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* ArchivePanic: Eight series across two timelines means you're going to be at it for quite awhile. The classic series alone has over 30 titles. Add in all of the sequel series, and you're up to around 70. Including all of the ports, remakes and mobile games, and you have well over 100 titles to cover. Good luck!
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: So much that it [[AwesomeMusic/MegaMan has its own page]]. It would almost be easier to list the music that ISN'T awesome, to be honest.
* BaseBreakingCharacter: The Devil, across its many appearances, starting with the Yellow Devil in ''VideoGame/MegaMan1''. It's one of the most iconic designs in the franchise, and its general pattern and character is incredibly distinct, and it's almost always one of the hardest fights in its respective game (barring the Green Devil, anyway). It's also often reviled for many of its fights also being incredibly monotonous, due to its general design of "long period of dodging little pieces, then a weak spot appears for about one second to ensure you can get maybe one hit on him, then go back to dodging." It certainly doesn't help the debate that the boss's variants shows up in a ''lot'' of games.
* CompleteMonster: [[Monster/MegaMan See here.]]
* DracoInLeatherPants:
** ''Classic'': Dr. Wily is sometimes treated as the real hero and superior scientist who would've fixed everything if Dr. Light hadn't shut him down out of jealousy. ''Mega Man 11'' bumped it up significantly when we saw Wily had altruistic motives with his Double Gear system. It doesn't change that he's still a spiteful, petty man whose decision was turned down out of safety and decided taking over the world was the better career choice.
** ''X'':
*** Vile. Fans like to pair him with X, forgetting that he loathes X in canon and tried to kill him. Repeatedly. Later though, ''VideoGame/MegaManMaverickHunterX'' made Vile a playable character and changed the story to accommodate him as a NominalHero instead of completely evil (though he still hates X).
*** Dynamo, who admittedly has a cool design, a double-sided beam saber, and awesome boss music. Too bad fans forget that he tried to [[ColonyDrop drop a colony]] on the planet, was creepily subservient to [[BigBad Sigma]], tried to stop the heroes from saving the planet, and had a cheerily fun time doing it. Yet people like to write him as a lovable goofy prankster who ''joins the Hunter''s.
** ''Legends'': The Bonnes. Granted, Capcom treats them as anti-heroes more than anything (Tron in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' is a great example) and they do have their standards ([[EvenEvilHasStandards they don't steal toilet paper nor appreciate wanton murder]]), but they're pirates, deep down. They invade random islands and destroy buildings, all for profit. And yet they're still the most well-liked villains in any Mega Man game.
* EstrogenBrigade: Surprisingly, the Mega Man franchise had a large female fanbase, probably because of how cute and charming [[BadassAdorable Rock Light]] [[{{Moe}} aka Classic Mega Man]] is and as well as some of the other Mega Men other than X. YaoiFangirls are also drawn in by the sheer volume of shippable male characters.
* FanNickname:
** The Blue Bomber, used for every incarnation with the sole exception of Zero, who is sometimes called the Crimson Red Reploid (some artbooks and fanfics dub him the Red Ripper). Also Mr. Clean for Sigma, and the Wily Eyebrow Thing for Dr. Wily's unusual taunt. Zero's weird green chest lights are also called the Booblights.
** The Blue Bomber title was [[AscendedFanon actually used]] in commercials and ''Star Force 2''. It's also used as one of the achievements in ''9''.
** The earliest mentions of the "Blue Bomber" nickname come from ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' back when it was still published directly by Creator/{{Nintendo}} (specifically, the seventh issue, with ''2'' on the cover). Thus, it's one of the very few instances where the FanNickname was created by a company instead of the fandom.
** And he's called [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment the Blue Bomber]] because he's blue!
** In the same issue which introduced the Blue Bomber nickname, ''Nintendo Power'' tried another nickname as well: the Indigo Invader. That one hasn't stood the test of time as well.
** OVER-1 received many nicknames (most common being "Xover") before and after his official name was revealed; he's a bit of an odd case (by Mega Man standards) in that quite a few fans outright refuse to refer to him as OVER-1, for various reasons.
* FanworkOnlyFans: Even those who haven't played a single canon ''Mega Man'' game have most likely run into a fan game, fan comic, webcomic, animation, fanfiction, and/or ROM hack of the franchise.
* FirstInstallmentWins: All of the different series have more than their fair share of fans, but when people think ''Mega Man'', it's usually the Classic series that instantly comes to mind, and is the most iconic of them all. The X series follows shortly after.
* FriendlyFandoms:
** The Mega Man and [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} Nintendo]] Fanbases in general are on really friendly terms with each other, with the majority of Nintendo fans seeing Mega Man as an honorary Nintendo franchise thanks to the latter making its grand debut on the [[Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Nintendo Entertainment System]] and mostly being synonymous with Nintendo consoles ever since. It even got to the point where Mega Man had been confirmed as the first third-party newcomer of VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU and had been acclaimed by both Nintendo and Mega Man fans alike! In terms of specific Nintendo fanbases, however, the [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} Kirby]] and [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Super Mario Bros]] fanbases quite arguably have the biggest camaraderie with the Mega Man fanbase; aside from the numerous fanart between Mega Man and Kirby/Mario, the friendship between the Kirby and Mega Man fanbases is due to the respective protagonists of said video game franchises being BadassAdorable [[KidHero Kid Heroes]] with PowerCopying abilities, and the friendship between the Mario and Mega Man fanbases can even be traced to [[https://www.mariowiki.com/Mega_Man having Mega Man characters prominent in some of the Club Nintendo comics that star Super Mario Bros. characters]] (and for that matter, the presence of a Mega Man costume in VideoGame/MarioKart8 and even Mega Man himself in VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker via the Mystery Mushroom).
** The Mega Man fans also tend to get along well with fans of ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog''. Some of the earliest examples of the ''Mega Man''-''Sonic'' alliance are the scores of crossover sprite comics and animations between the two in the early 2000s, thanks to the popularity of the ''Mega Man'' sprite-sharing website Sprites Inc. The most popular crossovers included ''VideoGame/FinalFantasySonicX'', ''WebAnimation/SonicsQuestForPower'', and even ''WebAnimation/SuperMarioBrosZ'' to some extent. This alliance finally made its way into official material in the ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' in the "Worlds Collide" crossover arc.
** There's a surprising amount of overlap between the Mega Man fandom and ''Franchise/TouhouProject'''s fandom. The most plausible explanation is that it's because of ''VideoGame/MegaMari''. (It may also be because both games are [[NintendoHard frequented by challenge-seekers]].)
** The Mega Man series (mainly the classic era) also overlaps with fans of ''Manga/AstroBoy'' created by Creator/OsamuTezuka due to sharing some similarities with each other. It's not uncommon to see fanart of the titular protagonist interacting with each other. Some fans even decided to [[ToyShip ship]] [[CrossoverShip them together]].
** A more niche overlap in fandoms comes in the form of ''Mega Man'' and ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', which primarily stems from the fact that a large number of artists who originally did work for ''Mega Man'' (of note being Hitoshi Ariga and Hideki Ishikawa, who mostly did work for [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic the Classic series]] and ''[[VideoGame/MegaManLegends Legends]]'') went on to become freelance artists for both the ''Pokémon'' video games and [[TabletopGame/{{Pokemon}} TCG]]. Looking at the [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/700221399452745759/1017208182373883944/IMG_8663.jpg art styles side-by-side]] make the similarities present, and fans from both franchises have banded together to appreciate the overlap and enjoy what each one brings to the table.
** There's some overlap with ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' since that show has quite a few parallels with the ''Mega Man'' series.
* GoddamnedBats: Many, many, many enemies, including [[MascotMook Mets]].
* RetroactiveRecognition: Out of all the fan-submitted Robot Master designs, one name in particular stands out: Yusuke Murata, creator of ''Manga/Eyeshield21'' and artist for the ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' manga, who created [[https://i.imgur.com/elEJUYA.png Dust Man]] and [[https://i.imgur.com/02DLlp2.png Crystal Man]].
* RonTheDeathEater:
** ''Classic'': Dr. Light gets treatment as the real monster for pushing AI research and turning down Dr. Wily's Double Gear idea out of safety concerns. ''11'' didn't help matters when Light himself admits he should've been more accepting of Wily's ideas. The worst treat him as if everything in the series was his fault even though it relied on a variety of factors Light could never have predicted.
** ''X'': X himself is treated as a total wimp just because he's actually vocal about not liking to fight bad guys and wanting to live in peace with his temporary retirement in ''X7'' being a NeverLiveItDown bit in particular. This ignores the fact that X will get back up and fight to his last no matter what and remains TheHero throughout the entire series.
* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: It's practically tradition for the second game in a series to be leaps and bounds better than the first, and successively improves. The exceptions to this rule are ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce'', which took until the third game for this to take effect, ''VideoGame/MegaManX'', where the first is often considered better with the second game being considered on par with or slightly worse than it, and the [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Mega Man Gameboy games]], where [[VideoGame/MegaManII the second game]] is considered the weakest game in the whole Classic era while [[VideoGame/MegaManV the fifth one]] is most well-remembered for not entirely retreading old ground and is one of the few Gameboy titles that can actually stand alongside the NES titles.
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