Dr. Thomas Light

Dr. Light shares many of his personality traits with one of his greatest masterpieces, Rock, better known as Mega Man. He's idealistic, gentle and soft-hearted, and he's a big supporter of the relationship between humans and robots ever since he was a university student, when he wanted to create robots with independent thought, believing that this would make them better partners for humans. He's a brilliant roboticist and engineer who succeeded at that goal: he revolutionized society with his work he's known as the number one roboticist in the world, winning many prestigious awards and even earning the nickname of "The father of modern-day robotics". He wishes to create a robot that can act exactly like a human, unbounded by their programming. Being a pacifist, he hates violence, but he reluctantly recognizes the use of force as a last resort. Dr. Light never had children of his own, but he has a fatherly relationship with the robots he created: he sees them as his own children and lives alongside them in his lab as a family. This is especially noticeable with Rock and his sister Roll, and he loves them as if they were his own kids. However, Dr. Light is also particularly naive and gullible, and he often pays the price the hard way due to his overly trusting nature. Dr. Wily, his former friend turned rival, took advantage of him and betrayed him more than once, like stealing his robots and reprogramming them for his schemes to take over the world, tricking another set of robots he created to turn them evil and framing him with a robot duplicate of him or stealing and using Gamma, the giant peace-keeping robot they had worked on, to take over the world. This is because his friendship with Dr. Wily was broken when they were attending university due to their differing ideals about the relationship between robots and humans and because he openly disapproved Wily's research on an experimental prototype with potentially disastrous side effects. He won a debate about which research would be funded, and Wily, bittered both by being defeated by him and by his role in the rejection of his research, stormed off and never forgave him, developing a fixation to prove that he's better than him and resulting in him becoming evil. Dr. Light feels guilty for pushing him away, questioning if they would still be friends if he was more understanding with Wily and tried to compromise instead of just telling him he was wrong, and he attempts to make up for his past mistakes and reconcile with him. At the end of the game, he goes as far as to personally go in the Gear Fortress to offer Dr. Wily redemption and attempt to be friends with him again, but he's unsuccessful, which makes him sad and disappointed.