Just in time for summer break, Teppen’s latest supplemental cards are here—this time featuring Dr. Weil corrupting X and sending him down a dark path! With the next (and final) card pack of the year not arriving until October, now’s the perfect time explore these sinister additions.
Card Name:
Dr.Weil
No.
WD 081
Flavor Text:
Behold: the Goddess's Birdcage! A device that greedily devours energy particulate, capable of holding such a great amount of power that one shudders to imagine it. And now, it is under my control! Do you realize what this means!?
Artist:
Andrey Kuzinskiy
Card Name:
Story of My Life
No.
WD
Flavor Text:
Deceive or be deceived is the name of the game when it comes to working as an agent. So why is it that I'm always on the receiving end? Here I am, playing decoy for her again... Story of my life.
Artist:
suedomi masanao
Card Name:
X
No.
WD 077
Flavor Text:
The moment that he aimed his X Buster at his former allies, his systems flagged a violation of the absolute rule: a robot must never harm a human. The conflict with his berserk state agonized his body, and his aim wavered.
Artist:
Polar Engine Studio
Card Name:
U-Unwanted!
No.
WD 078
Flavor Text:
"Y-You are u-unwanted!" His Buster had devasted the body of his lesser copy. But even though the downed robot before him could no longer fight, surging hatred compelled him to take aim for the finisher. "Y-Your existence i-itself disgusts me!"
Artist:
tsuda jiro
Card Name:
Awaken, X!
No.
WD 082
Flavor Text:
Kheh heh heh! Behold, the grim aura and its golden light are surging into X's body! He will be reborn as a Reploid whose heart carries both justice and ruin—this contradiction will give[cr]rise to chaos, and the conflict that follows will rule the world...and then, the Reploids will be retired and death will find the living.
Artist: IWATAKE TOMOYUKI
God I hate the X re-design in this game.
ReplyDeleteYou and me both, bro. The ball joint for the abdominal area looks weird.
DeleteBro thinks he’s Vectorman.
Deleteabsolute rule - except X isn't a robot
ReplyDeleteHe's generally accepted as a robot. He was the last type of robot to be built by Dr. Light. All derivatives of X are Reploids.
DeleteI was under the impression they're not officially under Asimov's rules in most media. I asked a friend and they said it only happens in the Archie series, which I do not follow.
DeleteRight but the whole thing with him is he wasn't bound by the rules of robotics
DeleteI never even figured Asimov’s laws was a prerequisite for being a robot. It’s not like he invented the term, that was Karel Čapek.
Delete@Jark Yeah, it's not. Besides that, reploids and X in the series have other ways of dealing with that. X had lots of virtual training, and at least some media seem to say the two ways of being declared an Irregular are through law enforcement itself, or I think in the manga, actions that give off a signal that flag the reploid as an Irregular.
DeleteFurthermore, even Robot Masters are able to harm people, like Strike Man. And I don’t think Neon Tiger’s anti-poacher escapades were technically Maverick behavior.
DeleteAlso I just really wanna make this correction: it was actually Karel’s brother, Josef. Karel wanted to call them “labori” but thought it was too artificial (oh the irony!).
Like Early Concept Megaman Zero
ReplyDeleteHuh, good catch.
DeleteTeppen X just having part of the very core of X's character nullified for the sake of a "hype moment" is hilarious. All of a sudden, the character known for being meant to stand out as human-like, emotionally driven and incorruptible is none of these things and arbitrarily has the laws of robotics apply to him after he gets controlled by The Really Evil Guy into killing everyone.
ReplyDeleteOh boy, don't you love when the very own video game company that hasn't released a mainline X game for more than 2 decades just decides to misinterpret the titular protagonist of your favorite video game series multiple times on some good for nothing card game in good detail? Don't you love that??
ReplyDeleteI have the little suspicion Capcom really despises X because his character is against the very own reason each game occurs. X requires Capcom to REALLY write a compelling story and then stop realising more games once the story ends. But it seems to Capcom not having respect to the character that makes Ryu look like some homeless bum is just too much.
ReplyDeleteI see where you’re coming from, but X’s character came from Inafune, and he’s not even that much more pacifistic than 20XX Mega Man. Unless you just mean Capcom approved too many low quality sequels with little regard for plot cohesion, which, yeah. It’s fairly known now X5 was supposed to be the end, but as a wise man once said:
Delete“We’ve got to have… MUH NEEEEH!”
These were just bad. Dr. Weil was always a terrible and pointless antagonist. Everything after the X series was a mistake. The GBA Zero games did some interesting gameplay tweaks but the story was horrendous. X's entire being was that he WASN'T a robot. That he was the first mechanical being with true FREE WILL. He has no 3 Laws or whatever. The fact that he chooses to be good was the point. This is why Capcom will never make any games anymore, they have no understanding of this franchise at all.
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