| “ | Didn't you notice...? The humans have found happiness more than ever before... The utopia that humans have searched for, is here in Neo Arcadia. This is something that you and the original X could never create... Only I could do this! | „ |
| ~ Copy X expressing his narcissism. |
Copy X is the main antagonist of the first Mega Man Zero game and a secondary antagonist of the Mega Man Zero series. A clone Reploid of the original X created by Ciel to rule Neo Arcadia after he used his body to seal the Dark Elf, he lacked the 30 years of training in morality inside a capsule, resulting in him ruling like the tyrant X feared turning into.
In Mega Man Zero and Mega Man Zero 3, he was voiced by Yūto Kazama. However, he was voiced by Yuka Imai in Remastered Tracks Rockman Zero.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- While he's meant to be a copy of X made by Ciel to replace him after the original sacrificed his body to seal the Dark Elf, he quickly became the complete opposite of the original, being an egotistical man-child who wanted to make himself special. This means that he has a clear moral agency as he was made to be a force of good that willingly turned evil.
- After replacing the original X as ruler of Neo Arcadia, he began to treat Reploids as second-class citizens instead of equals to humans as it was before.
- After the energy crisis started, he went on to falsely accuse Reploids of being Mavericks and slaughter them, or send them to concentration camps. This would create the resistance, with Ciel joining them out of guilt. Later on, he started a campaign to destroy them, with the four guardians leading the assault.
- In Aztec Falcon's stage in Mega Man Zero, one of those "disposal centers" is shown in great detail, with several mangled bodies of innocent Reploids displayed, and more would die crushed if not for Zero's intervention.
- He is responsible for the attacks in the resistance base through the Four Guardians, causing multiple casualties on both sides of the war, and he never cared or showed remorse about it, not even mourning Phantom.
- After Zero went into his throne room, he started to battle him, proclaiming himself superior to the original X and Zero. He even claimed he achieve the peace both couldn't, despite causing the war in the first place and ruining the equality between humans and Reploids.
- After his defeat, he initiates self-destruction to take Zero with him. While this failed, this left Zero alone in the desert.
- After being resurrected by Weil, he allies with him to find the Dark Elf, reinitiating the conflict.
- His most heinous action was when he sent a missile to Area Z, a populated human district, in order to find the Dark Elf, fully subverting his previous extremism. This was what made Harpuia defect out of disgust and Ciel to refuse to give the Ciel System to him.
- Later on, after Ciel refused to give him the Ciel System after what he did, he sent three armies towards the Resistance Base in order to decimate them.
- After Zero re-infiltrated Neo Arcadia, he battles him again, not showing any remorse for the humans lives lost in the attack.
- His betrayal and final death by Weil isn't played for sympathy, rather as karma due to ruining the peace X had built, sacrificing innocent Reploids and then sacrificing some humans to get the Dark Elf.
- From the very beginnings, he doesn't have any redeeming qualities, as his extremism was not completely genuine as he easily tossed them out of the way for power, proving that he is just a soulless tyrant.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He fails the heinous standards to Dr. Weil, Omega, and Dynamo, the latter with less resources than him. Despite this, he is responsible for kickstarting the story of the Zero series with his genocidal tendencies leading to Elpizo escaping Neo Arcadia and releasing the Dark Elf which caused Weil and Omega to return to Earth, making this a minor prevention.
Trivia[]
- During development of Mega Man Zero, it was intended for the original X to be the main antagonist of the game. However, there were concerns of younger audiences reacting to X battling Zero as a villain and as a result, Copy X was conceived. Had the idea been kept in the final version, the original X could've qualified as Near Pure Evil.
- His original counterpart is, ironically, Near Pure Good, and is Lawful Good in contrast to Copy X's Lawful Evil alignment.
External Links[]
- Copy X on the Villains Wiki
- Copy X on the Mega Man Wiki
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 Near Pure Evils
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