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* Could Elpizo be the last host of Sigma's personality? My proof: "I did it! I did it at last! I destroyed X at last!" How could it be an "at last" if he had only known X was the seal for a few hours? Considering that he's compared to Sigma in-game as well... could it be possible?
** "At last" more probably refers to his goal: [[MacGuffin|Acquiring the]] [[Sealed Evil in
** "Few hours"? You seriously don't think the amount of time that passes in real life is the same as time that passes in the story, do you? But yeah, what the above poster said. Dude went through a lot of crap to release the Dark Elf.
** I don't think that he's a host(remember, the Sigma Virus had been purged thanks to the Mother Elf), but I would say he's at least sympathetic to Sigma.
* I just want to say two things before I start this. First, I hate slash pairings. Second, I'm not a yaoi fan '''''AT ALL'''''. Now that that's out of the way... Could it be that the Four Guardians' attitudes towards Zero, which range from [[Blood Knight]], [[In Love
** I could agree with you. Heck, this troper even made a WMG about it:
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** Just to add more fuel to this, if the Mega Man Network Wiki is to be believed, the MMZ Collection site reveals that the Four Guardians aren't just based on X's DNA, they're based on part of his soul.
** The same thing occurred to me, but I [[Poison Oak Epileptic Trees|prefer not to think about it]] for the same reasons as the original troper. If we want to go that route though, X's moments with Zero were never that... violent. And Leviathan is ''female''. What part of X's soul did ''she'' get?
*** This different troper tries to explain it: Leviathan's "soul" is probably also male, but then she ended up in a female body. (Can qualify for [[The Mind Is a Plaything of
*** Or X didn't want to seem gay, and thus Leviathan was made female. Or [[Freud Was Right|for a reason that made Sigmund Freud spin in his grave.]]
*** Leviathan inherited X's childish aspects. Accordingg the the MMZ wikia, Leviathan doesn't particullary enjoy violence that much, but shes thourougly enjoys fighting Zero, being very playful about it as if their battle is a game. [[Word of God]] states that one of the biggest regrets of the development team was that they didn't adequetly flesh out Leviathan's (and to a lesser extent Fefnir's) personalities.
*** There's a pretty easy explanation for that - they are reploids, robots without programmed gender, and thus whether they are "male" or "female" depends on their bodies (since others would expect those in male bodies to be men and those in female ones to be women). So it is a case of [[The Mind Is a Plaything of
** X and Zero already behaved like a gay couple in the X series, so there's no big change...
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This is why Zero no longer inhabits his original body. For whatever reason, the original Zero was killed. They were incapable of bringing back the original mind, so they instead opted to make a perfect replica of Zero's personality. It sucseeded. They also
== Weil wasn't allways evil. ==
Sure, the game established him well as a [[Complete Monster]], and many fans agree with that so much that it's arguably not even subjective. But let's check the manual: The humans feared that the Maverick Wars would happen, so he created the Project Elpizo, a project to create a Reploid to be a perfect ruler (the function of Omega) by using the Mother Elf's program rewriting ability to control all Reploids in the world, avoiding them from becoming Mavericks. Sounds like a good idea, right? <ref>note that X was against the project, as there was confrontation between the philosophies of coexistence and leadership.</ref> But as he said himself in the game, "The joy of ruling all that you see... Only a human could possibly understand!" And, considering of the nature of the project ([[Brainwashing for
* Or he crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] ''after'' the war. Most of the war's casualities are hinted to be because of the Dark Elf and Omega(who are pretty [[Ax Crazy]] to begin with). Plus, given [[Crapsack World|the outcome]], [[Historical Villain Upgrade|it would be expected to exaggerate his actions.]] Not to mention [[And I Must Scream|the kind of punishment Weil got]] would drive anyone to losing all sense of humanity. This makes Weil somewhat of an even more chilling villain: someone who is [[Complete Monster|utterly depraved]], yet his backstory and original methods make him relatable. And thus, more disturbing.
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== Omega is not an original consciousness created by Weil but rather the personification of the Zero Virus. So technically he is Zero, in a sense. ==
When Zero's consciousness was removed from his body for the purpose of studying the virus in his body before the Elf Wars the Zero Virus took over and decided to follow Wily's original programming and as a result went on a rampage. Weil in the illusion of peace created an armor that would suppress Zero's original body and all of its horrible powers and was granted the right to continue the virus research. When the time arrived Weil released the Zero Virus, now named Omega, which corrupted the Mother Elf into the Dark Elf and started the Elf Wars. The possibility that Omega is the Zero Virus is supported by the fact that his presence warps reality and merges the real world with Cyber Space like the Zero Virus did in the X Series, that can't be a coincidence. The Zero we play as in the [[
* Left open to interpretation. In official commentary for the ''Zero'' series Makoto Yabe (Scenario Writer) and Ryota Ito (Series Director) have a discussion about the nature of Omega's origins. Makoto Yabe explains that Omega's personality was certainly programmed by Weil to be his personal messiah that would help him rule the world, but expresses doubt that Weil created Omega's mind. Ryota Ito then chimes in by saying that the original story board idea for Omega was that Zero's original body still contained the Maverick programming created by "a certain doctor who has tried to take over the world innumerable times before" (obviously Wily), and that said side of Zero's personality took over control of the original body once Zero's mind was removed from it. However he states that since they don't discuss the issue in the actual game itself the fans are welcome to come to whatever conclusion they want to.
== Zero knew all along about the connection between the guardians and X. ==
Only subconsciously though. Explains why they are the only antagonists that Zero never kills throughout the series (Phantom killed himself). Zero sensed the connection between them and X, thus when confronted with them, Zero chose to drive them off rather than destroy them. Even when Harpuia was pleading for Zero to [[Mercy Kill]] him, Zero sought to save him.
* When facing Copy X Zero tells him that while the majority of his memories of the past are gone he seems to remember that the original X was much stronger than his Copy is. He also praises the original X as someone who was his friend and whom he knows was much more noble than the current reploid in front of him who has taken on his name. I would say it is certainly plausible that Zero has a sense that the Guardians are similar to X and only fought them because they were in his way, for example back in ''[[
== Zero was a Maverick the whole time ==
And not in the corrupt Neo Arcadia Distopia style of twisting the usage of the word to persecute innocent reploids either, in "the bad ending of X5" way. Ciel is Dr. Wily's great great (ect) grand daughter and when she discovered ancient blue prints of his master creation she decided to seek it out. Zero's mind is so distorted though that he sees pure evil as good, and honest benevolence as something to destroy. Thus Neo Arcadia actually IS a utopia, the X we all know and love is in charge and is greatly pained to see his long lost friend has resurfaced as a mindless killing machine used as a mere weapon by the descendent of his forebears nemesis. This of course means the Cyber Elf X that Zero knows is actually the Obi-wan style AI ghost of Dr. Wily the same way Dr. Light was for X in his series. And Dr. Wile, [[Complete Monster]] extraordinaire, is actually a Dr. Light spirit infused robot body that is created in desperation to bring back X when he was first destroyed, which is why from Zero's perspective he seems to irredeemably evil: because in his twisted Maverick mind the ultimate figure of good is the type of person who gleefully skips across the [[Moral Event Horizon]]. Of course even this act of pure desperation isn't enough, and in the end X destroys himself after being defeated by his friend again rather then endure more senseless fighting. Unfortunately this drives Dr. Light into desperation to bring back the original Zero body, and again since our Zero sees it as a mindless figure of unending destruction, in reality Omega probably was the closest thing to our old Zero that we knew and loved. This would also mean the 4 Guardians were originally stalwart figures of peace, but secretly resented being built for combat and never having a war to fight outside of poultry Maverick outbreaks, so when Zero was awakened they found true meaning in combat and ultimately turned against their master though never sinking so low as to side with that vile spawn of Wily we know as Ciel. And Elpizo was probably this series equivalent of Dr. Doppler in X 3 or something. Obviously this theory implies copious amounts of [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] (of a sort) [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]] s against X, the good guys having to choose the [[Lesser of Two Evils]] in their fight against the Red God of Destruction Wily created by turning Neo Arcadia into a strict police state to protect its citizens which leads to Zero 4, and in the end an obvious [[The Bad Guy Wins]] and [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]] closing of the series.
== When they punished Weil, they mutilated his body. ==
To prevent him killing himself. Granted Weil has proven himself to be [[
The reason why he hasn't/didn't starve/bleed/die from shock is due to the orange liquid. It cauterizes all wounds, and functions as an anasthetic(of course, he'd still suffer from the psychological pain). Cybernetics would get rid of the toxins, and generate energy to keep the body from starving/suffocating. The suit would be desinged to prevent it from injuring itself, so the metallic limbs can't rip it apart. His tounge was also cut out and replaced by a mechanised one. to prevent him from biting it off to bleed. No wonder Weil was so pissed: [[And I Must Scream|He's a mutilated, living corpse unable to eat or breath. Unable to feel anything. Forever.]]
* I dunno about that; in ''Zero 4'' he once got his glass helmet cracked out (after he got a direct hit from Ragnarok's laser and later after his first form boss fight), but he still managed to stay alive.
** Like I said, everything below the diaphram, meaning that his lungs are still able to inhale and exhale. Plus they'd be smart enough to prevent liquid getting out of his chest region, so it would presumably shut off when the helmet is broken. That, or the cybernetics have a breathing supply for him. How else would you explain him not asphyxiating before going [[One
== Zero was really Ciel [[Fight Club|the whole time.]] ==
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