Analyzing Mega Man's Robot Master Serial Codes (DLN, DWN...)

Easy as ABC-123.

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[EduSolsa]

Jewel Man took the bullet for Splash Woman

[AnAverageGoblin]

Dr. Wahwee would buy an apple product, slap his decal sticker on it, and say he invented it

[FarelForever]

I had entered this video with the question "Will he forget OilMan and TimeMan?", and the answer was predictable.

[TwoTonTiger]

Great analysis of a strange system!

My theory for the MM9 crew being DLN is that Dr. Wily was actively framing Dr. Light, so he chose to classify them that way, but his ego drove him to keep going in his order haha

[Solesteam]

17:02 My headcanon was that they weren't anywhere near their expiration dates, but either were scared and having anxiety of their newfound mortality, or thinking themselves as some kind of robot revolutionary saving older models from their demise, or something along those lines.

[sirreginaldfishingtonxvii]

The idea that Wood Man was "explicitly made for combat" is and will always remain funny to me.
Man's legit made out of wood. Oooh real high tech battle armour you got there Wily. What, did your budget run out?

Edit: Thank you for letting us know about Jewel Man.

[Hutabah]

19:31 to be fair, you could read “built me rock solid” could mean something like he rebuilt him since he’s there for repairs, but I might be missing something. And also, the point still stands anyways - this system makes no sense

[opjm]

I really like how over dramatic the instruction manual page for the backstory is. Mega Man is apparently the defender of the UNIVERSE and the first six bosses and Wily are apparently emperors of the 7 countries within Monsteropolis. Sucks that Guts Man had to be king of a construction yard.

[vonbaldric]

I think the numbers make the most in-universe sense if viewed as incident numbers assigned by the world robot alliance. This explains how they are globally incrementing, and why they start by numbering all robots then only significant ones, why robots can be numbered against their production order, and why the prefix is not always the maker. "Order that an in-universe organization finds robots notable" is of course a verrry convenient back-canon for "order that the game developers find robots notable".

[Master]

"Or enough time has passed between the end of Mega Man 8 and the beginning of Mega Man 9 for this to make sense..."

So kinda like the time between Mega Man 8 and Mega Man 9's releases?

[astrocrush]

holy crap i never knew that tidbit about the background of the weapons archive from 10

[austinreed]

It is sometimes implied Reploids have serial numbers; the Mavericks of Zero 3 are called “Weil’s Numbers”, and it’s safe to say that the Zero 4 Mavericks are also “Weil Numbers”. Elpizo, the main villain of Zero 2, also has a serial number.

Another thing: non-Ariga manga handle this numbering differently; they along with the CD dramas tend to try and justify why they are considered “DWN”. The Megaman 6 RMs are created by Dr. Wily as seed players in the Ikehara manga, while the MM10 RMs are implied to have been sleeper agents made by Wily, which is why only those 8 went berserk instead of simply becoming ill.

11, as well as the X series, imply that over time Wily became more obsessive and diabolical, more obsessed with vengeance, so he stopped caring about Dr. Light, which could explain why Block Man is a DWN.

[zax]

Cut man was made to cut down trees - which is a pretty dangerous job.

[CSwizzleDizzle]

The idea of Light feeling like he needed jump ahead with the numbers and/or built 59 robots that we have never seen within a such short time span is honestly really funny, so throwaway joke or not, it's canon to me.

Had a lotta fun with the video, it was both interesting and pretty humorous! Always happy to see what you got planned for the future!

[RealmsCrossMyths]

Timestamp 19:26

It's possible the serial numbers refer to the *programmer* instead of the constructor?

It's possible the DLN robots were not reprogrammed, but rather perhaps had their existing programming exploited to make them antangonists.

Remember that it was due to their programmed expiration dates that the Robot Masters of MM9 were willing to go along with Dr. Wily — Perhaps the robot masters with DWN had their programming altered by Wily, The antagonist robot masters with DLN\\DRN kept their original programming from Doctor Light\\Right – but had it exploited by Doctor Wily, and in the case of SWN the programming was entirely done by Wily.

Bass\\Forte is shown to not follow Wily's orders in some cases, mostly focusing entirely on being the strongest robot. And King straight up overthrows Wily.

It's quite possible Wily is proficient at altering existing code, and while he can program from scratch at a high level, he may be a little less profecient at it — if this is the case, then it's equally possible Light\\Right's programming is beyond his understanding or runs in a propriatary format that Wily is unable to alter through normal reprogramming, and thus has to exploit the DLN's personalities and understanding of their current situations to turn them against humanity instead.

And as it's stated that King reprograms the Robot Masters in the game he appears in, and the ones he reprograms get KGN — except Light\\Right's, and King was programmed by Wily, it should be safe to assume that King is SWN. 002 and that since Wily couldn't reprogram Light\\Right's robot masters, a robot programed by Wily also would need to resort to exploit flaws in Light\\Right's programming.

[mattwo]

6:50 It's because Wily modified them for combat like how Rock was modified into Mega Man. He didn't modify the first batch of Light Numbers, only reprogrammed them as they were already combat-capable with their original designs. I mean, how exactly was the original design of _Toad Man_ going to fight? All he does is make it rain, the acid rain was a modification Wily added. Bright Man wasn't supposed to be bright enough to be disorienting, Drill Man didn't have bombs, Pharaoh Man couldn't weaponize solar energy, Dust Man wasn't supposed to be able to eject his garbage like that and again, he didn't have bombs, Dive Man _also_ did not have bombs (noticing a pattern here) and Ring Man and Skull Man... Uh... They were designed to destroy Mega Man from the start... Welp. Still, they were the exceptions.

[jonesthemoblin]

The Megaman 9 Robot Masterd didn't turn evil out of protest. Wily tricked them into allowing him to reprogram them.

They weren't thrilled about being dismantled when their expiration date came about, but their bugger concern was less about dying and more about being useful to humans. Wily tricked them by telling them he could repair them so they could continue to be useful and then reprogrammed them like he did with all the other robots he stole.

[mattwo]

1:07 Monstropolis was a weird thing in a single manual (and box art) that was never going to work in the first place. Although it was the original name of Mega City in the Dreamwave comics (even though that's not what Monsteroplis was). The Archie comics also had the city where the Light family lived renamed to Mega City but its previous name wasn't mentioned.

[supersmashseandx]

According to the Archie comics, the only robot master we see between mm1 and the finale being built by light is bond man, who would technically be dln either 009 or dln 00C

[Megapig]

This is the Mega Man channel I’ve always wanted! Fantastic work!