I made it so that we understand the character's name is Robotnik, but his nickname is Eggman, and as far as everyone is concerned in the world now, we're just going to call him Eggman as his official name.
In later installments in the Sonic franchise , characters would refer to him entirely as Eggman and hardly ever mention the Robotnik name at all.
The Robotnik name would only see a few scant mentions in titles such as Sonic Generations while the series generally began to move away from the localized name. However, other characters within Eggman's family use the Robotnik surname, owing to the consolidation done during Sonic Adventure, and officially make Robotnik his family name, while Eggman remained his most common alias.
The reconciliation of Dr. Eggman's name has grown to serve a purpose in the series. While some pieces of media list Eggman's full name as Unknown, Eggman's relatives Gerald and Maria use the Robotnik name and fit as a vital piece of backstory through the 3D era of the franchise. The name may have originated as something created by Sega of America without the Sonic Team's initial approval, but it has remained a permanent mark in the history of Sonic the Hedgehog 's most enduring antagonist.
Source: Game Informer. Lawrence Maldonado is a writer, editor, and lifelong video game nerd born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He has edited an eBook for a voice actor in video games while also having done work as a Community Editor for a video game company.
He had a massive bushy beard and round, Coke bottle glasses. You can see his original design in this archived 1UP story recapping the contest.
While Mr. Needlemouse was a clear hero, the development team working on what would become Sonic the Hedgehog fell in love with this round man and felt he needed to be included in some way. So where did Robotnik come from? In , Game Informer spoke with the head of the Sonic team , Takashi Iizuka, to understand the shift. Of course, this was without consulting the people who made the game.
They just kind of went off and did it. This led to a problem: When the game was released in Japan on July 26, , the instruction book listed him as Doctor Eggman. Sonic News Network. Sonic News Network Explore.
Game Titles. Game features. Bureaucrats Administrators Content Moderators. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Doctor Eggman. View source. History Talk Do you like this video? Play Sound. Main page History and app.
Eggman, Sonic Adventure 2. Eggman, from Sonic the Hedgehog CD. Eggman, from Sonic Riders. Eggman, from Sonic the Hedgehog Eggman, Sonic the Hedgehog Eggman, Sonic Forces. Eggman, Shadow the Hedgehog. Archived from the original on 5 June Characters: Eggman. Archived from the original on 26 May Retrieved on 3 June Sonic: The Ultimate Character Guide.
ISBN PlayStation 3. Eggman's profile card. Sega of America. Archived from the original on 24 January Robotnik's name to Dr. Eggman for the United States games? If so, was he trying to make fun of his nemesis? Robotnik is his real name and Eggman is a common name taken after his shape.
Possibly, it may have been Sonic, who uttered this alias for the first time! I feel, though, Sonic uses this name affectionately, rather than trying to make fun of the doctor. Robotnik aka Eggman. Sonic Characters. Archived from the original on 5 March Retrieved on 26 October With an IQ of , he's a certifiable genius, and his evil demeanor makes him makes him think that taking over the world should be easy.
Although he always has a master plan for doing this, Sonic always provides the wrinkle that makes his plans collapse around him. Eggman views Sonic as his archenemy, who always seems to spoil the doctor's plans of world conquest.
Somehow, deep in his heart, though, he may have a certain fondness for Sonic and his determination. Brawl In-game description of the "Dr. Eggman" trophy. Sonic Forces Episode Shadow.
Nintendo Switch. The world's most powerful robot is no more a challenge than Crabmeat. Sonic Advance 3. Game Boy Advance. Sonic Unleashed. Cutscene: Opening. Sonic Adventure 2: Battle.
Nintendo GameCube. Eggman : This is strange Did they really think they could trick me with that fake Emerald? Eggman : You thought you could trick me with that Fake Emerald, didn't you? Eggman : Because you just told me, fox boy! Sonic Forces. I had a back-up power source created under Metropolis. We won! Oh, come on! Now what? Can't we ever just win and have that be the end of it?
The fortress reactor was just a decoy. A true winner always keeps his trump card hidden until the end. Eggman has great Skill-based abilities, he also is quite powerful. His huge, lumbering frame doesn't give the impression that he would be good at gymnastics, but believe it or not, he can handle the trampoline and vault quite well. Sonic Lost World. Wii U.
Cutscene: Epilogue. Cutscene: Rise of the Six. Sonic the Hedgehog. Xbox Cutscene: The time-space rift. Area: Lava Mountain Zone 4. Cutscene: Eggman Returns. Cutscene: Eggman's Idea. Progress is significantly behind projected timetable. Presumed cause of delay Here I go to the trouble of waking that Dark Gaia thing up, and it causes me nothing but delays!
Ergo, it was still incomplete at the time of its awakening. Ergo, it was unable to sustain its own weight upon its release. Ergo, it scattered around the world. So what if I gave it a bit of a sudden awakening!? This is unacceptable! Both shows featured drastic redesigns of Robotnik. In SatAM , Robotnik is a former warlord named Julian who actually succeeded in conquering the planet.
Instead of stuffing animals into robots to power them, he uses a much darker method: turning flesh-and-blood creatures into actual machines via a process called "roboticization. Instead of glasses or gaping eye sockets, he was given black eyes with red pupils. He also traded in his round head for a pointy one.
The companion cartoon, the more comedy-focused Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog , featured a similar design to his Saturday morning counterpart, though he shared more personality traits with the game character: goofy, flamboyant and melodramatic, yet still menacing. These two versions of Robotnik would be the ones most familiar to the US and UK for the majority of the '90s. Basically, there were a lot of Robotniks out there by the turn of the millennium, and no one could say for sure which version was definitive.
It was high time for Sega to rein things in. After several years off, the Sonic franchise was ready to fully embrace the world of 3D — as well as new designs for the entire cast by Sonic Team character designer Yuji Uekawa.
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