History WhatAnIdiot / MegaManX

'''You'd expect''': Dr. Cain to make sure that the Reploids were as safe as possible by ''not'' doing things like giving them special powers or built-in weapons, making them massive, and keeping them humanoid. Ideally, they'd be issued weapons as needed from the government, and be given select tools and powers for the job at hand as opposed to constant access to such power. Since they're obviously supposed to be people, they should look like people so humans would be easily able to accept them as people, and they wouldn't feel so separate from humans with their radically different physiologies, as opposed to huge animal forms that would only serve to make a bigger gap between both species, instilling fear, jealousy, mistrust, etc. In case of emergencies, he could also make special electrical weaponry designed to shut them down their brains temporarily, essentially a high-tech tranquilizer for mechanical organisms.\\

** 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.\\
'''You'd expect''': He'd ply him with assurances, like admitting that it's unlikely Colonel was involved in the attack, but as a member of the primary anti-Maverick force in the world it's his duty to make sure.\\

'''You'd Expect''': They'd remember X himself went through 30 years of testing and that being careless with the design and conditioning of the artificial brains of reploids resulted in the original Mavericks, and notably the psychotic and murderous Vile, so they would put them through extensive therapy and analysis, making certain to teach Colonel that there is a time when pride must be discarded, and to teach Iris how to deal with emotional trauma, helping them overcome their greatest potential weaknesses.\\
'''Instead''': They decide not to bother, and immediately assign them to positions where they're directly involved in the Maverick Wars, Iris as a Navigator for the Maverick Hunters, and Colonel as the Colonel of the Repliforce. When Colonel is informed that his superiors, the government, think he's a Maverick, he's shocked at first, yet after hearing he'll be brought to HQ and simply questioned,(notably after disarming) suddenly becomes furious and rebels, and whenever seen, he comes off as almost delusional in his statements, insisting war is the only choice. He adamantly refuses to listen to reason, and in the end, is killed in a duel with Zero. Iris, after hearing the news, has a complete mental breakdown, uses her brother's chip to turn into a mech-like form to kill Zero, her body rejecting it throughout the battle, and she dies in Zero's arms.

'''In Addition''': Nobody thinks to start installing actual security measures into Reploids until X8. They attempt this by using copy chips - chips that contain DNA data of hundreds of existing Reploids - that can change a Reploid's DNA and grant them immunity to the Sigma Virus. But nobody bothered to check what ''kinds'' of data were encoded in them, so it wasn't until the events of the game that they found the chips had copies of Sigma's DNA data--which is the virus causing Reploids to go Maverick--installed. Which not only allows them to go Maverick at will,[[note]]not just in the sense of making Maverick decisions resulting from circuit breaks, abstract reasoning, misinterpretation of duty, etc., as all reploids technically can do as they have free will, but in a sense akin to ''turning off their conscience at will, effectively becoming [[TheSociopath Reploid sociopaths]]''[[/note]] but to ''steal the identity of '''anyone they damn well please.'''''

'''In Addition''': Nobody thinks to start installing actual security measures into Reploids until X8. They attempt this by using copy chips - chips that contain DNA data of hundreds of existing Reploids - that can change a Reploid's DNA and grant them immunity to the Sigma Virus. But nobody bothered to check what ''kinds'' of data were encoded in them, so it wasn't until the events of the game that they found the chips had copies of Sigma's DNA data--which is the virus causing Reploids to go Maverick--installed. Which not only allows them to go Maverick at will, but to ''steal the identity of '''anyone they damn well please.'''''

'''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.''\\

'''You'd expect''': He'd ply him, with assurances like admitting that it's unlikely Colonel was involved in the attack, but as a member of the primary anti-Maverick force in the world it's his duty to make sure.\\

'''You'd expect''': He'd ply him, with assurances like admitting that it's unlikely Colonel was involved in the attack, but as a member of the primary anti-Maverick force in the world it's his duty to make sure.//
'''Instead''': He asks pretty bluntly if they were involved, to which Colonel says they came only to help.//

** 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.
'''You'd expect''': He'd admit that it's unlikely Colonel was involved in the attack, but as an officer of the law it's his duty to make sure.//

'''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.''

'''Zero''': They suspect you've become a Maverick.
'''Colonel''': What!?
'''Zero''':Disarm and come with me to HQ.

'''You'd expect''': Dr. Cain to make sure that the Reploids were as safe as possible by ''not'' doing things like giving them special powers or built-in weapons, making them massive, and keeping them humanoid. Ideally, they'd be issued weapons as needed from the government, and be given select tools and powers for the job at hand as opposed to constant access to such power. Since they're obviously supposed to be people, they should look like people so as humans would be easily able to accept them as people, as opposed to huge animal forms that could instill fear. In case of emergencies, he could also make special electrical weaponry for humans that would shut them down temporarily, essentially a tranquilizer for mechanical organisms.\\

'''The result''': Colonel flies off the handle, insisting war would be preferable to the shame of accusations and surrender, and teleports back to General.

'''Instead''': They decide not to bother, and immediately assign them to positions where they're directly involved in the Maverick Wars, Iris as a Navigator for the Maverick Hunters, and Colonel as the Colonel of the Repliforce. When Colonel is informed that his superiors, the government, think he's a Maverick, he's shocked at first, yet after hearing he'll be brought to HQ and simply questioned,(notably after disarming) suddenly becomes furious and rebels, and whenever seen, he comes off as almost delusional in his statements, he adamantly refuses to listen to reason, and in the end, is killed in a duel with Zero. Iris, after hearing the news, has a complete mental breakdown, uses her brother's chip to turn into a mech-like form to kill Zero, her body rejecting it throughout the battle, and she dies in Zero's arms.

'''You'd expect''': Dr. Cain to make sure that the Reploids were as safe as possible by ''not'' doing things like giving them special powers or built-in weapons, making them stupidly huge, and keeping them human shaped. Maybe a hidden set of computer commands that can track and paralyze them from a safe distance. They are robots after all.\\
'''Instead''': He goes nuts building the Reploids, who eventually [[RobotWar go nuts on humanity.]]\\

** Colonel's What An Idiot moment is, for the most part because of a What An Idiot moment itself. Before X4, the government wanted to replicate the success of the Maverick Hunters and create a warrior as powerful as he was compassionate, just like X. Unfortunately, they were unable to achieve their goal, and were forced to spit the program they'd made into what became Colonel and Iris, the former a proud warrior, the latter his compassionate sister.\\

** Colonel's What An Idiot moment is, for the most part because of a What An Idiot moment itself. Before X4, the government wanted to replicate the success of the Maverick Hunters and create a warrior as powerful as he was compassionate, just like X. Unfortunately, they were unable to achieve their goal, and were forced to spit the program they'd made into what became Colonel and Iris, the former a proud warrior, the latter his compassionate sister. '''You'd Expect''': They'd remember X himself went through 30 years of testing and that being careless with the design and conditioning of the artificial brains of reploids resulted in the original Mavericks, and notably the psychotic and murderous Vile, so they would put them through extensive therapy and analysis, making certain to teach Colonel that there is a time when pride must be discarded, and to teach Iris how to deal with emotional trauma, helping them overcome their greatest potential weaknesses. '''Instead''': They decide not to bother, and immediately assign them to positions where they're directly involved in the Maverick Wars, Iris as a Navigator for the Maverick Hunters, and Colonel as the Colonel of the Repliforce. When Colonel is informed that his superiors, the government, think he's a Maverick, he's shocked at first, yet after hearing he'll be brought to HQ and simply questioned,(notably after disarming) suddenly becomes furious and rebels, and whenever seen, he comes off as almost delusional in his statements, he adamantly refuses to listen to reason, and in the end, is killed in a duel with Zero. Iris, after hearing the news, has a complete mental breakdown, uses her brother's chip to turn into a mech-like form to kill Zero, her body rejecting it throughout the battle, and she dies in Zero's arms.

** Colonel's What An Idiot moment is, for the most part because of a What An Idiot moment itself. Before X4, the government wanted to replicate the success of the Maverick Hunters and create a warrior as powerful as he was compassionate, just like X. Unfortunately, they were unable to achieve their goal, and were forced to spit the program they'd made into what became Colonel and Iris, the former a proud warrior, the latter his compassionate sister. '''You'd Expect''': They'd remember X himself went through 30 years of testing and that being careless with the design and conditioning of the artificial brains of reploids resulted in the original Mavericks, and notably the psychotic and murderous Vile, so they would put them through extensive therapy and analysis, making certain to teach Colonel that there is a time when pride must be discarded, and to teach Iris how to deal with emotional trauma, helping them overcome their greatest potential weaknesses. '''Instead''': They decide not to bother, and immediately assign them to positions where they're directly involved in the Maverick Wars, Iris as a Navigator for the Maverick Hunters, and Colonel as the Colonel of the Repliforce. When Colonel is informed that his superiors, the government, think he's a Maverick, he's shocked at first, yet after hearing he'll be brought to HQ and simply questioned,(notably after disarming) suddenly becomes furious and rebels, and whenever seen, he comes off as almost delusional in his statements, he adamantly refuses to listen to reason, and in the end, is killed in a duel with Zero. Iris, after hearing the news, has a complete mental breakdown, uses her brother's chip to turn into a mech-like form to kill Zero, which her body constantly rejects, and she dies in Zero's arms.

** The main cause of Colonel's What An Idiot moment is actually a What An Idiot moment itself. Before X4, the government wanted to replicate the success of the Maverick Hunters and create a warrior as powerful as he was compassionate, just like X. Unfortunately, they were unable to achieve their goal, and were forced to spit the program they'd made into what became Colonel and Iris, the former a proud warrior, the latter his compassionate sister. '''You'd Expect''': They'd remember X himself went through 30 years of testing and that being careless with an artificial brain resulted in the psychotic, murderous Vile, not to mention the original Mavericks, so they would make certain to teach Colonel that there is a time when pride must be discarded, and to teach Iris how to deal with emotional trauma, helping them overcome their greatest potential weaknesses. '''Instead''': They decide not to bother, and immediately assign them to positions where they're directly involved in the Maverick Wars, Iris as a Navigator for the Maverick Hunters, and Colonel as the Colonel of the Repliforce. When Colonel is informed his superiors, the government, think he's a Maverick, he's shocked at first, yet after hearing he'll be brought to HQ and simply questioned,(notably after disarming) suddenly becomes furious and rebels, and whenever seen, comes off as almost delusional in his statements, he adamantly refuses to listen to reason, and in the end, is killed in a duel with Zero. Iris, after hearing the news, has a complete mental breakdown, uses her brother's chip to turn into a mech-like form to kill Zero, which her body constantly rejects, and she dies in Zero's arms.

** The main cause of Colonel's What An Idiot moment is actually a What An Idiot moment itself. Before X4, the government wanted to replicate the success of the Maverick Hunters and create a warrior as powerful as he was compassionate, just like X. Unfortunately, they were unable to achieve their goal, and were forced to spit the program they'd made into what became Colonel and Iris, the former a proud warrior, the latter his compassionate sister. '''You'd Expect''': They'd remember X himself went through 30 years of testing and that being careless with an artificial brain resulted in the psychotic, murderous Vile, not to mention the original Mavericks, so they would make certain to teach Colonel that there is a time when pride must be discarded, and to teach Iris how to deal with emotional trauma, helping them overcome their greatest potential weaknesses. '''Instead''': They decide not to bother, and assign them to positions where they're directly involved in the Maverick Wars, Iris as a Navigator for the Maverick Hunters, and Colonel as the Colonel of the Repliforce. When Colonel is informed his superiors, the government, think he's a Maverick, he's shocked at first, yet after hearing he'll be brought to HQ and simply questioned,(notably after disarming) suddenly becomes furious and rebels, and whenever seen, comes off as almost delusional in his statements, he adamantly refuses to listen to reason, and in the end, is killed in a duel with Zero. Iris, after hearing the news, has a complete mental breakdown, uses her brother's chip to turn into a mech-like form to kill Zero, which her body constantly rejects, and she dies in Zero's arms. ** ''X4'' reveals Sigma and Zero fought when Sigma was a Maverick Hunter. At the time, Zero was an unidentified Maverick berserker who killed a whole hunter unit, and Sigma stepped in personally to take him out. They begin fighting, Sigma has his beam saber and Zero, for whatever reason, isn't using his Z-Buster and dash boots and runs like idiot intending to beat Sigma to death.\\

** ''X4'' reveals Sigma and Zero fought when Sigma was a Maverick Hunter. At the time, Zero was an unidentified Maverick berserker who killed a whole hunter unit, and Sigma stepped in personally to take him out. They begin fighting, Sigma has his beam saber and Zero, for whatever reason, isn't using his Z-Buster and dash boots and runs like idiot intending to beat Sigma to death.\\

'''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 for them to be treated fairly, suspects whoever framed them might have people in the right places, believes that in the panic they might just get blamed anyway, etc), mention that as a reason for refusing.\\

** 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 because Repliforce is suspected as having done the attack.\\

** 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:''' That everyone would heed that lesson, never manufacture copy chips again (or at least double check which Reploid data is programmed into them), cancel anything and everything that actually needs these copy-generation Reploids to function properly, oh, and kill all the copy-gen 'roids.\\

'''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 judged either because of the need to blame someone for the tragedy, because of anti-Reploid prejudice, because he suspected someone might be framing Repliforce, or some combination thereof, mention that as a reason for refusing.\\

** 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 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 he believed that he/Repliforce would be scapegoated either because of the heightened emotions of the event, because of anti-Reploid prejudice, or a combination thereof, mention that as a reason for refusing.\\

'''Even Worse''' To draw off Maverick Hunters 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.

'''Even Worse''' To draw off Maverick Hunters from Repliforce, Jet Stingray attacks and destroys a city, meaning they've now committed an act on the scale they were unfairly declared Mavericks for in the first place.

'''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.

'''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 scapegoated either because of the heightened emotions of the event or because of anti-Reploid prejudice, mention that as a reason for refusing.\\

'''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 scapegoated either because of the heightened emotions of the event or because of anti-Reploid prejudice, mention that as a reason for not coming in.\\

'''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 not be given a fair trial either because of the heightened emotions of the event or because of anti-Reploid prejudice, mention that as a reason for not coming in.\\

'''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.\\

* Going further from this one is the world's apparent reaction to this incident. After the incident involving the Jakob project, the government orders a shutdown of all copy chip research because by this point it's pretty obvious those chips are hell in micro form.\\
'''You'd expect:''' That everyone would heed that lesson, never manufacture copy chips again, cancel anything and everything that actually needs one of these copy-generation Reploids to function properly, oh, and kill all the copy-gen 'roids.\\

'''You'd Expect''': For Zero to tell his friend and partner X about his suspicions, just in case he's right and Sigma tries to back-stab them while they're trying to find the truth. Especially when he, as he says, 'has a bad feeling about this'.\\
'''Instead''': Zero says absolutely nothing to his friend, meaning that while he was ready for Sigma to betray them, X wasn't, and he was used as a hostage against X while his partner froze in hesitation and confusion. A few minutes later, both he and X are badly wounded, and Abel City has been blasted with missiles.

'''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 against one when it's time to fight Sigma. \\
'''Instead:''' He self-destructs, destroying the armor and saving X, but killing himself in the process. Again, there's no reason to assume Vile is invulnerable when he's there. It's really blatant if this happens when you don't already have the buster upgrade, because Zero will give his own as he dies, showing that it's fully functional ''the whole damn time.''