This page is about the Mega Man ZX character. For the Mega Man X: Command Mission character, see Aile (Command Mission). |
- "I decided to become a Mega Man because I wanted to help people. You're fighting because you're trying to find out who you are, but don't forget. Only you can decide your own destiny. No matter what anyone says you are."
- ―Aile to Grey, Mega Man ZX Advent
Aile (エール Ēru) is a main character of Mega Man ZX, and the female counterpart of Vent. She is a Humanoid delivery person who joins the Guardians, using Biometals (particularly Model X and Model Z) to protect the world from Mavericks. She is 14 years old in Mega Man ZX, and 18 in Mega Man ZX Advent.[1]
Description[]
Appearance[]
As a youth, Aile has short brown hair that is windswept from behind.[2] She wears a zipped-up short-sleeve blue jacket. She wears white shorts, has yellow rings on her wrists and boots, and wears small earpieces on either side of her head. Under her clothing is her mechanically-enhanced black body.
As an adult, Aile is slightly taller and has grown her hair out into a long ponytail. She wears a similar outfit but with her jacket unzipped, similar to Model ZX, and with one earpiece that has a longer transceiver. She is sometimes drawn with a triangular badge on her jacket too.
Personality[]
Aile is a tomboyish and energetic girl. In Mega Man ZX, she seems to be more lenient towards others, excluding her foes and is a bit more compassionate than Vent, who in fact, is more direct and prefers more to battle than strike a conversation. In Mega Man ZX Advent, her personality shifted a bit. As she got older, Aile seems to have become more professional with whomever she meets, as shown when Grey was blunt and disrespectful towards her when introducing himself. She also seems a bit more cocky and apparently careful when she finds someone that appears to be an enemy (she confused Grey as an enemy because he's a Mega Man and she suspected that he wanted to resurrect Model W), but she's still caring and even acts as a senior to Grey.
History[]
10 years before Mega Man ZX, Aile went with her mother to the fair, where Mavericks led by Purprill attacked. The Slither Inc. forces repelled them, but Aile's mother was apparently killed. Unbeknownst to her, it actually was part of Project Haven and the Slither Inc. forces staged the attack to make themselves look like heroes. After this, Aile was taken in by Girouette, eventually working as a delivery person in the Giro Express.
Mega Man ZX[]
Aile and Giro are reminiscing about their past upon a cliff before a delivery to the Guardians. They are suddenly attacked by Galleons, whose shots explode Aile's motorcycle and throw her off the cliff with their package. In Area A below, Aile meets Prairie and the Guardians fighting more Mavericks. The package, Biometal Model X, suddenly Megamerges with Aile to give her the power to fight Giga Aspis and the Mavericks.
Aile continues to work with the Guardians and even joins their ranks, using Model X to search for Giro. Shortly after reuniting with him and meeting his Model Z, they head to Area D to defend against a Maverick attack. She finds Giro unconscious by Serpent, Prometheus, and Pandora. Serpent uses a Model W to brainwash Giro to attack Aile, forcing her to defend herself. After the battle ends, Serpent finishes Giro off and leaves Galleons to finish Aile. However, she Double Megamerges with Model X and Model Z to form Model ZX, gaining a new power from her late mentor.
Aile and the Guardians begin investigating Serpent and Slither Inc.'s involvement with the mysterious Model W, battling eight Pseudoroids and retrieving the fragments of four Biometals along the way. Aile also defends the Guardian Base from an assault led by Prometheus and Pandora. With all the Biometal passwords, Aile unlocks Area M to destroy the Model W core. However, she is stalled by Prometheus and Pandora again while Serpent steals the Model W.
Aile infiltrates Slither Inc. offices to destroy the Model W core, but is too late as Serpent feeds it fearful Cyber-elves. Aile is furious at Serpent, but her brimming hatred is the last key needed to fully awaken Model W. The Biometals she has gathered encourage her to fight on anyway, and she challenges Serpent. Upon defeating him, the tower collapses, crushing the Model W core and killing Serpent. Aile then reunites with Prairie and the Guardians, and they vow to continue to keep the world peaceful.
Rockman ZX Soundsketch - ZX GIGAMIX[]
Following the Serpent incident, Aile ended up encountering Prometheus and Pandora multiple times as she discovered even more pieces of Model W. After Aile returned to Guardians HQ and noticed how Prairie was so focused on figuring out what Prometheus and Pandora were really after and believing that it would lead to something even bigger than the Serpent incident, she decided to take Prairie with her to the nearby town in the territory of Legion to go shopping in order to lighten her mood with Fleuve accompanying them. While shopping, they group learned that the effects of the Serpent incident caused checks to be put in place and were affecting businesses because of it. After Aile overheard civilians talking about them behind their backs and Prairie confronted them about it, she apologized to the civilians before taking her to a restaurant. At the restaurant, Aile noticed his many times Prairie apologized and told her that it was okay to be a bit more selfish since she was a girl and that she wanted to see her smile. As Prairie noticed the scratches on Aile's hands and she mentioned putting cream on them, Prairie decided to help buy her some cream and took Aile's advice to heart as she finally smiled and the two left the restaurant while leaving Fleuve behind.
Mega Man ZX Advent[]
Aile returns in Grey's story as an 18 year old. She still uses Model ZX as part of the Guardians, and has been hunting down Model Ws to end the Game of Destiny. Aile appears inside the Quarry, where she ends up fighting the Mega Man Model A Chosen One, Grey, due to a misunderstanding of intentions with Model W (both think the other was trying to retrieve it instead of destroy it). As a consequence of the fight and her remaining afterwards, Aile also ends up exposed to the fifth cipher being unlocked inside Model A alongside Grey.
Later, she assists Grey in infiltrating Ouroboros to defeat Albert. Everything was turning in their favor, until all the Mega Men came to stop Grey and Aile takes his place in fighting them. In a disadvantage of four against one, Model Z offers to sacrifice himself using some kind of self-destruct function making Biometals except Model X go berserk and tells Aile to take care of Grey as he fainted from his fight against Albert, who was defeated.
In the ending scene, she tells Grey what happened after and when Grey departs on an Adventure with Model A, she bid farewell as she tells that she hope they meet again.
Powers and abilities[]
As a regular Humanoid, Aile possesses average strength and speed. When not Megamerged, she wields no weapon and cannot Wall Kick or Dash, which are major disadvantages over her Mega Man forms. However, she can crawl through small tunnels and swim on surfaces of water, which is useful in a handful of situations. Aile's crawling speed is faster than Vent's, but she gets knocked back further when struck by an enemy.
Image | Attack | Input | Description |
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Crouch | ↓ | Aile crouches, and from here can crawl through small gaps. Her crawling speed is slightly faster than Vent's. | |
Swim | ← / → (water) | Aile swims on the surface of the water. Can jump out of the water while swimming. |
Other appearances[]
Mega Man X DiVE[]
Aile appears in her Mega Man ZX appearance as an A Rank Hunter Program in Mega Man X DiVE. Her main Active Skill is Model ZX, in which she temporarily Megamerges to gain the ZX Buster: Charge Shot and ZX Saber: Triple Slash skills. Her other Active Skill is Biometal, which lets her recover energy so she can transform again faster. Aile's older Mega Man ZX Advent appearance also appears as an S Rank Hunter Program called Aile (ZXA). Here she is always Megamerged with Model ZX, letting her always use her ZX Buster and ZX Saber skills.
Aile also has an S-rank Halloween variation named Halloween Aile, where she wears a pumpkin and candy inspired outfit. Her Active Skills are Freeshooter, which shoots a green projectile that splits into homing shots, and O.I.S., which lets her temporarily access the elemental Overdrive properties of Model H, Model L, or Model F.
Other media[]
Mega Man (Archie Comics)[]
Aile has a brief cameo in Issue #55 of the Mega Man comic series, when Dr. Light sees a vision of the Mega Man ZX series due to a time travel research accident.
Rockman ZX trailer[]
In the animated Rockman ZX trailer promo, Vent and Aile are shown co-existing and working at Giro Express, acting like siblings. During an Irregular attack on the city, Giro equips Model Z to fight them off but is mortally wounded. Vent and Aile obtain the power of Model X and find a dying Giro who gives them Model Z, and they both become Rockman ZX simultaneously. They take down Protectos the Goreroid and several Galleons before stumbling upon a secret facility. Vent and Aile are then shown utilizing the other Biometals while fighting together.
Rockman ZX Advent (manga)[]
Aile appears at the very end of the manga, in the Rockman ZX Evolution release. After all the other Rockmen are assembled, she is the last to arrive, appearing from the destroyed Grand Nuage and declaring she is the messiah, influenced by the personality of Omega. The Game of Destiny then begins.
Gallery[]
Promo art[]
Higher res promo art[]
Cutscenes[]
Concept art[]
Etymology[]
- Aile means "Wing" in French. Coincidentally, Aile is also the Turkish word for "family".
Trivia[]
- Aile's relation to Vent remains a mystery, as the two characters were created merely to give the player a choice between a boy and a girl protagonist.[2] This implies that they do not coexist, but due to the fact that Vent and Aile appear simultaneously in Model A's cipher in Mega Man ZX Advent, it may indicate that both stories actually somehow occur in the same storyline. Additionally, one commercial for ZX shows both Vent and Aile working alongside each other at Giro Express.
- Excluding spin-offs, Aile is the first playable female protagonist in the entire Mega Man franchise.
- She is not, however, the first female playable character in the series. That role belongs to Roll and Kalinka in RockBoard.
- Also, the first female playable characters in a main series sidescroller title are Alia, Layer and Pallette, from Mega Man X8. However, being secret unlockable characters, they do not qualify as protagonists.
- In the original Mega Man ZX both Aile and Vent are voiced by the same voice actress: Sanae Kobayashi.
- After rescuing the Guardians and citizens from Area G in Mega Man ZX as Aile, the player may go to Chêne's room at the right end of the Guardian Base to change her outfit to an alternate color. The player can also do this by talking with Luca in the city from the start in Easy mode, or after a quest in Normal or Hard mode. Aile has eight color swaps when she talks to Luca, though she will be in default during dialogue and status mugshots. Every color:
- Blue shoes and jacket with brown hair and green eyes. This color is the default one.
- Green shoes and jacket with orange hair and red eyes.
- Teal shoes and jacket with pink hair and green eyes.
- Yellow shoes and jacket with dark red hair and green eyes.
- Bright pink shoes, jacket and pants with olive hair and green eyes.
- Silver shoes and jacket with chestnut hair and red eyes.
- Purple shoes and jacket with red hair and green eyes.
- Pink shoes and jacket with blonde hair and blue eyes.
- Dark gray shoes and jacket with orange hair and green eyes
- Unlike Vent, it is never made explicit whether Purprill the Mandroid was the Maverick responsible for her mother's death, although she implies it was indeed the case when she yells at Purprill "I'm the one with the memories here. You get out of my park!"
References[]
Neutral element | |
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Mega Man Zero series | |
Mutos Reploids | Hyleg Ourobockle • Burble Hekelot • Deathtanz Mantisk • Tretista Kelverian • Noble Mandrago • Popla Cocapetri |
Other bosses | Golem • Guard Orotic • Hittite Hottaid • Hidden Phantom • Rainbow Devil • Copy X • Mega Scorpia • Elpizo • Crea and Prea • Omega SubDesert Core • Carnage Force 0 • Craft • Hell the Giant • Randam Bandam • Randam Bandam • Cyball • Dr. Weil |
Mega Man ZX series | |
Mega Men | Girouette (Model Z) • Prometheus (Model W) • Serpent (Model W) • Siarnaq (Model P) • Vent/Aile (Model ZX) • Master Albert (Ouroboros) |
Pseudoroids | Purprill the Mandroid • Protectos the Goreroid • Vulturon the Condoroid • Argoyle & Ugoyle the Shisaroids |
Other bosses | Giga Aspis • Rayfly • Omega • Dogu the Giant |
Mega Man ZX series | |
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Main characters | |
Vent • Aile • Grey • Ashe • Girouette • Prairie • Fleuve • Master Thomas • Master Mikhail Master Albert • Prometheus • Pandora • Serpent • Aeolus • Thetis • Atlas • Siarnaq Guardians • Hunters • Raiders • Pseudoroids | |
Games | |
Mega Man ZX • Mega Man ZX Advent • | |
Scripts | |
ZX (Vent's story) • ZX (Aile's story) • ZXA (Grey's story) • ZXA (Ashe's story) | |
Related Items | |
Biometal • Game of Destiny • Humanoid • Mega Man • Locations Mega Man ZX (manga) • ZX Tunes • ZXA Tunes • Rockman ZX Soundsketch - ZX GIGAMIX |