Yellow Devil

Yellow Devil (イエローデビル), also known as Rock Monster, is one of Dr. Wily's creations, originally a fortress boss in the first Mega Man game. Consisting of a large yellow blob made up of nanobots, he can dismantle himself and cross the screen to attack his enemies. His weak point is his eye, which is the controller of the nanobots and can shoot small projectiles.

The Yellow Devil is infamous for his difficulty, as his pattern can be hard to recognize, as several blobs fly almost at the same time. If unable to dodge properly, the Yellow Devil will repeatedly hit the player, causing several points of damage. This was largely fixed for the Yellow Devil MK-II, when the player was given the ability to slide under some blobs, and use E-tanks, where there were plenty of freebies right before the boss door.

In the remake Mega Man Powered Up, it is revealed that he can talk, but the only thing he can say is "Bumo". His pattern is different from the original. Unlike the original, instead of simply standing then simply shooting himself to the other side of the room, the Yellow Devil transforms into a giant blob, then seperates himself into the smaller blobs, which fly in a small torrent in which he was standing. After the first blob hits the other wall, it will create a new torrent, both can damage Mega Man. Also, the next blob doesn't shoot until the previous on hits the torrent. In Easy Mode, he won't shoot himself, remaining idle throughout the fight, and in Hard Mode, his pattern is different, and he shoots large lasers from his eye, which could only be dodged by jumping or getting closer to him.

In the arcade games Mega Man: The Power Battle and Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters, he appears as the penultimate boss of the courses "Mega Man 1~2" and "Mega Man 3~6" from Power Battle and "Rescue Roll!" from Power Fighters. He has new attacks such as shooting beams from his eye, separating into smaller versions of himself, walking, jumping, throwing part of his body that bounce across the room, and absorbing players from his arm to launch them.

Yellow Devil is one of the three enemy racers (the others being a Roader and Sniper Joe) in Mega Man: Battle and Chase, and there is a secret boss recolor of him called Black Yellow Devil (ブラックイエローデビル), sometimes shortened to Black Devil, which caused confusion between his and the Shadow Devil.

He has also a cameo appearance in the opening scene of Mega Man 8.

Other variations
The Yellow Devil reappeared in several other games in different forms: Mega Man 3 as Yellow Devil MK-II, Mega Man 8 and Mega Man & Bass as Green Devil, Mega Man V as Dark Moon, Super Adventure Rockman as New Yellow Devil, Rockman and Forte: Mirai Kara no Chousensha as Grey Devil, in Mega Man 9 as "Twin Devil" and enemies called Petit Devils, and in Mega Man 10 as Block Devil.

The Devil series also appeared in other Mega Man series: Mega Man X5 as Shadow Devil (including a remix from the fortress boss music of the first Mega Man game, his weakness to an electric weapon similar to Thunder Beam, and others), in the first two games from the Mega Man Zero series as Rainbow Devil, and in Mega Man ZX as a miniboss made out of magma named Lava Demon.

Other media
Yellow Devil appeared in the manga Mega Man Megamix. After the defeat of Dr. Light's six Robot Masters, Yellow Devil holds Mega Man and he meets Dr. Wily. Wily tries to convince Mega Man join him, but as he refuses, he orders Yellow Devil to crush him. Mega Man manages to escape Yellow Devil's grip by using Guts Man's strength, breaking his arm, and than finishes him off with a Thunder Beam.

Trivia

 * Though the final boss of MegaMan Battle Network 3, Alpha, is similar to the Devils, it's not related to them.
 * In the popular game, I Wanna be the Guy, the Mecha Dragon appeared as the seventh boss, and had an attack where it splits into several blocks, which use the sprites of the Yellow Devil's blocks, and moves to the other side of the stage. This is a nod to the Yellow Devil's attack pattern.
 * The music that plays during the Yellow Devil battle in Mega Man: The Power Battle and Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters is a remix of the music from Dr. Wily first two stages in Mega Man.
 * In the U.S., Yellow Devil's name was changed to Rock Monster due to a policy Nintendo had against religious references in NES games at the time.