History VideoGame / MakeAGoodMegaManLevelContest

* JokeLevel: Super Maks 64's level "Space Pipes" was submitted to the contest with the express purpose of trying to get last place, and it succeeded, due to its bizarre gravity gimmick and (purposely) being submitted ''extremely'' late.

* MarathonLevel: [[spoiler:Cartel Anker 3 - ''and for a very good reason.'' Completing this level may take roughly ''an hour'' on the first playthrough. The player has to face every single member of Box Cartel all over again, but with a twist: before each showdown, Mega Man has to get through "slot machine sections" which randomly generate 3 different rooms based on the mainline simulations. Thankfully, you don't have to finish this monstrosity in one sitting - [[AntiFrustrationFeatures the game automatically keeps the progress]] after each encounter with a particular Box Cartel member.]]
* MoodWhiplash: "Mega Man Saves Canada from the Evil Clutches of" is a standard Mega Man level for the most part... and then you take the teleporter to the final stretch of the level. The music cuts out, there's a giant picture of a clown outside the boss room, and the boss itself is a clown that [[ZeroEffortBoss dies in one hit]].

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: [[spoiler:The first stage of Cartel Anker is a Shoot-em-Up instead of a usual platformer.]]

* TheMafia: [[spoiler:The members of Box Cartel in a nutshell.]]

* CallBack: M-Jacq's review of "Space Pipes" is exactly the same as [=Duvi0=]'s review of Mega Man World from the first contest. There, [=Duvi0=] was responding to the in-game message that "i hope i win" with "You probably did!!" Here, M-Jacq is responding to the creator's message that [[SelfDeprecation "IHOPEILOSE"]] with [[BrutalHonesty "You probably did."]]

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:After beating the final boss, all of Box Cartel members decide to gang up on Mega Man, and he teleports away while they try to beat him up. This leads to both the Cartel and Fake Men squad assuming him to be dead.]]

There have also been two side contests. The first was ''Make a Good 24 Hour Mega Man Level'', a private contest which used the ''[=MaGMML2=]'' devkit, and had two added gimmicks: Each participant was given two devkit enemies and two devkit gimmicks that need to be incorporated into the level, and the level had to be completed within 24 hours, hence the name. The second one was ''Make a Good 48 Hour Mega Man Level'', a public contest using the Megamix Engine that was later used for ''[=MaGMML3=]'', with two changes from the ''24 Hour'' contest: The time limit for the level was doubled, and three devkit enemies were provided in the box instead of two. ''Make a Good 24 Hour Mega Man Level'' was released in February of 2018, and the submission period for ''Make a Good 48 Hour Mega Man Level'' ended August 24th, 2018, the judging and development of the game taking until September 6th 2021 to finish.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:After beating the final boss, all of the mafia members decide to gang up on Mega Man, and he teleports away while they try to beat him up. This leads to both the mafia members and the Fake Men assuming him to be dead.]]

A third contest, ''Make a Good Mega Man Level 3'', was announced some time after ''2''[='=]s release, and will be made using a more robust and polished Megamix Engine which, among other features, includes almost every enemy, miniboss, and gimmick across the series (including the UsefulNotes/GameBoy games and ''VideoGame/RockmanAndForteMiraiKaraNoChosensha''), and almost thrice the number of prebuilt bosses. The devkit was released on September 15th, 2018, and the submission period ran from September 22nd to November 25th, with a penalized grace period afterwards for late submissions which ended on December 2nd. It is expected to take until at least May 2019 to judge and prepare.

There have also been two side contests. The first was ''Make a Good 24 Hour Mega Man Level'', a private contest which used the ''[=MaGMML2=]'' devkit, and had two added gimmicks: Each participant was given two devkit enemies and two devkit gimmicks that need to be incorporated into the level, and the level had to be completed within 24 hours, hence the name. The second one was ''Make a Good 48 Hour Mega Man Level'', a public contest using the Megamix Engine that was later used for ''[=MaGMML3=]'', with two changes from the ''24 Hour'' contest: The time limit for the level was doubled, and three devkit enemies were provided in the box instead of two. ''Make a Good 24 Hour Mega Man Level'' was released in February of 2018, and the submission period for ''Make a Good 48 Hour Mega Man Level'' ended August 24th, 2018, with the time that it will take to judge and prepare currently unknown.

** WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine appears at the beginning of Tier 5, as a reference to Pyro's joke fangame ''Mega Man: Square Root of -1'', where he appears as a boss.

** Centaur Man is programmed to jump over ledges if the floor in his boss arena is uneven (preventing him from being trapped on one side). However, since no stage uses Centaur Man as a boss (let alone one with uneven ground), [[DummiedOut this quirk goes unused in the final game]].

* RealityEnsues: The [[spoiler:true final boss, Absolute ZERO,]] has a whopping four forms. The second is played normally by video game standards, being a fairly inarguable upgrade. The next two get more realistic, however, as they are respectively a broken down and then utterly decrepit progression from the second form, and get decidedly weaker each time...the final form only doing one damage per hit.

** Flame as well, which gives gives its weapons straight buffs more than new properties. Flame Buster shoots fast bullets that follow the same trajectory, while the Flame Saber has an extended reach that makes it easier to hit things.

* EasterEgg: Eddie appears exactly twice in the game. His first appearance is in Frosty Fields, encased in an ice block. His second one is in the credits scene depicting the festival... but, only if you freed him from the ice that first time.

* ObviousBeta: Unfortunately, the initial release of the game was plagued with problems, including [[GameBreakingBug not being able to enter the Wily Star at all.]] These issues are being quickly rectified through a rapid succession of patches. Then again, this did have a [[ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime similar development time as]] ''VideoGame/MegaMaker''.

* BaitAndSwitch: After finally defeating Wily, he announces that Mega Man must now fight his GREATEST CREATION EVER! [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/MegaManX Zero's]] silhouette starts to appear... before he turns out to be an ugly red blob that is only ''vaguely'' shaped like the real Zero, and the resulting ZeroEffortBoss was just Wily's distraction so that he could escape again.]]

* AscendedExtra: The very minor scientist NPC who created the Tier 1 hub world in MaGMML2 returns in this game, and is given more focus in the story as well as her own character portrait. Her name is Sophie Hyde, and you can call her on your Z-Phone and have her explain how your various weapons and chips work.

* PlayableEpilogue: After beating the game, all the [=NPCs=] return to the Wily Bunker, and Wily himself can be talked to again in person and over the phone. Notably, this has been stated to be non-canon and happens primarily for gameplay purposes.

* GuideDangIt: The postgame content, which starts with [[spoiler:a mysterious note found in Mega City's Chateau Chevaleresque requesting you to call the writer, but leaving you to guess the phone number -- using sources outside the game as hints.[[note]]Said sources are certain [[Website/{{Twitter}} tweets from the MaGMML Twitter account]] leading up to the game's release.[[/note]] From there, you need to find specific spots in every level to call the character Knives (not to be confused with Knives Chau from ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'') and progress the sidequest. As per usual, TropesAreTools; here, it's used to encourage community participation in finding the most obscure locations that you'd need to get to]].

* GuestFighter: Some of the costumes are characters from other intellectual properties who are related to Mega Man in some way. These characters are [[spoiler:Rokko from ''VideoGame/RokkoChan'' (a tribute to ''Mega Man'')]], [[spoiler:Beck from ''VideoGame/MightyNo9'' (a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Mega Man'')]], [[spoiler:Doropie from ''VideoGame/MagicalDoropie'' (a contemporary AlternateCompanyEquivalent to ''Mega Man'')]], [[spoiler:Marisa Kirisame from ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' (alluding to the FusionFic fan game ''VideoGame/MegaMari'')]], and [[spoiler:Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog (continuing the Archie references in CompositeCharacter and ContinuityCameo above, alluding to the [[ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog Archie]] [[ComicBook/MegaMan Comics]] crossover storylines ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide'' and ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsUnite'')]].

* CanonWelding: [[spoiler:The Wargates from ''Scooby Doc 4'' are revealed to be Genesis Portals left over from the events of ''Worlds Unite''.]]

* FrickinLaserBeams: As expected from some level entries, with Force Man taking the concept to its logical conclusion by being a Robot Master that uses force beams as his '''main weapon'''. [[note]]Thankfully, only one of his attacks can do a OneHitKill, and it's telegraphed by skull icons that show where they will come from.[[/note]] [[spoiler:You can also unlock it as a weapon.]]

* BonusBoss: The Golems, giant elemental droids each themed after one of Zero's Drive Chips that can be fought as random encounters on the world map at a certain point. Defeating one upgrades the corresponding Chip's energy efficiency [[spoiler:and defeating all of them allows Dr. Hyde to upgrade Zero's Blank Drive into a devastating [[SmartBomb screen clearing]] attack]].

* AllThereInTheManual: The Wiki has a page on what games are canon to the universe, and also briefly explain how they fit in (Many [[BroadStrokes ignoring some aspect]] of the game to fit it into canon; whenever there's an entry that has an ending that wouldn't really gel, it's simply said "[[HandWave Don't ask how this one ends in the canon]]". Likewise, games that are DenserAndWackier, such as ''Mega Man: Square Root of -1'' and ''VideoGame/SkullmanInScoobyDoc4TheDestroyerFeaturingAtsushiOnita'', supposedly took place within space-time rifts), along with noting non-Mega Man games with a similar aesthetic are from different continents (and stating that ''VideoGame/MightyNo9'''s Xel Technology is largely unavailable to the rest of the world). There's also reenactments of ''Mega Man 1''-''6'' within the series' universe, and ''VideoGame/TheKrionConquest'' is [[ShowWithinAShow fictional]] within the universe.

** Almost all of the cast in ''[=MaGMML1=]'' are from the games, and the game is relatively subdued about series' in-jokes. ''[=MaGMML2=]'' would go on to feature [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters even more]] characters, many of which are from either various adaptations or [[{{Crossover}} other game series]], and significantly increases the {{Mythology Gag}}s.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The first game mostly uses characters from the original games, which is still quite a large number taking account the 50+ Robot Masters in the series. ''[=MaGMML2=]'' ups the ante by including characters from various entries beyond the Classic series, along with adaptations, and even integrates ones from fanworks and other franchises into the games, significantly increasing the character count.

** The end of the Tier 1 level "[[ShapedLikeItself Level]]" has an inexplicable cameo from Waltz, a ''very'' minor character[[labelnote:*]]As in, "only appears in a single panel and an unrelated piece of splash art" minor[[/labelnote]] from the Mega Man Dreamwave comics. However, because she's just a sprite randomly pasted in with no animation, hitbox or AI, you can't fight her or interact with her in any way. She's just kind of... there?

* ContinuityNod: Several Robot Masters from other fangames — [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/MegaManEternal Jolt Man]] (original game only -- replaced with [[VideoGame/MegaManARM2 "Him"]] in ''Remastered''), [[VideoGame/MegaManSuperFightingRobot Dagger Man]], [[VideoGame/MegaManUnlimited Yoku Man]], and [[VideoGame/MegaManRockForce Justice Man]]]] — are included as tier bosses (with the HandWave that they were revived by Dr. Wily in the original Blyka's Engine version), complete with the boss music from their original games and slightly modified attack patterns. Mega Man also comments on their reappearance before fighting them, such as [[BrutalBonusLevel recalling how brutal]] [[spoiler:[[BrutalBonusLevel Yoku Man]]]][[BrutalBonusLevel 's stage was]] and -- in the original Blyka's Engine version -- [[UnexplainedRecovery asking how]] [[spoiler:[[UnexplainedRecovery Justice Man]]]] [[UnexplainedRecovery is even back at all]], since he was KilledOffForReal in his game.