The CONFUSING History of Zero's Buster - Mega Editorial

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• AJ

  @ajshiro3957 · 4 years ago

  I think Zero is holding back. His X3 buster might be emergencies only. Like out of desperation

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• TW

  @twilightcloud18 · 2 years ago

  I’m pretty sure this is just a simple case of the person in charge simply forgot, or as I like to call it the Super Saiyan 2 phenomenon.

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• CR

  @CrimsonMoonM · 3 years ago

  I always liked the small story detail of how Z-era Zero simply picked up the dead Milan&apos;s Buster Shot pistol and jammed the saber&apos;s hilt into it to use as a limitless power source. The poor guy appeared for a mere few seconds before dying, yet Zero ended up using his weapon throughout the entire series to save the people Milan gave his life to protect. <br><br>There&apos;s also a neat tidbit in a piece of supplementary material that states that X had his own buster&apos;s charge chip incorporated into the hilt of Zero&apos;s saber during the Elf Wars, so the buster shot is literally just a generic peashooter that runs on limited ammunition and can&apos;t even be charged without the aid of the saber&apos;s hilt. <br><br>You wouldn&apos;t think the most visually unremarkable weapon in the franchise would have so much lore attached to it.

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• RO

  @rod_official6166 · 3 years ago

  X2 Buster is on the left side<br>X3 Buster in the right side

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• FE

  @FenLupimo · 4 years ago

  Officially, X and Zero should have 2 busters to use, and this would be a nice explanation of why Zero can double shot in megaman X3, I think he has 2 busters that do different things, one for powerful shots and another for normal shots, probably the theory of one being used only in desperation is the true explanation

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• EL

  @electric_shower · 10 months ago

  God forbid if a robot has a change of clothes

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• MO

  @Model_X-7-83 · 4 years ago

  Zero&apos;s X6 Sprite was his best look, IMO

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• XP

  @xPCJx · 4 years ago

  Remember how in x3 u can do a double shot with zero? aparently he has 2 busters, but the sprites look the same so... yeah I guess they just messed up, but he could have the 2 busters just one in each arm, maybe the x3 buster he doesn&apos;t use it that much cuz he uses more the saber with his left arm

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• HE

  @heartnet40 · 4 years ago (edited)

  As a long time Megaman fan and as a Zero fanatic, I loved this more than I can really convey. <br><br>One thing I&apos;ve always told people to keep in mind is to never forget that Zero&apos;s never actually portrayed as being a worse gunman than X, save for one really weak scene from Day of Sigma. Tohru Nakayama, the artist for the Megaman Zero series, typical portrays Zero as actually being pretty fierce with his buster often using it to tear his enemies apart with powerful shots of energy at point-blank. Couple this with Zero&apos;s design and fighting style painting him as a close-range berserker, I always imagined that he had a much more violent shooting style than X. <br><br>Like, even in his first appearance, Zero&apos;s trump card against Vile is to blast his mech at point blank. We don&apos;t get to see it due to the limitations of pixel artwork, but it isn&apos;t all that difficult to imagine that the reason the explosion was so lethal and violent was because Zero use his buster to force a blast directly into the machine itself, and when I think about that being his Buster&apos;s origin, I think it makes sense that it continues to have hints of this throughout the series. <br><br>The design changing constantly between X2 and X3 is really odd though, but I imagine trying to reuse assets to save time might have the most to do with it.

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• EL

  @elwinxiao · 2 years ago

  Btw, the reason why Zero didn&apos;t use his buster in X4, in Yoshihiro Iwamoto manga it stated that he got trauma so his hand can&apos;t change to buster XD

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• SW

  @swordchucks777 · 2 years ago

  In the first MMX, if you make it to the scene where Zero sacrifices himself without getting the buster upgrade, he will give you his buster, which is the same thing.

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• KI

  @kindasomeviews · 4 years ago

  The &quot;Zero is holding back&quot; theory is funny, I find. Still remember how much he just tears through with fully charged double Charge Shots into Z-Saber combo back in X3. Maybe he thought &quot;We defeated Sigma. I&apos;ll let X show off more after switching Busters&quot; then after X5 he just became more comfortable fighting without that combo in X3

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