Ra Moon

Ra Moon (ラ・ムーン) is an ancient alien super computer, found by Dr. Wily three weeks before the beginning of Super Adventure Rockman, who revived Wily's Robot Masters from Mega Man 2 and Mega Man 3. Ra Moon seems to possess advanced technology that can create robots in a blink of an eye.

Story
Ra Moon crashed on Earth 20,000 years prior the events of the game. According to him, he gave humans the capacity to harbor violence towards each other, the technology and tools to further their hatred, and made them construct a temple for him. His plan was to have the humans wipe each other out and then rule the Earth with an army of his own machines. However, Ra Moon grew tired of the humans' violence and decided to delay his plans, burrowing himself underground alongside the temple.

Years later, Dr. Wily found Ra Moon in the Lanfront Ruins when investigating its electromagnetic field. Ra Moon analyzed Wily's computer and used its data to recreate his robots from DWN-009 Metal Man to DWN-024 Shadow Man, and assisted him in creating Ra Thor. Mega Man fought against the 16 revived robots and defeated all of them, but was knocked down in the last battle against Spark Man, being captured by Wily. Wily and Ra Moon revived all the robots again with the exception of Shadow Man, who could not be repaired. When Wily activates Ra Thor and orders him to destroy Mega Man, Ra Thor attacks Dr. Wily's robots, and Ra Moon reveals that he was only using Wily and plans to destroy Earth. Wily's robots free Mega Man and he fights against Ra Thor to save Wily, destroying him. After the battle, Ra Moon says that Ra Thor was just another of Wily's imperfect machines, and shows that he had secretly created the New Yellow Devil, his appearance being based on the data Ra Moon got from Dr. Wily's Yellow Devil. After a difficult battle, Mega Man manages to destroy both the New Yellow Devil and Ra Moon by firing a charge shot with the Mega Buster in both arms, also taking down the temple.

Other Media
Ra Moon appears in Archie Comics' Mega Man comic series during the "Spiritus Ex Machina" arc. His role is similar to his role in the game, except that the only Robot Masters he rebuilds are from Mega Man 2 and he serves as the initial creator of the Mega Man 3 Robot Masters save Shadow Man, who was an existing robot found in the ruins that he helped Wily restore.

It later appears briefly in the standalone story arc "Rock of Ages", where he evidently turned against Dr. Wily and Wily is begging Mega Man to destroy him. Interestingly, Mega Man reacts as if he had fought and destroyed Ra Moon before.

Ra Moon also appeared during the first issue of the Worlds Collide crossover, and sensed the power of the blue Chaos Emerald. It wanted to study it, but was denied the chance by Wily, who later put it to use alongside the resources of Dr. Eggman to create the Wily Egg and Skull Egg Zone. Dr. Light, in the rewritten reality in Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 250, also reminded Wily of Ra Moon's rebellion against him. The same issue also possessed a teaser hinting at the Ra Moon story arc of Issues 28 and 29-32.

It began its revolt against Dr. Wily in Issue 28. In addition, Wily's robots, due to Ra Moon being directly responsible for their revival, served Ra Moon instead of Wily, although they presumably were given strict orders to not reveal that Ra Moon was responsible to Wily's enemies.

External link

 * Ra Moon at Mobius Encyclopedia, the Archie Sonic wiki
 * Ra Moon at Sonic News Network