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00:00 Mega Man issue 3.
00:02 Wily asks Select Man if he deployed the robots he sent to him.
00:06 And he tells him he did one better and gave himself access to all of the power conduits in this facility to turn the whole power plant electrified.
00:16 This is the problem with Wily still letting the Robot Masters keep their ability to make choices, with the only difference being that they're on his side.
00:25 He had no reason to let them keep any free will if all he wanted to do was attack buildings and people.
00:32 He could have made them like that and made them have to follow his every order, and there'd be no drawback.
00:38 Instead he was lazy when reprogramming them despite having all night, and they're somehow able to choose not to do what he tells them.
00:46 Now logically, Select Man would undo what he did the second he was told off for it because he only did it under the arrogant assumption that Wily would see it as a better plan.
00:56 Which logically it is!
00:58 The only reason Mega Man survives going through an entirely electrified place is metalogic.
01:05 But there's no reason that he would have not deployed the robots too, since they would have distracted Mega Man and made him more likely to touch electricity.
01:15 Mega Man has to climb a ladder that's damaged in a harmless way, and Select Man says that's not good when he sees Mega Man still alive and closer to him.
01:24 Because he's more intimidated of him than I thought.
01:27 I figured all the Robot Masters were programmed to be confident they'd win against him because they're programmed to instinctively fight,
01:35 and if they were able to fear him, they might find the fear too distracting and discouraging.
01:40 Mega Man approaches him while he's still in the video call with Wily, so at least that's a difference from the game, even if it's pointless.
01:48 It ends up being terrible because it's thanks to us seeing the fight just from his perspective that we don't get to see the impact when Cut Man's weapon gets thrown at the robot.
01:59 And instead the screen shows him that the signal was lost.
02:03 I can't believe he screwed this up!
02:06 Shouldn't it be obvious we'd want to see the impact because we don't like him?
02:10 So after yet another fight that ends in one hit because he thinks dialogue is all we read a Mega Man comic for,
02:18 Mega Man brags confidently about the fact that he took him down quickly.
02:23 I like this, so it feels like character development, despite being jawingly out of character, and he sure got to this point fast.
02:31 I assume him being teleported away faster than he expects without a compliment is because Dr. Light is annoyed with him for daring to enjoy himself and be proud that he did a good job,
02:42 which is a shame because despite it being violent, he's still doing good.
02:48 But he naturally doesn't want him to get any worse than this.
02:51 He's warped to a frozen water treatment plant, and he acts confident, making me assume that something's gonna be written to happen just to wreck that.
03:00 And somehow, only Roll notices that he's acting unusual while Dr. Light didn't despite being a genius, so why the hell was he warped away without a word of praise?
03:12 The story clearly shouldn't have had this page.
03:15 We didn't need to be told this like we're too stupid to notice ourselves.
03:20 Mega Man asks what these robots he's defeating are supposed to be, and Lampshade says that Wily should've had no faith in them to stop him.
03:28 He threatens the Ice Climber Robot Master and uses the Thunder Beam against him.
03:33 While everyone would expect Fire Man to be his weakness, it also makes sense that it would be the Thunder Beam because it's hot too.
03:42 It's just completely bonkers that it has only one weakness, and it's not the Fire Worm.
03:47 Thankfully, he does say he's not sure he really wants his new power, but it's only because it didn't do him any good.
03:53 I say thankfully because he's back to being his in-character softy self, not because it's remotely smart of him.
03:59 Again, it's so disappointing that he won one hit.
04:03 There's nothing satisfying about it because we didn't see Ice Man writhe on the floor like he had been electrocuted.
04:10 Why does Clements love this comic with the most rushed boss fights imaginable?
04:15 Who would want them to be like this?
04:18 I can understand ending the fight quickly because just seeing him shoot electricity in the Mecha Buster would be boring with almost no catharsis.
04:25 So I'm not asking for most of the fights to last the same amount of hits as in the game,
04:30 when it's obviously more enjoyable to see fights with punches or blunt objects hitting the opponent.
04:37 But not even four hits is ridiculous!
04:40 He gets warped away, and for some reason he looks at his hand looking sad, and he tells Dr. Light that he gets it that he wants him to hurry up and finish this, even though he didn't say anything.
04:51 So I assume his silence is why.
04:54 But he also looked at his hand like that was the problem.
04:58 While I understand why his family would find his confident dialogue annoying like I do,
05:03 he's making himself able to deal with this stressful situation by saying it.
05:08 Whatever he needs to do to be able to get through this.
05:12 Clearly know that fire can melt him and heat can touch him, because no one could be that stupid.
05:20 So this establishes that he's knowingly lying to himself to feel better, or the writing is completely forced, and it's crossing the line at this point.
05:29 He gets faced with Fire Man, and it's unusually smart of a hero in a Flint story to interrupt him by freezing him.
05:36 Why did Dr. Light give him a southern accent on a whim? Why only him?
05:41 So there's yet another fight where he beats the Robot Master in one hit.
05:46 It's like when Perfect Chaos was taken out in one hit in Sonic X.
05:51 Wasn't this supposed to be an action franchise?
05:54 This is reminding me of what Roger said Worlds Collide was written like in Sonic Dissected,
05:59 where it's like a conveyor belt moving Robot Masters to Mega Man, and he just fires at them and beats them.
06:04 And other than the fact that he's not literally getting to fight the next one a second after the first,
06:09 that's shockingly accurate because he beats them all in one hit.
06:13 But that is all the fluts are.
06:15 Especially when you consider that nothing plot-wise happens in the levels themselves, where barely anything happens.
06:21 He just runs through them and shoots without a challenge.
06:24 He shoots him with his Mega Buster after this, and it's written to call him nothing compared to him.
06:30 Which is true. Still, it's a strange direction to take with this character,
06:35 and I assume he's only allowed to do it because it's an adaptation of the first game.
06:39 So he's given leeway to have him get overconfident so he can learn a lesson as long as he never does that again.
06:45 But he was still acting overconfident in Worlds Collide anyways.
06:49 It's obvious that Mega Man would never say this.
06:53 I can buy him getting too confident to an extent because he was having a pathetically easy time on his first adventure.
06:59 Considering that the comic didn't do quite enough to show off the experience of going through the levels,
07:04 like the fact that he spent a lot of his time avoiding spikes and being scared of them.
07:08 Not to mention I don't quite remember him jumping over any bottomless pits.
07:13 Then he ends up trapped, and Dr. Light fires some arm cannon on his wrist.
07:18 That he was smart enough to make.
07:20 And naturally Mega Man says "I fought for everyone and you treat me like this?"
07:25 Both sides are totally understandable here.
07:28 So while it is a shocking moment for Dr. Light, it's not getting me mad at him.
07:33 He uses all of his powers in a row in a failed attempt to get out.
07:37 And then he feels bad and doesn't get a chance to apologize before Roll runs away upset.
07:43 He tells Dr. Light to take these weapons away from him and calls himself as evil as Wily,
07:48 which is forced because obviously he doesn't want to take over the world and get Robot Masters to attack and take over buildings.
07:55 But it would make sense if he said evil like Wily.
07:58 Finally Dr. Light says he isn't evil in this needlessly sad part of the story,
08:04 and he takes off his helmet and comforts him with his hand.
08:08 He wastes time with really boring dialogue that doesn't go anywhere,
08:12 until he finally says he's helping him because he doesn't want to lose him.
08:16 He tells him that a childish tantrum is hardly evil. I disagree.
08:21 What Wily did could also qualify as that.
08:24 He tells him with his hand on his shoulder that he still needs his weapons for now,
08:28 and he gives him a beam he can't hurt things with.
08:31 It's a better way for him to get it than the game had.
08:34 He thanks him and apologizes and they hug,
08:37 and he pressures him into apologizing to Roll, who says she won't clean up after him if he temper tantrums.
08:43 But she has no reason to think he would.
08:46 He had every reason to get mad for being trapped by his own father after a single hour at best of him being confident.
08:53 Most people would have been mad.
08:55 And he's like not even a year old, I think.
08:59 Roll complains that she'll have to get rid of the whole tile and make him more damaged,
09:03 and he's told not to help because Dr. Light needs to go over his download data and tune him up.
09:08 He says Mega Man copied a lot of movement records too,
09:12 which somehow comes as a surprise to the one who made the copy chip.
09:17 It was somehow something that could happen when it was only made to copy their weapon data.
09:23 This could have worked if Mega Man also copied their memories, but no.
09:27 Roll makes noise and says sorry,
09:29 and Dr. Light reveals that with this data he's found where Wily is hiding,
09:33 in the factory Dr. Light used to build Mega Man and the Robot Masters.
09:37 I never had the impression it was built in a factory.
09:40 I thought it was made right there in his house,
09:42 because he was stupid enough to put his Robot Masters in his house.
09:46 But whatever.
09:47 He asks if he can just teleport there.
09:49 Why is he even asking?
09:51 Wouldn't he assume he could because he was teleported to everywhere else?
09:55 Dr. Light says he can't warp him right to Wily because he's put a scrambling field up,
10:00 because he wants to protect himself from Mega Man doing that.
10:03 And he didn't bother doing that for most of the other areas the Robot Masters were at,
10:08 because when it came to them, he wasn't at risk of being arrested or worse if he didn't use the field.
10:13 And besides, he didn't know Mega Man was a threat yet.
10:16 All putting a scrambling field up near the other places would do is make Mega Man take longer,
10:21 because he'd have to walk out of the area.
10:23 But if he had done that,
10:25 the extra time he'd have from Mega Man having to manually exit every area,
10:29 would make him able to send the fixed Robot Masters to the other ones for a better chance against Mega Man.
10:35 Since Mega Man asks this,
10:37 I'm wondering why Dr. Light didn't warp Mega Man directly to the Robot Master every time.
10:42 If he can know where they are, he can track them down.
10:46 But I have to assume he only knows the general area they're in,
10:50 rather than it being like the Emerald Raider.
10:52 He can't narrow their signal down that much.
10:55 It's just confusing to me,
10:57 because this is the future, so you'd think he could.
11:00 Roll hugs Mega Man and tells him to be careful because she has almost no faith in him.
11:05 He reassures her and gets told he was fixed and thanks him.
11:09 He gets warped to just outside of the Wily Fortress and picks up right from where he left off.
11:15 And a page is wasted on Wily's boring, worthless dialogue.
11:19 Mega Man issue 4.
11:21 After a page wasted on recap,
11:23 Mega Man threatens the Yellow Devil with a Thunder Beam to his weak spot,
11:27 and then the writing gets stupid because he lamely decides not to just because he's scared,
11:32 but because he's naturally furious that his father trapped him.
11:36 So he decides to handicap himself fighting with the Mega Buster
11:40 because of the symbolism that's him beating it with the thing Dr. Light gave him in the first place,
11:44 even though his life and the fate of the entire world is at stake.
11:47 It's frustrating that at a time like this,
11:49 he's only acting this way because Dr. Light did something
11:52 because the writer forced Mega Man to act out a character.
11:55 He assumes because Dr. Light isn't giving him advice,
11:58 that's because Wily is blocking his signal.
12:01 And he's doing this because he never had the sense to know that talking would distract him before.
12:04 He shoots the Yellow Devil and once again defeats it in just one hit.
12:09 That shows a lot of tension over that.
12:12 He takes the teleport tube and gets threatened by multiple Robot Masters at once.
12:17 It was such an easy concept to come up with that I did issues ago and I don't write for a living,
12:23 so I always knew Flynn would do this.
12:25 But I never thought it'd happen so soon.
12:27 I thought it would wait until a later game adaptation first,
12:30 but I'm grateful because it means he's getting the boss rush done faster.
12:34 A page is wasted on boring dialogue you'd expect to happen,
12:38 and Mega Man grabs the Lek Man and is somehow allowed by the Robot Masters to try to reason with them.
12:44 Anybody would know this would never happen.
12:47 If you played the game and just stayed still in front of any of them,
12:50 they'd be attacking your character non-stop.
12:53 He tells them they're not doing what Dr. Light meant for them to do.
12:56 They'd know that.
12:58 And obviously the reprogramming would have them not care about that,
13:01 or they wouldn't have been working for him in the first place.
13:04 They'd have just instantly thought about Mega Man's point here.
13:07 He advises them to come back with him so that Dr. Light can fix their programming,
13:11 when obviously Wily wouldn't want that.
13:13 Naturally, a Lek Man points out that they can't go against Wily's programming.
13:18 It's weird that even though Flynn knew to have a character say this,
13:21 he didn't know it was supposed to be true.
13:24 Mega Man says he wasn't programmed to fight, but started doing it anyways because he was programmed to help.
13:30 He has a genius line on the surface where he tells them that if they let Dr. Light reprogram them,
13:35 they could help make a world even Wily wouldn't refuse.
13:38 Even though it would be obvious to everyone Wily would refuse it,
13:41 because it wouldn't be a world run by him.
13:44 He clearly already refused the idea Mega Man's putting out there,
13:47 and that's why he tried to take over the world instead of staying as Dr. Light's partner.
13:51 I know these guys are really new to the world, but you'd think it'd only take a second of remembering what Wily did
13:56 to realize that he wouldn't want them to be reprogrammed by Dr. Light,
14:00 because then they wouldn't be trying to kill Mega Man for him or anything.
14:03 When they're reprogrammed to obey him.
14:06 Mega Man's lucky he even thought to say this.
14:08 But even this was forced.
14:10 Cut Man likes the idea because he's always been stupid,
14:13 which is why he made lame puns thinking it was cool because it was a fight,
14:16 and that's why he doesn't realize that Wily did refuse the kind of world he's talking about.
14:21 Guts Man refuses to humor Mega Man because he wants to defeat him to become stronger,
14:26 even though he'd know that wouldn't add to his strength.
14:29 Which would only make sense if he thought defeating him would get him and the others copy chips.
14:34 Why is Elect Man apologizing to Mega Man for not wanting to help him
14:38 when Wily clearly wouldn't want that either?
14:41 Fire Man tackles Elect Man because of forced writing that ignores that he'd be too reprogrammed by Wily
14:47 to ever do this obvious portrayal of Wily.
14:50 Ice Man says Mega Man embarrassed him earlier,
14:52 and Bomb Man somehow wants to fight the other Robot Masters for fun,
14:56 even though he'd know Wily wouldn't want that.
14:58 Once again we have something that isn't in the games be so bad that the creativity isn't worth it.
15:04 Considering how quickly they're dealt with,
15:06 what was even the point of writing Wily to revive them if he wasn't going to have to fight a boss rush?
15:11 Would've been more realistic if he didn't because he wouldn't have had the time.
15:15 What was creative to have them fight each other so that Mega Man wouldn't have to?
15:19 It's unacceptable that we don't get to see the annoying ones get hit for the most part.
15:24 And instead Mega Man climbs down a ladder to escape and sees spikes blow him.
15:28 He uses the Magnet Beings to make a platform,
15:31 I guess with solid air force fields.
15:33 And eventually a copy of him gets made.
15:36 There's no reason Mega Man would think his copy by Wily would be nice.
15:40 It's a nice surprise that Copy doesn't talk here.
15:43 It keeps the pacing fast.
15:45 They both use the same weapons every time,
15:48 which is a miracle.
15:50 They're not literally thinking on the same wavelength
15:53 because one works for Wily so his personality is completely different.
15:57 So what are the chances of this?
15:59 It's boring because I never see any of the hits impact.
16:03 You could've cut out the whole page and missed nothing.
16:06 Then it gets creative as there's an explosion sending rubble out of the wall
16:10 and Lek Man wastes time reminding his buddies that they have to destroy a Mega Man.
16:14 So they destroy Copy.
16:16 But somehow, they knew the whole time that it wasn't Mega Man
16:20 and still did it with even Lek Man being happy about it.
16:23 When it's obvious that Wily didn't want this one destroyed.
16:27 Copy clearly isn't Mega Man.
16:30 At least it's smart of them to instantly know he was Copy because of his red eyes.
16:34 Cotman tells Mega Man why they won't come with him to Wily.
16:38 Their programming prevents them from directly opposing him.
16:41 It's baffling that the writer could think to have him say this
16:44 and yet not realize that destroying Copy is opposing Wily.
16:48 The writer would obviously be better if it kept it simple
16:51 and had them only destroy the wrong Mega Man by accident like I expected
16:55 and had all of them stay loyal to him the whole time.
16:58 Fire Man tells him they're out of ammunition as well after their fight with each other
17:03 where I'd every reason to assume that they would have destroyed each other
17:06 or at least knocked each other out.
17:08 Meaning that they never would have defeated Copy in the first place.
17:11 If Copy only comes back and worlds collide
17:14 then it's a bit lame that he never talked until then
17:17 because they got literally nothing out of him here.
17:19 Why didn't he talk here if he was able to talk there?
17:22 Why didn't Wily think he should talk here?
17:25 So Mega Man shakes Elect Man's hand
17:27 which he also wouldn't do for Mega Man because that opposed Wily as well.
17:31 And then Wily plans to defeat Mega Man in a giant mecha that chases him.
17:35 As time is wasted with nothing happening
17:37 he rationalizes the way that he didn't steal him earlier because he wasn't a warrior
17:41 just a janitor.
17:43 Even though he could have used the janitor to clean up after him to spare him the effort.
17:47 Not to mention he could have obviously made him a warrior since Dr. Light did.
17:51 So it hits explaining that this is just a bad thing
17:54 because it only makes it clear that him not reprogramming him was forced.
17:57 To anyone who knows why we have janitors clean for us.
18:00 At the very least.
18:02 Mega Man attacks his mecha saying the boring predictable stuff stating the obvious.
18:06 Making it obvious why it's better that the game doesn't have him chattering in boss battles.
18:11 As this adds nothing.
18:13 Finally runs out of ammo.
18:15 Wily says his mecha can fly
18:17 and of course Mega Man shoots at it to make it so damaged that it's burning and unstable.
18:22 So Mega Man tells him it's not safe in there and pulls him out idiotically.
18:26 Which is at least justified by the logic of the facts that Dr. Light made him.
18:30 So he doesn't have the free will to not try to save someone.
18:34 And as Wily said he can't even hurt him.
18:37 It's so frustrating to see him save him despite knowing it was coming.
18:41 Especially since the needlessly dark X series only happens because of Wily surviving too long.
18:46 I wish it was just another dimension.
18:49 He tells the lazily drawn Robot Masters to destroy Mega Man.
18:53 And there's forced writing where they insist that they did do that.
18:56 And that copy is a perfect copy somehow.
18:59 And somehow Wily says yes when he'd know right away it's not.
19:03 Because copy was made to kill him and serve Wily.
19:06 It'd only take until the next line for Wily to successfully convince the Robot Masters
19:10 that they're supposed to defeat the other guy and go on to try to do so.
19:15 But somehow in the next page they're all standing beside him like they're friends for no reason
19:19 after panels were wasted with Mega Man saying what you'd expect of Dr. Light.
19:23 This would be like if Tails made an identical Robot Sonic and had Metal Sonic destroy it.
19:30 And then Metal Sonic stopped trying to kill Sonic forever.
19:34 Rule gets observed from behind a window by Oil Man who snarkily comments on her.
19:39 It ends with Time Man and Oil Man planning to help Wily because he just activated them.
19:44 Apparently he was smart enough to anticipate that he should only activate some of the Robot Masters at first
19:49 and leave the other two as a way to get out of being arrested.
19:52 Even though he had no reason to think his plan would fail the first time
19:56 because he didn't know Dr. Light would break his pacifism and let Mega Man fight him.
20:00 And he'd know no cop would try to storm his fortress either.
20:04 So he would have activated them earlier.
20:08 This issue where the last few Robot Masters are one shot at two
20:12 was about Mega Man getting confident to a jarring blatantly out of character extent
20:17 because the writer somehow wants Dr. Light to trap him for it.
20:21 So that was needlessly dark and it's more of Capcom giving him way too much leeway at the wrong times.
20:27 But I forgive it because I think I remember hearing that everyone else hated this too.
20:31 This could have easily been fine.
20:34 Him being confident should be believable since he had an easy time and this is his first adventure.
20:40 But either way Flunover did it making him call himself unstoppable.
20:44 And there's no way to just insult the robots he's shooting and seem evil.
20:49 Since I hated issues 40 and 197 of Archie Sonic
20:53 you might have expected me to get furious with Dr. Light for being shockingly quick
20:57 to trap him like he's evil after three levels where he was confident.
21:02 But Mega Man was being annoying and intimidating and needed discipline
21:06 and I know Dr. Light was getting reminded of Proto Man.
21:09 So it was believable instead of Force this time.
21:12 And they make up right away with no hard feelings.
21:15 It's not like the whole issue had him trapped.
21:18 So I'll forgive Dr. Light.
21:20 The only thing Force was Mega Man.
21:22 At least Rufus gave and made up with him the second he apologized to her.
21:26 Well it could have easily had her take a couple of issues in the name of being realistic.
21:30 And that would cross the line even more when it was already needlessly sad.
21:34 You'd think I'd say the story was about him beating Robot Masters but that'd be lying
21:39 as he beats them all in one hit like they're an afterthought.
21:42 Which is realistic for most of them but is unacceptable with Elect Man.
21:46 It could have been nice and cathartic to see him send a bunch of Cut Man's weapons at him
21:50 without seeing the impact because it'd be a solid object hitting him.
21:55 Normally I prefer a boring fight ending right away if it makes more sense that way
21:59 over a boring fight being dragged out inexplicably.
22:02 But these are boss fights!
22:04 Once again the only things that happened that weren't in the game were not enjoyable or worth it.
22:10 Where I can only compliment that him getting that beam from Dr. Light directly is easier to understand than the game.
22:16 And even then I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case in Mega Man Powered Up 2.
22:21 This writing was a disaster.
22:24 With the Robot Masters somehow letting Mega Man try to reason with them
22:28 instead of mindlessly trying to kill him the entire time.
22:31 Which they should have been shown as trying to do during that speech to make things look exciting and interesting.
22:37 And they somehow decided to fight each other.
22:40 And then after they somehow survived,
22:43 they broke down a wall and destroyed Copy when it's obvious that's not what Wily would want.
22:48 Even though the story adds one of them say two times that they have to serve Wily and were reprogrammed to,
22:55 they somehow betray him anyways.
22:57 Even a child could tell you it's impossible for them to decide to act like this.
23:02 I'd be lying if I said I didn't appreciate whenever it wasn't just like the game.
23:06 But that's only because I already know how the story of the game is.
23:10 I won't be fooled into thinking the new content is good just because it exists when it could've not.
23:16 But at least the forced writing happens because he's trying to be creative.
23:20 So this is like Bad Penders instead of the usual Flynn writing with no new ideas.
23:25 Also, Copy was boringly silent.
23:28 Pretty lame for an Evil Twins introduction.
23:31 It doesn't make any sense.
23:33 But it's good for making his lazy, predictable fight get read through at lightning speed.
23:38 As all he did was mimic his weapon without ever getting hit by Mega Man.
23:42 Miraculously changing to the exact same weapon he did every time conveniently.
23:47 Until he was killed in one shot.
23:49 At least that wasn't true for the Wily mecha.
23:52 Even if it still got defeated too fast.
23:54 fast.
23:55 (upbeat music)