Does the Rockman Zero Collection Storyline Explain Everything?
As reported just before, Capcom of Japan’s Rockman Zero Collection site has been revamped. But what’s most interesting for now is the site’s story section. It contains information to the background of the Zero series that covers the classic series, X series and the Elf Wars. The story even seems to adapt the most recent Mega Man 10, although maybe that’s just my sleepiness telling me that. Below are the translated texts, judge for yourselves.
Reploids… those are robots made a time long ago who were near human and had limitless potential… Given individuality by means of advanced technology, the Reploids worked for humans and were meant to be the greatest ally to walk alongside mankind… However, trouble silently built up among the gears between humans and Reploids that beneath these peaceful times… Having limitless potential and being near human, it was only a matter of time before the Reploids would oppose humans. These kinds of dangerous Reploids the humans fearfully called Mavericks… Reploids that became Mavericks were disposed of by there own Reploid brethren… This was the response humans devised… For the Reploids trying to protect their human masters, there was no room for choice. Thus a violent war between the Reploids that seemed to have no end erupted… Numerous battles accumulated… time went on… and even with the creation of the human utopia protected by Reploids, Neo Arcadia, the struggles haven’t ended…
At least 200 years ago
The birth of XWhen an incident occured where an unknown computer virus came from space and causes robots to become violent and riotous, Dr. Light completed the battle robot “X” worrying about the future of Earth. Hypothesizing X could battle robots infected by viruses, he gave X the perfect virus counter-measure. Meanwhile Dr. Light developed a great number of armors, but this presented the possibility of X becoming a threat to mankind. To confirm the safety of X’s cognition program, Dr. Light sealed away X in an analysis capsule.
1XX years ago
The birth of ZeroZero was produced by Dr. Wily, who schemed at taking over the world. But he contained a flaw in his cognitive program that made him violent and unwilling to obey instructions, so Dr. Wily himself sealed Zero in a capsule.
1XX years ago
X is discoveredX is discovered by Dr. Cain, having been buried underground for 100 years.
1XX years ago
The birth of ReploidsDr. Cain carried out his research of X, and using this created highly advanced robots called “Reploids.”
1XX years ago
The Sigma Virus outbreakA subspecies of the terrible computer virus from long ago is generated, and begins driving robots mad locally. The human leadership acknowledges these infected robots as Mavericks, and orders them to be disposed of. The source was found to be an unknown computer virus that had prevailed over 100 years ago emerging from the capsule Zero slumbered in. Later, this virus was named the Sigma Virus, after the Reploid “Sigma” who led a revolt against the human leadership.
1XX years ago
Formation of the Maverick HuntersFollowing through with the disposal of Mavericks, the human leadership decides to have Mavericks exterminated by Reploids, and forms the Maverick Hunters. Ironically, the leader of the first generation of Maverick Hunters is Sigma.
1XX years ago
Zero awakensReceiving information of Zero awakening from his capsule and causing violence, the Maverick Hunter Sigma finds and intercepts him. during this incident, Sigma is infected by the unknown computer virus leaking out from Zero’s capsule, but at the same time Zero, having his armor damaged in the battle with Sigma, also becomes infected with the virus. Due to this, Zero’s personality completely changed, and he would turn to working as a Maverick Hunter.
1XX years ago
The Maverick Wars beginInfected by the unknown computer virus, Sigma defects to the side of the Mavericks and leads a revolt against human leadership. The wars between the Mavericks and the Maverick Hunters for the future of humanity begins.
1XX years ago
Fall of the colony “Eurasia”Under Sigma’s orders, the Reploid mercenary Dynamo causes an obsolete space colony “Eurasia” to crash into Earth. Along with recognizing the threat of the Mavericks anew, the human leadership professes its aim of eradicating all Mavericks. The site that became a contamination zone is dubbed Area Zero, and for the next 100 years would be barred from entry.
1XX years ago
The Nightmare Incident“The Nightmare Incident” occurs, an event where a subspecies of the Sigma Virus that attracts attention as the Nightmare Virus spreads throughout the world. The fact was proven that Zero was it source, as he was a carrier of the Sigma Virus, and was contagious to his surroundings as he worked across the world as a Hunter. In finding this, the human leadership decides for Zero to be sealed away, but due to the influence of scientists studying the Sigma Virus, his cognitive program was removed from his body so the two could be researched separately.
1XX years ago
The birth of the Mother ElfA Reploid researcher of this time (Dr. Ciel’s great-grandmother) studies Zero’s cognitive program and discovers an antibody to the Sigma Virus. She completes the Mother Elf, a program lifeform that can rewrite and erase the Sigma Virus. Afterwards, the scientists in the field of researching the Sigma Virus make researching Cyber Elves their focus.
1XX years ago
The Elf Wars rise from the Maverick WarsThere are many historians who define the end of the Maverick Wars as the period when the number of Mavericks dropped significantly due to X’s using the Mother Elf. In actuality there is no enduring the conflict, and afterwards the latter period of the Maverick Wars came to be known as the Elf Wars.
1XX years ago
The proposal of Project ElpizoA member of the humans researching Cyber Elves proposes “Project Elpizo,” an operation to create a Reploid that’s a perfect ruler using the Mother Elf’s program rewriting ability. X opposed this operation, but out of fear of a long-lasting war support begins for complete control of Reploids. The confrontation of X’s “philosophy of coexistence” and the human leadership’s “philosophy of rule” begins.
Tags: Mega Man Zero Collection, story
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Holy CRAP, this is so cool and weird. This means X7 and X8 take place in an alternate UNIVERSE from X1-X6…
…and while I adore X8, I’m also a fan of alternate universes. GO MARVEL / DC! XD
And way to go for Inafune taking control of his own franchise. Something tells me we’re going to see another MegaMan X for sure..
@MB: except that in X8 they talk about Zero being used in X6, and there’s also the time placement in the manual.
Wait… so Elpizo was SUPPOSED to use the Dark Elf?
@Cobalt:
It’s implicating Dr. Weil’s proposal to create Omega and use him to completely control all Reploids through the use of Mother Elf. That is Project Elpizo. Learning about Elf Wars from the records, the Reploid TK-31 named himself after that project, the meaning of Elpis/Elpizo being “Hope”. Project Elpizo was described by him as the “birth of hope”.
I like how this story summary incorporates what is expected to be the last classical game Megaman 10. One issue I have with the story summary is that “The Nightmare Incident” section blames Zero for the Nightmare Virus when it was in fact Gate that was responsible for creating the virus from discarded parts of Zero.
My second issue is with the statement that they removed his cognitive program (i.e. his consciousness). Why would they remove his consciousness or leave him locked in a capsule for 100 years. I would think they could just copy his cognitive program do some scans of his body and release then him to go back to work while they research the issue (i.e. his defects).
This is backed up by the statement in “The Birth of the Mother Elf” that Dr. Ciel’s great-grandmother was studying Zero’s cognitive program. She was studying his program it doesn’t say anything to support that she was studying Zero still locked in a capsule. Therefore, I believe it’s safe to assume that X7 and X8 still follow shortly after X6 and before “The Birth of the Mother Elf” with original Zero still roaming freely until his demise sometime during the Elf Wars.
Researching his body was likely the easiest part, doing scans and creating schematical documents. This likely led to the creation of the new/copy Zero body(s). It’s even likely that they created a complete copy Zero, which they sealed in a capsule for 100 years doing diagnostics much like Dr. Light did with X. Could explain why Megaman Zero doesn’t remember his own past because he’s only a copy of original Zero’s cognitive program, but does not contain original Zero’s long term memory.
All this research on Zero is probably how Dr. Weil discovers the original cognitive program for the crazy insane Zero… Omega.
Zero got the virus from sigma? What?
Hm… so is the virus that came from space the ‘Evil Energy’ of Mega Man 8?
Also.. maybe X7 and X8 are NOT an alternate timeline. Maybe Capcom will pull an SNK on us and the Zero we know from those games is actually not Zero at all, but Omega already having taken over Zero’s original body (and just imitating him for now).
Also, it seems to imply that Zero and the Virus were not originally compatable.
Wow… that is something… it almost makes me want to play MM10… almost.
What happened to Axl??? It seems like Inafune just “erased” him from the timeline! oh well, Zero is still awesome!!!
:Sigh: Rather than typing out my points out again, I’m just gonna copy&paste what I said on Protodude’s blog:
“Hold on folks. just like some others have said, this is simply going over the IMPORTANT parts of the X series that related to the Z Series: Just because they’re not mentioned doesn’t mean it didn’t happen (honestly, this is worse than the Cataclysm conspiracy theories).
Besides, the Megaman franchise already has a split-timeline since the release of Battle Network 1. Yes, you heard me right: the Classic/X/Z/ZX/Legends series are in the 1st timeline, while BattleNetwork/Starforce is in the 2nd timeline.”
And Yes, people are applying the Split-timeline theory from Zelda to the X series specifically.
Ceil’s ancestor was a Reploid researcher…. A person who researchers reploids yes… Hmm…
That was kind of unimportant to point out why did I do that?
Erasing Axl from existence? Greatest thing Inafune did the for the franchise. He had absolutely no reason to exist, and all he did was be an annoying little puke.
Removing X7 and X8 from existence would also be very, VERY awesome.
How many people care what happened to Axl? Raise hands! 1, 2… 6! Until Capcom decides to make X9 you assume that Axl was an early corpse in the Elf Wars; if you even assume that Axl existed at all.
Um… I don’t think Axl woulda died that easily. Cuz he cheats and uses the copy shot. But he definitely died if he even existed at all there’s no denying that. Hm… Oh @EretsiM, not all of that Zero from Mega Man Zero is a copy. Cuz X himself says the heart/soul inside is that of the real Zero. So therefore, yes the body is fake, but something in there is still from the real Zero that sorta in a way makes him Zero.
ARRGH what have these guys written up. this is into writing this, right? figures.
ARGH it makes my head hurt so bad.
well i do care about axl
anyway the statements written here look like they came from people who at the time dont know the entire truth to some of these events (i.e. zero nightmare
the fact that it took 4 games to figure out zero was related to the virus, that x and zero cannot properly be scanned because of their black box components etc)
I’m more interested in what happens in the thousands of years after the ZX series till the legends series. Wouldn’t be so bad if Capcom made a few more game series to cover this time frame.
I’m still for the separate universe idea here. If X7 and X8 didn’t happen in Universe 2, then that means..
… Sigma never died.
Not that that means Axl won’t show up again… he just might! Though if he disappeared from the series, it wouldn’t be all that bad either. Heck, maybe Universe 2 will introduce new goodies and baddies? Maybe Layer will come out and Zero will fall in love again, and another tragedy will ensue, Romeo & Juliet style… or maybe I’m just being a fanboy.. *puts his pants back on*
All in all, this is an example of Inafune telling CAPCOM “You’re doing it WRONG. Here, let me fix it.”
Just because X7-X8 aren’t mentioned doesn’t mean anything. X2, X3 and X4 are not mentioned either. And Mega Man 1-9?
They didn’t have significant plot points to earn a mention, that’s all.
And if Sigma’s death is not mentioned, it means it’s not that impirtant, because it might not be real.
Ummmm….
Why does everyone forget about Megaman ZX Advent?
Model A is NOT Albert, it’s Axl!
And Model A is awesome!
He is more powerful than Model X!
And has all the powers of Axl.
So THERE! >8U
…that probaly didn’t prove anything. D8
What J. L. said. Plus, they added a “no one knows when the Maverick wars really ended.” type of comment. leaving people, at least for now, to come with their own conclusions…. We are the ‘historians’ and we can individually think it ended at X6 or Command Mission. Whichever your heart desires.
Also…Zero calmed down because of the virus….does that make his cognitive error some kind of Robo-Hyperthyroidism or Lupus?
A couple years ago, I stopped worrying about how the series connect. As interesting as parts of this are, I’m going to continue to do so because it hurts my head.
Hmm…so it seems that virus from space they mentioned is either the Evil Energy from MM8 or that virus from MM10? (I haven’t played MM10 yet btw)
So, it sounds like Wily probably created Zero with the virus, or the virus had to do with something about Zero, hence why when Zero was sealed the virus was in the capsule too (like either the virus was ON Zero, or the virus was sealed WITH Zero)
Then the virus that leaked out of capsule infected Sigma, and probably somehow MUTATED in a way then re-infect Zero…Does that sounds right?
In any case, I’m really glad they started to explain the timelines from X series to Zero series, might not have explained it all that clearly, but it does tells us something~
Apparently Zero was never affected. But his Capsule was. Which is interesting. It’s more like Roboenza from Mega Man 10 because Evil Energy was never considered a virus, as well as Rockman 10′s subtitle being “The Menace from Outer space!!”
Oh, so…. the ones who keep putting the Armor Capsules everywhere are really MegaMan and ProtoMan because they’re not powerful enough to handle what X can?
… brilliant!
Ah, man. Webheads these days. Back in my day, at least a few more people actually read the comments before their own.
Although once in a while, someone gets it right. Like nice going on blizt’s part for getting the rough idea. Don’t listen to that other crap.
Seriously. If the Zero Virus is derived from anything we’ve seen before, it’s Evil Energy. Not Roboenza. Not as if Capcom doesn’t have the authority to turn around and claim it as Roboenza for no good reason, but the facts given are quite clear. Not Roboenza. And Zero originates the Zero Virus, crazy huh? It’s his original power source.
Man this never gets old does it with trying to connect stuff…? I just play the games because each has its own story at the time. As far as I see things the only series that have connections in some form are the X to Zero to ZX. Legends is a part of the cannon ,but we can’t assume that because none of the events have happened in ZX yet. Sure we understand there is a connection between Classic and X ,but the reason why there hasn’t been much connection is because the classic series is like your typical american 80′s cliche cartoon just with out the chessy lines and puns. Its almost neverending with random acts of evil plans usually foiled by the main good guy protagonist and his band of happy assitants. That’s how I see it for now in classic anyways.
About the Maverick Virus…
Maybe Mega Man 8 – 10 are trying to build up to the virus. Keep in mind that Dr. Wily LOVES tinkering around with prototypes, even if he winds up throwing them away in the end. Okay, so I’m starting to channel the Rockman and Forte game from the Wonderswan, which may or may not be canon (for those interested, Shadow Rockman was a prototype for Quint, another much hated character in the series).
Anyway, without trying to give TOO much away about Mega Man 10, it is possible that Roboenza was an early attempt at duplicating/augmenting the effects of the Evil Energy. Like all prototypes, it had some issues like making a robot appear sick before the payload kicked in. Even after the perfection of the Maverick Virus, it could be that Wily took the bug in the Roboenza program and distilled it into a kind of “kill switch.” It would explain Zero’s behavior in Mega Man X4 when we see him as a Maverick.
After having to shut Zero down one time too many, he finally had enough and sealed him away. When he did, one of two scenarios are possible. Seeing as how Wily was able to help Sigma with the Eurasia Colony, he either kept himself alive long enough to be there, or he had a virtual presence through an AI construct. In either case, he kept a copy of his viral creations with him, either on his person or stored with his virtual self. That way, he was able to control the flow of the virus in that first battle between Zero and Sigma.
What’s more interesting is that Dr. Light is shown making X in response to either the Evil Energy or Roboenza, “at least 200 years” before the Zero series’ start. Dr. Wily only made Zero 1XX years beforehand, though the time difference could simply be a couple of years (X made 201 years ago, Zero made 199 years before). This is likely the case considering that the X series is all in the “1XX years ago” category.
I doubt that there were alternate time-lines within the X series. It’s just that the events of Mega Man X6 – X8 and Command Mission were just not that important to the flow of the Virus or the fate of Zero. Axl, Lumine, and the next generation Reploids might shed some light on the supporting characters of the Zero series, but that’s about it. The only time-line split would be the Battle Network series, which is really more of a “what if Dr. Light/Hikari focused on the Internet instead of robots” type of scenario. After all, in the 80s when Classic series was written, robots were the big thing, and in the 00s when the Battle Network series was written, the Internet was (and still is) a hot topic.
Footnote, my reference to the Maverick Virus is simply the version of the virus prior to the creation of the Sigma Virus, Zero Virus, or Nightmare Virus. It may or may not be identical in function to later named viruses, but I figure it might be best to make a distinction as Wily may never have thought of infecting Zero or Sigma at the time.
http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Evil_Energy
I know it can’t just plain be Evil energy is describe as a source of evil that multiplies within a PERSON’S mind, forcing them to do evil. Says nothing about Robots.
Therefore it must be Roboenza, which I wouldn’t put it past being a refined virus construed from evil energy specifically designed to infect robots.
People are taking this bit of story way out of hand.
For starters this may not be all they have to say in regards to the X series. For the most part my guess though is that they’ve chosen to leave out Axl in this telling because you don’t hear of Axl in Zero, and overall, despite being a main character, he is really still in reality, a supporting character.
X and Zero are first and foremost the main players in this time line. Axl may have a connection to Mega Man ZX Advent (Model A although technically considered to stand for Albert sadly also seems to be very much coincidentally a lot like Axl). In the Zero series there is really no need to mention Axl.
As far as the whole evil energy/roboenza and so forth, the real truth is I bet all of these outbreaks that occurred and Wily had a hand in, are the precursors to what would become the “maverick” virus in whatever form it takes. Whether the Sigma Virus, or the Nightmare Virus or so on… my guess is that they all contributed and possibly combined all thanks to Wily’s meddling and desire to cause havoc.
Anyhow it’s just neat to see how the guys at Capcom see the story going, and I wonder what it means for the future of the games, perhaps there will be a day when we see a final Classic series Mega Man, where we see Wily working on Zero and Light working on X. Maybe we will get an X series game that leads into the Elf Wars and Zero is sealed away.
One day that may all come into being and it would be pretty cool.
Roboenza makes more sense as well, given that story and the entire Zero series and this timeline (one would imagine) were all created by the same people at Inti, while the Evil Energy seems like something else entirely.
Even then, it appears that Roboenza has proven curable, whereas the Maverick Virus went on for some time without cure.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”
]I know it can’t just plain be Evil energy is describe as a source of evil that multiplies within a PERSON’S mind, forcing them to do evil. Says nothing about Robots.
From the very same entry…
The energy absorbs evil within a person’s mind and then multiplies to infect others–mainly robots
Look, I don’t want to bag on you, but I can’t believe you made that comment. It was literally in the same sentence, to say nothing of the fact “person” is obviously a turn of phrase and Mega Man 8 doesn’t just show Evil Energy interacting with robots, it’s shown EXCLUSIVELY affecting robots.
The whole thing is really this simple. The unknown virus is the viral culprit of maverick infections. We know Zero originates that. The unknown virus is the same thing from a long time back in the day. Which means unless it hasn’t appeared yet, it’s Evil Energy. It’s completely possible that Roboenza was engineered from EE, but that possibility is completely circumstantial because I’ll bet you anything Roboenza doesn’t matter after this game. It’s quite clearly the usual antagonist’s shenanigans in a cliche, goofy Classic Mega Man game. It’s been awhile, but Evil Energy is an actual plot point and has much more in common with the viral outbreaks. And for reference, the chronological progression of the virus is as follows…
Zero “Virus” > Maverick Virus > Sigma Virus > Nightmare Virus.
@boyle2:
The original unknown virus is an “Irregular Virus” that became known as the Sigma Virus, after the Repliroid that started a revolt against humanity, it is stated right there on the ZERO collection site. The Zero Virus is instead a derivative that only exists in X5; it is the combination of the Sigma and Colony Viruses to facilitate Zero awakening to his true self. Remember that the term was coined by Alia upon spotting the similarity of this “new” virus, with Zero’s own readings. Why would a term Alia coined for a new virus be relevant to the original? Just because it originates from Zero/Zero’s capsule doesn’t mean it is called the Zero Virus.
As for Roboenza and the Evil Energy. The traits of Evil Energy were never that of a virus which causes irregularity. “This kind of energy absorbs the evil in a person’s mind and then multiplies.” “He’s been affected by the
Evil Energy. He will die soon!” Direct quotes from MM8. This is further backed by Duo detecting “Evil Energy” within Rockman’s heart in the EXE-series, after his battles involving the Dark Chip Syndicate Nebula.
In all honesty, Evil Energy behaves more like a bacteria feeding on evil, than a virus that causes brain malfunctions. It is instead Roboenza which was described as a virus that causes robots to violently riot. The game’s subtitle “from space”, as well as the production team responsible for that game being IntiCreates, only increase the likelihood that the reference is Roboenza over Evil Energy.
However, I don’t think the distinction here is all that relevant; Right did not complete X immediately following either of these incidents and the primary point made is that Right saw virus infected violent robots, and more than likely saw our heroes succumb to the same virus, motivating him to create his new robot with effective countermeasures against such a danger.
All this thing is getting me confused….
its like a WHAT IF!
capcom are only giving us things to thinks
but not to concrete….
the real action will happend when capcom tell us
what happend with megaman,protoman and bass when zero was
created, and How Sigma know about Willy…
THEN the real action will begin…..
It turns out that Inafune wanted to merge X7, X8 and Command Mission games with the Zero series so that it’ll make sense to some storyline. Wonder if the characters of X series return as a bonus?
Capcom started the Zero series before Axl was in the picture… So now they’re trying to make up for it? So… in the alternate univ. is Axl… in the other is Elf wars??? THE CRAP!?
Capcom didn’t say that.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Sometimes I really don’t know why the hell I even bother.
@Zan: All you’re doing is derailing the rational path of discussion and speculation by debating semantics with yourself, for you see, I am completely familiar with such particulars. The fact you insist on using Rockman terminology doesn’t change anything.
Rather, the original unknown virus is the form that the virus would take before it was the Maverick Virus. Which is described as having been present in the past before the X series. I know the specific term “Zero Virus” refers to Sigma’s viral Eurasia cocktail from X5. Did you not see that I put the word “virus” in quotations to mark the little turn of phrase? The point is it’s just a way of describing what originally powers Zero, which is not a virus at all where Zero’s concerned.
With that cleared up, IF IT’S BEEN SHOWN YET, that unknown virus is much more likely to have been derived from Evil Energy. Who knows if Roboenza is derived from it too? It doesn’t matter. Asserting that Evil Energy behaves explicitly and exclusively as a strict, real-world definition of bacteria as if you actually knew for a fact what you were talking about is utter rubbish. The fact is there’s no way to prove the exact properties of this imaginary substance and how it affects what until someone official decides to waste their time delving into great detail of all its aspects to provide a fanservice for MM geeks. Meaning your description is nothing more than your own imaginative musings. Zero’s “power” isn’t just evil energy, if it plays a part, it’s obviously been modified and experimented with in the same manner as Bassnium, something Zero’s “power” is also derived from. What you claim isn’t anywhere even close to a definite.
And this “but inti made rm10 AND rmz!” talk is starting to grate my eyes. Guess what? Inti didn’t make the first five X games. That’s where anything having to do with a virus was established. Funny coincidence actually, Capcom’s not only responsible for those games, but MM8 as well! Meaning if they want us to think the “virus” is linked to something from Classic series, it would be Evil Energy.
These things have been established for almost a decade now. It doesn’t matter what Inti wants to say, because it’s not their story. The only way it matters is if Capcom doesn’t care enough to just let them go ahead and retcon what they want. Which they can do. As it stands however, that’s the lay of it.
@boyle2:
Direct quote from MegaMan8 about the qualities of Evil Energy that do not coincide with a “virus that causes irregularity”, is not enough proof? It absorbs the evil in a person’s mind and multiplies, that is the Evil Energy.
Just because the Evil Energy is not a “virus”, doesn’t mean that it’s not a “program with a body of energy” that has an aspect of “volition”, as the Sigma Virus, Nightmare, Cyber Elves, Repliroid souls, and even Roboenza are. The Evil Energy in Wily’s hands is the first step toward the use of this technology.
Despite that natural progression of technology being evident to every fan, to the ZERO collection’s summary, it is still the Roboenza that is more of note than the Evil Energy; it causes robots to go violent, it caused our heroes to succumb to the dangers, it would show Dr. Right the need to have countermeasures against other such viruses. To have another event in the classic series to validate the nitpick of the “from space” part of the summary by a mention other than the game’s subtitle would simply be redundant; we do not need another virus related plotline in the classic series.
Describing EE as something that absorbs and multiplies evil does not at all rule out that it causes “irregularity”. And when irregularity need be no more than violence, that leads quite a lot open.
The second paragraph is basically the same thing I said. It’s just that there’s reason to doubt that Zero’s “power” is explicitly derived from Roboenza. And that’s because still now, after everything’s been tallied, Evil Energy is a more heavily noted plot point in the original Classic-X continuity which is responsible for the storyline that this webpage references. I agree it would be redundant to have another virus plotline in Classic, which is exactly why Roboenza will almost certainly fade into obscurity after being a one-game gag. Seriously, I’ll bet plenty to say we never see Roboenza mentioned again save for recap’s sake.
How can they write out X8? Isn’t the Orbital Elevator one of the areas of Neo Arcadia?
You can have non-canon things show up in canon material. Didn’t the Rush Roadster (or whatever it was called) from Battle & Chase reappear in the ZX games? I guess Capcom figured out that the series post-X6 became baggage, so there you go. Really, things past the sixth game were inconsequential to the plot, so it wouldn’t matter if they happened or not. No, I’m more interested in the prospect that Inafune seemed to have admit defeat with Maverick Hunter X (as this is going by the original SNES explanation for sealing X, not the [flimsy, IMO] excuse Light had in Day of Sigma).
Another Note: I don’t recall Roboenza actually making robots violent, I thought that was just Wily manipulating others as usual since he had the antidote. Just as well, even if Evil Energy can affect humans, Roboenza evolved beyond Wily’s control and got him sick as well (no, he wouldn’t have turned violent). My guess is that this is referring to some other incident. That, or Capcom didn’t want to spoil the plot of Mega Man 10, instead going by the idea that it may be from space and makes robots “maverick.”
72iB2V such posts are great