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- "We're center stage now, Mega Man! Don't disappoint me, now! Let's dance!"
- ―Top Man, Mega Man (Archie Comics)
Top Man (タップマン Tappuman) is a Robot Master created by Dr. Light and Dr. Wily to work on other planets in search for the Energy Elements needed to build Gamma, but he was reprogrammed and used for combat by Dr. Wily in Mega Man 3.
Top Man is equipped with an auto balance system within his body, allowing him to spin rapidly much like a top, which he uses as an attack called the Top Spin to injure enemies, and as a defensive mechanism because the high rotational speeds make projectiles deflect off of him. However, he can't spin for too long because he gets dizzy, and maintaining such high speeds could damage his internal components. Top Man also attacks by tossing rapidly spinning tops from his head or shooting tops from his arm cannon.
Physical Appearance
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Top Man is a humanoid robot who has an overall black body, an orange helmet shaped like a spinning top, an orange torso with a small yellow area on the top center, white hands, white parts on his knee, and orange boots with small brown wheels on each of them.
Personality
Top Man is known to be somewhat of a smooth talker, and as such this allows him to make arrangements on Dr. Wily's behalf easier. However, despite this, he has been known to be poor at storytelling and has occasionally been known to push his luck too far. He is fond of physical activities relating to roller skating and has been known to shun people who can't dance.
Video game appearances
Mega Man 3
Top Man is one of the eight Robot Masters, and defeating him will reward the player with Top Spin.
Attack Pattern
Top Man is one of the easiest bosses in the game as he does the same thing over and over. He will start by throwing 3 tops from his head into the air, which then launch themselves at Mega Man, encouraging sliding to dodge. He will use Top Spin in place, becoming invincible to all attacks. After a bit, he zooms to the other side trying to tackle the player. He will then repeat those 2 attacks in that same order. The timing of his spin dash is actually faster the first time he uses it.
In The Wily Wars, Top Man's first Top Spin is not faster than the others. He also has a bit more downtime between Top Spin and tops.
Weakness
Top Man's main weakness is Hard Knuckle, which can kill him in just 4 hits but will not phase him if he is spinning. He also has secondary weaknesses to the Mega Buster and Needle Cannon, which do 2 damage.
As with all other Robot Masters in Mega Man 3, he is weak to his own weapon and dies in 7 hits to it, though it can only be used in the rematches. Top Spin is not recommended, due to its nature of hurting the player.
Mega Man II
Top Man is part of the second wave of 4 Robot Masters, all of which come from Mega Man 3. The second wave is fought via teleport systems in the Wily Castle stage, which takes them to their own stages. As there is no indication of which stage is which, Top Man's is the top right. Keep in mind that weapon ammo will not generate in between these stages.
Attack Pattern
Top Man's pattern is almost completely unchanged (except that his first spin is the same speed as the others), making him one of the easiest bosses in the game. His top projectiles dings shots.
Weaknesses
Top Man's weakness is once again Hard Knuckle, which kills him in 5 hits. Alternatively, Needle Cannon is a secondary weakness that does 2 damage.
Mega Man's Soccer
Top Man is an average player with low defense that doesn't have his own team. In Tournament mode he is a member of the Fire Man, Wood Man, Dust Man, Enker, and Proto Man teams, and in League mode he is part of the Needle Man team.
Super Adventure Rockman
Top Man is one of the robots revived by Ra Moon in the Lanfront Ruins and appears as the third boss of Episode 3. When the room Mega Man is in fills with acid after defeating Hard Man, he tries to escape by climbing up the pillars in the room, but Top Man attacks Mega Man at the top. The game does not show what happens to Top Man after the fight, but he was probably melted in the acid like Hard Man, as Beat takes the Top Spin chip before it falls in the acid. If the player loses, Top Man will shoot a top from his arm cannon and make Mega Man fall, but he is rescued by Rush and Cut Man, and the player will have the option to restart the fight.
Top Man and the other Wily Numbers are later revived by Ra Moon again, and after Ra Moon betrays Wily, they are attacked and collapse. If Mega Man is defeated by the New Yellow Devil, he can ask the robots to help him by giving all their remaining energy to him, becoming inactive after this. Their bodies are apparently destroyed alongside Ra Moon's temple.
Data
Mega Man & Bass CD data
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Rockman Complete Works data
体をこうそくかいてんさせて、攻撃をむこうにするシールドシステムをもつ。あたまからコマをだすので、しょうがつは、にんきもの。
Mega Man Legacy Collection translation: Spins at high speeds and has a shield system that renders incoming attacks ineffective. He's popular at New Year's, because he can produce Toy Tops from his head.
Stage
Damage data chart
Amount of damage in units that Top Man receives from each Special Weapon in Mega Man 3.
| Mega Man 3 | |||||||||||
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| Mega Buster | Needle Cannon | Magnet Missile | Gemini Laser | Hard Knuckle | Top Spin | Search Snake | Spark Shock | Shadow Blade | |||
| 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
Other media
Mega Man (Ruby-Spears)
In the Mega Man animated series, Top Man appeared in the episode Campus Commandos voiced by Jim Byrnes, where he infiltrated a robot campus pretending to be a student and befriended Roll to trick her. During the episode, he proved to be powerful, deflecting incoming attacks with his Top Spin, once knocking out Mega Man and rendering his Buster useless.
He was the last of the three Robot Masters to go down in this episode, only doing so after Roll used the Stealth Suit to pull him high into the air whilst spinning, before dropping him into a fountain. Even still, he was shown to have survived the fall, last being seen surfacing and blowing some inhaled water out of his mouth.
Captain N: The Game Master
Top Man appeared in the beginning of the episode "A Tale of Two Dogs", which is based on Mega Man 3. He was the only Robot Master remaining and had the last energy tank needed for Gamma to work. He was defeated by Mega Man with only one punch of the Hard Knuckle.
Mega Man Megamix
Top Man appears in the story Metal Heart trying to recover the Yellow Devil MK-II, but has no success. He appears briefly in the story The Strongest Enemy to Date.
Top Man also appears in Mega Man Gigamix.
Mega Man (Archie Comics)
Mr. Mega Man
After both Dr. Wily and Dr. Light retired from their public lives, Top Man became a popular social media influencer, using his tops to make tricks for children. While talking a walk with Mega Man and Roll, a robot agitator group attacks the city, and Top Man would evacuate everyone to Roll's medical care as Mega Man would engage the terrorists. One of the rescued civilians, however, turns out to be an anti-robot protester that detests Top Man and is unwilling to believe Roll is not human. Tired of having to deal with the man, Top Man sends him back to the danger zone only to find Mega Man fighting Junk Man.
When Dr. Light, as Mega Man's creator, is found guilty for Mega Man's actions in allowing the group to retain their space station due to their genuine fears of slavery under humans and self-existence despite cognitive thinking, Top Man is among those unable to believe the worldwide outrage and the media's attempt to fuel the fire. In response, Dr. Wily requests Top Man to use his social network to leak information hidden by the press regarding the robot group's true motivations, helping public animosity to eventually blow over.
Other appearances
Top Man also appeared in the manga Rockman World 2, Rockman: Yomigaeru Blues, and Rockman 4Koma Dai Koushin.
Gallery
Artwork
Screenshots
Miscellaneous
Production notes
"I focused entirely on Top Man for an entire week, but lost all of the data in a big [computer] crash when someone tripped over the power cord. I was so devastated, but with everything so fresh in my mind I was able to get back to where I was in about three days. This incident is why I'll never forget Top Man... sometimes I wonder if my first attempt would have made a better Top Man (laughs)." -Keiji Inafune [1]
Trivia
- Top Man's quote from his Mega Man & Bass CD Data is a reference to the 80's hit song "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" by Dead or Alive.
- Top Man was the only Robot Master from Mega Man 3 who appeared in Captain N: The Game Master.
- Top Man, along with Hard Man, Crash Man, and Wood Man, was one of four Robot Masters to not appear in the Tiger Electronics games based on Mega Man 2 and Mega Man 3.
- Top Man's stage theme in Rockman Complete Works and Mega Man Anniversary Collection with Navi Mode enabled is a remix of the Opening Stage theme from Mega Man 7.
- Top Man is one of only two Robot Masters in Mega Man 3 to take 2 units of damage from the standard Mega Buster (the other being Magnet Man).
References
- ↑ Mega Man Official Complete Works, UDON Entertainment Corp. 2009. pg.19. Retrieved on March 16, 2011.
| Mega Man II | |
|---|---|
| The eight bosses | |
| Metal Man • Air Man • Crash Man • Wood Man • Needle Man • Magnet Man • Hard Man • Top Man | |
| Other bosses | |
| Quint • Wily Machine II | |
| Special Weapons | |
| Metal Blade • Air Shooter • Crash Bomber • Leaf Shield • Needle Cannon • Magnet Missile • Hard Knuckle • Top Spin • Sakugarne | |
| Support Items | |
| Rush Coil • Rush Jet • Rush Marine | |
| Locations | |
| Metal Man Stage • Air Man Stage • Crash Man Stage • Wood Man Stage • Wily Castle Needle Man Stage • Magnet Man Stage • Hard Man Stage • Top Man Stage • Wily Station | |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Damage Data Chart • Enemies | |
| Super Adventure Rockman | |
|---|---|
| Characters | |
| Mega Man • Beat • Rush • Dr. Light • Roll • Proto Man • Dr. Wily • Ra Moon Cut Man • Guts Man • Ice Man • Bomb Man • Fire Man • Elec Man | |
| Bosses | |
| Metal Man • Bubble Man • Heat Man • Flash Man • Quick Man • Shadow Man Wood Man • Air Man • Crash Man • Snake Man • Needle Man • Gemini Man Magnet Man • Hard Man • Top Man • Spark Man • Ra Thor • New Yellow Devil | |
| Special Weapons | |
| Metal Blade • Bubble Lead • Atomic Fire • Time Stopper • Quick Boomerang • Shadow Blade Leaf Shield • Air Shooter • Crash Bomber • Search Snake • Needle Cannon • Gemini Laser Magnet Missile • Hard Knuckle • Top Spin • Spark Shock | |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Enemies • Energy Tank • Information Card • Item Box • Lanfront Ruins • Proto Shield | |