Headscratchers / Mega Man 11

• It was established in the series canon that robots with the "DRN" ("DLN") prefix were made by Dr. Light and robots with the "DWN" prefix were made by Dr. Wily. In the prologue, Dr. Light exclaims that Dr. Wily is stealing HIS robots, but the data shows them with the "DWN" prefix instead. So was it Dr. Light or Dr. Wily who made them?
  • Neither. The data files for each Robot Master shows that they were made by a variety or corporations, with Tundra Man for example being made by Dr. Cossack (or more specifically, manufactured by Cossack Robot Laboratories). Dr. Light most likely said "My Robots!" in the sense a medical doctor would say "my patients."
  • Additionally, the robots were stated to be modified for further combat and having the Double Gear systems installed into them by Wily in addition to being reprogrammed, which is a possible qualification for being given the DWN categorization.
  • He probably thinks that the robots belong to him now, now that's he's made them better.
  • Other robots with DWN prefixes include the 6 set and Cossack robots, so Wily likely attributes any stolen robots to himself (barring the Light bots from the original game and 9).
  • Many of the DWN are robots Wily either stole or modified/repaired. Included are Shade Man, Cloud Man, Burst Man, Freeze Man, Astro Man, Tengu Man, Clown Man, Aqua Man, and Nitro Man. I'd give the complete list, but that's like a third of the Robot Masters fought in the games.
• Dr. Light personally goes into the Gear Fortress to talk with Wily after the latter is defeated. This is quite an unusual situation for a Mega Man game, thus it raises some questions:
  • 1st: Why Light had never done this before?
    • Possibly due to his off-screen duties as Mission Control to Mega Man.
    • Maybe he reached the peak of his karate skills that he practiced in his spare time? The traps that Wily rigged are still stay intact; after all, there is no way that the old man with Santa Claus' beard could pass through all of this without some sort of mystical mumbo-jumbo skills he never mentioned.
  • 2nd: What makes him think that Wily will listen to him, anyway?
    • Light sincerely believes that Wily still might have some goodness in him. After all, Wily left behind a shitload of Roboenza cure pills at the end of Mega Man 10.
  • 3rd: Why the fuck Light yet again tries to convince Wily to give up on his evil ambitions if the latter was still doing the same exact shit for the 12th time already? Not to mention Wily yet again promises to enact yet another revenge on Mega Man.
    • Well, Dr. Light might be gullible enough that he still refuses to acknowledge that Wily is irredeemable. And this is Mega Man 11 we're talking about. He's even worse than Knuckles!
  • 4th: Is Wily himself now decides to brush off Light?
    • The answer could be "YES" because the exact moment of Wily's betrayal at the beginning of the classic Mega Man saga was never canonically portrayed. Instead of waiting 12 games in a row, Wily could've done it much earlier - at the beginning of the entire goddamn Mega Man series - by saying something like this: "Thomas, you never respected me, you refused to acknowledge my achievements, you never gave me credits on projects I helped you develop... You are no longer my friend - fuck you!"

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