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 "Snooping as usual, I see?", "I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG!!", "Get a load of this!", "I was just about to consume this delicious banana", "I'll be back, with a new robot, who has super laser eyes, and he'll feed me ham! Evil ham...", "OOOOOOOOOOOOH, GIVE ME A BIG! FAT! BREAK!", and the most recent "You see: Earth, is my, turf G. If you don't know how to floss you'll be lost without me!".
 * 16) * He also has provided tons of comedic, silly-sounding insults and retorts that are flat-out hilarious and entertaining to listen to. These include "You metallic morons!" & "That blasted hedgehog!" as two examples from his series of insults from AoStH, and even his Boom counterpart from the TV series roasting Sonic by calling him a "blue pineapple".
 * 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 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 a purely comedic and ineffectual villain is extremely entertaining, unforgettable, and is by far, the most memeable/fan-favorite incarnation of Eggman ever made.
 * 2) He is a cartoonishly evil 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 Adventure of Sonic the Hedgehog’s tone of "absurd fun".
 * Long John Baldry did an awesome and brilliantly entertaining job with voicing him. You can just tell that he is clearly having a blast voicing him by providing a comically hammy tone to Robotnik's deep British voice.
 * 1) 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).
 * 2) Even when he's paired with his dim-witted assistants, he still manages to steal the show due to his entertainingly evil personality.
 * 3) He single-handedly brought the show alive with his manic, exaggerated, and purely comedic personality that made almost every scene featuring him both insanely amusing as a mostly ineffectual yet eccentric villain that shows signs of hilarious egotism where 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). All of his ridiculous, campy, and wonderfully hammy moments still make him much more fun to watch than usual.
 * 4) His comedically harsh, sophisticated, witty, and silly-sounding insults and retorts are extremely hilarious, quotable, and entertaining to listen to.
 * 5) Despite being a villainous buffoon and an 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.

SatAM

 * 1) He is very menacing and intimidating, he's the type of villain who is taken seriously with some moments of wit.
 * 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 the show'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) 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.
 * 3) There are times when viewers can sympathize with him, just enough to find him a somewhat likable villain with understandable motives.

Movie series

 * 1) He is one of the most hyper-competent incarnations of Eggman ever created.
 * 2) 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.

Overall

 * 1) Despite his high intelligence, Eggman is rather immature and childish, doing things like throwing temper tantrums when Sonic manages to wreck into 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 own 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 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, not only does he cause many backfires on himself due to his egotism and bumbling nature, 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) Sometimes his flamboyance, aggression, overreaction, incompetence, bossiness, rowdiness, and childishness can come off as a tad bit annoying to some viewers.
 * 3) There were times when he was subjected to some moments of obnoxious slapstick that treat him like a joke when he sometimes didn't really deserve the verbal/physical abuse he gets from other characters or shouldn't be receiving it from like his own 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.
 * 4) Not everyone is a fan of his character design. While it's diverse, unique, and brilliantly fits the show's ludicrous nature, but some viewers feel like his character design wasn't fitting to Robotnik's character in the games or in 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.

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

 * 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.
 * His design was originally inspired by Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States.

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