Repliforce

The Repliforce (レプリフォース), referred to as the Reploid Force in Mega Man Xtreme 2 and Mega Man X5, is a military organization of Reploids that was created by Dr. Cain between Mega Man X3 and X4. The organization was to compensate for the failure of Sigma and Dr. Doppler, conduct further Reploid research and development, and maximize overall Reploid efficiency. It was also to provide support for the Maverick Hunters, to increase their response time and further reduce Maverick activity. However, this proved ineffective and Maverick activity increased at an alarming rate. With wide-scale rioting causing destruction world wide, Repliforce was considered ultimately ineffective and itself potentially dangerous.

In Mega Man X4, the Repliforce was collectively branded as a group of Mavericks, because it was believed that they had attacked the Sky Lagoon, an act really committed by the traitorous Maverick Hunter Magma Dragoon, who had personally sought a battle against Mega Man X. In return for this accusation, their leader, General, retaliated by pushing a movement for Reploid independence, an act that the Maverick Hunters viewed as a coup d'état. In reality, Sigma was pulling all the strings, manipulating events from behind the scenes. A significant blow to the Repliforce was the settling of the conflict which would later be known as the Great Repliforce War, resulting in the deaths of the organization's two major figures, Colonel and General. Iris, the Colonel's sister, was also a victim of the conflict as well via a tragic and misunderstanding battle against Zero which had led to Iris' death.

Two surviving members appeared in Mega Man X5, Spiral Pegasus and Burn Dinorex. Both were hunted and killed as Mavericks: Spiral Pegasus after being infected with the Sigma Virus, and Burn Dinorex was destroyed due to a misunderstanding (he foolishly insisted on fighting the Maverick Hunters, believing that they intended to retire him even when they outright told him that they wanted nothing of the sort).

The organization is briefly mentioned twice in Mega Man X6, though this can be easily missed in the English language versions of the game, due to the term "Repliforce" being wrongly translated simply as "Reploids".

Main Leadership

 * General (Commander-in-Chief)
 * Colonel (Second-in-Command)

Reploid Army

 * Slash Beast (Captain)

Reploid Navy

 * Jet Stingray (Marine)

Reploid Air Force

 * Storm Owl (Commander X4)
 * Spiral Pegasus (Commander Post-X4 and corrupted by the Sigma Virus)

Reploid Special Forces

 * Web Spider (Guerrilla Unit Commander)

Reploid Arctic Force

 * Frost Walrus

Repliforce Disaster Prevention

 * Burn Dinorex (Member Pre-X4)
 * Despite being a member of Repliforce, he took part in criminal activities, having maintained a secret warehouse inside the volcano in which he was stationed to house illegal weapons that he created.

Other Members

 * Iris (Colonel's sister)
 * Red (Rumored to be part of a mercenary unit that survived the Great Repliforce War, but the truth is uncertain )
 * Magma Dragoon (Joined the Repliforce and aided their coup after betraying the Maverick Hunters )

Rockman X4 manga


In the manga version of Mega Man X4, Rockman X4, the Repliforce appears as exactly the same type of group in the game: a military organization of Reploids who fight Maverick threats and occasionally assist the Maverick Hunters. The General is their leader, and the Colonel is their primary field commander. Colonel's sister, Iris, works for Repliforce as a nurse, although she treats both enemies and allies.

In the manga, the Repliforce had been around for considerably longer than in the game where they had only existed for a few months. The manga version of them has existed all the way back before Sigma launched his first rebellion against humanity, during which time the Colonel encountered Zero during a mission and befriended him. However, the group did not assist the Maverick Hunters in quelling the rebellion as the Repliforce had less authority, which drew criticism from the public.

When the Maverick Mechaniloid Eregion decimates a city and causes many casualties, Double from the 17th Elite Unit of the Maverick Hunters finds a piece of equipment with Repliforce's insignia on it next to the Maverick's corpse, and accuses the Repliforce of having engineered the incident. Colonel is snared with electrical chains from a hunter's gun, and Zero, who had just saved Colonel's sister Iris from the Mechaniloid, then asks Colonel for an explanation. He angrily breaks free of the chain, and refuses to disarm, saying it would be dishonorable to do so for a soldier such as himself.

The public is incensed at the fact that Repliforce could be involved, and many humans protest for a reduction of their troop size. The Maverick Hunters decide that Repliforce will be disarmed and temporarily disbanded until the investigation of their actions is complete. However, the day before that was supposed to happen, Repliforce blimps and airships appear across the sky, broadcasting a message to humans from the General at the Repliforce Memorial Hall. Indigant at being accused of Mavericks after working so hard to support humanity, the General announces they will become an independent organization, and that they have already occupied many areas and main roads to aid in their rebellion. He says they shall fight to the end. This causes the government to declare the Repliforce as Mavericks.

The moral ambiguity of the conflict is very much toned down in the manga, with the Repliforce being much more ruthless and depraved. Web Spider slaughters a battalion of Maverick Hunters who went to investigate Repliforce's hidden beam cannon in the jungle, which he was planning to use to burn down a nearby city full of humans. Slash Beast savagely killed one of his own Repliforce subordinates in anger after he reported to Beast that one of their trains had been stopped by the Maverick Hunters. Frost Walrus also slaughtered a squad of Maverick Hunters, and kept their dead bodies encased in ice as a sick part of his "collection". He later released several Maverick Hunter prisoners and told them to run for their lives, all so he could viciously kill each of them with his ice powers, save one, who was saved by X and Blizzard Buffalo, who was reformed in the manga as a hunter.

Eventually, Repliforce sub-commanders Web Spider, Storm Owl and Slash Beast are all terminated by X, while Jet Stingray is killed by an attack from the Reploid Self-Defense Forces. Frost Walrus is killed by the General himself as punishment for earlier misconduct such as starting riots unrelated to the Repliforce's coup and mercilessly slaughtering a battalion of Maverick Hunters and Reploids he had taken prisoner. Zero fights the Colonel twice, and is forced to kill him the second time in self-defense, just like in the game, while he is forced to kill Iris as well who had unwillingly bonded with her brother's remains and become a dangerous Ride Armor type Reploid.

X battles the General and seriously injures him at the Repliforce space station. In the end, Double reveals that he planted the evidence at the scene of Eregion's death to frame Repliforce for it, under Sigma's orders. X then kills Double, and General sacrifices himself to save humanity from the Death Flower satellite's beam weapon. Some Repliforce soldiers survive the incident and then leave in peace.

Trivia

 * The Hidden Base in the first Mega Man Zero game features a pair of large submarines. The Repliforce mark can be seen on these submarines.