New Generation Reploid

The New Generation Reploids are a new model of Reploid first introduced in Mega Man X8.

These Reploids have the ability to copy the DNA of other Reploids and alter their own to configure their bodies to perform various tasks, allowing them to do more than their original design. Their copy chips also grants them complete and total immunity to all known viruses. However, it is soon revealed that the copy chips in all new generation Reploids not only contain the data of hundreds of old model Reploids, but Sigma's as well, thus allowing them to go Maverick at will. Axl, a new recruit to the Maverick Hunters and ex-member of Red Alert, is a prototype of these Reploids; however, he chooses to fight alongside X and Zero, and refused the advances of the Maverick new generation Reploids.

Once Sigma is confronted in his palace on the moon, he refers to the new generation Reploids as his children (as their copy chips contain his personal data) and reveals that the Jakob Project that created them was all his doing. After Sigma's defeat, Lumine, the main supervisor of the Jakob Project which the Maverick Hunters were on a mission to save, revealed his own plot to destroy both humans and old generation Reploids alike, believing himself and all new generation Reploids to be superior beings. Lumine ultimately fails, and the production of the new generation Reploid line was discontinued after the news of Lumine's Maverick status was revealed. The use and manufacture of copy chips was also terminated; however, with space development in full swing, there was still a high demand for the advanced new generation Reploids and "years later" copy chip production resumed.

List of Next Gen Reploids

 * Axl - A prototype new generation Reploid and rookie Maverick Hunter.
 * Lumine - Director in charge of the Jakob Orbital Elevator and the Jakob Project, and main antagonist of Mega Man X8.

Eight Mavericks of Mega Man X8:
 * Dark Mantis
 * Bamboo Pandamonium
 * Earthrock Trilobyte
 * Gigabolt Man-O-War
 * Avalanche Yeti
 * Burn Rooster
 * Gravity Antonion
 * Optic Sunflower

Mega Man X8 stage enemies:
 * Guardroids

Trivia

 * Because of Colonel Redips' capability of transforming into other forms (most notably Spider), its suspected that Redips was a new generation Reploid.