Worlds Unite Review Part 6

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Worlds Unite Part Three: Clash of the Corrupted

Pencil Breakdowns: Dan Schoening

Pencil Finishers: Tracy Yardley!

Inks: Terry Austin

Colors: Luis Delgado

Letters: Jack Morelli


    Part Three of Worlds Unite is the high point for me. The fights that are here are fun, and the biggest part I like is that it feels like a natural fit for both worlds. We see Mobotropolis and the Freedom Fighters fighting M’egga Man, which solidifies the series as being a part of the comics’ timeline. M’egga’s abilities are a fun reference to Eggman fights of the past, and watching the Robot Masters go all out was also really neat. Seeing Gemerl for the first time was nice, and it seems that he has become a replacement for Shard.


    That’s not to say that I don’t have my problems with this issue. Gemerl shows up only to be blasted back, to show off how powerful M’egga Man is, for starters.Secondly, I can’t help but feel that certain Robot masters in the previous Mega Man story volunteered to be shut off soley because Ian Flynn didn’t want to use them in the crossover. After all, during Curse of Ra Moon, one of the most compelling points of that story was when Gemini Man argued with himself about how he was designed to be a mining robot, yet leading up to Unite, he resigned himself to being shut off because he felt he wasn’t of any use.


    Ian Flynn writing characters to fit plots instead of writing plots to fit characters has been a complaint I’ve seen around the internet so far, and it is during this very issue that I started to see that happening.

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All I can really say was that this one got my goat. I don't much like The Worf Effect as a trope, let alone when it's used for a one-off villain, and I think an actual battle between equals is a much better way to introduce characters than having the new guy backhand the established ones. Let's also not forget that this is going to be several peoples' first introduction to Gemerl, who is apparently going to be around a lot longer than M'egga Man. First impressions are everything, and now quite a few peoples' first impressions are going to be "Robot that gets taken down by a one-off villain to make said villain look cool and then gets people-puppeted by the Zeti".