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Ninetails (ナインテイルズ,Ninetails) is a secret boss from Mega Man X: Command Mission. He is the strongest member of the Tail clan,[1] powerful Reploids that were imprisoned in Central Tower's Special Sealed Area. To reach him, the player must obtain the Central Key by completing the game, then defeat every member of the Tail clan (Onetail, Twotails, Threetails, Fourtails, Fivetails, Sixtails, Seventails and Eighttails).
Ninetails is a male Reploid based on the mythical kitsune, a nine-tailed fox spirit. His head resembles a white fox with red eyes, along with a black mustache and a single braid. His armor is red and gold, resembling a regal uniform with golden accents and sandals. He also has green and blue lights on his body, the ones on his knees resembling yin and yang. He also has nine yellow tail-like structures sprouting from the belt buckle on his back. Each of the Tail clan is identical to Ninetails in appearance, but with a different number of tails.
Upon encountering X's team, each of the Tail clan Reploids aggressively challenges them to a fight. From what little Ninetails says, he gives the impression of an eloquent and arrogant martial artist.
Stats[]
Instead of normal armaments, the Tail clan utilizes martial arts. They have the ability to utilize powerful energy attacks without the need of an outside power source. As all nine are based on the same Reploid, they share some basic abilities. All the Tails possess Annihilator Hadoken, which is a hit-all attack reminiscent of the Street Fighter series also produced by Capcom, and Puncture Arrows. However, there are some notable differences between them and how they fight, all of which can be tied back to previous enemies X's party has faced.
2-hit C-type Fire/ Water/ Thunder Attack depending on the element that is.
Annihilator Hadoken
S-type Attack, hits all party members, damage depends on user's current LE, to higher LE more damage.
Puncture Arrows
C-type Attack, hits one party member, reduces target's WE to 0.
Ultra Giga Fire
Large Fire-elemental damage to the entire party.
Ultra Giga Blizzard
Large Water-elemental damage to the entire party.
Ultra Giga Thunder
Large Thunder-elemental damage to the entire party.
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Changes Elemental Properties each turn.
Twotails fights starting in two bodies (like Duckbill Mole) and changes element every turn, complete with Ultra Giga elemental attacks (like Incentas).
S-type Attack, hits all party members, damage depends on user's current LE, to higher LE more damage.
Puncture Arrows
C-type Attack, hits one party member, reduces target's WE to 0).
Deep Impact
Deals damage to a single target. Ignores Armor and Shield.
Hell Gravity
Reduces all party member's current LE by 50%, moderate hit ratio.
Life Gain 25
Recovers 25% of target's LE MAX.
Ultra Giga Blizzard
Large Water-elemental damage to the entire party.
Cryogenics
Inflicts Freeze status.
Cracking
Inflicts Berserk status.
Smokeout
Inflicts Blind status.
Stungun
Inflicts Bind status.
Virus Attack
Inflicts Virus status.
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Threetails fights starting in three bodies, can use Life Gain 25, and can use status changing attacks: Cryogenics, Cracking, Stungun, Smokebomb and Virus Attack.
S-type Attack, hits all party members, damage depends on user's current LE, to higher LE more damage.
Puncture Arrow
C-type Attack, hits one party member, reduces target's WE to 0).
Self-Destruct
Inflicts damage equal to remaning LE, KO's user.
SOS
Summons a Fivetails if less than three are present.
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Fivetails is relatively weaker than the others, but fight starting in three bodies and can summon/clone other Fivetails by using SOS (the same technique several enemies like Rabbid use to summon alike allies), plus, each Fivetails can use Self-Destruct on one member of the party to hit off tens of thousands of damage (like a Preon S Botos, with power on the scale of a Meltdown's Atomic Fall).
S-type Attack, hits all party members, damage depends on user's current LE, to higher LE more damage.
Puncture Arrows
C-type Attack, hits one party member, reduces target's WE to 0.
Ultra Giga Fire
Large Fire-elemental damage to the entire party.
Tera Fire
Heavy Fire-elemental damage to a single target.
Life Gain MAX
Recovers all LE and increases all stats greatly. Only used after 10 turns.
Self-Destruct
Inflicts damage equal to remaning LE, KO's user.
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If Sixtails isn't defeated within 10 turns, he will use Life Gain MAX and all his stats will highly increase.
If Sixtails isn't defeated within 20 turns, he will use Self-Destruct and deal lethal damage.
Sixtails has the most LE of all the Tails. If he isn't defeated in ten turns, he will fully recover his health with Life Gain MAX and will boost all his stats. After that, he will use Self-Destruct like the Fivetails. As he has a Tank Part and Figure Coin with him, he must be defeated before he uses Self-Destruct in his 20th turn, or else the player loses them for good and can never complete the Sub-Tank and the Figurine
S-type Attack, hits all party members, damage depends on user's current LE, to higher LE more damage).
Puncture Arrows
C-type Attack, hits one party member, reduces target's WE to 0.
Deep Impact
Deals damage to one target. Ignores Armor and Shield.
Ultra Giga Thunder
Large Thunder-elemental damage to the entire party.
Tera Thunder
Heavy Thunder-elemental damage to a single target.
Stungun
Inflicts Bind status.
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Restores 25% of current LE every turn and grows in Power, Armor and Shield a little every turn each time he is attacked (until ∞ turns).
Seventails fights starting in two bodies, has regenerative capabilities and gains in strength with every attack done to it (all like Rafflesian's Belladonnas).
S-type Attack, hits all party members, damage depends on user's current LE, to higher LE more damage.
Puncture Arrows
C-type Attack, hits one party member, reduces target's WE to 0.
Coercion
S-type Attack, cancels target's next turn, ignores defense (half damage still work).
SOS
Summons another Eighttails.
Ultra Giga Fire
Large Fire-elemental damage to the entire party.
Ultra Giga Blizzard
Large Water-elemental damage to the entire party.
Ultra Giga Thunder
Large Thunder-elemental damage to the entire party.
Tera Fire
Heavy Fire-elemental damage to a single target.
Tera Blizzard
Heavy Water-elemental damage to a single target.
Tera Thunder
Heavy Thunder-elemental damage to a single target.
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The two Eighttails to focus on target with the lowest LE during the battle.
Eighttails fights starting in two bodies and can summon/clone other Eighttails with the aforementioned SOS. He fights using Tera and Ultra Giga elemental attacks, Coercion and the two attacks all members of the Tails series possess. In addition, each Eighttails has a 3% chance to drop a LE +1000 or Full Specs +10 Force Metals, and this is the only way to obtain them barring the Force Metal Generator.
S-type Attack, hits all party members, damage depends on user's current LE, to higher LE more damage.
Puncture Arrows
C-type Attack, hits one party member, reduces target's WE to 0.
Nine Fragments
Inflicts 999 damage x 9 to a single target (total 8991pts. of damage). Damages: X Fire takes 499 damage (249 in defense) per hit, and Ultimate Armor takes 499 damage per hit, with Combat Absober takes 749 damage.
Regeneration
Revives fallen party members with 25% of it's LE MAX.
Tera Fire
Heavy Fire-elemental damage to a single target.
Tera Blizzard
Heavy Water-elemental damage to a single target.
Tera Thunder
Heavy Thunder-elemental damage to a single target.
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Restores 25% of current LE every turn.
Ninetails has a large array of moves, making him hard to defeat. He has the highest stats in all areas, save for LE which Sixtails and surprisingly Fourtails have more of, and the above mentioned moves. He can also heal himself automatically when it's his turn. His attack "Nine Fragments" (砕九) refers to his nine tails, which he stabs into his enemies rapidly, causing 8991 points of damage (9*999), which generally kills whoever it was used on. Furthermore, he has the ability to completely drain his enemy's weapon energy with his Puncture Arrows, and the Annihilator Hadoken (滅殺波動拳 Messatsu Hadouken), a large and devastating energy beam, that sweeps the area and inflicts heavy damage to all of his opponents, and has a 60% chance of being an instant kill, compared to the other clansmen/clones.
In-battle Quotes[]
Action
Japanese
Translation
Audio (JP)
English
Audio (EN)
Pre-battle (Tails Clan)
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I challenge you to a fight.
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Pre-battle (Ninetails)
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My strength is unparalleled.
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Physical attack
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Wah-cha!
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Annihilator Hadoken
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Hai-ya!
Nine Fragments
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Hiyohh!
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Critical Hit
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Aagh!
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Gallery[]
Ninetails in-game model.
Front and side concept art of Ninetails.
Back concept art of Ninetails.
Videos[]
Vs. Onetail
Vs. Twotails
Vs. Threetails
Vs. Fourtails
Vs. Fivetails
Vs. Sixtails
Vs. Seventails
Vs. Eighttails
Vs. Ninetails
Vs. Ninetails
Trivia[]
Ninetails is based on the kitsune legend from Japanese folklore, a nine-tailed fox spirit. Cubit Foxtar is based on the same animal.
The game is not clear on whether the other Tails are part of a "real" Reploid series or merely lesser-tailed shadow clones of him similar to the one done by Botos in Chapter 8. Evidence to the latter theory includes the following:
Some of the Tails apparently possess the ability to indefinitely summon/revive/clone themselves.
Most of the other Tails, as pointed above, are basically stronger versions or mixes of past enemies. The only attacks indicating otherwise would be the Annihilator Hadoken and Puncture Arrows, both of which Ninetails is seemingly the only one to have purely mastered.
Each of the Tails actually has the same nine tail spaces visible on their back no matter how many tails are actually there. In fact, the amount of tails is the only difference in all of their appearance.
In either case, he is an immensely powerful Reploid imprisoned by the Resistance in a special sealed section of the Central Tower which requires the Central Key to open, indicating possible allegiance to the Rebellion or some other highly dangerous form of Maverick activity. This is most likely the latter, as he does not mention the Rebellion or have their emblem anywhere on his person. Moreover, he seems to have no grudge with the Hunters, and wishes only to fight them for the challenge of it.
An in-battle detail seems to support the latter statement: He has the ability to actually revive defeated party members, and will occasionally use it. This could be because he doesn't want to end the fight too quickly, or perhaps he is simply a good sportsman.
All of the Tails have the same voice actor. They also use many of the same voice clips.
In addition, they share the same voice actor with Chief R in the Japanese version.
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