Team Rivper's X-Group

**Team Rivper's X-Group** is the first Team Rivper's Reploid Bosses group, formed during the Team Rivper's start in 2013. With 31 Mavericks so far (30 officials and 1 fan-made).

Its name "***X-Group***" originated from Mega Man X, the all existing reploids' father.

## Mavericks

### Avalanche Yeti

   He is based on the Yeti (despite having a design similar to a snowman).

He is a New Generation Reploid that worked at an environmental research center in Antarctica (despite the fact that the real Yeti was sighted in the Himalayas). He was originally worried about the world's environment, but when he became a Maverick, he tampered with the control system of the facility, putting the world's ecological balance at risk.

Like Gravity Antonion and Gigabolt Man-O-War, Avalanche Yeti has only one stage theme, while all the other Mavericks in the game have two.

Avalanche Yeti speaks with a noticeable Russian accent, much like Spark Mandrill did in his appearance in the Ruby-Spears *Mega Man* animated series.

His design is slightly similar to Frost Man.

Despite being an ice-based Maverick (commonly weak to fire), he is weak to electricity, probably because ice is a electricity's conductor due to being humid, also, another possible reason for its weakness is that refrigerators, freezers or conditioned air (electrical devices capable of producing cold) can be easily damaged at high voltage.

### Bamboo Pandamonium

   He is based on a giant panda, and as we all know he is the only Reploid bear that belongs to Team Rivper, he is missing a companion, and what better than a Reploid red panda!

Pandamonium was in charge of the rocket center in Booster Forest, a space research facility in China used before the Jakob Orbital Elevator was built. After it was abandoned, Pandamonium stayed at the facility. When he became a Maverick, he collected data on the rockets in the facility for Sigma. He believes the world wants to be destroyed, as its history has been spent making destructive things like missiles and Reploids, and likes Sigma's plan to create a new world.

He is weak to fire due to the fact that bamboo burns with fire, also, giant pandas can die in a forest fire.

### Blizzard Wolfang

   After the success of Team Villalba with the copies. Now Team Rivper wants to have the originals to win even more money. He is based on a wolf (as Fenri Lunaedge).

He is a Reploid from the *Mega Man X* series that was created by Gate. He was the leader of an investigation team stationed at the North Pole Area. One day, his team members were attacked by Mavericks and all were killed, except Wolfang, who was able to dispose of all the Mavericks himself. Researchers who opposed Gate took advantage of the incident and schemed to dispose of Wolfang, deceiving Alia into throwing him into the cold sea, making it look like an accident. In *Mega Man X6* Gate revived Wolfang and made him part of his Nightmare investigation team. When confronted by the Maverick Hunters he asks them to not think badly of him, because he feels indebted to Gate and needs to pay for past sins.

He is weak to the fire since the ice melts with the fire, in addition, the wolves that inhabit the cold do not like the heat.

### Boomerang Kuwanger

    Previously called **Boomer Kuwanger** in the first original Mega Man X, he was renaming "**Boomerang Kuwanger**" in the remake Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X. Originally, his original design (from Mega Man X) was confusing by mistaking him for a demon just for its horns which They weren't very much like those of a stag beetle ("kuwagata" in Japanese), the animal that takes inspiration, their redesign (from Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X) made them somewhat like a stag beetle. He is the Gravity Beetle's brother, of course, they are both in Team Rivper, however he was revived by Metal Shark Player, a Reploid hammerhead shark expert at reviving Reploids using the retired Reploids' DNA, even though "*DNA resurrection*" is illegal by the government.

He was a Maverick Hunter from the 17th Elite Unit under Sigma, the same unit as his brother Gravity Beetle, and fought alongside X many times. He is a nihilist that doesn't agree or disagree with Sigma's motives, and joined the Maverick uprising simply because he thought "isn't this more interesting?" He took control of a tower that was supposed to be the symbol of a city, and turned it into an oppressive fortress. Within, he sits plotting, sneering at the despair in the city below.

In the remake, Kuwanger makes decisions based only on logic and excels in collecting and analyzing combat data with an extremely cool logic. With no sense of justice or evil, joining Sigma's rebellion is a decision he arrived at after analyzing the case rationally. When X reached the top of the tower, Kuwanger saw that X had great potential and thought that he would be fun in a fight.

The word "kuwanger" comes from the word "kuwagata (クワガタ)" which is Japanese for "stag beetle."

Boomer Kuwanger is one of only two Mavericks known to have a brother. The other one is Launch Octopus, whose brother is Volt Kraken.

* Both he and Gravity Beetle represent beetles: Boomer Kuwanger himself as a stag beetle, and Gravity Beetle as a rhinoceros beetle.

He is weak to homing missiles because they can attack easily despite having decent agility.

### Burn Dinorex

    He is Fireman Jose's favorite Maverick. He is based on the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the dinosaur's king, which was impossible to kill, , which inhabited the earth in the Cretaceous period 68 and 66 million years ago, if the Tyrannosaurus Rex had not become extinct, it would have been a better pet to protect houses from thieves due to its incredible strength. He and Earthrock Trilobyte in their respective teams are the only Mavericks based on extinct species.

Burn Dinorex was a member of Repliforce's disaster prevention team and is among the survivors of the Repliforce incident in *Mega Man X4*.

Burn Dinorex was stationed in a volcano in the northeast of Africa. Without Repliforce's knowledge, he had created an illegal warehouse to hide weapons he had created using magma energy. In *Mega Man X5*, the Maverick Hunters discovered that Burn Dinorex had a rocket Booster Engine necessary for the Space Shuttle. But, as he didn't trust the Hunters, he assumed that they had come to retire him for his activities and attacked, leaving X or Zero no other choice but to destroy him as a Maverick. It's unknown if he had succumbed to the Sigma Virus.

His original English name, Mattrex (which comes from Matt Sorum, the former drummer of the rock band Guns N' Roses), makes he the only Maverick with a one-word name.

The background music used in Dinorex's stage is similar in composition to the theme used in Sigma Fortress Stage 2 from the original *Mega Man X*.

He is weak to the wind giving reference as the wind puts out the fire.

### Chill Penguin

    He is based on a king penguin.

He is a Reploid designed for operating in sub-zero temperatures, Chill Penguin was a Maverick Hunter from the 13th Polar Unit that was deployed to guard a station at the South Pole, but soon grew tired of his dull, isolated life. When the news of Sigma's uprising reached him, he saw his chance to return to civilization and destroyed his own commander, made his escape, and joined up with Sigma and other Mavericks.

He's rowdy and belligerent despite his small stature, and there is a strong animosity between him and Flame Mammoth due to Mammoth being a bully toward smaller Reploids and Penguin being jealous of his large size.

Unlike Avalanche Yeti (which is weak to electricity), he is weak to fire, probably referring to how ice melts at high temperatures, also, being a penguin (living in cold climates) they do not like hot climates.

### Commander Yammark

    He is based on a dragonfly, more specifically, the extinct Meganeura, a giant dragonfly that inhabited the earth during the Carboniferous period 300 million years ago, this explains his size!

Originally created by Gate to support forest preservation projects, becoming the leader of an ecological observation team. In order to ensure the most thorough investigations, he is equipped with Yammar Option, independent dragonfly Mechaniloids that act as his eyes and ears. While on duty he once accidentally set a fire that burned a large portion of a forest. He wasn't accused of the incident, but some time later, someone sabotaged his flight system, leading to a crash that killed him.

He is weak to an homing ray arrow because it can attack him easily despite his agility (dragonflies are the fastest insect in nature), with this, he falls faster than with the basic weapon.

### Crush Crawfish

    He appears to be a mix between crayfish (his pincers) and shrimp (for his tail, whiskers, and Japanese name, Scissors Shrimper).

Due to a flaw in his AI that made him unable to tell enemy from ally, he was violent and leaned towards being a Maverick even before Dr. Doppler.

He is weak to electricity because being an animal that lives in water, water is a good electricity's conductor, so a crayfish and shrimp could die with electrified water.

### Dark Necrobat

    He is based on the vampire bat, they are flying beasts, they are the real world's vampires, since they suck blood from others.

Necrobat was a Maverick created by Sigma three years before the events of *Mega Man X5*, but escaped from his control and remained in hiding since then. Sigma, not considering him a serious fighting power, forgot about him. The Maverick Hunters encounter him in a planetarium somewhere in northwest Sudan while they are looking for a Fuel Tank for the Space Shuttle. However, he proves to be a fighting serious power to both X and Zero, proving Sigma wrong indirectly.

He is weak in light because both bats and vampires don't like light.

### Flame Stag

    Team Rivper]] only have 5 Fire Reploids (Flame Stag, Burn Dinorex, Cubit Foxtar, Fistleo the Predatoroid, and Queenbee the Hymenopteroid). And even then they use them to eliminate the new Coronavirus with the extreme heat of these. Like Blizzard Wolfang (which is the only Maverick mammal in Mega Man X6), Flame Stag is the only Maverick mammal in Mega Man X2. He is based on a deer.

Once serving as a member of the Maverick Hunters 17th Elite Unit, he defected along with his colleague Boomer Kuwanger to join Sigma's first Maverick rebellion. Afterwards, his whereabouts became unknown, but later he resurfaced occupying an active volcano with the intent of triggering an eruption that would block out the sun with volcanic ash, starting a new ice age.

In the official artworks, Flame Stag's flames (including those forming his antlers) are red. In *Mega Man X2*, however, his flames are blue in both his intro pose and when fighting against him the second time. The only instance where they are red is in both his mugshot in the stage select screen and the majority of the battle in his boss room before his health gets low.

In his official art, Stag's armor is also a deep blue. With the exception of his mugshot, however, it's black in his in-game sprites.

Coincidentally, both of Flame Stag's weaknesses, the Bubble Splash and the Storm Tornado, come from Mavericks who are weak to the Spin Wheel.

The way Flame Stag fights is similar to Sigma's from the first *Mega Man X* game.

Flame Stag is the only Maverick from *Mega Man X2* that does not bear Sigma's mark on their forehead, instead displaying it on his chest piece. An arguable exclusion might be Morph Moth, who does not have Sigma's mark at all while in larva form, but does, however, bear the mark on his forehead when in moth form.

Flame Stag is one of the three Mavericks who share a common first half of their names, along with Flame Mammoth and Flame Hyenard.

He is weak for both wind and water as the wind and water put out the fire. Water can drown land animals like deer due to lack of oxygen.

### Gigabolt Man-O-War

    He is based on a Portuguese Man o' War, which is often confused for a jellyfish, an amphibian Cnidaria that can live both on dry land and in the water, it seems on the beaches or bays' shores, his rogue is very dangerous and painful.

He is the power generator that supplied energy to Megalopolis. When he went Maverick, he started causing chaos and siphoned off the energy supply of Megalopolis to Sigma. The Maverick Hunters had to chase him throughout the city with a Sirius Ride Chaser to stop his rampage. After receiving enough damage, he was forced to land and face the Hunters. Despite his actions, he denied turning Maverick, or at least was unaware that his actions were Maverick behavior.

We know that he has a female voice in both Japanese and English.

He is weak to earth dust, since dust and earth are not conductors for electricity.

### Gravity Beetle

    He is based on a Japanese rhinoceros beetle, which they use as a pet. He is the Boomerang Kuwanger's brother, he once helped emigrate the inhabitants of countries in crisis using a plane that camouflages itself (probably this plane covered with LEDs to make itself invisible) to avoid detection, which is a free flight (you don't need pay nothing) that requires a passport for that. However, due to outbreaks of Coronavirus worldwide, his plane became a warplane to combat the pandemic with incendiary bombs.

He was a Maverick Hunter from the 17th unit, but after the death of his brother, Boomer Kuwanger (which was revived by Metal Shark Player), he wanted to avenge him and joined Dr. Doppler's forces in *Mega Man X3* to fight against X.

He is weak in light because light cannot be manipulated by gravity.

### Launch Octopus

    He is based on an octopus with 8 legs (tentacles).

He was a Maverick Hunter from the 6th Naval Unit, but secretly always harbored contempts towards the weak humans he was tasked with protecting. When Sigma became a Maverick, Launch Octopus was among the first that joined his uprising, sharing his goals of creating a Reploid nation. He has deployed his fleet of marine Mechaniloids to assault cities built on the ocean and blockade important shipping lanes.

On the U.S. box art for *Mega Man X*, Launch Octopus is colored purple instead of red and has a mouth.

He is weak to an rolling shields because it prevents him from attacking.

### Metal Shark Player

    The hammerhead shark that revived Boomerang Kuwanger is here. He is based on the hammerhead shark.

He is a Reploid created by Gate to work as a member of a recycling research team.

His job was to oversee the analysis and control of DNA at the facility and was very skilled in his work. Player's abilities in DNA analysis soon led him to experiment in the recreation of Reploids using the DNA of retired Mavericks. Gate still used and encouraged his work despite "DNA Resurrection" being deemed illegal by the government.

Despite being a shark, he's weak against water (probably because he's made of metal and will rust).

### Morph Moth

    Both Team Rivper and Team Villalba have a Reploid boss based on a Macrolepidoptera clade bug (Morph Moth, he being a moth, and Sol Titanion, she being a butterfly). He is based on the bagworm moth.

An unusual Reploid of unknown background, he is a prototype equipped with advanced circuitry and has the unique ability to absorb scrap from other Reploids to power himself up. Morph Moth is lazy and takes a lackadaisical approach to his duties.

Under Sigma's orders, he has occupied a robot junkyard and is using the scrap materials there to resurrect destroyed Mavericks and create new ones. When X first meets him, he looks like a mechanical bagworm. He can move around and drop junk on X, and even do a spiraling attack with it. After some time he morphs to a moth form. He is vulnerable to flames, being weak to Speed Burner (probably because the metal melts at high temperatures, also, being an insect, he can die in a forest fire).

### Neon Tiger

    He is based on a tiger.

He resides in a forest. Originally, he was a poacher hunter, designed to ensure no one attempted to steal and/or harm the small amount of remaining natural wildlife, but became a Maverick after being infected with the Maverick Virus.

Utilizing solar energy as a power source, his power is said to be unlimited as long as there is sunlight available. However, he also possesses highly advanced visual sensors, granting him quick reflexes and making him a dangerous opponent even in total darkness.

He is weak to sharp weapons because the light bulbs have a wire that allows them to illuminate, if it is cut it does not light anymore.

### Overdrive Ostrich

    He is based on an ostrich. That he was able to beat Sonic the Hedgehog in speed.

Overdrive Ostrich was once a Maverick Hunter of the 7th Airborne Unit, but retired after an accident that cost him the ability to fly. Sigma later sought to recruit him, seeing use for his superior speed. Overdrive Ostrich, sensing appreciation for his abilities, pledged his loyalty to Sigma and was stationed at an abandoned missile base, charged with the task of launching the one remaining missile stored there at the Hunter Base. Before confronting Overdrive Ostrich, X manages to destroy this missile just as it launches.

He is weak to being petrified or frozen because he always likes to be on the go.

### Rainy Turtloid

    He is based on an amphibian turtle, more specifically two turtles, the Arrau turtle (for his giant size) and the alligator turtle (for his sharp teeth), he could also be based on the extinct Archelon sea turtle, the species of turtle more large that has ever existed (larger than the current Arrau turtle, this explains his giant size).

He is a Reploid created by Gate that was a valued member of a water purification team. His shielded shell was designed to withstand even the harshest acid rain, so he was one of the few Reploids authorized to enter and explore restricted "Level A" pollution zones. However, concerns grew that his defensive capabilities were too great and could be dangerous, and many requested Gate to weaken him.

He is the largest from the standard eight bosses in the *Mega Man X* series.

In contrast to Turtloid's "heightened defenses" through his shell, real tortoise shells are highly susceptible to injury and pain, being large growths rather than a carapace.

This is one of the few main Mavericks that doesn't have any real weakness if playing with Zero (along with Web Spider, Magma Dragoon and Slash Beast). In this case, the technique that is effective against him can never reach him.

He is weak to ice because being an aquatic Maverick, water freezes at low temperatures, also being a reptile, they do not like the cold.

### Ride Boarski

    The group's leader is based on a wild boar, which transforms into a vehicle (in this case, he transforms into a motorcycle) like the Transformers.

He has an extremely touchy personality, well-befitting the actual nature of a wild boar. His temper is so out of control, he goes berserk at the drop of a hat, and if given the slightest insult, proceeds to run down the target of his aggression, complete with the added injury of tearing it to ribbons. With his fierce, rebellious attitude, there's absolutely no way of reasoning with him, giving the Maverick Hunters little other option than to do him in.

One of Boarski's primary attacks turns him into a motorcycle/vehicle form. This trait is similar to the Robot Masters Turbo Man, Ground Man, and Nitro Man.

Ride Boarski may have been inspired by the Crash Roader enemy, that appears in *Mega Man X2* and *X7*.

He is weak to fire because the engine of any vehicle melts at high temperatures, causing it to be damaged.

### Seaking Leviathan

    He is based on a leviathan (the inspiration behind President Gyarados).

He became a candidate for the Mathematical Nation's presidential vote to rival Sol Titanion, which is a Democratic Reploid. He is a dictator Reploid, what would be better, a dictatorship or a democracy?

He appears in a Mega Man X fangame called Mega Man X: Maverick Wars as one of the 8 Mavericks in the game.

It is not known what it is weak. This is the only Maverick from a fangame that appears in the Police Jesus and Doctor Jesus series.

### Slash Beast

    He is based on a Lion.

He is a member of the Repliforce, a group labeled as Maverick due to their wanting independence. He enlisted in Repliforce only to freely exercise his combat abilities, but despite this attitude he showed dauntless courage in battle, fearing no one. During the Great Repliforce War, Slash Beast was put in charge of guarding Repliforce's military supply train.

Oddly, Slash Beast's artwork shows him as orange and yellow, although, in-game, he is brown with yellow highlights.

Slash Beast is one of two Mavericks in the *X* series to have two separate battle entrances. In the first encounter, he uses his speed to outrun the train and jumps on it. The second encounter, on the other hand, is just him inexplicably falling from the top of the screen, simply due to the fact that there is no train on the Final Weapon. The other character to have this trait is Dark Mantis, if certain conditions are met in his stage.

He is weak to a stingrays' flurry, who knows why? Well, lions shouldn't eat stingrays, as some species are poisonous.

### Soldier Stonekong

    He is based on a medieval viking knight gorilla with a stone sword and a stone shield.

He dwells within the Deep Forest, and acts somewhat like a medieval knight. He is one of three Red Alert members who is fully aware that he is being manipulated by "the Professor" (the other two being Red and Tornado Tonion). However, unlike the other two, he doesn't seem to regret being used for evil (something noted by and scolded by Axl), as he only fights for loyalty, not justice.

Stonekong's stage is unique in that it is the only purely 2D stage of all the 8 regular bosses.

He weakens explosives because a knight / viking can easily be defeated with modern weapons, and explosives can destroy stones.

### Splash Warfly

    He is based on a flying fish, whose battle against him is the most epic in Mega Man X7.

There seems to have been some conflict between him and Axl prior to the events of *X7*, as both claimed to have never liked the other when confronted with Axl as the lead character.

Because of his name, Splash Warfly is commonly thought to be based on a fly.

He is weak to an electric tornado because first it gets it out of the water and second the water is conductive to electricity, electrified water is dangerous for a flying fish.

### Split Mushroom

    He is based on a mushroom, it is believed that he was created by Bowser to kidnap Princess Peach and so it was (since Mario does not have an electric powerup to beat him). In addition, he helped Bowser create COVID-19 using SARS-CoV-2 as a pathogen, in order to infect and kill Mario (they had to infect some live shellfish they are an injection and then send them to a cargo ship to Wuhan, China, thought that Mario was there), but instead, they made a million people sick.

He was once in charge of operations at a Bio Laboratory, but when the lab was decommissioned he was retired and disposed of. Mushroom was later resurrected by someone (assumed to be Sigma) and became a Maverick. During the Repliforce War, he reactivated operations at the Bio Laboratory and fortified it, attacking any invaders for fun and acting as a distraction to draw the attention of the Maverick Hunters. He apparently received orders to challenge and test X and Zero's abilities.

Split Mushroom is the only boss in the series to be based on an organism of the Kingdom Fungi.

Split Mushroom is one of three Mavericks in *Mega Man X4* to be affiliated with Sigma, having Sigma's insignia instead of Repliforce's; the other two being Cyber Peacock and Magma Dragoon.

Split Mushroom's body shape, playful attitude, odd organism choice, malfunctioning premise, and nickname all draw parallels to Wire Sponge.

Split Mushroom is the first Maverick to be voiced by a female Japanese voice actress, and the only one of the eight bosses to have a female voice actor in *Mega Man X4*.

He is weak to electricity because fungi thrive in humid environments, humidity is a good conductor for electricity.

### Storm Owl

    He is based on a horned owl.

He is a Reploid who is a member of the Repliforce, an organization branded as Mavericks because of their yearning for independence. One of the Repliforce's most resourceful generals, Storm Owl is a well-regarded member by the entire staff. He is a very proud soldier, and was extremely resentful when he and his associates were branded as Mavericks by the Maverick Hunters. After the Repliforce coup began, he commanded the Air Force to attack a city in a ploy to divert the attention of the Maverick Hunters.

Storm Owl is especially skilled at night-time operations, and is so proud that he will absolutely refuse to follow orders that do not come directly from his superiors. He was good friends with Storm Eagle, so he developed a grudge against X when the Maverick Hunter defeated him. He also does not get along with Chill Penguin at all, due to somebody once confusing him for a penguin as a result of his appearance and short stature.

He is weak to homing lasers because they are dangerous to birds.

### Tidal Whale

    He is based on a whale, the largest mammal on earth.

Tidal Whale was chief of an oceanographic museum and held rank as the captain of a maritime security force. His sometimes reckless behavior often earned him arguments with the Repliforce's navy. Whale guards the ocean (mainly the North Atlantic), which is needed to produce the hydrogen necessary for the Enigma laser cannon. He was already infected by the Sigma Virus when the Maverick Hunters arrived, and as a final request asks for a fight to the death.

Tidal Whale's stage music is a remastered version of Bubble Crab's from *Mega Man X2*; however, he had an original theme before it was scrapped.

He is the only boss in *Mega Man X5* whose mugshot is not facing straight forward.

He is weak to sharp weapons, because humans hunt whales with harpoons.

### Tornado Tonion

    He is based on an onion, really? Their Mavericks plants are vegetables, nor do they like flowers like Team Villalba, Team Rivper likes vegetables!

He wreaked havoc in the city's Radio Tower, broadcasting silly, annoying messages across the airwaves. Modeled after an onion, Tonion is one of the few Mavericks that is not based off an animal. In the English ports of *X7*, he has somewhat of a German accent, albeit high pitched, this makes him female as Optic Sunflower, especially with his Latin Spanish voice from the Latin Spanish dub of Mega Man X7, which is more noticeable.

Interestingly, he is one of three members of Red Alert who is fully aware that "the Professor" is manipulating them (the others being Red and Soldier Stonekong), and one of only two members who regret being used and actually requests that X kill him (the other being Red).

Interestingly, Tornado Tonion appears to have a pointy, red nose in the official artwork that is not visible in his in-game 3D model (due to the fact that Doctor Jesus does not know how to 3D model a nose).

* In this regard, he is the polar opposite of Snipe Anteator, whose in-game model features two thin tubes running down his snout which aren't seen in the official artwork.

Aside from Tornado Tonion, there are four other Mavericks in Mega Man X that aren't based on animals: Wire Sponge, Split Mushroom, Spike Rosered, and Optic Sunflower.

He is weak for a stone shield due to the fact that the fans break their blades with minimal contact with a stone.

### Tunnel Rhino

    He is based on a rhino. Team Rivper will use him to disable Team Villalba's (Volt Catfish) power generator with drills, as the generator sends necessary electricity to all the security systems at his headquarters.

Formerly he worked as a miner in an Energen Crystal mine, but upon going to Dopple Town by invitation he became a Maverick. Now under Doppler's orders, he occupies a rock quarry and uses his drilling weapon, Tornado Fang, for destructive purposes. Acid Burst is his main weakness, but it takes practice to wield properly and Rhino is invincible while he flashes.

He is weak to acid because the excavation machines are damaged by receiving minimal contact with it.

### Volt Kraken

    He is based on the mythological giant squid, the Kraken. He is the Launch Octopus's brother.

He was a retired kraken-based Maverick Hunter before being affected by the Sigma Virus and turned into a Maverick during the events that took place in *Mega Man X5*.

Volt Kraken resigned as a Hunter due to growing doubts about his job. He later became a researcher to lead a peaceful life and moved to an energy engineering facility located near the Korea Strait, hoping it was far from conflict. He was acquainted with Launch Octopus, whose name was mistranslated as "Octopardo" in the English language versions of the game. Kraken held an Energy Cart needed for the Enigma laser cannon, but suddenly went Maverick before turning it over, forcing X or Zero to destroy him.

While he is stated as being based upon a squid in the original American release of the game, the original Japanese release and *Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2* states that he is in fact based upon the mythological sea monster Kraken (which is believed to be in reality a giant squid).

According to the English translation of *Mega Man Xtreme 2*, Volt Catfish had the Tri-Thunder before Volt Kraken did. It should be noted, however, that Volt Catfish's weapon is referred to as "Triad Thunder" in the original Japanese version of *Xtreme 2*.

Likely due to an error of translation, in the dialogue with Volt Kraken, X refers Launch Octopus as "Octopardo". This was fixed in Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2.

Despite being a squid (since they can live in water), he is weak to water, probably because any electronic device can damage or just get wet.

### Wheel Gator

    He is based on an alligator.

He was an officer serving in the Maverick Hunters' 6th Naval Unit along with Bubble Crab (the two did not get along). Due to his ferocious nature, Gator attacked a fellow Hunter during a mission and was later hunted as a traitor. To satisfy his destructive impulses, he joined Sigma's Maverick army and was given control of a massive dinosaur-modeled tank, which he tried to use to raze an entire city in *Mega Man X2*.

Out of all the eight Maverick bosses of *Mega Man X2*, Wheel Gator possesses the highest power value, rendering him the strongest of the group. In addition, his power value is the same as Agile's, meaning he even matches one of his superiors.

Wheel Gator's rush attack is similar to M. Bison's "Psycho Crusher" move from the *Street Fighter* series.

* It also greatly resembles the so-called "death roll" used by alligators and crocodiles in real life to overpower large victims caught in their jaws or force them into deep water, as well as to tear limbs or large chunks off of them.

He is weak to a chain because tying a moving wheel can stop the wheel, if weak is so shit that to hit him with it you have to get close to him.

### Wire Sponge

    Yet another vegetable, he is not a sea sponge as many of you thought, since sea sponges are animals, not plants! He is based on a luffa, a vine plant that produces a cucumber like vegetable that is dried and sold to be used as a cleaning sponge.

Created in one of Sigma's Maverick producing factories, an accident resulted in him having a personality disorder, which causes him to be childish and easily amused, loving to dance and play. Yet, he was violent and still had impressive combat abilities, so Sigma placed him in charge of a Weather Control Center to use as his personal playground, where he found delight in passing the time by playing with the weather system.

While Wire Sponge is named after a sponge (technically an animal) outside Japan, his design and original name are derived from "hechima", Japanese for luffa, well i will repeat it, a vine plant that produces a cucumber like vegetable that is dried and sold to be used as a cleaning sponge.

Although Wire Sponge is not an electric-type Maverick, Zero learns an electric-type attack from him (appropriately named "Lightning") in *Mega Man Xtreme 2*. This is most likely based on the lightning attack Wire Sponge uses after being reduced to critical health in *Mega Man X2*.

Wire Sponge's death animation with the Sonic Slicer is somewhat a precursor to the death animations of enemies in the Mega Man Zero series when killed with the Z-Saber.

* Oddly, in *Mega Man Xtreme 2*, hitting Wire Sponge on the final blow with his weakness, the Fire Wave, will cause him to split in half, much like a Sonic Slicer would from *Mega Man X2*.

## Trivia

* This is the Team Rivper 's Reploid bosses group with the most Reploid bosses (with 31).
	+ Also, they have more Mavericks than Team Villalba (with 28 so far).
* This is the most balanced Team Rivper's Reploid group.
* Both **Team Rivper's X-Group** and Team Villalba's X-Group are the only ones to have two plant-based Reploid bosses (Tornado Tonion and Wire Sponge being from Team Rivper, Optic Sunflower and Spike Rosered being from Team Villalba).
* **Team Rivper's X-Group** is the only one to have a fungus-based Reploid boss (an organism from the Fungi Kingdom, in this case, Split Mushroom).
* Like Team Villalba's X-Group, this is the only Team Rivper's Reploid bosses group that doesn't have a female Reploid, despite Gigabolt Man-O-War, Spllit Mushroom and Tornado Tonion having female voices.