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!!''VideoGame/MegaManZero1''
!!!The Four Guardians
[[folder:General]]
When X abandoned his original body to be the seal of the Dark Elf, these four reploids were created from his DNA in order to clean up the world. They are also the generals of each of the armed forces of Neo Arcadia.

* EleventhHourRanger: The surviving Guardians in ''3'' when they [[BigDamnHeroes help Zero defeat Omega]] once and for all.
* AnimalVehicleHybrid: Except for Phantom, they have OneWingedAngel forms that look like animal-shaped vehicles. Fefnir turns into a draconic tank, Leviathan turns into a manta ray submarine, and Harpuia turns into an eagle-shaped plane.
* AntiVillain: While they're very determined to eliminate the Resistance, it's because they believed that such an act of rebellion is wrong, and they only wanted to protect Neo Arcadia, the last utopia on earth, along with its citizens. Harpuia actually seems to show reluctance in killing reploids in the resistance when they aren't actively attacking Neo Arcadia. It seems that even Zero picks up on this quality of theirs, as they're notably the only members of the Neo Arcadian army that he never attempts to deal with lethally.
* ArtifactTitle: They continue to call themselves/are called the Four Guardians even after they're reduced to three members after Phantom's death.
* BadassLongRobe: They all got one each in [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100709055609/megaman/images/thumb/0/01/Guardian_stars.png/270px-Guardian_stars.png a concept art marked as "unofficial"]] alongside X.
* BattleAura: In their DesperationAttack, if you have the A or S rank.
* BigDamnHeroes: After Zero defeats Omega, the Dark Elf tries to heal Omega, until the remaining Guardians arrive to hold him off before Zero can move for the finishing strike.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: They all have an X on their backs.
* ColorCodedCharacters: Harpuia is green, Fefnir is red, Phantom is black, and Leviathan is light blue. According to an interview, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen they were all going to be colored blue]] because of their connection to X, but the artist Toru Nakayama argued that giving them different colors may help emphasize their attributes.
* CombatSadomasochist: Split between two of them: Harpuia is the masochist and Leviathan is the sadist. Fefnir, meanwhile, is both.
* DefeatMeansRespect: Harpuia, Fefnir, and Leviathan respect Zero when he defeats them the first time. Phantom only did it in the third game, thinking that Zero's worthy enough to take on Omega.
* DesperationAttack: Each of them has one that they will do when their health go below half.
* ElementalEyeColors: Fittingly for the elements they represent, Harpuia has green eyes, Leviathan has blue eyes, and Fefnir has red ones.
* EliteFour: As indicated by their collective name, they serve as prime enforcers of Copy-X. Even after [[ArtifactTitle they're reduced to three, they're still called the Four Guardians]]; justified since not many Neo Arcadians know about Phantom's fate (like how they never knew Copy-X's fate until the third game), and the other Guardians likely tried to keep it a secret.
* FighterMageThief: Fefnir, Leviathan, and Phantom respectively, while Harpuia is a balanced mix of all three.
* FireIceLightning: They cover all three of these (Fefnir to Fire, Leviathan to Ice, Harpuia to Lightning), with Phantom as a NonElemental.
* FiveManBand: Formed one with Copy-X as the BigBad and Harpuia as TheDragon[[note]]being the closest to Copy-X in influence and importance, while also disciplining the other Guardians; he even took over Copy-X's position in secret[[/note]], Fefnir as TheBrute[[note]]the most excitable when it comes to fighting and also the most physically powerful as the leader of Neo Arcadia's armies[[/note]], Phantom as TheEvilGenius[[note]]as the leader of Neo Arcadia's intelligence unit, he fights with guile and trickery[[/note]], and Leviathan as TheSmurfettePrinciple[[note]]the lone female of the group, and likes playfully teasing Zero[[/note]].
* FourIsDeath: They even have the name "Shitennou" (Four Heavenly Kings) in Japan, which is commonly associated with notorious teams of four.
* FourStarBadass: Each of them are generals of Neo Arcadia's armed forces: Harpuia of the air force, Fefnir of the army, Leviathan of the navy, and Phantom of the intelligence and espionage unit.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble
** Harpuia: Melancholic
** Fefnir: Choleric
** Leviathan: Sanguine
** Phantom: Phlegmatic
* FreudianTrio: Excepting Phantom:
** Id: Fefnir -- the impetuous Blood Knight, hands down.
** Superego: Harpuia, the most respectable Guardian, the stern moral compass, and most similar to X.
** Ego: Leviathan -- the playful, but also cooperative, the glue that holds the team together.
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Due to his failure to stop Zero and retrieve the Dark Elf, and most certainly due to Weil's machinations, Harpuia, alongside a currently-comatose Fefnir and Leviathan, ends up being stripped of his rank by Copy-X Mk. II.
* HeroAntagonist: They all are trying to protect Neo Arcadia from outside threats and maintain its peace. Thing is, you're now playing for the "bad guys" side.
* KilledOffForReal: All of them eventually die before the end of the quadrilogy. Phantom self-destructs in the first game, while the other three are killed by Omega's explosion at the end of the third game.
** Retconned by Creator/IntiCreates president Takuya Aida who claims their names were removed from Neo Arcadia's register in the aftermath of the game's events, meaning the public believes them to be deceased, but it's possible they're now fighting for humans somewhere outside of Neo Arcadia's surveillance. [[note]]This version of events actually matches [[https://web.archive.org/web/20130917225900/http://www.capcom-fc.com:80/staffroom/archives/2005/06/_4_1.php U-CAPCOM's response to a fan letter in 2005]] ([[https://kobun20.interordi.com/2013/02/10/fate-of-the-four-guardians/ translated here]]), wherein the dev team noted that the Guardians more or less ended up as [[SequelNonEntity Sequel Non-Entities]] but probably were off somewhere protecting mankind from Weil's oppressive regime.[[/note]]
* LandSeaSky: The various divisions of Neo Arcadia's armed forces, with a Guardian leading each one, with Phantom again as the odd man out.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "X, the Legend", which they share with Copy-X.
* LiteralSplitPersonality: They were created from X and all have unique personalities.
* OneWingedAngel: Their Armed Phenomenon forms, which they take the last time they fight Zero in the second game. Phantom has one as seen in concept art, but it's never seen in-game since he dies before ''Zero 2''.
* PlotArmor: Zero defeats all of them like normal bosses, but they aren't destroyed; Phantom only dies because [[SelfDisposingVillain he self-destructed]].
* PraetorianGuard: As implied from their collective name.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The first of the series and the most iconic.
* RecurringBoss: All of them are fought four times, including a battle when they go OneWingedAngel. Phantom is fought as an OptionalBoss.
* RedOniBlueOni: The calm and sultry blue ice-element DarkActionGirl Leviathan and red fire-element berserker Fefnir.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Harpuia is named after a Greek monster, Fefnir is named after a dragon from Norse Mythology, and Leviathan is derived from a sea monster from the Bible. Phantom is the OddNameOut, as his name is just synonymous with "ghost".
* {{Retcon}}: In the original script (via author blog post), the reason for their absence in the fourth game is the fact that they were too busy evacuating the citizens of Neo Arcadia to meet with Zero. This was later changed in the databook to a HeroicSacrifice shielding Zero from Omega's explosion, just to be retconned again to [[PutOnABus them fighting Dr. Weil's tyranny outside Neo Arcadia]] during ''Zero 4''.
* RoboFamily: Due to their similar origins and purpose, they're often called siblings. And X is their "father" of sorts.
* SexIsViolence: Harpuia and Leviathan particularly feel rather...turned on when they fight Zero.
* SoulJar: Their memories and consciousness are later recreated as Biometals in the ''[[VideoGame/MegaManZX ZX]]'' series.
* WorthyOpponent: All of them consider Zero as this, though Phantom's the least hyped about it.

[[folder:Sage Harpuia]]
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-->''We, the Reploids of Neo Arcadia... we are defenders of humanity. The only justice here.''
--->''Voiced by Creator/MegumiOgata''

Called ''Kenshou'' ("Wise General") ''Harpuia'' in Japan. The Guardian of Wind, he's a military general of Neo Arcadia, commanding the Rekku Army (literally Army of the Fierce Sky), Neo Arcadia's military air force. He seems to have a lot of respect for Zero, and Zero likewise for him. By the start of ''Zero 2'', he begins having doubts over whether the comfort of humans is worth the lives of Reploids. He and his siblings help Zero defeat Omega once and for all at the end of ''Zero 3''. In many ways like a meaner X in personality.

* AdoptTheDog: Tied with his CharacterDevelopment in ''Zero 2''. Commonly associated with sparing an incapacitated Zero after the intro stage (though that could just as easily be his innately honorable nature kicking in). Other moments include TheReveal of his true feelings about the war and his ultimate decision that protecting civilians is more important than fighting the resistance.
* AIBreaker: In the first game especially, if he's struck by an ice attack, he'll fall to the ground and then use an attack that consists of 3 {{Sword Beam}}s. As soon as he's vulnerable again (i.e before he even flies again) and as soon as your charge is full, you can quickly strike him again, pretty much trapping him in a loop. If he's placed in the middle, you can even jump over him to avoid the SwordBeam attack entirely. In the second game, he has other strategies to use, but he remains rather easy to predict.
* AttackDrone: Can release several [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam funnel]]-like devices that act like tasers.
* BadassCreed: He has one in the drama tracks:
-->''However the future hidden in the shadows beyond the door may turn out. Wind drives away the fog, fire shows the road. Water enriches the body, and shadow reflects oneself... by the four heavens, we will become a light to guide the world! Master X... for humans' sake, we can continue to fight. Even if it means our lives are exhausted as an offering for justice.''
* BloodKnight: After their first fight in ''2'', he admits that he feels most alive while fighting Zero. Is considerably more benign than most blood knights, and tends to keep his fighting spirit in check when there are more important matters to attend to; he only fights Zero when it's necessary, and he loves the moment, but he isn't much longing for it.
* BlowYouAway: Though for gameplay purposes, he focuses on ShockAndAwe per the FireIceLightning pecking order.
* BreakoutVillain: Harpuia takes most of the limelight from the rest of the Guardians. Fefnir and Leviathan being [[InLoveWithYourCarnage fanboys]] of badass Zero, and they spend the majority of ''Zero 3'' out of commission due to their injuries from fighting Omega at the beginning of the game while Harpuia gets the spotlight and majority of the CharacterDevelopment.
* CharacterDevelopment: Was once a stoic and loyal [[TheDragon right-hand man]] of a KnightTemplar little different personality-wise from fellow Guardian Hidden Phantom, before maturing into a morally conflicted HeroAntagonist that starts to believe that humans and Reploids ''can'' in fact coexist with each other peacefully, but is still willing to eliminate those who threaten the humans he protects. In other words, he is essentially X himself, without the pacifistic tendencies.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Essentially the main antagonist of ''Zero 2'' until Elpizo becomes DrunkWithPower.
* DragonAscendant: Became leader of Neo Arcadia in Copy-X's "absence". He serves as the main antagonist for the first half of the second game until Elpizo's FaceHeelTurn.
* DeathFromAbove: He flies high in the air as he fires his SwordBeam EX Skill downward in ''Zero 2''.
* DualWielding: With {{Laser Blade}}s, no less.
* EnemyMine: Along with his siblings, helping Zero against Omega in ''Zero 3''.
* {{Expy}}:
** It's commonly believed in fanon that he was based on X's flight-based armors (particularly the [[http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/File:X5_falconarmor.jpg Falcon Armor]] of ''X5'').
** By being a prideful, honorable, and respectful "[[AntiVillain villain]]" who's a bit misguided, he evokes Colonel of ''X4''. Their other similarities include thinking of the hero Zero as TheRival, as well as similar attacks -- a triple SwordBeam attack and a lightning-summoning attack.
* FacialMarkings: Green triangular ones under his eyes.
* {{Flight}}: Is capable of unaided flying.
* FoeTossingCharge: He has this move added in the second game. It bypasses your MercyInvincibility, too.
* {{Foil}}: Appears to be this to Zero. While Harpuia dutifully carries out the orders of Copy-X, and has no problem giving his power back to him when he comes back, he is more motivated by his desire to protect humanity, and is willing to sacrifice himself for such a goal. Zero, by contrast, has no higher morals to preach about or work towards, and is only motivated to fight for the sake of those he cares about (Ciel and Mega Man X). [[SubvertedTrope however...]]
* GiantFlyer: his OneWingedAngel is a CoolPlane mixed with a sort of avian.
* GoodIsNotNice: He's an honorable, well-intentioned HeroAntagonist, but the only people he's nice to are his siblings. He's especially ruthless against his enemies, but he seems to be against attacking enemies who are down, as seen in how he spares both Zero and Elpizo.
* GrappleMove: He can swoop down on Zero and then do a flying piledriver.
* HarpingOnAboutHarpies: He's based on this.
* HeroicBSOD: Harpuia has one after seeing a densely-populated city destroyed before his eyes, then being easily defeated by the one responsible, Omega, and, finally, offended by the fact that he was helped by the very enemies he's sworn to take down and feels that he's "used goods".
* MercurysWings: More like Valkyrie Wings, but still qualifies. While the wing on his helmet is purely decor, he's proven to be one of the fastest characters in the series.
* MercyKill: Averted. Harpuia, at one point infected by the baby elves, asks for Zero to "terminate" him, but Zero hesitates, allowing the baby elves' influence to trigger Harpuia's OneWingedAngel form.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Does not like the situation he's in as stated in ''Zero 2'', but he has a job that he has to do, namely protecting humans. Too bad the definition of Maverick has become distorted.
* NobleTopEnforcer: He only desires peace and coexistence between reploids and humans, and while he's ruthless to all that is Maverick, he's shown to have limits, such as when he spares Zero and later Elpizo in the second game or how he laments Copy-X's decision to bomb a human settlement just to get the Dark Elf.
* OneWingedAngel: Gets one in the second game from the Baby Elves, turning him into a sort of plane-hawk hybrid thing. Perhaps as a nod to how much he resists, it's something of a ClippedWingAngel, being significantly easier to beat than Harpuia's normal form.
* {{Pride}}: His fatal flaw.
* ProperlyParanoid: He, for good reason, does not trust Weil in ''Zero 3''.
* PromotedToPlayable: Outside a minigame in ''Zero 3'' where he rides Aztec Falcon, ''VideoGame/MegaManXDive'' is his first proper playable appearance.
* {{Shoryuken}}: Part of his moveset in the second game, done with his swords.
* ShoutOut: In ''VideoGame/MegaMan9'', Tornado Man -- one of that game's robot masters -- resembles him in appearance and basic powers.
* StabTheSky: A variant: he lifts both of his swords upward and crosses them, emitting lightning sparks. Then [[DeathFromAbove lightning strikes come from the sky]], trying to hit you.
* SuperSpeed: He becomes faster in the second game, able to dash from one end of the stage to the other in less than a second.
* SwordBeam: [[BeamSpam Lives it]]. Zero can acquire this ability from him.
* SwordPointing: His DesperationAttack [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g5rZRZGzrg&feature=related (at 0:32)]] involves this, albeit aimed lower at an angle, as he's floating high on the air.
* ThreeStrikeCombo: One of his signature moves, with {{Sword Beam}}s added.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: When Copy X returns in Zero 3, he faces this dilemma, initially allowing the terrible Dr. Weil into Neo Arcadia out of loyalty to his master and his decisions. Later on, however, he directly opposes Weil, despite the man being under the protection of the system he's meant to uphold, seeing Weil and Copy X's disregard for human life as unforgivable.
* TornadoMove: His EX Skill in the first game is creating a giant tornado to trap Zero in. His OneWingedAngel can also use the move.
* TragicHero: He wants a world in which humans and reploids can live in peace. Too bad he's so blinded by pride that he can't see the truth, at least until CharacterDevelopment. Given his goals aren't so different from Ciel and Zero, the irony of his situation is cruel.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: He has the chance to finish off an unconscious Zero at the beginning of ''Zero 2'' with none but himself and Aztec Falcon the wiser, even musing on whether or not he should let one of the biggest threats to Neo Arcadia who was responsible for the death of Copy-X and the self-sacrifice of Phantom to live or die. Ultimately, not only does he spare Zero's life, he drops him off right at the Resistance Base to get healed up.
* WindIsGreen: He's coloured green and he uses wind attacks.
* TheWorfBarrage: His lightning attack on Omega halfway through the game (which previously managed to do some serious damage to him in the beginning stage, albeit after Zero had gotten his chance at Omega and Fefnir and Leviathan fought him too) fails to hurt him post-absorbing the Dark Elf, and then Harpuia gets blasted and put in critical condition by multiple beam attacks.
* WouldNotShootACivilian: Determined to capture Ciel unharmed and let the authorities deal with her, as she is still a non-combatant.

[[folder:Fighting Fefnir]]
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-->''I never expected you to be this good... you are amazing, and that is what excites me the most!''
--->''Voiced by Creator/KazuyaNakai''

Called ''Toushou'' ("Fighter General") ''[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Fafnir]]'' in Japan. The Guardian of Fire, he is the leader of Neo Arcadia's Jin'en Gundan ("Army of Scorched Earth"). One of the poster boys for HotBlooded, Fefnir never, ever turns down a chance to fight Zero. The one time he did, it only served to underscore just how powerful the immediate enemy was. He's very rarely malicious to Zero, he just wants a good fight, and the legendary hero Zero's the only one who can give it him.

* AdvancingBossOfDoom: His OneWingedAngel keeps chasing you from the right.
* {{BFG}}: The ''four'' guns on his OneWingedAngel form in ''Zero 2''. His regular form has a suitably large cannon, too, and he can summon another one for his DesperationAttack.
* BloodKnight: His idea of "having fun" seems to be "beating enemies into submission". After he meets Zero, he simply can't get enough of fighting him.
* ChargedAttack: All of his moves (except for his DesperationAttack) each has a more powerful version of it, which Fefnir performs after charging up first.
* DishingOutDirt: His secondary element, since he can summon magma eruptions from the ground.
* {{Expy}}: It's commonly believed in fanon that he was based on X's power-based [[http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/File:Gaea_ArmorX.jpg Gaea Armor]] from ''X5''.
* FacialMarkings: Has red lines going down his cheeks from his eyes.
* FiringInTheAirALot: His EX Skill in the first game is to fire his cannon in the air a lot, and then [[DeathFromAbove multiple fireballs fall down from the sky.]]
* GrappleMove: He has one where he dashes to Zero, then grabs him and fires him upwards like a HumanCannonball. If he powered up first, he'll [[MeteorMove follow it up by leaping towards Zero and slamming him to the ground.]]
* GroundPound: One of his primary attacks; the battle in ''Zero 2'' includes some variations as well.
* GunsAkimbo: He can summon another HandCannon, but he'll only do so for his DesperationAttack (and, in ''Z2'', for his bomb-scattering move), and even then he isn't aiming at all.
* HandCannon: ''Literally''. Appropriately, he does the most damage of any Guardian.
* HotBlooded: Always spirited and seeking for thrill and challenge.
* {{Irony}}: For the guy in charge of Neo Arcadia's land army specifically, the only known subordinate of his that Zero fights is Anubis Necromancess.
* OneWingedAngel: In the second game, he gets to turn into a tank equipped with four flamethrowers.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou
-->After being easily defeated by Omega: Hey, Zero! I'll get you and that Omega one of these days! Don't you dare die before then, Zero!
* PlayingWithFire: Can fire fire blasts from his weapon.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Counter example. They're merely a marker for his elemental powers. He's still a dangerous and powerful person, though.
* ShouldersOfDoom: Wears a big shoulder armor, which makes him look more imposing, especially when compared to his "siblings".
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: It's "Fafnir" in the Japanese version and "Fefnir" in the English version. Fefnir may be a typo, since Fafnir is the name of a dragon from Myth/NorseMythology. Or just plain {{Engrish}}.
* ThemeNaming: His cannons are named Sodom and Gomorrah.
* TheWarSequence: It is the mission that introduced him.
* {{Weredragon}}: His OneWingedAngel is roughly based on a dragon.
* TheWorfEffect: Four times he fought Zero in near-equal strength over the course of the first two games, but is ultimately trashed off-screen by Omega with Leviathan backing him up at the beginning of ''3'' and Zero gets to see the end of the "fight" where he taken down with a literal sucker punch after being knocked through the rest of the wall Leviathan was punched through.

[[folder:Fairy Leviathan]]
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-->''I have been looking forward to seeing you. I can't wait to see their faces when they find out that it was I who retired you!''
--->''Voiced by Creator/YukaImai''

Called ''Youshou'' ("Siren General") ''Leviathan'' in Japan. The Guardian of Ice, she's a military general of Neo Arcadia, commanding the Meikai Army (literally Army of the Dark Oceans), Neo Arcadia's military navy force. Like Fefnir, Leviathan loves fighting Zero, but she's not as enthusiastic about it...or at least, not in the same way. She always refers to it as "playing" with Zero, and downright pouts if she isn't allowed to do so. Her signature weapon is an ice halberd, identified as the "Frost Javelin" in the ''Mega Man Zero Complete Works'' artbook.

* BloodKnight: She outright stated she didn't care if the world ended, as long as she got to fight Zero.
* CombatStilettos: Only really visible in her concept art. Justified; as the leader of Neo Arcadia's navy, she'd spend most of her time fighting underwater where balancing on high heels isn't a concern.
* DeathFromAbove: One of attacks is to scatter some ice chunks which will later fall.
* DontYouDarePityMe: In the first game, before their first battle, she tells Zero to not hold back just because she's a woman. After the battle, she asks why does Zero hold back (although you, the player, may not). Though in later fights she stops making a fuss about it.
* GirlishPigtails: She has 2 extensions to her helmet that gives her this kind of look.
* HomingProjectile: She can fire her spear head 3 times, all of which semi-homes in to Zero. She can also create a ring of ice that also slowly homes in (and, in the second game, expands in size). Her EX Skill in the first game also works this way.
* AnIcePerson: Has ice-based attacks and is vulnerable to fire ([[FridgeLogic even underwater, somehow]]).
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: To Zero. Though he isn't that "carnage-y" himself, she still likes how determined Zero can be.
* TheNicknamer: Leviathan called her siblings Harpuia and Fefnir a "pretty boy" and a "battle nerd" in the first game, respectively.
* MakingASplash: She's the Guardian of the seas.
* NeatFreak: A downplayed example; she prefers to stay underwater, saying that land is "too dusty". As a nod to this in ''VideoGame/MegaManXDive'', she'll dust herself off after winning a boss fight.
* OneWingedAngel: In the second game. She transforms into something vaguely resembling a manta ray.
* PromotedToPlayable: Outside of her minigame in ''Zero 3'', she became fully playable in ''VideoGame/MegaManXDive''.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Same deal as Fefnir.
* OppositeSexClone: Well, she ''is'' based on X, after all...
* RobotGirl: Of course.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In the ''Rockman Zero'' manga, when Zero gains the ability to cut down her ice dragon with his Fire Chip-enhanced Z-Saber, Leviathan realizes that she has no chance of competing against that and flees the battle immediately.
* ShapingYourAttacks: She can conjure an ice dragon in the first game as her EX Skill.
* ShoutOut: Like Harpuia, she got one in ''Mega Man 9'': Splash Woman.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only female within the Four Guardians.
* SpectacularSpinning: Leviathan does a lot of whirling and twisting with that javelin of hers.
* SwordPlant: She gains this move in ''Z2'', done with her javelin. Zero gains this move from her.
* TornadoMove: In the second game, her EX Skill is creating an underwater tornado by spinning her spear that sucks Zero into it (while throwing a lot of spear heads around) and then stabbing the ground, creating spreading ice shrapnel in the process.
* TownGirls: Her neither to Ciel's femme and Neige's butch.
* TrueBlueFemininity: Her Festive variant in ''X [=DiVE=]'' gives her a [[KimonoIsTraditional blue yukata]].
* UnderwaterBossBattle: Every time you fight her, it's always underwater. Notably in ''Z2'', Leviathan fills the room with water first before the fight.
* VillainousCrush: Possible explanation for Fairy Leviathan's obsession with Zero. She even admits that she doesn't really care about much else so long as she gets to fight him.
* WaterIsWomanly: The only female among the Four Guardians is known as the "Ocean Goddess of the Blue Sea".
* TheWorfEffect: Like Fefnir, four times she's fought Zero at near equal strength over the course of the first two games, and the first we see of her in ''Zero 3'' is getting slammed through a wall by Omega's PowerFist and dropped from near the ceiling.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Discussed -- she tells Zero not to hold back just because she's a girl in their first meeting, then accuses him of doing so when she isn't immediately killed by his final strike. This is, of course, GameplayAndStorySegregation: you (the player) were no doubt trying to do that, but if you fought a Guardian before her, you knew it wouldn't end that way.

[[folder:Hidden Phantom]]
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-->''Every generation has its legend. However, a lost legend should remain lost... allow me to show you why!''
--->''Voiced by Creator/TetsuInada''

Called ''Inshou'' ("Shadow General") ''Phantom'' in Japan. Guardian of Shadows, Phantom was the leader of the Zan'ei Army (Zan'ei Gundan, "Cutting Shadow Squadron"), specializing in intelligence and infiltration missions. Phantom blew himself up at the end of ''Zero'', made a cameo in ''Zero 3'', and was otherwise unheard from until ''ZX''. However, one of his apprentices, Tech Kraken, joined up with Weil specifically to get revenge on Zero for killing his master.

* AllThereInTheManual: His title and appearance of his [[OneWingedAngel Armed Phenomenon]].
* BadassCreed: He has one before fighting Zero the second time.
--> Give light to people. Give death to Mavericks. No one shall disgrace master X. Your termination will now commence!
* BatOutOfHell: his OneWingedAngel, which [[WhatCouldHaveBeen was never actually used in the series, and can only be seen in the concept art]].
* BloodKnight: A notable ''[[AvertedTrope aversion]]'' among the Guardians. Even [[TheDragon Harpuia]], who's the second-most collected of the group, admits that fighting Zero makes him feel alive. In all of Phantom's battles with Zero, from his [[WeNeedADistraction first]] [[TakingYouWithMe two]] in the original to even his SecretTestOfCharacter in ''Z3'', he never once admits to feeling the same way, even as the latter has Phantom acknowledge Zero's strength.
* CoolMask: Based directly from [[Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera Erik himself]].
* CyberNinja: Even adopts a lot of ninja poses and a FuumaShuriken for good measure.
* DareToBeBadass: This speech after fighting Zero as an OptionalBoss:
-->You truly did... have the soul of a hero... go... cross blades with Omega, and show what that body can do! Will your blade flinch after you know the truth? Do you have what it takes... to be a hero? You must be the one to determine that!
* DarkIsNotEvil: Even though the database in ''Zero 3'' described him as an "evil Dark Lord", which might be just a translation error. In fact, barring Harpuia, Phantom is also one of the most honorable antagonists in the series.
* DashAttack: One of his basic moves is him dashing towards Zero and slashing him with his blade.
* DoppelgangerSpin: And if you hit the wrong one, he'll pounce on your head to punish you.
* DragonTheirFeet: His squadron gets the most representatives in the entire Neo Arcadian army to show up in the series, most of which is even after Phantom's own death.
* DynamicEntry: Not only is he fought at the ''start'' of his level, he [[TwangHello greets Zero with a kunai barrage]] that Zero barely dodges.
* {{Expy}}: It's believed in fanon that he was based on X's stealth-based [[http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/File:X6armorshadow.jpg Shadow Armor]] from ''X6''.
* FuumaShuriken: One of his more memorable attacks. He can use it as FloatingPlatforms, notably in the third game's mini-game where you have to guide him as far as possible jumping onto one fuuma shuriken after another.
* HandSeals: As expected for a ninja, he does it for his DoppelgangerSpin move.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: The reward for taking him out in ''Zero 3'' gives the abilities of every other Foot part at once.
* LoadBearingBoss: Subverted. Phantom took back a factory that the [[LaResistance Resistance]] invaded in an earlier mission, [[CollapsingLair and set bombs all over the place]] before engaging Zero. The mission after defeating Phantom? Defuse the bombs.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Out of all the Guardians, he's the most loyal to Copy-X, to the point that he chose to die (and [[TakingYouWithMe try to bring Zero with him]]) rather than accept that Copy-X was wrong.
* NinjaRun: More like Ninja Dash, but otherwise qualifies.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Literal ninja robot, ''and'' a VirtualGhost by ''Zero 3''.
* OddNameOut: The other Guardians are named for legendary creatures -- [[Literature/TheBible Leviathan]], [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpies]], and [[Myth/NorseMythology Fafnir]]. Phantom's named for a specific ''human'' character.
* OptionalBoss: In ''Zero 3'', he's a secret boss with a really good upgrade as a reward.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Wears a red scarf, typical of ninjas.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: When he reappears in ''Zero 3'', he has learned through his time in {{Cyberspace}} that Zero is inhabiting a cloned body, while the original is being used by Omega. Phantom decided to test Zero's worth in battle to see if Zero can still be the hero that he is.
* ShoutOut: He takes the name, the mask, and the scarf from Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera.
* SpreadShot: His FuumaShuriken can explode into 4 small kunai that fly to 4 directions. He also fires spreads of kunai during his DesperationAttack. In the third game, he resorts to spamming spreads of kunai while floating on his shuriken, and said "exploding shuriken" now explodes multiple times during flight.
* StabTheSky: At the start of his DesperationAttack.
* StealthPun: His return as a VirtualGhost. Cringe-worthy if you still need an explanation for this.
* TheStoic: The only [[AvertedTrope non-]]BloodKnight among the Guardians, so this is a given.
* StrengthEqualsWorthiness: He considers Zero as worthy after he beats him in a fight. While it's actually their third fight (and Zero had beaten him twice before), this particular fight is an actual attempt for Phantom to measure Zero's strength and resolve, as opposed to trying to stop Zero.
* SwordPlant: After trying to throw kunai from above on top of his FuumaShuriken, he'll end them with this move. He'll also use this if you attacked the wrong doppelganger.
* TakingYouWithMe: In his second battle with Zero, killing him results him giving you the middle finger by releasing an explosion which causes moderate damage, potentially resulting in a KaizoTrap. It can reach across about half the screen, but can also be dodged.
* UndyingLoyalty: The most loyal of the Guardians to Copy-X. Ironically, he dies because of it.
* TheUnfought: We never see him assume his Armed Phenomenon mode because he's dead before the second game and doesn't assume it in the third in the secret boss fight with him in Cyberspace, and he doesn't show up again after that. Concept art shows he assumes the form of a bat-like wraith that fires blades like giant spears.

!!!Mission bosses
[[folder:General]]
Tropes pertaining to Bosses (and their respective levels) that appear in the first game. (Four Guardians and Copy-X have their own folders.)

* ArmCannon: Blizzack Stagroff and Aztec Falcon's weapon.
* BackFromTheDead: Aztec Falcon appears alongside Harpuia after the intro level of ''Zero 2'' (and in one of ''Zero 3's'' minigames), the Rainbow Devil reappears in one of the final levels, and finally Herculious Anchortus reappears alongside his brother Kuwagust Anchus while under Elpizo's influence. Meanwhile, three bosses (Anubis Necromancess, Blizzack Staggroff, Hanumachine) return in the second act of ''Zero 3'', leading a strike force against the Resistance.
* BlobMonster: the Rainbow Devil, smallest of its kind, but no less dangerous.
* BossOnlyLevel: The entirety of the mission involving Hittite Hottide is spent on you trying to stop it from digging to the Resistance base.
* CoresAndTurretsBoss: Pantheon Core and Guard Orotic.
* DoWellButNotPerfect: A secret area containing a Cyber-elf can be found so long as Zero doesn't rush the battle with Hittite Hottide, letting the mech cause destruction up to a certain point. Does the game tell you this? [[GuideDangIt 'Course not.]] [[labelnote:However...]]What the game also doesn't tell you is that if you go down to the subway where the first part of the train mission took place and do a downward stab with the Triple Rod on the second Gli-Eye (the bat-like enemy) you see, that'll give you enough of a boost to reach the very same Cyber-elf from the bottom. Though if you blew the mission to get the Triple Rod to begin with, then letting Hittite Hottide let you in from the top is your only option.[[/labelnote]]
* TheDragon: Aztec Falcon to Sage Harpuia, Anubis Necromancess to Fighting Fefnir, Blizzack Staggroff to Fairy Leviathan, and Hanumachine to Phantom.
* DrillTank: Hittite Hottide.
* DualWielding: Asura Basura quad-wields with his four arms, with three swords and a shield.
* DungeonBypass: As Hittide Hottide makes its way from the Disposal Center to the Resistance Base, it just drills through any obstacles in its path.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Due to the type of mission selection used in ''Zero 1'', the Boss lineup is a mixed bag of Mechaniloids (Guard Orotic, Pantheon Core, Hittide Hottide), the "regular" Mutos Reploids, and Copy-X's Four Guardians. This also means there aren't enough Mutos Reploids for a "proper" BossRush which results in the Four Guardians taking up the slack in the latter half. Later games return to having Reploid-only Bosses and relegate the larger Mechaniloid ones in the beginning levels as well as the final stretch.
* ElementalShapeshifter: As its EX Skill in the second game, Rainbow Devil can turn into [[ChromeChampion a vaguely metallic substance]], making it impervious to damage for a short time and causing its steps to [[LoadBearingBoss shake the screen and causes rubble to fall]], but limiting its mobility.
* EliteMooks: A [[DualBoss twin]] MiniBoss of Pantheon Aces that are slightly more durable than normal.
* EnhancedPunch: Rainbow Devil's EX Skill in the first game is it simply putting its blob mass into one of its fists and then punches forward with it. It becomes one of its regular attacks in the second game.
* FireIceLightning: Guard Orotic can wield all 3 elements, one at a time.
* GetBackHereBoss: Hittide Hottide. Zero must stop it before it reaches the Resistance Base.
* MoreDakka: Guard Orotic's EX Skill is to fire a lot of bullets at Zero from its core.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Asura Basura, a 4-armed Reploid who [[MultiWielding wields 3 swords]] and [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe a shield]] and is fond of the SpinAttack.
* MultipleHeadCase: Guard Orotic, of course.
* {{Orochi}}: Guard Orotic is based on the Orochi.
* PowerCopying: Only in the third game:
** Blizzack Stagroff R: Blizzard Arrow
** Hanumachine R: [[{{Shoryuken}} Tenretsujin]]
** Anubis Necromancess V: Shield Sweep
* ReactorBoss: Pantheon Core, the reactor for the train it is situated in.
* ShockAndAwe: Anubis Necromancess has this, though it was actually NonElemental (though his weakness is fire, perhaps as a nod to zombies being weak to fire), but in the third game he acquired lightning powers (and weakness to ice).
* StanceSystem: Guard Orotic has two heads for each element (and two more for NonElemental) and will regularly switch between them in battle, with various attacks at each head's disposal.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Asura Basura can throw his three swords as an attack. Anubis Necromancess is also capable of this with his staff, and likewise Ganeshariff with his tusks.
* TimeLimitBoss:
** The Destroy Train mission is a TimedMission in its second half, which includes fighting the Pantheon Core boss.
** Hittide Hottide doesn't have a timer display like the previous examples, but Zero's opening is still limited before it reaches the Resistance Base.

[[folder:Aztec Falcon]]
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A falcon Mutos Reploid, of Harpuia's Strong Air Battalion.

* DescendingCeiling: variant: Aztec Falcon is fought on ''top'' of a spiked ceiling while it descends on the Reploids that Zero must rescue.
* EarlyBirdBoss: Those who thought the [[MonstrosityEqualsWeakness Golem]] was simple (even without using the saber) will be in for a nasty surprise when they meet Aztec Falcon, the first real boss. He only has 1 bar of health like the Golem was, but he moves quickly and forces you to learn how to jump or dash under attacks, as well as going around the invincible parts of his hitbox. As he's the second boss, you may find yourself not having grinded your weapon techniques enough before you fight him, unless you actually take some of your time beforehand. As a bonus, he's also a TimeLimitBoss.
* FeatheredFiend: Aztec Falcon, a bird-based character, though he's technically featherless...
* SelectiveMagnetism: one of Aztec Falcon's attacks, where he opens his wings and draws Zero towards him.
* ShockAndAwe: Aztec Falcon has lightning powers.
* TimeLimitBoss: Aztec Falcon must be defeated in under 75 seconds or the press disposer Zero's standing on will kill the Resistance members below.
* UnusualWeaponMounting: Aztec Falcon has some kind of railgun on his wings. Meanwhile, Herculious and Blizzack can fire electricity and icicles from [[HornAttack their horns]].
* WakeUpCallBoss: Aztec Falcon, the first real boss in the first game, is known for [[IncrediblyLamePun shocking]] the players who have been used to the previous ''Mega Man'' games.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Aztec Falcon is shown to be alive at the beginning of ''Zero 2'' (presumably rebuilt between games) but besides a minigame in ''Zero 3'' and a cameo in ''ZX'' (the former not canon and the latter probably not him), he never appears again.

[[folder:Maha Ganeshariff]]
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A elephant Mutos Reploid, of Leviathan's Deep Sea Squadron.
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* CruelElephant: One of them is Maha Ganeshariff, an elephant Reploid.
* HumanHardDrive: Maha Ganeshariff serves as a data server...and a LightningBruiser boss.
* LoadBearingBoss: The Underground Laboratory collapses from within once Maha Ganeshariff is defeated.
* RapidFireFisticuffs: Ganeshariff has [[Franchise/StreetFighter E. Honda]]'s Hundred Hand Slap attack.
* RollingAttack: Ganeshariff is fond of this.
* StealthPun: Ganeshariff's ability to store data is a reference to an old proverb: "An elephant never forgets".
* WarElephants: Maha Ganeshariff is based on an elephant- the Hindu elephant god Ganesha, to be exact.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Anubis Necromancess]]
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A Mutos Reploid based on the Egyptian jackal god of death, of Fighting Fefnir's Scorched Earth Squadron.
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* ElementalShapeshifter:
** Anubis can turn his body to sand as a disappearing trick. As an extension of this power, in ''Zero 3'' he can even shift the sand battlefield to give Zero a harder time.
* GenderBlenderName: Anubis Necromanc'''ess''' is a guy. Then again, his name in Japan is Anubistep Necromances III.
%%* MagicStaff: Anubis Necromancess' .
* {{Necromancy}}: Anubis can resurrect broken Reploids to harass Zero by [[PersonalSpaceInvader latching onto him]].
* {{Psychopomp}}: Anubis, predictably, has this theme going on.
* YouAreNumberSix: Interestingly enough, Anubis Necromancess has a number designation to represent how many times he's been brought back into service after being defeated. When first fought by Zero in ''Zero 1'' he's "Anubis Necromancess III", then becomes "IV" for the BossRush, and finally when he returns in ''Zero 3'' he goes by "V".
* TheWallsAreClosingIn: Anubis can summon a sand wall of spikes to trap and smash Zero. In ''Zero 3'', this is replaced with two halves of an electric sarcophagus.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Blizzack Staggroff]]
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A white stag Mutos Reploid, of Leviathan's Deep Sea Squadron.
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* GroundPound: Blizzack Stagroff loves jumping around and tries to land on you. Herculious is also fond of trapping you in between his elongated electrified arms and then tries to smash you directly, often hitting the ground or wall in the process.
* AnIcePerson: Blizzack Stagroff has ice powers.
* MeaningfulName: Blizzack Stagroff is the warden of a HellholePrison holding captured Resistance soldiers. His name sounds suspiciously close to "[[Film/TheGreatEscape Stalag Luft]]".
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: Inverted with Blizzack Staggroff: One of his moves is blowing cold wind from his ArmCannon that pushes you away from him, and being struck by the ice particles within the wind slow Zero's movement.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hanumachine]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mmz1_hanumachine.png]]

A monkey Mutos Reploid, of Phantom's Cutting Shadow Squadron.
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* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Hanumachine leads an attack on the Resistance Base, and is fought in the Energy Warehouse.
* BouncingBattler: Hanumachine can wreath himself on fire and then fly and ricochet off walls. Meanwhile, Rainbow Devil literally bounces around.
* FlunkyBoss: Necromancess can summon Pantheon Zombies from the ground. Meanwhile, Hanumachine can create 3 mini-copies of himself that will [[PersonalSpaceInvader latch onto you]] and [[ActionBomb explode]].
* ManiacMonkeys: Hanumachine is based on a monkey.
* MonkeyKingLite: Though he's clearly named after Sun Wukong's predecessor and has the white fur, everything else about Hanumachine is more Sun Wukong than Hanuman, between the circlet design, TelescopingStaff, and [[MiniMe Mini Me's]] [[MesACrowd A Crowd powers]].
* PlayingWithFire: Hanumachine and Pantheon Core have fire-based attacks.
* PunnyName: Hanumachine, named for the Hindu god Hanuman.
* RollingAttack: Hanumachine also has one where he becomes a wheel of fire.
* TelescopingStaff: Hanumachine's weapon, being based on [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest Sun Wukong]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Herculious Anchus]]
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A hercules beetle Mutos Reploid, of Harpuia's Strong Air Battalion.
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: Herculious Anchortus is based on a hercules beetle.
* DashAttack: Aztec Falcon and Herculious Anchortus are fond of this.
* ShockAndAwe: Herculious Anchortus has lightning-based attacks.
* StockAnimalBehavior: Herculious charging at you with his horn.
* ThunderBeetle: Herculious Anchus, a Reploid based on a hercules beetle who uses electrical attacks. The sequel features [[JapaneseBeetleBrothers his stag beetle brother]] Kuwagust Anchus, who can also use electricity and shares the same ice weakness.
[[/folder]]

!!''VideoGame/MegaManZero2''
!!!Mission Bosses
[[folder:General]]

Tropes pertaining to Bosses (and their respective levels) that appear in the second game. (Elpizo has his own folder.)
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* AdvancingBossOfDoom: Zero is chased from the left while battling Mega Scorpia.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Thanks to Elpizo, the incomplete Dark Elf, and the Baby Elves, the Bosses that turn up in the BossRush end up in this predicament and inadvertently become mindless puppets to them. They recover their memories just as Zero kills them for good.
* CallBack: Mega Scorpia is one to Mega Scorpio in ''VideoGame/MegaManX7''.
* HeroAntagonist: At least, neutral antagonist. Some of the bosses are involved in protecting important military sites or keeping the Baby Elves out of the hands of people who can't be trusted with them, rather than executing innocent Reploids.
* PowerCopying: Each of their EX Skills that they only perform when faced with a rank of A or higher can be replicated in some form by Zero.
** Hyleg Ourobuckle: [[EnergyWeapon Laser Shot]]
** Panter Flauclaws: [[SpreadShot Spark Shot]]
** Phoenix Magnion: [[{{Shoryuken}} Tenshouzan]]
** Poler Kamrous: [[SpreadShot Triple Shot]]
** Kuwagust Anchus: [[DeadlyLunge Sengatotsu]]
** Burble Hekelot: [[LifeDrain Energy Chain]]
** Rainbow Devil Mk. II: Filter Shield
* ScaryScorpions: Mega Scorpia is based on a scorpion.
* SequentialBoss: The BossBattle of the Residential Area (the mission to rescue Elpizo) pits Zero against three Elemental Golems, one after another.
* StockAnimalBehavior:
** Despite being part of the same division of the Neo Arcadian army, Hyleg and Burble [[AnimalJingoism hate each other's guts]]; in real life, snakes are said to eat frogs.
** Panter running on all fours.
** Magnion swooping down at you.
** Burble using his tongue to latch onto you and/or eat caterpillar droids, as well as jumping around.
** Kuwagust grabbing you with his beetle horns.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hyleg Ourobockle]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mmz2_hyleg_ourobockle.png]]

A cobra Mutos Reploid, formerly of Phantom's Cutting Shadow Squadron. He intercepts Resistance soldiers who tried to recover one of the Baby Elves in the Forest of Dysis, but ends up fighting Zero.
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* CreepilyLongArms: Hyleg Ourobuckle has a pair of long, flowing arms that look like cobras.
* DualBoss: In a variant, Hyleg Ourobuckle, assisted by the snake Mechaniloid on which he and Zero are standing for battle.
* GrappleMove: Hyleg Ourobuckle can warp his long arms through his snake Mechaniloid's segmented body to grab Zero from far away, even if the serpent's bodyparts are separated.
* KaizoTrap: If you fall down after dealing the final blow to Hyleg, you'll still die. Even if Zero still falls down in the post-battle cutscene. Justified by the SpikesOfDoom on the floor - in the cutscene they're already covered by the wrecked snake Mechaniloid.
* {{Ouroboros}}: Hyleg Ourobuckle. The Ouroboros symbolism only appears in his snake Mechaniloid, though (when it transforms into a circular shape).
* PlatformBattle: Hyleg Ourobockle is fought on top of his SegmentedSerpent Mechaniloid named Altoloid, over a spike pit, which can move its body parts around, potentially confusing you.
* VerbalTic: Hyleg Ourobuckle: "Hissss!"
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Poler Kamrous]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mmz2_poler_kamrous.png]]

A polar bear Mutos Reploid, of Leviathan's Deep Sea Squadron, who guards the Computer Zone facility, that controls Neo Arcadia's defense systems.
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* AmbiguousGender: Poler Kamrous is stated to be female in the English manual, but the Official Complete Works (which already has many translation errors) book uses "he" instead. In the Japanese script of the game Poler uses masculine "[[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns ore]]" personal pronoun (still isn't a decisive proof), while the Japanese manual doesn't comment on the matter. In the end, it's unclear if Poler's gender is a translators' invention, a mistranslation, or in fact a proper translation.
* BearsAreBadNews: Poler Kamrous is based on a polar bear.
* BossAlteringConsequence: Poler Kamrous' stage involves destroying several cooling systems scattered around the level before reaching her that lower the temperature of her boss room. If none of them are destroyed, the room has a reading of -15 Celsius and the floor will be covered with patches of ice that makes mobility more problematic. Destroying all four will raise the room temperature to 5 Celsius and all the ice is melted, removing the gimmick entirely for a straight brawl.
* BrickBreak: Polar Kamrous' EX Attack, summoning a wall of ice that she then shatters to send fragments everywhere.
* AnIcePerson: Poler Kamrous has ice powers.
* MightyGlacier: Poler Kamrous, almost literally considering her [[AnIcePerson powers]]. She's huge and her attacks have decent coverage and impressive strength behind them, but her movement speed is slow and her attacks have enough windup it's generally easy to dodge them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Phoenix Magnion]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mmz2_phoenix_magnion.png]]
-->''Magnion voiced by Creator/YuutoKazama''

A Phoenix Mutos Reploid, formerly of Phantom's Cutting Shadow Squadron. He is stationed at Power Room, that supplies power to a weapon manifucturing plant.
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* BossAlteringConsequence: Because of the Power Room's unconventional dungeon-like layout as opposed to a linear path, if you watch where you're going, you'll see certain reactor rooms have more or less metal grates on the floor (bullets from the reactors also ricochet off the metal; some rooms have solid floor panels where bullets just fizzle out on impact). There are 2, 4, 6, and 8, respectively. Whichever reactor you destroy last is where Phoenix Magnion will make his entrance into the stage, and he will cause lava to erupt from these grates. If you were cautious, then you can end up with as little as two grates to contend with that are easy to ignore, but choose poorly and you've got a massive challenge ahead of you, and the hardest place to fight him is sadistically placed the furthest into the stage to snare rookie players or careless veterans.
* DashAttack: Phoenix Magnion's [[Franchise/StreetFighter Psycho Crusher]]-esque attack (he even flies backward before doing so). As well as Kuwagust's EX Skill.
* DoppelgangerAttack: One of Phoenix's attacks is to surround Zero with himself and 3 of his copies, and then strikes Zero with [[TailSlap his tail]]. Attacking the real Phoenix will stop the attack.
* EnemySummoner: Phoenix Magnion's special attack summons illusions of [[VideoGame/MegaManX1 Vile]], [[VideoGame/MegaManX2 Agile]], [[VideoGame/MegaManX3 Bit]], and [[VideoGame/MegaManX4 Colonel]].
* FeatherFlechettes: One of Magnion's attacks is to shoot fiery feathers in four directions.
* GrappleMove: Phoenix Magnion has a move where he swoops down on Zero and grabs him on his legs, then he uses illusions of past ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' characters to attack Zero.
* HotWings: Phoenix Magnion, predictably.
* LensFlare: You know Phoenix Magnion is really something when he manages to do this in a GBA game.
* MarathonLevel: Magnion's level basically qualifies as a {{Metroidvania}} on its own, a maze with various passages in several directions that ''will'' confuse first-time players. And Magnion can be fought in either one of ''four'' rooms (the four reactors, the objective of the mission).
* ThePhoenix: Phoenix Magnion is based on a phoenix, obviously.
* PlayingWithFire: Phoenix Magnion has fire powers.
* SuddenlyVoiced: Magnion is the only main boss (aside from the Guardians and Elpizo) that has fully voiced battle lines instead of grunts or animal noises.
* TeleportSpam: Phoenix Magnion. He can only be attacked when he's attacking.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Panter Flauclaws]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mmz2_panter_flauclaws.png]]

A black panther Mutos Reploid, of Harpuia's Strong Air Battalion. He fights Zero on a Train of Neo Arcadia that Resistance tries to rob.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Flauclaws appears in the commercial to ''Zero 2'', where he is depicted larger in scale than his actual in-game model.
* KaizoTrap: Make sure you have something to stand on below you when you finish off Panter. If you don't, you'll simply fall down to your doom.
* PantheraAwesome: Panter Flauclaws is based on a panther.
* PlatformBattle: Panter Flauclaws is fought on 2 separate moving trains, with a bottomless pit in the middle.
* ShockAndAwe: Panter Flauclaws has lightning-based powers.
* SpreadShot: Magnion can fire 3 spreads of flame projectiles, while Panter can do the same with his claw beams.
* SwordBeam: Panter Flauclaws can throw these out of his WolverineClaws.
* TraintopBattle: Panter Flauclaws, following the LocomotiveLevel. In a variant, you're battling on top of 2 moving trains that go side-by-side.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kuwagust Anchus]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mmz2_kuwagust_anchus.png]]

A stag beetle Mutos Reploid, of Harpuia's Strong Air Battalion. He wishes to get revenge for his brother, Herculious from the fist game, and attacks Zero while he returns from the mission on Neo Arcadian Airship.
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: Kuwagust Anchus is based on a stag beetle.
* BlowYouAway: One of Kuwagust Anchus' regular attacks has him create a tornado that drags you in so he can grab Zero with his mandibles. His EX Skill is to spin his pincers to create a cyclone that can push Zero off the edge.
* DualBoss: Kuwagust Anchus teams up with [[JapaneseBeetleBrothers his brother]] Herculious Anchortus for the requisite BossRush.
* GrappleMove: Kuwagust Anchus has two: one where he uses his stag beetle horn as a fan to [[WeaponsThatSuck attract Zero towards himself]] and then grab him with the horn and release an electric blast that deals massive damage. Another has him simply [[DeadlyLunge lunging towards him]] for a choke hold, depleting Zero's health while in that state.
* KaizoTrap: In the beetle brothers' DualBoss fight, they won't be defeated right after you deplete their healthbar. Instead, they'll try to do a dual attack, fail, and crash into each other and destroy themselves. If you fail to jump over them, you'll take damage.
* {{Revenge}}: Kuwagust Anchus is motivated to fight Zero for killing his brother, Herculious Anchortus.
* SharedLifeMeter: Kuwagust and Herculious don't have individual health bars during their DualBoss battle.
* TornadoMove: Kuwagust can create a horizontal tornado that either sucks you in or blows you away from him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Burble Hekelot]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mmz2_burble_hekelot.png]]

A frog Mutos Reploid, formerly of Phantom's Cutting Shadow Squadron. He guards the sacred Forest of Notus... Or he should, anyway, as he fails to notice a real trespasser, and fights Zero instead.
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* BubbleGun: Burble can fire these, which doesn't do damage but will hamper Zero's movements.
* {{Cephalothorax}}: Herkelot's general design.
* CreepilyLongArms: Subverted with Burble Herkelot, who also can stretch his arms but they have a cuter design.
* FlunkyBoss: Whenever Herkelot shakes walls of the room, small caterpillar-like Mechaniloids will fall from the ceiling. However, their real threat isn't as an enemy, it's as a PowerUpFood for Herkelot to eat.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Burble was supposed to guard the gate in the Forest of Notus and yet Elpizo passed through without being seen by him. When he stopped Zero at the same place, Burble claimed that he could feel the presence of someone in the other side of the gate but immediately dismissed the idea, saying that no one could have crossed it without being noticed by him and that it could be just a problem with his sensors.
* LifeDrain: For his EX Skill, if Zero gets caught by Burble Herkelot's tongue, he'll drain Zero's energy to replenish his own. Zero can learn this his and then used with the Chain Rod.
* MagikarpPower: Burble can summon some caterpillar droids that he can eat to make himself grow bigger and able to access his stronger moves.
* MultipurposeTongue: Burble Hekelot's specialty, being a frog.
* RollingAttack: Burble Hekelot is fond of this.
* VerbalTic: Burble Herkelot: "Ribbid!"
[[/folder]]

!!''VideoGame/MegaManZero3''
!!!The Eight Gentle Judges/Weil's Numbers
[[folder:General]]
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Created by Dr. Weil, they were once the highest authority of the law in Neo Arcadia, leading the populace peacefully alongside X (both the original and the copy). After Dr. Weil returned, they were turned into [[KnightTemplar Knights Templar]] as the rest of the military. They have judgement forms which are humanoid, and their decidedly more deadly punishment forms, which they turn into when they're prepared to carry out an execution sentence...violently.
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* BadassCape: All of them have one each.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: When Weil reprograms them, they are turned into the opposite of themselves. For example, Glacier le Cactank goes from looking the other way for trivial offenses, to inflicting execution for even minor infractions. Kelverian went from having three independent thought circuits for always coming to a fair decision, to being the dumb muscle of the group. Deathtanz Mantisk goes from being proud of being an executioner with dull blades, to a sadist who is terrified of his own death.
* BilingualBonus: "Tretista" roughly means "three-headed" in Italian. "Biblio" roughly means "book" in Greek. Fitting, as his stage is in a flooded library.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: By Dr. Weil.
* ContinuityNod: Dr. Weil summons illusions of them in ''Zero 4'' as his first form's special attack.
* DeathOfPersonality: Weil reprogrammed them, essentially destroying their original selves and turning them into their polar opposites.
* DubNameChange: In the North American version of ''Zero 3'', Hellbat is known as Devilbat.
* EvilLaugh: After being brainwashed/reprogrammed by Weil, they start abusing this to a varying degree.
* FireIceLightning: A set of two for each element, plus a fourth pair for the non-elemental. Again, it is the ''Zero'' series' tradition.
** AnIcePerson: Childre and Le Cactank.
** NonElemental: Mantisk and Kelverian.
** PlayingWithFire: Flizard and Foxtar.
** ShockAndAwe: Schilt and Volteel.
* GetBackHereBoss:
** Biblio spends most of his time hiding between the walls, only emerging from one of four holes to attack.
* HealingFactor: Flizzard's tail can be destroyed, but he will just regenerate it as quickly.
* LightIsNotGood: They were supposed to be fair and just judges in white and gold attires, but when Dr. Weil returned, they got BrainwashedAndCrazy.
* LukeIAmYourFather: According to the official booklet ''Vile's Incident: Eden Dome, Its Sin And Rebirth'', their creator was none other than Dr. Weil, which also explained why they simply exiled Omega to space rather than executing him.
* MarathonLevel: Biblio's mission, which can take longer than any of the other Judges' levels because the objectives involve Zero retrieving files on the Elf Wars. The files are hidden in only a handful of rooms, standing side by side among empty rooms. The strain being the probability of getting into the wrong room several times. A hint is given to what room each file would be in, but the player has to be really eagle-eyed to notice.
* MindReformatDeath: Suffice to say, when Weil is done reprogramming them, who they were before is for all intents and purposes dead.
* MultiDirectionalBarrage:
** Flizard's EX Skill is to spin his frill and then fire projectiles all over the place with it.
** One of Schilt's attacks is to spread out sound waves around him.
** Le Cactank's EX Skill is to spin his flail around him and fire many ice spikes around him.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: '''Death'''tanz Mantisk, '''Devil'''bat Schilt.
* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: In the Sunken Library, Zero must figure out which out of 24 contains the Secret Disks he needs to complete the research on the Elf Wars, Dr. Weil and Omega. Only four rooms contain the disks in question, and they are randomized for each playthrough. The only hint Zero is given are the colors of each door as well as those surrounding it, shown before he enters the main room in question.
* OneWingedAngel: ''All'' of them have humanoid frames, but they can [[TransformationSequence transform]] into animal-like battle modes called "Punishment" forms. Zero faces Inarabitta and Kelverian already in their Punishment forms but they also have a TransformationSequence in the BossRush like the rest of the Judges.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: During the Drama Tracks when Harpuia hears four of the judges act cruelly to the severely damaged Fefnir and Leviathan, he realizes that something was wrong with them as Foxtar confirmed that they were all recently upgraded by Dr. Weil when he returned and reprogrammed into his Weil numbers in the process.
* OptionalBoss: ''ZX'' features four of the Numbers as secret bosses in Area N: Childre, Flizard, Mantisk and Devilbat.
* PowerCopying
** Blazin' Flizard: [[DeathOfAThousandCuts Burst Shot]] and [[PlayingWithFire Fire]]
** Childre Inarabbita: [[SwordBeam Throw Blade]] and [[AnIcePerson Ice]]
** Devilbat/Hellbat Schilt: [[SwordPlant Saber Smash]] and [[ShockAndAwe Thunder]]
** Deathtanz Mantisk: [[BladeSpam 1000 Slash]] and Light
** Cubit Foxtar: [[DeathFromAbove Soul Launcher]] and DoubleJump
** Glacier le Cactank: [[OrbitingParticleShield Orbit Shield]] and Spike
** Volteel Biblio: [[SpreadShot V-Shot]] and [[{{Intangibility}} Shadow Dash]]
** Tretista Kelverian: [[DeadlyLunge Gale Attack]] and Absorber
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: They serve as Weil's major enforcers after the Four Guardians are stripped of their positions and authority.
* RousseauWasRight: [[AllThereInTheManual According to the drama tracks]], the Eight Gentle Judges were quite fair and benevolent until Weil came along and turned them BrainwashedAndCrazy.
* ShoutOut: Their humanoid forms bear a strong resemblance to the first eight cyborgs from ''Manga/Cyborg009'', which had gained a major resurgence in popularity via the early-2000s anime {{Revival}} and the original manga finally getting an international release around the same time the ''Zero'' series was in production.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Listing all the variations would take too long. Just play it safe with the official English.
* TransformationSequence: Their humanoid bodies erupt in a ball of light before they assume their battle forms. Notably though, Childre and Kelverian avert this the first time they fight Zero, as both are already in their battle forms when Zero encounters them, thus their humanoid forms are only seen during the BossRush.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Blazin' Flizard]]
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-->''Blazin' Flizard voiced by Creator/HiroakiMiura''

The Left Flame Judge of the Eight Gentle Judges, based on mythical salamanders. He now oversees Aegis Volcano Base, where a special missile is being produced.
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* BloodKnight: Blazin' Flizard claims that fighting is his only way of relieving his boredom.
* FierySalamander: Blazin' Flizard is more of a frilled lizard, but the fire salamander theme is there.
* FingerFirearms
* FuumaShuriken
* UnusualWeaponMounting: Flizard can fire projectiles out of his tail, as well as his frills.
* VerbalTic: Flizard: "Ssyaaaaah!"
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Childre Inarabitta]]
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-->''Childre Inarabitta voiced by Yukiko Hirotsu''

The Left Ice Judge of the Eight Gentle Judges, made in the image of the White Hare of Inaba. Zero confronts him in Oceanic Highway Ruins, where they race to the location of Dark Elf's signal.
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* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Childre is often seen like this. While he is about as wise as the other Judges, he is designed like a child (with the MeaningfulName to boot) and is noted for his youthful spirit.
* DeathFromAbove:
** Childre has 2 attacks that do this: one where he plants mines on the water surface, which will explode and their falling shrapnel will harm Zero, and one where he does a drilling attack with his "ears" from above.
* GetBackHereBoss:
** One of the first available missions involves Zero racing against a submarine carrying Childre Inarabbita for the Dark Elf. To hinder the sub's progress, Zero must decrease the water level by activating four switches dotted around the area. Incidentally, lowering the water level also decreases the difficulty of the upcoming battle against Inarabbita.
* KillerRabbit: Childre Inarabbita, an agile and icy rabbit who's surprisingly deadly.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: Childre can fire out small missiles that will home in to Zero.
* UnusualWeaponMounting:
** Childre and Schilt can fire projectiles out of their ears.
* WalkOnWater: Childre can hop on water with his battle form.
* WallJump: Childre can hop up walls, much like Zero's usual WallJump.
* WaterfrontBossBattle: The battlefield for Childre Innarrabitta is normally underwater, and there's only a few feet of air above. However, completing the mission's objectives would decrease the water level until it barely reaches Zero's height.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Devilbat Schilt]]
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-->''Devilbat Schilt voiced by Hideki Ogihara''

The Right Thunder Judge of the Eight Gentle Judges, resembling a bat. He is fought in Weapons Repair Factory.
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* BatOutOfHell: Devilbat/Hellbat Schilt is modeled after a bat and is capable of soundwave attacks. His wings are also [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe impervious to shots when he closes them]], hence the "Schilt" part of his name.
* DeathFromAbove: Schilt has an attack where he clings to the ceiling and then fires electric beam from above to the ground while teleporting around.
* TheSwarm: Schilt can summon a swarm of bats towards you. They can be destroyed but they cover a rather large range.
* TeleportSpam: Devilbat/Hellbat Schilt. In-universe, his teleportation is described as him emitting sound waves to disrupt the enemy's perception system, making Schilt ''[[PowerMisidentification look like]]'' he's teleporting when he moves around.
%%* UnusualWeaponMounting: Schilt can fire projectiles out of his ears.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Deathtanz Mantisk]]
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-->''Deathtanz Mantisk voiced by Keiji Hirai''

Moonlight Judge of the Eight Gentle Judges, based on a mantis. His stage is Old Residential Area, where he tries to retrieve Crea and Prea.
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* BrickBreak: Just like Kamrous, Mantisk's EX Skill is to conjure a chunk of ceiling that he slashes at to send multiple pieces at Zero.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Prior to being BrainwashedAndCrazy, Mantisk supposedly has this kind of characterization: demonic-looking both in and out of battle form, yet is a pacifist.
* GratuitousGerman: Deathtanz Mantisk, with ''tanz'' being the German word for ''dance''.
* {{Irony}}: Mantisk served the role as TheExecutioner of the Judges before they were BrainwashedAndCrazy, and (at least in said BrainwashedAndCrazy state) when defeated in the rematch expresses horror and fear at dying again.
* LeanAndMean: In both humanoid and battle form Mantisk definitely fits this after going full-on KnightTemplar. This is actually to Zero's advantage, as Mantisk is so lightweight he's the only boss that gets PunchedAcrossTheRoom when hit by the Recoil Rod's ChargedAttack, which can actually interrupt his attacks.
* MartialPacifist: Mantisk, prior to being BrainwashedAndCrazy, was this, despite working as an executioner. He always hoped that all the lives he took were a result of a right, fair judgement.
* PetTheDog: Despite his [[AxCrazy unstable post reprogramming/true personality]], Mantisk orders Crea and Prea to wait in the next room so he doesn't kill them by accident when he's fighting Zero.
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Mantisk is the only boss that is affected by the charged Recoil Rod's pushing effect because of his light frame. You can exploit this to interrupt his attacks.
* SinisterScythe
* SlayingMantis: Deathtanz Mantisk, complete with the GrimReaper-like imagery as TheExecutioner of the judges.
* VerbalTic: Mantisk: "Chikachika!"
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cubit Foxtar]]
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-->''Cubit Foxtar voiced by Naoki Yanagi''

Right Flame Judge of the Eight Gentle Judges, designed as a legendary kitsune. Foxtar is fought in Energy Facility, which has been repurposed for mass production of baby Elves.
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* AmbiguousGender: Foxtar, being based on the ''[[AsianFoxSpirit Kyuubi no Kitsune]]'' legend, has this. Effeminate mannerisms, somewhat slender, feminine body, and the fact that Kitsune often shapeshifts into beautiful women. That said, his voice actor is male, and pre-corruption, he still sounds effeminate but more of a gentle boy than his flamboyant post-corruption self. It doesn't help that some translations (most notably the English version of the ''Mega Man Zero Official Complete Works'') actually ''do'' state Foxtar is female.
* AsianFoxSpirit: Cubit Foxtar, complete with 9 "foxfires" that serve as his "tails". His humanoid form is also decidedly feminine.
* AttackDrone
* DeathFromAbove:
** Foxtar's EX skill involving him firing a spread of fire drones upwards that then falls down and covers a wide range.
* ElementalShapeshifter: Foxtar can split into 5 fireballs.
* HandSeals: Foxtar performs this to create and move fireballs around.
* NobleWomansLaugh: Foxtar, which ''really'' doesn't help the AmbiguousGender bit.
* YouCantThwartStageOne: Cubit Foxtar reveals the factory he was put in charge of was for creating more Baby Elves like Crea and Prea to spread the Dark Elf's corruption just like it was during the Elf Wars, but notes after being defeated that even with the factory's destruction and the deaths of said Baby Elves it was essentially just a backup plan since they already have the real Dark Elf in their possession.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Glacier le Cactank]]
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-->''Glacier Le Cactank voiced by Tanuki Sugino''

Right Ice Judge of the Eight Gentle Judges, shaped like a barrel cactus. He guards the Snowy Plains, where Zero fights him in order to retrieve data from Omega's spacecraft.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: Despite his hefty build, he is capable of massive leaps and literally crushing Zero under his own weight.
* AllCrimesAreEqual: Regardless if it is thievery or trespassing, Glacier le Cactank will issue said crimes with death sentence.
* BaldOfEvil: Le Cactank's human form is bald. Played with in that he's more of a KnightTemplar than an actual evil person.
* CactusPerson: Glacier le Cactank's Punishment form resembles a giant cactus. He was originally built as a large armored water tank that could bring water to remote areas before Dr. Weil corrupted him. His cooling system allows him to freeze water, hence his ice theme.
* DeathFromAbove:
** Le Cactank both has a move where hesimply jump over you, trying to crush you under his weight.
* EpicFlail
* FatBastard: He's very rotund in both in both his judge and punishment form, and after his corruption by Dr. Weil, he's become very execution-happy.
* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: Glacier le Cactank in particular. Ironically, back then, he was a kind judge who was willing to overlook small offenses and slightly bend rules when he thought it was justified.
-->''Has the legendary hero stooped to thievery? How deplorable. As king of the Snow Plains, I do hereby judge your crime.''
-->(cue OneWingedAngel)
-->''I, Glacier Le Cactank, of Weil's Numbers, have reached a verdict. The punishment for thievery is death!''
* MisplacedVegetation: Le Cactank is the boss of the snowy plains, despite cacti normally appearing in deserts.
* SpikeShooter: Glacier le Cactank can fire out ice spikes.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Volteel Biblio]]
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-->''Volteel Biblio voiced by Munehiro Tokita''

Left Thunder Judge of the Eight Gentle Judges, based on an electric eel. He confronts Zero in Sunken Library, where the latter tries to find data on Elf Wars.
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* ArmlessBiped: Volteel Biblio. In his battle form at least.
* AxCrazy: [[PsychoElectro Volteel]] is by far the most unhinged boss in the series. Well, maybe aside from Omega, that is. Mantisk isn't exactly very stable either. The Drama Tracks imply that their AxCrazy nature in ''Zero 3'' had more to do with Weil's reprogramming of them. Prior to that, they were actually nice Reploids (in fact, Mantisk also deliberately kept his arm blades dulled as a proof of peace).
* HypocriticalHumor: Volteel calls Zero [[YoureInsane crazy]] for going up against Dr. Weil. This coming from the guy who's the PsychoElectro of the Judges.
* LaughingMad: Volteel Biblio.
* PrehensileTail: Volteel can extend his tail to attack Zero.
* PsychoElectricEel: Volteel Biblio had his thought circuits fried in an accident, causing him to become loopy and prone to shouting. He is also an electric eel Reploid who is [[SlipperyAsAnEel tricky to fight]], capable of slipping through you and attacking in multiple odd ways with electricity.
* UnderwaterBossBattle: Volteel Biblio can be found in one of the submerged rooms in the Sunken Library.
* WhackAMonster: Commonly, Volteel attacks by going into one of the 4 holes in his chamber, then have his head appearing in one and his tail appearing in another that shoots a homing electric ball.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tretista Kelverian]]
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-->''Tresista Kelverian voiced by Creator/HisaoEgawa''

The Dark Judge and the leader of the Eight Gentle Judges, he is based on Cerberus. He oversees the Giant Elevator, where Neo Arcadia mines huge amounts of Energy Crystals
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* BarehandedBarBending: Kelverian has one attack where he takes an iron bar, bends it into an L-shape and then throws it forward like a boomerang.
* DeathFromAbove: Kelverian has a move where he simply jumps over you, trying to crush you under his weight.
* DetachmentCombat: Tetrista Kelverian can deploy the canines on his shoulders to attack Zero.
* DumbMuscle: Kelverian, however, it is implied that he wasn't a simpleton prior to his reprogramming, given that he used to have 3 thought circuits that helped him think more efficiently, fitting for the leader of the judges.
* EnergyWeapon: Kelverian's EX Skill has him summon and throw a large crate as with one of his normal attacks, but then instead of shoulder-charging through it like usual he summons a purple energy {{BFS}} to thrust forward and destroy it instead.
* {{Hellhound}}: Tretista Kelverian, a Cerberus-themed Mutos Reploid fought after you take a {{Hellevator}} deep underground.
* LanternJawOfJustice: Kelverian's human form has one.
* LargeAndInCharge: According to his ranking, Chief Judge, Kelverian, who towers over the other Judges in both humanoid and battle form. He is also the only one to have three health bars when his peers have only two.
* OneHitKill: If Kelverian summons a crate, better pray Zero is nowhere below the giant box as it drops.
* ShouldersOfDoom: In his transformed forms, Kelverian has large shoulders. He even weaponizes them, as the dog Mechaniloids perched on them can detach from Kelverian and attack independently.
[[/folder]]

!!''VideoGame/MegaManZero4''
!!!Einherjar Eight Warriors
[[folder:General]]
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The local QuirkyMinibossSquad of ''Zero 4'', led by Craft. Assigned by Dr. Weil to attack Area Zero in order to destroy any sanctuary outside of Neo Arcadia, each of them spearheads their own planned attempt to wipe the NewEden off the map for "Operation Ragnarok."
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* DivingKick: Pegasolta has this as one of his attacks, which can [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom knock Zero back]], potentially towards a pit.
* ElementalPowers:
** Fenri Lunaedge: [[AnIcePerson Ice]]
** Mino Magnus: [[ExtraOreDinary Metal]]/[[MagnetismManipulation Magnet]], though functionally, it's [[ShockAndAwe Lightning]].
** Popla Cocapetri: [[TimeMaster Time]]. In-game, NonElemental.
** Noble Mandrago: [[GreenThumb Nature]], well, really, nanomachines simulating nature. NonElemental in-game.
** Sol Titanion: [[PlayingWithFire Fire]]
** Pegasolta Eclair: [[ShockAndAwe Lightning]]
** Tech Kraken: [[MakingASplash Water]][=/=][[AnIcePerson Ice]]
** Heat Genblem: [[PlayingWithFire Fire]]
* EstablishingTeamShot: The whole group gets one at the end of the second intro stage.
* Myth/NorseMythology: The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einherjar einherjar]] are those that have died in battle and are brought to Valhalla by valkyries. They prepare daily for the events of Ragnarök, when they will advance for an immense battle. The [[RuleOfSymbolism symbolism]] is thick with this one: the Eight Warriors all prepare for Operation Ragnarok that aims for the destruction of Area Zero, and though they're defeated, they still manage to divert The Resistance's attention from the operation's real aims: building the space station Ragnarok, with the power to completely annihilate a region. And as Zero storms the station, he encounters the Eight Warriors again, now revived and are waiting for the calamity that is the ColonyDrop, as they battle Zero once again.
** In general, the eight warriors are each based on a mythological creature.
*** Popla Cockapetri: Cockatrice
*** Noble Mandrago: the Mandrake plant
*** Sol Titanion: Titania the fairy queen
*** Mino Magnus: Minotaur
*** Tech Kraken: Kraken[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin (duh)]]
*** Heat Genblem: Genbu the black tortoise
*** Fenri Lunaedge: Fenrir the wolf
*** Pegasolta Eclair: Pegasus.
* NotBrainwashed: Unlike the Eight Gentle Judges from the previous game who were all reprogrammed into "Weil's Numbers" when Weil returned to Neo Arcadia, several of them serve Dr. Weil willingly and without modification.
* OptionalBoss: ''ZX'' features four of the Einherjar as secret bosses in Area N: Fenri, Mandrago, Eclair and Titanion.
%%* PerfectPlayAI: Genblem's tactic of slowly walking towards you and then immediately guard with his shell when you attack him is reminiscent of a similar phenomenon in fighting games. ~~~~The reason I blank this out is because the trope PerfectPlayAI implies that the AI makes actual efforts to read the player's various inputs and reacts accordingly, whereas Genblem's tactic looks more preprogrammed with similar response regardless of how you attack him. I get it that it may be a leftover from the trope's old name MK Walker, though. Besides, TheSlowWalk below describes the same situation as this one.
* PlatformBattle: Pegasolta is fought across 3 platforms (with the middle one lower compared to the two on either side) heights over BottomlessPits. There are also strong winds that may blow you to the pits.
* PowerCopying
** Popla Cocapetri: [[TimeStandsStill Time Stopper]]
** Mino Magnus: [[EnergyAbsorption Tractor Shot]]
** Sol Titanion: [[SpreadShot Burning Shot]]
** Tech Kraken: [[DeathOfAThousandCuts Ice Javelin]]
** Noble Mandrago: [[SwordPlant Sky Chaser]]
** Pegasolta Eclair: [[DeadlyLunge Thunder Stab]]
** Heat Genblem: [[{{Shoryuken}} Flame Fang]]
** Fenri Lunaedge: [[SwordBeam Ice Blade]]
* ThePowerOfTheSun: Titanion uses this to attack Zero, while Mandrago uses this to heal herself.
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Pegasolta's DivingKick can do this to Zero, as is Magnus' magnetically charged attacks and Genblem's uppercut counter.
* PunnyName:
** Heat Genblem contains a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/FireEmblem''.
** Magnaxe and Magnus both are derived from "magnet", pretty much describing his ability.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: After the deaths of the Eight Gentle Judges in ''3'', the Einherjar Eight Warriors step up to take their role, each with their own plan to destroy Area Zero.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Unlike the Eight Gentle Judges, the Einherjar are reploids of various origins. They range from a victim of his reprogramming (Noble Mandrago), to forsaking their honor for revenge (Tech Kraken), to being flat out lunatics (Fenri Lunaedge ) to glory seekers (Pegasolta Eclair ) to being a solider loyal to Craft rather than Weil (Heat Genblem) defunct models joining for spite (Popla Cocapetri ) a tanky model promised to never run out of energy (Mino Magnus) to being so traumatized by the death of their counterpart (caused by Weil) that they're fine with destroying stuff for its own sake (Sol Titanion).
* {{Shoryuken}}: Both Genblem and Fenri; the former's uppercut is a grounded version, while the latter usually follows it with a second one from the ceiling.
* TeamShot: The end of the second intro level sees Zero facing all of them at once, in a shot of their sprites standing together. It is soon followed by Craft's entrance, which becomes a CG shot.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: This QuirkyMinibossSquad is the only one in the ''Zero'' series to have 2 females, i.e Titanion & Mandrago. This sets the trend for the [[VideoGame/MegaManZX next series]].
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Pegasolta Eclair lampshades this when Zero first encounters them at Area Zero, asking Craft why don't all of them just gang up on him right now and finish him with sheer numbers. Craft responds back that once Operation Ragnarok is in motion, [[UnderestimatingBadassery one Reploid won't make a difference]].
* XanatosGambit: At the end of the day, it never really mattered whether or not any of their individual attempts to destroy Area Zero succeeded or failed, as the end result benefits Weil either way. If they succeed, good job. If they fail, well it keeps the Resistance and Zero occupied and unable to learn about the ''true'' [[KillSat Operation Ragnarok]] before it's too late.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Noble Mandrago]]
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-->''Mandrago voiced by Yuu Takamura''

A mandrake-like Mutos Reploid in charge of Underground Forest, a thicket of artificial plants that causes erosion.
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* {{Brainwashed}}: Not as drastically as the Eight Gentle Judges, but Weil's reprogramming makes her think that in order to preserve nature, it must be placed under complete control, and control may involve destruction.
* DigAttack: Mandrago can dig underground and appear either on the ground or the ceiling, then fires out some brown goo at Zero that hampers his movement.
* FlunkyBoss: She primarily fights by trying to summon Mechaniloids to overwhelm the player with numbers. She does have direct attacks, but without a backup she's a sitting duck.
** One of her moves has her launching blobs of honey-like goo, attracting [[BeeBeeGun Appnets]] to the room. The goo itself deals no damage, but makes Zero's movement slippery and makes wall-jumpimg impossible.
** Her other move has her firing seeds around the room that will grow into either flowers that can shoot bullets or venus flytraps that can snare you. However, they can be uprooted with the Zero Knuckle.
* GreenThumb: Was designed to restore nature with {{nanomachines}}, and grows artificial plants during her boss fight.
* HealingBoss: She is able to heal a small amount of her health, if the weather is set to sunny. She's invulnerable during this.
* {{Irony}}: The fact that Noble Mandrago, a plant Reploid, is using an environmental-modifying system in the form of nanomachine plants, in order to harm [[LastFertileRegion Area Zero]] does not go unlampshaded. Ciel even says that the system can be used to support Area Zero instead.
* OutsideTheBoxTactic: You can try plucking Mandrago out of the ground with Zero Knuckle when she burrows herself; Zero will then throw her backwards, possibly to the wall. Her planted seeds can also be plucked and thrown away.
* PlantPerson: She is a plant-like Reploid, with her head and hands resembling flowers, and body - stalk and leaves.
* ShockwaveStomp: Mandrago's EX Skill is to spin to the air and then try to land on Zero drill-first, which sends out rocks flying when she hits the ground.
* SpinAttack: Both of her direct attacks have her spinning like a top and dashing across the screen.
* ThisIsADrill: Mandrago's legs are actually a drill split in two.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Heat Genblem]]
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-->''Genblem voiced by Naoki Imamura''

A Mutos Reploid based on [[FourGods Genbu]], who acts as a battery for the Particle Beam, attempting to incinerate Area Zero.
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* BeamSpam: Heat Genblem uses a ridiculously long-lasting beam cannon which he fires while spinning. Even his stage is a giant solar-powered particle cannon, and reminiscent of Quick Man's stage from ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'', minus the OneHitKill beams, though there are still beams a-plenty.
* CorridorCubbyholeRun: A portion of Genblem's stage takes place ''inside the barrel'' of a WaveMotionGun. To avoid taking huge damage, you must cover in safe spots below and above the beam.
* ElementalPunch: 2 of Genblem's attacks are this, with a fiery punch.
* TheFourGods: Heat Genblem is loosely named after Xuán Wǔ/Genbu, the turtle. Also possibly of [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ryu]] and Film/{{Gamera}}.
* LivingBattery: Genblem himself is the source of energy for the massive tank (specifically, its cannon) he's operating for his attempt at destroying Area Zero.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Genblem with his big turtle shell.
* MightyGlacier: Genblem only really moves during his SpinAttack, but he can't be harmed while not attacking, and he can get Zero PunchedAcrossTheRoom.
* TheSlowWalk: Genblem can choose to approach Zero slowly this way. Be careful - if you attack him, he'll defend himself immediately; if you attack him more, he'll do a CounterAttack.
* SpinAttack: There's also one of Genblem's attack where he spins while covering himself on fire.
* SturdyAndSteadyTurtles: Heat Genblem is known for not just his sturdy shell, but also his defensive tactics.
* UndyingLoyalty: Genblem, being a proud, dutiful soldier, displays this for Craft. [[EtTuBrute However, he's genuinely shocked when Zero reveals to him at the end of the rematch that the dying Craft entrusted his faith to Zero]].
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[[folder:Tech Kraken]]
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-->''Kraken voiced by Creator/ToruFurusawa''

A squid-like Mutos Reploid on a SuicideMission in the Deep Sea to drill under Area Zero and blow it up.
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* AvengingTheVillain: Tech Kraken, trying to avenge his former master Phantom. Interestingly, neither of them are fully "villains". He even encourages Zero to stop Weil after his second defeat.
* CombatTentacles: Kraken, being a squid, uses 'em. They're tipped with spearheads, too.
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: In his first appearance (i.e in Area Zero), Kraken the squid floats in midair.
* KrakenAndLeviathan: Tech Kraken's theme.
* TheMaze: The first half of Kraken's level.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Tech Kraken could not care any less about Weil or Craft's ultimate goals; his loyalty to Phantom has him as one of the last genuine TokenGoodTeammate holdouts of Neo Arcadia fighting Zero. He wants revenge and that's it. When he fails to get it, he instead tells Zero to stop Weil.
* OutsideTheBoxTactic: You can try plucking Kraken's tentacles when he uses the "ink void" attack.
* PinballProjectile: Kraken can fire these. He can also create an ice mirror for the purpose of playing with said projectiles.
* SuicideMission: If you lose to him, Kraken claims that he'll follow Phantom after his mission (blowing up the ground with the submarine and causing earthquakes) is finished.
* TeleportSpam: Kraken can use squid ink to teleport himself across the room. During this state, Kraken can attack Zero with his tentacles multiple times before exiting.
* WorthyOpponent: In the end, Kraken doesn't want any more revenge, he just wants to see the power that defeated Phantom.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fenri Lunaedge]]
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-->''Fenri voiced by Creator/TetsuyaKakihara''

A wolf-like Mutos Reploid, who guards the Hibernation Chamber.
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* BladeBelowTheShoulder: He has a couple of ice blades on his arms, in addition to his normal claws.
* DeadlyLunge: Fenri has an attack where he simply lunges at Zero with his arm blade.
* DoppelgangerAttack: Fenri can create clones of himself made of ice.
* HotBlooded: Fenri, despite being an ice boss. The voice helps a lot, considering he's [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Simon]]...[[note]]Or, rather, another ice-elemental character with the same voice, [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Jin Kisaragi]].[[/note]]
* PrimalStance: Fenri is the only one depicted like this, all the time.
* PsychoPrototype: Fenri Lunaedge, according to the [[AllThereInTheManual Mega Man Zero Official Complete Works]], was supposed to be a fusion between a Reploid and a prototype Cyber Elf, but the fusion as well as a glitch within the Cyber Elf's programming...well, drove him rabid.
* RollingAttack: One of Fenri's attacks.
* SavageWolves: Fenri Lunaedge is a wolf robot who loves a good fight.
* SwordBeam: Fenri can fire these, made of ice, from his blades. His EX Skill is basically firing 2 large ones traveling the ground and ceiling.
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[[folder:Popla Cocapetri]]
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-->''Cocapetri voiced by Ikuo Nishikawa''

A cockatrice Mutos Reploid that maintains the Living City, making it grow and attack everything with automated defense system.
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* BasiliskAndCockatrice: Popla Cocapetri is a cockatrice robot with a serpent's tail and ability to "petrify" other robots.
* ButtMonkey: Mino Magnus might get mocked for his slowness, but Popla Cocapetri is the one who fits this the best. Zero calls him a "grunt" the first time they meet, he gets insulted by his teammates, and overall doesn't seem to command respect from anybody. And while Mino at least has sheer size and a sharp axe for intimidation, Cocapetri is the smallest of the Einherjar who barely comes up to Zero and at first glance looks like a chicken.
* TheCracker: Cocapetri specializes in internal tech warfare, including software hacking and communications interference. His plan for Operation Ragnarok involves using viruses and hacking to take control of a derelict city and use the resources there to launch junk-botched construction projects to destroy Area Zero, while also automating the various defenses to deal with infiltrators. Even his TakenForGranite power is explained as him using his own tech to hack into a Reploid's CPU through the optics to force a shutdown.
* DashAttack: Cocapetri has one. (Un)fortunately, because the floor of the boss room is segmented to 3 and each goes up or down, this attack is sometimes hindered by the floor.
* EvilIsPetty: Cocapetri joined Weil's forces out of spite after he lost his job when the use of hacker-type cyber elves became commonplace.
* FeatherFlechettes: One of Cocapetri's attacks is to fire sharp "quills".
* FlunkyBoss:
** Also Cocapetri, who apparently can lay down robotic eggs which can run around, trying to hurt you.
* HairTriggerTemper: Cocapetri is rather irritable for such a small boss.
* TheNapoleon: Cocapetri hates it whenever people tease him for his small size.
* SpreadShot: Cocapetri can spread out either black bombs or feathers that can hurt Zero. Kraken can throw multiple spearheads this way. Titanion's EX Skill is the "exploding shot" variant, done with her {{Fireballs}}.
* TakenForGranite: Given his cockatrice theme, he has the ability forcibly immobilize other Reploids by hacking through their optics. Naturally, it's his signature attack.
* TimeStandsStill: Not explicitly stopping time, but Cocapetri's ultimate move includes "petrifying" all the room (as the whole room turns grey). Zero's EX Skill from him, Time Stopper, also qualifies.
* WeaponizedOffspring: Cocapetri can lay an egg with 2 legs that will run about, harrassing you.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pegasolta Eclair]]
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-->''Eclair voiced by Shigeru Shibuya''

A Pegasus-like Mutos Reploid in charge of the Hanging Gardens, where he attempts to destroy Area Zero with acid rain.
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* BladeBelowTheShoulder: His arms are a pair of electrified spears.
* {{Expy}}: Pegasolta Eclair is basically the Einherjar/Weil version of [[VideoGame/MegaManX5 Spiral Pegasus]], both being Pegasus-themed Reploid commanders of the BigBad's forces in a ColonyDrop story, which is noted by Eclair himself when fighting Zero again in Ragnarok.
->'''Pegasolta Eclair''': [[HistoryRepeats The satellites falling from the sky are like the Maverick Wars all over again...]] It really is Ragnarok, the end of the world! You stand on the threshold of your annihilation!
* TheFightingNarcissist: Pegasolta Eclair claims that the un-beautiful things shall go down.
* GlorySeeker: He had a peaceful job, but always desired to be assigned for combat. Weil granted his wish.
* KaizoTrap: Make sure you have a platform below you to stand on when you defeat Pegasolta Eclair.
* MeaningfulName: "Éclair" is French for "lightning", as befits a Thunder-elemental boss.
* ObstructiveForeground: An actual mechanic is his stage. If you challenge him in Overcast weather, portions of the stage will be covered with clouds, obstructing the view.
* {{Pegasus}}: Pegasolta Eclair is more of a humanoid winged horse, but it's still his theme.
* SmugSnake: Pegasolta Eclair is so vain and proud of his "beauty". Also, in-game, almost whenever he floats, he has a tendency to quickly fly upward everytime you try to land a hit. Annoying? Right.
* WeatherControlMachine: Hanging Gardens generate acid clouds that would damage Area Zero. Your mission is to destroy them, oterwise your score will take a hit.
* WingedHumanoid: Pegasolta Eclair is a humanoid horse with wings.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mino Magnus]]
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-->''Magnus voiced by Takahiro Fujimoto''

A Minotaur Mutos Reploid, stationed in the Magnetic Zone.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: Mino Magnus' only vulnerable on his torso. His ShouldersOfDoom are invincible and can block your attacks if your timing's bad.
* DetachmentCombat: Magnus can split into five parts, four of which are used to attack Zero.
* DumbMuscle: Mino Magnus is the huge guy who talks slowly to the point even his own allies have no patience of letting him finish a thought. [[note]] At least until his second and last defeat in the Boss Rush aboard Ragnarok. [[/note]] Whether that's a sign of his lack of intelligence or simply a SpeechImpediment is never revealed.
* GrappleMove: Mino Magnus can grab Zero and magnetize him, making him attract metal scraps that hinder his movement.
* HornedHumanoid: Magnus, pretty much.
* HulkSpeak: Mino Magnus combines this with a VerbalTic, in this case a roar of "[[{{Kiai}} Ndooooooh!]]".
* MightyGlacier: Magnus may be big and slow, but they carry high power reactor and lots of electromagnetic circuits respectively, from which they can generate tremendous amounts of power. In Gemblem's case, he's also equipped with a heavy shell.
* OurMinotaursAreDifferent: Mino Magnus, a hulking minotaur Reploid.
* SelectiveMagnetism: Mino Magnus's entire schtick, whether to magnetize Zero himself, or attracting debris from the area around them to use as his weapons.
* ShouldersOfDoom: Magnus has really big, pointy shoulders from which he can control magnetism.
* SpeechImpediment: Magnus talks really, ''really'' slowly. Throughout the entire game, nobody (including his allies) has the patience to let him finish a thought.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: One of Mino Magnus' attacks drags Zero towards him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sol Titanion]]
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-->''Titanion voiced by Creator/SakiNakajima''

A Mutos Reploid who maintains the Artificial Sun, attempting to scorch Area Zero and turn it into desert.
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* AxCrazy: Sol Titanion is basically a playful sadist. Her FreudianExcuse also ends up becoming extremely ironic in terms of who she's serving, as the reason she's AxCrazy was because a scouting unit commissioned by Dr. Weil basically invaded the artificial sun she and a twin of hers was maintaining and killed her twin, causing her to go mad and destroy them to avenge her twin.
* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Sol Titanion is themed after a butterfly.
* DeadlyDisc: Sol Titanion can throw these, made of fire.
* HotWings: Titanion's wings are made of fire.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: Sol Titanion is based on the myth of the fairy queen Titania.
* WeatherControlMachine: The Artificial Sun was made to contron weather, but now it's just turned on the highest setting in order to spread desertification.
* WingedHumanoid: Titanion is a humanoid butterfly/moth.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Copy-X]]
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-->''This is something that you and the original X could never create... only I could do this!''
--->''Voiced by Creator/YuutoKazama'', Creator/YukaImai (RTRZ Ciel's Memory Drama Track)

[[BlatantLies Zero's best friend, who ushered in a new age of peace between humans and Reploids after saving the world from the Mavericks.]] Copy-X is the ruler of Neo Arcadia during ''Zero 1'' and ''Zero 3'', with the role of BigBad and DiscOneFinalBoss, respectively. During a time of great hardship after the sudden, unexpected disappearance of the original X, [[LateArrivalSpoiler Ciel would make him]] as a supposedly perfect copy; shame she didn't give him 30 years of ethical testing like the original went through to ensure his reliability to discern between "right and wrong". In the face of an energy crisis, he wastes no time in taking extreme measures to maintain this "paradise", treating its Reploid citizens as expendable if their lives got in the way of human comfort and justifying his actions through his status as a supposedly "perfect" copy of the populace's beloved hero. By the beginning of Zero 1, he has sent a wave of Neo Arcadian forces to pursue and eliminate the Resistance, the game opening with various soldiers relentlessly chasing Ciel's party as they search for Zero, the hero of legend. Ordering multiple attacks on the Resistance over the course of the game, Zero soon takes the fight directly to him thanks to assistance from none other than the original X. Calling Copy-X out on the "joke" of a world he created, Zero defeats Copy-X in battle. Zero then tells him that he'll never be a "true hero" like X because X was far wiser and more compassionate than he ever was, a fact that Copy-X fails to come to terms with as he self-destructs, spitefully attempting to take Zero with him.\\\

In ''Zero 3'', Copy-X unexpectedly returns to resume his role as Neo Arcadia's ruler, bringing with him the exiled scientist Dr. Weil. Grateful to the man who rebuilt him, Copy-X is all too willing to pardon Dr. Weil's war crimes, allowing him back into Neo Arcadia and giving him the position of military advisor. Copy-X Mk. II and Dr. Weil then compete against Zero and the Resistance in a quest to retrieve the Dark Elf, culminating in Copy-X ordering a missile strike on a residential area, in a surprising rejection of even his own warped ideals. After leading another series of direct assaults against the Resistance, Zero defeats him in battle once more. X arrives to break the news to him, where once again Copy-X is proven the fool; Weil was only using Copy-X entirely for his own ends, and had already took off elsewhere with Omega and the Dark Elf. Frustrated at being treated like a fool, Copy-X decided to transform into his Seraph form, against X's warnings. Unbeknownst to him, Weil planted a bomb in his body that would detonate upon his transformation. And so he was blown apart for good, his very resurrection and actions only playing to the beat of the evil scientist's twisted tune.

* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: In the jaPANese verSIon, Copy-X Mk. II emPHAsizes strange sylLABles.
* ArmCannon: He's a replica of X, so he's got a cannon on his arm.
* AscendedFridgeHorror: He's pretty much X without the "30 years of ethical testing" bit and thrown in waaay over his head. Without having a moral compass or enough worldly experience and suddenly getting shoved into the ruling position with extreme levels of power both physical and political and having no one with any sort of authority willing or even desiring to question him, the only thing he knows is "being a good leader for human society"...at the expense of everyone else.
* BarrierChangeBoss: His first form switches between the three elements, with the appropriate attacks and weaknesses.
%%* BeamSpam: In his OneWingedAngel, ''and how!''
* BerserkButton: Don't you dare call him inferior to the real deal.
* BetaTestBaddie: Being a copy, after all. However, he constantly insists he's a "perfect" copy of X and therefore cannot be wrong, going so far as to think of himself as ''superior'' to X, and his BerserkButton is being told that the real X was a better leader and a better man than him.
* BigBad: Of the first game.
* BlueIsHeroic: Subverted. He was meant to be heroic, but lack of guidance makes him a KnightTemplar instead.
* BoomerangBigot: As far as he cares, a murderous reign of terror targeting his fellow Reploids is preferable to even mildly inconveniencing Neo Arcadia's human population. He passes this mentality on to all his subordinates too, when they aren't just sadists.
* BossArenaIdiocy: His OneWingedAngel is out of reach for most of Zero's attacks, except Zero can use the pillars Copy-X himself summoned to WallJump to reach him anyway. Yes, they do float over BottomlessPits and Copy-X does have an immobilizing move that will send Zero to a cheap death if it catches him while he's on the pillars, plus his DesperationAttack uses the floating pillars to try and crush Zero, but that's still unneeded when Copy-X could just carpet-bomb the small platform to kill Zero (and [[BeamSpam two of]] [[KillItWithFire his moves]] ''do'' just this).
* TheCaligula: He really does make Neo Arcadia a good place to live...but only for humans. It gets worse in the third game where under Weil's direction even humans become fair game, or at least the humans in Area Z-3079 to obtain the Dark Elf.
* CallBack: His armor is similar to X's famous Ultimate Armor, complete with the Nova Strike, but with angel wings and different colors. He also exhibits many abilities of the ''X'' series, e.g. the Shotgun Ice or the charged Triad Thunder and the ability to heal himself in a pillar of light during battle brings the second ''X1'' fight with Vile to mind.
* CameBackStrong: Played with. Copy-X Mk. II possesses a ReflectingLaser the original never did for his EX Skill, and his original EX Skill to [[HealThyself restore a bar of health]] is now a standard move he does regardless of rank, but the after-battle dialogue implies Zero had no more trouble taking him down than he did the original. And while he ''also'' possesses the capacity to go OneWingedAngel, Weil booby-trapped him to ensure he'd die if he tried it.
* CameBackWrong: Not that he was that great to begin with, but when Weil revives him in ''Zero 3'', his speech patterns are messed up (AccentUponTheWrongSyllable in Japanese and a pronounced stutter in English), subtly implying this.
* CharacterTics: Seemingly inherited X's own "armor up" gesture when equipping his Ultimate Armor.
* ChargedAttack: Just like X himself, he can charge his weapons to launch a stronger attack.
* CloneAngst: As his name spells it out, he's made as a replacement for X. In a variant, it's X himself who does the angst (over what the copy does under his name, that is), not Copy-X. He himself might have some of it too, [[InsistentTerminology given his insistence]] that he is not just a copy, but a ''perfect'' copy.
* ComputerVoice: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kx2o9RTrq8#t=0m38s His voice has flanging]] while other Reploids have human-sounding voices.
* DashAttack: He has the infamous Nova Strike as one of his attacks.
* DeathFromAbove: His charged fire-elemental attack has him firing multiple fire projectiles upward, which then fall down, covering a wide area.
* DemiurgeArchetype: Copy X is designed to resemble a seraphic multi-winged angel, with a halo in his final form. Neo Arcadia, intended to be a paradise under the real X, has regressed into a mere dystopia under his control. He rules with an iron fist and cannot stand the idea of anyone escaping his grasp. He is, however, a fake dressed up to look like the true ruler, and under his holy trappings he just wants to control everything he can. Copy X even deceives his own four Guardians into thinking he's the real X, but he's not quite as powerful or clever as he thinks he is.
* DemotedToDragon: In the third game, where he's simply Weil's PuppetKing.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Assumes the [[GrandfatherClause long-running]] series "tradition" in ''Z3''.
* ElCidPloy: He himself is the ploy, and Harpuia later makes a ploy in ''his'' stead.
* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: In the English version of ''Z3'', he has a stutter.
* EvilCounterpart:
** He's essentially X without his moral compass honed by three decades of ethics testing and over a century of life experience, leading to him finally picking a side in the conflict between humans and reploids instead of trying to bring about mutual peace.
** He is also one to Zero. Both use elemental chips, subtanks, and both are technically clones of their predecessors. However, Copy-X's angelic design contrasts mightily with Zero's devil horns, red and black armor. Copy is a childish and short-tempered tyrant, while Zero is a stoic hero. Copy-X is a true clone of X, while Zero is actually a copy of the original's unintended/malfunction personality in a new body.
* EvilKnockoff: Although his creator never intended for him to be evil in the first place.
* {{Expy}}: A CompositeCharacter of Gurjev and Michael, the villains of ''Film/MechanicalViolatorHakaider'', which WordOfGod says was the biggest influence on the story of the original ''Zero'' game.
* FakeKing: The general populace never knew that the X as they know him has been replaced by a copy. The players also only get to know this when Ciel told Zero before the last stage of the first game.
* FakeUltimateHero: He thinks himself better than both X and Zero. Zero disagrees and X has similar thoughts.
-->'''Zero''': He's not as naive as you are. That's what made him a hero.
* TheFightingNarcissist: He continuously stresses that he is a ''[[InsistentTerminology perfect]]'' copy of X whenever somebody brings it up, claims that he's always in the right by virtue of being a "perfect" copy, and will gladly crush anyone or anything that continues to attack him on that front. To drive it home, his battle form [[GoldAndWhiteAreDivine is gold and white]] alongside his [[HeavenlyBlue original blue]], and OneWingedAngel forms invoke the imagery of angels, specifically a Seraph (the highest-ranking angel in Heaven's hierarchy).
* FinalBoss: In ''Zero 1''.
* FireIceLightning: He can change his elemental powers via {{Palette Swap}}s: Blue is NonElemental, Red is Fire, Light Blue/Lavender is Ice, and Green is Lightning.
* GiantHandsOfDoom: In his second form.
* AGodAmI: Has shades of this; his OneWingedAngel form resembles a Seraph and his in-battle quotes include "''Repent!''"'' [[labelnote:Japanese]]Kuiaratame yo![[/labelnote]]'' and "''I am judgement!''"'' [[labelnote:Japanese]]Sabaki da![[/labelnote]]''
* GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: His special armor has this coloration, which, combined with [[HeavenlyBlue his basic blue]], gives an impression that he's a divine savior. His OneWingedAngel naturally also goes like this.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Copy-X represents the most extreme side of X. He becomes so obsessed with his mission of ensuring peace that he makes a fascist state that discriminates against the Reploids in an attempt to keep the humans unquestionably safe.
* GroundPunch: His charged thunder-element attack has him punching the ground, sending out electric currents that creep along the ground and walls.
* HealThyself: His special ability in ''Zero 1'' (if your rank is A or S) is creating a PillarOfLight that will shield him as well as healing one bar of life. In ''Zero 3'', he does this regardless of your rank. [[FridgeBrilliance He must be using a Sub-Tank.]]
* HeroicWannabe: Is convinced he's the proud hero and savior of humanity, making sacrifices for their sake by retiring the "evil" Reploids. At best, he's horribly misguided. At worst, he's a delusional hypocrite.
* HolyHalo: his OneWingedAngel gives him one. He can even shoot energy rings out of it to restrain Zero!
* {{Hypocrite}}: Goes around branding Reploids as Mavericks for fighting to defend themselves from his murderous regime while viewing himself as genuinely incapable of ever being in the wrong, and executing innocent civilians in the first place. In the ''X'' series, he would've been rightfully deemed a Maverick, and in the third game, would've qualified for a third definition: bringing harm to humans.
* IcyBlueEyes: In ''Zero 3'', when he isn't in his Ultimate Armor. It's unclear if this is supposed to be another sign he CameBackWrong or if he had them in the first game and the red eyes were just [[RuleOfSymbolism to further show he's not the real X]].
* InsistentTerminology: He's a ''perfect'' copy of the legendary X. As a ''perfect'' copy, [[TautologicalTemplar he's incapable of making mistakes and every decision he makes is right]] by the virtue of being a ''perfect'' copy of X and shouldn't be questioned by anyone. Combined with CircularReasoning, when he boasts to Zero that Neo Arcadia is doing what is right, and that is proof that their actions are just.
* {{Irony}}: His resurrection as Copy-X Mk. II basically flips the concept of "the perfect copy" on its head. He's certainly stronger, but he's also left with a speech impediment, he's even more naive, and Weil makes him unable to properly go OneWingedAngel.
* KarmicDeath: Neo Arcadia's purges, which began under him, prioritized Reploids [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness whose labor had become surplus to the human population's needs]]. He dies in ''Zero 3'' from a bomb Weil, a human, had planted in him to go off if tapped into his full power, i.e. if Zero had beaten him and he had become no longer useful to Weil's plans. To rub it in further, the real X, who he scorned as inferior to him, tried to warn him that Weil was just using him, only for Copy-X to dismiss his predecessor's wisdom as talking down to him and unwittingly activate the bomb in a fit of rage.
* KnightTemplar: Always believes himself to be in the right and his methods to be justified, even if it results in mass murder of innocent reploids. As long as humans are happy in the end, he doesn't feel that he's doing a bad thing.
* LegacyCharacter: Arguably, since he doesn't hold much of the ideals of the character he inherited his legacy from.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "X, the Legend".
* LightIsNotGood: Adding to his angel motif.
* MoralMyopia: In the third game, he accuses Ciel and La Résistance of being extremists for not giving up the alternate energy system she had developed. Never mind that not only was Copy-X the one who started the mass extermination of Reploids in Neo Arcadia in the first place, but he also had no qualms about destroying an entire human residential district with a missile holding Omega, just to get the Dark Elf. This deed is why Ciel doesn't want to give the system to them in the first place.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Noun X" version.
* NotHimself: Several characters in the third game subtly note that the X that they see is somehow different from the X that they knew -- even for those who already knew that X had a copy. Heavily implied to be Weil's doing.
* NotSoSimilar: He was originally planned to ''be'' [[SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome the original X]], but late in development became a Reploid built in his image who thought he was superior to the original. Zero himself comes to remember that X, his friend, was stronger and wiser than the doppelganger standing before him, a fact that he bluntly tells to Copy-X. Even if a player chooses not to take him at his word, even a glance at X and Copy-X's personalities would show even at his worst X is nothing like Copy-X and blowing the "perfect copy" defense out of the water.
* ObliviouslyEvil: [[JustifiedTrope He's an overgrown child with no comprehension of right and wrong, whose entire brief life has been spent being feted as a messianic figure under the assumption he's the genuinely compassionate original X.]] He can't have become anything else. However, that's just from the perspective of the innocent Reploids. The ''human'' populace sees him as a savior.
* OneWingedAngel: Ciel must have thrown in some upgrades.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: In both of his appearances. With the firepower he possesses, the "war" (barely counts as one until Zero arrived) against LaResistance would've been over a long time ago.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: He takes the form of a six-winged angel, a seraph. [[http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Copy_X As the Mega Man Wiki]] points out, this sets him up against his original, who also appears in an angelic fashion, but in a much more humble manner (i.e with just a blue robe and a halo), emphasizing Copy-X's {{Pride}} and vanity.
%%* PoweredArmor: But of course.
* PowerGivesYouWings: 6 wings. His first form also has many wings all over his body that [[WingsDoNothing do nothing]]. Only the ones on his back might actually be useful.
* PromotedToPlayable: While he was technically playable in a ''Zero 3'' minigame, ''VideoGame/MegaManXDive'' marks the first time he's fully controllable.
* PsychopathicManchild: He is a perfect copy of X from a technical standpoint, but as Zero points out, he lacks the experience, maturity, and insight of the original. As such, he makes a lot of extreme decisions while [[TautologicalTemplar thinking he is incapable of making mistakes and that everything he does is right]], despite the piles of dead Reploids his actions leave behind. He is also easily angered by any unflattering comparisons to the original X, and when he is beaten by Zero in the first game, his reaction is comparable to a child who just lost a game of "Good Guys vs. Bad Guys".
--> '''Copy-X:''' Why...? Why...? I was... supposed to be... the perfect copy... how can this be... possible...? I was supposed to be... a hero...\\
'''Zero:''' I've just remembered something... he was not as naive as you are. That's what made him a hero.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Most of the time. In ''Zero 3'' he has blue eyes, but goes back to red when he activates his Ultimate Armor.
* ReflectingLaser: His EX Skill in the third game, which can ricochet off walls and floors.
* ReplacementGoldfish: For X. Suffice it to say it didn't work out as intended.
* RingsOfDeath: In his OneWingedAngel, he can summon halos that can be used to entrap Zero.
* ShadowArchetype: He is a perfect copy of X, just without all of the morality testing that Dr. Light did to ensure that the real X wouldn't become the way Copy-X became. The real X's speech after Copy-X's destruction implies that he came dangerously close to becoming just like Copy-X after [[HeWhoFightsMonsters a hundred more years of fighting both the Maverick and Elf Wars]], which is part of the reason he wants to leave the job of saving the world to Zero.
* SketchySuccessor: He lacks the ethical testing or the experience that X had, which makes him a crazy KnightTemplar.
* SlideAttack: Strangely enough, he has this.
* SlouchOfVillainy: In ''Zero 3''.
* SpeechImpediment: He h-has a s-stutter post-resurrection. That's p-possibly the clue that h-he CameBackWrong.
* StationaryWings: In both of his forms.
* TakingYouWithMe: Pulls this in the first game by [[LoadBearingBoss blowing up the]] [[CollapsingLair Tower you're in]] after losing.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: The original X only summoned his armor at the beginning of a level or in the privacy of a capsule -- this guy talks smack for several sentences and THEN summons it. At no point can Zero run over and slash the hell out of him for being so stupid.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Subverted with the killing thousands of humans in Neo Arcadia's Area Z-3079 residential district, since Copy X believes that it would necessary to reunite Omega to the Dark Elf and restore peace that the Resistance "shattered", though several characters such as Harpuia and Ciel call out his BS.
* TokenEvilTeammate: He's the only antagonist of the first game that's a true villain.
* UnskilledButStrong: Reliability testing aside, Copy-X was the first legitimately successful replication of X's systems and in turn had all the raw horsepower X possessed when initially built up to the Ultimate Armor upgrade... it's just that throwing out raw power is ''all'' he knows how to do. The original X had grown far beyond that marker anyway, and even in a weaker replica body, Zero's subconscious memory was more than familiar enough with the real X's best to handle him. In fact, Copy-X might in ''Zero 1'' have more raw power than Zero, due to Zero not gaining all his skills back until around ''Zero 3'', and not being as upgraded by Cyber Elves. However, he doesn't have any skills that Zero has gained fighting on the battlefield. Judging by the dialogue, [[CurbStompBattle the fight between them is very one-sided]].
* UnwittingPawn: Copy-X Mk. II thinks that he's following his own agenda in the third game, when he was only being used by Dr. Weil. This culminates in Copy-X trying to rehash the OneWingedAngel trick from the first game when defeated, but ends up destroyed by a planted bomb and furthering Weil's plan, even in Zero's victory; so, [[FridgeBrilliance Zero was right]], he ''is'' naïve.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: He's built a paradise for humans on the remains of the countless Reploids he's scrapped.
* VillainDecay: He goes from being the BigBad of ''Zero 1'' to a DiscOneFinalBoss and UnwittingPawn in ''Zero 3''.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Despite his many, ''many'' atrocities, the humans of Neo Arcadia ''adore'' him. It's to the point that in ''4'', part of the reason many of the Caravan humans, even Neige, give the Resistance and Zero such a cold shoulder is because they're responsible for Copy-X's death. Some even claim that "X" was the only Reploid who ever looked after humans, which is blatantly untrue, though in fairness it's not clear how much they're actually referring to the ''real'' X.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He claims that everything that he does is for the right cause, i.e protecting human society. This includes murdering innocent Reploids to alleviate the energy crisis. And he does okay in that department -- until, in the third game, he commanded the bombardment of a residential district, claiming the life of thousands of humans... all for getting Omega to the Dark Elf. (Justified in that case, though, since he's NotHimself.)
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: "Solves" the energy crisis by sentencing Reploids whose work is no longer necessary to death in {{Kangaroo Court}}s, removing their energy needs from Neo Arcadia's resources. Karmically, he dies for good in ''Zero 3'' as a result of becoming more useful to Weil as a martyr.
[[/folder]]

!!!The Four Guardians
[[folder:General]]
When X abandoned his original body to be the seal of the Dark Elf, these four reploids were created from his DNA in order to clean up the world. They are also the generals of each of the armed forces of Neo Arcadia.
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[[folder:The Dark Elf]]
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-->''Zero...''\\
''When she was born, she had a mission to save the world...''

Originally born as the very first Cyber Elf, the Mother Elf, which, with the "Sigma Antibody Program", was used by X to eradicate all traces of the Maverick Virus on Earth. Dr. Weil corrupted her programming, causing chaos and setting off the devastating Elf Wars. Basically shrouded in mystery. She was later sealed by original X's body.

At the end of ''Zero 2'', she briefly returns to her original state and transforms Elpizo into a Cyber Elf, also freed of his insanity, before running away. In ''Zero 3'' it's revealed she was created by reverse-engineering the residual Zero Virus data from Zero's original body.

* AllYourPowersCombined: In different occasions, she displays abilities of all three types of Cyber Elves: Nurse, Animal, and Hacker. Fitting, since she is the template from which all Cyber Elves are based on.
* AntiVillain: She's always being controlled against her will.
* ApocalypseMaiden: Weil used her power to commit genocide on the planet.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: As the Mother Elf, she has the power to get rid of Maverick corruption. However, after Weil corrupted her, she became the very source of new robotic corruptions, particularly when fused with Omega.
* TheCameo: It's obviously NOT the Dark Elf herself, but during the final battle of ''Zero 4'', Dr. Weil summons the Weil Numbers using a facsimile of her.
* TheCorruption:
** The Dark Elf's SuperEmpowering comes with the notable side-effect of mutating those who fall under its power; the extreme, BrainwashedAndCrazy examples both share MorphicResonance with the dark wisps enshrouding the Dark Elf. (The notable exception is Omega, who was ''designed'' to channel her).
** Weil appears to have subjected the Dark Elf herself to this with his modifications--the Dark Elf's very design implies her to be trapped or enslaved by some foreign influence.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Zigzagged. The Dark Elf doesn't normally ''want'' to cause harm, but she's routinely forced or provoked into using her powers, which are immensely destructive. However, Weil's modifications themselves--the dark wisps enshrouding her in her art--are a straight example of DarkIsEvil.
* EnergyBeing
* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation: The dark shrouds around the Mother Elf appear to be the visible representation of Weil's code, something he added to her program to modify her powers and control her.
* EyesAlwaysShut
* FlunkyBoss: A variant, as she never actually does any fighting herself, but in ''Zero 3'' during Childre's stage she does mutate a Pantheon Aqua into the level's MiniBoss after it tries to attack and capture her and sics it on Zero to keep him from catching her himself.
* ForcedIntoEvil: Thanks to being reprogrammed by Dr. Weil. Even her artwork, of a small and white cyber-elf nearly smothered by threatening shrouds of darkness, suggests entrapment.
* FusionDance: By doing this with any Reploid, she induces a OneWingedAngel form, though only Omega is able to draw out her full power because she originates from Zero's original body as the Sigma Virus, and Omega is currently in control of that body.
* HatePlague: Her powers are mainly used to sow hatred and psychopathy between Reploids, especially when combined with Omega.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Her original purpose was as a force for good, to purge Reploids of the Maverick Virus, but Dr. Weil corrupted her. By the end of ''Zero 3'', she's back to being good.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Darkelf".
* LivingMacguffin: She's pursued by both Neo Arcadia and the Resistance in ''Zero 2'' and Weil in ''Zero 3'' for fear of her powers.
* LogicalWeakness: [[InvertedTrope Logical Immunity]], rather. The Dark Elf doesn't mutate Omega because she's based on the Zero Virus antibodies from Zero's original body, and Omega is using Zero's original body.
* MindControlDevice: One of her more frightening abilities is to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy control all Reploids within range]]; combined with Omega, that range is greatly increased, covering practically all the world. Ironically, she, too, is BrainwashedAndCrazy herself.
* OneWingedAngel: Both she and her kids can induce horrific transformations to any Reploids or Mechaniloids, though she's much more proficient and powerful at it.
* RedeemingReplacement: As the Sigma Antibody Program, she was a countermeasure against the [[TheVirus Maverick Virus]]. Created by using the antibodies in Zero's body as a template, the Mother Elf was used to eradicate the Maverick Virus completely. However, once Weil got ahold of the Mother Elf and corrupted her into the Dark Elf, she effectively became an even worse version of the same virus she was originally trying to eradicate.
* SayMyName: In the third game, she shouts "Zeeeeeeerrooooo" once, in the Oceanic Highway Ruins stage.
* SealedEvilInACan: Zig-zagged. At last count, it's [[SealedGoodInACan Sealed Good In An Evil Can]], [[SealedEvilInACan itself Sealed In A Good Can]].
* SuperPrototype: The other Cyber Elves (even the Baby Elves) are just inferior imitations of her with limited powers, while she can completely alter the appearance and minds of Reploids.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Vanishes at the end of the third game, finally free of her curse, and was never mentioned or seen again.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: It's barely even her fault that she caused the Elf Wars. She didn't even have a choice thanks to Weil.

[[folder:Elpizo]]
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-->'' A world without humans... the world only for Reploids... don't you think it will be paradise!?''
--->''Voiced by Creator/TsutomuKashiwakura'', Creator/GriffinPuatu (English, Z2 Definitive Dubs Fandub)

The commander of the Resistance in ''Zero 2'', as well as the villain. Elpizo ordered a full assault on Neo Arcadia, assuming that the capitol was defenseless in Copy-X's absence. However, all of the Resistance soldiers involved in the attack were slaughtered by the Guardians and Elpizo himself was curb-stomped by Harpuia. After that, Elpizo snapped and tried to free the Dark Elf, thinking he was too weak and that he could free the Reploids by just gaining power. In the end, he destroyed X's helpless body, in use as a lock on the Dark Elf's cage, and made her merge with him. Zero chased him all the way (although he was unable to save X's body), and defeated Elpizo. After that, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Elpizo realized how evil he became and apologized to Zero for his actions]], before the Dark Elf turned him into a cyber elf.

* AllThereInTheManual: The drama tracks that accompany the ''Zero 3'' remaster album elaborate on his past as a Reploid named TK-31.
* BadassLongcoat: Wears a long magenta coat with a rather wide collar. Although he isn't that badass -- and when he merges with the Dark Elf (and becoming more badass), he loses the coat.
* BattleAura: In his DesperationAttack, if you have A or S Rank, much like that of the Guardians.
* BattleTops: His second form can summon large rotating drones to attack.
* BigBad: Of the second game.
* BigBadSlippage: A [[ZigZaggingTrope rare zig-zagged trope]] example. He starts off as the new Resistance leader before going bad after a botched assault on Neo Arcadia and trying to gain more power by going after the Baby Elves and the Dark Elf. To do this, he destroys the original X's body. He then declares to Zero that he will exterminate humanity, and he becomes the FinalBoss. However, after Zero defeats him and frees him from the Dark Elf's influence, he realized how evil he became and, with remorse, apologized to Zero for his actions.
* BladeSpam: One of his attacks in his first form is him dashing while doing multiple stabs with his rapier.
* BossBanter: He has plenty of this in his first and second forms.
-->"Amai desu yo!": You've underestimated me! (summoning enemies through a purple portal)
-->"Shitsurei!": Pardon me! (shooting purple projectiles from his sword)
-->"Soko desu ka!": There you are! (launching purple orbs)
-->"Tanoshinde kudasai!": Please enjoy yourself! (using his EX Skill Ground Burst attack)
-->"Ottoikenai!": Oops, that was close! (when blocking an attack with his saber)
-->"Motto chikara wo!": More power! (said when transforming into his second form, and then occasionally throughout the battle)
-->"Zunīnaruna!": Don't get coocky! (when warping around the room)
-->"Sabitetsukirō!": Rust and crumble! (when attacking in his second form)
-->"Owakaredesu!": This is the end! (when attacking in his second form)
* CallForward: In "[=Record2=]_Irregular Passion", the radio drama that serves as Elpizo's StartOfDarkness. The last line is Elpizo's cry of '''"More POWER!!"''' (''Motto '''CHIKARA WO!!'''''), which he screams fairly often during the final boss battle against him.
* ClippedWingAngel: Despite being visually impressive, his lack of mobility makes his new body a sitting duck. It becomes worse when you realize that his attacks aren't actually much stronger than his first form and are now horribly easy to anticipate and dodge (especially with the rather wide room you're in), and thus the fight becomes a bit of a CurbStompBattle. This might be justified, though: Elpizo couldn't bring out the Dark Elf's full power because his body simply wasn't designed to do so (that would be Omega). When he tried to bring out that power regardless, it's heavily implied that it drove him [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity even more insane]] and left him [[UnskilledButStrong unable to properly use his newfound strength]].
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Elpizo is essentially built up throughout ''Zero 2'' and the background materials as the opposite of Copy-X in almost every way. Copy-X was built specifically to fulfill the role of X, the most powerful and famous Reploid alive. Elpizo was just a common Reploid who didn't even have the luxury of a ''name''. Copy-X was made with power to match X, while Elpizo was a non-combat model who had to find ways to get power. Copy-X leads a "utopia" that ultimately wound up persecuting Reploids per his misguided efforts for the sake of ensuring humanity's safety. Elpizo leads a resistance meant to fight back against said persecution while also harboring a dangerous grudge against humanity that leads him to desire to kill them all for the safety of Reploids. Copy-X has an angelic OneWingedAngel form that reflects [[LightIsNotGood how he himself and the human population see him as a savior]], while Elpizo ultimately transforms into a demonic form that reflects [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope how far he's fallen from his old goals]]. And while Copy-X dies (both times!) still utterly convinced of his own righteousness and unable to comprehend how a "villain" like Zero could defeat him, Elpizo lays dying [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone horrified at his own actions and thankful of Zero stopping him]] before [[AscendToAHigherPlaneofExistence becoming a Cyber-Elf]].
* DarkMessiah: Judging from his quote from the [[AllThereInTheManual drama tracks]]:
-->My name is really... Elpizo! I am the one who was chosen to become the hope of all the Reploids being oppressed in Neo Arcadia! To do that, [[MacGuffin Baby Elves]], I'll need your... your power! That's right... [[Franchise/StarWars power]]... [[ShoutOut more power]]!!
* DestinedBystander: His role as BigBad happens only after halfway through the game. Before the events in the game, he was also just a common Reploid who went by a serial name, TK-31.
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: When he goes OneWingedAngel.
* DrunkWithPower: And even before then, it's obvious he gets more deranged and unstable the more of the Dark Elf's power he gets.
* DubNameChange: Elpizo was named "Elpis" in the Japanese version. The "-zo" may be an attempt to make the name masculine[[note]]although Elpizo can mean "to hope (for)", making the allusions still apply[[/note]]; Elpis was a female Greek deity.
* EnergyBall: His second form fires a lot of these.
* EnergyBeing: He becomes one at the end of the second game. In the third game, a mod card makes a cyber elf appear near the commanding room door; it's rumored to be Elpizo.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: The Dark Elf decks him out with a suit of [[GoldAndWhiteAreDivine white and gold]], along with a golden-bladed [[LaserBlade laser]] [[RoyalRapier rapier]].
* {{Expy}}: His position as leader of the main heroic organization before his FaceHeelTurn, his desire to KillAllHumans for the benefit of reploidkind, and his harnessing of the Dark Elf, which allows him to force Reploids into servitude under him, makes him ''Zero'''s version of Sigma. This is ''pointed out'' in-universe by one of the Resistance members who has access to old files talking about the Maverick Wars, who compares Elpizo to Sigma without using the latter's name.
* FaceHeelTurn: After the failure of Operation Righteous Strike, he decides that getting a great source of power (in this case, the Baby Elves) will help him destroy Neo Arcadia, and then he becomes the BigBad.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: The latter half of ''Zero 2'' involves trying to catch up to him. Guess what happens ''every'' time.
* FallenAngel: His OneWingedAngel form deliberately brings out the comparison, showing just how far he's fallen in his original goals and how much the Dark Elf has truly [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity corrupted]] him. In a way, it also seems to compare itself to that of [[KnightTemplar Copy-X's]] own OneWingedAngel form, furthering the contrast between the two.
* FantasticRacism: Him against the humans, though he still puts Ciel in high regard. At the end of the game, he admits that he was wrong about humans and apologizes for trying to exterminate them.
* FantasticTerrorists: Encourages [[LaResistance the Resistance]] to undergo terrorist methods under his leadership, aiming to personally overthrow Neo Arcadia for a better empire.
* AFatherToHisMen: He genuinely earned the loyalty of his personal Resistance members, and his response to realizing that Operation Righteous Strike is going horribly wrong is to immediately warp to the battlefield himself to try and salvage the situation. When that fails, his message to the Resistance upon leaving is one where he [[ItsAllMyFault shoulders all the blame for the deaths]]... and it's the tipping point for his sanity.
* FinalBoss: In ''Zero 2''.
* FlunkyBoss: His first form in his boss battle can summon a Pantheon Guardian or a rolling [[SpikeBallsOfDoom Spiking]] to aid him.
* ForbiddenFruit: He thinks of "entering the forbidden room and gaining the classified knowledge of Elf Wars".
* FromNobodyToNightmare: From just a common Reploid into one with the ambition to destroy Neo Arcadia. All because of an accident.
* GenderBlenderName: Elpis is a Greek goddess of hope. Wonderfully ironic considering what he does, but despite appearances, he is a man. His name was changed to Elpizo overseas because of this, likely to make him sound more masculine.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: The moment where the forbidden knowledge of the Elf Wars flowed into him would change his life. Although he didn't exactly go mad until he was forced to run from Neo Arcadia, starting from declaring that he's "Elpizo".
* HeKnowsTooMuch: According to the radio drama tracks, Elpizo, originally going by his model number TK31, was a bureaucratic model who was part of an investigation team for ruins related to the Elf Wars and related conflicts which were considered forbidden knowledge. When he accidentally stumbled across documents relating to these conflicts, Harpuia tells him to forget what he saw there. One week later, he learns that the settlement he was investigating was destroyed and the other members of the investigation team went missing right when he is declared a Maverick by Harpuia with the real reason for being labeled as such being because he knew too much about the Elf Wars.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Starting from his escape from Neo Arcadia, he (an otherwise normal Reploid) was convinced that he's a big deal, by calling himself "Elpizo". Later on, while he first acts awkward when he's pushed into the position of Resistance commander, he soon gets overconfident about himself and his strategy, thinking that he can now destroy Neo Arcadia. When his Operation Righteous Strike failed, he's convinced that he's not "special" enough and tries to find the Dark Elf, partly to attain more power and partly to become the Reploid savior that "Project Elpizo" aims to create.
* IronicEcho: One of his quotes sounds a lot like something [[VideoGame/MegaManX4 Iris]] would say, doesn't it? Though Elpizo puts ''much'' more emphasis on the "no humans" thing: While Iris merely favored a separate world, Elpizo...well, see below.
* KickTheDog: Zero finally catches up to Elpizo, only to be incapacitated; Elpizo then [[ForcedToWatch forces Zero to watch Elpizo destroy X]].
* KillAllHumans: His motive, at least when on his [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity power-high]]. He's appropriately horrified after his defeat and sincerely thanks Zero for stopping him before he could get that far as he lays dying.
* TheLeader: In ''Zero 2'', he organizes guerrilla operations and data retrieval and has a good battle plan in general, but in battle he rushes in with his Operation Righteous Strike army without having too much of a backup plan.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Combustion".
* LifeDrain: His first form can launch 6 orbs at Zero that will latch onto him if he's hit. The orbs will then fly back at Elpizo, each of them healing him.
* LightIsNotGood: First half of his FinalBattle only, when the Dark Elf gives him armor of white and gold, in addition to a golden-bladed rapier. He's also full-on DrunkWithPower and just declared his intent to [[KillAllHumans kill every human in Neo Arcadia]].
* MeaningfulName: His name in Japan, Elpis, means "hope" in Greek. [[MeaningfulRename He renamed himself]] after Project Elpis, a project that revolves around creating a special Reploid to become a perfect ruler and "savior" (courtesy of Dr. Weil).
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Not directly stated, but given it's not hard to interpret Elpizo as having romantic feelings for Ciel (who only has eyes for Zero), it's also not hard to look at Elpizo's attempt to kill Zero during the final battle as at least partially motivated along these lines.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After his defeat, he realizes just how he's fallen, both in goal and sanity, and thanks Zero for stopping him before he could carry out his [[KillAllHumans plans]].
* OneWingedAngel: The final boss standard. He gains [[PowerGivesYouWings 4 wings]] during so.
* PainfulTransformation: Absorbing the Dark Elf into himself for the first part of his final battle with Zero has him noticeably pause and grunt in pain, in addition to hunching over as it [[EvilCostumeSwitch changes]] him. Becomes ''very'' obvious when he goes full-on OneWingedAngel, though, where he ''screams'' in pain as he transforms.
* TheParagonAlwaysRebels: He was the Resistance commander before he screwed up [[OperationBlank Operation Righteous Strike]], and then he becomes the BigBad.
* TheParanoiac: Especially after he was declared Maverick for accidentally exploring the forbidden knowledge of the Elf Wars (in one of the drama tracks), he slowly shows paranoid behaviors, starting from having delusions of grandeur (by declaring himself Elpizo instead of TK-31 after he escaped from Neo Arcadia), as well as the desire to destroy Neo Arcadia and human society to free himself from the fear. And by the events in the game, it becomes more and more obvious.
* PillarOfLight: His DesperationAttack of his first form has him [[SwordPlant planting his sword on the ground]] which emits this. It also sends harmful debris outwards.
* PowerGlows: He glows purple in his first boss form.
* ProperlyParanoid: Amongst the reasons for him wanting to push through with Operation Righteous Strike were the belief that Neo Arcadia would simply force Ciel to hand over her energy research and then wipe the Resistance out. Come ''Zero 3'', Elpizo's views are proven right when Copy X Mk. II and Dr. Weil do just that.
* PropheticName: Invoked by renaming himself after Project Elpis. Note that he understood the "prophecy" wrong here (there's nobody actually named "Elpis" in that project).
* PurpleIsPowerful: Initially subverted, but upon reaching his OneWingedAngel form, it fits.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: He thinks this is the only option for him after Zero defeats him, until the Dark Elf turns him into a Cyber Elf, much to his thanks.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His eyes go from blue to red after fusing with the Dark Elf.
* TheResenter: To Zero, whether it's for his strength as a warrior that Elpizo craves to have himself, his popularity within the Resistance which Elpizo himself is shown to have some insecurities over, or the fact that Ciel favors Zero over himself. Note his passive-aggressive attitude toward Zero in the first half of the game. Which turns to just plain aggressive by the end.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Neo Arcadia Neo was originally wrong because he was declared Maverick among many other innocents to reduce competition for energy.
* RousseauWasRight: Elpizo is actually a good guy (if somewhat short-tempered and likes to take a violent approach), he's just too [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]] with gaining power from the Dark Elf and then [[DrunkWithPower getting drunk on it]]. Also, in the drama tracks, if only he never found the room containing the secret data about Project Elpizo, he'd never be so violent like what we see him as now.
* RoyalRapier: LaserBlade variant.
* StabTheSky: One of his attacks involves this.
* SurvivorGuilt: Contributed to his FaceHeelTurn.
* ThisCannotBe: After Zero defeats his first form, he's left stunned at the fact despite wielding the power of the being that brought the world to ruin. It prompts him to yell at the Dark Elf to grant him more power. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor She most certainly does]].
* TookALevelInBadass: He's helpless at first, but when he starts taking the Dark Elf's power, he single-handedly tears through Neo Arcadia's defenses and becomes the FinalBoss.
* TransformationIsAFreeAction: His absorption of the Dark Elf and her transformation of his body into his first form takes quite a bit of time, leading Elpizo to "[[LampshadeHanging thank Zero for waiting]]." Of course, the only reason Zero didn't rush over and try to slice him apart [[ForcedToWatch is because Elpizo immobilized him with the Baby Elves' power before destroying X and taking the Dark Elf]].
* VillainHasAPoint: His warning to Ciel that Neo Arcadia would just take her energy research by force is proven right in ''Zero 3'', when Copy X Mk. II and Dr. Weil force the Resistance to hand over the Ciel System's schematics or risk annihilation by the Neo Arcadian Army.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Perroquiet points out that [[CallBack his intentions are similar to]] [[VideoGame/MegaManX Sigma's]]. It is also directly contrasting to Copy-X's goal.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Even the premise of the great power brought on by the Dark Elf already turned him into a more ambitious person. Predictably, when he actually obtained the Dark Elf, he becomes more deranged and delusional.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Let's see, he ended up stumbling on information relating to Project Elpis/Elpizo when ordered to inspect a sunken library, found out by Harpuia, and told to forget everything he saw. Some days after, he was then declared Maverick by Harpuia, who was going to take him to be tried under the Eight Gentle Judges, but he escaped and fled from Neo Arcadia, swearing to take it down one day. In the events of ''Zero 2'', he tries to launch a counterattack on Neo Arcadia after Zero terminated Copy-X, and despite organizing the plans in such a way that on the surface should grant him and the Resistance victory, he ends up losing horribly, with several of his men killed, and he ''then'' tries to unlock the Mother Elf so he could then make a Reploid paradise as a result of being unable to bear the devastation of the Resistance's loss due to his plans. And when Zero finally stopped him, he's horrified at the thought of what he was trying to do, and thinks that he deserves his death. Fortunately, the Dark Elf feels sympathy towards him, momentarily turning her into the Mother Elf and turns him into a Cyber-Elf to spare him from death.
* YouWillBeSpared: Wishes to exterminate the human race, but still has feelings for Ciel.

[[folder:Baby Elves]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left: Crea, right: Prea]]

Creer and Prier (Crea and Prea in localized versions) are two Cyberelves, under the same influence the Dark Elf is under. They are searching for their mother (Dark Elf) and in ''Zero 2'' convince Elpizo to help free her. When ''Zero 3'' comes around, Dr. Weil convinces them he is their grandfather, and he wants to "help" the search. They fight Zero a few times in ''Zero 3''. They are able to forcibly mutate Reploids into their OneWingedAngel forms and when forced can even fight either individually or combining their powers.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: In-universe. Most of the Resistance, Ciel and Alouette especially, think they're cute little bundles of energy that hold the key to ending the war. However, Zero finds them unsettling, and they openly hate him for his part in banishing the Dark Elf. They are also the spawn of a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor HatePlague. Nobody compares notes.
* BabyTalk: Most of their dialogue in ''Zero 2'', except for when they're saying "Mama." Lampshaded by Alouette in ''Zero 3'' as she reminiscences on them, though it's averted in said game as they've learned to talk in complete sentences.
* BaitAndSwitchBoss: In the third game, Zero tries to enter an ICBM that carries Omega and slay him while he's inactive. However, before Zero can reach him, the Baby Elves [[YouShallNotPass block his way]], fighting Zero long enough for the missile to reach its destination, causing thousands of deaths and allowing Omega to take the Dark Elf there.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: In their eyes, anyone willing to help them reunite with their "mother" is a good guy, and anyone who would keep them apart is a bad guy. They don't care at all about the atrocities Dr. Weil has committed and in fact see him as their "grandfather" figure since he turned the Mother Elf into the Dark Elf, and they see Zero as a villain simply because he helped sealed her away. Heck, they only seem to really acknowledge the "Dark Elf" persona as their mother since they flee in terror when she briefly returns to being the Mother Elf at the end of ''Zero 2''.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: What they can do to any Reploid they possess, such as Harpuia in ''Zero 2''.
* ChekhovsGun: One of the twins is first found inside a container in Ciel's room at the beginning of ''Zero 2''[[note]]mentioned to have been taken by Elpizo from Neo Arcadia prior to the events of the game[[/note]], while the other one is a {{MacGuffin}} in Hyleg Ourobuckle's mission.
* CoDragons:
** To Elpizo in ''Zero 2'', helping him gain control of the Mutos Reploids that are in their way while guiding him to the Dark Elf's prison.
** Also towards Dr. Weil partway through ''Zero 3'', a position shared with each other as well as with Omega.
* TheCorrupter: It's all but stated being around the two of them is what caused Elpizo to start JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope and getting DrunkOnTheDarkSide even before he got his hands on the Dark Elf, playing on his guilt to make him willing to help them free the Dark Elf from X's seal.
* CreepyTwins: As they're cloned from the Dark Elf, this is a given. They can turn Reploids into monstrous versions of themselves and will stop at nothing to reunite with their mother.
* DeathOfAChild: Zero kills them after the boss fight near the end of ''Zero 3.''
* TheDividual: There really isn't anything to distinguish the Baby Elves between one another aside from their color. In the Boss battles against them, in fact, they even share energy bars.
* DualBoss: Compared to other examples, however, they're actually really easy; for starters, they share a life bar, but not MercyInvincibility.
* ElementalPowers: They use [[AnIcePerson ice]] and [[PlayingWithFire fire]] attacks.
* EnergyBeing: Being a Cyber Elf and all.
* EnfanteTerrible: Baby Elves in general are [[MeaningfulName clones of the Dark Elf]], being meant to propagate the Dark Elf's corruption.
* EyesAlwaysShut: They always look like they're sleeping.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: They call Zero "faker", for some reason.
* FusionDance: Like their mother, they can mutate any Reploid, and enhance their abilities. In their boss fight, they can also fuse with each other, becoming bigger and launching stronger attacks.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Dr. Weil convinces them he is their grandfather, and he wants to help them find their mother. Also, he asks them to harass Zero a few times 'cause he's a big meanie head.
* IronicName: The irony doesn't just come from the names; Alouette named them "Create" and "Pray" based on her hopes on them ("Please create a new energy source for us... please let my prayers reach them..." See LowerDeckEpisode). Guess what they used to do long ago? They're used as one of Weil's instruments in the Elf Wars. Also, in the third game, Zero killed them. One wonders what will Alouette say after this...
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Creer and Prier".
* SingleMindedTwins: Reflected in how they tend to repeat each other's sentences with some minor variation in ''Zero 3'', though since Crea is the one who tends to initiate conversations while Prea follows up, it suggests that the former at least is the more assertive of the two.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Creer and Prier in Japanese, Crea and Prea in English.
* ThemeTwinNaming: French for "create" and "pray". In the drama track "Diary_Alouette's Good Day", where Alouette wanders the base gathering suggestions for names, those suggestions include: Plus and Minus, [[GeniusBonus Anode and Cathode]], [[Literature/CrimeAndPunishment Crime and Punish]], Love and Peace, [[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork Azul Luna and Rojo Sol]], Blanc and Noir, and [[Myth/GreekMythology Hypnos and Thanatos]].
* TookALevelInBadass: It's implied their combat-capable forms in ''Zero 3'' were thanks to Dr. Weil, as he offers while telling them he wants their help in finding the Dark Elf that he can even give them new bodies if they want.
* TragicMonster: Both of them started off as innocent babies, but Weil enabled them into doing cruel things without understanding what harm they were causing and Zero ultimately had to kill them and they ''cried out in pain for their mama while screaming about feeling like pins and needles stabbed them and clubs and hammers hit them'' as they died.

!!!Mission Bosses
[[folder:General]]

Tropes pertaining to Bosses (and their respective levels) that appear in the second game. (Elpizo has his own folder.)

* AdvancingBossOfDoom: Zero is chased from the left while battling Mega Scorpia.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Thanks to Elpizo, the incomplete Dark Elf, and the Baby Elves, the Bosses that turn up in the BossRush end up in this predicament and inadvertently become mindless puppets to them. They recover their memories just as Zero kills them for good.
* CallBack: Mega Scorpia is one to Mega Scorpio in ''VideoGame/MegaManX7''.
* HeroAntagonist: At least, neutral antagonist. Some of the bosses are involved in protecting important military sites or keeping the Baby Elves out of the hands of people who can't be trusted with them, rather than executing innocent Reploids.
* PowerCopying: Each of their EX Skills that they only perform when faced with a rank of A or higher can be replicated in some form by Zero.
** Hyleg Ourobuckle: [[EnergyWeapon Laser Shot]]
** Panter Flauclaws: [[SpreadShot Spark Shot]]
** Phoenix Magnion: [[{{Shoryuken}} Tenshouzan]]
** Poler Kamrous: [[SpreadShot Triple Shot]]
** Kuwagust Anchus: [[DeadlyLunge Sengatotsu]]
** Burble Hekelot: [[LifeDrain Energy Chain]]
** Rainbow Devil Mk. II: Filter Shield
* ScaryScorpions: Mega Scorpia is based on a scorpion.
* SequentialBoss: The BossBattle of the Residential Area (the mission to rescue Elpizo) pits Zero against three Elemental Golems, one after another.
* StockAnimalBehavior:
** Despite being part of the same division of the Neo Arcadian army, Hyleg and Burble [[AnimalJingoism hate each other's guts]]; in real life, snakes are said to eat frogs.
** Panter running on all fours.
** Magnion swooping down at you.
** Burble using his tongue to latch onto you and/or eat caterpillar droids, as well as jumping around.
** Kuwagust grabbing you with his beetle horns.

[[folder:Hyleg Ourobockle]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mmz2_hyleg_ourobockle.png]]

A cobra Mutos Reploid, formerly of Phantom's Cutting Shadow Squadron. He intercepts Resistance soldiers who tried to recover one of the Baby Elves in the Forest of Dysis, but ends up fighting Zero.

* CreepilyLongArms: Hyleg Ourobuckle has a pair of long, flowing arms that look like cobras.
* DualBoss: In a variant, Hyleg Ourobuckle, assisted by the snake Mechaniloid on which he and Zero are standing for battle.
* GrappleMove: Hyleg Ourobuckle can warp his long arms through his snake Mechaniloid's segmented body to grab Zero from far away, even if the serpent's bodyparts are separated.
* KaizoTrap: If you fall down after dealing the final blow to Hyleg, you'll still die. Even if Zero still falls down in the post-battle cutscene. Justified by the SpikesOfDoom on the floor - in the cutscene they're already covered by the wrecked snake Mechaniloid.
* {{Ouroboros}}: Hyleg Ourobuckle. The Ouroboros symbolism only appears in his snake Mechaniloid, though (when it transforms into a circular shape).
* PlatformBattle: Hyleg Ourobockle is fought on top of his SegmentedSerpent Mechaniloid named Altoloid, over a spike pit, which can move its body parts around, potentially confusing you.
* VerbalTic: Hyleg Ourobuckle: "Hissss!"

[[folder:Poler Kamrous]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mmz2_poler_kamrous.png]]

A polar bear Mutos Reploid, of Leviathan's Deep Sea Squadron, who guards the Computer Zone facility, that controls Neo Arcadia's defense systems.

* AmbiguousGender: Poler Kamrous is stated to be female in the English manual, but the Official Complete Works (which already has many translation errors) book uses "he" instead. In the Japanese script of the game Poler uses masculine "[[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns ore]]" personal pronoun (still isn't a decisive proof), while the Japanese manual doesn't comment on the matter. In the end, it's unclear if Poler's gender is a translators' invention, a mistranslation, or in fact a proper translation.
* BearsAreBadNews: Poler Kamrous is based on a polar bear.
* BossAlteringConsequence: Poler Kamrous' stage involves destroying several cooling systems scattered around the level before reaching her that lower the temperature of her boss room. If none of them are destroyed, the room has a reading of -15 Celsius and the floor will be covered with patches of ice that makes mobility more problematic. Destroying all four will raise the room temperature to 5 Celsius and all the ice is melted, removing the gimmick entirely for a straight brawl.
* BrickBreak: Polar Kamrous' EX Attack, summoning a wall of ice that she then shatters to send fragments everywhere.
* AnIcePerson: Poler Kamrous has ice powers.
* MightyGlacier: Poler Kamrous, almost literally considering her [[AnIcePerson powers]]. She's huge and her attacks have decent coverage and impressive strength behind them, but her movement speed is slow and her attacks have enough windup it's generally easy to dodge them.

[[folder:Phoenix Magnion]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mmz2_phoenix_magnion.png]]
-->''Magnion voiced by Creator/YuutoKazama''

A Phoenix Mutos Reploid, formerly of Phantom's Cutting Shadow Squadron. He is stationed at Power Room, that supplies power to a weapon manifucturing plant.

* BossAlteringConsequence: Because of the Power Room's unconventional dungeon-like layout as opposed to a linear path, if you watch where you're going, you'll see certain reactor rooms have more or less metal grates on the floor (bullets from the reactors also ricochet off the metal; some rooms have solid floor panels where bullets just fizzle out on impact). There are 2, 4, 6, and 8, respectively. Whichever reactor you destroy last is where Phoenix Magnion will make his entrance into the stage, and he will cause lava to erupt from these grates. If you were cautious, then you can end up with as little as two grates to contend with that are easy to ignore, but choose poorly and you've got a massive challenge ahead of you, and the hardest place to fight him is sadistically placed the furthest into the stage to snare rookie players or careless veterans.
* DashAttack: Phoenix Magnion's [[Franchise/StreetFighter Psycho Crusher]]-esque attack (he even flies backward before doing so). As well as Kuwagust's EX Skill.
* DoppelgangerAttack: One of Phoenix's attacks is to surround Zero with himself and 3 of his copies, and then strikes Zero with [[TailSlap his tail]]. Attacking the real Phoenix will stop the attack.
* EnemySummoner: Phoenix Magnion's special attack summons illusions of [[VideoGame/MegaManX1 Vile]], [[VideoGame/MegaManX2 Agile]], [[VideoGame/MegaManX3 Bit]], and [[VideoGame/MegaManX4 Colonel]].
* FeatherFlechettes: One of Magnion's attacks is to shoot fiery feathers in four directions.
* GrappleMove: Phoenix Magnion has a move where he swoops down on Zero and grabs him on his legs, then he uses illusions of past ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' characters to attack Zero.
* HotWings: Phoenix Magnion, predictably.
* LensFlare: You know Phoenix Magnion is really something when he manages to do this in a GBA game.
* MarathonLevel: Magnion's level basically qualifies as a {{Metroidvania}} on its own, a maze with various passages in several directions that ''will'' confuse first-time players. And Magnion can be fought in either one of ''four'' rooms (the four reactors, the objective of the mission).
* ThePhoenix: Phoenix Magnion is based on a phoenix, obviously.
* PlayingWithFire: Phoenix Magnion has fire powers.
* SuddenlyVoiced: Magnion is the only main boss (aside from the Guardians and Elpizo) that has fully voiced battle lines instead of grunts or animal noises.
* TeleportSpam: Phoenix Magnion. He can only be attacked when he's attacking.

[[folder:Panter Flauclaws]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mmz2_panter_flauclaws.png]]

A black panther Mutos Reploid, of Harpuia's Strong Air Battalion. He fights Zero on a Train of Neo Arcadia that Resistance tries to rob.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Flauclaws appears in the commercial to ''Zero 2'', where he is depicted larger in scale than his actual in-game model.
* KaizoTrap: Make sure you have something to stand on below you when you finish off Panter. If you don't, you'll simply fall down to your doom.
* PantheraAwesome: Panter Flauclaws is based on a panther.
* PlatformBattle: Panter Flauclaws is fought on 2 separate moving trains, with a bottomless pit in the middle.
* ShockAndAwe: Panter Flauclaws has lightning-based powers.
* SpreadShot: Magnion can fire 3 spreads of flame projectiles, while Panter can do the same with his claw beams.
* SwordBeam: Panter Flauclaws can throw these out of his WolverineClaws.
* TraintopBattle: Panter Flauclaws, following the LocomotiveLevel. In a variant, you're battling on top of 2 moving trains that go side-by-side.

[[folder:Kuwagust Anchus]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mmz2_kuwagust_anchus.png]]

A stag beetle Mutos Reploid, of Harpuia's Strong Air Battalion. He wishes to get revenge for his brother, Herculious from the fist game, and attacks Zero while he returns from the mission on Neo Arcadian Airship.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: Kuwagust Anchus is based on a stag beetle.
* BlowYouAway: One of Kuwagust Anchus' regular attacks has him create a tornado that drags you in so he can grab Zero with his mandibles. His EX Skill is to spin his pincers to create a cyclone that can push Zero off the edge.
* DualBoss: Kuwagust Anchus teams up with [[JapaneseBeetleBrothers his brother]] Herculious Anchortus for the requisite BossRush.
* GrappleMove: Kuwagust Anchus has two: one where he uses his stag beetle horn as a fan to [[WeaponsThatSuck attract Zero towards himself]] and then grab him with the horn and release an electric blast that deals massive damage. Another has him simply [[DeadlyLunge lunging towards him]] for a choke hold, depleting Zero's health while in that state.
* KaizoTrap: In the beetle brothers' DualBoss fight, they won't be defeated right after you deplete their healthbar. Instead, they'll try to do a dual attack, fail, and crash into each other and destroy themselves. If you fail to jump over them, you'll take damage.
* {{Revenge}}: Kuwagust Anchus is motivated to fight Zero for killing his brother, Herculious Anchortus.
* SharedLifeMeter: Kuwagust and Herculious don't have individual health bars during their DualBoss battle.
* TornadoMove: Kuwagust can create a horizontal tornado that either sucks you in or blows you away from him.

[[folder:Burble Hekelot]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mmz2_burble_hekelot.png]]

A frog Mutos Reploid, formerly of Phantom's Cutting Shadow Squadron. He guards the sacred Forest of Notus... Or he should, anyway, as he fails to notice a real trespasser, and fights Zero instead.

* BubbleGun: Burble can fire these, which doesn't do damage but will hamper Zero's movements.
* {{Cephalothorax}}: Herkelot's general design.
* CreepilyLongArms: Subverted with Burble Herkelot, who also can stretch his arms but they have a cuter design.
* FlunkyBoss: Whenever Herkelot shakes walls of the room, small caterpillar-like Mechaniloids will fall from the ceiling. However, their real threat isn't as an enemy, it's as a PowerUpFood for Herkelot to eat.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Burble was supposed to guard the gate in the Forest of Notus and yet Elpizo passed through without being seen by him. When he stopped Zero at the same place, Burble claimed that he could feel the presence of someone in the other side of the gate but immediately dismissed the idea, saying that no one could have crossed it without being noticed by him and that it could be just a problem with his sensors.
* LifeDrain: For his EX Skill, if Zero gets caught by Burble Herkelot's tongue, he'll drain Zero's energy to replenish his own. Zero can learn this his and then used with the Chain Rod.
* MagikarpPower: Burble can summon some caterpillar droids that he can eat to make himself grow bigger and able to access his stronger moves.
* MultipurposeTongue: Burble Hekelot's specialty, being a frog.
* RollingAttack: Burble Hekelot is fond of this.
* VerbalTic: Burble Herkelot: "Ribbid!"

!!''VideoGame/MegaManZero3''
[[folder:Dr. Weil]]
!!Dr. / Lord Weil
[[quoteright:262:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/MMZ_Weil_4286.jpg]][[caption-width-right:262:I am the unending nightmare!]][[caption-width-right:262:[[labelnote:Combat form]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/btea0yn.jpg[[/labelnote]]]][[caption-width-right:262:[[labelnote:Second form]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mz8zjtz.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChikaoOhtsuka
-->''The desire for power. The joy of making everything work for you. You have no way of experiencing this without a human brain. It's the ultimate joy! No mere Reploid could ever understand!''

Known as Dr. Vile in Japanese (Not to be confused with Vile of ''VideoGame/MegaManX'', himself known as Vava in Japan), is the true BigBad of the ''Megaman Zero'' series. Over a century before ''Zero'' began, Weil set into motion a grand scheme to take control of all Reploids known as "Project Elpizo". Believing Reploids still needed to pay for their crimes against humanity despite the successful eradication of the Maverick Virus, he used Zero's body to create the "ultimate ruler" known as Omega and placed a curse upon the benevolent Mother Elf. This signaled the start of the bloody conflict known as the [[WorldSundering Elf Wars]]. Thanks to the efforts of X and Zero (in a duplicate body) defeating Omega and apprehending Weil, it only lasted for four years, however, 90% of Reploids and 60% of humans were wiped out. Believing death was too merciful on the man responsible for such an unthinkable crime, the citizens of Neo Arcadia punished Weil with immortality through cybernetics before banishing him to suffer for eternity in the wasteland that he created. Unfortunately, no one bargained on him coming ''back''. He set back to work, first reviving Copy-X to gain passage back into Neo Arcadia, orchestrating a new conflict between the Resistance and Neo Arcadia that culminated in Copy-X's final death allowing him to take over, and then using Omega and the Dark Elf to mass-control the Reploids once more.\\\

After Zero defeats Omega and finally frees the Dark Elf, Dr. Weil turns his fury to the people of Neo Arcadia, making life miserable for humans and Reploids alike. This forced the populace to begin fleeing the city and discovering [[NewEden Area Zero]]. When Weil became aware of this mass migration, he initiated [[KillSat Operation Ragnarok]], intending to wipe out Area Zero and force the people of Neo Arcadia to accept living under his rule. However, he is soon betrayed by Craft, a Neo Arcadian soldier who led Operation Ragnarok, who at last regained his resolve to take action -- at the cost of many of the lives still in Neo Arcadia. With Craft's demise, Weil resorts to a ColonyDrop, setting the Ragnarok space station on a collision course towards Area Zero. Dealing with Zero on his own, he taunts the Reploid over his role as a hero as he merged with the Ragnarok satellite itself. Cursing Zero's name, the tyrant is finally defeated after a climactic battle. However, with Weil's immortality, it's possible that he is still the main instigator of the SequelSeries ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' as the [[ArtifactOfDoom original Biometal]]: Model V/W.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: When he shows what a tyrant he is (after the third game, although some of the drama tracks imply that even in the story of the third game, his approval rating was very low even when he was allowed back in by Copy-X Mk. II). To the point that some of the Neo Arcadian citizens (who are ''brave'' enough to do so, anyway) start to run away from him, seeking a better place. Weil's solution? ''Destroy that better place.'' Not only is he making things worse for himself, but Neo Arcadia is blown up by the [[KillSat Ragnarok]] (used by [[TheDragon Craft]], no less), and his approval rating also seemed to be an indication of his chances of survival...
* AmbitionIsEvil: He states that lust for power, ruling over everything, as well as controlling everyone, is the ultimate joy in his MotiveRant to Zero just before the latter fights Omega in ''Zero 3''. He also implies that [[HumansAreBastards all of humanity shares this mindset]] and not Reploids. Zero, as usual, has [[ShutUpHannibal his own counter]] for it.
-->'''Dr. Weil:''' Heh heh heh heh... how pitiful. Of course, a Reploid like you would never understand. The joy of ruling all that you see... only a human could possibly understand!
-->'''Zero:''' A... human?
-->'''Dr. Weil:''' That's right! I'm a bona fide human. The creator of Reploids... a human being!
-->'''Zero:''' ...
-->'''Dr. Weil:''' The desire for power. The joy of making everything work for you. You have no way of experiencing this without a human brain. It's the ultimate joy! No mere Reploid could ever understand!
-->'''Zero:''' I bet most decent humans wouldn't understand, either. You look just like another Maverick, to me. All I gotta do is dispose of you like any other Maverick.
* AndIMustScream: At the end of the series, where he's now truly incapacitated within the ruins of Ragnarok he's fused into, while heavily implied to be still living on.
* {{Archenemy}}: He and Zero have quite a personal history, detailed in the [[AllThereInTheManual drama tracks]] telling the events of the Elf Wars, where Weil stole Zero's original body and turned it into AxCrazy Omega. They possibly continue their animosity as the Biometals W and Z in ''ZX''.
* AssholeVictim: His FateWorseThanDeath and century-long banishment to the wastelands was inflicted by vigilante justice, however considering he orchestrated the bloody Elf Wars that laid waste to the planet in the first place, it comes off as [[LaserGuidedKarma karmic]] more than anything.
* AxCrazy: He enjoyed the carnage the Elf Wars caused, he intended to build a KillSat to subjugate Neo Arcadia, and he was more than willing to personally pilot Ragnarok (the aforementioned KillSat) into crashing into Area Zero under the firm belief that he would survive the crash.
* BadassBookworm: An exceedingly skilled manipulator who is skilled in many fields of robotics, including cryogenics, recreating the heat of the sun, magnetism, weapons, his own regenerative armor (seeing as he can heal himself) who is easily the most successful villain in the series (perhaps excluding Apollo Flame) and when merged with Ragnarok, he's probably the strongest character in the series other than Zero and Omega.
* BecomeYourWeapon: As the Ragnarok's core is vaguely sword-shaped, Weil merging with it is pretty much a fancier version.
* BigBad: He's responsible for ''everything'' that's happened in the ''Zero'' series.
* BigBadWannabe: Heavily downplayed in this case. During Zero 3, Weil is still a massive threat, [[DragonInChief Omega]] is just a bigger one and when Omega is killed by Zero, his plans are ruined.
* BlessedWithSuck: Being immortal. For him it completely sucks, as he's stuck alone in a dead world for the rest of his life.
* BreakThemByTalking: He's pretty fond of attempting this on Zero, but his tendency to greatly underestimate the strength of Zero's own ideals and faith (such as his deeply mistaken belief that Zero would want to avoid killing Weil because of Weil's status as a human) makes his words often ineffective.
* TheCaligula: He succeeds upon gaining power to force the residents of Neo Arcadia to live in a CrapsackWorld with virtually no hope of freedom or happiness, and is evidently very much insane.
* CardCarryingVillain: PlayedForHorror. While he openly gloats about how evil he is, all it does make him even more despicable than he already is. Can also count as a {{Deconstruction}}, because it shows how terrifying this trope can be when brought to its logical conclusion.
* TheChessmaster: As seen in his {{Evil Plan}}s, he's good at manipulating everyone involved in the conflict -- both enemies and allies alike -- to further his goals.
* ClimaxBoss: The final obstacle in the ''Zero'' series, complete with plenty of build-up beforehand.
* CollapsingLair: In the FinalBoss battle, defeating him will result in this, due to him ''merging'' with the entire lair for his second form.
* CompleteImmortality: As a result of his cybernetic body he claims that he can't die, ever, making him more durable than most reploids and mechaniloids seen throughout the timeline. He's not kidding, either. Being TheAgeless is proven by his 100-year exile with little loss of physical or cognitive abilities, and being NighInvulnerable is shown when he survives a KillSat aimed directly at him, which levels a city, and he barely has a scratch to show for it. Of course, as the BigBad of ''Zero 4'', the goal is to find a way to truly kill him. While Zero is mostly successful, the ''ZX'' series shows that he's still around, although in a much less direct form.
* ConfusionFu: Weil has a patently absurd number of attacks even for something from the ''Mega Man'' series, and the only non-random factor that determines which one he'll use is [[TurnsRed going under half HP]]. Depending on [[AIRoulette how kind the RNG is to you]], the finale of the ''Zero'' series will be anywhere between a big anticlimax or a massive headache.
* CrushingThePopulace: This is what he does after he successfully gains control of the Neo Arcadian government. Starting with using Omega and Dark Elf to brainwash all Reploids so they all wreak havoc, then when the two are stopped by Zero's efforts, Weil becomes more repressive and freely declares anyone who disagrees with his rule to be Mavericks, humans included.
* CursedWithAwesome: His immortality goes into this. While he does take advantage of it, in his own opinion he's still cursed.
* {{Cyborg}}: While he was originally human as he claims to Zero, in the present he's currently been heavily modified with mechanical components, from his brain having been converted to data, to his entire mechanical body granting him immortality. This was done to him as punishment by X for his role in instigating the Elf Wars, and was intended to serve as a FateWorseThanDeath, with him being forced to wander Earth's wastelands in this form.
* DeathFromAbove: In the first phase of the final battle, he has several attacks that involve dropping projectiles from the air at Zero. One involves firing two waves of meteors, while the second involves dropping several swords into the ground before summoning a purple orb that fires balls of electricity.
* DeathSeeker: The implications are certainly there. He does think that his punishment is indeed a curse, even though it gave him over a century to plan out his revenge. His full intention when merging with Ragnarok was to ride the KillSat down on to Area Zero, destroying nature entirely, functionally dooming everyone considering Neo Arcadia just got destroyed. His death would be part of that, though as [[VideoGame/MegaManZX the following centuries show]], it's not that easy to kill Weil.
* DevilComplex: Right before you fight him in ''4'', he proclaims himself to be the Devil. [[CardCarryingVillain Considering his personality]], it's rather apt.
* DiabolusExMachina: The plot of ''Zero 4'' is basically one that benefits him, especially with regards to ruining the peace through science that Ciel was working so hard to obtain (and nearly won with the Ciel system by the intro of ''Zero 3'').
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** Just because he stole Zero's body does not mean he has any sentimental attachment to it, considering Zero's body was a TyphoidMary that nearly infected the world's Reploid population.
** He tries to invoke ThreeLawsCompliant on Zero. However, Reploids and advanced androids like X and Zero only view the Three Laws as recommendations at best, and that's before considering the guy who built him didn't really give a damn about the Three Laws to begin with.
* DubNameChange: Dr. Weil in America, Dr. Vile in Japan.
* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Upon becoming the ruler of Neo Arcadia, he strives upon bringing suffering and despair to its citizens with his iron-fist rule, to take revenge on them because of what they've done to him [[note]]they put him in a suit that could regenerate him, prevented him from aging and dying, and they also converted his memories into data, and then he's left into exile in the barren wasteland [[ItsAllAboutMe he made himself]] from the events of the Elf Wars[[/note]]. He also admits after brainwashing all Reploids that he genuinely enjoyed the destruction caused by the Elf Wars.
* DyingCurse: Dr. Weil expresses shock at being defeated by a "puppet" like Zero, then he calls for Zero to perish forever. Weil [[BittersweetEnding did get his wish]], as Zero died along with Weil.
-->'''Dr. Weil''': I... I have been defeated... by a mere puppet! '''PERISH!!!! BURN IN THE FIRES OF HELL!!!!'''[[note]]この・・・ワシが・・・人形ごときに・・・滅べぇ！滅んでしまえぇー！[[/note]]
* EmperorScientist: He becomes ruler of Neo Arcadia halfway through ''Zero 3''.
* EnemySummoner: In his first battle form, Weil can summon illusions of the Weil Numbers one after the other, each using an attack before disappearing.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood:
** Weil is really, ''really'' bad about underestimating Zero, ''twice'' (thrice if one counts Zero emerging in a new body in the [[AllThereInTheManual Elf Wars]], and proceeding to defeat Omega with X). Most noticeable is his inability to think that a robot would try to kill a human. Clearly he doesn't realise that Zero doesn't consider himself a hero, and as a ''Reploid'', Zero has no reason not to kill. Then again, as he's immortal, he's probably just [[ItsAllAboutMe using it as an excuse for his ego]], and being a Fantastic Racist, he firmly believes that being ThreeLawsCompliant is how robots ''should'' behave.
** He firmly believes that [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters all humans are as rotten as he is]]. This is simply because after he was punished for his atrocities, [[NeverMyFault he couldn't accept he did anything wrong]] so he projected himself onto the rest of humanity.
* EvilChancellor: To Copy-X Mk. II before usurping Neo Arcadia's leadership position.
* EvilCounterpart: To Ciel. Both of them are brilliant scientists with expertise on Cyber Elves and Reploid DNA revival. Ciel is the all-loving, gentle leader of the benevolent Resistance who uses her knowledge to solve a massive energy crisis plaguing Neo Arcadia. Weil uses his equally brilliant scientific skill for evil and his own selfish goals, namely causing the Elf Wars, reviving the tyrannical Copy-X, and creating weapons of mass destruction like Omega and Ragnarok.
* EvilLaugh: He abuses the hell out of this one. He even uses it to great effect to surprise [[TheStoic Zero]]. It also borderlines LaughingMad.
* EvilOldFolks: Looks like an elderly man under the suit, and as it means [[TheAgeless he doesn't age]] he was clearly old during the Elf Wars. By now, he's well over a century.
* EvilPlan:
** In the past, the "Project Elpizo" went like this:
## Thinking that Reploids should be more controllable because of the Maverick problems in the past, he endeavored to create the "perfect Reploid ruler" using Omega and the Mother Elf to turn them all into brainwashed slaves. X and Zero are understandably against this.
## Undeterred, Weil secretly turned the Mother Elf into the Dark Elf, then created many Baby Elves out of her and used them to turn Reploids into violent psychopaths, starting the Elf Wars. [[FalseFlagOperation This was just to "prove" that the Maverick issue is still lingering even with the Sigma Virus gone]] -- seeing this, the human government started to throw support to this project.
## The plan got derailed when [[SpannerInTheWorks Zero]], coming in a new body, stole the Dark Elf from his clutches and used it to turn the war in the good guys' favor. He was then forced to release Omega and launch an all-out attack, betraying the human government in the process. The war ended when Zero and X defeated Omega, and after that, Weil got UnwillingRobotization and exiled, and Omega got banished to space.
** His plans to usurp [[DiscOneFinalBoss Copy-X]]'s throne in ''Zero 3'':
##He resurrected and possibly reprogrammed Copy-X, so he can earn his trust and become his EvilChancellor.
##He later suggested that Copy-X strip the remaining Four Guardians from their positions as Neo Arcadian Generals and name him their replacement.
##Later, it was revealed that Weil had built a booby trap upon Copy-X's body that activated when he tried to go OneWingedAngel. After [[UnwittingPawn Copy-X's death]], Weil can easily become the ruler by law. Additionally, he tells the Neo Arcadian citizens that Zero killed their former "savior" and that Weil will take the Resistance down, spreading the bad propaganda ''even further''. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice job breaking it, Zero.]]
** In ''Zero 4'', Dr. Weil's real plan is to destroy Area Zero with Ragnarok; the Eight Warriors are nothing but a diversion, so that the Resistance is stuck fighting the wrong battle. If the Eight Warriors' individual plans worked (acid rain generators, scorching the Area Zero with an artificial sun, etc.), Area Zero is destroyed, and the Resistance with it; if they all fail, there would still be time for Weil to fire his KillSat, leaving Area Zero destroyed, and the Resistance with it. In either case, Weil becomes the undisputed ruler of all humanity by wiping out freedom's last hope. Fortunately, Craft [[TheStarscream rebels against him]] and then fired the Ragnarok at him, destroying Neo Arcadia in the process.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Courtesy of Chikao Ohtsuka.
* TheExile: For his part in the whole Elf Wars thing (aside from immortality), Dr. Weil is banished from Neo Arcadia and forced to wander the wastelands.
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Series/{{Kikaider}} Doctor Gill]]. He's even a full-body cyborg, like Gill becomes in ''Kikaider 01''.
* FantasticRacism:
** His only motivation besides ForTheEvulz or ItsAllAboutMe for starting the Elf Wars. He believed that due to all the Maverick problems, it'd be better if the Reploids are given a tighter "leash" so they'll never become Maverick again; this would essentially make them [[SlaveRace completely sub-human]].
** His low opinion of Reploids appears to tie into the way he perceives Zero. Zero's willingness to fight for what's right leads Weil to the mistaken impression that Zero values being "the hero", causing Weil to taunt him and attempt a BreakingSpeech at least twice for Zero's failure to uphold a certain image. This is him seeing Zero as a simple, logical creature who only exists to be "heroic", and not a complex person with his own ideals and standards.
* FateWorseThanDeath: The reason why he was given the regenerating armor in the first place. By the end of the Elf Wars, Dr. Weil was punished by the survivors with immortality, because they thought to imprison him or even to outright execute him was more of an [[MercyKill act of mercy]] or [[KarmaHoudini the easy way out]] to avoid the full punishment for his actions. However, given that this is [[TheSociopath Weil]] we're talking about, [[DidntThinkThisThrough this punishment backfired horribly]] and Weil just took advantage of his immortality.
* FinalBoss: In ''Zero 4''. He is also the final boss of the ''Zero'' saga.
* {{Flight}}: He's always seen floating. Since his legs are never shown, one wonders if [[WildMassGuessing he doesn't have legs, and thus is always floating, with an unseen device.]]
* FlyingDutchman: Of the "Men Without A Country" variety.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: After you fight Omega in the intro, Weil gives a challenge to Zero:
-->'''Weil:''' Let's see how far you get with that body!
* FreeFallFight: The final battle takes place on a ColonyDrop aiming to destroy the Earth. Zero has to defeat him and destroy the satellite under a time limit.
* FreudianExcuse:
** Tried to invoke this before the climax battle of ''Zero 4'', citing his decades of exile from human society. However, it's his ruthless actions that caused his exile in the first place, showing just how [[ItsAllAboutMe irredeemably selfish Weil is]].
** His motivation for starting the Elf Wars was that he believed the Reploids engaged in the Maverick Wars had been foolish for causing such massive destruction over the last century. But this loses its credentials when you realized that most of those Mavericks (even Sigma) were influenced by the virus, so they can't be fully blamed for their own actions, and the rest of the viruses were purged by X's actions with the Mother Elf anyway. And he's actually hiding an agenda behind it: when he claimed that he wants to make Reploids more controllable with Project Elpizo (combining the Dark Elf with Omega to create a MassHypnosis effect), his real intention was to forcefully exert control over the world through Reploids.
* FromASingleCell: With his regenerative armor. He also had his mind converted into data. This partially gives him JokerImmunity as well.
* FullConversionCyborg: While several notable humans from the ''X'' series and earlier ''Zero'' games had at least some mechanical parts attached to their bodies, Weil is the first human to have his ''entire body'' replaced by machinery, with even his skin and hair being presumably just artifical. He's no BrainInAJar or WetwareCPU either, as his mind and memories were outright converted to data and downloaded into his new body just to ensure he couldn't smash any fleshy bits to kill himself. The conversion was so thorough that he managed to endure [[AndIMustScream centuries stuck inside wrecked pieces of his own]] KillSat scattered across the globe.
* GeniusLoci: A mechanical variant in his final form, where he essentially merges with the Ragnarok satellite itself.
* GiantHandsOfDoom: as a ContinuityNod, they seem similar to the ones from Omega's first form.
* GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: Subverted. His battle form has a lot of white and gold on it, yet he's utterly evil.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: It's implied that spending a hundred years alone in the post-apocalyptic world did this to him. Not that he was all that sane originally, though the isolation couldn't have helped.
* GreaterScopeVillain: While he sets up many major bad things in the ''Zero'' series, he's never fought or involved directly; only in ''Zero 3'' onward did he show up in person and play the BigBad role more actively (and even then, he's only fought directly in the fourth game). He's also implied to be TheManBehindTheMan to both Serpent and Master Albert in the ''ZX'' series as Model W.
* HateSink: While most antagonists in the ''Zero'' series are written to have some redeeming qualities[[note]]Copy-X legitimately does have the humans' best interests at heart, Elpizo wants Reploids to thrive in a world that persecutes them and is driven by guilt to the lengths he goes, the Guardians and most of the Mutos Reploids pre-''Zero 4'' are carrying their loyal duties to Neo Arcadia, the Eight Judges are BrainwashedAndCrazy, Omega is just doing what he was made to do, and Craft is a FallenHero who finds his way again[[/note]], Dr. Weil seems to be made to be as loathsome as possible. He's an enormous [[CardCarryingVillain and self-admitted]] {{Sadist}}, [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans wants to make all humanity and Reploids suffer]] and has nothing but contempt for anyone who isn't him (Omega being an odd exception) while everyone in-universe despises him. He also refuses to ever admit he's wrong and blames the world for punishing him after he destroyed most of it. Instead he views all humanity as monsters for punishing him, and his cruel actions in the backstory only solidify how [[ItsAllAboutMe irredeemably selfish]] and [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocritical]] he is, so that taking him down is all the more satisfying.
* HealThyself: One of his abilities, where he conjures four green orbs that he then absorbs to restore his health by about ten points each. He can use this move several times in a row, but luckily not only is he vulnerable at this time to attacks, the orbs themselves can be destroyed.
* HealingFactor: His cyborg body has ''incredible'' regenerative abilities, to the point it [[TheAgeless completely stopped his aging process]] and let him escape getting a KillSat shot onto his head with enough force to level a city and kill millions with nothing to really show for it once Zero meets up with him again aside from the glass casing on his head being destroyed. Even when he and Zero throw down for the final battle, his first loss has him ''exploding'' like a normal boss, yet by the next scene he's back up, albeit badly damaged[[note]]Copy-X, Elpizo and Omega only collapsed after the defeat of their first forms and the former two were fatally wounded once their second forms exploded, while Omega's second form exploding just meant the destruction of his armor[[/note]]. When Weil tries to make the damaged Ragnarok station do a ColonyDrop, he madly cackles that he'll be the only thing that survives the destruction. It takes Zero killing his second form and making the Ragnarok station tear apart and burn up in the atmosphere to finally bring him down, and it ''still'' lets him return as an ArtifactOfDoom.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: For all the acts of revenge he pulls on both humanity and the Reploids, he completely ignores the fact that he has become what he hates the most: a Maverick, in all definitions of the word. Even more poignant when you take into account that he becomes ''the cause'' of new Maverick outbreaks in ''ZX'' as Biometal Model W/V.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** A subversion: he's the prime target of his own KillSat used by his own Dragon, yet he survives.
** His merging with Ragnarok ultimately allows Zero to kill him for good (at least until ''ZX'' rolls around).
** According to Mega Man X Dive info, he was the one that built Zero's copy body!
* HopeCrusher: Weil intends to keep the masses under his iron-fisted rule, and with Operation Ragnarok he plans to destroy new habitats as an example to dissuade any notion of escape. When all else fails, he also makes sure that both the Resistance and the Caravan are well aware that Ragnarok is now on a collision course with Area Zero because he believes there is no way for them to stop it.
* HumanoidAbomination: He is, chronologically speaking, the first cyborg in the standard ''Mega Man'' timeline, and while his cybernetic body can look more horrifically deteriorated after injury, he is still effectively both NighInvulnerable and TheAgeless, despite originally being ''human''.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: He claims that humans are the only ones with the capability to truly enjoy control and manipulation, and are essentially as heartless as him. Zero gives him a KirkSummation because [[{{Hypocrite}} he is likely]] [[PsychologicalProjection projecting himself onto mankind]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: Claims that all humans only live to control and manipulate -- [[PsychologicalProjection which applies to him more than anybody else]].
* InCaseOfBossFightBreakGlass: Guess what his second form's weak spot is. Justified since that's where his head (likely all that's left of him that's remotely human) is located.
* ImmortalityImmorality: Although his morals were already dubious ''before'' being "cursed", he still degraded further down the line for his initial desire to die.
* {{Irony}}: Weil wants to control all Reploids and make them subservient to his will, while casually disregarding all of them and killing those that get in his way without blinking so much as an eye thanks to his FantasticRacism. The one exception he absolutely lavishes with praise and glory is [[DragonInChief Omega]], who doesn't even have an identity so much as existing like a force of nature, follows Weil's whims with no objections and likely has no room for any true sentient thought of his own. It's to the point that Weil refers to Omega as a ''God'', almost as if worshiping his own pawn while constantly mocking the very Zero that made that original body go through its paces in the first place.
* ItsAllAboutMe: What sets him apart from other villains across the entire 'verse; he's a {{deconstruction}} of this behavior by taking it to its logical extremes. There is ''absolutely '''nothing''''' redeemable about his behavior, and his mentality only makes it worse.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Originally Weil was merely a brilliant human scientist and survivor of the Maverick Wars, incensed at the idea that the Mother Elf would simply delete the virus and life would move on. Once his plans to steal the Mother Elf and use a FalseFlagOperation of a new generation of Mavericks so humans would jump to controlling the Reploids got foiled by Zero, however, the power at his disposal got to his head; instead of cowing or running off like [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Dr. Wily]], he wiped out 60% of the already-dwindled human population and over 90% of the reploids in the world out of ''spite''.
* JustAMachine: How he ''tries'' to justify his actions in the beginning, feeling Reploids were let off easy because of how useful they were. This also seems to be the major reason he keeps insisting Omega is the "real" Zero while Zero is just a fake. After all, Omega has Zero's original body, while Zero is just his mind and "heart", things that Weil obviously believes Reploids don't have, downloaded into a copy body and at best just means he's an inferior reproduction of what he used to be.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Is TheUnfought in ''Zero 3'', and despite his plans with Omega and the Mother Elf being foiled, he still rules Neo Arcadia in the end and proceeds to make the empire a living hell for its citizens. Only in the next game did Zero finally kill him.
* KillSat: The actual point of Ragnarok in ''Zero 4''; merging with Ragnarok's core as the FinalBoss, he could probably be the KillSat himself if he didn't have to deal with Zero first.
* KnightOfCerebus: He's far more of a menace than any of the villains before him. ''Zero 3'' gets much darker, the usual 8 bosses are now brainwashed by Weil and become downright evil, and he starts inflicting far more acts of evil than any villain before him in the franchise (and that's not even counting his backstory!). As if the previous games weren't dark already...
* LackOfEmpathy: Showed absolutely no regrets with triggering the catastrophic Elf Wars, which wiped out 60% of humanity and 90% of all Reploids -- and that's just the {{Backstory}} -- and he's planning on starting it again by using Omega and the Dark Elf to brainwash Reploids before trying to destroy the LastFertileRegion through such methods as acid rain, particle cannons, KillSat, and ColonyDrop out of spite for the humans who would escape his rule. He also admitted that...
-->'''Weil''': (''To Neige'') He heh heh... that's the face... the face of rage, suffering, and humiliation... it's my greatest pleasure... a pleasure only a ruler can fully appreciate!
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Curse of Vile" in ''Zero 3'', "Fate" in ''Zero 4'' and the ''ZX'' series.
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Implied with his reason for leaving Crea and Prea to fight Zero:
-->'''Dr. Weil:''' Humans are like pigs, dependent upon the Reploids for their very existence... you do realize, don't you, that if I felt like it, I could wipe all humans out in the blink of an eye?
-->''(Weil teleports out of the room.)''
-->'''Dr. Weil:''' Crea! Prea! Do with this one as you please! I've got some pig squeals to enjoy. The squeals of indolent pigs, wasting their pitiful lives on idle pursuits.
* LukeIAmYourFather: According to "[[AllThereInTheManual Vile Incident: Eden Dome: It's Sin And Rebirth]]", Dr. Weil was the one who created the Eight Gentle Judges in the first place, which gives a pretty big realization as to why they chose to exile Omega rather than execute/retire him, and probably why the populace decided to go vigilante on him.
* MadScientist: ''Really'' mad. This guy literally makes Dr. Wily look like a saint in comparison.
* TheManBehindTheMonsters: He's the only human behind Neo Arcadia in ''Zero 3'', and later Operation Ragnarok, while his underlings are all Reploids. Not that he's fully human anymore, anyway, either in the [[ArtificialHuman literal]] or the moral sense.
* MechanicalAbomination: As a cyborg, he is able to merge with the floating core of Ragnarok, but still retains a more-or-less humanoid appearance. He ''then'' further merges with the outer hull, which turns him into a colossal monstrosity, neither really human nor machine. This form persists throughout the ZX series as well in the form of Model W.
* MisanthropeSupreme: He doesn't just lack any respect for ''ANYTHING'' (apart from Omega), he flat-out loathes everyone and everything.
* MisplacedRetribution: He felt that due to the atrocities that the Mavericks have caused, all Reploids are inherently dangerous and should be controlled (read: having their wills taken out of them when necessary). This includes innocent Reploids and Maverick Hunters.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Played oddly -- it is made especially clear that he was completely, unambiguously evil.
* MoralMyopia:
** He claims that humanity deserves destruction because of what they did to him, ignoring the fact that it's his wrongdoings that led them to punish him in the first place.
** He also accuses them for exiling him in the name of "justice" while they're acting outside of the laws. Little did they know that the judges are actually ''Weil's creations''.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: His original Japanese name is ''Vile''. [[DubNameChange Intentionally changed]] so that [[OneSteveLimit he won't be confused with]] ''VideoGame/MegaManX's'' Vile.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous:
** Possibly after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil Ray Kurzweil]]. Might not just be a coincidence, considering that guy is an author on several books about transhumanism and technological singularity, things that Weil is a master of.
** Just like Dr. Wily is named after Albert Einstein, Weil is named after Jakob Weil, who was the earliest known ancestor of the man himself.
* {{Necromancer}}: His specialty is in DNA Resurrection, and it is also implied that Copy-X, Hanumachine, Necromancess, and Blizzack Staggroff's return was through this method.
* NeverMyFault: Refuses to accept what he did during the Elf Wars was actually wrong, and that his punishment was brought upon himself. He considers justice a "worthless ideal" solely because the humans that drove him away claimed to do so in the name of justice, completely disregarding the ''very'' justified reason as to why they ran him out in the first place.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** Because the Elf Wars survivors made Dr. Weil immortal, they gave him a chance to enact revenge against the rest of the populace a hundred years later.
** And later because of his regenerative armor he became a ArtifactOfDoom in the ''ZX'' series, which caused further chaos and mayhem by creating Mavericks (ironic since Dr. Weil hates Mavericks more than anything else). ''Nice Job Breaking It Survivors'' indeed.
* NonActionBigBad: When he first appears; averted by the end of ''Zero 4'' when he merges with the Ragnarok core.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: He was the target of a ''KillSat that levelled an entire city''.
* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: When he reveals to have survived the Ragnarok at the end of ''Zero 4'', he says it's because his cybernetics allow him not only to [[WhoWantsToLiveForever never age]] but also render him effectively invincible, to the point that he'd [[RidingTheBomb personally oversee]] the ColonyDrop of Ragnarok onto Area Zero and still end up surviving anyway. However, after he merges with the core and then outer hull of Ragnarok, Zero destroys the satellite and Weil along with it, proving that yes, even this seemingly invincible abomination of nature can still be killed. Though the ZX series shows he's sort of still around as the ArtifactOfDoom, Model W.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Back when he pitched Project Elpizo (creating the perfect Reploid to be used with the Mother Elf so [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood he can control Reploids worldwide]]) to the masses, he claimed that it's to prevent Reploids from going Maverick ever again. His true intention, however, was simply to take over the world through mass Reploid brainwashing. The problem was, well, the world had already rid itself of most Mavericks thanks to X using Mother Elf, so nothing exactly justified his "concern". So he creates the EvilPlan that leads to the Elf Wars. His true intentions were only made clear once Zero in a new copy body stole the Dark Elf from him and he was forced to unleash Omega and other controlled Reploids on the masses.
* ObviouslyEvil: Oh boy is he ever. Even before he reveals his true colors, it's clear that he's bad news, so much so that everyone ''in-universe'' can tell. He doesn't do much to hide it either.
* OmnicidalManiac: Doesn't even ''begin'' to describe his depravity. He even admits that destroying everyone would only be a fleeting satisfaction.
* OneWingedAngel: Done ''twice!'' In this case, it's a PainfulTransformation, with Weil screaming (at least in [[AllThereInTheManual Drama Tracks]]) as tubes jam into his back, spewing copious amounts of blood ([[{{Bowdlerise}} censored in English versions, of course]]), and also says something that translates from Japanese roughly to either "Do you see this pain!? YOU'D NEVER UNDERSTAND ANY OF IT!!" or "Do you understand pain such as this?!" The Official Complete Works even claim that it's [[MechanicalAbomination an abomination of a final form]].
* PhlebotinumRebel: An extremely rare evil version -- immortality allowed him to return to terrorize the world even [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat after he should have been annihilated by a]] KillSat, and even after his actual death, his regenerative powers keep him a viable threat as Model W.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He believes that Reploids are nothing more than machines, don't deserve to be treated like people, and initially started the Elf Wars out of a belief that all Reploids needed to pay for the crimes committed by Mavericks. Of course after being made into an immortal robot and exiled for a century, his hatred for Reploids morphed into a general hatred for all life.
* PoweredArmor: The first time as ThePunishment for his Elf Wars fiasco, effectively making him [[WhoWantsToLiveForever immortal and resentful]], and the second fusing himself with the Ragnarok core, which counts as his OneWingedAngel ''prior'' to the real OneWingedAngel.
* PsychopathicManchild: ''[[ExaggeratedTrope Very, very, VERY much so]]''. When made immortal, Weil's mentality can only be described as being that of an overgrown child, being ''incredibly'' [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]], [[EvilIsPetty petty]] beyond belief, [[NeverMyFault refusing to acknowledge that everything is his fault]], doing things on a whim, and what sell this are his attempts to annihilate everyone and everything during the finale, which are nothing but a genocidal temper tantrum he throws as a result of his plans going awry...which were originally making everybody do what he wants.
* ThePunishment: He was given immortality and exiled as punishment for starting the Elf Wars. All that accomplished was allowing an incredibly evil mad scientist to stay alive.
* RasputinianDeath: Let's see, he is caught at the epicenter of Ragnarok's laser fire, survived that only with some minor damage to his body, was cut and shot at by Zero after merging with Ragnarok's core before revealing his survival, before merging with Ragnarok itself, and he implies that he'll survive Ragnarok's crash. Even when Zero defeats him and averts the crash, he manages to live on as [[ArtifactOfDoom Model W]] in various fragments across the globe, and was implied to have possessed Serpent, Master Albert and Master Thomas, before meeting his (possibly) final end with Albert's destruction. If he's still alive, that means whatever's left of him [[AndIMustScream is condemned to rot as wreckage at the bottom of the ocean, presumably forever]].
* ReactorBoss: In both forms, since he's merged with the core of the Ragnarok.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Just look at his armor!
* RedEyesTakeWarning: It's unknown whether his eyes were red before his cyborg transformation at the conclusion of the Elf Wars, but they certainly were red afterwards, as [[NightmareFace his disfiguration]] resulting from his surviving Ragnarok's bombardment of Neo Arcadia revealed.
* TheReveal:
** In the third game, he reveals that Zero's body is a copy and that Omega uses the real, original one.
** In the fourth game, he reveals that he's immortal due to his enhancements.
* {{Sadist}}: He admits that during the Elf Wars, he personally enjoyed the mass slaughter and devastation brought by his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Omega, and in the present enjoys watching "pigs squeal." In ''Zero 4'', [[TheCaligula he makes life in Neo Arcadia horrible]] and takes glee in the idea of destroying nature.
* SadisticChoice: Presents one to Neige in ''Zero 4'', saying that she can either stay and die in Area Zero for "freedom" or follow Craft's example to become of one his followers, admitting afterwards that he doesn't care one way or another. Of course, [[TakeAThirdOption Neige throws a small sphere that blinds both Weil and Craft while Zero slashes a hole in the floor with his Z-Saber, allowing the pair to escape]].
* ShouldersOfDoom: He gains one after he merges with the Ragnarok's core.
* SoProudOfYou: The only being he ever speaks genuinely favorably about is [[DragonInChief Omega]], and never once does he insult or insinuate something horrible about him. You can almost imagine the pride in his voice as he claims that Omega is a ''god'', not a slave, and that all he did was draw out his full potential. While justified (because that's what he used to wreck the world before), it's quite jarring, given his [[{{Jerkass}} usual]] [[HatesEveryoneEqually attitude]] to every other being in existence.
* TheSociopath: One of the few villains in the franchise that could qualify. Everyone's a disposable pawn to him, and he refuses to let anything that he can't control exist.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Vile in Japanese, Weil in English (most likely [[DubNameChange deliberate]], given the fact that there was already a character prior to him named Vile). Luckily they're pronounced the same, [[MeaningfulName preserving the implications]].
* StrawNihilist: Prior to the final battle with Zero, he goes into an immense rant about how justice and freedom are "worthless ideals", and even goes as far as to dismiss ideals themselves as nothing more than nonsense in his pre-battle quote.
* TacticalSuicideBoss: His second form is a TimeLimitBoss, and he has a small but effective shield that he opens when he's going to use his stronger attacks. With all that, if only he never opened that shielding, he'd be unbeatable and still be alive when the Ragnarok successfully crashes. Then again, given how sadistic he is, and the fact that he believes that he'll still make it through alive as he crashes down, this is pretty much in character.
* TakeOverTheWorld: In ''Zero 3'', he succeeds.
* TeleportSpam: In his first form.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: When Zero defeats Weil in the final battle, it causes the Ragnarok to blow up, taking ''[[HeroicSacrifice himself]]'' (Zero) along with it. If that didn't destroy Weil, then the re-entry in the atmosphere would have. Sadly, it didn't stop Weil from returning as an ArtifactOfDoom McGuffin a hundred years later... but luckily, perhaps so did Zero as, you guessed it, Model Z.
* ThisCannotBe: His last words pretty much say this, followed by a DyingCurse[[note]]Kono... washi ga...! Ningyou gotoki ni... Horobe! Horonde shimae!!! ('' この・・・ワシが・・・人形ごときに・・・滅べぇ！滅んでしまえぇー！'', which could be translated as "I... have been defeated... by a mere puppet! PERISH! BURN IN THE FIRES OF HELL!!!")[[/note]].
* ThreeLawsCompliant: Weil attempts to use this as a self-defense from Zero, as he deems any Reploid breaking the three laws is considered a Maverick. Did it work? ''Hahahahaha...'' '''NO.''' This is actually FridgeBrilliance on several levels. Weil isn't human anymore, [[BrainUploading literally]] ''or'' figuratively. While X and his progeny weren't hard-coded for compliance to the Three Laws (as they are meant to be able to think for themselves), they ''are'' expected to reasonably follow them. Zero, being a ''Dr. Wily'' creation, ''wasn't'' -- in fact his mere ''existence'' was the underlying reason for [[TheVirus the original Maverick Virus]] to begin with. This also stems from Weil's distorted view that Reploids don't deserve their individuality in the first place.
* TimeLimitBoss: Zero has two minutes to kill Weil's OneWingedAngel form before [[ColonyDrop Ragnarok]] reaches the point of no return and destroys Area Zero.
* TinTyrant: He's decked in full body armor that also serves [[ManInTheMachine as his life support]], and he becomes a tyrant king halfway through the third game.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Pulls this [[TheUsurper upon Copy-X's death]] in ''Zero 3''. It is by that point that the utopia for humans that is Neo Arcadia has turned into a dystopia for them too.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Despite his fully being aware of Zero's combat potential, having been thwarted by him and X once in the past, and his personal ownership of Omega who also got defeated before, Weil ''repeatedly'' underestimates the lengths Zero will go to defeat him again while mocking him along the way. Part of this can be chalked up to his insane ego, at least; Weil doesn't skimp on defenses and powerful entities to block Zero's path. It ultimately culminates in his FantasticRacism causing him to proclaim Zero doesn't have what it takes to kill a human...says the man who is effectively data in an artificial body at this point to a free-thinking robot not bound to any sort of robotic laws, while ''[[TemptingFate daring him at a point that can jeopardize his plans]]''.
* TheUnfought: In ''Zero 3''. Which makes the long-awaited fight with him in ''Zero 4'' all the more epic, climactic, and cathartic.
* {{Unperson}}: He was so heinous that all records of him have been suppressed by Neo Arcadia, to the extent that libraries containing records of his actions have been flooded and anyone who finds out about him is declared a Maverick. Of course, this is intended to prevent anyone from doing what he did again.
* UriahGambit: Inverted, as he sets up Copy-X Mk. II against Zero fully expecting Zero to defeat and kill the copy just as he did the original or for the bomb inside Copy-X to go off the moment he grew desperate enough to use his [[OneWingedAngel Seraph form]] against Zero, while [[CavalryBetrayal simultaneously leaving the base with Omega to deprive Copy-X of back-up]]. Even if Zero ''didn't'' kill Copy-X Mk. II or if he somehow won without using his transformation, Copy-X would no doubt fly into a rage at learning of his betrayal and use his Seraph form anyway to fight Omega, thus killing him anyways.
* VilerNewVillain: The last villain of the series, and by far the most evil of the lot. The previous antagonists all had [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans noble intentions]] and/or [[FreudianExcuse sympathetic backstories]]. By contrast, Weil isn't sympathetic in any way, [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans and wants to make life a living nightmare for mankind and Reploids alike]]. Any delving into his backstory only further establishes what a selfish and terrible person he is.
* VillainBall:
** The Resistance would have learned too late of the ColonyDrop if it weren't for the fact that Weil fired a "warning shot" from Ragnarok long ''after'' it was believed that no one would man it anymore. In other words, Weil would've actually ''succeeded'' in his plans if it weren't for that little fact. This is in character for him and his motivations; he doesn't want to destroy humanity but enslave and torment it. The warning shot was to make sure everyone had enough time to leave Area Zero. Naturally, this backfires and Zero kills him.
** His speech before the final battle implies he ''wanted'' Zero to try and stop him, just to show him that he ''couldn't''. That's all well and good, but Weil really knows absolutely nothing about Zero.
* VillainDecay: Notably averted compared to Wily and Sigma. The past villains got hit with this ''hard'' due to reappearing as the BigBad and getting defeated over and over in their respective series, Weil never even made an appearance until TheStinger of the second game, and the player never got to fight him until the fourth and final game and he still managed to take Zero with him, killing him for good...to some extent.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Subverted -- as revealed by drama tracks, most of the populace were completely distrusting of him, so he has a plan (see EvilPlan) that would make Zero and LaResistance look bad, making him the "hero". Upon his ascension into Neo Arcadia's leader, though, he further demonstrates to the people (and Zero) how much of a monster he truly was.
* VillainHasAPoint: Despite his megalomaniacal personality and making the lives of Neo Arcadia's people a living hell, he points out that Craft's plan to destroy Neo Arcadia with his own Ragnarok satellite would kill many humans and Reploids living under his control, though Craft [[ShutUpHannibal tells him to stuff it]].
* WaterTorture: A very horrifying portable version. See that suit he's wearing? It's topped off with a glass cone with his head inside, and fluid filling the rest of it. He's constantly and eternally {{drowning|Pit}}, [[AndIMustScream denied death by his regenerative armor]].
* WaveMotionGun: In his second phase, he will charge and fire these in two variations: The first has him fire from near the top of the screen down almost to the floor, and then he'll charge another one to rake the floor back up near the top of the screen. Zero can avoid the first laser by dashing underneath it, but he'll need to grab Weil's giant horn to avoid the second laser. The second variation has him only charging and firing one laser blast when Zero is caught in an energy net.
* WhatIsEvil: At the end of ''Zero 4'', Weil claims that Zero could never kill a human. Unfortunately for Weil, Zero considered himself anything '''but''' a hero (and he hardly considers Weil human, either).
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Dr. Weil is neither human nor Reploid. The armor he's wearing is self-regenerating, preventing him from dying and aging, and, coupled with an eternal exile on the WorldHalfEmpty, is punishment for "remaking" the world in the first place. This further fueled Weil's hatred; initially, he only targeted Reploids, but after gaining control of Neo Arcadia, he does everything he can to make '''everyone''' suffer.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: At the end of the day, Weil's crimes shaped him into exactly what he hates the most: A Reploid.
* YouMonster: After Zero defeats Pegasolta Eclair, Ciel wonders if Weil could possibly still be human in a spiritual sense. For an answer, he goes back and forth on referring to himself as "human" in a hypocritical way to justify himself, and calling himself [[SatanicArchetype the devil]].

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->''Ware wa meshia nari!'' ("I am the Messiah!")
-->''Voiced by Creator/JunichiSuwabe''

During the Elf Wars, Omega was created by Weil to exterminate the Reploid race. The bulky armor and the personality/program are Weil's original creations, but inside the armor is Zero's original body. However, he was brought down in a joint attack by X and Zero, and launched into space. At the beginning of ''Zero 3'', Omega's ship crashes to Earth, and he is used by Weil to seek out the Dark Elf as part of his plan. However, Omega is eventually destroyed by Zero. He is the only final boss in both the ''Zero'' and ''ZX'' series to have three forms.

* ArmCannon: Oddly averted. Despite being said to be inhabiting Zero's original body, he uses a handheld gun rather than his built-in Z-Buster. See Informed Attribute below.
* ArtShift: That his form after crossing the BishonenLine appears as a PaletteSwap of the ''Zero'' series' Zero confirms that the ArtShift is meant to be retroactive.
* AscendedFridgeHorror: Zero was made by Wily as a means to bring chaos to the world, but fortunately he ultimately turns good before it can happen. Then comes Omega, who did exactly that -- without Weil even (possibly) aware of Wily's intentions.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: In His first form, his only vulnerable point is his head and chest area. In his second form, his only vulnerable point is his grey middle head. Which makes sense, as that's where his main body is located within the armor.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: His second form. He's so big the fight only takes place around his head.
* AxCrazy: We're talking [[Characters/Warhammer40000ChaosMarines Khorne Berserker]] levels. His sole goal is to kill and to do his master's bidding.
* BackFromTheDead: While Zero managed to seemingly destroy Omega at the end of ''Zero 3'', Omega somehow manages to return in ''ZX'' in area N where he is taken out by Vent/Aile for good. WordOfGod implies that his appearance is canon since Flamole sensed his presence in the area above N.
* BadassCape: He wears white with a red trim.
* BattleAmongstTheFlames: For his final form, you fight him in [[WhereItAllBegan the intro level in Zero 1, where Zero was sealed]], now WreathedInFlames from his armor's explosion.
* BeastOfTheApocalypse: AxCrazy yet loyal Dragon to Dr. Weil. Caused the demise of 75% of all sentient life (combined total of humans and [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Reploids]]). Making things even more horrifying is that Omega is exactly what Dr. Wily intended Zero to be: [[TheAntichrist a destroyer of civilization]]. Sprinkle a little extra FridgeHorror on there when the reveal is made that Omega is Zero's original body, meaning that Wily succeeded.
* BecomingTheMask: ''VideoGame/MegaManXDive'' reveals he believes he really is the original Zero, and cannot comprehend the idea of Zero's copy body containing his original consciousness [[spoiler:or that [=ViA=] fits the bill better than he does]].
** In a sense, he is right. As he is essentially Zero's original AxeCrazy personality (as seen when Zero was first discovered / Awakened Zero seen in the Mega Man X series).
* TheBerserker: Ironically, exploiting this trope is the best way to kill his third form in ''Zero 3.'' (Not in ''ZX'', as it's dialed up.)
* {{BFG}}: Of the ArmCannon variety in his OneWingedAngel form, mimicking ''VideoGame/MegaManX'', no less.
* {{BFS}}: in both his first and second forms, although the latter of which, strangely enough, ''he doesn't even use''. This is due to the restraints imposed by the GBA's capabilities.
* BishonenLine: After, you guessed it, a OneWingedAngel. Justified; his first two forms are effectively a mech that he pilots, whereas his third form is his true body, which was Zero's original body, which is naturally stronger than most other robots. He's now far more agile and deadly than his previous forms.
* BossRemix: His first form's battle theme, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Omega Battle"]], of the former.
* CallBack:
** After you beat Omega's second form, you and his remnants fall into a familiar place: The same lab where Zero was sealed, wreathed in flames. And then, suddenly a PillarOfLight shines up -- mimicking Zero's unsealing in ''Zero 1'' -- and then Omega Zero appears from the rubble, released from the "[[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan seal]]".
** His final form also exhibits many moves Zero used to have in the ''X'' series, including the infamous buster-buster-SwordBeam combo.
** The opening notes of ''Cannonball'' are a remix of [[VideoGame/MegaManX3 Doppler's]] boss theme.
* CatchPhrase: "Ware wa meshia nari!" (I am the messiah!)
* ChunkyUpdraft: In his final form, Omega's power is so massive that pieces of the abandoned lab's wreckage hang suspended in the air around him.
* ClothesMakeTheLegend: A rare villainous example. He was well-known for his armor's massive size (dubbed the largest Reploid in existence), and no one really knows that the actual body wearing it is Zero's original body.
* ClimaxBoss: The only unsatisfying thing about his battle is that Weil was ''still alive'' at the end of the game.
* ContinuityNod: All of Omega Zero's attacks are Zero's own {{Signature Move}}s from the ''X'' series. Including the ''much-forgotten'' Z-buster (two shots + SwordBeam) combo. And the even more forgotten Zero Final from the Xtreme games.
* CoupDeGraceCutscene: Inverted -- after you successfully deplete Omega's last form's health bar, a cutscene will appear where Zero will try to attack Omega - only for the Dark Elf to protect him and regenerate him. Then the 4 Guardians come to attack Omega some more, and the Dark Elf's curse is finally gone. Then Zero gathers a small bit of strength back for him to deliver a single slash to finish Omega off...and you can control Zero during that part. In short, it turns the CoupDeGraceCutscene into s ZeroEffortBoss.
* CrossAttack: His LaserBlade {{BFS}}, fitting given his intended purpose as a DarkMessiah.
* CutscenePowerToTheMax: The story depicts him as the strongest Reploid in existence, having bested Leviathan and Fefnir on his own and taking Zero's and Harpuia's best attacks ''before'' absorbing the Dark Elf. In actual battle, though (even in his OneWingedAngel), he's a real pushover (once he crossed the BishounenLine, [[SubvertedTrope however...]]). Notably, he was originally planned to be a tougher enemy that was a lot more mobile, [[EnforcedTrope but the GBA's limitations meant he was restricted to just sitting still in his first two forms]].
* DesperationAttack: If you see Omega Zero rush at you with a low-flying dash jump, get the ''hell'' out of the way or be subjected to a 7-hit inescapable beatdown. On Hard mode, where you can't extend your life gauge, this attack means certain death. And in the ''ZX'' rematch, he will do this ''all the time'' at random. Lovely.
* DestroyerDeity: GodGuise variant. His power is [[PhysicalGod god-like]] and his destructive capacity and impulses are very real, but as still a Reploid, he's still not divine in nature.
* DetachmentCombat: In his first form, Omega can detach his arms.
* DittoFighter: Omega is revealed to be the original Zero for his third form, and uses quite a lot of Zero's skills from the X series.
* TheDragon: He fits the personality of the actual Dragons in stories: Mindless monster who will demolish everything in sight, yet is very loyal to his master. As he was originally designed by Dr. Wily.
* DragonInChief: While Weil is far from helpless or incompetent (bar [[VillainBall a few moments]]), Omega serves as the focus of the Resistance's attention and the final boss for the third game, and his destruction completely destroys Weil's plot for said game. It's revealed he's far, FAR more powerful than you'd expect...or anyone. While still loyal to Weil, he (basically) speaks of his own creation as ''a god.'' It's also revealed that he is not simply a pawn or slave of Weil's goals, but actually Zero's true body, merely upgraded to his full potential and potentially the most powerful enemy in not only the ''Zero'' series, but the entire franchise.
* EvilCounterpart: He is revealed to be one to Zero when he is revealed to be the original Zero.
* EvilKnockoff: Inverted. Omega is Zero's original body with upgrades and reverted to his original psychotic personality, courtesy of Weil.
* EvilIsBigger: Is noticeably the biggest enemy Reploid outside of {{One Winged Angel}}s...and ''his'' OneWingedAngel is the biggest of all. But subverted when it's revealed the "Omega" everyone thought they knew was simply a suit of PoweredArmor. Omega himself is actually the exact same size as Zero, emphasis on "[[TomatoSurprise exact same]]."
* EyeScream: Not directly, but in the backdrop of the Underground Laboratory, Fusion Omega's saber can be seen sticking out of the "X" head.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: His gigantic form has ''six'' faces: one on his head, one on each shoulder, and three on his waist. Both heads on his left side evoke the shape of X's head, while the ones on his right are styled after Zero's.
* TheFaceless: The type of which his entire face is covered by armor. If it wasn't, then the game's reveal would have much less impact.
* FinalBoss: He is the final boss of ''Zero 3''.
* FreefallFight: Zero fights his second, gigantic form as they fall from the base they're situated in.
* FullPotentialUpgrade: As it turns out, Omega is the end result of this, courtesy of absorbing both the Dark Elf (which originated from Zero's original body) and Dr. Weil's modifications. Weil goes so far as to boast he upgraded Omega to draw out his full potential, implying Omega as we see him at the end of ''Zero 3'', fully released from his PoweredArmor and with the Dark Elf absorbed, is the strongest Zero himself has ''ever'' canonically been raw-power-wise, including ''X5's'' BadEnding with Awakened Zero.
* FusionDance: He's the only one who can draw out the Dark Elf's full power since the Dark Elf originated from Zero's original body. His Dark Elf-enhanced form is styled after a fusion between X, Zero, and the Dark Elf.
* GangstaStyle: Omega's third form holds his gun this way.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Technically, since he's completely mindless (he's simply programmed to kill, period) and having destroyed the world once.
* GiantHandsOfDoom: He employs them in his normal form; it can float around and fire RingsOfDeath.
* AGodAmI: after passing the BishonenLine, Omega declares "I am the Messiah!" Justified; after all the horrors he and his creator committed, the very few who survived the ordeal started calling him the "God of Destruction". Which was what Dr. Wily originally built Zero to be. Also, he was designed to become a "Reploid messiah", destined to lead the ideals of Dr. Wily into a new golden age better than what X and Zero could do.
* GoldenSuperMode: After he absorbed the Dark Elf, his color turns gold and he becomes more durable.
* GrandTheftMe: Inverted, as it was technically not a theft, and Zero's heroic personality seen in the X series was not his original one. Dr. Weil received Zero's body legally from the government for his proposed Project Elpis. However, he then reset Zero's personality to the psychotic tool of destruction that Wily always intended him to be, setting Zero's loyalty to Dr. Weil, creating Omega.
* GroundPound: In his BishonenLine, mimicking ''X''-series Zero. Also has one that is similar to Zero's charged saber attack.
* HealingFactor: He seems to possess a limited version, as after Zero finishes fighting him the black parts of his armor spark with a green color before his floating arms (which had previously fallen down) float back up into position. He does it ''again'' after Harpuia unleashes his lightning assault. It's implied this is to ensure his PoweredArmor isn't so easily destroyed, as it effectively acts as a PowerLimiter.
* HumongousMecha: His second form is massive.
* InformedAttribute: Despite being in possession of Zero's original body, he looks nothing like how Zero did in the ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series, instead having the [[ReusedCharacterDesign exact same design]] as Zero does in the ''Zero'' series with a darker coat of red paint. The only reason why Zero looks different is because he's not in his original body, whereas Omega, being inside of that original body, doesn't have the same excuse. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since the artists for the Zero series stated they couldn't properly make Zero look like his appearance in the X series due to the technical limitations of the Game Boy Advance and them not being satisfied with that look and redesigning him.
* KnightOfCerebus: For two separate times, namely in the past (after X successfully got rid of the Maverick Virus on the world and the world was slowly recovering, he started the Elf Wars) and in the third game (where things become worse after Omega's rediscovery after he was exiled long ago).
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Exiled One (Omega)". "Cannonball" is a secondary one, used for his Omega Zero form.
* MeaningfulName: His name means "the end", and he is his creator's instrument in TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Omega is also the last letter of the Greek alphabet, just like how Zero is often represented with a "Z", the last letter of the modern English alphabet.
* MetaMecha: Omega's true form is contained inside the suit of PoweredArmor he wears.
* MindControlDevice: He can turn other Reploids into mindless slaves (when he fused with the Dark Elf). Only Reploids with virus countermeasures (Zero's are imperfect but still work, X and the Guardians have the perfect countermeasures) can resist it. Dr. Weil uses him to take control of all Reploids on the planet.
* MirrorBoss: With a twist! Omega's true form is Zero's original body. Downplayed in that, as a homage to ''X'' era Zero, Omega doesn't have any weapon other than the buster and the saber, and he has the GroundPunch moves that this series' Zero can't do.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Ancient Dead Languages version.
* NoFairCheating: Omega's final fight infamously pierces through Gameshark codes making Zero invincible, as his saber ignores normal MercyInvincibility. Coupled with the fact that he's a ground fighter (making the use of moonjump cheats redundant), this means that most forms of cheating are useless against him.
* NoSell: He shrugs off Fefnir's, Leviathan's, and Harpuia's attacks in cutscenes.
* NotQuiteDead: Even though Zero seemingly kills Omega at the end of ''Zero 3'', he somehow manages to return in area N during ''ZX'' where Vent/Aile kill him for good. WordOfGod implies that his return is also canon since Flamole sensed his presence in the area above N.
* OlderIsBetter: Zig-zagged. Considering it's Zero's original body, which is over ''three centuries'' old at the point in the series by the time Zero manages to take it down, it's ''clear'' Dr. Wily knew what he was doing when he built him. Omega is able to shake off the Four Guardians with ease and was basically a walking apocalypse before the joint efforts of X and Zero managed to seal him away. Ultimately he only ends up being defeated because Zero knows his body and moves better than Omega does. However, Weil did say that he upgraded Omega and tuned him up to make him stronger and draw out his full potential, so if anything, Omega is technically like a mishmash of ancient super-advanced Wily tech and newer technology that dates back from the Maverick Wars era at least.
* OneLetterName: One [[GratuitousGreek Greek]] letter name (Ω).
* OneWingedAngel: His second form is a gigantic 3-headed figure, and in battle, we can only see his head and upper body. [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070303135433/megaman/images/e/eb/Omega_Complete_sketches.jpg For reference]].
* PaletteSwap: Upon absorbing the Dark Elf.
* TheParagon: According to the Official Complete Works, Dr. Weil's Project Elpis is described as a project to design a perfect Reploid ruler using the power of the Mother Elf to control all the Reploids in the world, avoiding them becoming Mavericks. The Reploid was Omega.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: The chaos and destruction in the Elf Wars was mainly his doing, with the rest coming from the Dark Elf and Baby Elves' influences.
* PillarOfLight: When Omega Zero is released and awakened, a pillar of light appears, [[CallBack mimicking Zero's resurrection from the first game]]. Then, in the last boss fight, he can use this as an attack, and also to protect himself. In ''ZX'', this move can heal him.
* PlayerExclusiveMechanic: Omega's final form provides a rare subversion: like Zero, he has a hit priority system that lets his combos ignore MercyInvincibility.
* PoweredArmor: The body most people assume is his is revealed to be a suit of powered armor for his true self.
* PowerGlows: As Omega Zero, he glows white.
* PowerPalms: He has an opening in his hands that could fire rings of energy. In his Omega Zero form, he also has knuckles similar to the Z-Knuckle of the fourth game (instead of a Z, he has a Ω), which is presumably used to focus his power (especially when he does the GroundPound attacks).
* PromotedToPlayable: Initially as the Biometal OX in ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'', then properly as part of the playable cast in ''X'' ''[=DiVE=]''.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: His BishonenLine is red and black, and he's often called the God of Destruction. Courtesy of being Zero's original body, natch.
* RedBaron: Known as the [[PhysicalGod God of Destruction]].
* RedEyesTakeWarning: As Omega Zero, he has red eyes.
* ReflectingLaser: One of his primary attacks in his first form.
* RoboticPsychopath: As a robot programmed solely to wreak chaos, this is inevitable.
* SayMyName: Before you fight his first form in the FinalBoss fight, he shouts Zero's name.
* SealedEvilInACan:
** If by "can" you mean "space".
** He himself is a "[[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan can]]", as the container for the Dark Elf. In an inversion, the Dark Elf's nature makes Omega the more evil one, instead of the other way around.
* SecretAIMoves: As Omega Zero, as his abilities mimics ''X''-era Zero (including the buster-buster-SwordBeam attack that you can't use even in the ''X'' series), Zero can't do some of his attacks, such as the GroundPunch ones and his EX Skill. Of course, [[PlayerExclusiveMechanic he doesn't have access to the Recoil Rod, Shield Boomerang, some of Zero's exclusive EX skills, the Cyber Elves, and some modification chips aside from the double jump and absorber]].
* {{Shoryuken}}: One of his attacks as Omega Zero.
* ShouldersOfDoom: [[OneWingedAngel Fusion]] Omega's shoulders are monstrous versions of X's and Zero's heads. Yeah.
* ShoutOut:
** Omega's finisher, the Ranbu, is based on the [[Franchise/StreetFighter Shun Goku Satsu]]. It could also be a reference to Zero Final from the ''Xtreme'' duology.
** Omega's second form has different-colored arms with heads for shoulders, and a white middle body. You know, there's [[Franchise/{{Digimon}} some other guy named Omega]] who has the same appearance. [[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke I mean, Omegamon]]. You probably won't get the catch easily, because Omegamon's name overseas is Omnimon.[[/note]]
** The Ranbu could also be a reference to the Hyper Slash Combo (fan nickname), which could be performed in ''X4-X6'' by rapidly performing two hits, dashing, and repeating the sequence pretty much endlessly.
* SNKBoss: In ''{{VideoGame/MUGEN}}'' renditions, at least. He comes much closer to this officially as ''ZX'''s SuperBoss. While the patterns to avoid his attacks aren't any different, they dialed up his speed and he fires off attacks at random, including his DesperationAttack and ''self-healing ability''.
* TheSpeechless: And every time he does speak, he only growls and rambles. The exceptions are after his powered armor has broken down, the first being his quotes above and the second involving his confusion when the Dark Elf reverts back into the Mother Elf. In his Event appearance in ''[=DiVE=]'', this trope no longer applies.
* SuperBoss: His Omega Zero form returns for a hidden rematch in ''VideoGame/MegaManZX''. He's had [[LightningBruiser lots of time to improve]].
* SuperRobot: He fills all the criteria for being one, even more so after transforming into an even greater humongous mecha.
* SwordAndGun: His weapons in his BishonenLine.
* SwordBeam: In his BishonenLine, he can fire these after firing his buster two times. He can also fire smaller ones in midair that covers most of the screen.
* SwordPlant: One of his attacks in his first form.
* UndyingLoyalty: Despite being far more powerful than his creator Dr. Weil, he remains completely subservient to him.
* VoicesAreMental: Despite being in possession of Zero's original body, he doesn't share the same voice as Zero, instead having a much deeper voice. {{Justified|Trope}}, as being a Reploid, Weil likely outfitted him with a new vocal program in addition to his new mental programming.
* WaveMotionGun: In his second form, fired from his ArmCannon.
* WalkingSpoiler: His true form.
* WarmUpBoss: In the intro stage. Quite ironically, his first form at the end of the game fights almost identically; he just has an extra attack in the form of actually using his {{BFS}}, more health, faster attack moves in general, and a gold PaletteSwap.
* WorldsStrongestMan: So stupidly powerful that not even ''Zero'' is on the same level as him. He couldn't even be destroyed after the final battle of the Elf Wars, just jettisoned into space. On his own, he defeated Leviathan and Fefnir working together while taking hits from Zero and Harpuia. When fused with the Dark Elf, it takes the combined efforts of Zero and the remaining Four Guardians just to knock down his final form, and even then he'd have shrugged it off if the Dark Elf hadn't been turned back into the Mother Elf. Omega inhabits Zero's body after it was upgraded to draw out its full power -- in other words, Omega is the Awakened Zero of X5's bad ending made into canon reality.

!!!The Eight Gentle Judges/Weil's Numbers
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Created by Dr. Weil, they were once the highest authority of the law in Neo Arcadia, leading the populace peacefully alongside X (both the original and the copy). After Dr. Weil returned, they were turned into [[KnightTemplar Knights Templar]] as the rest of the military. They have judgement forms which are humanoid, and their decidedly more deadly punishment forms, which they turn into when they're prepared to carry out an execution sentence...violently.

* BadassCape: All of them have one each.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: When Weil reprograms them, they are turned into the opposite of themselves. For example, Glacier le Cactank goes from looking the other way for trivial offenses, to inflicting execution for even minor infractions. Kelverian went from having three independent thought circuits for always coming to a fair decision, to being the dumb muscle of the group. Deathtanz Mantisk goes from being proud of being an executioner with dull blades, to a sadist who is terrified of his own death.
* BilingualBonus: "Tretista" roughly means "three-headed" in Italian. "Biblio" roughly means "book" in Greek. Fitting, as his stage is in a flooded library.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: By Dr. Weil.
* ContinuityNod: Dr. Weil summons illusions of them in ''Zero 4'' as his first form's special attack.
* DeathOfPersonality: Weil reprogrammed them, essentially destroying their original selves and turning them into their polar opposites.
* DubNameChange: In the North American version of ''Zero 3'', Hellbat is known as Devilbat.
* EvilLaugh: After being brainwashed/reprogrammed by Weil, they start abusing this to a varying degree.
* FireIceLightning: A set of two for each element, plus a fourth pair for the non-elemental. Again, it is the ''Zero'' series' tradition.
** AnIcePerson: Childre and Le Cactank.
** NonElemental: Mantisk and Kelverian.
** PlayingWithFire: Flizard and Foxtar.
** ShockAndAwe: Schilt and Volteel.
* GetBackHereBoss:
** Biblio spends most of his time hiding between the walls, only emerging from one of four holes to attack.
* HealingFactor: Flizzard's tail can be destroyed, but he will just regenerate it as quickly.
* LightIsNotGood: They were supposed to be fair and just judges in white and gold attires, but when Dr. Weil returned, they got BrainwashedAndCrazy.
* LukeIAmYourFather: According to the official booklet ''Vile's Incident: Eden Dome, Its Sin And Rebirth'', their creator was none other than Dr. Weil, which also explained why they simply exiled Omega to space rather than executing him.
* MarathonLevel: Biblio's mission, which can take longer than any of the other Judges' levels because the objectives involve Zero retrieving files on the Elf Wars. The files are hidden in only a handful of rooms, standing side by side among empty rooms. The strain being the probability of getting into the wrong room several times. A hint is given to what room each file would be in, but the player has to be really eagle-eyed to notice.
* MindReformatDeath: Suffice to say, when Weil is done reprogramming them, who they were before is for all intents and purposes dead.
* MultiDirectionalBarrage:
** Flizard's EX Skill is to spin his frill and then fire projectiles all over the place with it.
** One of Schilt's attacks is to spread out sound waves around him.
** Le Cactank's EX Skill is to spin his flail around him and fire many ice spikes around him.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: '''Death'''tanz Mantisk, '''Devil'''bat Schilt.
* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: In the Sunken Library, Zero must figure out which out of 24 contains the Secret Disks he needs to complete the research on the Elf Wars, Dr. Weil and Omega. Only four rooms contain the disks in question, and they are randomized for each playthrough. The only hint Zero is given are the colors of each door as well as those surrounding it, shown before he enters the main room in question.
* OneWingedAngel: ''All'' of them have humanoid frames, but they can [[TransformationSequence transform]] into animal-like battle modes called "Punishment" forms. Zero faces Inarabitta and Kelverian already in their Punishment forms but they also have a TransformationSequence in the BossRush like the rest of the Judges.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: During the Drama Tracks when Harpuia hears four of the judges act cruelly to the severely damaged Fefnir and Leviathan, he realizes that something was wrong with them as Foxtar confirmed that they were all recently upgraded by Dr. Weil when he returned and reprogrammed into his Weil numbers in the process.
* OptionalBoss: ''ZX'' features four of the Numbers as secret bosses in Area N: Childre, Flizard, Mantisk and Devilbat.
* PowerCopying
** Blazin' Flizard: [[DeathOfAThousandCuts Burst Shot]] and [[PlayingWithFire Fire]]
** Childre Inarabbita: [[SwordBeam Throw Blade]] and [[AnIcePerson Ice]]
** Devilbat/Hellbat Schilt: [[SwordPlant Saber Smash]] and [[ShockAndAwe Thunder]]
** Deathtanz Mantisk: [[BladeSpam 1000 Slash]] and Light
** Cubit Foxtar: [[DeathFromAbove Soul Launcher]] and DoubleJump
** Glacier le Cactank: [[OrbitingParticleShield Orbit Shield]] and Spike
** Volteel Biblio: [[SpreadShot V-Shot]] and [[{{Intangibility}} Shadow Dash]]
** Tretista Kelverian: [[DeadlyLunge Gale Attack]] and Absorber
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: They serve as Weil's major enforcers after the Four Guardians are stripped of their positions and authority.
* RousseauWasRight: [[AllThereInTheManual According to the drama tracks]], the Eight Gentle Judges were quite fair and benevolent until Weil came along and turned them BrainwashedAndCrazy.
* ShoutOut: Their humanoid forms bear a strong resemblance to the first eight cyborgs from ''Manga/Cyborg009'', which had gained a major resurgence in popularity via the early-2000s anime {{Revival}} and the original manga finally getting an international release around the same time the ''Zero'' series was in production.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Listing all the variations would take too long. Just play it safe with the official English.
* TransformationSequence: Their humanoid bodies erupt in a ball of light before they assume their battle forms. Notably though, Childre and Kelverian avert this the first time they fight Zero, as both are already in their battle forms when Zero encounters them, thus their humanoid forms are only seen during the BossRush.

[[folder:Blazin' Flizard]]
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-->''Blazin' Flizard voiced by Creator/HiroakiMiura''

The Left Flame Judge of the Eight Gentle Judges, based on mythical salamanders. He now oversees Aegis Volcano Base, where a special missile is being produced.

* BloodKnight: Blazin' Flizard claims that fighting is his only way of relieving his boredom.
* FierySalamander: Blazin' Flizard is more of a frilled lizard, but the fire salamander theme is there.
* FingerFirearms
* FuumaShuriken
* UnusualWeaponMounting: Flizard can fire projectiles out of his tail, as well as his frills.
* VerbalTic: Flizard: "Ssyaaaaah!"
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Childre Inarabitta]]
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-->''Childre Inarabitta voiced by Yukiko Hirotsu''

The Left Ice Judge of the Eight Gentle Judges, made in the image of the White Hare of Inaba. Zero confronts him in Oceanic Highway Ruins, where they race to the location of Dark Elf's signal.
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* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Childre is often seen like this. While he is about as wise as the other Judges, he is designed like a child (with the MeaningfulName to boot) and is noted for his youthful spirit.

** Childre has 2 attacks that do this: one where he plants mines on the water surface, which will explode and their falling shrapnel will harm Zero, and one where he does a drilling attack with his "ears" from above.
* GetBackHereBoss:
** One of the first available missions involves Zero racing against a submarine carrying Childre Inarabbita for the Dark Elf. To hinder the sub's progress, Zero must decrease the water level by activating four switches dotted around the area. Incidentally, lowering the water level also decreases the difficulty of the upcoming battle against Inarabbita.
* KillerRabbit: Childre Inarabbita, an agile and icy rabbit who's surprisingly deadly.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: Childre can fire out small missiles that will home in to Zero.
* UnusualWeaponMounting:
** Childre and Schilt can fire projectiles out of their ears.
* WalkOnWater: Childre can hop on water with his battle form.
* WallJump: Childre can hop up walls, much like Zero's usual WallJump.
* WaterfrontBossBattle: The battlefield for Childre Innarrabitta is normally underwater, and there's only a few feet of air above. However, completing the mission's objectives would decrease the water level until it barely reaches Zero's height.

[[folder:Devilbat Schilt]]
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-->''Devilbat Schilt voiced by Hideki Ogihara''

The Right Thunder Judge of the Eight Gentle Judges, resembling a bat. He is fought in Weapons Repair Factory.

* BatOutOfHell: Devilbat/Hellbat Schilt is modeled after a bat and is capable of soundwave attacks. His wings are also [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe impervious to shots when he closes them]], hence the "Schilt" part of his name.
* DeathFromAbove: Schilt has an attack where he clings to the ceiling and then fires electric beam from above to the ground while teleporting around.
* TheSwarm: Schilt can summon a swarm of bats towards you. They can be destroyed but they cover a rather large range.
* TeleportSpam: Devilbat/Hellbat Schilt. In-universe, his teleportation is described as him emitting sound waves to disrupt the enemy's perception system, making Schilt ''[[PowerMisidentification look like]]'' he's teleporting when he moves around.
%%* UnusualWeaponMounting: Schilt can fire projectiles out of his ears.

[[folder:Deathtanz Mantisk]]
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-->''Deathtanz Mantisk voiced by Keiji Hirai''

Moonlight Judge of the Eight Gentle Judges, based on a mantis. His stage is Old Residential Area, where he tries to retrieve Crea and Prea.

* BrickBreak: Just like Kamrous, Mantisk's EX Skill is to conjure a chunk of ceiling that he slashes at to send multiple pieces at Zero.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Prior to being BrainwashedAndCrazy, Mantisk supposedly has this kind of characterization: demonic-looking both in and out of battle form, yet is a pacifist.
* GratuitousGerman: Deathtanz Mantisk, with ''tanz'' being the German word for ''dance''.
* {{Irony}}: Mantisk served the role as TheExecutioner of the Judges before they were BrainwashedAndCrazy, and (at least in said BrainwashedAndCrazy state) when defeated in the rematch expresses horror and fear at dying again.
* LeanAndMean: In both humanoid and battle form Mantisk definitely fits this after going full-on KnightTemplar. This is actually to Zero's advantage, as Mantisk is so lightweight he's the only boss that gets PunchedAcrossTheRoom when hit by the Recoil Rod's ChargedAttack, which can actually interrupt his attacks.
* MartialPacifist: Mantisk, prior to being BrainwashedAndCrazy, was this, despite working as an executioner. He always hoped that all the lives he took were a result of a right, fair judgement.
* PetTheDog: Despite his [[AxCrazy unstable post reprogramming/true personality]], Mantisk orders Crea and Prea to wait in the next room so he doesn't kill them by accident when he's fighting Zero.
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Mantisk is the only boss that is affected by the charged Recoil Rod's pushing effect because of his light frame. You can exploit this to interrupt his attacks.
* SinisterScythe
* SlayingMantis: Deathtanz Mantisk, complete with the GrimReaper-like imagery as TheExecutioner of the judges.
* VerbalTic: Mantisk: "Chikachika!"

[[folder:Cubit Foxtar]]
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-->''Cubit Foxtar voiced by Naoki Yanagi''

Right Flame Judge of the Eight Gentle Judges, designed as a legendary kitsune. Foxtar is fought in Energy Facility, which has been repurposed for mass production of baby Elves.

* AmbiguousGender: Foxtar, being based on the ''[[AsianFoxSpirit Kyuubi no Kitsune]]'' legend, has this. Effeminate mannerisms, somewhat slender, feminine body, and the fact that Kitsune often shapeshifts into beautiful women. That said, his voice actor is male, and pre-corruption, he still sounds effeminate but more of a gentle boy than his flamboyant post-corruption self. It doesn't help that some translations (most notably the English version of the ''Mega Man Zero Official Complete Works'') actually ''do'' state Foxtar is female.
* AsianFoxSpirit: Cubit Foxtar, complete with 9 "foxfires" that serve as his "tails". His humanoid form is also decidedly feminine.
* AttackDrone
* DeathFromAbove:
** Foxtar's EX skill involving him firing a spread of fire drones upwards that then falls down and covers a wide range.
* ElementalShapeshifter: Foxtar can split into 5 fireballs.
* HandSeals: Foxtar performs this to create and move fireballs around.
* NobleWomansLaugh: Foxtar, which ''really'' doesn't help the AmbiguousGender bit.
* YouCantThwartStageOne: Cubit Foxtar reveals the factory he was put in charge of was for creating more Baby Elves like Crea and Prea to spread the Dark Elf's corruption just like it was during the Elf Wars, but notes after being defeated that even with the factory's destruction and the deaths of said Baby Elves it was essentially just a backup plan since they already have the real Dark Elf in their possession.

[[folder:Glacier le Cactank]]
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-->''Glacier Le Cactank voiced by Tanuki Sugino''

Right Ice Judge of the Eight Gentle Judges, shaped like a barrel cactus. He guards the Snowy Plains, where Zero fights him in order to retrieve data from Omega's spacecraft.

* {{Acrofatic}}: Despite his hefty build, he is capable of massive leaps and literally crushing Zero under his own weight.
* AllCrimesAreEqual: Regardless if it is thievery or trespassing, Glacier le Cactank will issue said crimes with death sentence.
* BaldOfEvil: Le Cactank's human form is bald. Played with in that he's more of a KnightTemplar than an actual evil person.
* CactusPerson: Glacier le Cactank's Punishment form resembles a giant cactus. He was originally built as a large armored water tank that could bring water to remote areas before Dr. Weil corrupted him. His cooling system allows him to freeze water, hence his ice theme.
* DeathFromAbove:
** Le Cactank both has a move where hesimply jump over you, trying to crush you under his weight.
* EpicFlail
* FatBastard: He's very rotund in both in both his judge and punishment form, and after his corruption by Dr. Weil, he's become very execution-happy.
* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: Glacier le Cactank in particular. Ironically, back then, he was a kind judge who was willing to overlook small offenses and slightly bend rules when he thought it was justified.
-->''Has the legendary hero stooped to thievery? How deplorable. As king of the Snow Plains, I do hereby judge your crime.''
-->(cue OneWingedAngel)
-->''I, Glacier Le Cactank, of Weil's Numbers, have reached a verdict. The punishment for thievery is death!''
* MisplacedVegetation: Le Cactank is the boss of the snowy plains, despite cacti normally appearing in deserts.
* SpikeShooter: Glacier le Cactank can fire out ice spikes.

[[folder:Volteel Biblio]]
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-->''Volteel Biblio voiced by Munehiro Tokita''

Left Thunder Judge of the Eight Gentle Judges, based on an electric eel. He confronts Zero in Sunken Library, where the latter tries to find data on Elf Wars.

* ArmlessBiped: Volteel Biblio. In his battle form at least.
* AxCrazy: [[PsychoElectro Volteel]] is by far the most unhinged boss in the series. Well, maybe aside from Omega, that is. Mantisk isn't exactly very stable either. The Drama Tracks imply that their AxCrazy nature in ''Zero 3'' had more to do with Weil's reprogramming of them. Prior to that, they were actually nice Reploids (in fact, Mantisk also deliberately kept his arm blades dulled as a proof of peace).
* HypocriticalHumor: Volteel calls Zero [[YoureInsane crazy]] for going up against Dr. Weil. This coming from the guy who's the PsychoElectro of the Judges.
* LaughingMad: Volteel Biblio.
* PrehensileTail: Volteel can extend his tail to attack Zero.
* PsychoElectricEel: Volteel Biblio had his thought circuits fried in an accident, causing him to become loopy and prone to shouting. He is also an electric eel Reploid who is [[SlipperyAsAnEel tricky to fight]], capable of slipping through you and attacking in multiple odd ways with electricity.
* UnderwaterBossBattle: Volteel Biblio can be found in one of the submerged rooms in the Sunken Library.
* WhackAMonster: Commonly, Volteel attacks by going into one of the 4 holes in his chamber, then have his head appearing in one and his tail appearing in another that shoots a homing electric ball.

[[folder:Tretista Kelverian]]
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-->''Tresista Kelverian voiced by Creator/HisaoEgawa''

The Dark Judge and the leader of the Eight Gentle Judges, he is based on Cerberus. He oversees the Giant Elevator, where Neo Arcadia mines huge amounts of Energy Crystals

* BarehandedBarBending: Kelverian has one attack where he takes an iron bar, bends it into an L-shape and then throws it forward like a boomerang.
* DeathFromAbove: Kelverian has a move where he simply jumps over you, trying to crush you under his weight.
* DetachmentCombat: Tetrista Kelverian can deploy the canines on his shoulders to attack Zero.
* DumbMuscle: Kelverian, however, it is implied that he wasn't a simpleton prior to his reprogramming, given that he used to have 3 thought circuits that helped him think more efficiently, fitting for the leader of the judges.
* EnergyWeapon: Kelverian's EX Skill has him summon and throw a large crate as with one of his normal attacks, but then instead of shoulder-charging through it like usual he summons a purple energy {{BFS}} to thrust forward and destroy it instead.
* {{Hellhound}}: Tretista Kelverian, a Cerberus-themed Mutos Reploid fought after you take a {{Hellevator}} deep underground.
* LanternJawOfJustice: Kelverian's human form has one.
* LargeAndInCharge: According to his ranking, Chief Judge, Kelverian, who towers over the other Judges in both humanoid and battle form. He is also the only one to have three health bars when his peers have only two.
* OneHitKill: If Kelverian summons a crate, better pray Zero is nowhere below the giant box as it drops.
* ShouldersOfDoom: In his transformed forms, Kelverian has large shoulders. He even weaponizes them, as the dog Mechaniloids perched on them can detach from Kelverian and attack independently.

!!''VideoGame/MegaManZero4''
[[folder:Craft]]
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-->''One person can't change the world. Heroes are a thing of the past...''
--->''Voiced by Creator/KentaMiyake''

With the death of Omega, Craft steps up as the new general of Weil's army. He only joined so that he can protect Neige, and sees heroes as "a thing of the past". He personally leads "Operation Ragnarok", with the 8 Einherjar Warriors under his command. Their plan is to obliterate all life outside Neo Arcadia in order to discourage the escaping citizens.

* AllEncompassingMantle: In his first appearance.
* AntiVillain: He's actually reluctant to work under Weil, but he had no other choice and viewed it as the only way for any sort of civilization to survive. He was also once a hero.
* BastardUnderstudy: Not inherently evil, however; he only turned against Weil out of love for Neige.
* {{BFG}}: Which is nearly as large as he is, with a WaveMotionGun and a [[{{BFS}} big]] [[BayonetYa bayonet]] that can be launched.
* CharacterDevelopment: He first believes that one person can't change the world, and heroes are a thing of the past. But after the encounter in Neige's prison where she appeals to his once-held honors, he starts believing in it again, culminating in him trying to change the world and stop Weil by firing the Ragnarok directly at him.
* ConfusionFu: Fights with a very unorthodox attack pattern that can be hard to react to. It rather places his "commando"-like motif into perspective.
* TheDragon: A new one for Weil, as Omega and anyone else who could qualify for the position is currently dead.
* DragonInChief: As the field leader of Operation Ragnarok, he gets more exposure and gives more direct threat than Weil himself until the endgame.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: He has a side mission of protecting Neige from Weil's atrocity, so he tries to kidnap her. Upgrades to full-on TheStarscream when he takes control of Ragnarok and fires it at Neo Arcadia to kill Weil.
* EvilIsBigger: Noticeably towers over every other human or humanoid Reploid in ''Zero 4'' and across the ''Zero'' series itself is really only matched by Tretista Kelverian's humanoid form for size.
* ForTheGreaterGood: He claims that his attack on Area Zero is for this, i.e for the betterment of humanity as a whole. Neige calls him out on it, though he doubles down on the statement by stating that as long as Area Zero exists, people will defy Weil for the chance to reach it who in turn will kill more of them to keep the others in line.
* GratuitousEnglish: Craft mixes English in with his Japanese when firing his Homing Missile. "Ōru ōbā" is a Japanese approximation of the English "all over", but "da" (だ) is a Japanese word for "is".
->'''Craft''': Ōru ōbā da! (オールオーバーだ, It's all over!)
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: He used to be a honorable soldier, but when realizing how Weil has pretty much seized control and there's nothing he can do against it, he surrenders and takes Weil's side. He then turns against Weil in the climax - by firing a KillSat at Neo Arcadia, almost killing Weil but also destroying ''20 million'' civilians and all of Neo Arcadia's property.
* HomingProjectile: He can fire a homing missile at Zero.
* HonorBeforeReason: Inverted. According to Neige, Craft used to be a warrior that went by his own code, before being convinced that living under Dr. Weil's rule is better than being killed by Weil for defiance.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: He's considerably taller than Neige.
* HumansAreBastards: Well, at least he believes the ones willing to live under Neo Arcadia's thumb for Dr. Weil and terminate Reploids for their own comfort are. It's why he has no issue taking them as collateral damage in firing [[KillSat Ragnarok]] at Neo Arcadia for his shot at killing Weil. Even when he's defeated, he demands to know why he should trust the humans who fear and misuse Reploids and seek to conquer the world, and how Zero can still fight for them.
* ILetYouWin: Zero believes that Craft held himself back when they first fought. Turns out, he didn't...well, take his own word for it, anyway.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Neige, at least in the past.
* LargeAndInCharge: Subverted as the leader of the Einherjar, as while he's one of the largest humanoid Reploids in the series he's still out-bulked by a majority of the Mutos Reploids under his command.
* LaserSight: Before he fires his WaveMotionGun, he'll aim it at your head with one. When you dash, the laser sight goes past you, and so does the WaveMotionGun itself, but you have to time your dash in order to avoid it.
* LastRequest: Upon his death, he, like X before him, requests Zero to watch over the world, and Neige, for him.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Kraft".
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: After being talked out of working under Dr. Weil by Neige, he destroys Neo Arcadia using Ragnarok, claiming thousands of lives, trying to take down Dr. Weil. Dr. Weil even lampshades this by stating "Turned by the sweet words of a woman!" when he was betrayed.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: His strongest move, fired from above, which has the possibility to hit the entire screen, with very few openings for dodging. The missiles can be destroyed with the Z-saber to make an opening, but not without difficulty.
* AMillionIsAStatistic: He fired the Ragnarok at Neo Arcadia, trying to kill Dr. Weil. The attack, according to the manual, claimed 20,000,000 innocent lives. Yet the intended target ironically survives.
* MoralityPet: Neige. When Neige proclaims right to Craft and Weil's face that she'd rather die than live under Weil's tyranny, Craft attempts to kill Weil partly so that Neige doesn't have to die.
* NobleTopEnforcer: He only wanted to keep the world from turning into an even worse hellhole, even if he had to work under Weil. He also rekindles with his more noble self after Neige's words.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: His design looks more archaic than the Reploids of the era, featuring a lot of bulky plates of armors more reminiscent of the ''X''-series (think Sigma, Signas, or Colonel), as opposed to the current Reploids' generally more slender design with closer-to-human complexion.
* ThePromise: He once made one for Neige to fight with honor and for humanity. When she pointed that out to him during the attack on Area Zero, he then goes to kidnap her, with him saying "I'm keeping my promise by doing this."
* RecoilBoost: He can lift himself into the air by ''firing his WaveMotionGun into the ground.''
* RecursiveAmmo: One of his attacks involves throwing a bomb that splits into 6 and scatters away.
* RoboShip: A canon in-universe example with Neige.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Weil would have succeeded in destroying Area Zero with Ragnarok, but Craft turned on him use the weapon against him. It failed to kill Weil, but it saved Area Zero.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: "Kraft" in the Japanese version, which in German means [[MeaningfulName "power" and "strength"]]. In America, on the other hand, it is associated with a brand of cheese, so his name was changed to "Craft" to prevent confusion.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute:
** With his heavy armor (and especially a helmet that's solid-red in the front), backwards-flung black hair, a blue BadassCape, and a heavy-duty cannon for his weapon, Craft bears a striking resemblance to [=Colonel.EXE=] of ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' (who debuted in December 2004, five months before Craft's first appearance in April 2005).
** As a morally-conflicted military man with a weathered face, he also seems to have taken inspiration from Barrel, Colonel's operator from the same series.
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: One of his moves is to lob 3 grenades upward.
* UnnecessaryCombatRoll: He can phase through Zero while doing this.
* WakeUpCallBoss: At least when compared to the 4 main bosses (and 2 intro bosses, if you really want to count it) you have to beat before him. He has many nasty attacks, a quick dash, and 3 bars of health. Even in his second fight, where you've got most of the useful techniques, he still proves to be a real threat.
* WeakButSkilled: Compared to the Four Guardians, Copy-X, Elpizo post-Dark Elf, or especially Omega, Craft has nowhere near as much inherent raw power at his disposal despite being a combat Reploid, relying more on his various tools like bombs, missiles and lasers from his {{BFG}}. He's still skilled enough that he can give Zero a hard time in both their fights.

!!!Einherjar Eight Warriors
[[folder:General]]
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The local QuirkyMinibossSquad of ''Zero 4'', led by Craft. Assigned by Dr. Weil to attack Area Zero in order to destroy any sanctuary outside of Neo Arcadia, each of them spearheads their own planned attempt to wipe the NewEden off the map for "Operation Ragnarok."

* DivingKick: Pegasolta has this as one of his attacks, which can [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom knock Zero back]], potentially towards a pit.
* ElementalPowers:
** Fenri Lunaedge: [[AnIcePerson Ice]]
** Mino Magnus: [[ExtraOreDinary Metal]]/[[MagnetismManipulation Magnet]], though functionally, it's [[ShockAndAwe Lightning]].
** Popla Cocapetri: [[TimeMaster Time]]. In-game, NonElemental.
** Noble Mandrago: [[GreenThumb Nature]], well, really, nanomachines simulating nature. NonElemental in-game.
** Sol Titanion: [[PlayingWithFire Fire]]
** Pegasolta Eclair: [[ShockAndAwe Lightning]]
** Tech Kraken: [[MakingASplash Water]][=/=][[AnIcePerson Ice]]
** Heat Genblem: [[PlayingWithFire Fire]]
* EstablishingTeamShot: The whole group gets one at the end of the second intro stage.
* Myth/NorseMythology: The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einherjar einherjar]] are those that have died in battle and are brought to Valhalla by valkyries. They prepare daily for the events of Ragnarök, when they will advance for an immense battle. The [[RuleOfSymbolism symbolism]] is thick with this one: the Eight Warriors all prepare for Operation Ragnarok that aims for the destruction of Area Zero, and though they're defeated, they still manage to divert The Resistance's attention from the operation's real aims: building the space station Ragnarok, with the power to completely annihilate a region. And as Zero storms the station, he encounters the Eight Warriors again, now revived and are waiting for the calamity that is the ColonyDrop, as they battle Zero once again.
** In general, the eight warriors are each based on a mythological creature.
*** Popla Cockapetri: Cockatrice
*** Noble Mandrago: the Mandrake plant
*** Sol Titanion: Titania the fairy queen
*** Mino Magnus: Minotaur
*** Tech Kraken: Kraken[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin (duh)]]
*** Heat Genblem: Genbu the black tortoise
*** Fenri Lunaedge: Fenrir the wolf
*** Pegasolta Eclair: Pegasus.
* NotBrainwashed: Unlike the Eight Gentle Judges from the previous game who were all reprogrammed into "Weil's Numbers" when Weil returned to Neo Arcadia, several of them serve Dr. Weil willingly and without modification.
* OptionalBoss: ''ZX'' features four of the Einherjar as secret bosses in Area N: Fenri, Mandrago, Eclair and Titanion.
%%* PerfectPlayAI: Genblem's tactic of slowly walking towards you and then immediately guard with his shell when you attack him is reminiscent of a similar phenomenon in fighting games. ~~~~The reason I blank this out is because the trope PerfectPlayAI implies that the AI makes actual efforts to read the player's various inputs and reacts accordingly, whereas Genblem's tactic looks more preprogrammed with similar response regardless of how you attack him. I get it that it may be a leftover from the trope's old name MK Walker, though. Besides, TheSlowWalk below describes the same situation as this one.
* PlatformBattle: Pegasolta is fought across 3 platforms (with the middle one lower compared to the two on either side) heights over BottomlessPits. There are also strong winds that may blow you to the pits.
* PowerCopying
** Popla Cocapetri: [[TimeStandsStill Time Stopper]]
** Mino Magnus: [[EnergyAbsorption Tractor Shot]]
** Sol Titanion: [[SpreadShot Burning Shot]]
** Tech Kraken: [[DeathOfAThousandCuts Ice Javelin]]
** Noble Mandrago: [[SwordPlant Sky Chaser]]
** Pegasolta Eclair: [[DeadlyLunge Thunder Stab]]
** Heat Genblem: [[{{Shoryuken}} Flame Fang]]
** Fenri Lunaedge: [[SwordBeam Ice Blade]]
* ThePowerOfTheSun: Titanion uses this to attack Zero, while Mandrago uses this to heal herself.
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Pegasolta's DivingKick can do this to Zero, as is Magnus' magnetically charged attacks and Genblem's uppercut counter.
* PunnyName:
** Heat Genblem contains a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/FireEmblem''.
** Magnaxe and Magnus both are derived from "magnet", pretty much describing his ability.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: After the deaths of the Eight Gentle Judges in ''3'', the Einherjar Eight Warriors step up to take their role, each with their own plan to destroy Area Zero.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Unlike the Eight Gentle Judges, the Einherjar are reploids of various origins. They range from a victim of his reprogramming (Noble Mandrago), to forsaking their honor for revenge (Tech Kraken), to being flat out lunatics (Fenri Lunaedge ) to glory seekers (Pegasolta Eclair ) to being a solider loyal to Craft rather than Weil (Heat Genblem) defunct models joining for spite (Popla Cocapetri ) a tanky model promised to never run out of energy (Mino Magnus) to being so traumatized by the death of their counterpart (caused by Weil) that they're fine with destroying stuff for its own sake (Sol Titanion).
* {{Shoryuken}}: Both Genblem and Fenri; the former's uppercut is a grounded version, while the latter usually follows it with a second one from the ceiling.
* TeamShot: The end of the second intro level sees Zero facing all of them at once, in a shot of their sprites standing together. It is soon followed by Craft's entrance, which becomes a CG shot.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: This QuirkyMinibossSquad is the only one in the ''Zero'' series to have 2 females, i.e Titanion & Mandrago. This sets the trend for the [[VideoGame/MegaManZX next series]].
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Pegasolta Eclair lampshades this when Zero first encounters them at Area Zero, asking Craft why don't all of them just gang up on him right now and finish him with sheer numbers. Craft responds back that once Operation Ragnarok is in motion, [[UnderestimatingBadassery one Reploid won't make a difference]].
* XanatosGambit: At the end of the day, it never really mattered whether or not any of their individual attempts to destroy Area Zero succeeded or failed, as the end result benefits Weil either way. If they succeed, good job. If they fail, well it keeps the Resistance and Zero occupied and unable to learn about the ''true'' [[KillSat Operation Ragnarok]] before it's too late.

[[folder:Noble Mandrago]]
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-->''Mandrago voiced by Yuu Takamura''

A mandrake-like Mutos Reploid in charge of Underground Forest, a thicket of artificial plants that causes erosion.

* {{Brainwashed}}: Not as drastically as the Eight Gentle Judges, but Weil's reprogramming makes her think that in order to preserve nature, it must be placed under complete control, and control may involve destruction.
* DigAttack: Mandrago can dig underground and appear either on the ground or the ceiling, then fires out some brown goo at Zero that hampers his movement.
* FlunkyBoss: She primarily fights by trying to summon Mechaniloids to overwhelm the player with numbers. She does have direct attacks, but without a backup she's a sitting duck.
** One of her moves has her launching blobs of honey-like goo, attracting [[BeeBeeGun Appnets]] to the room. The goo itself deals no damage, but makes Zero's movement slippery and makes wall-jumpimg impossible.
** Her other move has her firing seeds around the room that will grow into either flowers that can shoot bullets or venus flytraps that can snare you. However, they can be uprooted with the Zero Knuckle.
* GreenThumb: Was designed to restore nature with {{nanomachines}}, and grows artificial plants during her boss fight.
* HealingBoss: She is able to heal a small amount of her health, if the weather is set to sunny. She's invulnerable during this.
* {{Irony}}: The fact that Noble Mandrago, a plant Reploid, is using an environmental-modifying system in the form of nanomachine plants, in order to harm [[LastFertileRegion Area Zero]] does not go unlampshaded. Ciel even says that the system can be used to support Area Zero instead.
* OutsideTheBoxTactic: You can try plucking Mandrago out of the ground with Zero Knuckle when she burrows herself; Zero will then throw her backwards, possibly to the wall. Her planted seeds can also be plucked and thrown away.
* PlantPerson: She is a plant-like Reploid, with her head and hands resembling flowers, and body - stalk and leaves.
* ShockwaveStomp: Mandrago's EX Skill is to spin to the air and then try to land on Zero drill-first, which sends out rocks flying when she hits the ground.
* SpinAttack: Both of her direct attacks have her spinning like a top and dashing across the screen.
* ThisIsADrill: Mandrago's legs are actually a drill split in two.

[[folder:Heat Genblem]]
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-->''Genblem voiced by Naoki Imamura''

A Mutos Reploid based on [[FourGods Genbu]], who acts as a battery for the Particle Beam, attempting to incinerate Area Zero.

* BeamSpam: Heat Genblem uses a ridiculously long-lasting beam cannon which he fires while spinning. Even his stage is a giant solar-powered particle cannon, and reminiscent of Quick Man's stage from ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'', minus the OneHitKill beams, though there are still beams a-plenty.
* CorridorCubbyholeRun: A portion of Genblem's stage takes place ''inside the barrel'' of a WaveMotionGun. To avoid taking huge damage, you must cover in safe spots below and above the beam.
* ElementalPunch: 2 of Genblem's attacks are this, with a fiery punch.
* TheFourGods: Heat Genblem is loosely named after Xuán Wǔ/Genbu, the turtle. Also possibly of [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ryu]] and Film/{{Gamera}}.
* LivingBattery: Genblem himself is the source of energy for the massive tank (specifically, its cannon) he's operating for his attempt at destroying Area Zero.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Genblem with his big turtle shell.
* MightyGlacier: Genblem only really moves during his SpinAttack, but he can't be harmed while not attacking, and he can get Zero PunchedAcrossTheRoom.
* TheSlowWalk: Genblem can choose to approach Zero slowly this way. Be careful - if you attack him, he'll defend himself immediately; if you attack him more, he'll do a CounterAttack.
* SpinAttack: There's also one of Genblem's attack where he spins while covering himself on fire.
* SturdyAndSteadyTurtles: Heat Genblem is known for not just his sturdy shell, but also his defensive tactics.
* UndyingLoyalty: Genblem, being a proud, dutiful soldier, displays this for Craft. [[EtTuBrute However, he's genuinely shocked when Zero reveals to him at the end of the rematch that the dying Craft entrusted his faith to Zero]].

[[folder:Tech Kraken]]
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-->''Kraken voiced by Creator/ToruFurusawa''

A squid-like Mutos Reploid on a SuicideMission in the Deep Sea to drill under Area Zero and blow it up.

* AvengingTheVillain: Tech Kraken, trying to avenge his former master Phantom. Interestingly, neither of them are fully "villains". He even encourages Zero to stop Weil after his second defeat.
* CombatTentacles: Kraken, being a squid, uses 'em. They're tipped with spearheads, too.
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: In his first appearance (i.e in Area Zero), Kraken the squid floats in midair.
* KrakenAndLeviathan: Tech Kraken's theme.
* TheMaze: The first half of Kraken's level.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Tech Kraken could not care any less about Weil or Craft's ultimate goals; his loyalty to Phantom has him as one of the last genuine TokenGoodTeammate holdouts of Neo Arcadia fighting Zero. He wants revenge and that's it. When he fails to get it, he instead tells Zero to stop Weil.
* OutsideTheBoxTactic: You can try plucking Kraken's tentacles when he uses the "ink void" attack.
* PinballProjectile: Kraken can fire these. He can also create an ice mirror for the purpose of playing with said projectiles.
* SuicideMission: If you lose to him, Kraken claims that he'll follow Phantom after his mission (blowing up the ground with the submarine and causing earthquakes) is finished.
* TeleportSpam: Kraken can use squid ink to teleport himself across the room. During this state, Kraken can attack Zero with his tentacles multiple times before exiting.
* WorthyOpponent: In the end, Kraken doesn't want any more revenge, he just wants to see the power that defeated Phantom.

[[folder:Fenri Lunaedge]]
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-->''Fenri voiced by Creator/TetsuyaKakihara''

A wolf-like Mutos Reploid, who guards the Hibernation Chamber.
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* BladeBelowTheShoulder: He has a couple of ice blades on his arms, in addition to his normal claws.
* DeadlyLunge: Fenri has an attack where he simply lunges at Zero with his arm blade.
* DoppelgangerAttack: Fenri can create clones of himself made of ice.
* HotBlooded: Fenri, despite being an ice boss. The voice helps a lot, considering he's [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Simon]]...[[note]]Or, rather, another ice-elemental character with the same voice, [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Jin Kisaragi]].[[/note]]
* PrimalStance: Fenri is the only one depicted like this, all the time.
* PsychoPrototype: Fenri Lunaedge, according to the [[AllThereInTheManual Mega Man Zero Official Complete Works]], was supposed to be a fusion between a Reploid and a prototype Cyber Elf, but the fusion as well as a glitch within the Cyber Elf's programming...well, drove him rabid.
* RollingAttack: One of Fenri's attacks.
* SavageWolves: Fenri Lunaedge is a wolf robot who loves a good fight.
* SwordBeam: Fenri can fire these, made of ice, from his blades. His EX Skill is basically firing 2 large ones traveling the ground and ceiling.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Popla Cocapetri]]
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-->''Cocapetri voiced by Ikuo Nishikawa''

A cockatrice Mutos Reploid that maintains the Living City, making it grow and attack everything with automated defense system.
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* BasiliskAndCockatrice: Popla Cocapetri is a cockatrice robot with a serpent's tail and ability to "petrify" other robots.
* ButtMonkey: Mino Magnus might get mocked for his slowness, but Popla Cocapetri is the one who fits this the best. Zero calls him a "grunt" the first time they meet, he gets insulted by his teammates, and overall doesn't seem to command respect from anybody. And while Mino at least has sheer size and a sharp axe for intimidation, Cocapetri is the smallest of the Einherjar who barely comes up to Zero and at first glance looks like a chicken.
* TheCracker: Cocapetri specializes in internal tech warfare, including software hacking and communications interference. His plan for Operation Ragnarok involves using viruses and hacking to take control of a derelict city and use the resources there to launch junk-botched construction projects to destroy Area Zero, while also automating the various defenses to deal with infiltrators. Even his TakenForGranite power is explained as him using his own tech to hack into a Reploid's CPU through the optics to force a shutdown.
* DashAttack: Cocapetri has one. (Un)fortunately, because the floor of the boss room is segmented to 3 and each goes up or down, this attack is sometimes hindered by the floor.
* EvilIsPetty: Cocapetri joined Weil's forces out of spite after he lost his job when the use of hacker-type cyber elves became commonplace.
* FeatherFlechettes: One of Cocapetri's attacks is to fire sharp "quills".
* FlunkyBoss:
** Also Cocapetri, who apparently can lay down robotic eggs which can run around, trying to hurt you.
* HairTriggerTemper: Cocapetri is rather irritable for such a small boss.
* TheNapoleon: Cocapetri hates it whenever people tease him for his small size.
* SpreadShot: Cocapetri can spread out either black bombs or feathers that can hurt Zero. Kraken can throw multiple spearheads this way. Titanion's EX Skill is the "exploding shot" variant, done with her {{Fireballs}}.
* TakenForGranite: Given his cockatrice theme, he has the ability forcibly immobilize other Reploids by hacking through their optics. Naturally, it's his signature attack.
* TimeStandsStill: Not explicitly stopping time, but Cocapetri's ultimate move includes "petrifying" all the room (as the whole room turns grey). Zero's EX Skill from him, Time Stopper, also qualifies.
* WeaponizedOffspring: Cocapetri can lay an egg with 2 legs that will run about, harrassing you.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pegasolta Eclair]]
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-->''Eclair voiced by Shigeru Shibuya''

A Pegasus-like Mutos Reploid in charge of the Hanging Gardens, where he attempts to destroy Area Zero with acid rain.
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* BladeBelowTheShoulder: His arms are a pair of electrified spears.
* {{Expy}}: Pegasolta Eclair is basically the Einherjar/Weil version of [[VideoGame/MegaManX5 Spiral Pegasus]], both being Pegasus-themed Reploid commanders of the BigBad's forces in a ColonyDrop story, which is noted by Eclair himself when fighting Zero again in Ragnarok.
->'''Pegasolta Eclair''': [[HistoryRepeats The satellites falling from the sky are like the Maverick Wars all over again...]] It really is Ragnarok, the end of the world! You stand on the threshold of your annihilation!
* TheFightingNarcissist: Pegasolta Eclair claims that the un-beautiful things shall go down.
* GlorySeeker: He had a peaceful job, but always desired to be assigned for combat. Weil granted his wish.
* KaizoTrap: Make sure you have a platform below you to stand on when you defeat Pegasolta Eclair.
* MeaningfulName: "Éclair" is French for "lightning", as befits a Thunder-elemental boss.
* ObstructiveForeground: An actual mechanic is his stage. If you challenge him in Overcast weather, portions of the stage will be covered with clouds, obstructing the view.
* {{Pegasus}}: Pegasolta Eclair is more of a humanoid winged horse, but it's still his theme.
* SmugSnake: Pegasolta Eclair is so vain and proud of his "beauty". Also, in-game, almost whenever he floats, he has a tendency to quickly fly upward everytime you try to land a hit. Annoying? Right.
* WeatherControlMachine: Hanging Gardens generate acid clouds that would damage Area Zero. Your mission is to destroy them, oterwise your score will take a hit.
* WingedHumanoid: Pegasolta Eclair is a humanoid horse with wings.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mino Magnus]]
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-->''Magnus voiced by Takahiro Fujimoto''

A Minotaur Mutos Reploid, stationed in the Magnetic Zone.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: Mino Magnus' only vulnerable on his torso. His ShouldersOfDoom are invincible and can block your attacks if your timing's bad.
* DetachmentCombat: Magnus can split into five parts, four of which are used to attack Zero.
* DumbMuscle: Mino Magnus is the huge guy who talks slowly to the point even his own allies have no patience of letting him finish a thought. [[note]] At least until his second and last defeat in the Boss Rush aboard Ragnarok. [[/note]] Whether that's a sign of his lack of intelligence or simply a SpeechImpediment is never revealed.
* GrappleMove: Mino Magnus can grab Zero and magnetize him, making him attract metal scraps that hinder his movement.
* HornedHumanoid: Magnus, pretty much.
* HulkSpeak: Mino Magnus combines this with a VerbalTic, in this case a roar of "[[{{Kiai}} Ndooooooh!]]".
* MightyGlacier: Magnus may be big and slow, but they carry high power reactor and lots of electromagnetic circuits respectively, from which they can generate tremendous amounts of power. In Gemblem's case, he's also equipped with a heavy shell.
* OurMinotaursAreDifferent: Mino Magnus, a hulking minotaur Reploid.
* SelectiveMagnetism: Mino Magnus's entire schtick, whether to magnetize Zero himself, or attracting debris from the area around them to use as his weapons.
* ShouldersOfDoom: Magnus has really big, pointy shoulders from which he can control magnetism.
* SpeechImpediment: Magnus talks really, ''really'' slowly. Throughout the entire game, nobody (including his allies) has the patience to let him finish a thought.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: One of Mino Magnus' attacks drags Zero towards him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sol Titanion]]
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-->''Titanion voiced by Creator/SakiNakajima''

A Mutos Reploid who maintains the Artificial Sun, attempting to scorch Area Zero and turn it into desert.
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* AxCrazy: Sol Titanion is basically a playful sadist. Her FreudianExcuse also ends up becoming extremely ironic in terms of who she's serving, as the reason she's AxCrazy was because a scouting unit commissioned by Dr. Weil basically invaded the artificial sun she and a twin of hers was maintaining and killed her twin, causing her to go mad and destroy them to avenge her twin.
* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Sol Titanion is themed after a butterfly.
* DeadlyDisc: Sol Titanion can throw these, made of fire.
* HotWings: Titanion's wings are made of fire.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: Sol Titanion is based on the myth of the fairy queen Titania.
* WeatherControlMachine: The Artificial Sun was made to contron weather, but now it's just turned on the highest setting in order to spread desertification.
* WingedHumanoid: Titanion is a humanoid butterfly/moth.
[[/folder]]

[[center:[[WMG: [-'''''VideoGame/MegaManZero''''' | [[Characters/MegaManZero Main Character Index]]\\
[[Characters/MegaManXZero Zero]] | [[Characters/MegaManZeroAllies Allies]] ([[Characters/MegaManXX X]]) | '''Antagonists''' ([[Characters/MegaManZeroWeil Weil]])]]]]-]
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The true main antagonist of the series. [[Characters/MegaManZeroWeil See his page]] for everything about him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Omega]]
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https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/omega_zero_3.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->''Ware wa meshia nari!'' ("I am the Messiah!")
-->''Voiced by Creator/JunichiSuwabe''

During the Elf Wars, Omega was created by Weil to exterminate the Reploid race. The bulky armor and the personality/program are Weil's original creations, but inside the armor is Zero's original body. However, he was brought down in a joint attack by X and Zero, and launched into space. At the beginning of ''Zero 3'', Omega's ship crashes to Earth, and he is used by Weil to seek out the Dark Elf as part of his plan. However, Omega is eventually destroyed by Zero. He is the only final boss in both the ''Zero'' and ''ZX'' series to have three forms.

* CharClone: Has blonde hair and is part of a resistance movement against a reigning government? Check. Judges humanity and bores a dark messiah persona after a massive failure upon his mission? Check. Elpizo is the cloest thing to that of a CCA Char Clone out of all the characters and even in the end his fate transcends into another plane of existence.

* AntiVillain: While they're very determined to eliminate the Resistance, it's because they believed that such an act of rebellion is wrong, and they only wanted to protect Neo Arcadia, the last utopia on earth, along with its citizens. Harpuia actually seems to show reluctance in killing reploids in the resistance when they aren't actively attacking Neo Arcadia.

[[folder:''Zero 1'' Bosses]]

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Hanumachine leads an attack on the Resistance Base, and is fought in the Energy Warehouse.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: Herculious Anchortus is based on a hercules beetle.

* BouncingBattler: Hanumachine can wreath himself on fire and then fly and ricochet off walls. Meanwhile, Rainbow Devil literally bounces around.

* CruelElephant: One of them is Maha Ganeshariff, an elephant Reploid.
* DashAttack: Aztec Falcon and Herculious Anchortus are fond of this.
* DescendingCeiling: variant: Aztec Falcon is fought on ''top'' of a spiked ceiling while it descends on the Reploids that Zero must rescue.

* EarlyBirdBoss: Those who thought the [[MonstrosityEqualsWeakness Golem]] was simple (even without using the saber) will be in for a nasty surprise when they meet Aztec Falcon, the first real boss. He only has 1 bar of health like the Golem was, but he moves quickly and forces you to learn how to jump or dash under attacks, as well as going around the invincible parts of his hitbox. As he's the second boss, you may find yourself not having grinded your weapon techniques enough before you fight him, unless you actually take some of your time beforehand. As a bonus, he's also a TimeLimitBoss.

* ElementalShapeshifter:
** Anubis can turn his body to sand as a disappearing trick. As an extension of this power, in ''Zero 3'' he can even shift the sand battlefield to give Zero a harder time.
** As its EX Skill in the second game, Rainbow Devil can turn into [[ChromeChampion a vaguely metallic substance]], making it impervious to damage for a short time and causing its steps to [[LoadBearingBoss shake the screen and causes rubble to fall]], but limiting its mobility.

* FeatheredFiend: Aztec Falcon, a bird-based character, though he's technically featherless...

* FlunkyBoss: Necromancess can summon Pantheon Zombies from the ground. Meanwhile, Hanumachine can create 3 mini-copies of himself that will [[PersonalSpaceInvader latch onto you]] and [[ActionBomb explode]].
* GenderBlenderName: Anubis Necromanc'''ess''' is a guy. Then again, his name in Japan is Anubistep Necromances III.

* GroundPound: Blizzack Stagroff loves jumping around and tries to land on you. Herculious is also fond of trapping you in between his elongated electrified arms and then tries to smash you directly, often hitting the ground or wall in the process.
* HumanHardDrive: Maha Ganeshariff serves as a data server...and a LightningBruiser boss.
* AnIcePerson: Blizzack Stagroff has ice powers.
* LoadBearingBoss: The Underground Laboratory collapses from within once Maha Ganeshariff is defeated.
%%* MagicStaff: Anubis Necromancess' .
* ManiacMonkeys: Hanumachine is based on a monkey.
* MeaningfulName: Blizzack Stagroff is the warden of a HellholePrison holding captured Resistance soldiers. His name sounds suspiciously close to "[[Film/TheGreatEscape Stalag Luft]]".
* MonkeyKingLite: Though he's clearly named after Sun Wukong's predecessor and has the white fur, everything else about Hanumachine is more Sun Wukong than Hanuman, between the circlet design, TelescopingStaff, and [[MiniMe Mini Me's]] [[MesACrowd A Crowd powers]].

* {{Necromancy}}: Anubis can resurrect broken Reploids to harass Zero by [[PersonalSpaceInvader latching onto him]].

* PlayingWithFire: Hanumachine and Pantheon Core have fire-based attacks.

* {{Psychopomp}}: Anubis, predictably, has this theme going on.
* PunnyName: Hanumachine, named for the Hindu god Hanuman.
* RapidFireFisticuffs: Ganeshariff has [[Franchise/StreetFighter E. Honda]]'s Hundred Hand Slap attack.

* RollingAttack: Ganeshariff is fond of this. Hanumachine also has one where he becomes a wheel of fire.
* SelectiveMagnetism: one of Aztec Falcon's attacks, where he opens his wings and draws Zero towards him.
* ShockAndAwe: Aztec Falcon and Herculious Anchortus have lightning-based attacks. Anubis Necromancess does as well, though it was actually NonElemental (though his weakness is fire, perhaps as a nod to zombies being weak to fire), but in the third game he acquired lightning powers (and weakness to ice).

* StealthPun: Ganeshariff's ability to store data is a reference to an old proverb: "An elephant never forgets".
* StockAnimalBehavior: Herculious charging at you with his horn.
* TelescopingStaff: Hanumachine's weapon, being based on [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest Sun Wukong]].

* ThunderBeetle: Herculious Anchus, a Reploid based on a hercules beetle who uses electrical attacks. The sequel features [[JapaneseBeetleBrothers his stag beetle brother]] Kuwagust Anchus, who can also use electricity and shares the same ice weakness.

** Aztec Falcon must be defeated in under 75 seconds or the press disposer Zero's standing on will kill the Resistance members below.

* UnusualWeaponMounting: Aztec Falcon has some kind of railgun on his wings. Meanwhile, Herculious and Blizzack can fire electricity and icicles from [[HornAttack their horns]].
* WakeUpCallBoss: Aztec Falcon, the first real boss in the first game, is known for [[IncrediblyLamePun shocking]] the players who have been used to the previous ''Mega Man'' games.
* TheWallsAreClosingIn: Necromancess can summon a sand wall of spikes to trap and smash Zero. In ''Zero 3'', this is replaced with two halves of an electric sarcophagus.
* WarElephants: Maha Ganeshariff is based on an elephant- the Hindu elephant god Ganesha, to be exact.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Aztec Falcon is shown to be alive at the beginning of ''Zero 2'' (presumably rebuilt between games) but besides a minigame in ''Zero 3'' and a cameo in ''ZX'' (the former not canon and the latter probably not him), he never appears again.
* YouAreNumberSix: Interestingly enough, Anubis Necromancess has a number designation to represent how many times he's been brought back into service after being defeated. When first fought by Zero in ''Zero 1'' he's "Anubis Necromancess III", then becomes "IV" for the BossRush, and finally when he returns in ''Zero 3'' he goes by "V".
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: See SelectiveMagnetism. Inverted with Blizzack Staggroff: One of his moves is blowing cold wind from his ArmCannon that pushes you away from him, and being struck by the ice particles within the wind slow Zero's movement.

!!''VideoGame/MegaManZero2''
[[folder:The Dark Elf]]
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-->''Zero...''\\
''When she was born, she had a mission to save the world...''

Originally born as the very first Cyber Elf, the Mother Elf, which, with the "Sigma Antibody Program", was used by X to eradicate all traces of the Maverick Virus on Earth. Dr. Weil corrupted her programming, causing chaos and setting off the devastating Elf Wars. Basically shrouded in mystery. She was later sealed by original X's body.

At the end of ''Zero 2'', she briefly returns to her original state and transforms Elpizo into a Cyber Elf, also freed of his insanity, before running away. In ''Zero 3'' it's revealed she was created by reverse-engineering the residual Zero Virus data from Zero's original body.

* AllYourPowersCombined: In different occasions, she displays abilities of all three types of Cyber Elves: Nurse, Animal, and Hacker. Fitting, since she is the template from which all Cyber Elves are based on.
* AntiVillain: She's always being controlled against her will.
* ApocalypseMaiden: Weil used her power to commit genocide on the planet.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: As the Mother Elf, she has the power to get rid of Maverick corruption. However, after Weil corrupted her, she became the very source of new robotic corruptions, particularly when fused with Omega.
* TheCameo: It's obviously NOT the Dark Elf herself, but during the final battle of ''Zero 4'', Dr. Weil summons the Weil Numbers using a facsimile of her.
* TheCorruption:
** The Dark Elf's SuperEmpowering comes with the notable side-effect of mutating those who fall under its power; the extreme, BrainwashedAndCrazy examples both share MorphicResonance with the dark wisps enshrouding the Dark Elf. (The notable exception is Omega, who was ''designed'' to channel her).
** Weil appears to have subjected the Dark Elf herself to this with his modifications--the Dark Elf's very design implies her to be trapped or enslaved by some foreign influence.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Zigzagged. The Dark Elf doesn't normally ''want'' to cause harm, but she's routinely forced or provoked into using her powers, which are immensely destructive. However, Weil's modifications themselves--the dark wisps enshrouding her in her art--are a straight example of DarkIsEvil.
* EnergyBeing
* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation: The dark shrouds around the Mother Elf appear to be the visible representation of Weil's code, something he added to her program to modify her powers and control her.
* EyesAlwaysShut
* FlunkyBoss: A variant, as she never actually does any fighting herself, but in ''Zero 3'' during Childre's stage she does mutate a Pantheon Aqua into the level's MiniBoss after it tries to attack and capture her and sics it on Zero to keep him from catching her himself.
* ForcedIntoEvil: Thanks to being reprogrammed by Dr. Weil. Even her artwork, of a small and white cyber-elf nearly smothered by threatening shrouds of darkness, suggests entrapment.
* FusionDance: By doing this with any Reploid, she induces a OneWingedAngel form, though only Omega is able to draw out her full power because she originates from Zero's original body as the Sigma Virus, and Omega is currently in control of that body.
* HatePlague: Her powers are mainly used to sow hatred and psychopathy between Reploids, especially when combined with Omega.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Her original purpose was as a force for good, to purge Reploids of the Maverick Virus, but Dr. Weil corrupted her. By the end of ''Zero 3'', she's back to being good.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Darkelf".
* LivingMacguffin: She's pursued by both Neo Arcadia and the Resistance in ''Zero 2'' and Weil in ''Zero 3'' for fear of her powers.
* LogicalWeakness: [[InvertedTrope Logical Immunity]], rather. The Dark Elf doesn't mutate Omega because she's based on the Zero Virus antibodies from Zero's original body, and Omega is using Zero's original body.
* MindControlDevice: One of her more frightening abilities is to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy control all Reploids within range]]; combined with Omega, that range is greatly increased, covering practically all the world. Ironically, she, too, is BrainwashedAndCrazy herself.
* OneWingedAngel: Both she and her kids can induce horrific transformations to any Reploids or Mechaniloids, though she's much more proficient and powerful at it.
* RedeemingReplacement: As the Sigma Antibody Program, she was a countermeasure against the [[TheVirus Maverick Virus]]. Created by using the antibodies in Zero's body as a template, the Mother Elf was used to eradicate the Maverick Virus completely. However, once Weil got ahold of the Mother Elf and corrupted her into the Dark Elf, she effectively became an even worse version of the same virus she was originally trying to eradicate.
* SayMyName: In the third game, she shouts "Zeeeeeeerrooooo" once, in the Oceanic Highway Ruins stage.
* SealedEvilInACan: Zig-zagged. At last count, it's [[SealedGoodInACan Sealed Good In An Evil Can]], [[SealedEvilInACan itself Sealed In A Good Can]].
* SuperPrototype: The other Cyber Elves (even the Baby Elves) are just inferior imitations of her with limited powers, while she can completely alter the appearance and minds of Reploids.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Vanishes at the end of the third game, finally free of her curse, and was never mentioned or seen again.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: It's barely even her fault that she caused the Elf Wars. She didn't even have a choice thanks to Weil.