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3->''"Oh, Wily will have his reckoning. We ''all'' will. The time will come, and '''Worlds''' will '''Collide''' again..."''
4-->-- '''Xander Payne'''
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6In 2013, the worlds of the ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' and ''[[ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics Mega Man]]'' comic series crossed over in the twelve part epic, ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide Worlds Collide]]'', a story which united two of gaming's most well-known blue heroes and brought about significant changes for the former series' future. In 2015, the Blue Bomber and the Blue Blur's paths crossed ''again'' in a new crossover titled ''Worlds Unite''. But this time, it's not just their worlds and time periods that are getting involved; joining the crossover are the cast of ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' and Sticks of ''ComicBook/SonicBoom'', along with many, ''many'' more from across Sega and Capcom's storied franchises.
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8The story picks up on plot threads that began in Mega Man's ''Dawn of X'' storyline, as well as prequels in the prior issues of both Sonic books. In X's timeline, sometime after the events of ''VideoGame/MegaManX7'', [[Characters/MegaManXSigma Sigma]] discovers the existence of the mysterious Genesis Portals, which lead to different dimensions. Believing that these portals are the key to his further evolution, the living virus travels to Sonic's world, where he forces Dr. Eggman into his servitude. After reuniting him with his former partner-in-crime from ''Worlds Collide'', Dr. Wily, he puts them to work in building the means for his latest conquest, triggering a conflict that will span multiple dimensions.
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10In addition to characters from the Sonic and Mega Man franchises, ''Worlds Unite'' features characters from the following franchises:
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12'''Creator/{{Sega}}'''
13* ''VideoGame/NightsIntoDreams'': Nights and Reala, with a brief appearance by Wizeman
14* ''VideoGame/AlexKidd'': Alex Kidd and Stella
15* ''VideoGame/GoldenAxe'': Gilius Thunderhead, Ax Battler, and Tyris Flame
16* ''VideoGame/BillyHatcherAndTheGiantEgg'': Billy Hatcher, Rolly Roll, Chick Poacher, Bantam Scrambled
17* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'': The entire Blue Rouge Pirates
18* ''VideoGame/PanzerDragoon'': Keil Fluge and the Blue Dragon
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20'''Creator/{{Capcom}}'''
21* ''VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe'': Joe and Silvia
22* ''Franchise/BreathOfFire'' (specifically ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII''): Ryu, Garr, Nina, Momo, Honey, Rei and Peco
23* ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins'' (including the ''VideoGame/GargoylesQuest'' spin-offs as well): Arthur and Firebrand with a brief appearance by Astaroth.
24* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'': Amaterasu and Issun
25* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'': Ryu, Ken, Guile, Chun-Li, M.Bison, Balrog and Vega.
26* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': Gore Magala, Felyne and Palico
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28''Worlds Unite'' began in May of Spring 2015 and ended in August 2015. As with ''Worlds Collide'', it ran through four issues each of ''Sonic Universe'', ''Sonic Boom'', ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' and ''Mega Man'' in that cycle order through the three months. The series also included two direct-market tie-in books expanding on battles shown in the crossover, appropriately titled ''Worlds Unite: Battle Books''.
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33* AdvertisedExtra: A giant poster made out of several connecting covers (which serves as this page's image) shows almost all characters that show up in story (with the notable exception of Sonic Boom characters, sans Sticks) evn if they actually have very small roles. The most egregious examples include Dr. Light and Auto (who only play small roles in Act 1), Team Dark ([[SacrificialLion who only appear briefly to die]]) and [[VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins Princess Prim Prim]] (who doesn't even make physical appearance in story, only being mentioned by Arthur).
34* AlternateSelf: The Boom versions of the ''Sonic'' characters appear in the crossover very briefly in a reference to the previous ''Boom'' issue, with appropriately witty text boxes to identify that these are the Boom versions for any readers that might be confused. It's pretty much handwaved, though, that Sticks promptly forgets her friends in her attempt to help the Maverick Hunters, and the Boom crew don't show up again until the end.
35* AlwaysABiggerFish: The X-Hunters learn the hard way that fighting in Gore Magala's territory is a '''bad''' idea.
36* ArcWelding: Running with the CosmicRetcon aftermath of ''Worlds Collide'', ''Sonic Boom'' #8 revealed that ''Worlds Collide'' happened the exact way. However, the Chaos Emerald that enabled the crossover was flung to Mega Man's world by the Time Eater's space-time rampage in ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' in the rebooted ''Sonic'' continuity, rather by the first Genesis Wave in the ''Sonic Genesis'' arc in the old continuity. As such, (Modern) Eggman encountered Wily while stranded in a void during TheStinger of ''Generations'' (what happened to Classic Robotnik in that same scene is left unstated) and not while barking orders to his Grandmasters in his base.
37* ApologeticAttacker: In part 7, [[spoiler:when all Robot Masters, Maverick Hunters, Bunnie, and Gemerl are mind controlled by the Deadly Six. Snake Man is notably insincere, however.]]
38* ArmyOfTheAges: The final United Army consists of everything from half-naked barbarians to Japanese martial artists to futuristic robots.
39* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Sigma's second body is ''huge''.
40* AuthorAppeal: Ian Flynn admitted that the reason why ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII'' is specifically in the crossover is more or less a case of favoritism, since it's his favorite game in the series. He also holds particular esteem for ''Skies of Arcadia'', and has wanted to work with the characters ever since Vyse's guest spot in ''Sonic Universe''.
41* AuthorGuestSpot: [=UDON=], the current license holder for ''Street Fighter'' comics, helped out in this crossover.
42* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Dynamo, one of the few Mavericks who ''wasn't'' destroyed in-series, comes back and is kicked in half by Ryu and Ken]].
43* TheBadGuyWins: The first three issues which make up the first act are pretty much this as [[spoiler: Sonic and Mega Man are captured and roboticized, then sent to their opposite worlds where they easily trounce all the opposition before them before activating a beacon and merging the two worlds.]]
44* BadassBoast: Gemerl to M'Egga Man:
45-->''Buddy, what I '''want''' is to live peacefully. But, you just had to come to my town and make a fuss. So, instead, I'll make you rest in peace!''
46* BadassCrew: Parts 9 and 10 involve a multiversal assembly of one.
47* BatmanGambit: Eggman and Wily ''counted'' on Sonic and Mega Man eventually getting de-roboticized.
48* BarbarianHero: The Golden Axe heroes.
49* BeyondTheImpossible: Somehow, possibly due to Sonic Man's super speed, he is able to counter Flash Man's Time Stopper, which ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin literally stops time around him]]''.
50* BondVillainStupidity: Sigma's army of mavericks end up soundly defeating the army of heroes. But before the heroes can be finished off, Sigma stops the fight and and sends all of the Mavericks across time and space so they can get a move on with activating the world-absorbing bombs, leaving ''four'' mavericks to finish off a team of nearly 30 heroes. [[spoiler:But the heroes would have lost anyway were it not for the intervention of the Street Fighters]]
51* BigBad: Sigma.
52* BishonenLine: [[spoiler: While Sigma-2 is mountain sized, Sigma-3 is "merely" on the large side of humanlike.]]
53* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Sticks returns with Chun-Li, Ryu, Ken and Guile in ''Mega Man'' #51, giving the heroes a fighting chance against the army of Mavericks.]]
54* BlatantLies: Both Sonic and Eggman tell Mega Man and Wily... truncated versions of their last meetings, with Sonic mentioning that he so totally kicked Mega Man's butt when they first fought and Eggman leaving out the part where he and Metal Sonic tried to kill Dr. Light. Mega Man at least is skeptical that Sonic is just teasing him.
55* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Sonic and Mega Man for most of Act 1, getting turned into Roboticized Masters and sent to attack each other's worlds. They're only saved by a bit of extra programming Eggman and Wily snuck in that made them deroboticize each other upon meeting.
56* BreakingTheFourthWall: Sticks does this a few times, as well as [[VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe Joe and Silvia]].
57* BrickJoke: When Sticks goes with the Maverick Hunters, she requests she get to say "TakeMeToYourLeader". She doesn't get the chance when the group arrive at the fused world due to the Freedom Fighters and the Robot Masters already talking about the situation. But when she falls into a Genesis Portal and [[spoiler: winds up in the ''Street Fighter'' world, where she meets Chun-Li]], she gets to say the line.
58* CallBack:
59** In the opening of Part 1, the frozen corpses of Blizzard Buffalo and Chill Penguin can be spotted in Sigma's snow hideout, the clear implication being that the lair once used to be Frost Walrus's stage where those same two corpses appeared in the background.
60** Appropriate for a comic with no Fourth Wall, ''Sonic Boom'' #8 has Cubot complaining about how Eggman wanted "Seven-point-five paint jobs? For one robot?" and that it was for "more variants", a playful jab at ''Sonic Universe'' #75 and the fact it had seven "and a half" variant covers.
61** A subtle one to a previous Sega/Capcom crossover involving ''Mega Man X''. In ''Mega Man'' #51, Zero expresses relief that [[spoiler:Iris isn't among the army of resurrected Mavericks]]. Chapter 29 of ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'' (set before ''X7'' and therefore this crossover from X and Zero's perspective) centered around Vile doing exactly that as [[HeroicBSOD a psychological attack]] on Zero.
62** See the CameBackWrong and EmptyShell examples below on this page? Those were also [[JustifiedTrope the explanation]] for the BossRush in ''VideoGame/MegaManMaverickHunterX''.
63* CallForward: Dr. Wily contemplates Zero, and comments that Zero looks like a robot he would build. Zero will be created by Dr. Wily.
64* CallingYourAttacks: Frankly, if the ''Street Fighter'' cast ''didn't'' do this, it would have been weird.
65* CameBackWrong: When Sigma revives his fortress bosses and [[spoiler:Mavericks from X1 to X8]]. They all lack their personalities and memories, but Sigma deems this acceptable and doesn't bother to fix it. [[PlotHole Except they clearly show personalities later on, the X-Hunters even recalling their last encounter.]]
66* CanonForeigner: In ''Worlds Collide'', the original characters created for both comics didn't appear, aside from Quake Woman's small cameo on the cover and a brief appearance of Sally's roboticized form, with the writers opting to go with characters only from the game for the sake of new readers. This time, these characters are all given an actual role in the story.
67* CelebrityParadox: Of a sort. The Palicos X and Sticks encounter with the X-Hunters are wearing Sonic and Mega Man-themed gear (which yes, you can actually get in ''Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate''). Nobody notices this.
68* ChainmailBikini: Tyris Flare from ''VideoGame/GoldenAxe'', which is a first for the Sonic comics.
69* ColossusClimb: Sigma-2 is so huge that, despite his immense power, he can't really directly fight the heroes, and he ends serving as, essentially, a battlefield in itself late in the story, having to rely on Copy Sigmas and boss mavericks to battle the heroes.
70* ComicBookAdaptation: The main comics had Eggman investigate Lost Hex while everyone else was trying to fix their broken planet. With this, the main plot of ''Worlds Unite'' is essentially Archie's adaptation of ''VideoGame/SonicLostWorld'', with the Deadly Six and the plot of draining the planet's power for the villain's schemes. It's also, in a way, their contribution to [[VideoGame/CapcomVs Capcom's Vs series]].
71* CompositeCharacter: Design-wise, [=NiGHTS=] has their ''Into Dreams'...'' lack of gloves (''Journey of Dreams'' gave them gloves), while everything else is from ''VideoGame/NiGHTSJourneyOfDreams''.
72* ContinuityCameo:
73** The unnamed pink-haired navigator in ''VideoGame/MegaManMaverickHunterX'' makes a one-panel cameo during X's flashback to the Day of Sigma in Part 4, fruitlessly attempting to contact Maverick Hunter units.
74** The Off-Panel comic in ''Sonic Universe'' #77 features Mama Robotnik from ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' and even the ''[[WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster Captain N]]'' version of Mega Man of all characters.
75** [[VideoGame/FantasyZone Opa-Opa]] appears for a single panel in the foreground when Sigma approaches the Freedom Fighters' base. He was never recruited by the others and doesn't appear afterwards. He just happened to be flying through the rift during Sigma's advance.
76* ContrivedCoincidence: After the worlds are merged, this conveniently puts all the protagonists in the same area so that they'll be able to meet and team up.
77* CosmicRetcon: The one that hit Sonic's world after ''Worlds Collide'' gets discussed by Eggman at one point, and its effects noted, namely that the cause of his and Dr. Wily's original meeting is now the events of ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations''.
78* CounterpartCombatCoordination: In the third act, Sigma sends thematically-relevant Mavericks to invade each world:
79** In ''Sonic Universe'' #78:
80*** ''Alex Kidd'' vs. [[VideoGame/MegaManX2 Magna Centipede]]: RockPaperScissors is all the rage in Alex Kidd's world, and Centipede happens to be four-armed...
81*** ''Ghosts 'n Goblins'' vs. [[VideoGame/MegaManXtreme Geemel and Zain]]: Two Mavericks with medieval-esque character designs intrude into a castle.
82*** ''Skies of Arcadia'' vs. [[VideoGame/MegaManX5 Tidal Makkoeen/Tidal Whale/Duff [=McWhalen=]]]: As a robot whale, Duff is seen by the Blue Rogues as a mockery of Rhaknam.
83*** ''Street Fighter'' - Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li and Guile vs. [[VideoGame/MegaManX4 Magma Dragoon]]: Dragoon could explicitly perform Hadoukens and Shoryukens in-game, and he also wears a bead necklace akin to Akuma's. [[spoiler:Here, he's killed by a Shoryuken and a Hadouken.]] Plus, M. '''Bison''' fights Blizzard '''Buffalo'''.
84*** ''[=NiGHTS intro Dreams...=]'' vs. [[VideoGame/MegaManX Storm Eagle]] and [[VideoGame/MegaManX4 Storm Owl]]: Fliers vs. fliers.
85*** ''Okami'' vs. [[VideoGame/MegaManX6 Blizzard Wolfang]]: Wolf vs. wolf.
86** In ''Sonic Boom #10'':
87*** ''Monster Hunter'' vs. [[VideoGame/MegaManX2 the X-Hunters]]: It's in the name.
88*** ''Billy Hatcher'' vs. [[VideoGame/MegaManX7 Wind Crowrang]] and [[VideoGame/MegaManX5 Dark Necrobat/Dark Dizzy]]: As he explicitly points out, Billy Hatcher fights crow monsters on a regular basis, and bats are creatures of darkness.
89*** ''Panzer Dragoon'' vs. [[VideoGame/MegaManX5 Burn Dinorex/Mattrex]] and [[VideoGame/MegaManX8 Gigavolt Man-o-War]]: The ''Panzer Dragoon'' series (bar the third game) and [[UnexpectedGameplayChange Gigavolt Man-o-War's stage]] are both {{Rail Shooter}}s. In Dinorex's case, the only dragon Maverick was already killed in the previous issue due to his pre-existing ''Street Fighter'' connections, so the next best thing had to be settled on - the only dinosaur Maverick.
90*** ''Breath of Fire'' vs. [[VideoGame/MegaManX3 Toxic Seahorse]] and [[VideoGame/MegaManX5 Spiral Pegasus/The Skiver]]: Combined, they resemble the game's final boss who is a winged snake with toxic attacks.
91*** ''Golden Axe'' vs. [[VideoGame/MegaManXtreme2 Gareth and Berkana]]: As with the ''Ghosts 'n Goblins'' case, chosen for their character designs fitting with the thematic of the series they're invading.
92*** ''Viewtiful Joe'' vs. [[VideoGame/MegaManX5 Volt Kraken/Squid Adler]] and [[VideoGame/MegaManX Sting Chameleon]]: Joe compares them to ''Viewtiful Joe 2'' bosses Dr. Cranken and Cameo Leon, who are... you guessed it, a squid man and a chameleon.
93* CoversAlwaysLie:
94** [[spoiler: Team Dark is featured in the crossover poster (as seen on the image up above), but only appear briefly in part 4 to die killed when a building fuses with the G.U.N airship and explodes. Don't worry, this isn't permanent.]]
95** A much more egregious example: the [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/sonic/images/0/0f/Sonic_Boom_-8.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150725111437 main cover]] for ''Sonic Boom'' issue 8 (part 2) very prominently features Signas and Alia of ''Mega Man X'', giving the impression that they'd be important players in the story. Not only do they not appear in this issue, they don't appear in the crossover ''at all''. All they ever get is a passing mention in a later issue.
96* CrisisCrossover: Even more than ''Worlds Collide'' as it not only involves Sonic and Mega Man's worlds once again. But brings in the ''Mega Man X'' timeline and the universe of ''ComicBook/SonicBoom'' as well as a multitude of characters from other game series. It is virtually a comic book version of ''[[VideoGame/CapcomVs Capcom vs Sega]]''.
97* CurbStompBattle: Several.
98** The fights with Sonic's and Mega Man's corrupted forms are this ''in spades''. Sonic (as "Sonic Man") takes on the Mega City cops, the Light Robot Masters (including Proto/Break Man), Quake Woman, and eight redeemed Wily Robot Masters. Mega Man (as "M'egga Man") simultaneously faces the Knothole Royal Guards, the Freedom Fighters, Knuckles, and Gemerl. Both single-handedly ''wipe the freaking floor'' with their opponents' faces and don't even break a sweat doing so; in return, they each get hit only ''once''.
99** Sticks' and the Street Fighters' BigDamnHeroes moment plays out like this. The Mavericks menacing the blue heroes and co. never stood a chance.
100** The Sega/Capcom worlds' resident heroes (and villains) versus Sigma's Mavericks in the crossover's third act. With a few exceptions, the Mavericks get their asses handed to them on all fronts. Sonic, Mega Man, and co. do a lot more explaining and news-spreading than actual fighting.
101*** Astaroth is ''not'' happy to see uninvited visitors from another dimension trying to take over his. When the Mavericks invading his castle don't take the hint, he torches on the spot.
102*** M. Bison takes out Blizzard Buffalo faster than you can say [[Film/StreetFighter "Of course!"]]
103** After Sigma assumes his final form, he proceeds to casually trash '''''EVERYONE''''' except for Eggman, Wily, and Xander Payne (who have infiltrated the Lost Hex by then). He even holds his own against Super Sonic and Super Mega Man for a while until the evil doctors and Xander cut off his power supply, at which point Sigma suffers this trope himself.
104* DeusExMachina: As soon as Wily and Eggman pray for a miracle to save them, [[spoiler:Xander opens up a dimensional, space-spanning portal with his eye using a power he received only moments before to save them.]]
105* DitchingTheDubNames: Ian Flynn personally dislikes the very blatant Music/GunsNRoses-[[MusicalThemeNaming themed names]] for the [[DubNameChange initial localized English names]] for the Mavericks in ''VideoGame/MegaManX5'', and so refers to them by names based on their Japanese ones (a change that Capcom would later make official to the English scripts in the ''Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2'' release of ''X5'') - or in the case of Duff [=McWhalen=], his actual Japanese name "Tidal Makkoeen"[[note]]Flynn admitted that was an editorial slip-up.[[/note]] - during the third act. Ergo, Vyse cannot claim he once fought a robot named "Duff [=McWhalen=]".
106* ADogNamedDog: "Felyne" is the name of the species of catlike creatures that sometimes help Monster Hunters, while "Palico" is a name for the occupation of doing so. Used here because Palicos have randomly-generated/player-given names in the games.
107* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:Chun-Li shows up near the end of Part 6 (''Sonic Boom'' #9) after Sticks gets tossed into a Genesis portal during the battle outside Sigma's fortress and winds up in the ''Street Fighter'' world.]]
108* EmptyShell: The time-cloned Mavericks all lose their personality, replaced with only a desire to follow Sigma's orders. In fact, across the entire seventh issue, ''two'' words are spoken across all of them. This ends up being to their advantage, since they are free of any boastfulness or banter that might prove to be their undoing. However, they all regain their personalities after leaving Sigma's presence.
109* EnemyMine: After Eggman and Wily escape from Sigma, they agree to team up with the Freedom Fighters, Maverick Hunters and Light's Robot Masters to help the group defeat Sigma and his forces.
110** [[spoiler:Reala and Firebrand join the heroes under the orders of their masters, because neither Wizeman nor Astaroth appreciates Sigma contesting their claim to their worlds.]]
111** [[spoiler:Metal Sonic puts off his grudge with Sonic to help against Sigma, seeing him as the major threat.]]
112** [[spoiler:Likewise Bison has Shadowloo come join in the battle against Sigma as well since he's messing with ''his'' world.]]
113** [[spoiler:In 11th issue, there is whole one page [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] the trope: It has four panels each showing one duo fighting together: Artur and Firebrand, Sonic and Metal Sonic, Mega Man and Break Man, and Nights and Reala.]]
114* EnergyRingAttack: Sonic Man can fire rings that bind enemies.
115* EvilerThanThou: Sigma's lay to claim of the various gaming worlds ends up, as stated above, setting him directly against those worlds' reigning [[BigBad central villains]]. In particular doctors Eggman and Wily, who from the beginning set up a plan to usurp Sigma and take back their seats. [[spoiler: They ultimately succeed -- albeit briefly. Unfortunately for them, [[SpannerInTheWorks Xander had plans of his own]].]]
116* {{Expy}}: Gemerl from ''[[VideoGame/SonicAdvanceTrilogy Sonic Advance 3]]'' debuts in this series, though he was mentioned earlier, matching his ending role as the caretaker for Cream the Rabbit and her family. However, he carries the behaviors of Shard, a rebuilt Metal Sonic from the old universe.
117* FaceDeathWithDignity: Blizzard Wolfgang when Amaterasu lands a major blow on him. He compliments the goddess and tells her to finish it.
118* FaceFramedInShadow: [[spoiler: Chun-Li in Part 7 (''Mega Man'' #51) when she interviews Sticks.]]
119* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The NeckSnap example noted below. We even see [[MachineBlood oil]] squirt onto M. Bison's face as he deals the CoupDeGrace.
120* FightingFromTheInside: All robots [[spoiler:when they get controlled by the Deadly Six, ''except'' Snake Man.]]
121* FluffyTamer: Sticks calms down the Gore Magala to bring back with them.
122* GodhoodSeeker: Wily and Eggman tell the heroes that they propose this is Sigma's main goal: to siphon energy from different worlds and make himself a god. Of course, the first chance they get they try to do this themselves.
123* GondorCallsForAid: With the Mavericks heading into various worlds, our heroes decide to follow them and recruit the heroes of those worlds.
124* TheHeart: Sticks' primary role is this. While she's a decent fighter, her most prominent ability is the ability to win people over with her pluck - The Maverick Hunters, four Street Fighters, Fastidious Beaver and Comedy Chimp, Viewtiful Joe and Sylvia, Felyne and Palico [[spoiler:and even the eldritch nightmare that is Gore Magala]]
125* HeelFaceTurn: Wily's Robot Masters have turned good following their reprogramming in the ''Mega Man'' arc preceding this crossover. [[spoiler:Subverted with Shadow Man who states he's still loyal to Wily.]]
126* HeroicWillpower: Villainous example. Sigma is able to resist the Deadly Six's ability to control machines through his advanced Reploid programming and sheer willpower before he manages to take control of them.
127* HopeSpot:
128** Break Man and Gemerl make [[BigDamnHeroes dramatic entrances]] when confronting Sonic Man and M'egga Man, only to lose just as easily as all the heroes who came before them.
129** The heroes raid on Sigma's Base seems to be going well and they manage to defeat the Deadly Six. [[spoiler: However, the Zeti use their robot controlling powers to take control of the ''Mega Man'' characters and turn them against the Freedom Fighters.]]
130** Wily and Eggman [[spoiler: manage to disable the Deadly Six's powers and bring the robots back to normal]]. Before the heroes have a chance to recover though, Sigma siphons the energy from the two merged worlds, grows giant and summons every Maverick, grossly outnumbering the heroes. In response, the two doctors attempt to repair the device they used on [[spoiler:the Deadly Six]] to shut down the Mavericks only for [[VideoGame/MegaManX7 Tornado Tonion]] to make a DynamicEntry right on top of it.
131** After traveling to other worlds and keeping the generators from being activated, preventing more worlds from merging, and gaining more allies, the new United Army proceeds to make short work of Sigma's giant form and his forces. He seems to be defeated [[spoiler: ..only to reveal he made himself another body known as the Sigma-3, which is so insanely powerful that the army is quickly decimated. This forces Sonic and Mega Man to go Super as a last resort.]]
132* HourglassPlot: ''Worlds Collide'' ends with Mega Man's universe returning to normal but Sonic's universe suffering a CosmicRetcon. While Mega Man's universe doesn't have the same effect by the time this event closes, small changes happen regarless, like Xander Payne becoming Mr. X, plus a world of unknown origin is born from the aftermath. Sonic, Sticks and Mega Man X's universes, meanwhile, are back to normal.
133* IAmTheNoun: When the Mega City cops tell Sonic Man to drop his weapons, he coldly replies "I ''am'' the weapon".
134* InfoDump: The first five issues have lengthy exposition dumps about the plot, characters, and what's going on.
135* ItWillNeverCatchOn:
136** During a conversation, Sticks hears "[[Anime/SonicX Sonic, X]]", making her muse that it'll never last past three seasons.
137** Similarly, Sticks' Sonic blows off the idea of Super Sonic with a sarcastic "Oh, sure, I turn gold and fly around all the time." [[LiteralMinded Which Knuckles believes.]]
138* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: Shadow, Rouge, Omega, the mayor of Mega City, and the entire G.U.N. crew for the entirety of the crossover. The Deadly Six likewise seems to have been killed as well when Sigma destroys the Sky Patrol and the heroes that stayed behind on the ship were forced to evacuate, leaving the Zeti in the brig.]]
139* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Due to Mega Man managing to fix his universe at the end of ''Worlds Collide'', the Mega Man-verse characters don't remember anything of the previous crossover with only Sonic and Eggman aware of it due to being displaced in a new timeline of their universe. Eggman takes advantage of this when he meets Wily again and tells a false version of crossover to get him to be his partner once more. Likewise Sonic fills the Light family in on everything after [[spoiler: Mega Man and he are freed from their robotization.]]
140* LateArrivalSpoiler: [[spoiler: Gore Magala is described as an Elder Dragon[[note]]specifically, the juvenile form of the Elder Dragon Shagaru Magala)[[/note]], a fact that comes as a surprise in ''Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate''.]]
141* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Among the background citizens from Mega Man's world watching the deroboticization of Sonic and Mega Man are knock-offs of the Kobayashi family from ''Anime/MegaManUponAStar'', [[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork Dex Oyama, Yai Ayanokoji]][[note]]As the Short Circuits of the final ''Mega Man'' issue makes more evident with its silhouetted cameos, they are knock-offs by necessity due to Creator/VizMedia holding exclusive American rights to print ''Mega Man Battle Network'' stories.[[/note]] and [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Ash Ketchum]].
142* LetsYouAndHimFight: Solicits for the second act have the Freedom Fighters fight against the Light Bots and the Maverick Hunters [[spoiler:thanks to the Deadly Six]].
143* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Invoked. When the comic's editor decided the stakes weren't personal enough and told Ian Flynn to kill someone off, he chose [[spoiler:Shadow, Rouge, and Omega]], characters so important that readers would know there was no way they'd die. Their inevitable return was {{lampshaded}}. [[spoiler: Although Subverted, as they really ''did'' kill them off in the story. But it was nothing a ResetButton couldn't fix.]]
144* LockAndLoadMontage: ''Sonic Universe'' #77 is pretty much the protagonists working together and preparing themselves before they go to war with Sigma.
145* LoinCloth / WalkingShirtlessScene: Ax Battler from ''VideoGame/GoldenAxe'', another first for the ''Sonic'' comics, at least for a human character.
146* MadnessMantra: A ''clearly'' traumatized Fastidious Beaver and Comedy Chimp utters "There's no place like home" at the end.
147* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Much more pronounced in this series than the first, given that it adds the casts of ''Sonic Boom'' and ''Mega Man X''. That's not even bringing the other Sega and Capcom characters into the mix.
148* MediumAwareness:
149** When Axl and Sticks show up in ''Viewtiful Joe'' 's world, this gets lampshaded to heck and back.
150--->'''Joe''': Dr. Cracken?! Cameo Leon?! What're they doing in the Real World?\
151'''Silvia''': No...I think we've wandered into some kind of franchise crossover!
152** As well as...
153--->'''Sticks''': Alright! Mission accomplished! Axl! Go destroy the unity engine while I recruit these two!\
154'''Axl''': Sure, but weren't you with partnered with X?[[note]] Earlier in the issue, Sticks had gone with X to the ''Monster Hunter'' world. All of a sudden, she showed up with Axl in this world.[[/note]]\
155'''Sticks''': I fell through a plot hole and now I'm here.\
156'''Axl''': Don't you mean "Genesis Portal"?\
157'''Sticks''': Whatever works for you kid, now move it!\
158'''Axl''': ''(Rolls eyes)'' Yes ma'am.
159** And of course ''this''...
160--->'''Sticks''': [=OhMyGosh!=] You guys break the fourth wall too?!\
161'''Joe''': Ehh...A little bit.\
162'''Silvia''': Mostly for the self-referential humor.
163* MythologyGag: The aforementionned poster in AdvertisedExtra up above depicts Roll's broom leaving a rainbow trail - a visual trait exclusive to her depiction in ''VideoGame/TatsunokoVsCapcom''.
164* NearVillainVictory: A posthumous example. [[spoiler: Sigma-3 is destroyed by Super Sonic and Mega Man thanks to the doctors tampering with the engine that's giving him his power making him vulnerable. But even with him gone, he caused too much damage to the worlds that even Chaos Control can't fix it. What's more Eggman and Wily take over the engine and are posed to re-write reality. It's only thanks to Xander taking over the machine and using it to kill Sigma before he jumped to Sonic's world, thus keeping the crossover events from happening, that everyone is saved.]]
165* NeckSnap: M. Bison does this. ''To Blizzard Buffalo. One-handed.''
166* NiceJobFixingItVillain:
167** Sigma recruits Dr. Wily and Dr. Eggman for his plan. Eggman and Wily put in a program in the robotized Sonic and Mega Man so that they'll battle each other and revert to normal in the process with the memory that Sigma is their enemy. While it does work, they had hoped the two would return to base first before that happened. But the world's merging put the two directly in each others sights from the get go. Once Sonic and Mega Man are changed back to normal, this tips Sigma off that the two doctors have betrayed him.
168** There's also Sigma's invasion of other worlds: [[spoiler:He's managed to piss off Astaroth and Wizeman, leading them to send Firebrand and Reala with the heroes and their usual arch-nemesis. As well, M. Bison has declared that Sigma has now gotten "the full attention of Shadaloo".]]
169** In the end [[spoiler: Eggman and Wily tampering with the Eternal Engine weakened Sigma enough for Sonic and Mega Man to destroy him. Likewise when they finally took control of it, it allowed Xander the opportunity to stop the crossover from happening by killing Sigma before he has a chance to jump to Sonic's world.]]
170* NoHonorAmongThieves: A misanthropic Reploid with a [[AGodAmI messiah complex]], two [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder notoriously treacherous]] and egomaniacal {{Mad Scientist}}s, six hostile [[ProudWarriorRace Zeti]], and a [[AxCrazy half-insane]] [[TheUnfettered terrorist mastermind]], all in one setting. And each group plans on screwing the rest over. One such double-cross even [[CosmicResetButton undoes the whole crossover]]!
171* NotSoDifferentRemark: Quake Woman and Nicole (incidentally both {{canon foreigner}}s in their respective series) find they actually have a lot in common when it comes to trying to understand emotions.
172* OffscreenTeleportation: Sticks gets to team of with X to got into the ''Monster Hunter'' world, while going with Ryu, Chun-Li, Ken, and Guile in to the ''Street Fighter'' universe, while at the same time going with Axl to the world of Viewtiful Joe, by falling into a "plot hole" (which Axl tries to correct as Genesis Portal).
173* OffWithHisHead: A favored tactic of the ''Golden Axe'' protagonists. [[spoiler:Gore Magala plays with this by instead removing Serges' ''body'' from his ''head'' instead.]]
174* OneManArmy: Sonic Man and M'egga Man during the first act, and Sigma's final form in the third act.
175* PortalCrossroadWorld: Implied in the SequelHook with the Nexus. It is also known as the Genesis Nexus in some fan circles.
176* PowerCreepPowerSeep: All over the place, though most notable when Antoine's perfectly ordinary military sword manages to block a laser blade.
177* PlanetaryCoreManipulation: Sigma's plan is ultimately to merge several worlds together to feed off their energy and power himself up to God-like status. He succeeds in doing this to Sonic and Mega Man's world, but the process drains the planet's core as well. [[spoiler:By the time the heroes manage to beat him, it's too late to fix the damage and the combined planet nearly implodes on itself. The day's only saved because Xander Payne takes advantage of Eggman and Wily's Eternal Engine to open a portal back to the past and prevent Sigma from transferring himself to Orbot, stopping the events of the crossover from happening.]]
178* PsychicAssistedSuicide: The Zeti, when first capturing Mega Man, defeat him by using their inherent robot-controlling powers to make Mega Man shoot himself.
179* RecursiveCanon: The Felyne and Palico from ''Monster Hunter'' wear downloadable content outfits of Sonic and Mega Man.
180* ResetButton: [[spoiler:Xander shooting Sigma when he first entered the portals causes a time paradox, resetting reality to how it was before the crossover. However, everyone remembers that it happened somewhat]].
181** [[spoiler:Subverted in that Genesis Portals continue to be a problem Silver the Hedgehog after this crossover is over, and Xander ends up flung thirty years into the past, the effects of which were already felt before the crossover and after.]]
182* RippleEffectProofMemory: Zig-zagged at the end. [[spoiler: Sonic, Mega Man, Wily, and Eggman somewhat recall the crossover but not the full details just that something happened and their fellow partners had a hand in it. Sticks, Comedy Chimp and Fastidious Beaver however remember it vividly for some reason but Sticks surmises since it technically never happened with the timeline change, the other heroes recruited likewise won't recall the crossover when they went back to their worlds. Mr. X also seems aware of what happened to Wily, since Wily stated that it was ''HIM'' all along, insinuating that Mr. X may indeed be a time-aged Xander Payne, since the doctors DID warn him about the trickery of time travel.]]
183* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Comedy Chimp and Fastidious Beaver flee, screaming in abject terror, the moment their team goes into battle.
184* SequelHook: Slightly [[spoiler: though the crossover is erased from the timeline. Sonic, Mega Man, Wily and Eggman still vaguely remember each other with the latter two having mended their friendship and vowing to try again in the future.]] What's more, when Sticks tells the Sonic Boom cast what happened, she theorizes, and we're shown, that [[spoiler:the Genesis Portals aren't completely gone, there are probably new worlds to explore, changing the essence of reality has lasting consequences, and at the middle of it all is a nexus. This sets up Silver's next story arc in ''Sonic Universe''.]]
185* SeriousBusiness: Alex Kidd and Stella apparently destroy Magna Centipede for ''cheating at Rock-Paper-Scissors''. To be fair though, Rock-Paper-Scissors is a lethal deal in their world.
186* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: [[spoiler:Xander saves the day by shooting Sigma in the past just before he transferred himself into Orbot, undoing most of the crossover and saving reality from falling apart.]]
187* ShaggyDogStory: The heroes ultimately fail in each act: they're defeated be Sonic Man and M'egga Man, resulting in the worlds being united; they're overwhelmed when they storm Sigma's base; and even after defeating Sigma himself, they can't undo the damage he's done to reality. Things are only salvaged because Xander turns back the clock.
188* ShatteredWorld: Unlike the first crossover, this story doesn't [[CosmicRetcon overwrite]] ''Sonic's'' world, as the planet is still broken up into multiple shards as part of the series' ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'' adaptation. It only gets worse when Sigma combines Sonic's world and Mega Man's world together.
189* SidelinedProtagonistCrossover: This comicbook is mainly a crossover between ''VideoGame/{{Mega Man|Classic}}'', ''VideoGame/MegaManX'', ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'', and ''ComicBook/SonicBoom''. In ''Sonic Boom''[='=]s case, however, the only characters with actual involvement in the crossover are Sticks the Badger, Fastidious Beaver, and Comedy Chimp, as they're the only characters who don't have counterparts in the main Sonic continuity (which is acknowledged in at least one of the crossover's backup humor shorts). The ''Boom'' versions of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy have no involvement at all, and the ''Boom'' versions of Orbot and Cubot are the only counterpart characters to interact with someone from another franchise (specifically, the ''Mega Man X'' characters).
190* SpannerInTheWorks:
191** Sticks to Sigma, surprisingly enough. She's the one who brings the Maverick Hunters to the other heroes, allowing them to fill them in on what's going on. During the initial battle with Sigma, she is the who brings [[spoiler: the Street Fighters]] to come help the others and gives Sally the idea to transverse to other worlds and bring in other heroes (and some villains) to come help combat Sigma's threat.
192** [[spoiler:Eggman, Wily, and Xander to Sigma as well. Sigma never anticipated that he could be defeated if anybody actually ''found'' the Unity Engine, let alone tamper with it. Xander in particular uses the Engine's power to pinpoint when Sigma jumped to Sonic's world and blasted him, negating the whole crossover.]]
193* SpotlightStealingSquad: Narrowly averted. Then-editor Paul Kaminski ordered Ian to [[http://www.bumbleking.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=8303 include Xander Payne]] to such a degree that in one draft he overshadowed the rest of the cast. This was dialed back for the actual story.
194* TheStarscream:
195** Sigma convinces the Deadly Six to turn on Eggman early on in the story, after freeing them from the control of Eggman's "Cacophonic Conch". Then, they try to turn on Sigma too, but he has a fail-safe built into the armor he gave them.
196** [[spoiler:Eggman talks his old friend Albert into being co-Starscream against Sigma.]]
197* SuperEmpowering: The space-bending of Sigma causes a reaction in Xander, the only human in Mega Man's world to have time traveled, allowing him to shoot portals out of his eye socket.
198* TeleFrag: When the worlds begin to unite, the G.U.N. Carrier tries to combine itself with the mayoral office of Mega City, resulting in an explosion.
199* TimeyWimeyBall: ''Mega Man'' villain Xander Payne is involved in the story, and he's already witnessed the future. The cast of the original Mega Man games will appear in the same story as their successors in the future of ''Mega Man X''.
200* TooCleverByHalf: Eggman and Wily [[UnwillingRoboticization transform Sonic and Mega Man into Roboticized Masters]] under Sigma's orders. However, the two scientists secretly programmed in a secondary objective into the two robots that would have them restore each other to normal and fight Sigma once the two worlds were merged. Sonic Man and M'Egga Man do indeed end up fighting undoing each other's corruption, but the intention was for this to happen in Sigma's base in the Lost Hex. When Sigma sees Sonic and Mega Man freed from his control, he immediately realizes what Eggman and Wily's plan was and orders the Deadly Six to find them.
201* TrashTheSet: The Sky Patrol gets destroyed by Sigma-2 while the heroes are away. [[spoiler: Sonic and Mega Man's worlds are also nearly destroyed as well due to being fused together. But thankfully restored thanks to Xander stopping Sigma in the past and restoring both heroes respective worlds.]]
202* UnwillingRoboticization: Sonic and Mega Man are inflicted with the Roboticized Masters process, creating Sonic Man and "M'Egga Man".
203* WarArc: As it involves multiple worlds and character, it ultimately winds up being this in the long run.
204* WhamEpisode:
205** Act 1 starts with Sonic captured and roboticized into Sonic Man, while Mega Man is captured and converted into M'Egga Man. They are completely unstoppable throughout but are turned back to normal by the next act.
206** Team Dark, including Shadow, are among those who ''perish'' during the fusing of Sonic amd Mega Man's worlds. They remain dead until the end of the storyline, when [[ResetButton Xander destroys Sigma in the past, resetting the timeline]].
207* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite being central antagonists for the first third, the Deadly Six disappear afterward and are last since getting carted away by Big. It's surmised that they were thrown into the Sky Patrol brig while everyone was preparing to world hop to recruit heroes. And considering Sigma later destroyed the Sky Patrol and the heroes that stayed behind had to quickly evacuate... yeah. [[spoiler:But that's nothing a ResetButton can't fix... though Archie never got to ''Lost World'' proper and the Deadly Six in ''Sonic'' before getting cancelled.]]
208** Chip is traveling on the Sky Patrol with the Freedom Fighters both before and after the events of ''Unite,'' but is completely absent during this story. Dr. Light stops appearing a third of the way into the story. Concrete Man appears with Guts Man at the beginning of and right after the crossover, but vanishes for the rest of the story, and isn't seen fighting/being defeated by Sonic Man unlike the rest of the Light Robot Masters. Snake Man, Spark Man, Gemerl, and Roll also just up and vanish when the collected army goes to other worlds to recruit more heroes, and no one notices.
209** ''Worlds Unite'' establishes that in the rebooted ''Sonic'' comic continuity, first contact between Eggman and Wily occured during TheStinger of ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' on the ''Sonic'' side, in which Modern Eggman and Classic Robotnik were stranded in a void, and thus it was Wily who helped Eggman return to normal space-time. Classic Robotnik's presence in the void is never brought up by Eggman during his recollections of Wily's contact, leaving his means of escaping a mystery (he does reappear in later ''Sonic'' Classic WholeEpisodeFlashback issues set after ''Generations'').
210* TheWorfEffect:
211** It only takes half of the Deadly Six to capture Sonic and Mega Man each. This is justified by the fact that they're using armor that enhances their already considerable powers. They are also able to control Sigma's body, but not his mind, while he is able to easily control their bodies ''and'' minds thanks to the armor he gave them.
212** Issue 3 is almost nothing but Worfing, as Sonic Man makes short work of the Light Masters, Quake Woman, the reformed Wily Masters, [[spoiler:and Break Man]], with the entirety of his damage being a single punch in the face. M'egga Man defeats the entire Freedom Fighters, Knuckles and [[spoiler:Gemerl]] easily, with the sum of his damage being one body slam.
213** In Issue 6, despite being prominently featured on several covers and having several focuses beforehand, Eregion (the giant dragon Mechaniloid intro boss from ''X4'') goes down in two panels when Antoine stabs it in the top of the head with his sword, though in the panel beforehand he ''was'' shrugging off everything else being thrown at him, including the Sky Patrol's guns.
214** Averted when the amassed Maverick army clashes with the heroes. Unlike in ''Worlds Collide'' where the Robot Masters went down by the handfuls in comedic ways, the Mavericks easily hold their own and even turn the tables on the heroes, with some like Crescent Grizzly/Grizzly Slash and Spike Rosered/Axle the Red even knocking aside ''three'' heroes at once.
215*** And then played straight when Parts 8 and 9 see the Mavericks getting trashed by [[spoiler:the new characters introduced in the span of one-two pages. It's handled better since most Mavericks are being ganged up on, see BackForTheDead for instance, or fighting characters way above their level, such as Blizzard Buffalo vs M. Bison or Blizzard Wolfgang vs. Amaterasu. Otherwise, there's no indication that they aren't at full power when they're killed.]]
216** The ''whole'' united army against Sigma-3, who proceeds to waste no time in trashing the heroes. True to the trope, he starts by smacking down Gore Magala and the Blue Dragon while no-selling the Celestial Brush.
217* WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque: X, Zero, and Axl land in the ''Boom'' universe by accident, when Silver opens up a Genesis portal for them, but does so incorrectly.
218* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: As soon as Sigma gives the Deadly Six armor that amplifies their powers to the point that they can control Sigma, they proceed to do exactly that. Unfortunately for them, Sigma sees a double cross coming and rigged the armor to allow him to control ''them''. The only thing that surprised him was how quickly he had to use that trump card.
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222* BadassNormal: Roll is just a robot girl with only a rocket powered broom, similar to some game appearances like ''Mega Man: Powered Up'' and the ''Vs. Capcom'' entries, she manages to hold her own against the onslaught Sticks brings down on her in the simulator room.
223* BreakingTheFourthWall: Sticks in the Sonic Battle Book where she interrupts the info page as it's giving details about the Roll and hers fight's setup.
224--> '''Sticks''': The intro's over! Give it a rest!
225* CrossoverCameo: Sliver in the Mega Man issue. He lends a hand against Vile but otherwise doesn't appear in the main crossover.
226* CurbStompBattle: Likely to be the case in a few areas
227** Mega Man vs Zazz, Zomom and Master Zik: The former gets knocked around like a rag doll before Zik knocks him out with his own blaster.
228** Sonic Man vs the Robot Masters: Sonic Man plows through them easily.
229* DesignatedGirlFight: Sorta, Roll vs Sticks is more the former being put through the ringer of a training simulator that Sticks is controlling, with Sticks only directly confronting her near the end [[spoiler: in trying to destroy Roll's broom which Sticks sees as a "spy" to Sigma.]]
230* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Knuckles and Break Man's fight is essentially this as Break Man tries to talk Knuckles into destroying him (as he's being controlled by the Deadly Six at the time) but Knuckles refuses and even gives Blues a WhatTheHellHero speech on his defeatist attitude to the situation.
231* HeroicSecondWind: Attempted during Mega Man's fight against three of the Deadly Six when they ambushed him but he manages to get back on his feet. Unfortunately Master Zik takes control of Mega Man's blaster and forces him to shoot himself in the head to knock him out.
232* HeroicWillpower: Blues has this ini his fight vs. Knuckles, but it takes a lot of effort from Knuckles to get him to even try to resist.
233* {{Interquel}}: The ''Battles'' mini-series is usually set at certain points in the main story and showcases battles that were only touched upon but had to be rushed to keep the plot moving.
234* NoSell: Sonic Man predictably is completely unaffected by Time Man's Time Slow.
235* LetsYouAndHimFight: The basis of the mini-series which is just focused on fighting.
236* PsychicAssistedSuicide: The Zeti, when first capturing Mega Man, defeat him by using their inherent robot-controlling powers to make Mega Man shoot himself.
237* SenselessSacrifice: Proto Man initally insists that the best way to fix a bad situation [[spoiler:as his body is taken over by the Deadly Six is to blow himself up. Knuckles barely manages to convince him to fight back the mind control]].
238* TakingTheBullet: The Zeti get an upper hand on Sonic by shooting into a crowd of civilians so Sonic has to block the shots with his body.
239* WhatTheHellHero: Mega Man dissuades X from [[RetGone asking Dr. Light not to create him]] on the basis that he should protect the world in the future and that someone should be there to counter Dr. Wily's plans.
240* WhyWontYouDie: Zero asks Vile this during their fight (since in the games he keep coming back after being destroyed numerous times) who turns it right back on him.
241* WorthyOpponent: Knuckles to Break Man after he manages to beat him.
242* ZergRush: How Sonic is beaten when he goes against Zevok, Zeena and Zor. They wind up portal jumping to a Eggman junkyard where they take control of the broken badniks and rush him with numbers till he's beaten.
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