Dr. Robotnik (The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog)

'''Dr. Ivo. Robotnik, better known by his title Dr. Robotnik', is the main antagonist of the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog'' series. He's a human scientist with an IQ of 300 and dreams of dominating Mobius and turning it into Robotnikland, but his constant plots to conquer Mobius are always thwarted by Sonic and his friends like Tails, Professor Von Schlemmer, Professor Caninestein, and many more to list.

'''Note: This will talk about his incarnation in the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Click here for the page that discusses about Dr. Eggman in the games and other portrayals of Eggman'''.

Why He's An Amazingly Hilarious Version of Eggman

 * 1) As the very first portrayal of Eggman to be seen on television, his portrayal as an egotistical, sadistic, and humorous mad scientist is extremely entertaining, funny, and unforgettable, and is by far, the most memeable/fan-favorite incarnation of Eggman ever made.
 * 2) He is an entertainingly over-the-top villain who felt fairly dominant and passionate, yet still human and fallible in character.
 * 3) Despite him often being the flamboyant, hotheaded, frustrated, and hare-brained comic foil to Sonic and his friends when Robotnik has an "Elmer Fudd vs Bugs Bunny" type of relationship with Sonic, there were episodes that have let Robotnik have his glorious moments of nearly succeeding at his plans and being somewhat of a threat outside his generally bumbling, childish and ridiculous nature (i.e "Super Robotnik" is a prime example).
 * 4) His exaggerated personality perfectly fits mh:besttvshows:Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog’s tone of "absurd fun".
 * Long John Baldry did an awesome and brilliantly entertaining job voicing him. You can just tell that he is having a blast voicing him by providing a comically hammy tone to Robotnik's British-sounding voice, making Robotnik incredibly expressive and exuberant.
 * 1) * He has a very unique vocal characteristic, placing a lot of emphasis on his speech, most notably, he rolls all his "R"s.
 * 2) * The jabbers, laughs, and growls he makes are just as amazing and perfectly fit Robotnik's comedic traits like his wrath.
 * 3) Due to Robotnik's levels of charm and enjoyability as a character, he has spawned a lot of memes (even to this day after the PINGAS meme was already overused), and it's all thanks to Robotnik himself (and the talented Long John Baldry who will always be remembered).
 * 4) Even when he's paired with his dim-witted assistants, he still manages to steal the show due to his humorous personality.
 * 5) * It's always entertaining and hilarious to see Robotnik lashing his anger at his robotic henchmen for being complete idiots who can't do anything right.
 * 6) He single-handedly brought the show alive. His manic, exaggerated, and purely comedic personality made almost every scene featuring him both insanely amusing as a mostly ineffectual yet eccentric villain that shows signs of hilarious egotism. Especially since he is depicted as the comic foil for Sonic to poke fun at, yet he is still intriguing as a character who was given a lot of focus as a secondary main character for how persistently underhanded and ambitious he is (especially with glorious moments of nearly succeeding at his plans and actually imposing a threat for once). His very presence and his ridiculous, campy, and wonderfully hammy moments still make him much more fun to watch than usual.
 * 7) His comedically harsh, sophisticated, witty, and silly-sounding insults and retorts are extremely hilarious, quotable, and entertaining to listen to.
 * 8) * Examples of these include "You metallic morons!" & "That blasted hedgehog!" as two examples from his series of insults.
 * 9) * They are always varied as a form of puns, wordplay, and the word usage can sometimes even be clever enough to the point of teaching different and unusual bits of vocabulary that aren't often said or used for the intended young audience that Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog was set on. These range from conventional insults like "twerps", "boneheads", "fool", "brats", "idiots", "nitwits", "nincompoops", "pests", and "incompetent fools". To the much more unique, distinctive, or wackier bits of dialogue like "You metallic morons!", "You dumb-bots!", "You fish-fondling fruitcake!", "That blasted hedgehog!", "That blue brrat-nik!", "You bolt-brained dolt!", "You breakaway bumpkin!", "You clanking cretins!", "You despicable rrruiner of rrromance!", "You dunce-bots!", "Those unsuspecting fogies", "You brrrainless buffoons", "You glorified porcupine!", "That heinous hedgehog!", "You ingrates!", "You insolent junkpile!", "You lamebrrrained, knuckle-drrragging dork!", "That meddling, high-speed hedgehog!", "You metal-brrrained meatheads!", "You miserable mess of micro-chips!", "Nicombots!", "Rapscallion!", "You shrrrimpy sherlock!", "Listen to me you, sniveling tokey robot!", "You steel-headed stupid-niks!", and especially "You two-tailed two-timer!".
 * 10) Despite being a villainous buffoon and a childishly incompetent narcissist, there were a fair amount of times when he can be quite dangerous. As he did manage to keep Sonic (or his friends) captive at times, has terrorized Mobius plenty of times, and has a formidable streak that most Mobians tend to underestimate of him.
 * 11) His powerful and empowered egos, Super Robotnik and Supreme High Robotnik, are incredibly awesome. As both of these ultimate forms are great examples of making him a good threat to Sonic, as his comedic traits make him all the more entertaining.
 * 12) He even got his own game in the 90s for the very first time! That beingDr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (1993), which is an addictive Puyo-Puyo-styled game.
 * 13) All of his theme songs is pure gold, as it's the most iconic theme for a villain ever made!
 * 14) His scientific gadgets and contraptions are very creative, surreal, and extravagant, especially by sci-fi standards.
 * 15) Despite being a power-hungry megalomaniac in the show, he is extremely sympathetic. As revealed in "Zoobotnik", Sonic enjoys making Robotnik suffer even though Sonic had several opportunities to get rid of Robotnik for good, and Robotnik also has an abusive mom who wanted him to be evil, always coming back to make Robotnik win or to humiliate him for not being a threat. So where his incompetence is often comedic, it can raise a certain level of sympathy. This is carried to the point where Robotnik was considered rootable by many fans.
 * 16) He also provided tons of quotable/unforgettable one-liners and dialogue, these include:
 * 17) * “Snooping as usual I see!”
 * 18) * “I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG!!!”
 * 19) * “No-wa!”
 * 20) *“Sonic fell for it! Tails is ours! I'll have to give myself a prrrrrrromotion!!”
 * 21) * “He's out there still! Mocking me with his scarless speed!”
 * 22) * “Yes! That's it! My eyes like pools, my teeth like polished ivory! That's what I look like!!”
 * 23) * “Get on with it you pre-fabricated piece of poultry!”
 * 24) * “You got trouble spine-puss!”
 * 25) * “What are you doing? You mutinous mutants!”
 * 26) * “You metallic morons!!”
 * 27) * “I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG!!!”
 * 28) * “It's my new Eggomatic tunnel-izer and my town terrorizer!! See that ugly empty space in front of my fortress? In six hours that village will be gone!! Vanished! Destroyed! Obliterated!! I'm flooding it! I'm going tunnel into the main Mobius reservoir, steal all of its water, and turn that town into Lake, Rrrrobotnik!”
 * 29) * “Then allow me to repeat myself yet again! YOU! ARE! NINCOMBOTS!!”
 * 30) * “Then go open it YOU nincom-bot! You stupor! You miserable mess of micro-chips!!”
 * 31) * “You two-tailed two-timer! If you weren't duped already, YOU'D be doomed!!”
 * 32) * “Of course there's a Robotnik day! I just declared it one minute ago, in honor of myself!”
 * 33) * “No one can outsmart me!! For I am Rrrobotnik! Evil genius extraordinaire! How dare you insult me!”
 * 34) *“I'm never in trouble, I make trouble!”
 * 35) *“I thought I was rid of you, you fish-fondling fruitcake!!”
 * 36) * “That vile little crrreature, that prrrickly vermin!”

Bad Qualities

 * 1) He can be so irrational, that not only does his behavior cause him many backfires on his countless plans, but he has some truly moronic and questionable moments. The biggest example of this is being easily deceived by Sonic whenever he gets the best of him (to the point of  marrying Sonic even!  in the episode "Best Hedgehog"). Another moment includes Eggman crying like a baby as his face gets red in "Sonic's Breakout".
 * 2) Most of his plans tend to be very problematic, hare-brained, and foolish, it often causes him to be very bumbling. Despite being a "genius", his plans always backfire due to his egotism, prolonged procrastination, and lack of keen premeditation. As he often toys around with whatever powers he owns and would make impulsive mistakes towards his underhanded plans of action.
 * 3) * Despite being a genius with single-minded goals, he doesn't seem to realize capturing his most hated enemy may require some physical effort on his part to get rid of him for good. At this point, you'd think he would either step up his game or quit whining about his failures and issues but he still fails at his plans due to his lack of premeditation.
 * 4) * Even though his gadgets and contraptions are impressive, his robots are very useless. As they are either complete idiots (that being Scratch, Grounder, Coconuts, and many more to list) or emotional traitors who'd betray Robotnik when Sonic gets them to be good (ex. Breezie and Robotnik Jr).
 * 5) * In Sonic's Christmas Blast, the mere idea of him replacing Santa Claus and calling himself "Robotnik Claus" is extremely laughable, and his plans for making his minions get all of the presents in Mobius while ordering his henchmen, Scratch and Grounder, to capture Sonic is very absurd and pointless. Especially since Robotnik orders his minions to build countless chimnies on his fortress for those presents, gets children to sit on his lap as an act to trick the public (to the point of chaining kids in his dungeons), and doesn't think about he could do to prevent Sonic from succeeding were shortcomings of his own.
 * 6) Sometimes his flamboyance, aggression, overreaction, incompetence, bossiness, rowdiness, pettiness, and childishness can come off as a tad bit annoying to some viewers.
 * 7) There were times when he was subjected to some moments of obnoxious slapstick that treat him like a joke when he sometimes didn't deserve the verbal/physical abuse he gets from other characters or shouldn't be receiving it from like his mother who is stupidly evil and Katella in the episode "Zoobotnik", to the point that his failures can get stale and predictable a la Sylvester and Wile E. Coyote style of wanting the villain to succeed. This can be the very reason why Robotnik in this show would come off as a very campy buffoon nobody would take seriously at all despite his villainous and sometimes threatening actions.
 * 8) Not everyone is a fan of his character design. While it's diverse, unique, and brilliantly fits the show's ludicrous nature, some viewers feel like his character design wasn't fitting to Robotnik's character in the games or a general sense. As discussed in Hill Top Terebi's video "WHY did ROBOTNIK look like THIS for most of the 1990s? The Ghost of Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog", he subjectively shares his opinion on how his design that was seen outside of AoStH wasn't the best idea since it can be confusing on why this design was glorified onto other works outside of the show.
 * 9) * His giant butt enlarging to exaggerated proportions somewhat predates The Red Guy with showing off his giant buttcheeks for jokes very often.

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Trivia

 * Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog was the only English-speaking series prior to Sonic X to have Dr. Robotnik referred to as "Eggman" in the episode "Lifestyles of the Sick and Twisted" by Tails.
 * Milton Knight, the original design artist for this Robotnik, was pushing the animators to make this take on Robotnik to be "animation's sexiest fat man" by exaggerating his body like the revealing clothing and the size of his buttocks.
 * His catchphrase "I hate that hedgehog!" has been said by other incarnations of Dr. Robotnik, such as his SATAM and Boom counterparts.

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