Fish Man (Rock Force)

At first glance, **Fish Man** appears to be an organic lifeform, but this is not the case. To carry out his mission of deep sea exploration, his creators felt that a more organic appearance would allow him to observe lifeforms without frightening them. Scientists acquired a skin-like polymer, used primarily for robot faces, and applied it to his entire body to make him more maneuverable in water and adaptable to pressure changes. Though he is still durable, his porous skin is susceptible to contaminants and microbiological lifeforms; after extensive underwater missions, he’s been known to build up quite the stink. His Fish Finders were once used to explore areas that even he couldn’t access, but after joining Justice Man’s ranks, they were fitted with explosives to become incredibly deadly tracking torpedoes.

## Appearances

### *Mega Man Rock Force*

#### Attack Pattern: Seadee

Fish Man first rides the green serpent mech from earlier in the stage, Seadee, into battle and this makes up the first phase of the fight. There is also a platform in the middle that the player can slide under. This serpent will pop out one of the four holes on the right and left sides of the screen, and can only be damaged by shooting his head. Seadee can attack by firing a large green orb right at the player. After a second, the orb will explode into an 8-way of smaller orbs that slowly spiral outward. Seadee can also swim from one side to the other in hopes of ramming into the player. If Seadee is flying along the upper holes, he will drop white bombs from his segments in unpredictable locations.

On Easy Mode, Seadee is slower with the startup of his attacks.

On Hard Mode, Seadee fires two large orbs at once, in addition to shooting a very fast one from offscreen once he's done. He also drops a lot more bombs.

#### Attack Pattern: Fish Man

Once Seadee is destroyed, Fish Man will fight the player himself as the second phase of the fight. Fish Man normally moves around by jumping high, though at the apex of his jump, he will release 2 Fish Finders, red explosive torpedoes that loosely home in on the player's location while going downwards. Fish Man can also swim into one of the holes. His next attack depends on which elevation he comes from. If he comes from the bottom holes, he'll drop 3 white bombs in evenly spread locations. If he comes from the upper holes, he will be followed by a
school of Fish Finders, though 3 of them will leave the school to attack the player. Once Fish Man is done with any of these two attacks, he will swim back and land on the platform, continuing his jumps and ready to spawn new Fish Finders when the others have been destroyed.

On Easy Mode, Fish Man does not swim in and out of the holes, leaving him to only jump and send out Fish Finders.

On Hard Mode, Fish Man jumps more often. When swimming into a hole at first, he moves a lot faster. He drops more bombs, and during the beginning and end of his 'school of fish' attack, two Fish Finders are deployed offscreen where Fish Man would be.

#### Weaknesses

Both Seadee and Fish Man are weak to Virus Outbreak. They are also weak to Fire Man's Bubble Storm, with his attacks capable of neutralizing Fish Finders from all angles since his bubbles rise up.

## Trivia

* Fish Man is one of 2 Robot Masters who do not have a mugshot, along with Polar Man. This is because Justice Man's mugshot always shows when selecting any of the 3 Hall of Justice stages.
	+ These 2 are only represented by 1-UP icons akin to that of the other Fusion Masters and playable characters, used to represent the player's progress on the fortress map and save menu.
* Dive Man can be found in this stage at a checkpoint room, where he will use his torpedo dive to crash into a wall and destroy it, opening it up for the player. The wall won't be there if Dive Man is the current playable character.
* His stage's music theme was first composed by symfonikev as a free-to-use piece, though it was first named "Stage 47 (Original)."