Death Man (Rock Force)

A Government Issue robot, **Death Man** is one of the most powerful robots of the current generation. After the incident at the Monsteroplis Hydroelectric Facility, the Government, in a bid for public approval, felt it necessary to create a robot explicitly for hunting down and destroying dangerous robots. His energy matrix is one of the most complex ever created, requiring no less than eight times the energy of a typical Robot Master to function properly. However, once he was presented to the public, many felt his appearance and purpose were much too grisly to be considered the new face for security and peace. Not only that, taxpayers cited his extremely costly upkeep as excessive and unneeded, given the formation of Mega Man’s new Rock Force team. Having fulfilled his true goal of political posturing, Death Man was allowed to function as a crop farmer until his energy source depleted within a few months. When it came time to collect him, his body was never found.

## Appearances

### *Mega Man Rock Force*

Death Man is the ultimate Fusion Master, being the result of the 4 Fusion Masters fusing together to create Death Man.

#### Attack Pattern

Death Man's only method of moving is to jump to the player's current position. Death Man primarily attacks by throwing his Scythe of Death before resuming his jumps. He can throw it in two types of trajectories. He can throw it diagonally so it bounces along the room diagonally (which can be made harder to predict thanks to the two small gaps in the ceiling). He can also throw it so the Scythe bounces along the room in parabolic arcs. After Death jumps about 2-3 times without the Scythe, it will fly back to him and he'll catch it. Death Man's last attack is to jump from one side to the other before throwing his
scythe right in the center of the room, where it will try sucking the player in via a strong force of nature. While this happens, Death Man will continue his player-targeting jumps, calling back his scythe during the second jump.

On Easy Mode, Death Man jumps higher and takes longer to jump in between attacks. He also does not throw his scythe in the middle to suck the player in it.

On Hard Mode, Death Man has shorter jumps and jumps more often. This ironically makes him easier as his body will rarely be in the player's way as they are dodging the scythe.

#### Weaknesses

He is weak to Charade Clone, though the full bar is needed to defeat him. He is also weak to Rolling Cutter.

## Trivia

* Knight Man can be found in this stage. After the elevator, he will show up to break down a wall for the player. If playing as Knight Man, the wall will not be there.
	+ Bomb Man and Phantom Boom can actually blow up the wall himself, which causes Knight Man to kneel in sadness.
* The spikes that rotate along a circular platform bear a striking resemblance to an identical hazard in *Sonic the Hedgehog's* Green Hill Zone.
* The Scythe of Death is the second most-damaging attack a boss can do in Rock Force, doing 12 hit points of damage. The most-damaging is Photon Man's Photon Laser, which does 16 hits points.
* Death Man's stage music is one of the songs composed by GoldwaterDLS for the game. It also uses a motif from Crypt Man's stage music.
* Unlike all of the other bosses in the game (except for Justice Man), Death Man has a unique boss theme.