Plug Man

"What's your favorite anime?"

- Plug Man

Plug Man (プラグマン) is a Robot Master from Mega Man 9 that Dr. Light created to inspect the quality control in a television factory, strictly inspecting each unit. He is obsessed with gadgets and loves to browse electronic stores like Akihabara and talking with his friends about geeky subjects. His Special Weapon is the Plug Ball, which has him fire a plasma ball that can move around the screen.

Mega Man 9
Plug Man is one of the eight Robot Masters whose period of use had expired and was scheduled to be scrapped. Dr. Wily pretended to be concerned by offering to repair them, reprogramming the tricked robots to help him conquer the world.

Plug Man will jump around trying to jump on Mega Man or Proto Man. At times, he will shoot Plug Balls at Mega Man that will run on the ceiling. Once he is under the ball, it will drop toward him.

His weakness is the Jewel Satellite, which will deflect all Plug Balls launched.

In the end credits picture, he is seen going shopping with Rush, having been rebuilt after the events of the game.

Damage Data Chart
Displays the amount of damage in units that Plug Man will receive from each Special Weapon in Mega Man 9.


 * *For Proto Buster and Magma Bazooka, the first digit is the damage done when the weapon is fired normally; the second digit is damage done when the weapon is charged up.

Stage enemies
Plug Man's stage consists of many Appearing Block puzzles similar to those in previous games like Elec Man's and Heat Man's stages. There are also video holograms of the player's character that cause damage on collision.


 * Big Stomper
 * Classical Cannon
 * Metall β
 * Shadow Mega Man / Shadow Proto Man
 * Smaplar
 * Telly X
 * Camouflametall (Superhero Mode)

On Superhero Mode, the number of Smaplar's increase noticeably. Some pickups have changed, and quite a few lives are now Camouflametall's in disguise. Two Big Stompers appear at the end, instead of one.

Mega Man Megamix
Plug Man appears in the short manga story "For Whose Sake?" included in the booklet of Rockman 9 Arrange Soundtrack.

Mega Man (Archie Comics)
Plug Man appeared in the Archie Mega Man comics before the adaptation of his game in the Worlds Collide crossover event. In it, he joined a massive Robot Master army that did battle with Mega Man and Sonic the Hedgehog as well as their allies. During a fight with Knuckles, Plug Man was knocked into Spark Man and Bright Man, shocking and destroying all three.

Trivia

 * Plug Man is called Plasma Man (プラズママン) and Plasman (プラズマン) in his concept arts. His weapon would've been called Plasma Ball and he had the appearance of a plasma globe. The name "Plasman" was also used in previous concept arts of characters from Mega Man 2 and 3, but none of them resembled Plug Man. Plasma Man also had his cannon placed on his opposite arm.
 * Plug Man is one of two Robot Masters in Mega Man 9 designed by Keiji Inafune, confirmed on Inafune's Capcom-Unity Blog.
 * In Mega Man 10, the Appearing Block puzzle from Plug Man's stage appears in the Endless Attack mode.
 * His plug color in the artwork is black, but in battle it is purple due to color limitations.
 * As an electric-themed boss, Plug Man's weakness to ground/crystal weapons is similar for two other electric Mavericks who are also weak to ground/crystal weapons: Tornado Tonion and Gigabolt Man-O-War.
 * His Plug Ball does the second highest damage to Mega Man in the game, behind only Splash Woman's Laser Trident.
 * Plug Man's special weapon is similar to the Hothead enemy from the Super Mario series, as both can run around ceilings and damage the player. However, Hot Heads cannot drop from the ceiling/wall on their own, but Plug Man's Plug Ball is able to.
 * The credits cutscene showing him and Rush shopping shows Plug Man without his plug-like cannon, replacing it with a normal hand that carries a shopping bag. It is possible, however, that Plug Man's plug is actually on the opposite side of his body in that scene (as can happen in normal gameplay when he faces to the right).

Plug Man