Doc Robot

Doc Robot K-176 (ドクロボットK-176) is the name given to each robot in a series of eight from Mega Man 3, each of which has a number of different attachments and devices on its body. After defeating the eight Robot Masters, Mega Man has to return to the stages of Needle Man, Gemini Man, Spark Man, and Shadow Man to fight against each Doc Robot. Each one uses the powers of one of the eight Robot Masters from Mega Man 2, utilizing their program data combined with their specialized devices.

Strategy
Since each Doc Robot copies the ability and characteristics of one of the Robot Masters from Mega Man 2, their strategies are more or less the same, however the player should keep in mind the size of each Doc Robot being larger than most Robot Masters they have their abilities from.

General information
Attack power, weakness, and stage locations for each Doc Robot.



Damage Data Chart
Amount of damage in units that each Doc Robot receives from each Special Weapon in Mega Man 3.

Stage enemies
See the Mega Man 3 enemies from:
 * Needle Man
 * Gemini Man
 * Spark Man
 * Shadow Man

Captain N: The Game Master
In Captain N: The Game Master, the Doc Robot is a small and thin doctor robot with glasses and beard that assists Dr. Wily (a Literal "Doc" Robot). He only uses Metal Man's Metal Blades to attack, and was smashed by a giant pipe that he cut with one.

Rockman Gigamix
In the manga Rockman Gigamix, Doc Robot appears in the story Asteroid Blues, which is based on the events of Mega Man 3. A pair of them help Dr. Wily retrieve the energy crystal sample stored back on Earth.

Mega Man (Archie Comics)
The first Doc Robot is seen being constructed in issue 36. Dr. Light sees it as a way to test multiple Robot Master systems at once. Wily, unsurprisingly, views it as a trump card against Mega Man due to the failure of his individual Robot Masters.

Trivia

 * His Japanese name, "dokurobotto", is actually the combination of two words -- "dokuro", which means "skull", and "robotto", which means "robot". The name basically translates to "skull robot," though the joke was lost in translation and resulted in the name "Doc Robot".  Thus, in Captain N: The Game Master, he appears as a roboticized version of Dr. Wily.


 * The devices seen attached to Doc Robot at various places are what may be a buster on his right arm, a Quick-Boomerang launcher on his left wrist, and a copy of Bubble Man's Bubble Lead and Crash Man's Crash Bomber module on his back.


 * Doc Robot is one of the few copy-characters in the Mega Man franchise (besides the Weapons Archive, and Lumine from the Mega Man X series), who not only can copy and use the abilities/weapons/movesets of another, but does not change shape or color to the person that which they are mimicking while doing so.