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* The Robot Masters, all of them, even the two new ones, get upgraded to playable status. It's really a nice thing for characters who barely get any type of respect.
** And the method to playing as them is using only the Buster to defeat them. Mega Man was always depicted as loathing violence and wanting to save fellow robots rather than destroy them, and for this one opportunity he can.