Randam Bandam

Randam Bandam (ランダム・バンダム) is the boss of the Neo Arcadia's Teleporter Base in Mega Man Zero 4. It guards the Teleporter Base, and Zero has to fight it after disabling the base's initial protection systems.

It comes out from the center of the room's wall and shoots in various directions or bounces through the room. The wall has several blasters of different types hidden in its panels. This battle allows Zero to make good use of the Tractor Shot -- one of its attacks involves firing numerous bullets at Zero. The Tractor Shot will be fully charged by the time the attack finishes, and hitting Randam Bandam with the shot will deplete 1/4 of its energy.

Attacks

 * It fires a spray of red sparks around most of the room.


 * It rebounds off the walls in a figure-eight pattern, then retreats behind the wall.


 * After Randam Bandam retreats, one of two different attacks can be perfomed:
 * Each wall panel turns around in a snake-like manner to reveal blue panels that all shoot a single bullet at Zero. They can easily be destroyed.
 * Various wall panels randomly flash like a roulette until a marker stops on one, which turns around and reveals a red panel that fires six lasers across the room unless destroyed. This happens three times, each a little faster than before.


 * EX Skill: Randam Bandam's side turrets light up and fire a pair of circling energy balls in all four directions, which each ricochet off into two bunches of energy balls, one red and one blue. The pattern goes down, then left-right, then up, then left-right again, and finally down again.

Trivia

 * This is one of only two bosses in the Mega Man series where the boss battle happens in the same area where the level begins, the other being the Copy Sigma in Mega Man X8.
 * Its name bears a slight resemblance to Rangda Bangda, along with some attacks.
 * Randam Bandam features the only English voice-acting in the entire Mega Man Zero series. Before battle, it says "ALERT. ALERT. ELIMINATING PROGRAM START. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA..."