Count Zap

Count Zap
Information
NetNavi:	ElecMan.EXE
Misc. Information
Japanese Name:	Count Elec
Kanji:	エレキ伯爵
Romaji:	Ereki Hakushaku
Alt. Name(s):	Jack Zap Jack Electel
Series Information
In-game Appearances:	MegaMan Battle Network MegaMan Battle Chip Challenge MegaMan Battle Network 6 (mentioned)
Other Appearances:	MegaMan NT Warrior
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Count Zap, known as Count Elec (エレキ伯爵, Ereki Hakushaku, lit. Electric Count) in Japan, also known as Jack Zap, Jack Electel in Japan, is a member of the World Three and operator of ElecMan.EXE. In the first MegaMan Battle Network game, he tried to hack in to the city's power plant. He was since sent to jail, and his NetNavi was given to his wife, Ann Zap.

Personality

Count Zap is cheerful and hyperactive in the anime, where he is also a fan of rock and roll. Count Zap also has a love for electricity, evidenced by his usage of electrical terms like "shocking" quite often, and also doesn't seem to takes his work as seriously as the other members of the WWW. In the games, Count Zap is quite different from the anime, being depicted as creepy and uncaring, doing anything to get what he wants even if it means killing many people. Count Zap also seems to be older in the games. He is an avid player of the guitar and his lightbulbs flash constantly.

Game History

Count Zap makes his appearance in the first MegaMan Battle Network game as a boss character. His role in the game is to get the Elec Code, in order to awaken the Life Virus. In the game Count Zap is more serious than his anime counterpart and takes his mission seriously. It's unknown what happened to him after the game until MegaMan Battle Network 6, where his wife, Ann Zap, says he was arrested and is still in jail. She uses his NetNavi and work hard to restore the family's name.

Count Zap also appeared in the game MegaMan Battle Chip Challenge.

Anime History

MegaMan NT Warrior

In the anime, Count Zap's behavior has changed to being a comic relief characterin the anime despite being creepy in the game.

Count Zap is still a member of the WWW and is ordered by Lord Wily to crash a train in the second episode of the series. He orders ElecMan to disable electronic devices around the city and conducting electricity, making his light bulbs flash. One device includes an electric dog that robs Mr. Mari's purse. After the train is hijacked, he plays the guitar so loudly he is thrown across the room. However, Lan is on the train that he hijacks and faces off and MegaMan faces off against ElecMan. Count Zap is ordered by Wily to delete MegaMan but hen ElecMan loses, his equipment explodes.

He , long with Ms. Madd and Mr. Match, participate in the scheme to take control of the robot fishes and watch MegaMan foil it.

He reappears a few episodes later, committing a string of thefts by using ElecMan to destroy security with electricity. His victims have progressively higher security levels and culminates in an attempt to rob the game, Maximum Valor, the day before its release in order steal the "smiles of children". He flies into Yai's estate on a balloon and jacks in ElecMan on an electronic fly. ElecMan bypasses all the security and downloads the data to Count Zap's PET. MegaMan battles ElecMan but Mr. Match uses lightning to repair any damage that ElecMan sustains. All seems lost but WoodMan.EXE intervenes by blocking the lightning and allowing MegaMan to defeat ElecMan. Count Zap finishes downloading the game data and is about to fly away when Black Rose(Sal) throws roses at him that shred his suit. He immediately covers himself, dropping his PET at the same time. Count Zap flies away in defeat.

When the WWW entered the N1 Grand Prix, he manage to make it to the 2nd round, but was defeated by Chaud and ProtoMan with a Program Advance. Count Zap later attempts to mind control Roll using a devil Battle Chip called "Super Great White Angel", but his and the rest of the WWW plans fail and he ends up losing. When Lord Wily goes missing after his attempt to capture PharoahMan, he and the other WWW members work at a curry shop opened by Yahoot.

MegaMan NT Warrior Axess

In the second season of the anime, it is revealed that his brother is Gauss Magnus and they actively hate each other. When the WWW goes to retrieve a Battle Chip with Wily's data imprinted on it, he agrees to become a officer at Grave and takes the chip , but only to spare his friends. Then, he challenges Gauss to a netbattle for it and the blimp they are on crashes (because of the netbattle) and the Chip is lost in the sea, with them arguing with each other on a glacier. Later, while infiltrating the old WWW hideout, he orders ElecMan to hold down MagnetMan while MegaMan used a Program Advance on him, ElecMan is deleted doing so. Count Zap has a normal life after this and doesn't appears as much in MegaMan NT Warrior Axess and afterwards, except when a scene has something to do with the original WWW or Yahoot's Curry Shop.

Rockman EXE Beast+

In Beast+, Count Zap makes another appearance, however, he is confronted by his wife Ann Zap about their estate in a later episode. During their confrontation, he is shocked repeatedly by his wife and has ElecMan stolen from him. In the ensuing battle in which Dekao and Dingo attempt to win ElecMan back, his guitar is fried and shattered by the massive amounts of electricity flowing around the store. One can infer that his guitar is an inherited item, because a small map of an item located in the Elec estate was found in the guitar.

After the collapse of WWW, he wanders the world and ends up at his mother's house. He begins to hallucinate once inside the house and encounters his mother, who has been dead for ten years. Basically, the entire experience was produced from his mind and past experiences of what his mother would do and say. While engaged in the electric cage deathmatch against Lan Hikari and MegaMan, his mother still supports him in the battle and punishes him when he loses again. Oddly enough, his mother's voice could be heard throughout the battle by MegaMan. It turns out that she left a will along with the treasure of the Elec family. It could actually be an electronic-brain like entity, an AI based on the memories of the individual (like the Hikari Tadashi and Dr. Wily of Beyondard). This is further exemplified when she detects Count Zap in the room and continues to call him the "useless son" and electrocutes him for disgracing the Elec family name.

Manga History

MegaMan NT Warrior

In the manga, Count Zap and Wily capture Yuichiro Hikari to help them create the Life Virus. After the Life Virus' defeat, Count Zap managed to escape, but it seems that he has no place to go as he's last seen on the streets with his clothes worn-out. He says he doesn't need ElecMan anymore and sends him away.

Trivia

• Count Zap is the only WWW member to have his family revealed.

• All of Count Zap's known relatives wield Elec NetNavis.

• In the original Japanese version of the anime, Count Zap has a speech quirk where he uses English phrases in place of Japanese, notably "It's amazing!" and "Oh my God!".

• In the anime, the fact that Gauss is Count Zap's brother is made apparent. In MegaMan Battle Network 2, Gauss did mention that his brother, Jack, was adopted by a rich family and that he is jealous of him.