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Doctor Robotnik is the main antagonist of the Sonic Underground television series. He is the evil dictator over Mobius who is assisted in his schemes by Sleet and Dingo.
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Appearance
Robotnik has many different design changes. He is an incredibly obese man with a crazy long orange moustache, a bald head, and black eyes with red irises. He also has a roboticized arm after an unspecified incident that happened to him in the Underground. He wears a red and black jumpsuit with a long yellow belt going around his waist like a cross having a circle in the middle with a red dot, a gray sleeve on his non-roboticized arm, a red cape supported by big, heavy red shoulder pads, gray pants, black shoes with yellow toe caps and soles alongside red tounges and wears gray gloves. Dr. Robotnik was modified specifically to look like he was a mechanic.
While planning for his alleged wedding to Queen Aleena Hedgehog (and later during the royal adoption ceremony), Robotnik wore a white militaristic uniform with red ribbons across the front, black-and-red epaulets, a red, fur lined mantle, medals on the left side of his breast and a bearskin hat.
Personality
Robotnik is a self-centered and elitist control freak who desires absolute authority over everyone and everything, and he will go to extreme lengths to maintain his powerful position. He's also vain and ego driven, being determined to look good for the nobility of Mobius and ensuring he looks good when making speeches for the public.
Once Robotnik claimed he would sooner allow Chaos Dingo to destroy the world, along with himself, rather than see his grip of power be relinquished back to the Hedgehog Dynasty, the rightful ruling family over Mobius. However, he was swayed into helping stop Dingo once Sonic played on the dictator's pride. [1]
Whilst Robotnik can get along with Sleet due to their mutual love of cruelty, he has little tolerance for Dingo and together with Sleet, the two villains often abuse Dingo for their own amusement [2].
Despite his occasionally silly behavior, not even mass infanticide is off the table for Robotnik, as he would destroy Sanctuary, a place where freedom fighters raise their infants and children, just to permanently quell any and all resistance. Like any corrupt politician, Robotnik can lie, deceive, and manipulate people, and Robotnik's "leadership" carefully blends coercion with manipulation, as those loyal and useful to him enjoy prosperous lives, while enemies or underperforming minions are disposed of quickly (usually through roboticization). While the loyal elite live comfortably, the lower classes live in abject squalor thanks to overtaxing, and those who fail to work hard enough face roboticization.
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Powers and abilities
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Dr. Robotnik is a brilliant scientist and a very intelligent strategist. He has developed various plans and machines, which he has used on various occasions against Sonic. Despite being obese, Robotnik is a really strong man capable enough to punch a flying robot to the ground with one hit.[citation needed]
History
TV series
Dr. Robotnik began his rule by seizing the great city of Mobotropolis from the current monarch, Queen Aleena, and had it converted into his capital city: Robotropolis. After a bounty was placed on the newborn children of the queen, she was forced to go into hiding. Meanwhile, Dr. Robotnik roboticized each citizen but keep the wealthy around to help fund his polluted factories. Queen Aleena was forced to separate with her offspring after hearing a prophesy from the Oracle of Delphius. Dr. Robotnik would have each of the children's foster parents (Chuck, Lady Windermere and Farrell) captured and roboticized. Yet resistance was met in the form of the queen's children, who were now grown. Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonia, and Manic, now part of a musical band would grow to be the biggest enemy in Dr. Robotnik's rule since he came into power.
While Robotnik mostly stayed on the sidelines during the ongoing war with the resistance, one of the major things he did in the beginning was where he tried to destroy Sonic. However, it backfired when Sonic foiled his plans. He only captured Sonic successfully one time, Sonia a couple times, and Manic multiple times. One of the more famous incidents was where Sonia was faced with a choice to save either Manic or Sonic; if she refused, both would be subject to the Roboticizer. Another instance was when he falsely found Bartleby MontClair guilty of treason in a show trial meant to be a trap for the triplets (rather than merely condemn him with an bill of attainder/act of attainder that would strip him of his wealth, lands, and possessions), sentencing the aristocratic mink to roboticization and never allowing him to speak in his defense.
Archie Comics
Dr. Robotnik, from Sonic Super Special #10.
Evil Sonic would come to invade Robotnik's dimension one day, seeking out pieces of the Giant Borg, only to be captured by Dingo and Sleet. When brought in, he would mistake Dr. Robotnik for an alternate version of him called Robo-Robotnik. Likewise, Dr. Robotnik would also mistake Evil Sonic for his version of Sonic. Evil Sonic would give him all the pieces of the Giant Borg, but Dr. Robotnik had him sent away anyway to be roboticized.[3]
Dr. Robotnik would reassemble the Giant Borg and used it to seek out Sonia, Manic, and the rest of their resistance. To his surprise, Sonic would come out to challenge him, even though he thought he captured him. Using a heat-seeking-missile, Dr. Robotnik fired upon Sonic, only to be taken by surprised by two other versions of Sonic: Zonic the Zone Cop and Sonic Prime. Sonic would then turn the missile back at the Giant Borg, destroying it and ending Underground Robotnik's rampage. He was last seen hanging from a pole above a building, mocked by the free and deroboticized citizens.[3]
Due to being part of the old multiverse, it is highly likely that Dr. Robotnik was wiped from existence when the multiverse collapsed.
Relationships
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Allies
Enemies
- Knuckles the Echidna
- Manic the Hedgehog
- Queen Aleena Hedgehog
- Scourge the Hedgehog
- Sonia the Hedgehog
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- ART
Quotes
- "I'm declaring war on the resistance!"
- —Dr. Robotnik
- "Next time, Hedgehogs!"
- —Dr. Robotnik
- "Now, for starters; I'm going to close my eyes and count to 10. It'll make this finale very interesting, not for you, but, for me."
- —Dr. Robotnik
- "Mr. Sonic Hedgehog. Before the sun sets today, you too will be walking down the aisle to the Roboticizer!"
- —Dr. Robotnik
- "HEDGEHOGS!!!"
- —Dr. Robotnik's final line in the series
Trivia
- This version of Robotnik well notably reuses his design from the Sonic the Hedgehog television series, though changing minor things such as the soles and toe caps of his shoes from red to yellow, also his cape changed from yellow to red, his collar being orange instead of yellow, and completely covering the skin of his right bicep.
- His artwork is also notably retraced digitally from his one from his said counterpart, albeit with the said changes.
- Some artworks depict his shoulder pads as yellow, whereas in the actual show they are red.
- Although unlike his previous appearance from SatAM, some scenes show his red eyes having visible black pupils which his Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog television series design has.
- There are multiple scenes where his black pants are incorrectly coloured red.
- His voice actor Garry Chalk, also played Grounder in the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog television series.
- According to an early production document, Robotnik was going to have a thin twin brother named Grotty (short for "grotesque").[4]
See also
References
- ↑ Smith, Tom; Edens, Mark (7 October 1999). "New Echidna in Town". Sonic Underground. Season 1. Episode 29. First-run syndication.
- ↑ Hurst, Ben; Allee, Pat (14 October 1999). "Sonia's Choice". Sonic Underground. Season 1. Episode 34. First-run syndication.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sonic Super Special #10, "Zone Wars: A Tale of Two Hedgehogs"
- ↑ [1]
