Doctor Albert W. Wily

"Ladies and gentlemen. Your attention, please. The name's Wily... The brilliant scientist, Dr. Wily! This may seem rather sudden to you, but I've decided I'd like to take over the world!"

- Dr. Wily

Doctor Albert W. Wily (Ｄｒ．アルバート・Ｗ・ワイリー) (sometimes spelled Dr. Wiley) is the main antagonist of the original Mega Man series, appearing in every game as the antagonist but not necessarily as the final boss. In the Mega Man series, Wily resembles a stereotypical mad scientist as he schemes to take over the world, creating several robots to help him. Though Wily's schemes were stopped time and time again, this did not stop him from being recorded in history as a legendary mad scientist, his legacy continuing even into the next century. He even appears consciously active long after the demise of his mortal body, playing a significant role in the Mega Man X series.

Before the first Mega Man
Dr. Wily was at one time Dr. Light's classmate in the university, however he became a bitter rival during their professional lives. Wily and Light partnered to create robots, being responsible for advancements in the field of robotics. Though Wily won many awards in his time, he was consistently upstaged by Dr. Light, and this wounded his pride. After being shunned from professional circles due to the nature of the experiments he did, and his pride being wounded by Dr. Light, he went missing for a long time. Unlike his MegaMan Battle Network series counterpart, where both he and Light have a family, nothing is known about his personal life and past, except that in the Ruby-Spears cartoon he remembered "Not having toys like the other kids."

After this, Dr. Light completed Proto Man, the first humanoid robot with feelings. However, Proto Man had a defect in his Solar Reactor, and he left LightLabs fearing to be changed, wandering around the world on his own. Dr. Wily came across him (presumably when he had fallen unconscious or broken) and repaired him, giving him a new nuclear core. Unfortunately for Proto Man, a defect still existed. Dr. Wily began to create plans to conquer the world, while Dr. Light continued creating robots to help humanity. After an unknown time, Wily enacted his evil scheme: exclaiming he would achieve this by stealing six (eight in Mega Man: Powered Up) of Dr. Light's industrial Robot Masters and reprogramming them.

Mega Man
During the events of Mega Man, Dr. Wily used Dr. Light's robots to take over Monsteropolis/Monstropolis (a city created in the American instruction manual). He is foiled by the Super Robot Mega Man, that he saw no potential in when he reprogrammed the other robots.

Mega Man 2
Dr. Wily returns in the second game trying to get revenge, this time creating eight of his own robots to defeat Mega Man, but once again fails.

Mega Man 3
In the third game, Dr. Wily pretends to be a good guy and helps Light build Gamma, a giant robot meant to bring world peace. But he also creates 8 other robots to battle Mega Man, as well as the four Doc Robots. During this time period, Dr. Wily steals Gamma and tries to take Mega Man down.

Mega Man 4
Dr. Wily managed to kidnap Kalinka, daughter of the scientist Mikhail Cossack. Dr. Cossack was blackmailed into using his elite robots to fight against Dr. Light and Mega Man. Mega Man and Proto Man helped Dr. Cossack free Kalinka, and stop Dr. Wily.

Mega Man 5
Dr. Wily tries to get revenge on both Proto Man and Dr. Light. He creates Dark Man, a robot with the ability to disguise himself like Proto Man to frame him. Dark Man kidnaps Dr. Light and lures Mega Man out to his doom. Unfortunately for Dr. Wily, the real Proto Man saves the day.

Mega Man 6
Dr. Wily dons the persona of a billionaire named Mr. X (possibly having lived under the pseudonym for a long time). As Mr. X, he calls for a world tournament of the greatest fighting robots. He then reprograms them all to try and take over the world. Mr. 'X' is thwarted as usual, this time resulting in Mega Man sending him to jail.

Mega Man 7
Dr. Wily knew he would eventually be imprisoned, so he had built four robots to search for him if they went without input for six months. He also built Bass and Treble sometime before his imprisonment. He was freed from prison by these robots and used Bass to get close to Mega Man. Wily was defeated once again.

Mega Man 8
Dr. Wily recovered 'Evil Energy' from a robot that fell from space. He used this energy to power his robots. In this game, Bass may have already turned away from Dr. Wily. Duo, another extra-terrestrial robot hunting for the Evil Energy, helps Mega Man defeat Dr. Wily. Interestingly, when the Evil Energy starts infecting Mega Man, Dr. Wily actually seems shocked and horrified at what's happening, which implies that he probably didn't plan on the Evil Energy infecting Mega Man, and that he probably did mean to give up.

Mega Man & Bass
In this game, it is revealed that Dr. Wily built King as a new prototype for a future generation of robots. He even reveals plans for a King II. Bass and Mega Man both defeat Wily, leaving him in the dust once again.

Mega Man 9
Dr. Wily begged for mercy, apologizing for all the wrongdoings he has done in the past. He claims to change his ways for the good, yet mentions that Dr. Light has become a bad guy because Dr. Light's robots are causing havoc to the city, according to the video. He also states that he is willing to create robots to combat these evil robots, in exchange for donations. However, after defeating the bosses, it is revealed that Dr. Wily persuaded the 8 robots by telling them that they are on their expiration date and will be dumped. After Dr. Wily's defeat, Mega Man shows nine of Wily's previous defeats. It is revealed that he was using a fake Dr. Light robot to frame Dr. Light. Dr. Wily escapes again after tricking Mega Man into thinking he had the real Dr. Light. Although the ending states that Dr. Wily was nowhere to be found after the destruction of his base, the credits show Concrete Man chasing him.

Mega Man 10
When the Roboenza strikes most of the robots, including Roll, Dr. Wily goes to Dr. Light's lab and says he had discovered the cure, but the robots stole it and ask for help. After Mega Man got the cure, Dr. Wily got away with it and said he'd only give the cure for those who serve him. He also revealed that he had actually created Roboenza and infected the robots. He and his clone were defeated in space, but he almost died because he was ill and had fever. Mega Man got Wily to a hospital, where he disappeared after his recovery and left just enough medicine to cure all robots.

Other games
In the Game Boy games of Mega Man I-V, Dr. Wily creates 'Mega Man Killers', a special series of robots designed to destroy Mega Man. In these games, he is usually trying to kill Mega Man and fails. In Mega Man II, he travels into the future and kidnaps Mega Man, reprogramming him as Quint. He also tries to use a number of extraterrestrial robots to combat Mega Man in Mega Man V.

Wily is a playable character in the game RockBoard.

Mega Man X series
Though Dr. Wily had died in between the Classic and X series, he lives on through the Maverick Virus. It is revealed that he created Zero to be a powerful robot that would kill Mega Man and Bass (and possibly even X). He used a new, unnamed power source that is more potent than Bassnium, the energy he accidentally created while creating Bass, in Zero's creation. Zero was programmed with an urge to kill, and this program found its way into Sigma, becoming a virus.

Keiji Inafune planned on Mega Man X5 being the last in the series. The references to Dr. Wily and how Sigma met him in Mega Man X5 are vague, although a recent interview revealed that he was integrated into the virus. In any case, it is known in Mega Man X5 that Dr. Wily somehow contacted and taught Sigma about the Virus and Zero, as well as giving Sigma two new bodies to inhabit. This allows one to infer that Wily either designed the virus, or was aware of it.

Since Dr. Wily used the Time Skimmer (time traveling device) in Mega Man II to go into the future and kidnap Mega Man, he may have done so again to check on Zero and saw the state of the world.

Dr. Wily should not be confused with Dr. Weil/Vile from the Mega Man Zero series. It has been directly stated in a recent interview with Keiji Inafune that the two characters are not the same. Weil is pronounced as "While", as in Wily. But, in Japan, the character's name is Dr. Vile, very different from Wily or While, or Weil. (He was renamed in America because VAVA, a Maverick, was renamed Vile in Mega Man X. To hold off confusion, Dr. Vile became Dr. Weil.)

It should also be noted that there is a prominent theory that Serges from MMX2 is Dr. Wily. This is due partly to the manga, which claims they are the same. (Non-game sources generally create their own theories and ideas, and thus are not normally considered canon.) This comes from the fact that Serges states that the rebuilding of Zero is a Purification. Later in Mega Man X5, Sigma tries to reveal Zero's true power with the virus by Purifying him. Serges has worked with Sigma, seemingly understood Sigma's body and Zero's. Serges built at least one body for Sigma, and possibly the bodies that show up in X4 and X5. The theory that Serges is Dr. Wily is usually shunned because Serges seems to be a minor character, and Capcom hasn't made him a bigger villain. Those that are for this theory simply claim he is, but was a minor character to keep the focus on the main characters, (I.E. Sigma, Zero, X) and build up a mystery. A Dr. Wily-esque character in Mega Man X6, Dr. Isoc, is also believed to be Dr. Wily, which is supported by the fact that he is voiced by Takeshi Aono, the same Japanese voice actor of Dr. Wily. The dialogue in Mega Man X6 could also verify that Isoc is Wily: when Zero defeats Gate and discovers Sigma is alive, Isoc exclaims: "G...go, Zero! You're the strongest robot!" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tStEv5AVzY0 Let's Play Mega Man X6! (Part 15)].

Personailty
As the main antagonist of the classic series, Wily has many notable traits and characteristics of an archetypal villian, being cruel and yet incredibly cunning. Wily is well-versed in the art of manipulation, as shown in Mega Man 9 when he manages to convince Dr. Light’s own robots to turn on their creator. He cleverly deduces that Mega Man would not dare shoot at him at the conclusion of Mega Man 7, and his prediction holds merit when Mega Man hesitates upon firing his buster when it is fully charged. Wily, though a genius at his own his right, has shown to be naïve and narrow-minded at times. He has attacked the world many times, with his motives varying from world domination to revenge, only to see his plans foiled time and time again by his arch nemesis Mega Man. In addition, Wily is persistently hopeful that his creation Bass could one day dispose of his greatest enemy, despite knowing that Bass is disloyal and even goes as far to attack him, as shown in Mega Man: The Power Battle, Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters, Mega Man & Bass and Mega Man 10.

Wily is also implied to have had some interest in continuing his work posthumously, as revealed in an interview with Kenji Inafune, when Wily attempted to be “brought back” after death by the original programming of Zero’s- programming that would later evolve into the Maverick Virus.

As diabolical he may be, Wily has exhibited rare moments of decency in his character. In Super Adventure Rockman, Wily shows concern for his arch enemy’ when the Mega Man chooses to use two Mega Busters to win a battle despite possibly expending all of his power. In Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars, Wily speaks to Zero in the deep recess of the latter’s mind during his ending. Wily appears as a father figure to his last creation, giving him words of encouragement and going as far as to call him his “son” (though this could be argued that Wily was simply trying to cajole Zero into completing his yet unnamed “task”).

In all, Wily is a dynamic character. He is usually shown as seemingly pure evil, yet he still retains some redeemable qualities. In fact, prior to the first Mega Man, before his descent towards insanity, Wily was shown to be genuinely helpful to Dr. Light, though not without a tinge of jealously towards his former friend and colleague.

Achievements
Dr. Wily holds a PhD in Robotic Engineering from Robert Engineering University. He's the four years consecutive runner-up of the LIT Manual Design Contest. He has won the Silver prize at the worldwide engineering grand prix and was a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Data
Mega Man: Battle & Chase: 
 * Vehicle: Skull Machine XX
 * Body: Bone Head Body
 * Engine: Nova Engine ("Super Nova Engine" in Japan)
 * Wing: Barrier Wing
 * Tire: Ultimate Tire

Mega Man and Bass CD data
He has created many robots to challenge and defeat Megaman.

"Gha ha ha ha ha! I'm a genius!"

Good point: Genius scientist

Bad point: Incorrigible

Like: World domination

Dislike: Accepting defeat 

Mega Man: Powered Up

 * "Ladies and gentlemen, your attention, please. The name's Wily... The brilliant scientist, Dr. Wily! Now, this may seem rather... sudden to you, but I've decided I'd like to take over the world! HAHAHAHAHA!!! Ahem... Now to begin. Dr. Light, I'll be taking your precious robots!"
 * "Just as I promised, Dr. Light, I'll be taking them with me! Farewell!"
 * "Eight robots and they all end up like this. Dr. Light! Your robots are nothing but junk! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
 * "Feeling sorry for yourself, Dr. Light? You're full of regret, aren't you? Well, then come to my fortress, Castle Wily!"
 * "If only I had programmed you differently back then...! It would've been GENIUS! It's the ONLY mistake I've made in my LIFE!"
 * "WHAT!? Why, you insolent FOOL! I will CRUSH you with a loud, loud crunch! Behold, my latest creation! The ULTIMATE combat robot! Wily Machine Number 1! NUHAHAHAHA!"
 * Aaach! You stubborn fool! This time I'll Finish you for good!
 * "Curses! Useless piece of junk! Wait a second!"
 * "HAHAHAHA!!! It's ALIVE again!! I'm a GENIUS!"
 * "Why, you...! Augh! This calls for a temporary retreat!"
 * "W-WHOOAAH! W-Wait a minute! I-I promise to be good! I'm a changed man! I said I PROMISE! Please don't hurt me!"

Mega Man 4

 * "You betrayed me, Proto Man!! I'm gonna break you, Mega Man!!"

Mega Man 5

 * "Well done, Mega Man! I never expected you to defeat my powerful Dark Man robot!"
 * "Dr. Light is a captive in my lab. Come if you dare! Ha, ha, ha."

Mega Man 6

 * "It's time I've told the truth. I've been manipulating that fool, Dr. Wily from the very beginning!" (Under the guise of "Mr. X")
 * "Now, I no longer need Wily's help! Come and face my power, Mega Man!" (Mr. X)
 * "My scheme for world domination has failed! But I still have enough power to destroy you!"

Mega Man 7

 * "Believe it, Mega Man. Bass and Treble are MY creations!"
 * "I knew you would be stupid enough to trust him, and allow him access to the lab."
 * "And now, Bass and Treble will use the enhancements meant for you and Rush! HAHAHAHAHA..."
 * "OK, I give up. Sorry about all the trouble. I'll go quietly..."
 * "You forget, Mega Man. Robots cannot harm humans..."

Mega Man: The Power Battle

 * "NOOO! My laboratory! Bass, what are you DOING!?"
 * "The strongest, huh? You've been beaten by Mega Man before."
 * "Whatever. You can fight with Mega Man all you want. The robot I'm making right now will blow the BOTH of you away."

Mega Man 8

 * "Mega Man, so you've come! How did you find my secret base? I'm impressed!"
 * "But you're too late! I've found something that's more powerful than this base!"
 * "Now, the world is MINE! Gotcha!"
 * "I'm impressed! I didn't think you'd make it this far, MegaMan! However, I don't have time to deal with you!! Say goodnight!!!"
 * "You're trapped now, Mega Man! You can't move, can you? With this incredible energy, I can't be beaten. It's time to say goodbye! Mega Man!"
 * "Mwa ha ha ha... Looks like that robot can't move! Time to take care of the BOTH of you!"
 * "Silence, fool! I'll defeat you and conquer the world!"
 * "S...Sorry! I was wrong! Please forgive me!"
 * "W...What!"

Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters

 * "You always interfere with me."
 * "Peace for humans and robots? What about MY robots, you metallic hypocrite? Do you destroy robots to bring THEM peace? What's the difference between my actions and yours? We are so alike, you and I!"
 * "HA! What a cheap show! Thanks for being an idiot. I think I'll leave now."
 * "Why do you oppose me, the one who created you?"
 * "You know, I think I regret ever creating you, pompous robot!"
 * "Funny you say that, you're actually right. I studied Mega Man, hoping to create a similar robot, and came across a powerful energy called 'Bassnium' purely by accident. And thus, I created you, Bass."
 * "Currently, Bassnium is the most powerful energy on Earth. But not for long, hee hee! I've learned from my mistake, and I've created a new type of robot which is more powerful than you OR Mega Man!"
 * "Don't be so overconfident. This robot's power level is FAR superior to yours. It's going to be some time before I complete this project, so you'd better get ready!"
 * "With this and my other project complete, I'll take over the world!"

Mega Man & Bass

 * "King, what happened to you? Are your logic circuits damaged? You enemy is right in front of you!" (GBA version)
 * "Piece of junk... I'll boost your brainwashing level!" (GBA)
 * "King, what's the matter? Have your logic chips been fried? You're facing an enemy!" (SNES)
 * "Then I have no choice...I'll raise your power level!" (SNES)
 * "Darn that King! How dare he disobey his maker! It's a good thing that Mega Man took care of him for me! And now I have regained control of my labratory castle. Time to get back to my plan of world domination again! But first, I will personally eliminate Mega Man!" (GBA)
 * "Are you ready to be eliminated, Mega Man!?" (GBA)
 * "Damned King! Turning against the one who made him! Ungrateful cur! But thanks to you, Bass, now nobody stands in my way! Now, before you go haywire like King, I'll take out your control chip! Then I'll have nothing to worry about! Everything will be taken care of!" (SNES version, translated)
 * "Darn that King! How dare he disobey his maker! That junk has been dealt with thanks to you! Now I'll put a restraining bolt on you before you go out of control! Once this is installed, everything will be under control!" (GBA)
 * "WHAT!? Why, you arrogant little worm! You would disobey me, too!? I'll show YOU who's in control!" (SNES)
 * "What impudence!? Are you trying to disobey your maker? I'll show you who is boss!!" (GBA)
 * "F-Forgive me! I only wanted to test your abilities!"
 * "Eeek! Forgive me! I just wanted to test your ability." (GBA)
 * "I've always believed that you are the strongest in the world. But you have not been able to defeat Mega Man... So I began to lose my faith in you. Then I had the idea that I could create a mightier robot. So, I created King... But since you defeated King, I now know the truth... You are the mightiest robot in the world!" (GBA)
 * "Bass, let show you something...This is the plan for King the second. Join with King the second and together, you two will be invincible!" (GBA)
 * "That voice... Proto Man!" (GBA)
 * "Oh no... My beautiful plan...! Bass, destroy Proto Man! (GBA)
 * "What are you waiting for Bass! I said. DESTROY PROTO MAN!" (GBA)

Mega Man 9

 * "I'm so sorry! Please forgive me!"
 * "Ladies and gentlemen, this is NOT my doing! These are Dr. Light's creations! This proves that he's had evil designs on the world all this time!"
 * "I can't join you. I've changed my evil ways. You need to stop this nonsense!"
 * "I, Dr. Wily, have created some of my own robots to stop Dr. Light, but only YOUR donations can complete them! And then, we'll save the world!"
 * "I'm saying that you're all going to end up in the junkyard!"
 * "It's not just you. Millions of robots all over the WORLD are winding up as piles of junk! You work hard for humans, and they destroy you when you're no longer needed! Doesn't that make you angry?"
 * "Just because you reached some arbitrary expiration date doesn't mean you should be scrapped! You're all still quite useful! You have a right to live! I'm going to help you. Together, we'll show the world how useful you all can still be!"
 * "I'd be glad to. You're in good hands with me!"
 * "Please forgive me!"
 * "You beat me again, Mega Man. I should tell you, there's something I was hiding from you."
 * "Dr. Light was taken away by the police, was he not? That wasn't a real officer; it was a fake police robot I created. Dr. Light is in the next room, but he fell ill, so he's sleeping now. You have to hurry and get him to a hospital! This way."
 * "So long, Mega Man! You will be destroyed along with this castle!"

Mega Man 10

 * "HEEEELP!"
 * "One of those infected robots went crazy and attacked me! I've spent the last few days studying this Roboenza. But even my genius was unable to find a cure. So I built a machine that would help me discover the key to developing a cure, but it was stolen by one of those demented robots. I beg you! You have to help me get my medicine-making machine back!"
 * "Greetings, people of the world I hope you're enjoying the effect of my little Roboenza virus. If there are any robots who want the cure, all you have to do is come work for me. And don't think Mega Man is going to save you like usually does. He come down with a nice case of Roboenza himself. Now you will finally see the true genius of Dr. Wily!"
 * "The World is mine! HA-HA-HA-HA... achoo!"
 * "I'm... a human... not a robot..."
 * "Don't be ridiculous..."

Other media

 * Wily appears in all episodes from the Mega Man animated series, where he served as the main antagonist.
 * Wily is one of the main antagonists in Captain N: The Game Master.
 * In Mega Man: Upon a Star, Wily and Mega Man are video game characters that went to Japan in the real world, and Wily is also a ninja.
 * In the manga Rockman Megamix, Wily wears shades and a tie with a skeleton motif.
 * In Mega Man X2 Wily is mentioned by Sigma.

Trivia

 * Wily's first name, Albert, is taken from "Albert Einstein", opposite to Dr. Light's first name, Thomas, taken from "Thomas Edison". However, unlike Dr. Light, Wily has some of a resemblance to the person he is based off of.
 * Master Albert of the Sage Trinity in Mega Man ZX Advent is named after Dr. Wily.
 * According to the American manual for the first Mega Man, Dr. Wily was Dr. Light's assistant and worked on his DRN series of robots. Though this story was reinforced by the Ruby-Spears cartoon and later the PAL version of Mega Man Powered Up, it is not canon to the Japanese version of Wily's backstory.
 * In an article on PC World, Wily was voted as #39 of the top 47 "most diabolical video game villains of all time."
 * In early Mega Man games and manuals, his name was occasionally mistranslated as Dr. Wiley or Dr. Willy.
 * Most of the time, Dr. Wily is seen wearing a simple white lab coat, a white collar shirt, red tie, blue jeans and brown shoes. In instances like Mega Man 8, Mega Man & Bass, and Mega Man: Battle & Chase, Wily is seen wearing a more evil outfit, wearing a white cape instead of a coat, a skull belt buckle, and a purple ribbon instead of a tie, and his hair has a resemblance to bat wings, further emphasizing his evil. In Mega Man Powered Up, he is once more seen wearing his regular coat, but his hair is still bat wing shaped.
 * Dr. Wily appears (in silhouette) in Zero's ending in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars, telling Zero to "finish his task".