Dark Elf (Mega Man Zero)
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| Dark Elf / Mother Elf | |
|---|---|
| Game series | Mega Man Zero series |
| First game | Mega Man Zero 2 |
| Creator(s) | Keiji Inafune |
| In-Universe Information | |
| Classification | Advanced Cyber Elf |
| Weapon(s) | Elf powers |
The Dark Elf (ダークエルフ Dākuerufu?, Romanized Darkelf in Japan) or Mother Elf (マザーエルフ Mazāerufu?, Romanized Motherelf in Japan) is a Cyber Elf in the video game series Mega Man Zero.
[edit] History
Before the events of the video game Mega Man Zero, The Mother Elf was created as the ultimate weapon during the era of Cyber Elf development, towards the end of the Maverick Wars, two fictional world wide battles that occurred in the Mega Man X video game series. According to legend, Mega Man X used the power of this Elf to finally destroy the Maverick Virus' negative attributes for good, thus ending the Maverick Wars. The fighting did not cease, however.
Following the construction of Neo Arcadia, the Elf was stolen from a laboratory, and used by the evil Dr. Weil to instigate the Elf Wars. As revealed in Mega Man Zero 3, This period was so violent that 90% of all Reploids and 60% of all humans were killed. X and Zero together stopped Weil and his reploid Omega, and after Zero went to sleep for 100 years, X sealed the Elf away at the base of Yggdrasil for good using his own body as the seal.
The Elf then disappeared into myth and legend along with Zero for 100 years, until the commander of the Resistance, Elpizo, sought to gain the power of the Elf in the events of Mega Man Zero 2. This quest led Elpizo to seek out two Baby Elves, which in turn led him to an area deep inside Neo Arcadia, where he destroyed the original X's body and released the Dark Elf. The Elf gave Elpizo powers, but not enough with which to defeat Zero. After healing Elpizo and turning him into a Cyber Elf, the Dark Elf vanished after faintly saying "... Zero...".
The Dark Elf was seen again in various forms of prominence during Mega Man Zero 3, mostly tying into the mysterious Dr. Weil. It was Neo Arcadia's goal to recapture the Dark Elf, and Dr. Weil, an exile from 100 years prior, returned with his creation Omega under false pretenses of helping Neo Arcadia capture the Elf, when all he really wanted was to use the powers of the Elf for his own purposes. Zero saw through the facade, and defeated Weil's reconstructed Copy X while hunting the Dark Elf. At the end of his journey, Zero encountered the Elf once more, in which it powered up his original body (inhabited by Omega). Upon Omega's ultimate defeat, the curse of Weil was finally broken, and the Dark Elf became good once again.
[edit] Personality
The Dark Elf doesn't seem to have much of a personality other than the fact that it knows little more than destruction and death. She does, however, speak of Zero, and it almost seems that she is calling Zero to do something, perhaps to help her. At the end of Mega Man Zero 2, she turned good briefly to allow Elpizo to survive in the form of a Cyber Elf. This trait in of itself shows the Dark Elf's true personality shining past her wretched curse. During Zero 3, more of this personality was shown as the curse was finally broken. It has been speculated that the Mother Elf could be based off of Iris from Megaman X4; Zero briefly mentions at the end of Megaman Zero 2 that he "feels that he knows her," implying he may have known her before she was a Cyber Elf, and, ironically and possibly symbolically, the Mother Elf changes into the Dark Elf against her will.
