"I'm impressed that you found me... But your search is over. Get ready X!"

―Jet Stingray, Mega Man X4

Jet Stingray, known as Jet Stingren (ジェット・スティングレン, Jet Stingren) in Japan, is a stingray-based Reploid and one of the Maverick bosses in Mega Man X4.

History[]

Jet Stingray is a Reploid who worked his way up the ranks to become a member of the Reploid Navy of Repliforce. He was dedicated to his military career, and had great respect for both General and Colonel. When the Repliforce was labeled as Mavericks due to refusing to turn in their weapons after being suspected of involvement in the deadly Sky Lagoon disaster, General announced his move for Reploid independence and began a violent war to form a Reploid-only nation-state of Reploids and secede from humanity. The ultimate plan was for the nation of Reploids to be in a gigantic space colony known as the Final Weapon, where there would be a utopia and a sanctuary for all Reploids. Stingray's staunch loyalty to Repliforce made him support the coup d'etat.

To further this goal, Repliforce turned on the very humans that they had once protected. In order to distract the Maverick Hunters, Stingray sabotaged a city's underground power station and destroyed the city to cause mass panic and confusion as a distraction to draw them in.^[1] Then, Stingray and his forces escaped to a nearby Marine Base at the sea to evade the Hunters. After a long chase during which many of Stingray's soldiers were killed, the Hunters finally caught up with Stingray. The captain put up a fierce battle, but the Hunters' strength was too much and he was destroyed, his military career and life ending in disgrace in the very sea he had spent so long fighting.

Strategy[]

Uniquely, Jet Stingray first appears to harass the player during the Ride Chaser segment of Marine Base. He attacks with his Ground Hunter stingrays and also tries to dash into them, but can be forced to retreat with enough damage (or instantly if hit with the Ride Chaser's dash).

In the boss battle, Jet Stingray also makes good use of his Ground Hunters and his own sheer speed. It's important to destroy the Ground Hunters before they can accumulate on the ground, or else they will crawl back and forth down there for the entire battle. Stingray himself stays above the water for most of the fight, attacking the player below; X has the advantage of ranged combat, and can thus face him from the opposite wall. Notably, Stingray's tail has no hitbox and deals no contact damage.

Jet Stingray is weak to X's Frost Tower and Zero's Hyouretsuzan, which both freeze him in a chunk of ice and force him to break out by dashing upwards off-screen. It can be a little difficult to hit him with these attacks, due to their short range and trajectory.

It should be noted that Jet Stingray can be easily defeated by Zero (or X with the Frost Tower) due to his vulnerability from behind, since his tail does not have a hit-box, and most of his attacks only focus on his front, he becomes one of the more easier Mavericks when fighting as Zero or X (If you have Stingray’s weakness) if you can position yourself behind Stingray, which isn’t difficult to pull off.

	Ground Hunter (グランドハンター, Gurando Hantā)[2]
	Jet Stingray launches four blue stingray Mechaniloids from his knee, which fly until they reach the wall and dive into the water. The stingrays crawl back and forth along the ground until the player destroys them. When Stingray's health is yellow, he launches red stingrays instead, which dive on top of the player rather than flying until the wall.
	Damage: 6
	Swoop (急降下, Kyūkōka)[2]
	Jet Stingray swoops low into the water before rising again.
	Damage: 6
	Jet Stream (ジェット水流, Jetto Suiryū)[2]
	Jet Stingray descends and sucks the player in using his buster turbine. If he pulls them close or they resist for long enough, he will stop to dash straight across the arena. Stingray only performs this attack at half health.
	Damage: 0 (fan), 9 (dash)
	Tackle (体当たり, Taiatari)[2]
	Jet Stingray dashes off-screen with a warcry, returning to dive into the ground under the player and then emerging under them seconds later. Stingray performs this attack when his health is yellow.
	Damage: 9

Quotes[]

Dialogue[]

In-battle quotes[]

• Note: In the English version, only his Swoop/Tackle and hit by weakness quotes play.

Other media[]

Archie Comics[]

Jet Stingray would be among the many Mavericks resurrected and unleashed by Sigma-2 in order to invade various worlds through the Genesis Portals so that Sigma could use the Unity Engines to drain their energies and gain god-like power.

Rockman X4 (manga)[]

Jet Stingray appears in the manga version of Mega Man X4 as a loyal commander of the Repliforce navy. He has great respect and admiration for the Colonel, as he once saved his life during a mission by taking a blast meant for Stingray. He follows along with the Repliforce when they announce their coup d'etat against the human government. Just like in the game, he destroys an entire city on the Colonel's orders, using a remote-controlled device to trigger the explosion. However, he is shown having his Repliforce subordinates evacuate the human civilians from the city of Trice Province first.

Stingray destroys the city as it is located at a high-scale energy refinery and cutting off its energy will heavily impede the Hunters' efforts to stop the coup d'etat. However, he expresses severe hesitation before pulling the trigger as 800,000 families lived there and he knew it would cut off their financial lifeline and hurl them into economic ruin. Nevertheless, he pulls the trigger in the end, saying he must trust in Colonel's plans.

Zero arrives on the scene with a Ride Chaser, demanding to know where the Colonel is, and Stingray refuses to tell him. He immediately recognizes Zero due to his red armor and blonde hair, as Colonel previously described Zero to Stingray in a conversation where he exclaimed that Zero was his lifelong rival. Stingray tells his subordinates to flee, saying he will handle Zero all on his own.

He is infuriated over the fact that Zero has chosen to oppose Colonel and the Repliforce, seeing it as a betrayal and insult to the Colonel. After Zero and Stingray battle it out for a while, Stingray's Repliforce subordinates intervene on the scene with Ride Chasers, wanting to aid their commander. Before they can, everyone present is blasted in a surprise attack from the Reploid Self-Defense Forces, who had come to stop Repliforce's coup. The Self-Defense Forces blast Zero because he had previously attacked fellow Maverick Hunters and declared his support for the Repliforce coup as part of his plan to go undercover and take down Repliforce but did not inform anyone of his plan. Thus, they were unaware that Zero was actually on their side. Stingray is clearly anguished over seeing his men wiped out, and he laments their deaths before succumbing to his own wounds from the blasts and perishing as well.

Zero would survive the battle, being rescued by Iris and taken to an undisclosed location where she provides medical treatment for Reploids injured from the ongoing Repliforce war. After waking up, Zero expresses outrage at Stingray for destroying the city of Toraisu. Zero argues that it didn't matter that he evacuated the millions of residents first as he cut off the financial lifeline for those same millions, making it the same as murder in his eyes.

Gallery[]

Jet Stingray concept art.

Jet Stingray in the Rockman X4 manga

Jet Stingray in Worlds Unite

Mega Man X - Mega Man X8 Mavericks in Worlds Unite

Trivia[]

• Though Jet Stingray attacks the player with yellow Ground Hunters while chasing them in his stage, he never uses them in his boss fight, using the blue and red Ground Hunters instead.
• His original Japanese lines painted him as eloquent and boastful, making no implications of hiding.
• In Ace Attorney 6, another Capcom game, when the character Pees'lubn Andistan'dhin starts playing heavy metal, the guitar chords on the background sound almost identical to Jet Stingray's theme.
• If you defeat Jet Stingray when he's rising up from the ground after one of his attacks, he can actually clip through the floor. This can be easily done with Zero.

• In Mega Man X DiVE, the weapon Howling Storm, known as Stingray (スティングレイ, Sutingurei) in Japanese, is based on Jet Stingray. However, the shell is based on Storm Owl's weapon, Double Cyclone.

See also[]

• Marine Base - His stage in Mega Man X4.

References[]