How Many Robot Masters Did Wily ACTUALLY Create?

[@crystalqueen9711]

Honestly, I actually like how Wily only made about 1/3 of the total Robot Masters in the series, it really shows how despite his desire to be better than Dr Light, he's far too willing to take shortcuts and just steal other people's work, seemingly only learning from this mistake with Zero, who I can imagine Wily spent most of his life working on, including all of his twilight years

[@austinreed7343]

Some side material like CD Dramas and Manga indicate Wily made even more of them; specifically in the 6 manga the RMs are stated to be Wily's seed players, while in the 10 CD drama he indicates the Roboenza patients were his sleeper agents the whole time.

[@zettovii1367]

@@austinreed7343 OG MegaMan had CD drama? Wow, how come this isn't more well known?

[@JarateChop]

@@zettovii1367 I can't believe I forgot to look into those! Thank you @Austin Reed for mentioning that! I believe they're actually in that archive of Windii's I listed in the description along with the Super Adventure Rockman stuff. They should have subtitle functionality right in Archive.org's webplayer, so you don't have to download them, if you're interested.

[@seanjohnson5474]

All of that work, hatred, and spite, all for zero to become best friends with light’s final creation, X

[@HaveYouTriedGuillotines]

You can look at this the other way around: Zero is proof that Wily was a brilliant engineer, possibly even moreso than Light... And that alone makes me think the robots he helped design or improved/finished should be added to his count. Makes Wily an interesting character: He's a man of great genius and great talent, but its often wasted or neglected due to ambition and competitiveness.

[@gravethestampede3454]

I mean he still created 100% of his many fortresses, flying capsules, and space stations. So that must count for something

[@JarateChop]

Nah, I just got done building my 50th space station last night. Wily got nothing on me

[@Doodle1678]

Plus all the non robot master bosses he has to make to protect his fortress such as the Yellow Devil

[@NimhLabs]

Naw... he stole those from other people. Old Woman Jenny use to live in that skull fortress with her five thousand cats... and then Dr. Wily just kicked her out... and most of the cats

[@SabeNo-rh7mb]

But where the FUCK did he get the money and resources to build that ridiculous ass skyscraper he had in 10? That thing went all the way into the stratosphere!

[@maxthompson7107]

So that's where the rest of Wily's budget went.

[@TheFatestPat]

Wily may have stolen a bunch of the Robot Masters, but you do have to appreciate all the work he did to turn them into combat machines. It's like taking one of those singing Chuck E Cheese robots and turning it into Iron Man with a mouse head.

[@autobotstarscream765]

Mega Man vs. FNAF

[@jokelethkurueisner9229]

So taking Chuck E Cheese and turning him into Freddy Fazbear?

[@davidthecommenter]

@@jokelethkurueisner9229 taking chuck-e-cheese and turning him into funtime freddy, since that one was actually made with the intent of kidnapping and murder

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

Ehh not impressive either Most of these already had their abilities Its more so turning a stove into a bomb, anyone can do it, dosen't mean you're smart

[@trentenogletree5898]

@@jesusramirezromo2037 my brother in Christ, he turned what was originally a Shepherd robot into a bunch of clouds that can shoot lightning and reform itself into a robot again. You cannot tell me that was his ability some of these had to have had no ability whatsoever.

[@msgameandcake628]

The original story behind Aqua Man's creation in 8's instruction manual is that he is a failed attempt at creating Frost Man, incapable of properly freezing the water in his systems, and thus made into a water-based robot master. Naturally, this would also make Aqua Man a Wily creation. Apparently, later sources retcon this fact, making him a stolen and modified robot instead. This may be on account of Frost Man's backstory being that he was made from spare parts left over from Clown Man's modification. This would imply that there were SO MANY spare parts from Clown Man's modification Wily was able to not only make Frost Man, but managed to fail to make Frost Man the first time around and, as a result, make Aqua Man too.

[@JarateChop]

It certainly is an odd retcon to make, since I feel like those two have the connection of both being water-based robots (unless it wasn't present in the original Japanese manual and they wanted to change that). Who knows what the people behind the scenes were thinking though, this franchise definitely has its share of inconsistencies lol.

[@Josuh]

Guess Wily just loved Clown Man that much

[@flameslinger8820]

My Headcanon from the retcon is that Wily was very impressed with Aqua man's ability to manipulate water that he tried to replicate it... but failed to properly do so as his prototype machines kept freezing the water instead of bending it. This would result in Wily just deciding to steal Aqua man, but reusing the failed prototypes to build Frost man. Because he's made with Faulty parts however, Frost man suffers from robot health problems like low oil circulation as mentioned in his bio. While the idea Wily could make a whole giant from Clown man's spare parts is funny... I mean just look at clown man. The dude is tiny compared to Frost.

[@bestaround3323]

@@flameslinger8820 oh no, frost man was made from spare clown man parts

[@flameslinger8820]

@@bestaround3323 I know he is in canon. This was just my own Headcanon

[@juanman2483]

My headcannon on the DWN fiasco is that Wily's legal robot registration patent is notably cheaper than everyone else's, and also he just lets everyone freely choose to do it, making the process really practical and simple, making it so everyone uses the DWN numbers to save money and time, even Light gives Wily the rights when they do jobs together, and as a manufacturer, this also gives him some monetary benefits which he uses for his future inventions, part of the reason he gets spared a lot, even after all the things he did, is because without him, everyone has to pay a lot more for the other official legal robot registration patents, it's the perfect plan.

[@JarateChop]

That's a very creative way of looking at it, I love it lmao

[@yeeoof1995]

this is amazing

[@kf8113]

And it'd explain where he gets all his money from! Even though the individual patent may be much cheaper than others, it could very well gather the majority of the robot registration market because of its accessibility, amounting to a very big, very consistent fortune.

[@MelonHere20]

That's honestly a really well thought out point

[@paires0]

Zero was his redeeming factor. He out done himself creating that beast of a robot. Good job tho.

[@SabeNo-rh7mb]

And seeing as he long outlived both Mega and X (Light's two magnum opuses), and wouldn't die until his final fight with Weil? Yeah, that was one hell of a legacy.

[@paires0]

@@SabeNo-rh7mb considering how freakshly powerful Zero is. The guy really was a genuis

[@chromasus9983]

@@SabeNo-rh7mb Zero's got his ass handed to him multiple times though throughout the games, just in the X series.. I wouldn't call him all that powerful!

[@vitopasco8266]

Wily always wins

[@paires0]

@@chromasus9983 "got his ass handed to him". Ummmm where?. Before the event of X1:(X4 flash back) Zero kicked the living shit out of sigma until his head showed the "W" and started to hurt him. In X1: Vile traped him, after Zero deliverd the massive humiliation in the beggining(and clearly he was afraid). My evidence? The capsules he prepared specifically for him. In Maverick Hunter X(X1 remake) (btw this game is completely non canon): Vile specifically said that Zero shouldve considered Vile to be there and not sigma. Implying that He ambushed Zero. Again after Zero Humiliated him. In X2: (canon) no one. (non canon), X fought him while he being mind controllered. Still he still can block full charge shots with his bare HAND. So he IS a force to be reckoned with. And just destroyed the ground with his bare HAND So if they switched position and X was mind controllered it wouldnt be fair dose it ?. In X3: (canon) no one. (non canon) the bee fell on him AFTER HE DEFEATED IT. X4: no one X5: the fight between Zero(still a good guy) and X was a draw, YET he stood up FIRST and SAVED X for the FIFTH TIME. And his fight against Sigma in the end, he still kicked Sigma's ass before exploding damaging Zero in the proses. Btw X was also just a torso in the same state as Zero if not worse before Light came and saved him. Awakened Zero fight: still a draw due to Zero fighting his evil self. My evidence?. Zero returning to his "good guy" self SAVING X YET AGAIN. Plus Dude can one shot ultimate armor X out of existence with his Genmurei. Yeah HE IS A POWER HOUSE. X6: no one X7: no one X8: NO ONE Z1: kicked the living shit out of "copy" X to the point he needed to explode himself just out of spite. Z2: no one Z3: no one Z4: Zero DEFEATED Wile before ragnarok expolde. Saving the entire fucking planet AGAIN. And allowing the Zx AND the legend series charecter's to thrive. Yeah he is ultra powerful. So who kicked his ass again?

[@sigmaposting5882]

Better than Sigma's track record. As far as I'm aware, he's only confirmed to have created Dark Necrobat.

[@austinreed7343]

Wire Sponge was also made by him, as were Spike Rosered & Crush Crawfish. (One can also assume he made Crystal Snail and Morph Moth, and he at the very least majorly revamped Split Mushroom) Others like Spark Mandrill, Wheel Gator, and more at least joined him willingly.

[@youngkappakhan]

i don't think these two compare. sigma gets by as a villain on leadership skills, military experience and charisma rather than inventiveness. and of course virus

[@JoeyCannoli]

Wasn’t Crush Crawfish a preexisting Reploid, though? According to the Mega Man wiki, he was designed as a military combat Reploid but deemed a failure because a bug in his programming made him unable to tell his friends from his foes, leading him to be stowed away in a warehouse for maintenance where he was then stolen by Dr. Doppler.

[@austinreed7343]

@@JoeyCannoli I recall that he was made by Sigma as a combat Reploid.

[@blackpants7385]

@@austinreed7343 Seems that Rosered was more of an accident

[@Predator20357]

Dr Wily is the kind of guy to immediately label them all under his name once they agree to join. At least he’s able to turn things like Dentists into War Machines

[@oguzhangungor9117]

Honestly, it just makes you realize how much of a hard time Wily must have had building his army with his non-existent budget. Heck, the fact that Bass and Zero are able to go toe-to-toe with their rivals (X and Classic MM) despite being built on budget speaks volumes about Wily's genius and adaptability. Heck, Zero, despite his unfinished build in X1, was much stronger than X and was easily able to catch up after his completion at the hands of the X-hunters.

[@gigaslave]

My hypothesis is that Zero closed the gap between his Bassnium-powered body and X's "UNLIMITED POTENTIAL" MKIII Solar Refractor Microfusion powered body with the power of a perfected Double Gear system.

[@SandwitchZebra]

Somewhat unrelated but I’ve always liked Zero’s “DWN No. INFINITY” designation. The number zero is about the furthest you can get from infinity, so it kind of highlights how Zero ended up the opposite of what Wily intended.

[@juliocesar6795]

I didn't stop to actually count how many robots Wawee did, I always thought it wouldn't be more than 20, but he actually made over 30? That’s impressive, he sure is a genius, he could help so much the entire world, but..

[@JarateChop]

I always like to think that if he didn't get rejected by the board, he would have at least made a couple good contributions to the world of robotics. The Double Gear concept seemingly had good intentions to begin with!

[@belrumwade4733]

@@JarateChop Dude just wanted to create Robot Super Heroes and you could say that that's reflected on Zero's design with some twists in the match.

[@Josuh]

Yeah, i wonder if he had any family that would support him at the very least, dude be lonely af, at least light had his robot kids

[@Crow_Rising]

@@JarateChop Honestly I don't think the board is a good scapegoat for Wily's actions. He chose of his own volition to do harm many times, and even when Light reached out to him for a collaboration, Wily chose to be petty instead and rejected the offer to do more villainy. Even if the board had chosen his designs over Light's I imagine Wily's personality just makes him the kind of guy who would let it go to his head and he'd end up abusing it.

[@DeepWeeb]

I believe at one point they should have ditched the whole "Doctor [Name] Number" codename scheme and use a more generic acronym: "RMN" *(Robot Master Number")* That way it would make sense for each robot to be part of a "series" regardless of their actual creator

[@LeKornorBros]

You got a few facts mixed up. Search Man is the 4th original Wily Number present in Mega Man 8, and King didn't create Magic Man, but he did create Pirate Man. We do know that King and Rockman Shadow were indeed created by Wily too, despite the lack of proper serial numbers. And to clear out the uncertainty regarding Fake Men, they were reprogrammed police robots. Also, the Dark Man series is a set of Robot Masters, so they should count too, and if we overlook PU's dubious canonicity, Mega Man? is also a possibility. Other than that, you got all of the most important information right. Not sure why the book doesn't have information on Robot Masters that is available in other official sources, but I digress.

[@JarateChop]

Could you please provide links to these other official sources you are referring to? I'm sure that other commenters as well as I would appreciate it. To respond to your points, in the Field Guide (which may be outdated, so I won't deny your points), they say that Search Man was originally created as a surveillance robot that Wily later stole and reprogrammed with an extra head as a modification. That is why he was omitted. The wording on Pirate Man's origins don't explicitly say that King made him, but I can see now to where it can be inferred that he did and that I just overlooked that when reading, so I apologize for at least regretting to mention him. I found no sources actually confirming Fake Man's origins beyond the game's implications, so that's why I couldn't be certain for him. Again, if you have links to official sources from Mega Man/Rockman 9 that confirms his origins, I'd be happy to read them. I could have mentioned the Dark Man robots, but for the same reason I neglected to mention Doc Robot and did not add King to the list, they do not have serial codes. I mention in the description that I only counted Masters with a serial code, otherwise who's to say what makes a Robot Master a Robot Master (Duo and the Stardroids, for example) and how many Wily had his hands in creating. I should have still at least mentioned them so that the audience could have made a better judgement for themselves, however, so I apologize for missing that information. On a similar note, that's why Mega Man? was passed over, as he fills about the same role as Shadow, both lacking serial codes despite being full creations of Wily's. I still regret not mentioning him though. Thank you for your comment though, I will do my best to make sure those things don't get overlooked next time.

[@LeKornorBros]

​@@JarateChop Sadly, your request won't be as easy and straight to fulfil. My main source of information, MMKB, while is very reliable, it is also stingy with sharing their sources. I was, however, pointed to a few books that could be some of their points of reference. > R20 Rockman & Rockman X Official Complete Works (2008, Japan) > Mega Man Official Complete Works (2009, USA) > R20+5 Rockman & Rockman X Official Complete Works/MM25 Mega Man & Mega Man X Official Complete Works (2012, Japan/2013, USA) These are the only official books, other than the Robot Master Field Guide, that I managed to find. Also, while the first rwo titles seem to be the same book, they are listed separately, so I did the same here just in case. But other than books, there were also some websites that have been lost to time and, from what I remember, some game collections had bonus content of that kind (although the latter I am not 100% certain on). That's the best I can do for you.

[@whomstthehecc3028]

Wasn't "Megaman?" a reprogrammed Megaman, though? The whole reason that character exists is because a robot master was chosen as a playable character instead of Mega, so, Wily steals them instead. I guess if retrofitting Mega with armor and stuff counts?

[@patrickleblanc613]

I would also like to add megaman 3 on the gameboy is the odd one out compared with the other 4, as unlike the space setting for those games final stage, mega man 3s final castle stage comes up from the ocean.

[@yokai59loi36]

@@whomstthehecc3028 That is powered up. We do not continue discussing that.

[@bulba1218]

Wily really do be rocking that programmer mentality But seriously though, really, REALLY good and funny video, like holy hell this was some of the best Mega Man content I've seen in a while

[@JarateChop]

^ Best description for Wily, lmao I'm happy that you enjoyed the video though, thank you so so much for watching!

[@Knightly-0]

oh hi

[@bulba1218]

@@Knightly-0 no

[@RichardDong68]

This video did so much more correct thought and research into the source material than GameTheory ever did.

[@JarateChop]

Hmmm... That wasn't hard to do in that case... and I still missed stuff! Thank you very much for watching!

[@Pēm̐cā]

So true

[@DETahaX]

word

[@k.w.pillsbury4070]

Had to re-post this comment for some reason. Robot Masters with their proper serial numbers. (Excluding the Wily Numbers. If you want to see them, #melo 7904 already hade his own similar list that includes them. Light Wily Numbers (Using RWN because the devs already made that Logo) RWN-001: Needle Man RWN-002: Magnet Man RWN-003: Gemini Man RWN-004: Hard Man RWN-005: Top Man RWN-006: Snake Man RWN-007: Spark Man Ra Moon Numbers (Archie) SRN-001: Terra SRN-002: Mercury SRN-003: Venus SRN-004: Mars SRN-005: Jupiter SRN-006: Saturn SRN-007: Uranus SRN-008: Pluto SRN-009: Neptune KDN-???: ShadowMan (Mass produced Kuiper Droid) Doctor Cossack Numbers DCN-001: BrightMan DCN-002: ToadMan DCN-003: DrillMan DCN-004: PharaohMan DCN-005: RingMan DCN-006: DustMan DCN-007: DiveMan DCN-008: SkullMan DCN-009: TundraMan Doctor Pedro Astil (Archie) DAN-001: PlantMan Dr. Noelle Lalinde (Archie) DLN-001: Tempo/QuakeWoman King Numbers (Made by King) KGN-001: GroundMan KGN-002: PirateMan Unknown Maker * Stolen * MM6 Blizzard Man Centaur Man Flame Man Knight Man Plant Man Tomahawk Man Wind Man Yamato Man MM7 FreezeMan BurstMan CloudMan ShadeMan MM8 TenguMan AstroMan ClownMan (Kinda thought so.) AquaMan * Virus * MM10 BladeMan PumpMan CommandoMan ChillMan SheepMan StrikeMan NitroMan SolarMan “Recruited” R&F (MegaMan And Bass) DynamoMan ColdMan (Possibly Dr. Light? Nothing Solid on this.) BurnerMan MagicMan MM11 (The Serial Numbers are made up/shortened to keep the three letter convention.) Nakaume Heavy Machinery NHM-001: BlockMan NHM-002: ImpactMan O.D.A. Electronics ODA-001: FuseMan B.B. Bomb Company BBB-001: BlastMan Mecha-Chuchets Institute of Robology MCR-001: AcidMan Tsubakuro Precision Machining TPM-001: TorchMan Joint R&D (Rebound Rubber & Momo's Robot Farm) RDR/MRF-001: BounceMan (Two Makers.) Doctor Light Numbers DLN-000: ProtoMan (Blues) DLN-001: MegaMan/RockMan (Rock) DLN-002: Roll DLN-003: CutMan DLN-004: GutsMan DLN-005: IceMan DLN-006: BombMan DLN-007: FireMan DLN-008: ElecMan DLN-00A: TimeMan DLN-00B: OilMan (DLN--: ColdMan? Again, nothing solid.) DLN-009: ConcreteMan DLN-010: TornadoMan DLN-011: SplashWoman DLN-012: PlugMan DLN-013: JewelMan DLN-014: HornetMan DLN-015: MagmaMan DLN-016: GalaxyMan DLN-Infinity: BondMan Special Wily Number SWN-000: BreakMan SWN-001: Bass

[@JarateChop]

SHEEESH that’s one hell of a list! Glad it finally got posted!

[@k.w.pillsbury4070]

@@JarateChop Thanks. It took quite a few hours on little too no sleep at the end of one of my days to research all of this.

[@linhero797]

Many people who see this may ask why there is no DLN number for X. It's important for people to realize that Light made X as a robot that was fully free and capable of thinking. A feat no other machine Light made ever couls so. Dr. Light didnt see X as a Robot. Light saw X as a humanoid. A living creature with a mind as complex as himself. And thus Light gave X no number classification because a DLN would go against the very ideas he had with X by removing the humanity of X and making him just a Robot with advamced mental capacities.

[@grinnyyyyyyyyyyy]

Some of the ones Wily stole could have DWN's because he modified them for combat. The RM's could have been registered with DWN's after the upgrades.

[@Freedmoon44]

That would mean Breakman/Protoman/Blues which has been modified by Wily and given weapons would also be a DWN at the same time as being a DLN. But ok tbf Proto is a weird case amongst weird case as the first Robot master

[@austinreed7343]

@@Freedmoon44 Yeah, but I take it to mean those other robots weren’t even SENTIENT until Wily modified them to be such.

[@matti.8465]

I love how the robots actually created by Wily are usually the ones made from actual garbage.

[@springssprangyard8278]

Every time budget or cheapness is mentioned I have to chuckle, it's such a priceless idea the evil genius had to deal with limited funds... and it resulted in some of the funniest robots. It only makes Wily more likeable imo hahaha. Great vid!

[@Kumaclaws]

I love that even with the small numbers of Robot Masters that Wily actually made, they’re still subjected to being rehashed concept from Light’s robots. Canonically, a majority of 2’s Robot Masters are either pulling from 1’s designs or used for future robots. It just goes to show that Wily’s plans for world domination go above practicality or creativity

[@rayquazathenoodledragon9630]

13:11 wily also uses skull as a his symbol and he wasn't the one that created skullman

[@aliastheabnormal]

I always thought that the DWN numbers thing was just something made for convenience. Also some sources do state that the Megaman 4 robot masters are also known as the Cossack numbers. Since Cossack has custody of the robots much how the Mega man 1 robots are called the Light numbers due to their association with Maga man and Dr. Light. So maybe the entire system is just a giant public misconception that is there for convenience sake. After all Robot Masters were going to be phased out when Light and Wily died and the entire concept buried for 100 years if the AI retirement laws were any indication. So maybe the whole thing was a half assed measure created to please Wily's ego.

[@JarateChop]

Would be quite meta, but I like the idea!

[@linhero797]

More likely a criminal code for specific RM models honestly.

[@theonlybilge]

I like how Wily just loves Guts Man

[@vvlaze]

The section briefly showing the comic page with Ra Thor was actually intriguing enough to get me to bite the bullet and read Archie’s run of Mega Man, so thank you for that, was quite a nice read.

[@JarateChop]

It is an amazing read, I just wish it didn’t have to end so soon. I’m glad I was able to give it some more exposure through this video! Thank you so much for watching!

[@darkiusmc979]

I think the reason it got discontinued was a mix between them losing a lot of money due to the Ken Penders fiasco, and that the Mega Man comics were never super successful anyway.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

​@darkiusmc979 just another reason to curse the name Ken Penders.

[@papyrussemi2848]

I saw a theory that said that the main reason why the DWN series continues after the DLN series is because Wily is petty, and the MM9 DLN series continues from the MM8 DWN series because Dr. Light still respects Dr. Wily's skills.

[@JarateChop]

I like that concept a lot! I think if there were to be any canonical explanation to this very specific issue, that would make the most sense. Kudos to the individual(s) who came up with that, and thank you for sharing that here!

[@AdamTheGameBoy]

The original story does actually mention that Light and Wily worked together during Mega Man 1 and Mega Man was just impossible to reprogram. There is potential to argue it was retconned, but the fact that the comics corroborate, MM11 shows that Light and Wily used to be classmates and rivals and could have chosen to work together after graduating and that in MMBN which was created as just a different branch of the classic timeline where society in the late 1900s and early 2000s focused on internet tech instead of robotics shows that Dr. Hikari and Wily worked together; it's safe to say them working together during MM1 is still canon. If you need further proof, when Keiji made MN9 he used the same plot point again.

[@theblazingpyro5914]

Dr. Light's journal states the development processes of the first line of robots and wily is no where referred to. if anything, no one but Light knew that wily was one behind the light numbers going rogue. You can read the journal in a pdf reader, or you could listen to someone read it on youtube, though I still recommend pdf because it's more fun to read it yourself

[@Ghosty_Dosty]

Megaman? Impossible to reprogram? PU would like to disagree

[@theblazingpyro5914]

@@Ghosty_Dosty in powered up he wasn't reprogrammed. That was copy robot. Rock was just at home with roll as you can see in the ending.

[@sonicthehedgehog23145]

@@Ghosty_Dosty yeah actually, wily only didn’t reprogram him due to his seemingly “uselessness”.

[@ThatGuy-tc6uv]

From how I understand it, Archie was using the old "Dr. Light and Dr. Wily were business partners" plot point which was a localization thing (the MM1 manual story did not mention Wily being Light's assistant in JP, for example). So whether or not Wily and Light working together during MM1 is canon depends on if one goes with the original JP story or the english localization.

[@D3nz3lCr0ck3r]

If you think about it, even if less than half robot master are his creations, Wily did i fine work with his available resources. It's not like he could get funds from a sponsor or something like that, since he's a wanted criminal. Yet he managed to make more than 30 robots, create countless fortresses and some non-serialized robots. Also, let's not forget his last creation that was so strong that it kept fighting for more than two centuries (not the way he wanted, though)

[@HarmonicVector]

In Wily's defense, given that he believes in Robot superiority over their servitude, him being more efficient by repairing other robots destined for the scrap heap (which implies there isn't a specialized proceedure for the dismantling of Robots) is in character for him.

[@bigburkhart2293]

It makes sense when you consider that the whole DWN/DLN naming scheme is probably Wily's own internal Dewey Decimal ordering system.

[@redjirachi1]

The real reason Zero doesn't kill everyone was because Wily was arrested for copyright infringement before he could unleash him onto the world

[@liamaye6922]

“I’m crazy enough to take on mega man. But the copyright lawyers? No thank you.” -Dr. Wily, 200X

[@neon_spotlight]

My headcanon is that the Number code is basically just part of a sort of "Prime registry" For all robot masters ever, while the DL/DW part of the code is variable, determined by who currently has custody/programed the robot. Exceptions to this prime registry do exist though, when certain classes of bots like the star droids or mega man killers get their own unique lists. Further building on this, these registries are maintained not by the doctors, but instead by a governing body that monitors all these robots (Potentially the same one that enforces their expiration dates, and also had a hand in the tournament from MM6)

[@murphmariotwopointoh7714]

Asides from the numerical code issue, King was more likely than not created by Wily. King states that Dr. Wily made him after being defeated (at least in Bass' playthrough) and Wily later refers to himself as King's maker. Not to mention Wily having blueprints for a successor to King prior to Proto Man destroying them.

[@barrybend7189]

I can see him reprogramming the identification codes to be his for anything involving his plans. Also only 23 are his because remember the Bass, Treble and Zero projects, those take resources.

[@dustincompton992]

Hey, just because he’s better at reprogramming rather than building doesn’t mean he’s not a scientist, it just shows his specialty was in AI development and design… is what I’d like to say, but the introduction of 11 made it pretty clear that was Light’s specialty while Wily focused on the mechanics. Maybe that’s why a lot of the robot masters can be put into exploitable patterns during their boss fights. Once Wily has had a crack at their code they’re just not as adaptable as a Light creation.

[@sirhoopsalot7605]

that would also explain why wily made so few robot masters, he just didn't have the skills TO make a lot of them from scratch. he had enough skill to reprogram robots, but not enough to write his own stuff. considering he eventually makes bots like bass and then zero, it's possible he learned enough from other people's code that he COULD start to make his own robot masters in bulk, but largely stuck to theft because it was far faster and more efficient to steal other people's work than pour time and resources into making his own.

[@lukedelameter7961]

My personal thinking is that either the Number is defined by chief programmer (which Albert will naturally be when he reprograms and weaponizes robots) or/and that the numbers also include more general use robots like Sniper Joes, Auto and Eddie, and Mettaurs.

[@KewlNerd20X6]

The Cossack Robots actually are listed as DCN in the Mega Man Megamix mangas. They still have the same numberings, though...

[@howdoilogin]

I love the fact that this basically builds on Wily as a character. Because Wily canonically _suuuucks_ at programming. He can jailbreak anything, but he's terrible at making robots from scratch. Yet he excels at making weapons, which was the original reason he and Light collaborated: Light wanted to build robots, Wily wanted weapons, the government grant was large enough for them to compromise. Look at his first wave of robots: Metal Man was designed from Cut Man's blueprints but made to cut robots instead of trees. Heat Man was designed to incinerate robots instead of garbage. Bomb Man was designed for excavation but Crash Man's bombs were designed for drilling into, and blowing up, robots. Quick Man was built with Elec Man as a base to get his speed, and retroactively Flash Man's ability to stop time is an upgrade to Time Man's ability to slow it. There's also the fact that Mega Man 7 and Mega Man X came out and were in development very close together, and while not explicitly canon, it was a heavily _heavily_ accepted fan theory that during the point in MM7 when Bass breaks into Light's lab he steals the blueprints for X in order to make Zero. It's very unconvincing to believe that Wily _also_ made a robot with free will and a DNA soul at the exact same time as Light. And that's why the Maverick Virus and Zero's personality work so well with this theory; Wily sucked at programming. So he just dumped his brain into a computer program so he could hack Reploids after death. Zero may have been 'patient zero' for this but if he were made from stolen Light schematics it would make sense that he also chooses to fight Wily's legacy even without the decades of ethical testing X had to undergo.

[@affsteak3530]

I've always loved how the Robot Master backstories in Mega Man 5 imply Wily was completely broke. The mental image of Gyro Man trying to collect admission to a park he just took over is hilarious. Also, WHY does your Robot Master Field Guide have a different cover than mine? I just have Mega Man and Rush! GARBAGE!!!

[@JarateChop]

I believe there was a different rendition (outside of the Updated Edition) of the book that I myself haven't seen but read others here bring up. This one my friend gifted me from one of their loot crates a couple years back.

[@nitrostriker9369]

funniest thing about Zero is that Wily still made a mistake when building him, Zero's programming had a bug that made him extremely violent and disobedient, which wily found out when he activated him during a test while building him, similar to what Light did with X in the Day of Sigma OVA after that Wily had Bass related ptsd flashbacks and went "yeah not dealing with that" and shoved the uncompleted zero into one of his hidden labs with the virus he was working on separately that conveniently keeps him in line......mostly pretty sure everything that happened with Sigma was purely a freak accident that not even Wily could predict, he probably thought the virus would just infect some random robot and cause some general chaos instead of someone like sigma also, i firmly believe that the main reason he keeps running out of money because he wastes them on giving his castles the skull a s t h e t i c, along with all the cash he must have used up to renovate the areas the robot masters takes over into actual beatable obstacle courses, as confirmed by wily during his twitter takeover of the official megaman twitter account a while back, his reasoning for not just making an impossible death trap being something about beating megaman "fair and square"

[@lpfan4491]

What is strange is that Wily actually digitized his memories and as a reploid collaborated with Sigma at least once, with it being unclear why he did so. But then again, he also just decided to book it and never publically appear again at the end of X6, so idk what is going on there in general.

[@nitrostriker9369]

@@lpfan4491 it wouldn't surprise me if his AI copy self was accidentally corrupted by the virus or something, which was why he supported Sigma's genocidal campaign, it definitely feels like a something Wily would do tbh, he does something actually advantageous and it backfires on him badly like what happened with the MM10 RMs, where he had actually stole them and was planning to have them rampage throughout the world, but was not expecting them to go berzerk in his own lab and actually steal the parts he needed to make the cure lol

[@justice8718]

If you looked at Zero before Sigma defeated him, he had the W on his forehead to indicate that he was Dr. Wily.

[@_mango_]

I willing to assume that the boss rushes in the Wily Castles are using rebuilt models of the original robots from scratch, meaning that Wily has not only replicated his own work perfectly, but has reverse engineered the work and technology of his contemporaries and even otherworldly robotics. Further evidence of this can be see with the Doc Robots in MM3. On top of his (re)programming and hacking capability and his own original robots, this feat justifies the DWN designation and exemplifies his genius and expertise in his field. Also, I’d like to believe that Dr. Light salvages and reprograms all robots after Wily’s defeats, so that’s why the DLNs pick up where Wily’s leave off.

[@linhero797]

Makes perfect sense woth the exception of the DCN numbers being 24 short. As Wily didn't make MM4, 6, a few of 7 and 8's RMs.

[@_mango_]

@@linhero797 very true

[@FrenzyFanboy]

This channel deserves more love, I couldn’t imagine how much work was put in to make this video.

[@JarateChop]

Thank you, but you're giving me too much credit! It should have been uploaded a lot earlier than this if I didn't find other ways to distract myself lol. I appreciate you taking the time out of your day to watch!

[@JarateChop]

This is a very belated pinned comment, but feel like I might as well post it now to potentially curb some of the duplicate notifications I keep receiving on this video to this day. I forgot to mention the Dark Man robots while discussing Mega Man 5 in the video. However, even if I did mention them, I would not count them in my PERSONAL list of Robot Masters (doesn't mean that you can't add them to your own personal list). As I neglected to set down any real ground rules during the intro, I wasn't able to state that I was only counting the Robot Masters that were given a serial code, that being an "XYZ 000" type of classification. I mention this in the description, but I understand that not everybody reads that (not that some people won't just pass by this post either). If the Dark Man robots were given a classification along the lines of "DKM 01 - 04" in the games, I would have definitely remembered to include them in the script like I did with King. But, because they lacked any serialization, I completely forgot about them when compiling everybody for the collage image as well as the script. I apologize for not giving them at least a mention like I did with King. Anyways... That’s my lame excuse. If there's anything else I've forgotten in this video, feel free to reply to this post with your observation, and make sure it includes a "👉" emoji so my brain can imagine there was a vine boom sfx implied with it. Thanks.

[@robbiewalker2831]

The way I see the "Serialized Numbering System" in Mega Man, and that they are all known as Robot Masters, that means they are Robots specifically made to be given Android features, specifically Human Limbs and special tasks. Time Man and Oil Man weren't considered to be part of the original lineup, given that they never thought of doing so back then, especially when they had a Seventh Robot Master in mind that never made it past the development stage. Anyways, if they want to lump all the Robot Masters together with a growing number, I would label the combined number of Robot Masters as RMN (or Robot Master Number). As for what you said at 8:47, It's likely they are indeed creations of Dr. Light, but at this point (given the logistical explanation I tried to give off), Dr. Light chose not to number it as 009 to 016; it might be possible that after the events of Mega Man 8, Dr. Light assumed Dr. Wily was presumed dead, given how there was no explanation as to what happened to Dr. Wily after Mega Man was contaminated by a dark energy source that Dr. Wily stole for his Robot Masters. So after a few years had passed, and Dr. Light created those MM9 Robot Masters, Dr. Wily returned and manipulated them to think Dr. Light wouldn't renew their warranties; because Dr. Wily that evil.

[@MartenFerret]

Didn't Wily make Serges (MMX2)?

[@-originalLemon-]

What about the dos games?

[@Victini7472]

one thing i find confusing about mega man 11 is that block man says to light that "[he] built [him] rock solid!" EVEN though block man was manufactured by a different company entirely maybe light helped out? or better upgraded him (and maybe the other mm11 robot masters?) idk

[@JoeyCannoli]

I always thought that Dr. Light came up with the designs for all the MM11 Robot Masters and went on to commission the various robot manufacturers to actually build the Robot Masters based on the designs he sent them.

[@Victini7472]

@@JoeyCannoli oh, i didn't think of that, that's actually a really good explanation!

[@the3dluxe53]

My theory is that Wily inflates the numbers to make his army seem bigger than it is. Real militaries do this by skipping low serial numbers.

[@lpfan4491]

Wily has the full developer-experience of it being more practical to steal stuff and make it legally destinct through enough rewrites to what they are actually doing, lmao. The most legendary detail of it all is that his greatest creation(Zero) fell victim to a simple overflow-bug because he and the virus were made independantly without proper cross-reference and were only made compatible later on. And instead of actually fixing the issue, dude just slapped some failed overwrites and a controlshock on the package. Like, that kind of stuff legitimately sometimes happens in ware-development and it's always incredibly silly.

[@moltengarnet]

This was great! I love in-depth mega man stuff

[@TheDukeofCheese12]

There is a certain irony of Dr. Wily stealing a robot named Pirate Man

[@amied7361]

To give wily credit he managed to weaponised sheep man who was created to look after sheep, getting tired easily and get destroyed by rubber, which is no easy task to weaponise a useless robot like him

[@joaonogueira3952]

Head cannon, DWL and DLN are just licences, like an MIT license, and anyone can register their robot under any license. They are sequential because they are indexed by number, regardless of manufacturer.

[@tffan1029]

Pretty good video. I would have come up with that number of being in the 30s if someone were to come up to me and ask me how robot masters Dr. Wily made. I will say though, you missed Search Man from MM8. He was made by Wily under the pretext of building a combat robot with the efficiency of having two minds, and 2 heads. But, when Wily got confused and lost track about which head had which mindset, Wily ultimately gave up and finished Search Man into the robot we see in the game.

[@Mister100Percent]

3:00 appreciate this little moment reminding us how Powerup implied Roll had incestuous feelings for her brother Rock. Jesus Christ Japan.

[@uastyrdzhii]

Honestly I think Wily makes money by cybersquatting and pump and dump schemes, that's my new headcanon

[@marx4538]

The reason why the numbers continue is probably so it's like a card game, where the numbers keep going up with each game.

[@flameslinger8820]

Besides being a catalog in universe, the numbers are also based on their literal creation in real life. Though this is odd in some instances, Ring man comes before Dust and Dive man because he was made in real life before they were for the game... but lore wise he was made specifically for combat, while Dust and Dive had industrial jobs before he was created. So in a lore sense it would be more sensible for Ring to be right before Skull as Second to last. Weird... but neat

[@mdudegamer]

So he made (give or take depending on preference) 32 robot masters, eh? Now I wonder how many non-master robots he made. Some of the Wily Machines and other non-intelligent bosses are pretty impressive.

[@stickinthemudd4533]

Amazing video! Glad to know I'm here early to watch this channel enevitably blow up in popularity.

[@JarateChop]

I’m very glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much for watching! But, I wouldn’t get my hopes up too high for this channel taking off lmao. I have to start making consistent vids for that to happen haha.

[@thunderbro7218]

I like to imagine the third game robots are in the middle of a divorce situation and can be wily or lights 🤣

[@Ocsttiac]

A few points to mention: . Ring Man and Skull Man were created by Cossack specifically to fight and defeat Mega Man, while the rest of the group were created for helpful purposes. Also in Ariga's Megamix manga, Cossack's robots are given the DCN designations and Ring Man is retconned to have had a useful purpose from the very start (i.e. robot police officer). . In Megamix, the Mega Man 6 Robot Masters use the "MXN" designation for "Mr. X".

[@lieo2100]

Nice theme to start man, good luck with your endeavors.

[@JarateChop]

Thank you very much! Good luck to you just as well!

[@Crobert24]

I am super glad I've got this in my recommendations, was an entertaining one, and while I knew about most of the information, I wasn't still awarw of the numbers he made lol. Nontheless, Wily's intention of making Zero, may seems like a potential of him making Robot Masters in upcoming MegaMan Classic games if they will ever be real. On a different, you did mention that king created Burner man, Magic man and Ground man; I am pretty sure Ground man was created by King, but I do as well remember that he persuaded the other two to join him. I am not entirely sure with the sources that much, but I am not sure if it is true or not.

[@Jann75]

Hey Crobat

[@eviljigglypuff2254]

Maybe the DWN numbers refer to programming, not necessarily the piece by piece manufacturing

[@BasementDweller_]

Never understood why they never fixed the naming and numbering? Not of them should be labeled as DWN.

[@greencomet2011]

That's definitely one trait that both Wily and Dr. Neo Cortex share with each other. They both are supposedly super brilliant scientists, but they have a big tendency of stealing other's peoples work. Although, I give Wily slightly more credit since he did create both Zero and Bass. Which are the two most powerful robots from the series.

[@zharziss]

DWN stood for Dr. Wily Number? I always thought it just meant "drawing number", like a general robot blueprint numbering system.

[@melo-7904]

renumbering the robot masters to make more sense (for the nes games at least) DLN 000 blues/proto man DLN 001 rock/mega man DLN 002 roll mega man 1 DLN 003 cut man DLN 004 guts man DLN 005 ice man DLN 006 bomb man DLN 007 fire man DLN 008 elec man extra mm1/mmpu robot masters DLN 00A time man DLN 00B oil man (and because why not) DLN 00C bond man mega man 2 DWN 001 metal man DWN 002 air man DWN 003 bubble man DWN 004 quick man DWN 005 crash man DWN 006 flash man DWN 007 heat man DWN 008 wood man MEGA MAN 3 (new number format: DLWN dr light, wily number/right,wily please note this number format was seen in mega man megamix) DLWN 001 needle man DLWN 002 magnet man DLWN 003 Gemini man DLWN 004 hard man DLWN 005 top man DLWN 006 snake man DLWN 007 spark man DLWN 008 shadow man (shadow man has unknown origins but can still fit under DLWN as DLWN 008) MEGA MAN 4 (new format: DCN dr cossack number also seen as DCN in megamix) DCN 001 bright man DCN 002 toad man DCN 003 drill man DCN 004 pharaoh DCN 005 ring man DCN 006 dust man DCN 007 dive man DCN 008 skull man MEGA MAN 5 (note wily could try to hide the fact he made these so he would likely put them in the DMN dark man number or PMN proto man number) DWN 009 gravity man DWN 010 wave man DWN 011 stone man DWN 012 gyro man DWN 013 star man DWN 014 charge man DWN 015 napalm man DWN 016 crystal man MEGA MAN 6 (we dont know who made them other then plant man which is made by dr astil so he is DAN-001 so for the 7 other i will just put a question mark after D, you can also call the others MXN "mister X number" due to being apart of the tournament held by mr X) D?N 001 blizzard man D?N 001 centaur man D?N 001 flame man D?N 001 knight man DAN 001 plant man D?N 001 tomahawk man D?N 001 WIND MAN D?N 001 yamato man

[@JarateChop]

doing god's work here, lmao, thank you!

[@k.w.pillsbury4070]

I just posted a comment like this yesterday. Where did it go?

[@melo-7904]

@@k.w.pillsbury4070 if it contained a link then YT would delete it of the face of the earth and i didnt see your comment so i didnt steal it how would i have stolen it if i didnt even know it existed

[@k.w.pillsbury4070]

@@melo-7904 it contained no link and I definitely wasn’t accusing you of stealing it. I don’t know where that came from.

[@melo-7904]

@@k.w.pillsbury4070 well it probably just got lost in the yt comment section And me “accusing” you of accusing me was just me just covering a base for future readers so in like 4-7 months some one doesn’t try to accuse me of stealing a comment from that 4 to 7 month time frame

[@reubentherblazer9756]

The fact you called Zero "the sexiest character ever designed" caught me so off guard that I just laughed for a good 5 minutes.

[@agentblackbird9435]

The MM6 robots most likely have special serial numbers, as Plant Man has one by his creator in the Archie Comics Also, Search Man from MM8 was made by Wily. He wanted a robot with 2 brains but failed, hence why Search Man seemingly talks to himself

[@MysticMike]

For Mega Man 4 was it actually stated that Cossack really did make them? Wily could have made them for Cossack to use in the black mail.

[@Its_PacFan]

One thing the updated editon of the Robot Master field guide has besides the inclusion of the MM11 Robots is that it states that Wily wasn't born in Osaka, Japan, but rather in North America But besides that, great video!

[@yokai59loi36]

You mean in the translation to America or in the Japanese version?

[@peterjohnson11655]

both are wrong, if you've seen the ruby spears animated series (only canon piece of mega man content) you'd clearly see that dr wily is german

[@autobotstarscream765]

Is that why the Light family lives in Texas according to the map in Mega Man 8?

[@Its_PacFan]

@@autobotstarscream765 Basically. I dunno if it states Light was born in America as well or not because I don't own the book lol

[@linhero797]

@@Its_PacFan It is pretty much a fact that Dr. Wily and Dr. Light are both American. It's a bit iffy in other languages but in Japan both are pretty much described as being American.

[@burnsteel9746]

How serious were you when you said the fates of the Mega Man 5 robot masters after the game.

[@Absolbr]

this was a good watch. great vid keep up the amazing work!

[@JarateChop]

Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@pinkertonbyweezer]

ive never played a MegaMan game through entirely. I'm subscribing.

[@JarateChop]

Welcome to the club!

[@frostgem8013]

How ironic that Wily went evil because he blamed Light for stealing his work, yet Wily himself steals from everyone else.

[@ararebeast]

Finally, someone brave enough to call Dr. Wily out on his academic plagiarism. Also Simpleflips jumpscare.

[@trinitroid7893]

He may have made a few Robot Masters, but let's not forget he created one of the best soon-to-be Maverick Hunter in the X and Zero series.

[@Ordnance_T]

Wily being constantly on budget is never gonna be not funny

[@puzzleplank4333]

come back king we miss you

[@supper_e1823]

Awesome video! I love these types of videos just casually taking about mega man, and the editing style and general presentation are my favorite style for videos like these. Look forward to more vids like these in the future if you do any. Also that shard pfp is based

[@JarateChop]

It is you who is the one that is based, for watching my video! Thank you! I can't make any promises, but there may be some more topics in the pipeline since this video is performing decently, we'll just have to see~~

[@arselcrusader5600]

My only takeaway from this video is that King is the best robot ever made, the guy made his own robots. Even the Robots of Megaman X7 couldn't make any and had to pursuade Axel back to Red's side

[@gogovish]

only 28 views on a video this good? now that is a crime

[@JarateChop]

OH NO YOU JINXED IT NOW LOOK AT ALL THESE viEWSsAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH (thank you so much though! I really appreciate your support!)

[@gogovish]

@@JarateChop just as planned

[@entothechesnautknight1762]

This was one of the *many* problems with that Sonic X MegaMan Comic crossover years back when Archie still had both licenses; They basically gave Wily 90% of the robot masters, even though it made no sense for him to have half of them, even in comic lore. Not only did they give them to Wily, but they also implied they were dead by that point, which also contradicted both comic *and* game lore.

[@INFERNO95]

I give him credit for 7 of the robots master from MM3. Bad enough shadow man is not one if his but I will not accept topman, magnet man and spark man not being built by him. I always thought that most of the robots after the fifth game were not made by him. Building robot master to fail can be tiresome along whit lack of money and power can be a problem too. So does what any villain would do and steal other people shit. Thank for making this video.

[@tomsmurf4225]

3:53 Thanks to the MM Archie comics, robot masters with no hands will always be funny to me

[@Doctor_Odin]

Wylie likely specialized developing the base sub-routine software of most robots. (which explains how he’s able to take other peoples robots so easily, by exploiting what is essentially their artificial subconscious.) While dr. Light probably specialized in physical engineering and dabbled in the advanced AI. software development.

[@dragtogo2735]

Knight Man is in "Europe" though questions on Central Europe if all the pieces were brought since the Flail is German/Central Europe weapon and the Mohawk Helmet is base on Greece. So this is why we'll never know exactly where in Europe though his Armor is literally the Flag of Europe Union.

[@Ox2163]

“The land of the genocide” Me: at first it was funny, then it got sad, but then it got funny again

[@MrCool-Roblox-vids]

Napalm Man & Tomahawk Man are in the same image.

[@Sbungo61]

One could technically argue how Ring Man and Skull Man are kind of wily's belongings. If we go back to megaman 4, the cossack robots were all made for non combat purposes with those two exceptions. Ring Man is said to specifically be made to destroy megaman while Skullman is entirely made to be a combat robot. The fact that he's skull themed kind gives some hints as well. Also, wasn't Search Man specifically made by wily as well?

[@DJamesofSalt]

At the end of the day Wiley's mastery of robotics (Zero) and Light's good will and ideals (Elf X) ended up saving the world

[@BainesMkII]

Who said Dr. Wily was numbering the stolen robots? Perhaps it was Dr. Light (and his support staff) who numbered them, and Light was ultimately tracking the robots working for Wily rather than who initially created said robots. The game can give the player robot ID numbers because it reflects Light providing those numbers to Mega Man, rather than Wily kindly providing product ID numbers.

[@ThisisTheUltimate]

If we really needed an explanation on why the Robot Masters on Mega Man 9 that are DLN are in a number so high, instead of just accepting it because they wanted to make it look good continuing the numbers counting up... we could simply say that Dr. Light fixed and reprogrammed all the Robot Masters from the past games after the events of the games themselves, both the ones created and reprogrammed by Wily, so the Robot Masters in Mega Man 9 continues from the last number Light fixed, Aqua Man from Mega Man 8 As for Wily having DWN for all the robots that Wily reprogrammed, their serial number goes to DWN, and continuing from his last robot, excluding Light's for some reason I also like the idea of MM4's Robot Masters being under DCN (Dr. Cossack Number) and MM6's Robot Masters being under MXN (Mister X Number), just like in Rockman Megamix

[@junkyardcrow1748]

The Wily Numbers including including any he personally stole/modified reminds of Dr.Gero's (Dragon Ball) Jinzo Ningen series including androids, cyborgs, modified humans, re-animated corpses, and even HIMSELF. Different problems but similar strangeness, lol.

[@DETahaX]

This video was fantastic, please keep it up and make more videos like these. You had my attention.. but now you have my subscription.

[@nooneinparticular5256]

It's funny how Wily is based off of Einstein, while Light is based off of Edison. Einstein properly credited Michaelson & Morley for his theory of relativity, while Edison hardly invented anything, instead marketing other people's work as his own. Tho, I do understand that Einstein is far less popular in Japan for obvious reasons.

[@amied7361]

Wait in the cutscene it says dr light tundra man and others are his robot masters In the robot master gallery it says tundra man was made by Cossack But tundra man his also wily number

[@tehdrago]

The Mega Man Robot Master Numbering Scheme if it *actually* made sense: The Light Number Series: DLN-000 - Proto Man DLN-001 - Mega Man DLN-002 - Roll DLN-003 - Cut Man DLN-004 - Guts Man DLN-005 - Ice Man DLN-006 - Bomb Man DLN-007 - Fire Man DLN-008 - Elec Man DLN-00A (technically 009) - Time Man DLN-00B (technically 010) - Oil Man DLN-011 - Shade Man DLN-012 - Clown Man DLN-013 - Dynamo Man DLN-014 - Cold Man DLN-015 - Concrete Man DLN-016 - Tornado Man DLN-017 - Splash Woman DLN-018 - Plug Man DLN-019 - Jewel Man DLN-020 - Hornet Man DLN-021 - Magma Man DLN-022 - Galaxy Man DLN-023 - Blade Man DLN-024 - Pump Man DLN-025 - Commando Man DLN-026 - Chill Man DLN-027 - Sheep Man DLN-028 - Strike Man DLN-029 - Nitro Man DLN-030 - Solar Man DLN-031 - Block Man DLN-??? - X The Wily Number Series: DWN-001 - Ra Thor DWN-002 - Metal Man DWN-003 - Air Man DWN-004 - Bubble Man DWN-005 - Quick Man DWN-006 - Crash Man DWN-007 - Flash Man DWN-008 - Heat Man DWN-009 - Wood Man (>:] nice) DWN-010 - Gravity Man DWN-011 - Wave Man DWN-012 - Stone Man DWN-013 - Gyro Man DWN-014 - Star Man DWN-015 - Charge Man DWN-016 - Napalm Man DWN-017 - Crystal Man DWN-018 - Junk Man DWN-019 - Spring Man DWN-020 - Slash Man DWN-021 - Turbo Man DWN-022 - Sword Man DWN-023 - Frost Man DWN-024 - Grenade Man DWN-025 - Search Man DWN-026 - Fake Man DWN-∞ - Zero DWN-??? - Rockman Shadow The *Special* Wily Series SWN-001 - Bass SWN-002 - King The Cossack Number Series: DCN-001 - Tundra Man DCN-002 - Bright Man DCN-003 - Toad Man DCN-004 - Drill Man DCN-005 - Pharaoh Man DCN-006 - Ring Man DCN-007 - Dust Man DCN-008 - Dive Man DCN-009 - Skull Man The Mega Man Killer/Wily Wars Number Series: MKN-000 (technically DLN-001) - Quint MKN-001 - Enker MKN-002 - Punk MKN-003 - Ballade WWN-001 - Buster Rod G WWN-002 - Mega Water S WWN-003 - Hyper Storm H The King Number Series: KGN-001 - Ground Man KGN-002 - Burner Man KGN-003 - Magic Man KGN-004 - Pirate Man The Special Service Numbers (MM3 Robots): SSN-001 - Spark Man SSN-002 - Snake Man SSN-003 - Needle Man SSN-004 - Hard Man SSN-005 - Top Man SSN-006 - Gemini Man SSN-007 - Magnet Man (arguably) SSN-008 - Shadow Man The Stardroid Series: SRN-001 - Terra SRN-002 - Mercury SRN-003 - Venus SRN-004 - Mars SRN-005 - Jupiter SRN-006 - Saturn SRN-007 - Uranus SRN-008 - Pluto SRN-009 - Neptune SRN-010 - Sunstar The following are Robot Masters that either have their own manufacturers or just don't have known builders, so i made a few names as filler: CRN-??? - Blizzard Man MLN-??? - Centaur Man IAFN-??? - Flame Man BAE-??? - Knight Man DAN-??? - Plant Man USSF-??? - Tomahawk Man JSFN-??? - Yamato Man CRI-??? - Wind Man CRI-??? - Tengu Man CRI-??? - Cloud Man TLN-??? - Freeze Man DSN-??? - Burst Man RRN-??? - Aqua Man DTN-??? - Astro Man ODA-??? - Fuse Man BBC-???- Blast Man MCIR-??? - Acid Man TPM-??? - Torch Man NHH-??? - Impact Man RRN-??? - Bounce Man ...now all that's left to answer is what the 20 extra robot masters' REAL numbers are.

[@paulpavlus6664]

Would anyone else like to see a battle with Dr. Light's and Dr. Cossack's robot masters battling against Wily's Army of Fake Man Robot Masters?

[@Megapig9001]

About to watch but this is a god tier thumbnail

[@Dovahgiinge]

I've been thinking about this on and off for literally years so it's funny to suddenly come across a video actually addressing such a specific question.

[@KnightLineArtYT]

If anything, this makes Wily quite the villain still. While he didn't make MMX or Mega Man or Protoman, he did eventually make Bass and Zero, so that's something.