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Glazius posted:The series ended in kind of a terrifying place, honestly? Now we've got Reploids who can just... flip a switch and go psycho. Good lord X must be breaking down right now, since the world is now full of Mavericks that have every option to stop but just choose not to. I've been pretty much continuously terrified since X3, where Dr. Doppler is presented as a genius benefactor whose good-guy plan that Sigma disrupted involved mass-broadcast mind control. Then in X4 and X5 half the Mavericks aren't, and in X5 some of them even straight-up point out that the Hunters are a death squad that takes what they want and declares the Reploids they kill along the way retroactively Mavericks and then X and Zero proceed to do exactly that. The later characters who have actually gone Maverick are also so much different from the former ones it's unmistakable that the first four enemies you fight in X5 are not Mavericks. Mighty Number 9 failed to hit a lot of the points the Mega Man games did hit, but it sure as Hell nailed the "what the Hell is wrong with everybody in this universe" note loud and clear.
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Kurieg posted:Isn't the plot of mn9 that someone created programmable matter. And then decided to make some of it sentient and capable of feeling pain? The part that's relevant is the part I summarize as "In the backstory, Dr. Light set off the Grey Goo Apocalypse and Dr. Wily has been imprisoned for life as a despised terrorist for stopping it. And while that's a late-game reveal, every character, sympathetic and not, treats this state of affairs as normal and obviously just." There's moral ambiguity, and then there's "Are we the baddies, Hans? There are skulls on our uniforms." And that's even without taking into account the reveal that Dr. Light is Dr. Wily's son, but the amount of dysfunction that implies does not appear in the X series.
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