Being Darker and Edgier than most other fanfics, Freedom Fighters NEO has a lot of scary moments. Although most of them are in the "Resurrection" story arc, which focuses around the revival of the characters from the Classic and X Series.
Story 1: Resurrection
- Less pronounced than the others, but it's still there. Bowser Jr.'s Heroic Sacrifice to save Sonic's siblings from Copy X after Jules, Bernadette and Uncle Chuck (Sonic's father, mother and uncle, respectively) caused him to become the cyborg Dr. Koopa. Because Robotnik was using a variation of the Maverick Virus to control Reploids, Dr. Koopa got infected by Copy X. This allows him to see what happened to Repliforce and caused him to enter a psychotic state in which he was hellbent onto destroying all Maverick Hunters. The one he's most hellbent on killing? ZERO, and just because for Iris' death! And Dr. Koopa doesn't want to hear that Zero didn't WANT to kill Iris...
- Metallix's encounter with Dr. Weil. Metallix, having just defeated the Four Guardians and Copy X, learned about all of Dr. Weil's crimes:
- He corrupted Iris, turning her against Zero AGAIN.
- He killed millions of humans and Reploids in the Elf Wars, mostly via Omega.
- He divided X's family by killing Alia and using Copy X to corrupt the Four Guardians.
- He even outright insulted the Freedom Fighters.
- As a result, Metallix put Weil into an eternal hell, being forced to be killed by everyone he ever hurt + a nightmarish version of Metallix over, and over, and over again, for all eternity. One would consider this a Fate Worse than Death, but death is involved, so Metallix made death worse.
Story 2: Return of Repliforce
- Mostly seen with Dr. Koopa's psychotic state.
- The battle against Duo.EXE is rather scary. Duo.EXE was brought by Dr. Koopa from another dimension in order to destroy the Maverick Hunters. Duo.EXE sees evil within the hearts of your party members (Metallix, Sonic, X and Zero), and has them fight their evil energies (an alternate Emperor Metallix, Scourge the Hedgehog, Copy X and Omega Zero, respectively). Despite their victory, he's STILL not convinced, calling the victory of the player's party a mere setback, and starts a Hopeless Boss Fight on the American boss tune of Sonic CD... hopeless, that is, until the robot Duo arrives and saves them right when Duo.EXE is about to kill them. Then, Duo turns the tables and becomes himself a Hopeless Boss Fight for Duo.EXE (according to Duo, it's because Duo.EXE's justice energy went to his head). The only good thing out of confronting Duo.EXE is that the robot Duo becomes a party member for the rest of the story arc, and he is one of the most OP robots.
- The battle between Iris and Dr. Koopa is nightmarish if we put in the context: Dr. Koopa took out Iris' heart in order to make her feelingless. Needless to say, it doesn't work, since Iris' thoughts allow her Ride Armor to attack Dr. Koopa. But if Iris' mind wouldn't have fought back, Dr. Koopa would have used Iris' body to kill Zero for real! Iris' victory prompts Dr. Koopa into creating Dark Iris and locking the real Iris, but when Dark Iris is kidnapped, he releases her to destroy both Zero, Dark Iris and the kidnapper. Although Iris only succeeds to kill Dark Iris, as the kidnapper is killed by Metallix, and Dr. Koopa comes back to his senses after Dark Iris' death, mostly because Iris forgave Zero.
- Layer is, in Freedom Fighters NEO, a situation in which Love Makes You Evil. She's willing to kill anyone opposing to the idea of Zero being her love interest.
Story 3: M'egga Man's Revenge
- Roll's backstory: Despite the fact that, character-wise, Roll is closer to her Japanese and American version (though the American version seems to avert the Incest Subtext, which appears in the Japanese canon), her origin story is nearly identical with the one from the infamous Brazilian comic.
- Here's her backstory in a nutshell: Roll was originally a poor, little girl. Around the time Rock was created, however, this girl was kidnapped by some insane scientists. These scientists were turning street girls into biocomputers. This activity wasn't unnoticed: the little girl's kidnapping was noticed by a gang of Sniper Joes, who alerted Dr. Light, the one scientist they knew it wasn't involved in the project. By the time Dr. Light arrived, it was too late, and the girl was killed. In an attempt to give her a second chance to life, Dr. Light copied the girl's brain patterns and erased her memories, all while his at-the-time colleague, Dr. Wily, was working to shut down the project. He changed the girl's name to DLN-002 "Roll", as he intended her to be Rock's sister, but Wily figured out Roll was going to fall in love with Rock. He made a bet with Light in regards of this-bet that was passed onto X and Zero without them knowing! In fact, the ONLY other person aside from the two doctors who knows about Roll's previous life is Bass.
- Although Break Man (Blues corrupted by Robotnik) and Vesper Woman would hurt the Hunters to save Tempo, M'egga Man is utterly insane. He believes that the only way he and Roll can live the way he wants is if everyone in the world would just die, since no one would accept them as they are. Thankfully, Dr. Koopa snapped out of his psychotic state, and he helped rehabilitate M'egga Man.
- MARIO, full stop.
- He killed Dr. Koopa's uncle years before Dr. Koopa was born as Bowser Jr..
- By doing this, he would have orphaned the Koopalings if their uncle, Bowser, wouldn't have taken them under his wing.
- He also killed thousands of Koopa Troop members. He even killed thousands of converted Toads (fungi).
- Granted, the Toads (fungi) are pretty much "benevolent" parasites.
- Thankfully, Metallix knocked some sense into Mario, being upgraded for combat against Mario, but the battle does show how psychotic Mario truly is.
