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Mega Man (alternatively spelled "Megaman") is a video game character and the star of the main Mega Man
series created by Capcom. He was designed by Keiji Inafune. In Japan, he is known as Rockman. Due to his popularity, Mega Man is Capcom's official mascot. He has appeared on the NES, SNES, Game Boy, Nintendo 64, Gamecube, Sega Genesis, Game Gear, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and Xbox platforms, as well as in arcades.

History

In the year 20XX, master designers Dr. Thomas Light and Dr. Albert W. Wily worked together to create a humanoid robot. This robot would demonstrate an advanced artificial intelligence program that would allow it to make decisions based on vague commands and directions. They called the robot project "Robot Master", because the resulting robot would be able to supervise the work of other, less intelligent machines.

The first Robot Master created by the two scientists was code-named "Blues", but came to be known as Proto Man. An advanced modification of the police robot Sniper Joe, Proto Man had the ability to lead a small squad of other robots in military applications. However, before testing of his AI was complete, the robot escaped and was thought destroyed.

With the disappearance of Proto Man, Light and Wily decided to create another robot. Fearing that the disappearance of Proto Man was due to the robot not having a peer, the two created a paired unit - twin robots with almost identical designs. These robots were called "Mega" and "Roll".

Mega was created as a general-purpose tool user. Simply by studying how a tool was used, he could mimic its use using a Variable Tool System. This made him the ideal lab assistant. His sister, Roll, was designed for housekeeping.

With the success of these two test-type robots, Light and Wily designed and built eight production-type robots, mainly to be used in the construction and maintenance of public works. These robots were Cut Man, a land reclamation robot; Guts Man, a construction robot; Ice Man, an antarctic exploration robot; Bomb Man, designed to work as a pair with Guts Man; Fire Man, designed for waste management; Elec Man, designed to oversee and control atomic energy power plants. In recent installments there have also been: Oil Man, designed to generate oil for robots; and Time Man, designed to slow down time as part of a time travel experiment. Each of these robots had full use of the Robot Master's intelligence and reasoning potential.

When the time came for Dr. Light and Dr. Wily to be recognised by the world for their contributions to science, however, only Dr. Light was credited for the research. Dr. Wily grew jealous, and decided that he could use these new robots to exact revenge. When Dr. Wily arrived at near Dr. Light's laboratory soon after announcing his plans for world domination, he failed to realize Mega and Roll's potential, so he went to the lab without them, claiming that helper robots are as good as scrap metal to him. He took and reprogrammed the eight construction robots so they became misled and forced under his rule. With his new followers, Wily seized control of the city and demanded recognition.

Realizing that it would be very difficult for the armies to stop Wily without harming the city, Dr. Light knew something had to be done. Due to his programmed sense of right and wrong, Mega volunteered to be converted from his current state as a lab assistant into a fighting robot. Thus, from that day forth, he became known as "Mega Man".

Mega Man's fate

It is not known what happens to the original Mega Man, i.e. Mega, prior to the Mega Man X series. Presumably he is decommissioned, or perhaps "grows old" in a robot fashion, such as his power reserves depleting; or perhaps he is defeated in battle, possibly against Zero. Dr. Light continues his research in robotics, however, and creates X, a thinking robot with designs based on the original. Some theories state that X is the original, but Capcom has always been tight-lipped on any continuity between their series. X is sealed in a capsule and remains inactive until 21XX, long after Mega Man and friends are forgotten.

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