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Cut Man

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I can't forgive what you did to my brothers! It's payback time and I'm gonna cut you down to size!
~ Cut Man
Get ready to be sliced and diced!
~ Cut Man
M-Ms. Roll!! What are you doing here?!
~ Cut Man
You're the one that's wrong, Iceman... For your punishment, I'll slice you in half!
~ Cut Man
Down the middle!
~ Cut Man


Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters - Cut Man
Mega Man: Powered Up - Cut Man Stage
Mega Man 8 - Cut Man's Mini Stage
Mega Man - Cut Man Stage
Mega Man: Powered Up - Boss Battle
Mega Man - Boss Battle
Mega Man: Powered Up - Opening Stage


Background

Cut Man (カットマン Kattoman) is a Robot Master who was created by Dr. Light to be a timber-felling robot. Cut Man debuted in the first Mega Man game, where he was reprogrammed by Dr. Wily to help him conquer the world.

His Special Weapon is the Rolling Cutter, an extremely sharp circular pair of scissor-like blades that can be thrown like boomerangs to attack from a distance. They are made of highly resistant "ceramic titanium", allowing them to slice through most materials effectively. His body was designed with a lightweight chassis that grants him fast and agile movement, even in strong rain and wind, as well as the ability to jump against horizontal surfaces to reach great heights. Metal Man would eventually be built via Cut Man's design.

Powers and Stats

Keys: Mega Man | Optic Sunflower Data

Tier: 5-B, Higher with Rage Power | 4-C, Higher with Rage Power

Name: Cut Man, DLN-003, Cutman, CM

Origin: Mega Man

Sex: Male

Age: Unknown

Classification: Robot Master

Status: Alive, Deceased in the X Series (Takes place many years in the future where all the prior classic series characters are long gone)

Alignment: Lawful Good (Is made as a timber-felling robot to help people cut down trees and is passionate about his job. He is also very polite when he talks, referring to everyone as Mr. or Ms. and fights to bring peace. If Mega Man fails to defeat a Robot Master in Super Adventure Rockman, Cut Man rescues him to bring him to safety. He also fought against Dr. Wily's plan of world domination), Lawful Evil while reprogrammed by Dr. Wily (Cut Man was reprogramed by Dr. Wily to help him conquer the world and into thinking Mega Man was made into an evil fighting robot)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Planet level+ (Can consistently harm Mega Man several times in the series who was able to fight on par with beings such as Duo, who was at this level. Can harm Duo himself along with being able to defeat several Robot Masters and Wily Machine Number 1. Can defeat Dr. Wily's own Mega Man copy, Mega Man?), 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) | Star level+ (Can fight and take hits from Mega Man X, Zero, & Axl, who all fought and defeated Lumine, who was also capable of creating a dimension that has a sun. Lumine was able to completely destroy it and it was calculated at this. The dimension was also entirely destroyed when Lumine was defeated), Higher with Rage Power

Durability: Planet level+ (Can take hits from Mega Man, Duo, several Robot Masters and Wily Machine Number 1) | Star level+

Striking Strength: Planet Class+, Higher with Rage Power | Star Class+, 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) | At least Class G

Travel Speed: FTL (Can move this fast compared to Mega Man, who can outrun black holes from robot masters such as Saturn and Galaxy Man. Cut Man was also designed to be nimble), Far Higher 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[1], reaching this levels of speed) | Massively FTL (As his data is amped by the likes of Optic Sunflower, he should be comparable to all other robots of this era, should be undoubtedly superior to Duo who is capable of traveling through galaxies and across the universe while doing his job to destroy the Evil Energy. He's also stated to be Intergalactic multiple times)

Combat Speed: Massively FTL (Can keep up with Mega Man and Duo in combat who uses attacks that involve his travel speed, where Duo is capable of traveling through galaxies while doing his job and likely travels across the universe doing his job to destroy the Evil Energy) | Massively FTL

Reaction Speed: Massively FTL (Can dodge attacks from Mega Man, and Duo who uses attacks that involve his travel speed, where Duo is capable of traveling through galaxies while doing his job and likely travels across the universe doing his job to destroy the Evil Energy. Can react to and cut through a wooden log while traveling down in his teleporter form) | Massively FTL

Stamina: Essentially Limitless due to being a robot

Range: Standard Melee Range physically, Dozens of Meters with Weaponry and Attacks, Interplanetary with Teleporters (All robot masters naturally display teleportation through teleporters interplanetary distances[2])

Intelligence: Genius (Can keep up with Mega Man in combat and can skillfully adapt to all of the Robot Masters to reach and even defeat Wily himself to stop his plan of world domination. Can defeat Copy Cut Man who is a perfect copy of him that knows everything about him. Cut Man also can clear entire stages without injury)


Powers and Abilities

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Human Achievements (Is a skilled Soccer and Tennis player), Acrobatics (Is noted to have high mobility which is also shown in his fights and can platform through the many Robot Master and Dr. Wily stages. Can wall jump to help him reach higher areas and to dodge attacks as shown here) Surface Scaling (Can stick on walls to help him perform an even higher jump), Body Control (Can pop out the Scissors on his head to attack with like a boomerang), Weapon Mastery (Can skillfully use his Rolling Cutter in combat and to perform other abilities as shown here), Weapon Control (Can control and manipulate several of his scissor shears that he creates to do multiple different things at once), Afterimage Creation (Can create after images with his Rolling Cutter), Self-Sustenance (Types 1, 2, & 3; All Robot Masters can breathe in space just fine, with an entire game revolving around traveling through space[3] and as robots do not require food, sleep or sustenance), Inorganic Physiology (Type 2. Robot Masters are highly developed robots in the fields of robotics. Robot Masters have a "conciousness" though it is different from the standard humans conciousness as it's at the level of a "cognitive circuit" embedded inside each one of them[4]), Psuedo-Teleportation, Transformation, Light Manipulation & Intangibility (Type 3 [Transformation], Phasing/Elemental; All robot masters naturally display teleportation through teleporters interplanetary distances[5], they do this through transforming into a beam of light, they can use this in the middle of combat to turn intangible and phase through attacks), Immortality (Type 3; Through robots and reploids ability to regenerate back their body and data. Type 6; Robot Masters can survive wounds such as being cut in half, with ones such as Proto Man calling it merely "a flesh wound", being able to come back just fine after teleporting away to be repaired. Type 8; 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". With data further being explored through here), Regeneration (Mid through Cartoon Physics; 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. Mid-Godly through their data; 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 then 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 (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), Information Manipulation (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". With data further being explored through here), Creation & Unlimited Ammo (Can create multiple scissors to throw at once without a limit on how many he can make. He can also create several Tsuranattori to attack), Rage Power & limited Invulnerability (When Robot Masters are damaged to about half their health, they become invulnerable for a few seconds and perform more powerful attacks), Size Manipulation (Can make the scissors on his head bigger to deal a much stronger attack when enraged), Fire Manipulation (Can shoots fireballs from his hands), Ice Manipulation & Absolute Zero (With his Ice Akuma attack. Ice in the Mega Man series is consistently Absolute Zero), Attack Reflection (Can make attacks bounce off him by crouching), Homing Attack (With his Yashichi), Fire Manipulation Negation (Can completely negate the fire of a fireball), Dimensional Storage (Can carry multiple E-Tanks, Pumpkins, Yashichi, and tiny robots for him to throw), Spatial Manipulation & Dimensional Travel (Cut Man can cut through space itself and create several dimensional tears that he can jump in and hide in to follow up with a sneak attack from inside), Restoration (Can restore the areas that he spatially cut out), Healing (With E-Tanks)


Resistance to Extreme Heats, Extreme Colds, & Weather Manipulation (Robot Masters are made to withstand extreme terrains and weather conditions. They all compare as Robot Master's can be in said terrain even without their job being related to it and can take each other's attacks), 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 "conciousness" though it is different from the standard humans conciousness as it's at the level of a "cognitive circuit" embedded inside each one of them[6]), Cosmic Radiations (All Robot Masters can breathe and survive in space just fine, with an entire game revolving around traveling through space[7]), Electricity Manipulation (Takes virtually no damage to thunder beam. 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), Heat Manipulation & Fire Manipulation (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), 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 (Completely immune to ice slasher. 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 (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)
Healing & Restoration (With Big Fish, 6% of energy is instantly filled. With Petit Goblin, 11% of energy is instantly filled. With Telly, health recovery rate increases by 3%), One Hit KO (With Batton, destroys all nearby enemies. With Claw, avoid actions to destroy enemies), Transmutation (With Neo Metall, turns all nearby enemies into coins), Limited Probability Manipulation (With Pierobot, increases item drop rate by 2%. With Changkey Maker, item drop rate increases by 6%. With Bolton and Nutton, buster capsule drop rate increases by 2%. With Wily Machine 2, buster capsule drop rate increases by 6%. With Wily Machine 3, energy capsule drop rate increases by 6%), Statistics Amplification (With Pipi, grants a speed boost that passively increases speed. With Shotman, grants a 20% attack boost for 2 seconds. With New Shotman, grants a 40% attack boost for 2 seconds. With Guts Tank, grants a 60% attack boost for 3 seconds. With Springer, enhances jump power for 6 seconds. With Giant Springer, enhances jump power for 9 seconds), Time Stop (With Picopico-kun, stops time for 2 seconds), Invulnerability (With Bikky, invincible for 2 seconds. With Gutsman "Dispatch", invincible for 3 seconds. With Gutsman++, invincible for 7 seconds. With Pickelman Bull, invulnerable dash for 2 seconds), Magnetism Manipulation (With Mag Fly, magnetically attracts coins for 2 seconds)

Standard Equipment

Rolling Cutters, E-Tanks, Tiny Robots

Optional Equipment

His items from Rock Man Go Go! and Rock Man Tennis


Notable Techniques

  • Rolling Cutter: Rolling Cutter is Cut Man's Special Weapon, a versatile cutter made of ceratanium that can cut anything in half. It has the form of a large pair of extremely sharp scissor blades that are thrown like boomerangs, flying in front of the user in a teardrop-shaped pattern, before returning to the person that used it.

Other

Standard Tactics: Cut Man throws the scissors on his head to do his Roller Cutter attack while jumping around quickly. He can also cut through space to create tears that he can hide in, sneak attack from, and trick his opponent.

Weaknesses: If his data is corrupted, he will be incapable of coming back. Super Arm (Mega Man and Powered Up), Fire Storm (Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge), Mega Ball/Flame Sword/Thunder Claw/Ice Wave/Water Balloon (Mega Man 8: Sega Saturn Version), Leaf Shield (Mega Man: The Power Battle), Slash Claw (Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters), Thunder Dancer (X)/Raikousen (Zero)/Plasma Gun (Axl) (Mega Man X8).

Trivia

  • Cut Man's dislike of rocks refers to the popular game, "Rock, Paper, Scissors" where rock defeats scissors, by blunting the scissors' blades as they try to cut the rock, also a reference to his weakness Super Arm. His Japanese dislike, Janken, is the name of this game in Japan.
  • Cut Man's theme in Mega Man: The Power Battle is a remix of Shadow Man's stage theme.
  • He is one of the most popular Robot Masters in the classic Mega Man series, having a great amount of appearances. He is also possibly the most popular of the first six Robot Masters in Mega Man Megamix, as when Mega Man or Roll refer to the robots, they usually state "Cut Man and the others".
  • Cut Man is the only Robot Master in the main series whose primary weakness to a special weapon cannot be used against them again during the rematch in Wily's castle- unless the player is playing as Guts Man in Mega Man Powered Up.
  • Cut Man is the only character other than Mega Man and Roll to use Rush's functions in a game; using Rush Jet in Super Adventure Rockman to save Mega Man. Cut Man also demonstrated the ability to equip the Rush Adapter in the Megamix manga, due to the fact his body was identical to Mega Man's.
  • Cut Man is constantly depicted being in a bad mood,[8] but he isn't always like this, as shown in Mega Man Powered Up and Super Adventure Rockman.
  • In the Archie Comics series, he is known to have terrible puns, all involving cutting, such as "It was slice to meet you!" in Time Keeps Slipping. This aspect of his character is likely carried over from his appearance in the Mega Man cartoon series.
    • Additionally, Time Man and Bomb Man reflect on his terrible puns, being the only Robot Masters to do so.
    • When Mega Man fights him in the Archie Comics series, Mega Man also makes a pun of his own, only to realize his own pun was unimpressive.
  • Cut Man is probably the least resistant Robot Master to the standard Mega Buster in the classic series, and maybe the entire series as a whole. He takes 3 damage and noticeable recoil from a single hit, likely to compensate for the inability to use his main weakness, the Super Arm against him in Wily's Castle. Most other Robot Masters take 1 damage with no recoil. This might be because Mega Man is also called Rockman, and rock beats scissors in RPS.
    • Ironically, his counterpart in Captain N: The Game Master, Cuts Man, is the strongest of the Robot Masters from Mega Man 1. While the other Robot Masters went down with a single shot, Cuts Man was completely immune to the buster. It was only when he was distracted that he was slain with his own Cutting Boomerangs.
  • Cut Man has his theme warped into a major key in Mega Man Powered Up. (The original theme was in A minor, but the new theme is in A-flat major.) He is the only one from the original game with this trait in all playthroughs. Time Man and Oil Man don't count since they were not in the original game, and neither do Fire Man or Guts Man as their themes become major as a warning that something isn't right.


References

  1. PEACE HAS COME TO THE WORLD.
    Dr. Wily has reformed, and he and Dr. Right have joined forces, working together to develop a giant peace-keeping robot named “GAMMA”.
    “GAMMA”…… It was the life-long dream of Dr. Right, a giant robot to protect and serve world peace.
    Their research almost complete, all that remained was to combine 8 energy elements that were scattered about the uncharted planets, and bestow them to “GAMMA”…
    –However, each planet met with an unexpected incident. The robots who were mining the energy elements suddenly began going berserk!! Upon learning of this from Dr. Right, “ROCKMAN” immediately set out on a path for the uncharted planets–a new battle was about to begin!!
  2. PEACE HAS COME TO THE WORLD.
    Dr. Wily has reformed, and he and Dr. Right have joined forces, working together to develop a giant peace-keeping robot named “GAMMA”.
    “GAMMA”…… It was the life-long dream of Dr. Right, a giant robot to protect and serve world peace.
    Their research almost complete, all that remained was to combine 8 energy elements that were scattered about the uncharted planets, and bestow them to “GAMMA”…
    –However, each planet met with an unexpected incident. The robots who were mining the energy elements suddenly began going berserk!! Upon learning of this from Dr. Right, “ROCKMAN” immediately set out on a path for the uncharted planets–a new battle was about to begin!!
  3. PEACE HAS COME TO THE WORLD.
    Dr. Wily has reformed, and he and Dr. Right have joined forces, working together to develop a giant peace-keeping robot named “GAMMA”.
    “GAMMA”…… It was the life-long dream of Dr. Right, a giant robot to protect and serve world peace.
    Their research almost complete, all that remained was to combine 8 energy elements that were scattered about the uncharted planets, and bestow them to “GAMMA”…
    –However, each planet met with an unexpected incident. The robots who were mining the energy elements suddenly began going berserk!! Upon learning of this from Dr. Right, “ROCKMAN” immediately set out on a path for the uncharted planets–a new battle was about to begin!!
  4. Q. Do robots like those made by Dr. Wily or Dr. Cossack have self-awareness, and can they talk? And do they run on solar energy like Rockman does?
    A. I take it you’d like to know if Wily and Cossack’s robots possess “sentience”? Naturally, they each have a “consciousness”, although the level of every “cognitive circuit” embedded inside each one of them varies, producing as many different “personality” types as found in people… Just like you or I, they can speak, and have emotional responses like shyness, or anger, just as we do.
    Regarding their energy systems, many of them do utilize “solar energy” in some way.
  5. PEACE HAS COME TO THE WORLD.
    Dr. Wily has reformed, and he and Dr. Right have joined forces, working together to develop a giant peace-keeping robot named “GAMMA”.
    “GAMMA”…… It was the life-long dream of Dr. Right, a giant robot to protect and serve world peace.
    Their research almost complete, all that remained was to combine 8 energy elements that were scattered about the uncharted planets, and bestow them to “GAMMA”…
    –However, each planet met with an unexpected incident. The robots who were mining the energy elements suddenly began going berserk!! Upon learning of this from Dr. Right, “ROCKMAN” immediately set out on a path for the uncharted planets–a new battle was about to begin!!
  6. Q. Do robots like those made by Dr. Wily or Dr. Cossack have self-awareness, and can they talk? And do they run on solar energy like Rockman does?
    A. I take it you’d like to know if Wily and Cossack’s robots possess “sentience”? Naturally, they each have a “consciousness”, although the level of every “cognitive circuit” embedded inside each one of them varies, producing as many different “personality” types as found in people… Just like you or I, they can speak, and have emotional responses like shyness, or anger, just as we do.
    Regarding their energy systems, many of them do utilize “solar energy” in some way.
  7. PEACE HAS COME TO THE WORLD.
    Dr. Wily has reformed, and he and Dr. Right have joined forces, working together to develop a giant peace-keeping robot named “GAMMA”.
    “GAMMA”…… It was the life-long dream of Dr. Right, a giant robot to protect and serve world peace.
    Their research almost complete, all that remained was to combine 8 energy elements that were scattered about the uncharted planets, and bestow them to “GAMMA”…
    –However, each planet met with an unexpected incident. The robots who were mining the energy elements suddenly began going berserk!! Upon learning of this from Dr. Right, “ROCKMAN” immediately set out on a path for the uncharted planets–a new battle was about to begin!!
  8. The Reploid Research Lavatory: Rock’s Top Secret Photos Revealed!

Explanations

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