This is the first in a series of posts about the character archetypes that run throughout the Mega Man franchise. Or, you could say different iterations of the same character.
Rockman is the posterboy, obviously. He’s like Mario, his face sells games. I don’t like him as much for this reason, because Zero is my favourite series and this guy gets plastered everywhere. You gotta love the guy though. (His brothers are cooler.)
This of course brings up, is X his brother? Or a remodelled Rock? I’m going to put forward a possible theory, that many of the Classic robots survived into the X series and in some cases beyond. Within this theory, we try to match up as many robots as possible to be the same person.
So Rock, having accumulated much life experience, was prepared by Dr Light to become the next stage in the evolution of robots. Light’s genius alone couldn’t advance robots, it was Rock fighting, learning and loving that helped him become something more. All subsequent intelligent robots in the X era were based on the design of X, who is basically an upgrade to Rock. Or, if you prefer, then X is simply a new robot made with Rock’s cooperation so that Light and Rock together made the next generation. Either way, X is heavily identified as “Mega Man” regardless.
X later becomes a Cyber-elf (third image) after his body dies. Both Reploids and, later, humans can become a Cyber-elf, depending on the conditions of their death. This was made possible by advanced technology. He takes on an advisory role in this capacity. Later, his elf is converted into Biometal, and bonds to an ordinary person, giving them his strength (fourth image).
The other three are not the same person as this original Rock. The fifth is Mega Man Volnutt, from Legends. A human (more or less) with some nifty armour, named after an ancient hero. The sixth is, similar to the Biometal version, bonded to a kid. He is a digital avatar for navigating the Internet invented by the parallel universe Dr Light. The seventh is an alien bonded to a different kid who happens to take the form of previous hero.
And that’s Rock.
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