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Title: Quick Question
Post by: Slash Man on March 01, 2009, 03:57:13 AM
Just wondering: would the Sega Saturn version of Mega Man 8 be uncanon because the other version was featured in the Anniversary Collection? I'm confused because in Mega Man 7, they were advertizing Cut Man's return, and even showed where he and Wood Man potentially broke out of the Robot Museum.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Flame on March 01, 2009, 03:59:31 AM
I dont know... after all, the saturn version was supposed to be the only version... I would consider those fights canon... but since they are bonus fights, im not sure... kind of like Omega in ZX.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Bag of Magic Food on March 01, 2009, 05:26:18 AM
Fighting CutMan again seems strange now because I thought the MegaRockMan 1 robots were supposed to have turned good after that game, but I guess there could be evil copies.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Slash Man on March 01, 2009, 05:34:46 AM
Well, he was SUPPOSED to be dormant in the Robot Museum. But at the same time Guts Man was stolen by Wily, Cut Man and Wood Man were also supposedly freed.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Flame on March 01, 2009, 08:26:12 AM
Fighting CutMan again seems strange now because I thought the MegaRockMan 1 robots were supposed to have turned good after that game, but I guess there could be evil copies.
that was the Manga... in the original Games, they were destroyed. their bodies were then fixed up and "stuffed" so to speak, and put in the robot museum.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Bag of Magic Food on March 01, 2009, 08:38:55 AM
But what about Super Adventure RockMan?  Did that game not happen?
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Zan on March 01, 2009, 12:20:44 PM
Cutman: Hey Megaman, long time no see. You're looking sharper than before!
Megaman: Y... you're Cutman! Why are you here? Don't you remember what happened last time we fought?
Cutman: Shut up! I still remember that you defeated me a long time go! I want revenge!
Megaman: Cut that out! Cutman, we don't have to fight.
Cutman: I wont lose this time!

Woodman: I won't let you pass here, Megaman!
Megaman: Woodman! Are you still working for Wily?
Woodman: I'll defeat you this time. For Dr. Wily!
Megaman: Don't fight me Woodman. You have no chance to win.
Woodman: Let's do it! Get ready, Megaman!


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would the Sega Saturn version of Mega Man 8 be uncanon because the other version was featured in the Anniversary Collection?

Why would the anniversary collection which was made in america by a third party determine what is canon in the japanese Capcom games?

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that was the Manga... in the original Games, they were destroyed. their bodies were then fixed up and "stuffed" so to speak, and put in the robot museum.

No they weren't. Played Rockman Rockman, Battle and Chase and Super Adventure lately? Also see Rockman9.

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Fighting CutMan again seems strange now because I thought the MegaRockMan 1 robots were supposed to have turned good after that game, but I guess there could be evil copies.

Wily can just steal them again and again (CutMan, GutsMan) and others were always his to begin with (Woodman). He can also make copies or variations as he pleases (GutsMan) So, why is 8 so odd when the same things happened in every Rockman World game and in the Battle and Fighters games? Not to mention Super Adventure in which QuickMan can be killed, buried, only to be revived for the end of the game. The same thing happened to almost every other boss in the game, except for the burial part.

Just to note, Super Adventure actually has Wily with the brain chips for his first 16 DWN, the bodies were reconstructed by Ra Moon. By the end of the game they're all still with Wily (occurring before mm6). So where'd the ones in the MM7 Museum come from? If anything I'd say they're just lifeless shells.

Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Flame on March 01, 2009, 07:59:08 PM
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Played Rockman Rockman, Battle and Chase and Super Adventure lately? Also see Rockman9.
actually, No I havnt. :P I dont have a PSP, never played Super adventure, and I have the X collection version of B&C. (the crappy version.)
but point taken.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Bag of Magic Food on March 01, 2009, 10:43:09 PM
So, why is 8 so odd when the same things happened in every Rockman World game and in the Battle and Fighters games?
I'm not saying they're more or less odd, just that I only started to notice the oddness of refights against the original team when I saw games like Super Adventure RockMan and MegaMan Powered Up show them on Dr. Right's side again.

But I suppose that in 8, CutMan could be like ProtoMan and simply enjoy dueling, even when it interrupts an important mission.

Why would the anniversary collection which was made in america by a third party determine what is canon in the japanese Capcom games?
Well, hey, a MegaRockMan game is a MegaRockMan game.  I don't separate continuities by region.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Zan on March 01, 2009, 10:53:47 PM
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Well, hey, a MegaRockMan game is a MegaRockMan game.  I don't separate continuities by region.

It's not strictly region based. It's based on what is from the actual creators and what is from someone that is not them. It's simply because the original creators are from Capcom/Inti of Japan, no American exclusive material matters toward their story. The same can be said for even Japanese games not by Capcom/Inti. Those things would only matter if the original creators knew of their existence and began acknowledging them. Such was the case with Challenger from the future and MegaMission. Only the original creators can determine what is canon to new entries, nobody else.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Bag of Magic Food on March 01, 2009, 11:13:37 PM
Not if they pass the reins of the story onto someone else, though.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Slash Man on March 01, 2009, 11:42:39 PM
So [if the Saturn version is correct], Cutman was freed from the Robot Museum, still evil from when he was reprogrammed by Wily, then after he was beaten again, Dr. Light finally reprogrammed him, and he fought alongside Mega Man, with all his brothers. I guess Dr. Light didn't think Wily would want to steal his robots again.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Zan on March 02, 2009, 12:02:15 AM
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So [if the Saturn version is correct], Cutman was freed from the Robot Museum, still evil from when he was reprogrammed by Wily, then after he was beaten again, Dr. Light finally reprogrammed him, and he fought alongside Mega Man, with all his brothers. I guess Dr. Light didn't think Wily would want to steal his robots again.

There's no proof CutMan was at the Robot Museum immediately prior to mm8, and the last time we saw CutMan he was a good guy. He could have been at the museum, he could just have been doing his job and gotten kidnapped.

CutMan is never seen again after MM8, except for his CD database entry.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Bag of Magic Food on March 02, 2009, 01:31:39 AM
Well, he did have that secret appearance in Megaman X8, if you want to try to explain that...
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Flame on March 02, 2009, 02:00:01 AM
can simply be explained as past data.
or a non canon bonus. either way hes got no relevance there at all.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Bag of Magic Food on March 02, 2009, 02:15:22 AM
That past data always comes back to haunt you!!
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Flame on March 02, 2009, 02:17:37 AM
of course! just loo at Casshern Zero.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Bag of Magic Food on March 02, 2009, 02:46:31 AM
You know I don't think this question turned out as quick as Slash Man was hoping.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Gauntlet101010 on March 02, 2009, 05:43:10 AM
You know I don't think this question turned out as quick as Slash Man was hoping.
The short version of the answer is "no."  MMAC used the PSX version just because it was easier.  Moreover, they're a third party .... they have about as much say in canon as any third party. 

FYI: they used the PSX versions of the NES games as well; this makes MM7 and the arcade games the only games they actually ported themselves.

Anyhow, I think you guys are overcomplicating things.  There can be more than one Cutman. 
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: HyperSonicEXE on March 02, 2009, 05:45:13 AM
The MM9 manga doesn't help things, either.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Bag of Magic Food on March 02, 2009, 06:06:44 AM
FYI: they used the PSX versions of the NES games as well; this makes MM7 and the arcade games the only games they actually ported themselves.

I was about to ask if they might have ported this (http://www.rockmanpm.com/?p=original/rockmanpowerbattlefighters) for the arcade games, but then I noticed the release date is a couple months later than the collection, so probably not.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Gauntlet101010 on March 02, 2009, 06:11:32 AM
I was about to ask if they might have ported this (http://www.rockmanpm.com/?p=original/rockmanpowerbattlefighters) for the arcade games, but then I noticed the release date is a couple months later than the collection, so probably not.
Yeah, that version is actually better.  Since it has a "VS" mode and other options.  The AC version is pretty much a direct port of the arcade rom with "Free Play" selected.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: BaconMan on March 02, 2009, 04:32:45 PM
You know... I always wondered, who besides Dr. Wily would think the idea of a "Robot Museum" is such a great idea, anyways? I mean, it takes everything Wily would need and puts it all in one convenient location. And ever since it's introduction in MM7, it's been nothing but a hotbed of trouble!

More to the point, I think MM8's reappearances allude to CutMan's original design, IE a lumberjack; and how it plays into WoodMan's creation. How else do you explain a Wood robot? They both appear in Power Battle/Fighters anyways, so whatever. (Honestly, the classic titles were far too "melodrama" to make any real sense. Every "story" was just an excuse to fight 8 more Robot Masters. Or in one case, 16. And the most recent's, 9 of them.)
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Zan on March 02, 2009, 05:45:22 PM
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Anyhow, I think you guys are overcomplicating things.  There can be more than one Cutman.

There being more than one CutMan IS overcomplicating things. Rock himself notes CutMan was once good, once evil, good again and evil now. Obviously Wily just manipulates these robots as he sees fit.

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I think MM8's reappearances allude to CutMan's original design, IE a lumberjack; and how it plays into WoodMan's creation. How else do you explain a Wood robot?

There's no design relation between the two. Wily simply decided to built a robot made mostly out of wood based onhis own whims. CutMan's design relates to MetalMan's, not WoodMan's, hence, Metal Blade, which is akin to the wood-cutting tool Rolling Cutter, is very effective on WoodMan.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Slash Man on March 02, 2009, 10:32:44 PM
Well, he did have that secret appearance in Megaman X8, if you want to try to explain that...
What happened there was basically the same thing as Megaman Xtreme.
You know I don't think this question turned out as quick as Slash Man was hoping.
Well, my original question was sort of answered because I forgot the MMAC was made by a 3rd party. Now, the question has basically moved onto WHY Cut Man would return.
There's no proof CutMan was at the Robot Museum immediately prior to mm8, and the last time we saw CutMan he was a good guy. He could have been at the museum, he could just have been doing his job and gotten kidnapped.

CutMan is never seen again after MM8, except for his CD database entry.
Actually, I did a bit of assuming there, but after you look at this scene, don't you think it's the only logical explanation?
(http://i44.tinypic.com/qrz1qp.png)
Now, I first  heard of this from the Mechanical Maniacs. One of the broken capsules belongs to Guts Man, but who did the other two belong to?
Anyhow, I think you guys are overcomplicating things.  There can be more than one Cutman. 
Well, another explanation of the story is thta Cut Man was just rebuilt by Wily. I guess that's what the newspaper in Mega Man 7 emplies when they use the term "Cutman 2."
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Zan on March 03, 2009, 12:31:49 AM
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Well, another explanation of the story is thta Cut Man was just rebuilt by Wily. I guess that's what the newspaper in Mega Man 7 emplies when they use the term "Cutman 2."

You really should disregard the newspaper, it's just a cameo comic, like the adventures of KonroMan.

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Actually, I did a bit of assuming there, but after you look at this scene, don't you think it's the only logical explanation?

It's an extremely likely possibility, but not a necessity. It's a good idea, but unless we get a nifty little book quote, we can't confirm it. Maybe the mm8 developers were thinking of it, but I doubt the mm7 developers were.

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CutMan is never seen again after MM8, except for his CD database entry.

Correction... Power Fighters...

This reminds me, though... between mm7 and mm8, we have Power Battles. But it can also be moved near Power Fighters and mm9. If we were to go with the capsule story... mm8 establishes a backstory to CutMan's presence that would be at odds with Power Battle having recently occurred. If we disregard the museum, than it just means a really long time passed since Power Battle and 8, but it would explain why Rock knows CutMan is evil. (Even if he questions why Wood is still with Wily...)
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Gauntlet101010 on March 03, 2009, 05:30:34 AM
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There being more than one CutMan IS overcomplicating things.

So, it's less complicated to think there's just one Cutman who's been destroyed and rebuilt over and over again and the museum was just one stop in his journey rather than think that a robot museum would just take a Cutman for their permenant display. 

Cutman is a robot ... there doesn't have to be just one of him.  There are examples of multiple RMs being made.  You don't have to look past MM1 even.

As for whether MM7 alludes to Cut and Wood, while it is debatable, Astroman also makes a cameo appearance, so ... I tend to favor the theory.  It's just another link to MM8.  I don't see why it's such a big debate.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Bag of Magic Food on March 03, 2009, 10:05:33 PM
CutMan's design relates to MetalMan's, not WoodMan's, hence, Metal Blade, which is akin to the wood-cutting tool Rolling Cutter, is very effective on WoodMan.
But WoodMan is even weaker to Air Shooter in the NES version.  What's up with that?
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Zan on March 03, 2009, 10:40:22 PM
But WoodMan is even weaker to Air Shooter in the NES version.  What's up with that?

Game mechanics. Probably a multi-hit effect. >.>
Either way, Atomic Fire is his official weakness.

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So, it's less complicated to think there's just one Cutman who's been destroyed and rebuilt over and over again and the museum was just one stop in his journey rather than think that a robot museum would just take a Cutman for their permenant display.

Cutman is a robot ... there doesn't have to be just one of him.  There are examples of multiple RMs being made.  You don't have to look past MM1 even.

Of course it's overcomplicated, it's massive identity crisis, we should never have to worry about 'which' CutMan we're speaking about.

First and foremost, they're not just robots, they're characters in a story. Mass production ruins that aspect. There should only be one CutMan.

Secondly, from a story perspective, Dr. Right isn't Wily, and it's doubtful even Wily would copy robots that are his own. Robot individuality is an important matter to sentient robots. You might be able to reproduce the body, but never the mind, yet "CutMan" from the database is listed as a single entity with likes and dislikes and all that. Furthermore there are strong implications of a history with CutMan in mm8, the same goes for WoodMan, who is asked why he's still with Wily.

Besides, all other copies in the series have always been directly addressed as copies. Copy Robot, "Rockman?", holograms. Not to mention "King II" from Rockman and Forte.

Finally, it's not like the series in general doesn't repeat itself. Wily has tried the same thing numerous times now.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Gauntlet101010 on March 04, 2009, 01:01:12 AM
MM1 has several Gutsmen in the final level.  MM5 GB has several versions of the Rockman Killers in the level you fight them in.  Each and every game has boss re-fights and MM6 has "fake" bosses.  Let's not forget Superadventure.  You suppose Wily's RMs find "paying jobs" after Wily either steals them or makes them.  But RaMoon still made a second set.  So there's another instance of the fact.

So, I don't see why a museum wouldn't have one Cutman on hand while the other one does whatever he does.  Even if Light wouldn't make another Cutman because of this "identity crisis", I don't see why he wouldn't give a deactivated one to the museum.  It doesn't make it complicated at all.  Wily stole the Cutman from the robot museum.  He then uses him in either 8 (or whichever game you feel like putting after 7).  That Cutman is destroyed.  The end.  Whichever Cutman comes after this is simply stolen.  And is destroyed after MM fights him.  And gets repaired; and so on.

Classic Megaman is best understood as a cartoon with little attention paid to exactly how the robots remember anything.  If you really want to make the matter confusing: few if any robots, should retain their memories of their fights with MM.  Because most of them get destroyed.  Sure, Wily could make a new one ... they could get rebuilt ... but their hardware is destroyed.  They turn into little blinking balls of light and scatter across the screen.  And the teleport levels ... it's unbelievably to think Wily would try to preserve those memories.  How would he?  Most of the time his castle explodes, taking everything with it.  So the new robot shouldn't really remember anything, even if Wily has personality backups.  Each fight with MM ought to be their first. 

The "copy robot" from Rockman Rockman is simply another robot and has no bearing on any other teleport levels found in the rest of the series.  Hell, MM9 shows Concreteman chasing Wily out of Skull Castle.  It implies it's the Concreteman from the teleport stage; not a copy robot.  As for King II, whose to say what he would have been like? 

So, it's best not to think about it too much and squint.  Somehow, Cutman remembers each and every single fight he had with MM even if, by all rights, he shouldn't.  Cutman does not suffer from an identity crisis when, by all rights, he should.  Maybe their brains are like a plane's black box and survive fights with MM regardless of the damage dished out.  Maybe Wily and Light keep realtime streaming backups.  Maybe it's like Dune and each robot synchronises with their counterparts periodically from a central database.  Who knows?   Somehow it happens.  It's one of those things yer not meant to question. 
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Slash Man on March 04, 2009, 01:50:16 AM
MM1 has several Gutsmen in the final level.  MM5 GB has several versions of the Rockman Killers in the level you fight them in.  Each and every game has boss re-fights and MM6 has "fake" bosses.  Let's not forget Superadventure.  You suppose Wily's RMs find "paying jobs" after Wily either steals them or makes them.  But RaMoon still made a second set.  So there's another instance of the fact. 
Oh man, this topic's been addressed in one of my other not-so-quick topics.  X(
http://forum.rockmanpm.com/index.php?topic=969.0
Classic Megaman is best understood as a cartoon with little attention paid to exactly how the robots remember anything.  If you really want to make the matter confusing: few if any robots, should retain their memories of their fights with MM.  Because most of them get destroyed.  Sure, Wily could make a new one ... they could get rebuilt ... but their hardware is destroyed.  They turn into little blinking balls of light and scatter across the screen.  And the teleport levels ... it's unbelievably to think Wily would try to preserve those memories.  How would he?  Most of the time his castle explodes, taking everything with it.  So the new robot shouldn't really remember anything, even if Wily has personality backups.  Each fight with MM ought to be their first.
Sorry to keep up the confusion, but when you destroy a robot master, the death is just simplified as a big explosion (they probably just kept it because it's pretty to look at). Proto Man was defeated by King, but his parts were laying in a heap (he could still talk, too). Another robot who stands as a testimony to that is Zero. All his memories are still there (hibernation sickness is another story).
My theory on replacement robots is that they always specify ahead of time. In MM6, they told you there were fake copies, the new King was King II and finally, Mega Man's replacement was X.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Zan on March 04, 2009, 02:27:48 AM
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MM1 has several Gutsmen in the final level.  MM5 GB has several versions of the Rockman Killers in the level you fight them in.

Yet none of those empty shells were activated the same time as the real thing.

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Let's not forget Superadventure.  You suppose Wily's RMs find "paying jobs" after Wily either steals them or makes them.  But RaMoon still made a second set. So there's another instance of the fact.

Ra Moon made a second set of bodies whilst Wily had the original brain chips on hand. There's still only of each.

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So, I don't see why a museum wouldn't have one Cutman on hand while the other one does whatever he does.

That'd be like wondering why the museum has functional robots on display to begin with, they just do. Mock ups are too low-tech for them seemingly.

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but their hardware is destroyed.

This means nothing for the state of their minds, brain chips can survive, ask Zero for instance.

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They turn into little blinking balls of light and scatter across the screen.

Game visuals, nothing else. You can bury blinking balls of light? Quickman's corpse surely got a proper burial.

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And the teleport levels ... it's unbelievably to think Wily would try to preserve those  memories.
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Hell, MM9 shows Concreteman chasing Wily out of Skull Castle.  It implies it's the Concreteman from the teleport stage

And then Quickman reappears completely fine in the game's ending, remembering his battle with Rock and therefore helping Rock to stop Ra Moon. Same case with the teleport stages, they got better and are back in action. Really, the easiest explanation is just that the brain chips survive and get put into spare bodies. There's no need to have multiple versions of the same characters at once. If a copy is created, either the personality is completely different (e.g. "Rockman?") or it's a mindless drone (e.g. IHX: Launcher Octopuld)

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It's one of those things yer not meant to question.

Then wouldn't the simplest answer be: "there's only one unless otherwise mentioned and the writers just use them in whatever role they want to use them in." ?
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Bag of Magic Food on March 04, 2009, 03:04:12 AM
Maybe their brains are like a plane's black box and survive fights with MM regardless of the damage dished out.
This could be the explanation.  MegaMan did recover important parts like that from some of the bosses in 9.  It's possible that the Robot Masters' brains have survived the fights many times before, but the games never showed it until then.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Gauntlet101010 on March 04, 2009, 03:20:11 AM
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Yet none of those empty shells were activated the same time as the real thing.
So what?  The only difference between MM1 and MM7 is that three of the robots were turned on.  

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Ra Moon made a second set of bodies whilst Wily had the original brain chips on hand. There's still only of each.
You don't follow.  You propose that society finds a place for the robots Wily made.  So, after MM2, Woodman (for example) is put to work.  Suddenly RaMoon comes around and makes another Woodman for his purposes using Wily's brain chips.  That makes 2 Woodmen.  One made by RaMoon, the other salvaged from MM2.

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That'd be like wondering why the museum has functional robots on display to begin with, they just do. Mock ups are too low-tech for them seemingly.
So you don't think a museum of technology would actually have technology in it?  I would disagree.

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This means nothing for the state of their minds, brain chips can survive, ask Zero for instance.
And I'm saying it's improbable.  Like a cartoon.  As the series was meant to be understood.

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Quickman's corpse surely got a proper burial.
Good point.  And yet he seems to remember his encounter with Rockman.  So, even if the body's destroyed and buried Wily still, somehow, gets their memories.  More proof of a streaming backup ... or that Wily went to the trouble of recovering Quickman's memories for that one fight with Rock .... or that it's written like a cartoon.  Standard logic would dictate that Quickman shouldn't remember.  Yet he does.  Clearly we weren't meant to look into the matter througholy.

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There's no need to have multiple versions of the same characters at once. If a copy is created, either the personality is completely different (e.g. "Rockman?") or it's a mindless drone (e.g. IHX: Launcher Octopuld)
So instead of a backup robot being made, you think Wily fetches the personality chip *every time* from one robot just to use in his copies in the teleport level.  You assume you can't copy a personality chip.  "Rockman?" is a pretty lousy example since we have no idea why Wily made that copy when he had the origional in his hands.  And Launch Octopus is the X series and does not apply.  Different type of robot in a different type of series.

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Then wouldn't the simplest answer be: "there's only one unless otherwise mentioned and the writers just use them in whatever role they want to use them in." ?
Robots in a museum of robots is such a case.  Because the reverse would mean Light went to great lengths to make sure there would only be one Cutman in the entire world ... to the point of even shutting him down and putting him in  museum ... just to have one Cutman in the world.  And that Wily intended to play hot potato with Gutsman's brain chip in MM1 when he has a legion of Gutsmen at his disposal.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Slash Man on March 04, 2009, 03:47:50 AM
Good point.  And yet he seems to remember his encounter with Rockman.  So, even if the body's destroyed and buried Wily still, somehow, gets their memories.  More proof of a streaming backup ... or that Wily went to the trouble of recovering Quickman's memories for that one fight with Rock .... or that it's written like a cartoon.  Standard logic would dictate that Quickman shouldn't remember.  Yet he does.  Clearly we weren't meant to look into the matter througholy.
Well, Quickman was still intact, so it would make sense to go back and repair a broken robot as opposed to building an entirely new one.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Bag of Magic Food on March 04, 2009, 03:58:36 AM
or that it's written like a cartoon.
If it were written like the cartoon, the robots would be turned into piles of body parts.  "If you don't take better care of your body parts, I'm not going to replace them!" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvP-MGIPAws)

"Rockman?" is a pretty lousy example since we have no idea why Wily made that copy when he had the origional in his hands.
I remember an old explanation of Mega Man 1's story was that Mega Man was just too difficult for Dr. Wily to reprogram, and that's why he was left behind.  Maybe that still applies.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Gauntlet101010 on March 04, 2009, 04:26:12 AM
Well, Quickman was still intact, so it would make sense to go back and repair a broken robot as opposed to building an entirely new one.
Except RaMoon can make them out of thin air.  Why collect all the robots from across the island when you can make them out of thin air?  Creative integrety?  He made them from files in Wily's laptop; that's all he needs.  It'd take him longer just to gather up all the robots.

That's actually the least of the plot holes in SAR. 

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If it were written like the cartoon, the robots would be turned into piles of body parts.
(http://themechanicalmaniacs.com/gallery/albums/mmtv/MM1/Bomb4.jpg)
So the story with robot boy with a transforming robot dog that (might) talk is written totally seriously...?

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I remember an old explanation of Mega Man 1's story was that Mega Man was just too difficult for Dr. Wily to reprogram, and that's why he was left behind.  Maybe that still applies.
Maybe.  I'd like an official explanation.  Still .... I don't think Wily was even trying to make the personality the same.  "Rockman?" is an odd duck.

The general gist of this entire argument is that there can't be two Cutmen because Cutman is a singular character.  But that's not nessasarily true.  There's several Gutsmen, several Rockman Killers, teleporter re-fights, and two active Fakemen!  Everyone's fond of MM9 and it's right there.  There isn't nessasarily one of any of these guys.  That is an assumption being brought in here and the story's being bent backwards to make it true.  Should it cause problems?  Yes.  Does it?  No.  Cartoon ... shoddy game writing ... I mean, let's call it for what it is.  I like the classic series the most, but I don't want to turn it into something it isn't.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Flame on March 04, 2009, 05:20:54 AM
I know that this is a different series, but X5 shows that there are 2 Lifesavors.
Ceetain robots might be massproduced depending on their line of work.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: BaconMan on March 04, 2009, 02:45:59 PM
Or maybe they *all* collect 1ups and get extra lives. (/topic)
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Zan on March 04, 2009, 06:53:06 PM
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You don't follow.  You propose that society finds a place for the robots Wily made.  So, after MM2, Woodman (for example) is put to work.  Suddenly RaMoon comes around and makes another Woodman for his purposes using Wily's brain chips.  That makes 2 Woodmen.  One made by RaMoon, the other salvaged from MM2.

But what Ra Moon did was use the brain chips Wily was carrying. Given Wily's emotional attachment to them, they're the originals Wily created. In terms of society, I don't see them putting the likes of WoodMan to use as they have no purpose to begin with, only those originally part of society would be given a job.

But, when it comes down to it, certain robots are still Wily's property, even if he's an evil mad scientist that steals other's robots, what right allows the UN and the World Robot Union to take his robots away from him? You could define such as theft, piracy and copyright infringement. They would be no better than Wily.

Furthermore, even if they're forcedly taken away from Wily during his times as a wanted man, you really ought to take note of the fact that Wily had their brain chips handy when he was actually working for the UN, so he could have access to even the brain chips the governments took from him. No matter what happened to the originals, we can be sure of the fact that what Wily carries with them are the originals.


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So what?  The only difference between MM1 and MM7 is that three of the robots were turned on. 

I'm saying, there might be more than one robot of each type, since even such a robot as HeatMan (who was with Wily at SAR's end) could be found in the Robot Museum, but during the plot, we only should encounter the original as an actual character. Such copies should not be involved with any of the Wily incidents as actual characters, due to strong developer and character favor for the original to be used instead.

As for MM7, I'd say that's the closest thing to an activated copy we got, GutsMan that is. The other two are conjecture until proven otherwise. But GutsMan got converted into something only derived from GutsMan, effectively making it a separate character from the original GutsMan.

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So you don't think a museum of technology would actually have technology in it?  I would disagree.

I would think it have displays that depict the workings of the separate parts of each robot, mock ups of each robot to show their design in relation to functionality. Keeping actual working copies of the robots seems to be asking for trouble. Yet they did, the Robot Museum is quite the enigmatic thing in that regard. We simply don't know those robots are, only that they work. If I had to choose, I'd consider them spare bodies without a personality, mindless drones.

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And Launch Octopus is the X series and does not apply.  Different type of robot in a different type of series.

It applies completely, since Repliroids can be copied just as easily. Remember Zero? IHX went to the trouble of depicting that these rematches aren't the same characters, just mindless drones. After Octopuld got established, the rematches continued without any conversation coming from any of them. In Rockman Rockman, it's quite similar, every single boss confrontation gets a conversion, yet the robots at the rematches have no lines whatsoever. In sharp contrast to their lack of lines, we have each different Copy Robot and even CWU-01P established as a character. Rockman Rockman heavily favors the fact that those are just mindless drones and therefore, even if they're copies, are not actual characters like the original CutMan.

What I'm getting at is the following, whenever they're depicted as actual characters, they should be the original. (Unless otherwise established that there is a copy as in Rockman3) At any other time, such as the museum and maybe such games as Rockman World and Battle and Fighters, we must not consider any copies as actual character, they'd just be drones carrying out their intended function.

Applying that to Rockman9's Concrete Man, the one chasing Wily is the original repaired by Right, the other at the teleporters is a mindless copy. Otherwise, why is not destroyed from the recent rematch with Rock?

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Robots in a museum of robots is such a case.  Because the reverse would mean Light went to great lengths to make sure there would only be one Cutman in the entire world ... to the point of even shutting him down and putting him in  museum ... just to have one Cutman in the world.  And that Wily intended to play hot potato with Gutsman's brain chip in MM1 when he has a legion of Gutsmen at his disposal.

I'm just saying, in the case of this CutMan, which has a personality, memories of previous battles, we should consider it the original real thing, even if that means he's going from good to evil to good to evil again. Concidering anything else should only be done when we have explicit reason to believe it isn't the original. Only for things like the museum and rematches should we consider copies, and then just as drones incomparable to the actual character that is CutMan. The GutsMan army therefor would just be a bunch of drones with the body and strength of GutsMan, but not GutsMan himself.

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I know that this is a different series, but X5 shows that there are 2 Lifesavors.
Ceetain robots might be massproduced depending on their line of work.
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and two active Fakemen!

I think there is a key distinction between robots such as Rock/X and FakeMan/Lifesaver. FakeMan for instance is a mass produced fake of a mass produced police robot. Again I emphasize, there is only one unless there's a reason to think otherwise. In other words, FakeMan has multiple versions and there's no way to confirm which is which, whereas Cutman from his first appearance to SAR to mm8 is still the same robot, not a copy. The rematch is a copy as it does not speak whilst it should and Right recovered the originals beforehand.

Whether the ones from World and Battle and Fighters are the real thing? Who knows, I never heard them say a thing, it could go either way.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Slash Man on March 04, 2009, 09:52:07 PM
Whether the ones from World and Battle and Fighters are the real thing? Who knows, I never heard them say a thing, it could go either way.
Actually, they could just be copies. Just look at what happened to Centaur Man.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Bag of Magic Food on March 05, 2009, 01:17:47 AM
Didn't they have voice samples in Power Battle and Power Fighters?

But GutsMan got converted into something only derived from GutsMan, effectively making it a separate character from the original GutsMan.
GutsTank must be the original, though; he just used an enlarging raygun and squatted inside a tank.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Gauntlet101010 on March 05, 2009, 04:14:57 AM
As for RaMoon, I'm bringing him up because it's your theory (that you brought up elsewhere) that Wily-affiliated robots are put to use after they fight Rock.  In essence you're just proving yourself wrong.  Personally, I'm not entirely sure if Wily's robots are co-opted.

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What I'm getting at is the following, whenever they're depicted as actual characters, they should be the original. (Unless otherwise established that there is a copy as in Rockman3) At any other time, such as the museum and maybe such games as Rockman World and Battle and Fighters, we must not consider any copies as actual character, they'd just be drones carrying out their intended function.

That's what you're saying ... but Capcom seems to disagree with you.  They don't have a proglem with putting robots in museums, having mass armies of the same robots in one place, or two active Fakeman guarding Light.  You have that problem. 

You place undue emphasis on the lack of lines in PU's teleporter levels.... now you're using a game mechanism to justify your points (while I was merely joking).  And MavX's scene absolutely, unequivicably does not apply to the classic series.  The X series is the future.  The X series is dark.  The X series has the theme of sacrifice and death.  It doesn't apply in the least to this discussion.  Because the theme of death and sacrifice is central in the X series, it's only natural that death is supposed to mean something.  Somehow.  Individuality is also a theme, especially in X1.  And yet, as you yourself point out, characters like Zero and Vile are revived easily.  This is another debate entirely; how the X series deals with death when they can easily revive any character.  But it doesn't apply to the discussion at hand in the least.  You're going on a non sequiter again.  This has nothing to do with the x series and how copies are handled in the x series.  You only have to look at Wily to see how different the X series is from the classic.  There are many things that do apply in relation to classic and X, but ... the treatment of death and characetrs are not one of them.

And RaMoon actually created the robots from schematics found on Wily's laptop.  There's a translation of the game now, you know.  So let's not keep bringing brain chips up as the end-all and be-all of what makes classic series characters tick. 

You are arguing Capcom's treatment of the RMs as characters.  However, this doesn't preclude them from there being more than one of them.  Fakeman shoots this idea right down.  I tended to think like you did until MM9.  MM1's army of Gutsmen could be an anomaly.  MM5's army could be another anomaly.  But Fakeman provides concrete proof that there can be more than one of these characters.  One's an anomaly.  Two is strange.  Three makes a pattern.  And the pattern is plain when you take into account teleporter levels and robot museums. 

In short it's your need to explain Capcom's fast-and-loose storytelling along with with their side games (likely not considered when it comes to a fine detail like the Cut and Wood easter egg) that makes it complicated.  Because you cannot accept that there can be more than one Cutman (even if one is a deactivated "drone", which you seem to have no problem accepting now) you require a complex timeline that precludes Wily stealing Cut and Wood in MM7 to use in MM8. 

Anyway, if you accept the existence of duplicates then my origional point is made.  There was a duplicate Cutman in the robot museum.  To fit in with your own personal canon, you can think that Wily imputted any brain chips that might be nessasary after he got the robot.  This is the easiest explanation; not a revised timeline to account for Cutman's presence elsewhere.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Flame on March 05, 2009, 05:22:14 AM
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death is supposed to mean something
X, Zero, Vile, and Sigma would like a word with you.
desth doesnt mean [parasitic bomb] in the X series when they revive like its nothing. extra emphasis is put on death, sure, but its not a strong thing as you imply. hell, even the Zero and ZX series disproves that.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Gauntlet101010 on March 05, 2009, 05:31:23 AM
X, Zero, Vile, and Sigma would like a word with you.
desth doesnt mean [parasitic bomb] in the X series when they revive like its nothing. extra emphasis is put on death, sure, but its not a strong thing as you imply. hell, even the Zero and ZX series disproves that.
Iris and Middy want to say hello.

Let's not digress from the point.   X =/= Classic series.  Let's keep on topic.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Bag of Magic Food on March 05, 2009, 05:46:25 AM
But I want to digress from the point!  Now why did Middy die just because Techno did?
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Flame on March 05, 2009, 05:50:33 AM
Iris and Middy want to say hello.

Let's not digress from the point.   X =/= Classic series.  Let's keep on topic.
this is RPM. topics are destined to go off track for a few pages.
Iris Middy and techno are characters whos (sadly) only role is to influence the main character. iris was to make the stone cold Zero cry like a baby, which worked... and effectively has scarred him for life and doomed him to never have another relationship ever again,
and the other two were to spur X on to fight Sigma.
But I want to digress from the point!  Now why did Middy die just because Techno did?

because some genius decided it would be a good Idea to have two reploids share 1 CPU.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Bag of Magic Food on March 05, 2009, 06:11:40 AM
And they wouldn't have to be conjoined to do that?
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Zan on March 06, 2009, 12:59:57 AM
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As for RaMoon, I'm bringing him up because it's your theory (that you brought up elsewhere) that Wily-affiliated robots are put to use after they fight Rock.  In essence you're just proving yourself  wrong.  Personally, I'm not entirely sure if Wily's robots are co-opted.

How can you prove yourself wrong? There's such a thing as changing your mind you know... Besides, I never once mentioned Rockman2 robots as working for the goverment, they're Wily's combat robots. The Rockman3 guys are the ones that might be put to use by society. But that's only under the aforementioned limitation of having approval of the creator(s), unless they want to just ignore Wily's say in the matter. And even then, SAR Wily was on a UN mission, he had easy access to all his robots good and bad alike! No matter how you see it, there's a way for them to get back in Wily's hand no matter where they end up before that.


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now you're using a game mechanism to justify your points (while I was merely joking

Except, Rockman Rockman has scenes for every little thing, yet excluded the rematches. IHX which is similar to Rockman Rockman has only one of the rematches detailed to show how they're not the real thing. All the same, these robots are canonically returned to good guys after their first battle only to still end up as rematches. For those same robots to end up all repaired for the ending that follows immediately after Wily's defeat. Everything in Rockman Rockman hints they're not the real thing. Really, if you're going to see the lack of lines as a game mechanic, you must see all the rematches as a game mechanic and exclude them completely from the plot. Which means they're not the originals, they're not copies either, they just don't exist.

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but ... the treatment of death and characetrs are not one of them.

The treatment of death has nothing to do with this. The rematches can be fakes and the real ones can be revived all at the same time. IHX says the rematches are fakes, the ZERO-series has all the rematches as the real thing because revival is so much easier then. Classic is on the middle ground between those. They can be the real thing, but all things implicate they're fakes with no personality. Otherwise, they'd have been a part of the plot talking about how they've been defeated before.

I'll say it again, if the robot is featured as an actual character with no mention of being the copy, it's the original. If there's explicit mention of it being a copy, it's a copy. If there's nothing to establish it as a character, it's the original unless it works out better as copy (like for rematches in RR and R9 Concrete: they really shouldn't get repaired THAT fast for the ending.). Capcom isn't trying to cause mass identity crisis, we must always assume there's just a single one unless there's reasons to assume otherwise.

There's nothing wrong with assuming a copy from time to times, but you should never overuse the notion just because you can't place something like R8's cameo appearances into your perception of the plot. R8 has the originals, confirmed by script. World and Battle and Fighters could be copies, but unless there's an explicit reason why they have to be, we must see them as the originals.

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GutsTank must be the original, though; he just used an enlarging raygun and squatted inside a tank.

I see absolutely no reason to consider GutsTank as the original, nor anything in the robot museum for that matter. To go with what I said above, the explicit reason why they can't be the original is because it's just weird for them to be deactivated and put into a museum. The complete make over GutsMan got is another reason why I wouldn't consider it the original. It's just too weird a thing to be happening to an actual character only for it to just be shrugged off and him to return to his original form later.

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And RaMoon actually created the robots from schematics found on Wily's laptop.  There's a translation of the game now, you know.  So let's not keep bringing brain chips up as the end-all and be-all of what makes classic series characters tick.

Look at the scene itself! Wily installed the chips he was carrying with him into the bodies Ra Moon created.

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Fakeman shoots this idea right down.

FakeMan always was a fake of a mass produced police robot with undetermined personality. Like a more advanced Sniper Joe more than someone like CutMan. You might see two mass produced units standing next to eachother, but you would never see two CutMans like that, unless it was the original facing an evil version of himself. That is because CutMan and the like were always created as individuals and are listed as individuals in the CD database. Fakes made will always be distinguishable by either drone like behavior, a completely different personality, or an outright mention of the fact. I'd also like to note that making copies of special robot individuals is frowned upon by certain robots like Blues.


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you require a complex timeline that precludes Wily stealing Cut and Wood in MM7 to use in MM8. 

Wood always was Wily's... And Wily stealing and reprogramming Cut Man again really does not need to be mentioned, Wily can do as he pleases between games. Furthermore, I'll say it again, there's strong implications that these are indeed the originals, from mm1/2 to SAR to mm8. As long as they are featured as THE character, they are the same.

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There was a duplicate Cutman in the robot museum.

Except, that's just conjecture. There are two broken glass displays of sort, but the contents are unknown. Wily only escaped with one robot on screen. Maybe the displays were empty, maybe they were Cutman and WoodMan, maybe they were something else entirely. Furthermore, there's a small conflict in the copy - original matter here. You'd be assuming the museum ones are copies, for it's weird to deactivate the original and put him into a museum, but all the same, R8 outright defines CutMan as an adversary of Rock fought a long time ago. Either the museum ones are the originals, Wily really did something weird to get that end result, or CutMan simply wasn't taken from the museum and instead has another simply origin.

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Iris and Middy want to say hello.

Let's rephrase the statement; death doesn't mean anything unless they want it to. For instance Iris and Middy are written to have damaged brains making revival tougher. It's also written in that DNA revival is against the law. Which pretty much means everybody else can just dodge these matters and revive as they please.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Flame on March 06, 2009, 01:14:12 AM
characters who have 'mysterions" revivals. because no one sure as hell knows who repaired X or Zero after X5, and in X2, Zero's parts were rebuilt by Mavericks, and when you think about it, he never really did because his brain chip was still intact. i think....
Zan? does a robots brain chip surviving technically count as not really dead and legaly give them the right to be revived? eg Zero...
 I would think so, but Im not sure.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Slash Man on March 06, 2009, 03:10:15 AM
The Rockman3 guys are the ones that might be put to use by society.
They were all just minding their own business in the mining industry before Wily corrupted them. Although Shadow Man is the only one who can't really be confirmed, and was possibly just another creation by Wily in the fashion of Mega Man 2.
The creation of the Guts-Dozer remains a mystery and can never be proved, but we can safely say it was made from the original Guts Man. I think Guts Man's parts (hench the extra copies), and possibly brain were used in his making.
Now, I'm confused with why everyone's referencing Rockman Rockman. Isn't it just a reboot of the original?
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Flame on March 06, 2009, 04:42:29 AM
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They were all just minding their own business in the mining industry before Wily corrupted them. Although Shadow Man is the only one who can't really be confirmed, and was possibly just another creation by Wily in the fashion of Mega Man 2.
Hooo boy... this converesation could go on for hours...
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: BaconMan on March 06, 2009, 04:12:25 PM
Hooo boy... this converesation could go on for weeks...

FXY!
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Acid on March 06, 2009, 04:19:13 PM
I like how this "quick" question already spreads across 3 pages.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Slash Man on March 06, 2009, 10:06:22 PM
But the manual said they were all rebelious mining robots,  :'(
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Zan on March 07, 2009, 12:20:34 AM
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is the only one who can't really be confirmed,

I'd be out of character for him, as he never once was good, that is why we should call it confirmed he's the exception amongst the R3 robots. The guy's even of alien origin to establish him as different even more. Besides, as of Battle and Chase, the guy created a ninja temple filled with traps! Doubt the government would like that. NapalmMan on the other hand decided to be peaceful and create a museum. I'd say it's possible for some of these Wily made's to do something beneficial for society, but only out of their own desires, nothing forced. That's just the quirkiness of the series.

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Now, I'm confused with why everyone's referencing Rockman Rockman. Isn't it just a reboot of the original?

Rockman Rockman is Rockman, just as much as Irregular Hunter X is RockmanX. It's just the first games with the details that were always in the books included into the plot (either as established in the first game, or in subsequent titles), there's some new additions, yes. But the intend of both games always was to have the same story told in a modern manner. To give a prime example, interview has confirmed that the Day of Sigma was originally supposed to be scenes we already knew, that happened before X1, then they decided to make it grander as fanservice. Writers of the Day of Sigma were thus given the explicit order to keep stick to the original plot of RockmanX as close as possible.

Given everything, there's obvious attempts to keep the series as a single continuity. As such these remakes shouldn't be able to affect what we see in titles that are not going to be remade. Such things as discarding games would only make a mess.

IHX after all references the likes of X8 and RZOCW, to the point that it was advertised as telling us "Sigma's true reason for rebelling!" going with the irregular at will train of thought promoted in X8. There's also the case that newer games follow both the remake and the originals, as with Rockman9's release.

All in all, some details might change, such as Penguin's height, but it's still one series and both the remake and the original have validity to the whole that is the Rockman series. It's not like in Castlevania where games are outright discarded because they wrote themselves into a corner. And it's note like Zelda where the grand plan of the canon is a complete unknown. Rockman in general is THE most coherent plotwise of the classic series. Only Metroid rivals it. Where Rockman has issues with the grand amount of games released and Capcom's inability to close plotlines, Metroid has far less games but has to deal with the Prime series tying into the old games in the end.


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The creation of the Guts-Dozer remains a mystery and can never be proved, but we can safely say it was made from the original Guts Man. I think Guts Man's parts (hench the extra copies), and possibly brain were used in his making.

I really don't think we can safely assume it's the original when it can't be proven... As Gauntlet said, why would the original be deactivated and put into a museum? It'd be reducing a character to a mere display figure.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Zechs on March 07, 2009, 04:22:32 AM
Wouldn't the included concept present within MegaMan 9, about the expiration dates be some form of a factor? Primitive or in the works of being established? Had the Robots within the Museum been original, then the Museum would be benefiting from that law. If they are not, then sooner or later they would be reduced to less-than their original state.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Zan on March 07, 2009, 02:40:03 PM
Rockman9 (and definitely Ariga's adaption featured in the official AST) implicates the law is a recent thing. Given his character, I would also say Light is against it, and the law would be discarded after the events of Rockman9, as they saw that robots still want to remain useful and not be bound to expiration dates.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Shinichameleon / Nayim on March 08, 2009, 05:21:39 PM
Rockman9 (and definitely Ariga's adaption featured in the official AST) implicates the law is a recent thing. Given his character, I would also say Light is against it, and the law would be discarded after the events of Rockman9, as they saw that robots still want to remain useful and not be bound to expiration dates.

What about Megaman? He robot too X(
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Blackhook on March 08, 2009, 06:02:51 PM
The first Light robots are protected by Light
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Zan on March 08, 2009, 08:22:18 PM
What about Megaman? He robot too X(

It applies only to all newer robots.

From Megamix:
"Day by day, so many thousands of our kind are thrown away across the world..."
"The times have changed."
"Now, robots are no longer created as specialized individuals such as yourself!!"
"We were merely created to be replaced by newer models sooner or later... And those new models too will...
"...Perhaps those such as you who are given special treatment and have no worries of being discarded cannot understand.'"
"Hour by hour, the fear of impending death..."
"When "that time" comes in our work, our prides, our prejudices, our memories"
"... Our regrets ... A destiny of robots where everything is ended by force."
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Robert Oakes on March 08, 2009, 08:25:38 PM
What about Megaman? He robot too X(

He is also the super fighting robot who saved the world at least a dozen times.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Slash Man on March 08, 2009, 08:59:33 PM
Rockman9 (and definitely Ariga's adaption featured in the official AST) implicates the law is a recent thing. Given his character, I would also say Light is against it, and the law would be discarded after the events of Rockman9, as they saw that robots still want to remain useful and not be bound to expiration dates.
Yeah, there was a pretty big time-gap between Mega Man & Bass and Mega Man 9. For crying out loud, he forgot how to slide and charge his Mega Buster!
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Zechs on March 09, 2009, 05:42:49 AM
With the time gap between MM&B, it is possible that Light locked those abilities up within MegaMan. In hopes that they would no longer be needed. But till Wily showed back up, Light reactivated the Buster. But very well may not have had that time to reactivate the charge and slider.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Shinichameleon / Nayim on March 09, 2009, 01:28:44 PM
It applies only to all newer robots.

From Megamix:
"Day by day, so many thousands of our kind are thrown away across the world..."
"The times have changed."
"Now, robots are no longer created as specialized individuals such as yourself!!"
"We were merely created to be replaced by newer models sooner or later... And those new models too will...
"...Perhaps those such as you who are given special treatment and have no worries of being discarded cannot understand.'"
"Hour by hour, the fear of impending death..."
"When "that time" comes in our work, our prides, our prejudices, our memories"
"... Our regrets ... A destiny of robots where everything is ended by force."

Stupid Three Laws of Robot whatever that is -_- -_- (I hate it ;O;).....but still what about Fakeman? he also newest created by Dr.Wily, does it mean Fakeman also gonna scrap?
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Blackhook on March 09, 2009, 03:01:35 PM
Fakeman was Wily´s robot, not a goverment robot. He was just a fake policeman robot.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Shinichameleon / Nayim on March 09, 2009, 03:45:57 PM
Fakeman was Wily´s robot, not a goverment robot. He was just a fake policeman robot.

Yes i know, but about the others? Megaman 2 to Megaman & Bass actually doing bad things (Except 4&6) & i agree about Slashman's theory, why Megaman 9's robot masters going into scrapped not sending them to Robot Museum instead, does make any sense, maybe Zan could help this for while.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: BaconMan on March 09, 2009, 03:59:20 PM
Yeah, there was a pretty big time-gap between Mega Man & Bass and Mega Man 9. For crying out loud, he forgot how to slide and charge his Mega Buster!

 XD
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Zan on March 10, 2009, 01:49:17 PM
The expiration date law applies to numerous industrial robots, those which are newly developed. FakeMen are Wily produced, they are not limited by any law. The original police robots which FakeMen are based on are mass produced identical robots, akin to Sniper Joes. As mass produced robots, they're even easier to replace.

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Yes i know, but about the others? Megaman 2 to Megaman & Bass actually doing bad things (Except 4&6) & i agree about Slashman's theory, why Megaman 9's robot masters going into scrapped not sending them to Robot Museum instead, does make any sense, maybe Zan could help this for while.

Again, who says the ones in the museum are the real things? They just seem to be mindless display robots. GutsMan couldn't even move when Wily took him. (Which emphasized CutMan and WoodMan can't be from there; who would transport them?) Going from there, either the R9 bosses already have a copy in the museum, long before they were initially scrapped, or individuality is put on the back-burner by the new robot law so much that they care don't care about immortalizing robots which will be replaced by newer robots which will be replaced by newer robots.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Shinichameleon / Nayim on March 10, 2009, 02:06:20 PM
The expiration date law applies to numerous industrial robots, those which are newly developed. FakeMen are Wily produced, they are not limited by any law. The original police robots which FakeMen are based on are mass produced identical robots, akin to Sniper Joes. As mass produced robots, they're even easier to replace.

Again, who says the ones in the museum are the real things? They just seem to be mindless display robots. GutsMan couldn't even move when Wily took him. (Which emphasized CutMan and WoodMan can't be from there; who would transport them?) Going from there, either the R9 bosses already have a copy in the museum, long before they were initially scrapped, or individuality is put on the back-burner by the new robot law so much that they care don't care about immortalizing robots which will be replaced by newer robots which will be replaced by newer robots.

Oh...sorry, i always think Robot Museum was real robots...Thanks for info. 8)
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Robert Oakes on March 10, 2009, 06:04:43 PM
Again, who says the ones in the museum are the real things? They just seem to be mindless display robots. GutsMan couldn't even move when Wily took him. (Which emphasized CutMan and WoodMan can't be from there; who would transport them?) Going from there, either the R9 bosses already have a copy in the museum, long before they were initially scrapped, or individuality is put on the back-burner by the new robot law so much that they care don't care about immortalizing robots which will be replaced by newer robots which will be replaced by newer robots.

Although it would be reasonable for the robots in the museum to be non-functional copies, the event in MM7 suggests that Capcom intended for those to be the deactivated originals. Otherwise, why would Wily need to steal a simple display replica? Not only that cheapens the impact of the scene, it makes no sense; Wily stole the real article long before that, and even created new machines based on the design (Guts Dozer). He should've been perfectly capable of creating Guts Man G as an entirely new robot with such experience.

As for Cut Man and Wood Man, I vaguely recall reading in a site (Rockman Robot Centre?) that the two were also stolen from the museum, just before Guts Man (explaining their presence in MM8). If someone else can confirm that...
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: VixyNyan on March 10, 2009, 06:26:03 PM
It was a big gap between the release of RM7 and RM8...

Rockman 7: 1995.03.24
Rockman 8: 1996.12.17 (PS1) 1997.01.17 (Saturn)

If the developers has been planning this event beforehand, but decided not to reveal anything in source books, then the only leads we have (visually), is the boss room with "Mush" in the Museum.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Slash Man on March 10, 2009, 11:10:20 PM
With the time gap between MM&B, it is possible that Light locked those abilities up within MegaMan. In hopes that they would no longer be needed. But till Wily showed back up, Light reactivated the Buster. But very well may not have had that time to reactivate the charge and slider.
Could be, but if Dr. Light was assured Mega Man wouldn't need those weapons anymore, why didn't he just change him back into a household robot?
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Shinichameleon / Nayim on March 11, 2009, 11:14:48 AM
Could be, but if Dr. Light was assured Mega Man wouldn't need those weapons anymore, why didn't he just change him back into a household robot?

Because in Megaman 9, Dr.Light actually have no time to fix megabuster & slide because robot masters already lauch attack, so, he forced Megaman going out to save the world before it's too late.
(Sorry about my english) .
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Slash Man on March 12, 2009, 12:23:12 AM
That's the most reasonable explanation I've heard for it.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Shinichameleon / Nayim on March 12, 2009, 01:14:12 PM
That's the most reasonable explanation I've heard for it.

Why Thank you 8)
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Zan on March 14, 2009, 12:25:04 AM
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Not only that cheapens the impact of the scene

I don't see the scene's drama being about anything other than Wily having attained a very powerful robot. The scene is not so much about GutsMan the character being kidnapped as it is about the power of GutsMan being obtained by Wily for his new nefarious plan.

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it makes no sense

That goes both ways, Wily should have needed neither a copy nor the original to begin with if you're going to reason that he chould have just made an entirely new robot. That he opted instead to take the GutsMan from the robot museum is just Wily taking several shortcuts to save time and effort.

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As for Cut Man and Wood Man, I vaguely recall reading in a site (Rockman Robot Centre?) that the two were also stolen from the museum, just before Guts Man (explaining their presence in MM8). If someone else can confirm that...

CutMan's RRC entry makes no mention of any of that.

As for GutsMan;

http://web.archive.org/web/20050308021920/rockmanvortex.com/rrc/charg/drn/drn4.html

He resents GutsMan G. Also,

http://www.themmnetwork.com/wiki/index.php?title=Guts_Man_G

It's a copy.

Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Bag of Magic Food on March 15, 2009, 03:31:31 AM
Hey, doesn't that same site (http://web.archive.org/web/20050308003800/rockmanvortex.com/rrc/museum/oddfacts.html) also say that CutMan and WoodMan were stolen in RockMan 7?
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Zan on March 15, 2009, 02:58:39 PM
But it's not in the profiles, it's conjecture based on 3 broken display cases and Wood and Cut's appearance in R8. It's however strongly implicated that GutsMan G is a copy, and it's strongly implicated Wood and Cut are originals. If the bodies come from the robot museum, then Wily had to obtain their brain chips, but by SAR's account, these robots are still active.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Bag of Magic Food on March 16, 2009, 05:43:05 AM
Okay, here's how I'm imagining the scene now: Dr. Wily wants to upgrade GutsMan, but he can't find the real GutsMan, or the real GutsMan wouldn't agree to it.  So Wily breaks into the museum to grab their lifeless copy of GutsMan to refurbish into a new working robot, but he's in such a hurry that his flying saucer crashes through a few other display cases and knocks their contents out of view.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Zechs on March 16, 2009, 10:41:02 AM
Why assume Wily had something to do with the broken capsules? Being in the background during gameplay, it could have been anything. Not just the assumed path.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Flame on March 21, 2009, 11:38:09 PM
Okay, here's how I'm imagining the scene now: Dr. Wily wants to upgrade GutsMan, but he can't find the real GutsMan, or the real GutsMan wouldn't agree to it.  So Wily breaks into the museum to grab their lifeless copy of GutsMan to refurbish into a new working robot, but he's in such a hurry that his flying saucer crashes through a few other display cases and knocks their contents out of view.
first of ll, Wily doesnt care for permission. if HE wants it done, he will do it, regadless of what Gutsman wants.
also, why does it have to be because he was in a hurry? after all, he did ATTACK the museum. there are guards and such, and he made sure he made his intentions clear. plus, didnt he activate that clown robot?
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Zan on March 22, 2009, 01:20:54 AM
I'd say Wily attacking the museum was the quickest solution to getting a GutsMan base to convert to GutsManG. Building one from scratch takes too long and attacking the activated GutsMan can prove dangerous with such little time to prepare.

As a side note, there's TWO PlantMans in the museum..
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Blackhook on March 22, 2009, 11:17:38 AM
And Wily didn´t have enough resources to make a full robot from scratch, since he had to use his own car to build Turboman
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Gotham Ranger on March 22, 2009, 11:55:10 AM
Its Megaman. Stop making sense of it. Its all in one simple, easy solution.

Wily does whatever he damn well pleases.

And nano-bots.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Shinichameleon / Nayim on March 22, 2009, 01:30:01 PM
Anyway, is this "Quick Question" right? Maybe i question too, here this:
I remember about Megaman Power Battle, when you finished Duo's story, there are mention "Alien energy", who, where or what? If  "Alien energy" really exist, does it mean Duo more like Ra Mu & Stardroids which is they creator are unknown prefer as "alien", then countinue with Megaman X's storyline, play X5 with X only without playing Zero & Dr.Light (Ghost form) came fix it, ghost cannot fix robot :\, maybe in X6 Zero's ending also mention about Mysteries Scientist, maybe he who fixed X :\

BTW plz, i don't want fight in this "forum" which mean i looked feel stupid to ask this question..as if :o
What about you Zan? Maybe you can figure it out :(.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Zan on March 22, 2009, 03:13:10 PM
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Alien Energy

The Alien Energy is the energy which can be found inside of Duo's people and the evil equivalent. Duo has Alien Energy called "Justice Energy". His evil counterpart's alien energy is called "Evil Energy."

Justice Energy and Evil Energy are two different types of the Alien Energy. But Justice and Evil also applies to non-alien energy. For instance, all humans contain Evil Energy within them (and by extension also Justice to balance it out). Rockman has strong Justice Energy and very little Evil Energy. Even Forte has traces of Justice Energy, despite previously abusing the alien evil energy.

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Ra Mu

Ra Mu is SSR2's final boss. Ra Moon is SAR's final boss. The Space Rulers and Ra Moon do not appear to have the Alien Energy that Duo and his counterpart have. But they should still have a form of evil and justice energy within them, which would be of alien origin, just not the same alien origin as Duo.

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then countinue with Megaman X's storyline, play X5 with X only without playing Zero & Dr.Light (Ghost form) came fix it, ghost cannot fix robot Undecided, maybe in X6 Zero's ending also mention about Mysteries Scientist, maybe he who fixed X Undecided

How'd you go from alien energy to the X series?...

Dr. Right fixed X as a hologram because in the 0-space, programs are able to materialize themselves in reality. X6's mysterious scientist really isn't mysterious, he's just the Repliroid scientist responsible for both the times Zero was sealed to lead into the ZERO-series. He's just a "Doctor", without further importance until the story starts to develop him more.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Shinichameleon / Nayim on March 22, 2009, 04:28:51 PM
Hmm....good point but i still confuse about hologram part :P but anyway here the last question from my friends:
Why Shadowman weakness is Top Spin (is this question right?)
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Sniper X on March 22, 2009, 05:29:11 PM
Hmm....good point but i still confuse about hologram part :P but anyway here the last question from my friends:
Why Shadowman weakness is Top Spin (is this question right?)
To make him hurl and sick.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Shinichameleon / Nayim on March 27, 2009, 11:56:20 AM
To make him hurl and sick.

Ah....i forget to reply this...
Shadowman is a ninja & Topman is a top spin... ninja afraid top spin ::) maybe shuriken cannot attack top spin while spinnig...i guess :P.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Robert Oakes on March 27, 2009, 12:58:25 PM
I forgot about this thread.

I don't see the scene's drama being about anything other than Wily having attained a very powerful robot. The scene is not so much about GutsMan the character being kidnapped as it is about the power of GutsMan being obtained by Wily for his new nefarious plan.

I disagree, I think there is drama in Mega Man being unable to stop Wily from taking one of his siblings for evil intent once again (which would add further reason to his outburst at the end of the game).

That goes both ways, Wily should have needed neither a copy nor the original to begin with if you're going to reason that he chould have just made an entirely new robot. That he opted instead to take the GutsMan from the robot museum is just Wily taking several shortcuts to save time and effort.

I question the logic in saving time and effort by going out of your way to steal a museum replica, since it could've been made of clay for all we know. The only reason it could be worth for Wily to even bother breaking into the museum to take the robot would be if it was either the original or a functional copy (and it would be a total waste to built one just to put it up for display).

As for GutsMan;

http://web.archive.org/web/20050308021920/rockmanvortex.com/rrc/charg/drn/drn4.html

He resents GutsMan G. Also,

http://www.themmnetwork.com/wiki/index.php?title=Guts_Man_G

It's a copy.

Although I consider Mega Man Network a reliable site, this is inconsistent with their Guts Man page where they state Guts Dozer and Guts Man G as rebuilt versions of Guts Man. The statement of Guts Man resenting Guts Man G could be interpreted as an experience which he regrets, so... which source confirms it's a copy? If it's official, then it's official (even if there is lack of internal logic to it).
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Sniper X on March 27, 2009, 01:43:57 PM
Ah....i forget to reply this...
Shadowman is a ninja & Topman is a top spin... ninja afraid top spin ::) maybe shuriken cannot attack top spin while spinnig...i guess :P.
Well, maybe the top spin can deflect the shurikens while it's spinning.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Zan on March 27, 2009, 04:39:01 PM
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I disagree, I think there is drama in Mega Man being unable to stop Wily from taking one of his siblings for evil intent once again (which would add further reason to his outburst at the end of the game).

From an explicit game perspective, the point of including that scene is to raise questions as to what Wily is planning with the GutsMan. If it was all just about the siblings appearing again and doing evil, then they would have just appeared at random without such an introduction, after all, it's overdone and is not special within the series. See World and R8.

In this case, they added this scene to make you feel and think about what's coming sooner or later; the built up to the battle with GutsMan modified to GutsMan G. There is no definite need for it to be the original. As the original, the drama of "why is GutsMan deactivated?!" conflicts with the drama of "Wily is taking my brother!". A scene in which the original GutsMan is brought to his knees after failing to stop Wily is far more dramatic toward that end.

Besides, two PlantMans.

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I question the logic in saving time and effort by going out of your way to steal a museum replica, since it could've been made of clay for all we know. The only reason it could be worth for Wily to even bother breaking into the museum to take the robot would be if it was either the original or a functional copy (and it would be a total waste to built one just to put it up for display).

As has been proven by World4, the museum robots are all functional. Just being on display does not mean they'll never move. Besides, your own logic applies to the original, why would they have a functional original there? It's far more of a waste to remove the original GutsMan from his job than it is to built a display copy.

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this is inconsistent with their Guts Man page where they state Guts Dozer and Guts Man G as rebuilt versions of Guts Man.

When it comes down to it, the minor enemy pages are more consistent than the boss pages. Given the way AF's encyclopedia was integrated into MMN.

Either way, GutsMan was alive and well when Wily built the Guts Dozer/Tank. (R1/RR to R2) The meaning of "rebuilt" here is not "repair", it is "building again from the same plans." There's no mention of it being the same mind and are explicitly said to be other forms. Guts Tank entry also explicitly says it is just modeled after Guts Man.

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The statement of Guts Man resenting Guts Man G could be interpreted as an experience which he regrets, so...

They're referred to as "creations"  not "his own body getting mangled."
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Shinichameleon / Nayim on March 28, 2009, 01:01:41 PM
Well, maybe the top spin can deflect the shurikens while it's spinning.

Maybe your right :).
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Sniper X on March 28, 2009, 01:07:37 PM
Maybe your right :).
Problem solved.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Shinichameleon / Nayim on March 28, 2009, 01:14:19 PM
Problem solved.

No problem :D.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: BaconMan on April 08, 2009, 02:45:24 PM
I think I've been nailed with a blade while spinning. Also, I believe ShadowMan gets motion sickness from spinning (hence the weakness). Well, that, and it's just freaking hard to land sometimes.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Shinichameleon / Nayim on April 08, 2009, 03:02:51 PM
I think I've been nailed with a blade while spinning. Also, I believe ShadowMan gets motion sickness from spinning (hence the weakness). Well, that, and it's just freaking hard to land sometimes.

You mean from Deviantart MM3 chain weakness, right?
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: BaconMan on April 08, 2009, 03:30:31 PM
You mean from Deviantart MM3 chain weakness, right?

Huh? There's a DA of that? Link plz. :)
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: VixyNyan on April 08, 2009, 04:03:05 PM
(http://www.deviantart.com/download/100788265/The_Mega_Man_1_Gang_by_CyberMoonStudios.png)
http://cybermoonstudios.deviantart.com/art/The-Mega-Man-1-Gang-100788265

(http://www.deviantart.com/download/101671085/The_Mega_Man_2_Troop_by_CyberMoonStudios.png)
http://cybermoonstudios.deviantart.com/art/The-Mega-Man-2-Troop-101671085

(http://www.deviantart.com/download/105723240/The_Mega_Man_3_Posse_by_CyberMoonStudios.png)
http://cybermoonstudios.deviantart.com/art/The-Mega-Man-3-Posse-105723240

(http://www.deviantart.com/download/108142231/The_Mega_Man_4_Corps_by_CyberMoonStudios.png)
http://cybermoonstudios.deviantart.com/art/The-Mega-Man-4-Corps-108142231

(http://www.deviantart.com/download/100575529/The_Megaman_9_Bunch_by_CyberMoonStudios.png)
http://cybermoonstudios.deviantart.com/art/The-Megaman-9-Bunch-100575529
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Shinichameleon / Nayim on April 08, 2009, 04:38:04 PM
Ouch, that gonna for a while..i think. XD
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: VixyNyan on April 08, 2009, 04:39:27 PM
Yea I think that's gonna hurt for a long time too. >U<
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Shinichameleon / Nayim on April 08, 2009, 05:11:53 PM
Yea I think that's gonna hurt for a long time too. >U<

Especially GUTSMAN'S ASS.  XD
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Protoman Blues on April 08, 2009, 05:29:11 PM
#2 might be my favorite, simply for Metal Man punching himself!
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: Shinichameleon / Nayim on April 09, 2009, 02:14:32 PM
Did anyone notice Topman's head attach by Magnet missle :\, check again.
Title: Re: Quick Question
Post by: BaconMan on April 11, 2009, 08:12:07 PM
WOW. This topic actually reached an interesting point! XD And those are pretty badass illustrations, too. But to be honest, I'd only seen the MM9 one before now.