Mega Man X/Trivia

"Inafune: "I get a lot of people asking me if Serges is Wily. I always give them the same answer, 'He might be...he might not be.' (laughs) I think this is one of those things that is best left without an official comment. As creators, one of the fun things we get to do is plant seeds of imagination in our players and let them come to their own conclusions.""
 * Actor Allusion: Likely unintentional, but the English voices for X and Sigma from X8 onwards are the same as Domon Kasshu and Master Asia from G Gundam, respectively. In the Day of Sigma OVA, X delivers what strongly resembles a Shining Finger to Sigma.
 * Creator Backlash: Kenji Inafuane became apathetic to the franchise post X5, due to Capcom deciding to milk the series for all it was worth. He may have gotten over this when he tried to remake the series starting with Maverick Hunter X.
 * Executive Meddling: Zero is supposed to be the Mega Man X, but was instead turned into the secondary character, replaced by an Expy.
 * According to Mega Man X Official Complete Works, Inafune himself made the decision after he finished the design for the main character, deciding people would not relate him to Mega Man because he looked too different. So he had someone else design the main character, and instead presented his design as the "side character".
 * Fan Nickname:
 * X's referred to often as "The Blue Bomber of the 22nd Century" or the far pithier "The Azure Hunter."
 * Sometimes, especially by fangirls, "Ekkusu" is also used.
 * For Zero, "The Red Ripper" or "The Crimson Hunter." An odd inversion is that his popular fan "full name," Zero Omega, turned out to have a significant connection (which you should already know) to the Sequel Series.
 * "Jello Man" for Double, due to his appearance.
 * Later averted. "Jello Man" was the name that Capcom gave Double's alter ego. Those that remember Capcom's web site listing the characters before X4's release would remember.
 * Gate's Powered Armor? It was called the Zero Armor because of the source of his research, even though there's already something else called the Zero Armor in-canon (Although Command Mission refers to it as "Black Zero" instead).
 * Hey, It's That Voice!:
 * In the later series, X is DOMON KASSHU! And Sigma is Master Asia.
 * In X7, Red is Barry Burton.
 * For Japanese fans:
 * X from X8 onwards is also Cloud Strife. X pre-X8 coincidentally happens to be Sepiroth's "remnant", Kadaj. And Late to the Punchline time, before he was Kadaj, he happens to be Renji Abarai.
 * Zero is Byakuya Kuchiki (And since we mentioned a Square Enix protagonist for X, Terra too).
 * Axl is Conan Edogawa. Late to the Punchline time. Before that, he's Anna Williams. He's also Pit.
 * Alia is Pixy Misa and Lemmy Miyauchi.
 * Signas is Bright Noa.
 * Name's the Same: His Ultimate armor, X had about three different armors with the same name and similar abilities, the first one from X4 to X6, one in X8 and another in Command Mission; the one in CM not only looks different but its skill set serves for other situations entirely, making it more of a In Name Only.
 * Screwed By The Video Game Company: Keiji Inafune apparently wanted to make more Maverick Hunter X remakes of X2 through X6 for the PSP. Unfortunately, due to apparently low sales, Capcom's executives vetoed it. What makes this worse is this tied in with the Mega Man X Collection. The makers of the XC had developed a large series of improvements for each game (such as re-dubbing X4, giving X6 a new translation, re-mapping one of Zero's moves in X6 so that fighting on ropes was no longer extremely dangerous, and throwing in other various extras). However, someone at Capcom Japan didn't like this, thinking the extras would make the XC overshadow the upcoming Maverick Hunter X series, and so forced the XC's developers to remove all extras and improvements (which were IN the game at some point, as evidenced by a line change in X1, and the re-mapped Zero move from X6 having a different command listing, but the actual way to perform it remaining the same) so that the MHX series could lay sole claim to them. Naturally, the series died after the first game, and so the extras ended up never being used at all.
 * They were still in late enough that they were still referenced by info on the box and manual the removal of the new and updated content was pretty much almost literally a last minute thing.
 * Shrug of God: Regarding the Serges speculation:


 * In the X2 manga adaptation, dialogue implies that Sagasse/Serges is Dr. Wily.
 * Talking to Himself: Dynamo and X are voiced by Showtaro Morikubo.
 * What Could Have Been: Maverick Hunter X is said to be Inafune's reimagined storyline for the series, with better graphics (as it's on the PSP) and focus on plot and characterization. Unfortunately, it didn't sell well.
 * The design for X was actually not the Mega Man-esque one we know, but instead a red robot with booblights and long hair we know nowadays as Zero. Because he thinks that the design doesn't look like the original Mega Man, Inafune discarded the design and then created a new character for that design. And then Inafune says that Zero will steal all the good scenes.
 * According to this article the person who designed X's Ultimate Armor for X4 also made an armor for Zero, that would've been related to Dr. Wily. It sadly didn't make it into the game. Though this does explain why the Black Zero code in X4 didn't do anything: like the purple recolor of X, the new color just meant that the code worked and that the secret armor was unlocked.
 * Izzy Glow's American name would normally have been "Shining Firefly".
 * The Skiver's American name normally would have been "Spiral Pegasus".
 * Duff McWhalen's American name normally would have been "Tidal Whale".