Metal Man

Fighter's Biostats

Full Name:

Metal Man

Age:

42

Race/Species:

Human Cyborg

Home/Nation:

Who knows?

Friends/Allies:

VGW Man, Digifanatic, The 'Questers', 'Zone Cops', 'Battlefield Crew', and a number of other organizations he claims membership in. (Though oddly, these membership cards come from multiple dimensions)

Enemies:

Kuja, 'Rael', The Void, some guy he keeps ranting about named 'Sam', and he seems to have a rivalry with Knight.

Powers and Abilities:

He has steel fists which tend to smash things, a silver tongue (the diplomatic kind), a razor-sharp wit, and when all else fails, a never-ending array of junk which he tends to throw at his foes.

Quoted as Saying:

"We must defeat them with nothing!"

"I am on an important mission, my friend; I am sorry if your mocha had to pay the ultimate price... but mistakes will be made, and casualties will occur."

"The second time I attack you... you shall most certainly die. The brightness of my technique is simply... unsurpassable."

"Hmmm.... I think I'll go for a SIDE DISH OF ARM TO THE HEAD! DIEEEEE!!!!!!"

Game Highlights:

None

(However, his logo has been seen on Mario Kart: DS karts... =P)

First Heard of at the SSS:
Who wants to be an SP: Part 19

Fighter Summary:
Metal Man was originally a normal citizen of an anonymous world, on an anonymous planet. He tends to keep to himself, so we may never know much about it. However, people who know him closely have heard fragments, and fragments that seem to fit together at that. So we have constructed a sort of story from those fragments.

First, it is obvious Metal Man is a cyborg. He was once fully human, evidenced by extensive scarring on the attachment points to the cybernetics. Although his armor limits the appearance of this, he still seems to get phantom pains in his missing limbs. Why is this important? Well, as the first fragment (retreived from an obscure file VGW Man happened to leave out one day) happens to mention how he got this way.

He was a normal man on this world, which was apparently high tech. He had a large mouth then, and was arrogant. Yet he was just a plain old civillian. There was a military on this world, but Metal Man hadn't gotten into it. He had back issues, and he was rather weak despite being more than tall enough to play basketball (6'4"). As he ranted to VGW Man one fateful night, he apparently tried to change this.

It just so happened the normal sort of civil disturbance you'd find in any world occurred one day. The issue was never mentioned, but Metal Man leapt into it headlong. Fighting police officers, he managed to actually injure some but mostly he got the tar beaten out of him. He was exceedingly lucky and managed to limp away, never to be identified or arrested, for his actions. Ever since then, he began working on his fighting technique--some say it was just idle playing around with many styles he researched, others claim he might have been trained by somebody with actual knowledge, but either way...

As the fragment goes, he got in a bad place at a bad time, and encountered a group of toughs. He fancied himself to be just as good as them at fighting, so when they stuck guns in his face he started attacking them. His insane luck came in again, and apparently he managed to, once again, injure them, though it was inadvertent. They left when they realized he didn't have anything of value on him; he, on the other hand, had a number of characteristic bullet holes in his limbs.

Hence the first, purely prosthetic, limbs were acquired.

Some time passed since then. He was said to only be 20-something back then. We continue the story after a new invention was made: teleporation. It was great, except it had a flaw: You couldn't travel too far without winding up in the wrong place. Just before the old world of Nintendus imploded on itself, a file he had written detailing what really happened managed to slip loose, and it just so happens we have it here, verbatim.

"I was telling the others the amazing lies about how I had fought my rival to the death and I was the last one of my race, when I remembered the real reason I was there, talking to them. I had just been a misfit, but after an unfortunate incident I began to find real jobs and worked my way up into a research corporation. One of the first to get teleporters.

I found them quite exciting, stretching what they could send to the limits, and experimenting on inanimate objects. One day, however, I pressed it too far, and the field engulfed me. All of a sudden I was in some other world--and atop a pile of objects I thought I had simply sent to the wrong place.

This world was rather plain, and surreal. It was a false reality, I knew it; the doctors who made the teleporter warned me of how I could wind up somewhere that shouldn't exist with it. Sure enough, strange people with super powers appeared in this world, ones who I'd known from video games.

And they beat the crud out of me.

Grrr...."

The note ended there; it was a simple rant. But as followed up by some various computer files gleaned from the realm he went to, we know that it was some ultra-dimensional world called the 'Battlefield', and that Metal Man had soon become corrupted by its unnatural taint. He gained powers no real person could, and his mind twisted 90 degrees out of phase. Yet he didn't master this, instead throwing things around at random.

That would change when he learned how to manifest the very teleportation powers he had accidentally sent himself there with the first place.

Here the documentation gets vague. Metal Man refuses to say much, but one thing led to another and suddenly he was in a world right next to the SSS, serving VGW Man in his quest to protect a paralell universe. It being Termina to the Hyrule that is SSS, he naturally was related to certain people in SSS in a tangential way. He was wacky, he was crazy, and he had a tendency to make stories all about himself. Unlike most SSS people, though, his stories didn't come true--even though the world of SSQ warped to his very demands (Unfortunately, we don't have any files explaining how that happened), he couldn't make it true, and it eventually turned against him and even itself to prevent this.

He eventually discovered the SSS as a parallel dimension, which VGW Man told him about. However, VGW Man told him also of his feud. Pat himself warned him of the past conflicts there, but Metal Man came, expecting to be greeted as a hero for being VGW's 'heir' (apparently this was linked to how he was able to warp the world of SSQ). The historical SSS files show that he instead appeared out of the blue and his mouth was put to work doing matches and keeping things running rather than the job he had come for: to tell everyone what to do in the name of VGW Man.

While this strange, cybernetic man was stoic, he was also impatient. He continually left and came back, until his world of choice vanished. Then he, too, vanished.

More years passed, and eventually he returned, speaking a different story. This brings us to the last part of our short story.

The world he once ruled was in actuality a sort of book, which he had been writing in. He wrote too many things into it, and it malfunctioned. So he fled back to the battlefield-world while he rebuilt it. There he finally learned how to gain respect; and indeed, despite the fact that he would tell no-one there (or even us, here) of his true past, he revealed his true self.

He was once a civillian, but rough times had injured his body. He became cybernetic, as said before... but what he hadn't said was that he had been simply a dimensional tourist!

Yes. All the million stickers on his luggage were real. He had everything on but a rude Hawaiian shirt when he recently returned to SSS, noting that 'Of all the places, he had visited, it had the nicest water fountains.'

So now, today, he can be seen orchestrating matches like any other SP, although most sane people stay clear--his office is filled with practical joke traps and on any given day he is prone to dancing and speaking about his battles with evil clowns. Indeed, he still tells those lies.

Though if you mention his true past, the twinkle in his eye seems to hint at the truth... (Written by Metal Man)

Metal Man's Moves:

STANDARD SPECIAL Moves

Railpunch

Metal Man quickly and mechanically throws a punch by pulling his arm back and then snapping forward with it. It can be charged, and has a small range around the first which can potentially cancel projectiles.
UP SPECIAL Moves

Leap of Faith

Metal Man leaps up into the air and then begins falling. He can control his descent, and whomever he knocks into (either mid-flight or landing) is in for some pain.
SIDE SPECIAL Moves

Hammerpunches

Moving both his purely steel fists up and down like hammers, Metal Man moves at his foe horizontally while beating them around. Damage is medium, but it is easily spammed and can interrupt other moves.
DOWN SPECIAL Moves

Psycho Counter

Normally this move doesn't do much, but if somebody should move at Metal Man with a physical attack, Metal Man will grab their arm/sword/whatever and proceed to hit them with it, knocking them away and onto their backs. Due to his armor, Metal Man can do this with any non-projectile.
FINAL SMASH Moves

Deathmachine

Metal Man takes out a gigantic cannon, on the scale of Iron Man's Proton Cannon. He then proceeds to fire a homing laser which will target one person... the following thing that happens is random summoning of all the items enabled in that match (or if none are enabled, random purely damaging objects which aren't items) which are then hurled around as if they were thrown. This is completely random; it is rumored to have fired all Mr. Saturns once, and another time to have completely slaughtered somebody with Bob-ombs. Occasionally it fires Smart-bombs and blows up Metal Man instead!!!

Theme Song:
"Metallic Madness"--Metal Man's Theme