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[[File:iamboom.gif|frame|Not really like this. But still entertaining.]]
A [[Sprite Comic]] on the ''[[Bob and George]]'' Web site that retells the ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' storyline, incorporating obscure characters from the Game Boy, PC and [[Wonder Swan]] games as well as original characters. It starts from the beginning collaboration between Wily and Light, details the creation of two prototypes (only one of which is [[Super Prototype|Super)]] and Mega Man's battles to bring down Wily.
It features various flash forwards to possible futures, and <s>Polka</s> Reset Man, the un-super prototype's [[Split Personality]] may be a Stardroid from one such future. The series is memorable for showing an Alternate [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] of Mega Man as a rapidly learning robot, rather than an ice cream loving dumb-bot. It's also notable for showing all sides in the conflict as having a rather good learning curve. The second storyline likewise has a more worldly feel as various factions of [[Red Shirt|Red Shirts]] and world governments try to take steps to reverse engineer and use the robot technology, all while Wily gains some impressive technological advantages of his own and Mega Man and Dr. Light struggle to keep pace.
The humor is based on the character's idiosyncrasies: be it Heat Man's laziness, Ice Man's [[The Ditz|playful ditziness]], or the [[Redshirt Army]]'s utter (and [[Genre Blind]]) expendability. It also lapses into author commentary by Disgruntled Ferret, and POV pieces of minor bit characters like "Brave Core", an awakened Sniper Joe who thinks he's Brave Heart... for robots!
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* [[Achilles' Heel]]: {{spoiler|Enker's spear.}}
** {{spoiler|The Harmony Support Units (And the robots they take over) are weak to Cut Man. Which leads to a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for him - he fires the Rolling Cutter and gets blasted by Mega Man, but uses the Rolling Cutter's [[Boomerang Comeback]] effect to hit Mega Man anyway and break him free of the Harmonies.}}
* [[Acrofatic]]: Wood Man.
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* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Dr. Light, oh so very much.
* [[Badass in Distress]]: Small and temporary example when {{spoiler|Flash Man tries to kidnap Dr. Light. Being a squishy human, Dr. Light still needs help, but is still able to contribute to his escape.}}
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* [[Bag of Spilling]]: Subverted everywhere. Mega Man, [[Genre Savvy]] enough to realize this might happen, attempts to keep his weapons from the first game by saving them on a computer, but Dr. Light finds out and deletes them just before Wily attacks. Then Mega Man loses some more of his abilities when he {{spoiler|dies.}}
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: ''[[
** Bears noting that that is one of ''many'' instances. Mega Man is the nicest guy you could meet, but if you threaten ''any'' innocent people, or worse, actually kill people, he will '''fuck you up'''.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Ice Man and Elec Man, after Mega Man gets nearly killed by Quintet. Ferret's Commentary notes [[Invoked Trope|Elec Man would have arrived sooner, but was waiting for the proper dramatic moment.]]
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* [[Bond One-Liner]]: Many. Subverted on one occasion, when a badly-damaged Mega Man tries to do one after delivering the fatal blow, but passes out before he can finish.
* [[Boring but Practical]]
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* [[Blood Knight]]: Quick Man.
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** Allegro, the eponymous Greatest Killer, also falls into this.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Wily snuck in virus type programming into all the original robot master's to get them to defect. The POV comics with Cut Man's desperate struggles to remain himself are... disturbing and heartbreaking. Then you have the likes of Ice Man jumping headfirst into it and helping to spread the [[Mind Control]].
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** He also doesn't know that Mega Man is the battle mode of Rock, likely due to Wily's ignorance of that fact.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Ice Man, most definitely. Bubble Man, too.
** Harmony-infected robots are rather like this as well. <s> Metal Man</s> Blade Man is like this in spades, as he will alternate between [[Hot-Blooded]] and [[Non Sequitur]] at the drop of a hat.
** This seems to be true of Harmonized robots in general. As observed in the comic:
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** Disgruntled Ferret himself offers this little insight into Harmony's effect on robots:
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* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Dr. Light. [[The Chessmaster|Chessmaster]] in the making, practices [[Street Fighter|martial arts]] <s> in his spare time</s> to stay fit, and shot [[The Dragon|Enker]] in the face.
* [[Cool Shades]]: Employed by Quintet, Reader, Writer, Allegro and even Dr. Wily.
* [[Cosmic Plaything]]: Reset Man.
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** Mega Man, too.
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* [[Cranial Processing Unit]]: Averted. At one point, Crash Man and Heat Man discuss this trope when it's revealed that Crash Man's CPU is in a different location than the head(which was reserved for [[More Dakka|More Explosives]]. Guess what happens, or rather, ''doesn't'' happen when Mega Man slices off Crash Man's head.
** Played straight earlier, where a future Rock kills Allegro by stabbing him in the face. He then [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshades]] it, saying if ''he'' made robots, he'd put the brain someplace else, like in the butt.
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* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Quint.
* [[Defiant to the End]]: {{spoiler|Cut Man.}}
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* [[Determinator]]: Crash Man is able to continue fighting [[Off with His Head|without his head]] or arm.
** Atlas can shrug off being buried under tons of rubble {{spoiler|and take Crash Man's weapon barrage until his energy shield is broken}}.
** Subverted with Mega Man's first fight against Metal Man and Quick Man.
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** Quintet's weakness is that, compared to Mega Man, [[Averted Trope|he]] ''[[Averted Trope|isn't]]'' [[Averted Trope|this.]]
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: {{spoiler|During Heat Man's fight with the Guts Dozer we see Wily working on what looks like Punk, the second Mega Man Killer.}}
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* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Quintet refuses to attack his creator {{spoiler|Dr. Light.}}
* [[Failure Knight]]: Enker, in the second major arc.
* [[Filler]]: [http://ferretcomic.com/archive.php?comic=431 DF likes to take this trope to] [[Serial Escalation]][https://web.archive.org/web/20100610231118/http://bobandgeorge.com/paint/461 levels]. "Full Metal Recolor" may be the most notable example.
* [[Forever War]]: The future according to Quintet.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Oodles of it. Proper list forthcoming.
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* [[General Ripper]]: Captain Fodder.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Rock/Mega Man. Attempts to avoid the [[Bag of Spilling]] (That [[But Thou Must!|occurs anyway]]) and a frequent source of [[Lampshade Hanging]] throughout the comic.
* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]: Played with. Mega Man is so [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness|good]] that he has two good angels on either side in his internal monologue. Lampshades it by asking [https://web.archive.org/web/20190928201930/http://www.bobandgeorge.com/paint/749 'Aren't one of you supposed to be an evil conscience?']
* [[Gretzky Has the Ball]]: Intentionally used when Mega Man and Ice Man start goofing off. Mega Man claims Ice Man almost got a hole in one - while they were hitting a basketball with a baseball bat.
* [[Groin Attack]]: Mega Man to Quick Man.
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* [[Heroic Wannabe]]: Cut Man.
* [[High-Class Glass]]: Referenced by [[Smug Super|Electric Man.]]
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* [[Hot-Blooded]]: A side effect of using {{spoiler|Quintet's support units.}}
** Lampshaded in [http://www.ferretcomic.com/966 this] title. [[Badass Grandpa|Doctor Light]] shows us how its done [[This Is a Drill|old school]].
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* [[Informed Ability]]: Reader states that [[Blood Knight|Quick Man]] is the strongest of Wily's 8, but we only ever see him fight Mega Man (not counting the soldiers he massacres, as well as {{spoiler|the last member of the Fodder Force}}). We do, however, see Crash Man leveling entire military bases and buildings due to the [[More Dakka|sheer volume of his firepower]], not to mention the fact that {{spoiler|he manages to defeat Atlas twice}}.
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]
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'''Dr. Light''': [[Face Palm|I... that... ...Just go back to the lab, Mega Man]]. }}
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons]]: [http://ferretcomic.com/archives/Comic1019.png Quintet has a dragon!]
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* [[Laser Blade]]: Allegro.
* [[Lazy Bum]]: Heat Man is the personification of this trope.
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** Although with Quintet's [[Mind Control|hostile takeover]] of his brothers Wood Man and Flash Man in [http://www.ferretcomic.com/archives/Comic1003.png Comic #1003], [[This Means War|he may no longer]] [[Let's Get Dangerous|be as lazy]].
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*** It's established that [[Justified Trope|The reason for his laziness is an unstable power core]] [[Incendiary Exponent|that, upon over-exertion, sets himself and anything nearby on fire.]]
**** Not just any old power core - ''he's powered by an {{spoiler|unstable nuclear bomb.}}''
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* [[Mind Screw]]: <s>Polka</s> Reset Man's corrupted data, and the mini-arc "Dumb Nonsense."
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The sorry state of Enker in the "Too Serious" side-story is just ''depressing''.
* [[More Dakka]]:
** Crash Man's entire Modus Operandi.
** Mega Man becomes a force to be reckoned with once he gains several Robot Master weapons.
** Quick Man's boomerangs are even accompanied by a "dakka" sound.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Crash Man is called "the Destroyer", and for [[Beam Spam|good]] [[Macross Missile Massacre|reason]].
* [[New Era Speech]]:
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** Also counts as [[Incredibly Lame Pun]], considering he was fooling Light at first by passing off his original plans as mining robots. Even the Wily Machine.
* [[Noodle Implements]]: Did you know you could build a [[Death Ray]] with little more than a [http://www.ferretcomic.com/archives/Comic1003.png cell phone and a paper clip]?
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* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]: Completely averted. After the first major arc, several other organizations are reverse engineering their own robots, including their own Robot Masters.
* [[Not Worth Killing]]: Quick Man lets a deactivated Mega Man live under these reasons. Of course, when he finds out the Blue Bomber ''is'' worth killing, [[Blood Knight|his reaction is quite positive.]]
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|Nuking The Fourth Wall]]: The Atomic Dragon's attack in [http://ferretcomic.com/1031 this comic] is so powerful it vaporizes the comic's boundary frame between the third and fourth panel.
* [[Off with His Head]]: Crash Man in "Live and Learn"<ref>It doesn't stick</ref>, and more fatally, {{spoiler|Roll}} in "Too Serious".
* [[One-Man Army]]: Mega Man fits this until the second game kicks in. Crash Man is a definite example, reminding Wood Man that he had enough ammunition to level the city in a blind and deaf rage. Blind and deaf due to ''[[Implacable Man|missing]]'' ''[[Off with His Head|his head]]'' at the time.
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* [[Psycho Serum]]: The Harmony support units.
* [[Recurring Character]]: A somewhat [[Hot-Blooded]] Sniper Joe that Mega Man reprogrammed with Thunder Beam by the nickname of "Bravecore" occasionally shows up.
* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]: Averted. Early "Ferret-vision" comics aside, Dr. Light's genius and affinity with robotics is very obvious ''and'' beneficial to the heroes. He first helped out the US army during the first major finale (the siege on Skull Castle), which would later come round to bite him in the arse. Since then he's been an even bigger asset to Mega Man, re-building him more than once, inventing his new Support Unit, revamping and bringing in a good-old [[Humongous Mecha|giant mecha]] into battle and even ''rewinding time''.
* [[Resistance Is Futile]]: Said by Quintet [http://ferretcomic.com/1003 here].
* [[Retcon]]: In Ferret vision, there was Polka. Now that Disgruntled Ferret is paying attention, there is Reset Man. Proto Man also no longer goes by the name Blues anymore.
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* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]]: General Spearcarrier initially mistakes Roll for a human girl, much as Lieutenant Gunnady mistakes Mega Man for a little boy. Also, the robots bleed. In Electric Man's case, they [http://ferretcomic.com/208 bleed a lot].
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Another favorite of Disgruntled Ferret. Quote from commentary below:
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'''Disgruntled Ferret:''' [http://ferretcomic.com/archives/Comic973.png These things are not about practicality. I daresay it might be exactly the opposite.] }}
* [[Scary Black Man]]: Colonel Fodder
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* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Air Man, but piss him off and he defaults to a ''much'' cruder way off speaking, meaning that he probably invokes this trope intentionally.
* [[Shooting Superman]]: The military with regular weapons or the E1s against any of the Robot Masters.
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"''Conclusion: cannot retreat. Keep firing out of spite.''" }}
* [[Shoryuken]]: {{spoiler|Mega Man, err, [[Mega Manning|Mega Mans]] Doctor Light's [[Shotoclone|Shotokan Karate]] against [[Cool Ship|The Wily Machine]].}}
* [[Shout-Out]]: To ''[[Gundam]]'' about once every 150 strips.
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'''Mega Man:''' Take ''this''! Your ammo, your energy, and all of your stupid hate! }}
** [http://ferretcomic.com/1069 And the title of this comic.]
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** The resemblance is very loose, but {{spoiler|Dr. Light's [[Humongous Mecha]]}} seems very [[Gurren Lagann|drill happy]]...
*** That might not be, but this definitely is:
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** Daidigger D is a Super Robot reference bonanza, like the Name Letter nomenclature on top of [http://ferretcomic.com/1060 this commentary]
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** Castlevania gets one, too:
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** DisgruntledFerret recently made [http://ferretcomic.com/1021 a filler comic] that shows everyone from the [[Bob and George]] forums who have made a cameo appearance.
** [http://ferretcomic.com/890 Cutman's viral/Harmony form] appears to be directly lifted from [http://www.cutstuff.net/ Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch] [http://a.imageshack.us/img830/2410/zavie.png creator CutmanMike's avatar character.]
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*** Confirmed. Check the [http://ferretcomic.com/cast.html official character page.]
*** Confirmed once more: He's made his [http://ferretcomic.com/1081 official debut].
** The flying surfboard has a 2 on it for a reason. It's Ferret's interpretation of Item 2 from
*** Ferret also depicts all three "Items" [http://ferretcomic.com/archives/Comic1019.png as a single device that can switch between multiple modes.] It's also referred to as a [[Call Forward|Support Unit.]]
** [[Mega Man (animation)|The Ruby Spears show]] certainly gets attention as well.
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** Heat Man being lazy? Yeah that's canon to the games.
** Crash Man's '' Mega Man and Bass'' quote:
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** Quick Man's physique is a blatant reference to how Hitoshi Ariga drew the character, rather than the official
*** His status as Rock's rival (of sorts) harkens back to the character's original role as envisioned by Inafune:
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'''Inafune''': All of those things were intentional. We were trying to give him a special role in the game, as Mega Man's main rival. I guess you could compare him to Bass and Proto Man in the more recent games. }}
** The Stardroids have been hinted at for the longest time via [http://www.ferretcomic.com/archives/Comic078.png flashbacks]. Or rather, the ancient alien race that Sunstar ''belonged to'' has been hinted at. [http://www.ferretcomic.com/archives/Comic642.png They seem] [http://www.ferretcomic.com/archives/Comic643.png to demonstrate] [[Blue and Orange Morality]].
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** Showing that the abused always kick downwards, Enker treats his fellow Robot Masters like this.
** In the fillers where he appears, X is definitely this. Zero, iX, and Harpuia all manage to be not all there in some way or other.
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* [[Taking You with Me]]: {{spoiler|[http://www.ferretcomic.com/960 Crashman shows why he's called The Destroyer.]}}
** {{spoiler|Cut Man does this with Wood Man.}}
* [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]]: The Wily 8 do not really cooperate well with one another in battle, often getting in each others' way. Their general personalities also seem to clash.
** Likewise, Enker doesn't get along with any Robot Masters seen so far.
* [[Telescoping Robot]]: {{spoiler|Reset Man.}}
* [[Theme Naming]]: Aside from the obvious musical-themed names (Rock n' Roll, Enker, Quintet, Allegro and Bass), there's also the support duo known as "Reader" and "Writer".
* [[Title Drop]]: Of Story 2, by {{spoiler|Quintet}}.
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* [[The Dragon]]: Enker to Dr. Wily. Despite his rank, battle prowess and intellect, he still takes severe flak from Wily.
* [[The Voiceless]]: Atlas.
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* [[We Are Team Cannon Fodder]]: Parodied with the Fodder Force.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Quintet has an...''interesting'' interpretation of the phrase, "everlasting peace."
* [[Who Dares?]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20190928201930/http://www.bobandgeorge.com/paint/archive.php?comic=268 Almost a given at some point].
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Quick Man considers Mega Man to be one of these. Mega Man doesn't really care.
* [[You Fail Logic Forever]]: [http://ferretcomic.com/1004 Metal Man.]
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* [[Xanatos Roulette]]: Quintet's plans. Which is rather fitting, considering his counterpart's [[Indy Ploy|approach to things.]]
** [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: Of course, when Mega Man's [[Spanner in the Works|more heroic nature]] comes into play, Quintet's had to pull some rather dodgy maneuvers. Lampshaded by Ferret himself:
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