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Metal Fusion/Metal Fight
- Gingka's backstory. He lived a happy life with his father in Koma Village until the day Doji and Ryuga came to steal L-Drago. The ensuing battle between Ryo and Ryuga ended with Ryo being swiftly defeated and the mountain collapsing on him, seemingly killing him. His last act was to give Gingka his Pegasus and entrust to him the future of Beyblade.
- Adding onto this, Gingka's mother is neither seen nor mentioned at all. We don't even know if he even has a mother.
- Kyoya's defeat at the hands of Ryuga qualifies both as this and as Nightmare Fuel.
- Pegasus fading away just after the final battle
Metal Masters
- Tsubasa and Yu in the hospital after they were attacked by Damian. What makes it worse is that they end up missing the final battle in the World Championship and Tsubasa is shown to be broken up about being unable to stand with his friends on top of the world. As he pointed out to Jack during their battle, it was upsetting that they had worked so hard to reach the championship battle and didn't even get to be in it.
- The whole story between Team Dungeon, from Toby having a life-threatening illness to Zeo feeling abandoned by Masamune, to them fighting as enemies in the tournament, to them all getting back together. The last part also doubles as a Heartwarming Moment.
- Yu having to witness Tsubasa's gradual change due to the dark power. Especially when you consider that he's already seen the dark power change one person he had considered a best friend who ended up betraying him and was now seeing that he might lose another person he'd become a good friend with to the dark power.
- Julian having his pride, ideals, confidence, spirit and sanity slowly shattered like glass by Damian to the point where he was rendered a traumatized and mentally broken shambles by the battle's end. This is the same Julian who is so absurdly talented that winning was equivalent to breathing for him. A regal, nigh-infallible figure known as The Emperor of Beyblade by his fans was reduced in one grim match to a pathetic wreck. It was so bad that Wales & Sophie jumped in to protect Julian from further harm. With the twin jewels at his side, Julian regained his composure and hope that he can reclaim his lost pride. After all, Julian, Sophie and Wales together are said to be an unbeatable team. This promptly gets subverted as Hades Gate then sent the so-called unbeatable trio's special moves - including the legendary Black Excalibur - down to defeat so hard Julian screamed in terror during the special move.
- What makes it even worse is that after his defeat to Gingka popped his elitist bubble, Julian put his pride to one side and trained harder than ever, entering the match against Star Breaker with newfound strength and skill. This was The Emperor at his pinnacle... and he still got brutalized. Julian was then forced to admit weakness while simultaneously stammering and sobbing (without the tears) by his adversary in a moment that manages to qualify as Nightmare Fuel alongside Tear Jerker.
- Still, could be worse... and then it was, because Julian discovered after his horrific loss that the Konzern Family had lost just about everything to Ziggurat's Hades Inc., the same man who managed Star Breaker - as in, the team that just totally destroyed Excalibur. Ziggurat proceeded to blackmail Julian into becoming his slave in exchange for keeping the good name of the Konzern's intact. Julian didn't resist. He couldn't. He didn't have anything left to give. There's no value in a broken sword.
- The way Destroyer reached towards Julian while suffering from Kerbecs' special move Hades Gate. Its as if it was desperately screaming in agony for help. Which, it basically was.
- What makes it even worse is that after his defeat to Gingka popped his elitist bubble, Julian put his pride to one side and trained harder than ever, entering the match against Star Breaker with newfound strength and skill. This was The Emperor at his pinnacle... and he still got brutalized. Julian was then forced to admit weakness while simultaneously stammering and sobbing (without the tears) by his adversary in a moment that manages to qualify as Nightmare Fuel alongside Tear Jerker.
- Weirdly, Damian Hart himself in general. The same Damian who nigh-instantly hospitalised Tsubasa and Yu for a mere test of his bey, and tormented Julian to the point of mental collapse, might just be the most tragic person the various Beyblade verses has ever had. He was introduced to Beyblade as a small child by the energy and environmental scientist Ziggurat who intended to raise him as his prodigy, and introduced him to the Arrangement, an invention derived from Ziggurat's time as one of the world's top neurologists. Think of it this way, Damian was mind-raped for years and simultaneously groomed to believe he was chosen by fate itself to be the strongest to the point where he was beyond sadistic, loved to mentally torture and break his opponents, thinks his entire purpose is to be a scientist's puppet and barring a miracle has likely had all traces of his original personality erased from existence, if not permanently altered. All this, just because Damian so happened to have the right genes for Ziggurat's twisted scientific research.Damian: Kerbecs is a bey made to win. The Arrangement is something needed to win. I am here in order to win, there is no meaning other than that! My sole purpose... is to complete my job by winning.Gingka: I see... you really are just a victim in all of this.
- As if it couldn't get any worse, Damian was nothing more than a tool the whole time. Ziggurat was after Toby from the very start. The fact that Damian ultimately did nothing even after Ziggurat blatantly revealed that he was just a tool in Ziggurat's true research for the creation of Twisted Tempo and using Toby's body to create Faust in front of everyone says a lot.
- It's genuinely heartwrenching watching Masamune desperately attempt to get Toby back, even though he's seemingly gone forever. Whenever Faust bluntly replies that he is not Toby drives the proverbial knife in further.
- Speaking of Faust, his entire existence is depressing. He believes that his purpose is to save humanity from environmental collapse by supplying unlimited clean energy with his Twisted Tempo. In truth, his creator intends to sell him and Tempo to whoever gives Ziggurat the best offer, almost certainly someone who wants to use the beyond absurd power of Faust/Tempo as a living weapon to commit mass genocide on whoever happens to be unlucky enough, while said living weapon is painfully unaware of what he's doing. Imagine how much it would affect Faust if he discovered the true reason for his birth.
Metal Fury
- Kenta's mindset during the beginning of the season. He laments that he Can't Catch Up and wishes he could do more for his friends, leading him to try and convince Ryuga to join forces with the other legendary bladers. From then on, he is constantly going through the toughest training just to get Ryuga to take him seriously which eventually he does. Even if only for a brief moment, Ryuga became serious. He promised.
- Ryuga's death. He spends the entire fight with Rago being chewed out by Doji who mocks him relentlessly. To make it even worse, he is rapidly overwhelmed until all of his clothes are torn and his pride is blown to shreds. Finally, his Ultimate Move ends up doing jack shit other than killing Doji again and after a few more moments, the gang arrives just in time to see him fall victim to Rago's special move, which puts him at death's door. After that, he knows he's done and his final act is to give Kenta his Star Fragment before he and his Bey fade to nothing.
