Ballade

Ballade as seen in Mega Man 10.

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Information In-Game Information Command Mission Stats Type -- Level Life Energy -- -- Fire -- Exp. -- Water -- Zenny -- Thunder -- FME -- Power Armor Shield Speed -- -- -- -- Steal Drop -- -- List of Abilities Ability Effect {{{ability1}}} --- {{{ability2}}} --- {{{ability3}}} --- {{{ability4}}} --- {{{ability5}}} --- {{{ability6}}} --- {{{ability7}}} --- {{{ability8}}} --- {{{ability9}}} --- {{{ability10}}} --- {{{ability11}}} --- {{{ability12}}} --- {{{ability13}}} --- {{{ability14}}} --- {{{ability15}}} --- HP: 19 (Game Boy games) 28 (MM10) Attack Damage: Mega Man V: 3 (contact) 6 (Ballade Cracker) Weapon: Ballade Cracker Weakness: Power Stone (Mega Man IV) Bubble Bomb or Photon Missile (Mega Man V) Screw Crusher (Mega Man 10) Misc. Information Script: バラード Romaji: Barādo Eye Color: Red Series Information In-game Appearances: Mega Man IV Mega Man V Mega Man & Bass (as a data CD) Mega Man 10 Other Appearances: Rockman & Forte (manga)

Theme Music

Ballade (バラード, Barādo^?) is the third and last "Mega Man Killer" robot built by Dr. Wily. Ballade has great pride and believes he is the strongest robot. Ballade attacks with a powerful explosive called the Ballade Cracker, and has a second form that increases his strength.

Video game appearancesEdit

Mega Man IVEdit

After defeating the first four bosses, Mega Man invades the Wily Station and fights against Ballade inside. Ballade escapes when he has 1 HP left. Later, after defeating the second four bosses, Ballade appears again and transforms into a more powerful form, but he is defeated and Mega Man obtains his Ballade Cracker. After losing twice to Mega Man, he realizes his mistake and sacrifices his life to save Mega Man in the game's ending by self-destructing to open the way for Mega Man from the exploding Wily Battleship.

Mega Man VEdit

Ballade is the forth boss fought inside the Wily Star.

Mega Man 10Edit

Ballade is the boss of the downloadable Special Stage 3. He usually appears in his original form, although it may be a random chance of seeing him change to his alternate form. There doesn't appear to be any difference between his two forms, however.

Other appearancesEdit

• Ballade appears in the CD database from Mega Man & Bass.
• Ballade appears as Battle Memory in Rockman ×over.
• Ballade was planned to appear as a boss in the cancelled game Rockman Online.

DataEdit

Mega Man & Bass CD dataEdit

• CD data • English data As he believes that he is the strongest robot, he can't help fighting robots who look strong. "You are merely the number two!" Good Point: Challenging spirit Bad Point: Stupid Like: Being number one Dislike: Disappointing foe Japanese data Good Point: Challenging spirit Bad Point: Simplistic Like: Being number one Dislike: Uncompetitive enemies

Other mediaEdit

Mega Man (Archie Comics)Edit

Ballade has a cameo appearance in issue 20, where the Mega Man Killers and the Genesis Unit invade the Chronos Institute.

Rockman & ForteEdit

Ballade appears in the three small side-stories of the Rockman & Forte manga. In one of them, Rockman Burning Shot, he fights against Bass to decide who will face Mega Man, and he is defeated.^[1] In the other two stories, Arigatou Rockman and Onore Rockman, Ballade is depicted as a rascal that tries to cause trouble for Mega Man, but all his attempts end in failure. He also causes trouble for Wily's other robots.^[2]

GalleryEdit

Ballade's artwork from Mega Man IV.

Front, side, and back view of Ballade.

Ballade in Mega Man IV's ending.

The Mega Man Killers, as they would appear in Rockman Online.

Ballade in Mega Man #20.

Ballade in Rockman Burning Shot.

Ballade in Arigatou Rockman.

Ballade from Nintendo Power magazine.

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VideosEdit

TriviaEdit

• "Ballade" is a one-movement musical piece with lyrical and dramatic narrative qualities, expanding the musical references so rife in the names of the classic series characters.
• Going by the character data given in Mega Man & Bass, Ballade is similar to Bass; they both have the same competitive mentality to be number 1, and dislike weak foes.
• The shape of Ballade's headgear is very similar to Quick Man's.

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