Hornet Man

Hornet Man
DLN-070
In-Game Information
HP:	28
Attack Damage:	4 (Contact) 4 (Hornet Chaser)
Weapon:	Hornet Chaser
Weakness:	Magma Bazooka
Misc. Information
Eye Color:	Blue
Series Information
In-game Appearances:	Mega Man 9
Other Appearances:	Rockman Megamix
Theme Music

"If you want to call it a plain and simple rampage, so be it..."

—Hornet Man, Mega Man Megamix: For Whom

Hornet Man (ホーネットマン, Hōnettoman) is a Robot Master from Mega Man 9 modeled after a hornet and a honeycomb that Dr. Light created to manage a flower park. He loves gardening, and his job was to pollinate the park's flowers using his vast knowledge of plants from around the world. He attacks by releasing robot hornets from the honeycomb in his chest.

Physical appearance

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Hornet Man is a humanoid robot built in a way that appears to be wearing a black suit, yellow gauntlets with black linings at the ends, white hands, yellow legs with black central lining and white feet. He has a unique torso consisting of three large honey combs that can open and release small hornet robots. He wears a yellow helmet with a black top lining, a white visor part connected on the front, and metallic spike on top of the helmet. He has blue eyes.

Video game appearances

Mega Man 9

Hornet Man is one of the eight Robot Masters whose period of use had expired and was scheduled to be scrapped. Dr. Wily pretended to be concerned by offering to repair them, reprogramming the tricked robots to help him conquer the world.

He walks to one side of the arena, flies up, and shoots three Hornet Chasers, which follow the player; he then drops to the floor, runs to the other side, and repeats.

His weakness is the Magma Bazooka. Its diagonal fire blasts will destroy all the bees when the center shot hits the center Hornet Chaser. When charged, it will also blast through them toward Hornet Man. Another viable weapon is the Black Hole Bomb which, when positioned properly, will suck in all three Hornet Chasers as they move towards Mega Man, and will then damage Hornet Man as he runs through it to the other side of the room.

In the end credits, he is seen watering the flowers in his garden with Beat, having been rebuilt after the events of the game.

Damage data chart

Displays the amount of damage in units that Hornet Man will receive from each Special Weapon in Mega Man 9.

Mega Man 9
Mega Buster	Proto Buster	Concrete Shot	Tornado Blow	Laser Trident	Plug Ball	Jewel Satellite	Hornet Chaser	Magma Bazooka	Black Hole Bomb
1	1:3	1	1	1	1	1	1	2:4	1

*For Proto Buster and Magma Bazooka, the first digit is the damage done when the weapon is fired normally; the second digit is damage done when the weapon is charged up.

Stage

Hornet Man's stage consists of two main gimmicks:

• Bokazurah Block challeges
• Shooting unfolding platforms over spike pits

On Superhero Mode, Bombomboys appear in the stage in large numbers, along with changed Bokazurah Block patterns. There are also more Flower Presenters and Caricarries.

Enemies

Image	Enemy
	Hornet Man (boss)
	Hanabiran (sub-boss)
	Caricarry
	Bombomboy (Superhero Mode)
	Flower Presenter T
	Scissascissor
	Bokazurah
	Flower Presenter C
	Flower Presenter M
	Big Stomper (Normal and Hero Mode)

Appearance in other media

Manga

Hornet Man appears in the short Mega Man Megamix manga story "For Whom" included in the booklet of Rockman 9 Arrange Soundtrack and in Rockman Maniax.

Mega Man (Archie Comics)

Hornet Man appeared in Sonic the Hedgehog #250 as part of the Worlds Collide crossover arc. In it, he fought Charmy Bee, causing the latter to panic and claim they're technically relatives.

Gallery

Battle with Hornet Man.

Hornet Man in the ending credits of Mega Man 9.

Honey Woman, Hornet Man's predecessor.

Concept art of Hornet Man and Honey Woman.

Hornet Man in Mega Man Megamix: For Whom.

Hornet Man shown in an artwork from Capcom Visual Works 2004-2014.

Trivia

• Mega Man 9's producer, Hironobu Takeshita, revealed that early in the game's development, Hornet Man was intended to be a female robot named "Honey Woman" (ハニーウーマン, "Honey Woman"). When Keiji Inafune presented his idea of placing a female robot in the ocean as a mermaid (thus creating Splash Woman), Hornet Man's design went through many revisions, including being changed to a male. More early artworks of Hornet Man show a slimmer male robot with wings, antennae, and a stinger-like buster on his right arm. This design was called Sting Man (スティングマン, Sting Man).
  • The Honey Woman design was later reused for the Archie Comics series, becoming a new character named Vesper Woman who was created by Dr. Noele Lalinde. In a nod to her origin as a prototype design for Hornet Man, she was created from an unused design concept of Dr. Light's.
• The name "Hornet Man" was formerly used for a boss submission for Mega Man 2.