Wily Castle (SSS)

:This article is strictly about how Wily Castle appears in Super Smash Stadium. For information about it in general, see its article on the Mega Man Wiki.
Wily Castle is an active stage on Super Smash Stadium. It debuted about halfway through Season 13, and is the 59th stage to debut overall.
==Stage overview==
The stage consists mainly of a single flat platform. However, it's not quite a Final Destination clone, as the platform extends all the way to the bottom of the stage.
At regular intervals, multiple sets of spinning platforms will line the stage. These platforms operate similarly to the ones seen in Guts Man's stage on Mega Man 1 (or Platform Problems in DK Country: Tropical Freeze) in that when they hit a yellow section on their path, they'll flip downward and become unusable.
The main hazard of this stage is the Yellow Devil. As in the Mega Man games, he appears in multiple pieces, which hurt to touch. He then fires a few beams from his eye, then warps to the other side of the stage piece by piece to repeat the process again. After three times, he warps off the stage, again piece by piece. You can hit him in his eye, and if you manage to deal 100% to him, he dies in a massive explosion which severely hurts (and likely kills) all other opponents as well as drops a lot of items, generally power items.
==Changes==
At the time of this stage's debut, the trend for stages that always had Unlimited Smashes was that they were originally much smaller than they currently are, and upgraded to their current sizes only when offering a 5-figure cash payout. The best examples of this trend were, naturally, the two stages that made very obvious upgrades the previous year: Dracula's Castle and Hyrule Castle, whose upgraded version was known as Hyrule Temple. This stage was the first to be designed in its "5-digit version" from the start, and then DOWNGRADE when offering a 4-digit cash prize. The downgraded version was essentially its Omega version in Smash 4, with no platforms or Yellow Devil.
While this stage has had no major changes during its lifetime, it's had a few minor ones: The stage went from daytime to night on May 17, 2000, and on June 22, 2018, the green sections of the stage turned navy blue, presumably to fit the background better.
The downgraded version of this stage was gone by April 6, 1989. At that point, the stage briefly became a "big ticket" stage like Final Destination, offering very high cash payouts (usually in the $25,000-$35,000 range).
==In its own universe==
Dr. Wily's castle is a recurring location in the classic Mega Man games. After he beats all the game's Robot Masters, Mega Man gains access to this castle to take down Dr. Wily.