Torch Man

### Personality

Honest, empathetic, wise, cool-headed, disciplined, calm, capable, determined, brave, strong, fearless, temperamental (sometimes), trustworthy, smart, cheerful, kind, polite, gentle, sweet, warm-hearted, understanding.

### Appearance

Torch Man is a tall robot master outfitted with red armor covering most of his gray body suit. His shoulder pads resemble torches and are constantly emitting flames, and his feet have vents.

### Allies

Pharaoh Man, Block Man, Fuse Man, Blast Man, Acid Man, Tundra Man, Impact Man, Bounce Man

### Likes

His friends, Tundra Man (secretly), keeping promises, helping others, martial arts, kung-fu, meditation, camping, campfires, learning new things, nature, cherry blossoms, roasting, roast turkeys, music, Chinese food, Japanese food, cooking, baking.

### Dislikes

Villains, violence, threats, losing his loved ones, lying, hiding secrets (sometimes), breaking promises, snow and ice, ice cream.

### Powers and abilities

His Special Weapon Blazing Torch
Pyrokinesis
Healing powers

**Torch Man** (トーチマン Tōchiman) is a Robot Master who appears in **Mega Man 11**. He's one of the main characters of *The Gear Heroes: Friendship is Powerful*. He's an outdoor advisor that teaches campers about fire safety and practice martial arts to keep the flames coming out from his body under control. He is a practitioner of *Torch-jutsu* (トーチ火炎拳 Tōchikaenken, lit. "Torch Flame Fist"), a martial art he developed, being particularly good with jumping kicks.

Torch Man is secretly in love with Tundra Man, but doesn't want to admit it yet. Also, he is the only one who knows the ice-type Robot Master and Pharaoh Man are Cossack Numbers, which, he keeps a promise not to tell any of the Gear Heroes about that.

Torch Man represents the **Element of Honesty**.

## Appearance

Torch Man is a tall robot master outfitted with red armor covering most of his gray body suit. His shoulder pads resemble torches and are constantly emitting flames, and his feet have vents.

## Personality

Despite being a fire-themed robot and unlike all the other fire Robot Masters, Torch Man is surprisingly cool-headed, disciplined, calm and has a great self-control. He is a martial artist with a strong sense of honor and justice, who is not afraid of getting dirty when it comes to helping those most in need, even if it means he has to sacrifice his life to do so. Like Pharaoh Man, he values keeping promises and hates disappointing others. He gets particularly excited when it's time for the turkey roast.

Torch Man is also well known for his three greatest characteristics that make him unique, special, and beloved by everyone: honesty, empathy, and wisdom; Speaking of the first one, Torch Man represents the Element of Honesty and, as said before, values keeping his promises, but because he keeps it a lot, he sometimes can't lie or hide secrets even if he has good intentions and reasons to do so; As for the second one, he is certainly the most empathetic of the Gear Heroes who understands the feelings and emotions of others, helps them and can even "feel" their pain especially when they are going through the most difficult times of their lives; And as for the third, Torch considers his wisdom as a gift since he learned to be stronger and move on instead of living in his sad past when his creator died during the Maverick Wars.

So in short, Torch Man is a non-stereotypical and disciplined fire Robot Master, a Torch-jutsu master with a strong sense of justice, and a Gear Hero with a warm heart of gold.

## Abilities

### Special Weapons

* **Blazing Torch** - Able to literally fire flames diagonally against enemies, Torch Man uses a mix of this power and martial arts to keep combustion under control.

## Weaknesses

* **Tundra Storm** - Since Torch Man constantly emits flames from his body, Tundra Man's weapon is especially effective against him as it can extinguish his flames and damage his internal components.
* Although real snow is not his greatest weakness, once he is in contact with the Tundra Storm, he can freeze himself faster until he becomes an ice statue.

## Other facts and trivia

* Torch Man's fighting style is similar to Magma Dragoon's from *Mega Man X4*.
* Torch Man shares his voice actor with Rush in *Mega Man 11*.
* Torch Man is the second Robot Master whose purpose is to be an educational robot guide (campfire safety, in this case), the first being Dynamo Man (power plant guide).
* He never lies, but if necessary, he avoids telling the truth only for good causes, with which, he doesn't break his Element that he represents.

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