Mega Man Megamix Volume 1 Read Online

Cut Human being: I don't accept any data on yous... WHO ARE YOU?!

???: Me...? My name is Rock... But I'm also Mega Man!

— Mega Human Megamix, Volume i: "The Birth of Mega Man"

The fan favorite and often celebrated adaptation of the classic Mega Man serial by Hitoshi Ariga. Well known inside the fandom but never released in the West, it was originally known only to Japanese and the few Western fans that could afford to import information technology. Scans and translations of the original stories were bachelor, but only of the first few chapters. A well known petition circulated for years, trying to go someone to choice upwardly the series, but it seemed it was to no avail.

That is until publisher UDON announced that they would be bringing the series to the West. All three volumes were released, with the latter two including bonus content. For case: Volume 2 includes supplementary materials, like interviews with Kenji Inafune, Robot Principal profiles, and comic strips based on the Soccer game (which are much less serious than the bodily Megamix manga).

Megamix is known for its excellent storytelling, which also captures the feel of the Classic series while also telling it with a chip more depth and maturity. The theme of robot and homo interaction is a big part of the story, and it can exist heartwarming too as action-packed.

Due to the success of Mega Homo nine and Mega Man 10, a follow-upwards to the series called Rockman Gigamix was released alongside a new impress of Megamix, which collects the original stories while likewise adding new material by Ariga. UDON licensed Gigamix, and published all 3 of the new volumes as of Nov 2011. They were later reprinted in colour.

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Provides Examples of:

• Activity Girl: Ane of the one-page comic strips has Dr. Wily getting the bright idea of sending his robot masters to kidnap Roll. The next panel shows her looking at a pile of beaten-upward robot masters with an annoyed expression and a frying pan. Sadly averted in the chief story (most of the time) since she's non armored and doesn't take a built-in weapon. Her participation in Battle & Chase is caused by her feelings about this.
• Actually a Doombot: Near the beginning of the The Greatest Enemy in History story arc, later on Copy Mega Man foils Dr. Wily'south plans, he shoots him in the forehead, only for the head to start bouncing on a spring, revealing it be a robot fake. The real Wily observed the result from his Wily Capsule, shocked at how Mega Human would shoot a man.
• Adaptational Badass: One of the series's defining traits. Almost all the combat-capable robots are shown every bit much more powerful than in the games. The real winners hither, though, are the Stardroids. In Mega Man Five, Dr. Light was able to create a weapon to defeat them after a single meet, leaving them as basically the same as Robot Masters. In this series, they are on such a dissimilar level from Globe'southward robots that it'due south non even funny. Case in point, twice Saturn completely no-sells electrical attacks from Earth'south robots, which is really his weakness in game.
• Adaptation Expansion: This, in SPADES. The series does an excellent job of building on a series not known for in-depth plots. From the way Ariga justifies the Robot Masters' abilities and weaknesses to expanding the personalities of characters who previously had NONE, Megamix is chock full of particular that makes the archetype series feel much more than alive.
  • Canon Immigrant: A variation here; some of the personalities of the Robot Masters creep over to Rockman & Forte's CD database, office of the series' canon.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: The trope runs zigzag with Misanthrope Supreme below in the case of Dr. Wily. In the case of the below trope, a passing willingness of human casualties in the games inflated to a total-on intent to enact them here. However, when it comes to robots, even those not his own, Wily presents as a Noble Demon of sorts. He simply runs abroad in battle in knowing Mega Human would never go too far to his creations, refusing retreat when it became articulate the White Giant would take no prisoners, and even in the Battle and Hunt story, he has an explosive planted on Curl's car just insofar as to get Mega Homo to bring together the race, ordering Shadow Homo to retrieve information technology without harming her one time they baited him into participation.
• Adaptational Villainy:
  • While Skull Man was even so an antagonist in canon, he never attacked his creator Dr. Cossack equally he does hither. Downplayed in that he is withal treated every bit sympathetic.
  • The Stardroids in the games were discovered and reprogrammed by Dr. Wily. Here, they're evil from the start and Dr. Wily is forced into an Enemy Mine with Dr. Light to defeat them.
• Affably Evil: Dr. Wily fluctuates between this and actually being intimidating, particularly in the third story of volume 1, Metal Center. The aforementioned goes for the tertiary and fifth armies, in stark contrast to their predecessors from Mega Man 2.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Extensively played with to the point of Reconstruction.
  • Averted by Rock & Ringlet Low-cal. Stone plays it straight in 1 storyline merely it turns to exist Re-create-Rock, who subverts the trope because he's basically doing what he was programmed to do. May count as a Double Subversion. Alternatively, Rock condign a hero is a subversion.
  • Subverted past the Xanthous Devil Mk. 2 who just wants to be reunited with his female parent and when Proto Homo does a Batman Gambit. Proto Man may authorize as another Double Subversion, as he joined Wily willingly (playing it straight), left and now follows his own agenda, which oftentimes involves things like harming his siblings or provoking Bass to attack Rock. Besides, the Cossackbots.
  • Justified for Bass and the reprogrammed Lightbots. Justified and Subverted by Skull Human being via Death Equals Redemption.
  • Defied by the imposition of the three laws: enforced past the racism that exists because of public sensation of this trope.
  • Inverted by the Mega Human being 5 Wilybots, who are adequately heroic in the entertainment park chapter.
  • Deconstructed by the robot chief rights bug and the fact the imposition of the three laws is responsible for the generator programming flaw Dejection has, co-ordinate to his bio. In other words, Proto Man is dying because Dr. Light was Wrong Genre Savvy and idea this trope might be played straight.
  • Zig-Zagged past Bass.
  • Wily attempts to Exploit this with Copy-Stone, but Shadow Man is not able to kill Stone due to Proto Man'due south Batman Gambit.
  • Justified and invoked by both Calorie-free and Wily in Gigamix Vol. 2 at the very onset of robotic evolution equally proven by a flashback to their initial partnership. By giving robots 'souls', they could adapt and achieve more than than just simple programming and educational activity could, fully aware of the problems this could upshot in.
• All There in the Manual: One of the near famous things about the manga series is the level of depth placed into the Robot Main profiles and concept art at the cease of the principal manga, combined with some Adaptation Expansion, such as Cut and Metal having specially made hands designed to grip and catch their Absurdly Abrupt Bract projectiles. Hell, Air Human's Tornado Arm works on Bernouli's Principle.
• Aloof Large Brother: Proto Man to Mega Human.
• Always 2d All-time: The reason for Wily'southward hatred of Dr. Light and his attempt to take over the world is that he's jealous of all the praise Dr. Low-cal receives. The profiles at the end of book one actually state that Wily is smarter than Dr. Light, but he was never able to fully realize his talent due to their teachers always fawning over Lite and never really giving him a risk.
• And the Chance Continues: The Stardroids are defeated, then here'due south Wily on his eighth effort to conquer the earth!
• Anime Opening Parody: Hitoshi Ariga made his own animated opening based on the famous "Subarashiki Shin Sekai (Dauntless New Globe)" from Namco × Capcom, with Mega Homo, Bass and the Robot Masters staring this animation against the Stardroids, which are the Big Bad Ensemble of the series, hyping fans for many years about a possible Animated Adaptation of his manga.
• Anti-Hero: Proto Human does more but fight Rock in this.
• Ascended Actress:
  • Typically of all the Robot Masters in a group ane will be presented equally the "leader" of the group, similar Elec Man for the Lightbots, Quick Human being for Wily'south beginning batch, Shadow Man for his 2nd, so on.
  • Dr. Cossack, Kalinka, and Ring Man all have much more than than nominal importance and play of import supporting roles in several stories. Band Human in particular gets the glow up being part of the group to help defeat the Stardroids, defeating Pluto himself.
• Assault Its Weak Betoken: Used for characterization in affiliate 3, where Rock is surprised Shadowman didn't already know what a Yellow Devil's weakness was. Information technology becomes a plot betoken in Asteroid Dejection, where it's Justified when Dr. Light reveals that he couldn't bring himself to trust Dr. Wily, and so he deliberately congenital Gamma with a weak spot, only in case.
• Attack Pattern Alpha: In the second volume, Wily goes through a step-by-step Plan B (for "Best") for the Fifth Numbers to apply to defeat Mega Man... then turns to the already defeated Robot Masters to yell at them for screwing it upward. Later, as the Hourly Pay Squad Part-Timers, they pull it off to perfection while defending the amusement park from Bass' rampage.
• Apocalypse How: The Stardroids are fans of the Class 6 scenario, though it's heavily hinted that Sunstar tin go all the way to Class X.
• Art Evolution: While Ariga'south early on Megamix artwork is good and highly detailed, information technology looks a bit sketchy and hesitant at times, especially in comedic or filler arcs where characters oftentimes look Off-Model, and seldom uses shading in then information technology tends to await flat. His Gigamix art, still, is astonishingly gorgeous, with cleaner lines, more than consistent character designs, shading, dramatic lighting, visual effects, and even greater item, even in silly moments.
  • Mayhap justified in that Ariga was rushing those comics to encounter his deadlines. He mentions his struggles to get things washed in the omakes.
• Ax-Crazy: Bass. More than and then than usual, particularly when he takes in the Hyper Free energy Crystals and is overcome with their power. The Stardroids, who exist only to destroy, sport some other example. Blues does a very good impression. Heat Man is pretty nuts also.
• Badass Longcoat: Dejection wears a black one when he'south passing for human.
  • Ring Human being wears a trenchcoat, being chief of the Robot Law. Anybody reminded of Inspector Gadget?
    • With a touch of Inspector Zenigata.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: The third army try to do this in book three. Shadow Homo succeeds, just at the cost of killing the toy robot AI that only wanted to come across its mother.
  • In Shadow Man's defence, he might not have known that last office.
  • Also, Skull Man.
• The Bad Guy Wins: The Battle & Chase race. Besides a chip of Throw the Dog a Bone. Didn't work out too well in the finish, though.
• Batman Gambit: Blues' modus operandi.
• Berserk Button: A storyline in the second volume hinges on Dejection hitting-running Bass', who then finds and hits Rock'south in guild to get Stone to fight him seriously.
  • Auto too learns the hard mode not to phone call Bass an idiot, even if you're well over a mile range from him.
• Berserker Tears: Skull Man sheds these as he prepares to shoot Dr. Cossack after the latter comes to apologize for abandoning him and sealing him away.
• Big Brother Instinct: Ringlet and the other Lightbots are Rock's younger siblings. In that location's also Dejection.
• Large Damn Heroes: The original Robot Masters in chapter 1, so again in chapter 2. Blues, when he doesn't make things worse.
• Large Ham: Air Human, the 5th Numbers (a.k.a. Hourly-Pay Squad Office-Timers), and Shade Man all exhibit some measure of hamminess: Air Human being for intimination, the Fifth Numbers for one-act, and Shade Homo for personality and fashion.
• Blackness Cloak: The Mega Homo ii Robot Masters show upwards wearing hoods and cloaks at the cease of the first chapter. They however have them when making their re-entrance a chapter later.
• Black Eyes of Crazy: The Stardroids.
• Claret from the Mouth: Proto Man coughs up blood at one point while fighting Mars, despite being a robot. Still, it could be oil.
• Blood Knight: Bass, who has no purpose in beingness besides fighting to prove he's the strongest.
• Blood Sport: Dr. Light disapproves of Battle and Chase because of this, and all Rock can say is that at least information technology's not as bad as the tournament in Mega Homo six. Dr. Low-cal was supposed to give some sort of a spoken language for the WRO during it: at the end of the chapter nosotros discover out that he missed the whole thing because he couldn't detect his ties. While Boxing & Chase is a less serious affiliate than many of the others, he was probably grateful for the excuse.
  • This is also why Rock is then worried about Roll's participation even before he finds out about the flop. He resorts to things similar lying and barricading a door to keep Dr. Light from finding out, knowing he'd exist upset.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: The original Robot Masters were reprogrammed by Dr. Wily into causing destruction, as in the original game.
• Brought Downwards to Normal: The only possible purpose of Napalm Man is to blow up and burn downward stuff, hence his name. So what does he practice when all the Mega Man 5 Robot Masters are assigned by Dr. Wily to work at an amusement park to earn actress money? He's a receptionist. With grenades on his shoulders and missiles for arms.
  • This could be applied to all the robots working at the amusement park, but information technology's less pronounced because Napalm Man is a killing motorcar working a desk-bound chore, while Wave Man scrubbing floors makes a bit more sense.
• Barrel-Monkey: Motorcar constantly gets pushed around with the Boxing and Chase adaptation featuring Stone stealing his auto and Bass hitching a ride on his replacement while yelling at him.
• Catechism Foreigner: Not quite this example, simply Shadow Man'due south portrayal in Megamix had a considerable impact on Battle Network'southward portrayal of the character, from his function as an assassin to his ability to move through shadows.
  • Though at that place was one in the original game (kind of), the portrayal of Copy Mega Human being influenced and led to his inclusion in Mega Man Powered Upwards.
• Catch a Falling Star: Later destroying two Stardroids with the heat of atmospheric reentry, Shadow Man is saved from a high-altitude fall by Quick Man and his Mecha Dragon.
• Ceiling Cling: Shadow Homo start appears standing upside-downwardly on the ceiling. His Scarf of Asskicking manages to defy gravity right along with him, "hanging" upward to curl effectually his feet on the surface of the ceiling.
• Character Development: Rock. The commencement Gigamix volume does a bully job demonstrating this, since the stories it contains are pretty far apart in the timeline.
• Chekhov's Gun: Wily never did get around to launching those terminal three, space-worthy Skull Satellites.
• Cloning Blues: Sniper Joes are inferior copies of Blues, every bit well as the Darkmen. They're intellectually junior and he tends to destroy them on sight. A more typical example would be Copy Mega Man.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Most teams have at least one, but Star Man takes the cake.
• Composite Character: Sort of, more along the lines of a detail particular being recursively added in. The White Giant kickoff emerges from an Asteroid. The original Duo flew around in space nether his own power. The Duo of Battle Network, however, used a falling star to travel the universe.
• Continuity Cameo: Ribitta and Sunayama appear as staff roofing the Battle and Chase. Charlie is also seen as a TV announcer multiple times.
  • In Asteroid Blues, you tin see Speedy Dave, Terry Jomon, Princess Pride, Mary Towa, Chaud, Shuko Kido and Mr. Match watching a news study on Wily'due south jail judgement. The guess ruling on Wily is apparently Glacier Le'Cactank in human class. Robots send to investigate the asteroid await similar the Normal Navis and the guardian robots on the asteroid are the first boss from the first Legends game.
  • During Terra'a 1 on one battle with Stone, some of the spectators around the world include Raika, Ivan Chillski, Raoul and Dingo.
• Continuity Nod: Inside the serial itself. Wily equips Proto Homo with an conflicting power crystal found in the Asteroid Alpha ruins. When Terra of the Stardroids roams around the urban center, he detects that same crystal and recognizes it equally "1 of [their] own."
  • During "Warrior's Solar day Off," Dr. Calorie-free is busy training in a karate outfit for a "legacy for the future."
  • In "Asteroid Blues", some of the robots on the asteroid strongly resemble Reaverbots.
  • At the end of "Grim Reaper of Resurrection," Wily decides to write his ain bestseller. In the next chapter, there are boxes filled with returned copies of his volume stacked in the groundwork of his lair.
• Creepy Crossdresser: Quick Human being in the Mega Human being Soccer comics.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Dejection, when he only wants to get people out of his way, and Bass vs. Rock, until Rock got serious.
  • Almost every unmarried battle in Gigamix Vol. 2.
• Damsel in Distress: When Darkmen effort to kidnap Roll, Bass saves her but and then decides they had a pretty proficient idea, actually, and uses her as bait to get Mega Man to fight him. It's actually Blues that rescues her from the crane she's tied to. Also, in the Skull Man storyline, Kalinka is kidnapped along with Roll, and in danger of freezing to expiry. In social club to purchase her time, Whorl deliberately overheats. Kalinka gets this a lot: justified since as a immature homo she'due south too frail to be an Action Girl and Wily, and others, are aware of what a valuable hostage she makes. In one storyline, Blues takes advantage of this.
• Darker and Edgier: In spades. Some have compared it to The Protomen.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Shadow Man and Shade Man.
• Determinator: Every unmarried Lightbot refuses to back downward against the Stardroids, even if they're missing a limb or two.
• Development Gag: In Gigamix Vol. two and 3, Duo is rebuilt past Dr. Cossack. Duo was originally going to be ane of Dr. Cossack's robots in the games, merely this was changed, and he came from space.
• Dramatic Ellipsis: Air Man in R Devastation Club is almost compelled to speak with these combined with Dramatic Pause for maximum hamminess.
• Driven to Suicide: Copy Mega Human being is convinced by Blues to perform a Heroic Sacrifice.
• Early-Bird Cameo: If you look closely at the backgrounds, most of the Stardroids show up in the background as engravings on the Asteroid Alpha ruins during "Asteroid Blues."
  • Duo and the Eighth Numbers show upwardly in bonus gag comics during the Megamix serial, even though they don't take any plot appearances until Gigamix.
• Enemy Mine: In chapter 3, Wily and Dr. Light's forces team up to stop the rampaging Yellow Devil.
  • And once again in Gigamix Vol. 2 nether the threat of the Stardroids.
• Expy: The Gigamix version of Nighttime Moon is, instead of a Yellow Devil variant, a repurposed Ra Moon from Super Chance Rockman. With its blackness, spherical trunk and giant eye, it very closely resembles the Giant Sphere of the Giant Robo OVA.
• Fifty-fifty Evil Has Standards: Dr. Wily had Shadow Human remove the bomb from Roll's car considering of this.
• "Everybody Laughs" Ending: The first chapter ends with everyone laughing at Cut Man's hijinks every bit he tries to flee from Ringlet'south efforts at repairing him.
• Evil Knockoff: Copy Mega Homo, meaning the Mega Human being the role player was controlling in Mega Man 6 was this. Technically, too Bass. The thought behind the all-Roll soccer squad in the soccer strips, but it takes Dr. Wily a lot of work to brand them anything resembling evil.
• Evil Laugh: Bass and Wily, of course, and Blues' is proficient enough too, permit solitary Roll.
• Explosive Overclocking: Proto Man, armed with a customized buster that uses an conflicting crystal ability source, supercharges a blast in order to preclude a spaceship with Dr. Low-cal on it from crashing on an asteroid. The custom buster blows in half afterward, only he can still use information technology to some capacity.
• Eyes Always Shut: Shadow Man almost always keeps his right eye close as it streams video data back to Dr. Wily. When he doesn't demand/wish to do this, he leaves it shut.
• Centre Scream: Terra rips out and EATS Saturn's eye as penalization for retreating from a battle and to provide Nighttime Moon with a scrap more than despair to feed off of.
• Fake Defector: Elec Human being pulls this on Dr. Wily.
• Fantastic Racism: Kalinka Cossack. Though to exist fair, mayhap she was still traumatized by the events of the 4th game. She's also just had her father kidnapped past a robot and is very overwrought: she tends to regret the things she says to Ringlet as soon as she says them.
  • It's implied that this is a common attitude towards robot masters. Dr. Cossack writing a book saying they should be seen as friends and equals prompted the Skull Man storyline.
• Fatherly Scientist: Drs. Lite & Cossack except Dr. Cossack can't stand the sight of Skull Human being, who was built on Dr. Wily's orders and according to the character contour Dr. Cossack sees his existence every bit horrifying, the opposite of everything he'd intended. Dr. Cossack does eventually see him as function of the family, but Skullman dies soon after.
  • Wily, of all people, tin be this toward the Wilybots, in a manner of speaking. Wily demands he be there to fight with his creations after the 'White Giant' destroys nearly all of them. Shade Man reveals in Gigamix Vol. two that the reason he's and so quick to retreat and carelessness them against Rock is that Rock and Lite are fundamentally decent opponents. Against a real, truly combative threat, he shows how much pride he has in his own 'children'.
• Feathered Fiend: Reggae's first act is to assault Rush, and continues to torment him at every opportunity. He's also a spy for Wily's new Robot Masters.
• Feuding Families: Co-ordinate to Airman, anyhow.
• Flawed Prototype: Double Subverted. Proto Man doesn't have the flaw in his power organization that will probably kill him someday considering it was a prototype, information technology's in that location considering Dr. Calorie-free tried to install a buggy version of the three laws in order to control him and it messed up his power systems. No wonder he's paranoid almost Dr. Light taking his free will abroad if given the opportunity and won't permit Dr. Light 'fix' him: Proto Man is dying because Dr. Low-cal already tried to exercise that. On tiptop of the fact he can't trust Dr. Light, it's possible that the power system programming flaw can't be fixed without fixing the three laws programming, in which example he really would lose his complimentary will if he was fixed. Of course, this universe's robot masters aren't very Three Laws-Compliant. Curlicue and Stone would exist happy to testify him how it's washed.
• Frictionless Reentry: Shadow Man pushes Neptune and Mercury ahead of him and plunges back into the temper from low Earth orbit. While Mercury melts himself downwards to hide and protect himself from the heat, Shadow Human being is spared because Neptune's majority protects him from the worst of the damage. As well bad for Neptune that there was aught protecting him .
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Wily and the other Wilybots at best tolerate Bass. His incredble gainsay power is the but thing they seem to respect, and about openly call him an idiot or treat him with disdain.
• Gatling Practiced: Needle Homo is portrayed with belt-fed arm cannons.
• Generic Doomsday Villain: The Stardroids, aside from Terra, accept no other motivation other than the annihilation of all life in the universe. Terra even states as much.

  Terra: We are the Stardroids! Nosotros exist only to meet that aught else does!

• Good Is Not Squeamish: Blues is morally questionable and often times a flat-out jerk, but rarely will he do anything that isn't pushing toward good ends.
  • Played with by the 'White Giant' in Gigamix Vol. 2, as he's on a crusade against evil, but with severe Knight Templar and Implacable Man tendencies, while also acting equally a living prison for the evil Stardroids that are, well, uncompromisingly evil.
• Guile Hero / Manipulative Bastard: Blues, who has Rock and Bass' all-time interests at middle but has no trouble manipulating Bass into attacking an injured Rock, for example. Even worse is the time he basically gear up Copy-Mega Human being upwardly to commit suicide.
• Half the Human He Used to Be: Quick Man defeats a weakened Mercury by bisecting him vertically before he tin can fully recover. Information technology's implied the sheer speed of the attack and the previous atmospheric re-entry were enough to keep Mercury from reforming like he had previously in the story.
• Heroic RRoD: Taking in a Hyper Energy Crystal can overload your circuits and ship you into an uncontrollable battle frenzy.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Coil overheats in social club to keep Kalinka from freezing to expiry. Fortunately, they're found in time. Copy Mega Man does this: not just does he save Mega Human, but he was in that location in the first place to dice on photographic camera to clear Mega Man's proper name.
  • In Gigamix Vol. two The Wily Numbers 3rd and Seventh grouping (the Robot Masters from those games) all assault the rampaging 'White Giant' later on Wily, knowing they'll fail. Shade Man offers to exist a decoy, knowing full well he won't stand up upwards to it either, merely so Shadow Man can escape to get Wily healed up. The Fifths endeavour to practise this likewise to rescue Stone, Cutting Man, and Elec Human, to no avail. Non to mention the tournament robots from the 6th game and A THOUSAND FIGHTING ROBOTS FROM Around THE Globe assaulting Terra at one time to protect the humans despite knowing its a futile fight.
  • In Gigamix Vol. 3, Mega Human being's brain unit has been fatally damaged by Terra. Realizing he is the same model every bit Stone, Cut Homo offers his own hardware to assistance fix his brother, even at the cost of his own personality. Afterward, Wily and Light reveal that they backed him upwards in Roll's unused retentivity sectors.
• Heroic Second Wind: Ring Man gets one to accept downwards Pluto, courtesy of a pep-talk from Skull Human being's spirit.
• Hope Spot: Twice in Gigamix Vol. 3:
  • Duo'southward here to relieve the day! Until Saturn's black hole warps him into an ambush with all the Stardroids, leaving everyone on Earth vulnerable to Terra's assault.
  • Mega Human goes down with a blast through the head. Which was faked past Wily, who deliberately disabled (but not destroyed) Mega Homo's brain circuitry then that Terra wouldn't stick around to destroy him irreparably. Mega Man will be okay! But and then Wily and Light observe that Terra did in fact observe the ruse and delivered his own small, but fatal, blow, hidden past Wily's blast.
• Hover Board: Both Item 2 and Rush's Blitz Jet grade.
• Humongous Mecha: Gamma is finally seen in his full glory, and he'southward gigantic. The "White Behemothic," while smaller, positively towers over all other robots.
• I Was Quite a Looker: Dr. Wily in the flashback story in Gigamix Vol. 2. Just look at him ◊.
• Implacable Man: The 'White Giant', an alien robot that erupted from the asteroid used in "Asteroid Blues", demands that all evil in the universe be purged. Did nosotros mention he can tear through Wilybots like they were paper mache and refuses to compromise or slow down? At all?
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: In the Mega Human Soccer comics, Wily installs his Evil Chips on the Copy-Rolls to defeat Mega Man at soccer. She spectacularly fails to get any sort of evil —though she does neglect to separate the recycling from the trash.
  • Within the manga's catechism, if Copy Mega Man is any indication, Mega Human being would be this himself, if information technology weren't for Copy's evil chip resulting in A.I. Is a Crapshoot.
• Instant Armor: How the very human-looking Rock becomes the armored, Arm Cannon-equipped Mega Man.
• Interrupted Cooldown Hug: In "Metallic Eye", it seems that the Yellow Devil is finally going to reach its mother, the Female parent Computer, only for Shadow Homo to impale the Yellowish Devil'due south weakpoint and cause critical damage to both information technology and the Female parent Computer.
• It Was His Sled: The series doesn't even try to tease at who Proto Man is, every bit the third game gets barely a folio of summation in chapter three. On the other hand, Blues' identity may non be very well known in-universe. No one except Dr. Low-cal recognizes him when he first shows up dressed similar a human being, and Elec Man tin can't connect the dots even later hearing Dr. Light ask the person who just defeated all of them without fifty-fifty using a weapon (clearly not human strength) if his power source was alright (which unsaid that Dr. Light had worked on him at some signal). Of course, given the fact the original robot masters were nearly destroyed for going rogue while reprogrammed, they're not going to desire to tell the world about a robot that went rogue because it felt similar information technology. Especially interesting since the chapter clearly takes identify after the fifth game, since the robot masters from it have been around for awhile, same with the Darkmen.
• Boot the Dog: Blues has several of these moments, like dismembering his siblings to keep them and Dr. Lite from going to help Rock.
• Killed Off for Real: No affair how badly damaged they are, Robot Masters are eventually repaired and put back on their feet after every boxing with Mega Man. Non so for Skull Human, who was laid to residual for good.
• Impale 'Em All: Past volume 2 of Gigamix, every Robot Principal except the ones from the beginning game, the quaternary game and Shadow Man are killed by either the "White Giant" or the Stardroids.
• Knight Templar: Duo in the shorts he appears in, Played for Laughs. Played horribly straight in Gigamix, destroying most of the cast before they get ameliorate.
• Knight Templar Big Brother: A way to translate Blues, although he'll cheerfully maim them or allow them to exist placed in danger.
• Allow's Get Unsafe!: Rock's initial upgrading into Mega Man. Lampshaded by Bass, who realizes that he needs to hurt or threaten others to unlock Mega Human being's true power, just instead of attacking Scroll he bombs a city. Stone is shocked when he sees Blues annihilating some Sniper Joes, which implies that he was holding back when he fought Rock earlier.
• Light Is Not Good: No, not Dr. Light. The 'White Giant' from Gigamix Vol. 2 plays with this, being an uncompromising Knight Templar seeking to destroy all evil in the universe, just with a severely low threshold for what counts as 'evil'. See also Good Is Not Nice above.
• Lightning Bruiser: Quick Man. He's big, top heavy, the fastest bot seen in the series, and extremely combat keen and strong. To wit, he's the only ane aside from Duo to kill, weakened or not, a Stardroid without needing an Energy Crystal.
• Similar You Would Really Do Information technology: Played straight for the reader but inverted in-universe for Dejection and Kalinka during the Copy Mega Man storyline. They think he would, but he wouldn't.
• Lost in Translation: A part of the end of Asteroid Dejection simply makes sense if the reader is already aware that Proto Homo's Japanese name is Dejection.
• Fabricated of Ceramic Titanium: Rock refuses to go down easy no matter what opponent he'south facing. Every bit the Lightbots testify confronting the Stardroids, this seems to be a family unit trait.
• Mad Scientist: Wily, of course, simply Auto is pretty out at that place himself.
• Mama Deport / Housewife / Wrench Wench: It's made clear from her start appearance that Curlicue is in charge of the Low-cal household, quite willing to gild Dr. Light around and hitting her younger brothers with a screwdriver to brand them concord withal to be repaired.
• Mayincatec: The ruins of Asteroid Alpha.
• McNinja: Shadow Human. Interestingly, done more accurately than most depictions of ninja. While Shadow Man sees himself every bit a tool and will use dirty tactics to conduct out Dr. Wily'southward orders, his primary duty is apparently that of bodyguard and he'south extremely honorable in the sometime Japanese sense (best shown in Gigamix Vol. 2). Information technology'southward because he'due south an honorable graphic symbol because of (instead of in spite of) being a ninja that his What the Hell, Hero? towards Dejection is so effective, especially since that story arc is the once he goes against Dr. Wily's orders, violating that honor code in order to help someone. The contrast is effective.
• Mirror Match: Mega Man vs. Copy Mega Homo: even they don't know which is the existent i. Other robot masters were about to go involved when Blues stepped in.
• Misanthrope Supreme: Dr. Wily'southward motivation in the manga is a stark divergence from the source material equally, whereas there he'southward motivated past ego for purely his ain benefit, here he's motivated by his belief that humanity every bit a whole are obsolete and that robots should inherit the Globe— under his leadership, of course. His willingness to meet a urban center erased via his fortress going nuclear likewise as raze the earth with a Kill Sat grid as his first ii schemes testify his clear willingness and fifty-fifty pursuit of human prey.
• Mister Exposition: Shadow Man is frequently used in gild to go things across to the audience. In his first appearance in Megamix, he was used as something of a Foil for Rock, to help the reader understand Stone better as Shadow Man studied him. Then, in the final story of Megamix, he'southward the one that explains what is going on to Re-create Mega Human being, and his angry confrontation with Dejection well-nigh the terminate explains the other half of the plot. At the end of Boxing and Chase, he and Shade Man's conversation as well reveals a few important facts. In a bit of Hypocritical Humor, Shade Human talking about what another character is really similar annoys Shadow Man, since information technology reminds him of Blues, who fills this part (in a Manipulative Bastard manner) in the story centered effectually Forte & Rock, and also told a few things to Re-create Rock very cruelly.
• Most Definitely Not a Villain: Darkman #iv in Battle & Chase is very insistent on the fact that he is Proto Human being. And why wouldn't he? He's Proto Man after all!

  Roll: You attacked Elec Homo and the others!

  Darkman #4 : Yeah... that'due south me. I'm Proto Human being. I did those things.

  Kalinka: We TOLD YOU, We KNOW WHO You lot ARE!!

• Mysterious Protector: Blues to Rock: the amusement park battle is the best case.
• Never Found the Body: At the end of Gigamix Vol. 3, all that has ever been found of Proto Human is his broken helmet.
  • Besides in Vol. 3, there are no signs of Duo afterward he is ambushed by the Stardroids.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Fatally dissentious the "White Giant" results in the Stardroids breaking free from their confinement. Only then, considering the kind of Knight Templar it is, information technology was always a lose-lose situation at best.
• Noble Demon: Shade Homo and Shadow Man, who are fiercely loyal to Wily but also work towards actual skillful.
• Not So Higher up Information technology All: Elec Man in the amusement park affiliate.
• "Not So Different" Remark: The reason Dive Man and Drill Man give for helping Shadow Human escape with Copy Mega Man; much similar Skull Man, the Copy hadn't chosen the circumstances of his creation, yet he suffered for them anyway. Though Dive Man acknowledges that the Re-create must answer for his crimes, he at to the lowest degree deserves the chance to observe his ain identity.
• Not Too Dead to Save the Day: In Gigamix Vol. 3, a vision of Skull Man appears to terrify Pluto and give Ring Man the fortitude and moral support to defeat his enemy.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Mega Man's battle with Bass once he gets serious. However information technology went, it went desperately for Bass.
• Older and Wiser: During the team-up with Wily's robot masters to fight the yellowish devil, it's very clear that Rock is the most experienced one, down to sweatdropping at Snake Man's immaturity. Shadow Human not knowing something Rock thought everyone knew already results in a Funny Moment.
  • This actually shows in the first volume of Gigamix, which has two stories separated past a number of years. In the starting time, he'due south entirely taken in by Dr. Wily. In the second, he knows an anagram when he hears one, among other demonstrations of skill.
• Omnicidal Maniac: The Stardroids. They even say as much that their purpose is to destroy everything.
• All-seeing Morality License: Blues, who is finally called out on it by Shadow Man in Vol. three.
• Merely One: The manga really shows why Rock is this: robot masters vs. conventional military forces is a Adjourn-Stomp Boxing. It's a discussed trope, since it'south why he volunteered to be upgraded into a fighting robot in club to rescue his brothers. Of course: technically there were Only Two, since Dr. Wily hadn't stolen Roll, either.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat Yous: This is how Quick Man thinks of himself and Mega Man. When Flash Human being tried to usurp this function (going as far as to save Mega Homo's life from Quick Human'due south fatal strike) Quick Homo immediately turned on him so he could accept an uninterrupted duel with Mega Man.
  • Elec Man tries to arrive on this, only then he becomes good again.
  • Bass, in tradition with the games, also qualifies, although the story doesn't center effectually it every bit much. It'southward alluded to when he's essentially put to slumber for repairs for a calendar month while Wily builds more robots to kill Mega Man. When Bass finds out, he'southward none too pleased with him.
• Papa Wolf: Dr. Lite is quite willing to put himself into danger for the sake of his children. Dr. Wily in Gigamix Vol. 2, where, seeing that the "White Giant" is non the merciful foe Mega Man is, he'south and so determined to stand by his robots that Shademan has to knock him out to get him to retreat.
• Pet the Dog: Wily and Reggae, played directly and then subverted with the Xanthous Devil. The revelation that Blues was the one who sent the imprisoned Dr. Low-cal footage of what was going on in The Greatest Enemy is one, although he has several Kick the Dog moments in that story. Shadow Human rescuing Copy-Mega Man is this: it'southward something of a Hope Spot for the poor robot, since he immediately goes and throws his life away.
• Playing Soccer With Wilybots: Ariga's Mega Man Soccer bonus strips. The Amusement Park visit counts likewise (at least pre-Bass 'visit'). The original trope name would fit during the Boxing & Chase chapter.earlier Wily's ego and desire for fame and money turns it into a Mortiferous Game instead, not to mention the antagonists hiding their identities in the beginning.
• Poke the Poodle: In one of the 4koma strips, Wily implants an evil chip in one of his copy Rolls. She responds past taking out the trash without separating it from the recyclables.
• The Pollyanna: Rock's behavior towards Wily at the first of Asteroid Blues is unusually optimistic and friendly because their contempo history together. He goes so far as to express gratitude for getting to see Wily at work as an engineer.
• Powered past a Forsaken Kid: A somewhat more benevolent variation occurs when Dr. Wily uses a cleaved downwardly toy robot equally the brain of his new Xanthous Devil. Information technology's benevolent in that he took pity on and wanted to help a discarded machine, but it becomes morally ambiguous when you realize he turned information technology into a war machine and then ordered his robots to capture it or destroy information technology if they couldn't even when its revealed that all it wants to do is reach its original creator.
• Punch-Clock Villain: The fifth game'southward Robot Masters take this to an absurdly literal level, taking pride in beingness the 'Hourly-Pay Squad Function Timers' due to their side jobs at the Entertainment Park, and generally non-antagonistic behavior toward Rock.
• Psycho Prototype: While Blues is generally well-intentioned, some of his tactics do make the reader wonder every bit well as the other characters. He uses this to his advantage at least once. The attempt to avert this is what's killing him.
  • An conflicting civilization beginning created the Stardroids in club to harness the ability of the Hyper Free energy Crystals, which were unknown even to them.
• Quirky Miniboss Team: The portrayal of the third game'due south Robot Masters during "Metallic Middle" (but a lot less quirky in their first chronological appearance, "Asteroid Blues.") The 2nd game's robots, on the other hand, weren't quirky in the least]
  • The Fifth Numbers— that is, the Hourly-Pay Squad Part-Timers!! (Gravity, Star, Napalm, Gyro, Crystal, Charge, Wave, and Stone) take this trope and run away with it.
• Reluctant Warrior: Stone. Ariga makes an endeavor to describe him in human apparel every bit much as possible to betoken out that he was congenital to be a lab assistant, not a warrior: he doesn't fight because he wants to, he fights because he feels he has to.
• Rescue Romance: Subverted by Bass' 'rescue' of Scroll. Coil/Kalinka. Subverted by Blues and Kalinka
• Right Makes Might: Discussed Trope. Bass asks Blues what the source of Mega Man's power is. Dejection says that it'south a combination of the desire to protect everyone'southward future and the Determinator.

  Blues: Don't you see...? He preserved your future today, too.

• Robo Family: Three of them. Four if yous count the Yellow Devil and his female parent.
• Robot War: Some of Dr. Wily's robots desire to 'brand this a robot'southward earth," as Metallic Man says in the affiliate where the original robot masters were ordered killed by the authorities fifty-fifty though they'd been unbrainwashed. Different robot masters seem to have different motivations for serving Dr. Wily, such as a code of obedience (Shadow Homo), familial loyalty and, of grade, being Brainwashed and Crazy.
• Running Gag: Anybody except Mega Man calls Bass "that idiot" at least once. Even Roll.
• Scarf of Asskicking: And how.
• Sealed Evil in a Robot-Shaped Can: The 'White Giant', the uncompromising Implacable Robot from infinite that destroys nearly all the Wilybots to destroy evil in the universe is a living prison for 9 of the greatest evils in the universe: the Stardoids.
• Sempai/Kohai: Freeze Human being sees this every bit his relationship with Ice Man due to the latter being an older, more than experienced "ice-type"- even though Ice Man is around half his superlative.
• Seppuku: Shadow Man partially does this in the second volume of Gigamix.
  • In the Soccer 4-koma strips, Yamato Man attempts this afterward failing to block a goal.
• Shield Surf: When Proto Man decides to fly off into outer infinite to battle the Stardroids, he activates the hidden rocket boosters in his shield and rides information technology all the way to orbit.
• Ship Tease: Bass and Roll, starting with the Rescue Romance that wasn't.
• Shout-Out: Run into Continuity Cameo above. Also, Reaverbots cameo during the Asteroid Blues chapter.
• Shown Their Work: In spades, both in regards to all the detail and the references to both familiar and obscure moments from the games that Ariga throws in. A particularly notable one is in affiliate two, where Heat Homo scarfs down on Crash Bombs - a nod to the fact that those weapons healed him when used against him in Mega Man two.
  • He even included Tango, who showed up in merely i game from the obscure Gameboy serial.
    • Hell, he included the Stardroids from the same game as Tango.
• Unmarried Make clean Cut Battle: Quick Man'south specialty.
• Unmarried-Target Sexuality: YMMV as to whether Water ice Human being is this to Freeze Man, since there's trivial other evidence of romantic prospects.
• Single Tear: Shadow Man in Gigamix Vol. two.
• Stealth Mentor: Surprisingly, the manga just briefly mentions Blues' time as this towards Rock.
• The Stoic: Quick Man.
• Suicide by Cop: Played with by Copy Mega Man. Afterward discovering he was non the existent Mega Man, he destroys Shinjuku again. Bass shows upwards and proceeds to completely trash him. Re-create Mega Man did all of this on purpose; he went on another rampage to bear witness Rock was innocent, and no longer wanted to live, and the damage he sustained combined with his circuits overloading lead him to explode while tackling Bass ^note Bass survives, of course .
• Super Prototype: Blues, although he wasn't originally constructed as a warbot. Can defeat several other robot masters at in one case, in seconds. The fact he's a Combat Pragmatist helps. At that place'due south an actual reason for this. Just like in the games, Blues' body is frail every bit frail could exist. However, when Wily constitute Blues, he gave him a new power supply in the form of the first discovered Hyper Free energy Crystal, which effectively made Proto Human an Globe-made Stardroid. Consequently, he'southward easily every bit strong as Mega Man and Bass on a good day, and his sheer Batman-class combat skill and cunning closes sure gaps, but he definitely needs that shield.
• Tailor-Made Prison: In Asteroid Dejection, Wily is sentenced to 2,000 years in solitary solitude, in a cell 100 meters surreptitious. Six months into his sentence, he hasn't seen a single human face up, and has managed to cover every available surface of his jail cell in equations and figures. Skull Man is angry because something coordinating was done to him.
• Taking the Bullet: Elec Human jumps in the fashion of Bass' assail which had been heading toward an unaware Stone and a human child he'd been talking to. He survives, but is wounded besides badly to help with the ensuing evacuation endeavor or boxing.
  • Roll does this for Stone in the Greatest Enemy in History story, much to the horror of anybody present, including the shooter. Fortunately, Dr. Cossack and Kalinka are on hand to administer life-saving emergency treatment and get her to the robot infirmary.
• The Aesthetics of Applied science: Both embraced and averted. There's the amazing robotics engineering of 20XX, but it doesn't look that dissimilar from the modernistic era. Justified since it technically is the modernistic era: we're living in 20XX right now.
• The Chessmaster: Blues. He tends to control every storyline he appears in, and will have measures to command where various pieces are on the field.
  • Shade Homo shows his own expertise in Gigamix Vol. iii, regrouping the Wily Numbers, providing resources, and thinking up battle plans while everyone else was at a loss to what to do.
• This Is Something He'south Got to Do Himself: What Blues says when asked why he won't permit anyone help Stone.
• Three Laws-Compliant: Present, but not effective. They explicitly do more impairment than good. Scroll is able to disobey a straight lodge from Dr. Wily offhand (she may have invoked the first law to to so, but still), Stone will put himself in danger, the style he did to help the Yellowish Devil, without human lives on the line (violation of the third police force), and it seems easy enough for Dr. Wily to remove them from the robots he reprograms, or never install them in the first place. If he did program his robots with a prepare of laws focused on him, they're conspicuously not whatever more constructive than the conventional laws. According to Blues' backstory, they were added in later on by Dr. Calorie-free, and are buggy plenty to interfere with the programming of his fusion generator (how he was meant to self-destruct if he violated them?) and cause the flaw that may i twenty-four hours kill him. Since they're that easy to become around, Stone probably could kill Dr. Wily.
  • In the story based on the sixth game, Wily begs for forgiveness and then pulls a (failed) sneak attack when Re-create Mega Man turns effectually. He then gets shot in the face for his efforts. Turns out it was a robot double Wily left, but he was all the same shocked that Mega Homo fired.
• Tomato in the Mirror: Mega Man and Copy Mega Homo duke information technology out, with Mega Human getting the upper hand in spite of Copy'southward Ability Copying. Then, Copy starts to burn upward as parts of him fall apart, revealing Dr. Wily's Evil Chip, leaving Copy to deny the fact until he looks at a window reflection.
• Trickster Mentor: Dejection to Stone.
• Villain Has a Point: When the Stardoids all just demolish the Light Numbers, Dr. Lite refuses to repair his ain "children" as long as they intend to return to boxing (and possibly exist destroyed permanently.) Afterwards Wily offers to repair them instead, and Low-cal gets pissed at him for information technology, Wily goes on an epic tirade about how hypocritical information technology is for Light to deny his creations the power of choice.
• Villains Out Shopping: In one chapter, the Light family unit goes to an amusement park, only to notice the Mega Human being 5 Wilybots working there every bit part of a Broke Episode. They aid protect the park against Bass. As well the soccer 4-koma strips included in Book 2.
• Weird Moon: The Stardroids' Dark Moon. Information technology can exist seen everywhere on Earth at one time. Lampshaded by Wily, who infuriates Roll past telling her that it doesn't take a genius to find at that place's something odd about that.
  • Bad Moon Rising: It'southward also growing, feeding on the rage and despair of the people (or robots) nearby.
  • That'south No Moon!: It'southward really the cocoon for the planet-killing robot, Sunstar.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Mega Man in The Greatest Enemy In History. Somehow, he comes to the conclusion that humans are real obstruction standing between him and everlasting peace, and declares state of war on them. Subverted, as he'south actually a copy of Mega Human being doing what he thinks is correct while being under the influence of Dr. Wily's Evil Chip.
  • Played for Laughs with the curt comics involving Duo.
• What Measure Is a Non-Homo?: A common theme, especially touched on in affiliate 2, Skull Human being's story, Wily and Light's reason for teaming up during their youth, so again in the adaptation of Mega Man nine.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Blues gets this from several people.
  • Dr. Cossack gets this from Dr. Wily of all people because of Skull Man.
  • Wily gets to do this once again to Dr. Light, of all people, after Calorie-free refuses to fix up the Lightbots if they continue to fight, out of fear of them beingness destroyed.
  • Shade Man to Shadow Human in Gigamix 2, since Shadow Human wants to stay and dice alongside his brothers when it'southward his chore to get Dr. Wily to rubber. Earlier in Megamix, Shadow Human to Dejection.
• The Whole World Is Watching: Invoked past Terra, who uses the powers of Dark Moon to ensure that anybody on World gets to see him deprive humanity of their symbol of hope by killing Mega Man.
• The Worf Issue: Several examples. Quick Man against Elec Man, Bass and Dejection at different points vs the Light Bots. In Gigamix, the "White Behemothic" against the second, third and seventh numbers. The Stardroids against pretty much any character still continuing, including Blues and the 5th and 6th games robot masters.
  • Specially notable is Terra, who effortlessly slaughters a thousand robots. Ariga hosted open submissions specifically to find robots for him to curbstomp.
  • And so at that place'south Duo who within 5 panels of his introduction effortlessly defeats one of the Stardroids in i blow
• Wrong Genre Savvy: One time, Wily shows up on Dr. Light's doorstep and Rock ties him upwards without listening to Wily's lies or evil plans. Except this takes place in the Mega Man Soccer comic strips/4koma and he was only there to invite Rock to a soccer game.

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