The
badass robot-space-ninja from Mega
Man 3 on the NES. After his defeat, you obtain his Shadow
Blade, which is arguably the best weapon in the game. Dr. Wily obviously couldn’t build anything so cool, at least not until the creation of Zero, so how DID Wily build Shadowman? He didn’t. Over 20,000 years before Mega
Man 3 takes place, Shadowman was part of an extraterrestrial line of robots called the Kuiper Droids, given orders from Terra from Mega Man V for the Gameboy. All of the Kuiper Droids were destroyed, except Shadowman, who landed safely on
Earth and went offline, leading to Wily’s discovery and modification of him over 20,000 years later.