Board Thread:General Mega Man Discussion/@comment-948616-20131125210000/@comment-1672596-20190806123702

Hyahuahu wrote: Actually it doesn't matter how Sigma is surprised that X/Z/Axl defeated him again. Every Sigma body is just a remote body or separated individual body with the same purpose to ruin the human world and revenge himself on X/Z. He can always return as long as Zero is alive.

What's important is that NGR and the leader Lumine is infected. The reason that the leader followed Sigma's will or think that NGE is superior than old reploid generation(just like Sigma thinking that reploid is superior than human in X1) is just "Lumine is infected". Sigma wins. He creates another "Sigma" in the new generation. And again, the fact that Lumine specifically denied being used by Sigma when Axl asked contradicts that stance.

Also, the only time Sigma's ever shown himself to be shocked at a defeat was in X1 (when he was first defeated, though the post-credits scene indicates he got over it quickly), X3 (where he was effectively infected with reverse-malware that nearly deleted him), and X8 (his true death). Most times, he was not shocked by being defeated and has even implied he intends to return again regardless, and even in X5, which had X6 not been made would have been his final death, he at least had enough confidence in his defeat to attempt to ensure X and Zero die with him. So yeah, it actually DOES matter