Mega Man Battle Network/Characters: Difference between revisions

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** English: {{spoiler|Hub is a networking term for a device that allows communication between multiple computers and networks.}}

* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: {{spoiler|He ''is'' Hub (Saito), Lan's dead twin brother. This only applies to the games.}}

* [[Sibling Yin Yang]]: With Lan. Mega Man is polite, composed, and hardworking while Lan is loud outgoing, and kinda lazy.

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: With Lan. Mega Man is polite, composed, and hardworking while Lan is loud outgoing, and kinda lazy.

* [[Spell My Name With an S]]: {{spoiler|"Site" for his human name.}}

* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: {{spoiler|"Site" for his human name.}}

* [[Synchronization]]: In terms of game mechanics, Mega Man can achieve Full Synchro with Lan when he successfully counterattacks an enemy, causing the attack power of his next offensive battlechip to be doubled. In plot terms, this often grants him [[Cutscene Power to The Max]].

** Taken to the next level in the anime with Cross Fusion, which allows him to merge with Lan in order to fight enemies in the real world.

* [[Super Powered Evil Side]]: In the sixth game, resulting from sealing an Eldritch Abomination in his body. He also gains a variation of this in the fourth and fifth game.

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: In the sixth game, resulting from sealing an Eldritch Abomination in his body. He also gains a variation of this in the fourth and fifth game.

** Has shades of this in the manga as Saito (Hubstyle) Rockman. He goes [[Ax Crazy]] from the power until he learns to control it.

* {{spoiler|[[Virtual Ghost]]}}

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes]]: In the anime, Mega Man has a fear of ghosts, since they can't be explained by science.

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: In the anime, Mega Man has a fear of ghosts, since they can't be explained by science.

=== Lan Hikari ''(Netto Hikari)'' ===

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** English: Lan is a pun on the computer term LAN (Local Area Network).

* [[Rollerblade Good]]: Not exactly the [[Badass]] kind though.

* [[Sibling Yin Yang]]: With Mega Man.

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: With Mega Man.

* [[Spell My Name With an S]]: "Net" for his Japanese name has made a few appearances.

* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: "Net" for his Japanese name has made a few appearances.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Curry, especially tonkatsu curry rice.

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* [[Patient Childhood Love Interest]]: Fills just about every detail right up until we get to the romance part. Then Jasmine comes into the picture, and Mayl kicks it up a notch.

* [[Punny Name]]: Her name is a pun on "e-mail" in both Japanese and English.

* [[Spell My Name With an S]]: The English-dubbed anime calls her Maylu. "Mail" has also appeared on a few bits of Japanese media.

* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: The English-dubbed anime calls her Maylu. "Mail" has also appeared on a few bits of Japanese media.

* [[Tsundere]]: In the anime, a type-B.

** Seems to be one in the games as well. On several occasions throughout he series, Mayl calls Lan a dummy, and on the ACDC Area BBS, she wrote:

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* [[Girlish Pigtails]]

* [[Maid Corps]]: They can be seen in montages thoroughout several episodes doing random chores ''across the city''.

* [[Ojou]]: Her father is the CEO of [[Bland Name Product|Gabcom]].

* [[Ojou]]: Her father is the CEO of [[Bland-Name Product|Gabcom]].

* [[Screw the Rules I Have Money]]: Yai is not particularly skilled at Net Battle at all, but makes up for it loads of rare and expensive Battle Chips.

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: Yai is not particularly skilled at Net Battle at all, but makes up for it loads of rare and expensive Battle Chips.

=== Glyde.EXE ===

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* [[Teen Genius]]: More like a preteen genius.

* [[Tsundere]]: [[Ho Yay|Some of his behavior towards Lan]] in the manga can be interpreted this way.

* [[Well Done Son Guy]]

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]

* [[White Haired Pretty Boy]]

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]

=== ProtoMan.EXE ''(Blues.EXE)'' ===

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** [[Not So Stoic]]: Like his operator, he's a bit more hot headed and prone to violence in the manga, usually directed towards Mega Man. Though at one point, when the Navis were physically manifested in the real world, he and Chaud both went after Sean for a comment he made [[Crowning Moment of Funny|at the exact same time.]]

* [[Tsundere]]: Again like his operator, [[Ho Yay|some of his behavior]] towards Mega Man in the Manga can be seen this way.

* [[White Haired Pretty Boy]]

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]

=== Iris ===

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* [[Big Bad]]: In 1, 3 and 6. Also see below.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: why he {{spoiler|gave Dr. Regal [[Laser Guided Amnesia]] at the end of ''Battle Network 5''.}}

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: why he {{spoiler|gave Dr. Regal [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] at the end of ''Battle Network 5''.}}

* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]]: {{spoiler|Gets hit with this in the end of the third game, when Alpha turns on him and devours him. He turned out to be [[Not Quite Dead]].}}

* [[Fat and Skinny]]: [http://lparchive.org/Mega-Man-Battle-Network-4-6/Update%2046/ With Tadashi] in flashback sequences during [[Mega Man Battle Network (Video Game)|Mega Man Battle Network]] 5.

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* [[Made of Iron]]: Survived being at or near the epicenter of at least four different explosions (one of which was strong enough to destroy half of Cyber City and another that ''took out an entire island'') and also having his mind drained by {{spoiler|Alpha}}.

* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: In the second game.

* [[Morally Ambiguous Doctorate]]

* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]

* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]

* [[Pet the Dog]]: {{spoiler|adopting Baryl and paying for the treatment of Mach's ill daughter.}}

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{{quote| In the sixth game, he is Lan's teacher at Cyber Academy. {{spoiler|1=He is the operator of Blastman.EXE and assists the others in capturing MegaMan as a favor to Baryl, but has a sense of guilt and helps Lan find MegaMan after all of the other members decide to break off from Baryl and the World Three.}}}}

* {{spoiler|[[Anti Villain]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Anti-Villain]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Bash Brothers]]: with Baryl.}}

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]/[[Dynamic Entry]]: {{spoiler|his rescue of Lan and Baryl from the W3 dissidents.}}

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* [[Eyes Always Shut]]

* [[Hypocrite]]: He possesses a strong hatred of criminals and anything unjust, but becomes one in the pursuit of his goals. Also, even though he believes in order, he tries to bring it about by destroying the crime-filled world.

* [[Judge Jury and Executioner]]

* [[Judge, Jury, and Executioner]]

* [[Shock and Awe]]: Judgeman has an attack that strikes you with an electrical whip. This seems to be the only "Law" or "Justice" type attack he has since the rest seem to fit the book theme (He was originally called Bookman.EXE which makes much more sense)

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{{quote| A net official that is also a fisherman of sorts. He runs a beef shop. The contradiction is an intentional part of the undercover disguise. Operator of Sharkman.EXE.}}

* [[~~Everythings~~ Even Worse With Sharks]]: subverted.

* [[Everything's Even Worse With Sharks]]: subverted.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: In the anime, he pretends to know nothing of Netbattles.

* [[Secret Identity]]: He is Commander Beef to almost everyone else.

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* [[Ascended Extra]]: In the first game she's simply an optional opponent and has a tournament mini-arc (like any other tournament opponent) in the fourth game. In the anime she's a teammate of Commander Beef.

* [[Green Thumb]]

* [[~~Names~~ the Same]]: From [[Mega Man NT Warrior (Anime)|Mega Man NT Warrior]] she uses the nickname Black Rose as a [[Secret Identity]] (to save the world), [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Akiza_Izinski now who else do we know with that identity].

* [[Name's the Same]]: From [[Mega Man NT Warrior (Anime)|Mega Man NT Warrior]] she uses the nickname Black Rose as a [[Secret Identity]] (to save the world), [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Akiza_Izinski now who else do we know with that identity].

** Though [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100729151130/megaman/images/b/b8/Sal70.jpg Sal's] costume does not look like [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080828162750/yugioh/images/5/54/Black_Rose_Witch.jpg Akiza's] costume.

* [[Nature Hero]]

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{{quote| Lan's father, a renowned computer scientist. Voiced by [[Michael Adamtwaite]] in the dub.}}

* [[Badass Pacifist]] [[Badass Labcoat|Labcoat]]: In the fifth game, he holds out against being subjected to [[Cold Blooded Torture]] for an unbelievable amount of time, and {{spoiler|risks dying in an exploding volcano to give the man who engineered said torture one last chance at redemption.}}

* [[Badass Pacifist]] [[Badass Labcoat|Labcoat]]: In the fifth game, he holds out against being subjected to [[Cold-Blooded Torture]] for an unbelievable amount of time, and {{spoiler|risks dying in an exploding volcano to give the man who engineered said torture one last chance at redemption.}}

** To cover the Labcoat Part, in the third game; {{spoiler|he stays inside the virus lab when it is on fire to try and minimize the damage, keep in mind, that it was over 200 Degrees Farenheit, he even leaves the hospital while recovering to locate the World 3 Headquarters}}

* [[Generation Xerox]]: He continues his father's work {{spoiler|and Lan follows closely in both their footsteps.}}

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* [[Megane]]

* [[Not That Kind of Doctor]]

* [[Unnamed Parent]]: In the English versions of the first three games, he is only referred to as "Dr. Hikari" or "[Lan's] Dad." It wasn't until the Battle Chip Challenge [[Spin Off]] that his first name was revealed, and only the 5th and 6th games mentioned it in the main series.

* [[Unnamed Parent]]: In the English versions of the first three games, he is only referred to as "Dr. Hikari" or "[Lan's] Dad." It wasn't until the Battle Chip Challenge [[Spin-Off]] that his first name was revealed, and only the 5th and 6th games mentioned it in the main series.

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* [[Forced Tutorial]]: For the first two games.

* [[Ship Tease]]: With Higsby, although it's definitely more from his end.

* [[Sibling Yin Yang]]: With her sister Yuri. The anime emphasizes this even further.

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: With her sister Yuri. The anime emphasizes this even further.

=== Ribitta ''(Kero Midoriwaka)'' ===

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* [[Insistent Terminology]]: He insists on being called "Meijin" and not "Meijin-[[Japanese Honorifics|san]]", and always says "san wa iranai" (roughly "no need for the -san") whenever he gets called "Meijin-san". Once, he underscores this by pointing out he isn't even over thirty, yet.

** The dub changes this to an aversion to being called "Mr.", which is a fairly direct translation.

* [[Red Oni Blue Oni]]: With another [[Creator Cameo]] -- the character of Soul Battler Takeshi. Takeshi, who [[Easter Egg|only appears]] in certain message boards in the last few games (and who is the reason for all the "Soul" naming in ''6''), is the Battle Network incarnation of a much-beloved EXE tournament host whose [[Hot Blooded]]-ness is often juxtaposed with the cool, collected Mr. Famous. [http://kobun20.interordi.com/2011/03/30/who-is-soul-battler-takeshi/ More information on Takeshi, here].

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: With another [[Creator Cameo]] -- the character of Soul Battler Takeshi. Takeshi, who [[Easter Egg|only appears]] in certain message boards in the last few games (and who is the reason for all the "Soul" naming in ''6''), is the Battle Network incarnation of a much-beloved EXE tournament host whose [[Hot Blooded]]-ness is often juxtaposed with the cool, collected Mr. Famous. [http://kobun20.interordi.com/2011/03/30/who-is-soul-battler-takeshi/ More information on Takeshi, here].

=== Tory Froid ''(Tohru Hikawa)'' ===

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* [[Kuudere]]

* [[Military Brat]]: Comes with him being a Russian (Sharo) soldier stereotype.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|Green]] [[White Haired Pretty Boy|Haired Pretty Boy]]

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|Green]] [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|Haired Pretty Boy]]

== Net Mafia Gospel ==

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{{quote| He is an ecoterrorist that joined Gospel out of his love of nature. He brags a lot about his IQ of 160. He is the operator of Quickman.EXE, and attempts to blow up a dam in the second game. In the anime, he is a childhood friend of Sal. Voiced by [[Kirby Morrow]] in the dub.}}

* [[Anti Villain]]: Only in the anime, as it turns out that he never truly planned to hurt anyone, and wanted to merely scare them into taking better care of nature. By the end of the episode, he has betrayed Gospel and leaves, but not before saying goodbye to Sal.

* [[Anti-Villain]]: Only in the anime, as it turns out that he never truly planned to hurt anyone, and wanted to merely scare them into taking better care of nature. By the end of the episode, he has betrayed Gospel and leaves, but not before saying goodbye to Sal.

* [[Early Bird Cameo]]: At least in terms of the game's timeline. He sends Lan a thank you letter for stopping the infected QuickMan.EXE before he becomes an enemy in MMBN2.

* [[Informed Ability]]: As Chaud said, his IQ of 160 didn't do him much good...

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* [[Heel Face Turn]]

* [[Inconsistent Dub]]: In 5, he's renamed Dusk.

* [[Instant Awesome Just Add Ninja]]: It's nice to see that even in this advanced age, ninjas can and will still exist.

* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]]: It's nice to see that even in this advanced age, ninjas can and will still exist.

=== Princess Pride ===

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* [[Badass Princess]]: In the anime especially, though she's pretty willing to put her own ass on the line in the games as well.

* [[~~Everythings~~ Better With Princesses]]

* [[Everything's Better With Princesses]]

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: In EXE 5.

* [[Rebellious Princess]]

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* [[Big Bad]]: Games 4 and 5. ''Axess'' season and [[The Movie]].

* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: [[Defied Trope|Mocks]] any [[Black and White Morality|conjecture of heroicism]].

* [[Card Carrying Villain]]: Makes absolutely no bones about his willingness to do horrible things to people.

* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Makes absolutely no bones about his willingness to do horrible things to people.

** [[What the Hell Hero]]: Challenges the heroes' simplistic views of [[Black and White Morality|Good and Evil]] during the climax of the fourth game. Accuses Chaud of slaughtering countless "criminal" [[Net Navis]] during his tenure as an Official, and accuses Lan of being similar when he hunted down the Net Navi responsible for severing global network connections... which almost certainly establishes him as a [[Troll]], since the Heel Navi in question, who had to have a good idea of the magnitude of his actions, ''attempted kamikaze suicide'' when he was cornered.

** [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Challenges the heroes' simplistic views of [[Black and White Morality|Good and Evil]] during the climax of the fourth game. Accuses Chaud of slaughtering countless "criminal" [[Net Navis]] during his tenure as an Official, and accuses Lan of being similar when he hunted down the Net Navi responsible for severing global network connections... which almost certainly establishes him as a [[Troll]], since the Heel Navi in question, who had to have a good idea of the magnitude of his actions, ''attempted kamikaze suicide'' when he was cornered.

* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: He's always been the head of Nebula, but that was largely an issue on the back burner of the story until late in the 4th game. In the 5th game he actually has a plot to enact.

* [[Cold Blooded Torture]]: Does this to Dr. Hikari in the fifth game.

* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: Does this to Dr. Hikari in the fifth game.

** [[Eye Scream]]: In the movie, he kidnaps Yuichirou and performs laser eye surgery on him to extract the last remaining data for Nebula Grey.

* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: Yuichirou bowls the good doctor over in the ending of the fifth game.

* [[Family Unfriendly Death]]: In the anime. He also very clearly commits suicide by falling backwards off a roof in the fourth game, though the fifth reveals he lived. In the manga, he makes a successful escape with his personal submarine... until Forte catches up with him and destroys it wholesale.

* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: In the anime. He also very clearly commits suicide by falling backwards off a roof in the fourth game, though the fifth reveals he lived. In the manga, he makes a successful escape with his personal submarine... until Forte catches up with him and destroys it wholesale.

** Inflicts one on ShadeMan in ''Axess''. It is not fun at all watching Shade screaming as his arms are ripped off. Even less pleasant is when he gets hit point blank with [[Light Is Not Good|LaserMan's]] Cross Laser, which actually manages to explode ''out of him''.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Yuichirou urges him to do this, specifically returning to the mouth of ''[[Determinator|an erupting Mt. Fuji]]'' to offer him a [[Last Second Chance]]. While his mind reels at this ([[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|and with good reason]]), Regal [[Subverted Trope|feebly manages to refuse]]. {{spoiler|And then [[Double Subverted|Papa Wily Shows Up]] and gives him a Bright Slap to remember. [[Laser Guided Amnesia|Or Not]].}}

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Yuichirou urges him to do this, specifically returning to the mouth of ''[[Determinator|an erupting Mt. Fuji]]'' to offer him a [[Last Second Chance]]. While his mind reels at this ([[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|and with good reason]]), Regal [[Subverted Trope|feebly manages to refuse]]. {{spoiler|And then [[Double Subverted|Papa Wily Shows Up]] and gives him a Bright Slap to remember. [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|Or Not]].}}

* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: His motivating principle, derived from society's rejection of his father. His plot in 5 basically amounts to him putting every human mind through hell and watching as the world tears itself apart.

* [[In the Blood]]: A revenge-driven mad scientist? Yeah, he [[Turn Out Like His Father|Turned Out Like His Father]], alright. Ancestry is a recurring theme between him and Yuichirou.

* [[Laser Guided Amnesia]]: {{spoiler|His fate at the end of the fifth game.}}

* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: {{spoiler|His fate at the end of the fifth game.}}

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: While his navi Laser Man has light-based powers, he is just as evil as his operator.

* [[Mind Rape]]: This is basically what happens to people caught up in his version of Soul Net.

* [[Not That Kind of Doctor]]: Shows up as a subtle play in the manga - Dr. Regal, after having been revealed as infiltrating the Ameroupan/Netopian army with Darkloids, introduces himself as "assisting with a [[Eldritch Abomination|birth]]."

* [[One Winged Angel]]: At the end of ''Stream'', he transforms into a huge serpent with a human head. {{spoiler|Not that it avails him much...}}

* [[One-Winged Angel]]: At the end of ''Stream'', he transforms into a huge serpent with a human head. {{spoiler|Not that it avails him much...}}

* [[Shadow Archetype]]/[[Evil Counterpart]]: Of Yuichirou. World-renowned scientist responsible for major leaps in technology? Check. Child of a likewise famous scientist? Check. Develop technology intended to benefit mankind? Ha ha ha '''[[Humans Are Bastards|no]]'''.

* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: One actually went out of its way to point out who the villain was.

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* [[The Dragon]]: To Dr. Regal in the anime.

** [[Dragon With an Agenda]]: Partway through the series before the doublecross.

* [[Family Unfriendly Death]]: Having both your arms violently ripped off and an explosion tear you apart from the inside isn't exactly approved for younger audiances. Hense the 4Kids censoring most of it out.

* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: Having both your arms violently ripped off and an explosion tear you apart from the inside isn't exactly approved for younger audiances. Hense the 4Kids censoring most of it out.

* [[Goddamn Bats]]: His Omega form in 4 splits into four bats with only one being him every time he's hit with an attack that's over 10 damage. made worse is that this move can destroy the Mystery item on his side of the field, the only way to get the [[Shademan SP]] battlechip. He regularly uses homming bats as attacks in 4 and 5.

* [[I Am a Humanitarian|I am a Navitarian]]

* [[I Have You Now My Pretty]]: With his intended "dessert" Roll.

* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: With his intended "dessert" Roll.

* [[Make Me Wanna Shout]]: His Noise Crush ability.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Ishihara stated he had an image of Nobunaga Oda in his mind when designing Shademan.EXE

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* [[Deus Est Machina]]

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu]]: In the games, Lan and Mega Man actually defeat him in combat.

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: In the games, Lan and Mega Man actually defeat him in combat.

* {{spoiler|[[Karma Houdini]]}}: Anime only.

* [[Physical God]]

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* [[Blob Monster]]: fans think that he's the [[Expy]] to the Bio-devils from the original series. With good reason, too.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: first appeared as a harmless little cube guarded by four doors. ''In plain sight'', even.

* [[Desperation Attack]]: Two of them. One might as well be a [[Nuke Em|Nuke]], the other might as well be an electrical [[BFG]].

* [[Desperation Attack]]: Two of them. One might as well be a [[Nuke'Em|Nuke]], the other might as well be an electrical [[BFG]].

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]

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* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]

* [[Shock and Awe]]: One of its most dangerous attacks involves an electrical beam breath that hits the entire front row and the entire column in front of it. If Mega Man is struck by this attack, he'll be stunned and left wide open to a variety of other attacks.

* [[Super Powered Evil Side]]: If he's the one Megaman contains.

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: If he's the one Megaman contains.

=== Falzar ''(Falzer)'' ===

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* [[Laser Guided Tykebomb]]: was created for the purpose of defeating Gregar. [[It Got Worse|Big mistake.]]

* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]

* [[Super Powered Evil Side]]: If he's the one Megaman contains.

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: If he's the one Megaman contains.