Oil Man



"Yeah, it's showtime!"

- Oil Man

"Hey, man! Better watch out, 'cause I'm gonna kick your butt so hard, you'll be smelling the oil from my boots for months!"

- 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 is a maintenance robot made by Dr. Light that is able to produce a special type of oil from the dispenser on his left arm that can work with any machinery.

Unlike his polar opposite Time Man, Oil Man has a carefree and reckless attitude similar to that of stereotypical punk teenager, has an urban style of speaking (for example, calling Guts Man an "old man"), and does not always take battling seriously. He enjoys oil and believes it's the answer to everything, often giving his comrades fill-ups, and likes skateboarding, sometimes using said oil for to make a skateboard. This also serves as his special weapon, the Oil Slider.

Mega Man Powered Up
As a boss, Oil Man is reprogrammed by Dr. Wily to take over the world. 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 and they go out after a while.

He attacks by jumping into the air and firing three blobs of oil, which can slip up the player if they walk on one. Luckily, the oil can be burned by the Fire Storm, which also defeats him in five hits. His second attack is to use the Oil Slider and slide back and forth similar to Chill Penguin.

As a playable character, Oil Man only has 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, or if Oil Man steps on top, and this can prove unfortunate 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.

Mega Man (Archie Comics)
Oil Man's first appearance outside of the Mega Man games was in the Mega Man series from Archie Comics.

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

As a Boss
Oil Man: Hey, whadja come out here for? Don'tcha have a place near your house for fill-ups?

Mega Man: Oilman, let's go home!

Oil Man: You for real? Even if that just slipped out, we are still gonna do this!

Oil Man: What's up, Roll? If you want a refill, you came to the right place, baby!

Roll: I don't need THAT! And more importantly, your punishment for behaving like this is one week without oil!

Oil Man: Ow, that was harsh! Now I'll have to teach you a lesson!

Oil Man: Lookin' fine, bro! Check it out, we both got scarves! Now that's stylin'!

Proto Man: Oilman?! This being our first meeting, brother, I'll make this short, so hang on.

Oil Man: Hey, I give you a compliment and you ignore me! What's up, man! Ain't you gonna say somethin' about my scarf?!

Oil Man: Whadja come out here for? If you wanna learn the talk, you'd best be learnin' it somewhere else.

Cut Man: Mr. Oilman! What you're doing is wrong! Please stop!!

Oil Man: What a hard-head! You gotta keep it real, know what I'm sayin'? Then maybe you'll know what's what!

Oil Man: Hey, old man! You're a bit rusty. Want a little oil? You gotta think about your body before a fight.

Guts Man: I'm no thug. I ain't here to fight you... I came to stop you. Wouldn't be a good foreman if I didn't.

Oil Man: Alright, old man, show me whatcha got!

Oil Man: Hey! This ain't no place for kids. Didn't your mama teach you nothin'?

Ice Man: My mission is to bring you back to base safely.

Oil Man: Take me back? Me? You for real? That's one cold joke.

Oil Man: Hey, bro! You still goin' around blowin' stuff up in that uncool way you do?

Bomb Man: What? Hey, at least I do what's right!

Oil Man: Don't take it personally. I like your style. But too much boom-boom, can make the party bomb!

Oil Man: Hey! You'd better go somewhere else if you want oil. Don't make me hafta hurt you, cause fire's not allowed around here!

Fire Man: Your attacks just add more fuel to the flame! Prepare to get SMOKED!!

Oil Man: Why you-! Heh, well, burn yourself out. I've got my orders to follow.

Oil Man: Hey, whadja come out here for? Don'tcha got a place near your house for fill-ups?

Elec Man: Humph. I have no need for a fill-up. I never used such a primitive energy source to begin with.

Oil Man: Hey, don't do anything stupid now! Didn't need it, just say so. You didn't hafta hurt my feelings!

Oil Man: If you want a fill-up, I'm gonna hafta turn you down. Kids should be drinkin' milk and sleepin', you know what I'm sayin'?

Time Man: It's hardly time for me to sleep, but rather, it is time to defeat you.

Oil Man: Alright, then how about you try this on? It's punishment time for brat kids like you!

Trivia

 * Oil Man was surrounded by controversy due to having black "skin" with large peach-colored lips, which made him slightly resemble blackface. Because of this, he was censored to being dark blue with yellow lips outside Japan.
 * As seen in the pictures above, Archie censored Oil Man in its Mega Man comics even more by covering the lower half of his face, including his lips, with his scarf. A preliminary cover for Mega Man Issue 38 featured Oil Man's lips exposed, but this was censored for the final cover.
 * Oil Man, along with Time Man, appears on Capcom's Chiptuned 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 and Mega Man?, Oil Man is the only Robot Master boss that has an buster in Mega Man Powered Up.
 * Oil Man, as a boss, is immune to the Slider form of Oil Slider, but not the drop form.
 * Oil Man's weakness to Fire Storm is due to the fact that oil is flammable.
 * When talking to Fire Man, Oil Man says that fire is not allowed at his oil rig, even though Hotheads and Tackle Fires abound throughout his stage.
 * His weakness to Fire Storm is because fire can set oil ablaze. This is similar to the oil in Flame Man's stage in Mega Man 6.

Oil Man