Ground Scaravich

Ground Scaravich
In-Game Information
HP:	40
Attack Damage:	3:4:5 (contact) 3:4:5 (small stone) 4:6:7 (medium stone) 6:8:10 (large stone) 12:16:20 (gigantic stone) 3:4:5 (Shot Attack) 7 (ceiling rock, Xtreme only)
Weapon X gains:	Ground Dash
Technique Zero gains:	Sentsuizan
Weakness:	Yammar Option
Main Stage:	Central Museum
Misc. Information
Script:	グランド・スカラビッチ
Rōmaji:	Gurando Sukarabicchi
Series Information
In-game Appearances:	Mega Man X6
Japanese VA:	Takeshi Aono
Theme Music

"Well, well, well... What have we here... Why, it's Officer X. This is horrible! Why do I have to face someone like you here?!"

―Ground Scaravich, Mega Man X6

Ground Scaravich (グランド・スカラビッチ, Gurando Sukarabicchi) is a Reploid modeled after a dung beetle who serves as one of Gate's eight Nightmare Investigators in Mega Man X6.

Characteristics

Ground Scaravich's appearance is based off that of a scarab. He has a short stature and short limbs, and a beetle shell on his back. He has a long, pointy moustache and his head has two pincer-like horns on top. He has a rhombus-shaped gem in his forehead, a trait he shares with the rest of his fellow Nightmare Investigators.

Scaravich is an ambitious Reploid who has few qualms with breaking the rules. He is somewhat cowardly, bemoaning having to fight powerful Reploids such as X and Zero. However, he also has what it takes to overcome this so that he may analyze X's data. He claimed to have wanted to study Zero in the past, but had since moved on. He has a notably elderly-sounding voice.

In the Japanese version, Scaravich used a very polite manner of speech and was the only one out of the eight Nightmare Investigators to do so. He conjugates his verbs politely with "です" (desu) and "ます" (masu), even when he prepares to challenge the Hunters to a duel.

History

Mega Man X6

Ground Scaravich was once an enterprising treasure hunter who was wanted by the Maverick Hunters for damaging historic ruins in his search for valuable data and loot. In his work he discovered a lot of data on ancient robots and Gate took care of him in exchange for this information. Gate later sent Scaravich to a forbidden area (where X and Zero were discovered) and Alia, upon witnessing him enter the facility, ultimately intercepted and disposed of him as punishment for his misconduct. She felt bad for doing this, but Gate appeared to not have cared about what happened to him.

Ground Scaravich was later resurrected by Gate in Mega Man X6 as part of his Nightmare investigation team. He was sent to the abandoned Central Museum near Queensland, Australia to examine the Nightmare apparitions there, where he was confronted by the Maverick Hunters in the main hall. He was frightened at first, but decided to fight them anyway to obtain their DNA data and was destroyed.

Strategy

Ground Scaravich fights by rolling stones back and forth along the floor, occasionally stopping to attack. The arena has Wire Hook lines that the player can use to jump over him; they become especially important near the end of the battle, when Scaravich's stones are too large to jump over normally. He is weak to Yammar Option, which instantly destroys his stone and causes him to flee for another one.

	Stone Roll (ストーン転がし, Sutōn Korogashi)
	Ground Scaravich rolls a grey stone across the floor. Every few times Scaravich rolls off-screen, he returns with a larger stone, up until it is so large the player can only avoid it by jumping from the Wire Hook. It can be destroyed by the player's attacks, which causes the stone to increase in size faster. At Lv.04 or higher, Scaravich also rolls purple stones that can only be destroyed with the Blade Armor's charged Z-Saber, or brown stones that rain stones from the ceiling when they are struck.
	Damage: 3:4:5
	Shot Attack (ショット攻撃, Shotto Kōgeki)
	Ground Scaravich shoots one to three shots from his arm, using his stone as a shield. At high boss levels, he aims them directly at the player.
	Damage: 3:4:5
	Stone Kick (ストーンキック, Sutōn Kikku)
	Ground Scaravich kicks his stone at the player. It either flies straight towards the player or bounces along the floor. Scaravich only uses this attack once he's lost 50% health. At high boss levels, additional stones fall from the ceiling so he can kick multiple rocks in a row.
	Damage: 3:4:5

Quotes

Dialogues

• X
• Zero

X: Ground Scaravich! You must be the burglar of ruins! What are you doing here?
Ground Scaravich: Well, well, well... What have we here... Why, it's Officer X. This is horrible! Why do I have to face someone like you here?!
X: Be a smart Reploid and give me the Information on the Nightmares.

Ground Scaravich: I'd rather just see what DNA data you have!

Zero: Ground Scaravich! Why do you need to steal from another ruin? Hmm... You seem to be very close to the Nightmares...
Ground Scaravich: I am cursed, I know it! You are Zero. I heard you were dead. I really wanted to obtain your DNA data, but I no longer need it.
Zero: What do you mean?

Ground Scaravich: You can fight me to find out!

In-battle quotes

Action	Japanese	Translation	Audio
Stone Roll; small	よいしょ、よいしょ。(Yoisho, yoisho.)	Heave-ho, heave-ho.
Stone Roll; medium	わっせ、わっせ。(Wasse, wasse.)	Heave-ho, heave-ho.
Stone Roll; large	よおおおおおいしょっ！(Yooooooisho!)	Heeeeeeave-ho!
Stone Roll; extra large	うあああああんん！(Uaaaaann!)	Urrrgh!
Shot Attack	ほりゃっ！(Horya!)*	Try this!
Stone Kick	どりゃああぁぁぁ！(Doryaaaaa!)*	Take that!
Stone Kick	どうしたどうした！？(Doushita doushita!?)	Aw, what's wrong!?
Hit by weakness	いたたたたたたっ！(Itatatatatata!)	Owowowowow!
Defeated	むねぇぇんんん！/ 無念！(Muneeennn!)	Such shame!

• "Dorya" and "horya" can both be qualified as kiai or kakegoe. In this case, these are shouts that a Japanese combatant yells when performing an attack. As such, they can essentially be translated as "Take that!" or "Try this!", as the combatant is signaling to his opponent that he will attack. It is common for "Dorya!" to be translated as "Take that!" in anime.

Other appearances

• Ground Scaravich appeared as boss alongside Shield Sheldon in one stage from the X Challenge in Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2.
• Ground Scaravich appeared as Unit Cards in TEPPEN, and can be seen in the art of the Action Card Central Park Ruins.

Other media

Archie Comics

Ground Scaravich is one of the many Mavericks featured in the Worlds Unite crossover event. He joins the other Mavericks in attacking Sonic the Hedgehog, Mega Man, and X's other allies before departing to invade other worlds.

Gallery

Artwork

Scaravich's bustshot.

Scaravich's concept art.

TEPPEN card

TEPPEN card

In the TEPPEN card Central Park Ruins

Mega Man X - Mega Man X8 Mavericks in Worlds Unite

Sprites

Ground Scaravich's intro animation.

Videos

MegaMan X6 Ground Scaravich Xtreme Mode (Part 9)

Etymology

Ground Scaravich's first name refers to his earth alignment, while his second name is derived from "scarab" and the Slavic surname suffix "-vich".

Trivia

• Coincidentally, three of the four beetle-themed Mavericks in the Mega Man X series - Boomer Kuwanger (stag beetle), Gravity Beetle (rhinoceros beetle) and Ground Scaravich himself (dung beetle) - are in fact scarabs. This leaves only Shining Firefly (firefly) as a non-scarab beetle, and is the only instance where so many of a certain Maverick theme (beetles, fish, cats, etc.) have all been of such a specific grouping.
• In their character artwork, Shining Firefly and Ground Scaravich are both depicted holding the ends of their mustache-like structures on their mouths.
• Unlike the other Nightmare Investigators in Mega Man X6, it's not clear that Gate created Ground Scaravich, even though Gate resurrected him, due to it being unclear whether Scaravich had legal work he was built to do in addition to his illegal work and due to Scaravich seemingly requesting protection in exchange for giving Gate data. The information in-game does not completely preclude the possibility that Scaravich was created by Gate to do illegal work, though. What is known is Ground Scaravich is one of two Investigators explicitly said to have had before his death a working relationship with Gate, the other being Metal Shark Player, although Gate is implied to have had one with Infinity Mijinion as well.