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The following characters debut in Mega Man Network Transmission.
Infected Navis
BrightMan.EXE
Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi (JP)
- Adaptational Villainy: In Network Transmission, he was only fought due to the fake vaccine infecting him. In the anime, he's a Darkloid.
- Alternate Self: BrightMan is the Battle Network counterpart of the classic Robot Master of the same name from Mega Man 4.
- Calling Your Attacks: BURRRRAITO BIIMU!
- Canon Foreigner: His operator was never seen in the games, but Stream introduces a minor criminal who needs to give 100 cars to a mob boss to save his girlfriend and is given Asteroid Bright Man by Slur.
- Catchphrase: The Japanese version of the anime has him saying "Yo! Check it out!" every so often.
- Gratuitous English: A lot of his battle quotes are this, with a nice helping of Engrish for good measure."Cahm ahhhhhhn!""WHAT AH YOU DOING?!""Have mahrcy on me!"
- Life Drain: One of his attacks can restore his health.
- Shock and Awe: He's an Elec Navi.
NeedleMan.EXE
Voiced by: Toshihide Tsuchiya (JP), Tony Alcantar (EN)
- Alternate Self: NeedleMan is the Battle Network counterpart of the classic Robot Master of the same name from Mega Man 3.
- Ax-Crazy: At least when he's infected, as he's prone to spastic twitching throughout his boss fight and incredibly aggressive in general.
- Flat Character: In Stream, his prickly personality is gone and he's just there to fight evil.
- Green Thumb: He's a Wood-type Navi, likely as an allusion to thorned plants like roses and brambles.
- Jerkass: He isn't just literally prickly, he also acts prickly (at least while he's infected with the Zero Virus). When faced with a bouncer who won't let him into the Undernet since he isn't mean enough, MegaMan channels NeedleMan's abrasive behavior to make him change his mind.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: In the anime he remains with Yuriko even after she turns good.
- Smug Smiler: His default expression.
- Spikes of Villainy: Driven home with the anime's dub version calling him SpikeMan. And of course, a member of Nebula.
- Spike Shooter: His signature Needle Cannon.
The WWW (World Three)
SwordMan.EXE
Voiced by: Tetsu Inada [Red]; Daisuke Kirii [Blue]; Tsuguo Mogami [Yellow] (JP), Paul Dobson (EN)
- Alternate Self: SwordMan is the Battle Network counterpart of the classic Robot Master of the same name from Mega Man 8.
- Animate Inanimate Object: He's three swords working together.
- Ascended Extra: Downplayed. Only the red sword talks via the picture on the dialogue box. The yellow and blue swords are just there and used for an attack. In the anime, they can also talk and occasionally swap out with the red sword to control their body.
- BFS: All three swords are massive.
- Multiple Head Case: Each of his swords are capable of talking and thought.
- Shockwave Stomp: His Sword Press attack is basically this.
- Technicolor Blade: Well, not the blades, but the handles for each of his sentient sword are primary colors.
StarMan.EXE
Voiced by: Hyosei (JP)
- Alternate Self: StarMan is the Battle Network counterpart of the classic Robot Master of the same name from Mega Man 5.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He seems like a friendly Navi trying to fight the Zero Virus by distributing vaccines to Navis, but he's actually a WWW agent who's spreading the disease through Navi-hacking programs.
- Colony Drop: He tries this in Stream when he misunderstands his operator's desire to create shooting stars by summoning an asteroid to wipe out Japan, or at least Den Tech City.
- Dub Name Change: Axess' English dub changed his name to NovaMan.
- The Greys: His design invokes this, in keeping with his astral theming.
- Light Is Not Good: He's a brightly colored navi who's primarily white and yellow, has star themed attacks and his emblem is a five pointed star which are supposed to symbolize luck. Despite all this, he works for the professor in Network Transmission selling the fake vaccine and is both a Darkloid and Asteroid Navi in the anime.
- Star Power: Its in his name after all. He drops star shaped meteors as an attack.
GravityMan.EXE
Voiced by: Yoshimitsu Shimoyama (JP), Robert O Smith (EN)
- Alternate Self: GravityMan is the Battle Network counterpart of the classic Robot Master of the same name from Mega Man 5.
- Attack Its Weak Point: You can only attack his head.
- Eyes Always Shut: Averted in the anime occasionally.
- Gravity Master: True to his name, he can control gravity. This affects gameplay by placing Megaman on the ceiling.
- Robo Speak: Probably the most robotic minded of all the Navis in the series.
Zero.EXE
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Later Battle Network games introduce the Alternate Selves of Colonel and Iris, but Colonel and Iris don't seem to know he exists.
- Affably Evil: He is polite towards Megaman, but Zero does not intend to end the Zero virus plague caused by his existence without a fight.
- Alternate Self: Zero is the Battle Network counterpart of Zero himself from Mega Man X and Mega Man Zero.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Despite him being canonically okay in the end, he just disappears in the future games without much explanation.
- Face Death with Dignity: He holds nothing against Megaman for coming to delete him and, after being defeated, is quite accepting of deletion. Thankfully, if you have the MystData, there's no need for him to die.
- Grew Beyond Their Programming: He is a virus. Not an infected Navi, a full-blown computer virus that gained a soul. Even he's not sure how that happened, and he's not too pleased about the problems he causes just by existing.
- Heel–Face Turn: If you manage to find the MystData before you face him for the final time, Lan's dad will figure out how to turn Zero into a Navi. He also leads the authorities right to the Professor's location in the finale, turning the Bittersweet Ending into a happy one.
- Irony: The Battle Network version of Zero looks more robotic than the Ridiculously Human Robot of Mega Man X—this helps distinguish him from ProtoMan, who is already a Suspiciously Similar Substitute for Zero.
- Large and in Charge: The largest humanoid Navi in the game, he's easily four times the size of MegaMan. You'd be forgiven for thinking he's the Big Bad before he starts talking.
- Laser Blade: His take on the Z-Saber is as a Blade Below the Shoulder.
- Paradox Person: He's not technically a NetNavi but a virus that has evolved to the state of imitating one. (Much like the original, who is very similar to reploids despite having been developed independently of them).
- Put on a Bus: Zero leaves to go Walking the Earth in the good ending of Network Transmission, and is never seen again.
- Tragic Monster: "I didn't ask to be born a virus."
- Typhoid Mary: Just like his original counterpart, he spreads the Zero Virus just by existing.
- Whole-Plot Reference: His story is nigh-on identical to that of the actual Zero: Created by Wily, spread a dangerous virus, fought someone intended to hunt him down, had a Heel–Face Turn, proves pivotal to the defeat of the Big Bad.
Professor
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Bizzarely, he's got sickly greenish-grey skin in a world where humans otherwise have completely normal skintones.
- Big Bad: Of Network Transmission and most of MegaMan NT Warrior Beast+.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: His view of Zero as a tool is what drove him away and he programmed Zero One to self destruct when defeated. Zero uses this to his advantage and teleports both of them into his airship forcing him to abandon ship with a parachute allowing the NetPolice to catch him.
- Loony Fan: He's a psychotic Wily fanboy who wants to destroy the world as revenge for his idol's defeat in Battle Network 1.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Like Wily, his ultimate goal is to destroy Net Society by bombarding the planet with missiles fired by hacked satelites.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Despite being a brilliant scientist and criminal mastermind, The Professor is ridiculously immature. When Lan and MegaMan stand up to him, his cool demeanor instantly crumbles and he's reduced to childishly taunting them like a bully on the playground. And when he's defeated and arrested, all he can do is impotently screech and whine as he's hauled off to prison.
- Smug Snake: The Professor's a competent threat who does a good job at covering his tracks, but he's also terrible at improvising when his plans are finally compromised, and left a gaping weak spot in his security measures that allows Zero (should he survive) to send his location to law enforcement. He's completely incapable of learning from his mistakes, and starts throwing childish tantrums the second he's met with any kind of resistance.
- Trademark Favorite Food: In the anime, it's sushi. A sushi restaurant serves as a front for his virus lab and his airship resembles a sushi roll where he's shown eating some as well.
- We Used to Be Friends: Concept art indicates he and Yuuichirou were companions at one point in their lives.
