Board Thread:General Mega Man Discussion/@comment-1769253-20170617065836/@comment-33139879-20170919181341

Cause the humans were too busy hiding underground

I'm just kidding, but seriously I don't know why this is either. You'd think with all that X has done and even the very concept of him existing would be enough for people to think of him as a celebrity. As Max734734 pointed out the humans could've easily just have not known about him until all the other reploids were put into commission and just didn't see him as anything special. This would kind of make sense, I highly doubt Dr. Cain the moment after awakening X started shouting to the world, "I found a robot underground that can think and feel!" That's highly unlikely.

But if we think about it the X series never really focused on the humans, mostly the reploids and their war against Sigma (or other Maverick reploids). So we wouldn't really know unless we were given more insight as to what they were doing the entire time during the series. They never really contributed to the war after all... And it seems like in every form of media portrayed about the X series usually shows that the humans came to fear the reploids after Sigma went Maverick, so I doubt they'd think of one as a celebrity. I believe this is mentioned in the Zero series that humans haven't trusted reploids in a long, long time.

Then again, that wouldn't make much sense either since the humans have always been under the protection of the reploids, even in the ZX series the Guardians were helping them out (even if Vent/Aile were humans and there were reploid citizens they were saving as well, most of the members were reploids). I doubt the humans would hate the very thing they built trying to keep them alive on a daily basis.

What I find to be the most likely possibility is that due to the circumstances of the Maverick Wars humans just didn't have the chance to really celebrate X, and most overtime forgot he was the basis for reploids. Either that or no one knew to begin with. It wasn't until sometime after the Elf Wars when Neo Arcadia was made that X could actually get achknowledged as a hero by the humans since they were now safe in some paradise, even if that had nothing to do with the fact he was the first living robot. Since by then the people tha knew (if there ever were any) are most likely dead. To the humans X became the only reploid they could trust not to try and kill them. That's really the only logical assumption I can come up with, since everything else just doesn't make much sense.