| “ | How do you feel now, Sigma? Did you like my special vaccine for the Sigma virus? X, I'm sorry to have given you so much trouble. I know I can never really atone for what I've done... But I will try to set things right by taking Sigma with me!! | „ |
| ~ Dr. Doppler redeeming himself. |
Dr. Doppler is the secondary antagonist of the 1995 action-platform game Mega Man X3.
He is a brilliant Reploid researcher who seemingly discovered a cure for the Maverick Virus and established a Reploid utopia. In reality, however, Dr. Doppler had been corrupted by the Sigma virus during his research and had developped a fake cure, used to turn all of the supposedly cured Reploids into new Mavericks to start an uprising against mankind.
He later reappeared as the main villain in the original MegaMan Mega Mission card game, where he created a special new virus of his own.
Biography[]
Mega Man X3[]
Doppler was a Reploid and an excellent researcher. He watched the war between the Maverick Hunters and Sigma, and hoped he could do something to stop this war. He created the utopian Doppler City, where all Reploids who were tired of the Maverick Wars gathered, with Dr. Doppler as their ruler. He studied the Sigma Virus, and successfully developed an anti-virus vaccine that he soon distributed among the denizens of his city. However, the anti-virus was a fake, and the Reploids started to go maverick in the city.
Doppler gathers an army of Mavericks and starts a full-scale attack against the Maverick Hunters base. X and Zero rush to the base to intercept the attack. X enters the base and finds Mac, who was a Maverick Hunter. He traps X and capture him, telling that he now worked for Doppler. Zero destroys Mac and rescue X, so the both of them goes to Doppler City to find Dr. Doppler and stop him. Doppler hires two police Reploids, Bit and Byte, and also revives Vile to hold off X and Zero.
X defeats Doppler's Mavericks and proceeds to his lab along with Zero. After defeating the fused Bit and Byte, as well as Vile, X finds Doppler and fights him. As X defeats the doctor, he recover his consciousness, revealing that he was being used by Sigma all along, having built a new and more powerful body for him. X then goes after Sigma and defeats him. When the viral form of Sigma tries to possess X, Doppler intervene by trapping Sigma within his own body, which contained the true anti-virus that he developed. X manages to escape while the lab explodes, as Sigma's code starts to vanish due to the anti-virus effects.
In Battle, he shoots Yellow plasma Orbs, and he generates a force field. The green Force Field absorbs any shots, and converts it into Health. You cannot get this weapon though.
Mega Man Mega Mission[]
Doppler comes back in the original Mega Mission Card Game.
In this story, Doppler attempts to take over the world creating an army of resurrected Reploids via his newly developed "Limited Virus". He has 2 new henchmen, Curtiss and Schmitt. And he is also working on a new super fighting machine on his super computer using the data of all the destroyed Reploids. He also wants to control Mega Man X's unlimited power.
X and Zero go out to try to stop him but X gets infected in the arm and develops violent tendencies, attacking Zero as well. X and Zero separate and start dealing with all the resurrected Mavericks. They track down Doppler's fortress's location and later fight Curtiss and defeat him, only to then have to fight Schmitt too.
Schmitt fuses himself with the Limited Mother compute which then produces an evil copy of X, iX, which heavily injures Zero. X fights and is barely able to win against his clone, which then Doppler takes advantage to infuse the Limited with X and Zero's battle data, turning it into a giant combat robot. X and Zero team up one last time and are able t destroy the Mother Limited, X also sheds his new armor he gained from being infected by the Limited Virus.
They escape and Doppler swears revenge.
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Trivia[]
- As with Mega Man X4, fans like to debate which of the two endings is the canon one, since there is no solid indication in the series. While Dr. Doppler hasn't made an appearance in subsequent games, his anti-virus technology seems to live on, most notably in Mega Man X5.
- It is worth mentioning that if Zero uses the anti virus on Sigma, he says that he will come back. However, if Doppler is the one who destroys Sigma, he does not say so. This may hint that the canonical ending is the one where Zero destroys Sigma.
- Dr. Doppler's name is a reference to the Doppler Effect and a pun on Doppler Radar.
- In the Rockman X manga adaptation Dr. Doppler used to be friends with Dr. Cain.
