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Dr. / Lord Weil

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I am the unending nightmare!

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The desire for power. The joy of making everything work for you. You have no way of experiencing this without a human brain. It's the ultimate joy! No mere Reploid could ever understand!

Known as Dr. Vile in Japanese (Not to be confused with Vile of Mega Man X, himself known as Vava in Japan), is the true Big Bad of the Megaman Zero series. Over a century before Zero began, Weil set into motion a grand scheme to take control of all Reploids known as "Project Elpizo". Believing Reploids still needed to pay for their crimes against humanity despite the successful eradication of the Maverick Virus, he used Zero's body to create the "ultimate ruler" known as Omega and placed a curse upon the benevolent Mother Elf. This signaled the start of the bloody conflict known as the Elf Wars. Thanks to the efforts of X and Zero (in a duplicate body) defeating Omega and apprehending Weil, it only lasted for four years, however, 90% of Reploids and 60% of humans were wiped out. Believing death was too merciful on the man responsible for such an unthinkable crime, the citizens of Neo Arcadia punished Weil with immortality through cybernetics before banishing him to suffer for eternity in the wasteland that he created. Unfortunately, no one bargained on him coming back. He set back to work, first reviving Copy-X to gain passage back into Neo Arcadia, orchestrating a new conflict between the Resistance and Neo Arcadia that culminated in Copy-X's final death allowing him to take over, and then using Omega and the Dark Elf to mass-control the Reploids once more.

After Zero defeats Omega and finally frees the Dark Elf, Dr. Weil turns his fury to the people of Neo Arcadia, making life miserable for humans and Reploids alike. This forced the populace to begin fleeing the city and discovering Area Zero. When Weil became aware of this mass migration, he initiated Operation Ragnarok, intending to wipe out Area Zero and force the people of Neo Arcadia to accept living under his rule. However, he is soon betrayed by Craft, a Neo Arcadian soldier who led Operation Ragnarok, who at last regained his resolve to take action — at the cost of many of the lives still in Neo Arcadia. With Craft's demise, Weil resorts to a Colony Drop, setting the Ragnarok space station on a collision course towards Area Zero. Dealing with Zero on his own, he taunts the Reploid over his role as a hero as he merged with the Ragnarok satellite itself. Cursing Zero's name, the tyrant is finally defeated after a climactic battle. However, with Weil's immortality, it's possible that he is still the main instigator of the Sequel Series Mega Man ZX as the original Biometal: Model V/W.

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0% Approval Rating: When he shows what a tyrant he is (after the third game, although some of the drama tracks imply that even in the story of the third game, his approval rating was very low even when he was allowed back in by Copy-X Mk. II). To the point that some of the Neo Arcadian citizens (who are brave enough to do so, anyway) start to run away from him, seeking a better place. Weil's solution? Destroy that better place. Not only is he making things worse for himself, but Neo Arcadia is blown up by the Ragnarok (used by Craft, no less), and his approval rating also seemed to be an indication of his chances of survival...
Ambition Is Evil: He states that lust for power, ruling over everything, as well as controlling everyone, is the ultimate joy in his Motive Rant to Zero just before the latter fights Omega in Zero 3. He also implies that all of humanity shares this mindset and not Reploids. Zero, as usual, has his own counter for it.
Dr. Weil: Heh heh heh heh... how pitiful. Of course, a Reploid like you would never understand. The joy of ruling all that you see... only a human could possibly understand!
Zero: A... human?
Dr. Weil: That's right! I'm a bona fide human. The creator of Reploids... a human being!
Zero: ...
Dr. Weil: The desire for power. The joy of making everything work for you. You have no way of experiencing this without a human brain. It's the ultimate joy! No mere Reploid could ever understand!
Zero: I bet most decent humans wouldn't understand, either. You look just like another Maverick, to me. All I gotta do is dispose of you like any other Maverick.
And I Must Scream: At the end of the series, where he's now truly incapacitated within the ruins of Ragnarok he's fused into, while heavily implied to be still living on.
Archenemy: He and Zero have quite a personal history, detailed in the drama tracks telling the events of the Elf Wars, where Weil stole Zero's original body and turned it into Ax-Crazy Omega. They possibly continue their animosity as the Biometals W and Z in ZX.
Asshole Victim: His Fate Worse than Death and century-long banishment to the wastelands was inflicted by vigilante justice, however considering he orchestrated the bloody Elf Wars that laid waste to the planet in the first place, it comes off as karmic more than anything.
Ax-Crazy: He enjoyed the carnage the Elf Wars caused, he intended to build a Kill Sat to subjugate Neo Arcadia, and he was more than willing to personally pilot Ragnarok (the aforementioned Kill Sat) into crashing into Area Zero under the firm belief that he would survive the crash.
Badass Bookworm: An exceedingly skilled manipulator who is skilled in many fields of robotics, including cryogenics, recreating the heat of the sun, magnetism, weapons, his own regenerative armor (seeing as he can heal himself) who is easily the most successful villain in the series (perhaps excluding Apollo Flame) and when merged with Ragnarok, he's probably the strongest character in the series other than Zero and Omega.
Become Your Weapon: As the Ragnarok's core is vaguely sword-shaped, Weil merging with it is pretty much a fancier version.
Big Bad: He's responsible for everything that's happened in the Zero series.
Big Bad Wannabe: Heavily downplayed in this case. During Zero 3, Weil is still a massive threat, Omega is just a bigger one and when Omega is killed by Zero, his plans are ruined.
Blessed with Suck: Being immortal. For him it completely sucks, as he's stuck alone in a dead world for the rest of his life.
Break Them by Talking: He's pretty fond of attempting this on Zero, but his tendency to greatly underestimate the strength of Zero's own ideals and faith (such as his deeply mistaken belief that Zero would want to avoid killing Weil because of Weil's status as a human) makes his words often ineffective.
The Caligula: He succeeds upon gaining power to force the residents of Neo Arcadia to live in a Crapsack World with virtually no hope of freedom or happiness, and is evidently very much insane.
Card-Carrying Villain: Played for Horror. While he openly gloats about how evil he is, all it does make him even more despicable than he already is. Can also count as a Deconstruction, because it shows how terrifying this trope can be when brought to its logical conclusion.
The Chessmaster: As seen in his Evil Plans, he's good at manipulating everyone involved in the conflict — both enemies and allies alike — to further his goals.
Climax Boss: The final obstacle in the Zero series, complete with plenty of build-up beforehand.
Collapsing Lair: In the Final Boss battle, defeating him will result in this, due to him merging with the entire lair for his second form.
Complete Immortality: As a result of his cybernetic body he claims that he can't die, ever, making him more durable than most reploids and mechaniloids seen throughout the timeline. He's not kidding, either. Being The Ageless is proven by his 100-year exile with little loss of physical or cognitive abilities, and being Nigh-Invulnerable is shown when he survives a Kill Sat aimed directly at him, which levels a city, and he barely has a scratch to show for it. Of course, as the Big Bad of Zero 4, the goal is to find a way to truly kill him. While Zero is mostly successful, the ZX series shows that he's still around, although in a much less direct form.
Confusion Fu: Weil has a patently absurd number of attacks even for something from the Mega Man series, and the only non-random factor that determines which one he'll use is going under half HP. Depending on how kind the RNG is to you, the finale of the Zero series will be anywhere between a big anticlimax or a massive headache.
Crushing the Populace: This is what he does after he successfully gains control of the Neo Arcadian government. Starting with using Omega and Dark Elf to brainwash all Reploids so they all wreak havoc, then when the two are stopped by Zero's efforts, Weil becomes more repressive and freely declares anyone who disagrees with his rule to be Mavericks, humans included.
Cursed with Awesome: His immortality goes into this. While he does take advantage of it, in his own opinion he's still cursed.
Cyborg: While he was originally human as he claims to Zero, in the present he's currently been heavily modified with mechanical components, from his brain having been converted to data, to his entire mechanical body granting him immortality. This was done to him as punishment by X for his role in instigating the Elf Wars, and was intended to serve as a Fate Worse than Death, with him being forced to wander Earth's wastelands in this form.
Death from Above: In the first phase of the final battle, he has several attacks that involve dropping projectiles from the air at Zero. One involves firing two waves of meteors, while the second involves dropping several swords into the ground before summoning a purple orb that fires balls of electricity.
Death Seeker: The implications are certainly there. He does think that his punishment is indeed a curse, even though it gave him over a century to plan out his revenge. His full intention when merging with Ragnarok was to ride the Kill Sat down on to Area Zero, destroying nature entirely, functionally dooming everyone considering Neo Arcadia just got destroyed. His death would be part of that, though as the following centuries show, it's not that easy to kill Weil.
Devil Complex: Right before you fight him in 4, he proclaims himself to be the Devil. Considering his personality, it's rather apt.
Diabolus ex Machina: The plot of Zero 4 is basically one that benefits him, especially with regards to ruining the peace through science that Ciel was working so hard to obtain (and nearly won with the Ciel system by the intro of Zero 3).
Didn't Think This Through:
- Just because he stole Zero's body does not mean he has any sentimental attachment to it, considering Zero's body was a Typhoid Mary that nearly infected the world's Reploid population.
- He tries to invoke Three Laws-Compliant on Zero. However, Reploids and advanced androids like X and Zero only view the Three Laws as recommendations at best, and that's before considering the guy who built him didn't really give a damn about the Three Laws to begin with.
Dub Name Change: Dr. Weil in America, Dr. Vile in Japan.
Dystopia Justifies the Means: Upon becoming the ruler of Neo Arcadia, he strives upon bringing suffering and despair to its citizens with his iron-fist rule, to take revenge on them because of what they've done to him ^note. He also admits after brainwashing all Reploids that he genuinely enjoyed the destruction caused by the Elf Wars.
Dying Curse: Dr. Weil expresses shock at being defeated by a "puppet" like Zero, then he calls for Zero to perish forever. Weil did get his wish, as Zero died along with Weil.
Dr. Weil: I... I have been defeated... by a mere puppet! PERISH!!!! BURN IN THE FIRES OF HELL!!!!^note
Emperor Scientist: He becomes ruler of Neo Arcadia halfway through Zero 3.
Enemy Summoner: In his first battle form, Weil can summon illusions of the Weil Numbers one after the other, each using an attack before disappearing.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
- Weil is really, really bad about underestimating Zero, twice (thrice if one counts Zero emerging in a new body in the Elf Wars, and proceeding to defeat Omega with X). Most noticeable is his inability to think that a robot would try to kill a human. Clearly he doesn't realise that Zero doesn't consider himself a hero, and as a Reploid, Zero has no reason not to kill. Then again, as he's immortal, he's probably just using it as an excuse for his ego, and being a Fantastic Racist, he firmly believes that being Three Laws-Compliant is how robots should behave.
- He firmly believes that all humans are as rotten as he is. This is simply because after he was punished for his atrocities, he couldn't accept he did anything wrong so he projected himself onto the rest of humanity.
Evil Chancellor: To Copy-X Mk. II before usurping Neo Arcadia's leadership position.
Evil Counterpart: To Ciel. Both of them are brilliant scientists with expertise on Cyber Elves and Reploid DNA revival. Ciel is the all-loving, gentle leader of the benevolent Resistance who uses her knowledge to solve a massive energy crisis plaguing Neo Arcadia. Weil uses his equally brilliant scientific skill for evil and his own selfish goals, namely causing the Elf Wars, reviving the tyrannical Copy-X, and creating weapons of mass destruction like Omega and Ragnarok.
Evil Laugh: He abuses the hell out of this one. He even uses it to great effect to surprise Zero. It also borderlines Laughing Mad.
Evil Old Folks: Looks like an elderly man under the suit, and as it means he doesn't age he was clearly old during the Elf Wars. By now, he's well over a century.
Evil Plan:
- In the past, the "Project Elpizo" went like this:
1. Thinking that Reploids should be more controllable because of the Maverick problems in the past, he endeavored to create the "perfect Reploid ruler" using Omega and the Mother Elf to turn them all into brainwashed slaves. X and Zero are understandably against this.
2. Undeterred, Weil secretly turned the Mother Elf into the Dark Elf, then created many Baby Elves out of her and used them to turn Reploids into violent psychopaths, starting the Elf Wars. This was just to "prove" that the Maverick issue is still lingering even with the Sigma Virus gone — seeing this, the human government started to throw support to this project.
3. The plan got derailed when Zero, coming in a new body, stole the Dark Elf from his clutches and used it to turn the war in the good guys' favor. He was then forced to release Omega and launch an all-out attack, betraying the human government in the process. The war ended when Zero and X defeated Omega, and after that, Weil got Unwilling Robotization and exiled, and Omega got banished to space.
- His plans to usurp Copy-X's throne in Zero 3:
1. He resurrected and possibly reprogrammed Copy-X, so he can earn his trust and become his Evil Chancellor.
2. He later suggested that Copy-X strip the remaining Four Guardians from their positions as Neo Arcadian Generals and name him their replacement.
3. Later, it was revealed that Weil had built a booby trap upon Copy-X's body that activated when he tried to go One-Winged Angel. After Copy-X's death, Weil can easily become the ruler by law. Additionally, he tells the Neo Arcadian citizens that Zero killed their former "savior" and that Weil will take the Resistance down, spreading the bad propaganda even further. Nice job breaking it, Zero.
- In Zero 4, Dr. Weil's real plan is to destroy Area Zero with Ragnarok; the Eight Warriors are nothing but a diversion, so that the Resistance is stuck fighting the wrong battle. If the Eight Warriors' individual plans worked (acid rain generators, scorching the Area Zero with an artificial sun, etc.), Area Zero is destroyed, and the Resistance with it; if they all fail, there would still be time for Weil to fire his Kill Sat, leaving Area Zero destroyed, and the Resistance with it. In either case, Weil becomes the undisputed ruler of all humanity by wiping out freedom's last hope. Fortunately, Craft rebels against him and then fired the Ragnarok at him, destroying Neo Arcadia in the process.
Evil Sounds Deep: Courtesy of Chikao Ohtsuka.
The Exile: For his part in the whole Elf Wars thing (aside from immortality), Dr. Weil is banished from Neo Arcadia and forced to wander the wastelands.
Expy: Of Doctor Gill. He's even a full-body cyborg, like Gill becomes in Kikaider 01.
Fantastic Racism:
- His only motivation besides For the Evulz or It's All About Me for starting the Elf Wars. He believed that due to all the Maverick problems, it'd be better if the Reploids are given a tighter "leash" so they'll never become Maverick again; this would essentially make them completely sub-human.
- His low opinion of Reploids appears to tie into the way he perceives Zero. Zero's willingness to fight for what's right leads Weil to the mistaken impression that Zero values being "the hero", causing Weil to taunt him and attempt a Breaking Speech at least twice for Zero's failure to uphold a certain image. This is him seeing Zero as a simple, logical creature who only exists to be "heroic", and not a complex person with his own ideals and standards.
Fate Worse than Death: The reason why he was given the regenerating armor in the first place. By the end of the Elf Wars, Dr. Weil was punished by the survivors with immortality, because they thought to imprison him or even to outright execute him was more of an act of mercy or the easy way out to avoid the full punishment for his actions. However, given that this is Weil we're talking about, this punishment backfired horribly and Weil just took advantage of his immortality.
Final Boss: In Zero 4. He is also the final boss of the Zero saga.
Flight: He's always seen floating. Since his legs are never shown, one wonders if he doesn't have legs, and thus is always floating, with an unseen device.
Flying Dutchman: Of the "Men Without A Country" variety.
Foreshadowing: After you fight Omega in the intro, Weil gives a challenge to Zero:
Weil: Let's see how far you get with that body!
Free-Fall Fight: The final battle takes place on a Colony Drop aiming to destroy the Earth. Zero has to defeat him and destroy the satellite under a time limit.
Freudian Excuse:
- Tried to invoke this before the climax battle of Zero 4, citing his decades of exile from human society. However, it's his ruthless actions that caused his exile in the first place, showing just how irredeemably selfish Weil is.
- His motivation for starting the Elf Wars was that he believed the Reploids engaged in the Maverick Wars had been foolish for causing such massive destruction over the last century. But this loses its credentials when you realized that most of those Mavericks (even Sigma) were influenced by the virus, so they can't be fully blamed for their own actions, and the rest of the viruses were purged by X's actions with the Mother Elf anyway. And he's actually hiding an agenda behind it: when he claimed that he wants to make Reploids more controllable with Project Elpizo (combining the Dark Elf with Omega to create a Mass Hypnosis effect), his real intention was to forcefully exert control over the world through Reploids.
From a Single Cell: With his regenerative armor. He also had his mind converted into data. This partially gives him Joker Immunity as well.
Full-Conversion Cyborg: While several notable humans from the X series and earlier Zero games had at least some mechanical parts attached to their bodies, Weil is the first human to have his entire body replaced by machinery, with even his skin and hair being presumably just artifical. He's no Brain in a Jar or Wetware CPU either, as his mind and memories were outright converted to data and downloaded into his new body just to ensure he couldn't smash any fleshy bits to kill himself. The conversion was so thorough that he managed to endure centuries stuck inside wrecked pieces of his own Kill Sat scattered across the globe.

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Genius Loci: A mechanical variant in his final form, where he essentially merges with the Ragnarok satellite itself.
Giant Hands of Doom: as a Continuity Nod, they seem similar to the ones from Omega's first form.
Gold and White Are Divine: Subverted. His battle form has a lot of white and gold on it, yet he's utterly evil.
Go Mad from the Isolation: It's implied that spending a hundred years alone in the post-apocalyptic world did this to him. Not that he was all that sane originally, though the isolation couldn't have helped.
Greater-Scope Villain: While he sets up many major bad things in the Zero series, he's never fought or involved directly; only in Zero 3 onward did he show up in person and play the Big Bad role more actively (and even then, he's only fought directly in the fourth game). He's also implied to be The Man Behind the Man to both Serpent and Master Albert in the ZX series as Model W.
Hate Sink: While most antagonists in the Zero series are written to have some redeeming qualities^note, Dr. Weil seems to be made to be as loathsome as possible. He's an enormous and self-admitted Sadist, wants to make all humanity and Reploids suffer and has nothing but contempt for anyone who isn't him (Omega being an odd exception) while everyone in-universe despises him. He also refuses to ever admit he's wrong and blames the world for punishing him after he destroyed most of it. Instead he views all humanity as monsters for punishing him, and his cruel actions in the backstory only solidify how irredeemably selfish and hypocritical he is, so that taking him down is all the more satisfying.
Heal Thyself: One of his abilities, where he conjures four green orbs that he then absorbs to restore his health by about ten points each. He can use this move several times in a row, but luckily not only is he vulnerable at this time to attacks, the orbs themselves can be destroyed.
Healing Factor: His cyborg body has incredible regenerative abilities, to the point it completely stopped his aging process and let him escape getting a Kill Sat shot onto his head with enough force to level a city and kill millions with nothing to really show for it once Zero meets up with him again aside from the glass casing on his head being destroyed. Even when he and Zero throw down for the final battle, his first loss has him exploding like a normal boss, yet by the next scene he's back up, albeit badly damaged^note. When Weil tries to make the damaged Ragnarok station do a Colony Drop, he madly cackles that he'll be the only thing that survives the destruction. It takes Zero killing his second form and making the Ragnarok station tear apart and burn up in the atmosphere to finally bring him down, and it still lets him return as an Artifact of Doom.
He Who Fights Monsters: For all the acts of revenge he pulls on both humanity and the Reploids, he completely ignores the fact that he has become what he hates the most: a Maverick, in all definitions of the word. Even more poignant when you take into account that he becomes the cause of new Maverick outbreaks in ZX as Biometal Model W/V.
Hoist by His Own Petard:
- A subversion: he's the prime target of his own Kill Sat used by his own Dragon, yet he survives.
- His merging with Ragnarok ultimately allows Zero to kill him for good (at least until ZX rolls around).
- According to Mega Man X Dive info, he was the one that built Zero's copy body!
Hope Crusher: Weil intends to keep the masses under his iron-fisted rule, and with Operation Ragnarok he plans to destroy new habitats as an example to dissuade any notion of escape. When all else fails, he also makes sure that both the Resistance and the Caravan are well aware that Ragnarok is now on a collision course with Area Zero because he believes there is no way for them to stop it.
Humanoid Abomination: He is, chronologically speaking, the first cyborg in the standard Mega Man timeline, and while his cybernetic body can look more horrifically deteriorated after injury, he is still effectively both Nigh-Invulnerable and The Ageless, despite originally being human.
Humans Are the Real Monsters: He claims that humans are the only ones with the capability to truly enjoy control and manipulation, and are essentially as heartless as him. Zero gives him a Kirk Summation because he is likely projecting himself onto mankind.
Hypocrite: Claims that all humans only live to control and manipulate — which applies to him more than anybody else.
In Case of Boss Fight, Break Glass: Guess what his second form's weak spot is. Justified since that's where his head (likely all that's left of him that's remotely human) is located.
Immortality Immorality: Although his morals were already dubious before being "cursed", he still degraded further down the line for his initial desire to die.
Irony: Weil wants to control all Reploids and make them subservient to his will, while casually disregarding all of them and killing those that get in his way without blinking so much as an eye thanks to his Fantastic Racism. The one exception he absolutely lavishes with praise and glory is Omega, who doesn't even have an identity so much as existing like a force of nature, follows Weil's whims with no objections and likely has no room for any true sentient thought of his own. It's to the point that Weil refers to Omega as a God, almost as if worshiping his own pawn while constantly mocking the very Zero that made that original body go through its paces in the first place.
It's All About Me: What sets him apart from other villains across the entire 'verse; he's a deconstruction of this behavior by taking it to its logical extremes. There is absolutely nothing redeemable about his behavior, and his mentality only makes it worse.
Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Originally Weil was merely a brilliant human scientist and survivor of the Maverick Wars, incensed at the idea that the Mother Elf would simply delete the virus and life would move on. Once his plans to steal the Mother Elf and use a False Flag Operation of a new generation of Mavericks so humans would jump to controlling the Reploids got foiled by Zero, however, the power at his disposal got to his head; instead of cowing or running off like Dr. Wily, he wiped out 60% of the already-dwindled human population and over 90% of the reploids in the world out of spite.
Just a Machine: How he tries to justify his actions in the beginning, feeling Reploids were let off easy because of how useful they were. This also seems to be the major reason he keeps insisting Omega is the "real" Zero while Zero is just a fake. After all, Omega has Zero's original body, while Zero is just his mind and "heart", things that Weil obviously believes Reploids don't have, downloaded into a copy body and at best just means he's an inferior reproduction of what he used to be.
Karma Houdini Warranty: Is The Unfought in Zero 3, and despite his plans with Omega and the Mother Elf being foiled, he still rules Neo Arcadia in the end and proceeds to make the empire a living hell for its citizens. Only in the next game did Zero finally kill him.
Kill Sat: The actual point of Ragnarok in Zero 4; merging with Ragnarok's core as the Final Boss, he could probably be the Kill Sat himself if he didn't have to deal with Zero first.
Knight of Cerebus: He's far more of a menace than any of the villains before him. Zero 3 gets much darker, the usual 8 bosses are now brainwashed by Weil and become downright evil, and he starts inflicting far more acts of evil than any villain before him in the franchise (and that's not even counting his backstory!). As if the previous games weren't dark already...
Lack of Empathy: Showed absolutely no regrets with triggering the catastrophic Elf Wars, which wiped out 60% of humanity and 90% of all Reploids — and that's just the Backstory — and he's planning on starting it again by using Omega and the Dark Elf to brainwash Reploids before trying to destroy the Last Fertile Region through such methods as acid rain, particle cannons, Kill Sat, and Colony Drop out of spite for the humans who would escape his rule. He also admitted that...
Weil: (To Neige) He heh heh... that's the face... the face of rage, suffering, and humiliation... it's my greatest pleasure... a pleasure only a ruler can fully appreciate!
Leitmotif: "Curse of Vile" in Zero 3, "Fate" in Zero 4 and the ZX series.
Loves the Sound of Screaming: Implied with his reason for leaving Crea and Prea to fight Zero:
Dr. Weil: Humans are like pigs, dependent upon the Reploids for their very existence... you do realize, don't you, that if I felt like it, I could wipe all humans out in the blink of an eye?
(Weil teleports out of the room.)
Dr. Weil: Crea! Prea! Do with this one as you please! I've got some pig squeals to enjoy. The squeals of indolent pigs, wasting their pitiful lives on idle pursuits.
Luke, I Am Your Father: According to "Vile Incident: Eden Dome: It's Sin And Rebirth", Dr. Weil was the one who created the Eight Gentle Judges in the first place, which gives a pretty big realization as to why they chose to exile Omega rather than execute/retire him, and probably why the populace decided to go vigilante on him.
Mad Scientist: Really mad. This guy literally makes Dr. Wily look like a saint in comparison.
The Man Behind the Monsters: He's the only human behind Neo Arcadia in Zero 3, and later Operation Ragnarok, while his underlings are all Reploids. Not that he's fully human anymore, anyway, either in the literal or the moral sense.
Mechanical Abomination: As a cyborg, he is able to merge with the floating core of Ragnarok, but still retains a more-or-less humanoid appearance. He then further merges with the outer hull, which turns him into a colossal monstrosity, neither really human nor machine. This form persists throughout the ZX series as well in the form of Model W.
Misanthrope Supreme: He doesn't just lack any respect for ANYTHING (apart from Omega), he flat-out loathes everyone and everything.
Misplaced Retribution: He felt that due to the atrocities that the Mavericks have caused, all Reploids are inherently dangerous and should be controlled (read: having their wills taken out of them when necessary). This includes innocent Reploids and Maverick Hunters.
Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Played oddly — it is made especially clear that he was completely, unambiguously evil.
Moral Myopia:
- He claims that humanity deserves destruction because of what they did to him, ignoring the fact that it's his wrongdoings that led them to punish him in the first place.
- He also accuses them for exiling him in the name of "justice" while they're acting outside of the laws. Little did they know that the judges are actually Weil's creations.
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: His original Japanese name is Vile. Intentionally changed so that he won't be confused with Mega Man X's Vile.
Named After Somebody Famous:
- Possibly after Ray Kurzweil. Might not just be a coincidence, considering that guy is an author on several books about transhumanism and technological singularity, things that Weil is a master of.
- Just like Dr. Wily is named after Albert Einstein, Weil is named after Jakob Weil, who was the earliest known ancestor of the man himself.
Necromancer: His specialty is in DNA Resurrection, and it is also implied that Copy-X, Hanumachine, Necromancess, and Blizzack Staggroff's return was through this method.
Never My Fault: Refuses to accept what he did during the Elf Wars was actually wrong, and that his punishment was brought upon himself. He considers justice a "worthless ideal" solely because the humans that drove him away claimed to do so in the name of justice, completely disregarding the very justified reason as to why they ran him out in the first place.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
- Because the Elf Wars survivors made Dr. Weil immortal, they gave him a chance to enact revenge against the rest of the populace a hundred years later.
- And later because of his regenerative armor he became a Artifact of Doom in the ZX series, which caused further chaos and mayhem by creating Mavericks (ironic since Dr. Weil hates Mavericks more than anything else). Nice Job Breaking It Survivors indeed.
Non-Action Big Bad: When he first appears; averted by the end of Zero 4 when he merges with the Ragnarok core.
No One Could Survive That!: He was the target of a Kill Sat that levelled an entire city.
Not So Invincible After All: When he reveals to have survived the Ragnarok at the end of Zero 4, he says it's because his cybernetics allow him not only to never age but also render him effectively invincible, to the point that he'd personally oversee the Colony Drop of Ragnarok onto Area Zero and still end up surviving anyway. However, after he merges with the core and then outer hull of Ragnarok, Zero destroys the satellite and Weil along with it, proving that yes, even this seemingly invincible abomination of nature can still be killed. Though the ZX series shows he's sort of still around as the Artifact of Doom, Model W.
Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Back when he pitched Project Elpizo (creating the perfect Reploid to be used with the Mother Elf so he can control Reploids worldwide) to the masses, he claimed that it's to prevent Reploids from going Maverick ever again. His true intention, however, was simply to take over the world through mass Reploid brainwashing. The problem was, well, the world had already rid itself of most Mavericks thanks to X using Mother Elf, so nothing exactly justified his "concern". So he creates the Evil Plan that leads to the Elf Wars. His true intentions were only made clear once Zero in a new copy body stole the Dark Elf from him and he was forced to unleash Omega and other controlled Reploids on the masses.
Obviously Evil: Oh boy is he ever. Even before he reveals his true colors, it's clear that he's bad news, so much so that everyone in-universe can tell. He doesn't do much to hide it either.
Omnicidal Maniac: Doesn't even begin to describe his depravity. He even admits that destroying everyone would only be a fleeting satisfaction.
One-Winged Angel: Done twice! In this case, it's a Painful Transformation, with Weil screaming (at least in Drama Tracks) as tubes jam into his back, spewing copious amounts of blood (censored in English versions, of course), and also says something that translates from Japanese roughly to either "Do you see this pain!? YOU'D NEVER UNDERSTAND ANY OF IT!!" or "Do you understand pain such as this?!" The Official Complete Works even claim that it's an abomination of a final form.
Phlebotinum Rebel: An extremely rare evil version — immortality allowed him to return to terrorize the world even after he should have been annihilated by a Kill Sat, and even after his actual death, his regenerative powers keep him a viable threat as Model W.
Politically Incorrect Villain: He believes that Reploids are nothing more than machines, don’t deserve to be treated like people, and initially started the Elf Wars out of a belief that all Reploids needed to pay for the crimes committed by Mavericks. Of course after being made into an immortal robot and exiled for a century, his hatred for Reploids morphed into a general hatred for all life.
Powered Armor: The first time as The Punishment for his Elf Wars fiasco, effectively making him immortal and resentful, and the second fusing himself with the Ragnarok core, which counts as his One-Winged Angel prior to the real One-Winged Angel.
Psychopathic Manchild: Very, very, VERY much so. When made immortal, Weil's mentality can only be described as being that of an overgrown child, being incredibly self-centered, petty beyond belief, refusing to acknowledge that everything is his fault, doing things on a whim, and what sell this are his attempts to annihilate everyone and everything during the finale, which are nothing but a genocidal temper tantrum he throws as a result of his plans going awry...which were originally making everybody do what he wants.
The Punishment: He was given immortality and exiled as punishment for starting the Elf Wars. All that accomplished was allowing an incredibly evil mad scientist to stay alive.
Rasputinian Death: Let's see, he is caught at the epicenter of Ragnarok's laser fire, survived that only with some minor damage to his body, was cut and shot at by Zero after merging with Ragnarok's core before revealing his survival, before merging with Ragnarok itself, and he implies that he'll survive Ragnarok's crash. Even when Zero defeats him and averts the crash, he manages to live on as Model W in various fragments across the globe, and was implied to have possessed Serpent, Master Albert and Master Thomas, before meeting his (possibly) final end with Albert's destruction. If he's still alive, that means whatever's left of him is condemned to rot as wreckage at the bottom of the ocean, presumably forever.
Reactor Boss: In both forms, since he's merged with the core of the Ragnarok.
Red and Black and Evil All Over: Just look at his armor!
Red Eyes, Take Warning: It's unknown whether his eyes were red before his cyborg transformation at the conclusion of the Elf Wars, but they certainly were red afterwards, as his disfiguration resulting from his surviving Ragnarok's bombardment of Neo Arcadia revealed.
The Reveal:
- In the third game, he reveals that Zero's body is a copy and that Omega uses the real, original one.
- In the fourth game, he reveals that he's immortal due to his enhancements.
Sadist: He admits that during the Elf Wars, he personally enjoyed the mass slaughter and devastation brought by his Dragon Omega, and in the present enjoys watching "pigs squeal." In Zero 4, he makes life in Neo Arcadia horrible and takes glee in the idea of destroying nature.
Sadistic Choice: Presents one to Neige in Zero 4, saying that she can either stay and die in Area Zero for "freedom" or follow Craft's example to become of one his followers, admitting afterwards that he doesn't care one way or another. Of course, Neige throws a small sphere that blinds both Weil and Craft while Zero slashes a hole in the floor with his Z-Saber, allowing the pair to escape.
Shoulders of Doom: He gains one after he merges with the Ragnarok's core.
So Proud of You: The only being he ever speaks genuinely favorably about is Omega, and never once does he insult or insinuate something horrible about him. You can almost imagine the pride in his voice as he claims that Omega is a god, not a slave, and that all he did was draw out his full potential. While justified (because that's what he used to wreck the world before), it's quite jarring, given his usual attitude to every other being in existence.
The Sociopath: One of the few villains in the franchise that could qualify. Everyone's a disposable pawn to him, and he refuses to let anything that he can't control exist.
Spell My Name With An S: Vile in Japanese, Weil in English (most likely deliberate, given the fact that there was already a character prior to him named Vile). Luckily they're pronounced the same, preserving the implications.
Straw Nihilist: Prior to the final battle with Zero, he goes into an immense rant about how justice and freedom are "worthless ideals", and even goes as far as to dismiss ideals themselves as nothing more than nonsense in his pre-battle quote.
Tactical Suicide Boss: His second form is a Time-Limit Boss, and he has a small but effective shield that he opens when he's going to use his stronger attacks. With all that, if only he never opened that shielding, he'd be unbeatable and still be alive when the Ragnarok successfully crashes. Then again, given how sadistic he is, and the fact that he believes that he'll still make it through alive as he crashes down, this is pretty much in character.
Take Over the World: In Zero 3, he succeeds.
Teleport Spam: In his first form.
There Is No Kill Like Overkill: When Zero defeats Weil in the final battle, it causes the Ragnarok to blow up, taking himself (Zero) along with it. If that didn't destroy Weil, then the re-entry in the atmosphere would have. Sadly, it didn't stop Weil from returning as an Artifact of Doom McGuffin a hundred years later... but luckily, perhaps so did Zero as, you guessed it, Model Z.
This Cannot Be!: His last words pretty much say this, followed by a Dying Curse^note.
Three Laws-Compliant: Weil attempts to use this as a self-defense from Zero, as he deems any Reploid breaking the three laws is considered a Maverick. Did it work? Hahahahaha... NO. This is actually Fridge Brilliance on several levels. Weil isn't human anymore, literally or figuratively. While X and his progeny weren't hard-coded for compliance to the Three Laws (as they are meant to be able to think for themselves), they are expected to reasonably follow them. Zero, being a Dr. Wily creation, wasn't — in fact his mere existence was the underlying reason for the original Maverick Virus to begin with. This also stems from Weil's distorted view that Reploids don't deserve their individuality in the first place.
Time-Limit Boss: Zero has two minutes to kill Weil's One-Winged Angel form before Ragnarok reaches the point of no return and destroys Area Zero.
Tin Tyrant: He's decked in full body armor that also serves as his life support, and he becomes a tyrant king halfway through the third game.
Tyrant Takes the Helm: Pulls this upon Copy-X's death in Zero 3. It is by that point that the utopia for humans that is Neo Arcadia has turned into a dystopia for them too.
Underestimating Badassery: Despite his fully being aware of Zero's combat potential, having been thwarted by him and X once in the past, and his personal ownership of Omega who also got defeated before, Weil repeatedly underestimates the lengths Zero will go to defeat him again while mocking him along the way. Part of this can be chalked up to his insane ego, at least; Weil doesn't skimp on defenses and powerful entities to block Zero's path. It ultimately culminates in his Fantastic Racism causing him to proclaim Zero doesn't have what it takes to kill a human...says the man who is effectively data in an artificial body at this point to a free-thinking robot not bound to any sort of robotic laws, while daring him at a point that can jeopardize his plans.
The Unfought: In Zero 3. Which makes the long-awaited fight with him in Zero 4 all the more epic, climactic, and cathartic.
Unperson: He was so heinous that all records of him have been suppressed by Neo Arcadia, to the extent that libraries containing records of his actions have been flooded and anyone who finds out about him is declared a Maverick. Of course, this is intended to prevent anyone from doing what he did again.
Uriah Gambit: Inverted, as he sets up Copy-X Mk. II against Zero fully expecting Zero to defeat and kill the copy just as he did the original or for the bomb inside Copy-X to go off the moment he grew desperate enough to use his Seraph form against Zero, while simultaneously leaving the base with Omega to deprive Copy-X of back-up. Even if Zero didn't kill Copy-X Mk. II or if he somehow won without using his transformation, Copy-X would no doubt fly into a rage at learning of his betrayal and use his Seraph form anyway to fight Omega, thus killing him anyways.
Viler New Villain: The last villain of the series, and by far the most evil of the lot. The previous antagonists all had noble intentions and/or sympathetic backstories. By contrast, Weil isn't sympathetic in any way, and wants to make life a living nightmare for mankind and Reploids alike. Any delving into his backstory only further establishes what a selfish and terrible person he is.
Villain Ball:
- The Resistance would have learned too late of the Colony Drop if it weren't for the fact that Weil fired a "warning shot" from Ragnarok long after it was believed that no one would man it anymore. In other words, Weil would've actually succeeded in his plans if it weren't for that little fact. This is in character for him and his motivations; he doesn't want to destroy humanity but enslave and torment it. The warning shot was to make sure everyone had enough time to leave Area Zero. Naturally, this backfires and Zero kills him.
- His speech before the final battle implies he wanted Zero to try and stop him, just to show him that he couldn't. That's all well and good, but Weil really knows absolutely nothing about Zero.
Villain Decay: Notably averted compared to Wily and Sigma. The past villains got hit with this hard due to reappearing as the Big Bad and getting defeated over and over in their respective series, Weil never even made an appearance until The Stinger of the second game, and the player never got to fight him until the fourth and final game and he still managed to take Zero with him, killing him for good...to some extent.
Villain with Good Publicity: Subverted — as revealed by drama tracks, most of the populace were completely distrusting of him, so he has a plan (see Evil Plan) that would make Zero and La Résistance look bad, making him the "hero". Upon his ascension into Neo Arcadia's leader, though, he further demonstrates to the people (and Zero) how much of a monster he truly was.
Villain Has a Point: Despite his megalomaniacal personality and making the lives of Neo Arcadia's people a living hell, he points out that Craft's plan to destroy Neo Arcadia with his own Ragnarok satellite would kill many humans and Reploids living under his control, though Craft tells him to stuff it.
Water Torture: A very horrifying portable version. See that suit he's wearing? It's topped off with a glass cone with his head inside, and fluid filling the rest of it. He's constantly and eternally drowning, denied death by his regenerative armor.
Wave-Motion Gun: In his second phase, he will charge and fire these in two variations: The first has him fire from near the top of the screen down almost to the floor, and then he'll charge another one to rake the floor back up near the top of the screen. Zero can avoid the first laser by dashing underneath it, but he'll need to grab Weil's giant horn to avoid the second laser. The second variation has him only charging and firing one laser blast when Zero is caught in an energy net.
What Is Evil?: At the end of Zero 4, Weil claims that Zero could never kill a human. Unfortunately for Weil, Zero considered himself anything but a hero (and he hardly considers Weil human, either).
Who Wants to Live Forever?: Dr. Weil is neither human nor Reploid. The armor he's wearing is self-regenerating, preventing him from dying and aging, and, coupled with an eternal exile on the World Half Empty, is punishment for "remaking" the world in the first place. This further fueled Weil's hatred; initially, he only targeted Reploids, but after gaining control of Neo Arcadia, he does everything he can to make everyone suffer.
You Are What You Hate: At the end of the day, Weil's crimes shaped him into exactly what he hates the most: A Reploid.
You Monster!: After Zero defeats Pegasolta Eclair, Ciel wonders if Weil could possibly still be human in a spiritual sense. For an answer, he goes back and forth on referring to himself as "human" in a hypocritical way to justify himself, and calling himself the devil.

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