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A [[Sprite Comic]] on the ''[[Bob and George]]'' Web site that retells the ''[[Mega Man (Videovideo Gamegame)|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 character sheet can be found [[MS Paint Masterpieces (Webcomic)/Characters|here]].

* [[Achilles' Heel]]: {{spoiler|Enker's spear.}}

* [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: {{spoiler|[[Mauve Shirt|Fodder Force]] [[No Name Given|Redheaded Guy]], Cutman, and [[Failure Knight|Enker]]}}; due to Doctor Light's attempt at changing the timeline.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: ''[[Post MortemBond One -Liner|"Don't threaten Dr. Light!!"]]''{{context}}

* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]: Mega Man in [http://ferretcomic.com/1040 this strip].

* [[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.

{{quote| '''Electric Man''': Yeah, turned out I couldn't use the Thunder Beam to escape, so I just punched the glass.}}

{{quote| Reader: Excited when we lose, grumpy when we win. That's Quick Man.}}

* [[Buffy -Speak]]: Disgruntled Ferret likes to play around with grammar and tenses. The page pic is an example.

** 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.

{{quote| '''Heat Man''', [http://ferretcomic.com/764 regarding Harmonized Fire Man]: Wow. On the retard scale of 1 to 10, this guy's a J.}}

{{quote| [http://ferretcomic.com/1016 I like to think of the Harmonized robots' attitude as around the same range as someone that donates corpses to charity. Sure it's technically for a good cause, but you're being stupid and terrifying.] }}

{{quote| '''Disgruntled Ferret:''' Reset Man looks so happy that the creepy robot is getting what's coming to him. I don't like Reset Man being happy.}}

{{quote| '''Disgruntled Ferret:''' It's kind of irritating that at this point I can blow off Mega Man's arm and he's barely even annoyed. I like torturing characters, and he's taking away my fun here. }}

* [[Defiant to Thethe End]]: {{spoiler|Cut Man.}}

{{quote| {{spoiler|Cut Man}}: '''Point'''less? That's some bad choice, log guy. I, {{spoiler|Cut Man}}, am never ever ever ever ever '''EVER''' pointless!}}

* [[Determinator]]: Crash Man is able to continue fighting [[Off Withwith His Head|without his head]] or arm.

** Subverted with Mega Man's first fight against Metal Man and Quick Man.

{{quote| Mega Man: {{spoiler|'''Yahoo!''' I died and I '''still''' won!}}}}

* [[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.}}

* [[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.

* [[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?']

* [[Ham -to -Ham Combat]]: The battle between Elec Man and Air Man. Both literal and figurative combat.

* [[High -Class Glass]]: Referenced by [[Smug Super|Electric Man.]]

{{quote| "If I were any classier I'd need a monocle."}}

* [[Hot -Blooded]]: A side effect of using {{spoiler|Quintet's support units.}}

{{quote| '''Mega Man''': When I fight, the ones who take damage are me and the enemy. If I've ''already'' taken damage, that means the enemy has to take ''more'' for things to balance out.<br />

* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons]]: [http://ferretcomic.com/archives/Comic1019.png Quintet has a dragon!]

* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]]: There are [http://www.ferretcomic.com/381 Wild Ninja Colonies] in [[The Verse|Ferretverse]] with the enemy ninja sprites from [[Live a Live]]. Don't forget your [http://www.ferretcomic.com/670 Ninja Repellent].

* [[Kick the Dog]]: A number, most notably Wily berating Enker for asking [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]], Allegro killing an alternate version of Rush, and {{spoiler|Quick Man casually killing the last of the Fodder Force Uber Team.}}

{{quote| "A job where I do nothing all day long? I approve."}}

** 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]].

{{quote| '''Heat Man:''' It's just '''too much work''' to do stuff for Quintet's personal agenda.}}

* [[Permission to Speak Freely?|May I Speak Freely]]: [http://ferretcomic.com/874 "Nah."]

* [[More Dakka]]:

* [[New Era Speech]]:

{{quote| '''Wily:''' Everything will be Mined. All Mined.}}

* [[Non -Action Guy]]: <s>Polka</s> Reset Man

* [[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.

* [[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 Withwith 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 Withwith His Head|his head]]'' at the time.

* [[Paper -Thin Disguise]]: When sending robots into the field, the military just gives them a hat for disguise. Or in Atlas' case, a hat and a [[Badass Longcoat]].

* [[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''.

* [[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].

{{quote| '''Disgruntled Ferret:''' (Regarding [http://www.ferretcomic.com/archives/Comic958.png this comic]) In the Game Boy game where Mega Man uses it, I think Mirror Buster is just a shield that can bounce shots, but instead I made it this thing that absorbs attacks and fires them back as some kind of converted blast. Why? [[Stuff Blowing Up|Because explosions.]]<br />

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Being the epitome of laziness, Heat Man [http://ferretcomic.com/889 says something along these lines.]

{{quote| "''Targets sustain no damge from shot. Calculating...''"<br />

* [[Shout -Out]]: To ''[[Gundam]]'' about once every 150 strips.

{{quote| '''Mega Man:''' Whoa. [[G Gundam|My hand is glowing with an awesome power.]]<br />

{{quote| Air Man: Even if Heaven itself forgives your shenanigans, I, Air Man, will not!}}

{{quote| With Daidigger D, [[Mazinger Z|you can become a god or a devil]]... of mining and construction. }}

{{quote| '''Enker:''' What is Electric Man? [[Castlevania|A miserable pile of circuits.]]}}

** [http://ferretcomic.com/747 I AM] [[Zelda II: theThe Adventure of Link|ERROR]].

** Instead of being referred to as a "Mega Man Killer", Enker instead goes by the title of [http://www.ferretcomic.com/archives/Comic162.png "Mega Man Hunter"]. Possibly as a nod to the [[Mega Man X (Video Game)|X-Hunters and Maverick Hunters]], possibly just to sound less silly.

** [http://ferretcomic.com/517 That Air Man lookalike] that everyone believes turns into Air Man? [http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Wave_Man_(PC) Wave Man]([[NamesName's the Same|Not THAT Wave Man]]) of the equally bad Mega Man 3 DOS.

*** [http://ferretcomic.com/1014 Hey there] [[http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Oil_Man_<!-- 28PC29%28PC%29 Oil Ma-]], I mean, Flash Man. -->

** The flying surfboard has a 2 on it for a reason. It's Ferret's interpretation of Item 2 from [[MM 2]]MM2.

** [[Mega Man (Animationanimation)|The Ruby Spears show]] certainly gets attention as well.

{{quote| '''Mega Man:''' I'm a super fighting robot. I'm here to super fight.}}

{{quote| ''"I am the Destroyer!"''}}

** Quick Man's physique is a blatant reference to how Hitoshi Ariga drew the character, rather than the official [[MM 2]]MM2 art or sprite.

{{quote| '''Ariga''': When I was playing ''2'', I always felt like Quick Man got some preferential treatment. On the stage select screen, his horns were allowed to go beyond the actual frame of the portrait and, when he appeared in-game, his horns would shine.<br />

* [[Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence]]: Played straight, and a major source of [[Hey, You|insults]] between robots and by their controllers.

* [[Super -Powered Evil Side]]: <s>Polka</s> Reset Man's 'other' consciousness.

* [[Super Robot]]: More as tribute. Daidigger D is a remnant of Doctor Light's <s> misspent</s> [[The Kid Withwith the Remote Control|well spent youth]].

* [[Surrounded Byby Idiots]]: Played straight in the first arc. Subverted in the second, where Wily's new minions are competent to the point of being [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]], but Wily still treats them like this.

{{quote| '''X''': Oh hell, he raided the women's locker room for 'prizes' again. * Runs offscreen* You choose strange ways to die, Zero!}}

* [[Taking You Withwith Me]]: {{spoiler|[http://www.ferretcomic.com/960 Crashman shows why he's called The Destroyer.]}}

* [[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.

{{quote| ''' {{spoiler|Quintet}}''': It sounds like you(Dr. Light) know more about it than me, but how about a more convenient way to put it? "This is a robot with no past and no future." }}

* [[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].

{{quote| '''Metal Man:''' Peace without fail, because we're justice! And therefore we are completely blind!}}

* [[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 Thethe Works|more heroic nature]] comes into play, Quintet's had to pull some rather dodgy maneuvers. Lampshaded by Ferret himself:

{{quote| '''Disgrunted Ferret''': You ever get the feeling Quintet's flying by the seat of his robotic pants?}}

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