Oil Man

**Oil Man** (オイルマン *Oiruman*) is one of the two new Robot Masters from *Mega Man Powered Up*, a remake of the original *Mega Man*.

Oil Man is a maintenance robot made by Dr. Light that is able to produce a special type of oil from the dispenser on his left arm that can work with any machinery.

## Personality

Unlike his polar opposite Time Man, Oil Man has a carefree and reckless attitude similar to that of stereotypical punk teenager, has an urban style of speaking (for example, calling Guts Man an "old man"), and does not always take battling seriously. He enjoys oil and believes it's the answer to everything, often giving his comrades fill-ups, and likes skateboarding, sometimes using said oil to make a skateboard. This also serves as his special weapon, the Oil Slider.

## Game appearances

### *Mega Man Powered Up*

As a boss, Oil Man is reprogrammed by Dr. Wily to take over the world. He resides in an oil field with Hotheads, which can burn the oil around the stage. This is similar to Flame Man's stage from *Mega Man 6*, although these flames do not instantly kill the player and they go out after a while.

He attacks by jumping into the air and firing three blobs of oil, which can slip up the player if they walk on one. Luckily, the oil can be burned by the Fire Storm, which also defeats him in five hits. His second attack is to use the Oil Slider and slide back and forth similar to Chill Penguin.

As a playable character, Oil Man only has Oil Slider, so his methods of attacking are limited (as Oil Slider is primarily useful as Elec Man's new weakness, jumping over large gaps, and gliding over the surface of water). He can shoot blobs for direct attacks or like 'landmines', but those methods are weak; Oil Slider drops do half the damage the Mega Buster does, like Ice Slasher. Furthermore, the limit to the number of Oil Slider drops on-screen at once is just one; it will disappear after a long wait, if it goes off-screen, if an enemy collides with it, if it burns up from Fire Blocks, or if Oil Man steps on top, and this can prove unfortunate if it lands in a spiked pit. For Oil Man to cause large damage he must crash into enemies using the Oil Slider, but this is not without risk — if the enemy remains, he may still collide and get damaged himself. Once on the Slider, Oil Man won't stop until he jumps off by pressing up + jump, hitting a wall (excluding borders of the screen, which just cause him to slide indefinitely in place), or dying.

On a positive note, Oil Man does not slip on the oil blocks in his stage, and his Oil Slider is faster than Mega Man's. In addition, his jump-brake technique can launch him higher (often to the top of the screen), effectively making it a double-jump.

## Trivia

* In early promotional materials from *Rockman Rockman*, Oil Man's model number was listed as DRN-009. As it doesn't appear in any other source, it may be an early idea that was discarded and may not represent his official number.
	+ Oil Man's counterpart in the Archie Comics is listed as DLN-00B.
* Oil Man is being upset with Butterfly Woman.
* Oil Man along with Time Man was appearance on Intro of 2021.
* Oil Man was surrounded by controversy due to having black "skin" with large peach-colored lips, which made him slightly resemble blackface. Because of this, he was censored to being dark blue with yellow lips outside Japan.
	+ Archie Comics censored Oil Man in its *Mega Man* comics even more by covering the lower half of his face, including his lips, with his scarf. A preliminary cover for *Mega Man* #38 featured Oil Man's lips exposed, but this was censored for the final cover.
* Oil Man, along with Time Man, appears on Capcom's Chiptuned Rockman CD, which was released in Japan. The CD features a remix of both Oil Man's and Time Man's themes in 8-bit.
* Besides Fire Man and Mega Man?, Oil Man is the only Robot Master boss that has an arm cannon in *Mega Man Powered Up.*
* Oil Man, as a boss, is immune to the Slider form of Oil Slider, but not the drop form.
* Oil Man's weakness to Fire Storm is due to the fact that oil is flammable thus fire can set oil ablaze. This is similar to the oil in Flame Man's stage in Mega Man 6.
	+ When talking to Fire Man, Oil Man says that fire is not allowed at his oil rig, even though Hotheads and Tackle Fires abound throughout his stage.