Infinity Mijinion

"Are the other investigators useless fleas? That's the only explanation as to why I have to clean up their messes... But wait... Why are you here anyway? Don't tell me you destroyed my sweet Illumina... Maverick! I haven't even tested her! And I was thinking that I'll destroy all the thick-headed so-called "authorities" with her...! You will die!!"

- Infinity Mijinion

Infinity Mijinion (インフィニティー・ミジニオン) is a water flea-based Reploid created by Gate to test pilot large manned weaponry. The photoconductive material built into his body allows him to analyze and process information with incredible speed and accuracy, equal to that of several super computers. But, Mijinion's arrogant and impatient attitude eventually lead to his downfall. His rash behavior put many of his coworkers in danger, which resulted in him being killed in a sabotaged weapons test setup to look like an accident. He was later resurrected by Gate to serve as one of his Nightmare Investigators, placing him in charge of the Weapons Facility. There Mijinion immediately restarted the suspended project to construct the giant Reploid weapon, Illumina.

Strategy
Infinity Mijinion will fly around the room, using his Ray Arrow attack to make energy arrows fall from above or create bubbles/clones and shoot purple energy arrows. Though, his main weakness is Guard Shell, sometimes it's best to just use the Nova Strike if X is equipped with the Ultimate Armor. With Zero, Infinity takes more damage from the Z-Buster than the Z-Saber.

Infinity Mijinion will perform the following attacks during battle:
 * Whenever Infinity Mijinion is hit with a slash attack, a successful Guard Shell reflection, or take away 1/4 of his energy, he will be deflected towards a wall and will almost always create a clone. These clones will constantly create destroyable bubbles made of ooze. The clones can be destroyed with 4-5 Z-Buster shots or a lot of X-Buster shots, and the bubbles with almost anything.


 * Infinity Mijinion will stop somewhere in the air, and create bubbles.


 * Infinity Mijinion will teleport to the top middle of the screen, then drop straight down and stab his tail into the ground. This will cause two orange energy balls to travel across the floor. With them will come a rain of Ray Arrows from the sky. These balls can be reflected by Guard Shell.


 * Infinity Mijinion also leaves green energy balls in mid-air. Attacking these will cause them to extend green lines out horizontally, which are harmless. In fact, they can be grappled onto like ropes in the other stages. The green balls themselves are also harmless.


 * Infinity Mijinion will fire off three sets of eight spread-shot orange energy balls that will fly in the cardinal and secondary directions (up, down, left, right, up-left, up-right, down-left, down-right). These can be reflected by Guard Shell as well.


 * Infinity Mijinion will fire a laser that will travel slowly in the air. If X or Zero is positioned below this laser, it will quickly fall on them. If they are above this laser, it will fly straight up at them.


 * Infinity Mijinion will start to flash, and fire off a constant spread-shot of orange energy balls (these can't be reflected) while recovering energy. Unless the game is played on Xtreme mode or if the player is using the X-Buster against him, this attack will rarely be seen.


 * 1/2 energy left: Infinity Mijinion will fire a faster laser that will travel through the air and drop down/fly straight up on the player.

Stage Enemies
Enemies in Infinity Mijinion's stage, the Weapons Facility.


 * Sub-boss: Illumina
 * Nightmare Virus
 * Group Jet

When Playing as X
??: Someone comes...

X: Infinity Mijinion! You are one of the investigators of the Nightmares, aren't you?

Infinity Mijinion: You seem to be hard to deal with... Why must I cover up for the lack in ability of the other investigators? Hmm? How did you come this far? Don't say you destroyed my sweet Illumina...

X: I destroyed such a dangerous Reploid!!

Infinity Mijinion: No! I was still conducting a test or two on her...! I wanted to use her to destroy all the idiots! Now I'm angry, and that means you're dead!

When Playing as Zero
??: Uh? Weren't you dead?

Zero: You heard wrong. You are Infinity Mijinion, one of the investigators for the Nightmares, aren't you?

Infinity Mijinion: Are the other investigators useless fleas? That's the only explanation as to why I have to clean up their messes... But wait... Why are you here anyway? Don't tell me you destroyed my sweet Illumina.

Zero: What do you think...

Infinity Mijinion: Maverick! I haven't even tested her! And I was thinking that I'll destroy all the thick-headed so-called "authorities" with her...! You will die!!

Trivia

 * Because his species is not tremendously outwardly obvious to the casual observer or player, Infinity Mijinion is considered one of the most confusing Mavericks in the Mega Man X series. Mijinion is in fact a daphnia, a type of water flea; and the name Mijinion is derived from the Japanese word "mijinko", which means daphnia.


 * The name "Infinity" doesn't just imply to the multiplying ability. The water flea Mijinion is based on can survive almost anything. Daphnia are regularly found in acidic swamp water and can survive extreme heat, extreme cold, the vacuum of space, and even a nuclear blast.


 * The background music for Infinity Mijinion's stage contains synthesizer riffs reminiscent of the song "The Final Countdown".


 * He is considered to be one of the most annoying bosses in the entire X series if not one of the most difficult, as the number of bubbles and clones he can produce is almost infinite. There is also the issue of him creating clones after taking high amounts of damage, being hit by a Charged Guard Shell (X only), and his unpredictability to use his spreadfire that allows the player to reflect his shots to cause damage.