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This article is about the Robot Master Gravity Man. For information on his NetNavi counterpart, see GravityMan.EXE.
"At the conclusion of our experiment, the subject will be able to defy gravity itself!"
―Gravity Man on his Gravity Style, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Gravity Man (グラビティーマン Gurabitīman) is a Robot Master created by Dr. Wily. He has the ability to control gravity with the unit installed in his body. In Mega Man 5, he occupied an anti-gravity research institute and used it against Mega Man.[1] His only offensive weapon against enemies is a buster, but Gravity Man can use the Gravity Hold within a short range from him to freely manipulate his opponents' gravity and his own gravity and then fall like a heavy weight into them.

Appearance[]

Gravity Man is a humanoid robot with green eyes. He has a black body, a red helmet, red armor with two green gems and seemingly a gauge on it, a white left hand, a red bracer on his left arm, a red buster with a white end on his right arm, a yellow "G" on his lower body, a red part on his lower body, gray tubes on each side of his body which are connected between the lower body to the armor, and red-yellow boots.

Personality[]

Gravity Man is a devoted and enthusiastic researcher when it comes to the subject of gravity itself, but his unsocial attitude makes him prefer to work alone without any help or assistance. Gravity Man has a strong interest in physics and dislikes outer space, since there is little gravity to be found there.

Video game appearances[]

Mega Man 5[]

Gravity Man is one of the eight Robot Masters, and defeating him will reward the player with Gravity Hold.

Attack Pattern[]

Gravity Man may be a disorienting foe, but the mechanic of his fight is quite simple and he follows a strict pattern. Entering the boss arena while upside down, the player will always be opposite of Gravity Man (who starts on the floor). Gravity Man's main gimmick is to use Gravity Hold constantly, which will flip the orientation of both characters. Gravity Man can only be hit by the buster as the characters fly past each other. The player has to be careful not to get headbutted by Gravity Man as gravity gets switched, which is easily avoided as Gravity Man does not move horizontally when flipping. In between Gravity Holds, Gravity Man will run a short distance or hop a short distance as to reposition himself. Gravity Man can also attack by firing shots from his buster, which travel in a straight line and are loosely aimed at Mega Man's position.

Gravity Man's exact movement is patternized and he never deviates from it. He starts the fight from the bottom right, and uses Gravity Hold to get to the ceiling. He runs to the center, then flips to get to the bottom. He runs to the left corner, then flips to get to the ceiling. He then does a short hop rightwards, covering quite a bit of distance and overshooting the center. He then flips to the floor and does another short hop, but this one goes left and is shorter in distance. He flips to the ceiling, runs to the center, flips to the floor, and finally runs to the bottom right. From here, he will repeat the order of movements from the top.

Gravity Man's shot timings also have a pattern. From the start, he will spend 2 jumps (which count as a Gravity Hold jump and a short hop jump) not shooting. The next 3 jumps will have Gravity Man shoot at the median of the jump distance. He always cycles between 2 jumps of not shooting and 3 jumps of shooting.

Weakness[]

Gravity Man's weakness is Star Crash, which can block his shots and defeat him in 7 hits. The shield's slow speed upon launched can be timed before Gravity Hold is used so that Gravity Man will land on the shield or walk into it, making it easy to hit him with it. As with all bosses, Gravity Man takes 3 damage from a fully-charged buster shot.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate []

Gravity Man appears in Adventure Mode: World of Light as a Master Spirit who runs a Dojo in the Dark Realm. His Gravity Style majorly increases jump height, but majorly decreases move speed and fall speed, as though they were moving in a low-gravity area. His Spirit battle is represented by a fight against Dark Samus in a red costume, and battlefield conditions change rapidly between low and high gravity, causing fighters to change between sudden bursts of mobility and stability. A remix of Gravity Man's stage theme is available as a music track for the Wily Castle stage.

Data[]

Mega Man & Bass CD data[]

Gravity Man's CD data card.

Rockman Complete Works data[]

せまいはんいではあるがジュウリョクをコントロールできる。すれちがうときに攻撃しよう!

Mega Man Legacy Collection text: He can control gravity, albeit within a limited range. Attack him when you fly past each other!

Stage[]

Main article: Gravity Man Stage

Damage data chart[]

Amount of damage in units that Gravity Man receives from each Special Weapon in Mega Man 5.

Mega Man 5
Mega Buster Gravity Hold Water Wave Power Stone Gyro Attack Star Crash Charge Kick Napalm Bomb Crystal Eye Super Arrow Beat
1:3 0 1 1 1 4 0 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.
*For Charge Kick, while it's physically impossible to hit Gravity Man with it in a unmodified Mega Man 5, the damage value was discovered by hacking and placing a gravity switch inside Gravity Man's boss room.

Other media[]

Mega Man (Ruby-Spears)[]

RSGravityMan

Gravity Man in the Mega Man cartoon.

Gravity Man appeared in the episode "Master of Disaster" from Ruby-Spears' Mega Man animated series voiced by Jim Byrnes. His Gravity Hold is a replaced by a "gravity beam", which he uses to cause the ceiling of a cave and several stalactites to fall.

Mega Man: Upon a Star[]

The Mega Man 5 bosses have short appearances fighting against Mega Man or helping Wily in the three episodes from the OVA.

Mega Man Megamix[]

Gravity Man is a combat robot who was created for Dr. Wily's fifth attempt at world domination. His Gravity Hold was developed based on the theory that gravitational fields are spatial distortions. Gravity Man is able to choose any one point in his surroundings as a gravitational focal point, and cause a gravitational field to be produced around that point. To create a useful focal point, Gravity Man needs something with mass and usually selects a wall or ceiling for this purpose. When Mega Man uses the Gravity Hold as a special weapon, he creates the focal point within the body of his enemy.

Gravity Man first appeared in the story "Holiday of Soldiers", where the eight Robot Masters from Mega Man 5 have part-time jobs in an amusement park to earn money for Dr. Wily. Gravity Man works by distributing balloons.

In the Mega Man Gigamix story Moon of Darkness, the Robot Masters from Mega Man 5 are attacked by the Stardroids, and Gravity Man is defeated by Mercury.

Mega Man (Archie Comics)[]

Gravity Man, like many of the Robot Masters, appears in the Archie Comics series before the adaptation of his game during the Worlds Collide crossover event with the Archie Sonic the Hedgehog comic. He appears as part of a Robot Master army assembled by Dr. Wily and Dr. Eggman to battle Mega Man, Sonic the Hedgehog, and their allies.

Other appearances[]

Gravity Man also appeared in the Rockman 5 manga and in Rockman 4Koma Dai Koushin.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • On the cover of Mega Man 5, Gravity Man has spikes on the bottom of his feet. In the Mega Man cartoon series he has yellow "G"s on the bottom of his feet.
  • Gravity Man's quote in his Mega Man & Bass CD data, "Yet the earth does move", is derived from Galileo Galilei's phrase "And yet it moves".
  • Gravity Man is the only Robot Master from Mega Man 5 that didn't reappear as a boss in any other Mega Man game.
  • He is the only Robot Master to appear on the box art for the North American version of Mega Man 5.
  • Gravity Man is the only Robot Master to have a triangle-shaped outfit.
  • Gravity Man's weakness to Star Crash may be an allusion to real-world physics, as a star would likely have a strong enough gravitational effect to easily overpower his Gravity Hold.

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