History VideoGame / MegaManV

The fifth and final ''[[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Mega Man]]'' entry for the UsefulNotes/GameBoy, ''Mega Man V'' takes the sub-series in a completely different direction.

* SequelEscalation: Exaggerated with a new main weapon, a new furry sidekick, a completely new set of antagonists, and even UsefulNotes/SuperGameBoy enhancements.

* EleventhHourSuperpower: The Spark Chaser acts as the game's "Mega Man Killer" weapon, in that it is only obtained right before the final stage, is very useful on the final bosses, and isn't saved with passwords. Like the Ballade Cracker in ''VideoGame/MegaManIV'', getting a Game Over and returning to the stage select takes the weapon away while Terra reappears.

* AntiAir: Bubble Bomb moves upwards in a waving manner, and slides forward once it hits a ceiling. It deals good damage, but using it on grounded enemies is tricky.

* GiantHandsOfDoom: L. Knuckle and R. Knuckle, two robot hands whom you fight on the Wily Star before facing Wily himself. L. Knuckle can only punch downwards, while R. Knuckle adds in homing missiles and a grab attack.

** [[spoiler: This is the only Game Boy game where Dr. Wily is not the final boss, with Sunstar taking that position at the last second]].

** Jupiter is weak to Venus' Bubble Bomb because electricity makes a deadly combination with water.

* LostTechnology: The Stardroids came from beyond the stars and were awakened.
* MarathonLevel: Like ''VideoGame/MegaManIV'', the Wily Star levels are played back-to-back without the usual map screen.

* NoSell: Mega Man's charged shot bounces off Terra in the opening.

* SpikesOfDoom: A recurring staple of the series, though while fighting both forms of the Brain Crusher, the ceiling spikes merely damage Mega Man instead of outright killing him.

* GrandFinale: To the Game Boy subseries. The stakes are higher than any of the previous four games, almost everything is new this time around as opposed to being borrowed from the NES games, there's a boss rush near the end composed of the pervious Mega Man Killers (and Quint) and as a shock to any longtime ''Mega Man'' fan, the final boss isn't even Wily.

* GrandFinale: To the Game Boy subseries. The stakes are higher than any of the previous four games, almost everything is new this time around as opposed to being borrowed from the NES games, and as a shock to any longtime ''Mega Man'' fan, the final boss isn't even Wily.

* SequelEscalation: Taken UpToEleven with a new main weapon, a new furry sidekick, a completely new set of antagonists, and even UsefulNotes/SuperGameBoy enhancements.

* TacticalSuidiceBoss: The Brain Crusher would be a completely invincible boss (bugs notwithstanding), if it didn't spit out Alabells that could damage it with their explosions.

* BreakingOldTrends: Unlike the previous Game Boy games, this one features a wholly original set of bosses rather than using sets of four from the main console series. It also changes Mega Man's charge shot into a RocketPunch, has a weakness loop with ''nine'' members instead of eight, and is one of very few games where the final boss isn't Dr. Wily.

* ContractualBossImmunity: Rather than following the usual varying weakness chart, the Grab Buster and Black Hole are ineffective against all Stardroids aside from the ones that are weak to them, since the Grab Buster otherwise lets you LifeDrain freely and the Black Hole is a SmartBomb. The Grab Buster also hurts the Knuckle bosses and the Brain Crusher's second phase, while the Black Hole can be used in an exploit to hurt the Brain Crusher's first form, which is otherwise immune to everything.

* GravityScrew: Jupiter's stage has areas with low gravity, allowing for higher jumps. Saturn's level has this too, but with the addition of high-gravity areas with reduced jump height. The battle with Sunstar takes place in a low-gravity room, which needs to be used to dodge his attacks.

* LifeDrain: The Grab Buster's bullets produce small health pickups upon hitting an enemy, which then fly towards Mega Man to heal him.

* ShieldBearingMook: Hell Metall DX, which eschews the traditional helmet for a front-facing shield. After its treads are destroyed, the only way to bypass the shield is to hit it with a charged Mega Arm shot.

* SmartBomb: The Black Hole, which insta-kills all weaker enemies on the screen and deals big damage to the stronger ones. Of course, this comes with a massive energy cost.

* SpikesOfDoom: A recurring staple of the series, though while [[spoiler:fighting both forms of the Brain Crusher, the ceiling spikes merely damage Mega Man instead of outright killing him]].

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers:
** The only Game Boy ''Mega Man'' game to have an Arabic numeral on the box instead of a Roman numeral (the game itself doesn't reflect this).
** The entire game itself is this to the ''Rockman World'' series. While the other four games lift many elements from one console game, many elements from the succeeding console game, one original boss and weapon and maybe a few unique music tracks and enemies, for ''V'', everything -- the bosses, the music, the weapons, the enemies, etc. -- is 100% original.

* DemotedToExtra: Tango never appears in any significant capacity after this game. If he does appear, it's usually as a minor cameo.

* HumanAliens: While the English script never mentions the Stardroids' origins, much less the species that created them, in the Japanese version Sunstar notes that in his era, ''humans'' were constantly waging war with one another using machines.

* LegacyBossBattle: The four mini-bosses of the Wily Star are the four new characters introduced in the previous Game Boy ''Mega Man'' titles (Enker, Quint, Punk, and Ballade, in that order). They all fight like they did in their debut games, but are weakened to fit their mini-boss status.

* LostSuperweapon: The Stardroids and Sunstar came from an ancient civilization constantly at war, and were found by Dr. Wily in the present day and reactivated. According to the Japanese script, even the Wily Star itself is as old as they are!

* PowerUpLetdown: The CL upgrade Mega Man can buy gives his charged Mega Arm a random chance to latch onto its target and deal rapid damage. It's very useful for enemies and lets many of them get killed with one charged attack, but it can be annoying if it procs during a boss fight, since most bosses have MercyInvincibility and the arm will get stuck on them for a second, preventing Mega Man from firing until it returns.

* SpreadShot: Salt Water is a variation on the splitting type, firing out a large ball of water that splashes apart into three small drops when it hits a wall.

* StellarName: The Stardroids are all named after planets in our Solar System.

** Uranus has a very similar design and a near-identical weapon to Guts Man, probably as a way of making up to fans who were pissed off that he got left out of ''[[VideoGame/MegaManDrWilysRevenge Dr. Wily's Revenge]]''.

** Mercury is weak to Saturn's Black Hole since black holes can suck in objects, especially fluids, including the fluids Mercury has in his body.
** Venus is weak to Mars' Photon Missile since explosives can damage hard shells, including hers. Plus, the deity whose planet she serves as a counterpart to, Aphrodite, represents love (which is ironic, considering we don't see the Stardroid herself acting lovely that much).
** Terra is weak to Uranus' Deep Digger since stone can block electricity, which his Spark Chaser relies on.
** Mars is weak to Neptune's Salt Water since his body has lots of metal and corrosive substances can destroy metal.
** Jupiter is weak to Venus' Bubble Bomb since his weapon channels electricity, which would make a deadly combination with water. (Ever soaked an electronic device before?)
** Saturn is weak to Jupiter's Electric Shock since his Black Hole needs power. Plus, in Greek mythology, Zeus (the namesake for the planet Jupiter) overthrew Cronus (the namesake for the planet Saturn).
** Uranus is weak to Pluto's break dash since it can throw off his balance.
** Neptune is weak to Terra's Spark Chaser due to his weapon channeling water, and water conducts electricity.
** Pluto is weak to Mercury's Grab Buster due to his Break Dash needing energy, and Mercury can still energy with his Grab Buster.

* LoadBearingBoss: After Sunstar is defeated, he brings the entire Wily Star down with him. Why varies between scripts -- in the original Japanese, he's moved by Mega Man's kindness and hope for a world where humans and robots live in peace and willingly detonates a powerful bomb inside him to destroy the Wily Star. In the English translation, he instead urges Mega Man to leave as his fusion reactor goes critical as a result of damage inflicted from their battle, and the reactor's explosion is strong enough to bring the fortress down.

* {{Expy}}: Dark Moon is basically Yellow Devil MK-II (since it can bounce its pieces on the ground in addition to firing them forward), but on the Game Boy.

* NotSoDifferent: Sunstar says this to Mega Man, claiming that they were both created for fighting. Mega Man shuts him down when he tells him that he only fights to protect peace between humans and robots.

* HijackedByGanon: Come on, is it really any surprise that Dr. Wily is the person behind the Stardroids? Then again, it probably ''will'' be a surprise that Sunstar hijacks the FinalBoss role from Wily himself.

* PowerUpLetdown: The CL upgrade Mega Man can buy gives his charged Mega Arm a random chance to latch onto its target and deal rapid damage. It's very useful for enemies and lets many of them get killed with one charged attack, but it can be annoying if it procs during a boss fight, since most bosses have InvincibiltyFrames and the arm will get stuck on them for a second, preventing Mega Man from firing until it returns.

* AllThereInTheManual: Totally averted. ''Everything'' is fully explained in the game itself this time around. Well, everything except the Stardroids' origins (at least in the English translation): they were made a long time ago by an ancient alien civilisation and were found by Dr. Wily in the present day.
* AntiAir: Bubble Bomb moves upwards in a waving manner. It does deal good damage though.

* BackForTheFinale: The Mega Man Killers ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Quint]]) return to be fought one more time each in this game. The Killers wouldn't return to the main series until ''VideoGame/MegaMan10'', while Quint is still absent.
* BittersweetEnding: The day is saved, and Dr. Wily is defeated, but there's a certain air of sadness about the ending, particularly the fact that (depending on your translation) Sunstar was either never able to discover whether or not robots can ever truly live in peace, or he sacrificed himself to help make that world a reality.
** And then it ends on a lighthearted note when Dr. Wily shows up and tries to shoot Mega Man, but his barely-functioning UFO dies on him and breaks apart. After the usual mercy-begging, Wily runs off in a comical panic as Mega Man chases him.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: As the Stardroid's leader, Terra is built up as the BigBad and the most dangerous obstacle of all. Not only does he turn out to be easier than the build-up let on, but [[HijackedByGanon a certain mad scientist reveals his hand in the game's events]].

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Sunstar was created to wipe out all lesser lifeforms by an alien civilisation constantly at war. Mega Man ends up wanting to spare his life, and he doesn't understand why a robot would show kindness to another.
* {{Expy}}: Dark Moon is basically Yellow Devil, but on the Game Boy.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: The intro points out that the Mega Buster is totally ineffective against the Stardroids. In-game, Mega Man can still fire off normal Mega Buster shots that damage the Stardroids regardless. Even Terra.
* GiantHandsOfDoom: L. Knuckle and R. Knuckle, whom you fight on the Wily Star before facing Wily himself.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Downplayed, the final boss isn't Terra, or even Dr. Wily, but rather an ultra-powerful robot named Sunstar, who was never built up to until right after Wily is backed into a corner. However, given the Solar System themes of the game, and how, by this point, the player has fought a Robot Master for each planet, and even a Yellow Devil Expy for the moon, it's not ''entirely'' unexpected.
* GrandFinale: To the Game Boy subseries. The stakes are higher than any of the previous four games, almost everything is new this time around as opposed to being borrowed from the NES games, and as a shock to any longtime Mega Man fan, the final boss isn't even Wily.
* GravityScrew: Jupiter's stage has areas with low gravity, allowing for higher jumps. Saturn's level has this too, but with the addition of high-gravity areas with reduced jump height.

* LostSuperweapon: The Stardroids and Sunstar came from an ancient civilisation constantly at war, and were found by Dr. Wily in the present day and reactivated. According to the Japanese script, even the Wily Star itself is as old as they are!

* SmartBomb: The Black Hole is pretty much this, instakilling all weaker enemies on the screen and dealing big damage to the stronger ones. Of course, this comes with a MASSIVE power cost.

* SpikesOfDoom: A recurring staple of the series, though while [[spoiler: fighting both forms of the Brain Crusher, the ceiling spikes merely damage Mega Man instead of outright killing him]].
* StellarName: The Stardroids are all named after planets in our Solar System.

** The entire game itself is this to the series -- while the other four games lift many elements from one console game, many elements from the succeeding console game, one original boss and weapon and maybe a few unique music tracks and enemies, for ''V'', everything -- the bosses, the music, the weapons, the enemies etc. -- is 100% original.

* WeaksauceWeakness: An unusual variation occurs in this game, since you don't ''have'' the weapons that Mercury and Neptune are weak against (the Black Hole and the Spark Chaser respectively) during the initial set of four Stardroids, meaning that you have to use the Mega Arm to defeat them. Fortunately, you have your full complement of weapons during the rematch near the end of the game.
* TheWorfEffect: Properly demonstrated in the intro. As Terra shows off the threat of the Stardroids by No-Selling Mega Man's attacks and taking him out with one shot.