Princess Pride (anime)

Princess Pride (プリンセス・プライド) is a character in the MegaMan NT Warrior anime series. She is the princess of Brightland, however she dislikes her royal duties and often sneaks out be with Lan Hikari. The first time the two met she was under the disguise of a boy named Whip (Poipu in Japan). She is the operator of KnightMan.EXE, who she gains the abilities to cross fuse with later on in the series.

Overview
Pride is a loving and warmhearted individual. Despite being a beautiful and feminine princess, she is a tomboy, and enjoys things such as NetBattling, which she shows great skill in, and competing in things such as racing Lan while swimming. She also did mind dressing up as a boy to avoid attracting any attention as she toured DenTech City. Pride often feels constricted by her royal duties and shirks them if she can to go spend time with Lan who she shows great affection for (Lan in turn was shown to have a level of infatuation with her when he found out “Whip” was actually a girl). Despite these things, Pride takes her duties as a princess seriously and will attend to them appropriately when she is needed, as well as fight with her fellow Cross Fusion Members to protect the planet, and is well loved by her people and the world.

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In episode 39 she arrives in DenTech City, disguised as a boy named “Whip” to escape her staff who are looking for her after she ran away. She spends a whole day with Lan, who is oblivious to her true identity, but later finds out that she is a girl. They are attacked by ShadowMan.EXE, who was hired by Grave to delete KnightMan, who was actually the Anti-Virus Program her country was developing, but KnightMan and MegaMan (in HeatGuts Style) manage to fight him off. She returns to Brightland later after an appearance on TV. She appears again in episode 44 when KnightMan goes out of control and is wrecking Brightland's security system. Lan and his friends manage to defeat KnightMan and return him to normal. They then go on patrol and Glyde appears to turn against them, but with MoltanicMan's help, he is restrained. However, it's actually MoltanicMan who has turned against them, and breaks Brightland's security system so Darkland can break through. MoltanicMan is defeated by a combined MegaMan and KnightMan (through ElecTeam Style), manages to repair the security system, and the Darkland Navis are driven back with only seconds to spare. Princess Pride hugs Lan for helping, which makes Maylu Sakurai jealous (which happens quite often through the episode). Princess Pride knights Lan as a royal knight.

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Pride watches on in horror as massive viruses materialized in the real world by Slur.EXE terrorize Creamland, holding her hands and putting her head down in prayer.

Pride later joins the Cross Fusion team and receives the "Crest of Duo". Pride teams up with Laika to stop Asteroid AirMan.EXE and a Dreamland General from destroying a CrossFusion research lab. Later, she goes to the beach along with Anetta, Meiru Sakurai, World Three, and the Cross Fusion Members in episode 44.

She and the Cross Fusion Members fight against the Asteroid Navis Nebula and Duo.EXE. After saving Earth from destruction, she goes back to Creamland.

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Pride is summoned to join the other Cross Fusion Members in fighting off the Earth invasion of Zoanoroids and Beastized Viruses. She fights Zoano KendoMan.EXE, who gets the upper hand and attempts to finish her off before Yuriko Ozono saves her and the two delete KendoMan with ShotGun Battle Chips. Pride states she thought she would never get a chance to fight cross fused again before they are ambushed by Zoano MetalMan.EXE, who launches missiles at them, but the two are un-phased and prepare to strike back. She and Yuriko meet up with the other remaining Cross Fusion Members on Earth at Densan City, where they are joined by BubbleMan.EXE in fighting off a massive swarm of beastized viruses. They begin to get overwhelmed and tired before Rockman uses Trill's Synchronizer powers to erase the viruses from the real world, but the Beyondard Dr. Wily-possessed Super Cyber Beast crosses over from Beyondard onto Earth and easily defeats the Cross Fusion Members, causing them to un-cross fuse. She watches on in worry as Netto, who has become Beast Form Cross Fusion Rockman, fights the Super Cyber Beast, but he defeats it with ease, and Pride and the others then run over to reunite with Netto, Meiru, Enzan, Raika, and Dingo, who return from Beyondard.

This is Pride's last appearance, as she does not appear in the final season of the series.

Trivia

 * While Princess Pride is a member of Gospel in Mega Man Battle Network 2, she is instead targeted by Grave in the anime. Likewise, while in the games Pride has shown to become ruthless in her pursuit of protecting Creamland from Gospel, leading her to join them, in the anime she is optimistic, caring, and has an unwavering sense of justice. Creamland itself is also not in the economic turmoil it is in the games.