Read Bob and George, Mega\'s the red-headed stepchild. He gets beaten in the more recent comics. Read and see why

Oops. i\'m thinking of the Dash series to hard. let me mellow down.

I do believe that Roll is Megaman\'s \"sister\" in the OG series.

However, many forget how unrealistic Megaman is. I\'m not trying to denounce Megaman, he\'s just not realistic. AL (Artificial Intelligence) is programmed by humans into robots. Megaman, Roll, Bass, etc. are all clearly anounced as robots. This means they are programmed. They cannot realisticly have emotions. It\'s impossible to program a free-will into a robot. A robot\'s mind must operate upon randomnivity or probability. Only humans were bestown the gift of choice. Everything else in instinct or programming.

Phew. That was hard.

I\'ve always thought about that, but what about X and the reploids from the mmx seirses. They have feilings, but are they just programes like the original mm crew and how they think? Or is it the other way around? What is a reploid? Every one says its a robot with its own free will and that they also has feilings, okay.... rock and roll, and blue, and bass all have emotions, so why arent they reploids to? And the answer is always- (besause they dont \'\'really\'\' have feilings, there just programs. Alright then, why just them? Why does every one think that the old robots emostions are just programs, while the new robots from the mmx seirses emostions are not a part of just programs? How does anyone know that the mmx crew surpassed being controled by being programed and are really living, and not the og mm crew? They all might have true feilings like a living being does, both og mm crew, and mmx crew. Or it might be the other way around, they might all not really be alive and that its just one big program.

People, it\'s a video game. Robots can think and be related. That\'s all there is to it.

I guess your wright, David from \"AI\" and Rock from \"Megaman\" are two totally different kinds of robots and are from two different kinds of stories. Al is a movie that focuse more on how robots think and how they live. Wow megaman is a video game that never gets deep at all into if they are living or not, sence going deep into if \"robots are alive or not\" is not what its about, so.... on megaman, they just explain that they have a conscience and emotions, only because that is just a little explaination of how to describe the robots, and how there alive. But none of that is really a part of the actuall story so lets just leave the robots from mm alone, and not go eny deeper with them, cause thats not what the story focuse on, k?;D
(although, i still like talking about it, even if they dont go any further with, if they are alive or not:(.....)

[Edited on 16-11-2003 by Mr Knorimack]

Yes, as I said, Megaman is unrealistic. This is what webcomics are for: personifying robots.

Also, reploids are even more unrealistic. I won\'t even start on that.

They sure are cool though.:D

You cant really say that the robots(including reploids) from mm are unrealistic, because robots dont even excist in real life. All the stories that have to do with Al, are sience fiction, \"SIENCE FICTION\", meaning it most likely can not be done in real life. Megaman is unrealistic, but so are thousands of others fiction based stories. Its not possible to focuse your energy into an atack like they do on dbz, or fly, or do what ever in any fantasy or sience fiction story. Of course a man cant build life, thats impossible and unrealistic in *real life*, but not in the fiction world, remember, their just stories.;D

That\'s why they\'re unrealistic.

:(I do think Roll is Rock\'s sister if you look more carefully at the story on MegaMan1. I would know,i was there.

keep in mind that MM1 was a POOR translation of RM1. I dont acknowlege any of the story in the MM1 manual.

That does not however, prove that Rock and Roll are not siblings. Unless you find in the Japanese version they state otherwise, your argument has little to support it.

Yes she is the blue bombers sister, she is made up with the same genes and has the same electrical brain prototype as Megaman Volnut dating to way back, it has a paragraph on this in her nintendo power profile.

Actually, while you are theorizing that Roll being Megaman's sister is an invention of lazy translating, that is not true at all. In Japan, she is also considered Megaman's (or in this case I should probably say Rockman's) sister.

Aside from the fact that in the "Rockman Megamix" manga, Rock refers not only to Roll and Blue (Protoman) as his brother and sister, but he refers to all of the MM1 Robot Masters as his brothers (since they, too, were created by Dr. Light).

Though, if manga ain't your thing, as I've said, in the games she is also considered his sister. If you know Japanese, you can find this out in pretty much any Japanese site having to do with Rockman.

As a good example, I'd like to use a site I found that goes very in-depth about Roll.

http://neo-yama-web.hp.infoseek.co.jp/6ban/rollchan.htm

If you can read Japanese, you'll see that there's references to Roll as Rockman's sister. So, Roll being his sister is NOT a case of erroneous or lazy translating.

A person can certainly consider another person their brother or sister if they so choose, even if they aren't related.

As for their sentience, I've always believed that the pre-X robots had sentience and could think on their own, but had to adhere to their programming, like the three laws. It would be like a sort of moral code for them.

As for post-X bots, I'd just say they aren't programmed with such restricting laws, or that they are, but can choose to ignore it. As if they were merely guidelines.

Wow, we're still arguing over this. Last time I posted in here, I was a high school freshman, and I just graduated. Way to bring up old memories of my crappy grammar.

At any rate, I still think of TOS robots as Asimovian in terms of their forced adherence to the three laws. I feel the same way with mechaniloids, as they are just the X series equivalent of standard robots. Reploids, however, seem to have become a replacement for humans until the Zero series. This means that they should have free will and reproductive abilities in order to fulfill their new roles as dominant species, which X7-X8 seem to imply by the humans leaving earth for the moon while the reploids remain below. It doesn't seem very plausible that all reploids are "designed" by other reploids, but I could be wrong. The blood in the Zero series seems to imply that things are a bit more biological and organic than they seem.

Edit: Wow, I got a big laugh from my sandwich-donut analogy... Do I still think like that???

Edited by Nayus Dante on June 26, 2007 at 21:31:11.

Reproductive abilities? Ye speak of Armitage.

But yes, that's certainly possible. We've seen that reploids can have feelings for humans and vice versa, like Craft and Neige, or Alouette/Prairie and Giro.

Rockman's creator says Roll is Rock's sister, yes! I rest my case.