VAN Pookin

Pumpking (ＶＡＮ・プーキン) is the miniboss of Shade Man's stage in Mega Man 7. It is 3 separate Jack-O-Lantern robots, one inside each other. It jumps around, trying to jump on Mega Man. The mini pumpkin fires green shots, and it can fly into the air and shoot many green shots. It can reveal a different path depending on weather it was defeated by shooting either it's large eyes or the mini pumpkin inside it. The lower passage leads to Proto Man, and the left passage to the Energy Equalizer.

Trivia
Originally, Pumpking was not going to appear in Mega Man 7. In a prototype of Mega Man 7 is found that a robot like the ones found broken in the beginning of Shade Man's stage was going to be the sub boss of Shade Man's stage.