#sergeant night

Sergeant Breaker Night

I don't know what it says about me that he's the first character I thought of besides "this show might have too much of a hold on my brain." Sgt. Night is a veteran from the Hard Age, a war that took place in recent history where robots fought for their rights as citizens. Supposedly "nobody lost" and "everybody won" the war because robots did get rights, but things still aren't really... equal. Tensions still exist, and Sgt. Night plays on this throughout the entire show. As the war veteran, he claims that humans built robots and therefore are superior to them, but in his disguise as Lord Obsidian - who by all accounts seems to be a robot - he urges robots to prove that ROBOTS are superior and that following him will let them take back what is theirs (in some capacity). In reality, he's doing all of this to get at a device Dr. Light has that allows for complete control over a robot and the ability to do things like wipe their memory. Night lies to his followers and is only revealed to the heroes as being Obsidian in the last episode. "I lied to all of you, to put you back in your place!" There's also "More, More, More!" in which he literally gatekeeps the city, creating a barrier to divide humans and robots and moving them around as necessary to create this division. He doesn't play all his cards at once, either, not showing his followers the "Lord Obsidian" armor/persona until challenged into doing so and proving that he's not just sitting around. He regularly calls Mega Man a "traitor to his kind" as Obsidian but never elaborates, which plays its part in drawing the hero in and trying to learn more which is perfect for staging an attack. We as the audience don't even know what all information he has, and he's not planning on sharing it, either. The sergeant might not be a girl, but he does girlboss. He has an evil lair and gets his followers through charisma or promises of helping them out in some fashion, and will do whatever it takes to succeed. He'll get his own hands dirty as Lord Obsidian, no questions asked. He's more than willing to sow problems as Sgt. Night, too, whether that's convincing others robots are dangerous and shouldn't be equal to humans, or that time he purposefully interfered with a robot's thermoregulator in order to make him more unstable and was only able to do so by claiming there was a "mad robot on the loose" to get rid of as many witnesses as possible. Ice Man didn't even do anything to him. My guy was just existing and trying to get better and Night wanted to make his life worse (possibly in an attempt to get Ice to join the evil team, but it's never made super clear and it fails anyway). There was an entire episode where the plot was "back Mega Man into a corner and get him to use all his powers together and fail so I can try and recruit him", which only failed because Mega Man got backup.

also he canonically abused a (robot) child who acts as his second-in-command. said child was also kidnapped and calls Obsidian "father" which makes the fact that the kid is terrified of him so much worse. Daini gets hit with a power that makes him see his fears because it messes with the mind and he's already in a dream fighting Mega Man (don't question it too much), and he sees Sgt. Night AKA Lord Obsidian. He falls to his knees and his hands go to cover his head. He’s scared. He’s whimpering and he’s terrified, almost trying to block him out. He's NEVER acted like this before. Daini was confidently standing by Obsidian's side and talked back just a few episodes ago, and now he's terrified. Once he gets booted out, he's confident again facing Sgt. Night, but the moment the Obsidian armor goes on Daini flinches. He pulls back and shrinks away slightly, and his hands rise to protect himself. He sounds scared. He wasn’t afraid of Night normally, confronting him on the plan being a failure, but then was called a failure himself and was intimidated into backing down by Obsidian. Obsidian didn’t have to say anything.

this is still by all accounts a kids show and this is even before the comic continuation added on "oh btw this incarnation of mega man was made specifically to kill his own kind in the war for robot civil rights and had his memories wiped and then had them wiped again after his twin brother was kidnapped" because why the hell not. i love it. this is also propaganda for mmfc as a whole, it's honestly really fun and the fact that there's a precedent for humans and robots not always getting along makes things even more interesting. some episodes (Guts Man episodes) are weird but others are genuinely really really good ("Enter the Wood Man", "Watt's Happening?!", "Big Bad Dreams", and "Hide and Secrets" are personal reccomendations!)

Dahlia Hawthorne

she lived. faked her own kidnapping and killed multiple people in unrelated situations. was executed. got her spirit channelled. tried to kill even more people as revenge

Girlypop has done a shit ton of manipulation, committed at least four murders (even one from the grave!) A man’s eaten glass for her, another’s knowingly drank poison. She also puts on the “Weak little girl” act to get away with it all

she is literally THE gaslight gatekeep girlbosser ever. don't wanna spoil anything but like. she is the definition of the words,