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You wanna know the inherant problem with death in the Mega Man franchise? The characters that are shown dying on screen in those more dramatic moments happen to be goddamn robots.Β I mean if their CPUs are erased or physically destroyed, they happen to be based on ancient or alien technology that is virtually impossible to repair when fatally damaged or they just ultimately blow the fuck up then yeah they be deader than shit. But then you get deaths like with Iris where she is in quite the decent shape and could be repaired and rebooted. How is she gone forever Zero? Just take her back to base and get her fixed you idiot.Β At the same time however death is pretty much nonexistent for a lot of characters (namely characters like Sigma, Vile and Zero). Shit death just can't make up its mind can it XD?Not helping matters are when some robots are outright replaced when they die, and of course when I say that I'm mostly refering to the boss rushes where the Robot Masters you trashed eariler are now back with a vengeance. It's like when your Xbox 360 red ringed and you can't repair it so you just go out and buy a new one.
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Wow this is awesome phantom is one of my favourite gaurdians
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I think I remember seeing somewhere that all the boss rushes are with, essentially, empty drones, and don't have the full Master/Reploid AI package (hence why they don't talk-- like in X6, there's a cutscene after the 7th boss is defeated, where all 8 are shown, and Red asks why they're not responding)-- do you read/have I pointed you to Disgruntled Ferret's Megaman comic? I don't think I've seen you refrence Bob & George, so I'm not sure. Anyways, he had the control chip be the "soul", if you will, and he had Megaman get straight-up killed, but Quickman let his control chip be recovered and put into a new body, just so they could fight again. Fireman got mindraped by Harmony worms during the second game (long story), but got blasted out of the sky..... over the ocean. His control chip got fried, he's effectively dead for good. And for the boss rush in the first game, it was TEN drones each, but Light managed to hack Elecman back to normal, and Elecman (using a drone body) told Megaman that "he" was inside Wily's master computer, driving the other 7 bodies at the same time (the remaining two tried using the Thunder Beam under water).
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I like to think Iris has what I'd like to call the "The Starscream Effect" going on for her, coming back in Project X zone and whatnot, and Starscream'sΒ practically a legend for it, Iris going body hopping in the next installments seems more and more plausible if one considers this~
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Nice blend of the Zero, ZX and ZX Advent versions, plus your own spin. You're making it harder and harder to reign in my Four Guardians fanboyism.
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Sigma at LEAST has a canonical explanation of him slowly turning into a sapient computer virus and merely body hopping.Β Everyone else I agree it borderlines on ridonkulous.
Also, I keep thinking a better label for Phantom would be either Famine or, at the very least, Conquest like in Biblical canon.
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Conquest and War are kind of one in the same in hindsight.
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Conquest is more of the taking over of something, claiming it as your own rather than actually fighting like how War purely is.Β With this thinking Conquest can also apply to Pestilence as well, as diseases can be used to cripple the infrastructure of an opposing force indirectly instead of brute force, and viruses and germs are incapable of making alliances of any any kind, merely directed.
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