Who was in the wrong

It would probably be an FPS or an adventure game

Wily. He thought there were no heroes left in man but I'm still alive, thus meaning Light was correct.

carbon are better anyways
humans were stupid enough to die on a supa space station lmao.

corrupted the cure for the Maverick virus in an attempt to enslave all robots

started a war that destroyed 80% of all life on earth

stole Zero's original body and turned it into his enforcer

How do you punish him?

pretty clearly wily. light and wily presented different ideas for robotics. light wins the presentation and wily spergs out and decides to conquer the world. all light did was give robots very minimal free will which is a much more neutral thing to do than wily. the only thing I'd say light is directly responsible for is wily convincing robots who were about to be scrapped to join him. that entire system is fucked up and light sucks for letting it happen.

also not even to mention the shit multiple characters who are heavily implied to be Wily would go on to in the Mega Man X series and beyond.

Just kill him after the elf wars.
Banishing was stupid even if the outside world was nuclear wasteland or whatever.

X for not having succesion plans and leaving the fate of his own place to a child scientist

Lol true

x was a bad leader ngl

leaves in moment of crisis

dosen't tell the guardians or the judges

they commission a replacement in copy x

x still dosen't return even though he could as a cyber elf

i like his ideas but practically he was a bad ruler

Light, all he had to do was convince the committees that Wily was feeling like he was getting stiffed, so throwing it in his favor once or twice would've quelled Dr. Wily's jealousy and quest for world domination.

Wily obviously, anyone who says Dr. Light was at fault just for going foward in technology is an edgy faggot.

Everything after X is Cains fault. That's the retard that mass produced the free thinking machines.

What a guy

Who was in the wrong

Sigma for not dying the first time
If he did, Eurasia incident wouldn't happen

Shut the fuck up, Sera.

Reminder, who made the murderbot with virus that infected every other robot?

Punishing

Punishing what, you dumb cunt. Willy was literally throwing a tantrum and seething at light because his idea was rejected. Talk about being a bitter bitch.

MY FATHER WORKED THE MINES
TILL THE DAY IT TOOK HIS LIFE

on the subject of mega man themed rock bands.
Been listening to The Megas they just don't hit as hard, man

Ciel for starting a trivial war yet again and awakening an ancient cop to commit acts of terrorism against the only remaining civilization in the world.

So what the fuck happened to megaman and all the classic robot masters between the classic games and X?

Expiration dates from MM9 happened and they get shut down and put in a Robot Museum or just scrapped.

You see.... Dr Light is a man of culture. He knew what he was doing when he created Roll. There is no way a man like that could be wrong.

Ciel story is basically you commit a mistake as a child and you end up your entire life repairing it.

What’s the Roman Numeral for 10 again?

VV

”That's why I'm afraid that mankind is not quite ready to accept you. We are not yet mature. They may very well view your limitless evolutionary potential as something to be feared. The name "X" also carries connotations of danger.”

That’s how some folks feel about the rise of AI, whether it’s art, music or ChatGPT

Speaking of Megaman Legends, if anyone wants a story recap and some insight on what Legends 3 could’ve been then this is the video for you

youtu.be/Kq2JZOKRnMU

MFW theres a 500 year gap between ZX & Legends

World goes from dried up wasteland in Zero, restored in ZX
wtf happened

X tells Zero that after fighting for so long, he just eventually stopped caring about it all. It broke him eventually, fighting by himself for so long.

World goes from dried up wasteland in Zero, restored in ZX

wtf happened

There's a secret ending in ZXAdvent where master Thomas is talking about redoing the world or something.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vp7VnPkQqQs

yeah it's a popular fan theory that master fhomas flooded the world

Nothing. X series is an alternate timeline.

me when I lie

Dr wahwee

lie

Robocunnies deserves free will!

No! Robocunnies exist to serve man!

Who was in the wrong here?

The genocide route was the only right answer.

who is who

3rd option
Everyone gets a Aicunny personal navi

Megaman timeline be like:

Robot Timeline =Apocalypse, wars post apocalyptical stuff

Net Timeline = Paradise with minor problems, humanity becomes an intergalactic species, befriend other intergalactic species

What did they mean by this?

Dr. Wily didn't make a cunnybot so him

dr wirry never made a lolibot
yeah dark roll but the comic one doesn't count

What did they mean by this?

Reject biological reality, embrace the Net a la Sword Art online.

Both because they lost the power of friendship.
People think the reason the BN timeline didn't end up fucked was because of the internet instead of robots, but that is not true.
The ammount of global threats in BN could cause damage similar or worse than the Eurasia Colony Drop, the difference is unironically that Lan and Megaman.exe were there to stop shit, and as it's explained in SF, the power behind many of the miracle savings they did, the brotherband, is unironically friendship as a universal force.
TL;DR: Friendship saves lives.

citing irrelevant text

are you schizo or do you just have disastrous reading comprehension

Developer confirmation is irrelevant text

Unreal brain rot.

dr wirry never made a lolibot

He made two and yes, they do count.

I will die mad about MML3.
Fuck capcom to hell for all eternity for leaving my boy stuck on the goddamn moon.

yeah? in which game did they appear?

Piano relegated to tiny appearances

Waltz is drawn lewdly by their artist

stuck with 2 chocolate sexy bots

or was one still in the blonde woman's body?
still, imagine the coitus

What game was Roll playable?

Wiley. If he didn't invent cyber AIDS that Zero lovingly passed off to Sigma, humanity wouldn't have had to compromise with reploids and become carbons.

I don't think combat models are equipped with genitals. Besides the real human poon is back on earth.

megaman powered up comes to mind.

DOCTA WIWY

"X is an alt timeline!!"

"lie"

posts interview text saying "command mission is a parallel future with zero"

"this is irrelevant"

"um this is a developer saying things so there"

you are a colossal retard

doubles down on being a retard like a retard

projects

Many such cases.

Not Zero's fault that X is the most boring character in his own series. Even later games agree as they make Axl the main focus.

X is infinitely more interesting than Zero.

Best X incarnation is ironically in the Zero series lol.
They understood his pacifism and made him the best X.
Plus copy X is kino, as it shows what X could have been if he got corrupted by the constant maverick wars.

initiates a war that claims the lion's share of the world's population over a largely self-serving conflict

instead of just executing him, put him in an immortal body and let him wander the desert

oh no! he found his way back to civilization and is continuing to perform the same heinous shit he was doing before! how could we have prevented this!?

punishments that are "worse than death" still require the accused to undergo some form of handicap in order to prevent them from going back into their old habits. the fact that they made weil MORE powerful afterwards is fucking hilarious, but is ultimately one of the key reasons as to why i don't take zero's story seriously

That's completely Capcom's and specifically Inafking's fault.
X had a perfectly decent starting point but they couldn't expand on it, and had no idea where to take him to either.
Not that they do much interesting shit with Zero either past X5, and the ending of X6.

his design is beautiful too

Literally only X6 and X7 are the only times were X was actually interesting

I'm going to humor you just in case. The interview you cited only says that Command Mission, a single game that is a spinoff of the X series, is an alt timeline in the future, parallel to the Zero series. This is nowhere near saying that the X series as a whole is an alternate timeline. Many other things already confirm X is part of the same series, and surrounding events would not make sense otherwise.

You are so hyperfixated on a single title that you can't see the forest for the trees.

I don't think you understand how proof works. also thanks for confirming that you're just schizo

He doesn't think that X stepping up in X1 and being the only hunter left besides Zero isn't interesting

He doesn't think X acting hastily for once instead of passively gets an innocent killed in Xtreme isn't interesting

X has had a lot of great moments but people tend to over look them because everybody wants to self insert as Zero since he basically has little to no character.

I just posted proof, you've just chosen to ignorantly block it out because your reading comprehension has lead you to believe that it's specifically just one title that's a parallel timeline and not the fact that Zero's still up and about after X6.

marvel vs capcom 1 - 2, the tatsunoko one, megaman powered up on psp, some old java games for cellphones, megaman battle and chase, megaman x dive, maybe more :)))))))))))

Yeah, so no mainline title.

Ports of megaman 1-2 that have playable roll

Not mainline

Bro?

You are the one that lacks reading comprehension. It specifies a single spinoff title that does not impact the main series. There is no reason to extrapolate this to the main series other than irrational want or schizo logic. You posted evidence that a single spinoff game is an alternate future, which takes place after the X series for that matter. That is the only thing confirmed here. The rest is you making shit up.

cyber elfs

man this is the weirdest shit still to me because it implies reploids and beyond have souls an an afterlife
then you include biometals and it's like wtf, so you can take part of the soul from cyberspace?

reimagining for the psp

port

???

The biometals aren't the original reploids.

Talking about the mobile versions of MM anon, those are straight ports

Not only that but you can fuse with the soul to get their powers with biometals
don't forget light and wiley did kinda the same
It gets confusing

Not really helping your case with half assed mobile ports friend.

Doesn't count!

Typical Anon Babble

Mega Man 11 was the bestselling game in the entire franchise and people have been clamoring for more

:^)

at least they are playable retard, or at least appear in a fucking game, not like I don't want to see the cartoon evil lolis in games.

There isn't any concrete answer past Mega Man himself, who faded into urban legend and apparently whose existence is a very closely guarded secret to which only a few individuals in the X series are privy to, along with Light and Wily's existence

A novelization of MMX1 from around ten years ago says that X's real title of "Mega Man X" and his status as Mega Man's successor is part of why Sigma is so fascinated with him, and at least a little bit of the Maverick uprising was to confirm that X is Mega Man's successor because part of the urban legend was Mega Man could copy his foes' abilities

Even later games agree as they make Axl the main focus.

What? Axl being the focus wasn one of the many reasons X7 was reviled to death amongst other things, immediately after in games like Command Mission and X8 Axl becomes a third wheel, sure he still a main character but X and Zero are absolutely the focus again even though X8's plot is a direct follow-up of Axl's plot as a new era reploid.

Tom, listen to yourself, then listen carefully to me
If you replace the working parts, you get a different machine
The man who turns the wheels, they will follow anywhere he leads...
We've spent our whole lives searching for a way to make a better world
Giving everything to them, asking nothing in return
Well here it is– our chance to take back everything we've earned

The intro for X2 was actually pretty cool for X characterization. He comes to fuck maverick shit and end what remains of Sigma's army.

they cute

bestselling game in the entire franchise

that's not a particularly impressive benchmark to surpass for megaman, which sells quite less than many people may think. 2 million is noteworthy for megaman specifically, but that's barely a drop in the bucket relative to other capcom series.

Mega Man sells perfectly fine within the scope of its own budget, the game doesn't really have any flops because all of them were made on pennies

Using AAA as a yardstick isn't a good thing to be doing!

ngl Wily did kinda have a point that robots should serve humans and be heroic under the humans control, Controlled machines basically, and not deviate from that, and that's exactly what Light kinda did by continually giving them personalities gradually.

Using AAA as a yardstick isn't a good thing to be doing

This is Capcom you are talking about. If it doesn't do RE numbers then they consider it a flop

They don't consider Mega Man 11 a failure by any stretch (else they wouldn't have bragged about it being the bestselling game in the franchise) but they're not in any hurry to make more.

Wily, instead of taking his figurative ball and walk away he took the literal robots he and Light built and unleashed them upon the world to raise hell.

he has a point.....
until you realize he basically commited the equivalent of terrorism in classic megaman world.
Remember when he was arrested and his backup plan was to blow up a city with spare robot masters?

lol

The fucking psychopath, this isn’t a morally grey issue.

Except that Wily wanted the exact same thing, the only reason he's the bad guy is he wishes he was getting all the credit Light does since he's about as competent as him but sees himself as the better roboticist.

and when he didn't get it he settled on being feared by everyone.

He's LITERALLY me.

Cain gets more shit in these threads than he deserves. His reploids are technically as advanced as they need to be, so much so that they have the free will to become maverick if they want (regardless of Capcom forgetting and acting like that's a new concept for X8's zoomer reploids larping as Sigma males) and it's really only a few bad apples as well as the maverick virus developed by Wily that causes things to go south.

Yeah it's a matter of infinite time, now go back to posting "too soon" in the MML3 seethe threads for people completely incapable of moving on from a simple misunderstanding

Yeah, Wily was basically the embodiment of "if I can't play, no one can." Dude tossed every ounce of genius he had into spite-fueled robot uprisings. Instead of proving he was the better scientist with groundbreaking advancements, he chose terrorism and petty revenge. Light made a friend in X, Wily made a literal walking extinction event with Zero.

Despite his lack of credentials Cain was probably the best guy on the planet to do something like put forward a new wave of Robot Master-likes. Being a "hobby roboticist" in 20XX and cloning X's brain structure well enough that your first Reploid prototypes can have salient arguments with you means he was pretty fucking good, being 75% of the way to understanding Light's programming is amazing work.

Sera in Yuna's (superior) body

Yuna in the body of your gf's hotter mom

no other males or anything but reaverbots competing for their attentions and affections

Fuck Legends 3fags, this is the best ending anyone could ever hope for.

It's funny what Proto Man inspires in people for the potential he could have as a character, meanwhile in the games he does fuck all and jobs to everything.

Proto man is useless in the games.
Honestly even his lore is kinda weak and only shines in other media like the comics.

It makes sense if you consider it from the logic of rule of cool games like MMZ

forced into a hellish wasteland full of violent leftovers

built to endlessly withstand, and therefore suffer through, pain

no actual weapons to counter anything

literally the only reason he gets back into NA is pure happenstance and good timing as THE TRUE AND HONEST REAL X is so mangled that he can rebuild the world's leader into being his slave

Gets literally chopped in half by King

Brakes his shield later but takes all his energy and has to sit out the rematch

Poor guy.

This. If you were immortal and every time you tried your hardest it just ended the same way, it would eventually get to you after so long. The only real issue is the Guardians not actually taking charge and instead having to be led by the hand by an X (iirc they weren't aware he was a copy until maybe 3).

Yeah I get some of the complaints but it's not like anyone better stepped up to the plate at the time.

data Wily and Sigma are the only other ones who can reasonably match up to his technological achievements

they are both complete assholes

THE CATACLYSM

The fatal flaw with X is that nothing's hidden with him. We're told straight up from the start exactly what the circumstances behind his creation were. We know who created him, why he was created, there is zero ambiguity.

This creates a bit of a peculiarity regarding X: he knows less about himself than we, the audience, do. We know Dr. Light created him, we know that Cain used him as the model for Reploids as a whole, yet X knows none of these things. But there's no real impetus to learn as A) the circumstances behind his creation are ultimately irrelevant to the central conflicts of the series as established by the games, B) X himself has no real interest in learning and C) even if he did express an interest, there is no reason for the audience to care because we already know everything.

X's initial character motivations in MMX1 was to become a competent Hunter and resolve the incident. He achieves both. He's already a competent Hunter, so now his entire motivation, his purpose, is to just... do his job. No mysteries to solve, no significant revelations, all he does is fight Mavericks to preserve the status quo. He has no greater motivations beyond that.

It's not the world, you get to move throughout parts of Innerpeace which is a contained area that was restored over the years but most of the world is still a wasteland. Even like two hundred years after MMZ, the world is still decimated by the sole actions of *checks list of characters I blame for everything in the MM universe when I come to MM threads* Light, Cossack, Cain, Light Capsule Light, X, Ciel, Zero, and Prairie.

That artificial sentient life is easier to manage if it's a computer program and not a walking arsenal.

It's not friendship but romance. Both Wily and Light had sex with human women in BN whereas in classic they have the ability to build their own physical waifus. Let that be a lesson, incels.

Is it really Light's fault? Even if Light didn't create X, I don't really think it would have resolved anything. Because Zero and the virus still exist thanks to Wily. Or do you believe that Light creating the original Light Numbers was the original sin? I mean, I'm pretty sure robots would exist regardless since he and Wily were part of a robotics committee in the past. There ARE other roboticists besides them, they're just the best ones.

There are multiple timelines involved in the robotics side of things. Capcom has always treated X as something of an alternative timeline. It's like how the Hakaider movie isn't the absolute future of Kikaider. It's a possible future.

Wily beats the fuck out of Zero which cures him of being a maverick

So why do they keep killing mavericks then?

the english localization fucked everything up because they had no clue what was what, though to be fair inti was also essentially making fan games and couldn't commit to anything that would potentially mess with future Legends/X games since they had barely any correspondence with capcom other than "please make us money", so everything is very metaphorical with broad interpretative meanings

couldn't

*didn't have the creativity or motivation to
Plus InafGOD was still salty and had an agenda to push his tall Roll to the forefront and the leverage to make that happen.

I think there's a big case to be made in that the series did try and explore the ideas of X's creation and the Wily vs. Light conflict still extending into the modern day with disastrous consequences (already as far back as X2 with Sigma alluding to working with Wily and Serges in particular piloting something like a Wily Machine and being the one that finished out Zero) but like you say they didn't know what to do with it or where to go with it. Infamously it's not brought up again after X5 which features it as a pivotal plot-point and they still don't do anything with it there past X vs. Zero and Sigma's battle-body looking a lot like MM3's Gamma.

all he does is fight Mavericks to preserve the status quo. He has no greater motivations beyond that.

On the other hand it's way too late to do anything about the status quo given the repeated Earth razes done by Sigma, something that tears him up inside and which he stepped back into an administrative role over in X7.

CM does him some good just for the fact that we get to spend more time with X in a narratively-driven setting and X8 is a great showcase of an X confident in his role, also his "As long as I'm standing, there's hope" line goes hard. Easily one of the best lines in the franchise, not as verbose but just as memorable as Zero's Z4 speech imo.

X4 had the best story it's a shame that they didn't introduce some characters earlier as it explores the Reploid human stuff perfectly.

True repliforce is interesting

They already had DNA souls in X6 and XT2.
Biometals are apparently just fanmade recreations of specific reploids for the "chosen ones" (completely retarded, I will always hate that more than if they just allow themselves to be used by people they choose or something) to use and really only W has the soul of the person it was based on since Weil combined himself with Ragnarok directly.

Yes but consider this: those facts don't align with my narrative so I will ignore them in future arguments.

The idea seems to be that Light and Wily were so ahead of their game that they actually created digital souls. Remember, X3 established that Sigma is a living energy virus. His code, his AI, has transcended physical hardware and became bound to a virus that was also a form of energy. X8 also introduced Evil Energy, a form of space energy encoded with malignant data. All this establishes that it's possible for artificial intelligence, for code, to exist in a state without the explicit need to be limited by hardware. X5 showcases this as well; when Space Colony Eurasia was infected by the Zero Virus, the virus caused actual physical phenomena. Up to this point, physical data constructs existed here and there throughout X2 to X4, but X5 went all in on the concept.

Light and Wily created AI so advanced that it was capable of sentience and self-awareness, genuine intelligence. This AI took in everything they learned throughout their own experiences, resulting in a form of digital intelligence that transcends physical hardware. The end results are Cyber Elves.

Incidentally, the idea of data and special radiation resulting in physical phenomena would once again be explored in Mega Man Battle Network 2, where such radiation literally caused servers to "grow".

Anybody who says wily is a fucking retard, it's not light's fault wily is a petty manchild that never got over his uni reject

I think the X series needs a rewrite since the characters and potential for more serious stories are there but they weren't well told originally.
Now that i think about it It's really what Maverick Hunter X remake was doing.

the guardians and X/zero are the originals too, made by Ciel but they only say it in the japanese games for some reason they cut the lines from the english

why would a robot need such a large yet shapely ass

MHX not selling well because it was on the PSP kills me, we were so close to getting a do-over on the X series' fragmented plot.

spite-fueled robot uprisings

*fire-y but mostly peaceful protests
The problem is moreso that they don't make any new reasons to be invested in X as a person. Even the early game plots revolve more around Zero.

It's a joke about how pseuds think they are smart for attributing antagonists' atrocities to the good guys is well crafted and thoughtful writing when really it's the result of the kind of logic you develop when you read or write capeshit that went on for too long.

Dr. Light sounds like Dr. "Right" in Japanese

But also Wily is on the "right" in this image

Paradoxical question. They are both right therefore they can't be wrong.

it's a shame that

That half of that story isn't even in the game lmao

X3 established

X1 credits scene thoughever

These 2 are just yin and yang they can't exist without the other and there's always a mix of both influences.

Nah even in dub ZX you get the feeling that these are definitely the same people, I think it was Advent that decided they were recreations Ciel made and that Albert retroactively came up with chosen ones which explains the part fhings like Vent and Giro being able to use biomentals which was something that never came off as needing an explanation.

lmao perfectly said

I think compatibility was a thing. Each Biometal seems to only be compatible with certain individuals. What makes Biometal X so special is that it can interface with any other Biometal so you end up not needing to be compatible in order to use its power.

Yeah really, what it kills the x series is the fact it never fully commited to the implications of what they presented until X8, even then that game was a fucking nonsensical mess

BURN!! BURN! B-BURN TO THE GROUND! BURN TO THE- wOOGH!! BURN TO THE- wOOGH!! BURN! BURN! B-bURN!! wOOGH!! BURN TO THE- BURN TO THE- BURN! wOOGH!

what did he mean by this

Eh maybe, I just wish Albert's choices felt less random. Yes you can say that he's so smart that he planned everything but that just makes him look worse later on when he acts considerably less smart.

Advent is just a mess no matter the angle you look at it from, having to delete Axl from the game at the last minute and shoehorn A standing for Albert (lmao)

We still never learned who created Axl and the NG Reploids. It was probably Wily or something.

so much so that they have the free will to become maverick if they want

This right here is the core issue. It's free will. Dr. Light gave X, and my extension the Reploids, to be as free as any human. And just like any human, that includes the capacity to be a piece of shit. MAYBE that guy that shot up a school had some sort of physical or mental disorder that pushed him into doing it. Then again MAYBE he's just a selfish asshole with no empathy who has no problem with causing harm to others. The differences being that 1. Reploids are manufactured and not born. And 2. Reploids can have chainsaws for hands. It's why giving free will to robots is such a dangerous and touchy subject

The problem is twofold:
1) cain never put the reploids in the same moral tests X had and as such they never any true moral code
2) zero's whole fucking existence

Everything about Zero is so weird to me. Because, and correct me if I'm wrong, he was built with his evil meter maxed out of the box. And he had the Zero Virus contained in his head crystal which is also supposed to corrupt robots into being evil. So when he fought Sigma and accidentally broke it, it caused a stat overflow glitch that looped him back into being good? While Sigma became evil as intended but without the madness

It was Sigma, as boring as that answer is.

Maverick Zero in X5 was his intended personality. Maybe he's evil but the only real evil thing he was built to do was kill Mega Man, him being batshit in the X4 flashback was a result of Wily dying before finishing his programming or something.

I thought Zero was built by Wily as a final middle finger from beyond the grave, as he knew Tom was working on one final magnum opus and wanted a robot that could counter X by destroying him or corrupting him.

both of them from writing out roll from the series

there are 2 different viruses kinda, the actual virus that is what's referred as the maverick virus which is what you're referring too and then there's the "Zero Virus" which is the unlying effects of the virus mixed with Zero's DNA (basically this acts as a bypass to Reploids to actually be free of the laws of robotics and have free will but is also tampered by by sigma which makes it confusing)
Essentially Zero is the only sentient robot with actual free will after he gets rid of the corrupted data.

Zero as an evil robot is his intended personality and as a good robot is basically him having gone Maverick. Zero does allude himself in a couple games that he doesn't really have much of a moral compass or sense of higher purpose and he's counting on people he trusts to act on that, chiefly X, the best possible friend he could have ever made.

it's sorta interesting how both zero and battle network establish that mechanical lifeforms were capable of having a "soul". both games were being developed around the same time for the same console and even had small crossovers with each other on occasion, so it's possible that they shared that idea amongst each other. could just be a coincidence though; plenty of forms of media have tried to examine the idea of artificial life having something resembling a soul
this is a more nuanced vocalization of what i was getting at. i don't doubt that mm11 likely made a reasonable profit (lower sales being made up for by costs for 2d games inherently being less complicated to produce than 3d titles) so while it's very reasonable that they'll continue to make more megaman games in the future, i'd still expect a notable amount of time between releases

Zero got contained by wily because no matter what he did zero will be hellbent in killing everything unless he gets rid of the zero virus

No, the Zero Virus somehow corrected the issue that made him go berserk. The implication being that even Wily didn't fully understand how the virus he created worked.

What plot would you do for Mega Man 12?

X4 had the best story

It had the best idea for a story, and the plot elements are very good, but as a story is a disaster to such extent that something as basic as X6 is better in execution.

You're both sort of right. Zero was designed to be Omega: psychopathically violent but on a teeny tiny leash. Wily couldn't make the two extremes work together and lost control of him. The virus was designed to subvert the local systems of a machine as a tool for Wily to be able to gain access and reprogram systems at their most basic level, and was put into the capsule with Zero so Wily could keep working on him. When Sigma shattered his head crystal in the X4 flashback, the virus gained access to systems it wasn't supposed to and hard-subverted Zero's programming instead of just tweaking it. Since Zero was designed to already be a lunatic, it underflowed him into being benevolent instead. Kind of like the famous Nuclear Ghandi bug from the Civilization games, but in reverse.