Yellow Devil

Yellow Devil
File:MegaManSymbol.png The Yellow Devil on Wily Castle in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.
A boss in	SSB4
Universe	Mega Man
Location	Wily Castle

The Yellow Devil (イエローデビル, Yellow Devil) is a boss hailing from the Mega Man series.

In Super Smash Bros. 4

The Yellow Devil's splitting attack in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

The Yellow Devil appears in both versions of Wily Castle. It attacks players by shooting lasers out of its eye and splitting into sections and moving to the other side of the stage, mimicking its behavior in the original game. It can be damaged by attacking its eye, and once defeated, it causes a large damaging explosion, similar to the one of the Smart Bomb. The player who lands the killing blow on the Yellow Devil is not harmed by the explosion, and any KOs caused by it will count as their attack.

In Smash Tour

The Yellow Devil appears as a random event: bumping into it will initiate a battle against it in Wily Castle. If not defeated in time it transports to another spot in the map, but it retains any prior damage.

Trophy information

The Yellow Devil trophy appears in both versions. In Super Smash Bros. for Wii U it is part of the Mega Man Trophy Box.

Trophy in for 3DS.

Trophy in for Wii U.

Yellow Devil

NA: This massive baddy splits itself into small pieces and flies across the battlefield, striking anyone in the way. Deal damage to it by attacking the eye, or hide behind its body to avoid your foes. Be careful— whoever deals the final blow triggers an enemy-launching explosion!

PAL: This towering foe splits himself into small bits to move across the stage and wreak havoc. If you can get behind him, you can use him as a shield and also hit his eye more easily. Hit his eye enough and he'll explode! Try to get your opponents caught in the explosion to do some real damage!

Origin

The Yellow Devil originally appeared in Mega Man, where it served as the stage boss for the first stage of that game's Wily Fortress. It used attack patterns similar to its appearance in Smash 4, splitting into multiple parts and moving across to the other side of the stage. The Yellow Devil is notably a hard boss in the Mega Man series since the parts of its split is hard to dodge and predict, and that it will repeatedly split again after opening its eye (its weak point) to fire a beam at the player. The Yellow Devil's weakness was the Thunder Beam, which was obtained by defeating Elec Man.

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  Artwork of the Yellow Devil from Mega Man.

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  The Yellow Devil's sprite from Mega Man.

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  The Yellow Devil using its splitting attack in Mega Man.

Trivia

• When Mega Man was originally released in North America and Europe, the Yellow Devil's name was changed to "Rock Monster" due to Nintendo's policy against religious references at the time. This change was reverted in the MegaDrive remake Mega Man: The Wily Wars, and the original name was retained ever since..
• The Yellow Devil does not appear in Mega Man 2, which is the source of they Wily Castle in the background of the eponymous stage.
• Yellow Devil is the first third-party boss and villain to appear in a Smash Bros. game, not counting minor cameos like trophies and stickers.
• Yellow Devil is the only stage boss to appear in both versions of Super Smash Bros. 4.