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{{quote|'''''Cut Man:''' I don't have any data on you... WHO ARE YOU?!''
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The fan favorite and oft celebrated adaptation of the classic ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' series by Hitoshi Ariga. Well known inside the fandom but never released in the west, it was originally known only to Japanese and the few western fans that could afford to import it. Scans and translations of the original stories were available, but only of the first few chapters. A well known petition circulated for years, trying to get someone to pick up the series, but it seemed it was to no avail...
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* [[Actually a Doombot]]: Near the beginning of the ''The Greatest Enemy in History'' story arc, after {{spoiler|Copy}} Mega Man foils Dr. Wily's plans, he ''shoots him in the forehead'', only for the head to start bouncing on a spring, revealing it be a robot fake. The real Wily observed the event from his Wily Capsule, shocked at how Mega Man would shoot a human.
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: This, in SPADES. The series does an excellent job of building on a series not known for in-depth plots. From the way Ariga justifies the robot masters' abilities and weaknesses to expanding the personalities of characters who previously had NONE, Megamix is chock full of detail that makes the classic series feel much more alive.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Dr. Wily fluctuates between this and actually being intimidating, particularly in the third story of volume 1, ''Metal Heart.'' The same goes for the third and fifth armies, in stark contrast to their predecessors from Mega Man 2.
* [[
** Averted by Rock & Roll Light. Rock plays it straight in one storyline {{spoiler|but it turns to be Copy-Rock, who subverts the trope because he's basically doing what he was programmed to do. May count as a [[Double Subversion]].}} Alternatively, Rock becoming a hero is a subversion.
** Subverted by the Yellow Devil Mk. II {{spoiler|who just wants to be reunited with his mother}} and when Proto Man does a [[Batman Gambit]]. Proto Man may qualify as another [[Double Subversion]], as he joined Wily willingly (playing it straight), left and now follows his own agenda, which often involves things like harming his siblings or provoking Bass to attack Rock. Also, the Cossackbots.
** Justified for Bass and the reprogrammed Lightbots. Justified and Subverted by Skull Man {{spoiler|via [[Death Equals Redemption]].}}
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* [[All There in the Manual]]: One of the most famous things about the manga series is the [[Doing It for the Art|level of depth]] placed into the Robot Master profiles and concept art at the end of the main manga, combined with some [[Adaptation Expansion]], such as Cut and Metal having specially made hands designed to grip and catch their [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]] projectiles. Hell, Air Man's Tornado Arm works on ''Bernouli's Principle''.
* [[Aloof Big Brother]]: Proto Man to Mega Man.
* [[Always Second Best]]: The reason for Wily's hatred of Dr. Light and his attempt to take over the world is that he's jealous of all the praise Dr. Light receives. The profiles at the end of volume 1 actually state that Wily is ''smarter'' than Dr. Light, but he was never able to fully realize his talent due to their teachers always fawning over Light and never really giving him a chance.
* [[And the Adventure Continues...]]: {{spoiler|The Stardroids are defeated... so here's Wily on his eighth attempt to conquer the world!}}
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Proto Man does more than just fight Rock in this. Probably a [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|type III]].
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* [[Badass]]: This version of Quick Man. Powerful, cool, collected, and able to use his powers in such a way to disable his rival, Flash Man, with ease.
** No mention of Bass/Forte, Proto Man/Blues, Rock, or Elec Man?
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Blues wears a black one when he's passing for human.
** Ring Man wears a trenchcoat, being chief of the Robot Police. Anybody reminded of [[Inspector Gadget]]?
*** With a touch of [[Inspector Zenigata]], yeah...
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: {{spoiler|The Battle & Chase race}}. Also a bit of [[Throw the Dog a Bone]]. Didn't work out too well in the end, though.
* [[Batman Gambit]]: Blues' modus operandi.
* [[Berserk Button]]: A storyline in the second volume hinges on Blues hitting-running Bass', who then finds and hits Rock's in order to get Rock to fight him seriously.
* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Roll and the other Lightbots are Rock's younger siblings. There's also Blues.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: The original Robot Masters in chapter 1, and then again in chapter 2. Blues, when he doesn't make things worse.
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* {{spoiler|[[Blood From the Mouth]]: Proto Man coughs up blood at one point while fighting Mars, [[Fridge Logic|despite being a robot]].}}
* [[Blood Knight]]: Bass, who has no purpose in existence besides fighting to prove he's the strongest.
* [[Blood Sport]]: Dr. Light disapproves of Battle and Chase because of this, and all Rock can say is that at least it's not as bad as the [[Gladitorial Games|tournament]] in ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]] 6''. Dr. Light was supposed to give some sort of a speech for the WRO during it: at the end of the chapter we find out that he missed the whole thing because he couldn't find his ties. While Battle & Chase is a less serious chapter than many of the others, he was probably grateful for the excuse.
** This is also why Rock is so worried about Roll's participation {{spoiler|even before he finds out about the bomb.}} He resorts to things like lying and barricading a door to keep Dr. Light from finding out, knowing he'd be upset.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: The original Robot Masters, as in the original game.
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* [[Composite Character]]: Sort of, more along the lines of a particular detail being recursively added in. {{spoiler|The White Giant first emerges from an Asteroid. The original Duo flew around in space under his own power. The Duo of ''[[Battle Network]]'', however, used a meteor to travel the universe.}}
* [[Continuity Cameo]]: [[Mega Man Battle Network|Ribitta and Sunayama]] appear as staff covering the Battle and Chase. [[Street Fighter Alpha|Charlie]] is also seen as a TV announcer multiple times.
** In Asteroid Blues, you can see [[Mega Man Battle Network|Speedy Dave, Terry Jomon, Princess Pride, Mary Towa, Chaud, Shuko Kido and Mr. Match]] watching a news report on Wily's jail sentence. The judge ruling on Wily is apparently [[Mega Man Zero|Glacier Le'Cactank]] in human form. Robots send to investigate the asteroid look like the Normal Navis and the guardian robots on the asteroid are the first boss from the first [[Mega Man Legends|Legends]] game.
** During Terra'a one on one battle with Rock, some of the spectators around the world include [[Mega Man Battle Network|Raika, Ivan Chillski, Raoul and Dingo]].
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Within the series itself. Wily equips Proto Man with {{spoiler|an alien power crystal found in the Asteroid Alpha ruins}}. When Terra of the Stardroids roams around the city, he detects {{spoiler|that same crystal and recognizes it as "one of [their] own."}}
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** And again in Gigamix Vol. 2 {{spoiler|under the threat of the Stardroids}}.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Dr. Wily had Shadow Man {{spoiler|remove the bomb from Roll's car}} because of this.
* [[Evil Knockoff]]: {{spoiler|Copy Mega Man, meaning the Mega Man the player was controlling in Mega Man 6 was this}}. Technically, also Bass. The idea behind the all-Roll soccer team in the soccer strips, but it takes Dr. Wily a lot of work to make them anything resembling evil.
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Bass and Wily, of course, and Blues' is good enough too, let alone Roll.
* [[Explosive Overclocking]]: Proto Man, armed with a customized [[Arm Cannon|buster]] that uses {{spoiler|an alien crystal power source}}, supercharges a blast in order to prevent a spaceship with Dr. Light on it from crashing on an asteroid. The custom buster blows in half afterward, but he can still use it to some capacity.
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* [[Genre Savvy]]: Rock has his moments, especially in the Battle and Chase story.
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Blues is morally questionable and often times a flat-out jerk, but rarely will he do anything that isn't pushing toward good ends.
** {{spoiler|Played with by the 'White Giant' in Gigamix Vol. 2, as he's on a crusade against evil, but with severe [[Knight Templar]] and [[Implacable Man]] tendencies, while also acting as a [[Sealed Inside a Person
* [[Guile Hero]] / [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Blues, who has Rock and Bass' best interests at heart but has no problem manipulating Bass into attacking an injured Rock, for example. Even worse is the time he {{spoiler|basically set Copy-Mega Man up to commit suicide.}}
* [[Hannibal Has a Point]]: When the Stardoids [[Curb Stomp Battle|all but demolish the Light Numbers]], Dr. Light refuses to repair his own "children" as long as they intend to return to battle (and possibly be destroyed permanently.) After Wily offers to repair them instead, and Light gets pissed at him for it, Wily goes on an epic tirade about [[What the Hell, Hero?|how hypocritical it is for Light]] to deny his creations the power of ''choice''.
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* [[Knight Templar Big Brother]]: A way to interpret Blues, although he'll cheerfully maim them or allow them to be placed in danger.
* [[Les Yay]]: Kalinka and Roll. {{spoiler|In the story where they battle Skull Man, they have to huddle together to avoid Kalinka freezing, with Roll nearly overheating herself in order to save her life.}}
* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: Rock's initial upgrading into Mega Man. Lampshaded by Bass, who realizes that he needs to hurt or threaten others to unlock Mega Man's true power, but instead of attacking Roll he {{spoiler|bombs a city.}} Rock is shocked when he sees Blues annihilating some sniper joes, which implies that he was holding back when he fought Rock before.
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: No, not Dr. Light. {{spoiler|The 'White Giant' from Gigamix Vol. 2 plays with this, being an uncompromising [[Knight Templar]] seeking to destroy all evil in the universe, but with a severely low threshold for what counts as 'evil'. See also [[Good Is Not Nice]] above.}}
* [[Like You Would Really Do It]]: Played straight for the reader but inverted in-universe {{spoiler|for Blues and Kalinka during the Copy Mega Man storyline. They think he would, but he wouldn't.}}
* [[Lost in Translation]]: A part of the end of Asteroid Blues only makes sense if the reader is already aware that Proto Man's Japanese name is Blues.
* [[Made of Iron|Made of Ceramic Titanium]]: Rock refuses to go down easy no matter what opponent he's facing. {{spoiler|As the Lightbots prove against the Stardroids, this seems to be a family trait.}}
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Wily, of course, but Auto is pretty out there himself.
* [[Mama Bear]] / [[Housewife]] / [[Wrench Wench]]: It's made clear from her first appearance that Roll is in charge of the Light household, quite willing to order Dr. Light around and hit her younger brothers with a screwdriver to make them hold still to be repaired.
* [[Mayincatec]]: The ruins of Asteroid Alpha.
* [[McNinja]]: Shadow Man. Interestingly, done more accurately than most depictions of ninja. While Shadow Man sees himself as a tool and will use dirty tactics to carry out Dr. Wily's orders, his main duty is apparently that of bodyguard and he's extremely honorable in the old Japanese sense (best shown in Gigamix Vol. 2). It's because he's an honorable character because of (instead of in spite of) being a ninja that his [[What the Hell, Hero?]] towards {{spoiler|Blues}} is so effective, especially since that story arc is the one time he goes against Dr. Wily's orders, violating that honor code in order to help someone. [[Pet the Dog|The contrast]] is [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|effective.]]
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* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: The Stardroids. They even say as much that their purpose is to destroy everything.
* [[Omniscient Morality License]]: Blues, who is finally called out on it by Shadow Man in Vol. 3.
* [[Only One]]: The manga actually shows why Rock is this: robot masters vs. conventional military forces is a [[Curb Stomp Battle]]. It's a discussed trope, since it's why he volunteered to be upgraded into a fighting robot in order to rescue his brothers. Of course: technically there were [[Only One|Only Two]], since Dr. Wily hadn't stolen Roll, either.
* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: This is how Quick Man thinks of himself and Mega Man. When Flash Man tried to usurp this role (going as far as to ''save Mega Man's life'' from Quick Man's fatal strike) Quick Man immediately turned on him so he could have an uninterrupted duel with Mega Man.
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Dr. Light is quite willing to put himself into danger for the sake of his children. Dr. Wily in Gigamix Vol. 2, where, {{spoiler|seeing that the "White Giant" is not the merciful foe Mega Man is, he's so determined to stand by his robots that Shademan has to knock him out to get him to retreat.}}
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** The Fifth Numb-- that is, the ''[[Running Gag|Hourly-Pay Squad Part-Timers]]!!'' (Galaxy, Star, Napalm, Gyro, Crystal, Charge, and Stone) take this trope and run away with it.
* [[Reluctant Warrior]]: Rock. Ariga makes an effort to draw him in human clothes as much as possible to point out that he was built to be a lab assistant, not a warrior: he doesn't fight because he wants to, he fights because he feels he has to.
* [[Rescue Romance]]: Subverted by Bass' 'rescue' of Roll. Roll/Kalinka would qualify as this. Brutally subverted by {{spoiler|Blues and Kalinka}}
* [[Right Makes Might]]: [[Discussed Trope]]. Bass asks Blues what the source of Mega Man's power is. Blues says that it's a combination of the desire to protect everyone's future and [[The Determinator]].
{{quote|Blues: Don't you see...? He preserved your future today, too.}}
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* [[Robot War]]: Some of Dr. Wily's robots want to 'make this a robot's world," as Metal Man says in the chapter where the original robot masters were ordered killed by the government even though they'd been unbrainwashed. Different robot masters seem to have different motivations for serving Dr. Wily, such as a code of obedience (Shadow Man), familial loyalty and, of course, being [[Brainwashed and Crazy]].
* [[Running Gag]]: Everyone except Mega Man calls Bass "[[Berserk Button|that idiot]]" at least once. Even Roll.
* [[Scarf of Asskicking]]: [[The Ace|And]] [[Curb Stomp Battle|how]].
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can|Sealed Evil In A]] [[Sealed Inside a Person
* [[Sempai-Kohai]]: Freeze Man sees this as his relationship with Ice Man due to the latter being an older, more experienced "ice-type"- even though Ice Man is [[One Head Taller|around half his height]].
* [[Shield Surf]]: When Proto Man decides to fly off into outer space to battle the Stardroids, he activates the hidden rocket boosters in his shield and rides it all the way to orbit.
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* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Bass, as is his usual role in this franchise. Elec Man tries to get in on this, but then he becomes good again.
* [[This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself]]: What Blues says when asked why he won't let anyone help Rock.
* [["Three Laws"-Compliant]]: Present, but not effective. They explicitly do more harm than good. Roll is able to disobey a direct order from Dr. Wily offhand (she may have invoked the first law to to so, but still), Rock will put himself in danger, the way he did to help the yellow devil, without human lives on the line (violation of the third law), and it seems easy enough for Dr. Wily to remove them from the robots he reprograms, or never install them in the first place. If he did program his robots with a set of laws focused on him, they're clearly not any more effective than the conventional laws. According to Blues' backstory, they were added in later by Dr. Light, and are buggy enough to interfere with the programming of his fusion generator (how he was meant to self-destruct if he violated them?) and cause the flaw that may one day kill him. Since they're that easy to get around, Rock probably could kill Dr. Wily.
** In the story based on the sixth game, Wily begs for forgiveness and then pulls a (failed) sneak attack when {{spoiler|Copy}} Mega Man turns around. He then gets shot in the face for his efforts. {{spoiler|Turns out it was a robot double Wily left, but he was still shocked that Mega Man fired.}}
* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: Mega Man and {{spoiler|Copy Mega Man}} duke it out, with Mega Man getting the upper hand in spite of {{spoiler|Copy's [[Mega Manning]].}} Then, {{spoiler|Copy starts to burn up as parts of him fall apart, revealing Dr. Wily's Evil Chip, leaving Copy to deny the fact until he looks at a window reflection.}}
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