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| “ | You are an interesting individual, as I thought you might be. | „ |
| ~ Copy X |
| “ | No... A perfect copy of the original X. The new hero who saved the human race from this wasted world. Didn't you notice...? The humans have found happiness more than ever before... The utopia that humans have searched for, is here in Neo Arcadia. This is something that you and the original X could never create... Only I could do this! | „ |
| ~ Copy X to Zero, showing his uncaring nature towards his genocide and his massive ego |
Copy X, also known as Master X, is the main antagonist of Mega Man Zero and a major antagonist in Mega Man Zero 3.
He is a powerful evil Reploid who is the clone of Mega Man X and ruler of Neo Arcadia, created by Ciel in order to replace the original X after the latter's disappearance. However, because Ciel lacked any of the skills Light had in creating X, Copy X turned into a malicious cunning dictator who rules Neo Arcadia with an iron fist who wants to exterminate Reploids at a high-scale after considering them to be "Mavericks". As a result, Ciel escapes and forms a resistance against his rule, who then sends his squad to finish them off. However, they manage to awaken Zero after 10/ years of sleep, and now they join forces in order to stop X's false copy.
Biography[]
Origin[]
Copy X is a Reploid that is a "perfect" clone of the original X, created by the scientist Ciel to take the place of X as ruler of Neo Arcadia, since X had used his own body to seal the Dark Elf.
However, Copy X had a different vision from the original X, because he was never put to sleep for at least 30 years to test his ethics reliability. He felt that the humans' confort was to be put above all else, and considered Reploids to be second-class to humans, and when the energy crisis started, he began to hunt down "surplus" Reploids at random, wrongly accusing all of them of being Mavericks, using them as scapegoats for the crisis.
The few who survived, organized a resistance against Neo Arcadia, and Ciel joined them, feeling guilty for what Copy X became. His army, led by his loyal guardians Harpuia, Fefnir, Leviathan and Phantom, slowly crushed the Resistance.
Mega Man Zero[]
Copy X appears as the main antagonist. Although he is never seen until the end of the game, he is a powerful and ominous presence in the mind of the Resistance force. Without more options, Ciel decides to find the lost legendary Reploid known as Zero to help them in their fight. They finally find the chamber where he is hibernating, but they are followed by Copy X's forces. Ciel manages to awake Zero, who then opens the way out of the place and saves Ciel. Zero then helps the resistance, eventually defeating the four guardians and making his way to Neo Arcadia. After Phantom self-destructs, the remaining 3 guardians attempt to bar his entrance to their master, but Copy X himself appears and tells them to leave.
He tells Zero he has been looking forward to this moment and claims that he has built a utopia for humans that neither Zero nor the original X could create. Zero battles Copy X in his ultimate armor and defeats him for the first time. Zero says that he remembers the original X being mightier. Copy X furiously transforms into his final form, a massive seraph form. Zero battles him and narrowly defeats him a final time. While dying, Copy X says he was supposed to be perfect and that he will never forgive Zero. He then sets his base to self-destruct in an attempt to destroy Zero, but Zero escapes.
Mega Man Zero 3[]
Much time later, he is resurrected by Dr. Weil, who uses him on his plan to take control of Neo Arcadia. Copy X has a noticeable stutter, and his eyes are now blue instead of red.
After the first four judges are defeated, Copy X and Dr. Weil send a missile to a human residential area (Area Z-3079) to catch the Dark Elf. Therefore, when Copy X and Dr. Weil contact the Resistance asking her to surrender and hand over the Ciel System, Ciel refuses to deliver it, because she created it to bring peace between humans and reploids and they weren't above to sacrifice lots of innocent lives to catch the Dark Elf. Later, Zero defeats some revived robots from Megaman Zero 1, infiltrates in Neo Arcadia and challenges him, defeating him once again, the original X arrives to tell Copy X that Weil was using him for his nefarious purposes. However, feeling that everyone is treating him as a fool, tries to power himself up into his Seraphim form, causing a bomb inside of his body to trigger, causing him to self-destruct. Weil easily takes over Neo Arcadia after this, becoming it's new ruler, saying that X had sadly passed away thanks to bloodthirsty extremists.
Even after everything he did, many humans still saw him as the protector of humanity, and blamed Zero and the Resistance for Weil becoming the dictator of Neo Arcadia.
Rockman Zero manga[]
Copy X as seen in the Rockman Zero manga.
Copy X appears shortly along with his Ultimate Armor in the Rockman Zero manga, where he is an unnamed fusion of the Four Guardians created by Cial, who refers to him as the "Perfect Reploid". He overwhelms the battle-weary Zero using his Nova Strike and deals a serious blow, reverting Zero into his meek self. Believing he had already won, he prepares to kill Zero, but Lito tries to protect Zero. Angry, he throws Lito away and would have killed him, but Zero gathers up the courage and strength to fight back without his helmet, impaling the Perfect Reploid from behind using his Z-Saber. Without the Four Guardians, the Resistance was able to defeat the Neo Arcadian armies. Copy X was noticeably much more psychotic than his original depiction as seen through his facial tick.
Personality[]
Copy X was meant to be a perfect copy of the original. However he didn't had his original intentions and planning, causing him to turn into a tyrannical ruler of Neo Arcadia
Despite being proclaimed himself to be the perfect copy of the original Megaman X in every way, Copy X has the distinction of being a main incarnation of Mega Man who is outright evil. The standard by which he views himself creates a warped sense of justice in which any decision he makes is right by virtue of being a perfect copy. In contrast to the original X's pacifism and mercy, Copy X is a brutal tyrant that sees the deaths of countless reploids as an ideal thing because it gives confort to humans, yet calls himself a hero. He is also extremely narccisistic, seeing himself as better in every way to the Original X, entering in a state of fury in all the times Zero told him otherwise. When facing his original counterpart in Mega Man Zero 3, he attempted to transform as a way to show his superiority, saying everyone treated him like a fool. In spite of his claims to have humanity's well-being as his motivation, he was willing to devastate a residential complex just to find the Dark Elf as advised by Weil.
Zero makes note of this difference after defeating Copy X the first time by calling him naive, suggesting that he lacked the experiences and memories of the original X to properly understand justice and rule Neo Arcadia as X did. However, Copy X disregards this, and doesn't hesitate to stand up for himself and his perfection.
He also shows an immature side, as when Harpuia asked for advice about what to do with rabbits' reproduction potentially threatening crops, Copy X responded that he doesn't know what a libido is.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Leadership: In spite of his arrogance and brutality against Reploids, Copy X was competent enough as a leader to the point that humans were conforted and genuinely saw him as their protector, mourning him and blaming Zero for his death and Dr. Weil's oppressive takeover of Neo Arcadia.
- Immense Physical Attributes: As a perfect clone of X, he has very high strength and speed. While presumably also haing the original's reactive potential, Copy X is noted by Zero to be weaker and less skilled than the original, likely due to not fighting the same battles.
- Ultimate Armor Transformation: Copy X has a similar armor to the original, Not entering in combat without it.
- X-Buster: Copy X also shares it with the original.
- Elemental Attacks: Copy X has the ability of firing elemental attacks with the X-Buster, the Ice Shot, Elec Shot, and Ice Shot.
- Nova Strike: Copy X also has the iconic attack, not as strong as the original but with a homing attack.
- Raging EX: Copy X forms an aura around his body that heals him. Only uses this attack as Copy X MK.II in Mega Man Zero 3, and if the player is A or S.
- Reflected Laser: Copy X shoots a reflecting laser. Also only uses this attack as Copy X MK.II in Mega Man Zero 3, and if the player is A or S.
- Seraph Transformation: Besides his Ultimate Armor form, Copy X has a second transformation where he turns into a figure resembling a seraph.
Theme:[]
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Trivia[]
- Copy X, in his reappearance in Mega Man Zero 3, follows the long tradition in the Mega Man franchise of a "fake villain", as he was manipulated by Dr. Weil, similar to how both Dr. Wily and Sigma manipulated other villains in their respective eras.
- Copy X is the antithesis to the original X, as X was stuck in testing for 30 years by Dr. Light in order to follow the first robotics rule, while Copy X, on the other hand, had no testing at all. If the original X wasn't tested for 30 years and chose to harm humans instead of saving them, he would've ended up like Copy X.
- The original X was originally slated to appear as the antagonist of the Zero series, instead of Copy X (in fact, Copy X was never even going to exist), but due to the release of Mega Man X6, this idea was omitted in the list of original concepts meant to connect Mega Man X5 with the first Zero game.
- Copy X is far more powerful in Mega Man Zero than in Mega Man Zero 3 because of his powerful second form, despite the fact that he has an extra attack in Mega Man Zero 3 called the "Reflect Laser".
- It is probable that Copy X's first incarnation would not have trusted Weil and, therefore, would not have been his pawn. However, Copy X "Mark II" probably had his brain modified to trust Weil and listen to his advice.
- Even though Copy X is the 5th Mega Man incarnation, he is only quasi-playable in his Mega Man Zero 3 mini game.
- Copy X is one of two Mega Man incarnations to not appear in all installments of "his" series (the other one is Mega Man Volnutt, who is not involved in one installment of his series).
- In this regard, Copy X is also the only one in which the series does not revolve around him (besides being one of the main antagonists), instead revolving around Zero.
- Oddly enough, Copy X features a slide attack, a technique that was shared with the original Mega Man, although it was only used as a dash technique.
- In actual gameplay, both of Copy X's forms has the least health of the final bosses in the Mega Man Zero series, with both of his forms having only two life-bars, in a contrast to the later final bosses, and some bosses earlier in the first game (which includes the Four Guardians), which had three life bars. Because he has two forms however, he still has the most health of the bosses in the first Mega Man Zero game.
- If the player loses to Copy X not in Seraph form, he will continuously jump around the room executing his attacks in a taunt-like manner while yelling his you-are-defeated sentence.
- Copy X's personality might be a result of not having to go through Dr. Light's extensive 3 decade-long testing. In other words, he might be a perfect copy of X physically, but never mentally conditioned to be at all like him, lending the possibility that even the original X could have been evil if it weren't for Light's precautions being implemented beforehand to correct this core issue.
- X's ending in Mega Man X4 may be the first foreshadowing to Copy X, or likely the original intention for X to become the villain in the Zero series. While escaping from Final Weapon, he contacts Zero and begs him to destroy him in case he ever goes Maverick.
- In Zero's Mega Man X7's ending, Zero has a nightmare where X apparently goes berserk and tries to eliminate all the Mavericks, even Zero. This was most likely foreshadowing Copy X's rise to power.
- In both of his appearances, his attacks reference special weapons from Mega Man X.
- In a sense, Copy X's destruction can be seen as an indirect success on Zero's original objective that was given to him by Dr. Wily when he was created, which was to destroy Dr. Light's creation.
- The Ultimate Armor set of moves is parallel to the system of Omega (Zero Form) himself, only with the lack of an EX Skill.
- Copy X is possibly a homage to the Copy Robot of the classic Mega Man series.
- If one closely listens to Seraph Mode Copy X's theme "Fake", it sounds like a re-imaging of Vile's theme from the first Mega Man X game.
- Amusingly, both the Original and Copy X have only one unique theme dedicated to them. It's "Cyberelf" for Cyber-elf X, and "Fake" for (needless to say) Copy X.
- The Modified Pantheon Aqua from Mega Man Zero 3 emits phrases and an eerie cackle very remarkably like Copy X's Seraph transformation. It also drops objects in a similar fashion to Copy X's helmet halo ray attack, and fires a wide area laser across the floor.
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| Mega Man Zero |
Neo Arcadia: Copy X | Crea & Prea | Dark Elf | Dr. Weil | Omega Resistance: Elpizo Four Guardians: Sage Harpuia | Fairy Leviathan | Fighting Fefnir | Hidden Phantom Mutos Reploids Fefnir's Forces: Anubis Necromancess Leviathan's Forces: Blizzack Staggroff | Poler Kamrous | Maha Ganeshariff Phantom's Forces: Hanumachine | Hyleg Ourobockle | Phoenix Magnion | Burble Hekelot Eight Gentle Judges: Childre Inarabitta| Blazin' Flizard | Devilbat Schilt | Glacier le Cactank | Cubit Foxtar | Volteel Biblio | Deathanz Mantisk | Tretista Kelverian Einherjar Eight Warriors: Sol Titanion | Heat Genblem | Popla Cocapetri | Pegasolta Eclair | Mino Magnus | Noble Mandrago | Tech Kraken | Fenri Lunaedge | Craft | |
| Mega Man ZX |
Aeolus | Atlas | Master Albert | Model W | Pandora | Prometheus | Serpent | Siarnaq | Thetis Pseudoroids | |