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The crazy part ain't dreaming, wishing on a falling star

It's been a while since I've done a pointless trivia, so how about another one on Mega Man ? Covering the whole franchise, or at least as much of it as I can think of interesting things to say about. The whole reason for Mega Man's predominantly blue colour scheme is that the NES colour palette has a slightly larger selection of shades of blue than any other colour, and Capcom wanted the most detailed sprite possible for the character. Many of the characters in the games have names related to music in some way. Mega Man's Japanese name is Rockman, which combines with the main female character Roll to make rock and roll. Bass and Treble refer to the two clefs in music, and their Japanese names, Forte and Gospel, are also music references ("forte" means "loud" in Italian and is a notation meaning "play this loudly", while "gospel" is a style of music). Proto Man's Japanese name is Blues, another style of music. His English n