Gate

Personality: Gate is a devoted researcher with a sardonic attitude, a large ego, and an irreverent personality. In order to achieve his goals, he's willing to do everything necessary to get what he wants. Like many of the villains in the series, Gate desires a Reploid government under his leadership, though he specifies that his utopia will only include certain advanced Reploids such as himself and his own creations. Gate aims to make the strongest Reploids possible, which is why he is so fascinated by the legendary X and Zero and their unanalyzable bodies. He is a genius in Reploid engineering and unafraid to show it, sometimes to his own detriment. During his time on the research team, unlike Alia, he broke protocols by making his Reploid creations unanalyzable, causing him to be shunned by his peers. Gate could not understand, as he considered them excellent Reploids, and found it hypocritical that X and Zero were not treated with the same fear. He became resentful when his creations were destroyed by his very own colleagues, especially because Alia was in on the conspiracy, and chose to escape the scorn by hiding in solitude. Despite this, Gate appears to have some concern for the world, as he laments the ruin caused by Eurasia and is bitter that authorities claim they should be thankful for the reduced damage. Alia also mentions in the ending that she and Gate longed to create a program resistant to all viruses. However, any compassion Gate once had is completely lost when he is infected by Zero's DNA; although he realizes that he is losing his sanity, he finds the sensation "liberating" and loses himself in his own selfish goals.

Appearance: Gate is a tall male Reploid in purple armor, he is around 5'11'' feet tall. His clear face is recognizable for his sharp purple eyes and confident expression; he also appears to be slightly older than X and Zero. His helmet is distinguished by a pair of metallic blades running up the visor and a diamond shaped blue gem. Another blue gem with the shape of a pentagon is located on the center of his chest plate. He wears a white lab coat featuring golden accents and cuffs. In combat, Gate changes to a golden form, and he gets taller too: He is around 6'3'' feet tall. His armor becomes sharper and bulkier, especially his shoulder pads, with white details and blue gems on the arms and legs. His lab coat also becomes a flowing white cape.

Abilities:

Nightmare Hole: Gate fires a colored "gate" from his buster, which stops in the player's location. Once it has stopped moving, it can be destroyed to scatter six fragments that can damage Gate (but can also hit the player). Depending on his boss level, Gate can have up to three Nightmare Holes active at once. They are color-coded based on effect: Orange fires a projectile at the player every so often. Green pursues the player for contact damage. Red slows down the player's movement and attacks. Blue pulls the player towards it horizontally, even disrupting wall kicks. Purple summons a Nightmare Virus every so often.

Nightmare Move: Gate hovers towards the player to ram them, stopping in their initial location.

Nightmare Strike: Gate slashes his hand upwards, leaving behind a tall energy construct for a moment. This attack can destroy the arena's platforms, though they respawn eventually. He only uses this attack if there are three Nightmare Holes active.

Gate is a Reploid scientist and the main antagonist of Megaman X6. Formerly a colleague of Alia's, he seeks to create the most powerful Reploids imaginable, a goal which is twisted into world domination once he is driven mad by his experiments on Zero's DNA. Gate is the creator of the eight Nightmare Investigators, the Zero Nightmare, High Max, and the Nightmare itself. He is also responsible for the resurrection of Sigma.