Trivia / Bob and George

• Ascended Fanon: Several examples. The most notable are:
  • The explanation for Mega Man's Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass behavior came about after some fans pointed out an earlier strip that indirectly/inadvertently gave an explanation. Dave Anez liked it and made it canon.
  • Bob's scarf being burned and tattered due to his suit being a scorched Proto Man costume was a minor detail that fans made up. Anez thought it was clever and included it.
  • Bob and Georges last name being Anderson after a Matrix joke. Some fans thought it was catchy and the Author decided to keep it for lack of any better suggestions.
• Permanent Placeholder: Originally, the adventures of the various Mega Man (Classic) characters were just a placeholder for the author's actual webcomic, but eventually the sprites ended up running for almost 7 years, and the title characters ended up part of the sprite comic.
• Refitted for Sequel: Mynd was supposed to read the comic to catch up on the plot before starting his invasion, but this was scrapped due to the pacing issues it caused. A later arc featured Non-Alternate Mynd trouncing the characters, due to the fact that he decided to read the comic to study the heroes.
• Word of Dante: This comic is responsible for the "Cataclysm" theory in the Mega Man fandom, AKA the idea that none of the Classic-series characters are around by the time of Mega Man X because Zero murdered them all. Despite being treated as canon, the former head of the franchise has vehemently insisted this is not the case, and there's been some canon evidence that the classic cast is still alive in the X timeline.^note For example, in the Updated Re-release of Mega Man X3, Auto can be seen in a building in one of the cutscenes.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Mynd was originally supposed to read the comic in his spare time during his arrival, but this was cut because it made the arc a little longer and killed the pacing. The "lost" comics can be found here.
  • As anyone who's read at least a year into the comic can tell, Anez's original plan for the comic was to start normal and then develop it into a hand-drawn superhero/sitcom hybrid revolving around the titular characters. A brief summary of how it would've turned out is extensively shown at the end of the seventh year.
  • During the earlier arcs, David Anez toyed with the idea that Mega Man actually was Obfuscating Stupidity the whole time. As in "I was always smarter than I seemed. I just wanted to screw with my enemies." However, David eventually decided that this idea would severely hurt the main source of comedy (seeing Mega Man act like an idiot when you know he's not just isn't as funny) and made him a genuine idiot who would only act smart when in fighting mode.
  • Heat Man was going to be defeated with Mega Man firing a Crash Bomb inside his ass◊. The author later realized this was too explicit, so he changed this to Mega Man shoving a Crash Bomb down Heat Man's throat instead.

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