"one of the reasons that i never made the sloppy suggestion that both fighters had everything from their games is that the word "thing" is so vague that it heavily promotes misinterpretation . how is this unfair ?"
ok. every item and ability from their games (that they can obtain). you are essentially making that suggestion because you chose time stop, which is not something megaman has at the start of his games, and he only gets it in certain games. so thats why, in order to have time stop, you have to say that megaman has all of the powers/abilities from his games b/c we arnt specifying at what time megaman is fighting mario (like for instance after megaman 1 but before megaman 2) Thats why mario should get the same treatment, and be allowed every item and ability from his games.
"so i guess mega man's moveset is based solely on those abilities he collected during mega man II , and prior to the start of mega man III ."
yeah making these specifications dont work now, the thread shouldve been called megaman ( with only the abilities from megaman 2) vs mario (with only the abilities from some 1 game). then we couldve debated that. since its just mario and megaman, then presumably they got all the items and abilities from all their games.
"imagine a fight between mario and bowser . you claim that fighters should have "everything from their games" . well , clearly we can look at mario's history and see that he has beaten bowser before . so since mario is allowed to enter the fight with "everything from his games" , he enters the fight with a win against bowser , which would immediately end the fight in mario's favor ."
well, yeah. mainly because bowser is hardly ever a playable character, so he has very little he would use in a fight like this. a normal fight between mario and bowser is different because there are in-game restrictions on what mario can use. but a fight like this, with two main characters, is much different. and ive tried to explain why both would have everything from their games already.
why are you guys so serious about this anyways.... jeez its like you guys personaly know what would happen in a fight between two fictional characters.
well, its not exactly serious, its just for fun. we dont know what would happen, but we have an idea.
anyway i think im a bit too late. everyones done arguing about this...