Plug Man

Plug Man (プラグマン) is one of the Robot Masters from Mega Man 9 whose period of use had expired and was scheduled to be scrapped. Plug Man was designed to inspect the quality control in a television factory. He is obsessed with gadgets and loves to browse electronic stores. His main weapon is Plug Ball.

His stage consists of many Appearing Block puzzles similar to those in previous games like Elec Man's and Heat Man's stages. There are also video holograms of Mega Man known as Shadow Mega Man that cause damage on collision.

Strategy
Plug Man will jump around trying to jump on Mega Man. At times, he will shoot Plug Balls at Mega Man that will run on the ceiling. Once he is under the ball, it will drop toward him.

His weakness is the Jewel Satellite, which will deflect all Plug Balls launched.

Damage Data Chart
Displays the amount of damage in units that Plug Man will receive from each Special Weapon in Mega Man 9.


 * *For Proto Buster and Magma Bazooka, the first digit is the damage done when the weapon is fired normally; the second digit is damage done when the weapon is charged up.

Stage enemies

 * Big Stomper
 * Classical Cannon
 * Metall β
 * Shadow Mega Man / Shadow Proto Man
 * Smaplar
 * Telly X

Appearance in other media
Plug Man appears in the short Mega Man Megamix manga story "For Whose Sake?", included in the booklet of Rockman 9 Arrange Soundtrack. He also appeared in the Archie Mega Man comics, appearing before the adaptation of his game in the Worlds Collide crossover event. In it, he joined a massive Robot Master army that did battle with Mega Man and Sonic the Hedgehog as well as their allies.

Trivia

 * Plug Man is called Plasma Man (プラズママン) and Plasman (プラズマン) in his concept arts. His weapon would've been called Plasma Ball and he had the appearance of a plasma globe. The name "Plasman" was also used in previous concept arts of characters from Mega Man 2 and 3, but none of them resembled Plug Man.


 * During the ending credits, Plug Man is shown with a hand replacing his plug on his right hand while carrying Capcom bags with Rush. The removal of his plug is probably to make him harmless in case he goes berserk again, or he's able to change his arm into a plug like Mega Man and other robots can turn their hands into cannons.


 * Plug Man is one of two Robot Masters in Mega Man 9 designed by Keiji Inafune, confirmed on Inafune's Capcom-Unity Blog.


 * In Mega Man 10, the Appearing Block puzzle from Plug Man's stage appears in the Endless Attack mode.


 * His plug color in the artwork is black, but in battle, it's purple due to color limitations.


 * As an electric-themed boss, Plug Man's weakness to ground/crystal weapons is similar for two other electric Mavericks who are also weak to ground/crystal weapons: Tornado Tonion and Gigabolt Man-O-War.


 * His Plug Ball does the second-most damage to Mega Man in the game, behind only the Laser Trident.

Plug Man