MEGA MAN
Reality-30847

Real Name: Rock

Identity/Class: Alternate reality (Reality-30847) extradimensional (see comments) robot

Occupation: Defender

Group Membership: MEGA Nova Corps (Beat, Nova/Richard Rider, Proto Man (see comments), Roll, Zero)

Affiliations: Morrigan Aensland, Amingo, Anita, Arthur, Beat, Tron Bonne, Cammy, Captain Commando, Chun-Li, Devilotte, Doctor Light, Eddie, Fur, Miechele Heart, Dan Hibiki, Dhalsim, Felicia, Guile, Strider Hiryu, Hayato Kanzaki, Sakura Kasugano, Lou, Ken Masters, Charlie Nash, Tong Pooh, Saki Omokane, Pure, Roll, Ruby Heart, Rush, Ryu, Jin Saotome, Servbot, Sonson III, Unknown Soldier, Jill Valentine;
    Denizens of another dimension: Cable (Nathan Summers), Captain America (Steve Rogers), Hulk (Bruce Banner), Iron Man (Tony Stark), Spider-Man (Peter Parker), Thor (Thor Odinson), U.S.Agent (John Walker), War Machine (Jim Rhodes), the X-Men (Colossus/Piotr Rasputin, Cyclops/Scott Summers, Gambit/Remy LeBeau, Iceman/Bobby Drake, Jubilee/Jubilation Lee, Marrow/Sarah, Psylocke/Betsy Braddock, Rogue/Anna Marie, Storm/Ororo Munroe, Wolverine/Logan)

Enemies: Abyss, Shin Akuma, Anakaris, Baby Bonnie Hood, M. Bison, Doctor Wily, Shadow, Zangief;
    Denizens of another dimension: Blackheart, Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom), Juggernaut (Cain Marko), Magneto (Max Eisenhardt), Omega Red (Arkady Rossovich), Onslaught, Sabretooth (Victor Creed), Sentinels, Shuma-Gorath, Silver Samurai (Kenuichio Harada), Spiral (Rita), Thanos, Venom (Eddie Brock)

Known Relatives: Dr. Light (creator), Blues (Proto Man, "brother"), Roll ("sister") (see comments)

Aliases: "Boy" (insult from Onslaught)

Base of Operations: Outer space;
    formerly Earth within his unidentified home dimension

First Appearance: Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes video game (March, 1998);
    (in a Marvel comic) Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics#1 (December, 2024)

Powers/Abilities: Mega Man is robot with superhuman strength sufficient to fight hand-to-hand against superhumanly strong opponents such as the incredible Hulk and others. He is also equipped with nigh-indestructible armor that allows him to withstand physical attacks from superhumanly strong opponents that would likely obliterate an ordinary robot.

    Mega Man's arm is capable of transforming into the powerful Mega Buster cannon, through which can fire short energy bursts or charge up to project larger and stronger blasts. He also capable of communicating with other computer systems.

    He has the inherent ability to copy and utilize a single ability or power from his defeated opponents. For example, known copied abilities that he has utilized are:

    Mega Man also has access to various support robots provided by his creator, Dr. Light. These include the flying bird robot Beat, loyal dog robot Rush and small delivery robot Eddie. Mega Man has the ability to combine his own robotics with the mechanical components of all three of these support robots to transform himself into the giant Hyper Mega Man form. While in this form, Mega Man is almost completely invulnerable to physical attack and he is equipped with numerous offensive weapons such as a much more powerful Mega Buster, a projector capable of firing a laser that is nearly six feet in diameter and multiple hidden, shoulder-mounted missile launchers. Despite being an extremely powerful form, Mega Man can only become Hyper Mega Man for a few seconds at a time, often unleashing his entire arsenal of hidden weapons against his opponent before the temporary timespan of the transformation expires and Mega Man and the support robots return to their normal forms.

Height: Unrevealed (approximately 4'4")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 230 lbs)
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Brown

History:
(Video Game Super Stars: Marvel vs. Capcom action figure line - War Machine vs. Mega Man 2-Pack card back - BTS) - Having no son of his own, genius robotics scientist Dr. Light created a robot in the form of a young boy that he named Rock. When Dr. Light's nemesis, Dr. Wily, stole the technical data and blueprints to create an army of evil robots, Dr. Light reprogrammed Rock into the armored defender dubbed Mega Man. After a time fighting Dr. Wily's robots, Mega Man was upgraded yet again to house secret weapons and the ability to summon armor attachments to temporarily transform himself into the powered-up Hyper Mega Man.

(Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes video game) - Fearful that his consciousness was merging with that of his foe Magneto, Professor X summoned several heroes of Earth and extradimensional fighters that some of Earth's heroes had previously encountered, including the extradimensional robot Mega Man and some of his robotic allies such as the dog Rush and bird Beat.

(Video Game Super Stars: Marvel vs. Capcom action figure line - War Machine vs. Mega Man 2-Pack card back - BTS) - The dark side of Professor X's consciousness ultimately manifested itself as the psychic entity Onslaught, who forced the warriors from both universes to battle for the survival of their respective universes.

(Video Game Super Stars: Marvel vs. Capcom action figure line - War Machine vs. Mega Man 2-Pack card back) - During the subsequent battles, Mega Man faced off against War Machine and others.



(Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes video game) - Fighting his way through heroes and villains from both universes to make his way to Onslaught, Mega Man at first thought Onslaught was a large robot created by his nemesis Dr. Wily but Onslaught quickly corrected Mega Man, explaining that he was not from Mega Man's world. After Mega Man helped defeat Onslaught's armored humanoid form, Onslaught grew to gigantic size but Mega Man again aided in battling Onslaught. Upon Onslaught's defeat and the dispersal of the psychic energy that composed him, Mega Man copied Onslaught's powers and learned how to utilize Onslaught's Magnetic Shockwave attack. His fellow robot Roll soon communicated with Dr. Light, claiming that she had beaten Mega Man to defeating Onslaught, and Light upgraded Roll to transform her into Hyper Roll, leaving behind a disappointed Mega Man to bend a knee and shed a tear.




(Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics#1) - After the magic using Spiral brought several Earth villains over to Mega Man's home dimension, magically disguised as heroes, Mega Man joined several heroes from his home world in traveling to the home dimension of the warriors he had previously encountered. There, he joined his world's heroes in striking at the other heroes in retaliation for invading their world but as the fight progressed, Mega Man and the others began to realize that the "heroes" attacking their world didn't exactly match the ones they were familiar with. They soon used a demonic crystal ball acquired by the pirate Ruby Heart to view their home world and the X-Men's Psylocke used her telepathic powers to learn of Spiral's involvement. Deducing that someone had to be pulling Spiral's strings, the two world's heroes tracked the magical energy connected to Spiral to Latveria, where they battled the masterminds behind the attack: Doctor Doom and M. Bison. After Doom and Bison unleashed the godlike Thanos and Shin Akuma to double-cross one another, Mega Man aided several heroes in fighting Akuma but Akuma and Thanos quickly grew out of control and Doom and Bison were forced to work with the assembled heroes to banish Akuma and Thanos to a pocket universe. Following the banishment, Mega Man joined the allies from his home world in playing video games with the Earth heroes at Stark Tower, where Mega Man used his robot abilities to communicate with the video game system. Captain Commando accused Mega Man of cheating but a smiling Mega Man remarked that it wasn't his fault the video game system didn't like the Captain.




(Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes video game) - Two years following the defeat of Onslaught, the mysterious Abyss entity shrouded the planet in dark energy that destroyed plant and animal life, and Ruby Heart summoned Mega Man and numerous other heroes from his dimension and the Earth dimension to aid in defeating Abyss. Teaming up with several of the assembled heroes (and villains when necessary), Mega Man helped defeat Abyss and the assembled warriors escaped Abyss' domain using Ruby Heart's flying pirate ship. The heroes left Abyss' cracked spherical form with Ruby Heart and returned to their respective worlds.

(Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 video game - Nova's ending) - After aiding the defeat of the the world devourer Galactus, spacefaring hero Nova thought about the joy he felt being part of the Nova Corps so he decided to form the MEGA Nova Corps comprised of Mega Man, Roll, Beat, the futuristic robot Zero and the mysterious robot "Proto Man."

(Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 video game - Thor's ending) - Following the defeat of Galactus, the thunder god Thor returned to his home dimension of Asgard and asked his fellow Asgardian Heimdall to keep an eye on the other Earth. As Heimdall did as instructed, he witnessed Mega Man, the street fighter Ryu and the succubus Morrigan Aensland.

Comments: Created by the Capcom video game team (see Appearances list for list of the creative team involved).

    The Toy Biz Marvel vs. Capcom action figure line specifically mentions Marvel and Capcom being separate universes but Spider-Verse I#2 shows that the entire reality (and by default the universes/dimensions contained within it) is contained within at least one, if not multiple, arcade games playable on Earth-616. So I'm leaning towards them being two universes (not realities) contained within a single overall reality, similar to how the entirety of Reality-9602 (well, and the realities associated with it, such as Reality-12772, Reality-18264, Reality-23422, Reality-81513, Reality-89326, Reality-96446 & Reality-97061, to name a few) is contained within Reality-616 in an artifact in Dr. Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum. The Mega Man and his related characters seen in the Marvel vs. Capcom video game series are not the same Mega Man characters seen in the Mega Man 1-11 video games. That would be the Mega Man of a different reality in a different Multiverse, a prime example of this being how the Mega Man of those games was never part of the MEGA Nova Corps nor did he crossover with Marvel characters. Hence, the events of those video games are not included in this profile, only the appearances within Capcom's Marvel video games. Additionally, Mega Man appears on the wall of fallen heroes in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Days of Future Past stage but this would be the Mega Man of an alternate future (possibly an Earth-811 counterpart) and not the Earth-30847 Mega Man.

    Why yes, Mega Man's brother Proto Man IS where my screenname comes from! Speaking of Mega Man's siblings, Roll and Proto Man are never identified in the Marvel vs. Capcom series as being Mega Man's siblings but most things in the Marvel vs. Capcom mirror that of the main Mega Man series (see comment below in the Proto Man subprofile regarding his name) so it's a probable assumption that they are also Mega Man's siblings on Earth-30847 as well. Speaking of Proto Man, the image included in the subprofile is an image of Proto Man in his MEGA Nova Corps uniform. I've attached an image of the normal-looking Proto Man from the regular Mega Man video game series to the left here but please note that this is technically an image of another reality's Proto Man, though it's very likely he looks the same on Earth-30847 when he isn't in his Nova Corps uniform.

    Other Mega Man related characters seen on Earth-30847 such as Roll, Tron Bonne, Servbot and Zero are big enough that they're best left for their own profiles.

    The Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics#1 comic book must take place between Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes and Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes. It appears to be a standalone story. Yes, characters from Marvel vs. Capcom 2 are in the comic book but Wolverine is surprised at seeing Ruby Heart's flying pirate ship, suggesting that he is seeing it for the first time. In addition, some characters don't appear to be familiar with others. For example, many of the Capcom characters aren't familiar with Spiral or her powers, which would make sense because they had not encountered her prior to Marvel vs. Capcom 2. While the front cover refers to the comic as Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics#1, the indicia on the inside front cover refers to the comic as "Custom Capcom 2024 Comic#1."

    This profile was completed on 09/23/2026 but its publication was delayed, as it was intended for the Appendix's 25th anniversary celebratory event.

Profile by Proto-Man.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Reality-30847's Mega Man should be distinguished from:

Beat

Beat was a robot bird companion to Mega Man that occasionally assisted him in battle. When Mega Man and his fellow robot Roll were brought to the Earth dimension, Beat accompanied them and aided them in battling their way to Onslaught in ways such as transforming into the missile-firing Beat Plane that either one could ride in and attaching himself to Mega Man and Roll alongside their other robot companions to temporarily become the giant Hyper Mega Man or Hyper Roll, respectively. Two years following the defeat of Onslaught, Beat was called to assist Mega Man and Roll once again when they were both summoned to aid the warriors of two worlds against the enigmatic Abyss. Much later, Beat was one of the many robots recruited by the Earth hero Nova to be a member of his MEGA Nova Corps.

Beat has mechanical wings capable of flight and he could transform himself into the larger-sized Beat Plane that Mega Man could ride in. The Beat Plane could rapidly fire missiles from its mouth. Beat could also transform himself and temporarily attach to Mega Man, acting an additional armor and providing offensive weaponry.

--Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes video game (Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes video game, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 video game - Nova's ending,
Dr. Light

Dr. Light was a brilliant robotics scientist who created the boy robot Rock as a surrogate son. When Light's nemesis, Dr. Wily, stole technical data and blueprints for Light's robots and used them to create an army of villainous robots, Dr. Light reprogrammed Rock to defend the planet against Wily's creations, transforming Rock into the armored Mega Man. Light later upgraded Mega Man to provide him with built-in hidden weapons and the ability to transform himself into the superpowered Hyper Mega Man by attaching his companion robots to his form. When Mega Man and the robot Roll were later summoned to another Earth to aid against the psychic entity Onslaught, Dr. Light remained in touch with them both via video projected by Mega Man's robot dog Rush. After Roll aided numerous other heroes in dispersing Onslaught, Roll communicated with Dr. Light to brag about beating Onslaught before Mega Man. Impressed by Roll's action, Light commended her but warned that the threat of Dr. Wily still had to be stopped. Light then announced plans to upgrade Roll to enhance her power and when Roll readily accepted, Light sent the robot Eddie to deliver the enhances to Roll. After Roll absorbed the enhancements and fully transformed into the giant Hyper Roll, Dr. Light wished Roll good luck as she went back into action. Two years later, Dr. Light remained in communication with Mega Man when he was summoned to aid against the enigmatic Abyss.

--Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes video game (seen only on a video screen) (Video Game Super Stars: Marvel vs. Capcom action figure line - War Machine vs. Mega Man 2-Pack card back - BTS, Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes video game - BTS, Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes video game - BTS,
Dr. Wily

Dr. Wily was an evil scientist and nemesis to the benevolent Dr. Light. After Light created the boy robot Rock, Dr. Wily stole Light's technical data and robot blueprints and used them to create an army of robots to serve him. As a counter to Wily's schemes, Dr. Light reprogrammed Rock into the heroic armored Mega Man, who became ever the thorn in Wily's side. When the psychic entity Onslaught summoned warriors from two dimensions to battle for the survival of their respective realities, some of the battles spilled over into Dr. Wily's military complex base. As the battles progressed there, Dr. Wily angrily berated the fighting warriors using a megaphone and following the defeat of Onslaught, Dr. Light reached out via video feed to commend his other robot, Roll, on her assistance against Onslaught and warned her that Wily's schemes still needed to be stopped. He then upgraded Roll and she went into action against Dr. Wily.

Dr. Wily is not mentioned by name on the card back for the Video Game Super Stars: Marvel vs. Capcom action figure line but, based on the Mega Man video games, would have been Dr. Light's nemesis that stole his data and used it to create an army of robots.

--Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes video game (Video Game Super Stars: Marvel vs. Capcom action figure line - War Machine vs. Mega Man 2-Pack card back - BTS, Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes video game,
Eddie

Eddie was a delivery robot and companion to Mega Man. When Mega Man was brought to the Earth dimension, Eddie assisted Mega Man against warriors from two dimension and the psychic entity Onslaught by occasionally delivering data for new abilities such as the Tornado Hold and Leaf Shield, as well as separating himself and attaching to Mega Man alongside Mega Man's other robotic companions to transform the heroic robot into Hyper Mega Man. Eddie again assisted Mega Man two years later when Mega Man was summoned to aid against the enigmatic Abyss.

Eddie is a small, two-legged robot whose body can store various items. Eddie's head flips open and can launch any items stored within. He also capable of separating into his mechanical components and attaching to Mega Man to form additional armor for the hero.

--Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes video game (Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes video game,
Proto Man

Proto Man was a robot ally of Mega Man's who joined the Earth hero Nova's MEGA Nova Corps in space following the defeat of the world devourer Galactus.

Proto Man's arm is equipped with a cannon and he carries a large shield into battle.

Proto Man is never actually identified in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 but that is likely his name, as most of the other Mega Man characters' names reflect those from the main Mega Man video game series. If this is the case with Proto Man as well then his real name would also be Blues.

--Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 - Nova's ending
Rush

Rush was a robot dog companion to Mega Man that occasionally assisted him in battle. When Mega Man and his fellow robot Roll were brought to the Earth dimension, Rush accompanied them and aided them in battling their way to Onslaught in ways such as transforming into the damaging Rush Drill that either one could ride in and attaching himself to Mega Man and Roll alongside their other robot companions to temporarily become the giant Hyper Mega Man or Hyper Roll, respectively. Two years following the defeat of Onslaught, Rush was again called to assist Mega Man and Roll once again when they were both summoned to aid the warriors of two worlds against the enigmatic Abyss.

Rush could transform into various forms to support Mega Man including the damaging Rush Drill that someone who ride in as a vehicle. Rush was also equipped with a video projection device in his lower back that could stream and project a video feed from other locations, such as Dr. Light projecting video of himself through Rush to communicate with Mega Man or Roll. Rush could also separate into his mechanical components and attach to Mega Man or Roll to act as additional armor and offensive weaponry during their temporarily transformations into Hyper Mega Man or Hyper Roll.

--Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes video game (Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes video game,
images: (without ads)
Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes video game artwork (happy Mega Man leaping, main image)
Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes video game (Mega Man without helmet, Hyper Mega Man, Mega Man using Magnetic Shockwave, Mega Man with white scarf in Beat Plane, Beat, Dr. Light, Dr. Wily, Eddie & Rush)
Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics#1, front cover (Mega Man aiming the Mega Buster)
Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics#1, p12-13, splash page (Mega Man firing the Mega Buster)
Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes video game artwork (charging Mega Man)
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 video game (Mega Man in MEGA Nova Corps uniform, Beat in MEGA Nova Corps uniform & Proto Man)

Appearances:
Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes video game (January 23, 1998) - Atsushi Tomita, SGR Matumoto, Nakano Tau! Masahiro (planners), Akiman, Shoei, Sakomizu (original art), Minobe Hiroaki, Akemi' Kurihara, Fuji=Kazu, Sagata, G' Kamina, Miwa♥Sakaguchi, Kohichi Kikutani, Kondo' Masanori, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Shinya Miyamoto, Takep, Toshihiro Suzuki, Jon Narancha, Yamancha, Naony, Yuugen, Kanako♥Takami, Ino, Eripyon, Kimo Kimo (object designers), Motsu, Eternal Sailor, Kaw, You!, Silver Kadontz, Bakunetsu Hirokado (programmers), Kenji Kataoka (producer)
Video Game Super Stars: Marvel vs. Capcom action figure line, War Machine/Mega Man 2-Pack, card back (1999) - uncredited creative team
Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes video game (February, 2000) - Tatsuya Nakae, SPP Iorya, Buruma, Oni-Suzuki (M-P), Obata Shinichiro, Neo-G (Ishizawa) (planners), Motsu, Teruaki Hirokado, Kaw-TLD, Silver Kadontz, You!, Minomiya, Yuko Kawamura, Akihiro Yokoyama, Hyper-Shinchan-, Nishi, Reiko Toh, Ittetsu, Dice-K, Soji Seta, Cham, Hisashi Kuramoto, Komuu, Mikky (programmers), MF (illustrations), Makato Ishii, Akemi Kurihara, F, Mizupyon, Mizuho, Igarashi, Nishimura Masaru, Hideya Takada, Rin Boku, Tagirin, Masatsugu Sato, Hirano Daichi, Imamura, Hiroki Shibaki, Tomohiko Ohsumi, Yano, Akizuki Michiru, Izumi Noda, Minobe Hiroaki, Kimo Kimo, Ball Boy, A Iwasaki, Miwa Sakaguchi, Y Yamamoto, Kaeru, Hiro, Yoshihiko Akita (object designers), Yoshihiro Sudo (producer)
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 video game (November 15, 2011) - Frank Tieri (scenario writer), Takuro Fuse (art director), Daisuke Ishiwata (production manager), Hiroyuki Nara (director), others
Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics#1 (November, 2024) - Christos Gage (writer), Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque (art), C.B. Cebulski (editor-in-chief)

First posted: 09/27/2026
Last updated: 09/23/2026

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