History ThatOneLevel / MegaMan

** Adding to the irritating nature of the whole thing is the boss at the end of the second Rocketboard Section, who is very easily ThatOneBoss because he can only be hurt using the friggin' Mega Ball. It's basically a soccer ball that you can only "aim" by estimating where the ricochet goes. And considering that you don't get the Mega Ball from a Robot Master, and it's only just handed to you, it seems more like this boss was only added to justify the ball's existence. What's the real [[IncrediblyLamePun kicker]]? If you die fighting this boss, you do the Rocketboard section ''again.''

** Occupied Wily Castle 3 also has a section full of Yoku Blocks and Yoku Spikes that you have to traverse ''[[GravityScrew while upside down]]''!

* Wood Man's level isn't too bad... until you get attacked by Hot Dogs whose fire attacks are almost impossible to dodge and can cause a ton of damage. The Atomic Chickens near the end of the level are no better.

** While Yoku Man's stage is more of a BrutalBonusLevel because it is entirely optional, the portion of Occupied Wily Castle 4 based off of his level is ''not'' optional. As his name implies, Yoku Man is all about disappearing blocks. Not only are there disappearing platforms, there are disappearing ''spikes'' and fake disappearing blocks that turn into enemies after spawning.

* ''Zero 2's'' Arms Factory, filled to the brim with lava and exploding Telebombs and not much room to maneuver. And to top it off, the boss is an absolute nightmare who can only be hit at certain points even with the right element; if you attack, he'll dodge and counteratttack, and his counterattacks are damn hard to avoid. Worse still, one of the Cyber Elves hidden here is pure GuideDangIt material. You essentially have to play ''SpaceInvaders'' in one section, kill every enemy while being blocked by moving platforms that hurt you if you touch them, and after that have to hit the fast-moving UFO in the three seconds from when it emerges to when it leaves.
* The Bombardment Aircraft. You start off leaping between moving shuttlecraft which ''shoot at you'' while you're using them as platforms, on top of X-Droids shooting at you on top of them, requiring perfect timing so as to not to be knocked into the massive BottomlessPit. Once past that section, you have to fight a miniboss who fires fast-moving, area-damage missiles at you until you hit it. When you hit it, it drops a row of bombs which can only be avoided by standing exactly where it was previously hovering. Then you navigate through a series of timed stage hazards that will eat right through your tiny lifebar and require expert timing to pass unharmed. ''Then'' you have to do a HoldTheLine section protecting Ciel for 90 seconds, which counts for basically your entire mission score. If she gets hit, goodbye A or S rank. Naturally, this is a BulletHell sequence plus the Frogger X-Droids who you have to hit while blocking every bullet. Finally, you have to face a boss battle which becomes nigh-impossible on Hard Mode if you have an A or S rank. His A/S rank attack is literally undodgeable. Not hard to dodge, impossible to dodge. He has to be deflected, ''in-flight'', to avoid taking damage, and the series of moves necessary to do this is not something the designers could reasonably expect people to figure out on their own, much less actually accomplish given that it takes precision timing to pull off.

* Even the last level goes beyond what you'd expect for a final mission. Not only do you have to revisit the boss from the Arms Factory (who you can't partially nerf like the first time), they introduce an entirely new boss fight ''during the boss rush'', which is absolutely inexcusable. What's worse, said new boss fight consists of the beetle boss from this game (mentioned above) and the beetle boss from the last game '''fighting you together''' in an arena that does not scroll, with attacks that cover nearly the entire screen and take split-second timing to dodge, and a KaizoTrap ability for added measure.

* [[LethalLavaLand Area K]] from the original ''ZX'' could qualify. K-1 with its boiling geysers isn't so bad, but then we go underground to find K-2 and a [[GoddamnedBoss Goddamned Miniboss]], then back to not-so-bad with K-3, then the horribly annoying [[AdvancingWallOfDoom lava chase]] segments in K-4 with [[GoddamnedBats really]] [[DemonicSpiders annoying]] enemies (good luck avoiding damage!) before you finally reach the boss, who is actually somewhat of a breather after the crap his level put you through. And if you decide to take an alternate path to make the lava wall move slower, you must also go through K-5, with its shaft full of [[RiseToTheChallenge rising lava]] that requires memorization and precise jumping (and probably vertical air-dashes)...and then go through a different area of K-1 and fight the miniboss all over again. And then comes [[ThatOneSidequest the collection of the Sub-Tank]]...which makes going through the level normally seem ''easy'' in comparison.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManUnlimited'' is already a hard game, but Rainbow Man's level takes the cake. This level gives a new twist to Quick Man lasers, in that they can be reflected by shooting at mirror-like enemies that the lasers pass through; think a LightAndMirrorsPuzzle except the light kills you instantly. The miniboss is, of all things, [[ThatOneBoss the game's Devil fight (with moving lasers in the room you fight it in!)]], and after that is more laser puzzles but underwater, so you have to deal with floatier jumps. Fortunately, the level is relatively short, and the lasers can be temporarily stopped with Glue Shot.

* Speaking of Quick Man, his counterpart in ''Battle Network 2'' ALSO has a horribly annoying stage, because you can't jack out of the detonators once you jack in, meaning you can't restore your health.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManUnlimited'' is already a hard game, but Rainbow Man's level takes the cake. This level gives a new twist to Quick Man lasers, in that they can be reflected by shooting at mirror-like enemies that the lasers pass through; think a LightAndMirrorsPuzzle except the light kills you instantly. The miniboss is, of all things, [[ThatOneBoss the game's Devil fight (with moving lasers in the room you fight it in!)]], and after that is more laser puzzles but underwater, so you have to deal with floatier jumps. Fortunately, the level is relatively short, and the lasers can be temporarily stopped with Glue Shot.

* Ice Man: Yoku Blocks and moving platforms that double as enemies that shoot at you, incredibly easy if you have the Magnet Beam though; which can only be gotten in Elec Man's stage and you must have Guts Man's weapon to access it.
* Dr. Wily Stage 1, with the opening sequence of dodging the game's BossInMookClothing enemy Big Eye, with no helpful stage geography to use against them; the return of the enemy-slash-platforms from Ice Man's stage , now in a room full of spikes that they will arbitrarily fly you up into if you don't fall onto the spikes on the floor; a ''required'' Magnet Beam section that can send players all the way back to Elec Man's stage if they didn't know the item was necessary; and capped off with [[ThatOneBoss the Yellow Devil]] in his first and most difficult incarnation.

* Quick Man's level, two-thirds of which is a vertical maze of instant-kill lasers; Flash Man's power (which pauses time, stopping the lasers) can help alleviate it some, but it can't get you through the whole thing and also means unless you refill it you can't use it against Quick Man (who is weak to Flash Man's power).

** The blocks in Heat Man's stage aren't too tricky as the developers were kind enough to give all the platforms similarly enough of a timing so that you can generally traverse every jump the same way and have time to correct yourself onto the platform that just appeared even when you're jumping blindly. However, near the end, you suddenly have to jump straight up onto a platform. You WILL die the first time.
* Wood Man's level isn't too bad...until you get attacked by Hot Dogs whose fire attacks are almost impossible to dodge and can cause a ton of damage. The Atomic Chickens near the end of the level are no better.
* Air Man's level is a pain, too. For the first part of the level, you have to jump on "Air Tikis". When you are standing on one of them, the constantly spawning enemies combined with the drills coming out of the sides of its head means that ''you can't get off''. What's worse, later in the level, you have to jump from one Air Tiki to another. Keep in mind that they only appear when you get nice and close to them. Which means in the end that ''there always will be a drill in your way''. Then there's those [[ShockAndAwe Lightning Lords]] that you have to kill and then ride on their cloud platforms, and all those [[GoddamnedBats Pipis.]] And, if you survive, [[ThatOneBoss guess who you have to fight?]] Wood Man's Leaf Shield helps out a lot here, as it not only is SuperEffective against the boss, but can be used to farm powerups and 1Ups from the respawning enemies. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjLouGft9kY But every time somehow, every time...]]

* Then there's the falling-block gap of death in Gyro Man's stage complete with its anvil-drop enemies that totally screw a good straight shot on the falling blocks.

* Plant Man, a long section involving jumping over water filled pits via springs. Problem is, the springs don't always spring you as high as you need to go, dumping you into the pits on a regular basis. Oh, and then there are the [[GoddamnBats lovable robot pirahnas]] jumping out of the water to further ruin your jumps.

* Turbo Man's stage contains the aforementioned instant-death lasers from Quick-Man's level (they're actually magma pillars this time around,) and a section with instant-death spikes combined with tires that move on the ceiling. These tires have a habit of pushing you mid-jump into said spikes.

--->Jump! Jump! Slide! Slide! * shudder*
** Adding to the irritant nature of the whole thing is the boss at the end of the second Rocketboard Section, who is very easily ThatOneBoss because he can only be hurt using the friggin' Mega Ball. It's basically a soccer ball that you can only "aim" by estimating where the ricochet goes. And being you don't get the Mega Ball from a Robot Master, and it's only just handed to you, it seems more like this boss was only added to justify the ball's existence. What's the real [[IncrediblyLamePun kicker]]? If you die fighting this boss you do the Rocketboard section ''again.''
* ''Rockman 8 FC'', an 8-bit FanRemake of ''MegaMan8'' made changes to some of the levels beyond the graphics. One of these is Sword Man's stage, which has been transformed into a veritable living hell. The real agony comes from one section, which made the sadistic decision of combining a river of insta-kill lava, single-square-wide platforms, a pseudo-AdvancingBossOfDoom that erases these already tiny platforms, and GoddamnBats swooping at you to knock you in. The hammer enemy is also ''quick'', giving you practically zero time to stop and readjust your jump or clear said enemies out of the way. The rest of the level is somewhat difficult, but it becomes a cakewalk compared to the nightmare that is this section.

* Let's not forget Wily Stage 3. Here is a level that has a few areas where you're constantly floating upwards, sound okay right? WRONG, the floating areas are chock full of spikes, and you can only move Mega Man by shooting the buster, which increases his inertia the more you shoot in one direction, which is a lot harder than it sound as you have to move at the correct speeds or you will get spiked and die. And if that wasn't enough, there's several spots where an enemy will drop down and DRAG you right into the very spike you thought you narrowly avoided. Oh, and the boss of this stage is not one, but ''two'' incarnations of the classic [[ThatOneBoss Yellow Devil]] boss. RAGE.
!!''Videogame/MegaMan10''

** This was ''slightly'' mitigated by beating Storm Eagle first: his air carrier would crash into Mandrill's stage, eliminating the sparked floors and taking away a lot of the mid-boss's bite. The blackout's would be a little more prevalent, however.
* Sigma Stage 1 can also be a pain, with it being a very, ''very'' long stage starting with having to jump over moving platforms with enemies that can potentially knock you off into a bottomless pit. Then you have to fight a few bosses throughout such as Vile (which thankfully you don't have to beat again once you beat him once), an annoying area where you have to climb vertically with several enemies hugging the wall that can easily knock you down, you then have to fight Boomer Kuwanger again, which by themselves isn't that bad but enduring through the rest of the level makes this a pain. Then you have to face the [[ThatOneBoss Bospider]]...

* Squid Adler/Volt Kraken's stage is even worse. The stage starts on a [[AutoScrollingLevel hoverbike]], with lots of bottomless pits to fall in, and getting scrolled off the screen kills you. To make matters worse, there are eight glowing things to get if you want the head parts of the Falcon Armor. Even if you survive that, there's still plenty of annoying switch puzzles to go through. Oh, and did we mention that if you want HundredPercentCompletion, you're going to have to revisit it?

* Gate's Laboratory stage 1 & 2, instant-kill spikes everywhere, plus a sequence of rising instant-kill lava and slippery ice slopes, and an area for X that is all but impossible to traverse if you entered the previous level with the wrong armor for its level (you can't go back to switch armors once you enter Gate's domain, and the "wrong armor" is ironically the best weapon to beat the previous level's boss with). Utterly horrific. Also from ''X6'' Blaze Heatnix's level. While not hard on the scale Gate's lab is, Heatnix's domain contained not only lethal rising lava, but about half a dozen ultra-annoying minibosses as well. Seeing as how ''X6'' has hideous game balance in general, this is probably not surprising.
* The rest of levels thanks to poor level design, Blizzard Wolfang's stage (if it wasn't the avalanches in the first part, it was the falling ice blocks in the second), Rainy Turtloid (acid rain and long stretches of moving platforms over pits), Metal Shark Player (Stupid, stupid compactor areas), Ground Scaravich (annoying totem poles and mazes), Shield Sheldon (laser puzzles ahoy)...in fact, the only stages that ''can't'' be considered a Scrappy Level in this game are Infinity Mijinion's and Commander Yammark's. And to some, Infinity Mijinion's stage is a Scrappy Level too, mostly because the entire first half of the stage is a MiniBoss fight.

* Infinity Mijinion's sub-stage also qualify. There are almost [[BottomlessPit NO FLOORS]] in this section. Instead you get hand rails that you need to remember to hold Up on the D-pad to cling to. Meanwhile there are [[GoddamnBats TONS of Nightmares]] in this section. They just love sucking the life out of unsuspecting Reploids, including ONE THAT IS LITERALLY RIGHT ON TOP OF THE POOR REPLOID IMMEDIATELY AS YOU SEE IT. If you're not fast enough, as in killing the thing immediately as it comes on screen, you will [[LostForever lose this Reploid]] and have to quit without saving if you were after HundredPercentCompletion. Oh, and even when you do rescue this Reploid, it's entirely possible that you will fall to your death anyway. Oh well, for a noble cause...

* Snipe Anteator's stage is arguably worse than Hyenard's. For one, the ''entire stage'' is 3D. Then there's those '''goddamned samurai''' that shoot out {{Sword Beam}}s that have very unclear range, cannot be damaged except from behind, and you ''need'' Axl to take them down if you want to rescue all the Reploids and/or get X's Helmet Armor, as they're able to go through walls you otherwise can't pass! But the gravity switch gimmick is simply ''dreadful'', because each time you get flipped, [[InterfaceScrew so too do your movement controls.]] There's also a bit of CameraScrew going on; the camera is more zoomed in while you are upside down. And if you'd expect Snipe Anteator to be easy after all the bullshit his stage puts you through, well...[[ThatOneBoss you'd be wrong.]]

* Burn Rooster's stage starts out going down an auto-scrolling series of platforms. After that there's a large spike-filled room. Next, another auto-scrolling section, and then the boss. Finally, in the ultimate cheap shot, even after beating the boss, you have to escape in yet ANOTHER auto scrolling section, this time going up.

* Gigavolt Man-o-war's stage is much worse than Avalance Yeti's (May Heaven have mercy on your sanity if you try to [[NoDamageRun Perfect Run]] this thing), as it involves chasing the titular boss through a city in a driving/shmup segment and shooting him down. Sounds simple, right? Not only do you have to deal with him firing back at you (not to mention being ahead of you most of the time), there's also oncoming traffic and signs to deal with, that can slow you down substantially. The cherry on top is that [[TimedMission you fail the stage if Gigavolt's not defeated in three laps]], which will likely happen quite a few times if the hazards don't take you down, first. Mercifully, the boss himself is not so bad compared to his level.

* ''Zero 2's'' Arms Factory, filled to the brim with lava and exploding Telebombs and not much room to maneuver. And to top it off the boss is an absolute nightmare who can only be hit at certain points even with the right element; if you attack, he'll dodge and counteratttack, and his counterattacks are damn hard to avoid. Worse still, one of the Cyber Elves hidden here is pure GuideDangIt material. You essentially have to play ''SpaceInvaders'' in one section, kill every enemy while being blocked by moving platforms that hurt you if you touch them, and after that have to hit the fast-moving UFO in the three seconds from when it emerges to when it leaves.
* The Bombardment Aircraft. You start off leaping between moving shuttlecraft which ''shoot at you'' while you're using them as platforms, on top of X-Droids shooting at you on top of them, requiring perfect timing so as to not to be knocked into the massive BottomlessPit. Once past that section, you have to fight a miniboss who fires fast-moving, area-damage missiles at you until you hit it. When you hit it, it drops a row of bombs which can only be avoided by standing exactly where it was previously hovering. Then you navigate through a series timed stage hazards that will eat right through your tiny lifebar and require expert timing to pass unharmed. ''Then'' you have to do a HoldTheLine section protecting Ciel for 90 seconds, which counts for basically your entire mission score. If she gets hit, goodbye A or S rank. Naturally, this is a BulletHell sequence plus the Frogger X-Droids who you have to hit while blocking every bullet. Finally, you have to face a boss battle which becomes nigh-impossible on Hard Mode if you have an A or S rank. His A/S rank attack is literally undodgeable. Not hard to dodge, impossible to dodge. He has to be deflected, ''in-flight'', to avoid taking damage, and the series of moves necessary to do this is not something the designers could reasonably expect people to figure out on their own, much less actually accomplish given that it takes precision timing to pull off.

* Ouroboros from ''Advent'' is easier than Gate's laboratory stage in ''X6'', but it's loaded to the rim with spikes, annoying enemies of all kinds, regenerating blocks, regenerating ''[[SpikesOfDoom spiked]]'' blocks, the BossRush...yeah, all of that in ''one'' level. The fact that the whole thing's made from the world's supply of Model Ws turns it from ThatOneLevel to the NightmareFuel Level.

** And [=ElecMan's=] stage, which has invisible floors, trial-and-error battery puzzles, and infected programs which you can't tell from the regular ones until you talk to them, at which point they attack. However, the real problem in the stage is the timer-- once ''it'' runs out, Mega Man stops healing after each battle.

* Any area that requires compression in 3, due to the pain of needing to reequip and rearrange the [=NaviCust=] setup so often.

** In terms of the Internet proper, End Area 1, 3 and 4 are all absolute hell to navigate. They consist mainly of labyrinthine passages that all look the same and have almost no landmarks (save the pagoda in the third area). On top of that, they're all notably larger than any area so far, and the third and fourth throw in ''one-way conveyors''. What's that, looking for [[BonusBoss Lark Man]]? Good luck finding the ''invisible path'' in the first area!

* ''VideoGame/MegaManUnlimited'' is already a hard game, but Rainbow Man's level takes the cake. This level gives a new twist to Quick Man lasers, in that they can be reflected by shooting at mirror-like enemies that the lasers pass through; think a LightAndMirrorsPuzzle except the light kills you instantly. The miniboss is, of all things, [[ThatOneBoss the game's Devil fight (with moving lasers in the room you fight it in!),]] and after that is more laser puzzles but underwater so you have to deal with floatier jumps. Fortunately, the level is relatively short, and the lasers can be temporarily stopped with Glue Shot.

** Finally, there's Mu. You have to go through the wave road to collect runes that allow entry to the next part. After you get the runes, however, walls come up to keep you from going on, and some [[DemonicSpiders Murians]] are summoned. If you come into contact with one, you have 3 seconds to draw a specific pattern on it that appears for less than half a second. Fail, and you have to fight two at once. Oh, and you need to memorize the patterns on the runes you collected ''and'' put them into a specific order, otherwise it's Murians for you again.

* Quick Man's level, two-thirds of which is a vertical maze of instant-kill lasers; Flash Man's power (which pauses time, stopping the lasers) can help alleviate it some, but it can't get you through the whole thing and also means unless you refill it you can't use it against Quick Man (who is weak to Flash Man's power). Heat Man's level possibly tops this if you try to tackle it early on, because it has an EXTREMELY long sequence of those annoying yoku blocks, most of which is over a pit. Fortunately, if you do it after beating Air Man, who gives you the Item 2 Jet Sled, you can bypass that entire part (of course, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjLouGft9kY Air Man will not die...]])
* The blocks in Heat Man's stage aren't too tricky as the developers were kind enough to give all the platforms similarly enough of a timing so that you can generally traverse every jump the same way and have time to correct yourself onto the platform that just appeared even when you're jumping blindly. However, near the end, you suddenly have to jump straight up onto a platform. You WILL die the first time.

* Let's just call ''X6'' a [[MissionPackSequel Scrappy Level Pack Sequel]] and leave it at that.

* Quick Man's level, two-thirds of which is a vertical maze of instant-kill lasers; Flash Man's power (which pauses time, stopping the lasers) can help alleviate it some, but it can't get you through the whole thing and also means unless you refill it you can't use it against Quick Man (who is weak to Flash Man's power). Heat Man's level possibly tops this if you try to tackle it early on, because it has an EXTREMELY long sequence of those annoying appearing/disappearing blocks, most of which is over a pit. Fortunately, if you do it after beating Air Man, who gives you the Item 2 Jet Sled, you can bypass that entire part (of course, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjLouGft9kY Air Man will not die...]])

* Ice Man: Disappearing/Reappearing Blocks and moving platforms that double as enemies that shoot at you, incredibly easy if you have the Magnet Beam though; which can only be gotten in Elec Man's stage and you must have Guts Man's weapon to access it.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmZl6k6mSe8&fmt=18 Jewel Man's stage]], which combines a difficult jump to the miniboss (1:24), the miniboss itself (which is suprisingly difficult), and a near-impossible jump shortly after said miniboss (2:38).
** And almost instantly after that one, you get the one at 2:50, which is even harder.

* First up is Kombinat (which outside of Japan is the Lava Factory), which isn't so bad during the [=2D=] section, except for the lava that kills you if you touch it; no MercyInvincibility here! But then you get to the [=3D=] section, which has that lava practically ''everywhere''. And there are those stupid sonar tower thingies that can knock you out of midair if you get hit by the soundwaves on the middle of the platforms that aren't that big to begin with, as well as gigantic robots with a nearly unavoidable attack, and they almost always show up two to a platform. There's also a Reploid that [[GameBreakingBug disappears]] if you die before you get to him, regardless of whether he got hit by enemy robots, and a Heart Tank on a ''really'' low beam. Then you beat all this and fight [[MostAnnoyingSound Flame]] [[ThatOneBoss Hyenard...]]
* The Cyber Field is almost as bad as, if not worse than Kombinat. For one, unlike Kombinat, the ''entire stage'' is 3D. Then there's those '''goddamned samurai''' that shoot out {{Sword Beam}}s that have very unclear range, cannot be damaged except from behind, and worst of all, you ''need'' Axl to take them down if you want to rescue all the Reploids and/or get X's Helmet Armor, as they're able to go through walls you otherwise can't pass! But the gravity switch gimmick is simply ''dreadful'', because each time you get flipped, [[InterfaceScrew so too do your movement controls.]] There's also a bit of CameraScrew going on; the camera is more zoomed in while you are upside down. And if you'd expect Snipe Anteator to be easy after all the bullshit his stage puts you through, well...[[ThatOneBoss you'd be wrong.]]

!!''Videogame/MegaManStarForce''

!!''Videogame/MegaManClassic''

* ''Videogame/MegaMan1'' had Guts Man's Level, the real problem is the start of the level, with precise jumps when the platforms carrying you are about to drop.
** Ice Man's level: Disappearing/Reappearing Blocks and moving platforms that double as enemies that shoot at you, incredibly easy if you have the Magnet Beam though; which can only be gotten in Elec Man's stage and you must have Guts Man's weapon to access it.
* ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'' has Quick Man's level, of which two-thirds of it is a vertical maze of instant-kill lasers; Flash Man's power (which pauses time, stopping the lasers) can help alleviate it some, but it can't get you through the whole thing and also means unless you refill it you can't use it against Quick Man (who is weak to Flash Man's power). Heat Man's level possibly tops this if you try to tackle it early on, because it has an EXTREMELY long sequence of those annoying appearing/disappearing blocks, most of which is over a pit. Fortunately, if you do it after beating Air Man, who gives you the Item 2 Jet Sled, you can bypass that entire part (of course, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjLouGft9kY Air Man will not die...]])
** The blocks in Heat Man's stage aren't too tricky as the developers were kind enough to give all the platforms similarly enough of a timing so that you can generally traverse every jump the same way and have time to correct yourself onto the platform that just appeared even when you're jumping blindly. However, near the end, you suddenly have to jump straight up onto a platform. You WILL die the first time.
** Wood Man's level isn't too bad...until you get attacked by Hot Dogs whose fire attacks are almost impossible to dodge and can cause a ton of damage. The Atomic Chickens near the end of the level are no better.
** Air Man's level is a pain, too. For the first part of the level, you have to jump on "Air Tikis". When you are standing on one of them, the constantly spawning enemies combined with the drills coming out of the sides of its head means that ''you can't get off''. What's worse, later in the level, you have to jump from one Air Tiki to another. Keep in mind that they only appear when you get nice and close to them. Which means in the end that ''there always will be a drill in your way''. Then there's those [[ShockAndAwe Lightning Lords]] that you have to kill and then ride on their cloud platforms, and all those [[GoddamnedBats Pipis.]] And, if you survive, [[ThatOneBoss guess who you have to fight?]] Wood Man's Leaf Shield helps out a lot here, as it not only is SuperEffective against the boss, but can be used to farm powerups and 1Ups from the respawning enemies. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjLouGft9kY But every time somehow, every time...]]
* ''Videogame/MegaMan5'' has Wave Man's level, with the jetski portion. You're in a jetski, so you don't have the slide and you're a bigger target then usual. You only have the Mega Buster to use, and you have to go through two sections filled with jetski-riding Sniper Joes and evil robo-dolphins, bookending a giant octopus miniboss. The problem? ''You can't pause at all'' during this section, meaning that you can't use any E-tanks, meaning that you have to make it through two enemyspam sections and a miniboss on one tank of health and awkward controls.
** Then there's the falling-block gap of death in Gyro Man's stage complete with its anvil-drop enemies that totally screw a good straight shot on the falling blocks.
* ''Videogame/MegaMan6'' had Plant Man's level, with a long section involving jumping over water filled pits via springs. Problem is, the springs don't always spring you as high as you need to go, dumping you into the pits on a regular basis. Oh, and then there are the [[GoddamnBats lovable robot pirahnas]] jumping out of the water to further ruin your jumps.
* ''Videogame/MegaMan7'' has Turbo Man's stage. It contains the aforementioned instant-death lasers from Quick-Man's level (they're actually magma pillars this time around,) and a section with instant-death spikes combined with tires that move on the ceiling. These tires have a habit of pushing you mid-jump into said spikes.
* ''Videogame/MegaManIII'' for the GameBoy overall was a cruel and evil game. While the first four stages aren't too much trouble, the second set has likely broken many a Game Boy. Two in particular are pure evil. Dive Man's stage is filled with spikes, at one point making you jump between raised pillars of spikes. It also forces you to jump on a platform that's on top of rising and falling water, and of course, the platform is surrounded by spikes on both sides. Dust Man's stage, however, is truly terrible. It has pits with Upndowns coming out of them, and not one, not two, but at least 10 pixel perfect jumps are required to make it through the stage. There is also the dust crusher section, which required Mega Man to slide through gaps with perfect timing or he dies. When you finally get to Dust Man, you find that he's a pathetic [[AnticlimaxBoss Anticlimactic Boss]] which really makes the stage feel even worse by comparison. Dust Man's stage really is the closest Mega Man has gotten to PlatformHell.
* ''Videogame/MegaMan8'', the rocketboard sections. Enough to prevent some gamers from even finishing the game successfully.

** ''Rockman 8 FC'', an 8-bit FanRemake of ''MegaMan8'' made changes to some of the levels beyond the graphics. One of these is Sword Man's stage, which has been transformed into a veritable living hell. The real agony comes from one section, which made the sadistic decision of combining a river of insta-kill lava, single-square-wide platforms, a pseudo-AdvancingBossOfDoom that erases these already tiny platforms, and GoddamnBats swooping at you to knock you in. The hammer enemy is also ''quick'', giving you practically zero time to stop and readjust your jump or clear said enemies out of the way. The rest of the level is somewhat difficult, but it becomes a cakewalk compared to the nightmare that is this section.
* ''Videogame/MegaMan9'' gives us [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmZl6k6mSe8&fmt=18 Jewel Man's stage]], which combines a difficult jump to the miniboss (1:24), the miniboss itself (which is suprisingly difficult), and a near-impossible jump shortly after said miniboss (2:38).

** Guess what? ''9'' has not only magma flows reminiscent of the Quick beams, but THE LASERS THEMSELVES make a return, complete with the sound effect! Of course, these are less 'laser' than 'magma jet' in both incarnations. Thank god for the Concrete Shot, eh?
** Let's not forget Wily Stage 3. Here is a level that has a few areas where you're constantly floating upwards, sound okay right? WRONG, the floating areas are chock full of spikes, and you can only move Mega Man by shooting the buster, which increases his inertia the more you shoot in one direction, which is a lot harder than it sound as you have to move at the correct speeds or you will get spiked and die. And if that wasn't enough, there's several spots where an enemy will drop down and DRAG you right into the very spike you thought you narrowly avoided. Oh, and the boss of this stage is not one, but ''two'' incarnations of the classic [[ThatOneBoss Yellow Devil]] boss. RAGE.
* ''Videogame/MegaMan10'' gives us Commando Man's stage, which is in a desert that has enemies posing as land mines that make ''huge'' explosions when you get near them, and about halfway through, a sandstorm that sporadically covers the entire screen and pushes you in its direction while [[BlackoutBasement blinding your view]] of the spikes on the limited platforms and the gaps that drop you into the bottomless pit below.
** Blade Man's level is also pretty bad due to an annoying midboss, and a mine cart section above ''another'' bottomless pit with GoddamnBats trying to knock you in every couple of seconds.

!!''Videogame/MegaManX''

* Any of the side-scrolling hoverbike levels in the ''Videogame/MegaManX'' series qualify, thanks to the annoyingly precise jumps needed to get through. Let us not get started on the 3D ones in ''Videogame/MegaManX7'' and ''Videogame/MegaManX8''.
* Spark Mandrill's stage from ''Videogame/MegaManX1'' was quite a pain. Having to dodge moving sparks on the ground while giant tank enemies shoot missiles at you, an irritating miniboss, and BlackoutBasement sections with extremely cheap enemy placement. Not to mention the fact that at the start of the stage, there's a lower route that takes you quite a long way past quite a few hazards and turns out to be a ''complete dead end''.

** Sigma Stage 1 can also be a pain, with it being a very, ''very'' long stage starting with having to jump over moving platforms with enemies that can potentially knock you off into a bottomless pit. Then you have to fight a few bosses throughout such as Vile (which thankfully you don't have to beat again once you beat him once), an annoying area where you have to climb vertically with several enemies hugging the wall that can easily knock you down, you then have to fight Boomer Kuwanger again, which by themselves isn't that bad but enduring through the rest of the level makes this a pain. Then you have to face the [[ThatOneBoss Bospider]]...
* The best thing about Quick Man's stage, of course, is that, for some reason, Capcom feels the need to ''keep revisiting it'' in later games. ''Videogame/MegaManX5'', in particular, managed to make it even ''worse'': it's bad enough that ''X''-series characters slide slowly down walls, making it harder to fall past the lasers quickly enough, but Capcom then added in ''more'' lasers! And at the end of the stage? You fight ThatOneBoss.
** Squid Adler/Volt Kraken's stage is even worse. The stage starts on a [[AutoScrollingLevel hoverbike]], with lots of bottomless pits to fall in, and getting scrolled off the screen kills you. To make matters worse, there are eight glowing things to get if you want the head parts of the Falcon Armor. Even if you survive that, there's still plenty of annoying switch puzzles to go through. Oh, and did we mention that if you want HundredPercentCompletion, you're going to have to revisit it?

* Any of levels from ''VideoGame/MegaManX6'' thank to its poor level design that require taking damage to proceed.
** Gate's Laboratory stage 1 & 2, instant-kill spikes everywhere, plus a sequence of rising instant-kill lava and slippery ice slopes, and an area for X that is all but impossible to traverse if you entered the previous level with the wrong armor for its level (you can't go back to switch armors once you enter Gate's domain, and the "wrong armor" is ironically the best weapon to beat the previous level's boss with). Utterly horrific. Also from ''X6'' Blaze Heatnix's level. While not hard on the scale Gate's lab is, Heatnix's domain contained not only lethal rising lava, but about half a dozen ultra-annoying minibosses as well. Seeing as how ''X6'' has hideous game balance in general, this is probably not surprising.
** The rest of levels thank to poor level design, Blizzard Wolfang's stage (if it wasn't the avalanches in the first part, it was the falling ice blocks in the second), Rainy Turtloid (acid rain and long stretches of moving platforms over pits), Metal Shark Player (Stupid, stupid compactor areas), Ground Scaravich (annoying totem poles and mazes), Shield Sheldon (laser puzzles ahoy)...in fact, the only stages that ''can't'' be considered a Scrappy Level in this game are Infinity Mijinion's and Commander Yammark's. And to some, Infinity Mijinion's stage is a Scrappy Level too, mostly because the entire first half of the stage is a MiniBoss fight.
** And, depending on the order you do things, thanks to the ever so aptly named Nightmare System, you have to do Yammark's or Turtloid's level in the dark! OK, there's a spotlight on your position, but it doesn't help that much.

** Infinity Mijinion's sub-stage also qualify. There are almost [[BottomlessPit NO FLOORS]] in this section. Instead you get hand rails that you need to remember to hold Up on the D-pad to cling to. Meanwhile there are [[GoddamnBats TONS of Nightmares]] in this section. They just love sucking the life out of unsuspecting Reploids, including ONE THAT IS LITERALLY RIGHT ON TOP OF THE POOR REPLOID IMMEDIATELY AS YOU SEE IT. If you're not fast enough, as in killing the thing immediately as it comes on screen, you will [[LostForever lose this Reploid]] and have to quit without saving if you were after HundredPercentCompletion. Oh, and even when you do rescue this Reploid, it's entirely possible that you will fall to your death anyway. Oh well, for a noble cause...
** Let's just call ''X6'' a [[MissionPackSequel Scrappy Level Pack Sequel]] and leave it at that.
* ''Videogame/MegaManX7'' has a lot of these. First up is Kombinat (which outside of Japan is the Lava Factory), which isn't so bad during the [=2D=] section, except for the lava that kills you if you touch it; no MercyInvincibility here! But then you get to the [=3D=] section, which has that lava practically ''everywhere''. And there are those stupid sonar tower thingies that can knock you out of midair if you get hit by the soundwaves on the middle of the platforms that aren't that big to begin with, as well as gigantic robots with a nearly unavoidable attack, and they almost always show up two to a platform. There's also a Reploid that [[GameBreakingBug disappears]] if you die before you get to him, regardless of whether he got hit by enemy robots, and a Heart Tank on a ''really'' low beam. Then you beat all this and fight [[MostAnnoyingSound Flame]] [[ThatOneBoss Hyenard...]]
** The Cyber Field is almost as bad as, if not worse than Kombinat. For one, unlike Kombinat, the ''entire stage'' is 3D. Then there's those '''goddamned samurai''' that shoot out {{Sword Beam}}s that have very unclear range, cannot be damaged except from behind, and worst of all, you ''need'' Axl to take them down if you want to rescue all the Reploids and/or get X's Helmet Armor, as they're able to go through walls you otherwise can't pass! But the gravity switch gimmick is simply ''dreadful'', because each time you get flipped, [[InterfaceScrew so too do your movement controls.]] There's also a bit of CameraScrew going on; the camera is more zoomed in while you are upside down. And if you'd expect Snipe Anteator to be easy after all the bullshit his stage puts you through, well...[[ThatOneBoss you'd be wrong.]]
* Burn Rooster's stage from ''Videogame/MegaManX8''. It starts out going down an auto-scrolling series of platforms. After that there's a large spike-filled room. Next, another auto-scrolling section, and then the boss. Finally, in the ultimate cheap shot, even after beating the boss, you have to escape in yet ANOTHER auto scrolling section, this time going up.
** Another X8 example: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3a5P54ghto Gravity Antonion]]. It's easy until you get to the minigame (@ 1:42 in the video). There are six blocks on the ceiling. Suddenly, they sprout spikes and fall on you. You then hide on the walls, while they sprout spikes from their top and fly up at you. Repeat ad nauseam. The SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic doesn't help. Sigma Palace is also a controller breaker, but it's the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, so it's [[JustifiedTrope justified]].
** Dark Mantis's stage, Pitch Black. Not only is it ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, the only way to be able to collect anything of any value involves turning on the power, which ''cannot be done'' unless you beat Gigavolt first, and also requires you to transform into a Guardroid and salute at a sleeping guard. Meaning if you didn't bring Axl, too bad. If you kill the sleeper, you lose the ability to enter the generator room, even if you die and come back, as he ''does not respawn''. Outside of that, there's also spotlights, which seal off exits if you're caught in them and summon more enemies. Fantastic.
** Avalanche Yeti's stage. It's a [[UnexpectedGameplayChange driving/shmup]] stage with constantly-spawning enemies, electric arcs, and the ability to die by being next to a hole. You don't need to fall in, just being ''by'' the hole kills you. Not to mention the miniboss with an absurd amount of health that you have to fight twice...
** Gigavolt Man-o-war's stage is much worse than Avalance Yeti's (May Heaven have mercy on your sanity if you try to [[NoDamageRun Perfect Run]] this thing), as it involves chasing the titular boss through a city in a driving/shmup segment and shooting him down. Sounds simple, right? Not only do you have to deal with him firing back at you (not to mention being ahead of you most of the time), there's also oncoming traffic and signs to deal with, that can slow you down substantially. The cherry on top is that [[TimedMission you fail the stage if Gigavolt's not defeated in three laps]], which will likely happen quite a few times if the hazards don't take you down, first. Mercifully, the boss himself is not so bad compared to his level.
** Actually, ''most'' of X8's stages could qualify for this trope. It's just a [[NintendoHard really hard]] game.

!!''Videogame/MegaManStarForce''

* Ouroboros from ''VideoGame/MegaManZX Advent'' is easier than Gate's laboratory stage in ''X6'', but it's loaded to the rim with spikes, annoying enemies of all kinds, regenerating blocks, regenerating ''[[SpikesOfDoom spiked]]'' blocks, the BossRush...yeah, all of that in ''one'' level. The fact that the whole thing's made from the world's supply of Model Ws turns it from ThatOneLevel to the NightmareFuel Level.
** [[LethalLavaLand Area K]] from the original ''ZX'' could qualify. K-1 with its boiling geysers isn't so bad, but then we go underground to find K-2 and a [[GoddamnedBoss Goddamned Miniboss]], then back to not-so-bad with K-3, then the horribly annoying [[AdvancingWallOfDoom lava chase]] segments in K-4 with [[GoddamnedBats really]] [[DemonicSpiders annoying]] enemies (good luck avoiding damage!) before you finally reach the boss, who is actually somewhat of a breather after the crap his level put you through. And if you decide to take an alternate path to make the lava wall move slower, you must also go through K-5, with its shaft full of [[RiseToTheChallenge rising lava]] that requires memorization and precise jumping (and probably vertical air-dashes)...and then go through a different area of K-1 and fight the miniboss all over again. And then comes [[ThatOneSidequest the collection of the Sub-Tank]]...which makes going through the level normally seem ''easy'' in comparison.
* Speaking of Quick Man, his counterpart in ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork 2'' ALSO has a horribly annoying stage, because you can't jack out of the detonators once you jack in, meaning you can't restore your health.
** And speaking of ''Battle Network'', any area that requires compression in 3, due to the pain of needing to reequip and rearrange the NaviCust setup so often.

* It's not just the bosses, the ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' and ''ZX'' games started going absolutely insane on hard mode, starting with ''Zero 3''. No weapon upgrades, no heart tanks, two subtanks at most (and you'd be lucky to get that), no cyber elves, Final Destination. End result is fighting boss rushes and three stage final bosses (sometimes in the same stage, with no continue point) with the tiny life bar you have at the very start of the game. If you're trying to get S-rank, you might as well just kill yourself.
** ''Zero 2'' has a whole bunch of 'em.
*** First is the Arms Factory, filled to the brim with lava and exploding Telebombs and not much room to maneuver. And to top it off the boss is an absolute nightmare who can only be hit at certain points even with the right element; if you attack, he'll dodge and counteratttack, and his counterattacks are damn hard to avoid. Worse still, one of the Cyber Elves hidden here is pure GuideDangIt material. You essentially have to play ''SpaceInvaders'' in one section, kill every enemy while being blocked by moving platforms that hurt you if you touch them, and after that have to hit the fast-moving UFO in the three seconds from when it emerges to when it leaves.
*** Next is the Bombardment Aircraft, You start off leaping between moving shuttlecraft which ''shoot at you'' while you're using them as platforms, on top of X-Droids shooting at you on top of them, requiring perfect timing so as to not to be knocked into the massive BottomlessPit. Once past that section, you have to fight a miniboss who fires fast-moving, area-damage missiles at you until you hit it. When you hit it, it drops a row of bombs which can only be avoided by standing exactly where it was previously hovering. Then you navigate through a series timed stage hazards that will eat right through your tiny lifebar and require expert timing to pass unharmed. ''Then'' you have to do a HoldTheLine section protecting Ciel for 90 seconds, which counts for basically your entire mission score. If she gets hit, goodbye A or S rank. Naturally, this is a BulletHell sequence plus the Frogger X-Droids who you have to hit while blocking every bullet. Finally, you have to face a boss battle which becomes nigh-impossible on Hard Mode if you have an A or S rank. His A/S rank attack is literally undodgeable. Not hard to dodge, impossible to dodge. He has to be deflected, ''in-flight'', to avoid taking damage, and the series of moves necessary to do this is not something the designers could reasonably expect people to figure out on their own, much less actually accomplish given that it takes precision timing to pull off.
*** There's also the Shuttle Factory, which is also long, contains lots of lava and other stage hazards, and a tough boss fight against Fefnir at the end.
*** Even the last level goes beyond what you'd expect for a final mission. Not only do you have to revisit the boss from the Arms Factory (who you can't partially nerf like the first time), they introduce an entirely new boss fight ''during the boss rush'', which is absolutely inexcusable. What's worse, said new boss fight consists of the beetle boss from this game (mentioned above) and the beetle boss from the last game '''fighting you together''' in an arena that does not scroll, with attacks that cover nearly the entire screen and take split-second timing to dodge, and a KaizoTrap ability for added measure.
* ''Network Transmission'' has the bank stage and the final area and ''Battle Chip Challenge'' has the entire game. Incidentally, the Bank stage happens to be, unsurprisingly, Quickman's level. Right down to the insta-kill lasers.