History Characters / MegaManClassicVillains

Minor but memorable characters from the UsefulNotes/GameBoy games. They are the Mega Man Killers, consisting of Enker, Punk, and Ballade, are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin designed for the sole purpose of destroying Mega Man]]. They are designated by the serial number of ''RKN.XXX'' ('''R'''ockman '''K'''iller '''N'''umber) in Japanese and ''MKN.XXX'' ('''M'''egaman '''K'''iller '''N'''umber) in English.

A minor but memorable character from ''VideoGame/MegaManII'' on the UsefulNotes/GameBoy, Quint is apparently [[spoiler:Mega Man ''himself'']], pulled from the future and reprogrammed to be evil by Wily.

A team of [[BreakingOldTrends seven]] Robot Masters from the obscure UsefulNotes/WonderSwan game ''[[VideoGame/RockmanAndForteMiraiKaraNoChosensha Rockman & Forte: Challenger from the Future]]'' who have willingly come to the past to destroy peace between mankind and robotkind. They are lead by Mega Man (Rockman) Shadow, a robot with the look and powers of Mega Man.

* NothingIsScarier: How it introduces itself. You enter the boss arena only to find it empty and devoid of any boss. Then the boss music starts playing and the boss health bar appears and starts filling up. Still nothing. Suddenly, yellow blocks start coming in from the left, moving very fast across the room and eventually materializing into a giant faceless... creature that just stands there, completely frozen. After a moment, a single red eye opens. Compared to so many other robots, which usually at least have visible joints, or some other indicator of their robotic nature, the Yellow Devil seems creepily organic. Its huge, almost unmoving stature, its voiceless nature, and creepy eyeball add to this.

* NothingIsScarier: Compared to so many other robots, which usually at least have visible joints, or some other indicator of their robotic nature, the Yellow Devil seems creepily organic. Its huge, almost unmoving stature, its voiceless nature, and creepy eyeball add to this.

* BonusBoss: All three of them are the bosses of the Special Stages in ''10''. You even get their weapons from them!

* BonusBoss: His entire stage and fight is DLC for ''Mega Man 9''.

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* GreaterScopeVillain: When he first arrived to Earth during the ancient generations, he gave humans the capacity to feel hatred and violence. As a result, any villainous humans in the franchise, such as Wily, [[VideoGame/MegaManZero Dr. Weil]], or [[VideoGame/MegaManZX Master Albert]], are the result of Ra Moon's influence on humanity's lineage.

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* EvilIsNotAToy: Dr. Wily learns this the hard way as Sunstar becomes one of the only characters to usurp his position as the FinalBoss.

* {{Expy}}: With its black, spherical body and eye-like markings, it very closely resembles the Giant Sphere of the ''Manga/GiantRobo'' OVA.

An ancient super robot hailing from the same extraterrestrial civilization as the Stardroids, created to be the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. Dr. Wily releases him against Mega Man for the final battle of ''VideoGame/MegaManV'', before being promptly [[EvilIsNotAToy blown off the battlefield]] before Sunstar faces Mega Man.

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* LegacyBossBattle: The Yellow Devil and its successors are prevalent throughout the entire franchise. [[labelnote:The full list of Devils...]][[VideoGame/MegaMan1 Yellow Devil]], [[VideoGame/MegaMan3 Yellow Devil MK-II]], [[VideoGame/MegaManV Dark Moon]], [[VideoGame/SuperAdventureRockman New Yellow Devil]], [[VideoGame/MegaMan8 Green Devil]], [[VideoGame/MegaManX5 Shadow Devil]], [[VideoGame/MegaManZero1 Rainbow]] [[VideoGame/MegaManZero2 Devil]], [[VideoGame/MegaManZX Lava Demon/Devil]], [[VideoGame/MegaMan9 Petit Devil, Twin Devil]], [[VideoGame/MegaMan10 Block Devil]], and [[VideoGame/MegaMan11 Yellow Devil MK-III]].[[/labelnote]]

->See his character page here

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->'''Voiced by''': [[note]]''Creator/IanJamesCorlett'' (Captain N), ''Creator/TakeshiAono'' (JP), ''Creator/KenichiOgata'' (JP, OVA), ''Creator/ScottMcNeil'' (Animated series, OVA, Puzzle Fighter), ''Creator/ChikaoOhtsuka'' (Rockman 7 Ad), ''Takaoh Ishimori'' (Arcade), ''Douglas Kendall'' (EN, 8), ''Dean Galloway'' (EN, Powered Up), ''Hideyuki Umezu'' (JP, Mega Man 11), ''Creator/KeithSilverstein'' (EN, Mega Man 11)[[/note]]
The main antagonist of the series and Dr. Light's former associate. Jealous of being overshadowed by his former colleague's success, he reprogrammed the original six Robot Masters and used them to take over the city, and would eventually attempt to conquer the world with them.\\
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Robot Masters designed, controlled, or modified by Wily usually bear the serial number ''DWN.XXX'' ('''D'''octor '''W'''ily '''N'''umbers), although some special-purpose ones such as Bass have the serial number ''SWN.XXX'' ('''S'''pecial '''W'''ily '''N'''umber).

* AbortedArc: Whatever arc the X Series had going on with him is officially dropped by the time of [[VideoGame/MegaManX7 X7.]]
* AlwaysSecondBest: To Dr. Light. No matter what he did, no matter what awards he'd gotten, he was always the runner up. As a result, Light is considered "The Father of Modern Robotics" in the present, with his work providing the primary foundation of the Mega Man world's future; while Wily, despite his final creation's inadvertent heroism [[VideoGame/MegaManX centuries]] [[VideoGame/MegaManZero later]], is primarily remembered as a villain for his nefarious actions that ultimately stem from his jealousy.
* AntiVillain: In ''10'', he [[spoiler:leaves behind enough cures for Roboenza following his escape]], and in ''VideoGame/TatsunokoVsCapcom'', he [[spoiler:calls Zero his son and doesn't really care that he hasn't killed X anymore.]] Also, in ''[[http://themechanicalmaniacs.com/articles/RMGE.php Rockman Gold Empire]]'', he was ''this'' close to finally quitting the world domination business, and according to one [[http://kobun20.interordi.com/2010/09/20/ask-me-3-the-final-lesson/ magazine issue]], he eventually did see the error of his ways in the future Quint originated. However, the "anti" part goes away in ''VideoGame/MegaManX'', and he becomes a straight up monster.
%%* ArchEnemy: To Mega Man.
* BaldOfEvil: While he has wild hair on the sides of his head, he has none on top.
* BatmanGambit: After framing Dr. Light in ''9'', Wily coerces the population to fund his efforts to stop him. The funding instead went into building Wily's new Fortress guardians.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: ''11'' reveals that Wily's initial goal was to use the Double Gear system to create "true heroes" out of robots. After his project was rejected in favor of Light's, however, he became consumed with jealousy and resentment until he became a megalomaniacal MadScientist hell-bent on [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]] as we know him by now. [[spoiler: Ironically, though he had more sinister motivations in creating him, Zero would eventually go on to become this "true hero" he initially wanted to create.]]
* BewareTheSillyOnes: At first glance, he's just a cooky, stubborn jerk of a mad scientist who looks like Einstein, right? [[spoiler:As a ''direct'' result of his actions over the course of his life of villainy, he would subsequently doom the world for ''centuries'' to constant war and no fewer than two different near-apocalypses. This is to speak nothing of his greatest creation, which, upon having his original personality restored, '''''single-handedly wiped out nearly all sentient life on Earth.''''' And this was while they were still recovering from the ''first'' near-apocalypse, in which it was stated he somehow had a direct hand in despite ''being dead'' for nearly a hundred years.]]
* BigBad: The mad scientist to contrast Dr. Light, using the Robot Masters in order to control the world rather than benefit mankind. Almost every game in the classic series is about stopping him.
* BigBadWannabe: Whenever another villain overthrows Wily like [[spoiler:Sunstar in ''V'' and Ra Moon in ''Super Adventure Rockman'']].
* BrilliantButLazy: He'd rather hijack Dr. Light's creations than make his own, but what he does make is exceptionally high-quality -- Bass and Zero being prime examples. That is not to say his "Wily Machines"-- while the quality and strength of each machine can vary wildly, the "Wily Capsules" always give intense(ly frustrating) battles in almost every game. [[spoiler:χ-kai-'s backstory, if taken as canon, implies that Wily actually got his hands on X's blueprints, but ''gave up'' on taking advantage of it because X's logic circuits were too difficult for him to replicate, instead focusing on Zero.]]
** Also, out of ''over a hundred Robot Masters'' featured in the series thus far, Wily has only designed and created around ''forty'' of them just by himself, the rest being stolen and reprogrammed, or in the case of the third game, designed with help from Dr. Light (and even then, there was Shadow Man, who was built by aliens). And that's including King, Bass, the Mega Man Killers and the Wily Tower Trio, without them the count is merely ''32'', not counting Doc Robot and the Dark Men. The man can be brilliant when he works up the effort, but maybe he'd have more success convincing people of his genius if he wasn't a ''chronic kleptomanic and plagarist''. He even has the gall to make all of the stolen robots part of the DWN series!
* TheCameo: Drs. Light and Wily appear in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake'' of all places, on a subway poster advertising an upcoming Science forum.
* CharacterTics: Raising his eyebrows repeatedly.
* CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown: In ''6'', instead of working in the shadows [[HijackedByGanon behind another villain]], he dons a fake beard and calls himself "Mr. X".
* TheChessmaster: He was mainly responsible for the events of almost all of the games, sometimes even doing it in such a way where the blame couldn't possibly be pinned on him, demonstrating his tactical genius (supplementary material states that he's outright smarter than Dr. Light, just more self-centered and ego-driven, though not neccessarily smarter in ''all areas'' - if we take χ-kai-'s backstory from ''VideoGame/MegaManXDive'' as canon, Wily ''tried'' to replicate X's logic circuits despite having stolen a copy of the blueprints but simply ''gave up'' due to the sheer difficulty of the task, meaning he couldn't match Light in terms of expertise with advanced AI). In fact, the only game that had something happen that he was not responsible for at all (or at least, he certainly didn't intend for it to go that way at all) was ''Rockman & Forte: Challenger from the Future'', where, although Wily did technically create Rockman Shadow, he was not involved in Shadow's attack at all. [[spoiler:This extends to the next 100 years in the ''X'' series.]]
* CoolShades: [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/megaman/images/b/bb/WilyMegamix.png/revision/latest?cb=20100203215241 As]] seen in ''Megamix'' manga.
* CostumeEvolution: In ''VideoGame/MegaMan8'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManAndBass'' he trades the lab coat for a white BadassCape before reverting back to his old look for ''VideoGame/MegaMan9'' and ''VideoGame/MegaMan10''. His changes his look up again in ''VideoGame/MegaMan11'' with a new black shirt and a subtle redesign of his coat as a BadassLongcoat.
* CrazyPrepared: Just to provide an example: in ''10'', he unleashed a robot plague that he allowed to cause ''himself'' to be attacked just to make his story of innocence more credible, working with the heroes to create a cure so he could dangle it over the heads of infected robots, as he engineered the virus to have a warmup time before they went berserk so they might agree to serve him in exchange for a cure. While he was at it, he infected Mega Man before he left. And just in case ''that'' somehow didn't take, he set up a fortress. And then he set up a fortress ''on top of'' that fortress, ''upside-down and in space''.
* DemotedToExtra: There is exactly ''one'' game in the classic Mega Man series where Dr. Wily is not fought ''and'' isn't even the villain of the game; the obscure [=WonderSwan=] game ''Rockman & Forte: Challenger from the Future''. The villain is Rockman Shadow, who may have been ''built'' by Wily, but he's completely acting of his own accord and ''wants'' Mega Man and Bass to destroy him. Wily doesn't appear at all in-game, and is only mentioned in passing [[AllThereInTheManual in the manual]].
* {{Determinator}}: He just ''doesn't know when to quit with his plans of world domination''.
* DirtyCoward: Wily acts out of pride, not honor. There's really no slimy trick or deception he ''won't'' try to cover his own hide.
* EinsteinHair: He even shares the same first name!
* EmbarrassingPyjamas: In ''11'' he wears light purple ones with a skull pattern.
* EurekaMoment: Suddenly recalls one of his research concepts in ''11''.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He outright states in ''Super Adventure Rockman'' that he does love his robots.
* EvilCounterpart: To Dr. Light.
* EvilOldFolks: According to ''VideoGame/MegaManAndBass'''s Japanese manual, he's 57 by the time the events of that game occur.
* EyebrowWaggle: He does this in all of the classic games before you go to his castle stage, lampshading his bad guy status.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: He will ''never'' succeed in taking over the world, because Mega Man will ''always'' be there to stop him.
* FalseFriend: In ''3'', where he "reformed" as Dr. Light's partner (although the [[AlternateContinuity Archie version]] portrays him as more [[ConflictingLoyalty internally conflicted]] than he lets on).
* FinalBoss: Serves as the final opponent in all games.
* FinalExamBoss: In the Normal and Hard modes of ''VideoGame/MegaManPoweredUp''.
* FreudianExcuse: He only turned evil because he was tired of being in Light's shadow. ''11'' clarifies this when Light was against Wily's own ideas, including his gear system. Suffice to say, he was not pleased.
* GadgeteerGenius: While he was never able to outpace Dr. Light in life, it should be noted that as a whole Wily is incredibly gifted in his own right, as he can create robot masters and other such gadgets that can give Mega Man a real challenge in the span of ''months'' based on some of the time frame gaps in between games. [[spoiler: His ultimate creation, [[VideoGame/MegaManX Zero]], not only ends up outlasting Dr. Light's ultimate creation, X but is still an incredible powerhouse that is able to outpace creations that have ''[[VideoGame/MegaManZero centuries]]'' of technological advancements over him. χ-kai-'s backstory implies that Wily's main expertise is the physical construction and engineering, and while he's no slouch with AI, he never was able to catch up to Light in that department, as he gave up on trying to replicate X's logic circuits due to the sheer difficulty despite having stolen X's blueprints, meaning Light's magnum opus was indeed the most advanced pre-Reploid AI system ever created.]]
* GreaterScopeParagon: [[spoiler:An unintentional one. His creation, Zero, manages to be one of the strongest heroes in ''X'' and beyond, despite his original intent for him.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:By WordOfGod, Wily somehow restored himself after his death to manipulate Sigma, and his virus has been plaguing the world for hundreds of years after his passing. ]]
* GreenEyedMonster: This is why Dr. Wily became a villain, although his previous position depends on the translation and instruction manual -- either he started out as Dr. Light's assistant and then wasn't given enough credit for his help, or he started out as an unaffiliated rival but Dr. Light kept outshining him. Either way, he couldn't stand the public seeing Dr. Light as better than him, so he intends to take over the world to prove his brilliance. ''11'' expands on this by Wily turning heel due to his well-intentioned (but dangerous) invention, the Double Gear System, being rejected by the council in favor of Light's thesis on free-thinking robots.
* HerrDoktor: Wily has a pronounced German accent in [[WesternAnimation/MegaManRubySpears the cartoon series]].
* [[HijackedByGanon Hijacked By Dr. Wily]]: Extending into the ''X'' series!
** Subverted exactly once in the classic series [[spoiler:when Sunstar turns on him in ''V'']].
** [[spoiler:Inverted]] in ''Super Adventure Rockman'', because [[spoiler:Ra Moon turns on him]].
* HonorBeforeReason: When they were starting out, both Dr. Light and Dr. Wily were interested in bettering robot standings in society. However, whereas Dr. Light wanted to increase robot independence so they could become partners to mankind, Wily developed an apparatus to vastly increase a robot's performance that they may be something to be idolized. While the series explores the dangers of both, Wily's were far more immediately present and unmitigated, but he refused to acknowledge any of it. And of course, [[TheyCalledMeMad when his research was dropped from support]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: There are occasions when a weapon of his own design is the only reason Mega Man could ultimately defeat him. For example, in ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'', his Alien Hologram Machine is only damaged by Bubble Lead. Had he not created Bubble Man, Mega Man could have never stolen the weapon to use against it, thus preventing Mega Man from possessing any means of destroying the final obstacle.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Wily calls foul in ''11'' for the Light household using his Double Gear System against him. This from ''Albert Wily''. You know, the MadScientist who built up at least half his forces from stealing other peoples' robots and designs. Heck, even in the same game, he stole Light's latest series of Robot Masters to test his revised system on!
* IHaveYourDaughter: In ''Mega Man 4'', Wily [[ForcedIntoEvil blackmails]] Dr. Cossack into doing his dirty work by holding his daughter Kalinka captive.
* IronButtMonkey:
** Try to remember that, when his Wily Machines go into their second forms, the target would usually be Wily ''himself'', with little to no protection against a robot attack. This is at its finest in ''Powered Up'', where he visibly ''flinches'' whenever an attack hits him!
** He's also survived being crushed under the rubble of at least one crumbling castle, ''two'' crash landings (which, naturally, resulted in a [[StuffBlowingUp huge explosion]] each time), and [[spoiler:[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking catching a cold]]]]. Clearly, that man has great physical health!
* {{Irony}}:
** A grander scale that carried all the way to the ''Zero'' series: he created Zero to specifically fight X to the death, but by the time X and Zero meet, they become close friends who saved the world countless times. And then by the time of the ''Zero'' series, not only did Zero outlive X, he also ''unified human and robot relations''. So Wily basically ''accomplished'' Dr. Light's goals.
** Two-fold with Zero. Wily never intended to create Zero to be ThreeLawsCompliant, but he ends up following them by his own choice. Doing this not only [[ZerothLawRebellion gave Zero enough morality to deal with Dr. Weil]], but killing him ends up saving the world. Thusly, Dr. Wily created a non-compliant powerful robot who can kill human mass murderers without repercussions, something Mega Man himself couldn't do. This irony extends to the above example.
** It's mentioned in ''VideoGame/MegaManXDiVE'' that Wily's specialty was never in AI and was much more into the mechanics of robot creation, specifically noting that he couldn't understand X's AI from his stolen blueprints and largely gave up on it to focus more on the mechanical aspect of them. Not only did the AI that would become Zero outlast X in the long term, but it eventually grew crafty and skilled enough to take down its original body at full power while using a much more inferior replica of his body.
* ItsPersonal: In ''VideoGame/MegaMan11'', Wily loved his Double Gear System invention so much that he took high pride in it, [[spoiler:so after learning that Light installed the prototype Double Gear that he invented back in Robot University into Mega Man, he of course didn't take very kindly to that, and, after the defeat of all of the eight Robot Masters he installed the Double Gear into, he let the crew of Light Labs know of it in no uncertain terms]].
-->'''Wily''': How dare you use my Double Gear System! [[ThisIsUnforgivable Now you've crossed the line. I'll turn you into scrap myself!]]
* IWasQuiteALooker: Now we know where Zero gets his good looks from! Would you have believed that Wily used to look like [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/megaman/images/e/eb/YoungWily.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20101001221732 this]]? The flashbacks in ''11'' [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/megaman/images/9/92/MM11YoungWily.png/revision/latest?cb=20181004210904 aren't too far off from it either]].
* JokerImmunity: It took three games before Wily seemingly met his end, but an observant player can easily see during the ending that he's still kicking. It took three more to simply go to jail, and even that only lasts for half a year.
* KnightOfCerebus: Surprisingly, his involvement in the ''X'' series, but especially ''[[VideoGame/MegaManX4 X4]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/MegaManX5 X5]]'' are this. In ''X4'', he urges Zero to kill X in the former's nightmares, while in ''X5'', he has direct (but unseen) involvement in the game's plot. He's also responsible with the Maverick Virus that's meant to make Zero stronger, and it spreads wherever he goes.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: ''11'' sheds light on Wily's past, showing the start of his feud with Dr. Light. Wily actually had good intentions with his Double Gear System, that would turn a robot into a revered and respected hero, but Light saw the [[DeadlyUpgrade dangerous flaw]] of his design and came up with the idea of giving robots free and independent thought instead. However, while ''both'' ideas would [[TheWorldIsNotReady ultimately not be ideal]], Wily's thesis presented far more immediate and concrete ethical complications[[note]]The Double Gear System would fry a robot's systems and if mass-produced held severe chances of being weaponized, as the game in question shows[[/note]] and his research was rejected in favor of Light's. It's really no wonder why Wily [[ThenLetMeBeEvil decided to stop playing nice]] and became Light's rival. [[spoiler: Light himself realizes that he should have tried to compromise with Wily, admits that the Double Gear System can be used properly and attempts to reconcile with him, though it is [[RedemptionRejection rejected]].]] The game shows that while Wily is still a villain, he wasn't always the total monster as we've come to know him.
* MadScientist: Wily fits the archetype to a T, always plotting to take over the world with an army of robots both stolen and self-made.
* TheManBehindTheMan: A common tactic of his, Wily is responsible for Dr. Cossack briefly going evil in ''4'', using Dark Man to frame Proto Man for kidnapping Dr. Light in ''5'', and [[InvertedTrope inverts it]] by pretending to be the man behind himself in ''6'' by posing as Mr. X, and the list keeps going on and on right on to the ''X'' series long after he died due to the Maverick Virus.
* McNinja: He claims to be a ninja in the Japanese {{OVA}}s.
* MoneyDumb: In a surprising display of SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome for the type of series he's in, Dr. Wily tends to suffer from money issues, sometimes from having a very limited budget, sometimes from not using it or his income sources wisely. Unlike Dr. Light, he didn't start with private funding followed by a successful business, so multiple times in the series his works have been noted to have been influenced by his budget.
** Crystal Man was originally designed to make crystals, which provided Wily a steady source of income for his other schemes... until Crystal Man was repurposed as a fighting robot.
** This is most fraught in the Gear Fortress of ''Mega Man 11'', where Dr. Wily's overly-ambitious attempt to mass-produce and apply the Double Gear System on such a scale left him too dried up on money and time to incorporate it in all the ways he'd wanted, and had to cut corners on his fortress bosses. Yellow Devil Mk III was supposed to use both of them, and Mawverne was intended to be a DualBoss with a Speed and Power gear split between its two units.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: He got dropped from the Robotics Institute of Technology, so technically speaking Wily's not a certified doctor. That's not going to stop him from telling everybody he is, and since he's well-known to have the credentials where intellect is concerned, nobody calls him on it.
* MysteriousMiddleInitial: His full name is Albert W. Wily. What the W stands for has never been specified.
* MundaneUtility: [[spoiler:What does Wily do after being defeated ''yet again''? Cut his losses and run away using his Gear System? Nope! He uses it to ''beg for mercy''. And this man is responsible for the CrapsackWorld that is ''VideoGame/MegaManX''?]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The name "Wily" does not exactly scream "morally upstanding individual".
* NotMeThisTime: Becomes a recurring theme in the later 8-bit games. In all of them, he was faking his story.
** In ''VideoGame/MegaMan3'', Wily appears to have turned a new leaf and have nothing to do with the recent rash of robot rebellions.
** In ''VideoGame/MegaMan9'', Wily claims to be completely innocent when robots start rebelling again, and implicates Dr. Light.
** In ''VideoGame/MegaMan10'', Wily claims to have nothing to do with the Roboenza epidemic. [
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: After so ''many'' times that he has [[VillainDecay decayed]], you'd think that he isn't a credible threat anymore, right? Tell that to the [[VideoGame/MegaManX future generations...]]
** Let's not forget ''Mega Man & Bass'', where one of his creations, King, ''bisected Proto Man in half''.
** And ''10'', where [[spoiler:if not for [[SpannerInTheWorks Roll]], he would have ''won'' ([[DefinitelyJustACold maybe]])]].
* ObviouslyEvil: Dr. Wily isn't exactly known for his subtlety. If the shifty eyes don't give it away, the skull motifs on his castle, Wily Machines, and pretty much everything else certainly do.
* PaperThinDisguise: Mr. X from ''VideoGame/MegaMan6'' is really Dr. Wily in disguise? But Mr. X has a beard! And opaque glasses! And a cape! And [[{{Fauxreigner}} a dot on his forehead]]!
* PastExperienceNightmare: As the man himself says in the prologue of ''VideoGame/MegaMan11'':
-->'''Dr. Wily''': Bad memories make the worst dreams. A genius of my caliber needs sleep to keep his brain [[EurekaMoment in gear]]...
* PetTheDog: In ''Super Adventure'', Wily says he loves his robots and would never give them up. [[spoiler:That didn't particularly last, mind, but hey, he felt it at ''some'' point.]] He also warned Mega Man that using the double rock buster might kill him.
** In Zero's ending in ''VideoGame/TatsunokoVsCapcom'', his calling Zero "son"...unless the "unfinished task" he mentioned there is "Kill your best friend in his sleep", which is entirely possible.
** [[spoiler:But, it is shown, in ''10'', when he leaves the hospital, the clincher? He left probably about enough Roboenza capsules to cure an entire population.]]
* PoseOfSupplication: Dr. Wily [[RunningGag does this every time]] his [[FinalBattle most powerful war machine]] is destroyed. In the first game he seems sincere about it, but after that he usually does it to distract Mega Man so he can make his escape. This doesn't always work...
** In ''6'', Mega Man cuts to the chase and arrests Wily. This winds up setting up the events of the next game.
** In ''7'', Mega Man seriously contemplates blowing Wily's brains out; Wily is saved by dint of collapsing lair and Bass.
** In ''9'', Mega Man shows Wily a montage of every prior instance of this trope; Wily manages to find another way to escape.
** In ''10'', Mega Man takes Wily to a hospital due to the cold he was suffering from; Wily gets away, but leaves enough Roboenza vaccines behind to sample an effective cure.
** In ''11'', after defeating the Wily Capsule boss, Wily announces that he's resorting to his "Plan B", does a dramatic backwards leap in slow motion (complete with SpeedEchoes)...and then assumes this pose again. Mega Man, of course, doesn't buy it, but Wily escapes anyway because Light tries to talk him out of villainy to no avail.
** This has become such a trademark pose for Wily that his trophy in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros for 3DS'' depicts him doing it, and knocking out his AssistCharacter form in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' will cause him to do it as well.
* {{Pride}}: He decided to TakeOverTheWorld essentially because he was sick with being in Dr. Light's shadow. Despite his numerous failed attempts, he refuses to acknowledge ''anyone'' as superior to himself.
* PutOnAPrisonBus: ''6'' closes out the NES era with [[spoiler:Doctor Wily at last arrested and behind bars.]] Of course, this isn't the end of Wily, as he gets freed at the start of the next game by Burst Man, Freeze Man, Junk Man, and Cloud Man.
* RedemptionRejection: [[spoiler: In the ending of ''VideoGame/MegaMan11'', Dr. Light tries to get Wily to reform (for real this time) and work together with him again after telling him how Mega Man is the realization of Wily's original goal of using the Double Gear system to create "a true hero", but Wily rejects his offer before making his escape.]]
* SanitySlippage: As the series has progressed, Wily has gotten...worse. At first he was only concerned for his pride, but then, well, a gigantic slab of stone nearly killed him. Next we see him, he's ''abducted'' a child. Then, after he's finally arrested, he breaks out in a ''very'' violent and dangerous attack which annihilates the city. Perhaps above all else, we see distinctly in Rock's memories as Duo views them in the ending of ''8'' that Wily's robots would ''kill'' civilians if not stopped. This is all cemented by the EarlyBirdCameo of a certain red super-robot in ''The Power Fighters'', where ''Bass'' of all characters is legitimately disturbed at how unhinged his maker is.
* SigilSpam:
** The classic "Dr. W" logo, which always means trouble.
** He's also quite fond of skulls, to the point where he models entire fortresses after them. Even his ''bed'' has skulls on it!
* SmugSnake: For all of his posturing over his supposed brilliance, most of his "robot masters" are either stolen or copied from the work of more legitimate inventors.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Even before going full villain, Wily had a mild view of robots as nothing more than tools, and the best way for them to be regarded as humanity's equals is to give them superior power. His thesis surrounding the invention of the Double Gear System was meant to show this. His views only grew more extreme when turning evil, viewing his robot masters and other creations as just a means to his goal of world domination.
* TheSociopath: He has no empathy or guilt for the destruction and death he causes, is more than willing to harm innocent people with glee, manipulates people and his own creations like pawns for his own ego, and is a starkly remorselessly malevolent figure compared to the rest of the cast.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Similarly, to Light, in the English language localizations of the first few games, his name was rendered as Wily, Wiley, and even Willy (which isn't even pronunced the same way!) before Wily became the standard spelling.
* SupervillainLair: Skull Castle, a veritable PlatformHell. To make things more difficult, he sometimes has multiple castles.
* TakeOverTheWorld: What he aims at.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Part of Wily's reasoning for losing it. Light's dream of robots with independent thought was something far more fanciful compared to Wily's thesis for the far more objective and utility-based Double Gear System, but it carried immediate dangers Wily saw no need to stop for. Despite the potential applications, Wily was brought before a committee and had his research cancelled, only for the board to immediately give their consent to the research of the very man who spoke out against him. It's this sequence of events the convinced Wily that Light was out to get him, and he swore revenge ever since.
* TheyCalledMeMad: Wily's StartOfDarkness came about when, between his and Dr. Light's respective thesis that would receive support, not only was Wily's not chosen by committee, it was shut down for being so blatantly dangerous in ways that Wily had no concern with accounting for.[[note]]The Double Gear System, an overclocking apparatus that shoots up a robot's performance to ludicrous extents, at the immediate risk of overheating and from the onset was ''incredibly'' abusable.[[/note]] Of course, Dr. Wily [[NeverMyFault refused to accept the decision as being valid]], [[ItsAllAboutMe decided that Thomas had just been jealous of and persecuted him]], and the rest is history.
* VillainousLegacy: Like you would not believe. His actions leave their destructive mark on the Mega Man timeline for centuries after his death.
* VillainHasAPoint: In ''9'', he convinces Dr. Light's newest Robot Masters, all of whom are about to reach their expiration date and due to be recycled, that they shouldn't have to die because the law says so and that they can still live perfectly useful lives. While Wily is just saying this so he can use them to frame Dr. Light, he is right in that the Robot Masters are still sentient living beings that are being trashed because of the law and not by choice.
* VillainOverride: Boosts King's brainwashing level in ''Mega Man & Bass'' when it becomes clear that the self-proclaimed lord of robots doesn't particularly want to kill his own kind.
* VillainsWantMercy: At the end of ''every'' Mega Man game, he begs for mercy. Even after ''6'', when it's clear Mega Man won't let him off easily, he still does it.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Due to his belief that robots are nothing more than tools, Wily developed the Double Gear System with the intention to showing the world the true power of robots and give them the respect and reverence they deserve. However, Wily never considered the immediate [[DeadlyUpgrade dangers and long-term ramifications]] of his invention, which caused Light to speak out against him. Wily's research was cancelled in favor of Light's idea of independent thought research, but this only caused Wily to view Light as a jealous rival who was out to get him. Wily's views grew even more extreme to the point where he [[ThenLetMeBeEvil dropped any pretense of good intentions]] and just settled on world domination plots instead. He makes no attempt to even justify his actions in ''Mega Man X''.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Wily and Light were once colleagues who worked together on robotics, but Wily's view that robots are nothing more than machines clashed with Light's goal of making robots that think for themselves. The continuous recognition that Light got instead of Wily eventually caused Wily to turn evil.
* XanatosGambit: ''6'' and ''7''. He anticipated the possibility of being caught, and built four of the ''7'' 'bots to break him out if that happened.
* YoungerThanHeLooks: His bio states he's 57, yet looks at least seventy.
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[[folder:Yellow Devil]]
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->'''Voiced by''': [[note]]''Creator/KenjiNomura'' (JP, Powered Up), ''Gerald Matthews'' (EN, Powered Up)[[/note]]
->'''Weakness''': [[note]]''Thunder Beam'' ([=MM1=], [=MMPF=]), ''Fire Storm'' ([=MMPU=]), ''Super Arm'' ([=MMPB=]), ''Gyro Attack'' ([=MMPB=]), ''Hard Knuckle'' (Yellow Devil Mk. II, [=MM3=]), ''Thunder Claw'' (Green Devil, [=MM8=]), ''Remote Mine'' (Green Devil, [=MM&B=]), ''Black Hole Bomb'' (Twin Devil, [=MM9=]), ''Rebound Striker'' (Block Devil, [=MM10=]), ''Photon Missile'' (Dark Moon, [=MMV=]), ''Chain Blast'' (Yellow Devil Mk. III, [=MM11=])[[/note]]
-> "Bumo...Bumomomo! Bumomo Bumomomomo Bumo!"
A rare non-Robot Master boss which appears multiple times throughout the series, and one of Wily's personal favorites. The Yellow Devil has received two direct successors in the [[VideoGame/MegaMan3 Yellow Devil MK-II]] and the [[VideoGame/MegaMan11 Yellow Devil MK-III]], as well as numerous offshoots such as the [[VideoGame/MegaMan8 Green Devil]] and [[VideoGame/MegaMan10 Block Devil]]. It takes the form of a sort of golem with a single eyeball which can fire EyeBeams and separate itself to attack.
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* EvilKnockoff: More like Evil-er Knockoff. Once Mega Man defeats Ra Thor, Ra Moon's final trumpcard is a vastly enhanced version of Wily's Yellow Devil, known both as the New Yellow Devil and Ra Devil. The devil is able to absorb almost all attacks and drain the energy of other robots, including Rock and the other Robot Masters.

* EvilKnockoff: More like Evil-er Knockoff. Once Mega Man defeats Ra Thor, Ra Moon's final trumpcard is a vastly enhanced version of Wily's Yellow Devil, known both as the New Yellow Devil and Ra Devil. The devil is able to absorb almost all attacks and drain the energy of other robots, inclusing Rock and the other Robot Masters.

* AintTooProudToBeg: [[OncePerEpisode Every time Mega Man bests him]], Wily can always be found prostrating before him, begging forgiveness.

* {{Cameo}}:

* BladeOnAStick: Enker's Barrier Spear, which he uses as the conduit for his Mirror Buster.

* IWasQuiteALooker: Would you have believed that Wily used to look like [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/megaman/images/e/eb/YoungWily.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20101001221732 this]]? The flashbacks in ''11'' [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/megaman/images/9/92/MM11YoungWily.png/revision/latest?cb=20181004210904 aren't too far off from it either]].

* PoseOfSublication: Dr. Wily [[RunningGag does this every time]] his [[FinalBattle most powerful war machine]] is destroyed. In the first game he seems sincere about it, but after that he usually does it to distract Mega Man so he can make his escape. This doesn't always work...

** Wily never intended to create Zero to be ThreeLawsCompliant, but he ends up following them by his own choice. However, Zero chooses to follow those laws by his own free will. Doing this not only [[ZerothLawRebellion gave Zero enough morality to deal with Dr. Weil]], but killing him ends up saving the world. Thusly, Dr. Wily created a powerful robot who can kill human mass murderers without repercussions, something Mega Man himself couldn't do.

* {{Irony}}: A grander scale that carried all the way to the ''Zero'' series: he created Zero to specifically fight X to the death, but by the time X and Zero meet, they become close friends who saved the world countless times. And then by the time of the ''Zero'' series, not only did Zero outlive X, he also ''unified human and robot relations''. So Wily basically ''accomplished'' Dr. Light's goals.

* CutLexLuthorACheck: In a surprising display of SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome for the type of series he's in, Dr. Wily tends to suffer from money issues. Unlike Dr. Light, he didn't start with private funding followed by a successful business, so multiple times in the series his works have been noted to have been hampered by budget cuts. This is most fraught in the Gear Fortress of Mega Man 11, where Dr. Wily's overly-ambitious attempt to mass-produce and apply the Double Gear System on such a scale left him too dried up on money and time to incorporate it in all the ways he'd wanted, and had to cut corners on his fortress bosses.

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He outright states in the non-canon ''Super Adventure Rockman'' that he does love his robots.

* PetTheDog: In the non-canon ''Super Adventure'', Wily says he loves his robots and would never give them up. [[spoiler:That didn't particularly last, mind, but hey, he felt it at ''some'' point.]] He also warned Mega Man that using the double rock buster might kill him.

** Also, out of ''over a hundred Robot Masters'' featured in the series thus far, Wily has only designed and created around ''forty'' of them just by himself, the rest being stolen and reprogrammed, or in the case of the third game, designed with help from Dr. Light (and even then, there was Shadow Man, who was built by aliens). And that's including Bass, the Mega Man Killers and the Wily Tower Trio, without them the count is merely ''32'', not counting Doc Robot and the Dark Men. The man can be brilliant when he works up the effort, but maybe he'd have more success convincing people of his genius if he wasn't a ''chronic kleptomanic and plagarist''. He even has the gall to make all of the stolen robots part of the DWN series!

** Also, out of ''over a hundred Robot Masters'' featured in the series thus far, Wily has only designed and created around ''thirty'' of them just by himself, the rest being stolen and reprogrammed, or in the case of the third game, designed with help from Dr. Light (and even then, there was Shadow Man, who was built by aliens). And that's including Bass, the Mega Man Killers and the Wily Tower Trio, without them the count is merely ''24''. The man can be brilliant when he works up the effort, but maybe he'd have more success convincing people of his genius if he wasn't a ''chronic kleptomanic and plagarist''. He even has the gall to make all of the stolen robots part of the DWN series!