I LOVE how they did this thing with Zero where he was sealed because Wily couldnt control him. I thought that was what the virus was for?
This falls into Zan's theories on justifying the "virus turning Zero good" shpiel, seemingly one of the most outrageous thing that Inti could retain from the 3 Keys. Taken at face value it seemingly contradicts X5. But if the virus was intended to curb Zero's aggression, then Zan suggested that Hunter Zero may be the result of its work being incomplete; the bloodlust is gone but no allegiance has been established.
A major issue surrounding Zero and the virus, is the fact that according to this timeline it is damage which Zero sustained in the Sigma battle that infected him in the first place, despite the fact that the virus came from Zero's capsule. In other words, the virus, though contained in Zero's capsule, did not infect Zero then. So, what does that mean?
One possibility is that, Sigma having landed three blows (kick, throw to ceiling, head punch), that one of the earlier two cause a crack somewhere allowing the infection, while the W-headache-punch interrupted it. But my issue with that is why the infection would not have continued to run its course while Zero was unconscious.
My other thought is that perhaps the X1 body was never intended to awaken at all. If the virus is in fact key to curbing Zero's initial aggression, and if that was in fact Wily's intention all along, then the X1 body may have been a test subject. A precaution by Wily to make sure that, in the event of a failure, he didn't wind up with the power of X5 Awakened Zero with X4 flashback's attitude. This carries the implication that X1 Zero's control chip was intended to be removed all along, and its "miraculous" survival may not have been entirely coincidence. It would explain how Zero got killed in a rather ordinary battle, something which in X6 Isoc considers beneath him. Would also justify Power Fighters' specs, and the "mixed" specs we see in X5's intro (X3 buster pasted over X1 body).
Posted on: April 10, 2010, 08:48:43 AM
Something tells me they are committing the mistake that really shouldnt be committed by them. They seem to place Zero's seal right after X6. Oh God. What an elementary mistake.
I can see this is going to be our biggest bit of fanon to contend with for years to come. No, they did not say that. They said that the Nightmare incident was key to understanding Zero as a carrier of the virus. There is information in the events of the Nightmare incident that are not known to our heroes, namely Gate's infection, and the means by which his Zero research tied into Sigma's revival. There is no reason these things, which implicate Zero independent of Gate's tampering, cannot come to light at a later point in time, similar to how X8 dug up memories of X5's virus incident.
Posted on: April 10, 2010, 08:52:36 AM
Unless he had one of Cain's chairs in his dining room, I'm not expecting too much in the way of lifespan extension beyond our current norm. But, maybe. I certainly can't rule it out completely.
Age of 100 isn't all that far beyond our current norm, though. I mean, it's exceptional, but it does happen in the real world from time to time. It's less a matter of him being simply alive (Cain's goal) and more a matter of him not being completely invalid. He is pushing his limits, though, since by the time he finishes X and writes up his video to the future, he's clearly going downhill.
Also, to the best of my knowledge, we have no real statement as to Cain's age at any point in the timeline, do we?
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