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OUTDATED VERSION oNLY KEPT UP FOR ARCHVAL PURPOSES[link] to V3 (current)
Let's try this again. Based on articles on the MMKB [link] and the comments on V1 by and myself, I tried to make this one more accurate.
The timeline splits before any of the games happen, back when Dr. Light/Hikari was given a choice by Lan's nameless grandmother: To do the deed or to work on a project. If Dr. Light/Hikari reproduces, Lan's father, Yuichiro Hikari (Lan's Dad) 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 few [link] documents to learn everything else. After Network 6, Lan does some awesome scientific stuff and 200-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. Megaman Classic leads into Megaman X, Which heads into Zero, then ZX. After that is a gap in the Robot timeline between the Megaman ZX Advent and the Misadventures of Tron Bonne, which is a prequel to the first Megaman Legends game. During this approximately 7 Millenia 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.
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Yeah, I made this chart before Death Battle even existed.
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V3 should make it even simpler, check it out
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what can I say... i always thinked of megamand legends as a spin-off, but this maked it... WOW
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Glad to enlighten thou.
Go check out V3!
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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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Um... what? Parallel to... Megaman ZX and Megaman ZX Advent aren't parallel! They happen one after the other!
The only thing "parallel" here is that if Aile survives her and Vent's Maverick raid/Giro takes her along on the mission, Ashe dies, and if he takes Vent/ Vent lives through the maverick rid, Grey dies.
Still not sure where the timeline split is, the maverick raid or Vent/Aile going on the mission. If Aeolus's Cipher is any indication, the mission is where the split happens.
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interesting. i thought they were separate universes completely. like final fantasies. but this makes more sense i think
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Nope. Pay close enough attention and you'll see the interconnections.
Classic -> X
Dr.Light builds X [Source: X1 opening title sequence and Day of Sigma's flashback scene] and Wily builds Zero. [Source: Mega Man (Arcade) 2: The Power Fighters ending and X4's entire Zero story)
X -> Zero
If you can't see how the X and Zero series connect, you've never played the damn series.
Zero -> ZX
Prairie is all but confirmed to be Allouette from the Resistance. [Source: LOOK IN HER FRIGGIN ROOM'S BACKGROUND! YOU MUST BE BLIND TO NOT SEE IT!!] And Ciel made the Biometal. [Source: Cutscene background while "Prairie" tells Aile of her "Sis"]
ZX -> ?????? -> Legends
Confirmed by Word of God. Not quite sure how, but Legends is indeed confirmed by KEIJI INAFUNE HIMSELF to be the end of the current robot line.
BN -> SF
I haven't personally played SF at all, but from what I can tell, it's explicitly stated that this is correct somewhere in those games. If you can prove it wrong, and the CAPCOM-Unity MegaMan boards back you up on it, I'll revise this in Version 3.
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hey i believe you. i'm more a fan of the game play and music than the story. i just thought this was an interesting chart
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Ah, s'cool then. I also value the gameplay/music highly. I just decided to make this after seeing the bad ending to X5. Version 2 came about as a result of a fact-check.
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I would also point out that the Master was fleeing Terra (or a similar planet) to avoid the destruction of the others. There were no other humans that went with him, he was the last survivor. The "anthro units" we hear about were actually Proto-Carbons, the Master's attempt to use his science to rejuvenate his race and return it from the brink of extinction.
You are correct that the issues with Elysium (called Eden in the first game) were that the systems originally put in place to monitor and correct the growing Carbon culture to ensure their success was eventually outgrown and became a hindrance. One Mother Unit, Yuna, recognized this, while Sera fought to keep the system in place, becoming the villainess that the Master essentially sicced Megaman Trigger on.
The Master, on the other hand, after many centuries, perhaps millennia, of life aboard Elysium, whose utopian environment and technology prevented him from aging, spent watching the growing Carbons, felt longing in his heart to return to those people and bid Trigger farewell after giving him that final instruction, to live his last now-mortal days out among them.
Everything else you pretty much got right. The flood covered the Earth, though it isn't clear if this was the original catastrophe or, as implied by the end of Legends 2, it was their own technology (Mavericks, perhaps?) that led to their extinction. Yuna mentions to Sera at the end that the Old System had started coming back online, implying that it was something big and dangerous, having existed before the present system that Sera had been fighting to keep going, and thus possibly even before Eden/Elysium, itself.
I will point out that Trigger was specifically noted to be a high-ranking "Purifier" model. Thus, like his predecessor X, rather than like the original Rock, he was designed to be a soldier rather than just a civilian who was then modified for combat.
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One problem in your comment: X wasn't designed to be a soldier. Light designed him with options for pretty much any path the Fates chose for him. Likely, the Megabuster Mk.17 was originally intended for self-defense, or as a countermeasure in case of any Wily bots with a construction timeline similar to X's (Zero).
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exactly x was programmed to choose his own path in life. the dash boot capsule with its hologram of dr. light even says so.
light hoped x would choose a peaceful path but with when sigma went maverick x was destined to fight it seemed.
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I would also point out that Protoman died due to a flaw in either his power supply or power distribution systems. Dr. Light had offered to fix it, but Protoman turned him down, so we can safely assume it was eventually fatal, as Light said it would be.
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My point was that he was designed with that possibility in mind from the beginning, as opposed to Rock who was originally designed as a civilian and was then modified for combat.
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actually.. in the Legends series.. the X series is a popular Anime/Manga. its a different timeline
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Or X-series became an epic legend of the ages.
How do you explain the X-buster and Zetsabre(Z-Saber) being in Legends, then?
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Roll was a big fan of the Megaman series. her love for it turned into the inspiration that created the buster and the sabre.
plus.. if its in the future... then why isn't civilization as advanced as it was in the other MM games?
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Thing is, Volnutt FOUND THE SABRE IN THE RUINS. and the X-Buster WAS IN THE GANG'S JUNKPILE.
If you'd played the games, you'd know there was an apocalyptic event that flooded the world.
Please shut up, you don't know what you're talking about.
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but the question is how exactly did master thomas flood the world following zx advent? did he melt glaciers or polarcaps or something?
we'll likely never know since capcom doesn't care about the megaman franchise much less the black sheep of them all... the legends series. all capcom cares about now is whoring out street fighter updates/sequels again and again, disrespecting its fandom, or abusing dlc over and over.
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The worst part about MML3 getting pulled? Protoman was slated to appear, dethroning Zero as the longest-lived Robot in the Robot Timeline.
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i never heard that before. but would be the classic protoman or a new incarnation call protoman trigger in keeping with him being megaman older brother?
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It was supposed to be the original red badass. From Classic
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oh i thought it was a new version of proto man like the netnavi from battle network. like how there's roll, roll casket, and roll EXE. i thought it was a rendition of legends megaman's brother.
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Nope, the original nuclear-powered badass.
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wonder if legends will ever introduce a protoman trigger? doubt it considering capcom despises the megaman game franchise right now and the legends even more so. its the black sheep of the blue bomber's legacy (i don't think the legends series was that bad/its very underrated)
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all you needed to do was explain that. i didn't know about the apocalyptic flood. i also wasn't trying to piss you off. think about that and cool off before you reply.
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People talking about things they don't know about just pisses me off. I've clocked a few guys who said they caught Celebi in Red.
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sorry.. all you had to do was explain that.. and that would've ended it there.
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Nobody knows what happened to the original cast. it would be incorrect to say "they died off". I mean, after all, Auto WAS in X3. Suffice to say something happened, but we dont know what. just fast forward to X series.
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Well, if they didn't die off, where the hell are they in MMX?
We know Rock died at least... by his own hand. He killed Quint, who is his reprogrammed future self.
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The future is not set in stone. Quint coming back in time singe handedly altered the present day Rock's future. Because Rock knows how Quint came to be, he will not be caught off guard.
Seperate time streams. Quint and Rockman Shadow both come from the same one. But thats not the same future that the current classic cast will move towards.
So All because that future exists in its own timeline, does not mean it will happen in the actual one.
Also, from Zero to ZX is 200 years, not 100.
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I just now realized. You never answered me in where the hell the classic cast is if they didn't die off.
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Wow. late reply is extremely late, much?
Who knows. Maybe they are still around and simply not fighting. Maybe they went off into space with Duo. Maybe they did die off.
Nobody can really say. But we must think of it this way. The Classic series is a lighthearted romp through fun little themed places that honestly make little sense in reality sometimes. However, we know that Rock will ALWAYS prevail. Him and the classic cast will never be killed off by Zero, or any such thing. Why? because its just such a lighthearted cast, it does not deserve a grim ending to their tale. suffice to say they are simply not around to help their brother during the X series.
But really, who knows?
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Your response has been noted and will be integrated in to Volume 3.
Thank you for your logic.
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I'd like to point out, so you can add this to your timeline theory, that Mega Man kills himself after battling himself as Quint in Mega Man II (GB). No one knows what actually happens to him in the end, but I say he killed himself.
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Time paradox!
If he did that, Quint would never come to be, and thus Megaman wouldn't kill himself. Endless cycle, universe resets, you never exist to cause said paradox.
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What game Quint in? Oh nice timeline by the way.
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Old-school Game Boy games
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Sorry, my miswording, Mega Man didn't kill 'himself' himself, but Mega Man DID kill 'Quint' himself. Since Quint was from the future, then I'm sure it was destined for Mega Man to be his own destroyer. Though why Wily didn't do what he did to catch a more experienced Mega Man to the present Mega Man is beyond me, no wonder Bob and George mocked his stupidity.
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