Gyro Man.Plot Synopsis
Mega Man is signing autographs at one of Dr. Light's conventions when a deaf girl named Mary shows up and catches their interests. Mary is the best kind of child actor, A MUTE ONE! HA! Anyway, since Mary likes musical vibrations or whatever, they decide to go to a concert being performed by Roll's favorite band, Cold Steel.
During the concert, all the humans hearing the sounds coming out of the amps get hypnotized by Dr. Wily. Cold Steel momentarily takes off, and suddenly Spark Man, Gemini Man and Gyro Man appear and attack Mega Man. He fights them off and they get away. Suddenly Cold Steel comes back and gives Roll a CD of their latest album. Mega Man must be an idiot though, because he doesn't seem to notice that the band members of Cold Steel have busters on their arms, electrical spikes for hands, and a fucking propeller on one of their backs!
Using Dr. Wily's hypno music thing, he has a Navy Destroyer attack the Golden Gate Bridge. So Mega Man flies from Dr. Light's lab, in New York, to the Golden Gate Bridge, in San Francisco, on Rush, in a matter of seconds. While he's away, Roll decides to show Dr. Light her new Cold Steel CD, because "It's totally Twitchin!" The Cold Steel music hypnotizes Dr. Light, and he heads off to meet up with Dr. Wily.
Mega Man meanwhile gets tied up and thrown off the bridge, so Roll shows up with Eddie to power him back up, in an incredibly awkward looking shot (see the screenshot). Mega Man jumps back up into action, but Dr. Wily has been using his human slaves to build a radio tower capable of broadcasting the hypno music all around the world. What is the first thing Wily does, now that all the humans in the world are his slave? "Destroy Mega Man!" Well, isn't somebody a bit spiteful?
Mega Man heads to the tower while trying to keep from hurting any humans, and finally it is revealed that Cold Steel is actually Gyro Man, Spark Man and Gemini Man, all who speak like stereotypical rocker characters (which is exactly what I imagined the three of those robots would sound like, really). Mega Man beats them and destroys the tower, freeing all the human slaves.
"Why am I surrounded by fools!" yells Dr. Wily. "Because that's all you build Dr. Wily!" says Dr. Light leaving. Oh snap! Dr. Wily escapes and Dr. Light then builds a jamming device for the hypno music that plays Beethoven instead.
Critique
A decent episode despite how obvious it is that Cold Steel is in fact, Wily's robots. There's some great lines all over the place and even though some of the setup is stupid, it's a good episode, especially for Dr. Wily who steals the show. When Dr. Wily has Dr. Light as his assistant, his megalomania makes for some hilarious dialog.
One thing that is interesting, is that Mega Man combines Gyro Man, Spark Man and Gemini's weapons for some utility. It makes you wonder why Capcom has never gone this route with Mega Man and let the player have a few weapon combinations. It seems like something that would have naturally come about after a while. If you think about it, Kirby is a similar style of game (albeit a thousand times easier) and several Kirby cames have let Kirby combine powers. Maybe Capcom should look at this for a future game... but for god's sake not a new series!
Rating: Thumbs Up!
Extras
It's Totally Twitchin
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