Obviously you don't pay attention to the game stories... U.S. localization Copyright issues or Asimov's 3 Robotic Laws...

He is a robot, thus 'BOY' is irrelevant. His name is 'Rock', he is referenced as MegaMan... He was given a Gun because of his sense of Justice. And being a 'ROBOT', he is bound to 3 Laws of Robotics. Pretty much he cannot in any form harm a human...

Mega man is a robot. Robots don't grow. Or get old. So so what if he's 2?

1) Mega Man is designed to be like a boy of about ten years of age (in Japanese anime terms, at least-- let's face it, a ten year old from one of those is likely to be portrayed as a little more mature than one in a US toon, probably).

2) The First Law was mentioned in Mega Man X's opening sequence.

3) Dr. Wily is the one who programmed or reprogrammed the robots he's used in his bids for world domination.  Aside from the fact that I don't think we've technically seen one cause direct harm to a human before, it's not unreasonable to think that Wily altered, removed, or never bothered with adding the law in the first place.

I could easily see him changing "humans" to "Wily."

--LBD "Nytetrayn"

Bass was an experimental accident. Wily discovered Bassnium and thus created Bass with it. And from his skill form Quint/ProtoMan (repair)/BreakMan/Darkman... He would have tried for an open-ended program based Operating System. Plus he tries to fix that by tinkering with Mind Control technology in MM&B.

The only other example would be King. But his 'War on Humans' could be translated to be a ruse to get MegaMan into the matter...

Jun 21, 2009 -- 2:35PM, Scuttlest wrote:

Er... exactly where is it stated that those three laws apply to the robots in the Mega Man series? Closest evidence i've ever seen was Wily's comment at the end of MM7, and he only mentioned about robots harming humans.

Nearly everything Robot based since within the 80's uses such Laws. It is just what gives foundation to the Robots as they are given such limited character.

Jun 21, 2009 -- 2:35PM, Scuttlest wrote:

Especially when you consider that the other two laws "robots must always do what humans say unless it contradicts the first law",

We don't know if any robots caused any harm or any casualties. Other that psycological, we only know of their 'Intent'. And even then, it was never about human. It has been selective to Light's creations, not Light per se. So that law hasn't been broken, close in U.S. MM7, but that is it. Close. And if Wily wanted Light dead, all he would have done is program that into Bass in MM7 so he would have killed Light during his espionage attack.

Jun 21, 2009 -- 2:35PM, Scuttlest wrote:

"robots must do everything in their power to save themselves unless it goes against the first two laws"

And they do try to save themselves. Thus the Boss battles. They themselves get personal in fighting MegaMan, and ultimately loose. That law wasn't broken.

So they are still operating with the 3 laws. Just unspoken.

With Bass being an 'accident', for the lack of a better term, Wily doesn't recall what went into making him. he doesn't recall all of the small quirks, key points and what not. Thus he was basically not familier with Bass' mind. Thus he developed a way to regain control over him. And then study him. Which we see at the end of MM9.