History VideoGame / MegamanLegends

** [[spoiler:Turns out ''everyone'' in the Legends series (except for Megs himself, a RidiculouslyHumanRobot) is a "Carbon." Mega Man and Data were charged with safeguarding the Master of the Ancients' DNA, presumably the last remaining sample of completely human genetic code.]]

* AmbiguousRobots: Pretty much everyone. Cybernetics are so widespread in this world that it's impossible to tell for sure who is a robot and who is a human. [[spoiler:Mega Man and the other System Units are confirmed as {{Ridiculously Human Robot}}s, and the "Carbons" are all humans]], but on an individual basis it's possible some of the "people" you meet are robots with biological components.

* ICannotSelfTerminate: [[spoiler:System units are unable to act against the Master System's parameters, hence why Sera is so focused on executing the Carbon Reinitialization Program (the System won't allow her to do otherwise). It's implied that the Master was slowly able to break Trigger away from the System, hence why he was able to stop Sera from carrying out the System's orders. As for Yuna, it's mentioned offhand that she broke from the System of her own volition, although how exactly that happened has yet to be explained.]]

* KillAllHumans: Weirdly zig-zagged: [[spoiler: the Carbon Reinitialization Program hosted on Elysium was designed to clone ''new'' humans from preserved human DNA and repopulate the earth with them upon the Master's death (i.e. humanity's official extinction). As an unfortunate necessity, this involves exterminating the [[ArtificialHuman Carbons]] in order to make room for humanity's return.]]

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Taken to a new extreme: [[spoiler:Ridiculously Human Robot Humans. Or something. The original Japanese is a bit clearer on this, but every "human" character is a Carbon - a [[MechanicalEvolution descendant of artificially created humans]] meant to populate Terra as long as the Master was around, while the System Units are mostly robotic, but with some biological components (such as being able to age). Only the Master is truly human... except by the time the ''Legends'' series takes place, he's been long dead, and the Master System is trying to bulldoze the Carbons and clone humanity back into existence.]] See Tomato In The Dyson Sphere below for the short version.

* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:The Ancients knew what they were doing when they built the Master System, if the Carbon Reinitialization Program is anything to go by. Upon the death of the last human in existence, it was designed to clone ''new'' humans from preserved human DNA and then wipe out the [[ArtificialHuman artificial]] Carbon race in order to make room for humanity's rebirth (essentially ensuring humanity's eternal survival, even AfterTheEnd). It would have worked perfectly, too, had said last human not witnessed the Carbons evolve into a race of beings virtually indistinguishable from humanity and decided to throw a SpannerInTheWorks in the form of Trigger.]]

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Taken to a new extreme: [[spoiler:Ridiculously Human Robot Humans. Or something. The original Japanese is a bit clearer on this, but every "human" character is a Carbon - a [[MechanicalEvolution descendant of artificially created humans]] meant to populate Terra as long as the Master was around. Then he stopped being around, so the other Ancients want to [[InferredHolocaust "re-initialize" Terra]] to bulldoze the Carbons and dig their kind out of whatever dormancy they're in.]] See Tomato In The Dyson Sphere below for the short version.

* [[TomatoInTheMirror Tomato In The Dyson Sphere]]: How is Volnutt the only one who can understand Data? Simple: [[spoiler:he's a RidiculouslyHumanRobot]]. Everyone else? [[spoiler: Artificially cloned by a race of {{Ridiculously Human Robot}}s with orders to KillEmAll upon the last real human's death.]]

* ColonyDrop: [[spoiler:How Mega Man Juno plans to "reinitialize" Kattelox, by dropping a gigantic column-like device right in the middle of the city.]]

** The biggest so far would have to be the Colossus Reaverbot that serves as the endgame boss of ''The Misadventures of Tron Bonne''. It's so big that the battle against it takes place ''on the shoulders/head of the Reaverbot itself''. Heck, it's so big that its HitPoint bar goes off-screen.

* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler:The Master System. It eliminated all hardships from human existence; no war, no hunger, no disease. The people living under it were practically immortal. However, they became so dependent on it that they literally could not survive outside the System, and they became so stagnant that most of them died out simply from losing any will to live. The last human left saw that the "Carbons" had started building a civilization of their own, so before he died he ordered Trigger to destroy the System so the Carbons could live and grow without interference.]]

* ChestMonster: "It's a trapped box!" Not an actual monster, but they do shoot out bombs when opened and can be destroyed to get a large amount of zenny.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:The only reason the [[KillSat Carbon Reinitialization Program]] didn't go off upon the Master's death was because Yuna successfully imprisoned Sera, the unit in charge of executing the Program, on Forbidden Island. So when Trigger releases the latter from her prison, guess what she immediately decides to go do?]] Oops.

* KillAllHumans: The few reploids left aside from Trigger, along with the remaining mechaniloids, are still carrying out their "keep the servant species Carbons from [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters turning against their masters]]" orders, despite the masters having died of natural causes ages ago.

* On September 29, 2010, Capcom Europe [[http://www.themmnetwork.com/2010/09/29/mega-man-legends-3-announced-for-nintendo-3ds/ confirmed]] ''Legends 3'' as a UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS title almost 10 years after the release of ''Legends 2''... Unfortunately, on July 18, 2011, Capcom announced that, due to the vague reason of not meeting required criteria, the project had been [[http://www.capcom-unity.com/devroom/blog/2011/07/18/a_message_from_capcom cancelled,]] with the SuspiciouslySpecificDenial that it had nothing to do with sacking KeijiInafune. Worse still, Inafune even [[http://t.co/FTqmlOBW offered to help finish the game, only for Capcom to refuse.]] [[InternetBackdraft The fans were not pleased.]]

''Rockman DASH'' in Japan, is a 1997 Playstation game that was Capcom's first attempt to take the franchise into 3D. The storyline revolves around "Mega Man Volnutt" and his friends/surrogate family Roll and Barrel Caskett -- a team of "Diggers" exploring the ruins left by the {{Precursors}} searching for energy-generating refractors that are more precious than gold in their ScavengerWorld. Opposing them are the Bonne Family, a trio of IneffectualSympatheticVillain Pirates. Other foes include Glyde, a pirate who hates Teisel Bonne's guts, Bola and Claymore, two former pirates/bounty hunters who [[BadassGrandpa kick some serious ass, despite being very old]], and others.

* On September 29, 2010, Capcom Europe [[http://www.themmnetwork.com/2010/09/29/mega-man-legends-3-announced-for-nintendo-3ds/ confirmed]] ''Legends 3'' as a Nintendo3DS title almost 10 years after the release of ''Legends 2''... Unfortunately, on July 18, 2011, Capcom announced that, due to the vague reason of not meeting required criteria, the project had been [[http://www.capcom-unity.com/devroom/blog/2011/07/18/a_message_from_capcom cancelled,]] with the SuspiciouslySpecificDenial that it had nothing to do with sacking KeijiInafune. Worse still, Inafune even [[http://t.co/FTqmlOBW offered to help finish the game, only for Capcom to refuse.]] [[InternetBackdraft The fans were not pleased.]]

* On September 29, 2010, Capcom Europe [[http://www.themmnetwork.com/2010/09/29/mega-man-legends-3-announced-for-nintendo-3ds/ confirmed]] ''Legends 3'' as a Nintendo3DS title almost 10 years after the release of ''Legends 2''... Unfortunately, on July 18, 2011, Capcom announced that, due to the vague reason of not meeting required criteria, the project had been [[http://www.capcom-unity.com/devroom/blog/2011/07/18/a_message_from_capcom cancelled,]] with the SuspiciouslySpecificDenial that it had nothing to do with sacking KeijiInafune. Worse still, Inafune even [[http://t.co/FTqmlOBW offered to help finish the game, only for Capcom to refuse.]] The fans were not pleased.

** In ''Legends 1'', Mega Man walks in on Roll while she is in her room changing, and in ''Legends 2'', he enters the bathroom just as Roll is getting out of the bathtub. Both times are completely accidental ([[LampshadeHanging although in her diary Roll wonders if Mega Man is doing it on purpose since it happened twice]]).

* AntiClimax: After collecting the first refractor and having to perform a daring escape afterwards, Mega Man carefully grabs the second one, fully expecting all hell to break loose... only to be surprised that nothing happens. He does the same thing with the third refractor, and once again nothing happens...[[SubvertedTrope until he invokes the wrath of a gigantic Reaverbot on the way out.]]

* AwesomeButImpractical: The Grand Grenade and Crusher weapons in ''1'' and ''2'' respectively. Both have devastating attack power (the Crusher even produces a small [[UnrealisticBlackHole damage field]] that lingers for several seconds) but are exorbitantly expensive to upgrade and have limited ammo capacity.
* BoringButPractical: On the other hand, the Powered Buster and Active Buster are relatively cheap and effective. The former is an accurate, long-range energy cannon for single shots - great for bosses and corridors. The latter fires small homing missiles that can be upgraded in just about every category; the highest levels are wildly pricy, but even mid-range upgrades will annihilate most foes. Finally, once you can survive with just your standard Mega Buster, the Vacuum Arm makes cleanup and money-grinding a snap.

* TheBadGuyWins: ZigZagged. [[spoiler:At the end of the first game, the Bonnes successfully escape with Kattelox Island's treasure like they intended; Mega Man having his hands full keeping Juno from sterilizing the island. Sure, they lost all the gear they actually brought with them and had to escape in one of Tron's patchwork specials, but the giant refractor they scored while Megaman was off fighting the FinalBoss was worth even more than what he blew up. They even stated their plan to use him as a MacGuffinDeliveryService beforehand - and pragmatically turned him loose to save them from Juno's scheme while they ran off with the prize. However, by [=MML2=], Tiesel had blown most of the spoils on an unsuccessful department store - he only stocked it with stuff ''he'' liked and he has '''really''' bad taste - leaving them pretty much in the same condition as when they first attacked the island]].

* In 2008, a new game in the series was released on cell phones in Japan, ''Rockman DASH Big 5 Island Adventure''. The game is a midquel, taking place between the first and second games of the series, and rumors claim that the game might see a release on {{WiiWare}} or [=DSiware=] like the formerly-cell-phone only ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears Final Fantasy IV: The After Years]]''.

* BreakoutCharacter: Tron, who went from being one of the antagonists to having her own spinoff game and being featured in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2'', ''[[VideoGame/MarvelvsCapcom3 3: Fate of Two Worlds]]'', ''NamcoXCapcom'', and ''ProjectXZone''. She's made more appearances than ''Trigger'' has.

* [[MrFixit Ms. Fix It]]: Things don't stay broken around Roll Caskett; vehicles, equipment, and weapons. Roll fixes all of them to help Mega Man while Digging or fighting pirates. Anything broken she can set her hands on at all is her hobby.

* [[MrFixit Ms Fix It]]: Things don't stay broken around Roll Caskett; vehicles, equipment, and weapons. Roll fixes all of them to help Mega Man while Digging or fighting pirates. Anything broken she can set her hands on at all is her hobby.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The Grand Grenade and Crusher weapons in ''1'' and ''2'' respectively. Both have devastating attack power (the Crusher even produces a small [[UnrealisticBlackHoles damage field]] that lingers for several seconds) but are exorbitantly expensive to upgrade and have limited ammo capacity.

** The Vacuum Arm doesn't do any damage to enemies, but can quickly pick up scattered refracters and other power-ups before they disappear.

* RedHerring: [[spoiler: The Blue Refractor]] in the first game. Despite the fact that it gets it's own inventory slot under important items and you get it as soon as you start the game, it's completely unimportant to the rest of the plot. It isn't even used as a ChekhovsGun power source like the other refractors you find.

* On September 29, 2010, Capcom Europe [[http://www.themmnetwork.com/2010/09/29/mega-man-legends-3-announced-for-nintendo-3ds/ confirmed]] ''Legends 3'' as a Nintendo3DS title almost 10 years after the release of ''Legends 2''... Unfortunately, on July 18, 2011, Capcom announced that, due to the vague reason of not meeting required criteria, the project had been [[http://www.capcom-unity.com/devroom/blog/2011/07/18/a_message_from_capcom cancelled,]] with the SuspiciouslySpecificDenial that it had nothing to do with sacking KeijiInafune. What made it worse was that Inafune even [[http://t.co/FTqmlOBW offered to help finish the game, only for Capcom to refuse.]] Fans were not amused.

* TheBadGuyWins: ZigZagged. [[spoiler:The Bonnes at the end of the first game successfully escape with Kattelox Island's treasure like they intended; Mega Man having his hands full keeping Juno from sterilizing the island. Sure, they lost all the gear they actually brought to the island and had to escape in one of Tron's patchwork specials, but the giant refractor they scored while Megaman was off fighting the FinalBoss was worth even more than what he blew up. They even stated their plan to use him as a MacGuffinDeliveryService beforehand - and pragmatically turned him loose to save them from Juno's scheme while they ran off with the prize. However, by [=MML2=], Tiesel had blown most of the spoils on an unsuccessful department store - he only stocked it with stuff ''he'' liked and he has '''really''' bad taste - leaving them pretty much in the same condition as when they first attacked the island]].

-->'''Teisel Bonne:''' Who would've thought there was [[spoiler:such a huge refractor]] down there, and all we had to do was just wander in and pick it up! I told you we'd have the last laugh! Ha ha ha ha ha ha...!

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:The Bonnes at the end of the first game successfully make off with the island's treasure like they intended; Mega Man having other things to worry about as they did so. Sure, they lost everything, but the value of what they made off with allowed them to replenish their weapons and more.]]

* BrickJoke:
** ''Legends 1'' gives us this exchange:
-->'''Teisel Bonne:''' Then that will be our new {{plan}}! We'll wait for him to open the Main Gate -- we'll let him keep whatever he finds until then! He'll see -- it'll be the Bonnes who'll have the last laugh [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall in this game]]!
** Fast forward to the post credits [[TheStinger stinger]]:
-->'''Teisel Bonne:''' Who would've thought there was [[spoiler:such a huge refractor]] down there, and all we had to do was just wander in and pick it up! I told you we'd have the last laugh! Ha ha ha ha ha ha...!

Despite the small amount of games, characters from this series have made more appearances in CapcomVsWhatever titles than all the other series combined. [[note]][[StealthPun Notably]] [[EnsembleDarkhorse Tron Bonne]].[[/note]]

* [[ShoutOut Shout In]]: While conventional {{Shout Out}}s to earlier games exist in droves (from a Classic series mini-cartoon playing on a bar's TV to the Z(et)sabre and X-Buster showing up as weapon materials), Legends has the rare condition of having exponentially more cameo appearances than actual games (many being Volnutt, Roll, Tron, the Servbots, and Juno appearing in CapcomVsWhatever games and in ''[[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork Battle Network]]'' scenery).