History Manga / MegaManMegamix

* AscendedExtra: Typically of all the Robot Masters in a group one will be presented as the "leader" of the group, like Elec Man for the Lightbots, Quick Man for Wily's first batch, Shadow Man for his second, and so on.

* BloodSport: Dr. Light disapproves of Battle and Chase because of this, and all Rock can say is that at least it's not as bad as the [[GladitorialGames tournament]] in ''VideoGame/MegaMan 6''. Dr. Light was supposed to give some sort of a speech for the WRO during it: at the end of the chapter we find out that he missed the whole thing because he couldn't find his ties. While Battle & Chase is a less serious chapter than many of the others, he was probably grateful for the excuse.

* MisterExposition: Shadow Man is often used in order to get things across to the audience. In his first appearance in Megamix, he was used as something of a FoilCharacter for Rock, to help the reader understand Rock better as Shadow Man studied him. Then, in the final story of Megamix, he's the one that explains what is going on to [[spoiler:Copy Mega Man]], and [[WhatTheHellHero his angry confrontation]] with [[spoiler:Blues]] near the end explains the other half of the plot. At the end of Battle and Chase, he and Shade Man's conversation also reveals a few important facts. In a bit of HypocriticalHumor, Shade Man talking about what another character is really like annoys Shadow Man, since it reminds him of Blues, who fills this role (in a ManipulativeBastard way) in the story centered around Forte & Rock, and also told a few things to [[spoiler:Copy Rock]] very cruelly.

* ABoyAndHisX: A Boy And His Dog, a Boy And His Bird, a Boy and His Cat, a Boy and His Rocket Powered Sled.
** And of course, Bass and Treble.

* BroughtDownToNormal: The only possible purpose of Napalm Man is to blow up and burn down stuff, hence his name. So what does he do when all the Mega Man 5 Robot Masters are assigned by Dr. Wily to work at an amusement park to earn extra money? [[CrowningMomentOfFunny He's a receptionist. With grenades on his shoulders and missiles for arms.]]

** During "Warrior's Day Off," Dr. Light is busy training [[StreetFighter in a karate outfit]] for a "[[VideoGame/MegaManX legacy for the future]]."

* [[EyesAlwaysShut One Eye Always Shut]]: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] with Shadow Man; when his right eye is open, [[spoiler: it streams video data back to Dr. Wily]]. When he doesn't need/wish to do this, he leaves it shut.

* InterruptedCooldownHug: In "Metal Heart", it seems that the Yellow Devil is finally going to reach [[spoiler: its mother, the Mother Computer]], only for [[spoiler: Shadow Man to impale the Yellow Devil's weakpoint and cause critical damage to both it and the Mother Computer.]]

* MayIncaTec: The ruins of Asteroid Alpha.

* OlderAndWiser: During the team-up with Wily's robot masters to fight the yellow devil, it's very clear that Rock is the most experienced one, down to sweatdropping at Snake Man's immaturity. Shadow Man not knowing something Rock thought everyone knew already results in a CrowningMomentOfFunny.

* RightMakesMight: DiscussedTrope. Bass asks Blues what the source of Mega Man's power is. Blues says that it's a combination of the desire to protect everyone's future and TheDeterminator.

* [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed Evil In A]] [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan Robot-Shaped Can]]: [[spoiler:The 'White Giant', the uncompromising [[ImplacableMan Implacable Robot]] from space that destroys nearly all the Wilybots to destroy evil in the universe is a living prison for 9 of the greatest evils in the universe: the Stardoids.]]

* [[SingleStrokeBattle Single]] CleanCut [[SingleStrokeBattle Battle]]: Quick Man's specialty.

* SuicideByCop: Played with by [[spoiler:Copy Mega Man. [[CloningBlues After discovering he was not the real Mega Man]], he destroys Shinjuku again. Bass shows up and proceeds to completely trash him. Copy Mega Man did all of this on purpose; he went on another rampage to prove Rock was innocent, and [[DeathSeeker no longer wanted to live]], and the damage he sustained combined with his circuits overloading lead him to [[HeroicSacrifice explode while tackling Bass]][[note]]Bass survives, of course[[/note]].]]

* VillainousCrossdresser: [[ItMakesSenseInContext Quick Man in the Mega Man Soccer comics.]]

** Though there was one in the original game (kind of), the portrayal of [[spoiler: Copy Mega Man]] influenced and led to his inclusion in MegaManPoweredUp.

Due to the success of ''Mega Man 9'' and ''Mega Man 10'', the series was re-released in Japan as ''Rockman Gigamix'', which collects the original volumes while also adding new material by Ariga. UDON licensed Gigamix, and published all three of the new volumes as of November 2011.

* SuperPrototype: Blues, although he wasn't originally constructed as a warbot. Can [[CurbStompBattle defeat several other robot masters at once, in seconds]]. The fact he's a CombatPragmatist helps.

* BadAss: This version of Quick Man. Powerful, cool, collected, and able to use his powers in such a way to disable his rival, Flash Man, with ease.
** Bass/Forte, Proto Man/Blues, Rock, and Elec Man also qualify.
** Shadow Man.

* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The portrayal of the third game's Robot Masters during "Metal Heart" (but a lot less quirky in their first chronological appearance, "Asteroid Blues.") The second game's robots, on the other hand, weren't quirky [[BadAss in the least]].

** Then there's [[spoiler: Duo]] who within 5 panels of his introduction effortlessly defeats one of the Stardroids [[BadAss in one blow]]

* ABoyAndHisX: A Boy And His Dog, a Boy And His Bird, a Boy and His Cat, a Boy and His Rocket Powered Sled.
** And of course, Bass and Treble.

* AdaptationalBadass: One of the series's defining traits. Almost all the combat-capable robots are shown as much more powerful than in the games. The real winners here, though, are the Stardroids. In MegaManV, Dr. Light was able to create a weapon to defeat them after a single encounter, leaving them as basically the same as Robot Masters. In this series, they are on such a different level from Earth's robots that it's not even funny. Case in point, twice Saturn completely no-sells electric attacks from Earth's robots, which is actually his weakness in game.

** Averted by Rock & Roll Light. Rock plays it straight in one storyline [[spoiler:but it turns to be Copy-Rock, who subverts the trope because he's basically doing what he was programmed to do. May count as a DoubleSubversion.]] Alternatively, Rock becoming a hero is a subversion.

** Justified for Bass and the reprogrammed Lightbots. Justified and Subverted by Skull Man [[spoiler:via DeathEqualsRedemption.]]

** Wily attempts to Exploit this with [[spoiler:Copy-Rock, but Shadow Man is not able to kill Rock due to Proto Man's BatmanGambit.]]
** Justified and invoked by both Light and Wily in Gigamix Vol. 2 [[spoiler:at the very onset of robotic evolution as proven by a flashback to their initial partnership. By giving robots 'souls', they could adapt and achieve more than just simple programming and instruction could, fully aware of the problems this could result in.]]

* AttackItsWeakPoint: Used for characterization in chapter three, where Rock is surprised [[McNinja Shadowman]] didn't already know what a Yellow Devil's weakness was. It becomes a plot point in Asteroid Blues, where it's [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] when Dr. Light reveals that [[spoiler:he couldn't bring himself to trust Dr. Wily, so he deliberately built Gamma with a weak spot,]] [[ProperlyParanoid just in case.]]

* AxeCrazy: Bass. More so than usual, especially [[spoiler:when he takes in the Hyper Energy Crystals and is overcome with their power]]. The Stardroids, who exist only to destroy. Blues does a very good impression. Heat Man is pretty nuts as well.

** Ring Man wears a trenchcoat, being chief of the Robot Police. Anybody reminded of InspectorGadget?

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:The Battle & Chase race]]. Also a bit of ThrowTheDogABone. Didn't work out too well in the end, though.

* BigDamnVillains: The third army try to do this in volume three. Shadow Man succeeds, but [[spoiler: at the cost of killing the toy robot AI that only wanted to see its mother.]]
** In Shadow Man's defense, he might not have known that last part.
** Also, [[spoiler: Skull Man.]]

* CloningBlues: Sniper Joes are [[IncrediblyLamePun inferior copies of Blues,]] as well as the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Darkmen]]. They're intellectually inferior and he tends to destroy them on sight. A more typical example would be [[spoiler:Copy Mega Man]].
* CloudCuckooLander: Most teams have at least one, but Star Man takes the cake.

* CurbStompBattle: Blues, when he just wants to get people out of his way, and [[spoiler:Bass vs. Rock, until]] [[LetsGetDangerous Rock got serious.]]

* DistressedDamsel: When Darkmen attempt to kidnap Roll, Bass saves her but then [[spoiler:decides they had a pretty good idea, actually, and uses her as bait to get Mega Man to fight him.]] It's actually [[spoiler:Blues that rescues her from the crane she's tied to.]] Also, in the Skull Man storyline, [[spoiler:Kalinka is kidnapped along with Roll, and in danger of freezing to death. In order to buy her time, Roll deliberately overheats.]] Kalinka gets this a lot: justified since as a young human she's too fragile to be an ActionGirl and Wily, and others, are aware of what a valuable hostage she makes. [[spoiler:In one storyline, Blues takes advantage of this.]]
* [[DrivenToSuicide Driven to]] HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Copy Mega Man. By Blues.]]

* GenreSavvy: Rock has his moments, especially in the Battle and Chase story.

* HannibalHasAPoint: When the Stardoids [[CurbStompBattle all but demolish the Light Numbers]], Dr. Light refuses to repair his own "children" as long as they intend to return to battle (and possibly be destroyed permanently.) After Wily offers to repair them instead, and Light gets pissed at him for it, Wily goes on an epic tirade about [[WhatTheHellHero how hypocritical it is for Light]] to deny his creations the power of ''choice''.

** This really shows in the first volume of Gigamix, which has two stories separated by a number of years. In the first, he's entirely taken in by Dr. Wily. In the second, [[spoiler:he knows an anagram when he hears one, among other demonstrations of skill,]] so he's quite GenreSavvy.

* ShoutOut: See ContinuityCameo above. Also, [[MegaManLegends Reaverbots]] cameo during the ''Asteroid Blues'' chapter.

That is, until recently, when publisher UDON announced that they would be bringing the series to the West. All three volumes have already been released, with the latter two including bonus content. For example: Volume 2 includes supplementary materials, like interviews with Kenji Inafune, Robot Master profiles, and comic strips based on the Soccer game (which are much less serious than the actual Megamix manga).

Due to the success of ''Mega Man 9'' and ''Mega Man 10'', the series is getting a re-release in Japan as ''Rockman Gigamix'', which collects the original volumes while also adding new material by Ariga. UDON has licensed Gigamix, and published all three of the new volumes as of November 2011.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Mega Man in ''The Greatest Enemy In History''. Somehow, he comes to the conclusion that humans are the ones standing between him and everlasting peace, and declares war on them. [[spoiler:Subverted, as he's actually a copy of Mega Man doing what he thinks is right while being under the influence of Dr. Wily's Evil Chip.]]

** The Fifth Numb-- that is, the ''[[RunningGag Hourly-Pay Squad Part-Timers]]!!'' (Gravity, Star, Napalm, Gyro, Crystal, Charge, Wave, and Stone) take this trope and run away with it.

** The Fifth Numb-- that is, the ''[[RunningGag Hourly-Pay Squad Part-Timers]]!!'' (Gravity, Star, Napalm, Gyro, Crystal, Charge, and Stone) take this trope and run away with it.

* ButtMonkey: Cut Man fills this role for the original team of Robot Masters.

* SuicideByCop: Played with by [[spoiler:Copy Mega Man. [[CloningBlues After discovering he was not the real Mega Man]], he destroys Shinjuku again. Bass shows up and proceeds to completely trash him. Copy Mega Man did all of this on purpose; he went on another rampage to prove Rock was innocent, and [[DeathSeeker no longer wanted to live]], and the damage he sustained combined with his circuits overloading lead him to [[HeroicSacrifice explode while tackling Bass]][[hottip:*:Bass survives, of course]].]]

* CompositeCharacter: Sort of, more along the lines of a particular detail being recursively added in. [[spoiler: The White Giant first emerges from an Asteroid. The original Duo flew around in space under his own power. The Duo of ''BattleNetwork'', however, used a meteor to travel the universe.]]
* ContinuityCameo: [[MegaManBattleNetwork Ribitta and Sunayama]] appear as staff covering the Battle and Chase. [[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Charlie]] is also seen as a TV announcer multiple times.

* OhCisco: The first chapter ends with everyone laughing at Cut Man's hijinks.

That is, until recently, when publisher UDON announced that they would be bringing the series to the west. All three volumes have already been released, with the latter two including bonus content. For example: Volume 2 includes supplementary materials, like interviews with Kenji Inafune, Robot Master profiles, and comic strips based on the Soccer game (which are much less serious than the actual Megamix manga).

The fan favorite and oft celebrated adaptation of the classic ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' series by Hitoshi Ariga. Well known inside the fandom but never released in the west, it was originally known only to Japanese and the few western fans that could afford to import it. Scans and translations of the original stories were available, but only of the first few chapters. A well known petition circulated for years, trying to get someone to pick up the series, but it seemed it was to no avail.

* [[spoiler:IWasQuiteALooker: Dr. Wily in the flashback story in Gigamix Vol. 2]]. Just look at him.