Iris (Mega Man X)

Iris (アイリス Airisu) is a character from the Mega Man X series, making her debut appearance in Mega Man X4. She is a female Reploid (an advanced Robot Master from the X series) that worked as a Navigator for Maverick Hunters. She was also Zero's love interest and the younger twin sister of the Colonel of the Repliforce. Zero ends up fighting her as a boss at the end of the first stage on the Final Weapon in his route in place of Double, who is instead fought in Mega Man X's route. Since she is fought in the Final Weapon, like the Repliforce General and Sigma, Iris yields no weapons when she goes down. She is weak to the Rising Fire.
She is voiced by Michelle Gazepis in Mega Man X4.
==Character Description==
===Personality===
Iris is kind, desiring peace for Reploid-kind. As the Colonel contains over 50% of the same programming she has in her body in his own, Iris tends to protect the Colonel. She showed great concern for the Maverick Hunters, especially Zero.
In the game, she drew the line when the Colonel met his demise. At this point, she became Zero's enemy. This is not shown in the manga version, where she struggles to stay in control and is still on Zero's side, meaning the armour that she is in is acting against Iris' will.
===Physical Appearance===
Iris is a Reploid who appears as a brunette human with green eyes. She wears a a blue dress with long white sleeves that have red and blue cuffs and a pleated skirt with red at the parts that project out more. Underneath her dress's skirt area is a set of white trousers. Her footwear consists of red boots that have black soles and a white strip between the main red part and the sole, getting thicker near the toe of the boot. Her hands are covered in silvery segmented gauntlets.
==Overview==
Iris is introduced in X4 as Zero's girlfriend who gets caught in the middle of the civil war between her brother fighting for Repliforce and her lover fighting for the Maverick Hunters. She initially helps Zero as his Mission Control (She once had to break up a fight between him and Colonel). She also appears in the chronologically earlier Xtreme 2/Soul Eraser and in a cameo appearance inside Zero's memories during X5 when Zero meets his demise.
== Other Media==
===Project X Zone===
Iris appears in the crossover RPG as an event character. She makes her only direct appearance in Chapter 29, "An Unbeatable Love".
===RockMan X4 Manga===
Iris appears in the Manga of the Mega Man X4 game, with a more heroic role. She serves as a nurse, and gets corrupted when Zero defeats the Colonel. When she cradles the Colonel's corpse, Iris gets possessed and trapped in the body of a monster that destroys everything it sets its sights on. Zero destroys the monster and extricates the body of Iris, and Iris claims that she enjoyed every moment that she and Zero spent together before dying, at which point Zero questions his ideals. Since Zero and Iris fought in the base, Double regains his spot in the Final Weapon.
==Gallery==
Rockman X DiVE Hunter Program Iris -another-.png|Iris combines her programming with the programs of her deceased future self and Colonel, possessing the body of her original form and the personality of both. She has introduced herself as the Honorable Sword of Justice.
==Trivia==
*It is unknown if Iris died for real after Zero defeated her. She isn't shown onscreen after she dies. Another possiblility could be that she became comatose but otherwise survived, as you can mistake comatose persons for dead.
*Iris and Double have their own battle themes, though hers is more melancholy while Double's is frantic.
*Iris initially wanted peace between humans and robots. However, before her demise, she wished for a world where only Reploids exist. This indicates that Iris could have began adopting the same views as the Colonel and Repliforce after her defection from the Maverick Hunters.
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