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* Why is there a cover of Sunglasses at Night on a Megaman 3 prev-[[http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Proto_Man oooh.]]
* In ''The Quick and The Blue'', Quickman asks "Does Death wear blue?" throughout the song. This gets an added meaning when you remember that Quickman is weak to Flashman's weapon, whose song is ''Blue Like You''.
* In ''I'm Not The Breakman'' the line "What am I supposed to be?" is immediately followed by the Weapon Get theme.
** Also in the same song, Protoman/Breakman mentions that the creator "is a liar." Recall the plot of the third game...
* Wily himself isn't unaware of Protoman's feelings on the matter. The second verse of ''Gamma Unchained'' mentions Wily having given Protoman a new reactor, and that Protoman was ''not'' happy about it. The verse itself ends with "I think that I heard the red song again/he wants revenge..." (In the game, Protoman does show up after the fight with Gamma.)
* Snake Man's theme is all about him trying to get Mega Man to switch sides--fitting that [[Literature/TheBible a snake would try to tempt someone into evil.]] One part of the chorus even goes, "Take a bite, [[DealWIthTheDevil make your mark]]."
* The "Elec" in Elec Man can be short for either "Electric Man" or the less obvious "Elected Man", fitting for someone whose song sounds like a political rally.
** The mood whiplash of placing his song right next to "Beneath the Steel", about Bomb Man collapsing society with his bombs, is also brilliant: The two songs are about ballots and bullets.
* Magnetman ''attracted'' [[spoiler: Roll]].
** And [[spoiler: Roll]] may be ''repulsed'' by him.
* Bubble Man wants to prove he and his weapon are the strongest of all the Robot Masters. In a way, he's right: his weapon is the only thing that can harm the final boss of 2.
* ''Walk Away From Light'' is about Snake Man trying to get Mega Man to join their side. Of course he'd relate to Mega Man, they both share a [[SpikesOfDoom weakness]].
* Compared to the rest of Shadow Man's song, the chorus sounds confident and badass, especially the line "I am the knife in a gunfight". But wait -- a knife is what you ''don't'' bring to a gunfight, isn't it? Shadow Man's putting on a brave face, but his fear and uncertainty from the rest of the song is slipping through.
* Wily's JustThinkOfThePotential line, about replacing humanity with robots, and the line from ''Make Your Choice'' (''"How can there be peace, while two sides stand?"'') are not just throwaway lines: In VideoGame/MegaManZX, the humans and reploids are all cyborgs and the two categories are barely distinguishable; they made peace by making humans so mechanical they may as well be robots.
* ''Walk Away From Light'' is all about Snake Man trying to tempt Mega Man into joining Wily. Given that Snake Man is weak to Needle Cannon, one could reasonably assume that Mega Man fought Needle Man before Snake Man. What else does Mega Man get after beating Needle Man? Rush Jet. Under this logic, ''Fly On A Dog'', a song about Mega Man growing increasingly bitter towards humanity and Dr. Light, immediately precedes ''Walk Away From Light''. Snake Man is preying on Mega Man while he's emotionally vulnerable.
* From a meta angle, the release of the Megas X Belmonts [=EPs=] are always holiday-related and have a unifying concept behind them all.
** "Skulls" is an EP that was released on Halloween, a holiday generally associated with the macabre and horrific, and features "avenging the dead" as a recurring motif. Skull Man is fighting to avenge the death of robot masters that came before him, Dracula mourns the death of his wife, Leon and Sara make one last declaration of their resolve in the face of death, and "Burn" was written based on The Crow, a comic and film about a man who returns from the dead to murder the men who killed him and his fiancée.
** "Snakes" was released on St. Patrick's Day, which celebrates the day Saint Patrick drove a horde of snakes from Ireland, and focuses on the idea of being poisoned by temptation both physically and psychologically. Medusa attempts to seduce Simon into looking into her eyes before fighting him, Elec Man tries to poison other robots with a flawed ideology and call for them to rise up, Storm Eagle was tempted by the Maverick ideology, and "Yours Truly, 2095" is about a man who was tempted with the idea of a 'better' girlfriend than his first love and found nothing but a hollow, superficial love life.
* Building off of this, all of the non-game songs the band has covered have a reason to have been covered:
** "Sunglasses at Night" is easy because Proto Man has a visor that resembles sunglasses, and he always wears them.
** "Send Me An Angel" is primarily there for the fact that it was featured in [[Film/TheWizard The Wizard]], note that clips from the movie play in this cover. The Wizard was a movie that is joked about being a 90-minute Nintendo commercial. However, considering the lyrics, and that this song is on the "Fly On A Dog" single; this song would be one that Mega Man would be singing at that time as well.
** "Burn" is there for its connection to The Crow, as the above said.
** "Blue Christmas" is covered because all incarnations of Mega Man are blue.
** The above pretty much sums up "Yours Truly, 2095"
* Skullman speaking of hearing the dead might just be to fit his undead theme, but he was also one of the first robot masters built specifically to fight megaman, likely he was made using combat data(if not outright made from the parts of) previous robot masters, of course he sees them as "past lives" his first memorys were likely viewing the defeat of each robot master from there perspective.
* The line in Chill X-Mas about waiting ‘for the hologram of Santa Claus’ becomes brilliant when you realize that Dr. Light, who left holograms of himself behind for X (one of which is in Chill Penguin’s stage), looks like Santa in a lab coat.
* Wily says of Proto Man "I gave him power, a new heart... it filled too quickly with his rage." Proto Man says of himself "my heart is gone, there's only fire.". In other words, like Light to Mega Man, "the burning in your heart, I did not put there."
* The way Crash Man's song describes him as fighting his programming from the inside and ultimately destroying himself reflects the unusual combat AI for Crash Man in the original game - he would only attack when Megaman does; if you don't attack, he just paces back and forth. When you ''do'' attack, he jumps up and fires downwards, meaning that he can be made to suicidally jump into your shots.

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[[folder: Fridge Horror ]]

* Listen to ''Evolution of Circuitry'', Elec Man's incredibly upbeat, empowering song about having the power to liberate his people and bring about a new era, one of the most upbeat songs they've written. Realize that he gets brutally executed by Megaman immediately after the song ends. (This also adds extra pathos to Dr. Wily's ''Look What You've Done'' later on the same album, and to Spark Man's much more militant and aggressive ''You've Sparked a War'' on the next.)
* During ''The Message From Dr. Light'', listen carefully to the background. At certain points, Light is heard screaming in very much the same way Wily did in ''Look What You've Done''.
* In ''Look What You've Done'', Dr. Wily talks about how easy it was to convince the Robot Masters to rebel, saying "it was like flipping a switch." Considering that in the original game, he stole and reprogrammed them, did he really persuade them to join him, or did he just MindRape them all into complying? Was everything they did and died for simply because they had been BrainwashedAndCrazy?
* Heat Man's stage in ''Mega Man 2'' is what looks like an underground smelting plant. It's doubtful that Dr. Wily would waste anything in his war on Light, so he probably smelts any robots Mega Man destroys for their base components. This basically means Heat Man has had to personally cremate hundreds of robots (including his own brothers!) and knows for a fact that Mega Man killed them. No wonder he's so unhinged and itching for revenge in ''Man on Fire''.
** And it gets worse if you think half a dozen games ahead. How will they cover Mega Man 9 without implying that some of the "good" robot makers are just as bad ''or worse'' ([[EvenEvilHasStandards at least Dr Wily is unwilling to scrap someone just for being obsolete]]).
* Magnet Man's song, though a little sad on the surface, is one of the more upbeat songs on the album, with the titular character talking affably about how just because his love's brother wishes to kill him and his father wants to rule the world, that shouldn't drive the two apart. The music is upbeat and cheery to match his personality; all the robot wants is to be reunited with his love. And then the realization that he too was killed by Mega Man despite his attitude and love sets in...
* In general, the fact that all of Robot Masters, even the ones wrought with emotional distress or the ones doing things they think are right, are killed by Mega Man without so much as a question. Mega Man does feel tremendous guilt at killing all of them, but he know it's what he's got to do.
* Light's portrayal in ''I Want to be The One (To Watch You Die)'' seems like a far cry from his personality in the games, but ''The Power Fighters'' gives us this quote:
-->Sometimes, peace cannot be achieved unless those who spread war are destroyed.
** This sounds exactly like what a WellIntentionedExtremist BigBad would say in another work. Maybe even in canon, Dr. Light has a darker side?
* Gamma is fridge horror when you realize that the lines of Gamma Unchained suggest Wily didn’t do anything other than ''turn it on''. No reprogramming, glitches, or corruption whatsoever. The program running is exactly what [[BigGood Dr. Light]] meant for it to have. GoneHorriblyRight indeed.


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[[folder: Fridge Logic ]]

* How can Spark Man's hands be "turning into fists" ''when he doesn't have hands''? They're just giant prongs!
** Maybe the prongs are retractable and are only used for battle.
* Who is Elec man singing his song to?
** The electronic feedback and generic fading-out music at the end imply some sort of hijacked broadcast. Chances are he was just trying to spread the message to robots throughout the world (or country, town, or whatever).
* How is Hard Man old enough to be "an old fighter" and have been accused of having "gotten soft"? Did it take years to defeat that round of robot masters?
** Given the nature of Hardman's song, with all his speaking of a crowd and "His Town", as well as others like Quickman's [In this "town" / I am the law] It's not impossible that the various robot uprisings managed to take control of population centers, which might very well allow for the various conflicts to be drawn out for quite some time. Which admittedly raises the possible question of what happened to any inhabitants after Megaman finished dismantling the robot Master protecting those locations.
** Perhaps Hard Man is an older model that got dragged into Wily's efforts for ''History Repeating'', rather than being a bespoke design for it.