History Headscratchers / MegaManBattleNetwork

** 5. Epilouge. Show that it's not over with a brief scene (even if you keep it all black like in Battle Network 2) that Regal survived and have him hint at the plot of Battle Network 5.

** What do you mean it would be treatable if it were viral? We're talking [[ScienceMarchesOn early nineties medicine here.]] Back then we didn't have treatments for influenza or even the common cold, let alone some deadly heart virus. The major threat of viruses comes from the fact that they don't respond well to medication- usually all you can do is treat the symptoms and hope the patient's immune system can fend off the infection. That's why the focus has always been on vaccination- you had to prevent the disease because there was no cure.

** What do you mean it would be treatable if it were viral? We're talking early nineties medicine here. Back then we didn't have treatments for influenza or even the common cold, let alone some deadly heart virus. The major threat of viruses comes from the fact that they don't respond well to medication- usually all you can do is treat the symptoms and hope the patient's immune system can fend off the infection. That's why the focus has always been on vaccination- you had to prevent the disease because there was no cure.

BN 1) Obvious
BN 3) Set Scilab on fire after tricking Lan into helping.
BN 4) Trying to blow up Den Dome, but having a change of heart.(Red Sun)
The last one might be wrong, though.

** Well, if there's one thing EXE 4-6 (or at least 5-6) did it topped off Lan and Chaud's character development from BN1-3. After Lan's little hero incident in BN3, he's now perfectly fine with never receiving any credit for what he does, and Chaud has significantly mellowed out and realized that, yes, some people are just as good as he. Also, since the original Megaman.exe was a human sould digitalized, MegamanX.exe would have to follow suit and somehow be even more advanced, which sounds conceptually impossible (would also mean that Lan would have to lose a son. So yeah). That, and there's Star Force.

** The games never state they're identical twins...

*** Planetman in the BonusDungeon in 2 makes that "Chosen One" comment too. So it was definitely not something that was just thrown in without much thought during 3.

** Battle Network 2 [[YouFailNuclearPhysicsForever fails radiation forever.]] All it does is make people ''walk funny'', if the NPCs are any guide. So Lan should be fine. Besides, had he even hit puberty yet?

* That EXE 4-6 were PostScriptSeasons at all. I think they should've just ended it there and if they truly wanted to continue the series, replace Lan. Make it so his son gets a "Mega Man X.exe" or something and continues his legacy and fighting Nebula as Lan did with WWW. I just really feel like the second half would've been better if it didn't focus on Lan and mirrored X instead of like how the first three mirrored Classic.

* At the end of [=BN2=] we have some kind of fruitcake radiation that grows computers and starts mixing the real and cyber worlds of Kotobuki. Alright, I can suspend disbelief on that, it looks really cool and eerie. What really bugs me about it though, is that there was no AdventuresOfCookieAndCream esque team up where Megaman and Lan break that barrier and jump abck and forth between their worlds -- Megaman shooting down doors, Lan whacking Metools with a mop, etc. Just seems like the perfect opportunity for FishOutOfWater is all.

* At the end of [=BN2=] we have some kind of fruitcake radiation that grows computers and starts mixing the real and cyber worlds of Kotobuki. Alright, I can suspend disbelief on that, it looks really cool and eerie. What really bugs me about it though, is that there was no AdventuresOfCookieAndCream esque team up where Megaman and Lan break that barrier -- Megaman shooting down doors, Lan whacking Metools with a mop, etc. Just seems like the perfect opportunity is all.

** Battle Network 2 fails radiation forever. All it does is make people ''walk funny'', if the NPCs are any guide. So Lan should be fine. Besides, had he even hit puberty yet?

In ''Battle Network 6 Gregar'', Cyber Academy has surveillance cameras in every classroom and dispatches armed security robots if someone walks in without ID. Their staff includes a on and off again terrorist, an ''actual'' terrorist (albeit a reluctant one) and an assassin. Go figure.

*How did we miss this one: Lan and Hub have 100% the same DNA, being twins. So how come Lan does not have Hub's heart condition? It it was bacterial or viral in nature, it would have been treatable. Mamoru is able to survive it using advanced tech, which hints at a problem in the mechanics of the heart. So why doesn't Lan have it, if it's congenital and he has Hub's DNA?

*** Alternatively alternatively, it ''doesn't'' really, and it appearing to have a kaiju form is part of the same illusion of "the internet is just like the real world" farce that makes PETs perceive viruses as animals and AIs as robots- to make things more comprehensible to the layman navi-operator.

** Match might've been doing something for the community at the Airport in Battle Network 2, as stated in 5, they hired Fyrefox/Dingo to netbattle, it may have been something similar. And in 3, he was helping SciLab.

*What Happened to the storyline after BN3? It's like they just forgot that there was an over arching plotline the second they started BN4.

** I don't get what they were thinking with BN 6's plot: it was the end of the series, but nothing of importance happened in it. Then the ending seemed like the writers had just learned that there weren't going to be any more of these games and made sure everyone knew it by declaring that ''this'' particular threat was the big one for all time every few minutes. It wasn't even a double boss (despite the huge potential they had for one), just one beast weaker than anything other than the Lifevirus. I'm not even getting into how lame all the new characters were. I get that they wanted to appeal to younger gamers here, but this was a pathetic way to end things.

**** Actually, it's a bit sparsely fleshed out, but it seems to go something like this: In BN4, Regal was already convinced HumansAreBastards and Nebula was already entering mainstream by the time the game rolled around, and even though he was probably planning to enact the BN5 Soulnet plot, the big rock about to hit the planet showed up, and since he was convinced humanity sucked, he wanted to make sure the big rock hit the planet. He failed, so by BN5 he activated his backup plan (technically his first plan until the asteroid showed up). As for the [[MadeOfEvil Dark Chips]], he wanted to prove HumansAreBastards in both BN4 and BN5, and what better way to do it than by corrupting the Internet, which the whole world is pretty much literally connected to. In short, the thin plot can be justified (on Regal's ambition's end at least) by the fact proving HumansAreBastards was his baseline motivation for both games, on BN4 had him attempt KillEmAll via ColonyDrop due to his disgust, and BN5 had him instead try to enact massive MoreThanMindControl to acheive the same result.

** Well would ''you'' look there? Besides, in BN 1 the Fire Program was inside Lan's ''oven''. That's even worse.

* Why are there ''so many viruses'' on the Net? Seriously, if you're jacked-in, you're subject to RandomEncounters, even if you're in your own home PC, the major "city" PCs, or the ''kitchen'' PC. Is there no decent virus-protection or firewall software TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture? (ThisTroper has only played the DS version of 5, but assumes that it's the same in other games of the series...)

*** If the NetNavis are intended to be the antivirus, they're definitely not a very, very, very good antivirus system. Today, your antivirus - to select one at random, AVG - easily repairs or quarantines any infected files en masse, and the chances of said AVG being deleted or otherwise disabled by a virus is practically nil. However, NetNavis must "fight" viruses, one-to-three at a time, and can easily be removed by said viruses. Why didn't we keep AVG when we traveled forwards those twenty minutes, particularly when we've decided that EverythingIsOnline?

***** Wait. Waitwaitwaitwaitwait. So, in the past the Internet was relatively devoid of viruses, and stuff ''worked''. Then Tadashi, who is insane, created a new Internet protocol based around stupidly high levels of virus activity, thus requiring all users of the Internet to have their own, painfully ineffective, antivirus programs called NetNavis. Everyone on the entire ''planet'' immediately agreed to replace the previously functioning networking systems with a single, fairly rubbish protocol created by an ''insane'' computer scientist. Apparently it's not only Tadashi that's insane.
****** No, Tadashi didn't ''intend'' for the viruses, his idea was for the Netnavis to be used as antivirus programs (they haven't done as good a job as intended). Also, if you'll recall, the old internet had been more or less destroyed by Alpha, so he needed to recreate things from the ground up. People all agreed because it meant getting the internet back in some form.
****** No, I do not recall, for I have only played the fifth game's DS version. The following objections are therefore only based on my assumptions. Destruction of the "old Internet" we have in reality is pretty much impossible, anyway - you'd need to take down ''every single server'' in existence, after all (or at least every DNS server, disabling everyone who doesn't memorise IP addresses or have a private DNS server). Even after doing this, it wouldn't be too difficult to put the same Internet protocols back up again once the danger had passed - using a new concept, by an ''insane'' scientist is entirely unnecessary, and definitely would require more work than restoring the previously existing Internet. As another point, if Tadashi intended for the NetNavis to function as antivirus apps, why didn't he actually ''test'' their antivirus abilities in a local-network setup of his new Internet concept? Presumably because he's ''insane.'' This brings us to the real question: why do the ''entire'' population of the planet accept a flawed, dangerous protocol created by an ''insane'' man, when the existing protocols were far more effective and could easily be reinstated?

* What I'd like to know is why, in the games AND the anime, SciLab gets hit by massive virus attacks roughly three times an episode. This is a group of scientists working on the forefront of network technology, yet their firewall is made of absolute FAIL. A security flaw which, more than once, has resulted in massive PHYSICAL damage to the facility.

** Justified. Sci Lab is basically a civilian run government organization that studies the Internet, and except in a few cases involving national security (see BN2, 3, AND 5), they throw open their doors because they are run by scientists who believe in an open exchange of ideas and have nothing to hide. True, it's naive, but is quite in tune with a scientific mindset, which tends to be liberal in regards to access of material and information.