Chelsea before she became Splash Woman due to Project A.B.Y.S.S
Splash Woman is a Robot Master from Mega Man 9 that Dr. Light created to rescue swimmers from sinking ships, being an expert swimmer but having very poor land mobility. She possesses a beautiful voice and is fond of karaoke, but it is rumored that she has turned down numerous invitations to enter the world of show business, possibly having a dislike of large crowds. Splash Woman attacks by singing to call fish robots, tackling with her trident, and using her Special Weapon, the Laser Trident, which can emit a laser capable of penetrating tough surfaces such as shields and the hulls of ships.
Splash Woman is one of the eight Robot Masters whose period of use had expired and was scheduled to be scrapped. Dr. Wily pretended to be concerned by offering to repair them, reprogramming the tricked robots to help him conquer the world.
In battle, Splash Woman will first call three groups of robot fishes to charge into the player that can be dodged by extended jumps. Then, when she is at the top of the area, she'll move around the room shooting the Laser Trident and finally try to tackle Mega Man with her trident.
Her weakness is the Hornet Chaser. The bees will fly around and can easily demolish the fish, and damage Splash Woman as she goes to the top of the screen. Take into account that after a bee kills fishes, it will continue until none are remaining and won't attack Splash Woman. However, they can still damage her if she is lured into them before they fly offscreen.
In the end credits picture, she is seen at the beach having her picture taken by Auto, having been rebuilt after the events of the game.
Splash Woman debuts in issue of the Archie Mega Man comics, where Oil Man takes her with him to help Roll and Quake Woman rescue people from a shipwreck. She also makes a brief appearance in issue #20 of the same series, where Mega Man and Bass are shifted forward in time to the events of Mega Man 9. In it, Splash Woman alludes to her fate of being "retired", due to an expiration date to Mega Man, when telling him that she will not go quietly to the scrap heap, to Mega Man's confusion. She later appears briefly in issue #21 during the New Year's festivities, feeling miserable, due to being alone.
She later appeared during the Worlds Collide crossover event in Sonic the Hedgehog issue #250, where she and a massive army of Robot Masters appeared to stop Mega Man, Sonic the Hedgehog, and their various allies from reaching the Wily Egg. Notably, she battles Amy Rose, alongside other water-themed Robot Masters like Pump Man and Aqua Man.
Following the crossover, Splash Woman is one of the many Robot Masters shown to be knocked offline by the effects of Ra Moon's electromagnetic field, spreading over the planet. After being reactivated, she continued to work at various tasks to assist mankind. One such endeavor included teaming up with Pump Man and Bubble Man to investigate illegal oil dumping in Mega City's sewer system, during they were observed by a grateful Mega Man.
Splash Woman would continue to follow her dreams to become an idol. While her processor allows her to sing at perfect pitch in levels beyond humans, Splash Woman notes that she'd create much controversy because of its synthetic nature. As a result, she instead often performs for multiple shows while singing as a side, as her being a robot allows organizers to place her in more dangerous positions. She later rescues Dive Man and Bubble Man during a botched operation to stop a robot agitator group.
Chelsea is the main female protagonist of the Dreamwave Productions Mega Man comic book series. A young girl attending Mega City Junior High with Rocky Light and Alan, Chelsea develops a crush on Rocky, though she is oblivious to his secret identity as Mega Man, or that he is even a robot at all.
Chelsea debuts shyly telling Rocky how brave and cool he was stopping the Boltz Brothers when they cause a machine in the lunchroom to malfunction. She defends Rocky when the Boltz Brothers confront him about the incident, and bids farewell to him as he leaves.
Later when the school is holding a school dance, Alan urges Rocky to ask Chelsea to the event, though he narrowly misses asking her. Later, Chelsea and her friends talk about the dance and Chelsea expresses her hope someone asks her. Rocky shyly approaches her and asks, and she accepts. The two meet at the dance, but it is interrupted by DJ Jazzy J4-8950] who raises the bass of the music to an unbearable level. After Rocky as Mega Man saves the day, Chelsea still swoons over Rocky, not impressed with Mega Man.
Chelsea makes a cameo at the end of Issue #4.
In the Legacy of Chris Thorndyke, she wasn't always a mermaid-themed Robot Master to begin with, she was once a human named Chelsea, who was a character from the Dreamwave Productions shortlived comic book series of Mega Man, who was also in the same school as Rock at first, though that she didn't know that he was Mega Man all this time until that an incident that happened during the gap between Mega Man 4 to Mega Man 7, which she figured it out, since that she helped him with two bullies, the Boltz Brothers, and in the gap of Mega Man 8 and Bass, an incident came in that Mega Man had sacrificed his life for her, but the both of them were badly injured, but Mega Man made it out alive. Later, Chelsea was taken to Dr. Light's Laboratory to be safeguarded in a robotic suit that keeps her alive, along with life support with water, likely from the movie of "The Abyss" by James Cameron. Later, she got an upgrade to her new suit to transform her tail to a pair of legs to finally walk again, but for a limited time, which admittedly was a bummer, but Dr. Light did assure her that they are in the prototype stage, until that he can finally finalize the tail and legs altogether, so that she can change her legs to a mermaid tail at will when it comes to water, and to legs when it comes to land.
And she will be voiced by Grey DeLisle-Griffin in the English dub, and she will be voiced by Akemi Okamura in the Japanese dub.
THEMES[]
- Splash Woman Stage (Mega Man 9) - Splash Woman's Theme
- My Destiny (Instrumental) (Sonic the Hedgehog 2006) - Flashback: Chelsea
- Staff Credits (Metroid Prime: Hunters) - Chelsea's Transformation to Splash Woman/Awaken Splash Woman aka Project: A.B.Y.S.S.