WMG / Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X

The Maverick Hunter X series would have retconned plot holes and weak parts of the Mega Man X series' story

It's sad to think about What Could Have Been if Maverick Hunter X had taken off. Back in the day, the storyline of the X games was a borderline Excuse Plot, so a redo would be nice; there are many little points in the X series that could benefit greatly. For example:

• Fix up the boring villains from X2 and X3. Vile and Dr. Doppler are okay, having interesting enough backstories and personalities, but the others not so much. Who are the X-Hunters? Why do they love Sigma so much? Is Serges really Dr. Wily, as many have posited? Plus the Nightmare Police - Bit and Byte - are incredibly boring characters and could use some spice.
• Show even more of Repliforce's sympathetic side. We caught a glimpse of this in X4, but there's a lot of potential for an even stronger story there.
• Fix the notorious "I hid myself while I tried to repair myself" excuse Zero uses in X6. In fact, maybe rewrite a lot of the plot of X6 while you're at it.
• Add an additional playable character for each game, like Vile Mode for the first one. Some ideas are Fake Zero for X2 (possibly Clone Angst foreshadowing Zero 3), Vile Mk.II for X3 (continuing his character arc), Colonel for X4 (fleshing out Repliforce more), Dynamo for X5 (for Ensemble Dark Horse reasons), and Gate for X6 (giving some more sympathy with Alia).

It's disappointing to think about.

Vile was going to be retconned into Mega Man X2

At the end of Vile's story, after his defeat, Sigma orders some of his men to "retrieve" him. It's possible that Vile was going to be repaired in time for X2, where he would fight alongside the X-Hunters - or maybe against them in his own story again. Maybe he'd even become a recurring Anti-Hero deuteragonist alongside X.

• The canonicity of this scene is debatable due to happening in Vile's story, which is confirmed to just be a what-if scenario.

If the Maverick Hunter X series caught on and continued to X6 as planned, they would've done other games such as X7, the Xtreme games, and possibly X8 or Command Mission as well.

If Maverick Hunter X had turned out to be a Cash-Cow Franchise (we wish), maybe Capcom would have gone past their goal of stopping at X6 and continued. This would be especially likely for X7, since that game frankly needs a complete redo, but maybe even X8 and others as well if they felt so inclined.

A Maverick Hunter X7 could have (besides fixing the awful gameplay) done a better job of making Red more sympathetic, maybe even give him a playable side story like Vile. Then a Maverick Hunter X8 could better explain the dynamic between Sigma and the new-generation Reploids (something a lot of fans seem to be confused on) and maybe give us Vile V or Lumine as a playable side story. Xtreme and Xtreme 2 could finally be upgraded from their old Game Boy specs, and we could get a better look at the Shadow Hunters and the Soul Erasers (how about a playable Berkana, anybody?)

Chill Penguin was literally Reassigned to Antarctica before the events of the game

Firstly, he's based on a penguin, which lives there. Secondly, judging by his remarks about "piddling around on the South Pole with nothing to do", he clearly didn't like the job, which could mean it was a reassignment punishment of some sort.

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