History VideoGame / MegamanLegends

* Gettingcrappasttheradar: The aforementioned scene where Sera's naked butt is clearly seen onscreen in Forbidden Island.

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

* ShoutOut: While conventional shout-outs 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 VideoGame/CapcomVsWhatever games and in ''[[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork Battle Network]]'' scenery).

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: While the currency is still called "zenny," money in this world is not real money, but quantum refractors, which are used to generate energy. Particularly large refractors are used to power machines, but smaller and weaker refractors are traded as money. Nobody knows how to make more refractors, but they were used to power all the LostTechnology left behind by the Ancients, including the Reaverbots. This explains why robotic enemies in ancient ruins [[MoneySpider drop money when they explode]], and why there's a GlobalCurrency ([[ScavengerWorld resources are scarce]] and [[EnergyEconomy everyone needs an extra refractor in case energy runs low]]).
** For that matter, Mega Man's job as a treasure hunter/scavenger affects pretty much everything you do, and not just that it gets you under ground a lot. Weapons are built from junk you scavenge, money comes from refractors found in digs. Even when buying from a store, it's implied you're just buying something another scavenger found before you did. You even find yourself checking garbage cans, just in case someone threw something you could use out.

* TheGenieKnowsJackNicholson: The test in the second game has questions about real world events, rather than events in the MML world. Subjects ranged from history, pop culture, music, sports, even math questions, among others.

** GuideDangIt: ''No one'' will know the answers to these questions without a lifetime of research on ''every'' subject or without [[http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps/197897-mega-man-legends-2/faqs/9385 consulting a guide.]]

-->'''Question:''' When was the Pink Floyd album "Dark Side Of The Moon" released?[[note]]1973[[/note]]
-->'''Question:''' Who is the famous Greek philosopher who expounded the theory of idealism?[[note]]Plato[[/note]]
-->'''Question:''' What is the name of the underground aqueducts found in Iran?[[note]]Ghanat[[/note]]

* KillAllHumans: Weirdly zig-zagged: [[spoiler: the Carbon Reinitialization Program hosted on Elysium was designed to clone ''new'' humans from the Master's genetic code 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.]]
* LargeHam: Teisel Bonne:
--> "I ''said...'' ''CLOOOOSE'' the ''HAAAATCH!!!''"

-->'''Teisel Bonne:''' [[spoiler:If we sell what we found, we'll get back what we lost and then some! We'll live like kings! Who would've thought there was 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...!]]

* NakedFirstImpression: Sera is completely nude when she is first seen by Mega Man [[spoiler: when he unintentionally frees her at the center of the Forbidden Island]] in ''Legends 2''.

** Of course not, since they are....wait....[[ClingyJealousGirl why should you be angry with Tron's advance, Roll]]?
** In 2, if the player bought all the gifts for Roll, didn't let her take damage in the [[spoiler:Yosyonke snowfields]], and viewed the [[AccidentalPervert bathroom scene]], her final diary entry (only viewable if the player travels back from [[spoiler: Elysium]])[[spoiler: outright states that she loves him.]] This is heavily hinted in the main story, it's never stated except in that optional diary entry.

-->Sorry, Megaman, but it looks like you might be stuck up there for a little while more!
* OhCrap: In the first game, when Mega Man finally destroys the Gesselschaft and the Focke-Wulf, he and Roll suddenly realize [[spoiler: that the Bonnes didn't eject from it.]]

* RedHerring: [[spoiler: The Blue Refractor]] in the first game. Despite the fact that it gets its 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.

* [[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: Either {{Artificial Human}}s or fellow Ridiculously Human Robots with strict orders to [[KillEmAll wipe out the Artificial Humans]] and rebuild humanity on the freshly-vacated planet.]]

* UnexplainedRecovery: A variant we can call 'unexplained freedom from prison'. ''The Misadventures of Tron Bonne'' ends with [[spoiler: Loathe and Glyde rightfully imprisoned for their crimes, which include piracy, extortion, and slavery, among various other implied crimes]]. Come Legends 2, [[spoiler: Glyde is out of prison with no acknowledgement of an escape. That Loathe is nowhere to be seen when Glyde was only ever treated as his dragon previously, only makes things more baffling.]]

* ''The Misadventures of Tron Bonne'' (1999) is a prequel in which Tron and her [[MechaMooks Servbots]] have to go on a crime spree to save her brothers Teisel and Bon from Glyde. The game was [[http://www.polygon.com/2015/5/6/8561517/misadventures-of-tron-bonne-psone-classics-ps3-vita re-released on May 6th, 2015]] for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, PSP, Vita and [=PlayStation=] TV, four years after the cancellation of Mega Man Legends 3.

* DownerEnding: By the end of ''Legends 2'', [[spoiler:Roll and Tron are trying and failing to make a space program to retrieve Mega Man, who's stuck on Elysium with Yuna (who's still in Roll's mom's body) and Sera -- and the three of them are most likely at the mercy of the Elder System, whose Reaverbots (or commands for the existing Reaverbots) may be more on the [[KillAllHumans "Kill All Carbons"]] side than the Ancients we've seen.]]

* LeftHanging: ''MML2'' infamously ends with DownerEnding, which won't get resolved any soon after Part 3 got canceled.

* ChekhovsGunman: ''Data'' of all people. He starts the series as a little mechanical monkey who can save your progress, restore your life/weapon energy, and claims to have known you for a while, but for the longest time has no other significance in the plot. He becomes a ''huge'' part of the story starting at the end of the first game.

*** In the first game you can kick a can in one of the first areas behind a shop's counter in order to get money for "recycling", and doing this for a while will turn Mega Man darker, but without any negative effects. A similar can kicking into a garbage for money is in Legends 2, but it doesn't have the same effect.

* LeftHanging: With the cancellation of Part 3, it doesn't look Part 2 will ever get resolved.
* {{Leitmotif}}: The OST to The Misadventures Of Tron Bonne abounds with these, from Denise's theme having four distinct mixes, to a variant of Tiesel's theme being used in the level where you play as him, to the mission complete theme being remixed with instruments appropriate to the mission.

** [[spoiler:This results in them witnessing Juno pin Megaman in a trap, the ensuing JustBetweenYouAndMe speech, realizing that all life on the island is about to be extinguished, then indulging in a pragmatic PetTheDog moment by freeing him to attempt to save the island. TheStinger reveals that this tiny gesture leads to a '''KarmicJackpot.''']]

* OrphanedSeries: For a long time, until 2008, where Japanese cell phones got a new game, and late 2010, with ''Legends 3'' being announced on the 3DS and again after that.
** Then it got [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed By The Videogame Company]] and got canceled again.

* [[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 VideoGame/CapcomVsWhatever games and in ''[[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork Battle Network]]'' scenery).

* ThirdIs3D: [[{{Cancellation}} Well, that was the plan, anyway.]]

* UnexplainedRecovery: A variant we can call 'unexplained freedom from prison'. The Misadventures of Tron Bonne ends with [[spoiler: Loathe and Glyde rightfully imprisoned for their crimes, which include piracy, extortion, and slavery, among various other implied crimes]]. Come Legends 2, [[spoiler: Glyde is out of prison with no acknowledgement of an escape. That Loathe is nowhere to be seen when Glyde was only ever treated as his dragon previously, only makes things more baffling.]]

* ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends1'' (1997) is about Volnutt and the Casketts fighting to keep the Bonnes from destroying an island town to steal an ancient treasure buried there, while uncovering the secret behind a centennial catastrophe about to befall it. This game was rereleased on the UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}} under the title ''[[SuperTitle64Advance Mega Man 64]]'', and re-released on September 29th, 2015 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, Vita, and [=PlayStation=] TV.

''Rockman DASH'' in Japan, is a 1997 Playstation game that was Creator/{{Capcom}}'s first attempt to take the ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' 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 kick some serious ass, despite being very old, and others.

* ''Legends 1'' is about Volnutt and the Casketts fighting to keep the Bonnes from destroying an island town to steal an ancient treasure buried there, while uncovering the secret behind a centennial catastrophe about to befall it. This game was rereleased on the UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}} under the title ''[[SuperTitle64Advance Mega Man 64]]'', and re-released on September 29th, 2015 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, Vita, and [=PlayStation=] TV.
* The sequel, ''Legends 2'', picks up a year after the end of the previous game, with Volnutt and the Casketts having beaten Juno and the Bonnes. The game introduces Glyde, Bola, and Claymore as three more rivals to Volnutt, along with the mysterious Yuna and Sera. The plot revolves around the mysteries surrounding Volnutt, Juno, and the origins of both Elysium and Terra. The game was re-released on April 5th, 2016 for the [=PlayStation=] 3, Vita, and [=PlayStation=] TV.
* There was also a prequel called ''The Misadventures of Tron Bonne'' in which Tron and her [[MechaMooks Servbots]] have to go on a crime spree to save her brothers Teisel and Bon from Glyde. In a [[ThrowTheDogABone rather surprising move]] from Capcom, the game was [[http://www.polygon.com/2015/5/6/8561517/misadventures-of-tron-bonne-psone-classics-ps3-vita re-released on May 6th, 2015]] for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, PSP, Vita and [=PlayStation=] TV, four years after the cancellation of Mega Man Legends 3.
* 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 UsefulNotes/{{WiiWare}} or [=DSiware=] like the formerly-cell-phone only ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears Final Fantasy IV: The After Years]]''.
* 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 the project had been [[http://www.capcom-unity.com/devroom/blog/2011/07/18/a_message_from_capcom cancelled]].

Unlike the other games in the series, ''Legends'' is more of an adventure game with loads of exploration and character interaction, as opposed to the hardcore side-scrolling shooters the other games are, and many parallels can be drawn between its gameplay and the gameplay of the 3D installments of Nintendo's ''[[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Zelda]]'' franchise. In aesthetic and themes, it's very obviously influenced by Creator/HayaoMiyazaki films, specifically ''Anime/CastleInTheSky''. In fact, the Reaverbots, the ancient robots found in the ruins of the game, are quite obvious [[ShoutOut shout outs]] to the robots in ''Anime/CastleInTheSky''. Likewise, the archetypes of an adventurous boy, a strong female, and lost civilizations are very much present as well.

* DoomedProtagonist: [[spoiler:Mega Man and Yuna have been trapped in Elysium while Roll and Tron squabble over building rockets to reach them since 2000]].

* DoomedProtagonist: [[spoiler:Mega Man and Yuna have been up there for a decade now.]]

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The series takes place in a mostly bright and sunny world full of beautiful tropical islands with helpful, friendly locals. However, it doesn't take long to realize that the only reason there are so many tropical islands in the first place is because some catastrophic flood of literally biblical proportions drowned a more advanced precursor civilization right off of the map. And just when you thought the obvious was tragic enough, an even more horrifying fact is eventually revealed: [[spoiler:The true humans all died off long ago, and all of the Carbons are their [[ArtificialHuman biomechanical android creations.]] So to reiterate, this is a game about the extinction of humanity as we know it, and the earth being left behind to extremely advanced machines who have almost no idea that their creators even existed.]]

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The series takes place in a mostly bright and sunny world full of beautiful tropical islands with helpful, friendly locals. However, it doesn't take long to realize that the only reason there are so many tropical islands in the first place was because some catastrophic flood of literally biblical proportions drowned a more advanced precursor civilization right off of the map. And just when you thought the obvious was tragic enough, an even more horrifying fact is eventually revealed: [[spoiler:The true humans all died off long ago, and all of the Carbons are their [[ArtificialHuman biomechanical android creations.]] So to reiterate, this is a game about the extinction of humanity as we know it, and the earth being left behind to extremely advanced machines who have almost no idea that their creators even existed.]]

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The series takes place in a mostly bright and sunny world full of beautiful tropical islands with helpful, friendly locals. However, the only reason there are so many tropical islands in the first place was because some catastrophic flood of literally biblical proportions drowned a more advanced precursor civilization right off of the face of the earth. And just when you thought the obvious was tragic enough, an even more horrifying fact is eventually revealed: [[spoiler:The true humans all died off long ago, and all of the Carbons are their [[ArtificialHuman biomechanical android creations.]] So to reiterate, this is a game about the extinction of humanity as we know it, and the earth being left behind to extremely advanced machines who have almost no idea that their creators even existed.]]

''Rockman DASH'' in Japan, is a 1997 Playstation game that was Creator/{{Capcom}}'s first attempt to take the ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' 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.

* 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 ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone''. She's made more appearances than ''Trigger'' has.

* AbridgedSeries: For both ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo1Y6KTHDt4 Legends]]'' and ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbFQadB5eBE Legends 2]]''[[note]]Both are made by a Troper, so expect a lot of direct trope references[[/note]].

* 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]], and with other ''Mega Man'' projects being sacked and no new games on the horizon (aside from appearances in crossover fighters and an [[WesternAnimation/MegaMan2018 animated series premiering on Cartoon Network in 2018]]), the series may have been unceremoniously killed.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler:While the Master's intentions for destroying the Master System are good (he wants to prevent the Carbons, whom he's grown to love, from being exterminated), he conveniently forgot that, in addition to preserving the lives of Elysium's inhabitants and providing a failsafe in case of humanity's extinction, it also acted as a seal to keep the Elder System, whatever the hell the inhabitants of Elysium left behind on Terra, shut down. It's heavily implied that whatever fresh hell the Elder System would unleash upon Terra is several orders of magnitude worse than anything the Master System could have caused.]]

* 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, she broke from the System when she transferred her mind to Matilda's, so while she no longer has any control over the System, she's also no longer bound by its limitations (hence why she's able to aid Trigger in destroying the System).]]