Classic Universe

The Classic Mega Man Universe is an all encompassing term refering to the original series of Mega Man games and all other series on the timeline afterwards. This includes all Mega Man games brought to us by Capcom except for the games of the Mega Man Battle Network series and the MegaMan Star Force series. The first game, Mega Man, was introduced in December of 1987 on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The games are all titled Mega Man followed by the series name (X, Zero, ZX and Legends) and the number that game is in the series.


 * Classic Mega Man Universe
 * Mega Man classic
 * Mega Man X
 * Mega Man Zero
 * Mega Man ZX
 * Mega Man Legends

Classic Series Plot Summary
Dr. Thomas Light was the first to create a lifelike humanoid robot. Using those plans he slowly and meticulously built himself a small lab assistant. He named the assistant Rock. He then created another robot housekeeper named Roll.

Dr. Light shared his skills and plans with his assistant Dr. Wily, and together they made a breakthrough in robotics. They created six master robots to perform tasks that humans could not. All went well until Dr. Wily mysteriously reprogrammed each of the robots. He then proceeded to run off with all six reprogrammed robots.

Before anyone could really get a hold of what was going on, Dr. Wily was on a world conquering rampage of the entire planet.

Rock, having resisted the doctor's reprogramming, volunteered himself to be converted into a fighting machine to combat Dr. Wily's evil robots. Enter Mega Man.

Mega Man fought and defeated all of the reprogrammed robots. He also fought and defeated Wily himself. However, in the last seconds of the battle, Dr. Wily was able to slip through Mega Man's grasp and escape. (Mega Man 1)

Not taking the defeat lightly, Dr. Wily created eight of his own Master Robots. These eight were designed solely to fight and take down Mega Man. He sent them back to pick up where he left off in his previous attempt. Mega Man once again heads out to save the day. (Mega Man 2)

After defeating Dr. Wily for the second time, the evil doctor vowed to mend his ways and make up for all his past mistakes by offering his assistance to Dr. Light once again. Together they built eight more robot masters and even began working on a giant peace-keeping robot called Gamma. Gamma was being constructed to keep the events of the past from ever happening again.

In order to construct Gamma, special crystals were needed. Dr. Light and Dr. Wily built special mining robots to gather these crystal for them. During the mining process however some of the robots went berserk and drove out all of the humans. Mega Man was then sent to retrieve these special crystals for them, accompanied by his robotic dog Rush. It turns out that in the end Wily was behind the whole plan and was stealing the crystals for himself. As soon as he had stolen all of the crystals he activated Gamma and tried to use it to take over the world and defeat Mega Man. In the end Mega Man destroyed Gamma and had Wily in his grasp. The fighting had weakened the fortress they were in began to collapse and Mega Man was trapped under the rubble. Wily made his escape and the tower still crumbled. Proto Man rushed in and saved his brother's life. (Mega Man 3)

X Series Plot Summary
Dr. Thomas Light created a robot he named Mega Man X. X is the successor of the original Mega Man, and he was the first of its kind to be able to think and make its own decisions. Fearing that this new robot could be dangerous, but lacking the time to find out for sure himself, Dr. Light sealed X in a capsule to be opened in the future when the robot’s loyalty could be determined.

A man by the name of Dr. Cain found X’s capsule and released the robot despite the warnings Dr. Light had posted on the capsule. This new scientist was immediately impressed by X’s advanced, humanlike intelligence. Using X as a model, though there were things he had to change since he either didn’t understand how they worked or he wasn’t able to duplicate them, Cain created more robots similar to X which he hence called Reploids. Unfortunately for Dr. Cain, Dr. Light’s greatest fear came true. The new robots rebelled against humankind and became powerful enemies known as Mavericks.

Because of this, Dr. Cain is asked by the council to put a stop to this. He forms a special unit to stop these Mavericks known as the Maverick Hunters. However, the leader of the Hunters and Dr. Cain's creation, Sigma, goes Maverick himself, taking many of the Hunters with him. Thus, the "Maverick Wars" begins to take shape...

True and loyal, X took it upon himself to stop the Mavericks and Sigma. X wasn’t alone, however. He was almost immediately aided by the mysterious Zero. He also encountered capsules left by the late Dr. Light, which possessed holographic messages and useful power-up items from the scientist. Using these power-ups, X increased his meager abilities and brought himself back on par--and beyond--with his enemies.

During a climatic fight with Vile, Zero destroyed himself to save X, allowing X to slay Vile. Alone now, X went on to defeat Sigma and bring the Maverick uprising to a halt.

Eventually more Reploids went Maverick, spawning a group of sane robots to form the Maverick Hunters. Led by X, they struggled to fight off the forces that were trying to eliminate all of mankind. During this, X discovered that Zero’s parts were in the hands of three X-Hunters: Agile, Violen, and Serges. X also discovered exactly into whose hands Zero was to be delivered - namely, Sigma.

Despite the odds, Zero was rebuilt, no worse for wear, and the Maverick Hunters put Sigma out of commission.

For a time.

This is where the tale of Mega Man X2 ends and the story of Mega Man X3 picks up. Dr. Doppler, a Reploid scientist, is possessed by a virus that is none other than Sigma himself, reduced to portable computer code. Sigma finds bounty in this form, however, since it allows him to inhabit whatever robot body he wants. He gets Doppler to construct for him a giant, invincible body, but almost before he can get inside it, X shows up at his front door to take him down.

Sigma’s third fall to a special anti-virus developed by Doppler is no more guaranteed to be his last than any of his others. In fact, he pops up perfectly healthy in Mega Man X4 to start a war between the Maverick Hunters and the elite fighting team known as the Repliforce. He does it again in Mega Man X5 to cause a cataclysm related to the space colony Eurasia which crashes into the Earth. The Nightmare Phenomena in Mega Man X6 which plagued Reploids and created some unusual circumstances were also a result of Sigma's doing. Sigma was also behind the attacks by a Reploid group called Red Alert in Mega Man X7, where Axl’s shape-changing abilities were the prize. In fact, Sigma even had his gloves in the events of Mega Man X8, although it isn't clear whether or not he is the one entirely to blame. It is yet to be seen what, if anything, will be required to finish Sigma off for good.

On the other hand, the Maverick Hunters, by now in full swing with X and Zero being the key players, are joined by Signas, Alia, and others helping behind the scenes, as well as the Reploid known as Axl who has become a full-fledged Hunter. Axl is a prototype to a new generation of Reploids which can copy the appearances and abilities of other Reploids. By the time of Mega Man X8, such Reploids are being mass-produced. This can only result in chaos, and what humans remain are now attempting to flee to the moon, abandoning the earth to the mayhem that their Reploid creations caused.

Zero Series Plot Summary
A hundred years after the fall of Sigma, Maverick Hunters X and Zero have vanished from the view of the public and have become mere legends. Humans and Reploids find themselves at war as the humans have decided to stamp out all of the robots that caused the wars of the past.

Two factions emerge: some Reploids continue to serve the humans, even though the humans are in the process of systematically destroying most of the Reploids. The rest of the Reploids have fled, creating a Resistance Force in an attempt to save themselves from annihilation.

Ciel, a human scientist, joins a group of these Reploids, who have constructed a Resistance Base as their place of operations. By studying Cyber-elves, Ciel hopes to develop a new source of energy that she intends to use to bring peace between the Reploids and the humans. Until then, they fight. Desperate to find a way to survive against the odds, Ciel revives the ancient warrior Zero, who had been locked away for an unknown span of time. Zero awakens with little to no memory of his past, but nevertheless finds himself facing the past when he battles Copy-X, a duplicate of his historic partner, and leader of Neo Arcadia, the primary human city.

When the real X appears, it is in the form of a Cyber-elf. His body is sacrificed in an attempt to imprison the Dark Elf, the source of the Elf Wars that nearly devastated the world years ago. Now X serves primarily as a source of guidance, though he tends to give as little information as possible, revealing things incrementally.

Meanwhile, Dr. Weil, a scientist banished from Neo Arcadia for instigating the Elf Wars using a robot known as Omega, returns with a vengeance to attempt to accomplish his goals once and for all. He takes over Neo Arcadia and makes prisoners out of the humans as much as he wages war against the Reploids.