Board Thread:General Mega Man Discussion/@comment-25400375-20140909235847/@comment-33173-20150707164013

I'd say Dr. Light, who made the Legacy Character Mega Man ("Mega Man"), and Mega Man X was used as a template for the Reploids.

While Dr. Wily's last creation, Zero, outlived X, and the virus was a Villainous Legacy that resulted in terrible wars, in the end Dr. Light's dream of humans and robots coexisting became true in the Mega Man Legends era, having both and bionicles.

If X wasn't found before Zero, than there would be no Sigma to stop him, thus no Maverick Wars. (And probably no robots and humans left to find X later... Unless Zero himself found him, in which case the evil red robot would probably terminate X without awakening him and complete his mission)