[HD] The Protomen - Unrest In The House of Light

[@haydensmith7918]

"You need to know...You are not him...This fight's not yours...YOU CANNOT WIN." Still gets to me.

[@Liquidboi]

Does it still get you ?

[@haydensmith7918]

@@Liquidboi It does indeed.

[@jackkanoff8817]

Every fucking time man

[@johnnyoliveira6039]

...what about now? It's been 10 years, does it still get you?

[@haydensmith7918]

@@johnnyoliveira6039 It does, yeah.

[@FlamingZelda3]

The line “they can’t be saved by just one man” is so key to the story. I feel like it gives a clue to how act 3 will have to end if the city is to be freed.

[@GoIdheart]

I agree! We have to stick together as a group to keep our Winged Light safe.

[@ShinoSarna]

I only now realized that the whistle at the beginning is the whistle of Protoman. That's what is left of him, his iconic whistle, inside the brains and hearts of people of the City. I feel like this will be the key, instead of being liberated by one superhero, the people need to realize that a hero is just a man who is free. That's why Protomen - who are canonically a counterculture robot band in-universe - are telling this story through their songs, to anyone willing to listen.

[@oreov12]

Took him 12 years to make Protoman, made Megaman almost overnight, Megaman is the stronger robot. GJ, Light.

[@CharlesCorbett]

protoman took 12 years, this song takes place closer to 18 years later (6 years after protoman) iirc

[@hercles]

Megaman is a trace over. Protoman is made with tender loving care.

[@josephschultz3301]

Man, the story they painted with their music is so unkind to Dr. Light. The dude just suffers and suffers. It's a definite sob-story and one that I'm quite proud to have cried over. Good stuff, Protomen. Good stuff.

[@lupusalbus3795]

Is Light the last hero left in man? Is that why he suffers so?

[@josephschultz3301]

@@lupusalbus3795 Perhaps not the last... but the last willing to stand tall.

[@lupusalbus3795]

@@josephschultz3301 what took you a year to respond to this post?

[@josephschultz3301]

@@lupusalbus3795 Just randomly came back to this song the other night while I was drinking and saw it.

[@HalflingScholar613]

It's so unkind to him, but I think that's the point. He's the best of us, and it's our refusal to stand alongside him that dooms us. He can't win this fight for us, neither can his awesome robots. We need to stand together with them if we want to beat Wily.

[@dand1253]

Worse still, you could argue that Dr. Light accidentally made things worse by creating Protoman. The hero he built for the people of the City was a high-tech robot designed to defeat Wily's forces, and presented to them as a nigh-messianic figure -- in other words, Protoman was an exemplar that the people could not hope to live up to, making them even more apathetic than before. And when he fell, the people fell with him. Yeah, the Protomen universe just kind of hates poor Tom like that.

[@woodlefoof2]

Band members forming: want to know who I hate? Dr light. That piece of shit Singer: dude me too! Fuck that guy! Drummer: we should start a band

[@princeblackelf4265]

Light put too much on Protoman's shoulders, he was a singular robot against a massive army, Light's just as guilty for sending his son against those odds to die

[@Dinoman972]

@@princeblackelf4265 Pretty sure Tom _is_ Dr. Light, though.

[@kakizakichannel]

Protoman doesn't hate Tom. He hates humanity for expecting a savior and not a leader to rally behind. They want someone to fight for them, not with them.

[@hercles]

If the people fell with Protoman then Protoman is the actual messianic figure and Megaman is a cheap knockoff engineered to satiate the people's laziness.

[@KingCheshireZorua]

Part of me wonders if Light repeating you are not him is Light trying to tell that to himself. That his second son isn't like his brother, so therefore he won't fall to darkness like his brother did. Now, granted, my view might be slightly colored by the very impressively put together fan video for this song, where Mega Man puts on the helmet and the image of him and Protoman seem to blend together in Light's vision.

[@kakizakichannel]

"You need to know! You are not him! This fight's not yours! You cannot win!" feels like Dr Light is trying to protect Rock from going down the darkness. If Rock wins that would be nice, but he'd rather Rock live a normal life. He doesn't have to follow in his brother's path.

[@takkoy8658]

Something that fascinated me since the first time I've heard this song is the agitated guitar that plays every time Light says "You need to know". I'm 99% sure that these short guitar segments represent how close Light is to break from decades of suffering and frustration, and maybe, how close he is from lashing out on Mega Man for it. Decades of mistakes, false hopes and multiple failed attempts to stop Wily combined with him telling the story of how he sent his own son to die, Light couldn't contain himself anymore. And he screams at Mega Man that Proto Man's fight is not his, that he cannot win, and that he is all Light has left. All that accompanied by the same desperate, agitated guitar.

[@TyphloIsNear]

There was another who came before you He was a hero, your brother, and my son He fought the darkness, the darkness won Beautiful

[@MicrosoftNestleTea]

Light told Megaman that he would not win. What he meant was he would fail to bring vengeance for his fallen brother. He, Megaman, would fall just as Protoman did. The words brought new meaning unto themselves in the climax. Megaman had not won, he had not given up and he certainly had not lost. He just could not win.

[@sheodagana]

There was another, who came before you He was a hero, and your brother, and my son He fought the darkness, and the darkness won. Lump in my throat, everytime.

[@Ghostlyghostgamer]

I pictured Light as building Protoman from pride and desperation, making him appear similar to Dr. Light. This is what allowed him to be killed, corrupted and re-killed by Megaman. Afterwards, he built Megaman out of regret and love, making him appear more like Joe. Due to this, Dr. Light saw that Megaman could not be corrupted by Wily, but he also knew that Joe, the basis for Megaman, was killed trying to fight Wily, and that's part of why Dr. Light sings this. He believes Megaman can't win.

[@DrTofu83]

The point is that both were bound to fail, despite being different. Protoman was a creation of pride and desperation, giving his life for humanity and realizing that humanity, simply, didn't care. So he fell from grace and became Breakman, Wily's right hand. Megaman was a creation of regret and love, but while Joe died to attempt saving the city, Megaman literally froze because of a broken heart when he saw humanity forcing him to kill his brother, that Light was right in a fashion, he was wrong, but Light was also wrong because he literally made two sons just to suffer and die into an uncaring world. He loved so much that, upon realizing he was living in a world trampling love and turning hope into madness, his own heart broke and fled, uncaring of people begging him because they were dying. Because, when the people bemoaned being "the dead", cannon fodder for Wily, he could only remember the same people bossing him to kill his own brother and kill Wily while they were doing absolutely nothing. Since in Act III is unlikely Light will build a third robot, the only way for Act III to end up with a good ending is getting the female character in the single (Roll?) find a way to mend Megaman's heart and give him the ability to inspire heroes.

[@GoIdheart]

@@DrTofu83 Rockman and Roll are such an amazing duo, aren't they?

[@StubenhockerElite]

"Well you see son... i created you to fight, but you really can't do it so don't bother. You're just a replacement for your brother.... boy, what a guy he was. I bet your brother would kick your ass. " "Geez, thanks dad"

[@shawnpruitt4670]

"You are all i have left" gets me

[@cjvscripter]

Light was just as guilty as the other humans. Instead of himself fighting Wily, he just created a man to do it for him. There really are no heroes left in man.

[@reallyrll]

ExplodinGrandmas Four years late to the party, but... "We will be heroes!" "We will BUILD heroes!"

[@Sirlikesalot]

Having your creation used against you, wife dies, blamed for the murder, exiled from city, meet cool guy named Joe, Dies, Creates Protoman, Dies(ish), Creates Megaman, retaliates against you and goes on to wipe out the human race. Yeah, I think Light needs a hug.

[@halocrafter300]

Iacedrom Silas v Megaman didn't wipe anyone out, he abandoned the crowd that followed him which resulted in them dying to Wiley's army.

[@heyitshelios]

AlmightyDotterandShamelessSocialphobe There's really only a small difference in that sentence, being it wasn't actually Megaman. But even then, he sent them to their doom.

[@Galdenberry_Lamphuck]

@@heyitshelios he left them because they would never stand with him. If he had stayed Rock would of died just like Blues.

[@Light-fi1mj]

That's why I find the final parts of act II so damn sad because light has hope that he's going to finish this whole debacle with the creation of Protoman and then everything goes wrong again.

[@fuzzyzombielove]

_Why would tell this to your robot son as a bedtime story?_

[@halocrafter300]

fuzzyzombielove To make sure he doesn't end up like his older brother.

[@RAFMnBgaming]

Well i suppose you get a bit sick of The Very Hungry Caterpillar after you've been read it 700 or so times.

[@Wiseman89]

Actually, in this version, Light did NOT make the robot masters. He made the first sniper, but none of the other robots he and Wily made had weapons of any sort. Wily likely built them afterwards, during the large portion of time Light was exiled.

[@ravsucks2]

I wonder how hard it was to keep the secret of Protoman as Mega Man was leaving. I don't remember exactly, but I'm sure that Light knows Proto left to work for Wily after the people betrayed him, but here, he doesn't mention it, despite feeling responsible for keeping Mega away from trouble. I wonder if, seeing his son leaving, he has some hope left and decides to let him leave with the knowledge that Protoman died a hero rather than break his spirit anymore.

[@TempestDacine]

Great upload, dude. Sounds even better than it does on my device. Guess I'm just the first to see this. Good thing I'm subscribed to you or I would have missed this.

[@Fate.s-End]

It took him twelve years to make Protoman. Megaman took a little less, but that would probably take longer than Light's lifespan.

[@DarkArtistKaiser]

I remember I saw something on Tropes that sums up that Light has really went through hell in this series. I almost want to give the poor guy a hug or something.

[@Khyrberos]

I can't stand western music, never grew up playing Mega Man, and have difficulty hearing the lyrics. And yet when I hear him scream "You are ALL that I have left!", it tugs at something deep inside. This song has a grip on pathos that rivals Atlas' grip on the world. I'm not much for contemporary rock, but the way you guys have taken the tools & oils of this beloved franchise and painted whole new swaths of canvas, writing a story within the story to tell of such great sacrifice & loss... Well, I'll be sticking around to hear some more. Keep on keepin' on.

[@caelinnis]

you can't stand western music? so, what, Beethoven is too good for you?

[@dorkandproudofit]

I think he was referring to "country and western", not music from the western hemisphere in general.

[@TheUnicornCannon]

Very nice, been trying to find this in a decent quality lately =p

[@ZippleDipdop]

He didn't remake Protoman, he improved the original designs. Protoman always had a major flaw in his design, being that (much like a crappy cell phone) he can't hold a charge. The flaw with his power cells is why Protoman lost to Wily in the first place. If he had remade the original design, it would have just led to Light losing another son.

[@Sirlikesalot]

No tragedy has a happy ending. Poor Tom was doomed from the start.

[@Light-fi1mj]

Light just gets absolutely fucked over so many times. As a multitude of people have said that man needs a fuckin hug.

[@Silviremon]

You are all that I have left!! Thanks for the upload!

[@connormclernon26]

The thing is Wily killed or drove off almost everyone who still had the will to fight against his regime during his initial rise to power

[@caelinnis]

They did and it rhymes and has music to it

[@jonathanfaber3291]

Something I find odd is that everyone complains about humanity being weak, and yet, protoman was designed to fight and die for his freedom, he was physically made to force freedom, he was incapable of understanding anything else until later, and how could a machine designed to fight do anything but fight, fear would get in the way of that, and we see humanity through a war machine's viewpoint, both the Stand and the Sons of Fate are seen through a machine that has no capacity for fear. It's not that humanity's weak necessarily, it's just proto and Megaman fail to understand that they themselves, are larger than life heroes, because of the fact they're machine, and thus they aren't afraid of dying because self-preservation isn't part of their programming, whereas it is in humans

[@null1023]

Keep in mind, even Light thinks the people are weak, right here in this song. No one else is even entertaining the idea of resistance, and the people in the story continue to submit to Wily's oppression because the machines do all the toil and work. They value their freedom less than not having to work, even if their lives are full of misery in a run-down city controlled by a madman. They're so far gone that the crowd chants for Megaman to kill Protoman instead of in support for the two to come together. the only humans we know of in the songs to resist Wily at all are Light himself (who admittedly takes an active bystander role, and by the point of this song has actually given up because there's no support) and Joe from Act II (who dies)

[@markofmastery9564]

he was a hero. he knew he couldnt do it himself so he did what needed to be done but he failed

[@lydiaburger5201]

anyone else getting johnny cash vibes from this?

[@isectoid9454]

Now that I think about it, yeah.

[@Sightles]

Not really, because in "The Stand" and "Sons Of Fate" he says No man stood up for what was right, only light knew Joe died for what was right, he died saving what he knew that could be never saved. Joe didn't care, He did it for the sole reason to give people hope

[@oreov12]

I also thought of that. How about he shows patience, builds like twenty MegaMen, and go out and kick some serious ass?

[@lupusalbus3795]

Algobump!

[@klaytonrocks]

"They can't be saved by just one man." Well, why doesn't he just make a team of robot heroes? >_>

[@TheFlipside]

I definitely have to give the Protomen credit because they took a genre of music that I absolutely hate and made a song that's actually really damn good outta it. However, no matter how hard I try, I unfortunately just can't get into their music, and I've listened to quite a few of their songs multiple times. I guess it's just not for me. Though I definitely understand why so many people love them. Personally, I'll stick with the Megas. Of course, I'll always have respect for the Protomen and their fans.

[@harlen333]

I don't think he needed to. Protoman was built and programmed to fight Wiley. Dr. Light built Megaman out of grief for his first son.

[@klaytonrocks]

More like, "I provided the robot, you guys have to do the rest."

[@caelinnis]

You are all that I have left

[@markofmastery9564]

what it is is that they didnt even try. they didnt even try to stay on his side they just watched their martyr fall. and hes also saying that just one man cant save the world

[@harrylane4]

@TheBatmansbitch I don't remember the fuel cells being a big problem in the Protomen universe, like they were in the games. If they were, then Light could have just fixed that when rebuilding him.

[@LaPimpernelle]

Love you! Well, night! ^^

[@Chozal]

Me too T^T as with several parts in this song

[@harrylane4]

@TheTomisaurus He fought a building, the building won.

[@oreov12]

Dr. Light's logic: "Don't save them, Megaman. The unarmed civilians didn't help my killing machine fight other killing machines with flames and electricity. They should have stood by his side and fought! I mean, it's not like I did. I just sat back and watched like everyone else. But really, it's all their fault."

[@testamentexe7135]

I get slight shivers when I jam to this song + it doesn't help that I have a slight mpd problem after a large event that happened which caused a lot of factures in the past...

[@WingedMonkeyz]

The Protomen need to write a book.

[@markofmastery9564]

but back when he was strong enough to he teamed up with joe and dove into the flames and lost.

[@oreov12]

That's like giving a tank to uneducated barbarian warriors. Light didn't really think this one through.

[@harrylane4]

@true0illusions he must have had the plans for proto and just remade him.

[@caelinnis]

You cannot win.

[@oreov12]

I know, right? Light didn't really think this through.

[@f1lt3r]

Anyone who has yet to listen to the cover of this song done by Murder By Death, needs to remedy that right away.

[@Pittoors_]

+Countermeasures Listened to it and I don't liked it. I prefer the original much more.

[@arejay8418]

Don't really know much about this band, but this song was giving me major Murder By Death vibes before I saw this comment. Cool that they covered it.

[@Iamweirdsogetusetoit]

Hey

[@Sorasen]

I'll assume this is a joke, but in case it's not: Listen to the rest of the album and it should be abundantly clear that that isn't what Light means.

[@papason4041]

i thought it was if you hit him wrong the power cell nukes out

[@dragonnight812]

Lol like the ones Megaman is trying to kill, yep Light made those too.

[@Musicman3812]

What's this about Joe? Who is he?

[@RokkuDarius]

joe mama u u

[@TheLightNight1]

Allusion to the bible anyone?

[@oreov12]

@Saul Shatwell Who gives a shit if they "deserve" to be saved, in the endm they would be saved, wouldn't they?

[@MantraHerbInchSin]

Well by that time the ones saved are basically sheep I guess

[@oreov12]

@MantraHerbInchSin man I left that comment 11 years ago. Now I have a mortgage

[@klaytonrocks]

Of course it was a joke. :P Seriously though; why didn't Dr. Light build more than one robot at a time? >_>

[@zerodollarbird]

"There was another, who came before you He was a hero and your cousin and my friend" would be more apt.

[@julientrez]

This song sonds like the entire discography of Bambara 😂

[@KingOfElectricNinjas]

This sounds oddly like a country ballad. I suppose that's probably on purpose.

[@gonzmanX9]

LOL

[@VirusesX01]

Well... 1-Time (Just to make protoman, Light worked for 12 years) 2-Money(?) 3-Non-canon My opinion ^^

[@kimimaro9979]

Operas are cooler.