“ | No, no, no, you idiots! I wanted gold streamers and red balloons! The DJ stinks, the banners are crooked, and the cake should be chocolate! | „ |
~ Toc-Man |
“ | You idiots! My plans are already in motion! Pac-Man cannot be allowed to crash my party! Find him and destroy him! | „ |
~ Toc-Man ordering the ghosts to find and destroy Pac-Man. |
Orson, disguised as Toc-Man, is the main antagonist of Pac-Man World: 20th Anniversary and its 2022 remake Pac-Man World Re-Pac and a major protagonist in Pac-Man World 3. He is a ghost who created a robot suit resembling Pac-Man in an effort to destroy and replace the latter.
Appearance[]
Toc-Man is a large, mechanical replica of the actual Pac-Man, that has a yellow exoskeleton, red boots, orange gloves, humanoid eyes, constant, angry eyebrows and a row of sharp teeth at the front his mouth. In the original game, Toc-Man is far cruder looking in design, with his nose being less protruding than Pac-Man's (being more of a flat, circular shape), with mismatched eyes and red shoes. In the remake, Toc-Man overly has a far neater design, with no nose, matching eyes with purple eyelids, larger sharp teeth, metal studs and spikes on his gloves and boots, and a purple jetpack with yellow highlights.
Biography[]
Pac-Man World[]
Toc-Man attempts to thwart Pac-Man's progress throughout the game via his henchmen, the Ghosts, as well as the world bosses, HMS Windbag, Anubis Rex, King Galaxian, the Clown Prix Racers and Krome Keeper. Toc-Man is only seen in the very beginning and end of the game, with his only presence in between being on the Game Over screen. After making his way through the six worlds and rescuing all his friends, Pac-Man confronts Toc-Man in his Lair, interrupting his party. After a boss fight in which Toc-Man uses powers that are similar to Pac-Man's, he is defeated. When Toc-Man is defeated, a gray ghost named Orson is revealed to have been controlling the Toc-Man mech. He starts whimpering, saying that was unfair that Pac-Man ruined everything, and how nobody loves a Ghost; Pac-Man proves Orson wrong by eating a power pellet and then, eat him.
Pac-Man World: Re-Pac[]
The story of Pac-Man World: Re-Pac is the exact same as the original version, although the remake includes a new ending in which Orson is forgiven and forms a truce between the Pac-People and the ghosts. This ending is only available if every member of the Pac-Family is saved. If not, the original ending plays.
Pac-Man World 3[]
While Toc-Man does not appear as an actual antagonist in this game, the Toc-Man suit can be piloted by Pac-Man with the help of Orson, who has reformed at this point.
Pac-Man World Rally[]
The third Toc-Man robot is one of the playable characters in Pac-Man World Rally. He is classified as a heavy racer.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Toc-Man's name comes from "Namcot" spelled backwards. Namcot is a playful pun on the name of Namco's former branch for home-console releases.
- Toc-Man may have been inspired by Metal Sonic since both are main characters' robotic doppelgangers.
- Orson's appearance in Pac-Man World 3 wouldn't make any sense, as Pac-Man hasn't forgiven Orson for all he's done in the first Pac-Man World game, and it would seem as if Pac-Man World 3 would be considered an alternate reality considering Orson and Pac-Man are now allies. Pac-Man World Re-Pac fixes this continuity error with its additional, good ending.
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Apex | Anubis Rex | Bearzerk | Butt-ler | Count Pacula | Dr. Buttocks | Dr. Pacenstein | Erwin | Fake Zac and Fake Sunny | Galaga | Ghost Witch of Netor | Ghosts | Gobblin | Golvis | Grindatron | HMS Windbag | Jean | King Galaxian | Krome Keeper | Lord Betrayus | Mesmeralda | Mezmeron | Mollusc | Obtuse | Specter | Spooky | The Pacinator | Toc-Man | Wandy | Wormwood |