>>11837595
I like how Wily is instrumental to the apocalyptic and then post-apocalyptic settings of the X and Zero spinoff series but he was basically a joke in the original: his schemes were cartoonishly stupid in general and in the first game he didn't even build the Robot Masters, he just hacked Dr. Light's and it's implied that most of his actual creations in the other classic games were basically just imitations of superior work by better scientists.

Sadly as of 2025 it's difficult to laugh at the notion of some pathetic megalomaniac clown eventually becoming a serious threat to the World in general.