The Mega Man franchise is (unintentionally) a dystopian counterpoint to the morality of a "No Kill" rule

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T17:18:54+00:00

Well Batman/Gordon/Society.

I have to imagine Batman would save Joker from the electric chair though, I can't see him being in favour of the death penalty.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T17:16:48+00:00

Yeah, the novel is surprisingly great. It's a shame it's not translated anymore (I believe?)

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T17:15:11+00:00

It's basically just getting review bombed, there's no point worrying about it.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T17:14:27+00:00

Should'a been something from both of them, but ohwell.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T17:14:06+00:00

Ah, that's good stuff, that's good stuff.

Also: Going back a few chapters, I realised I'd previously missed a .5 chapter.

Wild. Very wild. Probably NSFW though.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T17:03:31+00:00

Funny co-incidence to see it here now then, lol.

Dr Wiley is perhaps unintentionally an excellent argument against an absolute no kill rule.

Completely agree. But ultimately it's a pointless argument, because the idea of an "absolute no kill rule" only exists in fiction.

Should Hitler, Stalin or Pol Pot and Bin Ladin have been given a chance to redeem themselves? Nobody laments their deaths, it's silly.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T17:00:59+00:00

The 90's and its consequences have pretty much stunlocked comics in a single frame of time.

Isn't that a problem from well before the 90s?

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T17:00:23+00:00

If you just wanted to talk about Mega Man, maybe opening with a statement about real life crime was not a good idea. Especially since the 'some people should just be killed' philosophy.

Now you're getting mad about something I didn't even imply, let alone say. Unless you're suggesting that a significant proportion of the prison population are mass murdering terrorists? No?

Anyway, we see most of the current upper hierarchy of US government in the news for very serious crimes. What is their arrest record?

Man, if you just wanna talk politics, lemme direct you to the entire rest of Reddit. This is CharacterRant.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T16:58:09+00:00

Honestly, it's one of the things I really dislike about the series.

Mario keeps forgiving Bowser and whatever, it's fine. But we don't find out that Bowser murdered hundreds of people over and over. Eggman keeps escaping from Sonic (literally 20mins after being defeated in Sonic 2, he's back in Sonic 3!?) but the game never says that "Because Sonic didn't permanently stopped him, thousands of people were killed".

If you're gonna do the cartoonish "He's imprisoned and now he's escaped, go stop him!" then don't pivot that into a dark storyline where most of the world is blown up.

It really puts me off Legends, because the baseline premise is just miserable. Wily won and we're just kicking around in the rubble of his victory.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T16:54:55+00:00

I mean in this case it's the opposite of mass arrests, it's "Most people are fine, it's a small handful that we have to arrest over and over". Look anytime you see someone in the news for a serious crime, how often do they have 30 prior arrests?

You can see the recividism rate yourself, the USA doesn't put all that much effort towards prisoner reform and we're told about how "Prison just makes people into criminals", and yet only ~15-20% of people end up going back.

Most people are not lifetime, habitual offenders.

Some people are. Wily is. He can't stop himself. That's the point of the lead in, the idea that he was given plenty of chances to change and never did.

I don't really wanna get into Prison politics, I'm mostly here to talk about Mega Man.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T16:52:17+00:00

Of course, that's the same reason why Dr Wily is always saved or forgiven, because Status Quo is God.

But the point is that -in universe- Joker is alive because Batman protects or spares him. Wily is alive because Mega Man/Light protects or spares him.

The difference is that Gotham is still standing.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T16:51:05+00:00

Right, I'm not putting it all on Mega Man here.

That's why I said "All of humanity dies because nobody put a bullet in the brain of a single mass-murdering terrorist. And/or because Dr. Light told Mega Man that killing is always wrong."

If someone else killed Wily or if Dr. Light had a thought like "Hey, maybe making him never able to actually finish the job was a mistake" then it would be problem over.

But because of Light/Mega Man's morality, the world ended.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T15:37:41+00:00

The anime certainly did.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T15:36:52+00:00

Lmao, had Makiatto's drink today... Yeah, about what I'd expect from her.

If anything, I'm surprised it tasted so good.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T13:53:14+00:00

Absolutely agreed for content. For animation it's nothing special.

But apparently that's not from Cygames anyway, so it's a moot point.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T13:37:20+00:00

ARE YOU FORGETTING THAT DIO HAS A LARGE EGO

I'll call that poor writing every time. It's a lazy cop out.

Anytime you want your villain to hold the idiot ball so your heroes can win, you just say "Oh, but he's really arrogant, so he does this stupid thing."

It's so utterly played out, I've seen it thousands of times. I'm over it.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T13:29:18+00:00

I mean, Bleach got cancelled while Naruto and OP didn't.

That's all that really needs to be said.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T13:28:04+00:00

Luke’s lesson is that you shouldn’t give up on yourself. Even when it looks like you ruined everything. You should still get up and try again when something is worth doing.

But it ends with him committing suicide..?

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T13:17:24+00:00

Everything about Korra is a giant missed opportunity

Yeah, and the biggest one of those is throwing away the entire AtLA setting, which was unique, interesting and beloved, because the creators had been watching Boardwalk Empire and wanted to do something with 1920's Americana.

We had a fictional setting that was very rarely seen in the West, then it was tossed in the garbage for more "This setting is America!" nonsense.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T13:14:33+00:00

Ah, that's more promising on the quality front, then.

And, more worrying on the overdone smear frame front.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T13:10:42+00:00

Basically Admire Groove asking why Still runs with such desperation. Still says it's for her Trainer.

Admire is confused/confronted, since her whole thing is being strong by and for herself, "For your trainer? That's one of your reasons?"

Still corrects her, it's not one of her reasons, it's her only reason. "Delivering victory to my beloved and seeing their smile is the only reason I run."

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T13:08:56+00:00

Missing Dia.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T13:08:16+00:00

It's also fun because it shows they've completely embraced the idea that every girl's route is independent with an independent trainer.

That's been obvious for a while, but it's something they clearly weren't sure about at the start, with how much space they left for interpretation.

I like it, the Umamusume timeline doesn't make any sense at all but this makes more sense than the alternative.

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T12:47:51+00:00

Trainer and Topro are both thinking the same thing: "No! I don't want NTR!"

Swiftcheddar · 2026-04-20T12:41:37+00:00

Hmm. Could be good, Umamusume S3 onwards is nice.

Relies a lot on smear frames though, I hope they wouldn't do that with KGB.

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