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** Holy crap! I wrote this a few years ago on a forum. I'm A: amused it found its way here and B: glad people like it!- [[TheQu]

[[WMG: Dr. Light in Mega Man 8 is [[spoiler: the fake Dr. Light]] from Mega Man 9.]]

Dr. Wily's plan to frame Dr. Light in MegaMan9 actually started in MegaMan8. Sometime before ''8'', he secretly captured Light [[spoiler: and swapped him out with the robotic duplicate]]. It explains why Light was careless enough to let another dangerous robot into his lab - He was studying it and relaying his findings to Wily. Same goes for the evil energy that he contained. It also explains [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome his extreme speech impediment]] as a glitch that foreshadows who he really is.

Needle Man was originally a robot master called Spike Man, whom Wily created to try and take advantage of the fact that spikes are a OneHitKill in the Mega Man universe. However, upon completing construction, the fact that Spike Man was literally made of spikes caused him to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard immediately self destruct]] from his own CollisionDamage. Wily instead had to settle with needles, which were far less powerful but still dangerous, and thus Needle Man was born.

** protoman is Judas Iscariot

** Actually, on a symbolic note, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJlNbBqK0Wg it ]] [[TheMegas makes a bit]] [[FridgeBrilliance of sense...]]

* Lumine, Serpent, and Master Albert don't fit into either category. Considering their SocialDarwinist ideals, they could be the NayTheist. Especially Albert, who wants to "restart the world", destroying both sides. For the same reason, [[spoiler:Master Thomas]] is this too. [[GodIsDead "Dr Light is no more."]]

Think about it. Duo is an alien robot. He probably could've come from the MM universe's version of Cybertron. In Power Battle 2, Duo was stated to have returned to Earth for the second time to help the heroes after he left it at the end of VideoGame/MegaMan8. It's not impossible at some time in the future that Duo would come a third time to pick up the entire cast of the classic series (minus the humans) and have them live on his planet instead of Earth, thus resolving the classic timeline with a happy note. No rampaging Zero or any kind of cataclysm.

** [[WordOfGod Inafune]] was asked whether or not Zero had killed Mega Man and the rest of the original cast; he said - to put it bluntly - "no", but then, he hasn't bothered giving an alternate explanation.

** The Roboenza he made in MM10 seems to support the direct above.

** Gyro Attack -> Crystal Man: You know how, despite being known as the hardest substance on Earth, diamonds are rather fragile(Hardness=/=Toughness). Well, imagine the blunt Gyro Attack waling on Crystal Man at high speeds.

The third level pits you aganist the CWU-01P. According to supplementary material, these were originally designed to purify water. They show that in the end of a nuclear war, even water, the basic life giver, goes rogue as radiation taints everything. And it is important to remember that when the Hydrogen bomb was being tested, it was tested over seas, in the Bikini Atoll. Perhaps nature wants revenge.

Essentially, it's a solution to the OffscreenVillainDarkMatter problem. Since most people would turn down the mad scientist trying to take over the world, Wily was forced to make a seperate identity. Mr. X is a Wily robot clone most of the time, unless Wily decides to interfere. The reason why Crystal Man exists? A backup plan in case Mr X. no longer works as a disguise. The reason why Wily is resorting to stealing robots again is due to lack of funds.

* Except that Reploids don't technically have any hard programming blocks: The only thing stopping them from commiting crimes is the same thing that keeps the average human from turning to crime. The Virus simply wears away at a Reploid's faculties of reason (or, once it Became the Sigma Virus, bent them to its will).

...who is referred to by his model number. Thus, X is the tenth incarnation of Mega Man. After every game, once Wily was defeated, Light deactivated Mega Man and dissassembled him, possibly restoring him to the original Rock body and possibly not. He did this to prevent anyone from trying to steal his killer robot or coerce him into letting them use it. This explains why Mega Man loses all weapons and abilities each game; they were thrown out when the old body was destroyed. Clearly, inbetween nine and ten something happened to the original Mega Man's programming (likely Bass managed to steal or destroy it), which is why X is a distinct personality from him and has no memory of Light or WIly, and Light took the opportunity, along with a long lapse between crises, to start from scratch, producing a completely new body and AI. When he realized Wily really wasn't coming back, he just kept improving X, body and mind, until he died. Protoman had the good sense to stay out of Light's reach and thus was never dissassembled. For this theory to work, one must consider as cannon that Bass performed all the action in ''& Bass'', that the Game Boy games didn't happen, and that the Power Battles games, if they even happened at all, involved the other three playable characters only.

That blue dot you see in his Break Man form in ''3'' is his actual eye. Since he's less advanced than Mega Man, it makes sense he'd be less human-like, plus the one eyed Joe-bots are said to be cheap, mass-produced copies of him. He wears the shades, either because he's embarrasssed, or so he can pass for human while he's WalkingTheEarth.

Breakman is supposed to be Protoman with a different helmet; however, notice that Protoman has two separate eyes whileBbreakman has a single eye? During ''3'', Break Man (probably made by Wily) decides to hunt down and destroy Mega Man; at the same time, Protoman finds out about Breakman and decides to stop him. The "reveal" is actually Protoman wearing Breakman's helmet in a strange sense of humour, having finally defeated his copy.

Think about it, every robot master sees the same conversations and levels, but they all contradict each other. They are actually alternate timelines. The first time, Wily only took Timeman, he used the schematics and used them to make a time machine to take over the world, but due to Timeman's incomplete nature, he was trapped in a time loop instead, where he would live out the day and return to the beginning of the day at the end. The first time he took Light's robots to take over the world in a different manner, he left Timeman behind, of course, Timeman kicked his ass. From then on he continued to try to take the robot masters, leaving one behind in an insane sense of humour (this is Wily, after all). At the very end, when he was defeated for the 10th time, he finally managed to repair the time machine before the time loop began again, just in time to fix the time distortion. Guess which robot got left behind on the final loop? Yep. Mega/Rock. Good thing too, we could have been playing "Oilman 3" in our childhood instead.

It all starts with Dr. Light's robot Mega Man. Eventually, Mega Man defeats Dr. Wily once and for all, leaving Zero sealed away with no one to release him. Dr. Light discovers just how powerful Mega Man is, so he seals him away 'till mankind is ready for him, after making a few cosmetic changes; since Dr. Wily is gone, there's really no need for such an advanced robot anyways. Then the Mega Man X series happens. After that, Zero is sealed away, Dr Weil decides to clone Zero, but he can't find advanced enough material to use. So he uses X instead, scrapping him, and changing him into a perfect Zero clone. The "original" X in Mega Man Zero is actually just another clone Ciel created before she made the main villain Copy X. And Omega is the REAL Zero, that whole mention of Zero containing the original's consciousness was due to the fact that Cyber Elf X still believes he's the original. Anyways, Zero/X gets remodelled as a Humaniod when ZX takes place, but since he's a hero, the Sage Trinity decide not to kill him but let him live. Until Master Albert remodels him as Grey, and gives him amnesia. Oh yeah, and Model X is actually Copy X's biometal, and Model Z is actually cyber Elf X's biometal. Anyways, a huge cotastrophy takes place, Grey is remodeled again to be a Carbon (Which is actually revealed via WordOfGod to be a very advanced robot that is identical to humans in every way, appearently even including reproduction.) He becomes Mega Man again.

[[WMG: Dr. Wily and Dr. Eggman/Robotonik are alternate universe paralells.]]
I mean, come on! They both aspire to take over the world, both have a blue teenager/kid as a nemesis, tried to bring a red guy to their side, have a wide assortment of machines, and have failed at the same plan over and over, but Wily suffers the least VillainDecay, whereas Eggman is having reputation problems because of Heroes, Shadow the Hedgehog, and Sonic 2006, but, he's getting better as of Chronicles and Unleashed, but even though Wily is more relient in the fake surrender strategy, but at least he built an ultimate weapon that could have destroyed the world and probably planned the Gambit guessed earlier, whereas Eggman... Eh, never mind.

If only sentient beings can dream and X was put to sleep for 30 years, don't you think that he might have been dreaming? What would he have dreams about? The Battle Network and Star Force series. In the Battle Network series, Mega Man has a loving brother (Lan) and can go after Roll and not have certain...legal issues pop up. Another thing sentient minds do is speculate. X proably speculated about what could the world have turned out like, had the (in that world) theoretical "networks" research that Light would have worked on, had Wily not won the research grant to develop robotics.

** In the japanese backstory, Light and Wily never worked together.

This goes hand in hand with no cataclysm theory. It also explains Zero's none maverick personality as a caring, if jerky, protector. The Maverick virus and Zero were created in an effort to stop X in case the 30 years of Ethical Programming failed. The W Progrma was a fail safe to revert Zero's personality to it's non-safe one once it determined that X wasn't evil. However Dr. Wily and Dr. Light did not predict that the X's design would be replicated so quickly and it activated against Sigma who was the only one that lasted long enough to activating. The Maverick Virus itself was also designed to help stop X (as seen in X5 where X is damaged by the virus) and the W progam was simply purging the virus. As Mega Man Zero shows...this was not a bad idea.

*** It's also a nod to how Skull Man, a ghostly-looking robot, being weak to a vaccum cleaner.

* Further, Mega Man is never destroyed. Rather, the "explosion" is an emergency component dispersement system. When he takes what would otherwise be critical damage, he essentailly becomes a cloud of nanobots, which are quickly reformed a short distance away, and teleport back to the action. Spikes are actually special signal emitters which force Mega Man's dispersement.

Powered Up and Vs. Capcom give her actual combat abilites.

First of all, let's focus on their modus operandi: their ability to split into many parts. This, along with their gooey structure, would require that they either work through MagicRealism, or that they're actually thousands upon thousands of nanomachines. Now, for the nanomachines to work in such a coordinated manner, thay would all need a single location from which they recieve orders, the HiveMind. What they recieve their info from should be pretty obvious, as it's the sole weakness of every single Devil: the eye. This would explain why attacking it destroys the beast, and why it's so large: it needs to be to process all those machines. As for why Wily doesn't simply lock it in a closet somewhere, the HiveMind could be shortrange, and it also doubles as a camera, or an actual eye, hence why it leaves itself vulnerable.

He say that his body in the Zero series is robotic but he was once human, so, it's possible that his body was used as part of a experiment where the ones who took Weil's body also discover a form to create an artificial Anti A.T. Field and they used in his old human to put into that glass in his head and used as breathing liquid of his new robotic body. Well this is only possoble if in any alternate universe all animals an plants are made of LCL no matter how. Also his breathing liquid is Tang colored like the original LCL.

Prior to Dr. Wily's FaceHeelTurn in ''Mega Man 1'', Dr. Wily had a vision of (or went to the future and saw) Dr. Light's final creation, X, being misused and copied, spawning the Maverick Wars which eventually caused the destruction seen in the ''Zero'' series and the destruction of the human race as seen in ''Legends''. This drove Wily [[GoMadFromTheRevelation insane]]. In an attempt to steer Dr. Light away from robotics, Wily turned against him and reprogrammed the original six to show how they could be misued and perhaps prevent Dr. Light from creating X. Dr. Wily tried and failed repeatedly to stop Light, losing a little more precious sanity each time, eventually taking the final leap and creating the Maverick Virus to show Dr. Light ''just how bad'' things were going to get if he continued. Far in the future, someone goes back in time to show Young(er) Wily the future to create a StableTimeLoop.

[[WMG: Dr. Light is a Time Lord disgused as a human with the Chameleon Arc, Dr. Wily was his human Companion.]]

To the best of my knowledge, it's generally beleived that Wily's conciousness is part of the maverick virus. I've also read that Light did something simmilar so as to work the capsules in the X series, among other things. My guess is that Wily has been influencing Reploid's through the virus and attempting to continue his ambitions to rule the world. Light, being in a simmilar state of existence, is continually trying to stop him through whatever means nessecary. Thus, the two remain in an eternal battle of wills, with the world at stake.

Zero was designed to have the best qualities of Wily's robots-it had the raw power of Bass supplemented with the invaluble AI of King. Mega Man 9 was the result of learning that Light had his own masterpiece. Through stealing Light's more advanced robots,he could get into the mind of Dr Light and have a better understanding on what the flaws of his creations were. All for countering anything his foe could make. Mega Man 10 was the designing of an advanced form of computer virus, to make the Maverick Virus

* It's true that from a first look at their specs, Bass is the superior robot, especially considering that he has all of that Bassnium ruining through him, as well as by virtue of being much newer than Mega Man. However, he tends to severely underestimate Mega Man's {{determinator}} status and ends up losing. Considering that he's lost a total of ''five'' times already (six, if you count the battle at the beginning of ''6''), you'd think that Bass would have wisened up, but he's too much of an ArrogantKungFuGuy to sing a different tune. In the arcade game ''Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters'', beating the game with Proto Man and Bass has Proto Man also muse that Bass loses constantly because he doesn't know what he's fighting for (cue [[VideoGame/MegaManX Zero]] [[MemeticMutation jokes]] in 3...), as opposed to Mega Man, who fights for world peace for both humans and robots alike.

[[WMG:In the Archie comics, the Neige seen in Issue 1 is the same Neige in ''Mega Man Zero 4''.]]
She gets cryogenically frozen for some reason, and wakes up to discover a future in which robotics have gone truly wrong. As a result, she is present at the very beginning and the very end of the great war (well, until ZX, anyway) between humans and robots.

[[WMG: When Archie's comic gets to the VideoGame/MegaMan5 story, the following happening after Dark Man is defeat....]]
* Dark Man: My master's latest plan had bit the big one.
* Mega Man: Who is your master?
* Dark Man: [[VideoGame/MegaManX4 Take a wild guess!]]
* Mega Man & Proto Man: Dr. Wily!

[[WMG: When Archie's comic gets to the VideoGame/MegaMan6 story, Wily's PaperThinDisguise as Mr. X will be lampshaded.]]
* Mega Man: Did you really think you could fool me, Dr. Wily.
* Dr. Wily disguised as Mr. X: Uh... You must have me mistaken! I am Mr. X!
* Mega Man: Mr. X? You're not even trying anymore.

[[WMG: The Super Adventure Rockman story in Archie's game book, not only with Mega Man get back up from Robot Masters from VideoGame/MegaMan1 and VideoGame/MegaManPowerUp....]]
..But also the full eight Robot Masters from Mega Man 9.

[[WMG: In the Archie's comic gets to Mega Man 3 story.....]]
...The reborned VideoGame/MegaMan2 Robot Masters will face Mega Man instead of Doc Robot.

[[WMG: The X factor in the Archie comics is [[spoiler: the power gem that [[ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog Shard the Metal Sonic]] has]]]]
Alright, hear me out here. In the comic continuity [[spoiler: Shard was originally a metal Sonic just like any other, but eventually developed some sort of conscience that made him realize how precocious life is. Now then, since his original programing was to basically follow Robotnik, and since he was the only one able to defy that programing as well as the only character with a power gem...]] Now, take into account that [[spoiler: most Reploids have some sort of gemstone on their bodies.]]] Perhaps ''that'' is the mysterious X factor for the Archie canon...

* VideoGame/MegaManZero has a number of antagonists. [[EvilKnockoff Copy-X]] is a result of [[KnightTemplar our extreme measures to deal with rogue technology.]] The paranoid desire to annihilate every machine we see as a threat, which is why Copy-X labels almost all of his own race as a threat. The Resistance is the positive reaction to deal with this threat: show that machinery can be used for good, while Elpizo is the negative reaction: [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds kill the oppressive humans to solve the problem once and for.]] Finally, there's Dr Weil, who is the living, breathing embodiment [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters of our most monstrous behaviour]] to what we create. Dr Weil's view [[JustAMachine as nothing more than objects]] are self-evident of taking technology for granted, [[ItsAllAboutMe his inability to take responsibility]] mirrors our habit of not coming to terms with the pain our machines can cause, and [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans the desire to make the world suffer]] is the use of technology turned to make other suffered. Dr Weil's cyborg nature embodies how we've become completely dependent on our technology to do things for us. [[RoboticPsychopath Omega]] is the embodiment of the idea that technology should only be used to harm others

Proto Man was DLC in Mega Man 9. He was in Mega Man 10 with Bass as DLC. Roll is the obvious next robot to add.

[[WMG: Dr. Light in Mega Man 8 is the fake Dr. Light from Mega Man 9.]]

Dr. Wily's plan to fame Dr. Light in MegaMan9 actually started in MegaMan8. Sometime before ''8'', he secretly captured Light and swapped him out with the robotic duplicate. It explains why Light was careless enough to let another dangerous robot into his lab - He was studying it and relaying his findings to Wily. Same goes for the evil energy that he contained. It also explains [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome his extreme speech impediment]] as a glitch that foreshadows who he really is.

** If one remembers the introductory screens of the first VideoGame/MegaManX game, the X-Buster was referred to as the 'Mega Buster Mark 17' (though not in that exact wording). If we figure that the Mega Buster was upgraded once between numbered Classic games (i.e. excluding Wily Wars, Game Boy games, Mega Man & Bass, etc.), then 'Mega Man X', the game, would count as being 'Mega Man 17'; thus, 'Mega Man 16' should be one to connect the Classic and X series.

**** According to [[Main|MegaManMegamix Hitoshi Ariga]], Flash Man and Quick Man are two different results of Wily's attempts to control Time. Quick Man was built on the idea of approaching the speed of light, and thus can increase his rate of motion through time itself. FlashMan, on the other hand, has the power to slow the speed of light down to almost zero, which, while it freezes every other robot master, has a unique, hyper-compressive effect on Quick Man, who experiences something like a small black hole.

Zero being the reason for the end of the Classic series just doesn't make sense, considering a)WordOfGod jossed it and b)no way in Hell the survivors would let him return to his capsule. Quint, however, was around and active in the future of Mega Man Classic. Dr Wily, being DangerouslyGenreSavvy, would makes sure that [[XanatosGambit even if Quint lost in the past, he wouldn't have to deal with Light in the future]]. The solution was to have the reprogrammed Quint aka [[spoiler:an incredibly skilled future Mega Man]] destroy any of Dr Light's functioning robots and his lab, so that they wouldn't be able to oppose Future Wily. This included [[KillEmAll eliminating Proto Man, Bass]], [[WouldHurtAGirl Roll]](ignoring the helper robot [[NiceJobFixingItVillain allowed it to become Mega Man]]) and Auto. If you take the MegaManX 3 cameo as canon, Auto escaped. This may go to explain why X spent 70 years overdue in a capsule, in spite of a presumably living Dr Cossack and a working Dr Light AI: Quint crashed the lab and buried the X capsule even further. Quint [[AntiClimaxBoss is so pathetic]] because, [[TemporalParadox among other things]], he's been wailed on by the FutureBadass versions of all surviving Light bots. However, Quint didn't need to eliminate all [[spoiler:Mega Man's]] friends and foes...

Now hear me out on this one. Darkstalkers is getting recognition outside of MarvelVsCapcom years after Darkstalkers 3 was released, Toonami was revived four years after its initial death, the same could easily apply to Mega Man.

Both Bass and Mega Man have [[MegaManning similar abilities]],plus Bass is more agile and supposedly has a better power source.He just happens to be too arrogant to train like Mega Man does,which is why Mega Man can beat him.

[[WMG: Double was an early model New Generation Reploid]]
The manual claims he was built by Dr. Cain, but why would Dr. Cain include all those combat modifications, and why would it surprise anyone that he'd have them? It's because the Double you meet in the game is not the Double Cain built. Sigma replaced him with a shapeshifter. Considering he calls the Mavericks, Hunters, and Repliforce all idiots. Isn't he one of the Mavericks? Or is he some sort of fourth party?

in an effort to prevent another Y2K bug scare the Roman numeral X was added to extend how many characters were needed before you run out of space.

That plot point in Megaman 9 where robots have a life cycle? [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou It jumped the fourth wall.]]

[[WMG: When Archie's comic gets to the MegaMan5 story, the following happening after Dark Man is defeat....]]

* Dark Man: [[MegaManX Take a wild guess!]]

[[WMG: When Archie's comic gets to the MegaMan6 story, Wily's PaperThinDisguise as Mr. X will be lampshaded.]]

[[WMG: The Super Adventure Rockman story in Archie's game book, not only with Mega Man get back up from Robot Masters from MegaMan1 and MegaManPowerUp....]]

...The reborned MegaMan2 Robot Masters will face Mega Man instead of Doc Robot.

* [[MegaMan Dr Wily]], the classical MadScientist, represents our desire to use technology for war. He started the Robot War, becoming the BiggerBad for the DarkerAndEdgier MegaManX series, in the same way as how our weapons manage to escalate war. We're known for turning technology originally meant for maintenance(for example fire to warm and cook and electricity to power our infrastructure) into technology capable of killing others(for example fire to [[KillEmWithFire burn life]] and even cities, and electricity to power our turrets and electric chairs), which is reflected with Dr Wily turning the formerly helpful Robot Masters created by Dr Light and Cossack into weapons. Not to mention many of the Robot Masters he builds [[CutLexLuthorACheck could have been used for constructive purposes.]] The only original Robot Masters he didn't corrupt? Rock and Roll, who as maid robots can't be used for any destructive purpose whatsoever
** Some of Wily's robots also count. King is a prototype of AIIsACrapshoot born out of WhatMeasureIsANonHuman, and Bass is the consequence of machinery with more human qualities. [[MegaManX Zero]] is the result of a positive aspect of weaponry: despite being the ultimate fighting robot of Dr Wily, he uses his immense powers to maintain peace instead of wreck it.
* [[MegaManX Sigma]], and Mavericks in general, represent [[AIIsACrapshoot technology antagonizing us.]] [[TheVirus The Maverick Virus]] embodies technology going defective unwillingly, hence why most viral Mavericks are AxCrazy. BigBad Sigma represents the idea of technology rebelling because it thinks it knows better than us. Sigma has been seen as [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans trying to free Reploidkind]], [[KillAllHumans kill the inferior human race]] and [[SanitySlippage a genocidal madman]], but one facet never changes-[[NeverMyFault he's always right in his actions, and you are wrong for opposing him.]] [[MadScientist Gate]] is the embodiment of our fears of technology we can't comprehend-he's obsessed with creating Reploids with unreadable codes. [[FantasticRacism Lumine]] is a symbol of the cold desire to continually advance, leaving what hasn't in the dust(hence his sociopathic distaste for the old model Reploids).
* MegaManZero has a number of antagonists. [[EvilKnockoff Copy-X]] is a result of [[KnightTemplar our extreme measures to deal with rogue technology.]] The paranoid desire to annihilate every machine we see as a threat, which is why Copy-X labels almost all of his own race as a threat. The Resistance is the positive reaction to deal with this threat: show that machinery can be used for good, while Elpizo is the negative reaction: [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds kill the oppressive humans to solve the problem once and for.]] Finally, there's Dr Weil, who is the living, breathing embodiment [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters of our most monstrous behaviour]] to what we create. Dr Weil's view [[JustAMachine as nothing more than objects]] are self-evident of taking technology for granted, [[ItsAllAboutMe his inability to take responsibility]] mirrors our habit of not coming to terms with the pain our machines can cause, and [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans the desire to make the world suffer]] is the use of technology turned to make other suffered. Dr Weil's cyborg nature embodies how we've become completely dependent on our technology to do things for us. [[RoboticPsychopath Omega]] is the embodiment of the idea that technology should only be used to harm others
* [[MegaManZX With machines and humans becoming one race]], the villains of this era are the worries that technology and progress will cause us to lose our humanity. [[SocialDarwinist Serpent]] is our fear of progress dehumanizing us, willing [[MoralEventHorizon to do anything]] in the cause of bettering ourselves. Master Albert is our fear of progress making us [[AGodAmI gods]]-Albert tries to control the Wheel of Fate to transcend the cycle of violence, like we try to control the elements to transcend nature. Biometal W aka [[spoiler:Dr Weil]] is the fear that despite how much society and technology progresses, we will never become better than our base, animalistic nature
* MegaManLegends is one big fear of TheSingularity. It is our fear that as technology progresses, we will reach a point where we are no longer human.

**** According to [[Main|MegaManMegamix Hitoshi Ariga]], Flash Man and Quick Man are two different results of Wily's attempts to control Time. QuickMan was built on the idea of approaching the speed of light, and thus can increase his rate of motion through time itself. FlashMan, on the other hand, has the power to slow the speed of light down to almost zero, which, while it freezes every other robot master, has a unique, hyper-compressive effect on QuickMan, who experiences something like a small black hole.

*** MetalMan has super-lightweight armor.

*** Again, ref Megamix: When Dr. Wily designed Metal Man, he was going for a fast, effective robot who was good at battle - MetalMan is one of the most agile of the robots, but is so largely due to his incredibly [[GlassCannon lightweight armor]], which none of the others have - so his weapon, which is the strongest of all, is incredibly deadly to himself.

[[WMG: When Archie's comic gets the MM5 story, the following happening after Dark Man is defeat....]]

Alright, hear me out here. In the comic continuity [[spoiler: Shard was originally a metal Sonic just like any other, but eventually developed some sort of conscience that made him realize how precocious life is. Now then, since his original programing was to basically follow Robotnik, and since he was the only one able to defy that programing as well as the only character with a power gem...]] perhaps ''that'' is the mysterious X factor for the Archie canon...

[[WMG: The X factor in the Archie comics is [[spoiler: the power gem that [[ComicBook/ArchieSonicTheHedgehog Shard the Metal Sonic]] has]]]]

** Actually, on a symbolic note, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJlNbBqK0Wg it makes]] [[TheMegas a bit]] [[FridgeBrilliance of sense...]]

* Alternatively, the ammunition for each weapon isn't [[GameplayAndStorySegregation truly infinitely replenishable]] between missions. Once Mega Man runs out, he discards the weapon since it isn't worth it since he can [[ForgoneConclusion simply copy weapons from]] [[GenreSavvy any new opponents he faces.]]

[[WMG: The breathing liquid that Dr. Weil use is actually his own body turned artificially into [[Main/NeonGenesisEvangelion LCL]]]]