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Mercury is an extraterrestrial Robot Master found, reactivated, and used by Dr. Wily. He was first seen in Mega Man V as one of the games 8 Robot Master Stardroids, and is named after the planet Mercury.  Like the Bio-Devil series of robots, Mercury is capable of shifting between a solid and liquid state.  His main weapon is the Grab Buster, a fist-like attack that snatches powerups like E-Tanks and P-chips (currency) from Mega Man, though it does not allow him to use it for his own good. Mercury is the only Robot Master hitherto to have this ability.

Character Description[]

Mercury has two forms that he can shift between. In his humanoid form, which is his default form, Mercury wears a lime green helmet with grey-ish white spikes on the sides and a pink frame around his face. His armour is lime green and has pink gloves. His bottomwear consists of a black trousers set, and on his feet are lime green boots. His alternate form is a ball that we see him enter in his intro and some of his attacks.

Mercury has a bad habit of firing his Grab Buster at his allies, and is thus left to rot without friends. He likes communism, but is rather greedy. He doesn't get along with Pluto, and it doesn't help that the former has a weapon that can deal critical damage to the latter. Mercury has a dislike of being gossiped about maliciously by his back.

Battle[]

Intro[]

During the beginning cutscene, Mercury drops from the ceiling into his room. He transforms into a featureless ball, jiggles a bit, and reverts back to his humanoid form before thrusting his hand forwards.

Strategy[]

Mercury has three attacks that he can choose from:

For his main and opening attack, Mercury can fire his Grab Buster to steal items from Rock, and if one hits, the player must buy the stolen items again from the shop after beating him. Mercury will fire his first, middle, and last Grab Busters near the bottom, and Rock must dodge those by vaulting them in order to preserve his items. His second attack involves him turning into an invincible ball and throwing two balls of liquid metal towards the other side of the arena, shrinking in size upon throwing the second ball. Mercury will then follow his balls to the other side of the stage once the balls combine, creating a bigger, jiggling ball bigger than their original size. Once he collides with the big ball, Mercury will merge with them and revert back to his humanoid form, losing his invincibility in the process. His third attack starts off the same as his main attack, but instead of throwing the balls, he will dash across the battlefield, leaving the balls as landmines and shrinking in size. Mercury will then suck his balls back into his body, reverting back to his humanoid form upon getting them both. Mercury uses his first attack every two attack rounds and can choose between his other two attacks otherwise.

Mercury's weakness is the Black Hole, but the Mega Arm is more effective as it does the same damage when fully charged and can be fired faster than Black Hole. However, the Black Hole is guaranteed to hit no matter where relative to Mercury's position Rock is. Mercury can only be struck with his weakness during his rematch in the Wily Star. Mercury additionally can only be hit by the Black Hole (or any other weapon, in that regard) in his humanoid form; his ball form is completely invincible.

Trivia[]

  • In reality, communism means seizing and distributing things fairly, but Mercury only adheres to the seizing part of this philosophy, due to his desire to have everything.
  • The fact that Mercury can warp his body into different shapes, such as a ball in his intro and two of his attacks, may be a pun on the substance mercury, aka hydragyrus or quicksilver, which is a liquid metal.


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