Every Mega Man Battle Network and Star Force Game's Lore Explained in Obsessive Detail

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  @objectivelypatrician5023 · 1 year ago

  &quot;It&apos;s not nepotism because his dad would never think about him that much&quot;<br>I&apos;m in stitches

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• SK

  @SKPetel · 9 months ago

  Lan being continuesly dad-cucked in this entire series is something I needed a 9 hour rant to notice

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• HA

  @hammerheadshark45 · 1 year ago

  i literally watched the entire bionicle video, rewatched the mega man video immediately after, and youtube still decided to wait nearly 5 months before showing this video to me

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• DE

  @deathgardna · 1 year ago

  its kinda funny that the series went from a dad who was around but seemed extremely distant, to a series where the dad couldn&apos;t be more distant but was still very close to his son.

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• HO

  @HomerGunther · 1 year ago

  Star Force 1 will always hold a special place in my heart<br>as a young teenager playing it for the first time while going through a rough patch in an already pretty rocky childhood, a kid who also didn&apos;t have a dad around, and struggling with depression, that shit hit way harder than it had any right to

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• JL

  @jlrtenjac · 1 year ago

  I like the implication that the main world-shifting difference between the classic universe and the Battle Network universe is that Dr. Light got laid.

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• DU

  @Dudeman23rd · 1 year ago (edited)

  Fact: Tadashi Hikari is a pun. As a play on the &quot;Dr. Right&quot; versus &quot;Dr. Light&quot; mistranslations that plagued the first few entries of the classic series in the 80&apos;s, Tadashi is Japanese for &quot;right&quot; (as in correct) and Hikari is Japanese for &quot;light&quot;. The kanji characters used to spell his name aren&apos;t those words literally, but it&apos;s common for games with this kind of tone to have Japanese names that are intentionally written so that they can have the same pronunciation as a punny alternative, such as the Ace Attorney franchise.

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• PS

  @PS2Polpo · 1 year ago (edited)

  I have to point out that you failed to mention that Speedy Dave is basically just the Unabomber

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• XE

  @Xeronoia · 1 year ago

  The real battle network is the souls of children we digitized along the way.

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• RO

  @roufaspentaghast1636 · 1 year ago

  Hikari: I want to make AI<br>Wiley: I want to make robots<br>Society: Well, I only have the one $10, so make us proud Hikari.

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• SO

  @Sonic_the_Hedgehog117 · 1 year ago

  Another fun fact: WWW is also a way of expressing laughter in written form in Japan. So World 3 is also LOL

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• RI

  @RiftRunnersTCG · 1 year ago

  Battle Network has the most bizarre juxtaposition of childish worldbuilding logic and weirdly dark stakes. People are constantly trying to murder Lan and other children. <br>But it still feels like it was written by an 11 year old. I&apos;ve never seen another game quite like that.

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