Astro Man

	“	Don't get technical!	„
		~ Astro Man

Background

Astro Man is a Robot Master who debuted in Mega Man 8. His original job was to work in a planetarium, but Dr. Wily stole him and modified him for combat. Astro Man uses his abilities to confuse his opponents and then attack them with either his two orbs levitating around him or his Special Weapon, the devastating Astro Crush. His weakness is Search Man's Homing Sniper, as it can home in towards his location quite easily.

Astro Man has a modest personality and is very shy. He's easily startled and is something of a coward, thus not being very reliable in battle. He is known to be the world champion at hide-and-seek and likes wishing upon stars in his spare time. He dislikes cheap humor and old gags.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Astro Man’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Mega Man 8 Astro Man is one of the four Robot Masters dispatched to protect the barrier to the "Wily Tower" and was placed in a planetarium in the northeast of Europe, possibly Norway. Mega Man & Bass Astro Man is one of the four Robot Masters dispatched to protect the barrier to the "Wily Tower" and was placed in a planetarium in the northeast of Europe, possibly Norway. Rockman Strategy Astro Man appears on the Meteorite Surface in Africa with Stone Man, both of them sent to aid Aquarius. He later appears in the chemical plant level alongside Yamato Man and Dive Man.

General Information

Name: Astro Man, DWN-058

Origin: Mega Man 8

First Appearance: Mega Man 8

Latest Appearance: Mega Man & Bass

Company: Capcom

Creator: Keiji Inafune, Hayato Tsuru, Manabu Takemura, Hayato Kaji

Gender: Male

Assigned Gender: None (Astro Man is a robot and is not biological)

Pronouns: He/Him

Age: Unknown

Classification: Robot Master

Species: Robot

Occupation: Planetarium Worker

Status: Alive, Unknown in the X Series (Takes place many years in the future where the fate of prior classic series characters are unknown, with it being implied their data still exists as Cut Man's data exists still)

Alignment: Lawful Good (His original job was to work in a planetarium helping humans and obeying the laws of robotics), Lawful Evil when reprogrammed by Dr. Wily (Reprogrammed by Dr. Wily to help him take over the world and kill Mega Man)

Codex Statistics

Grade: A

Tier: At most High 6-A, Higher with Rage Power

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: At most Multi-Continent level (Potency) (Fought against and harmed Mega Man, who was able to fight on par with beings such as Duo, whose fight with Evil Robot caused a cloud explosion on Jupiter which was at this level), Higher with Rage Power (When Robot Masters are damaged to about half their health, they become invulnerable for a few seconds and perform more powerful attacks)

Durability: At most Multi-Continent level (Can take hits from Mega Man)

Striking Strength: At most Multi-Continent Class (Potency), Higher with Rage Power

Lifting Strength: Class G (The Robot Masters are normally made to be on par or superior to Mega Man, who was able to hold up Dr. Wily's fortress at end of Mega Man 5, with Robot Masters such as Guts Man being superior in strength and Robot Masters such as Splash Woman having comparable feats such as lifting entire ships from the ocean)

Travel Speed: Massively Hypersonic (Can move this fast compared to Mega Man, who can keep up with Duo, who can travel around the earth destroying evil energy around this timeframe), Faster Than Light with Teleporters (Robot Masters teleporters should scale to Mega Man and Proto Man’s teleportation, where they are able to travel planets and solar systems in a short time frame, reaching this levels of speed)

Attack Speed: Massively Hypersonic (Can keep up with Mega Man, who can keep up with Duo in combat who uses attacks that involve his travel speed)

Reaction Speed: Massively Hypersonic Can keep up with Mega Man, who can keep up with Duo in combat who uses attacks that involve his travel speed)

Stamina: Mimics Limitless Stamina (As long as they are powered by solar energy. All Robot Masters bodies are powered by solar energy, effectively giving them limitless stamina and ammo)

Range: Standard Melee, Hundreds of Meters with Attacks, Interplanetary with Teleporters (All robot masters naturally display teleportation through teleporters interplanetary distances)

Intelligence: Gifted Intelligence (Worked as apart of a planetarium, showing humans the other planets. Can keep up with Mega Man in combat)

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Powers and Techniques

• Superhuman Physical Characteristics
• Self-Sustenance
  • Respiratory Self-Sustenance: All Robot Masters can breathe in space just fine, with an entire game revolving around traveling through space.
  • Nutritional Self-Sustenance & Restful Self-Sustenance: Robots do not require food, sleep or sustenance.
• Inorganic Physiology (Non-Living Objects; Robot Masters are highly developed robots in the fields of robotics. Robot Masters have a "consciousness" though it is different from the standard humans consciousness as it's at the level of a "cognitive circuit" embedded inside each one of them)
• Emotional Empowerment (When Robot Masters are damaged to about half their health, they become invulnerable for a few seconds and perform more powerful attacks)
• Invincibility Frames (When robots in Mega Man are hit, they have periods of invulnerability where they cannot take damage for a few seconds)
  • Barrier Creation (This is shown to exist in verse as there are chips that amplify this ability such as Double Barrier and Extend)
• Absorption (Robot Masters are built in with usages of solar energy to charge their bodies and use their weapons essentially limitlessly)
• Teleportation (Pseudo; All robot masters naturally display teleportation through teleporters interplanetary distances, they do this through)
  • Transformation & Light Manipulation (Robot Masters teleport through transforming into a beam of light)
  • Intangibility (Phasing/Elemental; They can use this in the middle of combat to turn intangible and phase through attacks)
  • Transmutation (Transformative Arsenal) & Battlefield Removal (Application Based; They can also transform others into a beam of light and send them to other places with the teleporter, essentially removing them from the battlefield)
• Consciousness Transferral (Robot Masters can transfer their consciousness into other bodies and machines, with characters like Doc Robots having the Robot Masters programs and data directly installed with them, essentially acting as a more powerful body)
• Divine Protection (After defeating ViA■ and destroying the Robot Destroy Program within him, The Player was able to fully correct the Deep Log in its entirety. However, Via says The Player's story isn't over and RiCO repeats this and says that there will be future program errors in the Deep Log for them to correct and it would be insecure for her alone to manage it alone. Therefore to solve this problem that can happen in the future, RiCO will summon The Player in order to correct any irregular data in the Deep Log as she did in the start of the game)
• Supernatural Resilience (Robot Masters can survive wounds such as being cut in half, with ones such as Proto Man calling it merely "just a scratch", being able to come back just fine after teleporting away to be repaired)
• Immortality (Immortal Metaphysical Aspect; All robots "true existences" exist in their data, thus as long as their data is stored they can be remade or come back if their data is specifically "SAVED". With data further being explored through here)
• Impact Resistance (Standard Impact Resistance; Can regenerate from being crushed by Mad Grinder. Should scale to all the other Robot Masters who all regenerate after being flattened in Mega Man Powered Up)
• Regeneration (Mid-Godly as their Data Forms; In Rockman & Forte: Mirai Kara no Chōsensha, Rockman Shadow's data comes out of his deceased body and regenerates a new body at the very end post-credits of the game. In Mega Man Xtreme, Sigma was trying to reproduce the past data of several mavericks in the mother computer to bring havoc to the world's peace and the only way the past data of previously defeated Mavericks from X1 and X2 could be stopped is if X goes inside as his data form. Inside the Mother Computer, X defeats Vile's data form along with the data forms of a bunch of mavericks he has previously defeated. However, despite defeating their data form, their data is still are able to come back for the rematches at the end of the game along with Vile being back in the hard mode's post game story. Despite destroying Vile's data twice, he was still able to come back and better than ever in Mega Man X8. In Mega Man ZX, Omega's soul data along with flashes of the past battle in Zero 3 are trapped in area O and even after defeat, he can come back without limit even after obtaining Model OX which contains his soul data. With data further being explored through here)
• Resurrection (Repeated Resurrection, Resurrection of the Deceased; Robots that are fought and defeated are able to be brought back as long as they still have their data, with this also extending to reploids being able to come back for rematches. With data further being explored through here)
• Non-Standard Interaction (Abstract Interaction; Can directly interact with, harm, and destroy a robots data, which all robots "true existences" rely on their data, thus as long as their data is stored they can be remade or come back if their data is specifically "SAVED". All data resides in the deep log of each game's data and information of the Mega Man Franchise and many other Capcom franchises, with it being stated that data makes up the characters' personality, memories are data pieces that can be used to materialize hunter programs and also have the feelings of the characters, their data is even what determines their own canonicity in reality, with all characters being considered data alongside all universes being made of data. With data further being explored through here).

• Resistance to

• • Extreme Heats, Extreme Colds, & Weather Manipulation (Robot Masters are made to withstand extreme terrains and weather conditions)
  • Cosmic Radiations (All Robot Masters can breathe and survive in space just fine, with an entire game revolving around traveling through space)
  • Mind Manipulation and Soul Manipulation (Despite how active Robot Masters are they do not actually possess the feeling to think, feel, and make decisions of their own as this level of technology wasn't realized until the reploids of the X era. Along with Reploids having something closer to a human soul then any robot Robot Master has. Robot Masters have a "consciousness" though it is different from the standard humans consciousness as it's at the level of a "cognitive circuit" embedded inside each one of them)
  • Information Manipulation & Conceptual Manipulation (Can take hits from characters that can directly interact with, harm, and destroy a robots data, which all robots "true existences" rely on their data, thus as long as their data is stored they can be remade or come back if their data is specifically "SAVED". All data resides in the deep log of each game's data and information of the Mega Man Franchise and many other Capcom franchises, with it being stated that data makes up the characters' personality, memories are data pieces that can be used to materialize hunter programs and also have the feelings of the characters, their data is even what determines their own canonicity in reality, with all characters being considered data alongside all universes being made of data. With data further being explored through here)
  • Plot Manipulation (As data determines one's canonicity in reality and all universes are made of data, one would need to fully change one's data in order to change their narrative. With data further being explored through here)
  • Electricity Manipulation (At least 10,000,000 Watts; Robot Masters are able to tank and survive attacks from electricity-based Robot Masters attacks, even those with a weakness can survive hits from it, with Robot Masters like Bright Man, unleashing 10 million watts)
  • Heat Manipulation & Fire Manipulation (7000-8000 degrees Farenheit (?); Robot Masters are able to tank and survive attacks from heat and fire-based Robot Masters attacks, even those with a weakness can survive hits from it and survive the intense heats, with Robot Masters like Fire Man, having heat that reaches 7000 to 8000 degrees)
  • Magma Manipulation (Robot Masters are able to tank and survive attacks from magma based Robot Masters attacks, even those with a weakness can survive hits from it)
  • Ice Manipulation & Absolute Zero (0 K; Robot Masters are able to tank and survive attacks from ice based Robot Masters attacks, even those with a weakness can survive hits from it, even with ice as cold as absolute zero)
  • Gravity Manipulation (3-D; Robot Masters are able to tank and survive attacks from gravity based Robot Masters attacks, even those with a weakness can survive hits from it)
  • Black Holes (Robot Masters are able to tank and survive attacks from black hole based Robot Masters attacks, even those with a weakness can survive hits from it)
  • Petrification (Robot Masters are able to tank and survive attacks from petrification based Robot Masters attacks, even those with a weakness can survive hits from it, with the petrification being potent enough to effect black holes)
  • Acid Manipulation & Corrosion Inducement (Robot Masters are able to tank and survive attacks from acid & corrosive based Robot Masters attacks, even those with a weakness can survive hits from it)
  • Transmutation (Robot Masters and others are unaffected by the effects of the the mystery tank, which turns all weak enemies on screen into extra lives)
  • Space-Time Manipulation (3+1-D) & Battlefield Removal (Dimensional Removal (3+1-D); Robot masters are able to tank and survive attacks from the likes of Centaur Flash, which creates a dimensional distortion where he warps space and sends an opponent into a black hole, with even Robot Masters that have a weakness to it surviving its hits and not being sent into a black hole. Robot Masters can also take hits from Cut Man who can cut through space itself and leave dimensional tears that he can jump in)

Illusion Creation (Standard Illusion) & Mind Manipulation (Before his battle begins, creates an illusionary space through a projector. With a space background already set up before one even enters his room in Mega Man & Bass), Weapon Control (Has two orbs floating around him that he can control outwards), Energy Projection (His orbs can shoot out energy projectiles), Summoning (Mega Man can use Astro Man's astro crush to summon meteors from the sky to crash down on enemies), Afterimage Creation (Starts to move so fast he leaves behind afterimages), Creation (Can shoot energy blast that cause enemies to come out of the ground), Duplication (Can make illusionary duplicates that also fire energy projectiles at the enemies. Can create duplications of himself that look like green meteors from the sky to crash down on enemies), Teleportation (Is one of the few robot masters with legitimate teleportation).

Resistance to Penetration Damage (Takes virtually no damage from tenguu blade), Electricity Manipulation (Takes virtually no damage from thunder claw), Heat Manipulation & Fire Manipulation (Takes virtually no damage from flame sword. Takes virtually no damage from wave burner), Ice Manipulation & Absolute Zero (Completely immune to ice wall. Takes virtually no damage from ice wave)

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Equipment

• Projectors: Objects that allow him to congure up illusions.

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Notable Techniques

• Astro Crush: Astro Crush is Astro Man's Special Weapon in Mega Man 8. It creates a meteor storm that hits all enemies on the screen, and Astro Man himself is invincible for a short time when using it. Aqua Man becomes momentarily stunned and takes heavy damage if hit by this weapon, and Yadokargo is instantly defeated when used against it. It can destroy a certain floor in Frost Man's stage.

• Copy Vision: Copy Vision is Astro Man's Special Weapon in Mega Man & Bass. When used it, a holographic copy of them appears forward their current position to shoot at enemies. The copy fires twenty-eight shots before disappearing. The copy will also attract the fire and attention of all enemies on screen, including bosses, providing a distraction.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Astro Man will fly around using his two orbs to attack, he will also teleport around and use his strong attack astro crush, due to his enhancements from King he will also create illusionary duplicates to attack the opponent along with him.

Weaknesses: Astro Man is weak to Search Man's homing sniper and Magic Man's magic card. If his data is corrupted, he will be incapable of coming back.

Note

• Astro Man does not create universes in the way one thinks, he makes merely a simulated show of a universe as his job was to be an educational robot in a planetarium. A planetarium is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation. This not being a literal creation feat is further established in the manuals where it is stated that Astro Man simply projects planetarium images and controls the minds of those who viewed the planetarium show he performs likely to make the show more immersive. This is consistent as he has the ability to create illusions of duplicates of himself that can attack and it's also even shown during the beginning of his boss fight in Mega Man 8 that there is a projector that creates the image projection in the background and it disappears upon his defeat. Thus there is no 2-C or really any form of creation feat to scale to here.

Trivia

Background of Spring Man's stage.

• There are plans for a robot similar to Astro Man displayed in the background of Spring Man's stage in Mega Man 7.

Astro Crush "meteor".

• When Astro Man uses Astro Crush, the "meteors" that rain from the sky are actually fiery, green replicas of Astro Man himself.
• His quote, "Don't get technical!" may be a subtle reference to C-3PO in the movie Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. In one scene on Tatooine, after R2-D2 sasses off, C-3PO replies with, "Don't get technical with me."
• Astro Man is one of four Robot Masters to give Mega Man two different weapons. The other three are Tengu Man (Tornado Hold and Tengu Blade), Centaur Man (Centaur Flash and Centaur Arrow), and Pharaoh Man (Pharaoh Shot and Pharaoh Wave).

Explanations

Explanation of data in the Mega Man series.

Battle Records

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