TMMN’s August Giveaway: Vile’s Revenge!
You smell that? That thick, smoky stench of a freshly fired shoulder cannon. It heats you up as it fills your lungs, and puts you on tenterhooks. That smell, my friends, is a chance at victory. Vile is back, and your chance at winning him just tripled! That’s because the ridiculously awesome folks at Bluefin Tamashii Nations have bestowed on us not just one, but three sinisterly cool D-Arts Vile figures! We simply can’t keep them all here, it’d be World War 3 with that many Viles rampaging around. Please win these figures from us, and ensure world peace!
As always, the way to win is crazy simple. This time, all you need to do is comment in this post about your favorite Mega Man villain. It can be any villain from any series, with some explanation as to why. After the commenting period is up three comments will be randomly chosen, so don’t think brown nosing Vile will score you any bonus points! Please remember to comment with an e-mail address we can reach you at, and make sure you can receive the prize (ask parents’ permission if necessary; figures ship from the United States).
You have until Friday, August 17th at midnight, US Pacific time to make your comment, so get to it! Three of you will be big winners! Also, a very special thanks to Xavier Lim and the folks at Bluefin Tamashii Nations! Not only do they bring us kick ass figures, they give you a chance to win ‘em! And have you been scoping out their Facebook page, and demanding those awesome Sigma and Ride Armor figures get made? Oh my g-DO IT NOW!
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DR LIGHT! Cause he never gave Mega Man leg servos to be able to duck.Not even X the improved version had’em, he had to get’em himself from some second hand store or something.
But really Guts Man has to be my favorite villain. He’s like the only classic series villain who fights with his bare hands. He doesn’t even have short ranged weapons equipped! Sure he use boulders as projectiles but that’s another cool thing about Guts, he makes HIS OWN weapons.
Also, I basically just like the design of the character and the colors. He’s also pretty nostalgic for me since he was pretty much in almost every single episode of the 90s Mega Man cartoon. Those were the very first cartoons I could say were my favorite as a kid and so was the Guts Man character.
Can’t say anything about ‘is butt since I have seen the original YT video so that’s it.
Just to throw in my two cents, I’ve always had a soft spot for Vile. Hey, when you’re a kid, the Boba Fett robot with a shoulder cannon that pilots a giant robot is just plain awesome!
I’d have to say Iris from Mega Man X4 because she was able to pour more emotion out of me than any character in the entire Mega Man X series. She’s a supporting character in Xtreme 2, and throughout the game, they make subtle hints of a relationship. Throughout the entire game of X4, she’s trying to stop Zero from fighting. She stops Zero once from challenging his brother, but the second time, Zero kills her brother. You only get to fight her as Zero right before fighting Sigma, and she doesn’t take direct damage like the other bosses in the game. They both regret fighting in the end when she realizes her wrong doing, and he realizes his mistake. Her death in X4 and cameo in X5 made the ending of both games an emotional roller coaster for Zero’s story arc which helped me become attached to the series.
If he still counts, I think Bass might be my overall favorite Mega Man villain. He’s got a cool design and a simple motivation–to be the most powerful robot there is. There’s something refreshing about that single-mindedness, though it makes you wonder what he’d ever do if he actually did beat Mega Man!
I would have to say Protoman. I know he is not really a villain or a hero, but, he was considered one a few times =P Hands down my favorite character in the series due to tragic circumstances of his existence.
If I had to name a full fledged one, I would say Bass. He is just so silly with how he will destroy all of Wily’s plans to show him that he is clearly the strongest so he should stop trying and just let him handle business.
Vile all the way. Just as X has chosen to fight for good and peace, Vile has chosen the path of evil and revenge. With as many times as he has come back to simply fight X and Zero, you can’t help but wonder if he is infected with the virus that turn reploids Maverick, or if he is just so insane that he willingly sides with Mavericks to attain his own goal.
Favorite villain? Has to be Dr. Wily. I know, not particularly unique, but he has the longest reach of the villains. Think about it, he created Zero and by extension the Maverick Virus that defines the events to come centuries after his passing! It’s insane how tragic his touch on the world is and how easily he outlasts the effects of his counterpart, Dr. Light. Sure, X stays around for a while, but ultimately the division created between reploids and humans (even when they start to become harder and harder to separate) causes the EXTINCTION of mankind!
The fascinating aspect to all this is, for me, that I don’t believe this was something Dr. Wily would have wanted. He wanted to rule the world and subject humanity to rule by his robots. He wasn’t out to destroy the world. I honestly think if he could look back and see what he’d done he’d have a real shock of conscience.
Can Tron Bonne be considered a villain? Because she’s easily one of my favorite characters from the franchise too, haha
I dunno, I just have a thing for these tomboyish, fun and energetic kind of characters
My favorite villain in Megaman is Auto. Have you seen his prices? They’re outrageous!
my favorite villain is chill penguin because i make him look like a fool.
For me, it has to be Sigma.
The X games have always held a special place in my heart, and one of the most interesting concepts was to see how Sigma kept coming back and influencing other Reploids.
The fact that Sigma kept coming back was one of the more gripping aspects of the game. Sure, it became predictable, but how he came back wasn’t. Each time he came back with a more menacing and dangerous form that certainly made fighting him an intense experience.
The fact that he was incredibly strong, dangerously smart and just so hell-bent on his ideals made him all the more compelling. He’s one of the best villains in the entire Mega Man mythos.
Honorable mentions to Craft (of the MMZ series) and Freeze Man (of the original series). I like them more for their fights and designs, though Craft did have an intriguing backstory.
I hope you guys still count this as a villain, but my favorite has always been the Metool. They may take no more than a few buster shots to beat, but to me, no Megaman game is complete without them. Not to mention, they have those stylish hats! I want one!!!!
My favorite Villain is Dr.Wily. Why? For one, without him. Megaman/ Rockman would just be…. Rock….. He would have no reason to become a fighting robot and fight for everlasting peace…. he’d remain Dr.Lights Helper….. Secondly, He creates all the other cool Robot Masters that other people are probably commenting about
. Lastly, no matter how many time Wily is defeated, he comes back again. With 8 more Robot Masters and the same determination towards taking over the world!
Metal Man is the best villain. He is characterized not by dialogue, but by gameplay. He is the coolest robot master, literally. He just chills there until you do something. And he has the best weapon in the game too. And his stage has amazing music. Metal Man is awesome.
Topman! He is random, you can’t shoot him when he’s dancing, and you can’t stop the top. And I think his stage was really really rad.
It’s gotta be Dr.Wily, BUT the doctor wily that appears in the Battle Network series. The fact that even in another reality, Wily STILL ends up being an evil genius who wants to ruin things for everyone, just makes me love him all the more. Even when reality itself contorts to make sure that robots fall from favour so he can’t try and rule the world with him, wily manages to finagle his way in to using the internet and computers to bust up the world.
A true villain is evil in EVERY dimension.
My favorite megaman villain is definately Dr. Wily. He is not only responsible for creating my favorite megaman character (Zero), but he’s also a really crazy, unpredictable German scientist who always kept Dr. Light on his toes.
Everyone knows mustache > beard. Sorry Light.
My favorite villain from Mega Man has to be Dr. Wily. Without Dr. Wily Mega Man would be boring. There Robot Masters would probably be good instead of evil, Wily’s castle wouldn’t be Wily’s castle, Dr. Light would have no worries of anyone trying to take over the world but most importantly without Dr. Wily there wouldn’t be Zero and that means X would have no help on missions and it is possible that Sigma would’ve taken over the world.
Favorite villain? Simply: Dr. Wily. He’s THE Mega Man villain. The asshole, son-of-a-bitch genius that started the whole mess that is the Mega Man universe. Not to mention, you can’t say no to those eyebrows.
My favorite villain is Copy-X. Because it was so cool to have the actual hero into the main bad guy. Well of course it wasn’t the actual X but that was the twist for me! Never expecting it.
Sigma for X, Shadowman for original
My favorite is actually Vile. He isn’t as developed as Sigma in the X universe, but he’s a determined badass anti-hero. He was the first real boss fight you encounter in the original Mega Man X and he made you painfully aware of how weak you are. He beat you down twice and captured Zero giving you drive to defeat him. Sure, I wanted to kill him, but I thought his design alone was just so cool, even when I played the game as a kid. And the fact that he comes back a few times, but not EVERY game is cool. Vile all the way.
Mine would have to be Magma Dragoon from X4. It was interesting to see a character that was so highly revered by the two protagonists fall to something as simple as a virus.
Storm Eagle! His level, his appearance, and his level music all define his awesomeness!
My favorite villain has always been cutman (even if he and the brothers were only evil because of reprogramming). He’s like megaman, but he throws scissors, it was always goofy in a cute way, fighting what really seems to be your little brother who runs around with a pair of open scissors. His theme music was always my favorite song from the first game, and I just love fighting him.
I wish that the Koto models would’ve made a cutman, only thing they needed to do really is just include a new head with the megaman model kit.
Also he was really cute in MMPU, “M-m-mr. Megaman!”
Haha, there are too many awesome MM villains for me to have one favorite, but to pick one out of all of them, I’ll say… Copy X. Even though yes, “wow evil clone of X, so creative /eyeroll”, he’s really…kind of tragic if you think about it.
I mean, he wasn’t made to have his own identity and personality like other Reploids. He was made purely to be a replacement and, immediately after being ‘born’, was expected to run an entire country (or whatever Neo Arcadia technically is) without any experience as a leader whatsoever. He just knew he had to support humans and be like his namesake (who was missing at this point, so that really meant ‘be like some famous guy everyone always talks about’).
Shock and surprise when he turned out to be an arrogant Reploid-persecuting jerkass that made some pretty poor decisions as a leader. We wonder whose fault THAT was… (And we wonder who didn’t take any blame for it, either. Thanks, humans.)
The fact that Weil brought him back in MMZ3 all glitched up as nothing but a pawn in the evil doctor’s plans just further proves how much of a tool Copy was to everyone around him. Add on the fact that his own creator, Ciel, did everything in her power to kill him in MMZ1 when he thought he was doing the right thing, and…yep. That’s pretty tragic.
It would be impossible to list all of the villians in the
Mega Man universe that I like. But overall, my favorite is Harpuia, from Mega Man Zero.
My favorite types of villians are wind elemented and electric elemented foes, so when I saw Harpuia for the first time in MMZ2 (yes, the first Zero game I ever got was #2, so I had a lot of catching up to do), he instantly became a favorite. He is so much fun to fight and it is so cool using Model HX in ZX1. Some other honorable mentions on my favorite bad guys (and gals) include: Leviathan(mega man zero), Bass (classic series), Magna Centipede (X2), Magnet Man, Chill Man, Cut Man etc etc etc.
So there, yeah, I know, that was a pretty big post, i’m sorry, I just like Harpuia
I’ll go with Terra. He’s got that wonderful green robotic hair and he is the only one who was able to beat Mega Man in a battle
Quick Man. He’s annoying. His level is annoying. Plus, it’s fun that he takes damage just from having time stopped.
My favourite villain from any series would have to be Prometheus from Rockman ZX. His backstory is intriguing, and he manipulated the protagonist from ZX Advent to do his dirty work. Not to mention, he is one of the hardest bosses to beat in Hard mode (that four way fire attack!) and he just looks awesome. Plus, the battle theme is pretty epic!
My favorite villain might be ICE MAN, because since the first time I fight with him, it made me love mega man games, I have played them since Nintendo, because im a big fan of it, every villain in mega man has it good things and a great design, but ice man made me fall in love with the mega man series.
Favourite villain? That’s easy. TRON BONNE! Not only is she my favourite villain in the Mega Man series, but she’s one of my favourite video game characters ever. What makes her so interesting is that there’s a surprising amount of depth to her personality, which is best portrayed in her stand-alone game. On the surface she’s very selfish, greedy, arrogant, and treats her Servbots like toy soldiers. But there are a also moments when her composure softens and you begin to see not only the maternal relationship with her Servbots, but compassion for other characters like Denise and Dantz. A villainous pirate she may be, but she shows traits of bravery, intelligence and resourcefulness that make her a very likeable ‘queen of the Servbots’.
My favorite villain would have to be Siarnaq from ZX:Advent. While he played only a minor role, the very mechanical look and text he used was a nice contrast to the more organic feel that the ZX series took.
Sairnaq was another biometal user, but unlike the others who had some purpose for using the biometal, Siarnaq never seemed to have one, and his sole purpose was to be some almost inhuman obstacle. He was super creepy in that game and was far more memorable to me than main villain of the game even.
My favorite villain? I’ll go with the totally unused choice of Dr. Wily. I love the humor and silliness of the character, and those traits really bring out some rather unorthodox and gutsy schemes.
My favorite scheme of his is his plan to use the World Robot Tournament to his advantage in MM6. It was just so brilliant! The man just decides to have others make his robot masters for him, so he throws on a fake beard, a cloak, and sunglasses, then sponsors a world tournament so he can steal the finalists. It was also quite comical to see Rock’s surprised reaction to Dr. Wily’s reveal at the end of the Mr. X fight.
And then we have Dr. Wily’s amazing well thought out plan to frame Dr. Light as a major villain with himself as a hero trying to protect the people, despite being a well known terrorist himself. He just fakes a video confession , tricks some machines into acting violently, and pleads to the people to send him money so he can stop Dr. Light’s rampage.
He also manages to still feel like a threat to me despite all this, unlike the zany yet awesome Bonne family, thanks to his more serious work, such as the creation of Zero, the experimentation with evil energy, and his creation of the virus that let Sigma become a world crippling threat.
When compared to characters rather serious characters like Sigma, Serpent, Vile, Copy-X, etc… Dr. Wily’s situation based light-heartedness, along with his real threatening moments, pushes him into the lead.
My favorite Mega Man villain is the Mets in Trains from Charge Man’s stage.
Nah, kidding, my favorite is Air Man. He’s just so cool. GET IT?! I’ve always thought his design is the perfect example of what a robot master should be. Something simple and goofy but also slightly sinister. Later games in the series would often go too over-the-top with the designs and over-design characters or just make straight-up goofy enemies like Pump Man. But Air Man strikes the perfect balance. Cool, threatening and a little silly all at the same time. The perfect robot master.
My favorite villain may have to be Weil from the Megaman Zero series. He’s a complete monster, and is fueled by revenge and just the desire to destroy everything, just because he can. He couldn’t be reasoned with, and he was willing to let the whole world burn into the ground, snuff out all hope because he was just a miserable evil man. I feel that all the other villains had a reason, a purpose, whether it be a world governed and ruled by Reploids and only reploids, or recognition for their work in robotics and just cause small mayhems, Weil was just rotten and evil to the core, a monster of destruction. But not only was Weil a psychopath, and chaotically evil, he is an extremely intelligent and manipulative man, knowing how to set his pieces to distract, counter and hinder Zero from getting in the ways of his main goal, destroy everything. And the mere fact that X and the others saw Death as too light of a punishment and decided to throw him out into space to just float forever in that darkness just shows how cruel and vile Weil is. The pure evil that radiated from Weil just makes it that much more satisfying at the end of Megaman Zero 4 where, you as Zero, strike him down, and help push his best friend’s dreams of a world where reploid and humans could co-exist. Weil only appeared in two games, but his presence in the story makes him a magnificent villain and makes the journey to end his plans and save the world even more epic and engaging than I could’ve ever have imagined coming into the Megaman Zero series, and his death at Zero’s hand along with Zero’s apparent death at the end, makes for a very fitting and I daresay, very emotional ending for the Megaman Zero series.
As a complete monster, his vast intelligence, his manipulative nature and desire to just destroy all, makes him my favorite villain from the Megaman franchise.
I’ll go with Sigma because the X series is my favorite.
Well, my favorite MegaMan villain would have to be Bass.EXE, aka the Black Shadow, the Messenger of Darkness, the God of Destruction. You could also say that the Undernet is his domain. He appears as a secret boss in almost every Battle Network game, including Network Transmission, and appears as a playable character in Battle Network 4.5. He is quite the challenge, and if you can beat him, consider yourself a Battle Network Master. He also appeared in the MegaMan NT Warrior TV series and manga and Mattel made an action figure out of him. He is my favorite villain because he is mysterious and he keeps coming back to challenge MegaMan.EXE and reclaim his title as the most powerful NetNavi. Besides, secret bosses are always fun. Bass.EXE is a villain to be feared.
Berkana is my favorite villain because she has a secret “lavatory”.
Im not one for villains but i gotta say a pretty awesome villain with one of the best music themes was virus sigma from mmx2. It took a while to take him down and when you thought you beat him you had to escape lava then get cornered to a seemingly inevitable doom.
I’ve only played the X series and Zero series so far (I’ve seen a bit of Megaman but never played it myself), and I have to say Dr. Weil from the Zero series. It’s more like, I have developed enough anger and bitterness towards him to figure out that he’s a pretty awesome at being an evil bad guy.
He’s the only one who managed to kill Zero, “the strongest reploid”, started the Elf Wars that wiped out a TON of the human and reploid population, and his origin is still a mystery. He’s the only one I know so far from experience that fulfilled his plans on taking over the world. The story in Megaman Zero series drives you to the point that once you face him, you want to unleash all you can in revengence. Not to mention his final boss fight is one of the most epic fights I’ve had to go through. And that is why I love him and fear him.
Not sure if he actually counts considering he’s more of an anti-hero rather than a villain. If so, Bass would be my favorite. His motive is simple; he wants to defeat Megaman and become the strongest robot in the universe. He can be very convincing, such as using deceit to get what he needs done (MM7; he befriended Megaman to gain his trust, which led him to easily steal the Super Adapter blueprints). He has great determination and goes through great lengths, such as using the Evil Energy Capsules in order to take Megaman down (MM8). Although he lost to Megaman once again, he vowed to never give up on trying to defeat him.
Aside from being egotistical and having a bad temper, he has shown some respect for humans since they were the ones that created robots. At one point, he has even shown some sort of concern for King (MM&Bass). Bass is able to think for himself; he possesses an impressive AI in the generation of the Classic Megaman series. Unlike other robots, this allows him to disobey his creator, Dr. Wily, to fulfill his own purposes. Although Megaman and Bass have a difficult time agreeing on things, he knows when to use his common sense (MM&Bass2; he agreed to help Megaman stop the robots because Wily’s Lab was near the city.)
Bass’s design is very creative and his theme is enjoyable to listen to. Another pro is that being more of an anti-hero more than anything allows him to be a playable character, which is a lot of fun.
Mr. X, if for no other reason than sheer audacity. At this point, Wily had both kidnapped a man’s daughter and framed Mega Man’s own brother as covers for his various schemes. Neither plot worked, but Wily thought surely the third time was the charm with the “pretend to be someone else” plot. This time, he came up with the idea of being the real power behind Wily all this time, a pretty weak idea but one that suggests he grew up on just about every 80s cartoon that went more than a few seasons and needed a more intimidating villain.
At the same time, there’s an inherent sadness to Mr. X. Take a look at the disguise, which looks like something he got from the clearance rack at Wal-Mart one week after Halloween. He came up with the whole scheme in order to steal the work of other scientists. It’s pretty clear at this point that five failed plots for world domination had left our man almost destitute. Creditors were probably calling the Skull Fortress every day. This gives another probably reason for the disguise. “Oh, Albert isn’t here. This is, uh, Mr. X.”
Finally, you can’t understate the importance of the character. Even Stevie Wonder saw through the costume beard. Yet the reveal startled Mega Man, and the cunning master stroke by his old partner doubtlessly stuck with Dr. Light for years, to the point that he named his ultimate creation “X”… surely in tribute to his former friend’s greatest ploy.
chill Penguine
My favourite villain is Sigma by default.