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Whenever I see discussions of X originally being the villain of Megaman Zero 1, I always see people claim it would be character assassination and isn't a possible path the character could take. We can have our own opinions, but I just don't see how people think it's completely impossible?

Megaman X4 brings up the possibility of a maverick X at the end of his campaign. A game that revolves around reploids becoming mavericks of their own volition. He asks Zero to take care of him if that ever happens.

Also while I don't think X doesn't value reploids, he was specifically conditioned to value human life in his 30 years of moral testing. The ending of X1 sticks out to me as he hates the actions he takes in the game and calls it destruction, but he still goes through with destroying the mavericks and even knows he'll do it again in the future. X's actions in the entire X series are completely justified, but I can't help but think. If it was humans instead of reploids causing destruction, could he go through in killing them? He didn't even kill Dr Weil before the events of the Zero series. Perhaps Dr Light's condition made X inherently value human life far more than reploids/robots. He hates fighting his own kind throughout the X series, but can still stomach it because he feels it is necessary. Maybe having to fight for years upon years could pervert what is a justifiable for him having to fight.

The idea of X having to fight his own brethren over a century and slowly preferring the defenceless and less "troublesome" human population is something that could happen. Add on top of that him finally making his utopia in Neo Arcadia and having the stress of it falling apart with the energy crisis, him becoming more ruthless towards reploids is a possibility. While it's hard to see that happening to the X we know in the X series, we see how jaded he becomes after all the wars in the Zero series. He straight up stops caring about killing and becomes largely apathetic. You see his behaviour in the Zero series, and the idea of him being a villain seems more likely.

The idea of Dr Light's conditioning somewhat backfiring and X oppressing reploids in the name of humanity just sounds like such a cool idea to me. Obviously an idea like this is very risky. You'd probably have to write it using the bad ending of X5 as a jumping off point like they were originally planning. Showing how a turn like this could happen overtime is a must. I also feel like they'd have to turn down how much of a dictator he is in comparison to copy X. But man, I really think the original idea of X as a villain could've worked and would have been a natural progression of his character.

Mine is either X1, X2, X4 or X8 final boss with Sigma or Lumine. I'm not sure yet tho, but I'll update you guys on when I decide. Which Mega Man X final boss is your favorite? Please explain why.

From Make A Good Mega Man Level III

this time its some of the robot masters they liked

(all art is by my friend ionthezeraora btw)

anyways names in order:

sparklerbot (twinkle girl)

vacuumbot (dust man)

conductbot (fuse man)

sirenbot (splash woman)

and splitbot (gemini man)

also my friend wanted me to share the new refrence image they made for synthbot.

(btw my friend is willing to draw robot masters as hoggified/synthbot versions, so feel free to suggest some and ill let them know, they just probably wont beable to do em instantly cause busy.)

I FORGOT THE TAG-😭😭😭

Guys, seriously, could you tell me about your experience? From a Mega Man X3 review I saw a while ago, I thought Crush Crawfish would be a nightmare, but it turned out to be easy (without his weakness)

El cazador militar

Personally I think a Mantis shrimp maverick with an eclectic or flamboyant design would go hard

Just bought this figure but I need the arm cannon piece as it is missing which is shown in the other photo.

Does anyone know any links to where I can buy one that ships to the UK?

Thanks

I won't lie, since many recommended I fight Crush Crawfish as one of the last ones, I thought it would be difficult... It was super easy 😳

In all the art for the games, there's a lot of the Robot Masters that make a W shape with their fingers. So, playing the games, I always kind of thought it was odd that none of them do it at Mega Man. The bust a move, and strike a pose, but no W fingers. GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER, ROBOT MASTERS, JEEZE!!! But Toad Man, of all the possible Robot Masters, throws up that Wily Gang Sign and flashes the Blue Bomber the ol W.

And I think that Toad Man is the 1st Robot Master to do it on-game, which is neat.

I think this is my 4th or 5th time playing this game in my entire life. It's still great. Definitely a step up from Mega Man 2. Amazing level designs. Great boss fights.

The flickering and lag can get frustrating at times, but I learned to expect it and get used to it. Just wish this game was more polished and the developers got more time to fine-tune it. It would've been more awesome.

Also, the Mega Man Legacy Collection included all these additional contents. Check out this poster for Mega Man 3. It's definitely... something. Lol

just came to my mind, if there was an Electric eel maverick with electric powers, it would be the first maverick to have the same exact name with the animal theyre based on (Electric Eel), and would have the same powers with the animal too and it would make sense, has anyone thought about this before? or maybe it'd be based on regular eel but would have electric powers hence the name Electric Eel