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After noticing some things about Mega Man's Time Stopper, I want to address some issues and possible additions.
1. Mega Man 2 Robot Master's Resistance to Time Stop: According to the Mega Man Complete Works site, the Robot Masters from Mega Man 2 (in this case Air Ma, Metal Ma and Flash Ma) have devices installed in them to work as a defense mechanism against the Time Stopper. However, they are all still frozen under Time Stopper's effects in the games, the only difference being they don't take damage unlike Quick Man due his device having a defect. This likely suggests they STILL have the resistance to the Time Stopper, but not in terms of being able to resist the time stop itself if that makes sense. More on that in the next point.
2. Time Stopper deals continuous damage while it's active: So it's established that Quick Man takes damage because of the defect in his defense mechanism to resist the time stop . This would mean the Time Stopper naturally damages foes stopped in time through... space-time hax or something. Keep in mind that Quick Man ISN'T exactly weak to Time Stopper, but rather he's vulnerable to it's effects due to his defect, making him the only one who takes damage from it. Manga Mega Man even has this to a minor degree as evidenced by the descriptions of Quick Man and Flash Man in Megamix. Quick Man's time acceleration is countered by Flash Man's time stop, the latter's time stop being able to "reduce the speed of light to nearly zero, infinitely increasing [Quick Man's] mass and thus creating a powerful gravitational field" - Mega Man Megamix Character File . However, the manga also states Quick Man is the only one who can be damaged by the time stop because he manipulates the speed of light (via his time acceleration system).
3. Mega Man can attack during Time Stop: In Super Adventure Rockman, Mega Man is able to use Time Stopper to fire a Mega Buster shot which stops time for a few seconds before time resumes again. During this time, Mega Man can still fire Mega Buster shots at foes (like Flash Stopper) or he can switch to other weapons and attack before time resumes again and he can keep this going.
Conclusions: In short, the Mega Man 2 Robot Masters don't resist time stop specifically, but do resist the damage Time Stopper deals so perhaps they have resistance to spatial hax or something? Speaking of which, Time Stopper possibly negates durability (even if this isn't accepted I believe he should get this anyway due to his AZ + space-time manipulation) and damages targets as long as it's active since it continuously damaged Quick Man (depleting half of his life energy in game) when he was just vulnerable to it's effects due to a flaw in his device. Meanwhile, Manga Mega Man damages foes the same way except only those who can manipulate the speed of light (time or vector manip users if I'm not mistaken) are damaged. As a side note, if anyone's wondering why Flash Man's own time stop doesn't do this it's because Mega Man's copied weapons are refined to befit Mega Man himself after they're copied (i.e. Centaur Flash being a screen nuke as opposed to a time stop like when Centaur Man used it, Atomic Fire being a large fireball as opposed to being a fire tackle like when Heat Man used it, etc.) so it makes sense Time Stopper would be different in Mega Man's case. Also, Mega Man can attack in time stop apparently. Why this happens in SAR but not Mega Man 2? Likely game mechanics as both have different gameplay. Thoughts?
1. Mega Man 2 Robot Master's Resistance to Time Stop: According to the Mega Man Complete Works site, the Robot Masters from Mega Man 2 (in this case Air Ma, Metal Ma and Flash Ma) have devices installed in them to work as a defense mechanism against the Time Stopper. However, they are all still frozen under Time Stopper's effects in the games, the only difference being they don't take damage unlike Quick Man due his device having a defect. This likely suggests they STILL have the resistance to the Time Stopper, but not in terms of being able to resist the time stop itself if that makes sense. More on that in the next point.
2. Time Stopper deals continuous damage while it's active: So it's established that Quick Man takes damage because of the defect in his defense mechanism to resist the time stop . This would mean the Time Stopper naturally damages foes stopped in time through... space-time hax or something. Keep in mind that Quick Man ISN'T exactly weak to Time Stopper, but rather he's vulnerable to it's effects due to his defect, making him the only one who takes damage from it. Manga Mega Man even has this to a minor degree as evidenced by the descriptions of Quick Man and Flash Man in Megamix. Quick Man's time acceleration is countered by Flash Man's time stop, the latter's time stop being able to "reduce the speed of light to nearly zero, infinitely increasing [Quick Man's] mass and thus creating a powerful gravitational field" - Mega Man Megamix Character File . However, the manga also states Quick Man is the only one who can be damaged by the time stop because he manipulates the speed of light (via his time acceleration system).
3. Mega Man can attack during Time Stop: In Super Adventure Rockman, Mega Man is able to use Time Stopper to fire a Mega Buster shot which stops time for a few seconds before time resumes again. During this time, Mega Man can still fire Mega Buster shots at foes (like Flash Stopper) or he can switch to other weapons and attack before time resumes again and he can keep this going.
Conclusions: In short, the Mega Man 2 Robot Masters don't resist time stop specifically, but do resist the damage Time Stopper deals so perhaps they have resistance to spatial hax or something? Speaking of which, Time Stopper possibly negates durability (even if this isn't accepted I believe he should get this anyway due to his AZ + space-time manipulation) and damages targets as long as it's active since it continuously damaged Quick Man (depleting half of his life energy in game) when he was just vulnerable to it's effects due to a flaw in his device. Meanwhile, Manga Mega Man damages foes the same way except only those who can manipulate the speed of light (time or vector manip users if I'm not mistaken) are damaged. As a side note, if anyone's wondering why Flash Man's own time stop doesn't do this it's because Mega Man's copied weapons are refined to befit Mega Man himself after they're copied (i.e. Centaur Flash being a screen nuke as opposed to a time stop like when Centaur Man used it, Atomic Fire being a large fireball as opposed to being a fire tackle like when Heat Man used it, etc.) so it makes sense Time Stopper would be different in Mega Man's case. Also, Mega Man can attack in time stop apparently. Why this happens in SAR but not Mega Man 2? Likely game mechanics as both have different gameplay. Thoughts?
