Dynamo

"You can't retire me no matter how hard you try... I'll give you a little advice... You... Sigma... Everybody is always too hot when they fight. But not me. I am the coolest and wisest of all. If you can't understand, then I'll just have to show you. Come on and fight me!"

- Dynamo

Dynamo (ダイナモ) first appeared in Mega Man X5; he was hired by Sigma to knock the abandoned Eurasia Space Colony out of orbit. He appears twice -- in both cases to interfere with the mission (whether it's getting the Enigma ready or preparing the Shuttle ).

Dynamo appears again as a secret boss in Mega Man X6, in the Nightmare areas after unlocking Gate's Lab, and defeating both Nightmare Zero and High Max. Being struck by Rainy Turtloid's weapon causes him to be stunned and a follow-up hit from it makes him drop 200 Nightmare Souls, for a maximum of 600 per fight. Dynamo is a powerful, defensive, and fast opponent, although the ability obtained by Zero from the aforementioned boss easily makes short work of him. The pre-battle dialogue in X6 shows that he is interested in the power of the Nightmare Souls and how they can make him strong enough to defeat X and Zero.

Dynamo can always be fought every time the player visits any of the Nightmare Areas, allowing X or Zero (or both) to quickly farm Nightmare Souls.

It is unclear why Dynamo is absent in Mega Man X7 and X8, however, it is possible that he is alive and hiding somewhere.

X5 Attacks

 * Dynamo jumps up and shoots a Buster straight down. The blast will split when it reaches the players horizontal level and the 2 new blasts will move horizontally until they leave the arena.


 * Dynamo jumps to the edge of the arena and charges energy in his hand. He then slams his fist into the ground 3 times. Similarly to Zero's Giga Attack in X6, lasers will fall from the sky to the floor between each fist slam. Two patterns arise from this move, A) Alternating areas of laser and open space and B) half the arena with lasers, half without.


 * Dynamo jumps up and quickly swings his saber downward at the player.


 * Dynamo spins his saber and uses it as a shield.


 * Dynamo throws his saber at the players current location and it boomerangs back to him.

X6 Attacks

 * Dynamo jumps to one side of the screen and punches the ground causing lasers to shoot up in front of him.


 * Dynamo jumps at the center of the screen and spins his saber in front of him and fires multiple spinning sabers, which can either come or don't come back or follow the player.


 * Dynamo throws 4 spinning sabers to the player, in few seconds, the sabers will boomerang back to Dynamo. If the player attacks one of the sabers, the saber will fly off the screen.


 * Dynamo jumps up and swings his saber downward at the player.

Dialogues

 * *See Main Article: Dynamo/Dialogues

Dynamo's First Attack
Signas: Emergency! Dynamo is attacking the Hunter Base. Fight back immediately!

When Playing as X
Dynamo: Nice to meet you. You are X, aren't you, the famous persistent hunter.

X: Who are you? And what do you want?!

Dynamo: Well, to stretch a point, I want to disturb what you are doing. Oh, don't worry. I just want to disturb you. I don't intend to kill you... But you wish to fight to the death, don't you?

X: No! We don't.

Dynamo: Well, if you fight me and die, then I'm sorry. But I'll play less than my best. Now... Shall we let the battle begin? X...

When Playing as Zero
Dynamo: Nice to meet you. You are Zero, aren't you, the famous and persistent hunter.

Zero: What's it to you?

Dynamo: Well, to stretch a point, I want to disturb what you are doing. Oh, don't worry. I just want to disturb you. I don't intend to kill you... But you wish to fight to the death, don't you?

Zero: ...............

Dynamo: You think you're so cool, you don't care what I say... In that case, have it your way. I'll fight you... until you die.

Dynamo's first defeat to either character
Dynamo: Just as I thought... You are strong... You never let up. I'll retreat with this result... But I advise you to relax a little, or you'll die from all the stress. Well then. Adios, amigo!

Production Notes
Developer Comments "This time, on top of the story, one of the main themes is the destruction of Earth and XXXX, so I felt there was less necessity for new characters and rival characters than there'd been to date. However, I thought it'd be lonely without ANY rivals, and thus Dynamo was born. To make him stand out, I set my sights on a character that hadn't been in the series before. He's halfhearted in personality, so he doesn't know if he wants to fight or not. It's not that he hates X or Zero; he fights because it's his job. He may appear irresponsible at first glance, but in fact, he's an adult of the late 20th century, philosophically viewing X and company, who give free rein to their enthusiasm when they fight. I also quite like him design-wise. It feels like an explosion of Sensei's design sense. Please treat my dear Dynamo well." (grin)

Designer Comments "Established as a character who uses both a buster and a saber, the American cavalry flickers across his face. We settled on him being a rival for X and company even as we expanded on all sorts of ideas about what kind of past he has. His red visor is a high point of his design." -Haruki Suetsugu

"Since Dynamo uses both a sword and a gun, I modeled him after mounted cavalry and other western movie sources. His buster is shaped like the cylinder of a revolver, his color is navy blue, he has yellow lines going up either side of his legs, and he has a buckle on his belt. Also, since he is able to use both kinds of weapons, I also gave him some features from both X and Zero." -Haruki Suetsugu, Mega Man X Official Complete Works, 2009

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Trivia

 * Aside from Sigma and Vile, Dynamo is the only villain in the X series that appears in more than one game.
 * Dynamo is the only enemy who doesn't show signs of going maverick. It's seen in Mega Man X5 when he is defeated, he mentions he doesn't want to die, and retreats. Whereas typical mavericks would fight until they are destroyed.