Mega Man, the animated series

Earlier I was bitching about how another cartoon show portrayed Mega Man all wrong. So when a TV series entirely dedicated and titled after the Blue Bomber appeared, I thought to myself, "Finally, someone got it right." Or did they? Let's see:

• Mega Man is blue? Check.
• Robot Masters? Check.
• Roll? Check.
• One arm cannon? Check.
• Cheesy good vs. evil plot? Check.
• Action? Check.
• Protoman? You bet.
• Copying enemy weapons and using it against them? Hell yeah.

So it seems like not only did Ruby Spears Productions created a great show, they also remained loyal to the basic Mega Man tenets.

O RLY?

While it's generally YA RLY, at least on the surface, here are some things that sucked:

• The character designs. While they resemble their video game counterparts, all the male Robot Masters and Mega Man himself looked like muscular teenage boys. I don't even want to show you the pictures, because I look at this blog too, and quite frankly I find muscular teenage robot boys in tight outfits kind of unnerving to look at. In Ruby Spears' defense though, their character art is eons better than the American-release box cover art for the games:

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• Roll is robot househelp. Bitch should stay in the kitchen and not fight alonside Mega Man, let alone save him from imminent misfortune at the hands of Dr. Wily every now and then. Although, the almost-incest bit in the first episode was kind of funny. Kind of.
• Protoman, while he looked like an enemy (for a short time anyway) in Mega Man 3, is not. In this series he is practically Wily's right-hand man, which is just wrong. Protoman isn't evil; just misunderstood :(
  
• In the games, when Mega Man defeats a Robot Master, he acquires its ability permanently (obligatory "GET EQUIPPED WITH "BUBBLE LEAD"" goes here) after destroying the enemy, but in the series, he touches a Robot Master for a brief moment and he is able to use their ability, regardless of whether or not the foe has been destroyed. Furthermore, it's additional fuel to the homoerotic fire started by the character designs, but I digress. The powers he acquires are not permanent, as they appear to, uh, disappear after the fight.
• Rush (the robot dog) isn't fucking Scooby-Doo. I have nothing against Scooby-Doo, but I feel as if the creators deliberately made Rush act like Scooby (for what end? To cash in on something?) and it was just lame.
• Mega Man X makes an appearance on the show; furthermore, Mega Man ventures into X's world. This is what Colonel Campbell from Metal Gear Solid would call a "time paradox". As well, the events in Mega Man X are supposed to take place 100 years after the original Mega Man, but some dumbass in the show exclaims that it actually took several centuries. Wow, this is getting almost as bad as Captain N.
• In the show, Dr. Light built some of the Robot Masters (namely, Ice Man, Cut Man, and Guts Man), along with Rock and (his sister) Roll, and they only become evil because Dr. Wily stole them with the help of Protoman. There are several things wrong with this, and this was just the few opening shots of the first episode. Firstly, Mega Man was originally a janitor robot, outfitted with a cannon arm later on because of a need to save the world. Roll is just a house bot like previously mentioned, and Protoman is practically Mega Man's brother (meaning, also created by Dr. Light). Light had absolutely nothing to do with Robot Masters, as Dr. Wily built them all, in hopes of dominating the world.

However, I will admit that my vast knowledge of Mega Man is based only on what I saw from the games, so there might be mistakes here and there, especially since there's like no story in the games, especially the first 3 ones, apart from the little sprite cutscenes. I haven't read any form of Mega Man canon literature, so if you have, feel free to correct me where I'm wrong. But I'm confident about one thing: this show sucked. It did basically the same thing Captain N did to Mega Man, except on a larger scale. It's like DiC took a shit on Mega Man, and Ruby Spears just took a bigger shit on him by giving him his own show. But at least the bigger shit didn't smell as bad, as this was arguably a better attempt than DiC's.

Also, since we're on the subject of Mega Man anyway...Dear Capcom, stop making Megaman X games because they're absolute shit after X4. Make some Megaman Legends or Tron Bonne or something, and people will love you more. :(