Censorship in the Mega Man franchise

Due to different rules of acceptable content per country, the Mega Man franchise has seen different changes in dialogue, graphics, and tones to match the censorship of each country. This is a page covering such censorships.

Original Mega Man series
The Yellow Devil was originally called “Rock Monster” when the first Mega Man was released in America, to remove the religious connotations with the word devil.

In Mega Man 7 in Shade Man’s stage, Bass utters “Damn...” while talking to Mega Man. Later releases change this to “Darn...”.

Oil Man's colors were changed due to being similar to the blackface.

Bounce Man's Japanese name, Rubber Man, may have been changed to avoid comparisons with rubbermen.

Mega Man Zero series
In the Mega Man Zero series, enemies destroyed by a bladed weapon are bisected and let off red “sparks”. This was removed in the international versions due to resembling blood.

Mega Man Legends
In Mega Man Legends, the option to kick the dog Paprika was removed, as well as kicking cats and shooting down birds. The wild dogs in Old City can still be kicked, but only once for self defense. In the Japanese version, the wild dogs can be kicked any number times. Also, the item Erotic Book was changed to a Comic Book. This change was also done in the Japanese PSP version.

In Mega Man Legends 2, the items Reaverbot Claw and Reaverbot Eye are adult magazines in the Japanese version.

In The Misadventures of Tron Bonne, the name of the item Adult Magazine was changed to Design Magazine, and Servbot #40's skill, H, was changed to Design. After receiving the magazine, #40 will be innocently playing in Tron Bonne's bed, but in the Japanese version he is sniffing the bed to feel Tron's odor.

MegaMan NT Warrior series
In the English dubbed of Mega Man NT Warrior, all swords and Sword battle chips were censored to resemble lightsabers to make them look duller and censor any graphic slicing.

Maddy. Bikini censorship.

All romantic implications between Lan and Maylu Sakurai, including Lan and Princess Pride, were removed from the English dub.

In the episode Ice Ice Baby!, the severity of the injury in Dr. Froid's hand was reduced.