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In most video games, the main villain is the final boss fought by the player. Eggman, by contrast, appears as the boss of almost every level in most of the 2-D Sonic games (and some 3-D games), in a different machine each time. In the three-dimensional games, Eggman's role has often been shared by the influence of other enemies. Additionally, he has often been betrayed by his own allies and has sometimes even aided Sonic once his plans have spiralled out of control. In this way, Eggman was rarely the final boss of the post-16-bit games until recently which consecutively portrayed him as the main enemy.
Eggman's debut occurred in the 1991 platform game Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Genesis, in which he attempted to collect the six Chaos Emeralds and rule South Island, turning the island's inhabitants into his loyal robots in the process. He returned for the game's sequel Sonic the Hedgehog 2, where he once again searched for the 7 Chaos Emerald, this time to fuel his new Death Egg warship. In Sonic CD, released in 1993, Eggman, along with Metal Sonic, travels to Little Planet in search of magical stones that have the power to control the passage of time, hoping to use these stones to take the planet over. In Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles, Eggman's Death Egg crash-lands onto Angel Island. While repairing the ship, Eggman meets Knuckles the Echidna, whom he tricks into believing that Sonic is trying to steal the Chaos Emeralds, which Eggman wants to use to repair the Death Egg. Other two-dimensional platformers starring Eggman include Sonic Chaos, Sonic Triple Trouble, Sonic Blast, and Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure.
In Sonic Adventure (later released as Sonic Adventure DX Director's Cut for the Gamecube), Eggman (as he is now more commonly known in the West) learns of the legendary beast Chaos, and seeks out the Master Emerald. Upon finding it, he shatters it, freeing Chaos in the process. Eggman's goal here is to control Chaos, and use its destructive powers to conquer the world and to obtain the Chaos Emeralds to feed Chaos so that it transforms into its most powerful form. Sonic Adventure 2 marked Eggman's first playable appearance. Here, Eggman revives the anti-hero Shadow the Hedgehog from dormancy. Shadow, knowing Eggman's desire to rule the world, agrees to help him by using the Eclipse Cannon aboard Space Colony ARK. In the last story Eggman aids Sonic in order to save himself and the Earth from destruction by stopping the ARK's crash course and the Biolizard, the creation of his grandfather. In Sonic Heroes, Eggman is captured by his own creation, Metal Sonic, who then disguises himself as Eggman in order to complete his own evil plan. In Shadow the Hedgehog (video game), he acts as an opportunist attempting to gather the Chaos Emeralds while the world is being invaded, but ends up sending his robots to help stop the alien menace's wave of destruction. Depending on the mission stats of the level, Eggman's robots can be considered the ally rather than the enemy. As Shadow seeks the truth from Eggman regarding his past, Eggman often throws off that Shadow has no past and/or he is an android Eggman created. In the end Eggman admits to Shadow that he is the real Shadow, having rescued him floating in a chaotic flux inches within the planet's orbit. In the 2006 Sonic the Hedgehog game, Eggman kidnaps the princess of Soleanna so that he can use the power of the Flames of Disaster sealed within her to control time. He plays a smaller role than in previous Sonic games, but is the final boss of Sonic's story as usual. Although he is the main villain in Sonic's story, he's not the ultimate villain of the game (that role goes to Solaris, the fused form of Mephiles the Dark and the eternal flame of Iblis). He then appears to help the heroes during the Last Story, much like the previous games. Eggman also appears in Sonic and the Secret Rings, in which King Shahryâr of Persia appeared in his physical form. Here, his physical appearance has been changed back to his Adventure-look. Eggman will appear in Sonic Rush Adventure, where he is once again main villain.
In Sonic Spinball, a pinball game, Eggman assumes control of Mount Mobius and turns it into a mechanical base, setting up an elaborate pinball mechanism to keep the fortress' Chaos Emeralds safe. Eggman has also appeared in "2.5D" isometric platformers; in Sonic Labyrinth, he secretly replaces Sonic's famous red shoes with the new "Slow-Down Boots," which take away his ability to jump or run fast, and in Sonic 3D, he turns innocent Flickies into robots in yet another search for the Chaos Emeralds. Eggman is also a playable character in such games as Sonic Drift, Sonic R, Sonic Riders, Sonic the Fighters, and Sonic Battle. Eggman will appear as a playable character in the upcoming crossover game Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games.
The only game as of yet to feature Eggman as the central character is the 1993 game Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, a Puyo Puyo clone in which Robotnik (as he was known in the West), along with numerous bounty hunters seen in the first episode of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, attempts to rid all the fun and music on the planet Mobius by kidnapping the citizens of one insignificant town and turning them into robots. Eggman also made an appearance in the spinoff game Shadow the Hedgehog, in which he acts as an ally or enemy to the game's titular character in some of the levels depending on the player's actions.
Creations
The Eggmobile (known as the "Egg-O-Matic" in comics and cartoons) is a small hovering craft with a very distinct egg-like shape, a small circular lamp on the front, and can be fitted with a seemingly endless amount of gadgetry. It can notably be converted into a more mech-like walker configuration, which Eggman used almost constantly in Sonic Adventure 2.
Eggman's army consists fully of massproduced robotic drones whose appearance and armaments vary greatly from type to type. The helpless animals that inhabit the islands of Sonic's world are usually the first to fall victim to Eggman's schemes, as he will gather them in large droves to be transformed into his loyal worker drones. "Badniks" was a term used to describe these robot henchmen in early North American and European releases of the games, whereas they were just known as "Eggman's robots" in Japan and in the West since "Sonic Adventure."
The E-Series are a special part of Eggman's forces that have played a larger role in the games than the rest of the robots. The most notable ones are E-102 Gamma, who was playable in Sonic Adventure and whose design is reused often by Sonic Team, and E-123 Omega who first appeared as a playable character in Sonic Heroes, and has appeared several times since.
In Sonic Heroes, Eggman apparently scrapped the animal-powered "Badnik" designs and, in their place, started developing orange Eggman-resembling grunts simply called Egg Pawns. These had no animals inside and had rather poor intelligence. Eggman continued to use the Egg Pawn model in most subsequent games until the 2006 Sonic the Hedgehog game, in which Eggman started using more serious, metal-colored humanoid robots armed with missiles and machine guns.
In several cartoon and comic iterations, Robotnik employs humanoid robot soldiers called SWATbots. They are typically armed with some sort of laser weapons, and will pursue Robotnik's enemies relentlessly, especially Sonic.
Eggman, aside from the huge mechas and robots he builds in his likeness, also engineers robot Sonic knock-offs to pit against his rival. Silver Sonic (known as Mecha Sonic in the Japanese manual) was his first attempt, and was featured as the penultimate boss of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (8-bit). Another robot appeared in Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog 2 as the second-to-final boss. In Sonic and Knuckles a much sleeker and more aggressive robot appeared, which could also use super transformation.
Eggman's most successful and persistent Sonic copy to date is Metal Sonic. He made his first appearance in Sonic CD to capture Amy Rose and race Sonic on the Stardust Speedway. Unlike the previous attempts, Metal Sonic was built for speed with a sleek form. Metal Sonic, after his first defeat at the hands of Sonic, went on to harass the Chaotix, where he was able to turn into an enormous, red version of himself via the Chaos Rings and wreak havoc for a while, until he was defeated once again. Afterwards, he was seen around participating in any kind of racing or fighting Sonic joins in, in hopes of defeating him one day. In Sonic Heroes, Metal Sonic impersonates Eggman in an attempt to copy Sonic's, Tails', Knuckles', Shadow's, and Chaos' DNA and finally put an end to his rivalry with Sonic, once and for all. Eggman has also built robot copies of other characters, such as Metal Knuckles, the Tails Doll, and the Shadow Androids. He has even created robots based on himself, called Eggrobos.
In Sonic Rush Adventure, Captain Whisker, Johnny, and all the other pirate robots were Eggman's creations, as he and Eggman Nega were plotting to use them to uncover the power of the stars under Southern Island.
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I have mad respect for Dr.Robotnik!!! Besides, he the main one along with Sonic that started the Sonic The Hedgehog Series and everytime you hear Dr.Robotniks classic themes, you know he's coming too, lol.
unfortunatly he was always called Dr. Eggman, just as Bowser was always called Bowser in japan, in the west he was known as Koopa, so Respect Dr. Eggman is the correct title
also Ivo is reverse for Ovi (Egg)
and Robonik is polish for worker so let us respect Egg Worker, may I post some pics of the Great Dr. Eggman, I have loads and I mean Loads.
Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 (& Knuckles) were all made in the US where Yuji Naka called "Eggman" Robotnik and perferred that name over that of Eggman so I call him Robotnik to respect Yuji Naka.
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I'm going to post pics of Dr.Robotnik too, he deserves respect!!! If it wasn't for him, we would've never saw ultimate robot machines like Metal Sonic.
Or Silver Sonic, Mecha Sonic, Metal Knuckles, Neo Metal Sonic (Heroes), Metal Madness/Overlord, Egg Emperor, Egg Genesis, Egg Viper, Egg Wyern, Egg Wizard, Captain Whisker & Johnny, Ghost Titan, and I could go on and on and on and on.
Don't forget the Badnicks, the less said about Egg pawns the better, also who else liked Neo Metal sonic, I wish he had kept that look, anyway yes I will post pics of the brilliant Scientist, without him we would not have some of the great stages nor the music, that we have today.
The Grand Overlord, sad to think tails has become his sort of rival, since both have an I.Q of 300 and tails is younger, kind of steals Eggmans spotlight, not allot but still...
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Dr.Robotnik actually outsmarted Tails in Sonic Adventure 2 and 2 Battle by figuring out that the emrald that they were using was fake and Dr.Robonik almost actually defeated Sonic by trapping him in a capsule sending him flying back to earth really fast, but Sonic found out a way to make the fake chaos emerald to work. Dr.Robotnik almost actually had the win on Sonic at that time.
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Yeah man, also, what do you think of Dr.Robotnik's role of sometimes actually being on the same side as his nemesis Sonic on the most difficult situations?
I don't like it, Dr. Eggman is starting to loose his villain status, and become more of a goofy Rival someone needs to bring back the old Eggman, I guess that's why we have Nega and Metal Sonic now, and even that pathetic villain from STH 2006, Solerious.
I don't think so, Dr. Eggman is losing villain status about as much as Bowser. (Who somehow gets invited to all of Mario's Parties lol!)
I got lots of respect for Eggman. He's no pushover. Sonic isn't a lone-wolf who defeats him, evidently he's got the constant threat of Sonic, his terrorist friends, Knuckles, anyone who gets ahold of the chaos emralds, and ofcourse his bastard villain-allies who sooner or later always betray him.
I dunno, in the handheld games Robotnik is still as evil as ever usually being the last boss (in all but Sonic Advance 3 when he is betrayed by G-Mel and teams up with Super Sonic to get revenge). In Sonic Rush and Rush Adventure Robotnik still has that evil feeling but in the 3D realm he has slowly been descending ever since Sonic Adventure (which is really the only 3D Sonic game that made Robotnik seem threatening).
Bowser on the other hand was redeemed in Super Mario Galaxy and Mario Parties are spin-off games; in the main series Bowser is a true blue villain; same can't be said for Robotnik. I want Miyamoto to make a Sonic game.
Oct 8th, 2007 11:13 PM
