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This article is about the Mega Man Powered Up boss. For the Mega Man 3 (DOS) boss, see Oil Man (DOS).
"Hey, man! Better watch out, 'cause I'm gonna kick your butt so hard, you'll be smelling the oil from my boots for months!"
―Oil Man, Mega Man: Powered Up

Oil Man (オイルマン Oiruman) is one of the two new Robot Masters from Mega Man Powered Up, a remake of the original Mega Man. He is a maintenance robot made by Dr. Light, able to produce a special type of oil from the dispenser on his left arm that can work with any machinery.

Appearance[]

Oil Man is an average humanoid robot. His head is shaped like an oil drop, and there is an oil drop design on his chest. He wears a red scarf, and his left arm has a unique design based on the flexible spout of an oiling can. He also has large lips and black eyes. In Japan, his color scheme is black, grey, and pink, which was changed to blue, grey, and yellow for the international release.

Personality[]

Unlike his polar opposite Time Man, Oil Man has a carefree and reckless attitude similar to that of a stereotypical punk teenager, has an urban style of speaking (for example, calling Guts Man an "old man"), and does not always take battling seriously. He enjoys oil and believes it's the answer to everything, often giving his comrades fill-ups, and likes skateboarding, sometimes using said oil to make a skateboard. This also serves as his special weapon, the Oil Slider.

History[]

Mega Man Powered Up[]

As a boss, Oil Man is reprogrammed by Dr. Wily to take over the world. He resides in an oil field with Hotheads, which can burn the oil around the stage. This is similar to Flame Man's stage from Mega Man 6, although these flames do not instantly kill the player and they go out after a while.

He attacks by jumping into the air and firing three blobs of oil, which can slip up the player if they walk on one. Luckily, the oil can be burned by the Fire Storm, which also defeats him in five hits. His second attack is to use the Oil Slider and slide back and forth similar to Chill Penguin.

As a playable character, Oil Man only has Oil Slider, so his methods of attacking are limited (as Oil Slider is primarily useful as Elec Man's new weakness, jumping over large gaps, and gliding over the surface of water). He can shoot blobs for direct attacks or like 'landmines', but those methods are weak; Oil Slider drops do half the damage the Mega Buster does, like Ice Slasher. Furthermore, the limit to the number of Oil Slider drops on-screen at once is just one; it will disappear after a long wait, if it goes off-screen, if an enemy collides with it, if it burns up from Fire Blocks, or if Oil Man steps on top, and this can prove unfortunate if it lands in a spiked pit. For Oil Man to cause large damage he must crash into enemies using the Oil Slider, but this is not without risk — if the enemy remains, he may still collide and get damaged himself. Once on the Slider, Oil Man won't stop until he jumps off by pressing up + jump, hitting a wall (excluding borders of the screen, which just cause him to slide indefinitely in place), or dying.

On a positive note, Oil Man does not slip on the oil blocks in his stage, and his Oil Slider is faster than Mega Man's. In addition, his jump-brake technique can launch him higher (often to the top of the screen), effectively making it a double-jump.

Stage enemies[]

Enemies that appear in Oil Man's stage:

Image Enemy
OilspriteUS Oilsprite Oil Man (boss)
MMPU MegaManCopy render
Mega Man? (boss) (while playing as Oil Man)
MMPUCactuspyRender
Cactuspy
MMPUShotmanRender
Shotman
MMPUChangkeyMakerRender
Changkey Maker
MMPUChangkeyRender
Changkey
MMPUScrewDriverRender
Screw Driver
MMPUBigEyeRender
Big Eye

Dialogues from Mega Man Powered Up[]

As a Boss[]

Oil Man: Hey, whadja come out here for? Don'tcha have a place near your house for fill-ups?

Mega Man: Oilman, let's go home!

Oil Man: You for real? Even if that just slipped out, we are still gonna do this!

Oil Man: What's up, Roll? If you want a refill, you came to the right place, baby!

Roll: I don't need THAT! And more importantly, your punishment for behaving like this is one week without oil!

Oil Man: Ow, that was harsh! Now I'll have to teach you a lesson!

Oil Man: Lookin' fine, bro! Check it out, we both got scarves! Now that's stylin'!

Proto Man: Oilman?! This being our first meeting, brother, I'll make this short, so hang on.

Oil Man: Hey, I give you a compliment and you ignore me! What's up, man! Ain't you gonna say somethin' about my scarf?!

Oil Man: Whadja come out here for? If you wanna learn the talk, you'd best be learnin' it somewhere else.

Cut Man: Mr. Oilman! What you're doing is wrong! Please stop!!

Oil Man: What a hard-head! You gotta keep it real, know what I'm sayin'? Then maybe you'll know what's what!

Oil Man: Hey, old man! You're a bit rusty. Want a little oil? You gotta think about your body before a fight.

Guts Man: I'm no thug. I ain't here to fight you... I came to stop you. Wouldn't be a good foreman if I didn't.

Oil Man: Alright, old man, show me whatcha got!


Oil Man: Hey! This ain't no place for kids. Didn't your mama teach you nothin'?

Ice Man: My mission is to bring you back to base safely.

Oil Man: Take me back? Me? You for real? That's one cold joke.

Oil Man: Hey, bro! You still goin' around blowin' stuff up in that uncool way you do?

Bomb Man: What? Hey, at least I do what's right!

Oil Man: Don't take it personally. I like your style. But too much boom-boom, can make the party bomb!

Oil Man: Hey! You'd better go somewhere else if you want oil. Don't make me hafta hurt you, cause fire's not allowed around here!

Fire Man: Your attacks just add more fuel to the flame! Prepare to get SMOKED!!

Oil Man: Why you-! Heh, well, burn yourself out. I've got my orders to follow.

Oil Man: Hey, whadja come out here for? Don'tcha got a place near your house for fill-ups?

Elec Man: Humph. I have no need for a fill-up. I never used such a primitive energy source to begin with.

Oil Man: Hey, don't do anything stupid now! Didn't need it, just say so. You didn't hafta hurt my feelings!

Oil Man: If you want a fill-up, I'm gonna hafta turn you down. Kids should be drinkin' milk and sleepin', you know what I'm sayin'?

Time Man: It's hardly time for me to sleep, but rather, it is time to defeat you.

Oil Man: Alright, then how about you try this on? It's punishment time for brat kids like you!

Other appearances[]

  • Oil Man appeared as an unlockable playable character in Rockman Go Go!.

Other media[]

Mega Man (Archie Comics)[]

Main article: Oil Man/Archie Comics

Oil Man's first appearance outside of the Mega Man games was in the Mega Man series from Archie Comics. He appears as an antagonist alongside Time Man in Issue #4, sent by Dr. Wily to kidnap Roll after his very first defeat at the hands of Mega Man. Oil Man's design was altered slightly for this appearance, adopting his alternate dark blue color scheme and covering the bottom of his face with his scarf.

Gallery[]

Behind the scenes[]

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Concept of Oil Man in the original Mega Man design document (second from top left).

Oil Man was originally drafted as one of the original eight Robot Masters in the design document for the first Mega Man, but he was ultimately cut before development alongside Bond Man and Bubble Man, and the three were replaced by Ice Man.[1][2]

Oil Man was designed for Mega Man Powered Up by Keiji Inafune; upon seeing the design, Tatsuya Yoshikawa compared him to the character Karn from Breath of Fire.[3] Much like Karn, Oil Man's design was censored for overseas releases. His black "skin" with large pink lips resembled the stereotype blackface, a historically derogatory caricature of African-Americans. This stereotype was further compounded by his slang-ridden speech, reminiscent of African-American Vernacular English. Because of this, Oil Man was recolored with dark blue "skin" with yellow lips outside Japan.[4] Archie Comics further censored Oil Man in the Mega Man comics by covering the lower half of his face, including his lips, with his scarf. A preliminary cover for Mega Man #38 featured Oil Man's lips exposed, but this was censored for the final print.

In early promotional materials from Mega Man Powered Up, Oil Man's model number was listed as DRN-009.[5] As it doesn't appear in any other source, it may be an early idea that was discarded and may not represent his official number. In the Archie comics, Oil Man is listed as DLN-00B.

Trivia[]

  • Oil Man, along with Time Man, appears on Capcom's Chiptuned Rockman CD, which was released in Japan. The CD features a remix of both Oil Man's and Time Man's themes in 8-bit.
  • As a boss, Oil Man is immune to the slider of Oil Slider but not the initial droplet.
  • Oil Man's weakness to Fire Storm is due to the fact that oil is flammable thus fire can set oil ablaze. This is similar to the oil in Flame Man's stage in Mega Man 6.
    • When talking to Fire Man, Oil Man says that fire is not allowed at his oil rig, even though Hotheads and Tackle Fires abound throughout his stage.

References[]


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