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!!Dr. / Lord Weil
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-->'''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.
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* 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.
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* 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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* 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 that this trope can be terrifying when brought to its logical conclusion.

* 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 that this trope can be terrifying when brought to its logical conclusion.

* BigBadWannabe: '''VERY 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.

* 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 he is evidently very much insane.
* CardCarryingVillain: Can count as a deconstruction, because it shows that it can be terrifying if brought into its logical conclusion.

[[Characters/MegaManZeroProtagonists Protagonists]] ([[Characters/MegaManXZero Zero]]) | [[Characters/MegaManZeroAllies Allies]] ([[Characters/MegaManX X]]) | [[Characters/MegaManZeroAntagonists Antagonists]] ('''Weil''')]]]]-]

[[Characters/MegaManZeroProtagonists Protagonists]] | [[Characters/MegaManZeroAllies Allies]] | [[Characters/MegaManZeroAntagonists Antagonists]] ('''Weil''')]]]]-]

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.

* ImmortalityImmorality: Athough his morals were already dubious ''before'' being "cursed", he still degraded further down the line for his initial desire to die.

* 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.

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* 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? ''Ahahahahahaaaah...'''''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.

** in the fourth game, he reveals that he's an immortal due to his enhancements.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite his megalomaniacal personality and making the lives of Neo Arcadia's people a living hell, he's genuinely ataken back by Craft's plan to destroy Neo Arcadia with his own Ragnarok satellite, trying to remind him that there are many humans and Reploids living under his control, though Craft [[ShutUpHannibal tells him to stuff it]].

-->'''Dr. Weil:''' That's right! I'm a bona fide human. The creator of Reploids... A human being!

* 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 "How could I...by an empty doll...Perish! Burn in hell!")[[/note]].

-->'''Weil''': (''To Neige'') Hehehe...That's the face...The face of rage, suffering, and humiliation...it's my greatest pleasure...A pleasure only a ruler can fully appreciate!

-->'''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?

-->'''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]]

-->'''Dr. Weil:''' Hehehehe...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!

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He 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 turned into a general hatred for everyone.

* 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}}, denied death by his regenerative armor.

* 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 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 with his Z-Saber, allowing the pair to escape]].

* YouMonster: After Zero defeats Pegasolta Eclair, Ciel wonders if Weil could possibly still be human in a spiritual sense. For an answer, goes back and forth referring to himself as "human" in a hypocritical way to justify himself and [[SatanicArchetype the devil]].

* 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.

* 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 creating a KillEmAll scenario 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]] [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans his personality]], it's rather apt.

** 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, [[SpannerInTheWorks Craft]] [[TheStarscream rebels against him]] and then fired the Ragnarok at him, destroying Neo Arcadia in the process.

* 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 forever condemned to rot as wreckage at the bottom of the ocean, presumably forever]].

* 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.

* YouMonster: After Zero defeats Pegasolta Eclair, Ciel wonders if Weil could possibly still be human in a spiritual sense. For an answer, goes back and forth referring to himself as "human" in a hypocritical way to justify himself and [[SatanicArchetypethe devil.]]