- "Screws! Screws! Exchange 'em! Exchange 'em!"
- ―Reggae, Mega Man 10
Reggae (レゲー Regē) is a bird support robot created by Dr. Wily to keep him company when he was feeling lonely one day.[1] However, Reggae is often very noisy and annoys Dr. Wily, as he constantly laughs at the scientist's blunders and failures. Reggae is based on an Oriental stork.[2]
Appearances
Reggae makes his debut in Wily & Right's RockBoard: That's Paradise, where his main purpose is to laugh at the player, appearing to the player that loses. Reggae later appeared when an invalid password is inserted in Mega Man 7. There is also a card of him in RockBoard that has various negative effects, like increasing the prices from properties, taking away Zenny from his target, or destroying a building.
In Rockman & Forte: Mirai Kara no Chōsensha, Reggae can be bought from the item shop; when used, he will give Bass healing items, similar to Eddie.
In the game Mega Man 10, Reggae has his own store and sells items and upgrades to Bass in exchange for Screws.
Other media
Mega Man Megamix
Reggae is a chatty pet bird robot that Dr. Wily created for himself. In Mega Man Gigamix, Wily gives Reggae to Mega Man to act as a spy and cause trouble, but he is broken into pieces by Break Man. Later, Reggae is rebuilt and often appears alongside Dr. Wily, usually repeating some of Wily's quotes or making noises, making him get on the bad side of almost everyone he met. Due to this, Wily sworn to himself that he will make as many modifications as necessary to make his sidekick more likeable. Reggae rarely fights, but it was shown he and Wily are able to defeat Beat with few attacks.
Rockman Kiki Ippatsu
Reggae also makes an appearance in the drama CD Rockman Kiki Ippatsu.
Mega Man (Archie Comics)
- "Castles! Princesses! Ha-HA!"
- ―Reggae, repeating what Kalinka said in Mega Man Issue 54 Red Shift
Reggae first appears during the Worlds Collide event, where he-along with Orbot, Cubot, and a Crabmeat-are found aboard the Wily Egg playing go fish while Dr. Wily and Dr. Eggman are freaked out that Mega Man and Sonic have stopped fighting each other and are gonna realize that their imposters were to blame. He makes his full debut in the Mega Man series as a whole in Issue 54, where Blues took him along when ordered by Wily to abduct Kalinka under the threat of having his supposedly unstable nuclear core explode in a civilian populace.
Short Circuits
Prior to making an appearance in the actual comics, Reggae appears in the "Short Circuits" from Archie Comics' Mega Man, starting with issue #10, where he perches on Wood Man's head. He also appeared in Issue 16's strip, accompanying an irate Wily to the Advanced Robotics Trade Show, only to turn around and leave upon seeing an explosion at the event (caused in the actual comic by the Emerald Spears terrorist cell). Issue 20's strip found him watching Wily's work on Police Man-and the disastrous results.
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Trivia
- Reggae's name comes from reggae, a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
- A robot bird believed to be Reggae can be seen in the American promo art for Mega Man 10. (link)
- Reggae's shop theme in Mega Man 10 is a remix of Bass's theme music.
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