Unofficial Official Mega Man Thread

I feel like Gate would have this belief unironically but without wanting genocide.

It depends on if you want him to be a navigator before X6 or after though. I feel post, he'd just keep his passive aggressive thoughts to himself.

Granted, I think in either case, he'd also have low opinions on less advanced reploids.

And he would be the second racist navigator the maverick hunters hired in this hypothetical scenario.

Can anyone guess who the first is?

Edited by RedHunter543 on Mar 20th 2024 at 10:30:43 PM

While listening to Double's theme in X4, I encountered this comment by one terminalvelociotyhunter2202:

Someone else named legendxcarrisso made this reply"

Is this a good theory, or was it just overthinking what may be a mere Continuity Nod?

Edited by HallowHawk on Mar 22nd 2024 at 8:01:36 AM

I'm not over how silly Jello Man sounds.

Not the first time a Mega Man character had a silly sounding name. Take Hard Man, for example!

where the hell did "Jello Man is Double's ACTUAL japanese name" come from?

Apparently, the official soundtrack for Double's theme in Mega Man X4 refers to him as "Double Jello Man".

I could see Double as a derivation of the devils, possibly even ultimate. I'd propose that the Black Devil from X5 is more powerful than him in combat, but less advanced.

I've looked up the Mega Man X soundtracks, and the first six games got collected into one soundtrack apparently back in the day, and the track listing just says "DOUBLE" here: https://vgmdb.net/album/256

That Black Devil could be a Devil made directly by Dr. Wily using 20XX tech.

On calling Double Jello Man, personally, I only assumed that was a Fan Nickname because of the purple fluid running across Slim Double's body.

Idly: how would it be if Isoc turned out to be not Wily Reborn, but an executor - the agent that Wily built specially to carry his plans beyond the grave. Possibly, Isoc would argue that holo-Light is the same sort of thing, but lying about it.

"But that's only fitting. Light was more like Wily than he'd ever admit, so why should the same not be true of their executors?"

That would be more akin to having henchmen still carrying out orders rather than something like the Light holograms.

As far as we know, Dr. Wily exists through the Maverick virus.

Somehow.

and It helps that the one who called Zero the strongest robot was marked as "??", thus it's easy to assume Wily and Isoc are separate characters and that the former only possessed the latter to encourage Zero to defeat Sigma.

Edited by HallowHawk on Mar 24th 2024 at 5:56:27 AM

Are the voices in JP different tho?

No. They're both Takeshi Aono. Doesn't hurt the theory as Aono also voiced Ground Scaravich in the same game.

Yeah, my notion was that Isoc would be arguing that the Light holograms are just an artificial henchman that Light created, rather than "actually" being Dr. Light in any sense. With a side of thinking that Light was a giant hypocrite who's only pretending to be good, (because evil does not comprehend good), so it makes sense that the henchman is lying about his true nature, too.

From a certain point of view, brain uploading into a hologram makes a copy, not the original person. So Wily henchman could have some basis to argue this

Granted, in this theory, Isoc would be a separate albeit loyal individual to Wily, while the Light holograms just act like Light and don’t directly affect the plot aside from upgrading X and at one point repairing him.

Edited by RedHunter543 on Mar 25th 2024 at 2:47:06 AM

There's a possibility that rather than truly surviving to the X series, the Light and Wily that show up behind the scenes are AI clones of their consciousness they set up beforehand. The concept of uploading your consciousness isn't really explored in too much detail until Zero. Though I bet you only Wily would refuse to accept that.

Wily having an AI doppelganger makes the most sense to me. Particularly if he's using it to body hop.

Reminds me of the discussion on if Sigma truly does come back from defeat or if it's just duplicate program with all the exact memories up until the point of death.

Heck, there's even an argument that Sigma died the moment the virus infected him, and the virus thinks it's Sigma.

On that note: If X9 ever sees the light of day, I hope they give us an actual new antagonist and stick with it, instead of doing a Hijacked by Ganon at the last second. We need brand new villains instead of the exact same foe again and again.

Gate: “It’s me, X! I’m back again! Just kidding, I’m being puppeted by Dynamo!”

X: “Never would have guessed Dynamo for endboss material. … I will enjoy kicking his ass though”

Then it turns out, the real mastermind was CRORQ all along!

You just made that up.