History Headscratchers / MegaMan

* Why didn't Mega Man kill Wily in ''7''? Dr. Light programmed his robots with Asimov's Laws, which means he also included a very important one: the Zeroth Law. This Law states that any time a human is endangering other humans, a robot is given license to incapacitate the human through whatever means necessary. Wily has been, is, and will be a threat both to humans and robots. Mega Man, at the end of ''7'', wanted to kill Wily in both versions. If he wanted to, he could've just manipulated his own programming into allowing him to do so in order to ensure that nobody else would be endangered by Wily's schemes. Hell, at the beginning of the game, it shows a giant robot destroying quite a bit of the city. It's just sort of strange how people say that there wasn't any way for Mega Man to do the deed when there was one, albeit with some creativity on his part.
** It's possible that Mega Man doesn't have either the Zeroth Law programmed in or the mental dexterity to come around to that answer. Light may have been savvy enough to know that the Zeroth Law is pretty damned easy to abuse by a sufficiently intelligent robot and he favored intelligence over flexibility. I know in his shoes I would vastly prefer a robot smart enough to to find a way to defeat Wily without hurting him than a robot that might decide that Wily's rivalry with me is the problem and thus that I am endangering other humans. Fiction is filled with robots that have rationalized out that the most dangerous things to humans are other humans and worked from there. Also while it is stated that a robot cannot kill a human we don't know if Mega Man robots are actually three law compliant or some completely new variant that happens to include no killing humans.
* Okay, once and for all. Can Rush talk or not?

*** The answer could be "YES" because ''the exact moment of Wily's betrayal'' at the beginning of the classic Mega Man saga was never canonically portrayed. Instead of waiting ''12 games in a row'', Wily could've done it much earlier - ''at the beginning of the entire goddamn Mega Man series'' - by saying something like this: "Thomas, you never respected me, you refused to acknowledge my achievements, you never gave credits on projects I helped you develop... We are no longer friends, fuck you!"

* In Mega Man 11, Dr. Light ''personally'' goes into the Gear Fortress to talk with Wily after the latter is defeated. This is quite unusual situation, but it also raises some questions:
** [=1st=]: '''Why Light had never done this before?'''

** [=4th=]: '''Is Wily himself ''now'' decides to brush off Light?'''

** '''Crazy-Prepared-yet-Nonexcludable Explanation''': Dr. Wily might ''knew exactly where to stand if the castle self-destructs''. Maybe the block that fell onto him was in no way that hard: is it made from styrofoam and masked as such, or something? Quite ridiculous, but let's take into account that Wily is a '''Mad Scientist'''. So mad, in fact, that he can make up [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment back-up plan for his back-up plan and add another back-up plan on top of it]] (sounds like Batman on steriods, only on the Dark Side). This version might sound believable.

* ''How Dr. Wily survived the aftermath of Mega Man 3''? We can clearly see that he was '''CRUSHED TO DEATH''' by falling bricks. Watching the ending scene and then suddenly noticing Wily's UFO flying away in the background only indicates that ''he just did''. No explanation whatsoever. We can only think and make some asumptions.
** '''Plausible-and-Logical Explanation''': Maybe Wily decided to pull yet another trick with decoys. Sounds quite logical: leave the final battle with Gamma and put a dummy in his place. Mega Man still couldn't differentiate this "Dr. Wily" from a real deal, because he was crushed under a rocks moments after said decoy perishes.
** '''Batshit-Crazy-and-Ridiculous Explanation''': There is no way that the old man like Dr. Wily could be alive after being ''squashed by large fucking rock''! From the chronological standpoint of Mega Man series, the mad doctor must be in his 50s at best; thus his physical condition ''is not in his prime''. Yet the fact that he ''survives'' couldn't mean anything other than Dr. Wily suddenly having super-durability akin to Hulk.
** '''Crazy-Prepared-yet-Nonexcludable Explanation''': Dr. Wily might ''knew exactly where to stand if the castle self-destructs''. Maybe the block that fell onto him was in no way that hard: is it made from styrofoam and masked as such or something? Quite ridiculous, but let's take into account that Wily is a '''Mad Scientist'''. So mad, in fact, that he can make up [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment back-up plan for his back-up plan and add another back-up plan on top of it]] (sounds like Batman on steriods, only that Wily on the Dark Side). This version might sound quite believable.
*** What makes this worse is that Mega Man 3 itself was quite incomplete according to Creator/KeijiInafune and his team. The development was so stress-inducing that it might be rushed. And thus, there was no time for devs to explain Wily's unexpected survival.

* Why are all the Dr. Light Robot Masters humanoid? I mean, in the case of Rock and Roll, who are meant to be assistants, it makes sense. Same for Proto Man, who was a test to see if they could get the concept right, and a few others. But Fire Man, who's supposed to be an incinerator? Cut Man, who's just supposed to cut down trees? Galaxy Man, who's function was to calculate rocket trajectories, something that could be just as easily done by a computer that [[SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids wouldn't spawn all-consuming black holes if it got pissed off?]] Not to mention that for the more industrial robots like the aforementioned Cut Man, wouldn't being in a small, humanoid form decrease their productivity and make them outclassed by technology we have in RealLife present time? I can buy it for the Wily bots, which were designed mostly to go toe-to-toe with Mega Man, but robots actually designed for work? And why give them advanced AI if they're just going to be mass-produced for menial work? Bah, maybe I'm just looking too much into it, [[JustBugsMe but...]]

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** A quick search shows it's the name of an ancient Japanese imperial capital, and someone named Keiji Fujiwara is a Japanese voice actor who voiced Gate in VideoGame/MegaManX6, and Bass in Mega Man Network Transmission. Without asking the writer, it'd be impossible to say why he picked "Fujiwara" in particular, but I really don't think he didn't know it was Monsteropolis, because he had done considerable research before making the movie ''and'' said movie includes tracks from TheMegas' first album, whose third track is "Annihilation of Monsteropolis." The fact remains, that "Monsteropolis" is frankly not a city name that's going to be taken seriously in a feature-length, live-action movie.

*** [[MSPaintMasterpieces That comic]] is so awesome. Here's hoping he finishes it.

** Considering what his personality is like in [[MegaManPoweredUp the remake]], he probably thought he didn't need it.

** [[spoiler: Remember all [[ContinuityNod the money he hoodwinked people out of in 9?]] :spoiler]]
** [[spoiler: First time I saw it, I assumed the beggining of the dark part just got an antenna that pointed straight up to a geostationary satelite, so most of the line you see forming is just Mega Man teleporting in wave form :spoiler]]

*** Time. Working from the above, we can assume that either Dr. Wily stole and deleted Dr. Light's data files, or perhaps caused some damage to his lab during his escape. Sure, given time, Dr. Light could rebuild and reprogram the various weapons, but Wily was out causing mayhem with his bots right now, so he had to make do wih Mega Man's weapon absorption ability.

** Not to mention Light did eventually design eight (and then some) more robots.

*** Actually, the robots in 10 were driven mad by Wily's Roboenza virus. They were probably only listed with DWN serial numbers so Capcom wouldn't have to name their creators.

** The database entry for the [=VMettaur=] in [[VideoGame/MegaManZXAdvent]] states that Mets have been proposed for amusement park mascots. Maybe people just got really attached to the adorable little mooks.

** Let's break this down in another way. Throughout the Mega Man games, Mega Man is nearly killed repeatedly, only to be bailed out at the last second by a BigDamnHeroes moment. This usually happens because Mega Man, by himself, lacks the mobility to get himself out of danger quickly, a problem that his slide only partially solves. The last straw would've come in ''Mega Man 8'', when Mega Man is nearly killed because he couldn't avoid being grabbed by Wily's guard robot. In ''Mega Man 9'' and onward, his slide is being repurposed into a multi-function onboard mobility system to escape these situations, and his Mega Buster is receiving a massive upgrade to its offensive and utility capabilities to further improve survivability. All upgrades that Mega Man's [[MegaManX successor]] would put to liberal use in the sequel series.

** A quick search shows it's the name of an ancient Japanese imperial capital, and someone named Keiji Fujiwara is a Japanese voice actor who voiced Gate in VideoGame/MegaManX 6, and Bass in Mega Man Network Transmission. Without asking the writer, it'd be impossible to say why he picked "Fujiwara" in particular, but I really don't think he didn't know it was Monsteropolis, because he had done considerable research before making the movie ''and'' said movie includes tracks from TheMegas' first album, whose third track is "Annihilation of Monsteropolis." The fact remains, that "Monsteropolis" is frankly not a city name that's going to be taken seriously in a feature-length, live-action movie.

*** No, they changed they name because a higher-up (Director of Marketing or something like that) hated the name. What a [[IncrediblyBadPun nameass]].

** Considering that the last time he used such a tactic, he [[PaperThinDisguise put on a fake beard, sunglasses and posed as Mr. X]], this plot at least makes it so that Dr. Light can't help Mega Man. It's quite obvious that Dr. Light didn't even have enough time to reinstate the Charge Shot or Slide to Rock before the police were on his tail. Take note that [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou Bass]] is [[PutOnABus mysteriously absent]]. Wily has gotten GenreSavvy.

** It's possible that Mega Man doesn't have either the Zeroth Law programmed in or the mental dexterity to come around to that answer. Light may have been GenreSavvy enough to know that the Zeroth Law is pretty damned easy to abuse by a sufficiently intelligent robot and he favored intelligence over flexibility. I know in his shoes I would vastly prefer a robot smart enough to to find a way to defeat Wily without hurting him than a robot that might decide that Wily's rivalry with me is the problem and thus that I am endangering other humans. Fiction is filled with robots that have rationalized out that the most dangerous things to humans are other humans and worked from there. Also while it is stated that a robot cannot kill a human we don't know if Mega Man robots are actually three law compliant or some completely new variant that happens to include no killing humans.