- "I'll show you your future."
- —Crystal Man, Mega Man & Bass database
Crystal Man (クリスタルマン Kurisutaruman) is a Robot Master from Mega Man 5 that was created by Dr. Wily predominantly to help finance his operations through the creation of artificial crystals to sell. He can use his ability as a Special Weapon, the Crystal Eye, which allows him to attack by instantaneously producing and launching barrages of crystal orbs. His orbs can rebound off surfaces and split into multiple smaller orbs upon hitting their targets. Crystal Man can also attack with energy shots from the crystal in his body.
Appearance[]
Crystal Man is a humanoid robot with red eyes. He has a teal helmet with a large crystal ball on the front top, a white cover on his mouth, crystal ball on each of his shoulder, black arms, two crystal ring on each of his lower arms, white hands, teal armor, a torso which is a giant crystal ball, black legs, teal lower legs with tiny crystal ball on each of them, and white feet.
Personality[]
A mysterious, mystical individual who prefers to keep to himself most of the time, Crystal Man is skilled in the art of illusion and fortune-telling, something of an allegory to the crystals he produces resembling the crystal balls often used by fortune tellers. His colleagues have a hard time trusting him, though, and he has a dislike for scientists.
Video game appearances[]
Mega Man 5[]
Crystal Man is one of the eight Robot Masters, and defeating him rewards the player with Crystal Eye.
Attack Pattern[]
Crystal Man only moves by jumping, usually going roughly to the center of the screen and travelling a very short distance horizontally. He spends the entire fight jumping, but has 2 attacks that are determined by player proximity. If the player is close to him, Crystal Man will pause at the apex of his jump to charge up and release a single shot, which is fired in a straight line and loosely aimed at Mega Man's position. If the player is far away, Crystal Man will jump to the very top of the ceiling and use Crystal Eye, shooting off 4 blue crystal balls that bounce along the room. They are shot off in the diagonals and can be tricky to avoid, but will disappear after a few seconds of bouncing. He always uses Crystal Eye at the start of the fight: to dodge this first attack, wait until the crystals approach you, then slide underneath the bottom left one and jump straight up to dodge the rest. Staying close to Crystal Man means he will be unable to use Crystal Eye, only sticking to his regular shots.
Weakness[]
Crystal Man's weakness is Gyro Attack, which defeats him in 7 hits. The weapon's manual aiming can serve to hit Crystal Man if he jumps very high, but as the player will want to stay close to him, simply shooting it at him is good enough. As with all bosses, Crystal Man takes 3 damage from a fully-charged buster shot.
Mega Man IV[]
Crystal Man is part of the second wave of 4 Robot Masters, which all come from Mega Man 5.
Attack pattern[]
Crystal Man's pattern is pretty much the same, though the Crystal Eye projectiles are slower and don't stay on screen for as long as before, roughly 1-2 seconds shorter. Crystal Man himself jumps at a slower rate, and the shot fired from his body is much slower in speed.
Weaknesses[]
Crystal Man's main weakness is Charge Kick, which can defeat him in 7 hits. It can be effective to use, and Mega Man can simply slide through Crystal Man instead of waiting for him to jump. Crystal Man also has a secondary weakness to Ring Boomerang and takes 2 damage from it. As with most other bosses, Crystal Man takes 3 damage from a fully-charged buster shot.
Other appearances[]
- Crystal Man appears in the Mega Man & Bass database.
Data[]
Mega Man & Bass CD data[]
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Rockman Complete Works data[]
クリスタルをざいりょうにしてつくられたロボット。クリスタルアイはよけにくいので弱点武器ではやめにたおそう。
Mega Man Legacy Collection text: A robot made up of crystals. His Crystal Eye is hard to dodge, so take him down quickly with the weapon that plays on his weakness.
Stage[]
Damage data chart[]
Displays the amount of damage in units that Crystal Man will receive from each Special Weapon in Mega Man 5.
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Mega Buster | Gravity Hold | Water Wave | Power Stone | Gyro Attack | Star Crash | Charge Kick | Napalm Bomb | Crystal Eye | Super Arrow | Beat | |
1:3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
- *For Mega Buster, the first number is when the weapon is fired normally; the second is when it is fully charged.
Other media[]
Mega Man (Ruby-Spears)[]
- "Perhaps I did not make myself... crystal clear."
- ―Crystal Man, The Mega Man in the Moon
Crystal Man appeared in the episode "The Mega Man in the Moon", from Ruby Spears' Mega Man animated series. He is shown to be the most powerful and competent of the Robot Masters in the episode. He takes command of Cut Man and Guts Man in Wily's absence, and nearly kills Mega Man twice: first by trapping him under a launching space shuttle, and later inflicting what could be considered the most devastating blow against him by shooting him with Wily's augmented laser cannon.
When Crystal Man has his Special Weapon stolen by Mega Man, he fights back (being one of only two Robot Masters to do so, the other one being Pharaoh Man) by pushing Mega Man over, before jumping into the air and trying to stomp on him with the Moon's low gravity, only to be shot down by his own weapon. Crystal Man is shown to survive afterwards, albeit badly damaged with his left hand severed, and is last seen vowing to have his revenge.
Crystal Man was voiced by Jim Byrnes, the same voice actor as Dr. Light. Crystal Man appeared nearly identical to his design from the video games, with only minor stylized changes.
Mega Man (Archie Comics)[]
Like many of the Robot Masters, Crystal Man debuts prior to the comic adaptation of his game, specifically during the Worlds Collide crossover with Archie Sonic the Hedgehog. He appears as part of a large army of Robot Masters, time-cloned from various points in Mega Man's history by Dr. Wily and Dr. Eggman. Crystal Man and his fellows battled Sonic the Hedgehog and Mega Man's allies, who despite being vastly outnumbered put up a strong fight. Notably, Crystal Man launched an attack at Espio the Chameleon only for the ninja's shuriken to slice right through his crystal.
Crystal Man made his formal debut in Mega Man #53, seen incomplete and hanging on a wall while Wily examined some plans.
Mega Man Megamix[]
Crystal Man is a combat robot that was built with natural crystals, and is able to utilize them to create artificial crystals through hydrothermal processing. Through his research on the creation of crystals, Dr. Wily developed half-gelatinous crystals which he further refined into the weapon known as the Crystal Eye. This weapon fires a large crystalline ball containing numerous smaller crystal balls, which scatter on impact.
Crystal Man first appeared in the story "Holiday of Soldiers," where the eight Robot Masters from Mega Man 5 have part-time jobs at an amusement park to obtain money for Wily, referring themselves as "The Hourly Pay Squad: Part-Timers" and Crystal Man as "Crystal Sky". Crystal Man runs a Yakisoba stand.
Other appearances[]
- The Mega Man 5 bosses have short appearances fighting against Mega Man or helping Wily in the three episodes from the OVA Mega Man: Upon a Star.
- Crystal Man appeared in Worlds Collide.
- Crystal Man also appeared in the manga Rockman 5 and Rockman 4Koma Dai Koushin.
Gallery[]
Behind the scenes[]
Crystal Man was initially designed and submitted by Yūsuke Murata for the Mega Man 5 boss character contest. Murata previously designed Dust Man in the Mega Man 4 boss contest. His friend Tatsumi Saegusa designed Star Man; a short comic about their experience was included in Mega Man: Official Complete Works.[1] Murata went on to become the primary artist of Eyeshield 21 and the Weekly Shōnen Jump release of One-Punch Man.
Trivia[]
- Crystal Man's body is primarily teal in his official artwork, but in his sprite and mugshot, he is green.
- Crystal Man is the only Robot Master in Mega Man 5 to have red eyes.
- Crystal Man and Wave Man are the only two Robot Masters from Mega Man 5 to not have a NetNavi counterpart.
- His weakness against Gyro Attack is in reference to how mineral crystalline structures can be cut down and polished into a desired shape.
- Crystal Man's dislike of scientists likely stems from his personality trait of enjoying divination and fortunetelling, especially through crystal gazing, an extremely unscientific process.
- In Mega Man 5, the face of Crystal Man's in-game sprite uses the same palette as Mega Man's face, making it seen like he is without a facemask.
References[]
- ↑ R20 Rockman & Rockman X Official Complete Works. Page 310.
Mega Man IV | |
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Robot Masters | |
Bright Man • Toad Man • Pharaoh Man • Ring Man Stone Man • Charge Man • Napalm Man • Crystal Man | |
Other bosses | |
"Satellite Cannon" • Ballade • "Bridge" • Hunter • Wily Robo Iron Golem | |
Special Weapons | |
Flash Stopper • Rain Flush • Pharaoh Shot • Ring Boomerang Power Stone • Charge Kick • Napalm Bomb • Crystal Eye • Ballade Cracker | |
Support items | |
Rush Coil • Rush Jet • Beat | |
Locations | |
Dr. Light's Laboratory • Bright Man Stage • Toad Man Stage • Pharaoh Man Stage • Ring Man Stage Wily Station • Stone Man Stage • Charge Man Stage • Napalm Man Stage • Crystal Man Stage • Wily Battleship | |
Miscellaneous | |
Damage Data Chart • Enemies • Script |