Keiji Inafune allegedly asked Marvel vs Capcom’s devs to add panty shots for Roll 

With the release of the Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics this week, the appearance of Mega Man character Roll Caskett in the fighting games attracted attention. Responding to a fan’s comment about how the young robot girl’s underwear is always visible when fighting, the X account believed to belong to Marvel vs. Capcom planner Atsushi Tomita alleged that this decision to show her panties was made by Keiji Inafune. 

Post translation: Since Roll was a character from another department (of Capcom), when we first put her in Marvel vs. Capcom, we took care to make sure her pants weren’t visible at all. However, when Mr. Inafune, the head of the Mega Man department, came to look at our work, he asked “No panty shots?” So, INO, the artist in charge of the character, ended up reworking the pixel art so that her panties would show with every movement. 

Keiji Inafune was the original character designer for the Mega Man (Rock Man) series. He would go on to produce later entries in the series before leaving Capcom in 2010. At the time of the first Marvel vs. Capcom game’s development- it seems he was considered to be the person in charge of Mega Man-related things.   

This piece of behind-the-scenes information about Roll Caskett ’s underwear has prompted shocked responses on forums like ResetEra. The reason for the outcry is Roll’s age. In the manual for Mega Man Legends (1997), she is described as “Mega Man’s 14-year-old best friend and companion.”  

Roll appears in two games re-released in the recent Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection, namely “Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes” (1998) and “Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes” (2000). In these fighting games, she is also depicted like a young girl. 

Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics is available now on PC (Steam), Nintendo Switch and PS4.

Verity Townsend
Verity Townsend

Automaton West Editor and translator. She has a soft spot for old-school Sierra adventure games and Final Fantasy VIII (yes, 8!). Can often be found hunting down weird forgotten games and finding out everything about them. Frequently muses about characters and lines from Metal Gear Solid and Disco Elysium. Aims to keep Automaton fresh and interesting with a wide variety of articles.

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  1. The character’s name is Roll, not Roll Caskett, that’s a different character from the Mega Man Legends series.