::The Robots::
These guys were created by scientists to assist society in ushering in a new age. With guns. And flamethrowers. And guts. 20XX is weird…
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Rock / Mega Man
Our story’s protagonist. Rock was a product of collaboration between Dr. Light and Dr. Wily through a project funded by Dr. Chains. He dispenses “justice” using an arm cannon and a nasty disposition on people.
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Roll
Created solely by Dr. Wily, Roll is his pride and joy. She’s probably the most human out of the bunch, though Mega Man’s influence seems to have corrupted her. Just look at that wicked beam sword!
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Bomb Man
Bomb Man was, unfortunately, partly responsible for the falling out between Dr. Chains and Dr. Wily. He has no real use for society. Just an explosive hunk of metal with legs.
Interesting tidbit: Originally, Bomb Man was supposed to be extremely sadistic, blasting things for no particular reason. That was clichéd and dumb.
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Cut Man
You ever walk into Hot Topics and you could feel your very soul become sullied with pure evil? Cut Man is a walking Hot Topics store.
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Guts Man
Big and stupid, just like every other incarnation of Guts Man. He goes by the name “Kinguts Hippo,” which is pulled from the game Punch-Out!!
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Elec Man
A childish spaz-of-a-robot. Elec Man has a very high view of himself, claiming he is “Dr. Light and Wily’s gift to fem-bots.” There are no such things as fem-bots. Other than that, Elec Man has a tendency toward getting kidnapped, and survives through dumb luck.
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Fire Man
Fire Man is possible the only responsible robot created. He is constantly scheming “perfect” plans to get the job done right. After all, the mission is the most important thing to Fire Man, and dangerous missions mean sacrifice. Elec Man is usually that sacrifice.
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Ice Man
The meek Ice Man is the black sheep of the family. He is weak and detests fighting, though he acts tough to intimidate the opposition. His “gift” to society is the ability to freeze things in an Antarctic environment. Whoopee!
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Magnet Man
Magnet Man is the first robot in the current fight that Mega Man meets. A robot with a few screws loose, he relies on Mr. Magnet-Head to pass judgment on all those foolish enough to cross him.
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Gemini Man
Affectionately dubbed “Twin Man” by Mega Man due to his power to replicate solid duplicates of himself. Gemini Men fight in numbers, though the duplicates are easily destroyed. The original Gemini Man is arrogant, especially over that whole “I defeated Mega Man!” thing.
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Shadow Man
He makes Ice Man look like He-Man! Shadow Man strikes from the dark with blades that make better coasters than weapons, and as such is rather cowardly in the light.
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Hard Man
In a twist of fate, Hard Man, deemed a “bad guy,” actually meets Fire and Elec Man at the beginning of their journey and accompanies them to their destination.
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Snake Man
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Top Man
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Needle Man
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Spark Man
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::The Humans::
The meat behind the machines. Most humans in the series are robot creators, but some just happened to find their way into the story…
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Dr. Thomas Xavior Light
A gluttonous waste of human life, he is the reason Rock and the others were created. Of the robots, he had the honor of creating Rock’s code, which actually made Wily think twice about letting him help with the others. Dr. Light loves chocolate, laser vision, and his “best friend,” Dr. Wily.
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Dr. Albert W. Wily
Dr. Wily created most of the Advent Eight by Dr. Chains’ funding, but when Chains pulled his funds, Wily went on a destructive path toward world domination (isn’t that how it always happens?). Currently, Dr. Wily is getting all buddy-buddy with Dr. Light for unknown reasons. Okay, they’re pretty obvious.
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Dr. Ralph Chains
The biotech confined to a wheelchair who funded Dr. Light and Wily’s research and development of the Advent Eight. Soon after Dr. Chains pulled his funding, he met his death through one of his earlier experiments come back.
Interesting tidbit: Dr. Chains was named after receiving numerous chain emails. In a blog, I speculated chain letters were originally created by Dr. Chain, who hunted down people that broke the chain to administer “bad luck.”
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Illyana Silvers
A reporter for HUB News who followed most of the early events in the story. Since these events, she has not been heard of in public, apparently dropping out of television for reasons currently unknown.
Interesting tidbit: Pretty much anytime I make up a story, someone named Illyana is present, whether as a main or background character. She’s my Stan Lee.
Also, her sprite is based off of Marin, from The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening.
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::The Evil::
No official name has been given to them, but they have some “business” with Mega Man.
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SunStar
A villain with a grudge against Mega Man. A product of Project SVEN, SunStar was created by Dr. Chains in an attempt to create the ultimate soldier. When he became too powerful, he was launched into space, but not for long. Dr. Wily gave SunStar weapons and armor in exchange for one thing: revenge against Mega Man. SunStar now skips between universes to find the one Mega Man that can truly defeat him.
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Aries
SunStar’s assistant with little background. He constantly wears a skull to hide his true identity. Aries possesses no legs, and thus levitates to move around.
Interesting tidbit: An original sprite made by myself. Originally, SunStar’s assistant was supposed to be CATS from Zero Wing, but I think we’ve all had enough “All Your Base” for a while…
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Yoshi Hanabusa
Yoshi is a human ninja who had the misfortune of uttering a pun around Mega Man. He is currently in critical condition at SunStar’s Evil Lair of Pancakes, missing an arm and a leg.
Interesting tidbit: This is, as Mega Man points out, Ryu from Ninja Gaiden, except his sprite has been “Mega Man-ized.”
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Meta Knight
A lackey of SunStar’s, Meta Knight never gets the respect (or pay) he wants and/or deserves (SunStar has yet to learn his name). He is on strike, picketing outside SunStar’s Evil Lair of Pancakes.
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Stoned Bones
If a train wreck and an idiot could have a child, THAT would be Stoned Bones. He is a wasted pile of bones that just happened by SunStar’s Evil Lair of Pancakes when they needed someone to fill in for the strike and the recent casualties. He enjoys cough syrup-induced hallucinations and hanging out with his drinking buddy, Happy Ghost.
Interesting tidbit: While playing Mario Party 7 or 8, my kid brother pointed out Dry Bones’ vacant look and constant jaw movement, and proclaimed, “Man, he looks wasted! I think he’s stoned…” And, thus, Stoned Bones was created. To this day, whenever I see Dry Bones, I call him Stoned Bones and get weird looks from fellow players…
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::And the Rest!::
These are people without a category. Yet.
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Proto Man
Yes, I realize he’s a robot. Still, he belongs to some sort of affiliation, so here he is. Proto Man is constantly showing up to “test” Mega Man, but often ends up being humiliated, incapacitated, and having parts stolen from him.
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Mappy
Mega Man’s imaginary friend. He will often come to stave off insanity and get Mega Man back on the track for destruction.
Interesting tidbit: Mappy was originally a one-time deal, but after giving it more thought, I decided to make him an actual part of the story. He’s also one of the few non-Mega Man-related sprites that I didn’t “Mega Man-ize.”
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Rush
Mega Man’s own personal punching bag! The mutant puppy without a head on his shoulders and a spring in his back, he proves once and again that Rush is worthless.
Interesting tidbit: Man, I hate Rush.
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Hallucinations
Whenever I feel like it, a character may hallucinate. This happens quite often, actually.
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Johnson
Whenever something goes wrong, Johnson is there. Wherever bad games lurk, Johnson is in the credits. Whenever life sucks, it is invariably Johnson’s fault.
Interesting tidbit: After playing Mega Man X6, I proclaimed, “Wow, this game sucks. Honestly, who made this?! ‘Johnson, I need a crappy sequel to X5, and fast!’” Johnson… (shakes fist)
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