Warhead

Warhead, from Vectorman.

> "'Warhead' is born, and he stands for tyranny, hatred, and oppression." -Introductory.
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Warhead (Japanese: 弾頭, Dantō, lit. “warhead”) was the main antagonist of the first VectorMan game. He stood for tyranny, hatred, and oppression.

He acted as the final boss of the first game and also made a cameo appearance in the second game.

## History

He was just a normal Orbot named Raster, as a reference to the computing term. He was seeing the clean-up through a worldwide ComNet (short for “Computer Network”) before he was transformed, as Orbot attendants put a nuke in his "master control circuits". This made him go insane and he renamed himself to the name he had then, and transformed Earth into an instrument of death for mankind.

He found out that Vectorman wanted to defeat him, so he attacked him in Day 2: MetalHead. He was defeated and later returned in two later levels. Finally, he engaged in combat with VMan in a final battle atop a tornado. He was vanquished and Earth was saved, and he was left underground.

## Concept and Creation

Originally, Sega and BlueSky Software wanted every character in the first game to have only spherical shapes. This was changed and they started working on other shapes.

For VectorMan 3, a boss that resembled him appeared in concept art.

## Appearance

Warhead is a gray Orbot with narrowed, angry amber eyes, with a nuclear warhead for a head. His lower body, in the introductory, is shown, but nearly everywhere else, his lower body is a tornado. Finally, his arms are unnecessarily large with bombs for shoulders. These also appear on his hand cuffs and also has, like all Orbots, three-fingered hands.

His yellow pupils are difficult to see and are only seen in the final level, where he looks at the “floor” below him.

    In the VMan 3 concept art, he is missing most of his body having it replaced. His arms became scythes and most of his head was destroyed.

## Personality

Warhead is a cruel Orbot, having no feelings or remorse for those around him. He only thinks of other Orbots and living creatures as slaves and will try to control them or possibly kill them. WarHead will kill those who do not follow orders, or merely laugh at him or shake their heads at him. He sees weak Orbots as pathetic, helpless things that should be killed immediately. These both were shown as no Orbot was neutral to any living creature during the chase after him.

Warhead will kill anything and anyone who gets directly in his way with no remorse whatsoever, and is obsessed with power and killing or enslaving those around him.

Since he stands for those three traits, he most likely has all of them. He wants to have power over Earth and made Worldlink Center his base, with TV monitors showing him very livid in the background.

It is implied that WarHead will even kill those who have any kind of relationship with him, because of how insane he is. Also due to this insanity, he may enjoy watching the deaths of others.

He may not be very intelligent however, as he did not simply reuse his mind-control abilities on VMan when he returned. He may possibly have wanted to kill him instead, however.

## Abilities

While he doesn't have many special powers, Warhead does have exceptional physical strength to make up for it as he mainly tries to punch players in the final level. Due to this power, he also must have immense durability and a powerful grasp, as his hands are much larger than any Orbot. His reaction time is also faster than most, as he will immediately fly into a rage and attack faster if hurt once during the final battle.

He also has mind-control abilities and can shoot fireballs as projectiles, presumably from where his mouth would be if he had one. Through unknown means, he can also fire lightning beams that interact with certain floors.

Even if severely damaged to where his “mouth” is able to be viewed, he still has all of his normal abilities.

It is implied he can regenerate, as even when his hands became very damaged in two of the four battles he had, they were intact and unharmed in the final fight.

Also, as an Orbot, his stamina is limitless and does not need to breathe.

## Warhead

WarHead as he appears in the final level.

### Affiliation

himself

Warhead is battled four times in Vectorman. He is also the final boss of the game.

### Day 2

Players will first see him in Day 2. He will chase players, and the player must damage his hand enough times to make him fall off. Being relentless, He doesn't give up and keeps doing this about three times before he gives up and plummets down to Earth.

### Day 7

In Rock 'N' Roller, he returns. Only his hands are visible here, and he will try to slam on top of players and crush them. Stay away from the bottom of the level and shoot at him. Only one hand needs to be destroyed to defeat him here.

### Day 11

In Stayin' Alive, Warhead will fire laser beams at the player. There is also a wall surrounding him, which has an opening that moves around the wall. Shoot inside the opening multiple times to defeat him here. Players are advised to be careful here as they only have 40 seconds to do this and the spinning tornadoes often get in the way of them.

### Day 16

Warhead will confront the player for the last time, having a battle with them above a cyclone and its dark clouds. He moves erratically and fires fireballs at the player. WarHead will try to strike players with his arms, attempting to kill them. After hurting him enough, he will show visible damage. Doing even more damage will show more damage. After hurting him enough, he ascends to the sky.

## Bonus Level Cameo

    See Unnamed Bonus Level enemy 1.

An enemy resembling his face will appear during bonus rounds, shooting fireballs from where its mouth would be. This enemy is not seen anywhere in the game other than in the bonus rounds. Interestingly, it has red eyes while Warhead has amber eyes.

## Relationships

### Vectorman

This section is in need of an expansion.
These two have been aggressive to each other for a long time, as they fought multiple times. WarHead tried to destroy his nemesis many times but failed.

### Mankind

This section is in need of an expansion.
WarHead is known for having a deep hatred for mankind and will kill anything on Earth that breathes.

## Trivia

* A warhead in real life is a nuclear weapon used in warfare.
* His original name is a pun on Raster graphics, a computer term.
* He is light gray with red eyes in MetalHead, and red and white in the introductory.
* In Stayin' Alive, his eyes are yellow.
* In the VMan 2 level Dirty Job, it is possible to see his remains in the background towards the end of the level, near a hidden room full of photons.
* In the final level, his hitbox/target box is his head. However, players will only take damage if they touch his hands or upper arms.
* In the second game, Scene 18 is named after the final boss level in the first game.
* Sometimes, he is called “WarHead” other times, he is called Warhead.
* For some reason, in the character introduction, his hands are not animated but he will still move them. He is also a lighter shade of gray and his head will be facing the right side of the screen. His pupils are also not visible here.
* This implies that he was only darker gray in the final battle because of the rain.
* Even though most of the metal on his face was removed during the final fight, he appears to be normal in the second game cameo.
* He is one of the only bosses in the game to not have a death animation. He only either explodes or, in the final battle, ascends into the sky.
* He is the only character in the series to not speak at all.
* In the Sonic franchise, the E-Series robot ZERO does a very similar pose to the one Warhead does in the introductory.

## Gallery

*Main page: Warhead/Gallery*

Final levelWorldlink CentertWarhead seen in one of the Studio monitors.WarHead's fists from Rock 'N' Roller.A full bodied WarHead in a prototype version of Rock 'N' Roller.VM 2 cameoAnother image of his VM2 appearance.Intro