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Sigma is the main villain of the Mega Man X video game series and is the final boss in all games of the series except Mega Man X: Command Mission and Mega Man X8. A stereotypical "power mad" antagonist, Sigma is a Reploid first seen in the original Mega Man X who rebels against humankind using a military force of robots called "Mavericks." The Maverick Hunters
are devoted to crushing Sigma and his minions; X and Zero are among the organization's most prominent members. Sigma appears as a bulky, bald robot in most forms, and often produces a new body after defeat.

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Sigma is the arch-enemy of the Maverick Hunters, and instigated many of the bloody Maverick Wars. However, he was originally built to be the most advanced Maverick Hunter (of the time). Sigma possessed Dr. Cain's latest circuitry designs, which were theoretically supposed to prevent him from going Maverick. He was placed in charge of the 17th Unit of Maverick Hunters, and led his Hunters to victory multiple times.

One day, he received reports of an incredibly violent Maverick. He arrived at an abandoned laboratory to investigate reports of a "red Maverick" that destroyed an entire Hunter squadron. It was there that he confronted Zero, the last creation of Dr. Wily. Zero carried with him a malicious computer virus, one which powered up his abilities and turned him into a "bloodthirsty god of destruction." Sigma fought well, and after a long struggle, defeated Zero. He crushed the crystal in Zero's helmet, an action which transferred the virus directly from Zero into Sigma. Sigma limped away from the battle, and ordered his men to take the body of Zero back for study.

Sigma's advanced circuitry did its job well, as Sigma remained stable for months before succumbing to the virus inside of him. He declared a mass revolt, and instigated total war on the humans. Many of the Maverick Hunters followed him out of loyalty, leaving Zero in charge of the organization. By this time, he had become a very powerful Maverick Hunter. X, the last creation of Dr. Light and the base model for every Reploid, decided to join Zero out of guilt. X and Zero battled through the Maverick regime, and it was X who finally destroyed Sigma. But though his physical body was destroyed, Sigma's soul - the virus - survived, and Sigma had no qualms about leaving a cryptic message for X that stated this very fact.

Over the years, Sigma returned time and time again - the first time he returned with the help of the X-Hunters, and masterminded the Unification plot. X thwarted this, and a reactivated Zero returned to the Hunters as the leader of Zero Unit. Other plots included hacking into the Maverick Hunters' Mother Computer and infecting it with Maverick data. Later he infected the Reploid scientist Doppler and used him to front the revolts in Doppler Town. Sigma was thought to be defeated after X used a true anti-virus made by Doppler. But still, he returned. This time, he used two "Soul Erasers," Berkana and Gareth, in a plot to capture Reploid DNA for an unknown use. He was destroyed after claiming the Soul Erasers had gone too far, but returned when he masterminded the plot to pit the Repliforce Army against the Maverick Hunters. He succeeded, and the Repliforce was decimated before Sigma was defeated.

It was some time before Sigma surfaced again. During his absence, Sigma's consciousness met some incarnation of the evil Dr. Wily, and the two of them hatched a plot to unlock Zero's true power - the power that the original virus gave him. Sigma enlisted the help of a bounty hunter named Dynamo, and plotted to crash the orbiting space colony, Eurasia, into the Earth. The ultimate goal was to mix Sigma's own viral code, which he spread across the Earth, with a newer virus that would ultimately recreate the original Zero Virus, and therefore warp Zero back to evil. This plan failed, and though X and Zero defeated Sigma, Zero was critically wounded and later died. Sigma used his last energy to try and destroy both X and Zero; Zero managed one last shot which decimated the minute shell Sigma had left, and X, though heavily damaged, was repaired by Dr. Light. It was a mere three weeks later that Mavericks began reappearing on the devastated Earth, and Zero returned through unknown means.

Three weeks passed as the humans moved underground to survive the devastation left by Sigma's last attack, and was soon resurrected by the scientist Reploid, Gate. Gate was angry at the world for rejecting his advanced creations, and turned into a Maverick after he came into contact with a piece of rubble that contained signatures of Zero's virus-infected DNA. Gate also managed to find Sigma's remains in the process, and began to rebuild his program and body. Though Gate used all of his abilities to piece Sigma's program back together, he wasn't successful, and the half-conscious, barely alive program inhabited an equally half-built body. The damage inflicted upon Sigma during the Earth Crisis was more severe than even Gate's ability could repair, and Sigma fought the Maverick Hunters, remembering little more than revenge against those who had hurt him. Technically, this would be the first instance when Sigma was merely a pawn in someone else's scheme.

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