Dr. Robotnik

"Ha-ha-hah! Citizens of earth, lend me your ears and listen to me very carefully: my name is Dr. Eggman, the world's greatest scientist and soon to be the world's greatest ruler. Now witness the beginning of the greatest empire of all time!"

- Dr. Eggman, Sonic Adventure 2

Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik, better known by his alias, Eggman, is the main antagonist of the Sonic the Hedgehog series. He's a human scientist with an IQ of 300 and dreams of dominating the world, but his constant plots to create his Eggman Empire (a.k.a. Eggmanland) are always thwarted by Sonic and his friends.

Overall

 * 1) He is one of the most famous and popular villains in video game history.
 * 2) His trademark narcissism made him one of the most iconic foes in gaming.
 * 3) Many incarnations of Eggman over the years treat him in very different forms of his character by personality and motive, ranging from being a villain who is very threatening and competent to being a very goofy & comedic villain. Which has been carried to the point that his character is very much well-remembered for being an admirably comedic, eccentric, and self-obsessed yet formidable antagonist.
 * 4) *At his most threatening, he provides a scale from being the threatening and sinister yet enjoyable villain who fits the bill.
 * 5) * At his goofiest, he is at his most hilariously entertaining and over-the-top throughout the whole Sonic series (one who has provided many memes due to his hilarity and memorability).
 * 6) He's a perfect opponent to Sonic, being the contrary of nearly everything the blue blur stands up to.
 * 7) He is such a riot, just enough to be hands down, the most lovable character in the Sonic series in its entirety.
 * 8) He makes every battle he has with his enemies count.
 * 9) His voice actors, Deem Bristow, Long John Baldry, and Mike Pollock, are three of the most iconic voices in the series.
 * 10) * Additionally, even as the 4Kids cast was replaced in mid-2010, SEGA decided to keep Mike Pollock as Eggman as they believed that his voice was irreplaceable.
 * 11) Despite his desire to be a dictating emperor who rules with an iron fist over an entire nation made of nothing more than machines, he can be a gentleman, a wealthy philanthropist, what have you. TL, DR: a man who can be so captivating to the point of fooling others into doing what he wants.
 * 12) While most villains or anti-heroes in the Sonic series can be interesting and/or memorable (such as Metal Sonic, Merlina, and Mephiles), they're usually not as well-developed as Robotnik, as he became so important to the franchise that Sega just can't replace him (not forever, at least).
 * 13) He's so desired and important to the series that putting someone else in his place may be a crime if it's not executed correctly.
 * 14) He's been in more games than the titular Sonic himself, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (1993) for example.
 * 15) He has such funny, quotable, and unforgettable phrases like "Get a load of this!", "No way, I can't believe this!", "Oh no you don't!", "You'll pay for this!", "Haha! How about that!", "I was just about to consume this delicious banana", "'The world'? I'll own the world once I'm finished with Sonic!", "I'll get fat from eating your black hearts. You Eggman wannabes!", "I'll burn your worlds, you rebellious scum! I will destroy everything you love and make you watch!", "As long as I can still strangle a Zeti, my hands are fine.", and "What is wrong with my mustache!?".
 * 16) * He also has provided tons of comedic insults and retorts that are flat-out hilarious and entertaining to listen to.
 * 17) One of Eggman's more admirable, if not dangerous, traits is his courage throughout life-threatening situations. Despite his continuous use of machinery to protect himself and fight his opponents, Eggman shows considerable bravery and rarely shows any form of fear, regardless of who or what he is facing.
 * 18) He's a mastermind so intelligent that he can build any machine, from Badniks to a giant Death Star copy with his face on it.
 * 19) It's unanimously agreed that he's pushed to eleven in mh:awesomegames:Sonic Adventure 2, where he, for example (but not limited to), holds Amy hostage at gunpoint and quickly sees through Tails' plan to replace one of the Chaos Emeralds with a fake replica. This makes him pretty badass as a comedic supervillain, especially when he blows up half of the moon.
 * 20) * In Sonic Unleashed, he was so formidable that he provided an enjoyable fight sequence with his technology, his robotic minions, and his weaponry that all poses a genuine threat to Sonic. Also, right after he got defeated and attempted retreating, Eggman was so cunning that he pretended to plead and act pathetic, but effectively deceived Sonic (even as Super Sonic) into his powerful trap that successfully harnessed Sonic's energy. This then leads to sending a laser beam onto Earth, thus creating Dark Gaia, this all makes his levels of competence rather compelling, and his comedic traits make him all the more entertaining.

AoStH

 * 1) As the very first incarnation of Eggman on television, his portrayal as an egotistical, sadistic and humorous supervillain is extremely entertaining, 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, 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 voice.
 * 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, he has spawned a lot of memes even to this day, and it's all thanks to Robotnik himself (and the talented voice actor 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 jumorous 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 also provided tons of quotable one-liners and dialogue, these include:
 * 13) * “Snooping as usual I see!”
 * 14) * “I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG!!!”
 * 15) * “No-wa!”
 * 16) *“Sonic fell for it! Tails is ours! I'll have to give myself a prrrrrrromotion!!”
 * 17) * “He's out there still! Mocking me with his scarless speed!”
 * 18) * “Yes! That's it! My eyes like pools, my teeth like polished ivory! That's what I look like!!”
 * 19) * “Get on with it you pre-fabricated piece of poultry!”
 * 20) * “You got trouble spine-puss!”
 * 21) * “What are you doing? You mutinous mutants!”
 * 22) * “You metallic morons!!”
 * 23) * “I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG!!!”
 * 24) * “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!”
 * 25) * “Then allow me to repeat myself yet again! YOU! ARE! NINCOMBOTS!!”
 * 26) * “Then go open it YOU nincom-bot! You stupor! You miserable mess of micro-chips!!”
 * 27) * “You two-tailed two-timer! If you weren't duped already, YOU'D be doomed!!”
 * 28) * “Of course there's a Robotnik day! I just declared it one minute ago, in honor of myself!”
 * 29) * “No one can outsmart me!! For I am Rrrobotnik! Evil genius extraordinaire! How dare you insult me!”
 * 30) *“I'm never in trouble, I make trouble!”
 * 31) *“I thought I was rid of you, you fish-fondling fruitcake!!”
 * 32) * “That vile little crrreature, that prrrickly vermin!”
 * 33) His unforgettable theme songs are so memetic and catchy, that it has been remixed and known in later years (and it was even subtly referenced in the 2020 Sonic movie as a theatrical version of the song due to how beloved it is).
 * 34) Despite being homicidal and full of himself, he is extremely sympathetic. As it was revealed in "Zoobotnik" that Sonic enjoys making Robotnik suffer even though Sonic had several opportunities to get rid of Robotnik for good, and Robotnik has an abusive mom who wanted him to be evil.  While 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 fans.

SatAM

 * 1) He is extremely menacing and intimidating, he's the type of villain who is taken seriously with some moments of wit. Making this version of Robotnik the first instance of him being depicted as a Complete Monster.
 * 2) He is one of the best examples of making Eggman a badass villain. Where he is depicted as a completely serious threat without adding any form of childishness and goofiness to his character (despite him sometimes having his comedic moments here and there).
 * 3) His despicable, rotten, heartless, and sadistic personality works off well with Sonic SatAM's serious tone (which can be the possible direction the writers had inspiration from with making Eggman's personality in the Sonic Fleetway comics to a greater extent).
 * Jim Cummings also provided a badass tone of voice that sounds a bit like Batman and Sweet Tooth from Twisted Metal with a unique edge to it, where Robotnik's extremely deep and gruff tone of voice along with his breathing is rather remarkable.

Boom

 * 1) In the TV series, unlike his appearances in the Boom games, is a well-written and entertaining if inefficient antagonist and a frenemy of Sonic whose comic traits include his general lack of common sense, sarcasm, quick quips, banters, goofiness, childishness, and buffoonery are all played for comedic relief.
 * 2) * The way he roasts Sonic by calling him a "blue pineapple" and having a girlfriend is entertaining.
 * 3) This incarnation of Eggman can be best described as a diverse, kid-friendly version of the Ice King from Adventure Time. Mainly due to being goofy and incompetent as a villain, having an on-&-off frenemy-styled relationship with Sonic & his friends, living in a big empty lair with friends he's created himself, and sometimes acting like a teenager whenever he tries to act hip & cool but comes off as eccentric and childish.
 * 4) Despite having a comedic personality, he also has had moments where his high intelligence shines and moments of common sense that can help him make some good progress with his villainous efforts in a sense.
 * 5) There are times when viewers can sympathize with him, just enough to find him a somewhat likable villain with understandable motives.
 * 6) “I'll be back, with a new robot, who has an accurate name, and super laser eyes, and he'll feed me ham! Evil ham...”

Movie series

 * 1) He is one of the most hyper-competent incarnations of Eggman ever created, which is very unique since Dr. Eggman was always depicted as a consistent villain who never succeeds at his plans regardless of his reprehensible actions and grandiose schemes, this version of Eggman is both: humorous and somewhat of a threat at the same time.
 * 2) * Even though he was outclassed by Sonic in the first movie, he escaped from Mushroom Hill Zone and returned to continue his schemes, most of which work a lot more than expected.
 * 3) Jim Carrey did a great job at his portrayal as Eggman in both movies. Eggman's cartoonish, eccentric, over-the-top aspects of his comedic & villainous personality are very entertaining and hilarious to watch.
 * 4) Some of his lines are also quotable, examples of these include:
 * 5) * “OOOOOOOOOOOOH, GIVE ME A BIG! FAT! BREAK!”
 * 6) * “You see: Earth, is my, turf G. If you don't know how to floss you'll be lost without me!”

Overall

 * 1) Despite his high intelligence, Eggman is rather immature and childish, doing things like throwing temper tantrums when Sonic manages to wreck his plans, though it is mostly played for laughs.
 * 2) *An example of his immaturity is seen in the ending of Sonic Unleashed, when Orbot begins to insult him over his constant failures and calls him a loser (despite Eggman doing several competent things throughout the game); Eggman gets frustrated and screams "Oh, shut up!!", attempts to kick him only to comically fall on his back, and then chases him through the desert while making agitated noises and violently flailing his arms in an attempt to grab him.
 * 3) His design from Sonic '06 is poorly made and uncanny.
 * 4) His goals can be a little inconsistent: While he usually tries to dominate the world, he sometimes just wants to build an amusement park or take over a city. Heck, he even tried to conquer the entire freaking universe once! As a result, he often has his brand of setbacks and inefficiency because of the many silly mistakes that would go into his plans.
 * 5) Some of his incarnations like in mh:terribletvshows:Sonic Underground, for example, are quite unremarkable and forgettable.
 * 6) * Speaking of which; even for Eggman's standards, his incarnation in Sonic '06 is easily one of the worst incarnations of the evil genius himself. Where his personality was watered down into being a straightforward, typical, and predictably (if stupidly at times) fallible antagonist because of being depicted as a very "serious" character who doesn't do much that makes him entertaining because of the story and the game's bad writing, with little to nothing being exactly enjoyable or notable to say about him. Where his excessive levels of seriousness made Eggman rather boring, forgettable, unremarkable, and generic than you'd expect of his comedic and villainous charm.

AoStH

 * 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 can be very problematic, hare-brained, and foolish, it often causes him to be very bumbling. Where his plans always backfire due to his egotism, procrastination, and lack of keen premeditation.
 * 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) Sometimes his flamboyance, aggression, overreaction, incompetence, bossiness, rowdiness, pettiness, and childishness can come off as a tad bit annoying to some viewers.
 * 5) 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.
 * 6) 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.
 * 7) * His giant butt enlarging to exaggerated proportions somewhat predates The Red Guy with showing off his giant buttcheeks for jokes very often.

SatAM

 * 1) Despite being competent and badass, this version of Robotnik is rather stereotypical and lacks the charisma of his other portrayals.

Sonic X

 * 1) In the first season of Sonic X, he's portrayed as a generic Saturday morning cartoon villain, doing stuff such as selecting a random robot to cause havoc and wagering the Chaos Emeralds over a game of baseball. His levels of incompetence pretty much rivals Team Rocket from Pokemon (luckily, he still has his trademark narcissism and he gets better as the series goes on).

Boom

 * 1) He often poses little to no threat whatsoever at the end of Season 1 and throughout Season 2 because of his goofiness and his status as an ineffectual villain. He is often the laughing-stock that is treated as the scapegoat because of being a mostly harmless villain towards Sonic, his friends, and the village they live in. However, this can be warranted sometimes when Eggman can be written to be a "karmic-jerkass" type of character where his shortcomings with being a jerk lead to consequences and several setbacks that serve as his comeuppance (comedically or not) for something he did wrong as his supposedly justified acts of villainy in an episode, a good example of this is the Season 1 episode "Let's Play Musical Friends".
 * 2) * He was badly flanderized in the Sonic Boom games, despite being the only likable character in Rise of Lyric. In these titles, he is depicted as an overly childish, flamboyant, unfunny, moronic, and incompetent villain who always gets himself into trouble and never poses a threat since he makes so many mistakes that he comes off as an extremely pathetic dork who tries way too hard to be badass, all in a rather irritating and boring way.

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Trivia

 * His classic design was originally inspired by Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States. His basic characteristics, such as his clip-less glasses, toothy smile, and mustache are based on the features of Theodore Roosevelt by appearance.
 * The character was originally designed as "Dr. Eggman" for the Japanese audience and adapted as "Dr. Ivo Robotnik" in the English release. Although references to both names, such as the "Eggman-01" designation of Wing Fortress in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 or the "Robotnik Winter" level in Sonic Triple Trouble, were present in both Japanese and English versions of the games, there was no unified canon on the naming convention until Sonic Adventure series. Sonic Adventure introduced "Eggman" as Dr. Robotnik's nickname by Sonic, which he later adopted as his own supervillain alias by Sonic Adventure 2 for Western audiences. For the Japanese audiences, Sonic Adventure 2 introduced Gerald Robotnik and Maria Robotnik, Eggman's relatives, officially establishing "Robotnik" as his real surname in both canons, along with the words "Robotnik Empire" appearing behind Eggman during a cutscene. The character was mostly referred to as "Doctor Eggman" after that, although references to his real name still appeared from time to time.
 * An early version of Eggman was originally one of the choices to be the main character and even as the hero of the game that would become the first game of the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
 * In the games, comics, and anime Sonic X, Dr. Robotnik (also called Dr. Eggman) idolizes his grandfather Professor Gerald Robotnik, and in SatAM, he cared for his robot pet Cluck. To date, Gerald Robotnik and Cluck are the only people he loves apart from himself.
 * In 2D artwork, Eggman is portrayed as having pencil-thin arms, and no chin, but in games, he has a more masculine face, a big chin, and thick muscular arms.
 * Eggman's first name 'Ivo' is simply a backward spelling of the Latin word 'ovi' which means 'egg'.
 * "Robotnik" is an actual word, meaning "worker" or "slave" in the Slavic languages. This could explain his preference for using enslaved animals and robots as his minions. His first name, Ivo, is also a Slavic name.
 * It is revealed in Sonic Generations that before Eggman decided to become a villain, he was offered a teaching degree (which Dr. Robotnik said he was going to try to get).
 * The enormous mustache that Eggman wears in his various incarnations gives him a passing resemblance to iconic Looney Tunes villain Yosemite Sam, although Eggman's is larger in size than Sam is.
 * His nickname "Doc" (aside from his other alias "Doc Eggman") is a reference to the nickname of the Marvel supervillain Doctor Octopus (also known as "Doc Ock") from the Spider-Man comic books, the nickname of the time-traveling genius Dr. Emmett Brown (also known as "Doc Brown") from the Back to the Future franchise, and the famous catchphrase "what's up doc?" of the famous Looney Tunes character Bugs Bunny.
 * The cartoon show, 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, was pushing the animators to become "animation's sexiest fat man" by exaggerating his body like the revealing clothing and the size of his buttocks.
 * Dr. Robotnik is referred to as "The Master" by his brainwashed slaves who are under a hypnotic trance due to the Mind Pollens derived from Colonel Stench's special artificial flowers.
 * His catchphrase "I hate that hedgehog!" has been said by other incarnations of Dr. Robotnik, such as his SATAM and Boom counterparts.
 * In the live-action/CGI big-screen adaptation of Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), Eggman is portrayed by lovable comedian and actor, Jim Carrey.
 * Carrey's portrayal has been indefinitely praised by the fanbase, even being called the "saving grace" of the film, before the redesign of the main character, of course.

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