Zero and Mega Man X was created around Mega Man 8 timeline while well Mega Man was alive.
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So what exactly happened to the original Mega Man in-between the Classic and X series?
- Thread starter Uzumaki Goku
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You actually could be right. Dr. Light's lab was buried, possibly due to an earthquake. Dr. Cain found it during an archaeological dig.
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Of course, that could just be interpreted as Mega Man falling for a Wily trick, which is how those endings usually go. (Especially with the Japanese version, where Rockman's reaction is like a deer-in-the-headlights moment.)
Although if we are going by that thought, would you REALLY think that Dr. Light would consider free will in robots to be needed due to an incident of... Rock not killing a human? That sounds implausible.
Err it is what Mega Man: The Power Fighters says and it is canon lol
To be more specific Zero was created around Mega Man 8.... X around that time too.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone doubt that the original series and X are in the same continuity. Dr. Light is the guy you receive your upgrades from. They all but explicitly say that Wily created Zero in the X series, and show that he's building him in the classic series arcade games. It's not like they it's a Zelda thing where they're being coy about where it is in the timeline.
Like, I'm tempted to start insisting that Mega Man 2 is from a different timeline to the classic series now.
Like, I'm tempted to start insisting that Mega Man 2 is from a different timeline to the classic series now.
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Maybe but around Mega Man 8 they were already created ;)
Both of course hibernated for over 30 years after that.
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I imagine the evil energy in MM8 was how Wily created the Maverick Virus.
That's in Bass's ending for the second Mega Man arcade fighting game: Mega Man 2: The Power Fighter. See for yourself:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N-byDNFnfak
Yep Battle Network is an alternate continuity. Basically if the world focused on the internet instead of robotics.
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Huh. Back when I played the series I was always under the impression X was just the original Megaman upgraded. I had no idea Dr. Light had already begun creating him while Megaman was still around.
Definitely has me curious now but considering how different the tone is between the original Megaman series and the X and Zero series I'm guessing we may never find out. D:
Definitely has me curious now but considering how different the tone is between the original Megaman series and the X and Zero series I'm guessing we may never find out. D:
And then Beck dropped the baton so badly that Mega Man came back.This:
Yeah, and if there's anyone we can trust, it's him.
Evil Energy + Double Gear System?
Interesting. For some reason I assumed BN was the far distant future like after the "reset", and after society came back. But, looking it up, its set in 200X, so that wouldn't make any sense.
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Zero at least fought them at some point going by this scene since that's what he was commanded to do.
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I don't think you ever see the original Mega Man at any point in that.
Yeah. never heard this before either, and it's definitely false. X being the same person as Mega Man or Zero killing everybody is also definitively false.
My guess:
In Mega Man V, Wily goes to the future, finds himself reformed, convinces his future self to turn evil again, captures Mega Man and reprograms him to go back to the past and kill him there. Reprogrammed Mega Man, or Quint, is eventually destroyed by his past self. This creates a loop that gets rid of Rock.
Proto Man dies from the defect hinted at in Power Fighters.
Bass and Treble are the two characters I can buy actually getting destroyed by Zero. Bass won't accept anyone stronger than him, and Zero would obliterate him, so...
As for the rest, I have no idea.
I'd like the idea that he became a Robot Master at one point and had to be put down by Zero.
Then X was created after.
Then X was created after.
Dr Wily's final plan to defeat Megaman was a monstrously-powerful robot who was infected with a robo-AIDS virus that drives all robots insane, and Dr Light's final act was to make a counter to that robot/virus and spend a thousand years making sure that X could never go Maverick.
Yeah, it's just a coincidence that the world saw an apocalypse which wiped out all the robots until an archeologist discovered X in his testing chamber and recklessly restarted robo-civilization without any of X's anti-Maverick safeguards. Zero was never deployed. Megaman never died. Sure thing Inafune, I believe you.
Zero's memory (or lack thereof) is completely unreliable.
Yeah, it's just a coincidence that the world saw an apocalypse which wiped out all the robots until an archeologist discovered X in his testing chamber and recklessly restarted robo-civilization without any of X's anti-Maverick safeguards. Zero was never deployed. Megaman never died. Sure thing Inafune, I believe you.
When Zero's stasis pod was uncovered, after robo-civilization was restarted due to the discovery of X's stasis pod, Zero was a snarling bloodthirsty animal, who infected Sigma with his robo-AIDS, before Sigma smashed Zero in the head and gave him amnesia/wiped out all of his evil programming (resulting in Sigma falling to Dr Wily's robo-AIDS and becoming the new villain, while Zero recovered, built a new identity for himself, and became the new hero alongside X).
Zero's memory (or lack thereof) is completely unreliable.
Yeah, but the first part of that scene is blatantly Wily ordering Zero to murder Light. Something went down after that, and although we never see what that's still the latest canon thing from the original series' timeline as far as I'm aware. Given OG Zero/Omega's personality I'd say it wasn't pretty.
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Are the Game Boy Mega Man games in the same continuity? I feel like Capcom has only ever acknowledged 1-10 and & Bass as part of the timeline.
You know, I always thought it was interesting how Sigma said he met an old man that told him to scatter the virus to awaken Zero's true self.
Sigma also tells X he recently acquired a new partner that's given him the most powerful body he's ever had. He not only says this guy is accustomed to creating robots, but also says he's a "former comrade" of X that hates him as much as he (Sigma) does.
The Zero example is definitely Wily. I'm guessing the guy that gave him a powerful body is also Wily. Weird.
Sigma also tells X he recently acquired a new partner that's given him the most powerful body he's ever had. He not only says this guy is accustomed to creating robots, but also says he's a "former comrade" of X that hates him as much as he (Sigma) does.
The Zero example is definitely Wily. I'm guessing the guy that gave him a powerful body is also Wily. Weird.
I believe there was a dropped subplot with X6 where Isoc was Wily.
Not bad for a future where
humanity went extinct and our virtually-indistinguishable-from-people robots (to the point they don't even know they're machines) rule the World.
Sigma's final form in X5 is his massive head on Gamma from MM3's body so yeah, it's a sure thing he's talking about Wily. I feel like the "old comrade" line must be a mistranslation though. Those games weren't exactly known for their stellar localications.
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What does he say in the original Japanese version? I mean, the Japanese version of X2 implied that Serges was Wily, something that was sadly lost in the English translation.
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I remember X8's ending ends with a bit of an ominous foreshadowing with Axl's crystal glowing where Lumine hit him, but as that was (at the time) the final X game, we don't know anything. .....that makes me sad, it's a damn shame Mark Gatha retired from voice acting, he really was the perfect voice for X.
Yeah, that I remember, but what I don't remember is why Lumine was the final boss. Like, he says something about running the show behind Sigma the whole time or something, but I don't remember the details.
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Only for X8.... I remember X8 was being billed as "Sigma's final death." Of course, with such a long period of time passing, I guarantee you Sigma will be back in X9 if they make it.
Aren't the Mega Man Killers in Mega Man 9 or 10? Enker, PUNK, Ballade, etc.