- "What's your favorite anime?"
- ―Plug Man, Mega Man: Robot Master Field Guide
Plug Man (プラグマン Puragu Man) is a Robot Master from Mega Man 9 that Dr. Light created to inspect the quality control in a television factory, strictly inspecting each unit. He is obsessed with gadgets and loves to browse electronics stores in Akihabara and talk with his friends about geeky subjects. His Special Weapon is the Plug Ball, which has him fire a plasma ball that can move around the screen.
Appearance[]
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Plug Man has green eyes. He has a black head with a tan part around his mouth, a large pink cylindrical torso with screws on the front, pink spherical shoulders, metallic arms with blue ends, a white hand on his left arm, a large plug on his right arms, black legs with blue ends, and pink boots with white feet.
Video game appearances[]
Mega Man 9[]
Plug 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.
Plug Man will jump around, trying to jump on Mega Man or Proto Man. At times, he will shoot Plug Balls at Mega Man that will run on the ceiling. Once he is under the ball, it will drop toward him.
His weakness is the Jewel Satellite, which will deflect all Plug Balls launched.
In the end credits, he is seen going shopping with Rush, having been rebuilt after the events of the game.
Damage data chart[]
Displays the amount of damage in units that Plug 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 | 4 | 1 | 1:1 | 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[]
Plug Man's stage consists of many Appearing Block puzzles similar to those in previous games like Elec Man's and Heat Man's stages. There are also video holograms of the player's character that cause damage on collision.
On Superhero Mode, the number of Smaplar's increase noticeably. Some pickups have changed, and quite a few lives are now Camouflametall's in disguise. Two Big Stompers appear at the end, instead of one.
Enemies[]
| Image | Enemy |
|---|---|
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Plug Man (boss) |
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Telly X |
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Smaplar |
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Metall β |
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Classical Cannon |
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Shadow Mega Man / Shadow Proto Man |
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Camouflametall (Superhero Mode) |
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Big Stomper |
Appearance in other media[]
Mega Man Megamix[]
Plug Man appears in the short manga story "For Whom" included in the booklet of Rockman 9 Arrange Soundtrack.
Mega Man (Archie Comics)[]
Plug Man appeared in the Archie Mega Man comics before the adaptation of his game in the Worlds Collide crossover event. In it, he joined a massive Robot Master army that did battle with Mega Man and Sonic the Hedgehog as well as their allies. During a fight with Knuckles, Plug Man was knocked into Spark Man and Bright Man, shocking and destroying all three.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Plug Man is called Plasma Man (プラズママン) and Plasman (プラズマン) in his concept arts. He had the appearance of a plasma globe, and his weapon would have been called "Plasma Ball." The name "Plasman" was also used in previous concept arts of characters from Mega Man 2 and 3, but none of them resembled Plug Man. Plasma Man also had his cannon placed on his opposite arm.
- Plug Man is one of two Robot Masters in Mega Man 9 designed by Keiji Inafune, as confirmed on Inafune's Capcom-Unity Blog.
- In Mega Man 10, the Appearing Block puzzle from Plug Man's stage appears in the Endless Attack mode.
- His plug color in the artwork is black, but in battle it is purple due to color limitations.
- His Plug Ball does the second-highest damage to Mega Man in the game, behind only Splash Woman's Laser Trident.
- Plug Man's special weapon is similar to the Hothead enemy from the Super Mario series, as both can run around ceilings and damage the player. However, Hot Heads cannot drop from the ceiling/wall on their own, but Plug Man's Plug Ball is able to.
- The credits cutscene showing him and Rush shopping shows Plug Man without his plug-like cannon, replacing it with a normal hand that carries a shopping bag.