Characters / The Megas

The characters of The Megas.

Recurring Characters

Mega Man

Mega Man ~ I Want To Be The One, Lamentations of a War Machine, History Repeating Pt. 1, History Repeating Pt. 2 (One Last Time), Fly on a Dog, Make Your Choice, I Refuse (To Believe)

I want to be the one who fights for justice! I want to be the one. (I've got to be the one!) I want to be the one who fights against you, Dr. Wily!
If I've a heart made out of steel, then does that mean I cannot feel? Remorse for everything I've done... My hand's a smoking gun!

• Armor-Piercing Question: Asks these to Proto Man in Make Your Choice and I Refuse (To Believe). In both, he's effectively making Proto Man question if he's really the unfeeling, purely programmed machine he says he is, or if there's more to him than that.
  You say you don’t care at all / But if he died tell me would you feel
  Is your song just lines of code, or something that you heard?
• Become a Real Boy: Dr Light says he "wants so much to be human" in (I Want To Be The One) To Watch You Die, and Proto Man makes a big deal out of it in I'm Not the Breakman and Make Your Choice. By the time Mega Man actually addresses it in any way, he seems more disillusioned with humanity than anything else...but then, it is happening during Fly on a Dog.
  Mega Man: I'm just another machine...Humanity is not what it seems...
• Big Brother Instinct: Don't Mess With Magnet Man suggests he's somewhat protective towards Roll.
  Still, her words echo in my head / "Watch yourself, my brother wants you dead."
• Broken Ace: After Lamentations of a War Machine, he's still the ultimate badass, too strong for any Robot Master to oppose, but now he's an emotional wreck who no longer really believes in his cause.
• Calling the Old Man Out: In Lamentations of a War Machine, he's demanding Light justify his actions, and in Fly on a Dog he rages that if Light was going to give him a voice the man could at least listen to him.
• Character Development: Goes from a hot blooded idealist fully dedicated to his cause, to a rather jaded and broken warrior simply doing his job because he believes he has no choice, and finally a darker but once again idealistic hero seeking to save his family from themselves.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: (I want to be the one who fights for justice!) Even when he's drowning in regrets, he keeps going.
• Combat Pragmatist: Quick Man's line "my circuits slow" could be interpreted as Mega Man using Time Stopper to bring down the quicker opponent. This is the only time Mega Man has even been hinted at using a robot master's weakness.
• Determinator: Continue is most likely about him (though it's unclear who's singing), and basically says, "Even if you knew you would lose, you'd keep going." He also shows a bit of it in History Repeating, Part 2 (One More Time), when he blows right past Proto Man's Breaking Speech without slowing down.
  I know I can win, I've done it before! Get out of my way! I gotta settle the score!
• The Dreaded: Among some robot masters, most notably Flash Man, Quick Man, Magnet Man, and Gemini Man.
• Famed In-Story: By X's time, his name is a byword for superhero, as heard in Rogumer Storm:
  Is there nothing we can do
  To stop this reploid's coup
  We need a Mega Man
  We need a Mega Man
• Heroic Blue Screen of Death: Fly on a Dog has him going through this.
  I've been built to make a choice / Sent to war without one, let's destroy.
• Heroic Second Wind: From the sounds of it, he was actually losing pretty badly against Hard Man at first. Just when Hard Man is about to win, he sees Mega Man get "the look", and it all goes downhill (for Hard Man) from there.
• Hope Bringer: Ultimately takes on this role, restoring it to both Dr Light and Proto Man in I Refuse (To Believe). In Gamma Unchained, Wily implies that he may also be this to humanity as a whole; to be fair, though, the word choice is non-specific, and he could also be talking about Light.
• Hunter of His Own Kind: As a Robot Master who has to destroy other Robot Masters. Several characters make mention to this in several songs, most frequently the villains.
  Dr. Wily: ...And how quick you had him dispatch his brothers.
  Snake Man: You're a man's metal son the same as every one of us!
  Proto Man: Killing your own won't make you human!
• Invincible Hero: He steamrolls through the Robot Masters' levels and the Masters themselves without much apparent effort, and only once was he ever even hinted at bothering to use one of their weaknesses on them (Time Stopper on Quick Man). When he fights Hard Man it's implied he doesn't even use the Mega Buster and just beats him up with his fists. This isn't lost on the Robot Masters either, since a good few of their songs are about how they know full well how utterly screwed they are.
• Ironic Echo: In Make Your Choice, the first chorus has Proto Man saying, "You're a machine that calls himself a man," to tell Mega Man that he's just a machine who's fooling himself. The last chorus has Proto repeat the first half of the line, with only Mega Man shouting the second half — pointing out that Proto also "calls himself a man," so either he thinks Mega Man is right, or he's a hypocrite.
  • He also hurls Proto Man's "walk the program" line back at him in "I Refuse (To Believe)".
• Jumped at the Call: Starts as this. By Lamentations of a War Machine and History Repeating Pt. 1, his enthusiasm is mostly gone. By Fly on a Dog he's barely motivated to keep fighting at all.
• Kirk Summation: "I Refuse (To Believe)" features him delivering this to Proto Man, telling him to stop blaming his programming, deal with his anger and start making his own choices. It works.
• Last-Second Chance: His lines in Make Your Choice and I Refuse (To Believe) have him offering Proto Man a chance to put aside his rage and join with Mega Man. Rarely for this trope, Mega Man gets through to him.
• Living Emotional Crutch: By Fly on a Dog only Rush and Roll appear to draw any vaguely positive emotional reactions from him at all.
  The end is too far for us to see/I'll make it with you here next to me.
• The Messiah: What Doctor Light wants him to be to humanity. The sheer pressure of this and the weight of his actions nearly destroys him.
• Mood Whiplash:
  • In I Want to Be the One, Mega Man is determined to stop Wily. By Lamentations, he wonders why he fought at all.
  • Fly on a Dog has Mega Man hitting his lowest point, seeing humanity at its worst, all the while proclaiming how awesome it is flying on a robot dog.
  • History Repeating, Part 1 and Part 2 (One Last Time). Part one is slow, mournful, reluctant and lonely, barely motivated to do anything at all; part two ramps up into a much more energetic song where he vows to Screw Destiny and throws a Shut Up, Hannibal! at Proto Man.
• My God, What Have I Done?: By Lamentations of a War Machine, Mega's become quite disillusioned with the whole "saving the world" shtick. He's still not over it by the time 3 rolls over either.
  If it were up to me / I'd rewrite history / And change my destiny / One last time...
  • Though, by the final chorus, the lyrics change, indicating a desire to at least complete this fight, or perhaps resignation.
    And now it's up to me / To go make history / And meet my destiny / One last time!
• Red Baron: Quick Man likes to refer to him as "death."
• Robot Hair: Dr. Light feels the need to point out Rock's hair in The Message from Dr. Light.
• Screw Destiny: This is the eventual conclusion he reaches that helps him get through Mega Man 3 sane and whole: he's not just a machine, he's not doomed to do this forever, and today...
  Mega Man: Today, I change the end!

• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Responds to Proto Man's little speech in History Repeating, Part 2 (One Last Time) by telling him to get out of the way.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: I Refuse (To Believe) has him giving this kind of speech to Dr. Light, Proto Man, and even himself — reminding the doctor that he has a dream to help humanity, that Proto Man is only being held back by his rage, and that he himself is more than a machine.

Proto Man

Proto Man - Parts of History Repeating Pt. 2 (One Last Time), The Red Song, I'm Not the Break Man, Make Your Choice, Melody from the Past

They lost me, forgot me. Made you from parts of me. If you're the one—my father's son—Then what am I supposed to be?

• Calling the Old Man Out: Does this in I'm Not the Break Man, where he rages that he was simply discarded by Dr Light and replaced as his son by Mega Man.
• Came Back Wrong: In Gamma Unchained, it is implied Wily simply wished to bring him back to life- before realising that he is simply driven by hate and rage... All directed at Doctor Light.
  I thought I could bring the dead back / A broken shell, rusted red with age / I gave him power, a new heart / It filled too quickly with his rage.
• The Corrupter: Like Snake Man, he repeatedly attempts to turn Mega Man against Light and persuade him to join Wily's side. Though unlike Snake Man, he adds in the things Mega Man has been depressed about throughout History Repeating.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: He clearly misses the clarity of purpose from before he was disassembled; it's right there in his header quote. His Heel–Face Turn has him decide to go and find his own.
• Excalibur in the Rust: His red colour scheme is actually rust. Presumably his original name, "Blues" (his Japanese name in the games), actually used to be accurate in both senses of the word in this continuity.
• Hannibal Lecture: I'm Not the Break Man, and Make Your Choice have him calling Mega Man out for his use of violence against his fellow robots in service of humans, while History Repeating Pt. 2 (One Last Time) has him demanding to know how Mega Man is so sure he's the good guy here. The latter provokes a Shut Up, Hannibal! moment; the former a full Kirk Summation.
• Heel–Face Turn: Melody from the Past, which is him forgiving and accepting Mega Man as his replacement, as well as forgiving Doctor Light for his flaws and asking Mega Man to do the same.
• Hero of Another Story: In Melody from the Past, commits to becoming one of these, developing his own destiny away from being The Hero of Mega Man's story.
• Hope Bringer: What he was originally supposed to be. He's still pretty upset over not getting to do it.
  He said to me/That I would be/That I would be the light when they couldn't see/That what they need/Is a machine/Who would give them hope, who would keep them free...
• Ironic Echo: Towards the end of his song, he includes allusions and lyrics from Mega Man's History Repeating Pt. 1 and One Last Time.
  You've been here before (How can there be peace)/ you know what's in store (You're just a machine)/ man kind is obsolete. (You're dreaming.)/ History will repeat / this could be the last time / one last time.
• Just a Machine: He repeatedly claims that he believes this, although it seems to be less a position he genuinely holds and more a convenient rationalisation for his actions.
• Not Quite Dead / Back from the Dead: As stated in Gamma Unchained, to have effectively been brought back by Dr Wily.
• The Messiah: What Doctor Light wanted him to be. Proto Man later realizes he would've been wrong for the role:
  ''If I was standing where you are I think I would've done what father wants, but now I know what I'd become..."
• Parental Abandonment: Feels abandoned and betrayed by Dr. Light and/or Dr. Wily.
  I've met my maker and the man's a liar.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Beside the color of their respective armor, his song is certainly a lot more driven and wrathful than Mega Man's.
• Replacement Goldfish: Sees Mega Man as one of these for him.
• The Resenter: Hates Mega Man for a number of reasons—claiming he has free will while still obeying Dr. Light, replacing Proto Man as Light's son, and perhaps most of all, being built from Proto Man's remains.
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!:
  You fight for a dream / that can't ever be / your arguments are noise / it's time to make your choice!
• The Fatalist: Shows some shades of this in One Last Time. It explodes out of control in I'm Not the Breakman and Make Your Choice, where he repeatedly claims to be Just a Machine, and I Refuse (To Believe) is about Mega Man snapping him out of it.
  And he says: "Why do you fight? / How can you say you know what's right? / What if we win? / What if we fall? / Will any choice that we make / matter at all?"
  I had a name, my father called me Blues / He tore my heart from my chest to give to you / I'm not broken, I'm not the Break Man / I was the first, I am the Proto Man!
• Tranquil Fury:
  • Despite how obviously enraged he is, the vocals of his tracks are kept low and sombre, only raised at the end for the Tear Jerker line above. In addition, Gamma Unchained implies the moment he was reactivated, he immediately was driven to anger.
  • In History Repeating, Part 2 (One Last Time), he casually greets Rock/Mega Man and challenges him to a fight, speaking in an almost friendly manner despite the hate he has for Mega Man.
    Hi, Rock! / My weapon is hot, It's time to throw down / Show me what you got.
• Unfulfilled Purpose Misery: His characterisation is rooted in this, and his Heel–Face Turn is predicated on him letting go of it.
• We Can Rule Together: Like Snake Man, Proto Man offers Mega Man the choice to side with him.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Calls Mega Man out on the destruction he leaves in his wake.
  Sometimes I can't see the blue through the red/Hard to see the good through your trail of dead.

Dr. Light

Dr. Light ~ The Message from Dr. Light, (I Want to Be the One) To Watch You Die

I made you in my image! I built your heart. I gave you eyes. I gave you power. A sense of justice beyond any compare. I gave you hands, a child's face. I gave you HAIR! (Robotic hair!) ...But the burning in your heart I did not put there...

• The Atoner: He wants to use Mega Man to "clear the name of Dr. Light"
• Despair Event Horizon: The chorus in (I Want to Be the One) To Watch You Die
  "The things I hoped, the failing dream; has finally got the best of me."
• Ignored Epiphany: Seems to realize that what he is doing (sending Mega Man to kill Wily) isn't that different at all from what Wily is doing. He then quickly decides it doesn't matter, Wily needs to die anyway.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: In (I Want to Be the One) To Watch You Die
  "I finally know what torture means, you've sent my first born back to me. You put a gun in his dead hand, it's time to take an eye for mine old friend."
• Revenge: Outright stated to be a pretty big motivator in (I Want to Be the One) To Watch You Die.
• Robo Family: Mega Man and Roll. Proto Man is kind of upset to no longer be in it.
  This world gave me no child so I built one.
• Robot Master: Built both Proto Man and Mega Man, among others.

• This Is Unforgivable!: The final push that made Dr. Light want to see Wily dead was when he learned how Proto Man Came Back Wrong because of Wily.

Dr. Wily

Dr. Wily ~ Look What You've Done, Gamma Unchained

Can you not feel that we could have a life forged in steel? I only ask that you see what I see. This is the answer, why won't you believe?

• Beyond Redemption: Defied. Dr. Light seem to believe this is the case by the time of History Repeating, but Mega Man, come I Refuse (To Believe), disagrees with this sentiment.

• Evil Former Friend: To Dr. Light.
  Our paths diverged upon a road / You chose a darker plain to sow / I watched you turn from friend to foe / It had to end like this, I finally know...
• Green-Eyed Monster: Envies the sincere respect and admiration that Dr. Light gets from the populace, in contrast to the fearful obedience that he gets.
  Tell me why I'm the one that they fear / and for him they cheer.
• Heel Realization: In part during Gamma Unchained, but he still continues on.
  I've heard the names that they call me. Some sting, and some can't help but ring true.
  • Arguably even before then, as he opens with in Look What You've Done:
    I hope history is kind to us all / I know they'll blame me for the fall / I only wish there's a better way out / But there's no better way out
• Hypocrite: Makes a big deal about Doctor Light using Mega Man as a Hunter of His Own Kind to fight against a glorious robot-ruled future, and yet he's programmed Crash Man to be a ceaseless fighting machine, made two others (Air Man and Needle Man) as weapons of mass destruction, one who ended up wanting to kill everything while the other who became severely depressed and suicidal, and finally caused one (Shadow Man) slowly but surely to lose himself to the reprogramming.
• Just Think of the Potential!: Wily sees something in the machines he creates, though admittedly as tools for conquest and replacing humanity.
  One night, it was clear (what colors you gleamed) / These things I was building (blue, black, and machine) / Were not meant to serve (perfection in steel) / They were meant to conquer (a glorious future revealed!)
• Large Ham: In Look What You've Done. He's a lot more subtle in Gamma Unchained.
  This is the eeeeeend! You've started the fall! Can't see the destiny, that we once saw, on the edge of dawn... (WHAT HAVE YOU DOOOONE?!) What. Have. You. Done?
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • In Gamma Unchained, the ending lyrics for from "I'll give you power you take control" to "What good is power if you're out of control", hinting that Wily has realized too late what he has done.
  • Similarly, assuming he's telling the truth, he revived Proto Man as a kind of peace offering to Dr. Light, and legitimately had no idea he'd turn on his creator. There's a decent argument to be made that what happens in History Repeating is as much despite Wily's plans as because of them.
• Pet the Dog: In Gamma Unchained, he doesn't seem to have had any ulterior motive for resurrecting Proto Man - he simply wanted to bring him back to life.
• Robot Master: Of the villainous variety to... the robot masters.
• Sunk Cost Fallacy: After his Heel Realization, part of his motivation for creating Gamma was to win the war and thus justify the evil he'd already done.
  I cheated, the lies that I told / Is for a future that I have seen / The death, the lives that I stole / The end has to justify the means
• Utopia Justifies the Means: He presents his crusade as a noble one: the robots deserve freedom, he owes that freedom to them ("I've made a promise to them / I will not let victory fall through my hands"), and sees Dr. Light and Mega Man are little more than murderers for opposing that. Most his initial robot recruits seem to be genuine believers in his utopian dream (Elec Man in Evolution of Circuitry in particular, but also Fire Man and Ice Man in Hell Has Frozen Over). But the longer the crusade goes on, the more Wily's willing to let his ends justify his increasingly cruel means, including robbing his robots of self-determination and turn them into the same kind of unwilling monsters he accused Mega Man of being (Crash Man in Programmed to Fight, Needle Man in The Haystack Principle, and Shadow Man in Afraid of the Dark, at bare minimum).
• Villainous Valour:
  I've heard the names that they call me. Some sting, and some can't help but ring true. I have to live with what I've done, and find the strength to continue.
• Visionary Villain: Believes robots are superior to humanity, and seeks to create a machine-dominated world.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He sees himself as this, to an extent. He even outright says in Gamma Unchained that he has to make the end justify the means.
• What the Hell, Hero?: He calls out Light for hiding behind Mega Man.

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Air Man

Air Man ~ The Annihilation Of Monsteropolis

Do you know what it's like to be built this way? With only the power to push others away? You've a heavy role to bear, do you think you can carry it? I'll usher in the end upon my thunder chariot...

• Badass Boast: Has a few during the coda and throughout his song "There will be a tombstone with The Planet Earth engraved on it!"
• Blow You Away: Creates incredibly strong winds that push away everyone around him, whether he likes it or not.
• Blessed with Suck: He seems to have this view of his power, with lines like "Do you know what it's like to be built this way? With only the power to push others away?"
• Large Ham: When he really gets going, he gets going.
  There will be a fire in the sky
  And YOUR DOOM WILL RAIN DOWN!
  BUILT FROM PIECES OF SR-71s!
  AND PLANES THAT CRASHED IN WORLD WAR II!
  THERE WILL BE A TOMBSTONE WITH THE PLANET EARTH ENGRAVED ON IT!
• Loners Are Evil Freaks: His song implies that his evil is due to being built "with only the power to push others away," and "no one in this world understanding who [he is]."
• Tortured Monster: He laments being built "with only the power to push others away".
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Due to the above trope, he decides that "If I can't walk among them... then I will walk the world alone."

Metal Man

Metal Man ~ Metal Dance

Welcome to my level, my name is Metal Man. I throw metal blades from my metal hands. I dance around with style and finesse. Better watch out for these blades, or you'll end up headless.

• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: He spends the song telling Mega Man how awesome he is.
• Bring It: "Take the first shot, Mega Man, let's put it to the test."
• Dance Battler: It's in the title of the song.
• Department of Redundancy Department: Metal Man throws Metal Blades from his metal hands. With a metal dance, in his metal cave. He really likes that word.
• Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: Lets Mega Man take the first shot in their fight, because it's a duel.
• Worthy Opponent: Starts to see Mega Man as a worthy challenge toward the end of the song.
  Let's see which robot's better, let's see who built us best! Take the first shot, Mega Man - let's put it to the test.

Wood Man

Wood Man ~ Carved From Mighty Oak

(Carved from mighty oak!) You’ve come far, you’ve destroyed many of the others. I’ll avenge the death of my robot brothers. (This is not a joke!) Understand I’m different than the robots you’ve seen before. I’ve been born from nature and machines of war.

• Avenging the Villain: His motivation is to avenge his fallen brothers.
• Green Thumb: Master of nature and the birds and the bees.
• For the Evulz: Though he originally says his motivation is revenge, he still states that "[He] would, if [he] could, destroy all that's good."
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Implied by his lines referencing the countless others Mega Man has killed.

Bubble Man

Bubble Man ~ Promise Of Redemption

There's one thing for which I long... And that is to prove them all wrong!

• Black Sheep: The other robot masters, who all have formidable powers and abilities ranging from control over nature to Super-Speed, mock and ridicule Bubble Man for his power of... blowing bubbles.
• Joke Weapon: He lampshades how silly his power of making bubbles is compared to that of the other robot masters.
  Out of the eight robots, of all of us / My power is so... ridiculous...

• Who's Laughing Now?: Wants gain the respect and admiration of the robots who mocked him by killing Mega Man.
  I promise you / I won't rest until I have defeated you / They will all see / The strongest of all of the other robots is me

Heat Man

Heat Man ~ Man On Fire

Can you feel the fire? (The fire) Can you see the cities burn? (Those cities burn...) From the depths of hell I call your name! (Mega Man!) Can you feel the heat?

• Ax-Crazy: Every word of his song shows he is a raving lunatic. His only desires are to destroy the entire world and to kill Mega Man to appease the voices in his head.
• Fire and Brimstone Hell: Seems to think his stage is this, commenting that he's in "robot hell".
• For the Evulz: The song implies he enjoys burning everyone and everything for the hell of it.
• Hearing Voices: As he thinks he's literally in hell, he thinks that the voices he hears in his head telling him to kill Mega Man are those of the other robots that Mega Man has already killed.
  In my mind, I hear the voices cry — I've made them a promise that Mega Man dies
• Hot-Blooded:
  You are the HERO! / I am the FIRE! / This is the MELTDOWN! / Of your DESIRE! / Your fight for justice turns to ashes, MEEGAAA MAAAAAANNN!!
• Playing with Fire
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Unlike his other villainous acts, his attack on Mega Man is motivated by his desire to avenge the brothers that Mega Man killed.
  In my mind, I hear the voices cry— I've made them a promise that Mega Man dies
• Say My Name: ME-GA-MAN!

Flash Man

Flash Man ~ Blue Like You

Mega Man is so powerful, I feel my end is near. (I wonder) If there's a chance I could change his mind, so he could join me here.

• Depraved Homosexual: Lines like "I've always admired Mega Man, and his flawless design/I wonder what he will think of my blue suit, and this helmet of mine" and "Hey Mega Man, join my side/And let me stop this moment in time/You'll be mine, forever!/This moment will last forever!/One last moment together!" strongly imply it.
• Hero-Worshipper: Of Mega Man. Which wouldn't be as blatant if it weren't for the fact that the hero was hunting for his blood.

• Stepford Smiler:
  What Mega Man and my brothers don't know is this flash is all for show / 'Cause inside, there's nothing there and there's nothing to me, I'm empty and I'm hollow.
  This flashy suit and this flashy stage, I use only to hide / The fact that I am lonely and I need somebody like Mega Man by my side.
• Time Stands Still: His ability allows him to stop time.

Quick Man

Quick Man ~ The Quick and the Blue

Quick on the draw. In this town, I am the law. Is what they say true? Does Death wear blue? Can he fall?

• Face Death with Dignity: At the end Quick Man calmly accepts his end. "My circuits slow, I'm not scared anymore. I see the faces of my brothers who have fallen before."
• I Am the Noun: Says that within his town, he is the law.
• Miles Gloriosus: His lines indicate that he's afraid of Mega Man, and knows he's probably going to die, but he boasts to the crowd "A Mega Man is coming to die!" and "The moment of truth has arrived!"
  • Most of all, though, he seems to be trying to convince himself of his victory, acting confident despite calling the Blue Bomber "Death." The ending part can be viewed as him going from denial ("what they said is a lie / The shots are heard as the bullets scream death as they fly") to a form of acceptance ("my moment has come / Your speed means nothing if it's Death that you're running from!").
  • When the crowd gathers for his fight with Mega Man, though, he does say that "he knew he couldn't tell them / That he was the quickest of all / Would this be the day that he falls?"
• Mook Horror Show: Quick Man's lyrics indicates he knows just how screwed he is, emphasizing how terrifying and relentless Mega Man seems from the perspective of the robot masters he hunts.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: As mentioned above, he refers to Mega Man as Death. And he acts like he'll beat him. Yeah Quick Man's in heavy denial.
• Screw Destiny: "The fate that he would defy / A Mega Man is coming to die!" Um, yeah, about that...
• The Sheriff: Fitting with his song being played as The Western, Quick Man is portrayed as the town's sheriff.
  Quick on the draw. / In this town, I am the law.
• Showdown at High Noon: In addition to the song itself having a western feel, the fight with Mega Man's framed as one of these.
• Super-Speed: Can move much faster than almost anyone else, and to fit with the western theme of his song, he says that this is what makes him so quick on the draw. Though he realizes at the end of his song how useless his speed is against someone as relentless as Mega Man.
• Villainous Valour: Despite knowing he has no chance against Mega Man, who he sees as Death himself, Quick Man refuses to back down. However, he's also the only Robot Master whose song even so much as hints that Mega Man felt the need to use their weakness on ("My circuits slow"), so it's possible all of his boasting wasn't for nothing and that he could have actually won had Mega Man not already defeated Flash Man and gotten his power. Especially if you interpret the line "what they said is a lie" to mean that he was actually kicking Mega Man's ass before he busted out the Time Stopper.

Crash Man

Crash Man ~ Programmed to Fight

Closer draws the final hour. To break Wily's walls you will need my power. But to your aid an unlikely friend, programmed to fight 'til the very end.

• Blood Knight: Against his will. He was programmed to fight after all.
• Driven to Suicide: It's implied he kills himself at the end after gaining enough will to overcome his programming.
• Fighting from the Inside: Pretty much the only thing certain about Crash Man is that he doesn't want to kill Mega Man, but he is, as the song title goes, Programmed To Fight, and is trying to go against his programming, one way or another.
• The Greatest Story Never Told: Though both of the above are popular theories, Crash Man himself says it best— "No one will know the truth to this story."

• I Let You Win: It's also implied that he's trying to do this throughout the song, eventually overcoming his programming and allowing Mega Man to kill him.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: He doesn't want Wily dead in order to save the world, he just wants Wily dead.
• Suicide by Cop: If he didn't manage to outright kill himself, he at least managed to stop fighting long enough to let Mega Man kill him.
• Title Drop:
  But to your aid an unlikely friend. / Programmed to fight 'til the very end!
• Turned Against Their Masters: Crash Man isn't shown to be rebelling due to any sort of sense of justice, but instead simply out of a hatred for his creator.

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Elec Man

Elec Man ~ Evolution of Circuitry

I say they owe us a debt. Today, it's time to collect. I have the ability to rectify.

• Do Not Adjust Your Set: As the song ends, radio static followed by generic muzak is heard, implying the whole song was a hijacked broadcast.
• Obliviously Evil: He's convinced he's the good guy, believing it's time to "power up the revolution" to put an end to human cruelty against robots.

• Wide-Eyed Idealist: How he comes across, partly due to his song being one of the cheeriest on this page. He doesn't want robots to suffer under "human cruelty" anymore, and sincerely believes that a revolution led by Wily's robots will lead to a better world for robots and humans alike.

Bomb Man

Bomb Man ~ Beneath the Steel

You've lit a fuse inside me, and now my instincts guide me through... To what I must do! (CUE: EXPLOSIONS!) Now I know why they made me. Something has changed beneath the steel! The robot can feel!

• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Bomb Man's AI develops what he believes are real and true emotions... and just so happens to become a psychopath as a result.

• Darker and Edgier: Hard to believe one of the darkest songs ever made by The Megas came from Bomb Man's theme, isn't it?

• Loves the Sound of Screaming:
  Fire in once lifeless eyes / Motivated by their cries!

Fire Man and Ice Man

Fire Man and Ice Man ~ Hell Has Frozen Over

The impossible unity, the two of us make three. While everything's coming down, they will see, that we set them free, and they will believe that hell can freeze.

• Blood Knight & Defrosting Ice Queen: Implied by these lines:
  Now that you've warmed up to me / My temper's at a lower degree / It feels like this dichotomy was meant to be
• Cue the Flying Pigs: He/They never thought that this fusion could be. A variation of this trope (Hell freezing over) is even the name of their song!
• Fusion Dance: Implied, but it's probably meant to be metaphorical. Still, lines like "thus begins our epic fusion" and "together we are The Chosen One" are sprinkled throughout their song. If it is literal, it seems like Fire Man is the dominant personality, since he seems to do all the talking.

History Repeating: Blue

Top Man

Top Man ~ Can't Stop the Top

Their chances are thinning. I dodge bullets when I'm spinning. New plans are just beginning. I've hit the top!

• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Never stops bragging about how great he is and how his opponents have no chance against him.
• Badass Boast:
  I've been told I can cut a rug, but tonight it's gonna bleed.
• Dance Battler:
  Don't shoot me while I'm dancing.
• Dodge the Bullet:
  I dodge bullets when I'm spinning.
• Mundane Made Awesome: Tells Mega Man "this dance fight will be legendary".
• Right-Hand Cat: The cat enemies from his level are mentioned.

Magnet Man

Magnet Man ~ Don't Mess With Magnet Man

So it's clear our folks don't get along. Now you fear what we had was wrong. Sure my dad wants to rule the world, can you let that get between us girl?

• Affably Evil: To Roll, at least. He's certainly friendly enough to her, but there's no evidence that his friendly facade extends to anyone he's not actively trying to woo.
• Anti-Villain: He genuinely seems to love Roll and only seems to be fighting Mega Man because of a combination of his power drawing Mega Man towards him and Mega Man coming to kill him. On the other hand, unlike some of the other robots (like Crash Man or Needle Man), he doesn't express any actual hesitation in working for Dr. Wily. He fears the confrontation with Mega Man because he expects to lose, not because of any regret related to his villainous cause.
• Cornered Rattlesnake: Goes down swinging at Mega Man even though he knows he's screwed.
• Defiant to the End: He refers to Mega Man as his "death", but since he can't avoid his doom, he seems intent to at least go down swinging.
  You walk into my town, Wavin' that gun around, You want a fight, I'll give you one tonight!
• Heartbroken Badass: He was pretty much outright rejected by the girl he loves. Maybe.
• Memetic Badass: Invoked in the comedy/demo version version of the song, "Don't Fuck With Magnet Man".invoked
• Selective Magnetism: Averted. He wishes he had this, as his lack of it draws Mega Man to him.

Spark Man

Spark Man ~ You've Sparked A War

I feel my hands turning into fists. I see my brothers; they will be missed. We are the chosen, we are the pure. They are the virus, we are the cure.

• Avenging the Villain: Vows to avenge his fallen brothers who were killed by Mega Man, and seems completely serious about it rather than it being simply an excuse to go to war with humanity. Given how his predecessor Elec Man was an Obliviously Evil Wide-Eyed Idealist, it's hard to argue that he's completely unjustified.
• Darker and Edgier: Like Elec Man before him, he sings about a future where robots rule. Unlike Elec Man, he wants to Kill All Humans to make that happen.

• Fantastic Racism: Believes that robots are inherently superior to humans, and wants to destroy humanity so that robots can rule the earth.
  We are the chosen, / We are the pure. / They are the virus, / We are the cure.
• Irony: He talks about his hands turning into fists... despite not having hands in the first place.
• Obliviously Evil: Like Elec Man before him, he's convinced he's the good guy, this time fighting against humans because robots are superior ("we are the chosen, / We are the pure, / They are the virus, / We are the cure").
• Putting on the Reich: There are certainly parallels with Those Wacky Nazis. Spark Man views humans as a blight on the world and an overall inferior race while robots are superior in every way, not to mention the album version of the song begins with the sound of a a robot army marching before we hear Spark Man talking to them, invoking a Nazi rally.

Snake Man

Snake Man ~ Walk Away From Light

Hey. What do ya say? You say "don't take their lives, they don't deserve to die." And who does? You think it's us? And what of the one who calls us sons, are you gonna kill him too? 'Cuz who are you? You're a man's metal son the same as every one of us! Become one of us. You can win this fight, but you gotta join our side.

• Badass Boast: Delivers one to Mega Man, an ultimatum to either join him or die.
  You can fight for the steel / Or die beneath my heel, / It's up to you
• The Corrupter: Tries this on Mega Man. It doesn't work.
• Smug Snake: He's convinced Mega's listening to him despite having no evidence.
• Sssssnake Talk: Seen more in live performances, where the Megas hiss on the S's.
• We Can Rule Together: Tries to tempt Mega Man into disobeying Light and joining him, much like a certain other snake in mythology.

Gamma

Gamma ~ Gamma Unchained, Make Your Choice

All systems online. RRRRAGH! GAMMAAAAAA!!

• Ascended Extra: While Gamma was important to the plot of Mega Man 3, being Dr.Wily weapon to take over the world, he was still just the final boss with no importance besides that. Here he straight-up takes the position of Big Bad from Wily and is determined to Kill All Humans in the name of peace.
• The Corrupter: If Make Your Choice is from his point of view then he's very clearly trying to persuade Mega Man and Proto Man into joining him in genocide. It's never worked on Mega Man before and it doesn't work now.
• Evil Sounds Deep: His voice, used in Gamma Unchained and parts of Make Your Choice.
• Final Solution: Gamma's calculations to ensure peace lead it to decide that extermination is the answer, and so he seeks to Kill All Humans.
• Gone Horribly Right: Gamma was made to be a peacekeeping robot. He calculates the best method to maintain peace and concludes that it is to kill everyone.
  "System Activation..."
  "Peacekeeping calculation..."
  "Solution: EXTERMINATION."
• Kill All Humans: Gamma ultimately comes to the conclusion that the only way to stop the conflict between machine and man is to erase the weaker element.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Another way to look at Gamma's decision is that he decided to end conflict by killing anyone and everyone even remotely capable of conflict.
• "Second Law" My Ass!: Wily explicitly modified Gamma to function without obedience to humanity so he could best find a road to peace. Unfortunately, his solution was simply to destroy humanity.

History Repeating: Red

Hard Man

Hard Man ~ Harder Than Steel

Steel of the champion / Your legend will live on / Our sons will sing your song / Harder than steel!

• Anti-Villain: Has no ill will towards Mega Man, and fights him just to prove his strength to his people and stay their ruler. As noted above, he's beloved by them, and he seems to care for them, as well.
• Badass Boast: The crowd chants and supports him even as Mega Man takes him down. He goes down swinging to a mighty chorus of:
  Harder than steel!
• Blood Knight: He desires to fight Mega Man to prove himself, and fighting itself seems to be his way of life.
• Boxing Battler: Is implied to be a former boxing champ, and his song wouldn't sound the least bit out of place if played over a Rocky training montage.
• Cool Old Guy: The lyrics of the song imply Hard Man is older than the rest of the 3 robots, likening him to an old, retired boxer.
• Defiant to the End: Overlaps with Glory Seeker. If he can't have a glorious victory, he'll settle for a glorious death and go down swinging.
• Foil: To Bubble Man. Both are driven to fight and prove themselves against Mega Man, and take great pride in their strengths, but where Bubble Man is motivated by the resentment he feels for his brothers, who see him as a joke, Hard Man desires to prove to his people that he's as great as he ever was, and stay with them as their champ and ruler.
• Glory Seeker: He's an old boxer who heard that people think he's starting to get soft and wants to prove he's Still Got It by fighting Mega Man.
• A Hero to His Hometown: He's loved in the town he rules over, despite being one of Wily's Robot Masters. During his fight against Mega Man, when he starts losing, the crowd starts begging for him to throw in the towel so that he won't be killed (though he refuses). When he goes down, the last thing he hears before dying is the crowd still cheering for him even though he lost. The chorus of his song promises that the townspeople will revere him as a legendary figure for generations to come.
• Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: The song suggests the fight between him and Mega Man was a good old-fashioned boxing match. No weapons allowed, just fists.
• Token Good Teammate: Compared to the rest, he seems to be the most honorable and benevolent, and lacks the uncontrollable anger or drive to kill even the most sympathetic Masters, such as Needle and Shadow Man, have. A fair fight is how he handles challengers to his rule, and is presumably how he became ruler, as well. Also, when the townspeople speak of him "getting soft", does he get mad, punish them? Nope, he decides to prove to them that he's Still Got It, and give 'em a hell of a show.
• Villainous Valour:
  They say throw in the towel, but that you won't accept.
  You stand to lose everything you see, unless you stand up for what you believe.

Gemini Man

Gemini Man ~ GeminEye

How could I be so blind? (Falling behind.) We're alike in mind. (Two of a kind.) But it's getting lost with the more you find.

I think it's time I go my separate ways.

• Anti-Villain / Sympathetic P.O.V.: Neither of his personalities seem outright malicious, and from their perspective are only acting in self defense from a hired killer.
• Dramatic Gun Cock:
  I looked to the stars and I swore, if we were both taking the big sleep, I'd take the rat out myself! / *revolver cock* / *BOOM*
• Identity Amnesia:
  I forget my name. / (It's all the same.) / So I'm taking yours. / (Of course of course.)
• Private Detective: He (or at least one of his personalities) is a tough private eye who's hired to figure out who wants his client dead.
• Split Personality: Is both a client afraid for his life (Gemini) and the private eye he employs to protect himself (GeminEye). Possibly even a Literal Split Personality, since in canon he has two separate bodies. He doesn't appear to be aware of this until a good way into the song.
• Talking to Themself: His entire song is a duet with himself in the style of a Noir Episode.
• Taking You with Me: He vows to do this at the end. It doesn't work.

Needle Man

Needle Man ~ The Haystack Principle

I'm not a bad guy; I'm just designed that way. No matter what I try, I can't help but hurt those close to me. And I can't see a way out this time.

• Anti-Villain: Feels remorse for the harm he's caused, and honestly tries to be good, fighting against the violent rage the programming instills in him. In the end, he lets himself die rather than stay alive and risk hurting anyone else.
• Foil: To Air Man. Both are loners whose powers forced them into isolation. However, while Air Man takes out his anger on those who rejected him, Needle Man directs his anger on himself. The comparison is made explicitly when Needle Man starts reciting a mirrored version of Air Man's rant, but stops himself because he doesn't want to hurt anybody else.
  Deep underground, / Ten miles down, / A man stands below the city he will destroy — STOP
• I'm Not Afraid of You: When finally faced with the horror of what he is (and perhaps what he's done?), the song ends on this note:
  If that's who I am, / Then I'll fight who I am!
• Irrational Hatred: He feels this as a result of his programming (a form of Hate Plague). He's just aware enough to try to fight it (as seen in his mirrored version of Air Man's rant), but not strong enough to fully succeed.
• Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Just read the lyrics above.
  • Possibly subverted. While Needle Man initially insists that he's "not a bad guy," he admits that he has and continues to "hurt those close to me," and can't see a way out of that destructive cycle. He's not exactly misunderstood: he is evil, or at least, has committed many acts of evil. That he's filled with horror and remorse over his actions doesn't change that. The song ends not by validating his innocence, but by forcing him to stop making excuses/feeling sorry for himself and finally acknowledge his responsibility to "fight who I am."
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Throughout the song, there's a second voice (presumably some other aspect of his own personality) that periodically interrupts Needle Man's ruminations ("get to the point"). In the final verse, Needle Man asks how he can overcome his anger and hatred, only for the voice to remind him that all of the things he professes to hate are inextricably parts of him.

How can I
Retract these claws?
(Those are your hands)
(You can't take back the damage you cause)
How can I
Take off this mask?
(That is your face)
(You can't remove the fear you cast)
How can I
Turn off this hatred
That fills my eyes?
(You can't shut down where your path lies)
When can I
Stop being bad?
(That is who you are)

• Suicide by Cop: When Needle Man comes to terms with the fact that he can't change who he is, he decides that the only way out is to wait for Mega Man to come and kill him.
• Tortured Monster: Hates his monstrous body, as it causes him to accidentally harm everybody around him. His anger issues don't help on either front, making him both more dangerous and more monstrous in his own eyes and the eyes of others.

Shadow Man

Shadow Man ~ Afraid Of The Dark

The me that used to be here, has gone away but I can't say where. I think that I may have killed him... I'm so scared!

• Badass Boast:
  I am the knife in a gunfight!
• Blood Knight: Shadow Man is slowly transforming into this due to his corruption, and it terrifies him.
  I feel it taking over / my past is quickly falling away. / Battle is what it craves now / kept at bay
• Dark Is Evil: Unsurprisingly, given that his name is Shadow Man, his song is loaded with darkness imagery, and none of it is played positively.
• Foil: To Bomb Man. Both undergo a radical change and respond in opposite ways, with Shadow Man the sympathetic one of the two. Bomb Man gained emotions as a result of Wily's reprogramming, and is thrilled by the new sensations he feels and the death he causes, and uses his new emotions to guide him in his mission of bloodshed and destruction, the terror and death only motivating him further. Shadow Man, in contrast, is terrified by what's happening to him, and is losing himself, piece by piece as the killing becomes an addiction taking him over.

• Slowly Slipping Into Evil: Shadow Man is aware that this is happening to him and that he's near the final stages, but he's unable to slow his descent into total darkness.
  Say goodbye to the light / the darkness grows / I'm in league with the shadow. / I can feel the good in me is dying slow.
• Split Personality: Another voice starts singing to him near the end of the song. Considering what the song's about, it's most likely this.
  • Evil Sounds Raspy: Whenever it speaks, it has a lower, hushed rasp.

The Belmonts

Simon Belmont

Simon Belmont ~ Bloody Tears, Heart of Fire, Stalker, Out of Time

These bloody tears fall, Blinded for ten thousand years. This nightmare just keeps getting worse. What a horrible night to have a curse.

• The Ace: Comes off as this in Heart of Fire and Stalker, as he proceeds to stroll right on through and defeat Death, and move quick enough to take on Medusa without even looking directly at her.
• Dented Iron: During Bloody Tears, Simon's quest and the curse Dracula has placed on him has caused his body to degrade faster.
• The Determinator: Single-handedly takes on Dracula's forces twice, and comes out on top both times, though the second time in the games costs him his life for a Mutual Kill.
• Not Distracted by the Sexy: Resists Medusa's attempts to charm him quite handily.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: On his final way up to Dracula's chamber in Out of Time, it's clear to him that whatever is reality outside of Castlevania's walls does not apply within it, and for the first time genuinely begins to show concern as he soldiers on.

Dracula

Dracula ~ Out of Time, Wicked Child

Tonight, the lord of darkness shall... Rise.

• Offing the Offspring: Comes to the realization that to conquer the human race, he will have to fight and kill his son, Alucard, to do it.
  My only blood at their defense, what makes you stray? What makes you stand against?!
• Heel Realization: Begins to realize just after killing him that that Alucard is the only connection he has left to Lisa to begin with.
  All I have, all I have of her. I hear her whispers... My child.
  He's all I have, all I have of her. My only tether... My heart.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Wicked Child is an extended declaration of reinvigorated - perhaps strengthened - hatred for humanity for burning wife, Lisa, at the stake.
  Her ashes spread across the sea, you took her life from me.
  Burn your lives! Damn your eyes tonight! Tonight! Tonight.

Skulls

Skull Man

Skull Man ~ Cracked Skulls

Cracked skulls, dead cells! Look what you made, this morbid scene! These spirits, still stirring - feel them writhe in the machine!

• Avenging the Villain: Goes on and on about how the spirits of fallen Robot Masters empower him to take vengeance for them.
  Can you hear them, calling out your name? (Speaking for the dead) I feel their vengeance, guiding my hand! (Filling with dread...)
• Ax-Crazy: He doesn't exactly come across as perfectly rational.
  It's killing we're craving.
• Badass Boast: Has a knack for these.
  The Skull will make you kneel.
  What is dead can never die!
  It's not this world that needs saving.
• Dark Is Evil: Talks about the daylight dimming early in the song.
• The Dreaded: It's clear he thinks he's this. It's...unlikely to work out for him.
  Surrender to the fear.
• The Grim Reaper: Describes himself as such.
• Hearing Voices: Claims he hears the spirits of the dead and speaks for them.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The song never clarifies whether he's actually a vessel for spirits, or if he's just nuts.
• SkeleBot 9000: His name is Skull Man.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Calls out Mega Man for the destruction he's wrought in past.
  Look what you made, this morbid scene!

Leon Belmont

Leon Belmont - Vampire Killer

Gone - the fear of the darkness, gone - The light he couldn't lose. Forever, Sarah, now begins a legacy of pain.

• The Determinator: It's clear to see where Simon got it from. Even after losing his fiancee, he remains resolute in his vow to destroy the forces of darkness.
• Heroic Lineage: The starting point of the Belmont clan's history as vampire hunters.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After the forging of the Vampire Killer, Leon proceeds to tear apart the army of the vampire who had bitten Sara in one night.
  Tear through them, Vampire Killer
  I will hold onto your name
  Together forever, Sara
  We'll set the night aflame. Aflame!

Sara Trantoul

Sara Trantoul - Vampire Killer

She feels the change, it's in her soul. Inhuman blood is growing cold. The purest heart, struck down at night. Now let us weaponize your light.

• Adaptational Badass: In this song's take on the events, not only is Sara willing to give her soul to complete the whip as normal, but she sounds fueled with righteous indignation over the idea of being torn from Leon.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: Or vampire, in this case.
• Empathic Weapon: Her declaration to Leon implies that since her soul is imbued to the Vampire Killer, she remains within it as the Whip's Memory.
  You will always have my heart, and now I'm giving you my soul
  You must carry on... and I will carry you through hell!
• Heroic Sacrifice: Sara, slowly becoming a vampire, gives her soul to the Whip of Alchemy to turn it into the Vampire Killer.

Snakes

Storm Eagle

Storm Eagle ~ Rogumer Storm

Look, up into the sky, the patriotic eagle flies. Leading his attack by air, aboard the Death Rogumer

• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Has the utmost confidence in his ability to handle his "blue, metallic stowaway"
• Disney Villain Death: Is given one courtesy of X.
  Watch, as the eagle dies... Falling from the burning skies...
• High-Altitude Battle: Storm Eagle decides to fight X on the deck of his flagship at a dizzying height.
• Villain Respect: After being defeated, he seems to understand just how much power X holds.

X

"How can it be that something built so long ago could be a Mega Man?''

• Break Out the Museum Piece: Seen as a living example of this by Storm Eagle.
• The Dreaded: Gains a reputation not unlike his predecessor after taking down Storm Eagle and his fleet, being a blue herald of death.
• Out of Focus: Despite being the driving protagonist in his series, he has yet to get a song to himself.

Chill XMas

Chill Penguin

Chill Penguin ~ Chill XMas

• Affably Evil: Chill Penguin holds no remorse for the Maverick uprising and is an enthusiastic participant in it, but he's willing to call off hostilities for a day to celebrate the holidays and even tries to be a good host during that time.
• Kill It with Ice: His signature weapon is Shotgun Ice and he directly references it.

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