Golem Bomber

Golem Bomber
Japanese name	ゴーレムボンバー (Gōremu Bonbā)
Gender	Male
Race	Bomber-Cyborg
Affiliation	Five Dastardly Bombers
Type	Bomber
Alignment	Evil (Good in the end of World 2 and the final world of Super Bomberman R)
Debut	Super Bomberman 2
Video games	Super Bomberman 2 Bomberman: Panic Bomber Super Bomberman 3 Bomberman B-Daman Saturn Bomberman Fight!! Bomberman Tournament Super Bomberman R Super Bomberman R 2
Anime	Bomberman (OVA)
Voiced by	(EN) Jeff Gedert (JP) Yoshiyuki Hirai
Sprite

“ OOOUGAH! BOMBERMEN ENEMY... DESTROY ENEMY! ”

—Golem Bomber, Super Bomberman R

Golem Bomber is a member of the Five Dastardly Bombers and is a recurring villain in the Bomberman series. He is a heavy-set bomber with powerful bombs. Golem Bomber is also the largest of all of the Five Dastardly Bombers (normally at about twice the height and three times the weight compared to Magnet Bomber).

He is a Bomber-Cyborg, a being given the ability to plant bombs like Bombermen. He is typically the second Dastardly Bomber to be fought. Despite being the group's strongman and having a slow comprehension speed, Golem Bomber is actually rather pacifistic and kind-hearted, and enjoys nature and wildlife.

Biography

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

At some point in the past, he was involved in a plot on the planet Phantarion in which the Five Dastardly Bombers fought against the world's army and severely wounded Max before being forced back.

Super Bomberman 2

In Super Bomberman 2, he and other Dastardly Bombers capture White Bomberman, but Bomberman breaks free in their ship. Golem Bomber shows off his strength when he battles Bomberman in the second base, but is defeated, falling to Earth alongside the wreckage of his ship.

Bomberman: Panic Bomber

In the PC Engine version of Bomberman: Panic Bomber, Golem Bomber returned as one of the last opponents. And like with Pretty Bomber, Golem Bomber wants to avenge the presumed deaths of the Five Dastardly Bombers. He was the first of the four guarding the Floating Castle.

Bomberman B-Daman

In Bomberman B-Daman, Golem Bomber appears as one of the living targets on some of the game boards, along with the 3 other male characters of the Five Dastardly Bombers.

Super Bomberman 3

He returned in Super Bomberman 3, revived by Professor Bagura, his master. Taking control of Firestorm in the Bomber Nebula, he was defeated again by White Bomberman and Black Bomberman. He later returns to battle in the combined mecha at the end of the game, but again he is bested and is left inside Bagura's exploding Battleship.

Saturn Bomberman Fight!!

In Saturn Bomberman Fight!!, after being defeated by Bomberman in Super Bomberman 3, he started wandering around a forest and somehow becomes paralyzed. In the forest, Mami happened along and, with some effort, nursed him to health. Golem Bomber grew attached to the girl and became her protector, living with Mami and her mother happily. However, Mami's mother fell ill. Golem Bomber entered the "Bomber Convention", a tournament of the 18 strongest bomb warriors in the world, in order to win the grand prize and have his wish granted. In doing so, he hoped to repay Mami and her mother by curing the latter's illness. Both Golem Bomber and Mami were defeated. However, White Bomber promised that he would talk to Dr. Ein to see if he could find a cure for Mami's mother illness.

Story Mode

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Bomberman Tournament

He and the rest of the Dastardly Bombers returned to Phantarion many years later in Bomberman Tournament to follow through with their old plot, but with revised plans based on their previous mistakes. The plan worked, and they ruled over the planet for about one year until White Bomberman came to stop them. Golem Bomber held down Golem Base in a pyramid atop the Volcano. Golem Bomber fought White Bomberman by fusing with the Charabom SeaWing and becoming GolemGhost, as well as calling Bomber zombies to help him. This was not enough, and upon his defeat, he escaped, causing the volcano to calm down.

Super Bomberman R

Before the events of Super Bomberman R, the five ended up as deactivated on Planet Scrapheap. Evil Emperor Buggler (Bagura) revived them to conquer the five planets of the Starry Sky Solar System in his name. The Bomberman Bros. (White and Black along with Blue, Red, Yellow, Green, Pink and Aqua) set out to stop the expansion of the Buggler Army's intergalactic conquest and liberate the invaded planets.

Golem Bomber is encountered on World 2: Planet Timbertree. He appears to be rusted construct with moss growing and birds nested on him, but he groggily awakens when approached by Yellow, who presents him with flowers. White stops him, realizing that Golem Bomber is one of the Dastardly Bombers, and tries to hide the fact that he is intimidated by his size. Announcing that Bombermen are his enemy, Golem Bomber initiates his on-foot battle. After being blown clear, he utilizes his robot, Fort Walker. Afterwards, Golem Bomber reawakens some time later to find Yellow's flowers and a piece of paper in his hand. It reads, "See you again soon!", and has a picture of Yellow and a flower. Silently, a crude heart appears in his helmet, accepting Yellow's friendship.

Later, Emperor Buggler is chased to an artificial Black Hole which threatens to engulf the solar system and eventually the whole universe. He summons the Five Dastardly Bombers to form Great Gattaida, which is defeated by the Bomberman Bros. As a last resort, Buggler uses his own power to grow into Ultimate Buggler. The Five Dastardly Bombers finally regained their senses after Great Gattaida was destroyed and voluntarily give their strength to the Bomberman Bros., defeating Buggler for now. Afterwards, the formerly Dastardly Bombers peacefully resumed their previous lives, again on good terms with the people of Planet Bomber.

In one of the images of the credits, Golem Bomber is hanging up a nut-shaped birdhouse while Yellow plays with Golem's blue, yellow and pink birds.

Super Bomberman R 2

In Super Bomberman R 2, Golem Bomber returns as a playable character in the Battle Mode of the game. He is absent during the whole Story Mode of the game, but he however, makes a minor appearance during the ending credits, where he can be seen along the other Dastardly Bombers and Bomberman Bros, repairing the damages on Planet Bomber.

Personality

Golem Bomber is the large, silent and aggressive strongman of the team. He deals a lot with firepower. In Saturn Bomberman Fight!!, he cares for nature and animals and is reluctant to fight with people he does not believe to stand a chance against him. In Bomberman Tournament, he asks White Bomberman what he knows about Max, but holds the thought, saying that fate is on his side before initiating the battle. In Super Bomberman R, his personality is similar to Saturn Bomberman Fight, but he has a tendency to grunt "OUGH" and has a more limited vocabulary. However, his niceness has also returned because Yellow gave him flowers and a "See you again soon" note, showing Golem's sensitiveness.

Stats

In Super Bomberman 2, Golem Bomber is fought face-to-face. He actively pursues Bomberman unless bombs are nearby, at which point he will focus on hiding from potential explosions until the danger is gone. He never places bombs directly on the ground, preferring to throw them. His stats are as follows:

• HP - 3
• Bombs - 3
• Fire - 10
• Speed - Slow
• Weapon - Power Glove

Powers

• His red bombs look over-pumped, and have a green fuse string making them more like peaches, but they have no real special trait. They have a large blast radius.
• Golem Bomb - Seen in Super Bomberman R, if he picks up and throws one, any unlucky Bombermen underneath it will be crushed, resulting in an instant kill rather than temporary stunning.
• On ground, he primarily attacks with the Power Glove ability.
• Fire Spread - While in the combined mecha in Super Bomberman 3, Golem Bomber's attack is to spread flames out in a triangle shape in front of the boss.
• Golem Bomber also retains the same general abilities that the other Dastardly Bombers have: Becoming a ball of light and fusing with Karaboms.

Boss Forms

• Breast Fire - The fire-cannon robot Golem Bomber uses in Super Bomberman 2.
• Dokgun - The volcano boss seen in Super Bomberman 3.
• Gattaida - The combined mecha faced at the end of Super Bomberman 3.
• GolemGhost - The result of Golem Bomber fusing with SeaWing in Bomberman Tournament.
• Fort Walker - The giant Chess-themed robot he uses in Super Bomberman R.
• Great Gattaida - The gigantic combined mecha faced at the end of Super Bomberman R.

Trivia

• In the U.S. manual for Super Bomberman 2, Golem Bomber is mistakenly referred to as "Fire Bomber" on page 6. However, it should be noted that he is correctly identified as Golem Bomber on page 3.
• Golem Bomber differs significantly from the other Dastardly Bombers in that he wears nothing around his neck, has no visible eyes, has visible joints, and has a second color on his emblem.
• In Page 13 of the manga Minasan! Bomberman Desuyo!! by Gen Satou (volume one), Golem Bomber attends a Wanko Soba eating competition, and he appears to enjoy eating soba noodles.
• In Bomberman Tournament, Golem Bomber's cloak greatly resembles that of Brain Bomber.
• Other than Pretty Bomber, Golem Bomber is the only one of the Dastardly Bombers who is a playable character before Super Bomberman R - he appears in Saturn Bomberman Fight!!
• In Super Bomberman R, he's redesigned to have a massive frame to match his extreme strength. However, this appearance is actually just mechanical armor that's covering the real Golem Bomber; he's really regular-sized. He sheds his armor in Battle Mode, presumably to prevent obscuring player visibility and evenly interact with the stage hazards, although he keeps his armor in Story Mode.
• In his first appearance, Golem Bomber is completely mute. Then, in Saturn Bomberman Fight!!, Golem Bomber is pretty wordy and talks a good amount of words, but gets easily offended when Black Bomber calls him "a giant *bleep*". Similarly in Bomberman Tournament, before their fight, Golem Bomber is pretty curious and wants White to know about Max, but holds the thought in time and says that fate is on White's side. And lastly, in Super Bomberman R, Golem Bomber's vocabulary is more restricted.
• Surprisingly, in Super Bomberman R, White Bomber is afraid of him (though he is no longer afraid of Golem Bomber after World 6), but Yellow Bomber is not afraid.
• Golem Bomber is the only Dastardly Bomber whose name is not shown prior to the fight in Super Bomberman R, mainly due to his restricted vocabulary. Golem Bomber first has his name revealed at the start of his fight. He is also the only Dastardly Bomber whose respective post-fight cutscene does not have any of the Bomberman Bros. appear in the flesh, though he does see a note from Yellow Bomber.

Gallery

Golem Bomber in Super Bomberman 2

Saturn Bomberman Fight!! Artwork

SBF!! Intro

SBF!! Intro 2

SBF!! Story Mode Ending

SBF!! Model

Art from the Bomberman Story manual

SBF!! (small)

SBF!! All characters (small form)

Golem Bomber's Super Bomberman R Profile Card

Victory Image

Super Bomberman R credits image.

As seen on Super Bomberman R 2 promotional artwork

Victory screens from SBF!! Battle Mode

B-Daman Card