Bass

**Bass** is a combat robot created by Dr. Wily to defeat Mega Man. He is accompanied by his partner, Treble, in order to prove himself as the strongest robot.

## Appearance

Bass is a young humanoid robot wearing armor. He wears black on his helmet, chest, waist, shoulders, wrists, and lower legs. He also wears gray on his upper legs, arms, and torso. He has white hands and feet. His armor has a yellow trim. In addition, he has a blue gem on his helmet, as well as another one on his chest.

## Personality

Bass displays a lot of arrogance, wishing to prove himself as the strongest robot. This goal has motivated him into constantly fighting Mega Man, even ignoring other potential dangers. He also doesn't want others creating robots designed to surpass him, as seen when he tried to kill Dr. Wily for creating Zero.

In addition, Bass is suggested to have a short temper, as he is stated to have become angry enough to occasionally betray Wily and and destroy some of his robots.

## History

After his failed attempt at taking over the world, Dr. Wily created Bass in order to help him. Bass was made specifically to defeat Mega Man. He most likely failed, but kept trying to beat Mega Man in order to be the strongest robot. There were also some incidents involving Bass going rogue and attacking Wily's robots.

Eventually, Wily began building Zero and, knowing Mega Man would try to stop him, convinced Bass to fight Mega Man. Bass didn't question it simply because he couldn't pass up the opportunity to prove himself as the strongest robot. He intercepted Mega Man in Wily Castle and fought him.

Mega Man, however, decided not to waste time and continued travelling through Wily Castle, despite being chased by Bass. The two eventually stumbled upon Wily, who explained to them what Zero was. Bass angrily attempted to kill Wily, but Mega Man tried to convince him not to. The two began arguing, allowing Wily to release Zero.

However, Zero had a programming error that convinced him to destroy the world, despite Wily not wanting that. Zero then killed Wily. Bass agreed to team up with Mega Man to defeat Zero. However, once Zero was defeated, he was planning to go back to fighting Mega Man.

Despite his efforts, Bass proved to be too weak, much to his disbelief. Treble was killed, leaving Bass to fight without him. Bass attempted to kill Zero, but he failed. Zero sliced him in half using Sentsuizan, leaving Bass to die in shock that he was bested.

## Skills

### Bass Buster

The **Bass Buster** is Bass' signature weapon. It is a black arm cannon, similar to Bass's forearms. It can be retracted into Bass' arm in order to replace it with a regular hand, and appear on either of Bass' arms. The Bass Buster has a yellow trim on its barrel.

The Bass Buster is an arm cannon that fires small, purple blasts made of solar energy. In addition, it is capable of charging itself up with solar energy to fire larger, green energy blasts. It could be charged to fire even bigger green energy blasts. When fully charged, it fired a massive, skull-shaped, green energy blast.

While it is never confirmed if firing it drains Bass' energy supply, since Bass has been shown to put a strain on himself when firing fully charged shots, it is likely that it does.

Bass has shown that he is capable of aiming and firing with the Bass Buster, using it to fight against Mega Man and Zero.

### Variable Weapon System

The **Variable Weapon System** is a learning system that allows Bass to copy the abilities of robots he defeated in order to obtain their weapons. These weapons are, in some way, based on what their users originally did with them. These new weapons are called **Special Weapons**. Each special weapon has a limited amount of energy, however.

### Misc.

Bass is somewhat durable, as he was able to constantly take several strikes from Zero's Z-Saber. He's also capable of teleporting to travel to and from places. Lastly, he can fuse with Treble to become Super Bass.

## Trivia

* While the Bass Buster's regular shots are based on Mega Man and Bass, its charged shots are based on Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters.
* Interestingly, Bass has the Magma Bazooka from Mega Man 9, which he doesn't canonically have.
* Unlike his canon counterpart, Bass doesn't change his armor's color when switching Special Weapons.