"Heheee!"

―ColorMan, Mega Man Network Transmission

ColorMan.EXE, known as ColoredMan.EXE (カラードマン.ＥＸＥ^[4], Karādoman Eguze) in Japan, is the NetNavi of Ms. Madd in the Mega Man Battle Network series.

Appearance

ColorMan has a yellow head, red-yellow eyes with blue lines surrounding them, blue spikey hair on both sides of his head, a red torso with a white lining on top and blue lining on the bottom, long yellow arms with blue stripes, red hands with four yellow fingers on each of them, thin black legs, and yellow feet with two "!" marks on the bottom (the left one is red and the right one is blue). ColorMan sits on a white ball with blue polka dots on it. When sitting on the ball, his feet phase through the bottom of his torso.

His Navi mark has a yellow surrounding.

Personality

ColorMan has a very wacky personality and puts his own enjoyment above all other things, even if it hurts other people. He gets bored easily; he even disobeys Ms. Madd if she doesn't give him enough to do. ColorMan is more of a cautious fighter, tending to stay back. He summons Mini ColorMen to do his fighting for him. ColorMan doesn't always play fair and sometimes cheats on the field. He also tends to act childish, a bit unlike his operator.

History

Mega Man Battle Network

ColorMan first appeared in the Waterworks, appearing completely harmless and blocking off a path for some reason. His link to the WWW is later revealed after IceMan is defeated. He later makes all traffic lights green in one of the crossroads from DenTown to cause accidents and sell fix programs for one million zenny each. When Lan Hikari solved the problem and prevented people from buying the program, Madd uses ColorMan to make all the lights green again and cause the bus that Mayl Sakurai and Roll were inside to go out of control. She also sent a virus to make the bus explode, but ColorMan was defeated before it could happen.

Mega Man Network Transmission

While MegaMan and Lan are looking for more information, they receive a note about trouble going on at the Arcade. They find out that ColorMan is behind the trouble there. They pursue ColorMan and defeat him. However, ColorMan confesses after the battle that he has no idea what the Zero Virus is.

ColorMan only takes damage on his upper-body. When defeated, the player receives either a Color Ball Battle Chip or ColorMan Battle Chip.

Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge

ColorMan is a participant of the Battle Chip GP. If the player character is Mayl, then he will be the final opponent of the Healing Class, where his Navi Chip can be earned. If not, his first appearance will be in the Fireworks class, and his Navi Chip can be earned from the 30th fight of the Hacker's Net Open Battle.

Anime

MegaMan NT Warrior

Main article: WackoMan.EXE (anime)

ColorMan is renamed WackoMan in the MegaMan NT Warrior dub. WackoMan's first appearance is when Maddy orders him to cause trouble with the traffic lights. He does so by unleashing Mettaurs inside the traffic lift network, making all of them red, leaving Yai Ayano trapped in her limo while needing to go to the bathroom. She jacks in Glide's to investigate. Glide finds viruses and deletes several before being ambushed by WackoMan. Lan sends in MegaMan to help Glide, but they are both overwhelmed by his Wacko Ball. MegaMan uses Cyber Sword while WackoMan makes clones of himself. MegaMan destroys them all and WackoMan logs out.

Maddy later captures Dr. Froid and uses his son Tory and IceMan to control the Waterworks. When MegaMan defeats IceMan initially, WackoMan holds the frozen Glide hostage, allowing IceMan to overwhelm MegaMan. When Tory has a change of mind, Ms. Madd orders WackoMan to delete IceMan. IceMan is defeated but releases MegaMan from frozen captivity. WackoMan attacks relentlessly with fire and ice dummies but MegaMan destroys them with Blaster and uses Electro Sword to injure WackoMan, forcing him to log out.

He later fights against Roll in the N1 Grand Prix, but loses. WackoMan fights again in the N1 (because, Mr. Match and Maddy cheated during the lotto) teamed up with TorchMan to fight against MegaMan and Roll. The fight becomes unfair when Roll is mind controlled by the Twisted Chip and turns on MegaMan. During the final minute of the battle. WackoMan and TorchMan try and delete MegaMan, however, due to a missed shot by TorchMan, causes them to instead fight each. MegaMan, uses this to his advantage, then quickly uses his Cyber Sword to chop WackoMan in half deleting him. Soon after TorchMan was defeated by Roll when the mind-control chip was destroyed. So after the tournament WackoMan was revived.

WackoMan, compared to the other WWW Navis, appears the most friendly to MegaMan and his friends, despite being enemies, as he is the most willing to help when they share a common foe, such as Grave. Though that doesn't stop him from trying to delete MegaMan under normal situations, he is still usually the first one to state he wants to help.

Later on, he and the other WWW Navis and their operators retire and open a curry shop, #1 Curry.

Abilities

Mega Man Battle Network ^[2]

• ColorMan has two Mini ColorMan (ミニカラードマン, Mini Karādoman, Mini ColoredMan),^[5][6] one red and one blue. If one of the Mini ColorMan comes in the same row as MegaMan for too long, it will launch an attack.

• Ball (ボール, Bōru),
  100 None damage:
  ColorMan releases the ball he's floating on and it bounces towards MegaMan. It explodes when hit but disappears if ColorMan is stunned.

• Fire Tower (フレイムタワー, Fureimu Tawā, Flame Tower),
  100 None damage:
  The red Mini ColorMan will blast a homing Fire Tower.

• Aqua Tower (アクアタワー, Akua Tawā),
  100 None damage:
  The blue Mini ColorMan will blast a homing Aqua Tower.

Mega Man Network Transmission ^[7]

• Color Ball (カラードボール, Karādo Bōru, Colored Ball),
  60 None damage:
  ColorMan either rolls or bounces his polka-dot ball at MegaMan.

• Fire Tower (フレイムタワー, Fureimu Tawā, Flame Tower),
  80 Fire damage:
  ColorMan shoots columns of fire in front of him, each one going further from him than the last.

Battle Chips

• Mega Man Battle Network
• Mega Man Network Transmission
• Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge

ID	Battle Chip		Description	Attack	Element	Code	Rarity
149		ColorMan (カラードマン ColoredMan)	Towers of [Aqua] & [Fire]!	90 (MMBN) 120 (OSS)	None	C	***
150		ColorMn2 (カラードマンＶ２ ColoredMan V2)	Towers of [Aqua] & [Fire]!	110 (MMBN) 140 (OSS)	None	C	****
151		ColorMn3 (カラードマンＶ３ ColoredMan V3)	Towers of [Aqua] & [Fire]!	130 (MMBN) 160 (OSS)	None	C	*****

ID	Battle Chip		Description	Attack	Element	Codes	Max. Num.
54		ClrBall (カラードボール Colored Ball)	Throws small bouncing balls	80	None		5
129		ColorMan (カラードマン ColoredMan)	Generates large balls to throw at enemy	100	None		5

ID	Image	Name	HP	AP	MB	Element	Acc	Dodge	Priority	Attack	Description	Rarity
221		ColorMan (カラードマン ColoredMan)	450	80	170 (basic) 330 (max)*	None	A	A	0	Norm80 (FA-Twr)	Navichip Attack	*****

*170 initially, 330 is the max memory achieved by clearing Class Z (Chaos).

Gallery

Rockman EXE Team's Intranet webpage image featuring ColorMan.

ColorMan's rotation concept model.

Concept art of ColorMan.

Anime design sheet of ColorMan.

ColorMan.EXE in TEPPEN.

WoodMan, IceMan and ColorMan in the MegaMan NT Warrior manga.

Design

Character designer Yuji Ishihara was unsure why ColorMan was designed like a clown, supposing that it was simply because clowns are colorful.^[8]

Trivia

• ColorMan's Japanese voice actor, Yūji Ueda, also voices Higsby.

References