Wednesday, April 26th, 2000	#26
Mega Man's Missing!	Or Should He Say 'Oops'?

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		The First Strips The Beginning of the Story Mega Man's Missing! The Introduction of the Author The Author as Mega Man The Return of Mega Man The Hand-drawn Comics I - The Introduction of George The Hand-drawn Comics I - George's Summer Job The Hand-drawn Comics I - The Introduction of Napalm The Hand-drawn Comics I - The Return of Mega Man The Return to the Beginning The Attack of the Yellow Demon The Return of the Author The White Space Why Alcohol is Bad for You The First Megaman Game The Attack on Dr. Wily The Hand-drawn Comics II - Introductions, Version 2.0 The Hand-drawn Comics II - College Orientation Not Again Just Another Day Not Just Another Day The Introduction of George The Introduction of Bob The Attack of Bob The Aftermath of Bob Tales From a Parallel Universe 1 Prelude to a Bad Time A Bad Time Tales From a Parallel Universe 2 Back to the Past The Party The Second Megaman Game - Prologue The Second Megaman Game - The First 4 Robot Masters The Second Megaman Game - The Last 4 Robot Masters The Second Megaman Game - Back at the Lab The Second Megaman Game - Meanwhile The Second Megaman Game - The Attack on Dr. Wily The Second Megaman Game - The Aftermath Back in the Future The Author's Breakdown Tales From a Parallel Universe 3 Something Stupid The Next Generation Another Coffee Break Tales From a Parallel Universe 4 In the Year 21XX The Arrival of Mynd The Attack of Mynd The Third Megaman Game - The Pregame Show The Third Megaman Game - Magnet Man & Hard Man The Third Megaman Game - Top Man & Shadow Man Tales From a Parallel Time The Second Party The Third Megaman Game - Spark Man & SnakeMan The Third Megaman Game - Needle Man & Gemini Man The Third Megaman Game - Doc Robot The Cataclysm Flashback The Third Megaman Game - The Doc Robot Fight The Third Megaman Game - Resolution Something Different The Attack of Mega Man Tales From a Parallel Universe 5 N4T3'5 R3C4P W33K The Fourth Megaman Game - Stalin's Brain The Fourth Megaman Game - Exposition Exposition The Fourth Megaman Game - Fixing Ran Dave's Adventures in Canada The Fourth Megaman Game - Wily's Fortress The Third Party The Fourth Megaman Game - Mega Man The Fourth Megaman Game - Bright Man & Pharaoh Man The Fourth Megaman Game - Ring Man & Dust Man Non Sequitur The Fourth Megaman Game - Skull, Drill, & Dive Man The Fourth Megaman Game - Ran The Fourth Megaman Game - Cossack Bots BnG News Story Time Another Bad Time A Dog's Day George's Bad Day George's Really Bad Day BnG News Exposé Helmeted Preparations Helmeted Attack The Fourth Party The Adventures of Ninja Ned Tales From a Parallel Universe 5½, Part 1 The Fifth Megaman Game - Prologue Tales From a Parallel Universe 5½, Part 2 The Fifth Megaman Game - Star Man Tales From a Parallel Universe 5½, Part 3 The Fifth Megaman Game - Preparations The Fifth Megaman Game - Robot Masters The Fifth Megaman Game - Month of Destruction The Fifth Megaman Game - Darth Volcanus The Fifth Megaman Game - Wave, Stone, & Charge Man The Fifth Megaman Game - Final Battle The Fifth Megaman Game - Resolution The Attack of Non-Alternate Mynd - Preamble The Attack of Non-Alternate Mynd - Flashback The Attack of Non-Alternate Mynd - Protean The Attack of Non-Alternate Mynd - Charge A&E Biography Month The Fifth Party The Introduction of X The Attack of X The Mind of X, Part 1 Megaman 6 The Mind of X, Part 2 The Aftermath of X Prelude to the Worst Time The Worst Time The First Annual Robot Tournament - Introduction The First Annual Robot Tournament - Round One, Part 1 The Sixth Party The First Annual Robot Tournament - Round One, Part 2 The Sixth Megaman Game - Vic The Sixth Megaman Game - Stalling The Sixth Megaman Game - Wily's Fortress All Good Things - The First Cycle All Good Things - The Second Cycle All Good Things - The Third Cycle All Good Things - Flashback All Good Things - The Fourth Cycle All Good Things - Mynd All Good Things - Sigma All Good Things - Captain Kinesis The Seventh Party All Good Things - Captain Kinesis All Good Things - The Last Cycle The Return of Bob - Shields The Return of Bob - Standoff The Last Strips The Epilogue

I've always enjoyed it in television shows and movies when characters have emotional attachments to their guns, such as between Jayne and Vera. I imagine it comes not just from the natural way people personify inanimate objects, but also because there's a special bond that forms when you have to repeatedly trust your life to a weapon. And if you're the type to modify his/her weaponry, you have to also factor in all the time and effort that went into the modifications. I wonder what Proto Man's named her... That being said, I can't let this comic go without commenting a bit on the Three Laws of Robotics, because Proto Man killing his creator deals directly with them. At the end of Megaman 7, as Mega Man is standing over a defeated Dr. Wily, he finds he can't kill him, presumably because of the some internal programming. Whether Capcom intended this to be a direct reference to the Three Laws or not, many people imagine that Light-bots are at least programmed with something similiar. Wily-bots, likely not so much, since it would make world domination difficult. This would perhaps explain the major difference between robots from the classic series and the reploids from the X series, in that reploids are not programmed with the Three Laws, but instead are ruled by emotions like humans. So, would killing Dr. Light violate the Three Laws? Perhaps not, since he didn't intend to kill him; the blaster just went off. Nonetheless, if Proto Man were truly an Asmovian-type robot, his positronic brain would mostly likely still shut down due to the death and his inability to prevent it. Given that he didn't shut down, this suggests that perhaps Dr. Light perhaps never programmed any laws into Proto Man, perhaps because he was the prototype. It might also be worth mentioning that this is the first use of the word shit in the comic. I was worried when this comic first went up that it would lead to a snowball effect and before long the comic would be nothing but f-bombs back and forth, which could turn readers away from it. Luckily, I never received any serious complaints about the language, except for the first Cataclysm movie, so I think it all worked out. Also, don't grab someone's blaster. It tends to set them off.

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