History ComicBook / SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The reason for the [[spoiler:CosmicRetcon of Sonic's world. Ian Flynn's immediate predecessor as head writer, Ken Penders, successfully sued Archie Comics over the rights to his characters. Thus, Flynn used the crossover as a convenient way to explain all the changes in Sonic's world at the end of the crossover]].

For nearly twenty years, ComicBook/ArchieComics had published the [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics comic adventures]] of one ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog''. Likewise, they had similar success bringing ''VideoGame/{{Mega Man|Classic}}'', the Blue Bomber, to [[ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics the printed medium]]. Thus, it was only a matter of time before both titles, which were penned by Creator/IanFlynn, came together in the form of a {{crossover}} -- the first ''VideoGame/CapcomVs'' crossover to be produced in a medium other than video games.

For nearly twenty years, Archie Comics had published the [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics comic adventures]] of one Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog. Likewise, they had similar success bringing [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Mega Man]], the Blue Bomber, to [[ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics the printed medium]]. Thus, it was only a matter of time before both titles, which were penned by Creator/IanFlynn, came together in the form of a {{crossover}} -- the first ''VideoGame/CapcomVs'' crossover to be produced in a medium other than video games.

* BookEnds: Interestingly enough, the entire thing is split up into three acts, and each one begins and ends with an issue of the same comic brand, act 1 begins and ends with Mega Man, act 2 begins and ends with Sonic Universe and act three begins and ends with Sonic the Hedgehog.

** DropTheHammer - Rose Woman's Piko Hammer.

** [[MindOverMatter Mega Buster Over Matter]] - Silver Man's Psycho Burst.

* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Mega Man doesn't fire Rouge Woman's Black Wave weapon ''at all'' during the crossover. It ''was'' supposed to be used to defeat Metal Sonic and Bass after the two fused together to act as a fight to weaken Sonic and Megaman before the fight with the Egg-Wily Machine X, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen but Sega and Capcom vetoed the whole idea]].]]
* RememberTheNewGuy: Due to Eggman and Wily's Genesis Wave rewriting history, Mega Man's dimension is moved from their current time to a time between ''VideoGame/MegaMan10'' and ''VideoGame/MegaMan11''. Because of this, characters like Duo[[note]]Who has yet to debut.[[/note]] and Bass[[note]]Who had only made cameos in Short Circuits.[[/note]] are treated as if they had known Mega Man for a while. It also spoils that Proto Man[[note]]Who was working for Wily, under the name Break Man.[[/note]] becomes a good guy and that [[spoiler:Ra Moon betrays Wily. Which it does after the crossover ends.]]

** [[spoiler: Shadow, who decides to go after vengeance on his own after he gets restored rather than work with Sonic and Mega Man.]]
** Mega Water S. attempts this when the Genesis Unit begins losing to Mega Man and Sonic in Part 5. [[spoiler: Proto Man promptly [[CombatPragmatist shoots him in the back]].]]

---> '''Sonic''': [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 At what point... did I lose... control here?]]

** Also from Part 6, Sonic mentions that the name "Vector Man" makes him think of a [[VideoGame/{{Vectorman}} trash collector]] for some reason.

--> '''Sonic:''' ''[to Tango in Part 4]'' ...That's ''my'' move!\\

** DropTheHammer: Rose Woman's "Piko Hammer" switches her hands out for two hammers. Coincidentally, her [[EvilKnockoff Metal Series]] counterpart in the main ''Sonic'' book had the same kind of weapons.

** The fight between Sonic and Megaman at the beginning is supposed to show them as equals in a straight fight. However, Megaman went into that fight after battling the Roboticized Masters at the bank. He also had no special weapons or upgrade parts, so it was a fresh Sonic at full strength against a fatigued Megaman at his base strength.
** Blaze's arc before and after the crossover revolved around getting the Sol Emeralds. [[spoiler:Once she got them all in''Treasure Team Tango'' she used her SuperMode to [[WaveMotionGun shoot down]] the Egg O'War in ''panels'', something Duo couldn't do after two and half issues of fighting the Chaos Devil. Although, admittedly, Duo was actively trying to [[BeatTheCurseOutOfHim beat the curse out of Chaos 0]] rather than kill his corrupted form and so may have been pulling his punches a bit. He also wasn't directly targeting the Wily Egg and yet the doctors were still afraid it would become collateral damage.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: Many assumptions made by the two doctors regarding Dr. Light's importance and how to deal with it. [[spoiler: Wily thinks that with Dr. Light captured, Mega Man's safety net is gone, but he didn't count on [[ChildProdigy Tails]] being able to fill the gap. Eggman thinks Dr. Light is too clever to let live, but his attempt to kill him [[EvenEvilHasStandards doesn't go over well with Wily]].]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:At long last, the Blue Bomber Meets the Blue Blur.]]

For nearly twenty years, Archie Comics had published the [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics comic adventures]] of one Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog. Likewise, they had similar success bringing [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Mega Man]], the Blue Bomber, to [[ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics the printed medium]]. Thus, it was only a matter of time before both titles, which were penned by Ian Flynn, came together in the form of a {{crossover}} -- the first VideoGame/CapcomVs crossover to be produced in a medium other than video games.

The story begins when, by chance, the blue Chaos Emerald -- thought to be gone missing in the world of Sonic after the events of the ''Sonic Genesis'' storyline -- is thrown through time and space into the world of Mega Man, where it is discovered by Dr. Wily and his forces. In an attempt to analyze its properties, Wily accidentally contacts the original owner of the emerald... Doctor Ivo Robotnik, aka "Eggman." Instantly sensing a connection, the two scientists conspire to use the [[CosmicRetcon Genesis Wave]] to rewrite both their realities and prime them for conquest, which they then intend to conquer together. Eager to collect the seven Chaos Emeralds, they manipulate Sonic and Mega Man into fighting one another. Can the two heroes come together in time to stop the evil doctors and set both their worlds right?

* TheCameo:
** [[spoiler:Imprisoned next to Doctor Light in ''Sonic The Hedgehog'' #249 is Snively, still locked up in a capsule by Eggman after his ruinous defeat in the ''Sonic Universe'' "Scrambled" story arc. Considering the note about comic-original characters in CosmicRetcon below, his face is obscured by a glass glare.]]
** Crabmeat and Reggae appear on page 9 of ''Mega Man'' #25 playing ''TabletopGame/GoFish'' with Orbot and Cubot.
** [[VideoGame/MegaMan7 Mad Grinder]], Big the Cat, and Quint in Part 10.
** Mook cameos from both Mega Man and Sonic franchises are scattered throughout the crossover.
** [[spoiler:Mecha Sally appears in a total of three panels, two of them in the final part.]]

** Compas(sic) Man is the only Robot Master from the obscure Mega Man game ''Challenger from the Future'', as an unnamed silhouette. in a single panel.

** The crossover is facilitated by Eggman and Wily using the Genesis Wave from the ''Sonic Genesis'' storyline to rewrite both their realities. In-universe, it allows them to prepare both their worlds to their liking, with the side-effect (as WordOfGod [[http://www.bumbleking.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=332986#p332986 says]]) of shifting the ''Mega Man'' timeline (along with Wily's memories) forwards to the time gap between ''VideoGame/MegaMan10'' and (the then-not-even-in-pre-production IRL) ''VideoGame/MegaMan11''. Out of universe, it allows Archie to suspend all currently-running story threads, temporarily [[ExiledFromContinuity exile]] nearly all comic-original characters on both sides[[note]]It should be noted that both doctors state that they can't use the Genesis Wave to wipe someone out of existence or fundamentally change who they are, so it can be assumed that they still exist in the altered timelines and simply won't be getting involved in the events of the crossover.[[/note]] (which new readers that are picking up the book for the first time would be ''not'' familiar with), make the world of ''Sonic'' be closer to the games (which new readers that are picking up the book for the first time would be ''more'' familiar with) and use ''Mega Man'' characters that haven't had a chance to appear yet in the main storyline.

* CrazyPrepared: A meta example. After he began writing both comics, Ian Flynn went ahead and wrote up an outline for a crossover just on the off chance that he got to do one.

** [[spoiler: Round 1 with the Egg Wily Machine X after Mega Man and Sonic have exhausted themselves fighting Bass and Metal Sonic.]]
** [[spoiler: Knuckles and Proto Man versus the Egg Wily Machine X due to all its weapons being offline from sabotage by the doctors themselves.]]
** [[spoiler: Finally Super Mega Man and Super Sonic against the fully powered Egg Wily Machine X. It's not even a contest.]]

** [[spoiler: Metal Sonic has the Black Shield, which helps him deflect Mega Man's attack.]]
** [[spoiler: The Egg-Wily Machine X also has one, able to deflect repeated attacks from Super Sonic. But not enough to take a Super-Charged Shot from Super Mega Man.]]

** [[spoiler: Duo]] in part 10.
** [[spoiler: The Egg Wily Machine X]] in part 11.
** [[spoiler: All of the [=MM1=] Robot Masters]] in part 12.

** [[spoiler: ''Sonic Universe'' reveals that Blaze remembers the events for some reason, likely because she's from a different world than the rest of the cast, and Ixis Naugus is having violent flashbacks to the world as it was before the crossover.]]
** [[spoiler: We can also add Emerald Spears founder Xander Payne to the list who know about the crossover, due to his improper use of the Time Skimmer. It left him more than a little mental, and could theoretically be a setup for a sequel crossover...]]

* FunnyAnimal: Most of the Sonic characters. It gets a couple of odd looks early in the crossover, but is otherwise not even commented on.

* GodhoodSeeker: [[spoiler: Wily and Eggman are trying to achieve this.]]

* HappyEndingOverride: While Mega Man gets his happy ending in fixing his universe, Eggman interferes with Sonic's attempt to fix theirs, with very serious, but not completely destructive, consequences when they finally return.
* HeroKiller: The Mega Man Killers' team name is meant to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope It works about as well as usual]].]]

* ItsPersonal: The reason [[spoiler: Rouge]] gives for infiltrating ''another dimension'': [[spoiler: The doctors kidnapped and roboticized her teammate, Shadow.]]

** Sonic nearly calls [[spoiler: Charmy Man and Espio Man]] "[[VideoGame/MegaManX3 Blast Hornet]]" and "[[VIdeoGame/MegaManX1 Sting Chameleon]]".

** A variant from Eggman in Sonic The Hedgehog #251: [[spoiler: I Hate That Robot!]]
** In ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' #251, the doctors' [[spoiler: mutual betrayal]] takes the form of the 'B' and 'C' relays for the [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic "Battle" and "Chase"]] programs on Wily's side and the circuit board marked [[VideoGame/DoctorRobotniksMeanBeanMachine "M.B.M."]] on Eggman's side.
** Sonic teases Amy about [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 the time she mistook another hedgehog for him.]]
** Mega Man tried to remind Ballade of his HeroicSacrifice at the end of [[Videogame/MegamanIV Mega Man IV]]. Due to the [[TimeyWimeyBall Timey Wimey]] nature of the plot however, Ballade hasn't done it yet.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The reason for the [[spoiler:CosmicRetcon of Sonic's world. Ian Flynn's immediate predecessor as head writer, Ken Penders, successfully sued Archie Comics over the rights to his characters. Thus Ian used the crossover as a convenient way to explain all the changes in Sonic's world at the end of the crossover.]]

---> '''Copy Robot''': It's useless, Rock! I'm your perfect copy! I know everything you're about to do before you even do it! '''[[Anime/SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie Strange, isn't it?]]'''

** The Chaos Devil is pretty much both [[spoiler: god and devil. Duo even senses a combination of Evil and Nobility inside it. To be specific, it's a mechanical Devil Core plugged into an ancient Water God.]]

** And of course Eggman and Wily are a... [[IncrediblyLamePun 'pair o' docs']].

'''Cut Man:''' [[spoiler: [[IncrediblyLamePun Mind if we cut in?]]]]\\
'''Elec Man:''' [[spoiler: [[BigDamnHeroes One miracle, coming right up]].]]

** The issues preceding and following the crossover employ this when referring to the other series: Eggman calls Wily "Albert" and refers to Bass as "a base villain," Wily calls Eggman "Ivo," Sonic refers to Mega Man as "the kid" and in the ''Sonic Universe'' "Pirate Plunder Panic" arc, [[spoiler:the Wily Egg, which has fallen into the hands of the Sol Dimension's Metal Sonic, was rechristened by him as the "Egg O'War" (though its Wily skull motif is retained, because said Metal Sonic has remodeled himself into the pirate Captain Metal)]].

* ZergRush: One with dire consequences. [[spoiler: In the big finale Sonic, Mega Man, and most of their allies face off against every single Robot Master except the original line. The fight begins... and soon the heroes are getting overwhelmed by the Robot Masters. MookChivalry is completely averted and the heroes start getting swarmed, especially after Sonic, Mega Man, and Duo go ahead to stop Wily and Eggman. They're nearly overpowered until the original Robot Masters arrive to back them up. In addition Tails ends up severely injured after taking a Ballade Cracker to the face while infiltrating the Wily Egg.]]

* UsefulNotes/ConsoleWars: Referenced in [[http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/4350380.html the Off-Panel strip]] for Sonic Universe #52 when hearing the name Genesis makes Sonic attack Mega Man.
-->'''Sonic''': The Console Wars are ''never'' over! This is for the Saturn! Remember the Dreamcast!\\
'''Mega Man''': Aah! Cut it out! I'm multi-platform!

** Part 3 ends with the narration: [[Film/{{Scarface 1983}} "Say hello to Mega Man's little friends"]]

---> '''Sonic''': [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles At what point... did I lose... control here?]]

-->'''Sonic:''' By that little robo-snake? Two words, kid: egg viper.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Rouge the Bat vs Jewel Man. I think we all [[IKnewIt saw that one coming]].

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Invoked on the "Rivals" variant covers, which features Sonic and Mega Man, Proto Man and Knuckles, and Bass and Shadow. In the comic itself, Metal Sonic is paired off with both Bass (as TheDragon to their respective doctors) and the Copy Robot (as {{Evil Knockoff}}s).

Now has a [[Characters/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide character page]] that needs love.

[[caption-width-right:350:At long last! The Blue Bomber Meets the Blue Blur]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The heroes manage to beat Wily and Robotnik, though they find out that their worlds are already rewritten. Luckily, they use Chaos Control to undo the chages before heading home.]]

** [[Spoiler: Unfortunately, an enraged Eggman interferes with Sonic's attempt. Returning to the main series, the world is still free, but the clash leads to a CosmicRetcon that changes everything in Sonic's world and leads to some cataclysmic consequences for the multiverse. [[MoodWhiplash And even you'll forget about Mega Man successfully restoring his world when you witness what Ra Moon has in store for him upon his return.]]]]

** Crabmeat and Reggae appear on page 9 of ''Mega Man'' #25 playing Go Fish with Orbot and Cubot.

** In one scene while Eggman and Wily discuss a development, Orbot and Cubot are playing cards. Orbot tells Cubot to "Go fish" and Cubot hops off with a fishing rod, and hops back dragging a large fish.

* NoPronunciationGuide: [[AvertedTrope Partially averted]] regarding Bass with the prequel issue ''Sonic Universe'' #50 when Dr. Eggman declares that Metal Sonic's new partner is a "''base'' villain".

* RobotMaster: [[NamesTheSame The doctors, not the robots.]] The crossover gives us three of the most iconic examples on panel at the same time, complete with ethics debate over the use of their knowledge and skills.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The heroes manage to beat Wily and Robotnik but Sonic's reality ends up being partially rewritten due to the Genesis Wave. [[MoodWhiplash And even you'll forget about Mega Man successfully restoring his world when you witness what Ra Moon has in store for him upon his return.]]]]

* WeaponOfChoice: As is ''Mega Man'' tradition, the Roboticized Masters each have one that Mega Man can copy and later equip:

'''Dr. Eggman:''' [[spoiler:''Your'' nemesis [[UpToEleven shot a sun]] at us! ''You'' do something about ''him'' for once in your life you--!]]

** Tails is in fine form in Part 6 when he jury rigs Mega Man's Mega Buster with the properties of Sonic's Spin Dash so he can fire the [[EverythingsBetterWithSpinning Spin Dash Blast]] in place of his usual charged shot in the middle of combat versus three Roboticized Masters. In less than three pages.

** PlayingWithFire[=/=]EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Blaze Woman's "Fire Tornado", which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

** Furthermore, Mega Man gets a new weapon in the form of the [[EverythingsBetterWithSpinning "Spin Dash Blast"]], an EnergyBall that uses the unique properties of Sonic's Spin Dash attack.