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>>8270102
Same reason why there are Pokemon fans who ABSOLUTELY believe that there was a super awful nuclear war that killed all the adults in Gen 1 or the "Venomoth is the real Butterfree" thing. It's dumb fan-lore thing that they cling onto because it was the first thing that added "depth" to the story. Zero only being evil for one boss battle at the end of X5 wasn't enough; he has to be SO badass that he could kill everyone from the Classic series singlehandedly. Its the reason why there's never a concrete answer to how he ended up back in the capsule; that would mean that someone had to beat him, and that doesn't gel well with him being an unstoppable badass.

>>666341
>>666341
I think Axl is a perfectly fine character who brings interesting new things to the table with his abilities.

However, his appearance marked the deathblow to the franchise, so he's just kind of seen as the symbol for where everything went to shit.

I'd have no problem playing an SNES or even PS1 era game if he were a properly implemented character in them, but aside from Command Mission (which was a spin-off) and his kinda-cameo in ZXA, the only games he's been in have been some of the worst offerings of the X series.