Mega Man (Classic)

Rock, better known as Mega Man (or Rockman in Japan), is the titular main protagonist of the franchise and one the mascots of .
He is a robot originally created by Dr. Light to act as one the doctor's lab assistants alongside his sister, Roll. However, after Light's old rival, Dr. Wily, hijacks various robots in a bid to take over the world, Rock volunteers himself to be transformed into Mega Man, a superhero who can fight back against Wily's forces in the name peace.
He has been voiced in the Japanese original versions by Hekiru Shiina in Mega Man: The Power Battle and Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters; Ai Orikasa in Mega Man 8, Super Adventure Rockman and Mega Man Battle & Chase; Kaoru Fujino in Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes and Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Ages of Heroes; Yumiko Kobayashi in Mega Man Powered Up; and as of Mega Man 11, Ayaka Fukuhara.
In the English versions, he has been voiced by Doug Parker in Captain N: The Game Master, Ian James Corlett in the Ruby-Spears cartoon, Ruth Shiraishi (who is currently the only female voice actor to voice Mega Man in English) in Mega Man 8, Cole Howard in Mega Man Powered Up, Vincent Tong and Benjamin Diskin (who also voices Humphrey, Nigel Uno, Stitch and Spook).
==Biography==
===Past===
Rock and his "sister" Roll were created by Dr. Light to assist him with tasks around his laboratory. Like Proto Man before them, they were build with a sense of independence to make them more human-like. Their success lead to the creation of more independent robots called Robot Masters that would use their unique abilities to help improve society.
===Mega Man/Mega Man Powered Up===
One day, Dr. Wily stole and reprogrammed some of the Robot Masters created by Dr. Light in an attempt to conquer the world. With the world's authorities not ready to oppose them, Rock asked Dr. Light to make him a combat robot so he can stop the renegade robots himself and have them restored to normal. Dr. Light reluctantly went through with the procedure which granted Rock Ceratanium armor, a Mega Buster arm cannon, and the power to copy the abilities of his fallen foes. Afterwards, He took the name Mega Man and set off to track down every one of the Robot Masters before entering Dr. Wily's castle to stop the doctor himself. Mega Man caused Dr. Wily to surrender after destroying his Wily Machine in combat and then returned home where Dr. Light and Roll were waiting for him.
===Mega Man 2===
Mega Man is again called into action when Dr. Wily creates his own Robot Masters to eliminate him and achieve world domination. He makes his way through the domain of each Robot Master to defeat them and gain their abilities. Dr. Light also assists Mega Man by sending him upgrades he can use to get past obstacles. He eventually arrived at Wily's castle where he tracked the villain to an underground cavern after destroying his Wily Machine 2 and witnessed the doctor suddenly transform into an alien lifeform. However, Mega Man discovered that the "alien" was just a hologram, leaving the real Wily defenseless and begging for mercy once again.
===Mega Man 3 ===
After his two previous defeats at the hands of Mega Man, Dr. Wily has seemingly learned the error of his ways and joins his colleague Dr. Light once again. Now, the two Doctors have decided to create a gigantic peace keeping robot called “Gamma”. However, in order to complete it, Mega Man needs to venture off to other planets to secure the materials, as the eight robots of each planet went haywire. With his new robot dog Rush, he heads off to compete the task. On his quest he encounters Break Man, a robot looking suspiciously like him. The two occasionally had a brief battle with Break Man retreating every time Mega Man gained the upper hand. With the eight Robot Masters defeated, he succeeds in retrieving the components. Unfortunately, a new threat emerges: Doc Robot, a unit that can mimic the abilities of the Robot Masters in Mega Man 2. While Mega Man was occupied defeating the Doc Robot units, Wily betrayed Light and stole Gamma. Mega Man pursued Wily in his castle, but not before having a final battle with Break Man. Mega Man makes it through all of Wily’s defenses and battles the traitorous Doctor once more, now piloting the completed Gamma. After defeating Wily once more, the castle begins to collapse with both Mega Man and Wily being crushed under falling debris. A shadowy figure rescues Mega Man, but was too late to save Wily. Back at the lab Mega Man and Doctor Light hear a whistle, with Light revealing that the whistle belonged to Break Man AKA Proto Man: The first Robot Master, and the older brother of Rock and Roll. It is later seen that Wily had survived, and flying away in his ship. 
===Mega Man 4===
After the three defeats of Dr. Wily, it looked as if Mega Man finally won. However, a new doctor by the name of Mikhail Cossack had dispatched his own set of Robot Masters to destroy Mega Man. With Rush and a newly modified Mega Buster, Mega Man was more than ready to fight.
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===Mega Man 5===
Out of nowhere, eight rampant robots began attacking cities. Doctor Light was suddenly kidnapped by a red robot. Mega Man was too late to save his father, but caught the red robot’s scarf that had fell. That scarf belonged to none other than Proto Man, Mega Man’s own brother.
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===Mega Man 6===
Eight Robot Masters from all around the world competed in the world tournament, but were all taken control of by the sponsor of the very tournament: Mr. X. Mega Man was shocked and questioned Mr. X, who answered with his intentions of world domination and that he was the one who had been manipulating Doctor Wily from the very beginning. Determined to stop Mr. X at all costs, Mega Man battles the robots with the help of a newly upgraded Rush, who could fuse with Mega Man into the Jet Adapter to take flight or the Power Adapter to increase strength.
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===Mega Man 7===
With Wily arrested, it seemed that Mega Man had finally achieved the everlasting peace he had fought so hard for. However, Wily knew his schemes would always end in failure, and so he released his backup plan. Wily launched his new robot army, who attacked the city in search of their master. Arriving in the ruined city with Auto and Roll, Mega Man finds an injured Doctor Light and panics to get Roll, but Light informs Mega Man that intruders are entering the robot museum. Mega Man continues his search and encounters a mysterious new robot. After a brief fight, he introduces himself as Bass along with his dog Treble, who are also looking for Wily.
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===Mega Man 8===
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===Mega Man & Bass===
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===Mega Man 9===
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===Mega Man 10===
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===Mega Man 11===
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==Other Media==
===Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge===
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===Mega Man II===
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===Mega Man III===
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===Mega Man IV===
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===Mega Man V===
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===Mega Man: The Power Battle===
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===Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters===
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===Super Adventure Rockman===
===Rockman Strategy===
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===Marvel vs. Capcom===
Mega Man appears in Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes as an playable character, in his ending he obtains the Onslaught ability "Magnetic Shockwave". In Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Ages of Heroes, he appears as an unlockable character.
===Super Smash Bros.===
Mega Man appears as an playable character in Super Smash Bros. for 3DS/Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, his moveset is from the classic games. In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Mega Man later appears as an unlockable character and many of the characters who were defeated by Galeem. 
He is unlocked by playing Classic Mode with Pikachu or any character in its unlock tree, as the fourth character unlocked after R.O.B. and before Isabelle, playing Vs. matches as the 42nd character unlocked after Corrin and before Bayonetta, or by rescuing him in World of Light. Mega Man will then challenge the player in Wily Castle with the exception of the third method.
===Mega Man: Upon a Star===
==Trivia==
*He is the first Mega Man robot and the second robot created by Dr. Light of the Mega Man series.
*Being the first, Mega Man's design was decided to be the analogue and template for other characters in the series that would bear the name. Notably, what would originally be the first character to succeed Mega Man, had a radically different design, before the developers decided on another, more similar design completely.
*In Japan, Rockman and Roll's names are a pun of Rock 'n Roll. This pun was lost in most English versions.
**The Japanese name "Rock" (Mega Man's original name) was not Americanized until Mega Man Powered Up, when it was changed to "Mega". This change has since been retconned, however, as evidenced by the U.S. Mega Man 9 site which uses the name "Rock". However, he was referred to as "Mega" numerous times throughout Mega Man 11.
*Mega Man appears as Rock (in his human-looking form) in only six games: Mega Man, Mega Man 4, Mega Man V (Game Boy), Mega Man's Soccer and Mega Man Powered Up, being playable as Rock in the latter, where he uses a "Mega Kick" instead of an arm cannon, and Mega Man 11'.
*Of the various "Mega Men", classic series Rockman is the only one with blue eyes. All other characters to bear the name "Mega Man" have green eyes. Curiously in the PSP remake Mega Man Powered Up his eye color is changed to green (though the artwork for the game shows him with blue eyes). In the Mega Man Megamix illustrations, his eye color is also depicted as green.
*In Mega Man Star Force 2, if one has the event '1stMegaMan' brother data his secret is that he obtains his energy from the sun.
**Also in the final Club Capcom magazine there was an Ask Dr. Light bit in which he said regarding the robot master energy systems that many of them do utilize “solar energy” in some way and that Mega Man’s charge shot discharges condensed solar energy.
*Spiritia Rosenberg, a character from the Japanese doujin soft series, Rosenkreuzstilette, is based on Mega Man.
*In The Misadventures of Tron Bonne, in one of the houses in the first level, one of the Servbots will turn on a TV showing the 8 bit Mega Man running while the stage selected theme plays.
*In Artix Entertainment's AdventureQuest Worlds MMORPG, one of the randomly-generated regular monsters is a robot called MegaDude, who is a reference to Mega Man, based on his appearance and blaster attack.
*Early concept art for Mega Man X: Command Mission shows that Mega Man (and Cut Man) may have been planned to appear in the game.
*Mega Man made a one-time appearance in a German Super Mario comic book, where he and Dr. Light were helping Mario catch Wario who had recently committed a robbery.
*Mega Man made an appearance in the Cartoon Network show, MAD in the skit "Gaming's Next Top Princess", where he is one of the judges alongside Mario and another person. However, his appearance is slightly different outside of the animation style, he is shown with a buster set on the left hand at all times, and like 'Mega Man?' from Powered Up, the grey square on his helmet is a triangle, and he has brown eyes instead of blue. *He also appeared in another skit ("MAD's Guide to Video Game Cheats") where he beats Strike Man by doing a code which makes cats fall from the sky.
*Is unclear what happened to Rock before the Mega Man X series, and there is much speculation about this.
==See also==
*Mighty No. 9, the spiritual successor to Mega Man.
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