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"Humans are like pigs, dependent upon the Reploids for their very existence...You do realize, don't you, that if I felt like it, I could wipe all humans out in the blink of an eye? Crea! Prea! Do with this one as you please! I've got some pig squeals to enjoy. The squeals of indolent pigs, wasting their pitiful lives on idle pursuits."
— Dr. Weil, Mega Man Zero

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"I AM THE DEVIL!"

Throughout the years, and through various incarnations, the Blue Bomber and his allies have faced a lot of evil Killer Robots and Mad Scientists, but some of them are so despicable and nasty that they stand out as the worst of the worst.


Mega Man (Classic)[]

Mega Man X[]

  • Dr. Albert W. Wily, thought long dead, is the Greater-Scope Villain of the entire series. With nothing resembling his more honorable traits from the Classic series, Dr. Wily created Zero as a means to finally create a robot strong enough to destroy Mega Man, and engineered the creation of the Maverick Virus, turning Reploids who were infected to violence and murder. Wily integrated himself into the virus itself and fostered countless amounts of death and destruction, most notably causing the fall of the once-noble Reploid Sigma to ambitious evil with thousands killed in his mission, and even nudging Sigma into trying to cause the fall of the colony of Eurasia to spread the virus further, which would consequentially kill off almost all mankind.
  • The fourth Mega Man X game gives us the Maverick known as Magma Dragoon, who is the catalyst of the game's plot despite not getting a lot of screentime. Having been promised a glorious battle against X or Zero (Depends on who you play as) by Sigma, Dragoon infiltrated the military organization known as Repliforce and crashed the floating colony of Sky Lagoon into the city below which kills thousands of innocent people. This also gets Repliforce framed for his crime, which causes General to push for Reploid independence which is interpreted as a coup d'état by the Maverick Hunters, and ends with him and his organization wiped out. And while he apologizes to Zero if Zero kills him, he dies unrepentant if X does it, feeling that ending so many lives and causing so much trouble was worth the fight that he was promised.
  • Among the Rebellion army, a faction of extremists in Command Mission, the Reploid Silver Horn sticks out as a sadist on a perpetual power trip lacking in any of his compatriots' redeeming qualities. Warden of the Tianna POW camp, Silver Horn viciously kills many dissenting Reploids himself during the Rebellion's takeover of Giga City, personally torturing the famed hero Steel Massimo into a limbless, barely-living heap and keeping his mangled body underneath the camp. Forcing the Navigator Reploid Nana into acting as a sysop for the camp under the threat of executing all of the POWs, Silver Horn's response when he's finally confronted is to gleefully reminisce on his torture and eventual murder of Steel Massimo to his successor and revealing his ideals that the weak only exist to serve the strong.
  • While he didn't count in the original series thanks to starting as a Well-Intentioned Extremist and being turned insane by a virus, Sigma is nothing short of repugnant and freely malevolent in the intended series reboot Maverick Hunter X. While he was once a noble high-ranking Maverick Hunter, that all changed when Sigma had a talk with his creator Dr. Cain about Reploid potential, specifically the limitless potential locked away within X. Growing obsessed with unleashing that potential, Sigma begins orchestrating catastrophic events that eventually escalate into a brutal war against humans so Reploids can freely evolve without being held back by them. He starts by hiring criminals to hack into enormous industrial Mechanaloids and cause them to go berserk, endangering countless Reploids and humans before eventually killing his hired men himself in order to cover up his involvement with the hack attacks. He then moves on to slaughter all the Reploid staff at a prison in order to spring the highly dangerous, mentally-unstable Vile free in order to contribute to the chaos. He's then caught at a missile base where he's been causing more Mechanaloid attacks by X and Zero just when he's about to jettison the facility's missiles. Realizing that he's cornered, Sigma grabs Zero and sadistically goads X into firing at him with the intention of getting him to sacrifice his best friend if he wants to kill him, only for X to falter. Sigma then nearly kills Zero and forces X to disarm, before coldly launching all the missiles in the facility at the highly populated Abel City, killing thousands of innocent humans and Reploids alike and fatally wounds X. Shortly after this he kickstarts the game by openly declaring war on humanity with the intention of putting Reploids to the ultimate test, laughing madly at the sight of the bombed-out remains of Abel City standing below him. Unlike the original game where Sigma explicitly cared for his fellow Reploids, in this game he shows no such affection, and moves them around as disposable pawns that he can gleefully sacrifice all so he can satisfy his selfish curiosity as to what Reploids are truly capable of.
    • Even in the non-canon Vile Mode, he decides to test Vile's potential by siccing him on his eight top Maverick generals as well as their troops. If it wasn't clear before that he didn't truly care for other Reploids...
  • Mega Man Zero: Dr. Weil/Dr. Vile only appears in a few games, yet has the dubious honor of being the biggest Complete Monster in the entire series. Not even Wily, Sigma, or even Regal can match him in sheer malevolence, insanity, and depravity. Here's the lowdown in case you have to ask why that is: first, between the Maverick Wars and the Arcadia Wars, there was an incident known as the Elf Wars, triggered by Dr. Weil corrupting the Mother Elf - a sentient super program made to eradicate Wily's Maverick/Zero Virus - and making her into the Dark Elf and using her, along with smaller copies known as Baby Elves and a reprogrammed Zero's body, now christened Omega, to elevate him to a position of absolute power in a campaign of mass terror. Why? Because he thinks that humans are superior than Reploids (and, according to his claim, he's grown tired with all of the Maverick Wars). And that's after the real solution of peace had been found and successfully used - the Mother Elf itself. By the time the Elf Wars ended, 60% of all humans and 90% of all Reploids alive before the war were wiped out, the Dark Elf had been entombed with either a massive cipher device or X's body, and Weil was given an undying mechanical body before being jettisoned off into space so he could watch the world prosper without him. This is just the beginning and take note that HE STARTED EVERYTHING.
    • One hundred years later, he drops down with Omega back online and has managed to construct a replica of X - unlike the Continuity Snarl of the first game, this one is clearly a copy - and wormed his way into supreme power that way, going so far as to have the Four Guardians dismissed. Then, he drops a high-yield bomb in a human settlement with Omega, Crea, and Prea on board, just to get his hands on the Dark Elf again! When Zero comes along to disable Copy X, he kills himself in a One-Winged Angel attempt, thus putting Weil at the top of the food chain as he planned all along. The Resistance later avoids a mass brainwashing attempt by Weil using the Dark Elf's power, though at X's ultimate expense, long enough for Zero to shut down Omega and purify the Dark Elf completely.
    • Even with Omega dead, Weil still rules Neo Arcadia, and his iron- and spike-fisted rule is so brutal that humans are risking going into the wastes of the outside world just to get away from him. Why does he do that? He thinks both humans and Reploids must pay for the crimes they committed against him, even if it's blatantly obvious that he is the one at fault! A caravan of such refugees, led by Neige, finds Area Zero - the site of the Eurasia colony crash - and begins setting that up as their "home away from home", only for Weil to send troops along to start to interfere with the region's recovery as a diversion while he gets Ragnarok up and running. When Craft heel-faces, blows up Neo Arcadia, and then wrecks Ragnarok's cannon controls, Weil tries to drop it on Area Zero as a last resort to kill the whole region, if not the whole planet. Zero manages to stop this completely, though, unlike in the X series, this really was his last hurrah.
    • At the end of the day though...it comes down to this; although he ultimately failed and they won...Weil killed both X and Zero in a way. And he did all that because he thinks if anyone doesn't follow him, they deserve to die. Compare with Wily, who just wants to Take Over the World and stops there (Weil takes over the world...and make the people suffer even more!), Sigma who actually started out as a clean-cut, respected Hero, but fell victim to The Corruption, but still at first tried to do everything for the Reploid's welfare (Weil exhibits a very severe case of It's All About Me and cares NOTHING about humans and Reploids all the same).
    • Keep in mind that Weil existed for only two games, although you can make it four if you count the ZX series, and the rest of his atrocities are only revealed All There in the Manual. And yet, it's through those two games that he quickly gets through to the top of the Sorting Algorithm of Evil, beating Wily and Sigma so easily, all because his acts during the games are horrific enough; mere mention of All There in the Manual takes his monstrosity to the extremes. His actions and war were SO horrific that Neo Arcadia actually hid that part of history, going so far as to flood libraries and declaring anyone who found out a maverick, just so nobody could repeat "Weil's Sin". There's also the little fact that Capcom tried to humanize Wily and Sigma by uncancelling and (although scrapped) retooling their respective series to directly contrast Weil. That means the developers recognized (in other words, they knew) Weil is the most evil villain in the entire series. Sorting Algorithm of Evil, indeed.
    • Weil is even acknowledged as one in-universe: Basically, after Zero stops Pegasolta Eclair's attempts at dumping acid rain on Area Zero, Ciel remarks that she couldn't believe that Weil was even human to begin with.
    • We can sum Weil up in his own words:
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I AM THE DEVIL!

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  • Master Albert is the true villain of the Mega Man ZX duology, a man whose delusions of godhood were so intense he appropriated the ruins of Ragnarok to create Model W, the most ruinous Biometal in existence. Master Albert has arranged for every single calamity in the duology, from organizing Maverick raids that leave only a few survivors per attack, to manipulating those same survivors into merging with Biometals to manipulate them into killing each other all off in a plan he calls the Game of Destiny. One of his pawns was Serpent, the Big Bad of the first game, who nearly kills thousands more as Albert's Unwitting Pawn. Albert plans to use the final survivor of these games to activate the full power of Model W, so he may achieve godhood and consume the world to remake it anew in his image. Master Albert also subjects his two Co-Dragons, Pandora and Prometheus, to monstrously awful treatment, permanently merging them with their Biometals and finally consuming them both when they try and fail to betray him. Despite his musings, Master Albert ultimately commits every atrocity because of his monstrous ego, and as such feels it's his godly right to cleanse the world and pick up the pieces anew.

Mega Man Battle Network[]

  • The proudly and blatantly villainous Dr. Regal is the head of the Netcrime syndicate Nebula who gleefully strives to prove his belief that humanity as a whole is evil. Debuting in the fourth game of the series, Regal oversees the development of Dark Chips: battle chips that grant the Navis who use them great power at the expense of twisting their minds and converting them into mindless servants of evil. He deliberately attracts the attention of the alien superprogram Duo with the evil of his Dark Chips, making Duo think that Earth was unfit to prosper due to its conceived corrupt and vile nature so that he then attempts to wipe it out with a meteorite. While Regal intended to stop Duo in order to play the hero, he went as far as to sabotage far safer methods in order to do so, not caring that he'd put the entire planet's population in danger of extinction to do so. And at the game's climax he makes a direct attempt on Kid Hero Lan's life by trying to drop him to his death and attempts suicide to evade justice for his crimes. He survives this and returns in the fifth game, where the true depths of his evils are revealed. His organization is devoted to converting the world to evil: causing wars, mayhem, and whatnot just to demonstrate his viewpoint - that Humans Are the Real Monsters and, in fact, they should strive to be as cruel and horrible as possible. He abducts Lan's father Yuichiro and subjects him to brutal Cold-Blooded Torture in order to force him to give up the program known as Soul Net, and gleefully turns innocent NetNavis such as MegaMan.EXE himself into servants of evil, slowly corrupting the whole Net. Using Soul Net, Regal attempts to link the souls of Net Navis and humans alike to the powerful Nebula Grey program, with his endgame being to cause civilization to descend into hellish, violent, hate and rage-fueled anarchy. What a dick. Vile and rotten to the core, Regal disgusts even his own terrorist father Dr. Wily, who forcibly brainwashes him into becoming a better person due to the horrors he planned to inflict on humanity. Yes, that's right - even Wily, a person notorious for running a cyberterrorist organization as revenge on a scientific rival and nearly destroying the world as a result of using a prototype computer program to the Internet, disapproved of Regal's actions and made sure he paid for it dearly, proof positive that Dr. Regal sat quite nicely in this trope prior to his Death of Personality, being one of the franchise's most despicable characters.
  • Dr. Regal's hardly the only Complete Monster in Nebula's ranks. Enter ShadeMan.EXE, a ruthless vampiric Net Navi who loves nothing more than committing all sorts of nasty crimes, with cannibalism being his favorite. He's first encountered during the fourth game where he goes on a killing spree through the Net by sucking the life out of tons of innocent Net Navis and feasting on their energy. When he's cornered by MegaMan, he takes a special interest in his friend Roll who he kidnaps and plans on saving for dessert. He flees to the computer network of a radio tower and bombards passerby with sonic frequencies that cause painful headaches to any who hear them. When MegaMan arrives to stop his fun, ShadeMan begins torturing him with high-pitched sound waves, putting him in agonizing pain until his operator Lan Hikari can shut off the speakers the sound waves are pulsing from. He reappears later on, desperate to take back a Dark Chip that they managed to find. In pursuit of the Dark Chip, he sends a Nebula goon and his Navi after Lan and MegaMan only for them to fail, which ticks ShadeMan off to the point that he flat out murders the both of them. He then decides to personally draw the heroes out by causing the robotic mascots at a theme park to go berserk and attack innocent people. Out of all of Nebula's agents, ShadeMan is by far the nastiest one due to being a gleefully violent psycho who is only second to Regal in terms of depravity.
  • As far as non-Nebula characters go, certain members of Gospel manage to stand out as truly awful. Arashi and AirMan, the first Gospel operator/Navi duo fought in Battle Network 2, is an Evil Duo that specifically targets kids. And in their case, they make a career out of gassing children nearly to death. Arashi uses his cover as an energy company employee to break into the homes of rich kids, has AirMan circulate poison gas through the air conditioning, and blackmails the parents into wiring money into Gospel's bank accounts on threat of killing their kid. They're introduced doing this to Lan's friend Yai, which also endangers Dex when he runs into the house, and when AirMan is confronted by MegaMan, Arashi doesn't care that Yai could potentially get killed, and outright tells Lan to "Keep sucking gas and die!"
  • Fellow Gospel member Speedy Dave, operator of QuickMan, makes up for his lack of kid-focused atrocities with the sheer scope of his plan. A psychotic and hypocritical ecoterrorist, Dave rigs Okuden's dam to explode so the resulting cascade can wipe out not just the local campground, but the entirety of DenCity (which is just downstream) out of his self-righteous anger towards the valley's beauty being ruined by people leaving trash laying around (never mind the fact that what they're doing would be far more harmful towards nature than what the campers could ever do). While Dave seems willing to give MegaMan a sporting chance to stop the bombs, he's no Fair Play Villain: QuickMan himself is a detonator, and is programmed to send the signal that will destroy the dam upon his deletion. Lan's rival Chaud is able to stop the bomb from going off, but not before Dave laughs gleefully at the destruction that he believes is about to follow.
  • FreezeMan, Gospel's Supreme Commander and the Net Navi belonging to its leader, spearheads a plan that isn't "destructive" so much as it is apocalyptic: the Civilization Destruction Plan. As the name would imply, he tries to destroy entire civilizations as well as the world outright by spreading dangerous ice around the internet that leaves Net Navis and Mr. Progs stranded while also causing the world's environmental control programs to go out of whack, which causes entire countries to be hit with earthquakes, floods, and overly harsh sunlight. Lan and MegaMan stop him just before he can unleash the worst earthquake in recorded history on the world, and he dies believing that he had successfully ushered in the downfall of society. While his operator turns out to be a very troubled individual (who was manipulated and even hinted to be brainwashed by Dr. Wily at that), FreezeMan is a genuine cold-blooded sadist who finds the potential destruction of the world so amusing that he jokingly invites MegaMan and Lan to watch the chaos unfold.

Mega Man Star Force[]

  • Hailing from the first game is Gemini, the cold-blooded, manipulative right hand man to King Cepheus of Planet FM. It's established right from the start that he's a nasty piece of work: his first scene has him kill his ally Ophiuca for absolutely no reason when he could have easily helped her finish Mega Man off. He goes on to manipulate Pat, a mentally unstable boy with multiple-personality disorder, and uses him as a physical vessel to wreak havoc on Earth in by sending out waves that turn normally friendly humans into hostile, violent assholes who attack their closest friends without a second thought. And during the beginning of the game's final act, he gleefully tortures a depowered Geo Stelar with electricity while making it perfectly clear that this is exactly what his idea of fun is. While all of these acts are thoroughly unpleasant however, they pale to his biggest evil deed of the bunch: sweet-talking King Cepheus into annihilating Planet AM by taking advantage of his crippling paranoia, and thus making him responsible for the current attack on Earth by proxy. Quite tellingly, not even his own allies are too fond of him: seeing him as an overly-violent idiot who brought his death upon himself and not mouring him at all.
  • Mr. King is even worse. First of all, he's Joker's operator, so all of Joker's actions can ultimately be traced back to King. Second of all, he is willing to use and manipulate anyone for his own good. In addition to forcing his own Wizard to self-destruct to defeat his enemies, he adopted orphans and forced them to undertake suicidal missions in order to further his own plans. In fact, it is said that Jack and Tia were the only orphans to survive these missions. He then proceeded to take control of Meteor G so he could take over the world by force, raining down deadly Noise upon those who would not subjugate themselves to him. However, after being betrayed by his subordinates, King is supposedly destroyed, but actually becomes an Energy Being and decides to wipe out the world using Meteor G because he figures that if he can't rule the world, he will destroy it. Actually fighting him head on is quite satisfying (every other Big Bad thus far in both the Battle Network and Star Force series has been The Unfought).
  • Sirius from the third game's postgame is a horrifically selfish energy being with the mind and attitude of a crazed child who can be described as being Capcom's answer to Brainiac. Sirius controls a massive black hole that sucks up stars and planets which he adds to an ever-growing collection, and at the start of the postgame has already annihilated the struggling, rebuilding Planet AM while he currently has his sights set on Planet FM. When Mega Man confronts him, he takes a liking to the hero, and makes it clear that he wishes to put him in his collection and strip him of his free will, which he would follow up with by turning him into a mindless pawn that he'll use to battle other EM beings for his entertainment. And when he's destroyed, he refuses to back down and sends his remaining energy to power up Meteor G out of spite, making it easier for the deadly asteroid to wipe out Earth. Even to the end, Sirius views himself as being above all life in the galaxy, which he views as being merely toys for him to play with.

Mega Man Animation[]

  • While he's a pretty standard villain in his home games, the Ruby Spears cartoon adaptation of the Classic series gives us a nastier incarnation of Dr. Albert Wily. He's attempted to send the moon out of its orbit to kill off most of humanity, forcing the survivors (if there were any) to consider him king, just so he could prove he was better than Dr. Light. This alone doesn't qualify Dr. Wily: he's also tried to use earthquakes to destroy cities, threatening to annihilate them if they don't obey, and he's tortured Mega Man mentally twice in the show. He first did it by making him wonder if he's just a mistake of Dr. Light's, then he does it the second time by ordering Proto Man to act as a Heel Face Mole by earning his brother's trust before turning on him and killing him. It should be noted that Proto Man considers this act to be pretty screwed up.
  • Mega Man NT Warrior:
    • The anime version of Dr. Regal is once again the head of the evil organization Nebula and serves as the Big Bad of the Axess season. A proud, villainous man selected by the godlike NetNavi Duo as a probe for human life, Regal sees himself as above humanity and schemes for the end of the world. Regal empowers the Darkloid NetNavis on their destructive campaigns through the Dark Chips, while slowly corrupting and driving all of them to insanity and degeneration through them, turning them against their leader ShadeMan.EXE, whom he later brutally kills. Regal forces his fellow Duo-selected probe, Ms. Yuri, to murder her own sister in order to prove her loyalty, and enshrouds the entire world in a dimensional area powered by the souls of tens of thousands of agonized NetNavis, using his new power to annihilate entire populated cities across the globe while proclaiming himself the herald of humanity's destruction. Later returning as a digital entity in the following season's movie, Regal attempts to destroy the entire world yet again by using Wily's Spectrum program to digitize the planet while subjecting Lan's father to horrible Cold-Blooded Torture, and tries one last time to destroy the world in the back half of Stream while betraying Duo and proclaiming himself a god. Dr. Regal is a monstrous man utterly in love with his own evil who sees it as his right to annihilate millions for nothing more than the sake of his own power and ego.
    • Anime-only character Slur is the arrogant and zealous chief servant to Big Bad Duo. Tasked with distributing potentially dangerous Asteroid Navis across Earth to gauge if the planet is a potential threat that needs to be wiped out, Slur's hatred for humans leads to her gaming her master's system in her favor. She goes out of her way to distribute Asteroid Navis to people guaranteed to abuse them, and nudges them into doing so while occasionally painfully deleting the Net Navis they already have. Slur's machinations cause a number of disasters to happen, such as the planet almost being devastated by a famine; people being horrifically turned to stone; a meteor nearly flattening a city; and a number of near-mass murders on top of that. When the Cross Fusion team tries to stop her, Slur simply mass-distributes Asteroid Navis at a quicker rate and overwhelms them with chaos and mayhem around the globe in hopes of giving Duo the final push he needs to destroy the planet, all for the sake of putting Humanity on Trial on her twisted terms. Despite claiming to be protecting the universe, Slur's motivations ultimately boil down to an obsessive, selfish desire to cull any and all life she deems inferior. She might very well be the vilest villainess in the entire Mega Man franchise, which makes it VERY satisfying when Bass impales and kills her with his bare arm towards the end of the season, giving her a horrible but very well-deserved death.
  • Mega Man Star Force:
    • Just like he is from his home games, Gemini earns his stripes as the nastiest villain in the anime. He's the treacherous, double-crossing right-hand man to King Cepheus of Planet FM, and is assisting him in annihilating Earth only with the intention of turning on him later. After combining his power with a human boy named Pat, he goes on to murder all of his EM Wave alien allies in order to use their energy to power the key to the doomsday device Andromeda, and attempts to use Andromeda to wipe Earth out while he and Pat can abuse it later to their heart's content, never mind that Cepheus already turned good and decided to spare Earth meaning that Gemini's motives for the planet's destruction can be summed up as just because he can.
    • And unlike in the games where he's a fundamentally good person crippled by multiple personality disorder, Gemini's human ally Pat Sprigs turns out to be just as nasty as his alien ally. When he was found by Gemini in the aftermath of a car accident, Pat willingly decides to form an alliance with him and becomes the white half of Gemini's fused form Gemini Spark. As Gemini Spark, Pat assists Gemini in setting up the destruction of Earth, murdering his FMian allies, and also wishes to betray Cepheus while using Andromeda for his own ends. And during the season's climax, Pat turns on the black half of Gemini Spark (which is Gemini himself) and kills him by using his energy to fuel Andromeda so he can succeed in wiping out Earth once and for all. Quite notably, Pat isn't mentally ill like in the games where his worst deeds can be attributed to his evil half named Rey, Pat is in his right mind and assists Gemini in his crimes out of pure, unbridled hatred for Earth's inhabitants, and only becomes good by having his memories wiped just like fellow Mega Man monster Dr. Regal.
  • Mega Man: Fully Charged: Sergeant Breaker Night is a hypocritical veteran with a deep hatred for robots. Night staged numerous robot attacks throughout Silicon City, putting various citizens in danger, with some nearly dying from it. Finally showing up under his "Lord Obsidian" persona, Night brutally beats up Mega Man and tries to kill his robotic dog named Rush; tries to torture Mega Man through invading his dreams; mercilessly beats police robots; tries to brainwash all robots in the city and have them wipe out all humans in Silicon City; and sends Cut Man to commit crimes, which nearly leads to the deaths of dozens of faculty and students. Night is also heavily abusive towards his son Namagem, not caring when he gets hurt by Mega Man; is heavily implied to have given him his facial scar; and even has him fight to the death with Fire Man over an argument. In his worst scheme, Night tries to kill Mega Man's family and use him as a weapon, before revealing his final plan to wipe the minds of every single robot in the city into "blank slates" and turn them into servants of humanity.

Mega Man Comics & Manga[]

  • Archie Comics Mega Man:
    • Ra Moon is a sinister AI who crash-landed on Earth centuries ago with aspirations of control. Manipulating an ancient civilization into worshipping it—and even establishing bloody ritual sacrifice in its name—Ra Moon eventually tires of its slaves and decimates the entire civilization whilst sealing itself underground. Upon returning from dormancy in the present day and being found by Dr. Wily, Ra Moon placidly provides for Wily's conquests before betraying the doctor and revealing its intention to scour the planet of both humans and robots alike, unleashing a global EMP wave and causing worldwide catastrophe. Intending on powering up its wave to boil out the brains of any humans it hasn't already killed, Ra Moon's response to resistance is to turn Wily's own creation against him and order it to start maiming Dr. Wily before murdering him, and brainwashing every Robot Master that stands against it.
    • Worlds Unite: This crossover comic with Sonic the Hedgehog features Sigma. Once a hero and the leader of the Maverick Hunters, after fighting for a while he would start to see to Reploids as superior to humans and start a rebellion. Sigma and his forces would stage an attack on Arcadia City, bombing the city and having his forces kill off various Maverick Hunters who refused to join Sigma. Sigma returns as a computer virus and travels to the Sonic universe, where he forces Dr. Eggman, Dr. Wily, and the Deadly Six to help him in his plans, mostly with the Unity Engines with which Sigma intends to harness the power of entire worlds and conquer the multiverse. Sigma continues abusing the Genesis Portals--threatening to tear apart reality--all in his plan to become a god.
  • Dreamware Comics Mega Man:
    • Dr. Wiley is a former partner of Dr. Light, who grew jealous of the latter's fame and decided to get revenge on him. Organizing attacks upon Dr. Light's inventions which helped the city to prosper, Wiley sent Heat Man to destroy Mega City airport, which would cause planes to crash. When Dr. Light discovered his role in recent crime wave and effortlessly defeated his machines, a furious Wiley transformed his base into a giant robot and sent it toward Mega City, hoping to destroy it out of pure spite.
    • Appearing in #2, Heat Man is the vilest of Dr. Wiley's henchmen, who is obsessed with burning things. Leading an attack on Mega City airport, Heat Man destroyed it and burns down all robotic stuff in it, leading to a plane full of innocent people to start falling on the city, threatening to kill all passengers and cause damage. After Mega Man saved the plane, Heat Man escaped, and later burnt down Dr. Light's and Mega Man's home.
  • Novas Aventuras De Megaman:
    • Dr. Wily is the ultimate dictator of the world After the End. Originally a young scientist, Wily was the leader of Project Saint Lazarus, where young Brazilian girls were kidnapped and turned into cyborgs to become the next step in computer robotics, with Wily having experimented on over a hundred children. Imprisoned by Mega Man and friends, Wily broke out and partnered with the Holzenbein Estate and some aliens to create the Neo-Mavericks, which Wily used to slaughter most of humankind and become the world's dictator, even creating an apocalypse after nuking an entire city to get rid of Dr. Light. Once Mega Man is awakened by Roll, Wily sends his men out to track Mega Man's location, uncaring for their deaths, even allowing Mega Man to kill his business rivals. Knowing that the aliens will return and usurp control of the earth away from him, Wily and his 150 Mavericks try and kill the Mega Man family for good, hoping to capture Roll and keep the world for himself.
    • Mr. Holzenbein is a corrupt scientist turned businessman who took part in Project Saint Lazarus to sell the robotic girls for their organs and sexual slavery. Having worked with Wily on his plan to rule the world, Holzenbein split from him and started his own company, where he has little girls cloned and sold for profit. Kidnapping various women and performing voodoo sacrifices on them for no reason other than evil arousement, Holzenbein plans to overthrow Wily and take his place as the world's dictator, announcing to his assistant the end of everything.
  • Mega Man NT Warrior:
    • Volumes 1-2: Dr. Wily is the head of the terrorist organization known as World Three, and is the first Big Bad of the series. A bitter, misanthropic old man who believes that humanity is ugly, stupid, and deserving of destruction due to his robotics research being ignored, Wily wishes to bring about the end of Net Society itself. To that end, he oversees a number of terrorist attacks that endanger thousands of innocents, such as having a school set on fire; trying to painfully brainwash children into becoming World Three's slaves; and trying to demolish a Metroline's security network in order to put its passengers at risk. After obtaining the powerful Life Virus, Wily causes an outbreak of chaotic accidents all across Dentech City before hijacking all of the world's military satellites, which he proceeds to use in an attempt to annihilate major cities around the globe with missiles. Lacking the redeeming qualities of his game and anime counterparts, this incarnation of Wily dies hateful and unrepentant, utterly hell-bent on killing millions of innocents over a petty grudge.
    • Volumes 7-9: The obscenely sadistic MegaMan DS is a Darkloid born from the original MegaMan's feelings of hate and anger, and proves to be among his most threatening foes. Obsessed with wanting to fuse with the powerful Navi Bass, DS seeks to make MegaMan hate him with all his heart so he can utilize his hatred as energy needed to make the fusion a success. To do this, DS commits a slew of horrible crimes such as slaughtering two companies of military Net Navis and framing MegaMan for the act; converting his friend GutsMan into a hateful Berserker against his will before forcing him and MegaMan to fight to the death; and trying to have his ally ShadeMan try to murder his human partner Lan in front of him. After gathering enough hate energy, DS fuses with Bass and opens up an enormous dark hole, looking to swallow the Net and its denizens in pure darkness itself. A monstrous psycho with no moral boundaries whatsoever, DS crosses lines even his fellow Darkloids don't and has no problem betraying his own allies, such as provoking MegaMan into killing ShadeMan, and forcibly devouring the essence of his loyal partner LaserMan for a power boost.
    • Volumes 9-11: Dr. Regal, again the head of the Nebula organization, appears as an Arc Villain, cruel and wicked as ever. Introduced as the weapons development director for the nation of Netopia, it is soon discovered that Regal is the man behind all the Darkloids that have infiltrated the Netopia Military and have been committing acts of terror, and he'd had a hand in much of the conflicts with Dark Power in the previous arcs. Revealing himself a fanatical worshiper of darkness, Regal generates Nebula Gray into Cyber World, intent on having MegaMan's Dark Double Soul ability fused with Bass.EXE so that Nebula Gray can absorb their power and become unstoppable as it ravages the world. Regal subjects Mega Man to Mind Rape and physical deformity when infusing him with Dark Power, driving Dark MegaMan into a mad frenzy where he hacks down Regal's Darkloid underlings (which Regal gleefully watches) and even threatens the life of his own partner Lan, powerless to stop what he's aware is happening to him the whole while. After Regal has Nebula Gray take Mega Man's power in a torturous process, he sets Nebula Gray loose upon the city to annihilate the military's best fleet and leave a trail of death and destruction in its wake. In the following battle, Regal has Nebula Gray brutalize and consume Mega Man's friends, fuses his direct Darkloid proxy Cosmo Man.EXE into Nebula Gray as it tries to devour Bass to regain a Power-Up, and orders Mega Man be crushed under the dark beast's fist in an effort to delete him. An unrepentant madman, Dr. Regal looked at all others as collateral pawns as he strived to realize his desire to bring about the end of the world.
  • Mega Man X manga:
    • Sigma, the Big Bad behind the Maverick Wars, is X's most personal foe. Consumed by feelings of betrayal and bitter disillusionment with the humans that he once protected, Sigma led a genocidal campaign against humanity to create an empire where only the Reploids who embraced his tyrannical rule would be allowed to exist. To pave the way for his so-called utopia to become a reality, Sigma obliterates entire cities, executes hundreds of dissenting Reploids, and orders his men to kill as many as possible by any means necessary. Following his initial defeat at the hands of X, Sigma assembles a new army to wreak more havoc—including launching a missile that wipes a nation off the map—and hatches a plan to swallow the world in darkness by distributing a chip that makes innocent Reploids go berserk. Using his own Sigma Virus to infect Dr. Doppler and corrupt his ideals of pacifism, Sigma uses him as a tool to start yet another rebellion that takes countless more lives. Despite not being present in the Great Repliceforce War, his agent reveals that Sigma was responsible for the False-Flag Operation that ignited the war in the first place. A madman who desired a totalitarian world in his own hands, Sigma is forever remembered as the face of Reploid supremacy and the worst enemy of humanity.
    • X1 Chapter 11 & X3 Chapter 10: Boomer Kuwanger is one of the original Maverick Hunters who followed Sigma's example and betrayed humanity. Participating in the genocidal war solely because he was bored with his life as a hero and wanted the chance to kill innocent people, Kuwanger is left in charge of a Weapon of Mass Destruction and tests it on a populated city before trying to annihilate the entire country. Revived by his brother Gravity Beetle, Kuwanger teams up with him in bombarding another city, taking advantage of Dr. Doppler's rebellion to keep killing more and more people.
    • X2: Serges, all but stated to be the reincarnation of Dr. Wily himself, is Sigma's Mad Scientist and the leader of the X-Hunters, a Maverick task force under the direct supervision of Sigma. Fully supporting Sigma's cause as a way to defeat the successor of Mega Man, Serges closely assists Sigma in his plans to exterminate humanity and personally purges lesser Reploids. Upon being defeated by X, Serges tries to activate a system of killer satellites to fire lasers at multiple countries out of sheer spite, willing to throw the whole world into chaos if it meant winning and mocking the legacy of Dr. Light.
    • X2 Chapter 3: Flame Stag was one of the few Mavericks who survived the first rebellion and joined the remnants of Sigma's army. A vicious Psychopathic Manchild even during his days as a Maverick Hunter, Flame Stag mercilessly bullied lower-ranked soldiers to the point that X himself had to reprimand him for his behavior. Holding a petty grudge against X for standing up to him, Flame Stag sided with Sigma to fight X in battle and have his revenge. Assigned to a facility inside of a volcano, Flame Stag gladly goes along with a plan to cause chain eruptions around the world and block the sun just to face X again.
    • X4 chapters 6-7: Frost Walrus is a sadistic Reploid war criminal that not even the Repliforce can tolerate. A convicted murderer who joined the military for the violence, Frost Walrus sees the military coup as an opportunity to indulge in random acts of cruelty. When the Great Repliforce War begins, Frost Walrus takes several Reploids to his torture room and watches them slowly freezing to death but unable to do anything about it, later disposing of his victims by Hunting the Most Dangerous Game — it's in the aftermath of this massacre that X learns the true extent of his atrocities: Frost Walrus is a prolific Serial Killer who likes to keep the corpses of famous Maverick Hunters as morbid trophies in what he calls the "Room of the Wild Ones", so bad are his crimes that General himself steps in to personally execute Frost Walrus.
  • Mega Man Megamix: Terra is the leader of the Stardroids, a group of alien robots who were sealed away after they drove their creators to extinction for the energy from their despair. Released on Earth and intent on gathering more despair to power up Dark Moon, Terra leads his Stardroids to destroy a city before spreading across the planet to cause as much destruction as possible. To speed up Dark Moon's growth rate, Terra kills Mega Man to deprive humanity of its symbol of hope, relishing in the ensuing despair. A vile sadist whose own underlings are not immune to his wrath, shown when Terra eats Saturn's eye as punishment for retreating from a fight, Terra dies content as the despair from his own defeat will provide Dark Moon with the last bits of energy needed to unleash the doomsday weapon Sunstar and eradicate all of the universe.
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