History Trivia / MegaMan

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* HeyItsThatVoice: In the Ruby-Spears cartoon, Eddie is voiced by {{Scott McNeil}} and he sounds exactly like [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Waspinator.]]

** Likewise, Dr. Light in the cartoon is [[WesternAnimation/KingArthurAndTheKnightsOfJustice Merlin]] and Mega Man is [[{{Dragonball}} Goku.]]

** Roll: HirokoKonishi (''8'' and ''Battle & Chase'') to KonamiYoshida (''Super Adventure Rockman'') to Yoshimi Ninomiya (''Powered Up'') to Hiromi Igarashi (''Tatsunoko vs. Capcom'').

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The Ruby-Spears cartoon's art style would have been identical to the original games' (that is, ''4'' and up), but it was ultimately decided that it wouldn't be very successful with it. And let's face it, Mega was way too cute for American boys in TheNineties. Its pilot of sorts was the three-episode "Upon a Star" OVA, but alas, TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot.

** Also ''Mega Man Mania'', which was going to be a GBA compilation with remakes of all the Game Boy games. It ended up being shelved due to some of the [[NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup source code]] for the games being lost.

** Let's also not forget ''Megaman Universe''.

* NamesTheSame:

** ''Battle And Chase'', which saw Mega Man [[GoKartingWithBowser go-karting with Dr. Wily]]; initially released only in Japan and Europe for the original PlayStation before being made playable elsewhere as an unlockable game in the {{PS2}}[=/=]{{GameCube}}'s ''VideoGame/MegaManX Collection''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:

** According to ''Mega Man Official Complete Works'', the original concept for Top Man and his stage was lost when someone tripped over a power cord and the information hadn't been properly saved. It took three days to reconstruct it, and Inafune openly wonders in the book what things would have been like if the original concept survived (among other things, maybe the Top Spin wouldn't be a JokeWeapon[=/=]LethalJokeWeapon).

* HeyItsThatVoice: {{Scott McNeil}} ([[GundamWing Duo Maxwell]], [[WesternAnimation/StreetFighter the incarnation of Ken Masters infamous for calling Fei Long a loser]]) as Dr. Wily, Protoman and Eddie (Flip-Top). In fact, since The Ocean Group provided the voice actors, you'll probably be thinking this to yourself a couple times.
** Hey, did you forget about Ian Corlett, aka Canadian [[{{Dragonball}} Goku]], as Mega Man?

** Also Cut Man is Terry Klassen, who was the Ocean Dub voice of [[{{Dragonball}} Krillin]] from {{Dragonball}}Z. [[FridgeBrilliance This makes a lot of sense when you consider that Cut Man and Krillin are both short, have a lot of orange in their color schemes, get beaten more than other characters, and have cutting attacks as their signature move.]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: An earlier pitch for the series featured a much more faithful {{Anime}} art direction inspired by the Japanese artwork of the games. The reasoning behind the characters' muscularization in the final version of the series is because boys, the show's target audience in the US, did not gravitate very well towards the cuter art-style. Flash forward to a few years later, where not only has the US become more accepting of anime, but they have made ''immensely'' successful cartoons that have extremely {{Animesque}} art directions. {{Hilarious in hindsight}}, indeed.

* DoingItForTheArt: A lot of work and money went into this movie considering that (A) the the creators cannot legally make any money off of it and (B) Capcom could destroy it at any time with a single phone call.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Sonicmega, the voice actor for Gutsman, has appeared in various fandubs on YouTube, most notably, a [[FinalFantasyIX FF IX]] fandub where he voices Steiner.

*** It's also used as one of the achievements in ''9'', so presumably Capcom has said [=~Sure, Why Not?~=] about it.

* ShownTheirWork: In an interview, Ian Flynn said that he did plenty of research on the Mega Man series, from reading the wiki to seeing gameplays. He even manages to insert Fire Man's southern accent from Powered Up.

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: In the Ruby-Spears cartoon, Eddie is voiced by {{Scott McNeil}} and he sounds exactly like [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Waspinator.]]

* [=~Name's The Same~=]: [[VideoGame/MegaManZX The Masters]] to the [[VideoGame/MegaMan original scientists]], possibly as a deliberate {{homage}}, [[VideoGame/MegaManStarforce Omega-Xis]] to AxCrazy [[VideoGame/MegaManZero Omega]], and lastly, [[VideoGame/MegaManZX Aile]] to [[VideoGame/MegaManX Aile]] (minor {{NPC}} in ''Command Mission'').

* TheOtherDarrin: In Japan, Mega Man's voice went from HekiruShiina (''The Power Battle'' and ''The Power Fighters''), to AiOrikasa (''8'', ''Battle & Chase'', and ''Super Adventure''), to Kaoru Fujino (''[=~Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash Of The Superheroes~=]'' and ''[=~Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age Of Heroes~=]''), to YumikoKobayashi (''Powered Up''). In English, Ruth Shiraishi ([[HeyItsThatVoice who was also the voice of X]] in ''X4'') in ''8'' to Cole Howard (''Powered Up'').

* [=~Name's The Same~=]:

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: In the Ruby-Spears cartoon, Eddie is voiced by {{Scott McNeil}} and he sounds exactly like [[BeastWars Waspinator.]]

* [=~Name's The Same~=]: [[MegaManZX The Masters]] to the [[Game/MegaMan original scientists]], possibly as a deliberate {{homage}}, [[MegaManStarforce Omega-Xis]] to AxCrazy [[MegaManZero Omega]], and lastly, [[MegaManZX Aile]] to [[MegaManX Aile]] (minor {{NPC}} in ''Command Mission'').

*** On the English side, he went through a few actors before currently settling on Randall Wiebe (''X8'', ''Maverick Hunter X'' and ''Powered Up''), who [[HeyItsThatVoice also voiced]] [[MegaManX Earthrock Trilobyte]] and CWU-01P.

!![[Game/MegaMan The video game series]]:
* ExecutiveMeddling: Why ''3'' is one of Inafune's least favorites. He said that it could've been a much better game if the team was given more time to polish it, but Capcom wanted it released as soon as possible to capitalize on the momentum garnered from the second game, and he had to replace the head of production to complete it. However, the third game is still loved by most of the general public, though not as much as its predecessor.
** Some even consider it better than ''2''.

** The other bosses from ''3'' for MS-DOS were Torch Man, Shark Man, and Bit Man. Torch Man was the name given to Fireman.EXE in the ''MegaManNTWarrior'' Anime and Manga, Shark Man is a boss from the first ''Battle Network'' game, and an X-Hunter type boss called Bit attacks X in ''X3''.

** ''Battle And Chase'', which saw Mega Man [[GoKartingWithBowser go-karting with Dr. Wily]]; initially released only in Japan and Europe for the original PlayStation before being made playable elsewhere as an unlockable game in the {{PS2}}[=/=]{{GameCube}}'s ''MegaManX Collection''.

** Putting aside Bond Man, you have the Robot Master fan submissions that were used as the basis for the new Masters from ''2'' to ''8''; there are roughly ''750,000'' Robot Masters who were at one point or another under consideration for the games. While some of the rejects got used eventually (see DevelopmentGag in the [[Game/MegaMan videogame page]]), the vast majority of them are unknown to everyone who didn't directly sift through the postcards.

!![[Series/MegaMan Cartoon series]]:

** [[http://siphersaysstuff.tumblr.com/post/8519989554/joerubbyinterview According to this interview]], originally Dr. Wily was to have a British accent, and Protoman was to have been voiced by Ian James Corlett, Megaman's voice actor. Wily's design was also more faithful to the games, and Protoman had a red belt instead of torso armor.

* ShownTheirWork: In an interview, Ian Flynn said that he did plenty of research on the Mega Man series, from reading the wiki to seeing gameplays. He even manages to insert Fire Man's southern accent from Powered Up.

!!The Archie comics:

!![[ComicBook/Megaman The Archie comics]]:

!![[ComicBook/Megaman The Archie Comics]]
* ShownTheirWork: In an interview, Ian Flynn said that he did plenty of research on the Mega Man series, from reading the wiki to seeing gameplays. He even manages to insert Fire Man's southern accent from Powered Up.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Sonicmega, the voice actor for Gutsman, has appeared in various fandubs on YouTube, most notably, a [[FinalFantasyIX FF IX]] fandub where he voices Steiner.

** Let's also not forget ''[[www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Man_Universe Megaman Universe]]'',

** Let's also not forget ''[[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Man_Universe Megaman Universe]]'',

** Likewise, Dr. Light in the cartoon is [[KingArthurAndTheKnightsOfJustice Merlin]] and Mega Man is [[{{Dragonball}} Goku.]]

** [[http://siphersaysstuff.tumblr.com/post/8519989554/joerubbyinterview According to this interview]], originally Dr. Wily was to have a British accent, and Protoman was to have been voiced by Ian James Corlett, Megaman's voice actor. Wily's design was also more faithful to the games, and Protoman had a red belt instead of torso armor.

!![[Game/MegaMan The video game]]:

** According to ''Mega Man Official Complete Works'', the original concept for Top Man and his stage was lost when someone tripped over a power cord and the information hadn't been properly saved. It took three days to reconstruct it, and Inafune openly wonders in the book what things would have been like if the original concept survived (among other things, maybe the Top Spin wouldn't be a JokeWeapon[=/=]LethalJokeWeapon).

** Putting aside Bond Man, you have the Robot Master fan submissions that were used as the basis for the new Masters from ''2'' to ''8''; there are roughly ''750,000'' Robot Masters who were at one point or another under consideration for the games. While some of the rejects got used eventually (see DevelopmentGag above), the vast majority of them are unknown to everyone who didn't directly sift through the postcards.

** According to ''Mega Man Official Complete Works'', the original concept for Top Man and his stage was lost when someone tripped over a power cord and the information hadn't been properly saved. It took three days to reconstruct it, and Inafune openly wonders in the book what things would have been like if the original concept survived (among other things, maybe the Top Spin wouldn't be a JokeWeapon/LethalJokeWeapon).

** ''Mega Man Legends 3''.

** ''Mega Man Legends 3''.
* NoExportForYou: Capcom had no plans to release ''Great Adventure on 5 Islands!'' and ''Rockman DASH Golf'' overseas, yet.

** Which brings up a YMMV moment with Rockman 9...

** The American Renames only make sense half the time -> Rockman was turned to Mega Man (to avoid a copyright error with DC comics) Roll, Rush, Beat, Tango, Duo, and Reggae kept their names, but Blues was called Proto Man, Forte & Gospel were oddly renamed to Bass & Treble (for fear that Gospel would be to religious to [[Eagleland Americans]], and Rightot (which means Right-On-Target) was renamed to Auto.

*** However the color change was a by product of a palette swap bug that happened when switching weapons during a test of the alpha of Rockman 1 -- the line of code was a mistake and it swapped the pallet from blue to silvery when Rolling Cutter was play tested; instead of fixing it they integrated it into all the other weapon switches and thus mutli-colored Rockman was born.

* Rockman was originally based on an arcade version of Astro Boy but when the deal fell through Infunae didn't want to give up on his dream so instead they re-sprited Rock (although he still looks like Astro Boy in the very first game) to be light & deep blue vs. the white and blue he was intended to be.