![]() The last of the major characters warranting a mention on this list would be yet another Mega Man counterpart: Bass, a black-hued villain who showed up once Proto Man ceased to be edgy enough. But by the end of the game, his real identity - as a not-so-bad guy and as Mega Man’s robo brother and prototype. Just as Rockman doesn’t throw stones, the meaning of this name isn’t clear unless you’re hip to the music lingo.) Technically, both the Japanese and American versions of Mega Man 3 have the character introducing himself as the seemingly villainous Break Man, which has its own musical associations. (Yes, even though he’s red in color, which I’d imagine might be confusing even to a Japanese person with a rudimentary understanding of English. In America, this very Mega Man-like character was named Proto Man, but the Japanese version of the game referred to him as Blues. In Mega Man 3, the title character was given a new, more manly counterpart who would prove more active in the series. In 2006, Capcom remade the original Mega Man as Mega Man: Powered Up and finally included Roll as a playable character, but make no mistake: She’s relatively inconsequential in the series as a whole. Capcom game - which pits folks like Wolverine and the Incredible Hulk against Ryu from Street Fighter and Jill Valentine from Resident Evil - but even then, she only appeared as a joke character that couldn’t really hold her own. She never really did anything of importance until the second Marvel vs. Possibly as a result of this decision, she doesn’t appear in Mega Man 2 at all. (Come to think of it, given Mega Man’s name switch from Japan to the U.S., series creators Capcom might as well have just called her Mini Woman.) According to this page, Roll was considered as a possible sidekick role in Mega Man 2 before the idea was nixed for fear of turning off the largely male target audience these games were being aimed at. ![]() Really, she might has well have been named after bread, since she really never got to be a full-on counterpart to Mega Man. We’re told she cooks and cleans, but we don’t even actually get to see that. For Americans ignorant of Mega Man’s Japanese origins, thinking of Roll in the edible bread sense isn’t all that inappropriate, I should note: As with many female characters born in the early days of video games, Roll doesn’t do a whole lot. ![]() ![]() Rock and roll, in grinning, large-mouthed robot styleīefore I knew about Mega Man’s Japanese name, I assumed the “roll” in question was the kind you eat along with dinner, in the vein of other Japanese-created video game characters with “pleasant edible” names, such as Peach and Daisy. ![]()
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