Board Thread:VS Debates/@comment-33881745-20190421194116/@comment-26418719-20190814181049

Kingo the Sixth wrote: Trust me, I’m aware. I’m a pretty big Mega Man fan lol. But even if it semantics, the devil’s in the details here. What you said about Hub.BAT only strengthens the idea that their soul is code. Hub.BAT is in essence the last part of Hub’s “soul” turned into a computer file. The fact that it IS a file suggests that Hub’s soul has completely been turned into code, representing his appearance and personality down to the minute details. And I doubt Zarathos can penance stare a goddamn computer program in the end.

Not sure what there is to say about Double Soul lol, it’s just a name. The copybots only strengthen the idea that their soul are made out of data I think, considering it shows they can easily enter other programs and hijack them.

It is semantics, but I think it’s important. It probably does come down to how you want to interpret the Battle Network series though, so agree to disagree I guess? The Copybot only really has one program, that's designed specifically to work with NetNavis. It's not the first time the Mega Man series has explored non-organic life having souls either (As both X and Zero can attest to).

Also, Double Soul is explicitly achieved by the soul of a Navi communing with MegaMan's own soul.

But the most damning part, I think, comes from the ​​​​​​​SoulNet, the program Nergal used in Battle Network 5 to attempt to taint Humanity's souls with evil through the power of Nebula Gray. This affected both Humans and NetNavis in the same way, as well as allowing the ability to link the souls of Humans and NetNavi (In this case, Lan linking his soul to MegaMan's is what caused the Hub Form to awaken in BN5), and the souls of NetNavis together (With which the respective Team MegaMan is with, plus Roll, Gutsman and Glyde all pool their energy to MegaMan through the SoulNet).

All of this implies that the Soul of a NetNavi is in many ways similar to a Human's soul, and that MegaMan is NOT just an exception to the rule.