Knowing Capcom they prob forgot, but Mega Man 9 takes place a couple months before X was completed.

Thoughts, canon,useful. Imo Axl the charcter isn't bad, Axl the uneeded additional character in the X series is my problem, hell at least he's not a hyper pacifist like X or like Zero doesn't give a **** about anything, in X7, but he really has no point , X had range, with some crappy close up moves, and vice versa for Zero. Axl had what a copy shot, wake me up when they find a reploid that's not worse then Axl to copy. Not only that, but he screwed up the plot. It works if he didn;t exist, but then who is Model A based. Model X is X spirit Model Z is zero so on and so forth, certainly not Albert, the A does not stand for Albert he may have made the biometa, but he has to base it off someone just like the others