User blog comment:Kaihedgie/Surnames for Reploids?/@comment-33173-20140519142339/@comment-33173-20140519185141

Many of the Reploids (and Robot Masters) fought are/were technically civilians, from the MM1 and MM10 Robot Masters (Sheep Man being able to change his job) to energy suppliers, miners, and weather controllers. So I think that it goes the same way for both civilian and combat Reploids, specially civilians as they must be cheaper (and safer) to create. Of note, Andrew is known to have changed his job and appearance, and Elpizo his name, so a Reploid "adopted" by a family could have his name changed. And there are those identical NPCs in Command Mission, but then again, many generic characters from games have the same appearance, including humans...