>Just the image of Mega Man standing there, there's a sadness to it. Even his sprite has a certain gravity and seriousness to it. When I see a young child playing alone, in a park or in the middle of the street, playing by himself there's something so sad about that sight, it can almost bring me to tears. And there's something similarly lonely about Mega Man. In the backstory I wrote, Mega Man alone is equipped with the functionality to turn himself off. That very fact imbues him with a sadness. The other robot masters were made for some kind of specific job or work, so there's no need for them to have an "off switch" they can control. However, a robot helper like Mega Man can make his own judgements, and therefore can decide whether he's needed or not. The sadness of being a robot is having this inorganic existence.
I wonder what his take on Proto Man would've been. I know it was his idea to give Mega Man an older brother but I'm pretty sure he left before they got to actually drawing and implementing the character.
