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X8Reploids

Lumine with some Guardroids in Mega Man X8's opening cinematic.

The New Generation Reploids (新世代レプリロイド - New Generation Repliroid) are a new model type of Reploids equipped with copy chips. They are based and created from the blueprints of their prototype, Axl, to work on the Jakob Project.

Characteristics[]

"We new generation Reploids enjoy complete and total immunity to all viruses... So even copying something as dangerous as Sigma provides no risk."
―Lumine, Mega Man X8

New generation Reploids have the same basic traits of regular Reploids, being humanoid robots with humanlike mentality. They have the same kind of copy chip Axl was created with, with certain differences; while Axl must copy DNA with his Copy Shot, new generation Reploids already have the DNA of many old Reploids included in their Copy Chips, allowing them to do more than their original design, and contrary to Axl, they are not limited to Reploids of their own size.[1]

In their true forms, the Jakob Project's new generation Reploids have the basic appearance of construction workers, with minor variations. They are also proficient at combat with a variety of weapons, albeit not quite on par with the Maverick Hunters. However, their trump card is in their copy ability; in the Gateway, they use their copy chips to transform into previously defeated Mavericks and even Sigma.

Another factor the new generation Reploids are known for is their complete and total immunity to all known viruses, due to the copy chip's ability of changing the Reploid's DNA. This keeps them safe from turning Maverick from infection. However, it is revealed that the copy chips in new generation Reploids contain the data of hundreds of old model Reploids, including Sigma, thus allowing the new models to go Maverick at will. Axl was immune to this largely due to his copy chip being outdated due to his prototype status, with it also being implied that the resulting ability to go Maverick at will made the New Generation Reploids more insane than Sigma ever was.[2]

History[]

Mega Man X8[]

The new generation Reploids are first created with Axl as a template to carry out the Jakob Project. Axl, a new recruit to the Maverick Hunters and ex-member of Red Alert, is a prototype of these Reploids; however, he chooses to fight alongside X and Zero, and refused the advances of the Maverick new generation Reploids. Likewise, the Maverick new generation Reploids also did not intend to let Axl join anyways due to his being a mere prototype, and thus unable to go Maverick.

However, the project aiming to colonize the moon had been orchestrated by Sigma, who kidnaps the director Lumine, and incites a new generation uprising. Once Sigma is confronted in his palace on the moon, he refers to the new generation Reploids as his children as his own DNA is included in the copy chips of the new generation, thus causing them to not simply become Maverick, but to literally become Sigma himself. The uprising is quelled by the Maverick Hunters, who defeat Sigma along with the new generation Reploids. After Sigma's defeat, Lumine, the main supervisor of the Jakob Project which the Maverick Hunters were on a mission to save, revealed his own plot, claiming that "Reploids along with humanity ha[d] irrevocably changed", that New Generation Reploids were superior to "tools of the old world" like X, Zero, and Axl, and that the three Maverick Hunters should "line up to be be exterminated!"[3][4] Lumine ultimately fails, and the production of the new generation Reploid line was discontinued after the news of Lumine's Maverick status was revealed.

As a result of the incident, the government terminated all production and use of copy chips. But with space development in full swing and continuous demands for such advanced Reploids, production resumes a few years later.

Mega Man X: Command Mission[]

Although new generation Reploids are not identified as such, Colonel Redips is revealed to have the same copy ability, which he uses to masquerade as Spider and manipulate events from behind the scenes, as well as many of his soldiers in Far Eastern Maverick Hunter HQ, which copy the forms of the previously defeated bosses. Although Redips is defeated by the Hunters, his connection to the new generation remains unclear.

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References[]

  1. Axl only overcomes this in Mega Man X: Command Mission, which is non-canon to the main timeline. He is not known to have overcome this in the main universe.
  2. Lumine: "The copy chips we new generation Reploids possess... They were derived from data from hundreds of old model Repolids. [sic] That means, of course, that Sigma was also included in the mix. Do you understand what I'm getting at here?" Axl: "Copy chip? Sigma? [Does t]hat mean[s] that I'll go nuts like he did?" Lumine: "Sorry, but prototypes like you don't have the specs to cause something like that. Besides, was Sigma really crazy?" Axl: ".........?" Lumine: "He rebelled against your world. But he had his reasons... The rest of us new Reploids could turn like that at any moment..." - Mega Man X8
  3. Lumine: "This decision to wage battle against the old world was made consciously. In other words, we possess the power to go Maverick at will! X... Do you really have what it takes to stop us? You're merely tools of the humans... tools of the old world. You think you can stand up to those of us who have evolved this far? The world is changing. Therefore, it's only natural that evolution take its course! Now, line up to be exterminated!" - Mega Man X8
  4. Lumine: "Enemy, ally... This issue isn't so black and white. Reploids, along with humanity, have irrevocably changed. The nature of their existence has also changed. You are not needed in our new world!" - Mega Man X8
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