History WMG / MegaManZero

Think about it; many of Zero's original Command Arts had the same elemental properties as the Element Chips he has to re-collect in his reproduction body every ''Zero'' game. There were several Ice-element Command Arts[[note]][[VideoGame/MegaManX4 Hyoretsuzan]], [[VideoGame/MegaManX5 F-Splasher (or Hisuishou to be consistent with the untranslated Arts)]], [[VideoGame/MegaManX6 Hyoroga]], [[VideoGame/MegaManX8 Hyouryuushou &]] {{Shoryuken}}.[[/note]], several Fire-element Command Arts[[note]][[VideoGame/MegaManX4 Ryuenjin]], [[VideoGame/MegaManX5 Quake Blazer (or Danchien for consistency)]], [[VideoGame/MegaManX6 Shoenzan]], [[VideoGame/MegaManX7 Bakuenjin]], [[VideoGame/MegaManX8 Enkoujin & Enkoukyaku]].[[/note]], and several Thunder[=/=]Lightning-element Command Arts[[note]][[VideoGame/MegaManX4 Raijingeki]], [[VideoGame/MegaManX5 E-Blade (or Denjin for consistency)]],[[VideoGame/MegaManX7 Raijinshou]], [[VideoGame/MegaManX8 Raikousen & Raijinken]].[[/note]] among many other elemental attacks throughout his ''X'' series history that, unlike the first three elements, cannot be acquired at all in the ''Zero'' series. Why does he suddenly need to collect element chips to imbue his attacks with said elements again, including certain EX Skills that look suspiciously like some of his old Command Arts[[note]]Notably, in every game where EX Skills are given, Ryuenjin is one of them, though under a different name every time – not once being called Ryuenjin here – and only its appearance in ''Z4'' not even having a flameless state like its original ''X4'' appearance in the player's use.[[/note]]? Because his new body can't do that by default. Whoever built it left some pieces out.[[note]]This doesn't account for why Omega uses the Ryuenjin without its Fire properties in his fight in ''Zero 3'' and BonusBoss fight in ''VideoGame/MegaManZX''; however, it is possible an element-less Ryuenjin was always possible for Zero to do since he learned the technique in the first place, he just never saw reason to use it that way. As for why Zero can now use elemental EX Skills at will in ''Z4'', which doesn't have Element Chips; BagOfSpilling is no longer in effect as far as that goes, as he finally got the chips he collected in ''Z3'' integrated into his frame.[[/note]]

** It makes sense. Omega acts like how "Zero" did when Sigma first found/fought him in the ruins of Dr. Wily's lab. The "Zero" we most know from the X series games is a personality that somehow developed after Sigma knocked him out in that fight (after that W appeared on his head jewel and caused him disabiling amounts of pain). So, essentially, Omega IS the original personality. Zero, through the X games, was a personality that hijacked Omega's body. Dr. Weil gave Omega a factory reset and then changed his loyalty from Dr. Wily to himself (given his similarities to Dr. Wily, even in name, this probably was not hard for him to achieve). So, in this sense, Zero (upon awaking in MMZ1) isn't a copy, but himself given his own body for the first time, even if the body itself is a imperfect copy of Omega's. The final battle not being "Zero" (in a copy of his own body) vs "Omega (who had stolen his original body), but just Zero (the new personality in a body that is truly his own) vs Omega (the original personality in the original body).

--> You know, X has many HoYay moments with Zero in [[VideoGame/MegaManX the X series]]. And then the Four Guardians are created, using X's DNA as a base. As a result, three of them [[FoeYay love fighting Zero.]] Leviathan got the dominant homogeneous allele, since her expression towards Zero is the most prominent among her siblings, and not to mention her being blue, like her "father". Fefnir and Harpuia got the heterogeneous alelle, and Phantom got the recessive homogeneous one, since he isn't too interested in fighting Zero.

Let's check the manual: The humans feared that the Maverick Wars would happen, so he created the Project Elpizo, a project to create a Reploid to be a perfect ruler (the function of Omega) by using the Mother Elf's program rewriting ability to control all Reploids in the world, avoiding them becoming Mavericks. Sounds like a good idea, right? [[note]]Note that X was against the project, as there was confrontation between the philosophies of coexistence and leadership.[[/note]] But as he said himself in the game, "The joy of ruling all that you see... Only a human could possibly understand!" And, considering of the nature of the project (BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood), put the two together and... WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity -- he then JumpedOffTheSlipperySlope and instigated the [[WorldSundering Elf Wars.]] And as he pointed out (and as the Caravan shows us), the [[HumansAreBastards most other humans]] are actually NotSoDifferent from him -- they all want to end all the Maverick problems, and they think that Reploids are [[JustAMachine Just Machines]] and must submit to the humans' will. To sum it up, he was a WellIntentionedExtremist (heck, his methods weren't ''that'' extreme), but then he crossed the MoralEventHorizon by creating the war in the first place.

And not in the corrupt Neo Arcadia Dystopia style of twisting the usage of the word to persecute innocent reploids either, but in "the bad ending of ''X5''" way. Ciel is Dr. Wily's great great (etc) grand daughter, and when she discovered ancient blueprints of his master creation, she decided to seek it out. Zero's mind is so distorted though that he sees pure evil as good, and honest benevolence as something to destroy. Thus Neo Arcadia actually IS a utopia, the X we all know and love is in charge, and he is greatly pained to see his long-lost friend has resurfaced as a mindless killing machine used as a mere weapon by the descendant of his forebear's nemesis. This, of course, means the Cyber Elf X that Zero knows is actually the Obi-Wan style AI ghost of Dr. Wily the same way Dr. Light was for X in his series. And Dr. Wile is actually a Dr. Light spirit-infused robot body that is created in desperation to bring back X when he was first destroyed, which is why from Zero's perspective he seems to be irredeemably evil: because in his twisted Maverick mind, the ultimate figure of good is the type of person who gleefully skips across the MoralEventHorizon. The real Weil had been executed for his crimes. Of course, even this act of pure desperation isn't enough, and in the end X destroys himself after being defeated by his friend again rather than endure more senseless fighting. Unfortunately, this drives Dr. Light into desperation to bring back the original Zero body, and again since our Zero sees it as a mindless figure of unending destruction, in reality Omega probably was the closest thing to our old Zero that we knew and loved. This would also mean the 4 Guardians were originally stalwart figures of peace, but secretly resented being built for combat and never having a war to fight outside of poultry Maverick outbreaks, so when Zero was awakened, they found true meaning in combat and ultimately turned against their master, though never sinking so low as to side with that vile spawn of Wily we know as Ciel. And Elpizo was probably this series equivalent of Dr. Doppler in X3 or something. Obviously, this theory implies copious amounts of BrainWashedAndCrazy (of a sort) {{I Know You're In There Somewhere Fight}}s against X, the good guys having to choose the LesserOfTwoEvils in their fight against the Red God of Destruction Wily created by turning Neo Arcadia into a strict police state to protect its citizens which leads to Zero 4, and in the end an obvious TheBadGuyWins and YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness closing of the series.

He's already old in the Elf Wars, and it's implied that and the X series were several decades off. Either his parents were on Sky Lagoon when it was crashed, or died in the crossfire of the Repliforce and Maverick Hunters fighting. [[FreudianExcuse That's why he hated Reploids so much and thinks they shouldn't have free will]]-he suffered in one of the conflicts that involved Reploids not caused by [[TheVirus the Maverick Virus]], nor a group of obvious renegades, but two forces meant to keep the peace. It's why he never thought eliminating the virus went far enough. However decades of resentment, as well as further, similar conflicts ([[VideoGame/MegaManX6 The Maverick Hunters exterminating the works of Gate]], [[VideoGame/MegamanX7 Maverick Hunters Vs. Red Alert]], [[VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission Maverick Hunters Vs. The Rebellion]]) [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope caused him to jump the slippery slope]] and the idea of controlling Reploids became too attractive an idea to pass up, abandoning any good intentions he originally had to TakeOverTheWorld instead.

Prior to the Elf Wars, Zero had a replica body. In Megaman X5, Zero’s body had become damaged to the point he[[DisneyDeath “died”.]] Of course, Zero [[UnexplainedRecovery does get better]] after a few years in-universe, meaning somewhere along the way, his original damaged body was switched out for a reproduction, and he was never aware of it. The evidence of the argument also points to Weil possibly being the creator of Zero’s replica body.

And not in the corrupt Neo Arcadia Dystopia style of twisting the usage of the word to persecute innocent reploids either, but in "the bad ending of ''X5''" way. Ciel is Dr. Wily's great great (etc) grand daughter, and when she discovered ancient blueprints of his master creation, she decided to seek it out. Zero's mind is so distorted though that he sees pure evil as good, and honest benevolence as something to destroy. Thus Neo Arcadia actually IS a utopia, the X we all know and love is in charge, and he is greatly pained to see his long-lost friend has resurfaced as a mindless killing machine used as a mere weapon by the descendant of his forebear's nemesis. This, of course, means the Cyber Elf X that Zero knows is actually the Obi-Wan style AI ghost of Dr. Wily the same way Dr. Light was for X in his series. And Dr. Wile is actually a Dr. Light spirit-infused robot body that is created in desperation to bring back X when he was first destroyed, which is why from Zero's perspective he seems to be irredeemably evil: because in his twisted Maverick mind, the ultimate figure of good is the type of person who gleefully skips across the MoralEventHorizon. Of course, even this act of pure desperation isn't enough, and in the end X destroys himself after being defeated by his friend again rather than endure more senseless fighting. Unfortunately, this drives Dr. Light into desperation to bring back the original Zero body, and again since our Zero sees it as a mindless figure of unending destruction, in reality Omega probably was the closest thing to our old Zero that we knew and loved. This would also mean the 4 Guardians were originally stalwart figures of peace, but secretly resented being built for combat and never having a war to fight outside of poultry Maverick outbreaks, so when Zero was awakened, they found true meaning in combat and ultimately turned against their master, though never sinking so low as to side with that vile spawn of Wily we know as Ciel. And Elpizo was probably this series equivalent of Dr. Doppler in X3 or something. Obviously, this theory implies copious amounts of BrainWashedAndCrazy (of a sort) {{I Know You're In There Somewhere Fight}}s against X, the good guys having to choose the LesserOfTwoEvils in their fight against the Red God of Destruction Wily created by turning Neo Arcadia into a strict police state to protect its citizens which leads to Zero 4, and in the end an obvious TheBadGuyWins and YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness closing of the series.

He's already old in the Elf Wars, and it's implied that and the X series were several decades off. Either his parents were on Sky Lagoon when it was crashed, or died in the crossfire of the Repliforce and Maverick Hunters fighting. [[FreudianExcuse That's why he hated Reploids so much and thinks they shouldn't have free will]]-he suffered in one of the conflicts that involved Reploids not caused by [[TheVirus the Maverick Virus]], nor a group of obvious renegades, but two forces meant to keep the peace. It's why he never thought eliminating the virus went far enough. However decades of resentment, as well as further, similar conflicts (The Maverick Hunters exterminating the works of Gate, Maverick Hunters Vs. Red Alert, Maverick Hunters Vs. The Rebellion) [[JumpingTheSlipperySlope caused him to jump the slippery slope]] and the idea of controlling Reploids became too attractive an idea to pass up, abandoning any good intentions he originally had to TakeOverTheWorld instead.

He's already old in the Elf Wars, and it's implied that and the X series were several decades off. Either his parents were on Sky Lagoon when it was crashed, or died in the crossfire of the Repliforce and Maverick Hunters fighting. [[FreudianExcuse That's why he hated Reploids so much and thinks they shouldn't have free will]]-he suffered in one of the conflicts that involved Reploids not caused by [[TheVirus the Maverick Virus]], but two forces meant to keep the peace. It's why he never thought eliminating the virus went far enough. However decades of resentment [[JumpingTheSlipperySlope caused him to jump the slippery slope]] and the idea of controlling Reploids became too attractive an idea to pass up, abandoning any good intentions he originally had to TakeOverTheWorld instead.

In the X series, Zero had two sides: [[TheHero The Zero]] that fights for the Maverick Hunters and [[AxCrazy The Zero]] that infected. However there's a third personality: the mindless loyal soldier. Let's call them Zero, 0 and Omicron respectively. Originally, Zero was meant to be a combination of Zero and Omicron, however a defect in his program led to 0 being dominant. Thanks to Sigma, Zero became the dominant personality. After Zero entered a clone body, Dr Weil felt this was the perfect opportunity to have Omnicron the main personality...however while dominant, the 0 personality was still there and influenced Omicron, resulting in Omega: a God of Destruction with the insane soul of 0 and the loyal mind of Omicron. [[Sadist| Being Dr Weil]], this was a great combination and led to the Elf Wars.

In the X series, Zero had two sides: [[TheHero The Zero]] that fights for the Maverick Hunters and [[AxCrazy The Zero]] that infected. However there's a third personality: the mindless loyal soldier. Let's call them Zero, 0 and Omicron respectively. Originally, Zero was meant to be a combination of Zero and Omicron, however a defect in his program led to 0 being dominant. Thanks to Sigma, Zero became the dominant personality. After Zero entered a clone body, Dr Weil felt this was the perfect opportunity to have Omnicron the main personality...however while dominant, the 0 personality was still there and influenced Omicron, resulting in Omega: a God of Destruction with the insane soul of 0 and the loyal mind of Omicron. [[Sadist Being Dr Weil]], this was a great combination and led to the Elf Wars.