#MM4

[yufugurenyan]

Some doodles of Cossack bots!!! (+🐍)

[zonydragon]

First proper pixel art i made

[decaffeinated-heads]

It's been on my mind lately

[sourheartshop]

melanie's new story on instagram (1-4-2025)🥹🤍

[sundove88]

Countdown to Halloween Day 15- Skull Man

Day 15 gives us the enigmatic Skull Man from Mega Man 4, who is mysterious as he is powerful!!

I thought he’d be a pain in the butt to draw, but he was surprisingly easy compared to someone like Splash Woman, who was pretty tricky to draw for MerMay.

But anyways, let’s hope you don’t have…

A bad time. Sorry for that.

[billdenbrough]

microfic monday

KEVIN/AARON • aftg • FOXBOY, for @naturecalls111

more kevaaron for mina, but with extra ears this time! also keeping the unintentional microfic monday tradition (at least one kevaaron every week) alive HAHA love u girl foxboy kevin doc alive and well 🫶

[olivvesribbons]

“All the best people are crazy” oh not a LIE was told Melanie <3

[you-cant-fuck-megaman]

top 5 reasons you can’t fuck toad man- number one

number 2 through 5: that does not mean "a frog that fucks"

[switchnx]

[bassforte]

Skull man is so cool i love him.

[yufugurenyan]

If Dr.Cossack and Skull man return safely and the party is held🥂

（based on Megaman Megamix!）

[n0nesence]

🐚🤍🌀

[billdenbrough]

microfic monday

AARON/NEIL • aftg • ARE THEY FLIRTING? for @vykio

tae asked for “are they. are they flirting” w aaronneil which i had to tweak very slightly but only in syntax LMAO never in spirit. in my head matt & dan are watching from the kitchen like a sideshow

[dan-brazil]

[robotnikholmescomicblog]

Oh boy...these guys certainly had to wait a while to be main characters in the comic, some never getting the chance to. :')

[you-cant-fuck-megaman]

I've not fully read the Megaman IDW comics but i really really liked how much spotlight and personality they gave Cossack, i wish that the mainline games also gave some attention to Cossack properly (other than mentioning him by name for creating Tundra Man and other stuff)

What's your take on Cossack?

cossack owns, he's my favorite of the classic trio of doctors.

out of the three, we know the absolute least about him for the reasons you already mentioned--most of what we know is from the expanded verse in the Archie/Megamix comics. but it's clear he's a decent guy.

a lot of his appeal for me lies in the fact that he's clearly coded as a villainous mad scientist archetype. there's a lot of things to be said as for why the bad guys tend to be more appealing to fans than good guys. there's a frequent psychological pull towards the antagonists or edgy rivals as opposed to the straight-laced heroes.

meanwhile, right in the middle of the 90s, Russia and Russian characters were pretty clearly the designated go-to antagonists of choice for the yanks, and everything about Cossack plays into that archetype. his castle is an onion dome, the C logo is reminiscent of a star-and-sickle, his design is based on the revolutionist Trotsky, his music is stylized after traditional Russian music emphasizing the staccato notes interspersed between mournful melodies, and his fortress is set in the grim deathly russian snow. he clearly is designed after every single stereotypical antagonistic beat possible, the eeeeeeevil Russian bad enemy guy. hell, his original name was apparently going to fucking be Dr. Vice.

and yet, he's a hero. not just that, he's a personable hero. he loves his family. he loves his daughter. he wants to do right by her and take care of her. he's clearly just as into design as Wily is, but without the copy-paste of other people's robots. he's a self-made man, a man's man, who worked to get to his position and now works for his family. he's had tragedy befall him and yet pushes on through and helps Light.

having someone clearly leaning into the villain #aesthetic but still be a stalwart good guy is 2000% my jelly and i am all here for it. i'll take five with a side of pirozhki and vodka.

oh yeah and megaman 4 was a good game