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00:00 Mega Man Issue 9
00:02 Otto says him being Mega Man was cool and gets thanked.
00:05 Why is Otto able to wish that he was still blasting robots and think he looks cool doing it if he was programmed by Dr.
00:12 Light? When Mega Man and Roll are peaceful because of that.
00:15 Why is Otto able to approve of the very thing that caused Dr.
00:20 Light to paranoidly trap him just for enjoying the game as much as the audience would?
00:25 When he had no reason to think he'd hurt him and Roll. Roll hugs Mega Man's arm and Dr. Light apologizes for disagreeing with Otto.
00:33 He's smart enough to think Wily's still gonna be a threat and warn them that he'll take over the world if Mega Man actually gets up.
00:41 Dr. Light says that Wily's harmless because without Dr. Light's resources, he won't be able to make any robot masters.
00:49 And if he came out of hiding the police would go after him.
00:53 Then it better explain why he was still able to make robot masters.
00:56 Heisman had resources stored in that facility to make them because he was always planning to make them no matter what.
01:01 Otto somehow asks what he's supposed to do now that Mega Man's back in the lab, even though he knows he still has his chomp.
01:09 His family laugh at him like jerks uncharacteristically.
01:13 And then someone taunts them and it turns out to be a robot master who punches Mega Man for multiple panels with no impact.
01:21 Has no wonder how he got into the house.
01:23 They would have heard him break the window.
01:26 Did he lock pick his way in?
01:29 Were they dumb enough to leave their door unlocked in America?
01:33 He knocks Roll into Dr. Light and knocks out Otto and tells him Wily's a threat again, which they would already know.
01:41 He says the seven brothers are planning to destroy the city in hours.
01:45 To try to get him to get himself defeated by them.
01:49 I assume Wily doesn't have any airship or a giant bomb or nuclear missile that could destroy this lab at midnight.
01:55 He tells him he'll give him an hour to find him again.
01:58 Why are they showing Mega Man any generosity?
02:01 Like not trying to just attack him in his sleep.
02:05 Why don't they start damaging the city right now?
02:08 When Wily made the previous robot masters do that right away, which got Mega Man fighting just fine.
02:14 Why is he holding back now?
02:16 He runs out of the room in a gust of wind.
02:19 He's so loyally programmed that he didn't feel like telling them his name.
02:23 Remember that.
02:25 Mega Man's been pinned to the wall by a thrown sharp boomerang.
02:29 So he thanks Otto for trying to get him away from it.
02:31 Dr. Light points out that the new robot master is gonna be better at fighting and that's just a trap.
02:37 There's nothing but Captain Obvious dialogue in this page.
02:40 It's a problem with the comic in general.
02:43 I was able to forgive a lot of dialogue in really interesting stories,
02:49 but not when the dialogue is this boring and predictable.
02:52 Dr. Light puts his hand on Mega Man and calls him brave and he puts his hand on his shoulder and Roll wonders if Mega Man's damaged.
03:01 Dr. Light says he'll send Otto and Roll to finish the support equipment it turns out he designed.
03:06 Even though he was certain Wily wouldn't be a threat anymore. So oops, that doesn't make any sense.
03:13 None of the equipment is only useful for Mega Man.
03:16 Mega Man thanks him and Dr. Light warps into a park where Quick Man's looking over him from a bridge.
03:22 And it turns out Wily can talk to him from calling his head directly.
03:27 Probably because he made him from scratch so he had the time so he doesn't have to video call him.
03:32 Quick Man gets lectured that he was supposed to return to his sector and finish securing the area.
03:38 Naturally points out he could fight Mega Man right away.
03:41 I know he's impatient to do this quickly because he's Quick Man,
03:45 but it still doesn't make any sense that he'd have the free will to disobey Wily.
03:49 If the Robot Masters could do that, they wouldn't have worked for him for more than a minute because they figure out he's a mean boss.
03:56 He's reminding me of Surge here. I have to assume he was only made
04:01 extremely recently so that's why he did attack Mega Man earlier.
04:06 Why does Wily even care about whether he secures the area? As usual, nothing different and interesting
04:11 happens when Wily was on the way to Wood Man. As in this universe, the levels are way shorter and easier because someone decided that
04:19 boring unnecessary dialogue was more interesting padding than platform challenges that actually represent the games which I could read through in seconds.
04:27 He just beat some robots. This is like Green Hill Zone without loops.
04:33 Wood Man has predictable dialogue where I'm sure he sounds bored as hell and Mega Man says Dr. Light could reprogram him and give him a new purpose.
04:41 It makes sense that he can't imagine what other purpose a wooden robot would serve.
04:45 Especially because Wily's programming would keep him from wanting to go with him to be reprogrammed.
04:51 It's unbelievably stupid of Mega Man to think he can talk any of these guys out of it because of that.
04:58 So this padding I don't need.
05:01 Eventually, the so-called leaves in front of Wood Man magically managed to block his Mega Buster shots.
05:08 This is accurate to the game and at least I can assume from the fire coming out of their stems as they fly over to him that they aren't real leaves.
05:17 Otherwise, he died to the Mega Buster in one shot.
05:21 I have to assume the reason Mega Man doesn't just use Fire Man's weapon on him is that Dr. Light deleted all of his previous weapon data
05:28 because he somehow thought Wily wouldn't have any resources stored away to make more Robot Masters.
05:33 When he wouldn't so he'd still have Fire Man's weapon.
05:37 It should be explained that he doesn't have the room for over seven Robot Master weapons.
05:42 But even then he would have let Mega Man keep some of the weapon data and just delete one of the old weapons to make room
05:49 every time he got a new weapon.
05:51 And then he'd have had Fire Man's weapon here. He could at least let him keep one weapon.
05:58 So Mega Man hides behind a tree.
06:00 Finally, he tells Dr. Light he's busy when he tries to talk to him. So it's finally lampshaded that he is distracting him.
06:07 Dr. Light analyzed the data in Mega Man's immediate memory because apparently he can do that.
06:14 And he knows that Wood Man is made of a specific type of tree.
06:17 And so he's able to figure out that he's fragile enough that a charge shot would stop him.
06:22 Which he could have easily tried already.
06:25 If he thinks Wood Man is fragile, why would the charge shot not destroy him? Naturally Mega Man wants to disable and save him.
06:32 Dr. Light says that's commendable, but insists that he doesn't have a choice.
06:36 Then he goes completely out of character by somehow saying that there isn't any internal conflict with this series.
06:43 Just because they're made to destroy him. More like because Wily made them instead of him.
06:49 It didn't stop Sonic from trying to give Metal Sonic a chance and Archie did turn good.
06:55 Out of nowhere, Mega Man talks as if he actually is planning to kill Wood Man.
07:00 He really is programmed to be blindly obedient to Dr. Light.
07:04 He's so loyal to Dr. Light that he'll even keep supporting him after he tells him to not be a pacifist.
07:11 Weird because later in the comic he's able to disobey him just fine.
07:16 And you think his pacifism and desire to help would be stronger in his programming than obeying him.
07:22 Why are there yellow lines around Mega Man? He doesn't have his own force field?
07:27 He looks like he's got cut scenes in his armor, but I'm sure they'll vanish pretty soon.
07:31 He fires a charge shot at him and instantly defeats him.
07:35 I hope this doesn't mean Flynn learned nothing from the constant anti-climaxes of last time.
07:41 Other than having the boss fight last so long. Because it's ridiculous to write a boss fight to be this fragile.
07:49 Dr. Light tells him to copy from Wood Man and at least asks him if he's alright because he noticed a strange energy spike.
07:56 Which he can also apparently do.
07:59 I guess Mega Man assumed that he meant to ask if he was hurt.
08:03 Because otherwise when he said he was fine, he'd be lying.
08:07 And why would he be able to lie to him? Well he lies to him later in the comic saying that he's not scared.
08:12 So clearly he designed him based off himself.
08:18 Thinking white lies are fine.
08:20 He asks him to rebuild him and the other robot masters and gets told he'll try. Which is smart of him.
08:26 Well aside from the fact that the more robot masters get made,
08:30 the more they are for Wily to take over later. So maybe Dr. Light shouldn't make any anymore.
08:34 Dr. Light isn't sure where to send him next.
08:37 Mega Man says the first one said they were in position to destroy the city and the park is a central location.
08:43 And there's a waterway that leads to the hydroelectric plant.
08:47 So he's allowed to investigate there. He's told to be careful of the waterfall, even though it looks like he's effortlessly walking through it.
08:54 Why is there boring narration by a bad guy wasting my time? He's not likable or interesting.
09:02 Eventually Mega Man jumps into the water, sees a giant fish robot, and jumps and shoots it just three times.
09:09 Which destroys it already.
09:12 I'd expect something so big to take longer to defeat.
09:16 At least have him use charge shots then.
09:19 I like that it explains that the robots were waste management before.
09:23 Bubble Man says it was hard to weaponize them as if he was the one who did that.
09:28 So in this canon, Wily made the robot masters themselves capable of weaponizing any random robot.
09:35 Come to think of it, it sure was stupid of him not to do that to Roll.
09:40 His incredibly boring ranting leads him planning to say to him, "Welcome to Davy Jones's locker."
09:46 With there being an extra S after the apostrophe somehow.
09:50 You get taught not to do that in elementary school.
09:53 Why does it keep doing this?
09:55 Because of what he said, Mega Man thinks he's called Davy Jones Man.
09:59 And I have to assume the reason he doesn't think he's a dangerous robot master is he didn't hear him say "grave."
10:04 But that hardly makes sense because you'd think a robot would have excellent hearing.
10:10 Either way, he'd be able to tell he's a robot master from one look.
10:14 Because he's about as tall as him, and has visible eyes and tongues, unlike Sniper Jones.
10:19 So this would only make sense if he was only being sarcastic.
10:23 Thankfully, it's explained why in the world, Bubble Man thinks he's dangerous with mere bubbles.
10:29 They're bubbles of sulfuric acid.
10:31 Mega Man shields himself from it with the leaf shield, and sends the leaves rocketing towards him.
10:38 Bubble Man is drawn to be in silhouettes for no reason, destroying most of the catharsis and being attacked.
10:43 One measly hit defeated him.
10:46 Why make the villains so annoying when you barely see them get hurt?
10:51 This is like IDW. They're allowed to show Mega Man being progressively more damaged. Why not the robot masters?
10:57 Conveniently, Dr. Light's also able to read levels of sulfuric acid around Mega Man, somehow.
11:05 Mega Man says it'll see if he has weapon data to copy, and is in pain.
11:08 And out of nowhere, Dr. Light says that's the second time he got a virus warning when he used his copy chip.
11:15 At least this is different from the game, so it wakes me up.
11:19 Dr. Light tells him to come back to the lab, but what's confusing that his excuse for it is that he's already endured two fights.
11:26 Even though he didn't make him come back to the lab in just two fights in his first adventure.
11:32 And Mega Man's fought something more than just two times.
11:35 He should be telling him that he wants him back to the lab to remove the virus in him.
11:41 And saying that it would be really quick.
11:45 I have to assume that the virus is why Mega Man disobeys him.
11:48 But I guess it isn't because Dr. Light doesn't get completely confused about him being able to brush him off.
11:54 Mega Man says they only have five hours until the city is destroyed.
11:59 But that doesn't explain it. He has no reason to think that in the future,
12:03 it'd take him an unacceptably long time to get rid of a virus in him.
12:07 Or at least have it quarantined like computers do.
12:11 Just because of this, Dr. Light tells him he's starting to sound like he did when all the power got to his head.
12:17 Even though he clearly isn't sounding like that, because he's not being arrogant and heartless.
12:22 So he has to be lying to him to manipulate him to coming home.
12:25 At least I'm not being really insane to make him interesting.
12:30 Mega Man's right that this is different.
12:32 And he's not that damaged.
12:34 They're only short on time if it'll really take so long to find all of the Robot Masters that'll need every precious second devoted to it.
12:42 Because otherwise,
12:44 come on, it beats them all in one hit.
12:46 He asks where the nearest facility is and gets told they can search from the main computer.
12:51 And Dr. Light doesn't want him pushing himself too hard, as the virus gives Mega Man red eyes like copy.
12:57 Then he gets hit by thrown stuff from Quick Man.
13:00 And the text box at the end of the story somehow expects me to believe he barely survived the last two Robot Masters.
13:06 Even though he effortlessly beat them in one hit.
13:09 All you have to do is hide behind something each time.
13:13 Mega Man issue 10.
13:15 Naturally, because Quick Man's so fast, he easily dodges Mega Man's shots and attacks him.
13:21 He grabs Mega Man and says that he'd love to defeat him here, but he has his orders.
13:27 But then he says he's not supposed to fight him now.
13:30 So there's no way to have confronted him so early in the first place if he even cares about his orders.
13:36 How did it even attack him at all?
13:39 Well, he can still have his robots have personalities and make them unable to go against his will.
13:46 So this never makes any sense to them.
13:48 It thinks it's making them entertaining because they're less predictable, but it's only confusing.
13:56 They get teleported somewhere and he conveniently goes away from Mega Man to wait for him at the boss arena.
14:03 There's no reason why he would insist on him only fighting Mega Man there.
14:07 If his idea is that he wouldn't want all of his hard work on making the level challenges and evil robots there to go to waste...
14:15 Well, it would anyways for the rest of the levels if Mega Man got defeated before he could get to them.
14:22 So he should think that's almost inevitable anyways and not let that hold him back.
14:26 If he really doesn't want it to go to waste, why doesn't he just have all of the robot masters in one room to gang up on him?
14:35 And it has to be that while he wants them at the arenas because by that point Mega Man's gonna have lower health and weapon energy from the level so it'll be easier to defeat.
14:43 But there's always a chance he could have been returned to the lab and healed after every level.
14:49 His plan would have to rely on assuming that he's too stupid to warp to Dr. Light and be healed in like seconds.
14:57 Dr. Light tells Mega Man he's in a geothermal plant.
15:02 So that's supposed to hand wave away why there's lava.
15:05 But I think it's only there because of Wily anyways because that's not employee friendly.
15:10 What kind of a name for a robot series is "Telly Model"? That tells me nothing.
15:17 The factory always had these robots patrolling them.
15:20 Why bother describing what isn't interesting?
15:24 Eventually he meets up with the next robot master who somehow feels he wasn't given heat resistance.
15:30 And so he doesn't really want to move even though he's a robot.
15:35 If he moves anyways that dialogue will be a waste of time.
15:39 Mega Man says they could skip the fight and of course he turns that down.
15:44 I assume it's because he was programmed to be unable to humor him.
15:48 But I wish he said that.
15:50 Because Quick Man just established they have free will.
15:53 Mega Man shoots him and asks Dr. Light for advice.
15:56 But for some reason there's too much interference.
16:00 Even though it's the future and it's not like every arena has that much interference.
16:05 Mega Man says Wood Man's shield seems strong against his Mega Buster and no shit.
16:11 The leaf blades get burned by fire.
16:15 Nobody would be that stupid as to use them as a shield against fire.
16:19 He lampshades that he should have known to use a water weapon.
16:23 And says his processor must be running slow.
16:26 I hope that's explained as the fault of the virus he got.
16:29 Or that just be a forced joke.
16:31 Especially because he's always assumed that the last weapon he copied was the weakness of the next robot master.
16:38 So not going with that pattern now is out of character.
16:42 On this adventure he's just fighting them in order of which ones are closest to him.
16:46 And it could have easily not been that the next robot master was always weak to the previous one's weapon.
16:53 If Wily had a brain he would have had, for example, Bubble Man be in this place and so on.
17:00 He could have made sure Mega Man would almost never have the weakness of a robot master.
17:05 He wants to win.
17:08 It doesn't make any sense for someone defined by his pettiness to give his enemy a good fighting chance.
17:13 The lame version of Fire Man gets hit with a bubble of sulfuric acid and defeated in one hit.
17:19 At least it makes sense that a bubble of sulfuric acid might stun a robot in one hit.
17:26 Surprisingly he isn't unconscious.
17:29 He just lets Mega Man copy his power without hitting him away because it's smarter to give up the fight.
17:34 Even though Wily programmed him to want to fight him.
17:37 Get used to this plot hole.
17:39 He tells Mega Man that Crash Man is in the command center above.
17:43 Why would he be able to tell Wily's enemy Vital Intel?
17:48 Doesn't Wily want to destroy the city?
17:51 It's just weird for him to think Crash Man would destroy him when Mega Man defeated him.
17:56 He's nice enough to waste time telling him to tell him he said hi.
18:00 I assume it's the virus making Mega Man say he'll blow Crash Man to bits
18:05 and then aim his weapon at him and shoot him.
18:08 Otto's worried because he shot someone already defeated and not fighting him anymore.
18:13 Thankfully Dr. Light immediately assumes it's thanks to Wily's malicious coding
18:18 being copied into Mega Man whenever he copies the weapon data.
18:21 Although he also blames Mega Man acting like it's because he got too much power.
18:28 So not a lot of faith in him there.
18:31 Then Dr. Light lampshades that Wily isn't original and is also uncharacteristic of him to smirk.
18:37 Why didn't he make Mega Man tamper-proof like the Robot Masters and avoid this?
18:42 It has to be that he's gonna do that to him.
18:45 Or otherwise, there'd be no excuse for Wily not having this be the case every adventure.
18:50 Dr. Light plans to do some coding.
18:53 And Otto cheers on Mega Man.
18:56 It's so nice of him at a time like this.
18:58 Roll tells Mega Man he should come home and get healed.
19:01 Again, he ridiculously refuses because he's got hours left.
19:06 Even though in the games, it only takes seconds for you to use an E-Tank and so on.
19:10 And combine that with it being the future,
19:14 and I don't buy that he'd think it would take way too much time.
19:17 Roll at least considers teleporting him home.
19:20 And inconveniently explains that she doesn't know which button it is.
19:24 Why didn't Dr. Light tell her what all the buttons did?
19:28 That'd be basic conversation if she's in the room and doesn't know what else to say to him.
19:32 Mega Man immediately talks to Crash Man this time.
19:36 With no indication of what he had to do to get to him.
19:39 At least that cuts down on the padding.
19:42 There's barely any point in showing the level in most cases.
19:45 But it's stupid to not show him dealing with even one level challenge.
19:49 I can understand not showing him jumping from platform to platform.
19:54 But if there are any unique level set pieces, those would be nice to show off.
20:00 Why is Crash Man able to call Mega Man cool and welcome him to the top of the world?
20:05 Why is he mad at him because he thinks he destroyed his brothers
20:08 if he turns around and says he respects that?
20:11 Because he blows things up.
20:13 Then Mega Man uncharacteristically taunts him about potentially being unoriginal
20:17 because of the virus in him.
20:19 You'd think if Wily could infect him with a virus to make him evil,
20:23 he would have also programmed it to make him fully evil right away.
20:27 Because he'd have to intentionally make it so that it'd take a while to fully kick in.
20:31 Maybe his antivirus software is fighting it constantly, delaying its full effect.
20:35 You'd think if it could fight it at all, it would have already quarantined it.
20:40 I mean, isn't that how antivirusing computers works?
20:43 He gets mad at Mega Man as to wonder why he's not called Drill Man.
20:47 Mega Man uncharacteristically says he's not advanced because he doesn't have hands.
20:53 It was cruel of him to make him like that.
20:55 He could have had him have hands hidden beneath the drills.
20:59 Crash Man's gonna be the guy whose name is hardest to remember, isn't he?
21:03 He throws his drill, and Mega Man taunts him that he's a hothead,
21:08 and it explodes behind him, sending him ahead.
21:10 It's satisfying to see Mega Man tell him to hold on
21:14 and say he didn't mean to do something since he was being annoying before.
21:17 I don't know why it isn't fun to see him taunt the Robot Masters
21:22 when they're almost completely unlikable and impossible to relate to,
21:26 so you'd think they would deserve to be taunted.
21:28 But maybe I see it as him punching down
21:31 because it's not their fault their program to be one-dimensional
21:34 and can't be interesting or sympathetic.
21:36 Maybe it's the same reason Sonic teasing the deadly 6 in Lost World isn't fun.
21:41 The writer makes a mistake of making important characters paper thin
21:46 and proves he knows about it, so when he has them get mocked for it,
21:50 you're just wondering why they don't get more interesting then.
21:52 So more drills get thrown at him and explode.
21:56 It's unusually smart of Wily to make his drills able to work as bombs.
22:00 Mega Man surprisingly uses the Leaf Blades,
22:03 hoping they'll protect him from an explosion that damages a building
22:07 and requires him to climb out from under some rubble.
22:09 I assume the virus made him too stupid to simply equip the previous weapon
22:14 and use it on him right away.
22:16 How's advanced service if you're making Mega Man a lot stupider than the audience members
22:20 that didn't look up a guide to know which weapons to use?
22:24 The game doesn't always give a good hint either,
22:27 but again, you'd think Mega Man would've just continued his pattern from Last Adventure.
22:32 And of course, it's always impressed me that Mega Man's kept the damage to his body
22:35 the entire time so far and gotten progressively more damaged.
22:39 While it is hard to look at, it's better writing for an action series.
22:45 He says he's stuck on something and he copies this guy's power,
22:49 who somehow remains cheerful when he thinks he's doomed.
22:52 Mega Man says the platforms that monitor the weather would make a great place to attack from,
22:57 so he asks if that's his next destination and gets told it is.
23:02 Which can make sense because Wily would want him to go there to get killed.
23:06 Why is Crash Man taunting him that he hasn't hit him?
23:10 Mega Man drops some explosive drills around him because of the virus
23:14 and there's a lot of explosions and he ends up safe on a platform after smartly avoiding a boss rush.
23:20 He tells Dr. Light he minimized the danger of the tower to collapse with controlled demolition
23:26 and at least gets told he made excellent progress.
23:29 He's told he needs to get home to be healed and upgraded.
23:33 I have to assume it's the virus making him complain about this and accuse him of not trusting him.
23:38 He's told he trusts him and he's worried.
23:41 Again he insists on being called Mega Man and says Rock is weak
23:45 and says he's doing this to protect everyone so he still has good intentions.
23:49 You'd think Dr. Light would force teleport him home since Roll said she could do that.
23:54 Maybe Mega Man already went to a place where he can't be teleported home.
23:58 I say this because he got told he can't warp to Wily directly last adventure because of the jammer.
24:05 But no, I guess there isn't any jamming field around him.
24:10 This issue is about Mega Man defeating Wooden Bubble Man in one hit.
24:14 But oh, it's better this time because the fight lasts longer.
24:18 Just for Dr. Light to tell him he's got a virus.
24:20 But so far this originality does nothing.
24:24 They argue in arguments that could easily be settled right away
24:28 if Dr. Light had the common sense to tell him he could instantly get rid of the virus.
24:32 And in the end, Quick Man ambushes Mega Man because he didn't agree to let him warp him home when he was damaged.
24:39 And you'd think a guy who was strict enough to trap him for being confident
24:43 would have warped him home instantly whether he liked it or not.
24:47 Mega Man could be right if it's going to take so long to find the other Robot Masters that he'll need every minute.
24:53 But you'd think dealing with viruses would be fast in the future.
24:56 This story was decent.
24:59 Even if it was disappointing that the annoying Bubble Man got beaten in one hit.
25:03 And while the virus is the first thing that didn't happen in the game's canon that isn't forced,
25:09 Dr. Light not getting rid of it is forced.
25:11 This issue had Mega Man defeat some annoying Robot Masters in one hit again
25:16 and continues lazily recycling the concept of power going to his head and getting rid of his compassion.
25:23 Even if with a real excuse this time.
25:25 It tries to make up for the unoriginal story, but it fails.
25:29 There's no reason to read this arc because it's almost barren of creativity with almost nothing interesting happened.
25:35 This was a good story by the comic standards because the way Mega Man was acting this time was interesting.
25:40 But it's just a game adaptation.
25:43 And so far, I don't feel honest saying that any of the issues are good.
25:48 Crash Man was confusing.