That was NOT in the manual.
Roll is a little hard to verify because of her roles (ha ha! I'm so funny) in MvC1 and 2. Surely that qualifies her as a fighting robot, but the whole MvC thing seems to take place outside of continuity.
RANT WARNING
Let me tell you something about Roll in the cartoon. She was 20 times more powerful than Mega Man. Just look at the opening sequence. She has a vacuum cleaner, which she can reverse, that can hurl enemies across the sky. Her arm can change into any household device you can imagine, except that device is upgraded to apocalyptic power levels. "Oh look! I've turned my hand into tongs, and with my vice-like grip I will crush Guts Man's head!"
Seem unlikely? The point that I always have to make about the Mega Man cartoon that utterly disgusts me about it is a scene where Guts Man is standing on a stage and Mega Man is "fighting" him. Mega Man shoots, but not at Guts Man. Instead, he shoots a god damned sandbag hanging over the stage. First of all, what kind of futuristic society still uses sandbags? Do kids even know what the sandbag was doing there? I swear, a decade or two later, people are going to be looking back at that show and saying, "Why the hell is a random sandbag there?" So he shoots the rope the sandbag is tied to, and the sandbag drops on Guts Man's head. As a result, Guts Man's head is crunched into his torso, thus "defeating" him.
Let's pause for a moment and consider what just happened. Mega Man shoots enemies. That's why he has a gun. Why didn't he just shoot Guts Man? It would make sense to me if Mega Man was shooting a tripwire that caused an avalanche of boulders to fall on Guts Man, but he shot at a sandbag. He shot a sandbag to drop it on Guts Man's head, and it worked. HELLO!? If a fucking sandbag is enough to damage Guts Man, a direct hit would surely annihilate him. And if Mega Man's weapon is powerful enough to burn through the rope holding the sandbag, then it must be powerful enough to hurt Guts Man. Furthermore, Guts Man is a much larger and easier target to hit than a rope about twenty feet in the air.
So you put the two together and Mega Man is a weak retard. Roll should've been the hero. When I saw the first Rockman OAV, I thought it was awesome just because you actually get to see Rockman kick some ass. It wasn't the watered down action from American artists who don't know how to draw or choreograph a fight scene; or the lame comic-relief-driven characters by writers who don't understand that writing poorly isn't the secret to children's programming.
MeggerMan can't shoot his enemies directly too much, even if they are only stupid robots. That would be too violent! Instead he has to spend time thinking of clever ways to win, even if it means letting stuff fall on his head and falling victim to Dr. Wily's latest plot device.
put yourself in my rocketpack if that poochie is one outrageous dude
