List of Mega Man X characters
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This is a list of characters appearing in the Mega Man X series. Unless otherwise stated, each of these characters is a reploid. Names appear in order of appearance.
[edit] Maverick Hunters
The Maverick Hunters are the heroes of the Mega Man X series, and the protagonists of each game are prominent Maverick Hunters. When they are introduced in Mega Man X, they have already existed for quite a while, having been previously founded by Dr. Cain (which has since retired). From Mega Man X on, they battle Sigma and other Mavericks.
[edit] Mega Man X
Mega Man X, often simply referred to as X, is the protagonist of the Mega Man X series. As is explained in Mega Man X, he is the template on which all reploids are based, and he battles against Mavericks protect the reploids and assuage his guilt for his part in their creation.
[edit] Zero
Zero is the deuteragonist of the Mega Man X series. Originally intended to be the protagonist of Mega Man X,[1], he was recast as the mentor and, later, partner to X. He is repeatedly destroyed or apparently destroyed, but returns for each subsequent game.
[edit] Dr. Cain
- CV: Tadashi Miyazawa (JP)
Dr. Cain, a human archaeologist-turned-robot-expert, does not play a large role in the Mega Man X games, but serves a fairly major role in their backstory. In the backstory of Mega Man X (told in the Mega Man X manual in the form of Dr. Cain's journals), Dr. Cain discovers the dormant Mega Man X in the ruins of Dr. Light's lab. After awakening X, Cain invents reploids, sapient robots based on X's design. Once reploids start going rogue, Cain founds the Maverick Hunters, who hunt down these rogue reploids, known as Mavericks.
Dr. Cain's role in later games is not as great. In one of Mega Man X2's two potential storylines, he rebuilds Zero. In Mega Man X3, he creates Dr. Doppler (who subsequently goes Maverick), and in Mega Man X4, he creates the Repliforce, an army of reploid soldiers, who are framed and set against the Maverick Hunters by Sigma. In Mega Man Maverick Hunter X, a remake of Mega Man X, his role is changed in a way that conflicts with the Mega Man X sequels; instead of merely having a role in the backstory, he is on life support and is killed in a Maverick attack.
[edit] Alia
- CV: Rumi Kasahara (JP), Rumiko Varnes (X7 EN), Mariette Sluyter (X8 EN)
Alia is a character in the Mega Man X series. She acts as a Navigator for the Maverick Hunters from Mega Man X5 onwards.
Alia began her career as a simple researcher in reploid engineering. She and her colleague Gate were ahead of their time in their reploid research, though she contends that Gate was always a better programmer than her. However, Gate's inability to follow the rules made him a social outcast, and his creations were destroyed, sometimes with the help of Alia herself. She soon mastered all programming languages and was chosen on these merits to be a spotter for the Hunters. In Mega Man X5, Alia then served as the Hunters' spotter during the Sigma Virus outbreak, while simultaneously lending her technical talents to the cause by uploading and letting X utilize his two new armors, the Falcon and Gaea armor. She supported the Hunters throughout the ordeal until it was resolved.
In Mega Man X6, she spotted X and Zero as they dealt with the Nightmares, and her past with Gate came back to haunt her. Though feeling guilty throughout the happenings, she assisted the Hunters in bringing Gate to justice. When Gate was defeated, though, X brought his remains to Alia, and she said she would do her best to repair him, although it's unknown if she ever succeeded or not. As the Earth Recovery proceeded, Alia continued to act as a Hunter navigator. Her skills were brought back to good use when Axl escaped from the Red Alert Syndicate in the Mega Man X7 installment, a new hunter organization that had risen to power. With X having retired from the Hunters, he assisted Alia with her work at the base. During the crisis, Alia continued to guide Zero and Axl, and X once he decided that he needed to help out, on their missions, eventually helping them locate Red Alert's base.
In Mega Man X8, Alia continued her spotter position, assisted by two new navigators (Layer and Palette). Working in tandem, she assists in the discovery of the new generation chips and Sigma's plot. Alia is also a secret unlockable character in the game and is similar to X in terms of controls.
[edit] Douglas
- CV: Wataru Takagi
A mechanic for the Maverick Hunters who appeared in a support role in X5 and X6. He constructed power-up parts (or "modules") for X and Zero and reinforced the Enigma Cannon and Space Shuttle with the parts they gathered from the Mavericks. During the Nightmare outbreak, Douglas helped X and Zero by refining power-up parts for them. Although he is still employed by the Maverick Hunters, he has not appeared ingame for awhile. He is a somewhat eccentric character who prefers to look on the lighter side of things. He can fix about anything.
[edit] Signas
- CV: Hirotaka Suzuoki (JP), Robert Belgrade (X7 EN), Roger Rhodes (X8 EN)
Signas is the newest leader and commander of the Maverick Hunters, introduced in X5. He was originally a private investigator before being assigned to the maverick hunters. Signas commands every mission executed by the Hunters, and he also often plans out major operations, overseeing them carefully. Very loyal to humans and reploids, Signas will stop at nothing to ensure that all Mavericks are eliminated, as he has already proven to be a worthy leader and valuable Hunter.
[edit] Axl
- CV: Minami Takayama (JP), Lenne Hardt (2003), Jeffrey Watson (+2004)
Axl (アクセル Akuseru?), a black-armored robot with an X-shaped scar on his face, is the third protagonist of the Mega Man X series. Axl is a fairly recent introduction, having first appeared in Mega Man X7. He has the unusual ability to take on the appearance of abilities of any reploid he defeats, an ability that is initially unique. Axl is also armed with a pair of handheld blaster pistols and the ability to hover in midair and roll through enemy shots.
Axl is introduced in Mega Man X7 seeking asylum and membership in the Maverick Hunters, having just left the mercenary Red Alert Syndicate. The Red Alert Syndicate, which hunts Mavericks and also takes on less savory assassination jobs, has been infiltrated by Sigma, and confronts the Maverick Hunters. X, Zero, and Axl work together to defeat Red Alert, but in so doing, destroy both Red, the leader of Red Alert, and Sigma, the only ones Axl knows of who know about his origins. In Mega Man X: Command Mission, Spider, a mysterious reploid who fights alongside X, Zero, and Axl, also has a similar ability.
Mega Man X8 reveals that Axl is a prototype for a next-generation reploid. These next-generation reploids, all have the ability to copy other reploids, as well as a chip that prevents them from going Maverick. These next-generation reploids are pawns in two different plots, however: the chip that prevents them from going Maverick is a trojan horse that allows Sigma to drive them Maverick at will, and Lumine, leader of the next-generation reploids and on whom all of the next-generation reploids are based, plans to use them to destroy all the humans and reploids so he can repopulate the Earth with his "children." X, Zero, and Axl defeat them both, but when Lumine is defeated, he lashes out in his death throes, cracking the crystal on Axl's head. The meaning of this is unclear, and Mega Man X8 was the last Mega Man X game to be released.
[edit] Mavericks
[edit] Vile
- CV: Mugihito (X8 JP), Hiroshi Shimozaki (IHX JP), Roger Rhodes(MHX EN)
Vile (VAVA (ヴァヴァ?) in Japanese) is a recurring minor villain in the Mega Man X series, and frequently reappears as a mid-game boss. He has a distinctive helm with a T-shaped visor, similar to that of Boba Fett. Vile is introduced in Mega Man X, where he is a former Maverick Hunter now serving Sigma. When he first meets X, he defeats X handily, but is driven off by Zero. Vile escapes, to capture Zero and once again confront X, but he is foiled when Zero sacrifices himself to help X destroy Vile.
After this, he reappears in a handful of later games, having been reactivated in the latest plot. In Mega Man X3, Vile is rebuilt by the rogue Dr. Doppler, and in Mega Man Xtreme, Vile is revived in digital form by Techno. Both times, he is defeated by X. He has a somewhat larger role in Mega Man X8, where he attacks the protagonists multiple times on behalf of Sigma and Lumine.
Vile is a playable character in Mega Man Maverick Hunter X, and in his version of the single-player story he is recast as a loose cannon who is freed from imprisonment by Sigma to wreak havok. (His change of allegiance is reflected in his appearance; unlike in the original Mega Man X, the symbol on his forehead is a V instead of Sigma's stylized Σ.) He turns against Sigma's Mavericks, but in his final battle, instead of fighting Sigma, he confronts both X and Zero.
[edit] Sigma
Original leader of the Maverick Hunters. Designed by Cain to be the perfect reploid, Sigma was implemented with devices to protect him from turning Maverick. These devices failed and Sigma ended up as the leader of the Mavericks. Later it is discovered that Sigma's turning Maverick is due to his defeating Zero, upon which the virus switched carriers from Zero to Sigma.
Over time the Maverick Virus has apparently fused with his mind, making the virus and Sigma the same entity. This is how Sigma keeps surviving his defeats at the end of each game. Sigma has a habit of fighting first in his normal body, which the player must destroy, and then switching over to a much more powerful body that is hidden in the background. As such "pulling a Sigma" is a sometimes used as video game jargon to describe someone who is defeated and then comes back a moment later fully healed and more powerful than they were before through some means.
The ending of Mega Man X8: Paradise Lost seems to indicate that Sigma has finally been defeated for good and will not return, due to the fact that his viral form was released on the moon, where it has very little chance of corrupting anyone else. This however, contradicts facts stated in the Megaman Zero series, which claim that the virus was finally deleted by the use of the Mother Elf.
[edit] Dynamo
Dynamo, introduced in Mega Man X5 and later recurring in Mega Man X6, is a mercenary who works for Sigma. He is voiced by Showtaro Morikubo.
Dynamo was hired by Sigma to help his execution of the plan to spread the Maverick virus all over Earth. Once Sigma had executed the plan, Dynamo's job was to slow down the progress of X and Zero as they gathered parts for the Enigma cannon and the Shuttle, both of which were intended to stop the colony's crash, which was an integral part of the virus plan. Despite his arrogant claims, he turned tail and ran when X and Zero brought him to the realization that he could die. This showed that he was still intelligent and hasn't turned Maverick, as most Mavericks would refuse to back down and would be destroyed. With Sigma no longer around to protect him during Mega Man X6, he tried gathering the Nightmare Souls to enhance his power. However, he still failed miserably at fighting X and Zero, and always ran away to fight again. He made no subsequent appearance during the war between the Hunters and Red Alert in Mega Man X7, nor the Jakob Project incident in Mega Man X8.
[edit] References
- ^ Hoffman, Chris (April 2004). "The Best Damn Mega Man Feature Period". Play Magazine 3 (4).
