Toad Man Stage

Toad Man Stage
Theme Music

Toad Man's Stage is a stage that appeared in Mega Man 4, Mega Man IV, and Mega Man (Game Gear) that has Toad Man as the boss.

Appearances

Mega Man 4

Toad Man's Stage first takes place on top of a giant dam outside, where it is nighttime and raining heavily. The rain is actually a gimmick unique to this stage, and will lightly push the player leftwards if they are airborne. This can make fighting enemies a bit troublesome and certain jumps much tighter than they look. Eventually, the player will escape the rain and drop into some subterranean sewers that filter the rain. Once inside, a new unique gimmick is introduced: slow water that moves along the floor and flows down from ledges. This rushing water pushes the player in the direction its moving in, while midair water will forcefully push the player downwards and shorten jumps. The water can also hide some pickups, so be on the lookout. The final room after the second mid-boss has regular water, but it is rather shallow. Beating the stage will automatically reward the player with Rush Marine.

Enemies

Image	Enemy
	Toad Man (boss)
	Escaroo (mid-boss, unique)
	Swallown (unique)
	Coswallown (unique)
	Rackaser (unique)
	Puyoyon (unique)
	Ratton (unique)
	Gyotot

Surprisingly, there are no valuable pickups to speak of.

Mega Man IV

Toad Man's stage in the stage select screen from Mega Man IV.

Toad Man's Stage in the GB demake once again takes place inside and outside of a giant dam, where it is nighttime and raining heavily. The rain in unique to this stage and behaves as it did before, but is a little weaker in pushing Mega Man and more common across the stage, as there are more outside sections. The slow water moving along the ground and air returns and is also unique to this stage, once again hiding pickups is more suspicious areas. Both of these gimmicks get mixed together halfway into the stage. There are two sections where a Swallown and two Coswallowns will spawn at a specific point. Halfway through the stage, they appear in a perfect position here Mega Man can destroy all three of them in a single charge shot. As a result, this stage can be used to rack up P Chips to exchange at Dr. Light's Lab and buy items. One room inside has regular water unique to this stage, but it is rather shallow. Beating this stage will additionally reward the player with Rush Coil.

Enemies

Image	Enemy
	Toad Man (boss)
	Escaroo (mid-boss, unique)
	Puyoyon (unique)
	Ratton (unique)
	Rackaser (unique)
	Swallown (unique)
	Coswallown (unique)
	Gyotot (unique)

Valuable pickups to look out for:

• P-Chips: A total of 16 P-Chips (2 large) can be found and collected within this stage.
• Plate: Just after the first Escaroo in plain sight. Use a high platform to reach it.
• E-Tank: At the very end of the room with regular water, you'll notice some flashing dots in the wall. There is actually an invisible wall and hugging left before leaving rewards the player with a small health pickup. Slide inside a small gap to get another goodie, which is this pickup.
• 1-UP: In the final series of drops before the second Escaroo, hug the right wall and you will find a small gap with nothing in it. Hug the right wall while falling further to find a similar gap in the wall, which contains this pickup.

Mega Man (Game Gear)

For this stage's Game Gear counterpart, see Wily Castle (Game Gear)

Toad Man's Stage is the second fortress stage of the game. The layout is 1-to-1 with the layout in Mega Man 4.

Trivia

• Toad Man's Stage is the only Robot Master stage in Mega Man 4 that does not have an E-Tank available (either from lying in the stage or getting it from Eddie).
• Toad Man's Stage in Mega Man IV is one of the few stages in Classic Mega Man where every enemy and gimmick is exclusive to that stage and does not appear anywhere else in the game.