YMMV / MegaMan NT Warrior (2002)

• Adaptation Displacement: Among the anime seasons Stream is the most iconic (fan reactions aside). Whenever someone brought up the anime most fans will be thinking of cross fusion, Slur and Raika first.
• Ass Pull: Dark Mega Man using dimensional converters to erase the Neo WWW lackeys' memories. Dimensional Converters never had that ability. His reason for the memory erasing is so they wouldn't get in his way, which makes no no sense as they're locked in a maximum security prison and having their Asteroid Navis deleted.
• Awesome Music: ShadeMan's theme from Axess. So much so that the Dub version used the same one as the Original version oddly enough.
  • Could be said of the series in general, once it hit its stride during Axess. The score during the original seasons were acceptable, with only a few notable themes. Sadly, more than likely because everyone had given up on it by then, the scores from Axess onward were never released - which is a shame, because that leaves fans attempting to sample songs for themselves.
  • As far as the dub goes, Dark ProtoMan's theme isn't bad at all.
• Bizarro Episode:
  • Late in the second season of the anime, a "cat virus" escapes from a lab and proceeds to transform every Net Navi it encounters into cats. Simultaneously, Rush appears in the real world (a power he would go on to keep for the remainder of the show).
  • The entirety of the MistMan episode of Axess, which plays like the weirdest dream. Lan and Maylu (in clothing unique to the episode) go butterfly-hunting around the world (by running) only to find themselves in front of a massive pyramid, where Ms. Yuri just so happens to be hunting for rare metal to make Dark Chips with. They all end up in a fight with MistMan, who ends up fighting for whichever side is holding his lamp. After the adventure ends, the entire pyramid disappears.
    • Including the ending in the Japanese version of the episode where Lan, Maylu, and Ms. Yuri are menaced by Jason Voorhees◊ and Freddy Krueger◊.
    • Even stranger is that this episode is somehow canon to the series itself. Both ColdMan and SwordMan are deleted in it, which is an important plot point because it means that Dark ProtoMan is the only Darkloid agent that Nebula itself has left. Also, Ms. Yuri somehow survives her confrontation with Jason, since she appears quite fine and well later on. Lastly, Lan and Maylu must have somehow defeated Freddy, since much like Ms. Yuri, the two of them also appear alive and well later on.
• Broken Base:
  • While the English Dub versus Sub wars of the show are currently minor, there are those who hate the Dub for its heavy editing and those who enjoy the Dub for fun.
  • Because of the divisive dub, fans are split on whether to refer the characters with their original Japanese names or their dub names. Those who watched the anime prefer the former while those who are more familiar with the games outside Japan usually prefer the latter, as long that the dub names are from the games themselves.
  • There's major division on which season is the best. This usually includes a debate on the massive Genre Shift from the centrality of Cyberspace in the first two seasons to Henshin Hero in Axess and eventually Sentai in Stream to saving Another Dimension from its own After the End scenario in Beast.
    • Among the two that focused on Cross Fusion (Axess and Stream), there's huge debate on which is better between them: those who hate Stream point to its pointless filler and overuse of cross fusion along with focusing a little too much on shipping while those who hate Axess point to it being gratuitously Darker and Edgier and its own filler.
    • There are some who don't like anything after the first two seasons, accusing it of having much darker tone and declaring that the new focus on Cross Fusion deviated too far from the original setting and plot of the games in favor of getting more humans involved.
  • Was the inclusion of the anime only character Tory/Tohru (IceMan's operator) pointless due to him having next to no major role after the first season or is he actually a good net battler and friend who is a victim of the writers writing him out. Ms. Yuri also counts: she was more re-characterized in the anime, but after Stream, she and almost the whole Cross Fusion team were Demoted to Extra.
• Catharsis Factor: Bass killing the previously unstoppable Slur by impaling her and crushing her head.
• Complete Monster:
  • Dr. Regal is the head of the evil organization Nebula and the Big Bad of the Axess season. A proud, villainous man selected by the godlike NetNavi Duo as a probe for human life, Regal sees himself as above humanity and schemes for the end of the world. Regal empowers the Darkloid NetNavis on their destructive campaigns through the Dark Chips, while slowly corrupting and driving all of them to insanity and degeneration through them and turning them against their leader ShadeMan.EXE, whom he later brutally kills. Regal forces his fellow Duo-selected probe, Ms. Yuri, to murder her own sister to prove her loyalty, and, in the climax of Axess, enshrouds the entire world in a dimensional area powered by the souls of tens of thousands of agonized NetNavis, using his new power to annihilate entire populated cities across the globe while proclaiming himself the herald of humanity's destruction. Returning as a digital entity in the following season's movie, Regal attempts to destroy the entire world yet again by using Wily's Spectrum program to digitize the planet while subjecting Lan's father to horrible torture, and tries one last time to destroy the world in Stream while betraying Duo and proclaiming himself a god. Dr. Regal is a monstrous man utterly in love with his own evil who sees it as his right to annihilate millions for nothing more than the sake of his power and ego.
  • Stream: Slur is an arrogant, zealous alien Navi and the chief servant of the godlike program Duo. Tasked with distributing potentially dangerous Asteroid Navis across Earth to gauge if the planet is a potential threat that needs to be wiped out, Slur's hatred for humans leads to her gaming her master's system in her favor. She goes out of her way to distribute Asteroid Navis to people guaranteed to abuse them, and nudges them into doing so while occasionally painfully deleting the Net Navis they already have. Slur's machinations cause a number of disasters to happen, such as the planet almost being devastated by a famine; people being horrifically turned to stone; a meteor nearly flattening a city; and a number of near-mass murders on top of that. When the Cross Fusion team tries to stop her, Slur simply mass-distributes Asteroid Navis at a quicker rate and overwhelms them with chaos and mayhem around the globe in hopes of giving Duo the final push he needs to destroy the planet. Despite claiming to be protecting the universe, Slur's motivations ultimately boil down to an obsessive, selfish desire to cull any and all life she deems inferior.
• Crack Pairing: Serenade and Slur. Gender debates aside, these two are often paired together despite never met at all (Serenade in the manga and BN3, Slur in the anime). Although this is probably because both of them are elite-tier and feminine-looking Navis so they are often shipped together like rivals. Some fans even slipped Bass into the pairing and make those two fight for his affection as well. Some even shipped all three together.
• Die for Our Ship:
  • Maylu, for reasons detailed on the Battle Network page.
  • Dex only has the fault of not being a Bishōnen and having a crush on Maylu.
  • Do not mention Annetta's name to Chaud/Yai shippers. It won't end well.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Princess Pride, in part for Adaptational Heroism and in part for adding some variety to Lan's love life.
  • Raika/Laika, who becomes a main character after Axess.
• Evil Is Cool:
  • Bass.EXE, as per usual.
  • Dr. Regal and the Darkloids of Nebula. Regal and Shademan.EXE have cool enough looks to start with, but they are notably far more hardcore in the anime adaptation compared to the games.
• Fan Nickname:
  • Disco Enzan and Afro Enzan are the two most commonly used names by most fans to refer to Enzan when he is wearing his afro.
  • Meiru is called the pink fiend by the Yaoi fandom (note: this is not an affectionate name).
• Fanon: Again, NT Warrior actually encompasses three different adaptations of the original Mega Man Battle Network. Fans like to mix-and-match details and canons. (Details on the YMMV page for Battle Network).
  • There is a debate about the Cross Fusion members being Net Savers. They are only referred to as "the cross fusion members" at the end of Beast where they are simply referred to as that and nowhere does it imply that they are Net Savers like Lan, Chaud, and Raika. In fact, it's implied that the Cross Fusion team don't even carry Synchro Chips with them normally^note In Beast, Zoano GutsMan attacks Dingo and Maylu and the two did nothing but dodge him while Lan, Chaud, and Laika fought. It is also popular to call them the Special Forces in some fan works even though they are never referred as that in the anime.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Some fans pretend there is nothing after Axess (which may have something to do with the lack of localization). Others just refuse to acknowledge anything past the original series. Some fans did not take kindly to cross fusion at all.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: The anime (especially Stream) has a lot of closer-than-friends interactions between characters who don't even talk to each other in the games, resulting in a number of pairings below:
  • Lan/Maylu (along with MegaMan/Roll) ^* the only pairing that is carried over from the games, though Lan is clueless at first
  • Tory/Shuko
  • Chaud/Yai
  • Charlie/Tesla
  • Laika/Princess Pride
  • SearchMan/Meddy
  • Ms. Yuri/Dark Miyabi (Dusk)
• Fridge Brilliance: In episode 25 of Stream, Tesla gains a Synchro Chip for her birthday and Neo WWW decide to gang up and attempt to kill Lan and MegaMan in a Cross Fusion battle. Just when Tesla is about to execute Lan, however, Ms. Yuri emerges on the scene Cross Fused with NeedleMan...and completely kicks Tesla to the curb, even when Tesla uses NS Tackle to duplicate herself. While this may be a result of Ms. Yuri’s better fighting ability and experience, there’s another element to consider; NeedleMan is a plant element Navi, and thus is able to do more damage to (and take less damage from) the electric element MagnetMan, and this crosses over to Cross Fusion. Tesla really didn’t stand a chance in that fight.
• Funny Moments: Possibly when Yai prevents Maddy from winning a net battle by reflecting the sun off of her large, waxed forehead, blinding her.
  • Yai does it again in episode 39, combined with Calling Your Attacks.
  • Disco Enzan
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In Axess, Maylu dreams about Cross Fusing and attempts to do so, but fails. In Stream, she's able to Cross Fuse and helps Lan and MegaMan defeat VideoMan and becomes a member of the Cross Fusion team alongside with Roll.
  • In the dubbed version of the Axess finale, upon seeing Regal turning into LaserMan, Lan exclaims "Can everyone cross fuse?!". In Stream, several characters are given the ability to cross fuse.
  • In the manga, Dex is laughed at by the whole class when he brings up the civilization of Mu during a discussion on ancient civilizations. If only he knew.
  • The dub version of the anime had renamed FireMan to TorchMan, presumably to avoid confusion with an actual fireman. 16 years later, there's a robot master in Mega Man 11 who's named Torch Man.
• Ho Yay: Lan/Netto and Chaud/Enzan engage in quite a fair bit of this.
• Jerkass Woobie: In Axess, Chaud himself suffered majorly when he was forced to use a Dark Chip on ProtoMan in order to save not only Lan and Anetta, but MegaMan as well. While Chaud was rather cold to Lan during their confrontation episodes later, you can't help but feel bad for the guy. Considering that it was Proto Soul MegaMan who had beat ShadeMan in the end, he likely feels and believes that using the dark chip had cost him his own NetNavi.
  • ShadeMan when the Darkloids ditch him in favor of Regal. When he returns to confront Regal, he actually fights partially in honor of the Darkloids.
  • Saiko when you consider what drove him to join Neo WWW. The company he worked for then participated in a navi car race and his boss put a lot of pressure on him not to lose (albeit without being a jerk) and when his original navi accidentally ruined the car, its clear he was under tremendous pressure.
  • Ivan Chillski only wanted to be a computer researcher and create a Navi compression method until he was fired (albeit in a civilized manner) by his boss since the company was starting to run out of funds for his research and then Slur showed up with Asteroid ColdMan...
• Magnificent Bastard: Ms. Yuri is the right-hand woman of Dr. Regal and identical twin sister to Ms. Mari. Spreading the Dark Chips throughout DenTech City, she provides a pivotal role in countless incidents related to Dark Chips. Ever calm and dignified, she comes up with many schemes while also having backdoors to fall into whenever she needs to escape. When ShadeMan tries to steal the Dark Chips for himself, she relocates them elsewhere while playfully leaving one to get under his skin. Upon regaining her memories of the time she spent with her sister, Ms. Yuri ultimately chooses to protect her, betraying Dr. Regal. Surviving that incident, Ms. Yuri reconciles with Ms Mari, joining the heroes as a loyal ally.
• Memetic Mutation: A small one but bronies like poking humor at the fact Megaman is voiced by no one other than Andrew Francis, who voices Shining Armor. Since there, there's a rampant of "ShiningArmor.EXE" jokes.
• Mis-blamed: For some reason, people bash 4Kids Entertainment for the dub's quality. They had nothing to do with NT Warrior. All of the questionable aspects of the dub fall on either Viz Media or Kids WB.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • While Duo judging planets on whether or not they should be destroyed already means he's likely crossed it well before the series began, It turns out that he crossed it when he destroyed his own planet, it wasn't for any good reason either, he just decided that he had the authority to judge whether entire species have the right to exist and felt that his creators didn't.
  • Regal stands responsible for many acts of evil to begin with, but he crosses the line into horrifically and personally reprehensible when he orders Ms. Yuri to murder her twin sister Ms. Mari in order to prove she's still loyal to Nebula's cause.
• Only the Author Can Save Them Now: Stream. Duo, the ominous power hovering over the planet for most of the season, has the power to unmake and remake the entire planet and every human being on it. No way is any battle going to bridge that gap. So the writers reached out deep into left field.
• Player Punch: PharaohMan's arrival at the end of the N1 Grand Prix. You can feel Lan's heartbreak watching him weep as MegaMan dies.
• Seasonal Rot: Every season can get accused of this. Axess gets accused of it for the shift in tone, Stream gets it for exaggerating it further, Beast Plus for basically becoming a stream of Filler. Every season has its fans, though.
• The Woobie: Poor Lan had lost MegaMan when the latter was unexpectedly deleted, right after saving ProtoMan from being deleted by PharaohMan. Thankfully, MegaMan himself was restored episodes later.