


In MegaMan NT Warrior, the Eldritch Abomination Grave tries to consume MegaMan, which backfires when MegaMan ends up absorbing him instead-naturally, this turns MegaMan into an even bigger threat.Supplementary materials and obscure game elements suggest the "Buster" is in fact the default weapon for all Navis, and MegaMan is largely unique in keeping his, as many others have installed different default weapons (like Roll's arm-crossbow and ProtoMan's Wide Sword). Tadashii Hikari's grandson rather than Dr. Alternate Self: Of the classic Mega Man.The manga had a few lines Foreshadowing this development note Mayl compares Lan and Mega to real brothers, and later Miyu reveals Mega has a human soul., but the subject became an Aborted Arc once the Hub Style arc began.

Adapted Out: MegaMan's backstory as Hub is ignored by both MegaMan NT Warrior adaptations.Whereas instead of just negatively affecting some of Mega Man's attributes in favor of powering up his other ones, Bug Style here instead turns Mega Man into a full-blown Apocalypse Maiden that was not only capable of defeating the Virus-Beast with ease, and would've gone on to destroy the entire Internet world, if Lan hadn't been able to snap him back to his senses. However, this is zigzagged due to how it gets canceled out by dark power, in contrast to how Hub's power was able to weaken Nebula Gray in the fifth game. In the second game, it is an undoubtedly powerful All Your Powers Combined implementation of every Style Change ability, but in the manga, Hub Style turns Mega Man into a Blood Knight Person of Mass Destruction. In the anime, he instead began as a basic NetNavi who would then be put out of commission for a while due to extensive battle damage from losing to GutsMan.EXE in a NetBattle, only to be reformatted as a custom NetNavi after Lan received some data for it as a present from his father. Adaptational Backstory Change: In the games, his origin was that he was a long-term product of a project to graft human DNA onto a NetNavi and was Lan's late brother Hub resurrected as his NetNavi.Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Rock and Roll were brother and sister in Mega Man (Classic), but their Battle Network counterparts are unrelated and in love.
