Number: DWN-037

Weapon: Star Crash

Weakness: Water Wave

A robot who manages the satellite base. You can only damage him when his barrier is down!

Built for space exploration, Star Man would’ve felt right at home in Mega Man 3’s planet-hopping tale. This time, however, he’s helping… “Proto Man”… harass Mega Man and prevent him from rescuing Dr Light.

Clobbering Star Man earns you the Star Crash, which is an odd name given that it actually protects you! It joins the shield/barrier tier shared by Wood Man , Skull Man and Plant Man. Which one do you think is best?

I do want to give a shoutout to his stage though – it takes the floaty jumps of Bubble Man’s underwater stage and repurposes them to simulate a low-g environment in space. Pretty cool!

Keisuke Mizuno (TruForce)

To me, this was a great design—powerful, dynamic, and understandable at a glance with its star imagery. I remember Star Man being popular among my friends because he was so cool.

I’ve got a lot of nostalgia for the Star Man plastic model kit that came out back then. I assembled mine kind of sloppily, so the star-laden torso parts would always break off I’d have to repair them with glue.

David Oxford ( The Mega Man Network )

Star Man has an awesome low-gravity stage in an unused space station orbiting the Earth. Why doesn’t Mega Man go into space more often? Wait — forget I said that.

His design is pretty cool, with the large inverted star covering his chest giving him a neat flared collar as well, to say nothing of all his star-shaped bling adorning his knees, elbows, and forehead. He even keeps up the motif with the barrel of his arm cannon — talk about commitment to your gimmick!

His special ability — the Star Crash shield — protects him from a wide assortment of attacks. Interestingly enough, just saying his name reminds me of another star which grants invincibility…