In nearly every Mega Man game, Dr. Wily is captured at the end—usually after unleashing an army of killer robots and nearly destroying the world. And yet, by the next game, he’s back at it like nothing happened.
So what’s the in-universe deal? Is the 20XX justice system just that incompetent or corrupt? Is there some official lore reason he’s constantly released or escapes? Or are we just supposed to suspend disbelief for the sake of Saturday-morning logic?
Curious what theories or canon explanations people have!
Judging by how things work in our irl 20XX, I’m gonna guess that he has mad stacks if he can produce sentient fighting robots at the scale and speed he does. People with money like that don’t go to jail. They’re not the poors, duh. That would just be silly!
You should Check out The Protomen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_II:_The_Father_of_Death
Light up the night is the best song
Don’t forget The Megas!
That whole album is full of bangers.
From the somber Father of Death, to the jazzy sounds of The Hounds, to the very 80s rock of Breaking out and Light up the Night. Every track on that album is good.
It’s far more polished than the noisy, almost punk vibe the first album has.
I liked the first one, but I agree the 2nd is much better arranged. The first sounds like a concept album (which it is) and the 2nd sounds like a soundtrack to a musical (which it also is)
That’s so good! Minibosses have a badass medley of Mega Man II as well.
“It’s legal if the president does it!”
Pretty sure in atleast a couple of the games, he says “I’m good now!” And everyone believes him until the double cross
I’m pretty sure the guy with the army of killer robots IS the legal system.
Then who’s employing Mega Man?
Dr Light. Who else?
Dr Light
My God I knew I remembered this art being weird but I didn’t think it was this weird.
He goes to jail, serves his time, and then does it again.
Yet somehow doesn’t age a day.
It’s the year 200X, life extending technology has been around for at least X years by then.
sounds topical
Maybe Dr Wily is based on Ken Paxton.
Mhm, is there even a justice system, is there even police; or is everything judicial be handled by robots?
So maybe Dr. Wily infected the respective bots with a virus, so that it seems that justice has been served but he just gets off scotch free.
Ah, The 4th directive.
