Rockman Shadow

Rockman Shadow (ロックマン・シャドウ) is the leader of the group of robots called Dimensions and the final boss of the game Rockman and Forte: Mirai Kara no Chousensha (Rockman & Forte: Challenger From the Future). He is a powerful, wicked person completely obsessed with destruction.

Story
Rockman Shadow and the Dimensions are first seen attacking Symphony City, a city where people and robots lived in peace. Mega Man (Rockman) took off to the scene, and at the same time Dr. Wily sends Bass (Forte) to investigate. Because of the circumstances, the two team up to fight against Rockman Shadow and the Dimensions.

After defeating the Dimensions, Mega Man and Bass face Rockman Shadow in a duel to the death. Rockman Shadow reveals that he came from the future, after the time period that Dr. Wily visited with the Time Skimmer in Mega Man II. In that time, Wily "kidnapped" Mega Man and reprogrammed him, turning him into a robot named Quint. Both Quint and Rockman Shadow are a modified Mega Man from the future. When playing as Mega Man, Rockman Shadow says Wily is still trying to conquer the world, and to stop his ambitions he returned to the past to destroy all robots for the period, making the future peaceful, but Mega Man disagrees with his methods. When playing as Bass, he tries to convince him join forces and destroy the world together, making both stronger, but Bass refuses.

After his defeat, Rockman Shadow says that, after Quint's defeat, he was the only robot left. He increased his strength and tried everything to destroy the world. As nothing was able to stop him in the future, he traveled back in time to find someone that could defeat him, being satisfied that someone managed to do so.



While the game depicts his "death" and burial after his defeat at the hands of Mega Man and Bass, he is shown in a photograph with the main cast in the end, sans helmet.

Strategy
Rockman Shadow fights by jumping to the middle of the room and then sliding (like Rockman) to the other side. If the player is next to or try jumping over him, he will shot a fast moving laser that just goes off the screen. After half of his HP is gone, he will disappear and appear above the player on the Sakugarne and dive down at the player, sitting on the floor before repeating. Between the dives four rocks will come down to hit the player. When he loses 3/4 of his HP, he begins to fly at the player with a sword. When he swings and stops moving, 3 sparks fan off forward and backward from him.