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Not really like this. But still entertaining.

A Sprite Comic on the Bob and George Web site that retells the Mega Man storyline, incorporating obscure characters from the Game Boy, PC and Wonder Swan games as well as original characters. It starts from the beginning collaboration between Wily and Light, details the creation of two prototypes (only one of which is Super) and Mega Man's battles to bring down Wily.

It features various flash forwards to possible futures, and Polka Reset Man, the un-super prototype's Split Personality may be a Stardroid from one such future. The series is memorable for showing an Alternate Alternate Character Interpretation of Mega Man as a rapidly learning robot, rather than an ice cream loving dumb-bot. It's also notable for showing all sides in the conflict as having a rather good learning curve. The second storyline likewise has a more worldly feel as various factions of Red Shirts and world governments try to take steps to reverse engineer and use the robot technology, all while Wily gains some impressive technological advantages of his own and Mega Man and Dr. Light struggle to keep pace.

The humor is based on the character's idiosyncrasies: be it Heat Man's laziness, Ice Man's playful ditziness, or the Redshirt Army's utter (and Genre Blind) expendability. It also lapses into author commentary by Disgruntled Ferret, and POV pieces of minor bit characters like "Brave Core", an awakened Sniper Joe who thinks he's Brave Heart... for robots!

Has absolutely no relation to MS Paint Adventures.

Can be found Here

The character sheet can be found here.

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Tropes used in MS Paint Masterpieces include:

• Achilles' Heel: Enker's spear.
  • The Harmony Support Units (And the robots they take over) are weak to Cut Man. Which leads to a Crowning Moment of Awesome for him - he fires the Rolling Cutter and gets blasted by Mega Man, but uses the Rolling Cutter's Boomerang Comeback effect to hit Mega Man anyway and break him free of the Harmonies.
• Acrofatic: Wood Man.
• Adaptation Distillation
• A God Am I: Electric Man. Good thing he's a good guy.
• Affably Evil: Wily and Quintet.
  • Not really surprising, considering who Quintet used to be.
• Alternate Universe: A number of alternate timelines are shown as side-stories. As X explains in a filler, there's only one actual timeline, and when you mess with time travel, you destroy the projected one, which is what Wily's up to between the first and second games.
• Anachronic Order: A few climactic fight sequences (Mega Man Vs. Dr. Wily, Mega Man Vs. Spike Man, Atlas Vs. Crash Man) are skipped over to be recapped later.
• And I Must Scream: Played for laughs for a few strips in the second game adaption when Reset Man's AI is placed in a storage device.
• Animated Actors: Used in Fourth Wall breaking fillers with Disgruntled Ferret interacting with the cast. Hilariously done with Metal Man taking over the strip from Disgruntled Ferret in a massive show of hubris.
• Anyone Can Die: And does. Even Mega Man.
  • Though to quote the author, robots can just kinda get over death like a bad hangover as long as they have a roboticist handy.
• Arc Words: The phrase "happy ending" makes multiple appearances throughout No Future.
  • It's used here, here, here, and here.
• Art Evolution: It started like this. Now it kinda looks like this.
  • And now it looks like this.
• Ascended Extra: All Most of the Robot Masters get bigger roles than they did in the original games, but Electric Man got this the most.
• Badass Grandpa: Dr. Light, oh so very much.
• Badass in Distress: Small and temporary example when Flash Man tries to kidnap Dr. Light. Being a squishy human, Dr. Light still needs help, but is still able to contribute to his escape.
• Back from the Dead: Fodder Force Redheaded Guy, Cutman, and Enker; due to Doctor Light's attempt at changing the timeline.
• Bag of Spilling: Subverted everywhere. Mega Man, Genre Savvy enough to realize this might happen, attempts to keep his weapons from the first game by saving them on a computer, but Dr. Light finds out and deletes them just before Wily attacks. Then Mega Man loses some more of his abilities when he dies.
• Beware the Nice Ones: "Don't threaten Dr. Light!!"^[context?]
  • Bears noting that that is one of many instances. Mega Man is the nicest guy you could meet, but if you threaten any innocent people, or worse, actually kill people, he will fuck you up.
• Big Damn Heroes: Ice Man and Elec Man, after Mega Man gets nearly killed by Quintet. Ferret's Commentary notes Elec Man would have arrived sooner, but was waiting for the proper dramatic moment.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Mega Man in this strip.
• Blatant Lies: All of Dr. Wily's machines are for mining. Really.
• Bond One-Liner: Many. Subverted on one occasion, when a badly-damaged Mega Man tries to do one after delivering the fatal blow, but passes out before he can finish.
• Boring but Practical

Electric Man: Yeah, turned out I couldn't use the Thunder Beam to escape, so I just punched the glass.

• Blood Knight: Quick Man.

Reader: Excited when we lose, grumpy when we win. That's Quick Man.

• • Allegro, the eponymous Greatest Killer, also falls into this.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Wily snuck in virus type programming into all the original robot master's to get them to defect. The POV comics with Cut Man's desperate struggles to remain himself are... disturbing and heartbreaking. Then you have the likes of Ice Man jumping headfirst into it and helping to spread the Mind Control.
  • Also, anyone under Quintet's Mind Control or using one of his support units.
• Buffy-Speak: Disgruntled Ferret likes to play around with grammar and tenses. The page pic is an example.
• Butt Monkey: Polka Reset Man.
• Call Forward: Dr. Wily utilises custom microchips to reprogram robots and bring them under his control, warping their personalities along the way; this is a precursor to his eventual Maverick Virus as seen in the X series.
  • A few future Lightbots showed the ability to "Dark Morph" and gain the abilities/appearance of other Robot Master models; some have speculated this to be a reference to the Doc Robot (of Mega Man 3) and Dark Man (of Mega Man 5).
• Characterization Marches On: One tends to forget that the wise and badass Dr. Light started the comic as somewhat incompetent, inattentive and alcoholic.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Guts Man was stated, several hundred comics ago, to have been kidnapped with Electric Man and Fire Man, and hasn't been seen since he was destroyed several years before that. He finally shows up in comic #1001.
• The Chew Toy: Metal Man. He deserves it, though, considering he trash talks everyone.
• Cloning Blues: Copy-Mega Man becomes quite violent when others imply he's not the "real" Mega Man. He was assembled from field data acquired by Enker, so he possesses some combat skill. He lacks the drive of the original, though.
  • He also doesn't know that Mega Man is the battle mode of Rock, likely due to Wily's ignorance of that fact.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Ice Man, most definitely. Bubble Man, too.
  • Harmony-infected robots are rather like this as well. Metal Man Blade Man is like this in spades, as he will alternate between Hot-Blooded and Non Sequitur at the drop of a hat.
  • This seems to be true of Harmonized robots in general. As observed in the comic:

Heat Man, regarding Harmonized Fire Man: Wow. On the retard scale of 1 to 10, this guy's a J.

• • Disgruntled Ferret himself offers this little insight into Harmony's effect on robots:

I like to think of the Harmonized robots' attitude as around the same range as someone that donates corpses to charity. Sure it's technically for a good cause, but you're being stupid and terrifying.

• Cool Old Guy: Dr. Light. Chessmaster in the making, practices martial arts in his spare time to stay fit, and shot Enker in the face.
• Cool Shades: Employed by Quintet, Reader, Writer, Allegro and even Dr. Wily.
• Cosmic Plaything: Reset Man.

Disgruntled Ferret: Reset Man looks so happy that the creepy robot is getting what's coming to him. I don't like Reset Man being happy.

• • Mega Man, too.

Disgruntled Ferret: It's kind of irritating that at this point I can blow off Mega Man's arm and he's barely even annoyed. I like torturing characters, and he's taking away my fun here.

• Cranial Processing Unit: Averted. At one point, Crash Man and Heat Man discuss this trope when it's revealed that Crash Man's CPU is in a different location than the head(which was reserved for More Explosives. Guess what happens, or rather, doesn't happen when Mega Man slices off Crash Man's head.
  • Played straight earlier, where a future Rock kills Allegro by stabbing him in the face. He then Lampshades it, saying if he made robots, he'd put the brain someplace else, like in the butt.
• Curb Stomp Battle: Several, usually when the Robot Masters fight humans, but Electric Man versus Metal Man stands out.
• Dangerously Genre Savvy: Quint.
• Defiant to the End: Cut Man.

Cut Man: Pointless? That's some bad choice, log guy. I, Cut Man, am never ever ever ever ever EVER pointless!

• Determinator: Crash Man is able to continue fighting without his head or arm.
  • Atlas can shrug off being buried under tons of rubble and take Crash Man's weapon barrage until his energy shield is broken.
  • Subverted with Mega Man's first fight against Metal Man and Quick Man.

Mega Man: Yahoo! I died and I still won!

• • Quintet's weakness is that, compared to Mega Man, he isn't this.
• Early-Bird Cameo: During Heat Man's fight with the Guts Dozer we see Wily working on what looks like Punk, the second Mega Man Killer.
  • It's implied he's been around a lot longer.
  • The Greatest Killer side-story saw the brief appearance of Rush, albeit an orange version. Allegro severely damages him.
• Elite Mooks: The Red Sniper Joes. Mega Man almost gets killed the first time he fights them.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Quintet refuses to attack his creator Dr. Light.
• Failure Knight: Enker, in the second major arc.
• Filler: DF likes to take this trope to Serial Escalationlevels. "Full Metal Recolor" may be the most notable example.
• Forever War: The future according to Quintet.
• Foreshadowing: Oodles of it. Proper list forthcoming.
• Future Me Scares Me: Quintet.
• General Ripper: Captain Fodder.
• Genre Savvy: Rock/Mega Man. Attempts to avoid the Bag of Spilling (That occurs anyway) and a frequent source of Lampshade Hanging throughout the comic.
• Good Angel, Bad Angel: Played with. Mega Man is so good that he has two good angels on either side in his internal monologue. Lampshades it by asking 'Aren't one of you supposed to be an evil conscience?'
• Gretzky Has the Ball: Intentionally used when Mega Man and Ice Man start goofing off. Mega Man claims Ice Man almost got a hole in one - while they were hitting a basketball with a baseball bat.
• Groin Attack: Mega Man to Quick Man.
• Ham-to-Ham Combat: The battle between Elec Man and Air Man. Both literal and figurative combat.
• Handsome Lech: Zero, as a running gag in the Filler strips.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Electric Man
• Heroic Wannabe: Cut Man.
• High-Class Glass: Referenced by Electric Man.

"If I were any classier I'd need a monocle."

• Hot-Blooded: A side effect of using Quintet's support units.
  • Lampshaded in this title. Doctor Light shows us how its done old school.
• Humongous Mecha: Daidigger D, of course.
  • The Mecha Dragon of Mega Man 2 fame has recently arrived on the scene.
• Indy Ploy: Mega Man's plan for everything. The fact that one robot decimated his armies with this tactic is the final nail in the coffin for Wily's Villainous Breakdown.
• Informed Ability: Reader states that Quick Man is the strongest of Wily's 8, but we only ever see him fight Mega Man (not counting the soldiers he massacres, as well as the last member of the Fodder Force). We do, however, see Crash Man leveling entire military bases and buildings due to the sheer volume of his firepower, not to mention the fact that he manages to defeat Atlas twice.
• Insane Troll Logic

Mega Man: When I fight, the ones who take damage are me and the enemy. If I've already taken damage, that means the enemy has to take more for things to balance out. Dr. Light: I... that... ...Just go back to the lab, Mega Man.

• Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons: Quintet has a dragon!
• Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja: There are Wild Ninja Colonies in Ferretverse with the enemy ninja sprites from Live a Live. Don't forget your Ninja Repellent.
• Jedi Mind Trick: A secondary function of the Thunder Beam.
  • Quintet is also capable of doing this to the Robot Masters of the Wily 8. It's possibly a sign that he helped Wily construct them, using his knowledge of more advanced future robotics.
• Jerkass: Colonel Fodder. The cast page even lists him as Lawful Evil.
  • Metal Man and Flash Man are arrogant douches as well, as evidenced by the fact that they're the only ones who swear on a regular basis.
  • Ferret has shades of this too, along with Smug Snake. Odd, seeing as he's the Author Avatar.
  • Mega Man is fond of calling Enker a "big, dumb jerk", which is a pretty apt description of the guy.
• The Juggernaut: Atlas.
• Just a Machine: Dr. Wily subscribes to this school of thought.
• Kick the Dog: A number, most notably Wily berating Enker for asking Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?, Allegro killing an alternate version of Rush, and Quick Man casually killing the last of the Fodder Force Uber Team.
• Killed Off for Real: Fire Man, after being defeated in Harmony Mode and short-circuiting in water.
• Large Ham: It's easier to mention who isn't this in this comic. Everyone gets their moments of this. Even Dr. Light.
  • Especially Dr. Light.
• Laser Blade: Allegro.
• Lazy Bum: Heat Man is the personification of this trope.

"A job where I do nothing all day long? I approve."

• • Although with Quintet's hostile takeover of his brothers Wood Man and Flash Man in Comic #1003, he may no longer be as lazy.

Heat Man: It's just too much work to do stuff for Quintet's personal agenda.

• • • It's established that The reason for his laziness is an unstable power core that, upon over-exertion, sets himself and anything nearby on fire.
      • Not just any old power core - he's powered by an unstable nuclear bomb.
• Lovable Coward: Reset Man.
• Mad Scientist: Dr. Albert Wily
  • Disgruntled Ferret also considers Dr. Light to be a "good Mad Scientist".
• Mauve Shirt: All members of the Fodder Force Uber Team.
• May I Speak Freely: "Nah."
• Mind Screw: Polka Reset Man's corrupted data, and the mini-arc "Dumb Nonsense."
• Mood Whiplash: The sorry state of Enker in the "Too Serious" side-story is just depressing.
• More Dakka:
  • Crash Man's entire Modus Operandi.
  • Mega Man becomes a force to be reckoned with once he gains several Robot Master weapons.
  • Quick Man's boomerangs are even accompanied by a "dakka" sound.
• Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Crash Man is called "the Destroyer", and for good reason.
• New Era Speech:

Wily: Everything will be Mined. All Mined.

• • Also counts as Incredibly Lame Pun, considering he was fooling Light at first by passing off his original plans as mining robots. Even the Wily Machine.
• Noodle Implements: Did you know you could build a Death Ray with little more than a cell phone and a paper clip?
• Non-Action Guy: Polka Reset Man
• No Name Given: The fourth member of The Fodder Force: Uber Squad
• No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Completely averted. After the first major arc, several other organizations are reverse engineering their own robots, including their own Robot Masters.
• Not Worth Killing: Quick Man lets a deactivated Mega Man live under these reasons. Of course, when he finds out the Blue Bomber is worth killing, his reaction is quite positive.
• Nuking The Fourth Wall: The Atomic Dragon's attack in this comic is so powerful it vaporizes the comic's boundary frame between the third and fourth panel.
• Off with His Head: Crash Man in "Live and Learn", and more fatally, Roll in "Too Serious".
• One-Man Army: Mega Man fits this until the second game kicks in. Crash Man is a definite example, reminding Wood Man that he had enough ammunition to level the city in a blind and deaf rage. Blind and deaf due to missing his head at the time.
• Only Mostly Dead: When a robots is destroyed, it can be rebuilt without much trouble, so long as the memory chip is intact.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: When sending robots into the field, the military just gives them a hat for disguise. Or in Atlas' case, a hat and a Badass Longcoat.
• Pet the Dog: Wood Man's guilt over killing humans, and Quintet coming to Enker's defense.
• Psycho for Hire: Allegro.
• Psycho Serum: The Harmony support units.
• Recurring Character: A somewhat Hot-Blooded Sniper Joe that Mega Man reprogrammed with Thunder Beam by the nickname of "Bravecore" occasionally shows up.
• Reed Richards Is Useless: Averted. Early "Ferret-vision" comics aside, Dr. Light's genius and affinity with robotics is very obvious and beneficial to the heroes. He first helped out the US army during the first major finale (the siege on Skull Castle), which would later come round to bite him in the arse. Since then he's been an even bigger asset to Mega Man, re-building him more than once, inventing his new Support Unit, revamping and bringing in a good-old giant mecha into battle and even rewinding time.
• Resistance Is Futile: Said by Quintet here.
• Retcon: In Ferret vision, there was Polka. Now that Disgruntled Ferret is paying attention, there is Reset Man. Proto Man also no longer goes by the name Blues anymore.
  • More generally, everything involving Light and Wily from the early, silly strips was seemingly dropped from canon once the comic got serious and flashbacks now reveal rising tensions between the two (and Light's idiocy is completely dropped).
    • Interestingly, Dr. Wily mentions that Light made Wily Machine 1 for him in strip number 972.
• The Reveal: Reader is Future Roll.
• Ridiculously-Human Robots: General Spearcarrier initially mistakes Roll for a human girl, much as Lieutenant Gunnady mistakes Mega Man for a little boy. Also, the robots bleed. In Electric Man's case, they bleed a lot.
• Rule of Cool: Another favorite of Disgruntled Ferret. Quote from commentary below:

Disgruntled Ferret: (Regarding this comic) In the Game Boy game where Mega Man uses it, I think Mirror Buster is just a shield that can bounce shots, but instead I made it this thing that absorbs attacks and fires them back as some kind of converted blast. Why? Because explosions. Disgruntled Ferret: These things are not about practicality. I daresay it might be exactly the opposite.

• Scary Black Man: Colonel Fodder
• Schedule Slip: Combined with loads and loads of Filler, and long story arcs. It'll probably be awhile before we get to Mega Man 3... but we're getting there.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Being the epitome of laziness, Heat Man says something along these lines.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Air Man, but piss him off and he defaults to a much cruder way off speaking, meaning that he probably invokes this trope intentionally.
• Shooting Superman: The military with regular weapons or the E1s against any of the Robot Masters.

"Targets sustain no damge from shot. Calculating..." "Conclusion: cannot retreat. Keep firing out of spite."

• Shoryuken: Mega Man, err, Mega Mans Doctor Light's Shotokan Karate against The Wily Machine.
• Shout-Out: To Gundam about once every 150 strips.

Mega Man: Whoa. My hand is glowing with an awesome power. Mega Man: Take this! Your ammo, your energy, and all of your stupid hate!

• • And the title of this comic.
  • Also, the comic titles for the "Too Serious" arc reference other fancomics set in 21XX from the Bob and George Forums.
    • This troper specifically noticed a few. 'Randomocity' is shouting out to Randomness. 'A Misadventure' is from Plauge's Misadventures.
  • A recurring filler character is the Author Avatar the Randomness's author, iX.
  • The resemblance is very loose, but Dr. Light's Humongous Mecha seems very drill happy...
    • That might not be, but this definitely is:

Air Man: Even if Heaven itself forgives your shenanigans, I, Air Man, will not!

• • Daidigger D is a Super Robot reference bonanza, like the Name Letter nomenclature on top of this commentary

With Daidigger D, you can become a god or a devil... of mining and construction.

• • Castlevania gets one, too:

Enker: What is Electric Man? A miserable pile of circuits.

• • DisgruntledFerret recently made a filler comic that shows everyone from the Bob and George forums who have made a cameo appearance.
  • Cutman's viral/Harmony form appears to be directly lifted from Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch creator CutmanMike's avatar character.
  • I AM ERROR.
  • Instead of being referred to as a "Mega Man Killer", Enker instead goes by the title of "Mega Man Hunter". Possibly as a nod to the X-Hunters and Maverick Hunters, possibly just to sound less silly.
  • In good anime fan tradition, there's one for Fist of the North Star, complete with the classic 'You Are Already Dead' catchphrase.
• Shown Their Work/Mythology Gag: Ferret clearly knows his classic series Mega Man. Although the majority of humans are (probably) original, startlingly few of the robots aren't from an actual source.
  • That electricity spewing robot? Volt Man from the awful Mega Man DOS game.
  • That Air Man lookalike that everyone believes turns into Air Man? Wave Man(Not THAT Wave Man) of the equally bad Mega Man 3 DOS.
  • That really badass robot Metal Man turns into? Blade Man from the same game.
    • Hey there Oil Ma-, I mean, Flash Man.
  • These two guys? Compass Man and Konro Man from the Wonderswan game.
  • This guy in the last panel is Aircon Man, also from Challengers of the Future.
  • This Robot Master may or may not be Torch Man. He's seen doing some welding later on. His appearance seems based on the PC version's in-game sprite rather than the mugshot.
  • Enker and Quint(et) from the Gameboy games could also qualify. Although significantly more well known than the previous robots, they are still quite obscure.
    • Let it be known that Enker showed up in this comic long before(years before even) he was revealed to appear in Mega Man 10.
    • What's interesting is that Enker, who showed up in 1 GB, is introduced in the 1 NES arc, and Quintet, who showed up in 2 GB, shows up in the 2 NES arc. Me may yet see Punk in the MM 3 arc.
    • Confirmed. Check the official character page.
    • Confirmed once more: He's made his official debut.
  • The flying surfboard has a 2 on it for a reason. It's Ferret's interpretation of Item 2 from MM2.
    • Ferret also depicts all three "Items" as a single device that can switch between multiple modes. It's also referred to as a Support Unit.
  • The Ruby Spears show certainly gets attention as well.

Mega Man: I'm a super fighting robot. I'm here to super fight.

• • Heat Man being lazy? Yeah that's canon to the games.
  • Crash Man's Mega Man and Bass quote:

"I am the Destroyer!"

• • Quick Man's physique is a blatant reference to how Hitoshi Ariga drew the character, rather than the official MM2 art or sprite.
    • His status as Rock's rival (of sorts) harkens back to the character's original role as envisioned by Inafune:

Ariga: When I was playing 2, I always felt like Quick Man got some preferential treatment. On the stage select screen, his horns were allowed to go beyond the actual frame of the portrait and, when he appeared in-game, his horns would shine. Inafune: All of those things were intentional. We were trying to give him a special role in the game, as Mega Man's main rival. I guess you could compare him to Bass and Proto Man in the more recent games.

• • The Stardroids have been hinted at for the longest time via flashbacks. Or rather, the ancient alien race that Sunstar belonged to has been hinted at. They seem to demonstrate Blue and Orange Morality.
    • It's obvious that Reset Man's alternate personality is somehow one of these advanced alien robots, but no one knows quite how that works...
    • Dr. Wily's alien visage, Ra Moon and the spaceborne Evil Energy first seen in MM8 are also somehow involved. Previously none of these elements have ever been associated with one another.
  • Metal Man, who is often mocked for being hilariously vulnerable to his own round, bladed weapon, is depicted as being weak to the Rolling Cutter, a round, bladed weapon.
• Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence: Played straight, and a major source of insults between robots and by their controllers.
• Smug Snake: Metal Man. There's a reason he's the Chew Toy.
• Smug Super: Electric Man and Air Man, which has made the battle between their ego's almost as fun to watch as their actual battle.
• Sociopathic Hero: Captain Fodder.
• Split Personality: Polka Reset Man.
• Start of Darkness: Greatest Killer turns out to be one of these for Quintet.
• Super-Powered Evil Side: Polka Reset Man's 'other' consciousness.
  • Sort of. While much more competent then Reset Man, he's so handicapped by his poorly-designed body that he struggles to beat a Sniper Joe.
    • Speaking of the "other" guy, what happened to him? Will we see him again? What about those scenes we saw while he was around?
    • If Ferret ever covers 8 or 5 GB, we will. This comic alone is proof of that. In it, you can see what is clearly supposed to be Sunstar talking to a dragon guy robot thing, who also makes a clear reference to Duo. Furthermore, said dragon guy is later seen in another flashback with what is clearly supposed to be Evil Energy. The real question is whether or not the comic will ever get to that point.
• Super Powered Robot Meter Maid: Rock and Roll were created to help Dr. Light in the lab and clean the house, respectively.
• Super Prototype: Averted with Polka Reset Man, who's barely able to defeat a Sniper Joe. Later played straight with Atlas.
• Super Robot: More as tribute. Daidigger D is a remnant of Doctor Light's misspent well spent youth.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Played straight in the first arc. Subverted in the second, where Wily's new minions are competent to the point of being Dangerously Genre Savvy, but Wily still treats them like this.
  • Showing that the abused always kick downwards, Enker treats his fellow Robot Masters like this.
  • In the fillers where he appears, X is definitely this. Zero, iX, and Harpuia all manage to be not all there in some way or other.

X: Oh hell, he raided the women's locker room for 'prizes' again. * Runs offscreen* You choose strange ways to die, Zero!

• Taking You with Me: Crashman shows why he's called The Destroyer.
  • Cut Man does this with Wood Man.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: The Wily 8 do not really cooperate well with one another in battle, often getting in each others' way. Their general personalities also seem to clash.
  • Likewise, Enker doesn't get along with any Robot Masters seen so far.
• Telescoping Robot: Reset Man.
• Theme Naming: Aside from the obvious musical-themed names (Rock n' Roll, Enker, Quintet, Allegro and Bass), there's also the support duo known as "Reader" and "Writer".
• Title Drop: Of Story 2, by Quintet.

Quintet: It sounds like you(Dr. Light) know more about it than me, but how about a more convenient way to put it? "This is a robot with no past and no future."

• The Dragon: Enker to Dr. Wily. Despite his rank, battle prowess and intellect, he still takes severe flak from Wily.
• The Voiceless: Atlas.
• Unsound Effect: Telprot!
  • Boomshatter!
  • Drill-grapple! A whole lot of it!
  • What's the sound of history changing? CHRONOOOOM!
• Villainous Breakdown: Wily suffered one at the end of the first major arc. He's gotten worse.
• Water Is Blue: see?
• We Are Team Cannon Fodder: Parodied with the Fodder Force.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Quintet has an...interesting interpretation of the phrase, "everlasting peace."
• Who Dares?: Almost a given at some point.
• Worthy Opponent: Quick Man considers Mega Man to be one of these. Mega Man doesn't really care.
• You Fail Logic Forever: Metal Man.

Metal Man: Peace without fail, because we're justice! And therefore we are completely blind!

• Xanatos Roulette: Quintet's plans. Which is rather fitting, considering his counterpart's approach to things.
  • Xanatos Speed Chess: Of course, when Mega Man's more heroic nature comes into play, Quintet's had to pull some rather dodgy maneuvers. Lampshaded by Ferret himself:

Disgrunted Ferret: You ever get the feeling Quintet's flying by the seat of his robotic pants?