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Doctor Albert W. Wily is the fictional main antagonist of the character Mega Man
in the Capcom Mega Man video game series. His goal is usually world domination and he constructs robots to carry out his plans. His character is designed by Keiji Inafune.

Dr. Wily is the typical mad scientist; he is 57-years-old (Capcom officially states this in the Rockman & Forte Japanese game manual), wears a white lab coat (he also sometimes wears a red cape), is unkempt, has a large mustache and is prone to temper tantrums. His looks and name seem to be based on Albert Einstein, though in some artistic renditions (especially in 8-bit graphics) he resembles David Ben-Gurion with a moustache.

History

Original Mega Man series

At the beginning of the Mega Man timeline, Dr. Wily was Dr. Light's assistant, and helped to create eight powerful robots: Rock, Roll, Cut Man, Guts Man, Ice Man, Bomb Man, Fire Man, and Elec Man. Of the eight, only Rock and Roll are portrayed as having any kind of true relational abilities or close relationship (they are classified as brother and sister.) It is not stated whether Dr. Wily helped to build Proto Man (an early prototype robot who is classified as a brother of Rock and Roll).

Shortly after the completion of the eight robots, Dr. Light was the only one credited for their research. Dr. Wily became jealous, and turned evil as a result of this. He reprogrammed six of the robots to do his bidding (however, his mistake was that he didn't take Rock and Roll as he saw the two helper robots as useless). Dr. Wily used their power to attempt global conquest, and Dr. Light was left at a loss for a solution. According to Mega Man IV, Rock volunteered to be converted into a battle robot in order to stop Dr. Wily. Dr. Light agreed and went right to work. From that day forward, Rock also became known as Mega Man. The events of the first Mega Man game and the PSP remake are concerned with Dr. Wily's first attempt at conquest.

Beginning with Mega Man II on, Dr. Wily's main goal is revenge for his humiliation, first on Dr. Light and Mega Man, and then the world. Despite surrendering at the end of each game (typically by bowing in mercy in front of Mega Man), he always returns for the next, to try and conquer the world by creating eight new Robot Masters. In some of the games, Wily disguises his intentions by blackmailing Russian scientist Dr. Cossack, framing Proto Man (which led some fans thinking Mega Man's brother to be evil), impersonating a tournament sponsor called Mr. X, having the Stardroids attempt to conquer the world, or making cover with a fake invasion leader robot named King.

After failing this way several times, he built a new robot based on Mega Man: Bass. As powerful as Mega Man, he confronted the blue bomber several times, only to lose each time. Bass was rebellious and brutal, and even fought against Wily some times.

It should be noted in the upcoming remake of the original NES Mega Man game known as Mega Man: Powered Up, Capcom has retconned the original story and added two new robots, Oil Man and Time Man, thus changing the total that Dr. Wily and Dr Light created from eight robots to ten.

Megaman Battle Network and NT Warrior

Personality

Dr. Wily personifies an evil villain, and always has. He's driven by madness, greed, and rage at his failure to defeat Mega Man and (indirectly) Dr. Light. This madness seems to increase over time as his plans grow more and more haphazard, caring less and less for the sanctity of life and simple common sense.

Wily and Zero

Wily recognized that Bass was too unstable and difficult to control, and he felt he could not trust him enough to fight for his legacy. The mad scientist therefore built in secret a very special robot: Zero (as he mentions in the ending of Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters -- see special quotes below). This robot is stated in later X games as the most powerful robot in the world, and contains the most powerful energy in the world, which Wily discovered accidentally, implimented into Bass (dubbing it Bassnium), and refined into what would be used in Zero.

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