History Videogame / MegaManX2

** It's difficult but possible to drive the Ride Chaser right up to Overdrive Ostrich's door -- of course, on hitting it, the same thing happens as every time the Ride Chaser drives into a wall. Similarly, in Crystal Snail's stage, with some careful jumping you can take the Ride Armor into the miniboss room. The boss is the right height to hit with the armor's ChargedAttack and will die in seconds to it, but don't be too happy, the exit out of the room is too small by a tile for the Ride Armor to go any further.
** Since the final stage takes place in [[spoiler:Magna Centipede's stage]], selecting it on the map instead of the final stage will take the player to the final stage anyway. In addition, both the Sub-Tank and Heart Tank are located before the point where you meet Sigma, if you missed it previously, that is.

* BonusBoss: Agile, Serges, and Violen become available to fight after a second Maverick is down. They need more strategy to defeat than the usual Mavericks, but defeat all three and you skip a boss fight preceding Sigma.

Shortly afterward, however, the X-Hunters - a [[TerribleTrio trio of Mavericks]] named Serges, Violen, and Agile - reveal themselves, unleashing a brand new group of powerful Mavericks. They also claim to hold the three pieces of Zero's body, and challenge X to duels over his control chip. Thus begins a war to get a chance at reconstructing X's dear friend; however, X will also discover a dark secret about the nature of Sigma, and that his influence may be more difficult to neutralize than it seems.

Sigma has been destroyed, but the remnants of his rebellion are slowly rebuilding their forces. X now spearheads a crusade to root them out, discovering a large group of Mavericks in an abandoned factory. Under X's orders, the Maverick Hunters travel to the area to destroy them.

In the year 21XX, set six months after [[VideoGame/MegaManX1 the events of the first game]], X has taken over as the leader of Maverick Hunters following Zero's death. Zero's body is missing; all they have is his control chip.

Shortly afterward, however, the X-Hunters - a trio of Mavericks named Serges, Violen, and Agile - reveal themselves, unleashing a brand new group of powerful Mavericks. They also claim to hold the three pieces of Zero's body, and challenge X to duels over his control chip. Thus begins a war to get a chance at reconstructing X's dear friend; however, X will also discover a dark secret about the nature of Sigma, and that his influence may be more difficult to neutralize than it seems.

In the year 21XX, set six months after [[VideoGame/MegaManX1 the events of the first game]], X has taken over as the leader of Maverick Hunters following Zero's death. With Zero's body missing, Dr. Cain has only been able to retain Zero's control chip.

Shortly afterward, however, the X-Hunters - a trio of Mavericks named Serges, Violen, and Agile - reveal themselves, unleashing a brand new group of powerful Mavericks. They also claim to hold the three pieces of Zero's body, and challenge X to duels over his control chip. Thus begins a war to both finish off Sigma's lingering influence and to get a chance at reconstructing X's dear friend.

In the year 21XX, set six months after [[VideoGame/MegaManX1 the events of the first game]], X has taken over as the leader of Maverick Hunters following Zero's death. A group of Mavericks are discovered in an abandoned factory, and under X's orders, the Maverick Hunters travel to the area to destroy them.

Shortly afterward, however, The X-hunters - Serges, Violen and Agile - reveal themselves, unleashing a new group of Mavericks as well as claiming to hold the three pieces of Zero. X must then face this new threat and the new Mavericks.

* BackgroundBoss: Gigantic Mechaniloid CF-0, the giant robot you fight in the intro stage.

* BonusBoss: Agile, Serges, and Violen become available to fight after a second Maverick is down. They need more strategy to defeat than the usual Mavericks, but defeat all three & you skip a boss fight preceding Sigma.

* BubbleGun: Bubble Crab's Weapon, the Bubble Splash.
* CreepyCentipedes: Magna Centipede, who's a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ninja hacker centipede robot]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: This game shows a very violent way to kill a Maverick; if you kill Wire Sponge using his primary weakness, the poor dude gets ''[[DiagonalCut sliced in half]]''.

* ElementalBaggage: Actually averted with the Silk Shot weapon, which attracts debris from around the stage itself and coalesces them into a projectile. Most of the time it's junk, but in certain levels, it can attract rocks, leaves, or crystals.

** The Japanese version is even more explicit. Also, [[spoiler:said Doctor may have been in this game as well]].
* GiantEnemyCrab: Bubble Crab, though not exactly "giant" as he's one of the [[PintSizedPowerhouse smallest bosses in the game.]]

* [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Half the Maverick He Used to Be]]: This happens to Wire Sponge if you dealt the final blow with the [[spoiler:Sonic Slicer]], the weapon he's weak to. Note that this applies to the normal version of the slicer (which flies horizontally), the super-changed version (which flies vertically) does not do this.
* HandicappedBadass: Overdrive Ostrich. He actually had flight capability before getting into an accident prior to the game.
* HijackedByGanon: [[spoiler:Sigma suddenly shows up at the end of the game without any foreshadowing or warning. Agile mentions something about failing his master, though. Averted in the Japanese version, where Agile explicitly refers to his master as Sigma. Also, the Japanese version suggests that Serges is Dr. Wily, which is kind of hilarious.]]
* HumanPopsicle: Overdrive Ostrich is a variant; instead of being vulnerable to ice, he's vulnerable to being sealed in crystal, but it's the same idea.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: The Shoryuken.

* LighterAndSofter: Aside from the DarkerAndEdgier example above, ''X2'' is comparatively more upbeat than the rest of the series besides the original. The music is more energetic, the mavericks and stages are more vibrantly colored, and the plot is less dramatic ([[spoiler:sans the fight with Zero if you don't collect all of his parts]]), with the antagonists acknowledging that it's only a matter of time before X defeats them.
* LostInTranslation: In the Japanese version, Agile explicitly names his master before dying. However, that's only a minor error compared to the dialogue changes for Serges/[[DubNameChange Sagesse]]. In the American version, when the X-Hunters issue their challenge to X, Serges begins the message with "Greetings." In the Japanese version he begins the message with "[[spoiler:[[WrongNameOutburst Rock...ehh...X]]]]". There's another big change when Serges is defeated in his X-Hunter stage.

* MacabreMothMotif: Morph Moth.

* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Wheel Gator.
* OneWingedAngel: Morph Moth reveals his true form halfway through the fight against him, although this isn't surprising since you see it during the cutscene after you select his level. [[spoiler:Sigma]] also becomes a wireframe head.

* PlantPerson: Wire Sponge, who's based off a loofah sponge, and not a sea sponge.

* PowerUpLetdown: The Radar Helmet sounds awesome, a way to detect secret passages in a franchise that uses them, but in practice it's not that helpful. It has to be manually activated to use it and doesn't let X fire any weapons, and it will only detect secret passages in the sense of paths that are out of view or hidden; for power-ups that are in plain view but in out-of-the-way areas the player is unlikely to go to, the Radar probably won't point out it out to you. Further, there's only a few hidden passages in this game that aren't immediately obvious without the Radar to draw attention to them, and in the internet age any player can just look up the locations of power-ups, rendering the Radar pointless.

* SkippableBoss: [[spoiler:If you defeat the three X-Hunters in the Maverick stages and obtain all of Zero's pieces, you won't have to fight Zero in the final stage.]]
** Inversely, [[spoiler:if you choose not to fight one or more of the X-Hunters, and don't get all the Zero parts, you will have to fight Zero in the final stage.]]

* TerribleTrio / BigThinShortTrio: Violen (Big), Agile (Thin), and Serges (Short).

** That being said, this stage was seen in a cutscene after the first stage was completed.
* WolverineClaws: [[spoiler:Sigma's]] WeaponOfChoice.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever[=/=]BackgroundBoss[=/=]HumongousMecha: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Gigantic Mechaniloid CF-0]], fought in the opening stage.

* [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Half the Maverick He Used to Be]]: This happens to Wire Sponge if you dealt the final blow with the [[spoiler:Sonic Slicer]], the weapon he's weak to.

** Since the final stage takes place in [[spoiler:Magna Centipede's stage]], selecting it on the map instead of the final stage will take the player to the final stage anyway.

* [[BigBadDuumvirate Big Bad Triumvirate]]: Serges, Violen and Agile. [[spoiler:[[HijackedByGanon Supposedly.]]]]
** Ironically, the Japanese version suggests [[spoiler:Serges was a GreaterScopeVillain]].

* DevelopersForesight: Since the final stage takes place in [[spoiler:Magna Centipede's stage]], selecting it on the map instead of the final stage will take the player to the final stage anyway.

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** Morph Moth starts the battle in a larval stage and doesn't reveal his true form until low on HP.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The FinalBoss laments that Zero was the last of "The Doctor's" creations before exploding. Said doctor makes a cameo in ''VideoGame/MegaManX4'', and ''VideoGame/MegaManX5'' upgrades this doctor to BiggerBad levels.

Shortly afterward, however, Serges, Violen and Agile, part of a mysterious group known as the "X-Hunters", reveal themselves, unleashing a new group of Mavericks as well as claiming to hold the three pieces of Zero. X must then face this new threat and the new Mavericks.