History WhatAnIdiot / MegaManX

'''Instead''': Iris has free rein to go as she pleases, and no one knew she was gone until after her brother died.\\
'''Then again,''' Zero is a creation of Dr. Wily. If his brother Bass is anything to go by, it's no surprise Zero would have an ego that would prevent him from assuming the worst case scenario.

'''That said,''' ''[[VideoGame/MegaManX6 X6]]'' reveals that even if Zero ''would'' have taken Iris' body with him, [[AllForNothing it wouldn't change anything]] since Reploid revival is illegal.\\
'''Even then,''' Dr. Cain has already broken that law to revive Zero.\\
'''But even ''then''''', given how humans deem Reploids Maverick as they please, which was demonstrated by the aforementioned moments of idiocy at the Sky Lagoon, they'd probably deem Iris as Maverick for ''being upset for her brother's death'', which shouldn't ''be'' a reason to deem a Reploid Maverick, said brother's Maverick status be damned. Really, is it any surprise Iris came to believe HumansAreTheRealMonsters?

'''That said,''' ''[[VideoGame/MegaManX6 X6]]'' reveals that even if Zero ''would'' have taken Iris' body with him, [[AllForNothing it wouldn't change anything]] since Reploid revival is illegal.

'''Instead''': Iris has free rein to go as she pleases, and no one knew she was gone until after her brother died.

'''Instead''': Zero just leaves Iris' unconscious body aboard the Final Weapon.

* In ''[[VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission Command Mission]]'', Scarface brazenly storms Central Tower to get the Supra-Force Metal back from the Resistance and avenge his fallen comrades [[spoiler: unaware that Botos is the one who damaged Ferham most, and that Redips is the one who took the Supra-Force Metal and killed Botos]]. After being defeated by the party, he flees the scene.\\

'''Instead''': Scarface heads straight back to the Grave Ruins Base, Epsilon's main stronghold. Because of this careless blunder, Nana is able to trace his location, allowing the party to storm the hideout and kill both of them, ending the Rebellion Army.

* In ''[[VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission Command Mission]]'', Scarface storms Central Tower to get the Supra-Force Metal back from the Resistance and avenge his fallen comrades [[spoiler: unaware that Botos is the one who damaged Ferham most, and that Redips is the one who took the Supra-Force Metal and killed Botos]]. After being defeated by the party, he flees.\\
'''You'd expect''': Scarface to conceal his location, possibly take a secret shortcut or head to a safer Rebellion Army base.\\

'''Instead''': Scarface heads straight back to the Grave Ruins Base, Epsilon's main stronghold. Because of this careless blunder, Nana is able to trace his location, allowing the party to storm the hideout and kill both of them, ending the Rebellion Army.\\

'''Instead''': They let Axl get closer, and they get taken by surprise as a tentacle in Lumine's body lashes out at Axl and breaks his forehead gem, knocking him unconscious, ''then'' destroy the body. The ending implies that now Axl is infected.

** The Repliforce army is held under suspicion for being responsible for the fall of Sky Lagoon, destroying an entire city and killing millions. The hero you're playing as comes across Colonel, a high-ranking member of Repliforce, in the ruins and asks him to disarm and come in for questioning.\\
'''You'd expect:''' Colonel to immediately disarm and come in for questioning, both in a show of good faith for the victims and to clear Repliforce's name. Or, if Colonel refused to come in for whatever reason - believes they should be looking for potential survivors first, suspects this might be [[{{Frameup}} a frame job]] with too many people in the right places, believes in the panic that Repliforce might just get blamed anyway, etc. - clearly mention that as the reason why he's refusing.\\
'''Instead:''' Colonel refuses to come in for questioning because he says laying down his sword would be [[HonorBeforeReason dishonorable]] and leaves the scene, causing all of Repliforce to be declared Mavericks and start a massive war.\\
'''Even worse:''' To draw the Maverick Hunters away from Repliforce, Jet Stingray attacks and destroys a city, meaning they've now committed an act on the scale they were improperly declared Mavericks for in the first place.

'''You'd expect''': That Mac would use a tele-porter to immediately move X to Doppler's fortress.\\

** While Colonel definitely takes the cake in idiocy, Zero's handling of the situation isn't exactly graceful. He's just saved Colonel's sister, and received his thanks, but the situation ''does'' look pretty bad, and his superiors have already been suspicious of the Repliforce for some time. However, there's nothing out-of-the-ordinary about Colonel's behavior, he seems perfectly calm and rational.\\

'''Now''': It'd be the time to break the news to him as gently as possible, and appeal to his sense of honor and justice. He could simply tell him as a fellow soldier he must know that it's the sensible decision to have a full investigation. If Colonel shows hesitancy, he could ask him to do it as a personal favor for saving his sister.\\

* In ''[[VideoGame/MegaManX8 X8]]'', the PowerTrio has just defeated Lumine, but his body hasn't [[DefeatEqualsExplosion exploded]] yet like every other boss up to this point, though his armor does crack open. X is a little concerned, but Zero just shakes his head to say "he's didn't survive." Axl, feeling conflicted emotions for what is basically his little brother, walks up to Lumine's corpse.

'''Instead''': None of this takes place, Gate eventually goes Maverick thanks to Zero's remains post-''X5'', and brings all his creations back with the help of an evil scientist who may be a vessel of Dr. Wily.

'''Instead''': Iris has free reign to go as she pleases, and no one knew she was gone until after her brother died.

'''You'd expect:''' Colonel to immediately disarm and come in for questioning, both in a show of good faith for the victims and to clear Repliforce's name. Or, if he believed that he/Repliforce would be unfairly treated for whatever reason (feels there's too much anti-Reploid prejudice, suspects there might be [[{{Frameup}} a frame job]] with too many people in the right places, believes that in the panic they might just get blamed anyway, etc), clearly mention that as a reason for refusing.\\
'''Instead:''' He declares that laying down his sword would be [[HonorBeforeReason dishonorable]] and leaves the scene, causing all of Repliforce to be declared Mavericks and start a massive war.\\

** Dr. Doppler realizes that X is powerful and tries to capture him. The first time he has a corrupt Maverick Hunter, Mac, capture X and tries to extract him during a siege on Maverick Hunter HQ.\\

'''Instead:''' Bit and Byte ignore Doppler's capture order and try to kill X on site.

* Also in ''[[VideoGame/MegaManX5 X5]]'', Lifesaver discovers ominous data that implies that Zero is heavily linked to TheVirus somehow, since it increases his power output instead of hurting him. He reports this to Commander Signas, who wisely decides to keep this top secret for now and not to act rashly.\\

'''Instead:''' Not only are we NOT told that all of the copy chip Reploids are destroyed, but people are so obsessed with building their ungodly space towers that they eventually put research into these chips BACK UP in spite of the warnings from people who pay attention to history. Meaning that, despite X, Zero, and Axl having busted their metallic asses to finally destroy Sigma on the moon, the presence of his virus in the copy chips means ''he can come back anyway''. If ''[[VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission Command Mission]]'' is anything to go by, they basically ASKED for Colonel Redips.
* Here's one from the original game and its remake: Towards the end of the game, Vile has captured X using his Ride Armor, and a previously incapacitated Zero leaps onto the back of the Armor, where Vile can't aim any attacks at all. There's no indication that Vile can't be shot directly, the original game uses GameplayAndStorySegregation to prevent any easy head-shots while the remake has Vile just grab X, preventing the fight altogether.\\
'''You'd expect''': Zero to aim his [[ArmCannon Z-Buster]] at the back of Vile's head and shoot it off. Zero's shown in the intro stage that he can tap his buster's full attack power much faster than X. That way it's two on one when it's time to fight Sigma. \\

* Here's on from the original game and it's remake: Towards the end of the game, Vile has captured X using his Ride Armor, and a previously incapacitated Zero leaps onto the back the Armor, where Vile can't aim any attacks at all. There's no indication that Vile can't be shot directly, the original game uses GameplayAndStorySegregation to prevent any easy head-shots while the remake has Vile just grab X, preventing the fight altogether.\\

'''Instead''': He plays around, ultimately getting a near fatal beating and becomes infected with the Maverick Virus, which leads to his becoming evil.

'''Instead''': Lifesaver goes behind Signas' back and tells his suspicions to X, Zero's best friend, accusing Zero of being dangerous and points out that Zero is unaffected in an area brimming with TheVirus. The resulting concern and mistrust between the two friends causes them to fight and nearly get killed by the BigBad when he takes them by surprise. Lifesaver unsurprisingly hasn't been seen in the games ever since.
* Also ''[[VideoGame/MegaManX6 X6]]'' it's revealed that Gate, a Reploid scientist on a research team Alia was once part of, had created a set of 'roids that were too advanced to be fully analyzed by the other scientists on the team.\\

* Going by the above: Vile has captured X using his Ride Armor, and a previously incapacitated Zero leaps onto the back the Armor, where Vile can't aim any attacks at all. There's no indication that Vile can't be shot directly, the original game uses GameplayAndStorySegregation to prevent any easy headshots while the remake has Vile just grab X, preventing the fight altogether.\\