Mega Man #21-23 Three issues, three big occasions! First, time to ring in the New Year with Mega Man and Xander Payne! The Emerald Spears once again threaten everyone! And after that, it’s Valentine’s Day and Roll plays matchmaker while being oblivious that she’s the target of someone else’s affection! And finally, Blues and Rock have their big fight but something interrupts them!
Question: Do you ship any Mega Man characters? If so, who?
>>142076478 >Question: Do you ship any Mega Man characters? If so, who? I think Bass X Roll can be a fun idea, otherwise I think it'd be fun if the games gave Rock a love interest, preferably a femme fatale enemy type as I'm a sucker for hero on villainess and vice versa
Lol, the sonic serious post spammer got delete, good. More often then not those threads just function as bait for people to shit on Sonic like it was the mid 2000's again
>Yesterday was Knuckles 30th Anniversary >Everyone was talking about Shadow instead >We spent that day's thread celebrating Thrash defeating the Echidnas Thrash truly is the biggest winner among Sonic antagonists.
>>142076509 >this bomb will be a victory for our cause! >I'll be remembered as a martyr! A visionary! I don't know bros, this Xander fellow is sounding pretty based 2bh
>>142076575 Everyone's doing their own thing. >>142076544 >I keep hearing how bad and memes about xander. does he really get worse? He's not a favorite and gets shoved into stuff. He's the same character all the way through until the end.
>>142076559 PAYNE TO THE MAX >>142076564 Y'know, it's amazing how the hubris of the Echindas caught up to them. Yeah, Yeah, Penders is a dick but damned if he didn't set them up for a fall
>>142076564 Ha yeah I actually really like Thrash as a character despite or perhaps even because of his role around the time the comic needed to slapdash something cause of the legal issues
>>142076544 >does he really get worse? I feel like the biggest offense was what he does in the World's Unite, there was no reason for him to be there. I really liked the final twist they gave him though, actually managed to tie things back pretty well
>>142076694 Y'know, I feel like Xander's bullshit could've gone somewhere interesting. Like, if he had somehow managed to see the MMZ future, he'd find out just how hilariously wrong he is. Either that, or he'd propose to Dr. Weil on the spot.
>>142076787 Slowly but surely, Rock is winning over Stern. >>142076750 New year's resolution is to get a robot waifu. Maybe they come in chipmunk-squirrel.
>>142076769 Xander is willing to kill other humans to stop the robots, if he heard about Weil destroying 85% of humanity to eradicate 90% of robots he'd orgasm.
>>142076871 Why did Ian do a Roll x Ice Man romance of all things. It would've been way more interesting if the Robot in love with Roll was a DWN (and i'm not just saying this because of that The Megas song), and would've avoided the weird semi-incest undertones.
Ice Man's too stupid to realize that with Mega Man hooking up with Quake Woman leaves only Roll for him during this visit. Goddamn man, Roll's inadvertently giving you an opening, stop sulking.
>>142077146 The middle one is Tempo? Why isn't she standing? >>142077144 All he knows what to do is annoy people and try to be mushy to a dense robot girl.
>>142077146 >What if some virus turns 'em crazy and makes them run wild? No. You don't get to reference Mega Man X when you have no intentions of getting that far.
>>142077146 >what if some virus turns them crazy Stop talking out your ass, that would never ever happen. And even if it did what's the worst that could happen?
>>142077146 >Stern: And what if some asshole army of the damn things decided to, I don't know, don't know when to stand down? Maybe they build a big fuck you laser aimed at us?
>>142077137 Oh neither have I, most there is is you can save her as Bass in Power Fighters 2, otherwise games don't really get Bass interact with people besides Rock and Wily
>>142077236 >tempo's an adrenaline junkie Damn girl, you just keep getting better. >>142077224 Or anyone else on Mobius. Plenty of trauma. >>142077234 ;_;
>>142077254 So when is Light and Lalinde having a kid of their own? You know, building a robot together. >>142077251 Poor Ian knows that even if Sonic kept going, Mega Man wouldn't last that long.
>>142077275 For the past few issues, they've practically made this half-Mega Man X already with the robots basically having free will and sentience, so I believe it.
>>142077305 >>142077293 I expect Rock to get an upgrade to make him look older before that can happen. Then again, might as well call him X even though that's a different robot (which is weird).
Should be a robot master named conductor man who storytimes comics on anoymous basket weaving forum who also may or may not have a crush on a furry chipmunk
>>142077368 >soccer endorsement deal Again, I have to wonder if Flynn was already a huge Mega Man fan before getting this assignment, cause this is just getting silly.
>>142077491 Wait, that isn't some random guy they drew up on the spot? He's actually from an official Mega Man game released exclusively in Taiwan? That's a deep cut.
>>142077564 Blues doesn't need to copy powers. >>142077542 >he fell for the meme I wouldn't put it past Ian. The thing with Barby in the encyclopedia is next level memory holing.
>>142077585 >catching Cut Man's blades, throwing them back at him and dismembering him >scooping up Bomb Man's bombs with his shield and catapulting them at Guts Goddamn, Proto Man is wasting these fools left and right.
>>142076769 Xander is entirely willing to murder people for his goals so long as it leads to robot genocide. He'd outright offer to such Weil's cock if he heard what he did.
>>142076478 >cover is a worse redraw of official Rockman promo art Awful, I'm honestly surprised how this series got to live past its prime for so long.
>>142077680 Now for some high quality fanart! >>142077673 The Zone Cops are gone. >>142077674 Mega Man got out of this better than Sonic. We'll get more Rock vs Blues afterwards.
>>142077271 Stern is one of those people who thinks everything was perfect when they were young and hates any kind of advancement. If this was the 50s he'd be grousing about those teenagers in their fast cars listening to their rock music.
>>142077706 And that's it for today! Tomorrow at 7pm EST we do the last issue of Sonic and Sonic Universe before the crossover! Just two issues so maybe the thread will last a bit longer than usual!
>blue platformer hero >gets progressively faster and faster >lore gets darker and also more convoluted/confusing >psuedo "Classic" and "Modern" split between Mega Man 7-8 + Bass (graphical overhauls, art style shifting for illustrations, attempts at more fleshed-out plotlines, more rival characters, super-cheesy voice acting for MM8) and Mega Man 9-10 (return back to "form"; retro aesthetic, simpler plotlines, etc.) >easy OC-bait, just "thing"-man/woman >official promos and crossovers >shaky track record in game quality I wonder why Mega Man never really caught the notorious autism as Sonic
>>142077855 >All built up to kill her off as that was her story. The story that ended with her seed sprouting. A character can have more than one story.
>>142076564 >We spent that day's thread celebrating Thrash defeating the Echidnas Revisionism. We spent it bemoaning Penders getting sued by Archie and having the temerity to not lose.
To all you guys looking for a Mega Man hit I'd recommend checking out Shattered Diamond's latest demo, it's pretty fun https://gamejolt.com/games/mmsd/863724 I swear I'm not a shill I just wanted to share it with my megabros here
>>142077956 >>142077963 OH. I guess I can see the dress/skirt form of it now. To be honest, it seemed like she was wearing a bit, egg-shaped onsie at first.
>>142076478 >sat out yesterday's thread due to feeling ill >turns out it didn't even last 5 hours >got kept in by work today >thread is only 3 issues Jeez, in case its gone by the time I get home I require more porn of all females present in today's issues
Also, Light sucks for making Splash Woman sociable but not giving her legs
>>142078170 Rock was still willing to just kill Wily in 7, and aside from the DLN robots there's never any implication he had an issue with fighting them. Just because Light built him doesn't mean he's completely against violence.
>>142078212 >Rock was still willing to just kill Wily in 7 >7 Wouldn't that be after years of Wily's schemes getting people hurt? We could have built up to that. >Just because Light built him doesn't mean he's completely against violence. He isn't when it's necessary, he just prefers it to not be necessary.
>>142078485 Honestly, I'm not sure. I've never played it. In fact, I haven't played very many Mega Man games at all, besides a few X titles, which I love.
>>142077368 You just know there would've been a Mega Man Soccer issue if this comic kept going, hell, Megamix/GIgamix did a pretty long gag adaptation of it
>>142077057 >Because a robot with near-human thinking ability that can't love is far scarier than one who can Tom's read his Harlan Ellison and seen his Kubrick and Cameron.
>>142077665 "We can have the Mega Man x Sonic crossover be non-canon. Now in this issue, Mega Man's fighting Proto Man, which ends on—" "You gotta make the crossover canon to this story." "Uh, Wily says he's gonna do something and in the middle of the fight, suddenly there's a white light that envelopes everything..."
I wonder how Xander would take Mobius? I can see him being completely mind broken at the mere existence of Nicole. And he'd probably find the Dark Legion & Legionization to be walking abominations.
>>142076988 >>Fahran No one made the connection yet? Alright, restaurant is named after Pat Fahran (Paxy Faran in JP) from Battle Network, she was a chef from Yumland and is the Operator for SlashMan.EXE. You meat her in BN6 Gregar Ver.
>>142080830 You can thank declining sales for that. BN4 was the peak... and man does that game have problems. They coursed corrected with 5 and streamlined with 6, but the BN fervor was done, and sadly Starforce couldn't recapture the magic (even if 1 and 3 are great games).
Don't have much to add (and I'm not really a fan of both crossovers), but I'm really looking forward for absolute Rotor love Ian will drop with all the might on him, soft-boot onwards. :3=
Miss you, best boy. Rest peacefully over all the succulent fish just for you, old cutiepie.
>>142081281 I really, REALLY doubt that. Capcom was thinking about making a BN7 before they decided to retool to a sequel series that... was still reliant on the popularity of Battle Network to sell.
I think as anon mentioned BN4 just hit a peak because of like 3 reasons. It had the momentum of the first 3 well-liked games. It was released when the anime was running worldwide with the momentum. And it had the Django crossover to possibly draw in another group of fans.
>>142076871 It's honestly a cute ship >>142076898 lmao >>142076936 Poor Ice Man ;_; >>142076988 Awww, I (non-romantically) ship them! >>142077081 Finally a relatable character! >>142077187 ;_; >>142077222 >THE ONLY THING DENSER THAN THE ICE IS ROLL B-but is the only solid that's LESS dense than its liquid form!
>>142077384 Stop putting skulls on everything! It's why no one trusts you! >>142077402 Wew! >>142077412 Here comes the best ship! >He's a good man. Too old though. Not for me ;) >>142077585 Noooo! >>142077665 >And just like that, we fade to white! THE HEART >>142077706 lmao, that comic by Greg's fantastic! >>142077728 Thanks Konductor!
>>142079563 Omelette was always cringe as fuck. She’s literally just Bowser Jr but a girl. She is proof that Sonicfags are unoriginal as fuck and are still just recoloring other people’s ideas to this day.
>>142082326 Yep, with certain exceptions, even the third game in a series will lack in sales compared to the first two. Take Spyro for example. >Spyro the Dragon (1998) — 4.83 million; >Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage (1999) — 3.45 million; >Spyro: Year of the Dragon (2000) — 3.28 million. And all three were on the popular PS1, can't even blame the launch of the PS2 for the third game's lower sales because the PS2 was backwards compatible.
>>142085243 I don't think I know of any console game release in the transition period with a backwards compatible console. I think most would want the prettier, fresher, younger hot gi... games that were coming out. But just to evacuate my tidbits for the day: a wrinkle with the PS2 BC games still needed PS1 memory cards. I bet a fair number of kids thought the backwards comparability for the PS2 was busted when they could play but couldn't save the games.
>>142085845 ZX definitely. There's room for Silver to integrate with the heroes and the Guardians, blend in with animal-like robots, and hunt for secrets manipulating time. No one would look twice at him having an artifice or specifically gem-based power, and I imagine a target crossoverplot limitation on his use of Chaos Control would be to have Eggman, Serpent or Albert or Thomas steal his emerald after arriving. But allow Silver to figure out he can use the CIEL crystals as a severely limited means of activating Chaos Control until he can recover the emerald.
Legends would be the next best, because it's a pretty neutral setting. Every island is basically its own nation, setting, time period. So there could be any number of contrivances to make a crossover suit whatever demands the writer wants on a specific made up island. I know technically the plot is post-apocalyptic future and every game is about unearthing a new pre-apocalyptic apocalyptic threat. But I think the idea of just getting away with a new idea is a more interesting than waking up another robot that wants to kill everyone that isn't human.
Zero's setting is probably is the best parallel to Silver's time. While a lot of the things I said about ZX seem to also be possible: it is also probably Mega Man's absolute shit tier for settings with possible crossovers. Since it's the most narrative series: introducing a single person that can talk sense, or stymie the out of control events even a small amount could subvert the entire doom drama novel of a series plot.
>>142086318 Here's a wacky yet stupid idea, I've got fir the Ride. Worlds Unite: Time Crash. Instead of the greater Sega and Capcom multiverse, Sigma fucks with 20XX & Mobius and they end up with a temporary "unified" time line >The "Present"-Mega Man, Sonic, The FF are doing their thing >The "Light Future"-An older Lara-Le is a Maverick Hunter, showing X & Zero the ropes >The "Dark Future" Dr. Weil finds Dr. Finitevus notes and we the aftermath of Project ENERJAK and resurrection of Zero >Silver's Digouter Adventure in Halcyon Days-The adventures of Silver braves the Caotic Ocean to find the Mother Loade. Or it's forgotten name, the Master Emerald
>>142083847 >She is proof that Sonicfags are unoriginal as fuck and are still just recoloring other people’s ideas to this day. You realize the irony saying that about this series right?
>>142080598 Probably form his own FF team made out of technophobes. Not as antagonistic as Jack's crew, but not friendly towards Sally's with Bunnie and Nicole on the team.
>>142087784 Fun fact, Thrash, being an Ian Flynn OC, could have totally shown up in the reboot, but Ian said he didn't want to bring him back because he had too much baggage and was afraid of how readers would react to his return.
>>142090838 >nice fan-cov... >Butler >2023 It's kind of sweet to see that after all those years, people who worked on the comic still remember it fondly.
>>142091380 there's nothing wrong with anti robot terrorists existing, I just think they get a bit ridiculous with payne >I'M XANDER MOTHERFUCKING PAYNE AND I SAW THE 21XX TIMELINE AND I HAD SCHIZO VISIONS OF WORLDS UNITE AND MADE EGGMAN AND WILY LOOK LIKE BITCHES AND I'M ALSO MR. X
>>142091502 I would've pop if they were building him up to be the final comic villain, like he's the reason why all classic characters are missing from the X series.
>>142091380 Much like the other anon said, there isn't a problem with Xander as a concept, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired. His backstory is lame, his personality is too one-note for how important his character is, he has no good dynamic to work off of another character, and most of his moments are him being an annoying schizo who spotlight steals other more important characters. When his debut arc came out a lot of people argued on Ian's forum that Greenleaf was much better than him. It's obvious he was a case of executive meddling.
>>142092587 I've just finished these comics before the ride did. I'm still not ready to go through this again. And it hurts more because on the second time around, I see and process more details than the last time.
