Now time for the chloroform

@CobaltTheMadMage  
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@CobaltTheMadMage  
Interesting revelation indeed. Though I personally wouldn’t refer to the charged shot as overloading the buster. Overloading his buster is how Zero destroyed Vile’s otherwise invulnerable Ride Armor, though doing so blew Zero to pieces as well, so overloading a buster would be charging it past safety limits.
 
The Mavericks re-purposing their tools as weapons mirrors the Robot Masters from Megaman classic and their weapons. X’s Variable Weapon System is probably just an updated version of Rock’s Variable Tool System (which was renamed the Variable Weapon System when Rock upgraded into Megaman)
 
I don’t think X wasn’t able to take anything from Vile or Sigma because they were military grade Reploids. Most likely X didn’t take anything because they didn’t have anything worth taking that didn’t require additional hardware. Vile used a shoulder cannon that fired a slow stun beam,though X had just broken out of the stun net, so it likely wouldn’t have been useful on anything but minor enemies. Vile also used bombs, but X already had the Homing Torpedo for explosives work. And Sigma used an energy blade for his main weapon and X didn’t take Zero’s Z-Saber, just his Z-Buster if you didn’t get the arm-upgrade. (and is at the end of the game anyway)
 
While Vile and Sigma are certainly packing military grade systems and hardware, X is something more. X is explicitly stated to have ‘limitless potential.’ Also, all Reploid designs are based on his schematics. That combined with his Variable Weapon System should make any weapon, tool, or ability usable by him as long as it’s generally compatible with his current weapon systems (or can be adapted to be compatible)
 
X certainly wasn’t meant to kill. Dr. Light wanted X to be able to live a peaceful life, but the good doctor had seen what the ego of one man can do to the world, so he gave X the tools he needed (and sprinkled upgrades around the world to cover tools not including in his base hardware) to be a hero if the future needed him to be.

@Drasvin  
Actually, interesting revelation I had:
 
X wasn’t meant to be a weapon. His Buster only deals serious damage when overloaded (charge shots), and his copy ability seems to have originally been meant to just let him adapt his hardware with new tools to let him help out in a variety of work environments.
 
Evidence for this theory? Well, look at the Maverick bosses: before X4, most of them had public service roles (e.g. Flame Mammoth running the smelters and forges of a factory) and most of their attacks they used when they went Maverick were basically weaponizing parts of their design meant for their specific job. X can copy them after defeating them because he’s basically getting a piece of potentially hazardous mundane-utility hardware that would have let him fill the service role that Reploid now cannot.
 
And then look at other bosses like Vile and Sigma. Both are much sturdier and more deadly than any of the previous bosses, to the point that X cannot harm them until he receives a Buster upgrade from either Zero (designed by Wily specifically to kill) or Light (weapon upgrade hidden from X and meant only for emergencies). And when X does manage to defeat them, he doesn’t gain any new powers, unlike the other Reploid bosses. Why is that?
 
Because they’re military grade Reploids, and X is not. Without the weapons-grade Armor upgrades provided by Light’s hidden capsules, X is just a mundane utility humanoid machine only able to fight and survive this far through cleverness and improvisation granted him by his human-like intelligence and learning capacity that far surpasses most robotics of his day.
 
X wasn’t designed to kill, he was designed to be the perfect companion to humanity. His ability to survive and weaponize anything is only a magnified reflection of our own, held back only by his aversion to senseless violence and drive to protect humanity.

@Background Pony #BC26  
Yeah, X is a weapon of mass destruction, but he has full human-like sentience. He’s also a pacifist. He doesn’t want to fight, but he feels that he must to ensure a better tomorrow. The time in the capsule was to ensure that he personality would be safe and peaceful. On top of that, he’s immune to the Virus that caused the Maverick Wars.  
So X is a self-aware, pacifistic, un-hackable weapon of mass destruction. The security measures were built into X himself. The only flaw in the concept was that the design was so advanced that even the brightest minds of the future couldn’t properly understand them.  
Also, X wasn’t designed as some ultimate weapon. He was designed to fulfill Light’s dream, of a robot that could evolve and grow like a living being. The combat features were meant so that X could be the ultimate hero if the future needed him to be. (There’s also the fact that Dr. Light was nearing the end of his life when he made X)
 
 
@CobaltTheMadMage  
Well, no. Dr. Cain is largely at fault for the Maverick Wars, but it wasn’t from black-boxing X, at least according to the wiki. X’s capsule contained X’s blue-prints, but they were so advanced, even after about 100 years had passed since X was sealed away, that Dr. Cain couldn’t understand them properly, even with X’s help. As such, some of the more obscure systems (like whatever makes X immune to the Maverick Virus) couldn’t be reproduced.

@Align  
YOU’VE BEEN INFECTED WITH THE MAVERICK VIRUS! VIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRUUS!!! @_O

@Background Pony #8E51  
The world was doing basically fine until Zero was unearthed and the virus ruined everything. Wily is to blame.

@CobaltTheMadMage  
Dr. light left a weapon of mass destruction around with absolutely no security measures on the pod to keep people out to prevent it from falling into other people’s hands, and he’s somehow not at fault for that?  
If the US lost a nuke and then another country found it and used it, they’d be held accountable.

@Background Pony #8E51  
But those thirty years ran all the tests that ensured he would more or less have the mind of a sane human being. If anyone was to be at fault for the Maverick Wars, it would be Dr. Cain copying black-box AI software without giving it any such tests.

@CobaltTheMadMage  
“I’m going to build a fully self aware robot! But I’m afraid that making a self aware robot will cause it to go beserk, and for some reason I equipped it with A plasma cannon for an arm, battle armor and unlimitless Military potential, instead of just making a normal human robot.  
GUESS I BETTER PUT HIM IN A CAPSULE AND FREEZE HIM FOR LIKE THIRTY YEARS. I Sure hope nothng bad happens from this after I’m dead!”

@Background Pony #8E51  
Other people aren’t responsible for your actions, Wily.

@CobaltTheMadMage  
Don’t. He’s just going to reference Game Theory.

@Background Pony #9489  
Yeah, clearly it’s already full of tears. Dash’s dreams are so crushed she’s signing a contract with a disreputable company.

@Background Pony #8E51  
Elaborate.

@Background Pony #8E51  
>implying dr. light is not the true villain of the megaman series

@Background Pony #8E51  
Eh, leaning more toward chaotic neutral. BM was evil on purpose, Aperture just had no common sense.

@Miss Shy  
>Apeture science  
But that would make dr. light MORE evil!

Cave Johnson, Caroline, and- what is Dr. Light doing there?

Why is Dr. Light working for Aperture Science? Does that mean Dr. Wily is working for Black Mesa?
 
…actually that kinda makes sense, carry on.

I love Fluttershy, but she’s nooot really Wonderbolt material ^^; Also… What even is this picture? Ponies/Megaman/Portal crossover? What even the f?

Why is the this will end in tears tag their?

@Background Pony #8E51  
Cave is the one holding the contract.

why does pony cave johnson look like dr. light?…