
While he retains his distaste for humans and his desire to rule, his fascination with X's potential is much more emphasized than before, hinging his entire rebellion on the fact that X represents the future of Reploids. In the remake Maverick Hunter X, Sigma is shown to have a more philosophical and level-headed personality. He manages to recover a semblance of his sanity after this defeat, but by Mega Man X8 he is again a violent brute who is completely obsessed with his vision of the future. The proud, charismatic warrior he is in the first Mega Man X degrades into a cackling, remorseless psychopath by Mega Man X4, and in Mega Man X6 he is borderline senile. Axl, on the other hand, he saw as little more than a tool in his schemes and an outdated prototype for the superior new generation Reploids.Īs Sigma is continually destroyed and resurrected, his sanity begins to degrade. He also held an obsession with Zero, due to him being the original holder of the Maverick Virus and formerly a close ally in the Maverick Hunters. He claimed that X's devotion to justice is part of what made him begin seeking to change the world in the first place, and he was utterly fascinated by X's powers and his inability to go Maverick. Over the course of the Maverick Wars, Sigma came to respect the rookie Maverick Hunter, X, even congratulating him during their first climactic encounter. Despite his brutal disposition after going Maverick though, he still had some reservations, as he noticeably was disgusted with Berkana and the lengths she was willing to go to satisfy her megalomania, to the extent that he even went as far as to thank X for stopping her. He was misanthropic towards the humans, believing that they had run their course and were now mere setbacks for the progress of Reploids. Sigma exhibited traits of savior complex, genuinely believing that he was doing what was in the best interests of the Reploids and that the ends would justify his violent means. His previous "protection through aggression" philosophy has mutated into a huge Darwinism complex, believing that anything that is too weak to progress should be annihilated, a la natural selection. He was proud and typically looked down on others, not hesitating to kill the weak and laughing maniacally at their expense. Amidst his madness, Sigma was a calculating and intelligent individual, and on more than one occasion, turned allies of X and Zero against them, and instigated many of the most destructive events of the Maverick Wars, including the Earth Crisis. Sigma was originally the honorable and selfless leader of the Maverick Hunters, but after his corruption, he became a power-hungry tyrant. He always has a very tall and bulky frame that evokes the look of a muscular man, and his color schemes often include green and/or purple. His eyes are bright blue or white, possessing no irises or pupils, and with a scar torn over each eye (sometimes the scars seem to be merely an aesthetic, such as in Mega Man X8 where they are replaced by thin lines that run down his entire face). He is arguably more anthropomorphic in appearance than even X or Zero, possessing a bald human head with a cleft chin. 6.5 Rockman X The Novel: Irregulars ReportĪlthough Sigma has taken many drastically diverse forms throughout the X series, his humanoid design remains fairly consistent.
