Phantom Bomber

**Phantom Bomber** (formerly known as **Brain Bomber**) is a member of the Five Dastardly Bombers and is recurring villain in the *Bomberman* series. As one of the more sinister bombers in the group, he is the team's technician, engineer, and all-around genius. Phantom Bomber wears a cloak and has the symbol of a crown on his helmet; in Super Bomberman R, the crown is removed. He is shorter than the other characters and is sometimes seen floating above the group.

He is a Bomber-Cyborg, a being given the ability to plant bombs like Bombermen. Although Plasma Bomber was presumed to be the leader of the Dastardly Bombers in early games, Phantom Bomber more clearly took on that role in *Bomberman Tournament*. That position didn't last, though, as Plasma took the mantle of leader in *Super Bomberman R*.

## Bio

### Before (Non-Canon)

Before events of Super Bomberman 2, Brain was a Cyborg agent member, under the name Brain Fedora of the Red Army but he betrayed and left the army. Until he (alongside Hacker Bomber) was recruited by Plasma Bomber as a member of the Five Dastardly Bombers.

### In Canon

At some point in the past, the Five Dastardly Bombers attacked Phantarion, but they were driven away by the planet's army and a special soldier, Max. Max and Brain Bomber battled, leaving Max badly wounded - to the point of cybernetic repair - and the Dastardly Bombers were forced to retreat.

In *Super Bomberman 2*, Brain Bomber and the other Dastardly Bombers captured the original Bomberman, but Bomberman breaks free in their ship. He is extremely weak, with only one bomb and minimalistic blast radius, even though he has the power of the Remote Bomb. He makes up for this in piloting a large Bomberman robot later, but is defeated. Brain Bomber fell to Earth alongside the wreckage of his ship.

He returned in *Super Bomberman 3*, revived by Professor Bagura, his master. Brain Bomber controls Pyramid in the Bomber Nebula. He fights with two boss monsters, the Ponchos, but is defeated again. He later returns to battle in the combined mecha at the end of the game, but is bested again and is left inside Bagura's exploding Battleship.

In *Bomberman Tournament*, Brain Bomber returns to Phantarion with the old plot, revised so that it would have ensured his victory had Bomberman not shown up. Events played out as they had the first time, only the Dastardly Bombers were more prepared, stealing the four medals and sealing the Phantarion army in Fairy Palace. Max returned, but was rendered unconscious by Plasma Bomber and brainwashed by Brain Bomber to do his bidding. Brain Bomber took over the planet and made Max work on a massive mecha known only as the Ultimate Weapon. White Bomberman showed up at a warped and corrupted version of Fantasy and fought Max, helping him recover from his puppet state. Together, Max and Bomberman defeated a powered-up Brain Bomber and destroyed the Ultimate Weapon, forcing the Dastardly Bombers to retreat.

Before the events of *Super Bomberman R*, the five ended up as deactivated on Planet Scrapheap. Evil Emperor Buggler (Bagura) revived them to conquer the five planets of the Starry Sky Solar System in his name. The Bomberman Bros. (White and Black along with Blue, Red, Yellow, Green, Pink and Aqua) set out to stop the expansion of the Buggler Army's intergalactic conquest and liberate the invaded planets.

Brain Bomber, renamed Phantom Bomber, is encountered on World 3: Planet Brainwave. He introduces himself when White trips the electronic lock's alert system, and merely watches the siblings' progress through his traps and mazes with interest. Soon, when Yellow touches something the prevents White from sneaking into the central system, Phantom Bomber reappears and gives a confident speech wanted to see the siblings' looks of despair until he notices that Blue isn't paying attention. Pink told Blue that she thinks he's mad at him. Flustered after Blue says he always dozes off when people drone on, Phantom Bomber initiates his on-foot battle. After being blown clear, he utilizes his robot, Mystic Hatter. Afterwards, cyberspace starts to collapse in on itself and is in danger of taking everyone along with it, so White nervously reattempts the electronic lock. Phantom Bomber laughs and boldly claims that not even the most powerful supercomputer in the universe can stop it now. Meanwhile, Green nudges in and insinuates that White was planning on buying Blue one of the Ultra-Luxury Soft-Sleep Pillows from Kaboomingdale's or black hole-level sound absorbing Ultra-Powered Earplugs. Snapping out of his lethargy for a few precious moments, Blue takes a quick look and successfully dials the combination, saving the entire planet and leaving Phantom Bomber utterly flabbergasted and humiliated.

Later, Emperor Buggler is chased to an artificial Black Hole which threatens to engulf the solar system and eventually the whole universe. He summons the Five Dastardly Bombers to form Great Gattaida, which is defeated by the Bomberman Bros. As a last resort, Buggler uses his own power to grow into Ultimate Buggler. The Five Dastardly Bombers finally regained their senses after Great Gattaida was destroyed and voluntarily give their strength to the Bomberman Bros., defeating Buggler for now. Afterwards, the formerly Dastardly Bombers peacefully resumed their previous lives, again on good terms with the people of Planet Bomber.

In the credits of the game, the picture that shows Phantom Bomber is at the library with Black studying together.

### In Team Harmony’s Adventures Series/Chronicles

After he and his comrades were redeemed, In Team Harmony’s Adventure Chronicles Episode ??? (THAC), he and the Five Dastardly Bombers were once again kidnapped by Spade Bat, Draco Bat and Buggler with the help of Altair and The Masked Trio and is once again brainwashed and is tasked along with Phanty and Tord to ???, ???

### In Starable and Amanda’s Adventures Series/Chronicles

Before the series began, he along with the other Bombermen (as well as the Bomber creations of Starable and Amanda's) were built by Morgan, Starable, Emmet and Amanda for peace (due to being set after events of Adventures of Super Bomberman R), Phantom had ???

### In The Amber Harmony Heroes Z

In the series, Phantom Bomber is one many scientists of the group. ???

## Personality

Phantom Bomber is the technical intelligence and sinister schemer of the group. In *Super Bomberman 2*, his base is factory-like, with platforms moving along among multiple levels. In *Bomberman Tournament*, he works on a large robot called the Ultimate Weapon. He seems a heartless leader when in charge, and is only concerned with his own goals. It was because of him that Max was wounded to the point of cybernetic repair. In *Super Bomberman R*, he's fond of brain-teasing logic puzzles and it is said his intellect exceeds even that of Buggler's, but is easily annoyed when lazy and sleeping people don't listen to him and his knowledge is unmatched to that of Blue's.

Phantom is also shown to have shown to have a kind, optimistic, generous and merciful personality

## Appearance

Phantom has a purple body with yellow eyes and has an eyepiece on his face while wrapped in a purple cloak.

As of now (in Starable’s Projects), he now dons a fedora and has a invisi-watch and has a sparkplug tail like Hacker Bomber.

As Crash Cloaker, he appears to be a rowdyruff and being inspired of Crash Man, Flash Man, and Air Man

As Spider Hatter, he ???

While undercover from the Red Leader Army, his attire runs the same from red army minions (a German soldier helmet and a ???), but the difference of this is that

## Teams he's in

* Five Dastardly Bombers (Co-Leader)
* The Guardians of Friendship
* The Amber City Heroes
* Amber Harmonic Forces
* Red Army (from Eddsworld: The Beginning and the Friend) (Formerly)
* Government (from Henry Stickmin) (Spy Member)
* Miraculous Bombers
* Bombermen Z

## Weapons/Objects/Items he uses

* Crash Bomber
* Air Shooter
* Bubble Lead
* Harpoon
* Invisi-Watch
* Switchblade
* Revolver (nicknamed Ambassador)
* ??? (stolen from Tord)

## Songs he sang

* My past is not today (my little pony) (along with reformed members)
* Sombra vs. Spy (JT Music) (along with ???/as the Spy (TF2))

## Rap Battles

* Unloaded (From the FNF Online VS Überkids Challenge)
* Last Reel (From Bendy’s Week from the Indie Cross Mod)
* Knockout (From Cuphead’s Week from the Indie Cross Mod)

## Theme songs

* Enigma wrapped with puzzles (fanmade song for cure

## TV Tropes

### In Canon

* Adaptational Heroism: Brain Bomber was the only Dastardly Bomber not to undergo a Heel–Face Turn and became the Big Bad of a future game. Phantom Bomber on the other hand does turn good with the rest of the Dastardly Bombers
* Big Bad: Of Bomberman Tournament.
* Brainwashing: To Max in Tournament.
* The Chessmaster:
	+ In Tournament he reviews how the Dastardly Bombers' failed invasion of Phantarion went and devises a new strategy which counters and shuts down the inhabitants' resistance, leaving the planet for easy pickings. This strategy works so well that the Dastardly Bombers end up having full control of the planet for over a year before Bomberman finally shows up to thwart them. And even then he planned for such interference and even succeeded in taking down Max when he was sent first. He even adds a brainwashed Max to said contingency knowing full well that Bomberman would follow.
	+ Towards the end of Super Bomberman R he manages to figure out a way to turn Buggler's own black hole against him after his Heel–Face Turn.
* The Cracker: Is stated to be one in Super Bomberman R.
* The Dragon: Apparently the second-in-command as he was the only one other than Plasma Bomber to lead the team, and always the last one to be fought before Plasma Bomber when he isn't the leader (with Super R being the sole exception).
* The Dreaded: Various characters in Tournament refer to him as a cruel and terrifying monster.
* Evil Genius: His bio on the official Super Bomberman R website states that he may be even smarter and more cunning than Buggler.
* Expy: His fight in Tournament borrows a lot of elements from Buggler.
* Mad Scientist: He used a giant robot based on White Bomber in Super Bomberman 2, and was in the process of making the Ultimate Weapon in Bomberman Tournament. Additionally, the manga in the Japanese Super Bomberman 2 Hudson Koushiki Guidebook credits him with inventing the remote-controlled bombs.
* Power Floats: Whether it's due to mental power or technology is unknown.
* The Strategist: Considers himself the strategic mastermind. His actions in Tournament seem to back this claim.
* Took a Level in Badass: And HOW. He goes from an absolutely laughable boss in Super Bomberman 2 (see Zero-Effort Boss below) to the final boss of Tournament and a reasonable threat even without the use of a giant robot or Charabom fusion.
* Trap Master: Apparently in Super Bomberman R.
* Weapon of Choice: Remote Bombs in Super Bomberman 2. Bouncy Bombs in Bomberman Tournament. Phantom Bombs in Super Bomberman R.
* Zero-Effort Boss: In Super Bomberman 2 he moves very slowly and his bombs are at the weakest power and blast radius possible. Of course, his mech from the second phase averts this.

### In Starable’s Projects

* Animal Motif: Snake and chameleon. Most characters (preferably almost all villains) call him that because of his conniving tactics. Interestingly, Phantom can sometimes hiss like a snake, as well as his amazing animal form which is both a snake and chameleon (Jinx Chantelle: “YOU FUCKING SNAKE!!“/Edd Gould: "Sneaky as a chameleon, as he says so."/Gonta Gokuhara: "He seem like gentleman, but quiet like mouse and stealthy like snake.")
* Assassin Outclassin': To his doppelganger, Enigma: *"You are an EMBARRASSMENT to spies everywhere!"*
* Berserk Button: In Mister Hatter (MHA) (The Bomber, The Toppat and The Ugly Part 1), on where Reginald called his fedora stupid causing Phantom to beat the crap out of the Toppat during the final fight in the airship
	+ The same episode where his fedora had nearly fallen off by a toppat member, Wallace Dagwood during a train chase
* Beware the Quiet Ones: Most of the Danganronpa characters (except some of the remaining survivors) were feared by his silence even though many were allied with Phantom Bomber despite their comments (such as cold-blooded, anti-social, etc.) (Kokichi Ouma: “Quiet all the time. What's wrong with him? Is it because he's anti-social or is it that he has some distaste of killing?”/Gonta Gokuhara: "He seem like gentleman, but quiet like mouse and stealthy like snake.").
* ???: Seen in Remnants of Despair (MHA) where he secretly "killed" Monokid making every member of the Ultimate Despair the one to blame for the murder of Monokid when they failed to realize that it was Phantom.
* ??? Nickname: Brain, Brain Bomber or just simply Phantom
* Blade Below the Shoulder: Mostly uses the knife which was found in under his right hand (on how he did is by "snatched" it from Yuri then adjust it under his right hand)
* Duel to the Death: Against Specter Knight in chapter 5 in the exisal hangar
* Face Palm: Often does this which somehow fits for his Surrounded by Idiots trope
* Fedora of Asskicking: He wears a black-lavender patterned fedora
	+ In the Unaired Pilot Episode Creepypasta, the fedora he wore was originally a brown and purple patterned one.
* Gratuitous Spanish: During Hotel Kumasutra
* Hayseed Name: Before Super Bomberman 2, his real name was Brain Fedora.
* Ironic Nickname: Silent Killer by ???. This nickname is ironic because he doesn't kill/murder anybody due to his merciful personality.
* It Amused Me: After a Kick the Dog on Yuri, Phantom laughs out in amusement that "he has done it for no reason".
* Kick the Dog: "Accidentally" scratched Yuri's cheek when she demanded Phantom to give her knife back. Hacker Bomber backslaps him for this.
* Knife Nut: His switchblade and the other knife on his right sleeve
* Sharp-Dressed Man: The well-suited of the Dastardly Bombers. Most of them are as follows
	+ To Skittles about his fedora, unaware that Skittles was being sarcastic: (Phantom Bomber: "Bushman, this is a $8,000 custom-tailored Louis Crabbemarché fedora. The cloth is from silkworms raised at a suit microfarm in Tuscany, from a secret pattern passed down by monk tailors since the four years.")
	+ To Kaede, Ibuki, and Sayaka about his robotic shoes and gloves upon requested (Phantom Bomber: Do *I* have time to worry about my shoes and gloves getting **dirty and mucky** like this?! Those cost like $500 and *do you have* any idea how expensive it is to clean and repair these? Time's wasting, musical freaks, the next 45 seconds, we'll all get captured.)
* The Rival: To Specter Knight in V3 as the reaper attempts on antagonizing Phantom through manipulation, lasting until chapter 5 where Phantom killed Specter Knight through a quick duel
* Smoking is Cool: Inverted. It's not cigar actually but rather mint candy-flavored toothpicks
* Stealth Expert: Most of the time, he easily sneaks around any enemies until open combat starts, barring the With Catlike Tread moment below
* What Does She See in Him?: A selfless, rogue, enigmatic cyborg who Galaxy Bomber ??? (Makoto Naegi: “A cyborg spy? He seems enigmatic though. What seems to be wrong with him?”/Golem Bomber: (to Phantom's sons) “Yes, your father disappears often.”/Miu Iruma: “???”/Skid (Amanda's Universe): “Aww, I just want some playful stabs from this Phantom Bomber, but he didn't feel a prick doesn't he?”/Tom Ridgewell: ""/Skittles: "???"/Vincent Afton: "???")
* With Catlike Tread: In Mister Hatter (MHA) (The Bomber, The Toppat and The Ugly Part 1) where he takes a Toppat member, Fredrick Muenster. This Toppat member tumbled down to the upper floor and into a crate below, causing a huge crash and drawing everyone's attention to his killer.

### In Amanda’s Projects

* Artificial Limb: His Saban self, Patton Phantom has his left hand is replaced with a robotic even his original self knows that they're robots.
* The Leader: Downplayed with his saban counterpart
* Noodle Incident:
* Red Baron: Enigma wrapped with Puzzles in Pretty Cure.

## Nicknames

* Brain Bomber (Former Name Before Super Bomberman R) (Ex-Name in Starable and Amanda’s Adventures Series/Chronicles until he and Hacker Bomber requested his name to be changed)
* Patton Phantom (Saban’s version of Brain/Phantom Bomber)
* Bomber 6180 (Serial Number in Starable and Amanda’s Adventures Series/Chronicles)
* Spider Hatter (Miraculous Hero Name/When using the Spider Miraculous)
* Cure Fantomubom (Pretty Cure Name)
* ??? (PMMM Witch Form) (Spy Witch with a Clever nature)
* Bubble Bomber (by Jason and Nerissa)
* Bubble Cloak (When using the Mermaid Miraculous)
* Crash Cloaker (White Z-Ray Name)
* Brain Fedora (Red leader Army Undercover Name; Former Red Army Name) (real name)
* Phony Snake (by many Red Leader Army Members)
* Ultimate Spy (Ultimate Talent)
* Spy Dude (by Charles Calvin)
* ??? (by The Snatcher)
* ??? (by Phanty Seaway and Cornelia Seaway)

## Trivia

* In crimson (MHA), it is revealed that Phantom was once a robotic member of the Red Leader Army (under the name; Brain Fedora) until he betrayed the Army and join the Five Dastardly Bombers and reunited with Hacker Bomber with the reason of the Miraculous Harmony Adventures Episode, crimson (MHA) why he was often targeted because of the tragic past and betrayal.
	+ As of his Betrayal from the Red Army, he received a punishment (that being ???).
* Age: 22
* Closing Argument Pose: Kneeling while in Remorse Look.
* Different au roles
	+ Bomb Man (Bomberman (Mega Man) au)
	+ gsu (harmony Night Funkin')
* Phantom Bomber is sometime the target for akumas
	+ In Mister Hatter (MHA) (The Bomber, the Toppat and the Ugly Part 1), he along with Charles Calvin, Max Bomber, Ellie Rose, Henry Stickmin, Green Bomber, his Dastardly Bomber Comrades, Hacker Bomber, Hat Kid, Bomberman Bros., Bow Kid, Dr. Wasabi Cookie, Mustard Cookie, and Shovel Knight were part of target for Reginald Copperbottom/Mister Hatter, for their escape of being a Toppat member (while for Magnet Bomber, Black Bomber, Golem Bomber and Yellow Bomber, they snatched the briefcase that contains the Toppat Clan's criminal records)
		- Later in Right Hand Cyborg (MHA) (The Bomber, the Toppat and the Ugly Part 2), they would be the target next for Right Hand Man/Right Hand Cyborg for the second time they escape.