>Named after a substance used in war crimes
>Stage is based on the Vietnam War
>Gets the game banned in Vietnam for this very reason
>Still the most popular boss in Mega Man 5 and one of the series' fan-favorite Robot Masters
>Gets into Battle & Chase and his stage music is in Super Smash Bros.

How did he get away with it?

war crimes are cool

vietnamese food sucks outside of char broiled pork with cracked rice and sweet vinegar. pho might as well be wintergreen gum soup so nobody cared about offending them.

>>11827993 (OP)
For a robot master that's essentially supposed to be a walking military arsenal he doesn't quite feel like one of the most powerful ones

Just what exactly was this robot's purpose even? We already had one for blowing shit up for construction reasons, you sure as hell don't use Napalm for anything other than war crimes.

>>11827993 (OP)
And yet his weapon is just a generic bomb. You'd think Napalm Man would actually use napalm.

>>11828097
Crash Man doesn't crash into you either. And don't get me started on Hard Man...

>>11828107
what if hard man makes me hard tho

>>11827993 (OP)
He did it for the lulz

>>11828082
IIRC the MM5 bosses were made by Wily just to wreck shit and cause chaos like in MM2

>>11828097
>You'd think Napalm Man would actually use napalm.

His cut shoulder missiles probably were the Napalm. The way they travel in an arc, I like to imagine they'd spawn fire spreading horizontally once they'd hit the ground.

>>11828362
>once they'd hit the ground.

Actually scartched that, they'd probably explode mid-air. The missiles doesn't show any frame going down plus the layout of his arena wouldn't be suited for fire spreading on the ground due to the step in the middle (assuming it was always there)

>>11828001
>walking military arsenal
That's the part that gets me. He doesn't walk, he doesn't even roll on his treads. He jumps everywhere. Tank Man from MM Unlimited feels more like how Napalm's fight was supposed to be.

>>11828001
A consequence of the early games trending easier as they come out
The MM6 guys being part of a fighting tournament is cool flavor text, but not very apparent in their bossfights

Has anyone heard of MegaMan Victory? It just came into my recommended tab the other day and it's a channel about letting boss characters fight each other (mostly robot masters)

https://youtu.be/ClpnUDl-j2A?t=2

>>11828738
Not to mention MM6 felt like they were scraping the bottom of the barrel to come up with robot masters. I mean, Centaur Man? Tomahawk Man? Yamato Man? Good luck trying to come up with explanations on what they were built for. Come to think of it, weren't those from some kind of contest where people could submit their robot master ideas?

>>11827996
>No bun bo hue or fish sauce wings
You are Gay

>>11827996
for me its the pork vermicelli

>>11827993 (OP)
he also won Battle & Chase.
in his ending, he has a weapon museum.
which is mentioned in other games, and media.

>>11827993 (OP)
gook killer man would have been too on the nose

>>11829217
>Battle & Chase
>not playing as Quickman exclusively

Do you like to suffer?

>>11827993 (OP)
His design makes me think that he was once one of the Dark Robot variants in the ProtoMan Castle before being reworked into a robot master.

>>11828738
>>11828796
Makes sense to me. They all or most seem to have regional flavor to them, like the suits in G Gundam. Would make sense for them to thematically represent the country or group that made them.

>>11828796
Every single set of robot masters between MM2 and MM7 were pulled from official fan contests.
The MM6 contest had three international winners.

>>11828532
Holy shit, you're absolutely right
https://youtu.be/HeOaFxG5bUI?t=293

>>11828796
>>11829632
MM8's bosses were based off fan designs, also
The originals are even shown in the credits

>>11828796
According to the MM wiki, Tomahawk and Yamato were both designed solely for combat, while Centaur was a museum tour guide that was modified for the tournament. I always thought the MM6 RM's were all designed specifically for the World Robot Tournament, their designs reflecting their nations' cultural heritage as suggested by>>11829550

>>11828746
I've been following that channel for a year or so now. I love it. It's just unfortunate that there probably is no truly fair way to program the damage as it wouldn't make sense for them all to still have full contact damage (since it'd just be a wash) yet some of them clearly have patterns meant more for that. I've suggested to the creator that maybe every robot master could have some amount of contact damage on depending on how much they'd need it (e.g. Metal Man might have only a single frame maybe when he's landing from a jump or just starting a jump since his pattern is all about avoiding you and thus contact damage isn't his thing, but someone like Snake Man could have it on a lot of the time since the main challenge in the fight is avoiding him as his snakes are pretty pathetic).

>>11827993 (OP)
A nuclear bipedal walking tank?!

>>11830287

>>11827993 (OP)
You forgot his based weapon

>>11829682
I believe only six of the MM8 bosses were contest winners, with Tengu Man and Astro Man being fully made by Capcom staff.

>>11831317
>Tengu Man and Astro Man being fully made by Capcom staff.
That's also why they got to come back for MM&Bass.