End of Heroism: A Mega Man Zero Retrospective

Reploids don't have to follow the Laws of Robotics. This is explained in the intro to X1 that everyone skips. They're really just metal people who don't age. This is why the Maverick Hunters existed, some Reploids chose to hurt people and the humans responded by sentencing the accused to death.
Zero is down to kill Weil in Zero 3, he just siccs Omega on you and he blows everything up before you can get to Weil.
Craft is just taking desperate measures to kill Cyber Hitler.

The Zero games are ny favorite of the Megaman franchise, and I love the 4 Guardians.

"Who is this mysterious light that gave Zero his legendary saber"
Me: Oh the night that has a Huge X on it.
Dude it's totally Layer!

Elpizo: I did it! I destroyed the legendary X!
Zero and the player: What's that? Your free trial of life as ended AND your triggered your self destruct system and you need me to make it go faster?
Elpizo: AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Narrator: That screaming wasn't from the transformation it's realization finally clicking in and Elpizo just realized how screwed he is.

I only wish there where a widescreen mod for the z zx collection :T
fing gameboy screen is too small, everything is too close

W spice choice

The fact that Zeros consciousness can come back after a few hundred years and pretty much solo a war or two, in a spare body, against multiple generations of advancement. Dr. Wily was cooking

Honestly dunno why someone hasn't made a mod for Z1 and 2 to remove or max out the weapons levels immediately.

x9 rumors huh.

A underlying constant theme throughout the Megaman series is everyone’s consistent under-appreciation of the truly complex nature of sentience.

As philosophers will tell you, existence is pain. Awareness is pain. Life is suffering, and fighting off suffering, including death, is what causes people to choose violence. Choosing otherwise requires wisdom, maturity, experience and empathy. Development of sentience and subsequent maturity takes decades, and that process is wrought with complex and painful emotions. Giving individuals significant power during this nascent time often tempts them to choose violence. You wouldn’t give a gun to a troubled teenager. This is why Light puts X into a 30 year test period, to properly develop his sentience and ensure the development of empathy, pacifism, and compassion without direct constraint from the Laws of Robotics. This is also why Rock and Roll started out as children after the loss of Protoman: time to learn and grow. Literally no other robot master or reploid throughout the entire series gets this. Humanity kept creating reploids with specialized powers and burdens them with huge responsibilities right from the get-go, providing them only with memories and information from other reploids, thinking that’s enough. The New Generation reploids from X8 and Copy X are all excellent examples of how immature reploids granted immense power from the start without time to have their own experiences will always choose violent actions as their solutions. They’re impatient. It’s not simply being infected with a virus that causes them to turn against humanity, it’s their vulnerability to the idea in the first place. The young and naive are always easy to radicalize.

A good comparison would be Mewtwo from the first Pokemon movie, granted immense power at birth and immediately chose violence against everyone he met because his creators never taught him how to, or let him, process his sadness and anger after witnessing the death of Amber. The scientists only ever saw him as an experiment, not an intelligent sentient being with real emotions.

If reploids were treated like actual sentient individuals that needed time to learn and grow, like human children, instead of given specialized abilities and immense powers from the get go, their world would have been a much more peaceful place.

Harpuia slander? How could you?!

Something never understand Reploids are based of X and X uses solar energy to function. Why in the future they short of energy???

Bro, im thinking about it all my life, is there a chance to Zero came back?

I luv Zero

I disagree. I think zero 1 is the best one personally.

Killing Dr. W is fine

Greatest retelling of Pinocchio

He didn't mention the hidden phantom fight

Don't even get me started on Mega Man Zero 4: pretty much the humans are being attacked by Dr Weil and reprogram the reploids under his control and started attacking humans and so the humans that have been protected for literally hundreds of years like run away and actually blame all reploids for this to happen even though it was caused by human.

And they have Gaul to blame reploids for wars and Mavericks, even though they made them that way and now they're afraid of reploids even though they've been protecting their asses for literally hundreds of years from being killed until now, pretty much a bunch of ungrateful little in engrates like Mega Man X and Zero have been protecting Humanity for hundreds of years and without them Humanity would probably be extinct.

The so-called humans haven't done s*** they didn't even try to stop copy X from killing innocent reploids who didn't even do anything but when the so-called protectors the reploids that were protected turned on them because of Dr Weil they think all reploids are evil even though they're the ones that made them that way. And they started f*** themselves over.🤔🤔🤔🤔😡😡☠️☠️😎😎

The triple rod is actually one of my favorite weapons it takes a lot of skill to use but to a master of the games it’s an amazing tool. I’d reference magnus zero’s challenge for this his content uses the triple rod a lot more than you’d think

The Zero series is probably one of my favorite games series of all time.

This may be a hot take, but the original version of Departure hits in a way that no remix or remaster can.

Did you know that X5 was going to be the last game in the series ?

Why did he use the remix intro to zero 2?! Original wins by miles

Bro said the Z knuckle was useless, is he okay? 😂🤦🏾‍♂️

Yeah.... idk how you got 25k subs you're edgey humor and inability to talk about points that matter is really weird... like republican weird. Learn how to talk to people.

“I never cared about justice, and I don’t recall ever calling myself a hero… I have always only fought for the people I believe in. I won't hesitate... If an enemy appears in front of me, I will destroy it!”

Glad you mentioned the nuances to Elpizo. He's actually my favorite Mega Man villain. Feels like a redo of Sigma who came by every "fuck humanity" attitude without a virus driving him insane. Like, even if he's extreme, he's a byproduct of the fascist hellhole Neo Arcadia's become, and ultimately, his worst actions are motivated by guilt. He wants to make amends for that attack that got so many of his men killed and goes off the deep end as a consequence.

The cool thing is... Zero has a Reploid mind, so he isn't bound by any laws of robotics or anything... Anything but morality, because he is good and does the right things. Or at least that's what Weil thought. He thought that if Zero knew he was a human, Zero wouldn't have what it takes to kill him, afterall a robot killing a human like that would be to betray everything they were trying to achieve for centuries... But Weil didn't expect Zero to actually do it, because killing him was the actual right thing to do.

where is the intro from, hearing CIel talk is so cool wish the original games had a dub

honestly the best sub weapon for the z knuckle is probably the axe, it does decent damage and can be a good fallback if you miss a charge slash

Did they release legends 3

Stopped watching when you said that the triple rod was useless. Sounds like a skill issue to me 🤷

In Z3 Cyberspace just makes it so that your cyber elves activate without losing ranking.

I do agree that MZ4 was the weakest of the series. MZ3 is 100% the best of the series, PERIOD!!!

Wow, he really just dies…welp

I wonder if Zero is stronger than MegaMan Trigger and Juno

Zero 3 green area is cyberspace it’s like the afterlife for cyberelves and other cyber creatures that’s why you have the secret boss with the shadow ninja forgor his name

Did you know that the attack on Neo Arcadia by Craft killed 20 million humans?

Funny how the last games in the series were entitled "Megaman Zero".

Omega's second form is a reference to Omegamon in Digimon.

The Zero 4 cyber elf was a huge dissapointment I thought it would at least have an impact or engage in the story but nah it just existed.

One thing I really didn't like about the original Zero Collection was the removal of any and all references to death, dying, and killing. They replaced them all with, "Perish, end, finish" and other more sanitized words that really felt out of place when a war for survival was a constant state of affairs.

New pin: I wanna say that this is now on my small list of "videos I'll redo" someday. There's just a lot of things that didn't make it from my head to voice properly, could've researched better, and could've analyzed better. Just a lot of "Could've" things that my current standard would do differently. However, I know lots of people like this video, so I'm leaving it up and I'm not putting (OUTDATED) or (OLD) in the title. I feel that would be disingenuous to myself 3.5 years ago, who worked hard on this. Learning to make videos is a journey of improvement, and I'm not gonna erase part of it because I improved.