Lock Man, just to confuse the Japanese :p
that reminds me.
i've always wanted to make a megaman game that parodied the whole megaman series. We know that Rock Mans name is a musical term, and Roll, Bass/Forte, Trebel, Beat etc are too. i wanted to make one where all the bosses had generic music names like
Smooth Jazz Man or Folk Rock Man.
Their powers would weild you things like Ice Solos, Fire Arpeggios, Earth Lyrics (WIND WAKER REFERENCE!...sort of) or Kenny G. Ray
i'm glad i never learned to make flash games or anything
This is a great idea...and very funny. It would have been great to see this done.
I would almost want the game to seem normal until the bosses and then have cheesy midis, and crazy boss battles for the game.
thanks. my idea was to make the boss select screen just read things like "

??Man" or have the name read very glitchy and have only "man" visible, then when you select the screen would freeze for 5 seconds in a random color. I'm sure everyone here old enough to play the original NES games (or any original NES game) would get the joke.
Then, yeah pretty much like you described, normal theme based levels until you get to the boss and realize "oh ****, i'm fighting smooth jazzman!" but the one problem i had with that idea was i'd have to have the character name come up during their intro, which means adding something that wasn't in the original MM formula.
(Rant Time: i hate how from MMX4 onward they started using "WARNING" before boss intros, so stupid. Oh and ddint MM8 do this too?)