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* The way Crash Man's song describes him as fighting his programming from the inside and ultimately destroying himself reflects the unusual combat AI for Crash Man in the original game - he would only attack when Megaman does; if you don't attack, he just paces back and forth. When you ''do'' attack, he jumps up and fires downwards, meaning that he can be made to suicidally jump into your shots.
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* Wily says of Proto Man "I gave him power, a new heart... it filled too quickly with his rage." Proto Man says of himself "my heart is gone, there's only fire.". In other words, like Light to Mega Man, "the burning in your heart, I did not put there."
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* Skullman speaking of hearing the dead might just be to fit his undead theme, but he was also one of the first robot masters built specifically to fight megaman, likely he was made using combat data(if not outright made from the parts of) previous robot masters, of course he sees them as "past lives" his first memorys were likely viewing the defeat of each robot master from there perspective

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* Skullman speaking of hearing the dead might just be to fit his undead theme, but he was also one of the first robot masters built specifically to fight megaman, likely he was made using combat data(if not outright made from the parts of) previous robot masters, of course he sees them as "past lives" his first memorys were likely viewing the defeat of each robot master from there perspective
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* The line in Chill X-Mas about waiting ‘for the hologram of Santa Claus’ becomes brilliant when you realize that Dr. Light, who left holograms of himself behind for X (one of which is in Chill Penguin’s stage), looks like Santa in a lab coat.
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** Gamma is fridge horror when you realize that the lines of Gamma Unchained suggest Wily didn’t do anything other than ''turn it on''. No reprogramming, glitches, or corruption whatsoever. The program running is exactly what [[BigGood Dr. Light]] meant for it to have. GoneHorriblyRight indeed.


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** * Gamma is fridge horror when you realize that the lines of Gamma Unchained suggest Wily didn’t do anything other than ''turn it on''. No reprogramming, glitches, or corruption whatsoever. The program running is exactly what [[BigGood Dr. Light]] meant for it to have. GoneHorriblyRight indeed.

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\n** Gamma is fridge horror when you realize that the lines of Gamma Unchained suggest Wily didn’t do anything other than ''turn it on''. No reprogramming, glitches, or corruption whatsoever. The program running is exactly what [[BigGood Dr. Light]] meant for it to have. GoneHorriblyRight indeed.

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* From a meta angle, the release of the Megas X Belmonts EPs are always holiday-related and have a unifying concept behind them all.

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* From a meta angle, the release of the Megas X Belmonts EPs [=EPs=] are always holiday-related and have a unifying concept behind them all.



* Listen to ''Evolution of Circuitry'', Elec Man's incredibly upbeat, empowering song about having the power to liberate his people and bring about a new era, one of the most upbeat songs they've written. Realize that he gets brutally executed by Megaman immediately after the song ends. (This also adds extra pathos to Dr. Wily's ''Look What You've'' later on the same album, and to Spark Man's much more militant and aggressive ''You've Sparked a War'' on the next.)

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* Listen to ''Evolution of Circuitry'', Elec Man's incredibly upbeat, empowering song about having the power to liberate his people and bring about a new era, one of the most upbeat songs they've written. Realize that he gets brutally executed by Megaman immediately after the song ends. (This also adds extra pathos to Dr. Wily's ''Look What You've'' You've Done'' later on the same album, and to Spark Man's much more militant and aggressive ''You've Sparked a War'' on the next.)



** Given the nature of Hardman's song, with all his speaking of a crowd and "His Town", as well as others like Quickman's [In this "town",I am the law] It's not impossible that the various robot uprisings managed to take control of population centers, which might very well allow for the various conflicts to be drawn out for quite some time. Which admittedly raises the possible question of what happened to any inhabitants after Megaman finished dismantling the robot Master protecting those locations.

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** Given the nature of Hardman's song, with all his speaking of a crowd and "His Town", as well as others like Quickman's [In this "town",I "town" / I am the law] It's not impossible that the various robot uprisings managed to take control of population centers, which might very well allow for the various conflicts to be drawn out for quite some time. Which admittedly raises the possible question of what happened to any inhabitants after Megaman finished dismantling the robot Master protecting those locations.
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* Skullman speaking of hearing the dead might just be to fit his undead theme, but he was also one of the first robot masters built specifically to fight megaman, likely he was made using combat data(if not outright made from the parts of) previous robot masters, of course he sees them as "past lives" his first memorys were likely viewing the defeat of each robot master from there perspective


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** "Burn" is there for it's connection to The Crow, as the above said.

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** "Burn" is there for it's its connection to The Crow, as the above said.

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*Building off of this, all of the non-game songs the band has covered have a reason to have been covered:
**"Sunglasses at Night" is easy because Proto Man has a visor that resembles sunglasses, and he always wears them.
**"Send Me An Angel" is primarily there for the fact that it was featured in [[Film/TheWizard The Wizard]], note that clips from the movie play in this cover. The Wizard was a movie that is joked about being a 90-minute Nintendo commercial. However, considering the lyrics, and that this song is on the "Fly On A Dog" single; this song would be one that Mega Man would be singing at that time as well.
**"Burn" is there for it's connection to The Crow, as the above said.
**"Blue Christmas" is covered because all incarnations of Mega Man are blue.
**The above pretty much sums up "Yours Truly, 2095"
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** "Skulls" is an EP that was released on Halloween, a holiday generally associated with the macabre and horrific, and features "avenging the dead" as a recurring motif. Skull Man is fighting to avenge the death of robot masters that came before him, Dracula mourns the death of his wife, Leon and Sara make one last declaration of their resolve in the face of death, and "Burn" was written based on The Crow, a comic and film about a man who returns from the dead to murder the men who killed him and his fiancée.
** "Snakes" was released on St. Patrick's Day, which celebrates the day Saint Patrick drove a horde of snakes from Ireland, and focuses on the idea of being poisoned both physically and psychologically.

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** "Skulls" is an EP that was released on Halloween, a holiday generally associated with the macabre and horrific, and features "avenging the dead" as a recurring motif. Skull Man is fighting to avenge the death of robot masters that came before him, Dracula mourns the death of his wife, Leon and Sara make one last declaration of their resolve in the face of death, and "Burn" was written based on The Crow, a comic and film about a man who returns from the dead to murder the men who killed him and his fiancée.
** "Snakes" was released on St. Patrick's Day, which celebrates the day Saint Patrick drove a horde of snakes from Ireland, and focuses on the idea of being poisoned by temptation both physically and psychologically.
psychologically. Medusa attempts to seduce Simon into looking into her eyes before fighting him, Elec Man tries to poison other robots with a flawed ideology and call for them to rise up, Storm Eagle was tempted by the Maverick ideology, and "Yours Truly, 2095" is about a man who was tempted with the idea of a 'better' girlfriend than his first love and found nothing but a hollow, superficial love life.
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** "Skulls" is an EP that was released on Halloween, a holiday generally associated with the macabre and horrific, and features "death" as a recurring motif. Skull Man is fighting to avenge the death of robot masters that came before him, Dracula mourns the death of his wife, Leon and Sara make one last declaration of their resolve in the face of death, and "Burn" was written based on The Crow, a comic and film about a man who returns from the dead to murder the men who killed him and his fiancée.

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** "Skulls" is an EP that was released on Halloween, a holiday generally associated with the macabre and horrific, and features "death" "avenging the dead" as a recurring motif. Skull Man is fighting to avenge the death of robot masters that came before him, Dracula mourns the death of his wife, Leon and Sara make one last declaration of their resolve in the face of death, and "Burn" was written based on The Crow, a comic and film about a man who returns from the dead to murder the men who killed him and his fiancée.

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* From a meta angle, the release of the Megas X Belmonts EPs are always holiday-related and have a unifying concept behind them all.
** "Skulls" is an EP that was released on Halloween, a holiday generally associated with the macabre and horrific, and features "death" as a recurring motif. Skull Man is fighting to avenge the death of robot masters that came before him, Dracula mourns the death of his wife, Leon and Sara make one last declaration of their resolve in the face of death, and "Burn" was written based on The Crow, a comic and film about a man who returns from the dead to murder the men who killed him and his fiancée.
** "Snakes" was released on St. Patrick's Day, which celebrates the day Saint Patrick drove a horde of snakes from Ireland, and focuses on the idea of being poisoned both physically and psychologically.
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** Given the nature of Hardman's song, with all his speaking of a crowd and "His Town", as well as others like Quickman's [In this "town",I am the law] It's not impossible that the various robot uprisings managed to take control of population centers, which might very well allow for the various conflicts to be drawn out for quite some time. Which admittedly raises the possible question of what happened to any inhabitants after Megaman finished dismantling the robot Master protecting those locations.

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** Given the nature of Hardman's song, with all his speaking of a crowd and "His Town", as well as others like Quickman's [In this "town",I am the law] It's not impossible that the various robot uprisings managed to take control of population centers, which might very well allow for the various conflicts to be drawn out for quite some time. Which admittedly raises the possible question of what happened to any inhabitants after Megaman finished dismantling the robot Master protecting those locations.locations.
** Perhaps Hard Man is an older model that got dragged into Wily's efforts for ''History Repeating'', rather than being a bespoke design for it.
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Who’s singing this song is up to interpretation, so I say we just leave it ambiguous.


* Wily's JustThinkOfThePotential line, about replacing humanity with robots, and Protoman's line (''"How can there be peace, while two sides stand?"'') are not just throwaway lines: In VideoGame/MegaManZX, the humans and reploids are all cyborgs and the two categories are barely distinguishable; they made peace by making humans so mechanical they may as well be robots.

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* Wily's JustThinkOfThePotential line, about replacing humanity with robots, and Protoman's the line from ''Make Your Choice'' (''"How can there be peace, while two sides stand?"'') are not just throwaway lines: In VideoGame/MegaManZX, the humans and reploids are all cyborgs and the two categories are barely distinguishable; they made peace by making humans so mechanical they may as well be robots.
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It makes much more sense for it to be Proto and Mega singing than Gamma.


* Wily's JustThinkOfThePotential line, about replacing humanity with robots, and Gamma's line (''"How can there be peace, while two sides stand?"'') are not just throwaway lines: In VideoGame/MegaManZX, the humans and reploids are all cyborgs and the two categories are barely distinguishable; they made peace by making humans so mechanical they may as well be robots.

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* Wily's JustThinkOfThePotential line, about replacing humanity with robots, and Gamma's Protoman's line (''"How can there be peace, while two sides stand?"'') are not just throwaway lines: In VideoGame/MegaManZX, the humans and reploids are all cyborgs and the two categories are barely distinguishable; they made peace by making humans so mechanical they may as well be robots.
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* ''Walk Away From Light'' is all about Snake Man trying to tempt Mega Man into joining Wily. Given that Snake Man is weak to Needle Cannon, one could reasonably assume that Mega Man fought Needle Man before Snake Man. What else does Mega Man get after beating Needle Man? Rush Jet. Under this logic, ''Fly On A Dog'', a song about Mega Man growing increasingly bitter towards humanity and Dr. Light, immediately precedes ''Walk Away From Light''. Snake Man is preying on Mega Man while he's emotionally vulnerable.

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