He was created to be a copy, but the end result is what Wily didn't expect. it started off all good in favor of Wily, but fell apart rather quickly. That is why I refer to it as an accident. And he does know what he put it, but since he was also working with the newly dicovered Bassnium, I'm sure he was 'full of himself' when implicating Bass with it.

And by PB, Wily is more familier with Bass inner workings. A Guru made this small timeline:

R7>R8>R&F>R9>RtPB>R2tPF

So time has been taked for Wily to refamilierize himself with Bass.

It was nothing significant. It just showed his diagram. But following accord to the MM&B, data titled as 8.5. And Wily's pitty to convince Bass to return to his side, it would suggest that Power B/F would be during another Bass betrayal. Which would be after MM9 since that diagram suggests it is Wily upgrading/analyzing Bass...

But it is speculation until Classic Complete Works is released to offer a timeline of it's own... Though from the lack of info from the Japanese copy, it is up in the air...

Jun 21, 2009 -- 11:28PM, LBD_Nytetrayn wrote:

Indeed, but Wily did a lot of things differently with Bass.  Though, to be fair, we don't ever really see Bass harming Wily, do we?  He destroys his machines, but if the time came, could he pull the trigger on Wily himself directly?

Well, considering Bass' ending in MM&B, Wily apperantly believes Bass would be willing to do it, since he seems terrified of Bass.

Although Bass' endings in Power Battle and Power Fighter's seem to go against this, since Wily doesn't seem concerned in any way of the chance that Bass might try to attack him outside of one of his mechs. Wily basically taunts Bass over his defeat to Mega Man in Power Battle, and directly insults Bass in Power Fighters, although I guess that "pompus robot" wouldn't get much of a reaction.

No he wouldn't, because his programming would prohibite it.

In the Classic series, robots can not perform actions that their programming would not allow, except perhaps Duo.

The cocnept of free-will and judging moral capacity doesn't exist until the X series in the timeline.

The 'What if' statement is rhetorical since we 'KNOW' Rock never went haywire. The 'ONLY' character we can say that about effectively is Vile from the X series... Rock never had a problem. Being built as a lab Assistant then being convverted into a battle robot. After said overhaul, Rock's systems are far more fortified than typical robots.