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** Alternate possibility: Mega Man knew he couldn't override his programming laws but wanted to make Wily think he could in order to scare him into going straight.

** Other alternate possibility: Mega Man could have violated the laws, but chose not to. Why? Because if he demonstrated that it was possible for him to choose to kill a human, it wouldn't just mean his own end, but perhaps the end of thinking robots period. No way people would allow a robot to think for itself if they couldn't have control over it, at least not at this point in the timeline (X comes way later). Mega Man weighs the options and chooses the one better for himself and all robots in the end, even if it means enduring 3+ more games of Wily's BS.

* The opening of Mega Man 3 said that Rock had a strong sense of justice, and volunteered to be turned into a fighting robot. Mega Man X gets into the whole "thinking for themselves" thing. Wait a minute! Didn't the original Mega Man think for himself? Okay, maybe classic Mega Man was just following a "justice" program, but unless "kicking evil's ass" was part of that program, I think classic very much has emotions.

** The original Mega Man did think for himself to a point, but he still had constraints (allegedly; see the JBM above). X was the first to be completely without constraints; that's why Dr. Light had him undergo 30 years of testing before release, he wanted to make sure he wasn't creating a monster by allowing him completely free will.