VAN Pookin

VAN Pookin (VAN・プーキン) is the sub boss of Shade Man's stage in Mega Man 7, and a boss in Mega Man: The Power Battle. It is three separate jack-o'-lantern robots, one inside each other. It jumps around, trying to jump on Mega Man. The mini pumpkin fires green shots, and it can fly into the air and shoot many green shots. It can reveal a different path depending on whether it was defeated by shooting either its large eyes, which reveals the right passage, or the mini pumpkin inside it, which reveals the lower passage. The lower passage leads to Proto Man, and the right passage to the Energy Equalizer.

Trivia

 * VAN Pookin is a play of Pumpkin (パンプキン Panpukin), and possibly spooky (スプーキー supūkī).


 * Originally, VAN Pookin was not going to appear in Mega Man 7. In the prototype of Mega Man 7, a robot that looks just like the broken ones found in the beginning of Shade Man's stage was going to be the sub-boss of Shade Man's stage. sprites, video.
 * However, an early sprite of VAN Pookin can also be found in the prototype's data, which may suggest that VAN Pookin was planned to appear all along, and that this particular sub-boss was inevitably going to be replaced.
 * A giant VAN Pookin toy appears in Clown Man's stage.