Weapon:  Flame Blast

Weakness:  Wind Storm

An old-fashioned robot that generates heat energy. If you try to dodge the flame pillars by watching for them, it will already be too late. Try to memorize the timing.

Like Fire Man and Heat Man before him, Flame Man harnesses the power of flame for evil, thanks to the meddlesome reprograming of Dr….um, “Mr. X.” Flame Man also bears the distinction of being the only Robot Master with a mustache. Such style!

Flame Man will use his arm-mounted flamethrower to shoot straight flame projectiles, and can also raise deadly columns of flame from the floor that are so evenly spaced apart, they could only be the work of an obsessed psychotic. Put out those flames and put Flame Man out of his misery with the Wind Storm.

Victory will award you with the Flame Blast, allowing you to create flame columns of your own. Blizzard Man is doomed.

David Oxford   (The Mega Man Network)
Flame Man’s design is fascinating to me, not for any of the various Middle Eastern flourishes put into his design, but rather for one element which I only learned about many years after first facing him on the NES. Apparently, one of his quirks is that he enjoys taking care of his mustache (the GBA version of Mega Man & Bass says “beard”), which seems to imply that the odd black detail beneath his eyes isn’t just the empty space behind some sort of pointy Guts Man-ish robotic jaw as I’d once thought, but is actually facial hair! Or something equivalent, anyway. Weird.