Passive Combatant

"Passive Combatant - Becomes invincible when he's squatting, so he's very passive."

- Description from Japanese manual of Tails Adventure

Passive Combatants (消極的戦闘員), are enemies in Tails Adventure. They are anthropomorphic avian foot soldiers of the Battle Kukku Empire, who are also using firearms.

Appearance
Passive Combatants are humanoid birds slightly taller than Tails. They have sharp orange beaks and feet and a white plumage, but their large head is covered by emerald green helmets shaped like a shark fin and black goggles. They are also wearing full, sleeveless green armor suit blue spats on their feet. Their main weapons are black laser guns.

Powers and abilities
Probably due the heavy protection of helmets and armor suits, Passive Combatants can cover themselves from explosive weapons by ducking. As trying to face the enemy probably, they fire quickly their laser guns towards their target once they rise up.

Overview
In Tails Adventure, Passive Combatants are found in Coco Island and Battle Fortress. They are placed on groups or individually, as the player cannot damage them when they are ducking. They will quickly rise up and scope their laser guns by firing single projectile and duck back to repeat their pattern. If the player is not close to them, they only rise up and duck down. In Battle Fortress, they are able to fire their projectiles from small holes.

Like many enemies in the game, Passive Combatants cannot hurt Remote Robot as it can simply walk through them. The player is only able to defeat Passive Combatants by throwing Triple Bomb when they are on standing position for couple of seconds.

Trivia

 * Battle Kukku 16th, the son of Great Battle Kukku is seen wearing similar emerald green backward pointing battle helmet like Passive Combatants.