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spinningbuster98 · 10 months

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Mega Man Zero 2 Ending: In Mother's Light

Zero 2 has probably the hardest final levels in the series....which is why I like neutering 2 of them by using the two Cyber Elves that can instantly eliminate every enemy in a level!

Elpizo is pretty underwhelming as a final boss: his first phase can be a bit tricky but his final form is basically just a big target

Also Elpizo is...often not highly regarded as a villain and...yeah

He’s basically a better Sigma, sharing many of his ideological points (fun fact though: when Elpizo mentions a “world only for Reploids” that is most likely a reference to Iris) but with a more believably sympathetic motivation rather than just “I caught the evil virus lol” (also an optional npc conversation that I show even points out these parallels)

My issue is that we don’t spend nearly enough time with him pre-villany to establish him as a genuine good guy, in fact as soon as we meet him he’s already kind of an arrogant ass who’s way too sure of himself. Plus his final turnover where he understands too late that he’s been a fool happens too quickly and then he leaves just as quickly, almost like an afterthought.

The devs once mentioned that Zero 2 exists mostly as setup for Zero 3 and in this sense I guess you could argue that Elpizo was a sort of filler villain kinda thrown there just to have one. Being squeezed right between Copy X and his interesting parallels with the real X coupled with his potential implications of what X could have become without Dr.Light’s morality testing, and Dr. Weil and his....everything, it all really serves to further paint poor Elpizo as just a third wheel

Also X’s body has been destroyed

The very same body that we’ve been controlling throughout the X series, giving it power ups and weapons?

Gone for good

X is, at least physically speaking, dead

And no, the franchise won’t (fully) backtrack on this, he won’t just repair himself: the last and greatest creation of Dr.Light has officially been destroyed.

Speaking of X though: let’s talk about him

So ever since the first game we’ve been shown that X has become a Cyber Elf.

This game shows us that his consciousness has definitely been seperated from his physical body

The question is though: how did his consciousness become a Cyber Elf?

The series never truly answers but, for once, I don’t believe it’s really necessary: in this very scene we see that the Dark Elf has the power to turn Reploids into Cyber Elves. Since X had to use himself as part of the sealing mechanism for the Dark Elf it can be assumed that X’s current predicament is a consequence of having been....I guess in close contact with the Dark Elf? Which resulted in his mind being seperated from his body and turned into a Cyber Elf. I also believe that external materials confirmed this to be the case

I’m okay with this

What I’m not ok with is how certain materials decided to connect the Four Guardians’ origins with this

So the origins of the Four Guardians are never explicitly talked about in the games, they’re only ever alluded to in their character bios in Zero 3, which state that they were made from X’s DNA (a concept introduced by the late X series but never explained by the games themselves of course: basically it’s a part of a Reploid’s programming that contains all the important info on how a Reploid functions, much like how a human’s DNA contains all of their important genetic info). Apparently, according to the developers themselves, this had always been the intention, to the point that initially they wanted all 4 of them to be colored blue to further drive home the connection

Now all external materials of the Zero series mention this aspect of their origins

However there was one specific piece of material, namely the Zero Collection Japanese Timeline webside from 2010 (which is no longer up but you can read a translation on the wiki), which added another point:

it stated that, after sealing the Dark Elf, X’s psyche was shattered into 5 pieces: one is the one we talk to while the other four were used to make the Four Guardians

I...hope that this was just the website making shit up and isn’t actually canon because I don’t like it

First off: This is never alluded to ANYWHERE else, not in other materials and certainly not in the games themselves. They only ever state that the Guardians were made from X’s DNA

Furthermore: what does it mean for X himself? Is he an incomplete being? Is the X we talk to even the real one? Why doesn’t he seem more....upset about this?

But beyond all of this: would you really be able to tell?

It’s one thing to have the Four Guardians be essentially clones of X in a way but to have them actually be pieces of X’s personality?

None of them resemble him in the slightest! Especially not Fefnir and Leviathan!

Besides, if they truly ARE seperate pieces of X’s soul shouldn’t they have more....I dunno reservations about going around killing innocent reploids, taking orders from a Copy of their original self? (and they MUST know that he’s a Copy, Harpuia certainly does since he knew that Elpizo was going for X’s original body in Yggrdrasill)

Like In said: I hope that this was something that they made up out of nowhere and isn’t actually canon. After all, as we’ll see later, the devs have never been...completely consistent with the lore of the Four Guardians

As far as I’m concerned whatever the makers of a franchise may be canon officially (as long as it doesn’t explicitly contradict what’s on screen), but what happens on screen takes precedence over stuff that’s only in external materials, especially stuff that’s no longere even openly available

The in game text only says that they were made from X’s Dna and that’s what I’ll stick with for now

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thekaijudude · 5 years

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A closer look at the Trailer for New Gen Chronicle ep 13

After looking at the trailer several times just to prepare myself for tomorrow when the ep drops, I realized something very weird here.

Ok, we know that ep 13 is essentially gonna be Trigger's episode, so why did the villains of other series' were shown?

And interestingly enough, all of the shown villains have a certain 'mystery' and unexplained plot points attached to them as well which I think that MAY relate to Trigger due to him being actually OP (ik I sound crazy as of now but once I post the R/B movie review y'all would understand better)

1. The Land of Demons

First, he is shown to be very manipulative just like Trigger and can also travel through space-time.

Also, some of my friends also pointed out that he also has a mask just like Trigger.

And he hails from 'The Land of Demons' which was previously never known by anyone and presumably means that there's more of his kind.

All this suggests that perhaps a pre-corrupted Trigger may have been sent to the Land of Demons to investigate or stop the beings from doing whatnot evil stuff blahblah and ended up being defeated and thus Trigger's obvious 'sealed' appearance and mask.

2. Greeza's Origin

Okok, we know that he destroyed three planets before he ran into X,

SO, this suggests that Greeza's rampage only started recently, but what was he doing before that? (Ik I recently posted my own theory about this but hear me out for this one)

In addition, how can a creature like Greeza even come to exist? It's like he came from another dimension...

...but Trigger is known to be able to capture and transport kaiju and Ultras to other dimensions or even universes as well!

So perhaps Trigger captured Greeza when he was still in his 1st Form and released it into X's universe for it to cause havoc.

This is definitely something that Trigger would do as he just likes to sow discord and cause chaos as shown in the R/B Movie

3. The Dark Ring

Ok I've written many theories and posts on this particular plothole before. But I'll just reiterate again for my new followers.

So the Dark Ring's first appearance was in the Origin Saga when it randomly appeared out of nowhere in front of JJ.

And then JJ lost it to Mulnau as he stated that the Dark Ring will always belong to the most evil being in the universe.

Now back then, I pointed out that the Dark Ring seems to be the antithesis of the Orb Ring (for obvious reasons) and perhaps that the Voice of Light may be just orchestrating all these events for a grander plan in mind. And many have pointed out how ridiculous it is that Mulnau's 'calibre of villany' constitutes as 'the most evil being in existence' which is also rather valid.

I also pointed out how flawed that working mechanism was as Mulnau definitely went to other universes to ensnare Ginga, Victory and X so how can the Dark Ring work outside of its own universe? Even if it can, after going to 2 different universes, Mulnau remains to be the 'most evil being in the universe' still?

However, notice that when the Dark Ring is in the possession of Mulnau, only then she encountered the ultramen. In addition, the same goes for JJ when he fought Orb and lost it once he was defeated by Orb.

And notice in the movie, Trigger seems to know everything about Geed and the R/B siblings (I'll elaborate more in the review), the question is, how does he know?

And also, the old theory of Trigger actually being a corrupted O-50 Ultra, so perhaps he knows about the Orb Ring and created Dark Ring and made it materialize to JJ and Mulnau so that he could observe and understand the capabilities of Ginga, Victory, X and Orb.

I mean this would basically cover the flawed working mechanism of the Dark Ring as Trigger can also travel to different universes easily as well.

4. Who destroyed Kei's home planet?

Now we know that Kei is the last surviving Alien Sturm as he stated that his planet was destroyed but never went into detail on how and why. So it's possible that he himself doesn't know as well.

And many suggested that it was Belial who destroyed it but I beg to differ.

As Kei himself said that he was wandering for a long time until Belial found him, this suggested that Belial may not be the preparator.

Now considering that Trigger has been shown to be perfectly capable of setting things in motion that sometimes takes more than a DECADE for his plan to come to fruition, and Kei oh so coincidentally has the Sturm Organ which has the oh so convenient purpose to be able to absorb Childhood Radiation which is what Belial oh so just needed to be able to carry out his own long term plan. Through this, Trigger was able to know what Geed is capable of judging from what he said in the movie.

(Eg. A Japanese translation of one of the R/B material said that Trigger was the one that corrupted Reugosite, a then normal Space Leukocyte which in turn caught the attention of the 3 O-50 Ultras, and this is why Trigger knows so much about Katsumi and his family which I'll further elaborate in the review)

And it's very plausible that Kei doesn't know that Trigger was the one behind all the strings as we saw that the R/B siblings themselves didn't know who was behind all of the monster attacks as Trigger just kidnapped kaiju and released them onto earth.

Conclusion:

I know whatever I just said sounds pretty hard to believe but I can totally understand as I have not further elaborated on what Trigger is truly capable of judging from the R/B Movie (I'll post it after seeing tmr's ep) but I just wanted to get this out before it drops tomorrow.

Also I'm assuming that TsuPro had the foresight to purposely plan to tie all of the loopholes throughout the New Gen Era with Trigger as I had already explained how plausible it actually is that Trigger is capable of orchestrating such events.

Trigger might be pulling the strings all along for the entirety of the New Gen Era.

However, I might just be giving TsuPro too much credit after all but one fact remains certain

There's definitely more than meets the eye for this guy

#ultraman #ultraman r/b #ultraman rb #ultraman taiga

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