Mega Man ZX: Difference between revisions

''Mega Man ZX'' is another entry in Capcom's flagship series, set about two centuries after the events of ''[[Mega Man Zero]]''. The wars between Human and Reploid have finally been ended through the process of modifying both races until they're completely indistinguishable from one another. Even so, the threat of Maverick attacks still remains, although the cause of these outbreaks are entirely different.

* ''Mega Man ZX'', starring Vent and Aile, a pair of orphaned Humans who are taken in by a courier service named "Giro Express" after its owner, the reploidReploid Giro. And are tasked with recovering a quartet of [[Transformation Trinket|Biometals]] by a peacekeeping force known as Guardian, before they fall into the hands of Serpent, a [[Villain with Good Publicity|popular]] ([[Corrupt Corporate Executive|but evil]]) CEO looking to find the Biometals to further his own divine evolution.

* [[Altum Videtur]]:

* [[Attackable Pickup]]: Any large powerup can be carved into several smaller powerups of different types using a bladed weapon. So if you didn't need all that health or weapon energy, or you just don't care about 64 more E-Crystals at the moment, get out a saber.

* [[Big Bad]]:

** If the ciphers in ''Advent'' were to be believed, {{spoiler|Model W, a.k.a. ''Dr. Weil'', [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]}}, was pulling the strings. {{spoiler|''[[Hijacked by Ganon|Again.]]''}}

* [[Bonus Boss]]:

** Four bosses apiece from ''Zero 3'' and ''Zero 4'' also make a return ([[Old Save Bonus|provided you have the carts to put in the GBA slot]]), and defeating them is an alternative to obtaining [[Infinity+1 Sword|Model OX]] apart from fighting Omega himself above. Either way, [[Bragging Rights Reward|you must wait until after actually beating the game to claim it]].

** One of the missions you undertake at the Floating Ruins in ''ZX Advent'' have you searching the ruins for [[Mega Man (video game)|outdated artifacts]]; these include the L Tank from ''4'', the ever-recurring Energy Balancer, the Yashichi recovery item from the original and ''[[Mega Man 8]]'' (called "Pinwheel" in-game), and the Lightbulb which served as life energy back in the original ''Mega Man''. All four of these items are given explainationsexplanations for their antiquity by the time of ''ZX'' (i.e. the L Tank was never mass-produced, etc.).

* [[Creator Thumbprint]]: Arguably, but many characters listed in the character sheet (and even most NPCs) have [[Fingerless Gloves]], big anklets and bracers, headphone-like ears, and black latex-like skin-tight suit that covers all of their skin (except for the face). This can be traced back to ''Zero'' series.

* [[Custom Uniform]]:

* [[Cutscene Power to the Max]]:

* [[Double Entendre]]:

* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|Dropped A Bridge On Them]]: Being popular characters from the Zero series, the 4 Guardians were included as biometalsBiometals in this series. However, you have to be ''dead'' before you can be a biometalBiometal, so the Guardians were [[Retcon|abruptly declared]] to have died at the end of Zero 3. Apparently by ''standing too close to Omega when he blew up''.

* [[Dual Boss]]:

* [[Early Bird Boss]]:

* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]:

* [[Evil Laugh]]:

* [[Expy]]:

** Pandora (more prevelantprevalent in civilian form) given similar hair color, hair length, hair style (barring the front) preference for white and blue (hue is different), and the fact that their nasty pasts drive them to madness may be a subtle one to [[Higurashi|Shion Sonozaki]].

** [[Evil Genius]]:

* [[Flunky Boss]]: Chronoforce can summon miniatures of himself from his shell.

* [[Foreshadowing]]:

* [[Gambit Pileup]]: Arguably in ''ZX Advent'', {{spoiler|due to the number of villainous factions and the fact that none of them particularly like with each other. Specifically, the enemy Mega Men are trying to accumulate Model Ws (as per Master Albert's Game of Destiny) in order to become incredibly powerful. Albert is just using them, however, to feed the Model Ws so that they'll become the Ouroboros. The Mega Men supposedly know this, and are planning to backstab Albert. Then there's Prometheus and Pandora, creations of Albert who in the previous game claimed to be the voices of Model W (after pretending to work for that game's [[Big Bad]]), but are now inclined to destroy everything that Albert made, ''including'' Model W. After the game is beaten, it turns out Master Thomas actually wants to reset the world as well, but in a different manner than Albery, hence why he wanted the latter killed. And quite likely, Model W itself is manipulating EVERYONE from behind the scenes, given its origin as explained in the first ''ZX'' game.}}

* [[Gameplay Grading]]:

* [[Good Colors, Evil Colors]]: Isn't it interesting that all the protagonists in both games have green eyes, and all the non-pseudoroidPseudoroid antagonists (including {{spoiler|Master Thomas}}) ALL have red eyes? Giro has blue eyes, too, though that's kinda irrelevant.

##Lumine can use the attack from 8 New Gen Mavericks, and he also has an angelic form.

* [[An Ice Person]]:

* [[In the Blood]]:

* [[I Wish It WereWas Real]]: This series are about kids who get the ability to transform into Mega Man. Subverted, though; from their point of view, their heroes are historical, rather than fictional.

* [[Just Eat the MacGuffin]]: ''Advent'' actually demonstrates the [[Genre Savvy]] use of this trope. In the Quarry, Grey/Ashe have an encounter with Aile/Vent, and the two get in a fight over what to do with the Model W in its depths. The former finds the Model W fused to a Spidrill and are forced to destroy both. It turns out that destroying the Quarry's Model W ''was the whole reason Aile/Vent were there in the first place!'' Unfortunately, destroying it wasn't enough to keep Ouroboros from forming, but you have to give the gang credit for trying.

* [[Legacy Character]]: The Biometals, to [[Mega Man X|X]], [[Mega Man Zero|Zero, 4 Guardians, Omega and Weil]]. Arguable case with Model A, as it's revealed that {{spoiler|the "A" stands for "Albert", not "Axl", even though the biometalBiometal is clearly based on the latter.}}

* [[Living Ship]]: Ouroboros stage has a heart-like machine that beats like a real heart, and also [[Womb Level|blood vessels-like lining in the background]]. {{spoiler|Also, when Albert is defeated, the linings are colouredcolored grey, signifying that the Ouroboros is dead as well.}}

* [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]]:

* [[The Master (trope)|The Master]]: The Sage Trinity all have the title "Master" before their names. {{spoiler|Two out of the three are evil.}}

* [[Meaningful Echo]]:

* [[Mega Manning]]:

** Why are you able to combine the powers of various biometalsBiometals? Because X had the Variable Weapons System, allowing for the use of different weapons. It's been adapted into biometalBiometal form.

* [[Playing with Fire]]:

* [[Previous Player Character Cameo]]: In ''Advent'' you meet either Vent (when playing as Ashe) or Aile (when playing as Grey) halfway through the story.

* [[Purely Aesthetic Gender]]:

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]:

** The Enemy Mega Men and Albert. The latter combines it with [[Black Eyes of Evil]].

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Inverted. Vent/Aile, the Blue Mega Man, is a hotheaded and impulsive boy/girl who tends to charge headfirst into situations. Girouette, the Red Mega Man, is his/her [[Big Brother Mentor]] who is calm, caring and level-headed.

* [[Redshirt Army]]:

** The Hunters in ''Advent'' (who are arguably [[Expy|expys]] of the Caravaners, also from the ''Zero'' series) notably averts this. In fact, they get a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] at the beginning of the game for surviving against the resident [[Psycho for Hire]], and ''even stole a Biometal out from under his nose.''

* [[Repeatable Quest]]: Rose and Huguet will request you to go to Area Lin order to gather some supplies for them. After going to three diferentdifferent sections each time, Rose will give you a sub tank. However, you can only obtain two sub-tanks for this and any subsequent attempt only nets a token thank you and a few Energy Crystals.

* [[SchrodingerSchrödinger's Player Character]]: This extends into both games, as Aile's and Grey's storyline are connected, as are Vent's and Ashe's. There's actually some hints about connections between the two storylines. Both Vent and Aile are shown in one of the ciphers (Aeolus'). Also, in Ashe's storyline, there's a stage that was Grey's intro stage, but is inaccessible, the latter may imply that, if you play as Ashe, Grey dies in the intro stage, and if you play as Grey, Ashe is killed by Prometheus or dies in the Raider's plane crash.

** It's later revealed that this is Prometheus and Pandora's ultimate goal, since {{spoiler|Albert modified them to become permanently Megamerged, and they're destined to fight other Mega Men. They can't escape that destiny (possibly because [[Your Days Are Numbered|Their Days Have Been Numbered]] by Albert), so they exact revenge on Albert by killing him and trying to hasten the [[EndoftheThe End of the World Asas We Know It|"destiny of destruction".]]}} Unfortunately, {{spoiler|they become Albert's [[Unwitting Pawn|Unwitting Pawns]] just as they reach their goal...}}

* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: Pretty much the entire first game. Those biometalsBiometals you retrieved from the pseudoroidsPseudoroids? Stolen over the [[Time Skip]] and given to new enemies. The entire conflict with Serpent? Just a single part of the real [[Big Bad]]'s game. That Model W you destroyed? {{spoiler|It just broke into several large pieces, all of which are recovered by the bad guys. Oh, and it's also only one of several dozen or possibly hundreds of Model W's scattered across the world.}}

* [[Shock and Awe]]:

* [[Shout-Out/Video Games|Shout Out]]:

** During Vent's megamerge scene in ''Advent'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20111116084909/http://fast1.onesite.com/capcom-unity.com/user/wilyweil/4730afb8f31e3b1f914d5d72879256fd.jpg?v=172674 Model ZX's hair] makes it look like he has [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|several glowing wings.]] Before that, his [http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y82/atomicfuthum/mega-man-zx-20060510013226307_640w.jpg megamerge scene] in the first game resembles a [[G Gundam|certain Gundam]].

** Some of the Pseudoroids have an uncanny resemblenceresemblance to other characters. Fistleo's resemblence to [[Street Fighter|Akuma]] has not gone unnoticed by many fans. Likewise, Hedgeshock/Tesrat looks like the robotic spawn of [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] and [[Pokémon|Pikachu]].

* [[Theme Naming]]:

** Atlas (Mega Man F) from ''Advent'' is actually female.

* [[Transformation Trinket]]: The Biometals, which can produce [[Instant Armor|Instant Armors]] as well as [[Cool Helmet|Cool Helmets]].

'''Aile''': Hahaha! Maybe [[Loving a Shadow|Giro]] [[Expy|resembles]] [[Mega Man Zero|someone you cared about]]. Every time you talk about him, you look so happy. Don't worry, I won't hold it against you if you did like him. It's thanks to all of you that I'm finally able to fight for what's important.<br />

* [[Tron Lines]]: When Vent/Aile transforms into Mega Man ZX during a cutscene, intricate green lines will appear in the head crystal while red lines will appear over the black body suit.

* [["Wake -Up Call" Boss]]: Chronoforce in ''ZX Advent'', especially if he spams his pendulum attack. If you're ''really'' unlucky, he'll use it while using the Time Bomb, which makes it faster and harder to dodge.

** Pandora's Box was a legendary artefact that reputedly brought mass ruin upon the land in which it was opened. Pandora here turns out to be suppressing her true persona and agenda. She is outwardly calm and emotionless, but reveals herself to have an insane, vengeful side when the player gives her that extra push.

* [[You All Look Familiar]]: ''Advent'' not only averts this trope (except for the hunters when in uniform, and that's kinda justified), but Inti Creates went the extra mile and made almost every NPC character look completely different, and even gave them all amazingly elaborate designs. Yes, even the ones who have no importance whatsoever besides talking to you.