Then he gets outclassed by a fucking go-fer.

D: whut?.. i dont remeber a gopher ;3;

Talkin bout Rock. :P

Bitches dont know bout my Rockman. >:3

Shut yo mouth!

That's what happens when you build your robot gophers like a freaking Abrams and equip them with plasma cannons.

Seriously! Who'd have thunk it - when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When all you have is a giant death cannon... By the way, Fav'd for the reference to The Protomen. That album made me think that we have some hope of seeing a Mega Man movie in our lifetimes that doesn't suck.

mmn..well they wernt built with guns attached to there arms. That was a modification later added on.

There was another, who came before you, he was a hero and your brother and my son.

He fought the darkness; the darkness won.

awsome..some one knows the album

Unrest was a great song, I still listen to it like once a week.

...but flawed, flawed by the same thing that would later make his rival, brother and superior a hero for eons: human nature. The gift of thought, consequence and the understanding of the self and the other lead Protoman to fail ultimately in his goal of supersceding all of Dr. Lights hopes and dreams, a brilliant, spectacular failure.

I don't look at Proto Man as a failure at all; what's happened to him has happened to just as many humans, indeed just about making him as human as can be: he rationalized. He realizes that the world he was brought into can be cold and unforgiving, and he's honed his sense of self-reliance as such. It is success, but rather on a different level. Plenty of other social creatures have their 'lone wolves', so why would it be a shock for a robot designed to emulate humans to do otherwise?
(Disregard the First Law of Robotics, there. <.<)

Protoman actually isint really a villian. He was simply wronged and realized humans wernt on his side. Its even shown in the series over the progression of a few of the games that he eventually sides with megaman. Hell. His original name was Blues if i remeber correctly.

Either way, I'm far more pragmatic about this sort of thing. After all, Megaman (Rockman if you REALLY want to) became the hero. To make his heroics extra costly, both in the nature of his robotics and the concepts those imply. Had there been no robots, no need for Megaman. But, simply creating a robot that goes on to fight robots from a rival inventor just doesn't cut it. Thematically, there had to be a first mistake, a wedge that explains Light and Wiley's divergence accounting for more than evil. Protoman is basically a bridge to that point in time but for that to work, much like Juddas, he had to be a betrayer of the dream of robotics. In itself, propbably not weak but, without it, Megs just wouldn't have an interesting story beyond his work-week blowing up Wilys bots.

I've given everything I can.

There are no heroes left in man.

SO IT BEGINS!

I sadly have never seen this album, but this, is by far, THE coolest pic of protoman that has EVER excisted.

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/.....t?id=189245013

His glasses are plain STYLISH!
Indeed one of the best Blues/Protoman impersonations I've seen =D

its full of errors to me now that i look back on it but its great groundwork for making it even better later on.

as long as you keep his head, fine by me =3

Sweet, and very original re-design! Probably one of my favorite characters of the series.

the torso (armor?) reminds me of shadow complex, not that that's a bad thing, shadow complex is awesome (but way too metroid)

...even though this picture predates shadow complex by a couple of years...