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ProtoMega
Mega Man and Proto Man by FieryStampede on Deviantart
GENERAL
Mega Man
Character	Mega Man
Character	Proto Man
Canonical?	Semi-Canon
Status of Relationship	Share a creator/Proto Man looks up to Mega Man Rivals, unknown if siblings or not (Ruby Spears)
IN FANDOM
Type (?)	Family

ProtoMega is the family ship between Mega Man and Proto Man from the Mega Man fandom.

Canon

Mega Man 3

Proto Man encounters Mega Man four different times across the Robot Master stages, his appearance always cued in by a whistle jingle, though his identity is unknown at this point. In Magnet Man's, Hard Man's and Shadow Man's stages, he fights Mega Man as a mid-boss, and once he's defeated, he teleports away, and a part of the floor blows up for Mega Man to further progress. He also appears in Gemini Man's stage, but actually helps Mega Man by blowing up a large machine sealing off the entrance to the inner caverns.

After the defeat of the Doc Robot(s), Mega Man is challenged directly by Proto Man to a duel one last time, donning a helmet and calling himself "Break Man."

After Mega Man defeats Dr. Wily, Proto Man saves Mega Man and brings him back to Dr. Light's laboratory. Dr. Light hears Proto Man's whistle and looks like he recognizes him. Based on Proto Man's words while rescuing Mega Man, he might have also planned to rescue Dr. Wily as well but thinks that he arrived too late.

Mega Man 4

During Mega Man’s confrontation with the supposedly renegade scientist Dr. Cossack, Proto Man appears with Cossack’s daughter Kalinka. As it turns out, Wily took her captive in order to blackmail Cossack into acting against Mega Man. However, Proto Man rescued her, exposing Wily as the true enemy.

Mega Man 5

Proto Man was suspected of a robot attack and kidnapping Dr. Light. Mega Man finds out later that Dr. Wily created a robot called Dark Man to impersonate Proto Man. Proto Man appears to reveal the deception and later helps Mega Man near the end of the game by helping lift the roof of Dr. Wily's castle when Mega Man saved Dr. Light.

Mega Man 6

Proto Man appears in Tomahawk Man's stage to give Mega Man the Energy Balancer upgrade. With it, when Mega Man collects Weapon Energy with the Mega Buster, it restores the weapon that has the least energy in it.

Mega Man 7

Proto Man appears in Cloud Man and Turbo Man's stage, giving Mega Man hints to certain secrets (like using the "flame weapon" in "the woods"). After Mega Man visits him in those areas, he will appear in Shade Man's stage hidden in the wall behind the Sniper Joe 01 after the mid-boss, VAN Pookin, by destroying the mini pumpkin inside the boss. He will challenge Mega Man to a fight and if he takes enough damage, he will give his Proto Shield to Mega Man.

Mega Man & Bass

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Mega Man 8

After Mega Man's battle with Duo, Proto Man tells him that Dr. Wily's new fortress, called "Wily Tower", lies just ahead. Later after Duo is weakened when he saved Mega Man from the giant laser of Wily's latest Wily Machine, Proto Man arrives and helps Duo escape leaving Mega Man to finish off Dr. Wily on his own. Then, after Wily's defeat and Mega Man's rescue at the hands of Duo, Mega Man returns to the area near the wreckage of Wily Tower to find Proto Man standing on a tree. Proto Man tells him that Duo left to return to space but had a message for him - "Thank you."

Mega Man 10

Proto Man is a playable character from the start of the game, with all of his features from Mega Man 9. However, Proto Man can now use a store, even though there are less items in it, and the remaining items cost more (for example, an E-Tank costs 40 screws instead of 30 screws). He aids Mega Man to help find the parts for a vaccine-making device to fight the Roboenza virus, which causes robots to overheat and go crazy. While inside the Wily Castle, he is infected with the virus and collapses. However, Mega Man had a prototype cure with him that Dr. Light had built earlier in the game, and the two can go on and defeat Wily. In his ending, Proto Man decided to leave Wily behind, deducing Wily coming down with influenza was "poetic justice", although it is implied that Mega Man still took him to the hospital. On a related note, Proto Man is the only one of the three playable characters who doesn't mistake Wily's influenza for the Roboenza virus.

Mega Man: The Power Battle

Mega Man is a playable character alongside Proto Man and Bass. In Mega Man's ending, he loses Wily again, and Dr. Light informs him that robots need to make decisions on their own (alluding to one of Light's projects) and Mega Man then decides he will fight for everyone's future.

Fanon

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Since the audience is aware that Proto Man sees Mega Man as his brother, many fans prefer them platonically.

The vtuber Power Guy has made videos playing Mega Man and completely ignores dialogue and just makes new interactions with Mega Man and Proto Man, possibly making the ship (platonic, not romantic) slightly better.

Fandom

FAN FICTION

Proto Man & Mega Man tag on AO3

Proto Man/Mega Man tag on AO3