Cut Man is one of the Robot Masters created by Dr. Light to be a timber-felling robot.
His Special Weapon is the Rolling Cutter, an extremely sharp circular pair of scissor-like blades that can be thrown like boomerangs to attack from a distance. They are made of highly resistant "ceramic titanium", allowing them to slice through most materials effectively. Cut Man was designed with a lightweight chassis that grants him fast and agile movement, even in strong rain and wind, as well as the ability to jump against horizontal surfaces to reach great heights.
Cut Man has been known to be highly well-aware of his surroundings and is very cunning. He is also very stubborn and has a tendency to not listen to others. He likes kirie and haircuts, and has been known to be extremely bad at the game rock-paper-scissors.
Cut Man is one of the main bosses in the games Mega Man, Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge, Mega Man: The Power Battle and Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters, as well as the games' remakes and collections (like Mega Man: The Wily Wars and Rockman Battle & Fighters). He is a playable character in Mega Man's Soccer and Mega Man Powered Up. In most of his appearances, Cut Man attacks by throwing the cutter on his head while running and jumping around the room.
Dr. Wily reprogrammed Cut Man and Dr. Light's other industrial robots to help him conquer the world. Cut Man is one of the six bosses in the Stage Select Screen that need to be defeated. Defeating him will grant the player his Rolling Cutter weapon.
In Mega Man Powered Up, Cut Man has the personality of a kind-hearted, yet naïve child, seen showing reluctance to fight and instead trying to convince his brothers to come back with him through words. He is also seen as quite gullible, one major example being that he could not see that Mega Man? was a fake (although the doppelganger later admitted it himself, saying "You're not the sharpest pair in the drawer, huh?"). Cut Man is found to be somewhat formal as he addresses other robots as "Mr." or "Ms." (either this or it shows that his A.I. age is younger). Similarly, the reason why he fought Mega Man in the main game is because he was led to believe by Wily that Mega Man had indeed turned to evil.
As a boss, Cut Man fights in a similar way to the first game though he does not repeatedly jump in quick succession when he's near the player aside from Old Style. Cut Man also can no longer be knocked back by any attack in Normal and Hard modes like any other boss (aside from hitting Cut Man with his weaknesses in Normal mode, ie. Super Arm, Charge Shots or Proto Strike) He also has an additional attack in Normal and Hard modes where his Rolling Cutter grows to cover a wider area while being able to destroy Guts Blocks. This new attack is only used when he loses half of his health in Normal mode while it can be used anytime in Hard mode. In Hard mode, the cutter moves faster and he will also use the attack twice in succession.
In Hard mode, Cut Man will sometimes jump directly to the player if they prompt an attack and will not give the player a warning when he uses his regular Rolling Cutter. If Mega Man defeats Cut Man using only the Mega Buster, he becomes available as a playable character.
As a playable character, Cut Man can have up to two Rolling Cutters on-screen at any time (whilst Mega Man is limited to one), and he has the additional ability to wall-jump against any vertical surface (except ice, which causes him to slip), in order to reach high places. Cut Man also has many of his challenges based upon his wall-jumping ability, where he must use said wall-jumps to get to higher places or avoid obstacles.
Cut Man makes a cameo appearance during the intro of Mega Man 7. He appears in a comic-segment from the newspaper article depicting Wily's arrest that was shown, along with his own logo, "Cutman 2" that is reminiscent of the Rockman logo.
This led to a lot of speculation that Cut Man was a hidden boss (just like Proto Man was), and many thought that the Rolling Cutter could be obtained, which would explain the missing weapon slot on the pause menu. However, according to the Rockman 7 prototype, the missing weapon turned out to be Beat, which apparently would function exactly the same way as he did in Mega Man 5 and Mega Man 6.
In the Sega Saturn version of Mega Man 8, Cut Man is a hidden boss in the Middle Stage. Winning grants Mega Man a Bolt (relocated in the PSX version), and he is never fought again. As well as taking more damage from the Mega Buster than most other Robot Masters in the game (except Tengu Man), he is weak to the Mega Ball, Flame Sword, Thunder Claw, Ice Wave and Water Balloon.
Various Cut Man toys can also be seen in the first part of Clown Man's stage in Mega Man 8.
Cut Man is one of the four bosses from the Stage Select screen, which all come from Mega Man.
Cut Man is one of the six bosses from the "Mega Man~2' course. He fights in the same way from previous games, running and jumping around the room while attacking with his Rolling Cutter.
Cut Man is one of the six bosses from the "Rescue Roll!" course. Cut Man fights in a similar way he did in Mega Man: The Power Battle, but his Rolling Cutter will stop in the air for a brief moment and change its direction. He will also rarely throw a bigger Rolling Cutter. He is weak to Slash Man's Slash Claw. If the player has the Slash Claw, they can get Cut Man stuck in an infinite loop, in which he'll be stuck in the corner and they can use the Slash Claw every time he gets up until he's defeated. This can make quick work of Cut Man.
After losing half of his energy (if he isn't one of the first bosses fought, depending of the difficult setting), Cut Man will throw the bigger Rolling Cutter often, and the normal-sized cutter will be rarely used.
In RockBoard, Cut Man appears in the Boss Card Cut Card. When the player draws a Boss Card or Reggae Card, the Cut Card can be used to make Cut Man cut (discard) the card and draw other in its place. This is useful to defend against the negative effects of Reggae Cards, which are activated as soon as they are draw.
Cut Man is a player with the seventh (draw with Fire Man) fastest run speed and the fourth strongest tackle, but his defense is low. His special kick, Rolling Cutter Shot, cuts the target into pieces.
Cut Man is one of the eight bosses in the Capcom Championship mode, where Mega Man must defeat a team of eight Cut Men. After defeating the team, one Cut Man joins Mega Man's team. In Tournament mode, Cut Man's team is formed by 3 Cut Men, Ice Man, Bubble Man, Flash Man, Snake Man, and Toad Man. In League mode his team has 3 Cut Men, 2 Ice Men, 2 Bubble Men, and Enker.
In Super Adventure Rockman, Cut Man and the other Robot Masters from the first game assist Mega Man. If the player loses to Metal Man, Flash Man or Top Man, Cut Man will appear to save Mega Man and the player will have the choice to fight against the boss again or quit.
In Cut Man's mini-game, Geigeki! Comet Cutter, Cut Man must use the Rolling Cutter to intercept comets before they land.
Cut Man appears as a hidden mid-boss in Optic Sunflower's stage, Troia Base, in some kind of digital form that is a replica of his 8-bit appearance and boss room. In the PlayStation 2 version, the battle only happens if there is a save of Mega Man X: Command Mission on the memory card or a code is used at the title screen. In the PC version, the player must get all the upper lights lit up in the Troia Base training sessions. In the Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2 version, like the PS2 version, a code must be entered at the main title screen. In Mega Man X8, Cut Man will only jump around and throws his Rolling Cutter weapon around as his only attacks, similar to his first appearance. Defeating him in this game is pretty easy as he has only 16 HP. Weakness for Cut Man in this game are Thunder Dancer (X); Raikousen (Zero) and Plasma Gun (Axl).
Cut Man is one of the four bosses from World 3 in Rockman ×over. He also appears in some Battle Memory.
Cut Man appears in Rockman Strategy in the Japan Opening Stage and in the company of Libra. His second appearance takes place in the Desert Storm area in central Asia, where he is paired with Hard Man. In addition to being a recurring enemy, he can also become a member of the player's party.
Cut Man appears in Mega Man 3's ending.
Cut Man appears in the CD database from Mega Man & Bass.
Cut Man is a boss in Rockman The Puzzle Battle.
Cut Man is a playable character in Rockman Tennis.
Cut Man is one of the five bosses present in the first version of Panic Shot! Rockman.
An unused concept of Cut Man can be seen in the Sky Room in Mega Man X: Command Mission.
Cut Man is a playable character in Rockman Go Go!.
Cut Man would have appeared in the cancelled games Mega Man Universe and Rockman Online.
Cut Man appeared in Street Fighter x All Capcom.
Cut Man can be seen in one image from the Captain Commando gallery in Capcom Classics Collection Remixed.
Cut Man appeared as an event character in Zombie Cafe.
Cut Man appeared as an event character in Otoranger.
Cut Man appeared as an event character in the Sega game Dragon Coins.
Cut Man appeared as a Spirit in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
In the 1994 animated series, Cut Man is one of the four main antagonists along with Dr. Wily, Proto Man, and Guts Man. He and Guts Man are the bumbling minions of Dr. Wily who attempt to stop Mega Man when he arrives to foil Dr. Wily's plan, and always fails in a humorous fashion. Cut Man's voice appears to be modeled after actor Peter Lorre, including a nasally strained laughter.
Cut Man retains much of his design (color scheme included) from the games, but Cut Man's mouth has been changed to be a plate (akin to Snake Man's oral redesign).
Cut Man also appears in the fifth episode of Captain N: The Game Master, where he is called "Cutsman". His appearance is totally different from the original; he is green and orange with a purple face as opposed to red and white, and the cutter on his head looks more like a giant golden pair of barber's scissors. He was quite powerful, proving invulnerable to the heroes' attacks until they distracted him so that he was hit by his own returning cutters. His helmet, without the scissors, looks like a recolored Flash Man helmet.
Cut Man appears in most of the stories in Mega Man Megamix, often playing a prominent role. He is usually shown to be overconfident and quick to challenge anyone he sees as an enemy.
Cut Man first appeared along with the other 7 of Dr. Light's Robot Masters in the Megamix story "The Birth of Rockman", the first story in the series. Cut Man, like the other Robot Masters from Mega Man, is shown going haywire and attacking the city, cutting down buildings with his Rolling Cutter. Rock (now converted to Mega Man) arrives on a military jet, destroying Cut Man's worker robots in the process. After a brief scuffle, Cut Man is incapacitated with two shots. Mega Man proceeds to copy the Rolling Cutter and enter Dr. Wily's mobile base. Cut Man appears at the end of the story, fully repaired by Dr. Light, to congratulate Rock with the other Robot Masters on his victory against Dr. Wily.
After "The Birth of Rockman", Cut Man and the other industrial Robot Masters are deemed a threat by the government, and sentenced to be scrapped. Before being "killed", however, Wood Man saves the "First Numbers", claiming that Dr. Wily is robot-kind's savior. Elec Man convinces the group to join Dr. Wily, but this later turns out to be a ruse as the First Numbers help Mega Man stop the "Second Numbers" (Dr. Wily's Robot Masters from Mega Man 2) and attempt to stop Dr. Wily's "Skull Satellites" from firing their weaponry at major world cities. Metal Man appears, but Cut Man distracts him as Mega Man heads to Dr. Wily's base on Item-2, but soon learns he is outmatched. Ice Man and Elec Man manage to stop all but one Skull Satellite from launching, with the last satellite being disarmed by Mega Man. With Dr. Wily's plan doomed to failure, Metal Man and the other Second Numbers retreat, leaving Cut Man damaged but still functioning. After these events, the First Numbers were given full amnesty for their past transgressions.
In Mega Man Megamix and Gigamix, Cut Man seems to have a close friendly relationship with Rush, Mega Man's robotic canine, and is the only Robot Master that makes use of Rush's functions other than Mega Man. In Megamix, Cut Man is seen using the Rush Jet. In Gigamix, he used the Rush Bike, and even used the Super Adapter to transform into Super Cut Man, being able to do so due to his body being identical to Mega Man's.
In the Mega Man comic, Cut Man is one of the six Robot Masters created by Dr. Light and Dr. Wily and that were reprogrammed by Dr. Wily in his first attempt to conquer the world. During his fight with the Blue Bomber, Cut Man mocked Mega Man for needing advice in the midst of battle as he handily defeated Mega Man's use of Bomb Man's Special Weapon, the Hyper Bomb. However, Mega Man then employed Guts Man's Super Arm to drop a chunk of wall on him, defeating him and allowing him to copy the Rolling Cutter. Wily had him and his five brothers recovered and repaired, and set them to defend his Wily Castle from Mega Man's intrusion. However, Mega Man refused to fight them, instead trying to persuade them to turn against Dr. Wily and return to Dr. Light. Cut Man was surprised at the idea, and was the first to side with Mega Man, which resulted in a brawl between the six Robot Masters. Cut Man, Fire Man, and Bomb Man managed to win over Ice Man, Elec Man, and Guts Man, and together the six of them destroyed the Copy Robot. As they were still bound to obey Wily's commands, they felt that destroying the robot fulfilled their directive to destroy "a" Mega Man. They then depart the castle with Mega Man and the captured Wily.
After Wily's defeat, Dr. Light reprogrammed the six Robot Masters and they help repair the city. When Roll is kidnapped, Cut Man and Ice Man assist Mega Man to search for her in the remains of Wily's fortress and they defeat CWU-01P. Without any clues, they return and talk with Roslyn Krantz and Dr. Light, discovering Wily's hideout. While infiltrating it, the six Robot Masters are captured by Time Man and Oil Man and Wily attempts to re-program them again, but as they reveal to Mega Man moments later, Dr. Light proofed them against reprogramming, and they use the situation to their advantage by pretending to attack Mega Man, easily fooling Wily, Time Man and Oil Man into thinking the re-programming worked, helping Mega Man and Roslyn to save Roll and capture Time Man and Oil Man.
Cut Man reappears in issue 11 along with the rest of the original Robot Masters, Time Man and Oil Man included, and together, are asked by Dr. Light to rescue Mega Man, who was re-programmed by Dr. Wily. They storm Dr. Wily's castle, and also unintentionally used his puns to fuel Guts Man's anger enough to breach the gate, being intimidated in the process. When Elec Man is damaged by the Mecha Dragon, he, Ice Man, and Fire Man assist him back to Dr. Light's lab, although not before supplying Mega Man with program data containing the Item-1, Item-2, and Item-3 that Dr. Light developed. After Dr. Wily is defeated, he is seen with Bomb Man and Roll, listening to Guts Man sing karaoke.
In Issue 23: "For the Bot who has Everything", Cut Man accompanied Guts Man and Bomb Man to find a gift for Mega Man's birthday, with Guts Man being forced to allow him to tag along due to Ice Man being unavailable, as the latter, according to him, "cared more about his glaciers than his own brothers." Cut Man then halted an argument between Bomb Man and Guts Man, to their irritation. Eventually, he and his brothers, unable to find anything to give Mega Man, decided to give him gift cards instead. Cut Man alongside Guts Man and Bomb Man later attempted to fight Break Man, but ended up savagely and effortlessly beaten. The Genesis Wave then washed over their world, throwing them into their own future, where they were forced to battle a Robot Master Army created by Wily and Dr. Eggman alongside Sonic the Hedgehog's various allies.
After Super Mega Man reversed the effects of the Super Genesis Wave, the inhabitants of Mega Man were restored to their previous places in reality. As such, Cut Man found himself back with Mega Man, Cut Man, and Bomb Man in the midst of their battle with Break Man. However, their previous defeat was undone with the Genesis Wave, and they, alongside Mega Man, later fought Break Man after things were restored to normal. He eventually teared up after witnessing Roll take an attack meant for Mega Man courtesy of Break Man, revealed to be Blues. He ended up shut down by an EMP wave unleashed by Ra Moon.
He was reactivated two weeks later by Dr. Light and Dr. Pedro Astil, and was dispatched alongside Mega Man, Rush, Guts Man, and Bomb Man to the Lanfront Ruins to stop the EMP wave. Upon arrival, however, they were ambushed by four of Dr. Wily's robots: Heat Man, Metal Man, Bubble Man, and Flash Man. Cut Man countered one of Metal Man's Metal Blades with one of his Rolling Cutters when the former attempted to attack Mega Man after he had jumped into a lake. Cut Man then cited suspicion that Dr. Wily must have been responsible for the EMP wave, although Mega Man expressed doubts about Wily being responsible, as he would have done it a long time ago if he had that capacity. Cut Man then posited that Wily might have simply wanted a challenge before Mega Man told him to put it on hold for the moment and focus on their current task. Cut Man later warned Mega Man of Heat Man flying in fast with his Atomic Fire just as Mega Man finished copying Bubble Man's Bubble Lead ability. Cut Man later, on Bomb Man's command, fired the Rolling Cutter at Flash Man after the latter was pinned by Bomb Man, although because of Flash Man using Time Stopper to escape, he inadvertently ended up hitting Bomb Man in the arms instead, although Mega Man and Cut Man used their respective abilities of Metal Blade and Rolling Cutter to cut off Flash Man's arm cannon after it was bitten by Rush. He later participated in the fight against Ra Moon and its Robot Master slaves, and later returned home with a badly damaged Mega Man and the supposedly reformed Dr. Wily.
Cut Man would return in Worlds Unite alongside the other generation one Robot Masters, helping rebuild Light Labs in Sonic Universe Issue 76. He ended up helping Roll replant the garden, and expressed disappointment when the power was restored-he had enjoyed seeing Ice Man and Fire Man alternate cooling and heating the building.
Cut Man appears in Issue 2's Short Circuits, where Dr. Wily denies his desire to fight Mega Man. Instead, he uses him for a number of mundane tasks like trimming trees, cutting the ribbon at the unveiling of the Wily Castle, and giving Wily a haircut. Issue 21's Off Panel finds him making a New Year's Resolution to stop using puns, which appears unlikely as several puns occur in his declaration.
Cut Man appeared in the manga Rockman, Rockman 8, Rockman World, Rockman wo Tsukutta Otokotachi - Rockman Tanjou Densetsu, Rockman 4Koma Dai Koushin, and Rock'n Game Boy. He has a cameo appearance in the fourth issue of the Mega Man comic by Dreamwave Productions.
In the Legacy of Chris Thorndyke,
And he is voiced by James Arnold Taylor in the English dub and reprised by Reiko Takagi in the Japanese dub.