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Topic Started: Jun 3 2011, 02:38 PM (1,145 Views)
ShadowWarriorLuke
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So... this is where Alex fucks Wily's shit up like a fucking porn star I'm guessing. Also interesting to note that he implies he actually did give Wily a chance beforehand.

And yeah, the child is likely the Shard girl.
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Sir Donald
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Advocatus Diablo view: The first letter of the acronym is Z. I seem to recall Wily inventing something that started with a Z. Some sort of killer app for androids that would be proclaimed as "revolutionary".[/adv]

But, yeah, I'd agree that JD's throwing us off on that one.
It's a flimsy pretext, but I'm sure that the N-Team have gotten away with worse.
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MFD
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Zero Prototype Technology Lightbot? Is the child X?

Zero Prototype Time Lapse? Is Zero out before he's ready?

... Something something Tetris something? Is the Puzzle Wizard's prison Wily tech?

Does Reploid tech use Omega Energy? Is a touched Zero the Wily-Sigma virus?

... Has Megaland aged 100 years in the Great Change, with Megaman 7 taking place in Nexus?

Most importantly... Wily kidnapped a child? Whafuck?
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It's sort of funny that, so far, Wily hasn't really done any evil on purpose.

Also, note the addition of chess to "things Alex could use to totally eff up everything." This is something I look forward to having explained to me, patiently, over a number of panels. Can Alex maybe manipulate the rules of games by substituting a proxy game? Can he maybe throw cards and, uh, bishops like little missiles? Are sprites extraordinarily susceptible to 52-card pick-up or castling?

Also: where to next?
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"...all the card packs for that damnable game."

Card packs? As in a CCG? That's my only guess. Also the fact that games would have special properties in a setting constructed from games makes... sense... to me.

I'm not even going to try to decipher what ZPTL stands for. Calling Zero a 'child' seems a little tentative, but I guess it could work. It looks like we're not getting an answer any time soon anyway.
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Z.P.T.L. = Zero Project Something Something? Time Line? Tsomething Limit?

Whatever it is, even Bass can tell it's not good.

On the subject of cards/chess, maybe it's something like Spoony's plot to lock Cecil into a boss battle? A game screen comes up with the characters on opposite sides, and when his opponent is locked into following the rules (I.E. waiting for their turn helplessly), Alex can spend his 'turn' swearing up a storm and eventually blow them away with an Omega Energy blast. (The Game Master is a Cheating *******?)

Then again, he couldn't just open fire in the middle of the FF4 world like it was a real life fight, so maybe not. Unless it's another ability Alex doesn't know about. Hmm...
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It has to be Zero, though it would be fun if it was Ness. As for the cards and chess pieces, I'm intrigued. Chess pieces can take out an opposing piece with no struggle, so I can see how they'd be valuable. The cards could be playing cards, tarot cards, or any number of things from games.
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Anybody remember the SNES game Arcana? The characters, monsters, summons, al that was all represented by cards.
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Alex's line about giving second chances when you can seems important to me.
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MFD,Jun 3 2011
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Most importantly... Wily kidnapped a child? Whafuck?

This has to be the child that holds the Shard of Tears.
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gopus
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First, Wily indicated that he had the Shard of Tears, so it probably was the girl:

http://www.captainsnes.com/2008/12/16/571-wave-of-sorrow/

Also, I don't think the acronym is a person, so much as a thing, since it went offline, and was keeping the girl in confinement. The thing he mentioned being offline was a pod of sorts, so perhaps the P stands for Pod. Z Pod T L. T L is often an acronym used for a Test Laboratory which also makes sense.
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BroomGuys
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Containing the girl with the shard of tears sounds like the most extreme example of playing with fire I can think of, and when things go wrong in Videoland, they tend to go REALLY wrong, so my money's on that one.
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I'm not sure if it was evident before, but it seems to me like Alex and Ryan are talking about Dr. Wily as if he wasn't around anymore.
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I am willing to bet money I don't have that Alex killed him shortly after his "fuck shit up" rant.
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Yamato-san
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"Is... is that why you hang out with that villain?"

I think this line suggests that King Hippo's gonna be around a lot more after this, if not a regular character. Wouldn't be surprising, considering the past few comics have pretty much established the guy to be one of Alex's closest allies in Video Land. Remarkable how quickly that "shower scene" image that was implied for years managed to fall apart. XD
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Yamato-san,Jun 5 2011
05:43 AM
"Is... is that why you hang out with that villain?"

I think this line suggests that King Hippo's gonna be around a lot more after this, if not a regular character. Wouldn't be surprising, considering the past few comics have pretty much established the guy to be one of Alex's closest allies in Video Land. Remarkable how quickly that "shower scene" image that was implied for years managed to fall apart. XD

King Hippo was seen in Ryan's prison during Schrödinger's little adventure, and it was mentioned in an earlier comic that Ryan betrayed Alex and his comrades and imprisoned them.

So ya, I see King Hippo playing a much larger part of the story, if not outright joining the SNES Team.
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It probably helps that one of the major things about the comic is the differences between cartoon and game, with Alex's Videoland leaning to the latter- and in the game, Hippo was only a "villain" because he was a boxer other than the PC, with nothing really "evil" about him, just professional competition.

Its possible Alex's influence is making him even less evil than he was under Kevin, if that's even possible.
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Alger
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If memory serves, the mask predicted the gamemaster would release the shard. Well, here ya go.
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But that was Roll's Omega Wave that released the Shard Girl... If that is the child Wily was holding.

Which seems likely.

I still think Alex rescues Princess Marle, THEN they both head out to find Kid Rydia, the girl with the Shard, before Wily finds her.
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MFD,Jun 6 2011
01:17 PM
But that was Roll's Omega Wave that released the Shard Girl... If that is the child Wily was holding.

Which seems likely.

I still think Alex rescues Princess Marle, THEN they both head out to find Kid Rydia, the girl with the Shard, before Wily finds her.

Kid Rydia?
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