Where are Proto Man and other original series characters in the X series?
Nobody knows, officially. Capcom hasn’t said. They haven’t even said what happened to Mega Man, much less anybody else. The only original series character we can definitely place in the X series is Dr. Light—and even he has a lot of mysteries surrounding him (see another question). Dr. Wily is mentioned but we don’t know where exactly he is in the X series world (apparently he died but was brought back to life somehow by the Zero virus—resurrected by a computer virus, now that’s a feat). Most of the rest of the characters aren’t even mentioned at all.
