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.

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.

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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