. After zapping Dr. Light with his mind controlling lionizing EyeBeams, Tar turns his attention to Wily and turns him into a lion man as well. He then frisks him for his reprogramming device and zaps the Robot Masters with it, including ''Proto Man and Roll'', turning them ''all'' loyal to him.
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* The episode "Curse of The Lion Men" were was not well-received, but they have it has one moment of genuine scariness. After zapping Dr. Light with his mind controlling lionizing EyeBeams, Tar turns his attention to Wily and turns him into a lion man as well. He then frisks him for his reprogramming device and zaps the Robot Masters with it, including ''Proto Man and Roll'', turning them ''all'' loyal to him.
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* "Bot Transfer" has Mega Man and Snake Man swapping bodies, with an appropriately panicked reaction from the former. Their voices ''aren't'' mental, so Mega Man is stuck with a snake's hiss as well as his body, and completely unable to get help; worse, his family [[AloneWithThePsycho doesn't suspect the "real" Mega Man until the last second.]]
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* "Bot Transfer" has Mega Man and Snake Man swapping bodies, with an appropriately panicked reaction from the former. Their voices ''aren't'' mental, so Mega Man is stuck with a snake's hiss as well as his body, and completely unable to get help; worse, his family [[AloneWithThePsycho doesn't suspect the "real" Mega Man until the last second.]]second]].
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** And likewise, [[VideoGame/MegaMan3 Needle Man's]] first "death" in the Museum scene. He initially threatens [[TheDragon Proto Man]] (Who was pretending to be good at the time to fool Mega Man and his family), but the PsychoPrototype simply walks up to him, reminds him of their plan, and then proceeds to ''[[AreTheseWiresImportant open him up and ]][[https://youtu.be/xNsaP4lsgdw?t=5m24s rip a fistful of wires out of him]]'' before [[GrievousHarmWithABody throwing his still-spasming body at]] [[VideoGame/MegaMan2 Heat Man]]. Granted, [[DeathIsCheap he got repaired later]], but even for this show's standards (As covered below), that was just brutal.
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** And likewise, [[VideoGame/MegaMan3 Needle Man's]] first "death" in the Museum scene. He initially threatens [[TheDragon Proto Man]] (Who (who was pretending to be good at the time to fool Mega Man and his family), but the PsychoPrototype simply walks up to him, reminds him of their plan, and then proceeds to ''[[AreTheseWiresImportant open him up and ]][[https://youtu.be/xNsaP4lsgdw?t=5m24s rip a fistful of wires out of him]]'' before [[GrievousHarmWithABody throwing his still-spasming body at]] [[VideoGame/MegaMan2 Heat Man]]. Granted, [[DeathIsCheap he got repaired later]], but even for this show's standards (As (as covered below), that was just brutal.
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** Probably the worst examples of this happening though, had to be either Needle Man [[AreTheseWiresImportant having his wires torn out]] [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom Mola Ram]][[BeatStillMyHeart -style by Proto Man]] (Mentioned above under ''Bro Bots''), or [[VideoGame/MegaMan3 Hard Man's]] demise in ''Bad Day at Peril Park''. There, Hard Man is shown blocking Mega Man's Buster shots with his armour, [[TemptingFate taunting him all the while]] until eventually Mega Man [[FeedItABomb fires a charged shot into his mouth]]. This causes Hard Man to [[OhCrap panic and frantically claw at himself as he realises what's happening]], [[CruelAndUnusualDeath before he swells up and explodes from the inside]]. Now normally, this wouldn't be so bad; but Hard Man is [[LudicrousGibs literally blown to realistic pieces,]] [[https://youtu.be/3-PXy_rFPsM?t=4m21s with machinery and internal mechanisms scattered everywhere]]. Mega Man even picks up one of his disembodied arms (With ripped wires and framework hanging out of it) to attain the [[RocketPunch Hard Knuckle]] afterward.
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** Probably the worst examples of this happening though, had to be either Needle Man [[AreTheseWiresImportant having his wires torn out]] [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom Mola Ram]][[BeatStillMyHeart -style by Proto Man]] (Mentioned (mentioned above under ''Bro Bots''), or [[VideoGame/MegaMan3 Hard Man's]] demise in ''Bad Day at Peril Park''. There, Hard Man is shown blocking Mega Man's Buster shots with his armour, [[TemptingFate taunting him all the while]] until eventually Mega Man [[FeedItABomb fires a charged shot into his mouth]]. This causes Hard Man to [[OhCrap panic and frantically claw at himself as he realises what's happening]], [[CruelAndUnusualDeath before he swells up and explodes from the inside]]. Now normally, this wouldn't be so bad; but Hard Man is [[LudicrousGibs literally blown to realistic pieces,]] [[https://youtu.be/3-PXy_rFPsM?t=4m21s with machinery and internal mechanisms scattered everywhere]]. Mega Man even picks up one of his disembodied arms (With (with ripped wires and framework hanging out of it) to attain the [[RocketPunch Hard Knuckle]] afterward.
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* In a flashback during the first episode detailing Rock and Roll's creation, Dr. Wily had them strapped to an operating table to reprogram them. Via an electric drill to their heads. ''While they were awake''. Complete with both of them struggling. It's the robot equivalent of a lobotomy, and we see the drill approaching from Rock's point of view.
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* In a flashback during the first episode detailing Rock and Roll's creation, Dr. Wily had them strapped to an operating table to reprogram them. Via an electric drill to their heads. ''While they were awake''. Complete with both of them struggling.struggling and the mad doctor [[FauxAffablyEvil creepily reassuring them about it]]. It's the robot equivalent of a lobotomy, and we see the drill approaching from Rock's point of view.
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* Wily's plans in "The Big Shake" and "The Day The Moon Fell" both involve causing extreme natural disasters, via earthquakes in the former and pulling the moon out of its orbit in the latter. They're played completely seriously and show just how much of a sociopathic monster Dr. Wily really is, being [[TheUnfettered willing to cause mass murder and worldwide devastation]] just to make its survivors bow before him.
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* Wily's plans in "The Big Shake" and "The Day The Moon Fell" both involve causing extreme natural disasters, via earthquakes in the former and pulling the moon out of its orbit in the latter. They're played completely seriously and show just how much of a sociopathic monster Dr. Wily really is, being [[TheUnfettered willing to cause mass murder and worldwide devastation]] just to make its survivors bow before him.him and [[EvilIsPetty prove his superiority to Dr. Light]].
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** To give you an idea of how much of a MoralEventHorizon this is, Wily's own robots -- robots he designed, programmed to be loyal and subservient to him and everything -- [[EvenEvilHasStandards vocally object to the moon plan.]] Considering these bumbling dunderheads are still all too willing to try to destroy Mega on-sight and cause collateral damage liberally, that's saying a lot.
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** To give you an idea of how much of a MoralEventHorizon this is, Wily's own robots -- robots he designed, programmed to be loyal and subservient to him and everything -- [[EvenEvilHasStandards vocally object to the moon plan.]] Considering these are the same bumbling dunderheads who are still all too willing to try to destroy Mega Man on-sight and cause collateral damage liberally, without a care in the world, that's saying a lot.
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* Wily's plans in "The Big Shake" and "The Day The Moon Fell" both involve causing extreme natural disasters, via earthquakes in the former and pulling the moon out of its orbit in the latter. They're played completely seriously and invoke the mad doctor as a sociopathic monster willing to cause mass murder to make the world bow before him.
-->'''Wily:''' I will create ''chaos''! Destroy everything! Mankind will ''beg'' me to take over!
-->'''Wily:''' I will create ''chaos''! Destroy everything! Mankind will ''beg'' me to take over!
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* Wily's plans in "The Big Shake" and "The Day The Moon Fell" both involve causing extreme natural disasters, via earthquakes in the former and pulling the moon out of its orbit in the latter. They're played completely seriously and invoke the mad doctor as show just how much of a sociopathic monster Dr. Wily really is, being [[TheUnfettered willing to cause mass murder and worldwide devastation]] just to make the world its survivors bow before him.
-->'''Wily:''' I will create''chaos''! ''chaos!'' Destroy everything! Mankind will ''beg'' me to take over!
-->'''Wily:''' I will create
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-->'''Proto Man: *strained*''' You...are...our leader...Tar!
** Mega and Rush are about to be ground up at a salmon-canning company. They actually show the salmon hitting the saw blades.
** Mega and Rush are about to be ground up at a salmon-canning company. They actually show the salmon hitting the saw blades.
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-->'''Proto Man: *strained*''' You...are...Man:''' (''strained'') You... are... our leader...leader... Tar!
** As part of a DeathTrap, Mega and Rush are about to be ground up at a salmon-canning company. They actually show the salmon hitting the saw blades.
** As part of a DeathTrap, Mega and Rush are about to be ground up at a salmon-canning company. They actually show the salmon hitting the saw blades.
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** What makes it worse is that some robots, like Fire Man and Star Man, were only in one episode and never seen or mentioned again.
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** What makes it worse is that some robots, like Fire Man and Star Man, were only ever in one episode and never seen or mentioned again.
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* Vile and Spark Mandrill are pretty scary, as they're completely unstoppable until X arrives to even the odds -- and even he has trouble with them.
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* Vile and Spark Mandrill are pretty scary, as thanks to their far more advanced armor and weaponry, [[NoSell the technology of Mega Man's era has literally no effect on them]] to the point they're completely unstoppable until X arrives to even the odds -- odds; and even he has trouble with them.them. No wonder [[EvilerThanThou even]] ''[[EvilerThanThou Wily]]'' [[EvilerThanThou was terrified and subservient around Vile]] in particular when the two force him to help them take the Lightanium rods.
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* In "Bro Bots", Proto Man's revelation as the HeelFaceMole is met with resistance. How does he control the heroes? By threatening to shoot the governor in the face.
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* In "Bro Bots", Proto Man's revelation as the HeelFaceMole TheMole is met with resistance. How does he control the heroes? By threatening to shoot the governor in the face.
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* Sometimes the Robot Masters (and Rush) are literally blown to pieces. This isn't too bad until one episode showed ''Roll'' in pieces, invoking the UncannyValley as Mega Man picks up her head to talk with it.
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* Sometimes the Robot Masters (and Rush) are literally blown to pieces. This isn't too bad until one episode showed ''Roll'' in pieces, invoking the UncannyValley which got creepy as Mega Man picks up her head to talk with it.
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* Wily's plans in "The Big Shake" and "The Day The Moon Fell" both involve causing extreme natural disasters, via earthquakes in the former and pulling the moon out of its orbit in the latter. They're played completely seriously.
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* Wily's plans in "The Big Shake" and "The Day The Moon Fell" both involve causing extreme natural disasters, via earthquakes in the former and pulling the moon out of its orbit in the latter. They're played completely seriously.seriously and invoke the mad doctor as a sociopathic monster willing to cause mass murder to make the world bow before him.
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** To give you an idea of how much of a MoralEventHorizon this is, Wily's own robots -- robots he designed, programmed to be loyal and subservient to him and everything -- [[EvenEvilHasStandards vocally object to the moon plan.]] Considering these bumbling dunderheads are still all too willing to try to destroy Mega on-sight and cause collateral damage liberally, that's saying a lot.
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* In a flashback during the first episode detailing Rock and Roll's creation, Dr. Wily had them strapped to an operating table to reprogram them. Via an electric drill to their heads. ''While they were awake''. Complete with both of them struggling. It's the robot equivalent of a lobotomy, and we see the drill approaching from Rock's point of view.
** Wily's line as he approaches Rock and Roll with the drill is unsettling.
-->'''Wily:''' A little tuck here, a little slice there, and you'll soon feel differently about this!
* Also in "The Beginning", Wily warned Light not to follow him after he kidnapped Rock and Roll. If he did, Ice Man would freeze him and Cut Man would ''slice him up''.
* Wily's plans in "The Big Shake" and "The Day The Moon Fell" both involve causing extreme natural disasters, via earthquakes in the former and pulling the moon out of its orbit in the latter. They're played completely seriously.
-->'''Wily:''' I will create ''chaos''! Destroy everything! Mankind will ''beg'' me to take over!
* In "Electric Nightmare," Roll is battling a female cosmetics robot who gave her a bad facial. It's a fast fight, and cartoony until the end. Roll uses a buzzsaw to [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe slice the robot in half across her stomach]], her upper half falls to the floor, and then Roll ''vacuums her face off''.
* The episode "Curse of The Lion Men" were not well-received, but they have one moment of genuine scariness. After zapping Dr. Light with his mind controlling lionizing EyeBeams, Tar turns his attention to Wily and turns him into a lion man as well. He then frisks him for his reprogramming device and zaps the Robot Masters with it, including ''Proto Man and Roll'', turning them ''all'' loyal to him.
-->'''Proto Man: *strained*''' You...are...our leader...Tar!
** Mega and Rush are about to be ground up at a salmon-canning company. They actually show the salmon hitting the saw blades.
* The image of Rock/Mega on a lab table as a Franchise/{{Terminator}}-esque endoskeleton in the intro is a little unnerving, even though it only shows up for a few seconds before dissolving into an image of Mega from that same position but with his "skin."
* And there's the first nightmare in "Mega Dreams"; while the idea of Guts Man and Cut Man pretending to be a couple may amuse you, that moment comes after a shot of a stuffed dino with what looks like ''blood'' on its muzzle.
* In "Brain Bots", Wily places Mega Man in a DeathTrap. The trap consists of a DescendingCeiling with spikes. Unlike some death traps, Mega was bound to the floor as it descended. What pushes this into nightmare fuel is what Wily said about it; he uses it to recycle robots he no longer needs into scrap metal. Meaning he's done this to his own robots.
** What makes it worse is that some robots, like Fire Man and Star Man, were only in one episode and never seen or mentioned again.
* Some of Cut Man's lines fall under this. His Creator/PeterLorre-esque voice makes it worse.
-->'''Cut Man''': Open it nice and slow. I'll give them haircuts...''from the neck up!''
* In "Mega X", the amount of destruction caused by Wily's superlaser. It vaporizes the surrounding landscape and makes Wily think he did the same to both Mega Man and X.
* Vile and Spark Mandrill are pretty scary, as they're completely unstoppable until X arrives to even the odds -- and even he has trouble with them.
* In "Bro Bots", Proto Man's revelation as the HeelFaceMole is met with resistance. How does he control the heroes? By threatening to shoot the governor in the face.
-->'''Proto Man:''' Power down, or I'll give Deacon a ''plasma shave''!
** In the same episode, Mega Man stumbles onto Wily's plan to create robot doubles of elected officials and control the city with them by finding a copy of ''Dr. Light''. And given Wily had both Light and the governor suspended over a pit of acid, he may have been going for a KillAndReplace scenario.
** And likewise, [[VideoGame/MegaMan3 Needle Man's]] first "death" in the Museum scene. He initially threatens [[TheDragon Proto Man]] (Who was pretending to be good at the time to fool Mega Man and his family), but the PsychoPrototype simply walks up to him, reminds him of their plan, and then proceeds to ''[[AreTheseWiresImportant open him up and ]][[https://youtu.be/xNsaP4lsgdw?t=5m24s rip a fistful of wires out of him]]'' before [[GrievousHarmWithABody throwing his still-spasming body at]] [[VideoGame/MegaMan2 Heat Man]]. Granted, [[DeathIsCheap he got repaired later]], but even for this show's standards (As covered below), that was just brutal.
* Sometimes the Robot Masters (and Rush) are literally blown to pieces. This isn't too bad until one episode showed ''Roll'' in pieces, invoking the UncannyValley as Mega Man picks up her head to talk with it.
* The show often used acid as a weapon, one time weaponizing acid rain; some kids became convinced that they'd die in an acid rain storm.
* While the episode involving Mega Man and other robots "devolving" may be ludicrous (robots don't turn into caveman-like robots), it was still freaky seeing their gradual transformation.
* "Bot Transfer" has Mega Man and Snake Man swapping bodies, with an appropriately panicked reaction from the former. Their voices ''aren't'' mental, so Mega Man is stuck with a snake's hiss as well as his body, and completely unable to get help; worse, his family [[AloneWithThePsycho doesn't suspect the "real" Mega Man until the last second.]]
* A lot of bad guys get broken into pieces, usually along the torso joints. This includes Fire Man being pulled apart by Roll's vacuum in ''The Beginning'', or robots getting bitten apart by Snake Man's weapon. Crystal Man gets his arm blown off at the elbow in ''The Mega Man in the Moon'', and is still walking around like that until the end of the episode. And at one point Dark Man is reduced to a torso, half an arm, and his head, and he's ''still completely aware of this''- even having to drag himself around because no one will carry him when they run away at the end. [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Imagine if they did this to people for a second]].
** Probably the worst examples of this happening though, had to be either Needle Man [[AreTheseWiresImportant having his wires torn out]] [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom Mola Ram]][[BeatStillMyHeart -style by Proto Man]] (Mentioned above under ''Bro Bots''), or [[VideoGame/MegaMan3 Hard Man's]] demise in ''Bad Day at Peril Park''. There, Hard Man is shown blocking Mega Man's Buster shots with his armour, [[TemptingFate taunting him all the while]] until eventually Mega Man [[FeedItABomb fires a charged shot into his mouth]]. This causes Hard Man to [[OhCrap panic and frantically claw at himself as he realises what's happening]], [[CruelAndUnusualDeath before he swells up and explodes from the inside]]. Now normally, this wouldn't be so bad; but Hard Man is [[LudicrousGibs literally blown to realistic pieces,]] [[https://youtu.be/3-PXy_rFPsM?t=4m21s with machinery and internal mechanisms scattered everywhere]]. Mega Man even picks up one of his disembodied arms (With ripped wires and framework hanging out of it) to attain the [[RocketPunch Hard Knuckle]] afterward.
** Wily's line as he approaches Rock and Roll with the drill is unsettling.
-->'''Wily:''' A little tuck here, a little slice there, and you'll soon feel differently about this!
* Also in "The Beginning", Wily warned Light not to follow him after he kidnapped Rock and Roll. If he did, Ice Man would freeze him and Cut Man would ''slice him up''.
* Wily's plans in "The Big Shake" and "The Day The Moon Fell" both involve causing extreme natural disasters, via earthquakes in the former and pulling the moon out of its orbit in the latter. They're played completely seriously.
-->'''Wily:''' I will create ''chaos''! Destroy everything! Mankind will ''beg'' me to take over!
* In "Electric Nightmare," Roll is battling a female cosmetics robot who gave her a bad facial. It's a fast fight, and cartoony until the end. Roll uses a buzzsaw to [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe slice the robot in half across her stomach]], her upper half falls to the floor, and then Roll ''vacuums her face off''.
* The episode "Curse of The Lion Men" were not well-received, but they have one moment of genuine scariness. After zapping Dr. Light with his mind controlling lionizing EyeBeams, Tar turns his attention to Wily and turns him into a lion man as well. He then frisks him for his reprogramming device and zaps the Robot Masters with it, including ''Proto Man and Roll'', turning them ''all'' loyal to him.
-->'''Proto Man: *strained*''' You...are...our leader...Tar!
** Mega and Rush are about to be ground up at a salmon-canning company. They actually show the salmon hitting the saw blades.
* The image of Rock/Mega on a lab table as a Franchise/{{Terminator}}-esque endoskeleton in the intro is a little unnerving, even though it only shows up for a few seconds before dissolving into an image of Mega from that same position but with his "skin."
* And there's the first nightmare in "Mega Dreams"; while the idea of Guts Man and Cut Man pretending to be a couple may amuse you, that moment comes after a shot of a stuffed dino with what looks like ''blood'' on its muzzle.
* In "Brain Bots", Wily places Mega Man in a DeathTrap. The trap consists of a DescendingCeiling with spikes. Unlike some death traps, Mega was bound to the floor as it descended. What pushes this into nightmare fuel is what Wily said about it; he uses it to recycle robots he no longer needs into scrap metal. Meaning he's done this to his own robots.
** What makes it worse is that some robots, like Fire Man and Star Man, were only in one episode and never seen or mentioned again.
* Some of Cut Man's lines fall under this. His Creator/PeterLorre-esque voice makes it worse.
-->'''Cut Man''': Open it nice and slow. I'll give them haircuts...''from the neck up!''
* In "Mega X", the amount of destruction caused by Wily's superlaser. It vaporizes the surrounding landscape and makes Wily think he did the same to both Mega Man and X.
* Vile and Spark Mandrill are pretty scary, as they're completely unstoppable until X arrives to even the odds -- and even he has trouble with them.
* In "Bro Bots", Proto Man's revelation as the HeelFaceMole is met with resistance. How does he control the heroes? By threatening to shoot the governor in the face.
-->'''Proto Man:''' Power down, or I'll give Deacon a ''plasma shave''!
** In the same episode, Mega Man stumbles onto Wily's plan to create robot doubles of elected officials and control the city with them by finding a copy of ''Dr. Light''. And given Wily had both Light and the governor suspended over a pit of acid, he may have been going for a KillAndReplace scenario.
** And likewise, [[VideoGame/MegaMan3 Needle Man's]] first "death" in the Museum scene. He initially threatens [[TheDragon Proto Man]] (Who was pretending to be good at the time to fool Mega Man and his family), but the PsychoPrototype simply walks up to him, reminds him of their plan, and then proceeds to ''[[AreTheseWiresImportant open him up and ]][[https://youtu.be/xNsaP4lsgdw?t=5m24s rip a fistful of wires out of him]]'' before [[GrievousHarmWithABody throwing his still-spasming body at]] [[VideoGame/MegaMan2 Heat Man]]. Granted, [[DeathIsCheap he got repaired later]], but even for this show's standards (As covered below), that was just brutal.
* Sometimes the Robot Masters (and Rush) are literally blown to pieces. This isn't too bad until one episode showed ''Roll'' in pieces, invoking the UncannyValley as Mega Man picks up her head to talk with it.
* The show often used acid as a weapon, one time weaponizing acid rain; some kids became convinced that they'd die in an acid rain storm.
* While the episode involving Mega Man and other robots "devolving" may be ludicrous (robots don't turn into caveman-like robots), it was still freaky seeing their gradual transformation.
* "Bot Transfer" has Mega Man and Snake Man swapping bodies, with an appropriately panicked reaction from the former. Their voices ''aren't'' mental, so Mega Man is stuck with a snake's hiss as well as his body, and completely unable to get help; worse, his family [[AloneWithThePsycho doesn't suspect the "real" Mega Man until the last second.]]
* A lot of bad guys get broken into pieces, usually along the torso joints. This includes Fire Man being pulled apart by Roll's vacuum in ''The Beginning'', or robots getting bitten apart by Snake Man's weapon. Crystal Man gets his arm blown off at the elbow in ''The Mega Man in the Moon'', and is still walking around like that until the end of the episode. And at one point Dark Man is reduced to a torso, half an arm, and his head, and he's ''still completely aware of this''- even having to drag himself around because no one will carry him when they run away at the end. [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Imagine if they did this to people for a second]].
** Probably the worst examples of this happening though, had to be either Needle Man [[AreTheseWiresImportant having his wires torn out]] [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom Mola Ram]][[BeatStillMyHeart -style by Proto Man]] (Mentioned above under ''Bro Bots''), or [[VideoGame/MegaMan3 Hard Man's]] demise in ''Bad Day at Peril Park''. There, Hard Man is shown blocking Mega Man's Buster shots with his armour, [[TemptingFate taunting him all the while]] until eventually Mega Man [[FeedItABomb fires a charged shot into his mouth]]. This causes Hard Man to [[OhCrap panic and frantically claw at himself as he realises what's happening]], [[CruelAndUnusualDeath before he swells up and explodes from the inside]]. Now normally, this wouldn't be so bad; but Hard Man is [[LudicrousGibs literally blown to realistic pieces,]] [[https://youtu.be/3-PXy_rFPsM?t=4m21s with machinery and internal mechanisms scattered everywhere]]. Mega Man even picks up one of his disembodied arms (With ripped wires and framework hanging out of it) to attain the [[RocketPunch Hard Knuckle]] afterward.
