"Saying that there are eight bosses and that makes it Mega Man," he begins, seemingly irritated by the question, before interrupting himself. But surely the fact that Beck is mostly blue, steals his powers from enemies, and fights exactly eight bosses is a callback to Mega Man, right? Right!? Nevermind that I might argue that Mega Man looks heavily inspired by Osamu Tezuka's manga mascot, but I understand his point. Is Astro Boy the same character as Mega Man? I would answer 'no.'" And if you're going to say that a character is the same because of its silhouette is the same, then the same could be said about Astro Boy because he also has a very similar silhouette. What it is is that people are looking at the silhouette of the character and thinking 'oh, it's the same,' but it's really not.
"Ultimately both characters may look similar if you look at them with a precursory glance, but if you really drill down and you look at the different details - like the colouring, the goggles, the fact that one has a gigantic cannon for an arm and the other doesn't - there's actually tons and tons of differences between both character designs. That's because it's the same guy who's creating the character, right?" Because every artist has their own style, when you look at Beck some people think the character design looks similar. "So if you were to look at a Picasso you would know it's a Picasso even if it's a different painting because that is Picasso's style. "All artists have their own style" says Inafune through a translator (Capcom's head of globalisation, Ben Judd, who also provides the voice of Phoenix Wright). 9 bears with Inafune's beloved blue bomber, but the ex-Capcom veteran doesn't see it as anything more than a cursory likeness. It's hard to deny the more-than-passing-resemblance Mighty No. This pretty much sums up my interview with Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune about his new Kickstarter project, the recently launched retro throwback Mighty No. It's Santa Monica Cop!" Apocalypse deadpans. "Oh, like Beverly Hills Cop?" the Duchovny character asks.
The script in question is called Santa Monica Cop. There's an episode of Californication where David Duchovny's writer character is asked to provide a treatment of a screenplay by rapper Samurai Apocalypse (wonderfully played by the Rza).
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