Shadow Man (シャドーマン, Shadōman) is a mysterious, stealthy, and powerful ninja-themed Wily Number who debuted in Mega Man 3. While there is little data about Shadow Man, it is rumored that Dr. Wily discovered and modified a deactivated robot created by an extraterrestrial civilization. Further evidence comes from the fact Shadow Man's body and blades are made with a material not found on Earth.[1][2] His Special Weapon is the Shadow Blade, a large hira shuriken coated with a deadly substance capable of degrading the functions of robotic mechanisms. Shadow Man is a skilled martial artist and a master of ninjutsu magic — his abilities include being able to temporarily create duplicates of himself to distract or attack his foes, create smoke screens, and summon frog robots of varying sizes - including a giant frog robot to ride on or smaller ones to check areas for him. Shadow Man can also use the Kawarimi no Jutsu, a ninja technique that replaces the body of the user with an object, usually a piece of log, as defense in his battle in Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters and Super Adventure Rockman, as well as when he loses a race in Mega Man Battle & Chase. Appearance Shadow Man is a humanoid robot who is designed to be a ninja. He has a black body, red eyes, a blue helmet with a large ninja star on the front top, a blue torso with a white area on the middle, white spherical shoulders, blue hands, a yellow lining between the torso and the legs, white knee pads and white feet. Personality Shadow Man, being a ninja, has amazing flexibility, but has been known to be rather impulsive and carries a shallow way of thinking. Shadow Man loves sneaking up on others by using his ninja abilities and has come to dislike obvious or boring tricks. He also tends to be callous and unnecessarily cruel, even with his own allies. Shadow Man is one of the eight bosses in the Stage Select Screen. Defeating him rewards the player with Shadow Blade and Rush Marine. Attack pattern Shadow Man moves by doing 3 jumps (2 at the start) of 3 variable heights, moving slowly forward to close in on the player. After his last jump, he will randomly choose one of two attacks: the first is to slide forward at a high speed, jumping after passing Mega Man (or if he touches a wall). His second is to stand still before throwing two Shadow Blades, one straight and one diagonally upward. This can be dodged by sliding or jumping, but the player must be careful not to jump into the other Shadow Blade. Trying to anticipate what he does is impossible because of the random attack choice, but the best way to prepare for a dodge is to slide away from him before he starts an attack. This should create some distance to jump over the Shadow Blade AND him sliding to catch up to Mega Man. If push comes to shove, it is best to always jump over Shadow Man before he attacks, as the Shadow Blades do less damage than his slide attack. In Mega Man: The Wily Wars, Shadow Man takes a lot longer to actually throw his 2 Shadow Blades. Weaknesses Shadow Man's weakness is Top Spin, which can defeat him in just 4 hits. However, because of the weapon's nature of damaging the player and potentially draining all of its ammo if hitting something while under I-frames, the player must be extremely cautious with using it. He also has a secondary weakness to Hard Knuckle, which does 2 damage. As with all other bosses in Mega Man 3, Shadow Man is weak to his own weapon and goes down in 7 hits to it, though it can only be used in the rematches. Shadow Blade may have some difficulty hitting the boss due to its short range. Mega Man III Shadow Man is one of the four bosses from the first Stage Select Screen, which all come from Mega Man 3. Attack pattern While still remaining a difficult boss, Shadow Man is much slower. He sits in place for a bit after landing from each jump. He won't jump immediately after finishing a slide, making it possible to dodge the slide from the wall. Shadow Man also throws his Shadow Blades much quicker, but the Shadow Blades themselves are slower in speed. Weakness Shadow Man is weak to Gemini Laser, which does 3 damage to him. If it misses, the laser will likely bounce around and hit Shadow Man from another angle. As with most other bosses, Shadow Man takes 3 damage from a fully-charged buster shot. Shadow Man has a secondary weakness to Skull Barrier, which does 2 damage, but as there are no rematches, this can only be discovered with a cheat device. Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters This is a mysterious robot who attacks with Ninjitsu. You could easily defeat him if you had a weapon that shoots vertically. Dr. Light Shadow Man is one of the six bosses from the "Search for Wily!" course. Like Mega Man 3, he attacks with Shadow Blades and slides, but he can also use makibishis and summon a giant frog (possibly a modified Kerog) when he loses half of his energy (depending of the difficulty and the order the bosses are defeated, having a higher chance to do it the later he is fought). The frog attacks with its tongue, a flamethrower in the mouth (Shadow Man says "Katon no Jutsu" before this attack), and can spit Kerones. Shadow Man is weak to Centaur Arrow. Shadow Man is one of the sixteen Wily Numbers revived by Ra Moon in the Lanfront Ruins; Shadow Man appearing as the last boss of Episode 1. When Shadow Man appears, he tries to kill Rockman, but Quick Man gets in the way of his Shadow Blade to protect him after he realizes that Dr. Wily is being used by Ra Moon to destroy the world rather than simply conquering it as he had originally thought. In battle, Shadow Man creates copies of himself and Rockman must hit the real one. He attacks with Shadow Blades. If the player loses to him, Shadow Man will use an arm cannon to destroy Rockman, and there will be no choice given to continue. Enraged by Quick Man's death at his hands, Rockman attacks Shadow Man with full power, completely destroying him along with his core, rendering him irreparable. This in turn infuriates Wood Man to the point of attacking Rockman himself at the beginning of Episode 2, in an attempt to avenge his friend. Due to being completely destroyed, Shadow Man is the only of the sixteen Wily Numbers who is not revived by Ra Moon again towards the end of Episode 3. A mysterious robot with almost no accurate data available. It is said that Wily modified a robot built by an extraterrestrial civilization. His special weapon is Shadow Blade. In the comic book series, Shadow Man was the last of the Kuiper Droids (lesser Stardroids) in charge of protecting Ra Moon before being found and repaired by Dr. Wily with Ra Moon's help. He is later considered a brother to the rest of the wily numbers such as hard man, top man, snake man, needle man, spark man and Gemini man, essentially making him an adopted member of the family He is a closet weeb, at least he tries to be when everyone isn't paying attention to his uniform. Likes frogs. Red eyes Knows how to drive surprisingly well considering his origins A big brother figure.