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THIS IS OUTDATED AND ONLY KEPT AROUND FOR ARCHIVAL PURPOSES! PLEASE DO NOT POINT OUT THE LEGENDS SERIES'S LOCATION AS AN ERROR, AS IT HAS BEEN RECTIFIED.[link] to V2
[link] to V3 (current)
An illustration of the Megaman franchise's
overlain plotline.
Megaman Classic leads into Megaman X, which splits at X5 into 2 paths, the one more obviously followed into Megaman X6 that leads to Megaman Zero 1, 2, 3, and 4 and then eventually the ZX series; and the ending of X5 where Zero stays dead and is wiped from X's memory. X says he'll create a world named Elysium where Reploids can live in peace. In Megaman Legends/64 and Megaman Legends 2, Megaman is what is referred to as a "Purifier-Class model Reaverbot" Which is likely just a renamed Reploid of high rank.
Megaman Battle Network and Star Force are unrelated to the others in the series and exist in a timeline all their own.
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They said legends is taken several thousand years after ZX series
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Out of date.
Look for V3
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Megaman Volnutt is from year 8000 or something not years after X5!
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He is really from the year 3000.
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...If one more person redundantly points this out, I'm going to lock the comments section. I've already revised this correcting that error AND revised the revision with added details.
PLEASE look up my newer versions.
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Everyone already gave their bit, I just wanted to point out that the split in the X series happens after X6(into X7 and Zero), and one of those dead ends at the moment.
It actually has a lot more to the storyline anyways, what with the other games that affect lineararity.
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There's actually been two new versions made since this one. The split was completely removed in v2 and v3 expanded on the ZX arc.
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Didn't know. Where's v3?
And I wasn't saying the split was wrong, just that you had it after the wrong game. Plus that there is a lot more to it than just the core games, but some people miss those.
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v3 can be found VERY quickly by simply looking in my gallery. After posting this reply I'll make sure it's near the top slot.
Trust me, after this little initial stage, I delved further into the fanbase's collective knowledge and made a more accurate version. I interviewed diehards who'd pondered it far longer than I, I played all of the games firsthand, whether it were emulation or hardware play, and I took notes. Eventually, I collected the notes into 8 piles, arranged them into how the series would fit together, and basically mapped out the entire thing in the physical world before I created v3. When I made v3, Universe and Online weren't out yet, and/or hadn't been looked over, but have both been explicitly stated as non-canon.
Legends 3 is very capable of killing the entire timeline I've got going if CAPCOM screws around with the in-game convos right.
I even got the Game Boy classics in there, which easily explain how Rock died... Roll, Forte, Rush, etc. are harder to pinpoint CoD on, but Blues can generally be assumed to have rained nuclear death on an area the size of Rhode Island when his power core malfunction finally got the better of him. (It has yet to be fixed in an explicit statement, and yes, Blues is a walking nuke reactor.)
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Actually Vent and Aile are representing the entire Biometal saga. (The ZX subseries) Version 3 will have them half-sized with Grey and Ashe under them.
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yes but even if they enter into a separate group because it is a story parallel to normal megaman zx
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That's wrong. Legends takes place after ZX. A long time after ZX, but nonetheless in the same exact timeline.
Classicverse:
MM > MMX > MMZ > MMZX > MML
Netverse:
MMBN > MMSF
That's all it is. The 'elysium' bit is just a reference to Neo Arcadia.
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This is an old version, check, my gallery for Version 2.
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really? If X doesn't remember Zero then it goes to the Legends? Do you have a Youtube link for that? O.o?
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[link] 
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Star Force takes place 200 years after Battle Network Capcom like using hundred numbers
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This is cool. My only thing, is I thought Legends was it's own timeline.
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This is only about half done. Let me help real quick, and see if it makes sense to you. Any questions, just ask.
There was an original starting event that splits the two timelines (the robot side with X and Zero and then the Network side with Lan). Dr. Wily, Dr. Light, and Dr. Hikari (Lan's Grandfather) all have ideas to better the world with technology, and they are all trying to get Government Grants to fund their research. Wily is nuts, so he doesn't get the money. So the Money is b/w Light and Hikari's ideas. Depending on which one of them gets the money tells you which timeline to follow. The two are unrelated beyond this, since Wily eventually swears revenge against the one who gets the funding instead of him and forgets the other.
I know nothing of the Network timeline, but I know almost everything there is to know about the robot timeline. I've literally sat down and studied it. Megaman Legends happens at the end of the Robot timeline b/c the world is flooded by some incident that has yet to occur in a game or be explained. There is a HUGE timeline gap in the Robot timeline b/w the last Megaman ZX Advent and the Misadventures of Tron Bonne, which is a prequel to the first Megaman Legends game.
During this gap, Elysium is created as a utopia and the Humans that don't go to this utopia and are left on Earth are somehow eradicated. This event, as cataclysmic as it would have to be to kill all the humans, is probably what floods the world. Since all of the humans that didn't go to Elysium are dead because of this event, the humans that are left in space create more people and send them to Earth, for whatever reason. If I had to guess, it would be to repopulate and reconstruct the planet so that those left in space could return to their old home, but that is just speculation. So the humans that were on earth are replaced by the 'Carbons', where their population is, from there on, maintained by an administrative system that is put in place between the control centers on 'Terra' and the Main Control of Elysium. After this system is set into place, something happens and the true humans on Elysium die off one by one until true reproduction is no longer possible and the last human eventually dies. The Master, or this last male human, orders for his closest friend, the highest ranking Purifier of Elysium, to destroy the system that exists to suppress and kill off the Carbons, which live freely and happily, rather than in a repressed and formal society. Whatever his reasons in doing this are, nobody could know for sure. Maybe the system that originally was meant to help aid the growth of the civilizations on Terra by making sure that they didn't expand beyond their resources or that diseases were terminated before they could spread became oppressive and confused, just killing entire civilizations without much reason. That Purifier does this last wish well and damages the system beyond repair, but also damages himself beyond repair, requiring him to 'reset' his biological systems and revert to a infant stage of growth and lose his memory. This begins the Megaman Legends timeline.
Like I said, any questions, don't hesitate to ask. I know I've left out a bunch of stuff, and I can get VERY detailed about the obvious stuff if you need some help with the nitty-gritty of the series transitions. But please do remember that I know almost nothing of the network side. I mean, I have played one or two of the games, but in my opinion, they weren't that good, so I left them alone.
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This eliminates the need to make my own point. What I recalled from gathering my info was that Legends was the farthest down the timeline, past ZX or something. Because there is a couple things in ZX that point that, out. I think the Reaverbot eye was decorating a stage wall.
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...that wall of text scares me... You've obviously put much more effort into this this I did.
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...My bad! 
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I didn't mean "instills fear" scare, I meant "-25 ego points" scare. I thought I knew a lot about timelines and Megaman, but you put me on my ass. Well, at least I'm still unbeatable at Metroid trivia outside of Hunters.
Now that I've actually read your post, I probably can unravel the Network half of your supposed timeline. Dr. Light and Tadashi Hikari are one and the same becuase If Lan's last name was Light instead of Hikari it would ruin an exposition in Network 3. Which is why the different names are considered an irrelevant detail by this post. It actually goes back farther than "who got the funding?".
(DISCLAIMER) If you do not wish to see spoilers for the Network series, please kindly skip to the next comment. (DISCLAIMER)
The timeline splits back when Dr. Light/Hikari was given a choice by Lan's nameless grandmother: To have sex, or to work on a project. If Dr. Light/ Tadashi Hikari reproduces, Lan's father, Yuichiro Hikari will be born and the timeline will go Network. 20-something years pass, and then the VisionBursts from Network 5 are recorded. Fast-Forward another decade, play the Network games or read a [link] document to learn everything else. After Network 6, Lan does some awesome shit and 2000-or-so years later StarForce starts.
If Dr. Light works on the project, Lan's Nameless Grandmother dies in her sleep and classic Megaman begins. This eliminates her from the Robot Timeline, and you should know the rest of Robot Universe since you just schooled me on it.
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an interesting veiwpoint that makes a ton of sense. Thank you!
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I'm pretty sure 'Hikari' in japan translates to 'light', so it doesn't matter.
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The only problem I have with your timeline is that Sigma and the Mavericks went maverick without having to attack Zero... unless Zero is immune to his own effects and he is a walking virus factory.... and it probably didn't help that his parts and stuff went into the ocean at the end of X1 to be absorbed by the marine robots.
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Sorry, that's wrong...
If I recall my playthrough of MMX4, Zero was Maverick in the first place due to his DNA structure- which is a key element in MMX6. This is true due to a sequence taking a look in Sigma's past if you decided to play as Zero.
Sigma gained the virus after his confrontation with Zero, which then spread to others, such as Chill Penguin.
Zero was then changed into a Maverick Hunter after the deletion of his memory- which then recovered through the course of MMX4 and MMX5.
So technically, this timeline is exactly correct. Still, the Legends should take place at the end of the series, not as an alternate ending of X5.
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so we all agree that Original -> Network -> Starforce -> X -> Legends?
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Erm... that's not what I meant.
In fact, that's isn't even the way.
Series 1: Original -> X -> Zero -> ZX -> Legends
Series 2: Network (200 years later) -> Star Force
End.
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Close, but not accurate. Word of God says Megaman Legends takes place at the VEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERY end of the Megaman Timeline. That's why it's all flooded.
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source? From Videogame preferably.
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[link]
This is the theory everyone agrees on. Yes, it isn't official, but nothing Inafune has said has ever disproved it.
Battle NEtwork and Star Force are alternate universes, though.
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Erm... actually, Battle Network and Star Force are seperated by 200 years. -_-
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Oh well. Nobody cares about those series' anyway. XD
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I bet you do. *sees your name* hahaha. I bet you do indeed.
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I do! Those two are the series that I began with! :3
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Amen to that, brother. BN/SF forever.
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I thought Legends took place after ZX? I don't think there has ever been any official word on this, but there are some plot points in ZX that directly tie into the Legends series.
He's called a "Purifier Class Model" in the English version, but did you know that in the Japanese version, he was called an "Irregular Hunter" which is also the Japanese name for "Maverick Hunter"?
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I did not know that since I can't speak/read the Japanese langauge, nor have I played the ZX series. The only link to Legends in my experience/research is/was the single word "Elysium" in the mentioned X5 ending and it's usage therein. Had I not noticed it, I might have made Legends in a third separation box.
If C(r)APCOM can find the balls to make a timeline explanation, I believe this will be the hardest connection to create.
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