History Music / TheMegas

[[http://themegas.com/main/main.html The Megas]] are a Los Angeles-based band well-known for making vocal rock remixes of music from the ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' video game series. Unlike Music/TheProtomen, a similarly dedicated band, they directly remix songs from the games. The resulting songs generally have a closer feeling to the original work, giving each of the Robot Masters their own personalities as they sing about their lives as Mega Man breaches their defenses, and eventually defeats them.

Its members currently consist of "Reverend" Josh Breeding, Eric "E" Von Doymi, Greg "Gregatron" Schneider (formerly of punk-rock act Agent 51), Brian "The Double D" [=DiDomenico=] (joined 2011), and Church (joined 2012, replacing Mike "Mikey Hell" Levinson). Their debut album, "Get Equipped", which covers nearly every song in the Mega Man 2 soundtrack, was released January 2008. It's available for purchase on [[http://themegas.com/store.html their website.]]

%% ** There are a few; ''The Quick and the Blue'' for example.

* DeathSeeker: An interesting example in ''Programmed to Fight''.

** It's implied the Needle Man became this at the very end, realizing it was the only way to prevent himself from becoming an evil monster.

* CombatPragmatist: It is speculated by the fans that Mega Man used the Time Stopper against Quick Man (''My circuits slow''...), presumably to overcome the latter's superior speed. This is the only time it's even ''hinted'' that Mega Man used a robot master's weakness.

* AStormIsComing: There are multiple references to the ongoing conflict as a storm - Mega Man calls his path a "gathering storm" in ''History Repeating, Pt 2 (One Last Time)'', ''Continue'' calls him "the one to fare the storm"...and then there's ''Rogumer Storm'', based on the theme song for a boss literally called Storm Eagle, which indulges in .

* AStormIsComing: ''Rogumer Storm'' puts it right there in the title - unsurprisingly, since it's the boss theme for Storm Eagle.

* BoringInvincibleHero: Deconstructed. Mega Man blows his way through all of the Robot Masters (except possibly Crash Man) but becomes consumed with guilt and regret because of it. Several songs involve Mega Man having to be convinced that he should keep going after all he's done. Though it's implied that the battles (like the duels with Quick Man and Crash Man for example) are still tough, Megaman, the hero, naturally prevails.

-->''Why do we fight? How can you say you know what's right? What if we stand? What if we fall? [[TheFatalist Does any choice that we make matter at all?'' ("History Repeating, Part 2 (One More Time)")\\

* SplitPersonality: Gemini Man has two personalities that personify as a weak, cowardly client and a brave, hardboiled detective. The former is scared of Mega Man and is begging for the latter to protect him (notably, the voices portraying the personalities switch throughout the song).

--->''They're coming back...word travels fast. You will not be a relic from the past.''

'''Skull Man:''' Look what you made - this morbid scene!

** Both Snake Man and Proto Man call out Mega Man for the destruction he leaves in his wake.

'''Also Proto Man:''' You say that you stand for peace, but you're the one geared for war. (''Make Your Choice'')

--->'''Snake Man:''' You say 'don't take their lives, they don't deserve to die'. And who does? You think it's us? And what of the one who calls us sons - gonna kill him too? 'Cause who are you? [[HunterOfHisOwnKind You're a man's metal son, the same as every one of us!]] (''Walk Away from Light'')

* AvengingTheVillain: In ''Carved From Mighty Oak'', Wood Man states he will avenge the other Robot Masters. Heat Man's [[HearingVoices voices]] seem to push him to this too.

* CentralTheme: ''History Repeating'', as the name suggests, is about history. Not just in the sense of having to fight the same war another time, although that does get quite a bit of focus, but also the interplay between the past and free will - whether you're just a product of your past, or if you can choose your future. It's particularly obvious in "History Repeating, Pt 2", where both Mega Man and Proto Man wish to "rewrite history" to change their destinies, and "I Refuse (To Believe)", where Mega Man argues that you don't ''need'' to rewrite history to change your destiny, you just need to learn from your mistakes.

** ''Harder Than Steel'' has the line "[[WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie You got back the touch, you got back the power]]".
** ''The Haystack Principle'' has Needle Man claim "[[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit I'm not a bad guy, I'm just designed that way]]".
** For two tunes that were extremely similar to begin with, which in this case are Journey's ''Faithfully'' and Elec Man's theme from Mega Man 1, The Megas take it a step further in ''Evolution of Circuitry'' by having the last verse sound almost lyrically identical the second verse of the Journey song.
*** From ''Evolution of Circuitry'':

*** And from ''Faithfully'':

** ''You've Sparked A War'' has Spark Man comment that "They are the virus; [[TheMatrix we are the cure]]."

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdzo2elvJ5w The Megas are easily distracted]].

* In ''Gamma Unchained'', Wily seethes that "I'm the one that they fear/And for him they cheer". It's not clear whether Light or Mega Man is the target of his ire in this particular case.

* BlackSheep: Bubble Man. The outright notes that his brethren called him useless, weak, and a geek.

* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Metal Man spends his entire song ranting about how unstoppable he is.
%%** Top Man has the same feel in ''Can't Stop the Top''.

%% * BattleInTheRain: Mega Man vs. Crash Man.

%%* BossBanter: A lot of the songs.

%%* CardCarryingVillain: Heat Man.

* DanceBattler: Top Man's song, as he considers the fight between Mega Man and himself a "legendary dance fight."
%%** Metal Man's song, appropriately titled Metal Dance.

%%* HeartbrokenBadass: Magnet Man.

%%* HistoryRepeats: ''History Repeating''

* LastNoteNightmare: "Make Your Choice" ends with a distorted technological sound, giving the impression of a machine breaking down.

%%* ShowdownAtHighNoon: Quick Man's battle with Mega Man is framed as one of these.

%%* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: Shadow Man.

%%* SuicideByCop: Crash Man and Needle Man.

%%* WeCanRuleTogether: Snake Man makes this pitch.

%%* TheWestern: ''The Quick and the Blue'' has a feeling similar to this.

* ArcWords: "I/You want to be the one".

** Top Man has the same feel in ''Can't Stop the Top''.

* [[AvengingTheVillain Avenging The Villains]]: In ''Carved From Mighty Oak'', Wood Man states he will avenge the other Robot Masters. Heat Man's [[HearingVoices voices]] seem to push him to this too.
** There are a few; ''The Quick and the Blue'' for example.
* BattleInTheRain: Mega Man vs. Crash Man.

* BlackSheep: Bubble Man.
--> ''I'm swimming in this bright blue ocean / (I'm drowning in the darkest emotion) / They call me useless, they call me weak / (They call me a flipper and snorkel geek)''
--> ''Out of the eight robots, of all of us / ([[BubbleGun My power]] is so ridiculous) / I realize something, as I stand here waiting / ([[TheWoobie That I'm the one who I'm really hating]])''

* BombThrowingAnarchist: Bomb Man.

* BoringInvincibleHero: Deconstructed. Mega Man blows his way through all of the Robot Masters (except possibly Crash Man) but becomes consumed with guilt and regret because of it. Several songs involve Mega Man having to be convinced that he should keep going after all he's done.
** Though it's implied that the battles(like the duels with Quick Man and Crash Man for example) are still tough, but Megaman, as the hero, naturally prevails.
* BossBanter: A lot of the songs.

--> Air Man: Up in the sky, ten miles high, a man stands above the city he will destroy.
--> Needle Man: Deep underground, ten miles down, a man stands below the city he will destroy…

* CameBackWrong: When Dr Wily resurrects Protoman
* CardCarryingVillain: Heat Man.

* CompanionCube: Tourball.

* DanceBattler: Metal Man's song, appropriately titled Metal Dance.
** Top Man's song, as he considers the fight between Mega Man and himself a "legendary dance fight."

* DarkReprise[=/=]IronicEcho: ''The Quick and The Blue''. The ordinary chorus is:

--->''Deep underground,''
--->''Ten miles down.''
--->''A man stands below,''
--->''The city, he will destroy.''

** "Lives on this earth I grow tired of / [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Death from above]] / The annihilation of everyone you know and love..."
* DeathSeeker[=/=]RedemptionEqualsDeath: An interesting example in ''Programmed to Fight''.
** Crash Man does not agree with Wily's ideals and wants to give his power to Mega Man, but he is "Programmed to fight to the very end" and must do battle with him. However, at the end of the song: "Victory was at hand, but in the end, his will overcame the program." Presumably, he blew himself up so that Mega Man could [[MegaManning use his power.]]
*** Alternatively, he stopped himself from killing Mega Man long enough for him to make the last shot. One of the interesting parts of the Megas' music is that most of the songs can have AlternateCharacterInterpretation within the music itself, not just between the game and the songs.

* [[DemotedToExtra Demoted To Nothing]][=/=]LongSongShortScene: Cut Man and Guts Man, despite being two of the more well known Robot Masters, don't show up at all in the ''Megatainment'' album. There's been talk of making a ''Megatainment Pt. 2'', but there's the issue of how they're going to fill it with more than just the songs for those two.[[note]]Time Man and Oil Man were considered, but Entertainment System wasn't all that fond of their songs.[[/note]]

* DramaticWind: In ''The Quick And The Blue'', just before the ShowdownAtHighNoon.

* EvilSmellsBad: Parodied in "Scent Blaster"
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Quick Man.

* ForTheEvulz: Heat Man, unlike Air Man, doesn't actually seem to have a reason for why he wants to cause death and destruction.
** [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation That is one way]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge to look at it.]]
* ForGreatJustice: "I want to be the one who fights for justice"

* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: By ''Programmed to Fight'', it seems that Crash Man may be the only one who knows his story.
** It's explicitly evoked with the line "My end has come and I welcome glory / no one will know the truth to this story."

* HeartbrokenBadass: Magnet Man.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Fire Man and Ice Man. [[HoYay Maybe]].
* HistoryRepeats: ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin History Repeating]]''
* HumansAreFlawed: [[spoiler: The song's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzx0neug5pQ Melody of the Past]]'s basic message. "Do not hate Father for he is only a man."]]

-->I made you in my image
-->I built your heart
-->I gave you eyes
-->I gave you power
-->A sense of justice beyond any compare
-->I gave you hands, a child's face
-->I gave you hair (ROBOTIC HAAAAIR)

* LonelyPianoPiece: "Continue" from ''History Repeating: Blue''.

* LyricSwap: "The Quick and the Blue" and "Gamma Unchained"; see above under DarkReprise[=/=]IronicEcho.

* MookHorrorShow: Quick Man's song increasingly becomes this as it progresses.
** Wily's song has shades of this, specifically when he starts begging Dr. Light to call Mega Man off.
** Gemini Man's song too, as he (they?) becomes increasing frightened throughout the song, seeing Mega Man as a hitman out for blood whom he's trying to protect himself from.
* MoralMyopia: So, it's okay for Wily to program destructive machines and set them loose to kill and maim, but if Light sends his robot out to stop him, Light is a coward and Mega Man is a murderer?
** He has no compunctions sending robots to kill and maim humans in general, but when one of his creations specifically intends to hurt Dr Light in particular, it is [[MoralityPet somehow different]].
* MundaneMadeAwesome: "''ROBOTIC HAIR!''"
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwXBTM6viIU Scent Blaster]].

* NotSoDifferent: Both Wily and Light build innocent robots into killers, just for different reasons. Wily calls out Light on this in ''Look At What You've Done''.

* ScrewDestiny: Quick Man tries to do this. [[YouCantFightFate He fails]].
** Crash Man, however, [[SubvertedTrope succeeds]] in resisting his programming and losing to Mega Man.

--->''Journey starts, it all ends tonight''
--->''I'll send the spark of war along the wire''

--->''Restless hearts, sleep alone tonight''
--->''Sending all my love along the wire''

* ShowdownAtHighNoon: Quick Man's battle with Mega Man is framed as one of these.

* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: Shadow Man.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: One of the lines from ''History Repeating'', [[strike: I rock.]] [[strike: Fire up.]] [[strike: I'm fired up.]] which has sparked many a FlameWar.
** It has since been confirmed to be Proto Man greeting his brother, the line being "Hi, Rock".

* StarCrossedLovers: Magnet Man and [[spoiler:Roll]] in ''Don't Mess With Magnet Man''.
** StalkerWithACrush: Unless it's more one-sided.
* [[SuicideByCop Suicide By Mega Man]]: Crash Man and Needle Man.

* TruckDriversGearChange: at the end of I Refuse to Believe.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Crash Man may have been more motivated by a hatred of his creator than by sort of sense of justice.

* WeCanRuleTogether: Snake Man makes this pitch.

--> ''Call me wrong? / The future '''needs''' us / Your answer's death? / You end us, '''bleed''' us.''
--> ''Can you not feel / That we could have a life forged in steel. / I only ask that you see what I see. / This is the answer. / Why won't you believe?''

* TheWestern: ''The Quick and the Blue'' has a feeling similar to this.

* {{Yandere}}: Flash Man could be one. It's definitely FoeYay, but depending on how far one interprets the lyrics...

* LyricalDissonance: "Don't Mess with Magnet Man" is pretty damn upbeat for a song about a guy who knows for sure he's going to be scrap metal by the end of the day.
-->'''Magnet Man:''' (cheerfully) I am magnetically/Drawing my death to me/So why can't my body/Reverse polarity?