Megaman X: What if Zero wasn't real all along?

[@surprisedmarshmallow]

Cain in x2 explains that they managed to recover Zero's brain from the X1 sigma fortress. Even if the body is fake, it's megaman Zero 3 all over again: What matters is the heart

[@NotSoSimpleGrimm]

I can totally see where you're coming from and the Zero series actually does this exact thing, but it's still Zero's consciousness inside of a replicate body.

[@watermelonking04]

This is an interesting head canning but there's a few big holes like in X2 the X-hunters simply made Zero's parts they couldn't actually do anything to zero without his control chip which doctor cain had and for the personality thing he had the confident personality up until X4 when he had to retire Iris and for X knowing alot about Omega him and Zero fought in the elf wars together but couldn't beat Omega cause the dark elf and that's why he was sealed

[@stossplottwist]

A lot of upspoken lore happened in X2 and they simply got away with not telling it. I actually learned a couple of things about X2 from X Dive. Although I could see the Zero and X team up against Omega still working which would explain why Zero was missing parts when Ceil found him.

[@watermelonking04]

The X series in general has weird lore stuff that either doesn't get mentioned at all or just disappears like the ending of X3 with Zero has an anti sigma program or whatever in his saber but is NEVER mentioned out of X3 as far as I'm aware then again it could just be weird English only stuff

[@MinhLe19303]

1:30 Yeah, the translation was bad. It more that he questioned if Hunter and Maverick are more similar than he thought, but ultimately Sigma comes first as a priority. It makes sense that after X4, he has a doubt about the nature of Hunters and Maverick, especially since he discovered that he was originally a Maverick. 1:44 Then you missed why Zero became the way that he is. Sure, Zero's character did get flanderized after X6, possibly due to the influnce of his character in Zero series there, but all the way to X6, he retained the confident and encouraging side that he has since X1. It made sense why X4 he becomes increasingly misguided and confused because not only does that game properly established his more merciless and laser-focus approach toward Mavericks in constrast with X's naive and pacifist approach, but also his friend, Colonel, and the Repliforce as a whole rebelled against the Hunters and humans, effectively rendered them Maverick. X4 whole ordeal tests and questions Zero's merciless and uncomprimise nature, culminated tragically with Colonel and Iris's deaths and the reveal that he was a former Maverick all along. The tragic aftermath did left him more close off and less chill overall, but not completely as he was still rather focus on saving the world and courage X to fight.

[@richieosborn2639]

Very intriguing theory! It explains how Zero was so chill in his own series and matches his X1 self. And that Awakened Zero cutscene dialogue from X now makes more sense in terms of context!

[@stossplottwist]

Anything's possible especially with all the new stuff we are finding out about the series decades later.

[@minute9565]

If Capcom won't tell give us the lore then us fans have to pick up the slack

[@stossplottwist]

Thanks fellow megaman enjoyer.

[@Tasuke]

I'm actually kind of on board with this. Been thinking similar things lately. Though I also kind of am of the mindset that Zero did kill the original Mega Man. I also don't know if I like the idea of MMZ being the original Zero or another copy more or not.

[@richieosborn2639]

Killing Mega Man was not in Zero’s profile because Zero was only a prototype when he did that. His mind was fresh and new, but it couldn’t process the memory in time because he deactivated upon ProtoMan sacrificing his life to stop him.

[@i-evi-l]

Fun little video. it showed up in my feed. Keep up the fun works.

[@stossplottwist]

Thanks, I'm glad you checked it out!

[@300kyuubi]

That…..honestly this is a very good theory you have here. I would love to see a theory of Zero.EXE

[@stossplottwist]

Well....my extent of knowledge for the battle network series goes as far as casual watching of the 4kids series, which I saw Zero.exe did show up eventually.

[@tarifhajjar]

x says to wiel before zero destroy omega "like century ago" doesn't that mean x and zero fought together against omega that mean he was alive in the elf wars and fought with his copy body along side with x

[@stossplottwist]

I did actually forget about that line, X was very cryptic throughout the Zero series.