Hi tom.
I know just what you mean sinse the same thing has been done with Zero in
Capcom's mega man series, though if anything the excuses there are even more
pathetic.
In Mega man x 1, zero dies to destroy vile, one of the most unpleasant
enemies in the game.
X2 concerns a plot by several maveric's to rebuild zero and turn him against
x, ---- well fair enough, he is a robot afterall, and the fight against zero
is pretty cool.
So then Zero is back and is indeed playable in mega man x 3 and 4, where
it's revealed he is actually the source of the maveric virus that sends
robots insane.
the series however was supposed to end with mega man x5, when all robots on
earth have been turned maveric thanks to a crashing space colony spreading
the virus all over the world.
In a very cool plot twist zero gets reverted to his original virus state,
but then gives up his life to finally destroy sigma and rid the world of the
virus once and for all.
Actually it's a pretty awsome scene all around. Creator of the series
Inafune said things were supposed to end there, with zero eventually being
rebuild 102 years in the future to find tat the utopian society his
sacrifice created has become a corrupt dictatorship.
However guess what, capcom wanted more x series games, so along comes mega
man x 6 in which zero, ----- repared himself! yes repared! himself!
The fact that he's the carrier of the virus is never mentioned again, and
he's just in the game as a playable character.
At the end of x6, Zero seals himself away for 102 years to go through a
diagnostic to ridd himself of the virus, however guess what, in Mega man x
7, ---- there he is!
Capcom have said that the ending of mega man x 6 doesn't actually take place
at the end of the game but apparently at some point in the future, though
being as there is a lot of back story to the zero series that has to happen
in betwene, and the rather pathetic new character axl and his plot about
robots containing copy dna seems to have replaced the imho far cooler and
original virus plot line, when exactly these events or even zero's 102 year
sleep happen is anyone's guess.
At least with x8 the main villain of the series, Sigma, who came back every
game for some rather odd reason has finally bit the biscuit, though it
wouldn't surprise me if capcom bring him back once again in some sort of
similarly lame trick.
By a rather ironic twist though, sinse after mega man x6 the series went
into 3D and thus became unplayable for me, the 102 year ending happening at
the end of x6 for me does! fit in quite nicely with the mega man zero series
:D.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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