Quint

Quint (クイント) is Mega Man from the future that was captured and remodeled by Dr. Wily to fight against himself in the present in Mega Man II. His main weapon is Sakugarne, a digging machine that looks like a combination of a pogo-stick and jackhammer.

Contrary to popular belief, Quint is not a Mega Man Killer. He is often mistaken for one because he is an extra Wily stages boss from the Game Boy games like the Mega Man Killers (Enker, Punk and Ballade), and the four appear in the same stage in Mega Man V.

Quint should also be not be mistaken for Rockman Shadow from Rockman and Forte: Mirai Kara no Chousensha, who was created at the same time period as Quint and is similar to him, and uses a weapon similar to Sakugarne. The game is also not considered canon to the mainstream games, while Mega Man II, the game Quint was introduced in, is.

History
Dr. Wily broke into the Chronos Institute and stole the Time Skimmer, a time travelling device. Using it, he travels several years into the future, where he finds Mega Man living in peace and kidnaps him, reprogramming him into Quint. Wily arms Quint with the Sakugarne, a jackhammer-type weapon that turns ground fragments it digs up into deadly projectiles. Mega Man fights against Quint during the events of Mega Man II, and Quint escapes after the battle. Mega Man faces him again inside the Wily Star in Mega Man V, but it's unknown if that's the original Quint or a copy, as several inactive copies of him and the Mega Man Killers can be seen in the Wily Star.

Quint also appeared as a card in the game RockBoard, where he uses Sakugarne to modify one of the opponent's buildings.

Mega Man & Bass CD Data
Dr. Wily has captured Megaman when he came from the future, and has remodeled him.

"It is your destiny!"

Good point: Fortune-telling

Bad point: Time-zone fatigue

Like: Excavation

Dislike: Himself (because he's Mega Man)

Japanese CD data:

Good point: Knowledge of the future

Like: Excavate pitfalls

Dislike: Time Paradox



Trivia

 * "Quint" is a play off of the musical term "Quintet."
 * In the American and European instruction manuals, it's said Wily traveled 37.426 years into the future (mid-21st century) with the Time Skipper, where Mega Man was living in peace. However, Mega Man's kidnapping and taking back to the "present" could be an explanation for why he is absent in the future (if Quint is, in fact, Mega Man). The time Wily traveled is sometimes confused as 37 years or 37426 years because of the decimal separator, but the latter is inaccurate as it's beyond later series like Mega Man X, and it's unlikely Mega Man would still be active after this time.
 * Should Quint, in fact, actually be Megaman, then the fan-theory of a "Cataclysm" occurring to explain why the original Megaman (and the cast of the Classic Series) do not appear in Megaman X is invalidated, as Megaman was reprogrammed as Quint and destroyed by his past self. This not only could prove that Megaman is not the same robot as X, but could even be an explanation for why Dr. Light built X in the first place.