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This article is about Wily of the Mega Man Battle Network series. For his anime counterparts, see Mr. Wily and Dr. Wily (Beyondard). To see information on his other counterparts, see Wily.

Dr. Wily (Dr.ワイリー Dokutā Wairi), also known as just Wily (ワイリー Wairi), is the main antagonist of the Mega Man Battle Network series. He was a good friend of Tadashi Hikari and his colleague, but when Wily's research funding was cut off completely in favor of Hikari's, Wily grew bitter and angry at his friend's creation and set out to cause chaos and destroy the cyberworld. He is the father of Dr. Regal and the surrogate father of Baryl.

Though not the primary enemy in every game of the series, Wily's actions and influences is the catalyst of every threat Lan Hikari and MegaMan face in the mainline series, Mega Man Network Transmission and Rockman.EXE Phantom of Network.

Appearance[]

Dr. Wily is seemingly an elderly man with gray hair, gray mustache, gray eyebrows and a monocle on his right eye. Wily wears a light gray robe, gray pants and brown shoes. He carries a walking cane in his appearances in Mega Man Battle Network 5 and 6, though he also carries it in the art for his earlier appearance.

Personality[]

Wily is a truly devoted villain, driven by madness, greed, and rage from his failure to defeat MegaMan and the Hikari family, who continue to stand in his way. This insanity seems to grow more violent over time, as his plots become more haphazard, and his regards to the sanctity of life drift away completely. He is, however, very persistent, as he is able to walk away from any setback and start anew.

This hatred seems to have lapses as Wily has also been able to take a retrospect on his failure raising his son, and he brings it upon himself to assist in stopping his evil plan. After his Cybeast scheme fails, Wily finally decides to reform.

Background[]

In the past, Dr. Wily was a brilliant and ambitious scientist with a son. He was a leading expert in robotics and was one of the top researchers alongside his good friend, Tadashi Hikari, who specialized in networks. The two worked together in SciLab, developing SoulNet, a way to link human emotions through a network, combining their two professions to bring peace for the world. However, the project was stop dead in its tracks as they did all their technology could do, entrusting the rest of it to his and Hikari's son in the future.

One day, in order to win an international competition, SciLab chose Hikari's research to fully support, cutting off Wily's research entirely. This made Wily furious and he left the facility. This begins his hatred of Net society, eventually leading him to be kicked out of the science community. His wickedness and resentment would also rub off on his son, as Wily would regret years later on not raising him right.

As Wily begins to plan his revenge towards Net society, a Netopian commander, Baryl's father scouted him. Wily then lived in Netopia researching military robots. This made him hold off on his revenge. A few years pass and the commander went off to battle in another country, he entrusted Wily with raising Baryl. In his time in Netopia, Wily built a "perfect Navi" just for Baryl, Colonel.EXE.

More years pass and Wily received a distressing letter, informing him the commander had died. This loss reawakened his sadness and anger, returning his desire for revenge. He threw away his kindness and became a "mad scientist" out for revenge. Wily took Colonel and separated his kindness and electronics control program. He then goes to train Baryl soldier data given by the commander to train him into a better soldier than his father ever was. This all happened about 20 years before the start of Mega Man Battle Network 6.

Game History[]

Mega Man Battle Network[]

Wily forms the NetCrime syndicate World Three (WWW) to cause havoc in the cyberworld, and unleashes the Life Virus by combining four elemental superprograms, with the intent of hacking military networks around the world to launch missiles. His target was Nation R for the beginning of his "EndGame". His plans are foiled by Lan Hikari and MegaMan.EXE, who manage to destroy the virus. Wily is supposedly killed when the original WWW Research Facility explodes with him still in it, but it is later revealed that Wily himself had survived and went into hiding.

Mega Man Network Transmission[]

Although Wily didn't appear in the game, the main antagonist, known only as the Professor was a colleague of Wily, as well as an ex-WWW member, and he had vowed to finish what the latter had started via creating and releasing a second version of the Life Virus known as the Life Virus R, though both the Professor and the Life Virus R would eventually be defeated by the combined efforts of Lan and MegaMan.

Mega Man Battle Network 2[]

Before the game started, Wily sent a Navi to approach Sean Obihiro and asked "Would you like to rule the Cyberworld?". Sean agreed and listened to whatever the Navi told him to do, unbeknownst to him that it was Wily manipulating him to do his bidding. In that period, Wily made him form Gospel and the Bass Project, an attempt to clone the Super Navi Bass.EXE. Lan and MegaMan managed to stop Gospel and their plans.

In the post-game, an unknown source has placed PlanetMan.EXE as a temporary leader of the WWW, as it is in the process of being restored. Within the deepest part of the Undernet is a secret HQ guarded by both NapalmMan.EXE and PharaohMan.EXE. It also seems to be used to recruit strong Navis into the WWW in a search for who they call, "the Chosen One".

Mega Man Battle Network 3[]

Wily returns with a new WWW and aided by the real Bass, in an attempt to steal the Tetra Programs to release the proto-internet Alpha and begin his "CyberGeddon". He also remade the discontinued Pulse Transmission System as an attempt to merge and become Alpha's brain. After using Bass to destroy the seal on Alpha, things go awry as he is swallowed by Alpha instead. Wily was subsequently rescued by authorities and arrested.

Although Wily is absent for the entirety of Mega Man Battle Network 4, his son, Dr. Regal attempts to rule the planet with his Nebula organization.


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Rockman.EXE Phantom of Network[]

Like Rockman.EXE2, Rockman.EXE4 and Rockman.EXE Transmission, Wily does not appear but his actions are the catalyst of the game's events, where Cache was using cached data to create Cache data Navis from an old server that belonged to Wily.


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Mega Man Battle Network 5: Team ProtoMan[]

A past version of Dr. Wily appears via Vision Burst. He and Tadashi Hikari celebrate SoulNet and its future, but after Hikari left, he states SoulNet is a double-edge sword and they need to think about the worst scenario. His worries became reality when Dr. Regal used SoulNet for evil. Wily appears to have sent Baryl to assist Team ProtoMan in their fight against Nebula and later, Nebula Gray, destroying the Soul Server. During the explosion of the base, a disembodied voice, seemingly to be Wily's, echoes throughout the room and overloads SoulNet, erasing a portion of Regal's memories.

Mega Man Battle Network 5: Team Colonel[]

While a past Dr. Wily appears, he doesn't get to announce his worries of SoulNet. However, the real Wily physically appears in this version of the game. He approaches his son, Dr. Regal, and tells him that he raised him wrong, and restarts SoulNet to wipe out the last 10 or so years of his life, before he became evil, reforming his wayward son and giving him a second chance at life. Baryl then returns and Wily ask him to carry Regal out. This reveals Wily and Baryl are associated with each other for the first time, which carries on to the next game.

Mega Man Battle Network 6[]

Wily resurrects WWW for the third time with Baryl as one of his commanders. They captured the Cybeasts Gregar and Falzar, and placing them into giant CopyBots. He employs Iris, Colonel's younger sister who was created from the kindness and electronics control her removed from Colonel, as means of controlling them to bring chaos to the real world. In the end, Baryl decides to go against Wily. Lan, MegaMan, Colonel, and Iris then band together to fight back, and Wily ultimately decides to give up his dream of destroying the Net after seeing Colonel and Iris sacrifice themselves to destroy one of the Cybeasts. Despite being caught in the explosion of his headquarters, Wily survives. In the aftermath, Wily has seemingly given up his former life. He cooperates with the authorities interrogating him in the aftermath of the Cybeast incident, and even sends Lan a letter of thanks for showing him the error of his ways. He resolves to working alongside Lan's father over the course of the next twenty years.

In the series' epilogue, it's revealed that he also creates two new programs for the Net affectionately called "Colonel" and "Iris". A virus search-and-destroy program and net repair program respectively designed to help in peacefully maintaining the Net.

Anime History[]

Main article: Mr. Wily
Main article: Dr. Wily (Beyondard)
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Mr. Wily in the first season's intro.

Like his video game counterpart, Mr. Wily formed the World Three to cause chaos in the real and cyberworlds to create fear and panic in others, and was behind the Grave Crime Syndicate like his video game counterpart was behind Gospel. However, rather than seeking to create the Life Virus, Mr. Wily instead sought out PharaohMan for his Ultimate Program, and takes a more proactive role in Grave, rather than staying in the shadows before Sean Obihiro revealed his role.

In the video game series, Wily revives the World Three two more times before finding redemption, however in the anime, Wily disappears after the original World Three and Grave are defeated, and later becomes a neutral though helpful ally of Lan Hikari against several threats.

In the games, Dr. Wily helped Dr. Regal, his biological son, find redemption using the SoulNet, and is the adopted father of Baryl. In the anime, Regal is his adopted son along with Ms. Yuri, and Wily seemingly has very little care about Regal, stating that Regal is a dangerous and unstable man and focuses on his relationship with Ms. Yuri.

He is an old friend of Barrel, and is not the creator or Iris or Colonel. While Wily was behind the Cybeast incident in the video games, a Beyondard version of him was behind the plot instead.

In Beast+, it is revealed the Professor opened a sushi restaurant name after him: Wily's Sushi.

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Trivia[]

  • Despite not appearing in every Mega Man Battle Network or being its main antagonist, Dr. Wily is responsible for every major antagonist in the series:
    • In Mega Man Network Transmission, the Professor was a former WWW member and colleague of Wily that attempted to revive the Life Virus and continue Wily’s work.
    • In Mega Man Battle Network 2, Wily manipulated the Gospel crime syndicate to create the perfect copy of Bass.EXE.
    • In Mega Man Battle Network 4 and 5, Dr. Regal’s actions were largely in part of how Dr. Wily raised him, twisting his mind and having him walk down a path of evil. Wily himself would later rectify this, stating that he regrets raising Regal the way he did and erases around 10 years of Regal’s memories with SoulNet, freeing him from his hatred.
    • The only games where Wily’s influence is not seen is in Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge and Legend of Network.
    • Oddly, Wily had solutions for stopping two of the evil plots that he indirectly caused, as he had schematics to allow Zero.EXE to become a full fledged Navi, therefore allowing for the arrest of the Professor, and was able to use the SoulNet to erase Regal’s memories to a point where he wasn’t evil.
  • There is a distinction on how characters in-game address him. In Battle Network 1 and 3, his followers address him as Lord Wily (ワイリーさま Wairi Sama). While in Battle Network 5 and 6, his followers and those close to him call him Doctor Wily (ワイリーはかせ Wairi Hakase). The general public call him simply as Wily (ワイリー Wairi).
    • In the English version of Battle Network 6, every character addresses him as Dr. Wily. The Japanese version keeps up the tradition from previous games.
    • In early Japanese guidebooks, Wily's bio addresses him as just "Wily". However, in books around the time of Battle Network 6, he starts being named "Dr. Wily" (ドクターワイリー Dokutā Wairi).
  • According to a Dev Q&A, the rumor is that Baryl was the one who broke Wily out of jail for Battle Network 5.[6]
  • In a Dev Q&A, Masakazu Eguchi suggests 3 reasons on why Wily decided to fight for righteousness in Battle Network 5, but relapsed in Battle Network 6[7]:
    • Reason 1: SoulNet was Wily's last good conscience as a scientist. Although the project was halted, it was created to bring peace to the world. Wily used it as a tombstone as his former life as a SciLab researcher. Which is why he hadn't used SoulNet to turn on Net society. As a scientist, he couldn't destroy the SoulNet as it was once was his life's goal to create an ideal world. He ultimately asked Baryl to destroy it.
    • Reason 2: Regal excommunicated Wily when he was young and continued walking in his belief, the path to evil. Wily blames himself for not raising him with enough love. He hoped that by resetting his son's wicked life, he would fulfill his duty as a father by letting Regal live a more normal life.
    • Reason 3: Wily already had his sights on the Cybeasts and was about to take action, but could not do it with the leftover kindness still in his heart. So he took it upon himself to see SoulNet destroyed and fulfill his fatherly duties. Thus finally abandoning his fatherly kindness as a scientist. He then heads to Cyber City with his full mad scientist guise in action.

References[]

  1. Rockman EXE Encyclopedia Book
  2. Battle Network Rockman EXE Official Guide Book
  3. Rockman EXE no Subete
  4. Rockman EXE Official Complete Works
  5. Rockman EXE Character Encyclopedia (hiragana)
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20071024051541/http://www.capcom-fc.com/staffroom/archives/2006/01/_6_4.php#more
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20071023205601/http://www.capcom-fc.com/staffroom/archives/2006/01/_6_5.php
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