History WebComic / MSPaintMasterpieces

A SpriteComic on the ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' Web site that retells the ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'' storyline, incorporating obscure characters from the Game Boy, PC and UsefulNotes/WonderSwan games as well as original characters. It starts from the beginning collaboration between Wily and Light, details the creation of two prototypes (only one of which is {{Super|Prototype}}) and Mega Man's battles to bring down Wily.

* CloningBlues: Copy-Mega Man becomes quite violent when others imply he's not the "real" Mega Man. He was assembled from field data acquired by Enker, so he possesses some combat skill. He lacks the drive of the original, though.
** He also doesn't know that Mega Man is the battle mode of Rock, likely due to Wily's ignorance of that fact.

** [[spoiler Cut Man does this with Wood Man.]]

* AchillesHeel: [[spoiler: Enker's spear.]]
** [[spoiler: The Harmony Support Units (And the robots they take over) are weak to Cut Man. He fires the Rolling Cutter and gets blasted by Mega Man, but uses the Rolling Cutter's BoomerangComeback effect to hit Mega Man anyway and break him free of the Harmonies.]]

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: [[spoiler: Big Bad Blue Boss]]
* AGodAmI: Electric Man. [[spoiler: Good thing he's a good guy.]]

* AlternateUniverse: A number of alternate timelines are shown as side-stories. [[spoiler: As X explains in filler, there's only one ''actual'' timeline, and when you mess with time travel, you destroy the projected one, which is what Wily's up to between the first and second games.]]

* AnachronicOrder: A few climactic fight sequences (Mega Man Vs. Dr. Wily, Mega Man Vs. Spike Man, [[spoiler: Atlas VS. Crash Man]]) are skipped over to be recapped later.

* AnimatedActors: Used in [[NoFourthWall Fourth Wall breaking]] fillers with [=DisgruntledFerret=] interacting with the cast. Hilariously done with Metal Man [[spoiler: [[HostileShowTakeover taking over the strip]] from [=DisgruntledFerret=]]] in a massive show of hubris.
* AnyoneCanDie: And does. [[spoiler: Even Mega Man.]]
** Though to quote the author, robots can just kind of get over death like a bad hangover as long as they have a robotics scientist handy.

* BadassInDistress: Small and temporary example when [[spoiler: Flash Man tries to kidnap Dr. Light. Being a squishy human, Dr. Light still needs help, but is still able to contribute to his escape]].
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: [[MauveShirt Fodder Force]] [[NoNameGiven Redheaded Guy]], Cut Man, and [[FailureKnight Enker]]]]; due to Doctor Light's attempt at changing the timeline.
* BagOfSpilling: Subverted everywhere. Mega Man, realizing this might happen, attempts to keep his weapons from the first game by saving them on a computer, but Dr. Light finds out and deletes them just before Wily attacks. Then Mega Man loses some more of his abilities when he [[spoiler: dies.]]

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Wily snuck in virus type programming into all the original robot master's to get them to defect. The POV comics with Cut Man's desperate struggles to remain himself are... disturbing and heartbreaking. Then you have the likes of Ice Man jumping headfirst into it and helping to spread the MindControl.
** Also, [[spoiler: anyone under Quintet's MindControl or using one of his support units.]]

* CombiningMecha: The Harmony worms can fuse with their hosts, overhauling their appearance and increasing their power. ''Multiple'' Harmonies can transform a robot into a huge, monstrous version of themselves. The former happens to [[spoiler: Fire Man, Cut Man, Metal Man, Flash Man, Mega Man himself and Roll, when she combines with Reader, one of the original, intelligent Harmonies.]] The latter happens to [[spoiler: Guts Man, turning him into the Gutsdozer from Mega Man 2, and then Ice Man, turning him into a... big, jolly, fridge-on-wheels thing that shoots penguin missiles.]]

* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: Cut Man.]]
-->[[spoiler: Cut Man]]: '''Point'''less? That's some bad choice, log guy. I, [[spoiler: Cut Man]], am never ever, ever, ever, ever, '''EVER''' pointless!

-->'''Mega Man:''' [[spoiler: '''Yahoo!''' I died and I '''still''' won!]]

* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler: During Heat Man's fight with the Guts Dozer we see Wily working on what looks like Punk, the second Mega Man Killer.]]

* EliteMooks: The Red Sniper Joes. [[spoiler: Mega Man almost gets killed the first time he fights them.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Quintet refuses to attack his creator [[spoiler: Dr. Light]].
* EvilIsPetty: Allegro. Discussed and lampshaded [[http://ferretcomic.com/554 here.]]

** [[spoiler: Electric Man]]
** [[spoiler:[[http://ferretcomic.com/1065 Cut Man]]]]

* HotBlooded: A side effect of using [[spoiler: Quintet's support units]].

* InformedAbility: Reader states that [[BloodKnight Quick Man]] is the strongest of Wily's 8, but we only ever see him fight Mega Man (not counting the soldiers he massacres, as well as [[spoiler: the last member of the Fodder Force]]). We do, however, see Crash Man leveling entire military bases and buildings due to the [[MoreDakka sheer volume of his firepower]], not to mention the fact that [[spoiler: he manages to defeat Atlas twice]].

* KickTheDog: A number, most notably Wily berating Enker for asking WhyDontYouJustShootHim, Allegro killing an alternate version of Rush, and [[spoiler: Quick Man casually killing the last of the Fodder Force Uber Team]].
* KilledOffForReal: Fire Man, [[spoiler: after being defeated in Harmony Mode and short-circuiting in water.]]

*** Not just any old power core - ''he's powered by an [[spoiler: unstable nuclear bomb.]]''

* OffWithHisHead: Crash Man in "Live and Learn"[[note]]It doesn't stick[[/note]], and more fatally, [[spoiler: Roll]] in "Too Serious".

* RedShirt: Oh so many, but the thing is all the characters start off with the same characterization curve, so it's hard to identify them until they die, [[spoiler: unless they are named "Fodder Force" (Captain/Colonial Fodder and "red haired guy" not included) or "Red Shirt Brigade".]] This is not helped by having most characters having unique sprites.

* TheReveal: The Harmony support units [[spoiler: are created by Future Roll, who has become Mother Harmony after Red Mega Man killed her and she was inexpertly repaired by Quintet via Reader and Writer, the bases for the rest of the Harmony worms.]].

* {{Shoryuken}}: [[spoiler: Mega Man, err, [[PowerCopying Mega Mans]] Doctor Light's [[{{Shotoclone}} Shotokan Karate]] against [[CoolShip The Wily Machine]].]]

** The resemblance is very loose, but [[spoiler: Dr. Light's HumongousMecha]] seems very [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann drill happy]]...

** Cut Man's defeat to [[spoiler: Wood Man makes sense as he was (ironically) weak to his power in [[http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Cut_Man#Trivia Mega Man: The Power Battle.]]]]

* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler: Greatest Killer turns out to be one of these for Quintet.]]

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: [[http://www.ferretcomic.com/960 Crash Man shows why he's called The Destroyer.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Cut Man does this with Wood Man.]]

* TelescopingRobot: [[spoiler: Reset Man.]]
* TemporalMutability: Of the 'Temporal Chaos Theory' type. Time travel itself is an act which changes the future. If you go forwards in time, you vanish from the timeline while travelling and so arrive in a world shaped by your absence. If you go backwards in time, your appearance in the past changes causality and erases the future you returned from. [[spoiler: The future of 'Too Serious', wherein Wily attacks again and again until his capture and execution, is erased when Wily travels 37 years into the future and so simply vanishes one day. The new timeline created is the one seen in 'Greatest Killer' and is the home timeline of Quintet. When Wily returns to the present he once again creates a timeline wherein he exists, erasing the world of 'Greatest Killer' and continuing the familiar timeline that progresses through the Mega Man Classic series.]]

* TitleDrop: Of Story 2, by [[spoiler: Quintet]].
-->'''[[spoiler: Quintet]]''': It sounds like you(Dr. Light) know more about it than me, but how about a more convenient way to put it? "This is a robot with no past and no future."

** [[http://ferretcomic.com/517 That Air Man lookalike]] that everyone believes turns into Air Man? [[http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Wave_Man_(PC) Wave Man]] ([[NamesTheSame Not THAT Wave Man]]) of the equally bad Mega Man 3 DOS.

* TheReveal: Reader [[spoiler: is Future Roll]].