Oil Man

If you are looking for the Mega Man 3 (PC) boss, please see Oil Man (PC).

"Yeah, it's showtime!"

- Oil Man

Oil Man (オイルマン) is one of the two new Robot Masters from Mega Man Powered Up, which is the remake of the original Mega Man.

Oil Man enjoys oil and believes it's the answer to everything. He resides in an oil field with Hotheads, which can burn the oil around the stage. This is similar to Flame Man's stage from Mega Man 6, although these flames do not instantly kill the player.

As a playable character, Oil Man has only Oil Slider, so his methods of attacking are limited (as Oil Slider is primarily useful as Elec Man's new weakness, jumping over large gaps, and gliding over the surface of water). He can shoot blobs for direct attacks or like 'landmines,' but those methods are weak; Oil Slider drops do half the damage the Mega Buster does, like Ice Slasher. Furthermore, the limit to the number of Oil Slider drops on-screen at once is just one; it will disappear after a long wait, if it goes off-screen, if an enemy collides with it, if it burns up from Fire Blocks, etc., or if Oil Man steps on top (so if it lands in a spiked pit...). For Oil Man to cause large damage he must crash into enemies using the Oil Slider, but this is not without risk--if the enemy remains, he may still collide and get damaged himself. Once on the Slider, Oil Man won't stop until he jumps off by pressing up + jump, hitting a wall (excluding borders of the screen, which just cause him to slide indefinitely in place), or dying.

On a positive note, Oil Man does not slip on the oil blocks in his stage, and his Oil Slider is faster than Mega Man's. In addition, his jump-brake technique can launch him higher (often to the top of the screen), effectively making it a double-jump.

Stage Enemies
Enemies that appear in Oil Man's stage:
 * Cactuspy
 * Crazy Cannon
 * Hothead
 * Screw Bomber
 * Big Eye

Trivia

 * Oil Man is surrounded by controversy because he is black with big peach colored lips, which was a stereotype of black people in cartoons during the 1920s and the 1930s. His colors were changed to dark blue with yellow lips outside Japan due to this. This reason was also why Oil Man appeared in the Electronic Gaming Monthly "Japan Issue" as a character in the "10 Ways Japan Went Wrong" article exclusive to the issue.
 * When playing as Roll in Mega Man Powered Up and confronting him, he says: "What's up, Roll? If you want a refill, you came to the right place, baby!" (implying an innuendo) with Roll exclaiming: "I don't need THAT!".
 * Oil Man, along with Time Man, appears on Capcom's Chip Tuned Rockman CD, which was released in Japan. The CD features a remix of both Oil Man's and Time Man's themes in 8-bit.
 * Besides Fire Man, Oil Man is the only robot master boss that has an arm cannon in Mega Man Powered Up.
 * Oil Man, as a boss, is immune to the Slider form of Oil Slider, but not the drop form.