Characters / Bob and George

This is a list of characters and related tropes in the influential webcomic, Bob and George. Unmarked spoilers ahead.

Main characters

Mega Man

The main character before the introduction of Bob and George. A robot created by Dr. Light to be his lab assistant. While not fighting Robot Masters, he is an idiot, as per his secondary function. When carrying out his primary function to fight Robot Masters, he is cunning and intelligent.

• Adaptational Dumbass: While the canon Mega Man could be naive, here he's an idiot unless he's fighting Robot Masters.
• Achievements in Ignorance: Usually in that he survives things he shouldn't because he's too dumb to realize he shouldn't.
• Arm Cannon
• Contractual Immortality: Before the introduction of Bob and George.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He's deadly when fighting Robot Masters. When he's not, he's an idiot. He's programmed that way.
• Deadpan Snarker: Only in the video game adaptions though due to his primary programming.
• Exact Words: His primary purpose is to fight Robot Masters. His secondary purpose is to be an idiot, and in that order. When he's fighting Masters, he's cunning and ruthless. When not, he's a total moron.
• Indy Ploy: Some of his weapons.
• Power Copying: Obviously, given that he was the former Trope Namer. Though he uses it more creatively than in the games.
• Too Dumb to Live: Inverted; He actually seems to be too dumb to be killed.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Ice cream
• Weaksauce Weakness: He's apparently very lactose intolerant, which is the real reason he's always throwing up in the party comics- eating too much ice cream. Of course he's also too stupid to realize that, so he keeps eating it anyway.

Proto Man

Mega Man's older brother and the prototype Robot Master. In contrast to Mega Man's stupidity, Proto Man is more or less this comic's version of Batman.

• Arm Cannon
• Cool Shades
• Crazy-Prepared: His contingency plans for the final battle up to least "Plan R".
• Deadpan Snarker: Usually towards Mega Man.
• Genre Savvy: He reads the comic so he knows what to do next.
• Goggles Do Something Unusual: They provide enhanced vision. And they look cool.
• I Call It "Vera": Calls it his "baby".
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Uses his Proto Shield to deflect just about anything.
• Only Sane Man: One of the most rational and competent members of the regular cast.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Played with; it's not known if any of the robotic characters from the Classic series made it to the X series, Proto Man has a limited lifespan in canon and his time is limited. Here, he's ironically the only known Robot Master (except Auto) known to make it to the X series.
• Sole Survivor: The only survivor of the Cataclysm (also Auto), existing in the X series. Though the Epilogue might change the "sole" part.

The Author

The Author of the comic. An all-powerful being who directly interacts with the characters on many occasions.

• Author Avatar: It's in his name.
• Author Guest Spot: It's what his character was supposed to be, then things took off.
• Palette Swap: A purple, helmetless recolor of Mega Man. He thinks the helmet would make him look like a moron.
• Physical God: He is the owner of the comic and later in the comic, Bob even refers to him as "the local god".
• Reality Warper: Comes with the territory of being an omniscient creator of the world.
• Restart the World: After his showdown with the Helmeted Author didn't go as planned. They decided on to just use their powers together in unison at each other which destroys the comic and sends George and Proto Man to Chick Bot and Rick O' Shay's comics.
• Weirdness Magnet: His mere presence creates the strip's absurd humor. When he leaves, life returns to normal.

George

A superhero from the hand-drawn comic world. He has Lightning powers and crippling self-esteem issues. Trapped in the Mega Man universe as part of a ploy to trap Bob there instead. Makes friends with the cast and lives at Dr Light's lab. The entire arc of the comic gives him Character Development, in contrast to the most other characters.

• Ascended Fanboy: Grew up playing the Mega Man games in his home dimension.
• Batman Grabs a Gun: It takes the whole comic, but George eventually realizes that shooting Bob with his until-then-unused Arm Cannon is the only way left to stop him. The other reason being he is the only person who can't figure out how to activate it.

• Code Name: Blitz. Earlier it was "Spark" but he doesn't like that name as much.
• Contractual Immortality: Being a title character, he uses this trope to avoid dying. And while Death Is Cheap in the strip, other characters get revived while he technically never dies
• Deadpan Snarker: He gets really good at this during the events of the comic.
• Distressed Dude: Captured several times.
• Forgot I Could Fly: Hangs from Dr Wily's ceiling for months because he forgot he could just use his powers to escape.
• Half-Human Hybrid: His mother is a succubus. Her father is Satan.
  • Divine Parentage
• Lightning Can Do Anything: He gets more and creative with his powers as time goes on, even managing to teleport using them in a manner just as effective as Dr. Light's robots.
• Mr. Vice Guy: Generally a Nice Guy, but he can be rather lazy. He loses this as the strip goes on.
• Shock and Awe: He also uses his powers to attack.
  • Chain Lightning: Used by the time of The Attack of Non-Alternate Mynd, he is able to destroy entire armies of mooks by himself.
• Mundane Utility: Implied given that the end of the comic has him become an electrical engineer (where he could utilize his manipulation or at least knowledge of electricity) or he would've anyway had it not been for the twist.
• Nice Guy: Albeit a little dim sometimes and very snarky.
• One-Man Army: Is notable for being one of the only people who can reliably destroy entire armies of ninjas singlehandedly.
• Outside-Context Problem: Aside from the fact that he's a human with superpowers, he's a mystical human with superpowers. It's clarified that he's the grandson of the Devil and his mother is a succubus. His nature as a mystically powered being of pure lightning has been a key factor in beating multiple threats, such as Bob and X.
• Palette Swap: A light-blue and gray recolor of The Author with blonde hair. Which itself is a recolor of Mega Man sans helmet.
• Plot Armor: Invokes this on several occasion, sure a contrived Plot Device will save him.
• Spiky Hair: What tends to happen when he uses his powers.
• This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!
  It's called the conservation of energy, bitch!
• Took a Level in Badass: The reason why he and Bob became characters in the comic due to his mother's Batman Gambit. It works out magnificently.
  • To clarify, when George first appeared in the comic, he wasn't very useful in combat since he couldn't use his suit's blaster. Then he revealed his lightning powers and gradually became one of the most powerful characters in the comic by taking down the Helmeted Author before he assumed his true form, took out N.A.Mynd by fusing with Chadling, stopped X's assimilating everyone and foiled Bob's plans to wipe out the entire comic's universe. This ended with George finally being able to use his blaster and almost used it to kill Bob to stop him for good as a last resort.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Ice Cream.
• Villainous Lineage: Has a rather nasty case of this along with Bob- their grandfather is the Devil, and their mother is a Succubus. However, George has never struggled with morality to the degree this trope implies- the worst he'll do is be tempted towards mildly jerkish behavior, like not wanting to rescue Mike from Non-Alternate Mynd, which is ultimately less "Struggling against my dark family nature," and more him being lazy and a bit of an ass at times.

Bob

George's younger brother. He was an aspiring supervillian in his home dimension. He initially tries to continue that in the comic, but eventually gets fed up and retires to Acapulco. Until the Author pulls him back in. He doesn't take that very well.

• Above Good and Evil: Bob claims he and George are this. George doesn't agree.
• Absurd Phobia: He's absolutely terrified of Pokemon.
• Anti-Hero: When he's not the Arc Villain, he's usually a Nominal Hero due to villains inconveniencing him or Sociopathic Hero during his time in the Rockman Universe.
• Arm Cannon: The most powerful one shown. He only charges it once. It blows up a fortress. Its regular setting is enough to defeat most foes instantly. It becomes damaged beyond repair when he accidentally causes the Cataclysm in the Rock Man Universe.

• Cain and Abel: The younger Cain to George's Abel.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Bob's a supervillain and damn proud of it. He ends up causing the events of Mega Man 6 and ends up as the last Arc Villain when George calls him "not that bad a guy".
• Code Name: Napalm. He briefly changes it to Darth Volcanus at one point.
• Contractual Immortality: Same deal as George, and he uses this against Mega Man in their first encounter.
• Cool Shades: As a recolor of Proto Man, he has these.

• Deflector Shields: His "plastic wrap shielding".
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: It takes an insult about his mother to distract him during one battle. The commentary even notes that this is slightly odd given that she's a Succubus, a sex demon.
• Fiery Redhead: Literally.
• Final Boss: For the comic.
• Goggles Do Something Unusual: The same as Proto Man's. He uses them to adjust his visual frequency at one point to see a hologram of Mega Man who is yelling at George.
• Good Angel, Bad Angel: He has them, and they claim his mother sent them.
• Half-Human Hybrid: His mother is a succubus. Her father is Satan.
  • Divine Parentage
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: He initially decided to chill and be an Anti-Hero in the Rockman Universe, partly because he actually likes it there, until Alternate Mega Man and Bass intervene and cause an alternate Cataclysm. He ends up becoming the Big Bad of the Fifth Megaman Game, and when he initially is content to chill again in a Demiplane until he gets pulled back and becomes the villain again. His Rage Against the Author is primarily fueled by the Author not leaving him alone.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: Starts as a straight supervillain, but shifts from Anti-Hero to Villain Protagonist across the series. He would've stayed as such which would've eventually gotten him killed, but ultimately avoided this with a last-minute twist.
• I Work Alone: He gives as a reason not to join Mynd. Averted in the final story, when he's got three minions working directly under him, each of which has their own army. He also drags Dr. Wily along in his schemes at least twice.
• Jerk with a Heart of Bronze: He's an egocentric prick out for himself, but he does care about his big brother George and has bailed him out of trouble quite a few times with no ulterior motives.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: He rarely uses it, but it is there. He can also use a fire shield.
• Other Me Annoys Me: He's a little freaked out by his flamboyant Mirror Universe self.
• Palette Swap: A grey and black Proto Man recolor, justified due to Bob's outfit being scorched black by Protoman during his introduction. He loses the helmet in the final story arc.
• Parody Sue: Admits to being the Mary Sue of the comic, being cooler, smarter and more powerful than almost any other character. Unfortunately for him he's the straight man in a Gag Series and inevitably finds himself the butt of jokes/flustered by the inherent wackiness of the series.
• Personality Powers: The Fiery Redhead happens to be a pyromancer.
• Playing with Fire: His overall power. In the later half of the comic, he mostly just shoots fire out of his hands.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Has shades of this at times. His becoming the Big Bad is basically him throwing a massive tantrum against The Author.
• Rage Against the Author: Becomes increasingly enraged by the Author's interference, and his progressing to Big Bad in the last arc is because he just won't leave him alone.
• Bob the Dark Lord: His supervillain persona is called Napalm, but everyone calls him Bob anyway. Doesn't make him less terrifying though.
• Took a Level in Badass: Went from an incredibly powerful Anti-Hero / Villain Protagonist to the Big Bad of the entire comic.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Subverted. Turns out this is more or less the secondary reason why he and George became characters in the comic due to his mother's Batman Gambit, the primary for George to toughen up in the event Bob would cross the line. Their mother hoped that if Bob realized that George would be willing to make the penultimate sacrifce in killing him, that it would've straighted him out. Needless to say, it didn't work as he would've continued being a supervillain before being killed during a battle with Delta Flight (but didn't happen due to a last minute twist.)
  • Played straight when he went to the Rockman Universe- he genuinely enjoyed it there, had friends, and even had a career as an anti-hero. Unfortunately, that all went crashing down when the Alternate Megaman and Bass meddled with his blaster, creating the Cataclysm for that universe.
• Villainous Lineage: Like George, he has one, with his grandfather being the Devil and his mother being a succubus. Unlike George, he fully embraces his dark side.

Secondary characters

Bass

A robot built by Dr. Wily to defeat Mega Man. He spends most of his time at Dr. Light's lab hanging out with him instead.

• Adaptational Dumbass: Even more than Mega Man, who at least is clever when dealing with Robot Masters. Turns out that it's not his fault, exactly- he was competent during Megaman 7 and in 6 he shows no sign of his future stupidity. However, during the comic's finale, George's attempts to save the Past Author fried his brain when he passed Bass by.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Technically serving Dr Wily, but he and Mega Man are friendly instead of being arch-rivals here.
• Always Someone Better: Built to be this to Mega Man in every way. Including stupidity.
• Arm Cannon
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander
• Combining Mecha: With Treble.
• The Ditz: Even more so then Mega Man ever was.
• Dumbass Has a Point: Whenever Wily has a crazy scheme, Bass of all people is the one who states the simple solution and points out how convoluted it is.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: He wasn't always an idiot, which is carried over to his appearance in the Mega Man 6 retelling. It's revealed that his processor got fried by George's passing early in the comic.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: Whenever he's not fighting Mega Man, he usually hangs out with him and the two try to find something stupid to go do.
• Gone Horribly Right: Wily created him to be better than Mega Man in every way. Unfortunately that included a lack of intelligence, though this was retconned.
• Ship Tease: With Roll.
• Smart Ball: As stupid as he is, he does have his moments. Mainly criticizing Wily.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He's the one that stole the plans for X from Doctor Light, which were turned into the plans for Zero, who caused the Cataclysm.

Mega Man X

Built as Mega Man's replacement, Dr. Light took no chances, wishing to make him the ultimate lab assistant by giving him personality traits that would make him unable to fit in with any other robot. His future self appears as part of several Time Travel arcs.

• A God Am I: In the present when he is activated due to a fit of angst.
• All for Nothing: The reason he was created was to have someone clean Doctor Light's lab... except that it turns out that Rush and Tango were already doing that. Lampshaded by Doctor Light.
• Ambiguously Gay: With Zero.
• Arm Cannon: He's a form of Mega Man, one of the Trope Codifiers.
• Assimilation Plot: His goal during his Arc Villain stunt; make everyone his friends with this, whether they want it or not. Then he gets access to humans through Mike.
• Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Doctor Light intentionally screwed him up massively because he didn't like any of the robots living in his lab and didn't want his most powerful creation want to run off and be a vigilante. All it did was turn him into the sixth annual villain.
• Hive Mind: He makes one during his stint as the sixth annual villain
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Bob rewrites his memory so he would have no memory of being a villain, yet still would have learned the lesson he gained from it.
• Momma's Boy: Dr. Light designed him to be so socially awkward and love cleaning and menial tasks. Unfortunately he doesn't have a mother.
• Spirit Advisor: To George during his drug-induced hallucinations.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Built to be this to Mega Man. Dr. Light introduces him to Mega Man as "your replacement".
• Story-Breaker Power: In the Megaman 2 storyline, he has this- his power and ability is so great, as Doctor Light's greatest creation with ultra-advanced technology and weapons possibly on par with Bob's own. To prevent this from being the case, X volunteers to stay behind and help repair Doctor Light's lab while Megaman takes down the Robot Masters, preserving history.

Zero

The ultimate weapon built by Dr Wily, responsible for the Cataclysm that killed the cast of the original games. His future, heroic self appears with X in several Time Travel arcs.

• Ambiguously Gay: With X
• Arm Cannon
• Dissonant Serenity: Towards the people he kills during the Cataclysm.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: A Running Gag.
• Faux Affably Evil: In the Cataclysm movies. Chats with Dr. Light about how he crushed Rock's skull.
• Laser Blade
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: When we first meet him, has no idea who built him or that he was responsible for the Cataclysm.
• Shared Family Quirks: Inherited Dr. Wily's habit of being eavesdropped upon.

Dr Light

The creator of most of the robots and a mean drunk. His lab is the primary setting, inhabited by what he describes as "ungrateful robots" and "freeloaders". And Mike.

• Adaptational Jerkass: A lot surlier and easier to annoy than his Nice Guy canon self. Though given the zanier events and his alcoholism, it makes some sense.
• The Alcoholic: To the point that in the Epilogue he would've died of it had Dr Cossack not invented an artificial liver.
• Back from the Dead: While most characters have this, he ends up being the first character revived after Proto Man accidentally shoots him.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Usually drunk, was gullible about Dr Wily, but is still a genius inventor. He's the one who stops Gamma's rampage, and defeats Mynd's One-Winged Angel form.
• Death by Adaptation: Died early on, As he does not die in the original games, but the Author is able to fix that.
  • Killed by Zero in the Catyclysm films, when his real death is unknown in the canon.
• Immune to Drugs: Resistant more like it; he can drink enough to down a bull elephant while keeping some level of consciousness.
• Jerkass: You can't blame him though, his lab is full of freeloaders and robots who don't seem all that grateful.
• Mr. Exposition
• Never My Fault: Refuses to take any of the blame for when X goes on his assimilation spree.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: OK maybe he's not all that heroic here, but he designed X to not get along with characters like Mega Man to not become incompetent. This backfires when X figures out a way to make them get along with him.

• Pet the Dog: No matter how pissed off he gets about the robots getting beat up and damaged, he always repairs them.
• Sophisticated as Hell: Alternates between being completely drunk and slurring his words to delivering long strings of technobabble.

Roll

Mega Man's sister, a foul-mouthed little spitfire in stark contrast to her depiction in the games.

• Adaptational Jerkass: Due to her Blood Knight tendencies and swearing.
• Arm Cannon: Unlike in the canon games, she fights alongside the rest of the cast on several occasions.

• Distaff Counterpart: Is more or less this to Proto Man when she fights, and is definitely this in personality.
• Glass Cannon: Implied to be this in the Cataclysm movies. She dodges Zero's shots and hits him several times, but goes down in two hits.
• Hot-Blooded: Loves violence.

• Sir Swearsalot: Has the biggest potty mouth of the characters, even delivering the first F-bomb.

Nate

Originally a Yellow Devil that attempted to kill the cast. After his defeat, Dr. Light rebuilds him with another personality and he participates in several battles in defense of his new friends.

• Arm Cannon: He has one, though he rarely uses it.
• Blind Without Them: His "power crystal" is his giant pair of glasses. He's near-sighted.
• Fusion Dance: With Proto Man and Bass, to become "Protean" and "Bate", respectively. Helmut tries to force Nate to do this, but it doesn't stick.
• Heel–Face Turn: Started as an enemy early on but becomes an ally after his defeat.
• Leet Speak: His official designation is N4-T3.
• Talking with Signs: Communicates via this.
• The Speechless: Has no mouth. During a "Freaky Friday" Flip, he's able to speak normally while in Mega Man's body.
  • No Mouth
  • Also averted when he's inside cyberspace, such as when Megaman X assimilates him or he winds up in Megaman's head.
  • Averted again in the aftermath of the Megaman X Assimilation, since he got put in Chadling's body (which could talk).
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Can alternate between his "human" and Yellow Devil forms at will. He's also shown taking other forms, such as a Met Hat.

Chadling

One of Mynd's minions, who can alternate between a Slash Man form and a Purple Devil form.

• Dead Alternate Counterpart: Non-Alternate Chadling was killed by Non-Alternate Mynd for being rebellious, and never shows up outside of a flashback.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Initially he liked bananas, but shifts to being an ice cream lover like most of the characters.
• Fusion Dance: With George to become Charge. And Mynd against his will.
• Heel–Face Turn: Betrays Mynd and joins the rest of the cast later, living at Doctor Light's lab.
• Leet Speak: His official designation is C1-14D-L1N6.
• Involuntary Shapeshifting: Under Mynd's control.
• Minion with an F in Evil: Even when he served Mynd he wasn't much of a villain and immediately goofed around when he entered the Megaman Universe. Mynd has to use mind-control to get him to follow orders.
• Palette Swap: Of Slash Man, though that character doesn't actually appear in the comic.
• Purple Is Powerful: A Purple Devil who is more powerful than Nate, being able to change size and has Wolverine Claws.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Ice cream.
• Voluntary Shape Shifting: Can alternate between his "human" and Purple Devil forms at will after Mynd's control is gone.
• Wolverine Claws: Just like Slash Man

Mike

Mynd's other minion. Mike is human unlike most of the cast.

• Butt-Monkey: The rest of the cast gives him no respect, even when he's seriously hurt.
• Calling Your Attacks: He does so, though they are nonsensical.
• Cyborg: Dr. Light gave him robotic limbs after he's rescued. This becomes a plot point during X's arc.
• Disney Death / Normally, I Would Be Dead Now: Though he falls off a cliff and breaks his limbs, he survives by getting squirrels to bring him food.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Multiple times he gets left in unfortunate situations because the rest of the cast forgets or can't be assed. Dr. Light specifically singles him out as the one member of the cast that isn't his own creation or a freeloader he lets live in his lab.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Missing the lower half of his body after an attack by Helmut, which might be where his comment of being 50% robot comes from.
• Heel–Face Turn: After being rescued, sometime after his defeat.
• Highly-Visible Ninja
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Or using his cybernetic arms to create a shield by moving them really fast.
• Malicious Misnaming: Hates being called "Ninja Ned", which is Roll's nickname for him.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He accidentally gives X the ability to control human minds in addition to robotic ones, due to his cyborg implants.
• Palette Swap: A red and black one of Mega Man, with Proto Man's shield.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Subverted. He's an evil minion, but defects to the heroes' side once Mynd loses.
• Ship Tease: With Roll.
• Token Human: Of the heroic fighters, he's the only human (George being a Half-Human Hybrid). Not that he's usually all that competent.
• What Measure Is a Mook?: Discussed even after his Heel–Face Turn.
• Mistaken Identity: Roll unknowingly mistakes Mike for "Ninja Ned". Something Edward (The Real Ned) takes great offense to.

Ran

A robot built by Kalinka, the daughter of Dr. Cossack. Built from such cheap Soviet parts that a single blow from anything kills him.

• Arm Cannon: A borderline Wave-Motion Gun.
• Ascended Fanboy: A meta version. The character is based on an actual person's online persona (also named Ran). Many of Ran's qualities (the character sprites, the communist bent, the constant death/respawn) derive from this persona, though Dave Anez did flesh out some of the previously unexplained details.
• Body Backup Drive: Kalinka made him with this because he's so cheap it's easier to do so than giving him a tougher body.
• Calling Your Attacks: COSSACK BUSTER!!!
• Chummy Commies: Well maybe not that chummy, but he is an ally to the heroes and a proud communist.
• Death Is Cheap: Cheaper than fixing him, apparently.
• Glass Cannon: Ran dies when hit by anything. His Cossack Buster is the most powerful Arm Cannon in the comic.
• One-Hit-Point Wonder: Dies if hit by anything. Even a strong breeze.
• Running Gag: His death.
• Spirit Advisor: For Mega Man during his drug-induced hallucinations.
• They Killed Kenny Again: Ran has a generator pod that automatically beams a new body in for him any time he dies.
• Weaponized Exhaust: Of a sort. His Recoil Boost is so powerful that he can be used as a cannonball. The group utilizes this to create "Ran bombs" during the Month of Destruction.
• Why We Are Bummed Communism Fell

The Shadowy Author (Shador) - WARNING: UNMARKED SPOILERS

A mysterious Author figure in charge of the Rockman universe, as well as several others. Seems to be manipulating events to happen a certain way. In the epilogue, he's revealed to be a future version of the Author from a timeline where the Cataclysm happened and he'd done nothing to stop it.

• Alternate Self: A version of the Author from a Bad Future where the Cataclysm happened.
• Big Good: The closest this comic ever gets to the trope—and in the end, he helps George stop the Greater-Scope Villain, Helmut.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Despite working from the shadows and keeping his motivations close to the vest, he's not a bad guy.
• Fusion Dance: The version of George we see in the end is actually fused with the Shadowy Author, the same way that Bob is fused with the Helmeted Author. The same goes for the version of the Shadowy Author we see in the last couple years of the comic.
• Painting the Medium: Unlike the other characters his speech bubbles lack a tail. When they have one it's foreshadowing that him and George are combined.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: He's trying to avert the Cataclysm in this timeline. He succeeds in the end, thanks to one innocuous bit of dialogue at just the right moment.
• The Atoner: The motivation behind his actions.
• Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Despite being featured on the cast page's villain section. The Shadowy Author is not actually evil and ends up fusing with George to create a chain of events that ultimately end the comic as well as stopping Bob and saving the entire universe as a result. Even though at the end, It's revealed that the entire comic was all because of George and Bob's mother and even the Author was in on it.
• Walking Spoiler: Until the Epilogue/reveal of the Cataclysm little is known beyond being "the engimatic shadowy guy"

Villains

Dr. Wily

Dr. Light's rival and the Big Bad of the Mega Man games.

• Faking Amnesia: Does this after Bass beats him up at the end of the Mega Man 2 story arc. The only person who knows the truth is X, who decides not to tell anyone for the sake of the timeline.
• Heel–Face Turn: To a degree. After the third game, Doctor Cossack manages to convince him to not try and take over the world anymore, and... he doesn't. The events of Mega Man 4-6 were due to events outside his control and he basically got roped into the plot. He's still evil, but he's not attempting world domination anymore.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He's the one who creates Zero, who ultimately kills him in the setting where the Cataclysm takes place.
• Not Me This Time:
  • He wasn't actually behind the events of Mega Man 6, being bullied by the real villain Bob. Unfortunately no-one believes him and he gets the blame.
  • While he was complicit, he wasn't behind Mega Man 5 either due to Bob hijacking the plot.
  • He wasn't even responsible for Doctor Cossack's world domination attempt in 4, things just spiraled out of control with him barely being involved.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Usually the butt of jokes, but he has his moments like getting the best of Bob on more than one occasion, almost killing Mega Man in Mega Man 6 and collapsing the Soviet Union.
  • The Maverick Virus, the primary antagonist of the Megaman X series of games, is a digital copy of his soul. He's effectively immortal.
• Right Behind Me: In a Running Gag, Dr. Wily has a habit of announcing his plans without noticing anyone within earshot.
  Dr. Wily: God Damn It!! How many times are going to do this stupid joke?!?
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He's responsible for the creation of Zero, who, in this comic's continuity, goes on to create the dark future of the Megaman X games and kill all the characters with the exception of the twist ending.

Mynd

A world conqueror from another universe that Bob visits. He decides to attack the primary Mega Man universe because he's bored.

• Affably Evil: He's usually pretty civil and polite.
• Alternate Self: He's from another universe, his counterpart in the main universe is Non-Alternate Mynd (see below). Neither of them should be confused with "Alternate Mynd", who is from a third universe and only appears in a single comic.
• Ambiguously Human: It's not made clear if he's a human, robot, cyborg or something else.
• Crazy-Prepared: He read the Evil Overlord List.
• Dimension Lord: Rules his own universe, or at least he claims. The author suggests he's either delusional or his dimension is really tiny.
• Does Not Like Spam: Hates ice cream, which enrages George and friends.
• For the Evulz: When Bob asks why he wants to destroy/conquer the Mega Man universe, he just says "every supervillain needs a hobby"
• Heel–Face Turn: In the final battle, he switches sides so he can have a proper duel with Non-Alternate Mynd.
• Invincible Villain: He can take out almost any character who has appeared in the comic and is Nigh-Invulnerable thanks to his shields. Outside of his first encounter with Bob and then Bob and George using their Ultimate Attack—and a brief moment of Villain Decay when he got bossed around by Bate^note Bass merged with Nate—nothing has even come close to stopping or hurting him.
• Multiversal Conqueror: Claims to rule his own universe, and plans to take over the main one.
• Palette Swap: Downplayed; while his sprite is based off Sigma, he lacks the back sprites and isn't as big.
• Screw Yourself: According to the epliogue he and Non-Alternate Mynd see each other as such worthy opponents they go to another dimension where it's legal, and married each other.
• So Last Season: When George and Chadling merge to form Charge (in an effort to stop Mynd the way they did Non-Alternate Mynd), Mynd is able to override Chadling, breaking George's Fusion Dance and causing Mynd to merge with Chadling himself.
• Villain Teamup: With Bob. He loses track of this fighting his counterpart.

• Wrong Genre Savvy: He attacked Nate in exactly the same way that he disabled Chadling, expecting Nate to explode or go berserk, since that was his experience with demons. Unfortunately for him, all that Nate's glasses do for him at that point is correct his vision, which means that Nate just breaks down in tears.

Non-Alternate Mynd

The Mynd from the universe the comic is set in, sent to kill Mike on orders from his master.

• Affably Evil: He's usually pretty civil and polite, he repeatedly gives George and Proto Man the chance to step aside and let him kill Mike.
• Alternate Self: The main universe's version of Mynd (see above). Neither version Mynd should be confused with "Alternate Mynd", who is from a third universe and only appears in a single comic.
• Ambiguously Human: Less so than Mynd because he clearly bleeds, but it's not certain. And if he is human, he can sure take punishment from getting his limbs sliced off and impaled on claws.
• An Arm and a Leg: Gets his arms and legs chopped off for his trouble, though he gets replacements later on.

• The Dragon: He is Ninja Ned's topmost and only competent enforcer.
• Heel–Face Turn: After some time in Dr Light's prison he eventually sides with the gang and fights Mynd.

Non-Alternate Mike / Edward The Destroyer (Ninja Ned)

The Mike of the main universe, except with a different name. The leader of the ninjas in the main universe and N.A.Mynd's master.

• Affably Evil: Very straight to the point and civil.
• Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: Far more competent than regular Mike, and Mynd is his minion rather than the other way around.
• Bad Boss: He kills a few to keep them in line, but this stops working in the final story arc and lets George fry them.
• Enemy Mine: He works with the heroes to regain control of his ninja forces.
• Foil: To his counterpart. Mike is lazy, disrespected, and a former minion of Mynd. Edward/Ninja Ned is competent, actually evil and his Mynd's boss.
• Mistaken for an Imposter: Inverted. When Edward mistakes Mike, his alternate, as a imposter.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Same color scheme as Mike, but an actual villain.

Helmeted Author (Helmut)/Fistandantilus

An Author from another dimension who the Author was forced to allow into his universe due to union rules, but with heavy restrictions. He seeks to destroy the universe.

• Big "NO!": When the Author inflicts a Fate Worse than Death on him.
• Crazy-Prepared: He sent the heroes off on a wild goose chase just incase Proto Man survived so he wouldn't have backup.
• Deadpan Snarker: He has the Helmeted Author segments just to show off how snarky he is.
• Decomposite Character: He began as simply the Regular author who was wearing a helmet because the comic's author couldn't get one of his sprites to look quite right, and was also in a bad mood at the time. He was "secretly" confirmed as a completely different character when he appeared at the same place as the Author during a Halloween special.
• Greater-Scope Villain: While Bob becomes the Big Bad, the Helmeted Author is a much larger threat and had a huge part in Bob's becoming Big Bad.
• I Lied: Sort of. While he is an Author from another universe, removing the helmet doesn't kick him out of the universe like he said it would.
• Jerkass: Snarky like most characters, but this isn't just for humor; he's also a dick.
• Long Haired Prettyboy: Embodiment of this trope to the point where the Author, himself, refers to Fistandantilus' hair as "bishou hair".
• Oh, Crap!: When George uses the Conservation of Energy against him.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Or so he claims at first, saying he's an evil Author who's out to destroy universes and it's now the strip's turn. He's also complicit in Bob trying to destroy the universe, though that's for a bet instead of omnicide.
• Power Limiter: The helmet stops him from using his full powers as an Author.
• Physical God: Being that he is a author. He possesses god-like abilities and what seem to be dark versions of what the Author can normally do. His helmet stopped him from using his matrix-type powers until it was removed by Nate.
• Restart the World: After the battle with him and the Author didn't go as planned. Both of them agreed to use their powers to destroy the entire comic which forces George and Proto Man to temporarily be sent into Chick Bot and Rick O' Shay's comics.
• Cuckoolander Commentator: The Helmeted Author Segments. At one point, He even tortured a volunteer named Veemon and killed Cut Man. Who was placed in the demiplane with him. Funnily enough, Cut Man's death leads to Helmut's escape and his role as The Man Behind the Man when he fuses with Bob to further a bet he made with The Author.

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