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>>8239291
I like to think the English localization genuinely thought Zero saying "they" (Vile and Sigma in context) was just a typo, and that they were correcting it by referring to "he" (just one of them, ie. Sigma). Or, also a very distinct possibility, the English localization was translated from an early Japanese script, as Mega Man X8 actually came out some time before Rockman X4. Clyde Mandelin coined the term "transcreation" in his A Link Between Worlds article on Legends of Localization as a possible reason why the Zora Queen is treated differently between the English and Japanese versions - a similar thing may have happened here, where the Japanese changed the script late in development and the English localizers didn't get the memo or couldn't update it in time. Either way, Dynamo still appears in the odd crossover spinoff, not to mention X Challenge, so I think it was ultimately a failed retcon attempt forgotten by Capcom.

>>8109954
I can't believe this is actually true.
Explains a lot, except..not really, since Dynamo was never destroyed in X5 or X6. I don't think Capcom is erasing Dynamo from existence, since he still makes appearances in the odd spinoff, but the suggestion is rather that Dynamo is a form of Vile. The question is, is he III, IV, or both? And at what point was it discovered that Dynamo's identity was Vile? It'd have to have happened off-screen anytime before or after X7.
Someone update the wikis.