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* [[American Kirby Is Hardcore|American Mega Man Is Hardcore]]: At least, [[Vaporware|he was going to be]] in ''Universe''. The original character was also present under the name of Rockman.
* [[Arm Cannon]]: His signature Mega Buster. It wasn't named until the 4th game, usually just designated in the menu as "P" (which some sources interpreted as "Plasma Cannon", despite him running on solar power).
* [[Arm Cannon]]
* [[Audience Surrogate]]: Actually, his personality never went deeper than being a regular run-of-a-windmill [[Kid Hero]]'s.
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Has the looks and personality of a child, yet is able to kick ass like no one's business.
* [[Bag of Spilling]]: Outside of ''Wily Tower'', Mega Man never keeps his old weapons. By ''[[Mega Man 9]]'', however, he's even throwing away signature abilities seemingly for good!
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: In ''Mega Man 7'', where he {{spoiler|actually attempts to ''kill Wily''.}}.
* [[Blue Eyes]] or [[Green Eyes]]: [[Depending on the Artist]].
* [[Bootstrapped Theme]]: The opening for ''[[Mega Man 2]]'' tends to become his [[Leitmotif]] where applicable.
* [[A Boy and His X]]: [[Transforming Mecha]] [[Robot Dog]]
* [[Charged Attack]]: In all games from ''Mega Man 4'' to ''Mega Man 8''. He lost it in ''Mega Man 9'' for the sake of having Proto Man play differently from him.
* [[Charged Attack]]
* [[Combining Mecha]]: Mega Man can fuse with Rush in ''[[Mega Man 6]]'' to form [[Super Strength|Power]] and [[Flight|Jet]] Adapters. ''[[Mega Man 7]]'' ups the ante by introducing the Super Adapter, which features both abilities from the previous two.
* [[Evil Twin]]: Wily sure likes doing this to him. There's the double in ''Mega Man 1'', ''Mega Man?'' in ''[[Mega Man Powered Up]]'', the Triplets in ''[[Mega Man 3]]''...
* [[Expy]]: Rock is an Expy of ''[[Astro Boy]]''.
** In addition to this, Mega Man is very similar to [[Tatsunoko Production]]'s ''[[Neo-Human Casshern]]'': converted into a battle-bot for the purpose of hunting down and destroying robots that have taken over the world, a father who invented robots meant to serve humankind that eventually went rogue, a [[Robot Dog]] [[Transforming Mecha|capable of assuming multiple forms]]... this is ''very'' noticeable when Casshern and Friender are pitted against three members of the collective Mega family (Roll, [[Mega Man Legends|Mega Man Volnutt]], and [[Mega Man X|Zero]]) in ''[[Tatsunoko vs. Capcom]]: [[Updated Rerelease|Ultimate All Stars]]''.
** In-universe, his personality is much like that of his creator.
* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: According to his ''[[Mega Man and Bass]]'' profile, he likes animals.
* [[Guns Akimbo]]: ''Both'' his arms become Mega Busters in the climax of ''Super Adventure Rockman''.
* [[Hair Color Dissonance]]: He has black hair that is sometimes depicted as blue. (Thethe latter usually involves all-black backgrounds, such as cutscenes.).
* [[Jack of All Stats]]: In entries involving other playable characters, he becomes this.
* [[Leitmotif]]: In some spinoffs and [[Capcom vs. Whatever|crossover]] games, he is musically represented by the title screen BGM from ''Mega Man 2''.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Two meanings. "Rock" as in [[Rock-Paper-Scissors]], and "Rock", as in "[[Punny Name|Rock and Roll]]".
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: In the ending for ''Mega Man 7'', {{spoiler|Mega Man decided to try to kill Wily once and for all instead of simply arresting him like last time. Wily tries to tell Mega Man that he's a robot and thus cannot, and should not kill a human. Mega Man then declares that he is more than just a robot, and prepares to fire. Had Bass not arrived to save Wily, at least in the English version, he would have gone through with it. This is quite a shocker when knowing that Mega Man is normally not one who is willing to hurt a fly.}}.
* [[Mundane Utility]]: Some of the weapons in ''Mega Man 7'' as suggested by [http://www.rockmanpm.com/?p=original/rockman7/labtalk/rightot Auto] and ''especially'' [http://www.rockmanpm.com/?p=original/rockman7/labtalk/roll Roll.].
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: {{spoiler|Averted '''''hard '''''in ''Mega Man 7'''s ending.}}.
{{quote|'''Mega Man''': {{spoiler|"I am more than a robot!! '''Die''' Wily!!"}}}}
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Every Robot Master capable of speech who talks about Mega Man being a little kid who forgets that he's the second to third-oldest (depending on how much truth to Quint's backstory there is) human-built Robot Master.
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* [[The Red Baron]]: The Blue Bomber.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The blue to Proto Man's red.
* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]]: But apparently not to the level of the Reploids seen in the various [[Sequel Series]].
* [[Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids]]: Initially, he wasn't one, since Rock was originally built for lab assistance and housekeeping, but once Light upgraded him to Mega Man, he did become this.
* [[Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids]]
* [[Theme Naming]]: The beginning of a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|symphony]] of musical-related names. It doubles as [[Theme Twin Naming]] with Roll as Rock.
 
=== Dr. Thomas Light/Dr. Thomas Right ===
[[File:mega man classic character sheet dr light.jpg|frame]]
{{quote|The primary developer of the "Robot Master" technology that created Mega Man, Roll, Proto Man, and others. He has always expressed an interest in using his inventions for the good of mankind.}}
 
{{quote|Robot Masters designed by Light have the serial number ''DLN-XXX'' ('''D'''octor '''L'''ight '''N'''umber).}}
 
* [[Absent-Minded Professor]]: Actually believes Wily has changed after ''sending his robot to stop Wily's evil scheme '''twice!''''' Then he believes Wily '''again'' after roughly ''twelve'' more of <ref>How many games were in the Classic series between ''Mega Man 3'' and ''Mega Man 10'' again?</ref> have been foiled, the last of which involved ''framing Light for world domination aspirations!'' If Light keeps this up, he'll develop a reputation for gullibility rivaling [[Sonic the Hedgehog/Characters|Knuckles the Echidna]]!
* [[Always Someone Better]]: Early games depict Wily as jealous of Light's higher achievements.
* [[Big Good]]: Mega Man's and X's creator, a world-famous altruistic scientist, and all-around paragon of the benefits of useful, moral science.
* [[Big Good]]
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: He's built quite his fair share of badass gizmos and robots.
* [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome]]: Fine Dogta Wawwey!
* [[Light Is Good]]: Literally.
* [[Mission Control]]: In later games especially, he gives Mega Man support on missions.
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: Is often in charge of explaining the plot, and in later games how weapons work.
* [[Mr. Exposition]]
* [[Not That Kind of Doctor]]
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]] ''and'' /[[Japanese Ranguage]]: In the earlier games, localization for the English speaking territories alternated between rendering his name as Light, Right, and Wright before making Light the standardized name. Capcom themselves consider both names to be correct since the name of his ''Battle Network'' counterpart (Tadashi Hikari) translates to [[Bilingual Bonus|Right Light]].
* [[Team Dad]]: Quite literally, seeing how Rock and Roll are his children to him.
* [[Team Dad]]
* [[Techno Wizard]]: This guy invented many robots, like Mega Man, the original Robot Masters, and eventually X.
* [[Techno Wizard]]
 
=== Proto Man/Blues (DLN-000) ===
[[File:mega man classic character sheet proto man.jpg|frame]]
{{quote|The "prototype" robot master created by Drs. Light and Wily. He was the first one to be capable of independent thought. Worried that Dr. Light would meddle with his programming, he left Light Labs to wander alone. He eventually finds his "brother", Mega Man, in ''Mega Man 3'', and fights him multiple times.}}
 
* [[Aloof Ally]]
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