Uwaaii wrote:Ryannumber1gamer wrote:Uwaaii wrote:Also, looking at the panel of MM6 and I can't help but wonder.
Plant man has a sad face, does that mean he doesn't want to fight? is it MM3 all over again? Isn't Wily supposed to, you know, brainwash or reprogram them so they're more willing to fight Megaman?r
From what I understand, the way it works is that they don't alter their brain or anything. They still have the same memories, and relationships, but when their programming is altered, they are forced to obey it, even if they hate it. So if Plant Man's programming was altered to "Obey Wily, and destroy Mega Man", he wouldn't like it, but he wouldn't have any choice but to obey it.
I know, that's what I'm bothered about.
I already wrote this before, but it frustrated me Wily in the comic isn't doing anything about the robots unwillingness to fight. It's totally interfered with their objective of fighting Megaman, and making even his own creation to willingly get on Light's side. They don't have to be 100% loyal, but he could have at least altered their programming so they will be more willing to or fit to fight Megaman like the MM1 adaption, where all the Light Numbers as enemies were eager to fight. All the robots excluding the 1st DLNs were willing to and enjoying fighting the heroes in World Collide, and right after the MM3 adaption Quickman refused to be reprogrammed with a different personality to "be happy about his new job he doesn't want to do" so it's not that Wily doesn't have a choice.
Dr. Wily certainly could. He could remove all traces of personality, and build faceless automatons which blindly follow orders instead. But he doesn't want to; at the end of the day, he genuinely loves robots. He admits this to Ra Moon, saves Light Numbers from expiration, and willingly distributes the cure to Roboenza despite suffering yet another defeat. One quote attributed to Wily in the cancelled Rockman Online even states: "(...)the birth of humanoids is simply humanity’s first step to becoming gods".
While he doesn't take kindly to insubordination, Dr. Wily doesn't think of his robots as only servants in his campaign to take over the world; they're practically his children, similar to how Dr. Light treats his own creations. Hitoshi Ariga even plays on the theme in Gigamix, establishing the belief that robots need souls as the reason Dr. Light and Dr. Wily came together in the first place. This is why, even when Dr. Wily reprograms other robots to do his bidding, he maintains their original personalities.
That's the real tragedy of the classic series; if Wily's ego hadn't led him astray, the scenario that comes to pass in Mega Man ZX could've happened centuries sooner, without all the wars and destruction.