History Characters / MegaManBattleNetwork1

* DemonicPossession: During ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior's'' N-1 Grand Prix TournamentArc, Mayl is tricked into using the devil chip, a battle-chip that lets Count Zap hack Roll's brain. He gives her an EvilCostumeSwitch, a subtle affinity for elec-element viruses, and a SuperMode that makes her whip a LightningLash. (Roll is freed when the heroes learn the hack only lasts while the chip is still in her PET; Mayl flushes it out [[WeaksauceWeakness merely by inserting a new battle-chip]]).

* EvilCostumeSwitch: When Roll is [[DemonicPossession hacked]] into being TemporarilyAVillain in ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior'', her design is changed to feature ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow, CreepyShadowedUndereyes, FemmeFatalons, and HighHeelPower and gets a WhipOfDominance to leave her DressedLikeADominatrix. Later, she gets a SuperMode that adds [=ElecMan=]'s electrical coils and a demonic tail.

* TemporarilyAVillain: During the N1 Grand Prix in the anime's first season, Maylu is tricked into using a fake battle chip that immediately subjects Roll to DemonicPossession and gives her an EvilCostumeSwitch.

* NonIndicativeName: Only [[DubInducedPlotHole in the dub]]; [=ProtoMan.EXE=] isn't actually a ''prototype'' of anything.

* TheHero: In the FiveManBand comprised of [=MegaMan=], Roll, [=GutsMan=], [=Glyde=], and [=ProtoMan=], [=MegaMan=] is the one who is nearly always in the thick of things, busting viruses, rescuing the others, and contending with evil organizations, and has the most sheer potential of anyone in the group.

* AdaptationalHeroism: His actions in the anime are far less despicable than they were in the game, where he merely holds Mayl, Dex, Yai, and Ms. Mari hostage to get Yai's rare chips instead of brainwashing every kid in school and trapping Ms. Mari in the supply closet. It helps that the anime Higsby wasn't a WWW member.

* CrossdressingVoices: In Japanese. In the Cantonese and Mandarin (which even has the [[TalkingToHimself same person voicing Lan]]) dubs too.

!!!''Voiced by:Creator/ YusukeNumata (JP), Creator/TonySampson (EN), Creator/IrwinDaayan (LA, Anime)''

!!!''Voiced by: Yusuke Numata (JP), Creator/TonySampson (EN), Creator/IrwinDaayan (LA, Anime)''

* AdaptationalJerkass: In the anime, Dex has a much larger ego that in one episode, overrides his brotherly instict towards his Chisao.

* AdaptationalHeroism: His actions in the anime are far less despicable than they were in the game where he merely holds Mayl, Dex, Yai, and Ms. Mari hostage to get Yai's rare chips instead of brainwashing every kid in school and trapping Ms. Mari in the supply closet. It helps that the anime Higsby wasn't a WWW member.

* EasilyForgiven: Remember when he willingly tried to brainwash an entire school for the WWW? Neither does the main cast as he quickly runs a chip shop and this event isn't even mentioned again after the first game. Though downplayed by the anime since the only thing he did was trap Yai and the others in a room to take her rare chips.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Has the Proto Shield to deflect attacks when he's not attacking.

* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: While his [=PhD=] is presumably in computer scientist and that's what he's usually show doing, the fourth game had him called in to deal with an incoming asteroid impact.

* BreakoutCharacter: Due to his postgame dungeon status, role in the second game, utilizing Muramasa and being playable in ''4.5'' and ''5'' as well as being mentioned in ''6'' allows their popularity to rocket even as the other swordsman of the series aside [=ProtoMan=].

* DiscOneFinalBoss: Of ''2'', where [=ShadowMan=] serves as the final boss of the first act. He's far more powerful and dangerous than any of Gospel's previous agents, both in and out of gameplay: [=MegaMan=]'s entire reason for acquiring Style Change is specifically to try and level the playing field with [=ShadowMan=], and even getting that, [=ProtoMan=] as backup, ''and'' a new weapon specifically designed to kill [=ShadowMan=] only manages to make it so [=ShadowMan=] has to stick around and actually fight. Even his Navi ghost encounter is located deep in the Undernet despite appearing earlier than [=KnightMan=] and [=MagnetMan=].

* DiscOneFinalBoss: Of ''2'', where [=ShadowMan=] serves as the final boss of the first act. He's far more powerful and dangerous than any of Gospel's previous agents, both in and out of gameplay: [=MegaMan=]'s entire reason for acquiring Style Change is specifically to try and level the playing field with [=ShadowMan=], and even getting that, [=ProtoMan=] as backup, ''and'' a new weapon specifically designed to kill [=ShadowMan=] only manages to make it so [=ShadowMan=] has to stick around and actually fight.

** [=ShadowMan=] in the first ''Battle Network'' game is an {{Optional|Boss}} {{Superboss}} who is much stronger than the plot-important version fought in ''Battle Network 2''.

* GlassCannon: The Hub Style SuperMode gives Mega Man every ability of the style changes from ''2'' (or, in BCC, a huge capacity for chips) at the cost of half of his HP or more. In ''3'', the HP cost is treated as a bug and can be negated by the Bug Stop program.

** The SuperMode Hub Style. In the second game, it is an undoubtedly powerful AllYourPowersCombined implementation of every Style Change ability, but in the manga, Hub Style turns Mega Man into a BloodKnight PersonOfMassDestruction.
** Bug Style is even worse in the anime. Whereas instead of just negatively affecting some of Mega Man's attributes in favor of powering up his other ones, Bug Style here instead turns Mega Man into a full-blown ApocalypseMaiden that was not only capapble of defeating the Virus-Beast with ease, and would've gone on to destroy the entire Internet world, if Lan hadn't been able to snap him back to his senses.

* DeathFromAbove: [=StoneMan=]'s SignatureMove drops boulders on the enemy territory in sets of three. The basic navichip version of it does a a lot of damage and drops three sets when used.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: One of the biggest threats Gospel has ever thrown to Electopia before the world prepares to anticipate their upcoming attacks. Even [=MegaMan=] and [=ProtoMan=] had a hard time dealing with him as a tag team when [=ProtoMan=] was taken out by [=ShadowMan=] tactics using his henchman as his shield leaving him with a showdown against [=MegaMan=] one on one.

* ManChild: In ''Battle Network 2'', hearing the Lan and [=MegaMan=] aren't speaking to each other is enough to reduce him to InelegantBlubbering.

** Japanese: Netto (熱斗) is a pun on "intaa'''netto'''" (インターネット), the Japanese name for the Internet (which itself often shortened to "netto").

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: While in the games Sal was always an environmentalist, in the original trilogy and ''Battle Chip Challenge'', she had an ethereal side, alluding to the power of nature as if she has a mystic connection to it. In ''Battle Network 4'', she's just a NiceGuy and the ethereal trait has vanished.

* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:With Mayl in the series epilogue]].

* WhipOfDominance: When she was BrainwashedAndCrazy by a devil chip in ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior'', she became a villainess who called herself Rmpress, she started using a spiked whip both as a weapon and to denote her control of the minor viruses who [[InstantFanClub started to act like her minions to the moment the change occured]]. [[EvilCostumeSwitch Her appearance also changed]] to a {{Dominatrix}}-themed character [[note]]gaining [[CuteLittleFangs fangs]], [[HighHeelPower heels]], [[FemmeFatalons large nails]] and [[ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow eyeliner]][[/note]] and she gained a domineering and sadistic nature, complete with doing a NoblewomansLaugh as she used her whip to strike Megaman.

* BattleButler: Definitely not one of the evil kinds though.

* PerpetualPoverty: It is hinted that the reason his chip shop doesn't perform much is because he doesn't want to sell or even use the rare chips he had.

* GreenThumb: [=WoodMan=] is a Wood Navi.

* Jerkass: That goes without saying. However...
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Believe it or not, yes! In Bass's scenario in ''4.5'', he shows up in your PET, constantly berates you, but He has his moments. Notable when he asks you who your worst enemy is, he offers to go beat them up for you.

* EvilCostumeSwitch: When Roll is [[DemonicPossession hacked]] into being TemporarilyAVillain in ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior'', her design is changed to feature ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow, CreepyShadowedUndereyes, FemmeFatalons, and HighHeelPower and gets a {{Whip|ItGood}} to leave her DressedLikeADominatrix. Later, she gets a SuperMode that adds [=ElecMan=]'s electrical coils and a demonic tail.

* WhipItGood:
** When she's not attacking with her bow and arrows, she warps in front of her enemy and smacks them around with her two antennae.
** When she was transformed by an evil chip in ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior'', her weapon became a thorny whip.