Cyber Peacock

"His potential... is limitless?! ...not possible."

- Cyber Peacock

Cyber Peacock, known as Cyber Kujacker (サイバー・クジャッカー) in Japan, is a digitized peacock-based Maverick in Mega Man X4.

History
Cyber Peacock was originally an AI that functioned as a protection program designed to stop hackers from infiltrating important computer systems. However, Sigma has rewritten his program to make him arrogant and vicious, making him indiscriminately attack anyone accessing the network.

Besides acting as a diversion to the Maverick Hunters, Peacock was given the task of testing X and Zero's abilities, putting them through a series of trials in Cyber Space.

Power and abilities
Cyber Peacock can teleport.


 * Tracking Shot (追尾弾) - Peacock sends a reticle to the target and starts shooting seeking feather-liked energy projectiles via target-lock crosshairs. This may be the basis for X's Aiming Laser.
 * Feather Attack (羽根攻撃) - All feathers in Cyber Peacock's tail extend at once in the form of large energy blades. This attack may be the basis for Zero's Rakuhouha.
 * Rising Slash (斬り上げ) - Peacock teleports near his target and performs a rising slash.

Strategy
In battle, Cyber Peacock will constantly teleport to the player's exact position and attempt to damage them via contact. If he isn't immediately attacked properly, Peacock will either extend his tail feathers in the form of energy blades or perform a rising slash attack. When his health has been reduced by half, Peacock will also fire homing feather-like projectiles via target lock crosshairs. At what time to fight Cyber Peacock depends on if one is playing as X or Zero. X can take him on after defeating Split Mushroom and thus obtaining Soul Body. But, since Zero can't use that ability, he would need the Ryuenjin from Magma Dragoon to fight him here.

Most bosses will show the ability the player will gain during the fight. For X, his Aiming Laser is modeled after Cyber Peacock's Tracking Shot. For Zero, Rakuhouha is modeled after Peacock's Feather Attack.

When fighting X, Cyber Peacock is shocked and in disbelief that X's potential was limitless, before informing X that he was sent to test his abilities and that X should prepare himself. When fighting Zero, however, he will mention being impressed with Zero having come as far as he did before arrogantly declaring that he won't beat him.

Other appearances

 * Cyber Peacock is fought alongside Tunnel Rhino in the X Challenge from Mega Man X Legacy Collection and Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2.
 * Cyber Peacock appeared as Battle Memory in Rockman Xover.
 * While he is not present in Project X Zone 2, a gear called Cyber Peacock's Feather is available for purchase after the completion of Chapter 7.
 * Cyber Peacock appeared as boss of a cyberspace-themed event stage featuring Mega Man Battle Network in the game Rockman X DiVE.

When playing as X
Cyber Peacock: His potential... is limitless?! ...not possible.

X: Who are you? Why are you doing this to me?

Cyber Peacock: I was ordered to test your abilities. It's quite simple.

X: What?!

Cyber Peacock: Prepare yourself!

When playing as Zero
Cyber Peacock: I'm impressed you made it this far! But you can't beat me! Get ready!

Audio lines
From the original Japanese version, but absent in the English version of the game.

Rockman X4 manga
In the manga, Peacock catches the attention of Zero after infecting a local network with his presence and filling it with technical bugs. Iris had been using this network as part of her work as a nurse to help those injured in the ongoing war between Repliforce and the Maverick Hunters, and as such was able to help save Zero's life. To repay the debt he owed to Iris, Zero offers to have his own A.I. sent virtually into the network and into a free-moving simulator body in order to rid the network of the bugs and the malicious presence infecting it. After destroying many of the bugs in the virtual network, Peacock uses his powers to make Zero hallucinate and relive past memories, particularly memories he had forgotten, of his past as a Maverick.

Peacock finally appears after Zero asks him to come out. Peacock asks if he wants to stay and be his friend, but Zero retorts he was never good at making friends and attacks Peacock. Peacock easily evades and gets the upper hand in the fight, all the while mocking Zero for having memories he has forgotten. Peacock, however, is angered when Zero stays silent and refuses to listen to his taunting anymore, and fires his Tracking Shot feathers at him. Zero easily destroys every one, and confidently says he doesn't need to worry about a forgotten past, nor an unforeseen future, only the present. Zero then slashes Peacock, injuring him greatly. Peacock then defiantly says that his "present" will be in the virtual world forever, and then does a "suicide bomb" attack, erasing himself and then spreading the erasure to the entire network in an attempt to permanently trap Zero in the virtual world. However, Zero is able to escape just in the nick of time.

Unfortunately for Iris, Peacock's suicide attack also affected the computer screen from where she was monitoring Zero's activities in the real world too, making it explode right next to her, infecting her with the bug and seriously wounding her which put her into a coma.

Archie Comics
Cyber Peacock is revived by Sigma-1 to serve as part of his Maverick army in the Worlds Unite crossover event. Following an attack on the Sky Patrol and its crew of Maverick Hunters, Freedom Fighters, and Robot Masters, he joined his fellows in scattering to various worlds to plant Unity Engines.

Etymology

 * Cyber Peacock's Japanese name "Kujacker" (クジャッカー) is a portmanteau of Kujaku (クジャク / 孔雀, "peacock") and Hijacker (ハイジャッカー).

Trivia

 * Cyber Peacock is the only boss in Mega Man X4 that lacks the usual few seconds of invincibility after he's taken damage. Although, in the Legacy Collection version of X4, even though he lacks the invincibility animation, he nevertheless will still be invincible for a few seconds after incurring injury. He will flash when hit repeatedly as if he is taking damage, but only the first hit will register and the others won't until more seconds pass.
 * In the Japanese version of the game, Peacock speaks in an overly feminine manner. One example is his saying "Iku wa yo!" at the start of the battle (meaning "Here I come!"), which is the feminine way of saying it, as opposed to "Iku zo!", which also means "Here I come" but is the masculine way.
 * Cyber Peacock is the only Maverick in the English release of Mega Man X4 not to have any in-battle quotes or grunts; he says "Hidoi wa!!" (酷いわ!! "How cruel!!", usually speak by women) when injured by the Soul Body in the Japanese version.