Mega Man has a couple of these for me.
There's Mac, the Hunter from X3 who betrays the Maverick Hunters and gets obliterated by Zero shortly afterward.
X recognizes him on sight, and is clearly surprised at his betrayal, so there's some shared history there. Hunter HQ is being attacked for the first and only time we see in the X series, so it's likely Mac had something to do with Doppler's forces finding the place and getting inside. In X4, the supporting characters like Double or Iris get a decent amount of exposition and screen time (relatively, for a Mega Man game). But in X3, we get this guy, who we know next to nothing about.
X2 has a similar character, whose name we don't even know. Green Biker Dude was chosen to go with X on his first mission, although he gets tragically killed right away. My headcanon always placed him in a similar position to X and Zero, the "player 3" to their 1P and 2P.
Look at him popping a wheelie and riding alongside X all badass like that.
I wish the X series had an anime, or continued its series of remakes after Maverick Hunter X. It didn't seem to really care about its story too much in X2 or X3, at least not compared to X1, X4, X5 or any of the Zero games.
What are some examples you have of characters that you wish you knew more about?
There's Mac, the Hunter from X3 who betrays the Maverick Hunters and gets obliterated by Zero shortly afterward.
X recognizes him on sight, and is clearly surprised at his betrayal, so there's some shared history there. Hunter HQ is being attacked for the first and only time we see in the X series, so it's likely Mac had something to do with Doppler's forces finding the place and getting inside. In X4, the supporting characters like Double or Iris get a decent amount of exposition and screen time (relatively, for a Mega Man game). But in X3, we get this guy, who we know next to nothing about.
X2 has a similar character, whose name we don't even know. Green Biker Dude was chosen to go with X on his first mission, although he gets tragically killed right away. My headcanon always placed him in a similar position to X and Zero, the "player 3" to their 1P and 2P.
Look at him popping a wheelie and riding alongside X all badass like that.
I wish the X series had an anime, or continued its series of remakes after Maverick Hunter X. It didn't seem to really care about its story too much in X2 or X3, at least not compared to X1, X4, X5 or any of the Zero games.
What are some examples you have of characters that you wish you knew more about?
