Headscratchers / Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X

• So, what the hell was up with Sigma? Throughout the whole game, he's constantly talking about how X is the future of Reploids and how much potential he has, yet he constantly tries to kill him either directly or by sending out the Mechaniloids/Mavericks. If he thinks X is the salvation of the Reploid Race, why is he so intent on destroying him and making sure he's gone for good? Even if it's to test his strength, when X dies, he explodes and gets incinerated! Not much to analyze then, huh?
  • If X fails, it simply means that Sigma's theories about X are wrong. And thus he can go back to forcing his definition of evolution on the rest of the reploids.
  • It is also possible that Sigma sees himself as a Trickster Mentor to X, if his potential is as good as everyone says then Sigma would definitely want him to develop it at his fullest as both a proof of Reploid superiority towards humans and as something all other reploids should have, and so he pushes X to his absolute limit so he can constantly surpass said limit and eventually turn him into his Dragon, if X succeeds then his potential is true and worth developing, if he fails and dies, then his potential wasn't so limitless and it was better to get rid of that fake messiah who was getting in his way, either way Sigma wins, as how he was planing to convert X to his side or transfer his potential to other reploids, well...
  • Sigma might be trying to force this "evolution" that X is supposed to go though. The way evolution works in nature is that creatures change, adapt, and become stronger as they fight to survive. Getting X involved in the conflict will force him to either adapt, or die.