Dr. Wily

Original Mega Man series

Dr. Wily is the main villain of the Mega Man series. He fought Mega Man himself in the first three Mega Man games, got Dr. Cossack to take his place for most of Mega Man 4, made Dark Man hide him in Mega Man 5, and did a terrible job of pretending to be Mr. X in Mega Man 6. He also escaped from jail in Mega Man 7. No, that was not Dr. Willy. It was Wily. Wily. He then messed around with an evil energy in Mega Man 8. And he might have built a gold robot with a giant axe in Rockman and Forte. But since neither "Rockman" nor "Forte" really exist, it was all a crazy dream... right?

Dr. Wily usually attacks Mega Man with 6 to 8 Robot Masters, then with 3 to 5 Fortress bosses, then with clones of the previous Robot Masters, and finally with 1 to 3 giant robots that he's hiding in. He's very traditional about things.

Mega Man Battle Network series

Dr. Wily is can also be found in the Mega Man Battle Network series, but he's only in the first, third, and fifth games. In the first and third, he is the leader of the WWW (MMBN), which is really, really, evil.

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In the first game, Wily isn't too important. He's just "the leader of the WWW." His members are more evil (and weird) than him. But I don't think any other leader would have the style and ambition to design his fortress like a giant skull. I guess he had practice from the original series.

In the third game, Wily is after the TetraCodes, which will unlock four gates that are completely out in the open, yet guard a terrible power: The old prototype of the internet, which is full of popups and viruses and concentrated, gelatinous evil. At the end of the third game, Wily unlocks Alpha thanks to Bass/Forte and unleashes it on the world. Then he gets swallowed by it, disappearing for the rest of the game. Now, normally, this would mean he died. But you know that'd never happen. Not in this series.

In the fifth game, it is revealed that he wasn't evil 30 years ago and had worked with Tadashi Hikari (Dr. Light) to create SoulNet, which links the world's souls together. Forget "double-edged sword," that's probably the easiest way for someone to take over the world, ever. In the ending of the fifth game, he is somehow alive and erases his son's memories to make him be good. What a father.