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00:00 Mega Man issue 44.
00:02 After Roll discovers what happened to Auto because somehow Wily didn't fix him and delete his memory,
00:08 the story wastes time showing another boring Robot Master before Mega Man first meets him for padding.
00:15 What if the text boxes forget to tell us his real name from the game?
00:19 Somehow when a robot makes monkey noises, he can understand him, so he thanks him.
00:27 Somehow a robot programmed to destroy Mega Man was able to give him an E-Tank to fight fair.
00:34 Even a child would tell you this is forced of the writing.
00:38 Mega Man thanks him for the Deus Ex Machina, and once again he doesn't learn his lesson and lets down his guard.
00:46 Trying to talk him into giving him answers when all of the robots he's seen so far just wanted to kill him.
00:53 IDW Sonic does the same thing with Surge, it's like he's written more like Mega Man than Sonic.
00:58 So he gets attacked and he tells Rush to stay back because he can't damage his armor.
01:03 How does Mega Man know Hard Man's name?
01:06 He never got told it.
01:09 I feel like this is Worlds Collide wherever he sent it to my review as me finding a new plot hole.
01:14 He gets given a hard time for a bit until he equips the Magnet Missile,
01:19 and the flashes of light ruin any sort of catharsis of the magnets hitting the bad guy.
01:25 An explosion stuns him,
01:27 and somehow he's still able to talk afterwards like the rest when he still feels like fainting.
01:33 Then eventually Dr. Light tells Roll to calm down,
01:36 and she tells him she found Otto with his memory boards ripped out, and somehow not put back in but altered.
01:44 The lockdown that results is pointless though because Protoman warps to Wily and gives him the weapon data for sabotaging Dr. Light's robot.
01:53 Because his teleport signal isn't blocked despite him trying to kill Mega Man before.
01:59 Wily even lampshades that Dr. Light's a sentimental old fool.
02:03 I'd rather characters be consistently smart, like in 350's RG Sonic where even Sonic was smart a lot.
02:12 Just because he wanted Protoman back doesn't mean it's believable that he'd keep him able to warp into his lamp.
02:18 He could ring his doorbell if he wanted to go back to him.
02:22 Then there's more padding where the comic focuses on a Robot Master somehow talking to himself instead of Mega Man until the second he finds him.
02:30 How did he not realize this was lame and unwanted?
02:34 And repetitive, as this could describe every Robot Master scene.
02:39 He realizes he can't contact his brothers, and remembers calling Magnet Man's magnets cool and being thanked for recharging someone.
02:48 And we don't even see the level because the comic space got wasted on that.
02:52 Go figure the Robot Masters would be mad about their brothers being defeated.
02:56 Then there's a bunch of time spent on him throwing electricity at Mega Man and barely missing.
03:02 He says he plans on killing Roll too.
03:05 He keeps dodging energy with predictable dialogue around him until Shadow Blades get thrown through Spark Man's arms, defeating him in one measly shot.
03:14 He at least apologizes and says he wouldn't have hurt Roll.
03:18 He would have if Wily told him to.
03:20 There's some time wasted on boring angst where Mega Man wishes they didn't have to fight, just like X.
03:28 You'd think the writer would know that nobody liked that whining in X7, so why is he constantly doing it too much with Mega Man?
03:35 I understand doing it once, but that's all we need.
03:39 All that matters is he gets his data, of course, and can't contact Dr. Light because he's being threatened by a Robot.
03:46 He asks why, and gets told Wily wants him to learn that he's better than him.
03:50 Why is the Robot programmed to tell him not to be too troubled?
03:54 Mega Man #45.
03:58 Mega Man uses the Rush Jet to fly back to his house, which has fire on the inside.
04:03 He gets shot to the ground by Proto Man, who makes me wonder why he's not trying to save Dr. Light if he refused to kill Mega Man earlier to avoid breaking his heart.
04:13 Why is he even trying to hurt him at all, then?
04:16 So does he think Wily is gonna repair and reprogram him instead, and so he's just holding back with them?
04:24 Wily tells Doc Robot that it won't be necessary to cause any more destruction if Dr. Light cooperates, but he refuses to give him access to Gamma.
04:34 There's no foreshadowing to Doc Robot in the comic.
04:37 At least when she hits him with the broom and realistically breaks it, he becomes interesting because the other Robot Masters argue in his head.
04:46 So it's not really that they're dead just because their IC chips were used.
04:51 This concept would've been interesting with a bunch of characters that had actual personalities being fused together.
04:58 Instead, only the color around the text bubbles has any chance of telling you who's talking.
05:03 And if you aren't a Mega Man fan, you won't be helped by that.
05:07 After all, there's plenty of Robot Masters that share the same color as other ones.
05:12 How is one of the Robot Masters able to say they're not shooting a child when Wily made him?
05:19 So the attack misses as Dr. Light hugs her.
05:22 Somehow a character who is literally named Dr. Wily tells him off for almost hurting Dr. Light, because that doesn't miss the point of his character at all.
05:33 He has no reason to put all of the IC chips at once into one Robot.
05:39 He would've had a better chance just sending them all after Mega Man as they were.
05:45 Dr. Light tells Wily he wins, which is smarter than continuing to say no when Roll could get shot at any second.
05:51 She never would've said "Don't", because she should know Mega Man would be able to take Gamma.
05:58 Eventually, Dr. Light tells Wily that Gamma requires a new activation password every day, and only his own voiceprint would activate it.
06:09 He says all eight of the energy elements should be powerful enough to move Gamma once before burning out.
06:15 He tells Dr. Light to turn off the signal jammers and lab defenses, and tells Roll to install the energy elements and teleporter harnesses.
06:24 I guess by "be useful" for once, he means useful for his evil schemes, because she served him coffee before.
06:31 Dr. Light smartly tells Roll to do as he says and says it'll be alright, as he has his hand on his shoulder.
06:38 He also calls her "dear".
06:40 Wily says he surpassed him even when working off his scraps, and Dr. Light uncharacteristically grabs him angrily.
06:48 The Robot with a stupid name threatens him, and Wily lambshades with Roll "Why did he program so much sass into you?"
06:56 Wily grabs the idiot ball by planning to let Dr. Light keep his children, when obviously it'd be smarter to rebuild and reprogram them.
07:06 Plus, he kidnapped Roll before.
07:08 He tells his robot to destroy everything above the hangar in the lab, and meet him at the castle.
07:14 Megman fights with Protoman, who just shields his attacks.
07:18 And it's ridiculously convenient that Protoman waits long enough that Megman tells him the IC chips are in a rush, instead of instantly shooting him.
07:26 Somehow this causes Protoman to decide not to shoot Rush when he's got no reason to care about the one-dimensional evil Robot Masters.
07:34 Nothing that matters happens until the lab blows up, and Wily tells Protoman remotely that he shouldn't worry because he's backed at the castle.
07:42 Somehow Wily says he's not a monster, and that's why he didn't kill Dr. Light and Roll.
07:48 Then why did he kidnap Roll in the first place and put her in a room where a lot of fighting would happen?
07:52 He could've gotten her killed that way.
07:55 Why did he try to kill Dr. Light with the Met Tool in Worlds Collide, then?
08:01 Protoman's relieved that they're alive, and gives Megman stuff to fix himself and refuel with,
08:07 because Wily was too stupid to reprogram him, since that'd keep things simple.
08:12 And any rational person would assume that's what he would've done.
08:15 He tells him where to meet him for the last fight with him, and warps away...
08:19 ...when he could easily fight him now.
08:22 And Megman hugs Roll, and too many panels are wasted with Dr. Light realistically whining about Wily's betrayal.
08:30 He lampshades that he's a fool and deluded.
08:33 Roll and Megman hug and flatter him, and the story starts wasting my time being depressing.
08:38 He somehow says he has no right to ask Megman to save the world.
08:43 He agrees, and he thanks him, and he plans to fix Megman and Rush.
08:48 Wily looks at a schematic for a cranial override and control device,
08:53 and eventually Megman thanks Dr. Light and Roll hugs him.
08:57 Dr. Light puts his hand on Megman's shoulder, and Megman pets Rush before they warp somewhere, and the story ends there.
09:03 Megman issue 46.
09:06 Wily says to himself that after a few hours of uninterrupted work, Gamma would be his.
09:12 And Dark Robot tells him Megman's here, when nobody's supposed to know about this island,
09:17 even though it's the future, so every island in the world would be known about.
09:22 I guess what he means to say is that nobody knows he'd be here.
09:26 And I guess the reason nobody "found" the fortress on Google Maps...
09:31 is that nobody was actually looking at an uninhabited island.
09:37 He's told that Protoman invited Megman here to have one last fight with him.
09:42 That doesn't explain it, because he could've had a fight with them anywhere, including the same place he was at before.
09:48 It only makes sense if he invited him to the island because he wants Wily stomped,
09:54 but that'd also be confusing, as it's not like he killed Roland Dr. Light.
09:58 A bunch of time is wasted with dialogue between them that's so predictable it's not worth reading.
10:03 Go figure, Megman lampshades how confusing it is.
10:07 Eventually he starts shooting at Megman, and he joins in,
10:10 and it's explained that he's not gonna use the Robot Masters' weapons,
10:14 because they need to be out of weapon energy for the castle.
10:17 He also tells Rush to not get involved, because he needs them for the castle.
10:22 Meanwhile, some comic space is wasted on Dr. Light fixing Otto, who had nothing to do with Megman 3.
10:28 He apologizes for the Rush job and gets told not to worry,
10:32 and Otto reveals out of nowhere that he doesn't simulate emotions like the advanced robots do,
10:37 and so he's fine, even though he was still able to cheer for Megaman.
10:42 Roll says she should be out there with Megman, and calls out and hugs Dr. Light.
10:47 Wily tells his robot to activate the castle's defenses.
10:52 Protoman warns Megman that his creator could decide to make him on a whim.
10:56 And there's a pointless flashback where Dr. Light tells Megman to try his best to save Protoman.
11:03 We see the boring fight again, and Megman eventually shoots at Protoman successfully,
11:08 with no attempt made to explain why he didn't shield that time.
11:12 So it's only that he got lucky.
11:14 He starts blathering in his predictable way, and gets reminded he stole his function.
11:20 He gets his hand hit, and Protoman refuses to help rebuild Light Labs and apologize,
11:26 and shoots so that Megman could access the sewer in the heart of the castle through a hole.
11:31 He at least says he'll come home eventually,
11:34 points out that he doesn't really need to be fixed, which could make sense because he's not that damaged,
11:39 and compliments him on his shot before warping away.
11:43 This is the most confusing character in the comic. Does he support Wily or not?
11:48 You'd think he would've turned on Wily before if he could now.
11:51 So Megman progresses with Rushjet in the predictable, boring way,
11:56 and the story ends with him facing a new Yellow Devil.
11:59 Oh gee, I wonder if he'll shoot it in the eye.
12:02 It's no wonder the comic resorted to a crossover with Sonic again.
12:06 It makes sense for the sales to get bad with an almost abandoned creativity after Raw Moon.
12:11 When it had such a long Dark Age, I can't blame people for not giving it another chance after Worlds Unite.
12:19 Megaman #47
12:21 Megman dodges the laser from the not-Yellow Devil,
12:25 tells Rush to get its eye, and fires a fist through the thing,
12:30 and Rush destroys his eye,
12:32 and out of complete nowhere, Megman sees Copy Robot again,
12:37 even though he was completely blown up last time.
12:40 It wouldn't be so confusing if this was the new Copy Robot who was just created.
12:47 I have to assume his data was backed up the whole time,
12:50 but that just makes it forced that he wasn't sent after Megaman in his second adventure.
12:55 He bothers Megaman with the weapons from his current adventure,
13:00 but thanks to the Surge Snakes, Megman finds out the real one's being held still by Rush.
13:06 But then Rush lets go of his scarf and lets him stand up to be reasoned with,
13:10 even though he was programmed to kill him by Wily.
13:14 So he wouldn't have any good in him.
13:16 So Megman has some predictable dialogue,
13:19 which somehow does convince him that he has a good point,
13:22 because he'd get a long-term function from acting like him,
13:26 even though he's programmed to want to kill him.
13:29 Of course the writer wrote himself into a corner here.
13:33 So an explosive gets thrown on Copybot's back,
13:37 and he pushes him to safety and gets blown up,
13:40 because god forbid he get sent to a parallel universe.
13:44 Don't even write him to get convinced by him then.
13:47 This was supposed to be a kids' comic.
13:50 So Doc Robot threatens Megaman,
13:53 who eventually sees the empty bodies of the second line of Robot Masters.
13:58 Megman avoids the attacks and tries to overload the robot by saying what he has to know isn't true,
14:05 that they liked being crammed into one body.
14:08 And this causes the Robot Masters to complain a lot and get distracted enough
14:13 that the floating magnet sneaks up on their body from behind to shock them,
14:17 damaging the robot because of an idiot's ball of Wileys.
14:21 You know, he could've just had another Copy Robot.
14:25 He gets hit with a different attack.
14:27 Megman gets frozen in time.
14:30 But Doc Robot can't decide which weapon to use.
14:34 So that explains why he wasn't frozen in time right away,
14:38 because all of the Robot Masters wanted to use their weapon.
14:43 Megman defeats him and promises the Robot Masters inside a better future.
14:47 Obviously, it's good writing that there was only one Doc Robot
14:52 instead of one for every Robot Master like in the game, because that was ridiculous.
14:57 But that was such an easy, common-sense change to improve the story
15:01 that anybody could've thought of that.
15:03 And again, it's adaptational dumbass, because
15:07 Wily probably would've won if he had sent a Doc Robot for every Robot Master.
15:13 He can't refill his energy and get himself repaired at this point.
15:19 And he pets Rush and ends up faced with the Mecha from Wily.
15:23 Megman only has to use two attacks against the Mecha to effortlessly defeat it.
15:29 He finds out Wily had the common sense to have a mannequin that looks like him in the Mecha
15:34 instead of putting himself at risk,
15:36 which does nothing but repeat recorded lines.
15:39 For no reason, the head springs up.
15:42 And conveniently, Megman finds out he can access Wily's files from here
15:47 and finds out where he's hiding Gamma because he networked everything.
15:50 I guess it's all because he originally planned to use the Mecha himself.
15:54 It just seems a bit too convenient.
15:56 Megman uses his weapon to blast a hole
16:00 and remembers Dr. Lightion to destroy Gamma if it's been activated.
16:05 Megman shoots it and pets Rush.
16:07 Somehow, Jon are blind enough to think he already won against a giant robot
16:12 after all of his time fighting the Wily Walker.
16:14 But he only gave it some minor damage.
16:18 And the story ends there because it wasted some of its comic space.
16:22 This was another boring issue about Megman defeating Robot Masters in one hit
16:28 after long fights where he struggles the whole time, just like in the early Sonic X comic.
16:33 Only there it was more interesting because there were more characters.
16:36 While here it only gets interesting when we see Wily threaten Dr. Light with a robot.
16:41 It's so boring to see those scenes where the Robot Masters are somehow talking to themselves
16:47 with little to no focus on the main character, when they're just one-dimensional bad guys.
16:52 But the only thing memorable is that Roll discovered Auto was damaged.
16:57 And since Wily betrays him so early, it's pointless.
17:00 And it makes sense that he didn't care enough to edit Auto's memory and fix any damage
17:04 because he was planning to use a killer robot any second.
17:07 This issue somehow spent an entire issue on Wily threatening Dr. Light into agreeing to activate Gamma.
17:16 It doesn't make sense that he had the security measures have a different password every day for Gamma
17:22 and make it only work for him if he completely trusted Wily.
17:26 At that point, why even keep Gamma in his lap?
17:29 Again, real engineers work on their stuff outside their house.
17:33 Basically nothing happened in this issue that mattered, as it dragged out the one plot point it had
17:39 and the fight with Proto Man was a waste of time.
17:42 It was either boring or depressing.
17:44 This issue is about Meg Man and Proto Man having a boringly uncreative fight
17:49 with exactly the dialogue you'd expect
17:52 until Proto Man gets called his big brother and opens a way forward for him with his blaster.
17:59 The only reason someone would find this comic interesting when it's being this uncreative
18:03 is if they never experienced the story of the games before.
18:07 Even the original scenes are just pointless.
18:10 Auto gets repaired and Gamma's gonna take hours to activate
18:14 because it was originally designed to only activate with Dr. Light's voice.
18:18 And that fills in a plot hole in the game by explaining why Gamma wasn't used earlier.
18:23 It's sad when that's the only reason the issue's worth reading and you could stop there and miss nothing.
18:29 This issue was about Meg Man having to deal with Copy Robot out of nowhere
18:35 and then Doc Robot, for once the comic was being creative after the raw moon died.
18:40 Because there was only one Doc Robot the whole adaptation
18:44 and he got defeated because the Robot Masters that were arbitrarily crammed inside of him
18:49 couldn't choose which weapons to use to defeat him because they only wanted to use their own out of arrogance.
18:56 So Meg Man won because of an idiot ball of everybody on Wily's side.
19:01 I'd like to have some creative writing without idiot balls littering it.
19:06 I can only think of one example in the whole comic that wasn't like that.
19:12 The virus that Meg Man had.
19:14 And of course I haven't been told why he didn't do that again.
19:19 While I'd like to say it's the one good issue in the arc, it's not logical enough to count.
19:24 While it was novel that Copy Robot actually considered acting like Meg Man,
19:28 it didn't make any sense because it was programmed by Wily.
19:32 It would make as much sense as Metal Sonic being convinced of this.
19:36 So it was just a cruel tease to gut punch the audience when it got blown up.
19:41 There was never any indication that Copy Robot's data was backed up
19:46 because obviously it would have faced Meg Man again before if he was.
19:49 So I did take his presence seriously.
19:52 But I'd much rather have a creative story that's nonsense than an uncreative one with nothing to talk about.
19:58 So this is the best issue in the arc.
20:01 It's the only one I'd recommend.