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00:00 Mega Man Issue 7.
00:02 Mega Man eventually starts shooting at the bubble surrounding the machine facing him.
00:07 Eventually, Ice Man is told to freeze some bombs above him.
00:11 As I wonder how his ice powers are even possible without magic,
00:15 Cat Man throws stuff at the machine to destroy it.
00:19 Having a character lampshade terrible puns doesn't make it okay when this isn't an early Archie comic.
00:25 And I don't even just mean early Archie Sonic.
00:28 I mean Archie itself. At least that's justified because it's a comedy.
00:33 I like that Mega Man finally explains that the machine used to purify the water here.
00:38 And he knows this because of its model number.
00:41 Because apparently, Dr. Light made every robot of his have a perfect memory.
00:46 Mega Man sees a light and says he's found a way out of here.
00:50 So they all stand on it and they find out they're right back where they started.
00:54 Somehow, Ice Man thinks that's good even though Roll wasn't rescued yet.
01:00 So this really was a waste of time which was always predictable because it wasn't Wily's facility.
01:05 But at least their journey was good enough to be worth seeing.
01:08 So I won't call this padding.
01:10 A surviving robot sees them and Wily says finally because he just witnessed that through the robot's eyes.
01:17 Why did he think Mega Man would ever have a chance of figuring out where he was based on his note?
01:24 Why would he have a clue about where he is in the note when he could always send robots to him?
01:30 So he doesn't need to hope he comes to him to try to kill him.
01:34 And Roll's in a dark cell instead of being taken advantage of as a servant because he's an idiot.
01:39 If she was being supervised and was in places where she couldn't sabotage anything...
01:45 It wouldn't be risky to make her clean up.
01:48 Why does he think they'll ever come to rescue her if they don't know where she is?
01:53 Elec Man sets up the work lights for the evening downtown.
01:57 And Mega Man goes over to him and eventually Agent Krantz offers to help.
02:03 Which should have happened right after Mega Man went up to Elec Man.
02:06 She says that Dr. Light called the lab to ask her to look into things when he didn't answer.
02:11 So she found the kidnapper's note and came here to see if the Robot Masters knew anything.
02:17 It sure is convenient that Mega Man didn't bring the kidnapper's note with him which you'd think he would do.
02:25 She would have come here to check on the Robot Masters because she couldn't find Mega Man.
02:29 So she would have come here eventually.
02:32 For no reason, Cut Man asks if she's really human.
02:36 She asks Mega Man to tell her what he's found, using his cell signal to talk to Stern.
02:42 And surprisingly, Dr. Light's in Stern's office instead of his cell.
02:46 So that's nice if uncharacteristic and forced considering that he doesn't trust them.
02:51 And Stern even lampshades that he could be in his cell right now.
02:55 He asks if his kids are alright and they get exposition we already knew for a while.
02:59 Despite his partner confirming that Roll was kidnapped by Oil Man...
03:03 Stern's still skeptical when he hears the words "Time Manipulation".
03:07 And he's insulting of Dr. Light for thinking of Roll as his daughter because the writer is trying unnecessarily hard to make him unlikable.
03:15 It doesn't need to be written that he says this and thinks robots aren't people.
03:19 We could have a different character talk like this to better establish that this can be a common attitude.
03:25 But instead, because he's such an antagonist, it comes off as just him.
03:30 So there's not much of a point.
03:32 Dr. Light says the robots were last tested in a workshop that's been retired conveniently, just so that Wily could escape there.
03:39 So he assumes he's most likely hiding there.
03:42 It turns out the agent's name is Rosie, so I'll call her that instead.
03:47 There's a text box referring to a vehicle, and Guts Man complains that they should have just teleported to Wily's facility.
03:55 But Fire Man says Wily would be anticipating that.
03:58 So showing up in a vehicle adds the element of surprise, even though that's the only reason a vehicle would come here.
04:05 And of course, it's the only way Rosie could come along with them.
04:08 And Luck Man tells Meg Man they should all give him all of their powers again, because they don't know what they'll have to deal with later.
04:15 Then they should have suggested this before going through Wily's fortress.
04:19 Meg Man stupidly complains that he doesn't want that kind of power again,
04:24 even though 1) the Mega Buster is lethal too, and the agent refusing to wear his armor.
04:30 And 2) having all of these powers wasn't the problem, it was having the ability to one-shot every robot, which is the case with the Mega Buster too.
04:39 He always uses one power against the robot.
04:43 Cut Man asks who's power he'll use first, and Guts Man hopes he'll use his.
04:48 It makes sense that some of them would be that petty.
04:51 So I like seeing that.
04:53 There's an oil painting of a skull in the facility, which is stupid because it makes it obvious that Wily's hiding here.
04:59 So I have to assume there aren't any roads close to it that anybody could drive past.
05:04 And it's in such an out-of-the-way place that he thinks nobody taking a jog is gonna go by here.
05:10 So that way it makes sense that Oil Man thought it'd be fine to make it obvious from the outside what this place is.
05:16 Google Maps could have seen this thing.
05:19 Rosie gives them some smart advice that they're willing to humor her on.
05:23 Of course her name is uncreated since this is a Sonic writer, but I still appreciate the reference over a boring normal name.
05:30 And if you're gonna go with a special name, I'd rather have one that sounds good.
05:34 So I guess this is alright.
05:36 Even if it's almost as hard to believe as an agent like her having a hair color like that.
05:43 Time Man isn't seen by them.
05:45 Ice Man addresses Fire Man and wonders why he isn't responding, which reveals that Time Man's so overpowered he can focus his time freezing on very specific things and people.
05:55 Oil Man grabs Cotton Ice Man as they wonder why the hell Time Man didn't simply freeze time in general since it worked for him before and he has no reason to give the heroes a fighting chance.
06:06 I have to assume he's keeping Time on Frozen for sadism so that he can see their scared reactions to him every time.
06:12 But I don't know why Wily would care enough to make a robot sadistic when they're already programmed to want to do whatever he'd want them to so he has nothing to gain in making them enjoy it and risk them hurting each other because they're sadistic, which isn't worth making them like that just to have something in common with Wily.
06:29 He could have them be programmed to always be happy with their lot in life in general.
06:33 Faze not being like that makes Wily look stupid. He frees his Guts Man in time too as I think Faze just wasting his energy by using his power multiple times since we aren't told that it costs more energy to freeze time in general.
06:48 It could have been that he doesn't freeze time throughout the entire universe and instead just freezes time in a small area.
06:55 The heroes notice that some of their friends aren't behind them anymore.
06:59 An Elect Man decides to go one way with Bomb Man while Mega Man protects the human.
07:04 That way the person picking them off one by one will have to choose which team to focus on, but it'd only take him a second to freeze one team and then he'd go after the other.
07:12 Him catching up with the other team would take him a while, which is the only benefit to this plan, but it's probably delaying the inevitable anyways.
07:20 I like that the heroes are whispering because it's supposed to be a covert ambush, but it's forced every time they don't whisper.
07:26 Speaking of forced, Mega Man wouldn't think the human doesn't need his protection just because she has a little gun when that's nothing compared to a Mega Buster and he's got armor to protect him and not her.
07:38 It's a bit of a creator's pet moment.
07:41 Out of complete nowhere, it turns out Elect Man's charged body disrupts Time Man's chaos control.
07:47 That's laughably forced.
07:49 If you're going to establish that, just go all the way and have him be immune.
07:53 Instead, Elect Man still slowed down, just not as much.
07:57 It never got shown off that he had super speed in every way to the point where he would be able to move so fast that he could come off like he's got a resistance.
08:05 And I can't even call it a dad sex mocking entirely because while it does come out of nowhere, Oil Man jumps on him anyways.
08:12 What about him being about electricity would make him resistant to Time Man affecting the chronotrons around him?
08:19 Is this supposed to be based on quantum physics?
08:21 Is the thing that's charged with electrons really supposed to be able to make the slowing down of time not be so bad for no reason?
08:28 I can only imagine that's why it was written, but this isn't Rick and Morty where the writing could be smart.
08:33 So I doubt that.
08:35 Then Mega Man sees Roll Restrained in front of Wily, who's standing precariously on a big machine's dome, which has no apparent safe way for him to get down.
08:45 Is it realistic that this federal agent would do nothing but tell him to put his hands behind his head instead of simply shooting him?
08:52 It's obvious to anybody that he wouldn't comply, so it should not be a complete idiot to actually expect that.
08:57 I understand being reluctant to shoot someone, but a cop has to be trained to ignore how he feels about that if he wants to survive.
09:05 And this is an outright federal agent in front of someone dangerous.
09:09 Does she have a license to kill?
09:11 At least it can be believable that she didn't feel like shooting him.
09:14 But someone in her position should know better.
09:17 Instead, after he sends robots to attack her, she STILL doesn't shoot him when a cop would shoot someone dangerous, regardless of what Mega Man would think of them.
09:26 Yeah, it breaks the story having her have a gun here.
09:29 At least have her use up all of the bullets first.
09:32 I won't say that's too convenient. It happens in real life too.
09:36 The idiots waste time stating the obvious, and Oil Man shows he's able to move around with the oil.
09:42 Time Man says they've run out of time and throws his arrow at her.
09:46 And because it was apparently too sadistic to simply freeze time in the whole building to make this fight effortless, Mega Man's able to save her.
09:54 Why only wanted to let him freeze time the whole fight anyways, because then he wouldn't have been able to witness what happened to them first hand.
10:01 Well, he could've had Time Man show him what happened later because his eyes are cameras and he's a robot.
10:07 But I guess he thinks that wouldn't be the same or he was too stupid to think this.
10:10 I have to assume he did think it'd be satisfying to simply have Time Man do what he did in his first appearance, except treat his enemies like that door.
10:18 Because they wouldn't see it when it was happening, and they'd be unaware of what was happening.
10:22 And that's not mentioning the fact that he couldn't be written to kill them off the easy way because it's a kids comic.
10:28 So they couldn't have the heroes killed off and then switched to showing us a parallel universe.
10:33 So while it is annoying that the villains are only gonna lose because they didn't do the obvious smarter tactic,
10:38 I can forgive it because it might not be forced.
10:41 But it still feels forced because Wily isn't written to explain that having Time Man freeze all of time and throw exploding arrows at them all would be too underwhelmingly easy a victory for his liking.
10:53 He only had one adventure where he had to deal with Mega Man so far.
10:57 So this is pretty early for him to be thinking that he'd only be satisfied with the victory against him that took a little while.
11:03 That aside, I still can't enjoy this fight scene because it's too forced to be taken seriously,
11:09 as there's no reason Mega Man would have the time to say all of this dialogue to Rosie where he tells her to save Roll.
11:17 Neither of the two bad guys were doing anything.
11:20 Oil Man gets given an order just to say he wants a turn with Mega Man, and ends up knocking aside Time Man.
11:27 For some reason, Wily isn't complaining, so apparently he doesn't care why the Roll gets rescued.
11:32 Because he just wants Mega Man stopped in a satisfying way.
11:35 Mega Man shoots Oil and Time Man once, and Oil Man says he used his power against him without copying it because Mega Man was apparently sliding on the Oil.
11:44 Oil Man does nothing when it could be shot again any second, and Time Man also does nothing because he's more interested in hearing what he has to say than trying to get Mega Man defeated.
11:55 Mega Man reassures them that Dr. Light could fix them like the other Robot Masters.
12:00 Somehow he went from smirking and pointing his Mega Buster at them to doing this, even though they could go back to fighting him any second.
12:08 Catman's weapon gets thrown at his head, not that we see the impact anyways.
12:13 And the story ends with them learning already that Dr. Wily was able to reprogram all of the Robot Masters on his side.
12:20 I guess they fired a reprogramming beam to hit all of them at once,
12:24 because there was barely any time in between the last one of them getting frozen in time and Mega Man seeing Wily again.
12:30 Mega Man issue 8.
12:32 How is Mega Man stupid enough to ask why the Robot Masters turned on him?
12:36 There's no reason to waste the audience's time with the next page in general.
12:40 Roll feels bad about her kidnapping putting them through all of this, and after Mega Man refuses to surrender,
12:46 it's obvious that there's no reason he'd have the time to tell Rosie his plan.
12:50 He'd just get attacked.
12:52 There's no reason for him to explain such a simple plan, let alone in so many words.
12:57 It'd be believable if all he did was tell her "save Roll" and then push her out of the way of a shot.
13:03 I can't believe this dialogue is still going.
13:06 It's impossible for me to take this seriously.
13:09 If Wily's sadistic, he won't have the patience for stating the obvious.
13:13 He has the sense to doubt that he has a chance against all of them at once.
13:17 Time and lampshade is that they're wasting time, so really, why weren't they dodging attacks the whole time?
13:23 This is only something that'd happen in a kids' series.
13:27 Somehow, there's another panel where the talking's a free action.
13:31 He thanks Rosie, and Mega Man phrases the feat of two robots because he somehow had the time to switch to that power.
13:38 Why couldn't this have been the first page?
13:41 At least there's some logic, because Fire Man melts the ice instantly, but it just makes Mega Man look like a complete idiot for trying that power of all things.
13:50 Why is Oil Man even bothering? The oil doesn't hurt.
13:53 And he just found out last issue that he can slide on it to shoot at multiple targets in the span of seconds.
13:59 Mega Man gets pushed into threatening to burn off all of his parts.
14:03 It's a smart plan, but it's not like him in this comic to say that.
14:07 I thought after he got taught a lesson, he was over this.
14:10 Time Man freezes Mega Man, and for no reason, Wily isn't willing to tell him to unfreeze him right now because he thinks it'd be too underwhelming if he threw an explosive at him when he can't feel it or dodge.
14:21 I have to assume they just didn't get the chance.
14:23 Instead, he says "impossible" because Mega Man dodges, and Luck Man says that his static field ruins his power, and he'll continue to do so for the rest of the fight.
14:32 So absolute bullshit happens because the Robot Masters aren't reprogrammed after all, somehow.
14:38 So why did they take so long to reveal this?
14:41 Why didn't we see the fist connect with Time Man?
14:44 There's never any excuse for this when they're robots.
14:48 Why was Gus Man able to know this obscure phrase when Mega Man doesn't?
14:52 Dr. Light made sure they were tamper-proofed.
14:55 I have to assume this means he has coding that regularly scans all of their coding for any evidence of programming that only Wily would put in them, so that it'd be automatically deleted by the program.
15:06 I wish this is how it was explained, because it's not really enough to make it believable that they're called "tamper-proof."
15:13 It comes off like a Deus Ex Machina if it's made a surprise.
15:17 So it's infuriating at first.
15:19 But it had to be written because Mega Man had no chance against Time Man.
15:24 I'm still waiting for Wily to tell off Time Man.
15:27 If he wanted him to try to do that, he would've told him to do that himself a little earlier.
15:32 Gus Man accuses Time Man of being easily scared for being intelligent enough to use his powers.
15:38 Good, he does say he's being pragmatic.
15:41 He says he can still freeze him at short range.
15:44 Huh?
15:45 He gets hit by a sharp object, but again, we don't see its impact with him.
15:50 This is worth criticizing every time in a comic that's an action series with almost no new ideas.
15:56 I like that Cut Man gets told he's not funny.
15:59 Oil Man has to flee from the other Robot Masters because for no reason Wily didn't give him a way to actually attack.
16:06 And he actually says "Word."
16:09 And earlier he said "Check it."
16:11 I can't understand why it was considered acceptable to have him be written to talk like this just because of his dark design,
16:17 considering how sensitive people are in the modern day about this.
16:21 It makes Dr. Light or Wily look insensitive for programming him to talk like that.
16:25 Rosie shoots a chain and the gun of a regular old federal agent that does nothing but create a little star-shaped explosion is conveniently able to destroy a chain.
16:36 I guess it being in the future is supposed to have this make sense.
16:40 I couldn't take it seriously at first.
16:42 It just looks like the writer wrote himself into a corner because she's chained up instead of tied up.
16:48 If Bonnie has super strength because she's got cyborg robot arms and legs,
16:54 then wouldn't the same logic apply to Roll because she's got robot parts all over her?
17:00 Shouldn't Roll have super strength, which could let her escape?
17:04 A device from the ceiling aims at them, and Rosie saves Roll from lasers.
17:09 I have to assume she shot the chain instantly in the previous panel.
17:13 But still, the laser shooter should have been activated earlier than this.
17:17 She shoots at the device, and somehow Time Man wastes time instead of throwing an explosive at Mega Man when he's surrounded by enemies.
17:25 So that idiot ball gives Elect Man the time to fire electricity at a guy who is too stupid to freeze time in general to effortlessly win the fight.
17:33 He did mention that he can only recharge his Time Stop powers so fast when told off for taking too long.
17:39 So I have to assume that not having enough power is why he didn't freeze all of time.
17:44 Why doesn't he spend a bunch of time running away from the robots to recharge enough power to do that?
17:49 He's just stuck thinking that all he wants to do is defeat Mega Man instead.
17:54 And Wily doesn't tell him to do this plan because idiot ball will make his head on fire,
17:59 which you'd think would get him damaged beyond repair as he'd explode.
18:03 Mega Man and Roll have their arms out in front of each other, so there's no reason they wouldn't be hugging in the next panel.
18:09 There's an explosion, and Roll tells Mega Man to stop Wily while his friends are busy.
18:15 He tells her to stay back where it's safe, and an explosion hits the side of the dome Wily's standing on as he doesn't look scared despite the dome tipping over.
18:23 Somehow he keeps standing on it just fine instead of sliding off.
18:28 This makes me assume he's just a hologram.
18:31 He tells the Robot Masters they're remarkable.
18:34 It's weird that he would be written to be nice to his enemies when that's not like him.
18:39 And Rosie tells Mega Man it's no use and realizes he really is a hologram.
18:44 I like that she figured it out before trying this,
18:48 but it makes all of them look like idiots for not figuring it out themselves when it was obvious.
18:54 Wily says he was long gone before they got here, and a machine flies over a tree and Wily's piloting it.
19:01 Mega Man hits what the hologram was standing on, and Rosie smartly tells him to stop because they need that as evidence to clear Dr. Light's name.
19:11 Guts Man calls Wily a coward, which isn't fair when anybody would be scared of getting arrested.
19:17 I assume the hologram had camera sensors recording all of the fight.
19:21 This means Wily really does think he'd be satisfied with seeing his victory by watching footage of it after it happened.
19:28 And I have to assume the reason he didn't tell off Time Man for trying to throw an explosive at the frozen Mega Man because it'd be too easy is that he assumed he'd fail.
19:37 Actually, he didn't tell him to do this right away because it'd be underwhelming, and he was okay with it because he thought the fight had gone on long enough.
19:44 Then why doesn't he put a bomb where he knows Mega Man's gonna be that'd be strong enough that when he remotely sets it off, it destroys everything in the room, when waiting would make him find what's doing that?
19:54 He thinks that's too easy because it's an explosion, but didn't have Bomb Man destroyed when he didn't need his help.
20:00 So he thinks that's too easy because it's unavoidable.
20:03 What's supposed to be avoidable about Time Man?
20:06 He's an idiot.
20:08 If he doesn't want his victories to be easy, he shouldn't be using Time Man in the fight at all.
20:14 I don't see why he's happy with leaving just because they're frustrated at a hologram when he's still being forced to leave Time Man behind to get reprogrammed.
20:24 Unless he thinks he'll escape.
20:26 He won't if he's out of time energy.
20:28 I just realized.
20:30 Why it was even stupider than I thought because he could've backed up the data of Time Man and downloaded it into a new robot.
20:39 Meg Man compliments his friends, and Ice Man tells Rolly's glad she's safe.
20:45 She takes a second before thanking him because she's realistically confused that he already cares about her when she first knew him as an enemy.
20:54 Rosie makes a call and asks for a cleanup crew and inhibitor callers for Time and Oil Man.
21:00 Why does Meg Man think that telling them they're gonna be reprogrammed will reassure them?
21:05 But at least it's surprisingly smart of Dr. Light to have already made inhibitor callers for them just in case.
21:12 Meg Man finds out Dr. Light's free to come home, and immediately greets them as Stern smiles about this.
21:19 Dr. Light hugs Meg Man, and Stern's conflicted between finding it sweet and creepy just because Meg Man's a robot.
21:26 He's told to be nice, and Meg Man tells Dr. Light that Roll's helping the authorities organize evidence.
21:32 It's weird that despite him feeling like saying "That's my girl," he still doesn't let them call him "Dad."
21:39 Stern gets asked if he trusts the heroes now, and he admits that he doesn't, but at least explains that he doesn't trust anyone, and admits that he did good.
21:49 Rosie thanks Meg Man for the help. "I always sort of liked your design. I just wish your hair was longer."
21:56 Later on, Meg Man says as he puts down a box of stuff in the lab that he likes repairing more than fighting. He reminds me of Belle.
22:04 Dr. Light's reassured by that, and told that he hates leaving him short-handed at the lab.
22:09 He says he could always build more helper robots. Nice how he doesn't need more robots he thinks of his kids.
22:16 It sure is unfortunate for the robot masters that he doesn't think of them as his children.
22:21 He plans on having Otto help him with the lab, as it turns out he already exists.
22:26 At least that's different from the games, and despite confusing me, it's not impossible.
22:31 Roll voices the natural concern behind that line right away by hoping he won't make them obsolete.
22:36 He tells them that no other creation could be more precious to him.
22:40 And Proto Man looks at them from above jealously as Meg Man gives Roll an affectionate gesture,
22:46 and I hate that the shadow in front of his eyes is drawn too dark to make sense. I always hate that nonsense.
22:52 So that was distracting in what's supposed to be a sad moment.
22:56 I understand why he's not coming back to him though, because I was already spoiled on why he doesn't trust them, but he's still an idiot for it.
23:03 If he's not working for Wily at this point, then the only reason he would've come here is because he planned on coming back to him,
23:09 and then changed his mind because he saw them.
23:13 The last two pages are wasted on Wily voicing jealous complaints we already assumed he had in mind,
23:19 making me wonder why he's even given his own scenes as if we'd want them,
23:26 and revealing that the very next arc is Meg Man 2.
23:29 It's pretty lame because the comic was perfectly capable of having an original arc to give it a point, but already he's made new robot masters.
23:37 This issue was Meg Man escape the Wily Fortress having wasted his time, and head to Wily's facility with his friends after he finds out he should go there because of a call to Dr. Light,
23:48 after Rosie visited the robot masters and encouraged him to.
23:53 And then Time Man freezes each of the robot masters in time so that eventually Wily could reveal to Meg Man that he reprogrammed all of them.
24:01 Most of the story was good, if boring at times, but ultimately I can't say it's good because of how stupid the very end of the story was.
24:10 It's annoying how stupid it is of Wily and Time Man to not freeze time in general to guarantee their victory,
24:16 when Wily sent Rins to explain why he didn't have him freeze all of time and throw exploding arrows at the heroes.
24:22 He'd be able to see it happen because he could access his memory of that and put it on a screen.
24:28 I have to assume he thinks it'd be underwhelming to see him get blown up in a split second,
24:32 when seeing Meg Man struggle for a while against his robots would be more sadistic and be better proof of his skill at making robots.
24:39 So is he just assuming Bomb Man's gonna miss every time?
24:43 Why is he sending Bomb Man after him if he doesn't want him blown up?
24:47 He must've assumed he'll always miss and Meg Man will be so distracted trying to dodge the explosions that he'll get hit by other attacks.
24:54 So as soon as I saw Time Man, I was constantly distracted by wondering why he wasn't freezing all of time again,
24:59 so I couldn't get immersed.
25:01 It's not like he has barely any energy.
25:03 He doesn't say that freezing time in the entire building costs more energy than freezing one person.
25:10 And he usually has common sense, so how can he be okay with this?
25:15 This issue is about Time and Oil Man failing to defeat Meg Man and looking like idiots the whole time they fought him.
25:21 Or Wily's an idiot because he might've told him offscreen to have this ridiculous battle strategy.
25:28 They somehow didn't interrupt his long plan making with attacks.
25:32 And I have to assume Time Man didn't have the energy to freeze time in general
25:36 and was under strict orders to wait long enough before he did freeze Meg Man and try to blow him up.
25:42 He could've done that right away, so I have to assume Wily said that'd be anticlimactic.
25:47 Eventually they end up running out of energy to use their powers and being taken back to Dr. Light's lab.
25:53 And Wily was at least pragmatic enough to fool them with a hologram of himself so that he could escape.
25:58 I can definitely compliment how smart he is to have plans in case he loses,
26:03 despite always acting like he thinks he's guaranteed to win.
26:07 Meg Man won because Dr. Light made it impossible for Wily to reprogram the Robot Masters.
26:13 In retrospect, it's brilliant to them.
26:15 But since it comes out of nowhere,
26:17 at first it feels like an infuriating DSX mock-comment because the writer wrote himself into a corner,
26:22 and Cut Man just saying they're tamper-proof isn't quite enough to heal that.
26:27 And I have to assume there's a program always scanning their coding to get rid of Wily coding.
26:33 Is that how Nicole became immune to the Iron Queen's control?
26:37 The Iron Queen adds coding?
26:40 I thought she literally telekinetically controlled electricity, not that she added new coding.
26:46 I didn't figure that out back then right away because it wasn't explained like that,
26:50 and I was new to making reviews,
26:52 so there's a lot I missed that I only point out in the blog post with rewritten versions of their scripts.
26:57 So it really does suck to not explain how they're tamper-proof.
27:01 Why did Cut Man even attack Meg Man in the previous issue then?
27:05 They could have just revealed they weren't reprogrammed right away.
27:10 There was no benefit to them pretending for even a second after they saw Meg Man.
27:15 I can't honestly say this was a good issue because I was just frustrated by how it only went poorly for the villains
27:21 because they were handed idiot balls the whole time,
27:24 and so it was obvious it's not how it would realistically go.
27:28 So while normally having an original story from the games is great,
27:31 is it not worth it if the overpoweringness of Time Man meant the writer wrote himself into a corner by requiring Meg Man to fight him?
27:38 But I do think the original arc was worth it because we needed to have some sort of explanation in the franchise
27:44 for how Wily escaped prison after Meg Man won.
27:47 But since Wily didn't need to kidnap Roll, he could have just sent Time and Oil Man to Meg Man's house,
27:53 and it didn't really matter where their fight was.
27:57 I wish that was how it happened instead.
28:00 And I like Meg Man being able to grant immunity to time slowing was bullshit.