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  1. If you follow the plot of the main series timeline, things progress thus: the original series has Mega Man (Classic) vs. Dr Wily, with the latter never being executed for his actions. Eventually, Doctors Light and Wily make their final works, X and Zero, with the Maverick virus created sometime in the interim (it's implied it was Wily's doing, but never confirmed) and getting into Zero. The Mega Man X series has the virus absorbed from Zero into Sigma, the latter screwed around when fighting Zero instead of doing a quick kill with his beam saber like he's supposed to, who becomes the new Big Bad and spreads the now Maverick virus. The virus is defeated with Cyber Elves, but the source of said Elves is taken over by Dr. Weil, causing the Elf Wars that ravage the Earth and kill off billions of humans and reploids. Again, the human villain is not executed, leading us to the Mega Man Zero series. After that, humanity and reploids merge into a single species seen in the Mega Man ZX series. In the Mega Man Legends series, it's revealed that humanity has been entirely replaced by Carbons, robots that perfectly mimic humans. The last human died before the series started. So, because humanity couldn't put down the human villains, or more broadly because neither political nor military leaders do the smart solutions with psychopaths, not only did humanity eventually die, but the original villains were partially vindicated: Dr. Wily ended the robot war and changed the world through Zero, who would never have been built if Wily was killed after the sixth game, and Sigma more or less got his wish of a human-free world, since they all died and were replaced by robots.
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  3. Goes further when you realize that Doctor Light, the Big Good Guy, invented X and unintentionally set all of that in motion (if it were not for X, Dr. Cain would have never invented the reploids).
  4. It could a step farther when you realize that you, the player, have been bringing this world closer and closer to its death until Zero 4. This is why Capcom should've let Inafune tell the story he wanted. Or at least amend the whole Dr. Wily angle in the X series.
  5. Then there's Omega. The Ax-Crazy psychopath whose Hate Plague powers and ceaseless thirst for blood that ended up killing 75% of sentient life. The horror kicks in when you realize that Omega was exactly what Dr. Wily intended Zero to be. In fact, given what happens in the whole timeline, actually letting Dr. Wily win seems to be genuinely preferable to just thwarting his plans. As bad as his schemes got, they never went as far as what Sigma or later villains wanted.
  6. Remember, Wily became evil because his pride was hurt. Meaning if he won, it would be more or less just to prove he's better than Dr Light. If he won, mankind would probably just have to deal with his ego for a couple decades until Dr Wily dies(he's already quite old.) Compare that with Sigma and Doctor Weil, and you'll be rooting for Dr Wily in no time.
  7. The basic premise: Mega Man is a DRN series robot. The Robot Masters from the first game are also DRN robots. Mega Man must kill his brothers. Not to mention that Guts Man keeps getting brought Back from the Dead in various forms. Poor Gutsy... And if you assume that Mega Man is too unsophisticated to realize the above, think about Mega Man X. All Reploids derive from him, so he has to destroy his offspring, and is fully aware of it.
  8. Think of the attitudes humanity has towards genuinely non-violent robots: in MM9 we see the Robot Masters are still online when Wily finds them. In MMX6, Gate's Reploids are killed off due to their potential risks instead of merely reassigned; in the context of this series, robots are basically sentient, so humans are willing to leave living people to basically starve to death, or outright kill them, out of convenience. Yet, people like Dr. Wily and Weil get to live, with no "kill on sight" orders established before being captured. How horrifically skewed are humanity's priorities towards robots and humans to even allow this to happen? The worst part about this? This means that Dr Weil's Breaking Speechhas ground. Only humans understand the joy of power, ''indeed.''
  9. Translations errors aside, X5 is notoriously off, each X series game takes place a few months after the last one. With a new Robot War starting almost like clockwork, with a Reploid becoming so insane that he does a Colony Drop not even a decade after X is uncovered, is it any wonder that Weil seemed more than a little pissed that Reploids seemed to be getting off too easily for the Maverick wars?
  10. Oh God...that makes Dr Weil even more terrifying. How? Because it means he had a good reason behind his Fantastic Racism. He had JUSTIFICATION.
  11. Not that it makes it any better, but Weil also subverts his own philosophy: He's human, but his omnicidal tendencies are worse than any maverick ever was, Sigma included. Not So Different, eh?
  12. Although, saying all the Reploids should have been punished for the actions of a minority of extremists would be like saying since there are terrible humans, all of humanity deserves to be wiped out. Are there really terrible people? Yes. Do they make up the majority of humanity? No. Even though there have been awful Reploids, most are shown to be peaceful and pretty decent. The attempted genocide of the entire race just shows Weil to be a racist, demented monster.
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