So how did you enjoy the Death Battle! between Wily and Robotnik? While I definite enjoyed the crazy war brought forth by "Wiz and Boomstick", I found myself being caught up in errors made in the video. Being verse in Rockman canon and having some familiarity with Sonic the Hedgehog from the past couple months of research made these mistakes extremely opaque. While I'm sympathetic with the insane amount of information that was needed for this video compared with the previous Death Battle! videos, it still doesn't make any of it correct. So that I'm not the only one tortured by these mistakes, Let's go through them! (And if you haven't seen the match up yet, I suggest you do so now, this article is riddled with spoilers.)
Just to clarify, this is a list of technical errors. Nothing about "likely" choices made by the characters opposed to what was used in the video match. Nor is "what would look better" in terms of action opposed to what was used in the video match. That would be editorializing the piece, and something I'll save for another time.
Which School is That Again?
I will consider this a nitpick, since this mistake is something that's "lost in translation". As it goes, Dr. Wily was at ローバート工科大学, which to the best of my ability translates to "Robbert Engineering University". So I can sorta understand how it could of gotten mutated into the "Robot University of Technology". (*And #20 just informed me that the Robot University of Technology is in fact canon in the English Localization. So much for my whining about it,..)
The Wrong Machines
One is deadly, the other is safe.
The Wily Capsule was mistaken with the Wily UFO (aka "Wily Spaceship", for the English localization name). For clarification, the Wily UFO is Wily's general use vehicle and has 0 attack power. On the other hand, the Wily Capsule is a last resort attack vehicle, and offers some of Wily's MOST impressive offensive and defensive power since it is Wily's true last line of defense. Also worth noting that with exception to the top mounters, it is usually the Wily Capsule that's INTEGRATED into the Wily Machine. Particularly in the case of Wily Machine No 9.
Two very different machines.
In that same light, Wily Machine 8 was swapped with the Wily Machine used in Rockman & Forte. At a glance, I can see how one might mistake the two if they aren't side by side, since their general shape and colors are similar. But the give away is the options of attacks the machine can do given what details (and thus weapons barrels) are available. Though I'm incline to think this switch up occurred because of a certain wiki and Wily Machine No 8 lacks easy to use sprite rips over at Sprites Inc. (*and it looks like after this post, someone actually too heed to my commenting and corrected the wiki. So the link is now for the previous version with the error still on it)
That's What They Are Called?
As far as I know, the term "Badnik" is used for all of the animal theme robots deployed by Robotnik from the early Sonic the Hedgehog games. That is to say, that's the general term for the minion army. So how did it become an term exclusive for the "Deadliest of Robotnik's army"? But it's probably just something for the sake of titling them.
Fall of a Devil
If things were correct, that bomb won't do much.
I know that Napalm a flammable gel, so it's tempting to go and think that a "Napalm Bomb" could be a weapon to take out the Yellow Devil. Unfortunately, a Napalm Bomb's power is primarily in the force of it's explosion, not from any tangible heat or flame from it. For this reason the one hit super effectiveness in the video should not have been used. While I can explain in detail all the facts that supports this assertion of mine, there is only thing I need to say to prove the my point. Rockman can fight against the Yellow Devil using Napalm Bombs in Rockman the Power Battle. And they DON'T WORK WELL ON HIM AT ALL.
Pathology of an Illness
At least it's "labeled" Roboenza,..
It is funny that one of the principle parts of the fight, the application of Robotenza, actually used the Robotenza Cure Pill as it's visual representation. Though I do understand the problem is that Robotenza never had a visual representation, so they felt they had to use something was somewhat related. Since I'm on the subject, unlike in the video, it's completely speculation that Robotenza has any relation to the Zero Virus (Maverick Virus). Also it's exact effects are kinda vague as well.
Powers of the King
Pharaohman is a robot modeled after the Egyptian Kings of the past for the purposes of Pyramid Excavation. Fitting to his motif, he was built to harness and use solar energy, and attacks with it in the form of his Pharaoh Shot and Pharaoh Wave. And this works since the Pharaoh is said to be the Earthly manifestations of the sun god, Ra.
With that said, we got some generic "controls fire energy" in the Death Battle! notation for Pharaohman. While both solar energy and fire involve heat as their attack capacity, the two entities are still rather different things. Do you think I am getting too technical? Go tell me a laser is the same as a flame thrower. This is about the same thing going on here.
With that said, we got some generic "controls fire energy" in the Death Battle! notation for Pharaohman. While both solar energy and fire involve heat as their attack capacity, the two entities are still rather different things. Do you think I am getting too technical? Go tell me a laser is the same as a flame thrower. This is about the same thing going on here.
That shield shouldn't be able to take that.
And to add to the confusion of Pharaohman's abilities, the "Eye Shield" of his is in fact susceptible to blade weapons. As such, Mecha Sonic's spin attack should of have broken through. Not something I would nitpick too much about, but Rockman 2: The Power Fighters actually has Dr. Right tell the players that a sharp weapon can cut the shield on the stage select screen, and that carried over to the English Localization as well:
"Dr. Light: You'll have trouble if you attack the big eye of Pharaoh Man too much. Attack with a sharp weapon that can cut his eye to pieces! "
"Dr. Light: You'll have trouble if you attack the big eye of Pharaoh Man too much. Attack with a sharp weapon that can cut his eye to pieces! "
A Problem of Scale
Godzilla: 50m tall King Kong: 7m tall
Perfectly Scaled
Perfectly Scaled
Of the errors made in the video, this is probably the one that took me out of it the most. I can understand generalized misconceptions and even deliberate inaccuracies for the sake of the script. But dramatic scale differences is very distracting, as things end up look entirely out of place. And it even contributes to a potential problem elsewhere for the sake of the possibilities of the storyline (though explaining that aspect is something I'm saving for another article).
Height Chart #1
The smaller size explains his easy defeat?
As you can see here, E-102 Gamma is 215cm tall (for US standards measurements, about 7 feet). Watching this battle footage of Beta vs Gamma from Sonic Adventures, you can see that Beta is roughly 1.5 times Gamma's height. So where does this place Magnet Man? While we know he's taller than Rockman (whose 132cm tall), he isn't all that much taller, putting him approximately 145 cm. A far cry from being at about the same size as in the video.
Height Chart #2
Sizes looks reversed from the chart, huh?
And we have the showdown between Wily Machine 9 and the Death Egg Robo. As previously mentioned, Rockman is 132cm tall. And Sonic happens to be 100cm tall, about 4/5 of Rockman's height. Now put the two in scale to each other (Chart #2), and the respective villains super mecha, and you see clearly a major size difference. Or you can even take it one step further and use "Classic Sonic" and "Classic Death Egg Robot". With Classic Sonic being a half head smaller than modern sonic, the mecha size comparison gets even worse. There's the same problem with elephant robot Paozo as well, though I don't think I need to explain it more,...
Where's that sound?
Just a minor personal gripe here. But why didn't they used the same sound effect the Metalls had for the Sniper Joes when they were blocking shots? It's not like it wasn't readily available for them to use, and that sound effect is pretty iconic for Sniper Joes as well, seeing how Joes block so many impatience gamers shots with their shields.
I Don't Think That's How It Works,...
And this will segway well with a future article,...Metal Sonic's Scan abilities. The only time they were ever used in the Sonic series was in the scanning of living beings NOT machines. He only adsorbed Machines for parts. In Sonic the Figthers, he copied his fellow animal fighters moves. In Sonic Heroes, he copied Sonic's, Shadow's and a Chao's DNA to give him the power system necessary for his Metal Madness form. To make a jump of assumption that this would allow him to gain more power and weapons by scanning other robots via his scanning is taking quite a liberty. Flesh and DNA compositions is worlds different from Metal and Processors after all. As with muscle movements vs mechanical assemblies. But the produced video had Metal Sonic taking out foes and gaining power against each and every robot combatant he faced, until he finally had the power to adsorb the Egg Fleet's parts and become Metal Madness,...
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