MegaMan Volnutt

MegaMan Volnutt
Official artwork of MegaMan Volnutt from Mega Man Legends 2.
Universe	Mega Man
Debut	Mega Man Legends (1997)
Smash Bros. appearances	SSB4 Ultimate
Most recent non-Smash appearance	Rockman X DiVE (2020, via update)
Console/platform of origin	PlayStation
Species	System Unit (frequently believed to be a human/carbon)
Gender	Male

MegaMan Volnutt (ロック・ヴォルナット, Rock Volnutt) is the protagonist of the Mega Man Legends sub-series of the Mega Man universe.

Origin

Volnutt was originally named Mega Man Trigger and was a system unit, specifically a purifier unit (Maverick Hunter in Japan), a hyper advanced android with biological and mechanical components. Trigger lived in Elysium (Heaven in Japan), a space colony set up by the immortal pure humans to live on until the Earth was found to be inhabitable again, Elysium was run by the AI known as the Master System. Trigger's job was to eliminate Aberrant units (Mavericks in Japan) that disobeyed or threatened the Master System. Trigger was close to the Master, the last pure human left on Elysium. The pure humans had created a human subspecies known as Carbons as a slave race to test the Earth's safety.

The Master asked Trigger to travel to Terra to see the Carbons with him and landed on Calbania Island. Seeing how the Carbons had developed sapience and their own society like the humans of the past, the Master and Trigger decided against wiping out the carbons to revive pure humanity. The Master orders Trigger to destroy the Master System AI and delete all the data in Elysium because Elysium's cold and sterile envirnoment had stifled pure humanity and resulted in them dying out, whilst the carbon's regular lives had resulted in them growing as a society and becoming humanity's true successor.

Trigger went to grant the Master's dying wish, but Sera (mother unit of Elysium) fought him after being frustrated with Yuna (mother unit of Terra)'s decision to be neutral. Trigger was heavily damaged and his parameters were set to reformat, transforming into a baby without any memories. Trigger then put his essential data files in Data. Yuna sealed Trigger and Data in a ruin in Nino Island while Sera was with Geetz in Forbidden Island.

Years later, Barrell Caskett was researching the ruins in Nino Island and found Trigger and Data. Since he broke into the ruins without the Grandmaster's permission, he took them under his care. Barrell's granddaughter, Roll named Mega Man Volnutt (Barrell named him Rock as a pun on Rock and Roll in Japan) after one of her favorite video game characters, which was canonically based on the figure of the same name that existed several millennia prior. Volnutt lived the life of a Digger, searching for Refractors and defeating Reaverbots. Barrell would also fashion Volnutt a Mega Buster, which is the very same buster wielded by Mega Man X modified by Barrell to be compatible with multiple other weapons. In the events of Mega Man Legends, Volnutt had to protect Kattlelox Island from the Bonnes (after a crash landing), with the daughter (Tron Bonne) gaining a crush on him. He also finds Mega Man Juno who knows his past as Mega Man Trigger. Juno plans to destroy Kattlelox and Volnutt defeats him. Data reveals he knows his past but can't reveal it.

In the mobile spinoff title Rockman DASH: 5tsu no Shima no Daibouken!, Volnutt and Roll travel to an island that Barrell is investigating. While on the island, Volnutt goes on a digout to find a new deflector for their airship Flutter when he enters ancient ruins. Volnutt finds a deflector, but it is stolen by the Bonne family as payback for the events on Kattleox island and they flee to a nearby town. Volnutt liberates the town and takes the deflector back to Flutter for repairs. However, the ship then crashlands on Pauran island, where the Caskett family again fight off the Bonne family trying to locate the rumored treasure on the island. They next travel to Ilux island to investigate some kind of catastrophe, which put the local police on high alert. Volnutt is even mistaken for a criminal trying to attack Barrell, who give high-speed chase. Volnutt is eventually able to elude the police and tries to find Barrell to clear this misunderstanding. This leads him to Urakoi island, which has a volcano that is rumored to erupt soon and ruin the environment by blocking out the sun with its ash. Searching the local ruins to prevent this eruption, Volnutt finds a machine the energy from magma to create Refractors. On their way home, the Caskett family finds a giant tower with three smaller towers around it. Though the inside of the tower is heavily guarded with traps and Reaverbots, they find a transport to Elysium, albeit in a non-functional state.

In Mega Man Legends 2, Barrell and Verner Von Bluecher travel to Forbidden Island. Volnutt and Roll go to Forbidden Island to find out who "Matilda" (who helped attack Barrell's ship) is and if she is Roll's mother. Volnutt accidentally frees Sera and Geetz trying to prevent the Sulphur-Bottom (Barrell's ship) from crashing. Geetz needs 4 keys to open the Mother Lode (which is why Barrell and Bluecher were there) and Bluecher sends Volnutt to do it. After getting the keys, Sera and Geetz turn on Volnutt. Geetz fights Volnutt while Sera goes to Elysium. Geetz explodes and Volnutt is hurt. Yuna and Data manage to heal him and he regains part of his memories as Trigger. He goes to Elysium to stop Sera from using the Carbon Reinitialization Program. Volnutt, Yuna, and Sera are trapped on Elysium while the Elder System begins to reactivate. Back on Terra, Roll and Tron Bonne begin to build a rocket to get Volnutt. It is assumed that Mega Man Legends 3 would have continued these storylines before being canceled and the Legends sub-series going on indefinite hiatus.

In Super Smash Bros. 4

MegaMan Volnutt appears in Super Smash Bros. 4 in two main roles.

Assist role

MegaMan Volnutt (far right) in Mega Legends.

MegaMan Volnutt is one of the several incarnations of Mega Man summoned by the classic Mega Man as part of his Final Smash, Mega Legends.

Trophy

MegaMan Volnutt's trophy appears in both versions.

MegaMan Volnutt's trophy in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS

MegaMan Volnutt's trophy in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

MegaMan Volnutt

The 14-year-old star of the Mega Man Legends series was found as a baby by Barrell Caskett, a Digger (someone who explores ancient ruins), who then took him in and raised him. He uses a wide array of weapons to fight his foes, the Reaverbots. In Smash Bros., he appears in Mega Man's Final Smash.

: Mega Man 64 (02/2001)

The 14-year-old star of the Mega Man Legends series was found as a baby by Barrell Caskett, a Digger (someone who explores ancient ruins), who then took him in and raised him. He uses a wide array of weapons to fight his foes, the Reaverbots. In this game, he appears in Mega Man's Final Smash.

: Mega Man Legends (2000 (JP))

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Assist role

MegaMan Volnutt returns as part of Mega Man's Mega Legends.

Spirit

No.	Image	Name	Type	Class	Slots	Base	Max	Base	Max	Base	Max	Ability	Series
911		MegaMan Volnutt		★★★	3	2665	8015	1399	4208	1266	3807	No Effect	Mega Man Legends Series

Names in other languages

Language	Name
Japanese	ロック・ヴォルナット, Rock Volnutt
English	MegaMan Volnutt
French	MegaMan Volnutt
German	MegaMan Volnutt
Spanish	MegaMan Volnutt
Italian	MegaMan Volnutt
Chinese	MegaMan Volnutt
Korean	MegaMan Volnutt
Dutch	MegaMan Volnutt
Russian	Мегамен Волнат

Trivia

• MegaMan Volnutt is the only Mega Man in Smash Bros. that didn't debut on a Nintendo console. However, his debut game was later released on the Nintendo 64 as Mega Man 64.

See also

• MegaMan Volnutt on the Mega Man Knowledge Base