#If I'm forgetting crucial examples relating to either character then. My Bad

[descendant-of-truth]

What I like about Rockman.exe is that. they push the notion that Netto is the wild card between the two so much, right, like he's the classic loud, reckless kid who jumps out of windows and runs into radiation on purpose. so, next to the sweet and mild-mannered Rockman, he's gotta be the crazy one of the two, right?

Except at every turn, Rockman proves time and again to be WAY more susceptible to unhinged behavior than Netto could ever be

And to his credit, the stuff with Dark Rockman and the Cybeast forms were caused by external factors, even if it still adds to a narrative pattern that I'm very invested in. But the part in the manga where he tears a navi apart with his bare hands was 100% pure Rockman rage, and Netto has to be the one to tell him not to give in to it while he's strangling his evil double in the background

The best way I can think to explain it is that Netto is a consistent level of insane across the board regardless of the situation, while Rockman switches rapidly between the extremes of being Actually Normal and needing to be physically restrained to stop his bloodlust. And truly, who else is doing it like them

#megaman #megaman battle network #mmbn #rockman.exe #hikari netto #lan hikari #analysis #meta #violence tw #strangulation tw #Disclaimer: this post is NOT being written with fully up-to-date knowledge on everything that happens in the Battle Network franchise #If I'm forgetting crucial examples relating to either character then. My Bad #I also went out of my way to include pictures from each version even though there's a lot of overlap in plot points between them #just to show that I'm referring to their characters in like. the franchise as a whole #rather than a specific version