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Take a good look at yourself, Sonic. (...) It's the last look you'll get before I close your eyes forever! Hoo hoo hoo!
~ Dr. Eggman prior to Robotnik's Death Egg battle in Sonic Generations.
Wow... will I really get that crazy?
~ Dr. Robotnik's response to Modern Eggman's laughing.

The classic counterpart of Dr. Ivo Robotnik, better known as Dr. Eggman, is the main antagonist of the classic era of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.

He is a younger counterpart of his modern self. He desires to destroy Sonic the Hedgehog and conquer his world, even assisting the Modern Eggman in an attempt to achieve these goals. He is Classic Sonic's arch-nemesis.

He was originally voiced by Masaharu Satō in Waku Waku Sonic Patrol Car, and second being the SegaSonic the Hedgehog arcade games.

In Sonic Generations, as well as it's remastered remake, like his modern counterpart, is voiced by Mike Pollock.

Biography[]

Sonic Generations[]

Classic Eggman is first heard after both the Classic and Modern versions of Sonic enter through the first boss gate in White Space. He battles Classic Sonic aboard the Death Egg using his Death Egg Robot (or his Big Arm mech on the 3DS handheld console) but is soon defeated and trapped inside the machine's wreckage. Before he could escape however, the Time Eater appears and kidnaps Eggman, who all the while begs Sonic to save him.

He eventually reappears before the final boss fight at the center of time and reveals himself to be one of the masterminds behind the Time Eater alongside Modern Eggman. Both villains worked together to improve the Time Eater's abilities so it can erase their past failures and enemies. But using the Chaos Emeralds, both Sonic's achieved their super forms and defeated the mad scientists once again.

Classic Eggman is then left trapped in White Space to wander aimlessly with Modern Eggman. He questions his older self about his future and is left a little less hopeful when discovering that he never wins against Sonic the Hedgehog.

Sonic Mania[]

Upon somehow escaping, Eggman returns back into his timeline and later learns about an unusual power source on Angel Island that was not the Master Emerald, Dr. Eggman sent out a group of elite EggRobos to retrieve it. Meanwhile the doctor traveled to Green Hill Zone with his Death Egg Robot in an attempt to eliminate Sonic and/or his allies. Upon his defeat, Eggman met with the EggRobos he sent out earlier, which have been transformed into the Hard-Boiled Heavies by a gemstone they obtained called the Phantom Ruby. Eggman orders the Heavies to give him the stone but resorts to just snatching it when they ignore his demands. Throughout the game, Eggman tried various vehicles to destroy the heroes and used the Phantom Ruby's power to hinder their progress. Eventually he had a final showdown with his foes in Titanic Monarch Zone, piloting his Phantom Egg vehicle while receiving some extra help from the Phantom Heavies, heavily modified versions of the Hard-Boiled Heavies rebuilt from their previous defeats. Depending if the player has all Chaos Emeralds as Sonic, Eggman will either be left to throw a tantrum after his defeat or he will fought again at Egg Reverie Zone alongside the Phantom King for the Phantom Ruby.

Sonic Mania Plus[]

In Encore Mode, Dr. Eggman will again try to conquer the world with the ruby. This time, however, should the player collect all the modes Chaos Emeralds and beat the Phantom Egg, Eggman will attempt to make his escape in a rocket sled before being knocked aside by the heroes in their super forms and get sucked into a portal made by the Phantom Ruby.

Sonic Mania Adventures[]

In an alternate series of events that took place after Sonic Mania, Dr. Eggman had set up traps on the grounded Angel Island that Sonic the Hedgehog unwittingly stumbles into; getting snagged by one that hung him upside-down. Eggman appears for behind a large explosive device to laugh at his archenemy's misfortune while the bomb counts down to detonation. The doctor is about to leave when Sonic lures him back with a Chaos Emerald he possessed. Eggman attempts to take the emerald only to get caught in one of his own traps, and Sonic easily frees himself with the help of some Flickys. Unable to do the same, Eggman tries guilt-tripping Sonic into saving him, but this fails when he accidentally drops a small gadget that reveals his plans to collect all seven Chaos Emeralds and destroy the blue hedgehog. Sonic knocks the side of the bomb to reduce it's timer before he left it to blow up in Eggman's face.

A little later, Dr. Eggman began digging for a Chaos Emerald located underground using his drill-mounted Eggmobile. He again encounters Sonic, but easily knocks him into the distance with one of his drills. However Sonic returns with Tails, and together prove too much for the doctor to handle. The Eggmobile's cockpit exploded and sent Eggman soaring toward the beach, where he landed next to Sonic's plane: the Tornado. He is then informed of the Master Emerald's current location, and quickly hatched a plan to obtain it.

Meanwhile, Knuckles the Echidna was looking to hide the Master Emerald from thieves, when he is suddenly distracted by a group of Badniks. As Knuckles fought the robots, Dr. Eggman took the Emerald and flew with it back to his base using the Tornado. He watched as his enemies were closing in on his location and grinned since this was exactly what he wanted. After the heroes entered Eggman's base, they were ambushed by Metal Sonic, who took the two Chaos Emeralds they had in their possession. Dr. Eggman then appeared and gave Metal Sonic the remaining emeralds he obtained to dramatically increase the robot's power.

The doctor watched gleefully as his creation was easily able to outmatch the might of Sonic and his allies, but his foes soon turned the tables by outsmarting Metal Sonic by using one of his own traps. Metal Sonic was knocked back, losing the Chaos Emeralds, but Eggman attempted to use the Master Emerald's power instead. At that moment Knuckles appeared and launched both villains through the ceiling, foiling their plans.

After crash-landing, Eggman throws a brief tantrum and gets back on his feet and tries to wake up Metal Sonic, who is lying face down, by kicking his head. When the robot does not respond however, the frustrated Eggman leaves in a huff. A few months later, Metal Sonic was brought back by Amy Rose and upon examining the flower Metal Sonic had in his hand and after suspiciously looking around, Eggman decides to take Metal Sonic back to repair him.

Sonic Superstars[]

Before he creates the Egg Fortress as his replacement to the Death Egg, he kidnaps more critters except some of them are bigger than before and turns them into Badniks, and pursues after Sonic and his friends. He also hires Fang the Sniper to take on Sonic and his friends.

Appearance[]

Doctor Eggman has a round egg-shaped body, large arms, very thin legs with long feet and sports a huge brown mustache that grows out just under his long pink nose. He is always seen wearing a pair of round blue glasses that covers his eyes while the rest of his attire consists of a red shirt with a yellow cape which parts into two triangular shapes around the front of the outfit, a pair of white gloves and black pants/leggings that have two big silver buttons near the rim.

Personality[]

Classic Eggman’s personality is very similar to his modern counterpart in regard to being highly intelligent and a talented mechanical evil genius yet lacks in common sense with his plots to defeat Sonic but is less unhinged and calmer and calculating despite being much more evidently incompetent in vast comparison. This is because the pressures from numerous defeats have yet to really take their toll on his mind. After witnessing a display of madness from his alternate self, Eggman began to question his future and worries that he would also become just as crazy one day. However, these thoughts did not seem to change the doctor, as he continues his attempts at global conquest.

While brutal towards his minions and enemies alike, he appears to show some concern for the former as he immediately takes back Metal Sonic after abandoning him for months.

Relationships[]

Allies[]

  • Classic Badniks
  • Classic Metal Sonic
  • Metal Knuckles
  • Tails Doll
  • E-Series Robots
  • Hooligans (sometimes)
  • Fang the Sniper (sometimes)
  • Hard Boiled Heavies

Enemies[]

  • Classic Sonic
  • Classic Tails
  • Classic Amy
  • Classic Espio
  • Classic Chaotix
  • Trip the Sungazer
  • Ray the Flying Squirrel
  • Mighty the Armadillo
  • Modern Sonic
  • Modern Tails
  • Modern Knuckles
  • Modern Amy
  • Modern Chaotix
  • Cream
  • Cheese
  • Silver
  • Blaze
  • Rouge
  • Shadow
  • Hooligans (sometimes)
  • Fang the Sniper (sometimes)

Quotes[]

I will flatten you!
~ Dr. Robotnik during the Death Egg Robot battle.
What?! No, NO! SONIC! SAVE ME! GAAAAAAAAGGGHHH!!!
~ Dr. Robotnik being kidnapped by the Time Eater.
He had a little help. (Classic Tails: Dr. Robotnik!) Nobody calls me that anymore. If you would be so kind just to explain, Gentlemen, genius Dr. Eggman from the future?
~ Dr. Robotnik revealing himself to Modern Sonic, and Tails, along with Classic Sonic and Tails.
Oh, you are too kind, my dear future self. And I was happy to help!
~ Dr. Robotnik to Eggman
Not bad!
~ Dr. Robotnik
Dr. Robotnik: Let me just say that this was a brilliant plan that YOU came up with.
Dr. Eggman: Don't get too self-righteous; it'll be YOUR plan pretty soon!
Dr. Robotnik: [to the audience] I'm gonna dedicate the rest of my life to forgetting it.
Dr. Eggman: I heard that!
~ Dr. Robotnik to Eggman about his plan of ruling Modern Sonic's world, and breaking the fourth wall.
Dr. Robotnik: Do we ever win?
Dr. Eggman: That depends on your definition of win.
Dr. Robotnik: Beating Sonic.
Dr. Eggman: Oh. Well then, no.
Dr. Robotnik: That doesn't give me much hope. Maybe I'll go back and get my teaching degree.
Dr. Eggman: That's not a bad idea! I always enjoyed telling people what to do!
~ Dr. Robotnik to Eggman asking if they beat Sonic, and reevaluating his life choices.

Gallery[]

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Trivia[]

  • Classic Dr. Eggman doesn't speak at all in the games, except first being the Waku Waku Sonic Patrol Car arcade game, and second being the SegaSonic the Hedgehog arcade games, Sonic Generations, the opening of Sonic 3D Blast (Genesis/Mega Drive version). He is also presumed to be the backround singer in the song Metallic Madness (present) from Sonic CD.
  • Eggman incredibly resembles Motro from the 1986 anime film Castle in the Sky, and is heavily believed to have been based off him due to his very familiar appearance.
  • Originally, the West had little to no exposure of Eggman's original Japanese design, while his appearance stayed relatively the same, two notable changes were that his glasses were depicted as empty black eyes, and a lack of gloves save for that he did wear them in the Sonic the Hedgehog promotional comic and the first issue of Sonic the Comic.
  • In the first issue of Sonic the Comic, Robotnik resembled his original Japanese design for having three giant triangular tufts sticking out of his moustache alongside the inclusion of his white gloves, until this immediately changed to his American design where he has a curvier moustache and no gloves when it came to the second issue.
  • Robotnik resembled this design in the Virgin books.
  • In the gameplay of Sonic the Hedgehog 2, his blue glasses are depicted as completely black eyes (can be mistaken for black eyes) unlike in the previous game, which was also seen in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles, nodding to the ones seen on his artworks. They would later be recoloured to blue glasses in Sonic Origins and its expansion pack Sonic Origins Plus while 02 stayed the same.
  • It is currently presumed that Classic Eggman is the younger version of his modern counterpart, due to Ian Flynn (on his BumbleKasts) and TailsTube #4 explaining that the Classic timeline and the Modern timeline are the same timeline.
  • The pajamas he wore in episode 6 of Sonic Mania Adventures are the same ones he wore in the Sonic Jam animation "Man of the Year".
  • Eggman is interestingly seen wearing his AostH attire on what appears to be an official Puyo Puyo calendar.
  • In the AoStH episode "Honey, I Shrunk The Hedgehog", Scratch (while having his mind controlled by Sonic), takes off Robotnik's left gauntlet to inflate it and punches Robotnik in the face, to then put the glove onto his cranium, blocking his eyesight and having difficulty taking it off his head, its shown that he has a white glove underneath it which can be seen as a cute nod to his Classic design's white gloves.
  • In the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 film, classic Eggman himself as an ensemble makes a cameo in the scene where Agent Stone looks at various costumes for the doctor.

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Chaos Council
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Boscage Maze
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No Place
Knuckles the Dread | Dread's Former Crew | Captain Jack | Bunny Bones | Stormbeard
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Robotnik

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Other
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See Also
Sonic Cartoon Villains | Sonic X Villains | Sonic Boom Villains | Archie Sonic Villains | Sonic the Comic Villains | Sonic Manga Villains | Sonic Novel Villains | Sonic Chronicles Villains | Sonic Cinematic Universe Villains

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