Protoman Shrugged

[Magus]

Pretty sure Emily completely defines Light's conscience, dies for an ideal, and leaves behind a letter which inspires Light to build super fighting robots! She's the driving force behind pretty much everything by sheer existence...actually she's kind of like Ayn Rand's heroines. Shit, it really is Objectivist stuff. Nooooo!

The Dark Knight had black people in ancillary roles (except Morgan Freeman, I guess...) so that would be a better reason to call it racist. The black people who are killed are Gambol in the knife scene, Commissioner Loeb, this one black cop who the Joker shoots with a shotgun, and...man I think there was another one? Anyway, after the movie came out at least one site said it was racist "because the only people who were killed in it were black", which didn't make a lot of sense, they shoulda focused more on the parts that black actors were given, like the fact that Billy Dee Williams still didn't get to play Twoface.

[POS Industries]

It's also worth noting that Emily's an original character to the opera, which is a work adapted from a particularly male-dominated franchise, to the point that "Man" is a part of most the characters' names.

Up until 2008, over twenty years since the series began, the only female character was Roll, a weak, helpless little girl whose only purpose was to clean the house. They only brought in Splash Woman two years ago, and she's noted as the weakest robot master in her game, and the first to die during the average playthrough.

It's hard not to have your adaptation seem misogynistic when the source material you have to work with reeks of it.

[Premmy]

Both ya'lls shut up, I'm trying to have a stupid reactionary response to valid criticisms of my stupid nerdy likes by refusing to acknowledge their valid concerns and disregard them in shallow ways to avoid coming to terms with the flaws in the things I love and their place in the oppression of marginalized groups/ their advocating of ideas that promote that.

[Magus]

Megaman The Animated Series had Roll doing stuff, they should do it like that if they get around to Roll. I never did understand why Light didn't give her a gun. She can take out a robot master with a vacuum cleaner attachment, she'd be unstoppable with a gun.

[PyrosNine]

Whatever, Roll in normal canon rocks harder than well, Rock. The fighting games she's in set up the idea that Roll is just as powerful as Mega Man, she just has been relegated to more peaceful activities. Which is why she rapes me in Vs. Capcom games.

But as to her treatment in a -man dominated series...well, Super Adventure Rockman has her succumbing to global magnetic waves well before any other of the Light/Wilybots because...she's a girl robot.

As to any deeper idea of the ProtoMen cribbing from Ayn Rand objectivism, I say that they wanted to do a Mega Man themed rock opera, and all rock operas tend to be tragedies. The more metal they are, the more crapsacky the world is, so the world of Mega Man gets the "Evil Mirror from the Snow Queen" treatment, trading the reason why only Mega Man can stand up to Wily is because the police don't have the tech to take them down, for that apparently no one cares enough to do anything about evil robots. Also, Light and Wily are the only scientists in the entire planet.

It's less supporting Ayn Rand than making everything in the Mega Man medium especially dystopian for the sake of art. That, and artsy people tend to be real downers. Like Rilke!