Of course, if I was gonna do them, I'd go for in-verse basis. Sonic and pals seemed the most out there(aside from Eggman, given he's just a morbidly obese genius scientist with a penchant for chaos causing). Mega Man is easy to pull off, I could have him at the start of his adventures, before Wily starts causing havoc?

Idea there would be he asked to be weaponized due to the presence of the chaos all over the world. Variable Weapon system might not work as effectively as it would in a purely robotic foe setting, but with GM and other rpers blessing, I could buff the copy chip so it gains a power from defeated foes akin to how it is normally, as come to think of it, in the Mega Man Street Fighter cross over, Mega Man could copy powers from his foes, but that was also non-canon. In comics, sure, he got weapons from Sonic and pals, but they were also roboticized or working in tandem(Sonic spindashing with Mega Man firing him forward I think, I'd have to recheck Worlds Collide). Mega Man Classic would also be, by starting out as his base self, easier to manage, given how crazy some weapons get in later games.

Mega Man X is a different kettle of fish, and also not usuable for the setting, since he's at least 100 years in the future, but his scanning system is better, due to him having an actual soul apparently. Mega Man gets nuts. I mean X outruns a black hole in one game, wew.

tl;dr: All for doing Mega Man, lot of love for the character. Just would need permission for a minor tweak to his weapons system that would make him a bit better for the setting(unless my friend who's a Mega Man nut knows something I don't, and MM can already do that). Otherwise, I can go for allies using combat data from threats to design Mega Man upgrades. This would also be pre-Blues and pals, unless you think we can work Mega Man Archie in up to the end of the last comic.

Thanks for considering my proposal seriously, it's really nice to find threads here so story rich, where I come from, it can be hard to get folks to all interact for overarcing stories. Like, folks say "hey there's a big world wide arc coming, get ready" half the people in the writing group go "fuck you we're not getting involved, we're gonna act like its not happening." Granted, the older arcs we did like that were badly done, but eh. Thanks again, sorry if I ever ramble in OOC, I write a lot, so yeah.