Talk:Mega Man X

Megaman X timeline
I need to do some research on the topic, but I believe Inafune has been cited to state that the Megaman X series "officially" ends with X6:
 * The X ending alludes to Zero vanishing off to somewhere
 * The Zero ending shows Zero entering a capsule provided by an unnamed scientist, where he would remain for about a century.

If the citation is correct, X games beyond X6 are, at best, side plots. The article makes reference to "official game information" helping to tack down where in the timeline Megaman X: Command Mission takes place, and while I don't doubt the sincerity of the author, some links, external or otherwise, would be appreciated.

This jives well with the plot from the first Megaman Zero, as X mentions at the end how he wondered where Zero had gone and how long he had fought the Mavericks alone. It does not, however, firmly establish the time in which Megaman Zero occurs, assuming that there is any firmly established time the Zero series occurs in.

If the X series truly continues with X7, X8, and X: Command Mission, then the earliest that any of these could have occurred, to remain consistent with the end of X6, is sometime on or after 22XX.

Rather than speculate, the article might be improved by pointing out the ambiguity in the timeline until Capcom has officially closed the Megaman X timeline and series of games.

Question: What is a cross-over, as mentioned immediately prior to "Is X really Megaman?"

Also, the article Mega Man X (game character) also addresses the question of whether X and Megaman are the same character, using very similar wording. For the sake of making the article more brief (it is rather long), it might be better to link to that article and trim this one. (I'd do it, but it's 3am and I need sleep)

--216.229.91.101 08:09, 16 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Inafune stated that his involvement with the X series ended in X5 and that he had planned the story to end there as well, but then X6 was made and released without his knowledge. The plot of the Zero series takes the later X games into account starting at Z3 where the Elf Wars is described, so there isn't yet a contradiction even if the exact events are unknown.


 * Command Mission takes place in 22XX because it says it does. Whether it's a canon game may be disputed, but assume so until proven otherwise, considering it IS a Capcom game (unlike, for example, Rockman & Forte: Challenger From the Future, which was made by Bandai under license).


 * A cross-over is better known as a cameo appearance. In fiction, it refers to a character from one series or franchise appearing in a game from a different series or franchise, such as Rock and Roll from Mega Man Classic appearing in the Marvel vs. Capcom series.


 * The article Mega Man X (game character) was created less than a week ago by cut-and-pasting information from this and other articles, stripping the sources of that information, by one author who also failed to put it in the correct category or link it anywhere, so I was completely unaware that it existed. Of course, if it exists then it can be linked to thin out this article, sure, but whoever wants to know the source of any of the information there will have a hard time tracking down who originally wrote it. (maybe half of the article was written by me, and a significant portion was plagarised from Reeve's site). I would rather the article be named "X (Mega Man)" but that's just me (the character's name is X, not Mega Man X).


 * --Boco XLVII 15:15, 16 May 2005 (UTC)


 * X's name is Mega Man X. It is stated in the intro of the first Mega Man X game, where it states "MEGAMAN X SPECIFICATIONS" followed by information of some of X's systems. X is just the short form that everyone in the game calls Mega Man X.

Megaman X Timeline
The events of "Mega Man X" through "Mega Man X8" take place in the 22nd Century (21XX), 2114 (though Boco LVII and I figure that Dr. Cain probably discovered X a year after the copyright date on his computer, most likely in 2115, thus putting the first revolt at 2119?), but anyhow, the thus far 8 X games say 21XX because they do, and then "Mega Man X: Command Mission" says 22XX, which would probably be sometime in the earlier part of the 23rd Century (2200s or 2210s?). Anyhow, yes it may have been the original intention at one point to end the series with X5 or 6, and in fact that seems obvious so we should not get into that, and yes we know that there is the cutscene with Zero sealing himself in the capsule, but I have read that that scene can be looked at as a foretelling of the future. In otherwords, now that Capcom has made X6, X7, X8, CM, and may make others (I won't be surprised), one can look at the fact that Zero seals himself up for the roughly one century (I think it was 102 years?) as happening after the X series itself is resolved in order to tie up the connection between the X saga and the Zero saga...Well, we'll see what happens! --Yahweh 00:45, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Looking up credits specifically for every game
Seems to me that all X games were credited to be design by Inafune, when this was clearly not the case, he meant for them to end in x5, and he is quoted as not even working in that one, we need a good source of credits, that atleast tell us in which games he did or did not work.

Cauzilo

Recent edit by User:Casper10
Casper10 posted this: On 9 August 2006, Nintendo released Mega Man X8 Wireless Play, the first wireless play program, following by Wireless Play Programs of Mega Man X: Command Mission and Mega Man Maverick Hunter X. Casper10 has a small history of vandalism. Can this added information be verified? -- Reploidof20xx  (talk)  11:27, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Found verification for Mega Man X8 at least, but only in a non-official site. http://www.nintendo-ds-lite-pink.co.uk/ 195.194.142.135 11:11, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

End of timeline
it might be worth noting that that the X series ends and the Zero series begins when X uses the mother elf (?) to finally destroy the maverick virus once and for all —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.245.37.216 (talk) 22:40, 13 April 2007 (UTC).

Did Capcom ever officially state when Mega Man Xtreme took place?
We know that that Xtreme 2 follows the first Xtreme, obviously, and that both games occur before X4 since Iris and Colonel are alive and well at the time. And the Erasure Incident is documented in X6, so the games definitely happen before X4 since Iris and Colonel were never rebuilt, and were treated as painful memories at that point. So why do so many people believe that Xtreme happened between X2 and X3? That's not really likely, since Sigma is revived in Mega Man Xtreme, whereas his program doesn't die in X2. His program does, however, fade away in X3 one way or another, but in X4, he returns without any explanation. Xtreme is a very simple way of explaining his presence. The only thing that may be off is Vile's appearance. When X meets the digital copy, he says that he defeated Vile years ago, which means that there is some time between X3 and X4, but not too long since Dr. Cain must still be alive. This may be what started the misconception that Xtreme takes place before X3, as well as the fact that none of the Mavericks from X3 were reused. While that may be so, many timelines in the classic series place Rockman World 2 (AKA Mega Man II for Game Boy) between Mega Man III and Mega Man IV, only because none of the Robot Masters from Mega Man IV are in it, despite that (1) it was released after Mega Man IV, and (2) no games can ever fit between Mega Man II and Mega Man IV, and Mega Man VI and Mega Man VII (because Dr. Wily is believed to be dead and Dr. Wily is imprisoned, respectively). However, this is not about the Classic series. In the face of the storyline itself, both Xtreme and Xtreme 2 must take place between X3 and X4. If you have a rebuttal or an official source from Capcom stating when it takes places, please either comment here or the Mega Man Xtreme Talk Page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mega_Man_Xtreme). 208.101.130.232 19:10, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Mega Man X6 plothole and confusions
can someone explain the contradictions Mega Man X6 made towards the timeline. I played the game, but not the other ones. 67.164.35.55 21:02, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Untitled
Personally, I think Garma/Gamma was the 'General' of the Repliforce you fight later as a boss. He resembles a Gamma unit in every way and attacks in a similar method. Perhaps he is the latest incarnation of the Gamma line in the X universe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.185.17.50 (talk) 05:18, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

"Upgrades"
I don't know if this is the right place to put this, but I have to get clarification. A few years ago I had a theory that X was an upgrade of regular MegaMan, Zero was upgraded from ProtoMan, and Vile is an upgrade of Bass. Is this a relevant theory? Megaman is a competely different character and zero was created to be more powerful than bass, he isnt an upgrade. Just a vessle to contain the willy virus or "Zero" virus —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.5.37.176 (talk) 21:25, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Not particularly. Zero has a more likely chance of possibly being an upgrade of Bass (see Bass' Megaman 2: The Power Battle ending). However, X *is* an upgrade of Rock, though it might be wise not to add this. Elm-39 - T/C 14:34, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

@Elm: No, NONE of the characters have ever explicitly been revealed to be upgraded versions of any previous robots from the classic series. In fact the Megaman X instruction booklet's wording leads readers to believe that X was a completely new robot from the original Megaman. Likewise, there's nothing to indicate that Zero is an upgrade from Protoman, it's just as likely he's a brand new construction, however it was implied explicitly that Dr. Wily is the creator of Zero (see Zero's flashback/dream sequences in X4). I'm particularly disappointed in Capcom however for fudging a lot of their own canon by the time X4 rolled around. Specifically things like X referring to himself as a reploid, when by definition a reploid is a *replication* of himself. I accept the hypothesis that over time, since "reploid" would have referred to all robots in their universe except for X specifically, that the general public's use of the term would become generalized to refer to anything mechanical and maybe he'd just give up and call himself a reploid (much the same way "Xerox" became a verb, even though not all copier machines are made by Xerox), but I still contend that Capcom never specifically explained that and I find it a contradiction. There's more gripes for later, but... thought I'd point that out. --Mastalock (talk) 17:31, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Maverick Hunter as its own title
Should Maverick Hunter be considered a title in its own right? Without it, there are 11 Megaman X games. Elm-39 - T/C 14:34, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Composer Credits?
I am interested in the fact that there seems to be no mention of the person who composed the songs for Megaman X. I'm not 100% sure on the name of the person/people (Setsuo, Tomozou, Sato, Yuko, Kirry)? Whoever they may be they deserve to be given credit because (and most agree) the music from that game was in a class of it's own when it came to 16bit games. Wonderful game I'll never forget it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.170.245.84 (talk) 04:14, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Storm Owl
Current Storm Owl redirect to Mega Man X. Is that correct or should it redirect to Mega Man X4? Jason Quinn (talk) 16:41, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Series history
"The first ever game to use the "Megaman X" name was released on the Famicom (Japanese NES), known as Rockman X. It is not known whether it was a pirate or a test release."

Citation, please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.148.33.85 (talk) 09:53, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

android
In a lot of articles related to the x series, reploids are referred to as androids. I encourage people to change android to robot on every article related to this series. BustaBunny (talk) 05:14, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Skiver
Skiver redirects here, but it has a distinct meaning, more or less a deadbeeat or shirker --- particularly in British vernacular. So this redirect should be aliminated and there should be a separate entry for "Skiver". ---Dagme (talk) 03:45, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

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