User:GiverOfThePeace/Mega Man Canon

Introduction

The following is a pretty in-depth explanation of the Mega Man timeline. I plan to expand this one day for other Mega Man games but in the blog's current state its pretty WIP.

How placements are decided

The Classic Mega Man series release order seems to be usually chronological, but then random games will come in and cause some confusion, so the placements will be based off which mainline title they take place around. This will also be decided with the Robot Masters/characters that show up.

Classic Timeline

Up to Mega Man 5

Mega Man/Mega Man Powered Up
We have the beginning of it all, Mega Man/Mega Man Powered Up, it marks the beginning of Wily's exploits and marks the beginning of Mega Man becoming a super fighting robot. Mega Man Powered Up is canon and expands on the pre-existing lore. This is directly shown as Mega Man 2's Robot Masters are directly stated to inspire Wily into making new robot masters superior to them. Time Man is a Robot Master Dr. Light made for research and experiments on time travel. However, he is only able to slow down time and has incomplete functions. Dr. Wily used this and perfected it with Flash Man which he considered a masterpiece due to his Flash Stopper attack which can completely stop time.

Mega Man 2
Mega Man 2 is a direct sequel to Mega Man, Dr. Wily makes 8 Robot Masters to battle Mega Man. A good number of the Robot Masters in this game are directly inspired and made to be improvements of several Robot Masters from Mega Man as shown here.

Mega Man 3
Mega Man 3 has Wily and Dr. Light work together on something but then robots run amok and are messing with planets where they're mining for material, with it being revealed that Wily just did this to steal Gamma, the robot he and Dr. Light were working on, this game also introduces Break Man, who is revealed to be Proto Man the brother of Mega Man.

Mega Man 4

X Era

Up to Mega Man X8

Mega Man X/Maverick Hunter X

Mega Man X2

Mega Man Xtreme

Mega Man X3

Mega Man Xtreme 2

Mega Man X4

Mega Man X5

Mega Man X6

Mega Man X7

Mega Man X8

(Timeskip)

Mega Man X6 (Zero's Ending)

The Split into Z-Era

The Main timeline follows a massive timeskip into the Z-Era. Mega Man X Command Mission is not canon to the main timeline and is another timeline where the events of the Zero series did not happen as stated multiple times.

The Elf Wars

Mega Man Zero

Mega Man Zero 2

Mega Man Zero 3

Mega Man Zero 4

The Timeskip to ZX

Mega Man ZX

Mega Man ZX Advent

The Final Timeskip

Mega Man Legends:

Mega Man Legends 2:

Not Canon to the main timeline:

• Mega Man X: Mega Mission
• Mega Man X: Giga Mission
• Mega Man X: Command Mission