Blaze Heatnix

"You are strong compared to the others. I was bored because there is no strong Reploid left on the ground. Although I was not ordered to kill, it's too hard, isn't it? Hee hee hee."

- Blaze Heatnix

Blaze Heatnix (ブレイズ・ヒートニックス) is a phoenix-based Reploid created by Gate to withstand extremely hot temperatures. Because of his bad behaviors, he was eventually disposed and Gate later revives Heatnix as a one of his Nightmare Investigators.

Personality
Blaze Heatnix was a very cruel and arrogant Reploid, who delighted in the destruction of those weaker than himself. He had a strong "might makes right" ideology.

History
Blaze Heatnix is a Reploid modeled after a phoenix. He was created by Gate with the ability to handle extremely hot temperatures, allowing him to explore hot spots deep beneath the Earth's crust. Later he became a member of a disaster prevention team created to respond to increased activity from active volcanoes. However, because Heatnix was so much more powerful than the other members, he would ignore his coworkers (seeing them as weak and useless) in dangerous situations, disregard them if they ran into danger, resulting in many losses. Gate was demanded to weaken Heatnix to keep him on par with the other members, but Gate ignored these requests. As a result, Heatnix was eventually disposed of for his behavior. Gate later revived him to use him in the Nightmare investigation, and sent him to the magma area.

Power and Abilities
Blaze Heatnix's primary ability is to fill up his battle room with magma, creating a constant hazard. To attack, Heatnix will fire off chunks of magma that break up into smaller pieces. He can also fire white hot blades of magma energy. As his ultimate attack, he will dash back an forth like a comet with a huge plume of fire surrounding him.
 * Magma Stream: Blaze Heatnix will yell the attack name and, depending on where he is on the screen, purple (non-fatal) magma will fill half the screen. If he's at the top of the screen, it will rise from the ground. If he's at the bottom of the screen, it will descend from the ceiling:

Earth Phase:
At this phase, as the magma is located under the feets, he will "dive" into the magma and "swim" around in it, then try to jump up at the characters current position.
 * Fusion Plume: When he jumps up, he may spit fireballs. Destroy these with any weapon available.

Descend Phase:
The magma will, however, levitating on the top half of the screen, which is against physics as it's a liquid. He will fly from one side of the screen to the other.
 * Lava Rain: Drops of lava will fall down continously at the holes..
 * Flame Blasts: He will fire crescents either high or low. Crouch if they go high, jump and air dash if they go low.
 * Firestorm Drive: He flies off screen, then fly across as a blazing invulnerable phoenix. He can (once again) come either high or low, and from either side of the screen.

Trivia

 * Blaze Heatnix' theme is a 'Heavy Metal' remix of Flame Stag's theme.
 * Blaze Heatnix appears to be the only fire-based Maverick who is especially weak to a ground/earth-based weapon, despite there being both a water and an ice-based weapon at X's disposal.
 * His lava drop attack calls to mind the final stage in Mega Man 2, where lava regularly falls from the ceiling on the way to the boss.