u/Cultural-Giraffe1083

I'm now significantly less new to megaman and have become accustomed to many of its aspects (for one, I'm now in the sigma stages of X 1 and 2) but wily, despite being the main antagonist of the classic series, doesn't really seem to have a particularly personal relationship with rock, the main protagonist, the guy who he fights every other game, but instead has more personal hatred towards light, who's basically a secondary character

But I'd like to hear your opinions

Cut man- carter (derived from spansih for scissor, cortar con tijeras)

Guts man- fort (meaning french in strong, plus being a form of structure, fitting for a construction robot)

Ice man- Aaro (finnish for mountain)

Bomb man- Tyler (inanimate insanity reference, to tyler bombard specifically)

Fire man- Aden (means fire)

Elec man- Tord (meaning, brave as thor)

Metal man- metal (i had to use some music themed names)

Air man- frank (i looked up masculine versions of the name fanny and this is what came up)

Bubble man- sulfur (his bubbles are made of sulfuric acid)

Quick man- Maurice (it's a sonic reference)

Crash man- phonk (another music themed name, purely because phonk music sounds like items smashing together)

Flash man- Lukas (means light)

Heat man- ash (there are gonna be many fire themed names so buckle up)

Wood man- woody (obviously)

Needle man- pierce (guess what needles do)

Magnet man- William (named after william gilbert, the man who apparently discovered magnets)

Gemini man- Castor (after one of the gemini twins, castor and pollux)

Hard man- Greg (named after william Gregor, the man who discovered titanium, i didn't go with william again because that's magnet man)

Top man- Amal (means hope in Egyptian, named that because the top doesn't have a single inventor since every culture made one, but tops were found in king Tut's tomb soooo)

Snake man- Lyric (music themed name, sonic reference)

Spark man- Ben (after benjamin franklin, apparent inventor of electricity, even tho he didn't actually invent it, or even discover it, he did coin terms like battery or conductor tho)

Shadow man- jinichi (named after jinichi kawakami, the oldest surviving ninja who believed his knowledge should die alongside him)

Bright man- Nikolai (named after nikola tesla, inventor of the lightbulb, but made more Russian sounding)

Toad man- viridis (named after the european green toad's scientific name of bufotes viridis)

Drill man- Kamen (russian for stone)

Pharoah man- Nour (Egyptian for light in Egyptian arabic, aka modern Egyptian)

Ring man- shen (named after the shen ring)

Dust man- Chist (russian for clean)

Dive man- Bahr (Egyptian for sea)

Skull man- Danil (russian equivalent of dan, reference to dan bull)

Gravity man- Stephen (named after stephen hawking, known for black holes and absolutely nothing else)

Wave man- Deniz (the word for sea in many languages)

Stone man- Rodrick (close enough to rock)

Gyro man- Igor (named after the inventor of helicopters, Igor sikorsky)

Star man- David (named after David Bowie)

Charge man- Richard (named after the inventor of trains, Richard trevithick)

Napalm man- Louis (named after Louis Fieser, inventor of napalm)

Crystal man- Edgar (named after edgar Kaye, a psychic)

Blizzard man- Brody (like brody animates, who's Canadian)

Centaur man- Fos (greek for light)

Flame man- Atesh (iranian for fire)

Knightman- George (After sir george, a knight)

Plant man- Luzia (portugese for light)

Tomahawk man- Aenoheso (native american name, means little hawk)

Wind man- Tian (derived from The chinese word for sky, tiankong)

Yamato man- Oda (named after Oda nobunaga, a samurai)

Freeze man- drake (his weapon is called the freeze cracker, put 2 and 2 together)

Junk man- Victor (Victor Frankenstein, probably know the guy)

Burst man- pop (after pop music)

Cloud man- Michael (after Michael huang, voice of cloudy in bfdi)

Spring man- Robert (after robert hook, a physicist who's known for springs)

Shade man- Vladimir (popular vampire name)

Turbo man- Karl (after Karl Benz, inventor of cars)

Tengu man- keiji (japanese name, also keiji inafune doesn't sound like the nicest guy)

Astro man- Pluto (duh)

Sword man- marshal (william marshal, a swordsman and the greatest knight ever)

Clown man- tune (music themed name, looney tunes inspired this one)

Search man- Holmes (after Sherlock holmes)

Frost man- Issac (sounds like ice)

Grenade man- Millard (after william mills, inventor of the grenade)

Aqua man- Jason (after jason momoa, a guy who played the other aquaman)

Concrete man- Steve (minecraft)

Tornado man- flute (wind)

Splash woman- symphony (music themed)

Plug man- Harvey (inventor of spark plugs)

Jewel man- Ruben (rubies)

Hornet man- buzz (duh)

Magma man- kazan (japanese for volcano)

Galaxy man- Cary (Cary Huang)

Blade man- Gillette (king camp Gillette invented the blade)

Pump man- Joe (sir Joseph bazalgette invented sewers)

Commando man- Tom (after tomska, the guy who made mine turtle and comando man is a minesweeper)

Chill man- carbon (ironic because he's supposed to combat global warming)

Sheep man- philip (philip k dick wrote "do androids dream of electric sheep")

Strike man- Adam (after adam katz, voice of baseball from inanimate insanity)

Nitro man- Daimler (after gotlieb Daimler, guy who cocreated the motor cycle)

Solar man- Sol (I'm tired man)

Block man- Rick (like brick)

Fuse man- Edison (thomas edison made the fuse)

Blast man- Nobel (he made dynamite)

Acid man- dmitri (chemist)

Tundra man- kazimir (russian name)

Torch man- Hilbert (japanese for fire is hi)

Impact man- chuck (like the one from angry birds)

Bounce man- joy (that's what he feels the most)

Mechanoloids like mets are definitely narrow intelligence and reploids like armored armadillo are definitely general intelligence, but the robot masters themselves are kinda perplexing as they're designed to and bound by a specific purpose and stick to it their whole lives (unless you're sheep man and tundra man) kinda like narrow intelligence, but they've very much shown human level cognitive abilities as well as emotions like general intelligence

Over all, I just wanna hear you guys' thoughts

This was completely unscripted and kinda bad tbh, but I do hope i can at the very least improve it in the following episodes

This is probably a stupid question but I randomly had the thought "wait, if megaman and protoman have civilian names, do the other masters also have civilian names?" Now ok, blues isn't actually protoman's civilian name, it's a fanon things, but my point still stands

Now this is a theory I had for a long-ish time and I wanted to share it with you guys because I thought it was interesting

So as you may know, blues, rock and roll are the first robot masters ever created being numbers 0,1 and 2 respectively, but as a kid who had very little knowledge of megaman, I assumed rock and roll (i didn't know about protoman at the time) but when I learnt that they were the first ones, I was confused, and tbh I'm pretty sure many others would be as well since you'd expect the young main character that's also a robot to be the most recently made one, and that's the case for stuff like mighty number 9 where beck is... well, mighty number 9

However, one day in a discord server I thought of this post's main premise, "the first three robot masters are children, because they were made as bases for future models". Now, what do i mean by this? Well, prepubecent children are basically the baseline for intelligence as many of the smartest animals on earth like corvids and octopuses are frequently compared to 3 year olds in terms of intelligence, and obviously, if I wanted to create a line of sapient robots, I'd likely start with children or highly intelligent animals as a basis, now I probably wouldn't start off with a 10 year old like how dr light did, but maybe I'm just a cheapskate, who knows? But if you're using the most basic level of intelligence for a human, then you can start thinking bigger and make more advanced models

And so he did, the original 6 from megaman 1 are created in order to do basic jobs like jumberjacking or building, and by this point it's become clear that light has a good enough grasp of how to replicate children that he started making more adult level robots, while you could say robots like cutman or iceman are likely still quite child level for the most part due to their higher voices or small stature, coupled with cutman's characterization in powered up, I'd still say light has mostly figured out how to make ai on the level of grown men and women by the time he made gutsman

Now this is a fun bonus theory, that bonus theory being that robot masters got more advanced over time

Now, we already mentioned the first 6, but what we didn't mention are the bots from megaman 9 as those are also made by light, well, as you can see, their jobs are much more technical, aka: weather control, space exploration, quality control in a tv factory to even saving people's lives. This is a massive leap from stuff like arctic exploration or working at a power plant, and I think that's the point, hell, even before megaman 9 you could see the masters get more technical like how Pharoah man was made for the purpose of cave exploration or how astro man was made to work at a planetarium, this rapid advancement would likely be the thing to culminate in light's final creation, X, and how he has free will

Anyways, i hope you liked my ramblings on this random idea I had, please comment your own ideas down below