From the good human being who brought us "BISOOOOON!" comes a video of Mega proportions: Mega Man 10: WTF?
"WTF" is all you need to describe the Ruby-Spears Mega Man cartoon that aired in the early '90s. No other cartoon licensed by Capcom or otherwise varied so wildly in quality. Yes, I am counting Street Fighter and Dark Stalkers. Neither of those had the dizzying high of Mega X (in which Mega Man X chases Vile and Spark Mandrill to the past and blasts the holy shit out of everything around him in spite of being a pacifist in the games) or the bowel-dropping low of Curse of the Lion Men (which simply has to be seen to be believed).
Nevertheless, I followed the cartoon. I didn't often like what I saw, but "Day of Sigma" was still more than ten years over the horizon so I had to make do somehow. I would just kind of let my brain glaze over and jerk reflexively whenever I heard "Sizzling circuits!"
But I never realised until seeing this video that Mega Man was an out-and-out dick to Roll so often. Poor Roll just wants to tag along with her brother on his missions to stop Doctor Vily, and he basically tells her to stay at home and make robo-babies. At one point, he bars her enthusiasm with a broom. A broom. That's cold, Mega Man.
Worse is Doctor Light's reaction to Mega Man's sexism: "Uh huh. He's right." Well, what can you expect from the man who invented robots and brought misery to mankind.
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