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Affiliations: Resistance Misc. Information Japanese Name: Zero Script: ゼロ (Japanese) 傑洛 (Chinese) 제로 (Korean) Rōmaji: Zero Alt. Name(s): ロックマンゼロ (Rockman Zero) [1] Gender: Female Eye Color: Blue Hair Color: Blonde "I never cared about justice, and I don't recall ever calling myself a hero... I have always only fought for the people I believe in. I won't hesitate... If an enemy appears in front of me, I will destroy it!" ―Zero, Mega Man Zero 4 Zero (ゼロ) is the main protagonist of the Mega Man Zero series. After the Mega Man X series, Zero offered up his body for anti-virus research, resulting in the creation of the Mother Elf but also the cataclysmic Elf Wars. After helping stop the conflict, Zero sealed himself away again, only to be awoken by Ciel a century later to help the Resistance fight the tyranny of Neo Arcadia. In crossover games featuring this style of Zero alongside his original appearance from the Mega Man X series, this Zero is sometimes referred to as Mega Man Zero or Zero (Z). Zero lives on through Biometal Model Z in the Mega Man ZX series. Appearance In the Mega Man Zero series, Zero retains his most distinguishing features, such as his bright red and yellow armor, a horned helmet, and a long ponytail of blond hair. His armor is more sleek and humanoid, featuring a lean and muscular look with boots and gauntlets. His helmet is also streamlined, featuring new prongs on either side of his face and black where the previous design had white. Zero's arms no longer change into a buster form, and he instead keeps his various weapons holstered around his body. Personality Given that he's been in stasis and lost his memory, Zero is ignorant of some matters and confused about others, sometimes to the point he starts doubting or believing that he cannot win, which has occurred several times in the series, such as when Ciel was captured by a Golem that Zero battled with the Buster Shot, dealing insignificant damage. He was slowly starting to lose hope until X gave him his Z-Saber back. Another example was when Dr. Weil told him he was a copy, causing him to believe he was not the real Zero. He only gained his confidence back when X claimed he was indeed Zero in spirit, resulting in a role reversal where X now has to encourage Zero compared to the X series. Most likely due to his amnesia, Zero is a much quieter and distant character, especially in the first game. He rarely prolongs a conversation and provides only quick answers. He keeps his expression serious throughout the series, rarely showing any other kind of emotion, now no longer smiling at all. His moral code also seems to have changed between the series. Although he was a heroic and proud Maverick Hunter in the X series, he became a soldier who will do whatever it takes to accomplish his missions in the Zero series. This includes questionable methods, from sacrificing the lives of Cyber-elves to gaining more advantages in missions, killing brainwashed soldiers and killing the Baby Elves without seeking an alternative solution. Although the first two are completely optional, the third isn't, though he did it in self-defense. He claims that he no longer cares about being considered a "hero", and that he just fights to protect what he cares about. He goes far enough to not restrain himself from the possibility of killing a human, a taboo that any other protagonist of the franchise would not have the courage to break (though that being said, the circumstances involved left him with no other choice as Ragnarok would have destroyed Area Zero otherwise). This act properly classifies him as an anti-hero, with Zero himself admitting in the fourth game that he has never seen himself as a hero, although it's unknown if this was his thinking in the X series or if it's the consequences of his amnesia and new experience in the Zero series. This would also have made him a Maverick by the original X series definition, as he was a threat to a human's safety, though Weil's humanity is heavily debated given his cybernetic modifications. There was one element of his personality that Zero seems to have maintained; his respect and admiration for his old partner, X. After defeating Copy X in the first game, he noted that despite his memory loss, he remembered the original X as being a true hero (and in the Ciel's Memory radio drama, even explained how X originally was a coward and prone to worrying too much, and that him ultimately overcoming these flaws was what made him a hero), and being stronger than the copy.