Dr. Ivo Robotnik

Dr. Ivo Robotnik, also known as Doctor Eggman, is one of the major characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
== Charactah Account ==
The portly scientist whose one desire is to rule over everyone and everything using his technology. Eggman doesn't have a significant background, but he did seemingly look up to his grandfather, Gerald Robotnik. Although other sources claim he used to be a kind doctor before a freak accident warped his personality. Eggman's plans almost never change, and he's always willing to pull out all of the stops to accomplish his goal.
Eggman may possess a high IQ, but his personality is far from mature. He wants things his way, and is very temperamental when denied as such. However, despite his immaturity, he's every bit as clever as he claims to be, able to create almost anything for his goals, and possesses quite a bit of cunning and planning to carry them out. If there's one thing that stands out about the doctor, however, it's his ego, which may only be rivaled by his long-time nemesis, Sonic the Hedgehog.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Hi☆sCoool! SeHa Girls
* Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie
=== Comics ===
* Action Comics
* Best of Sonic the Hedgehog
* Knuckles the Echidna
* Knuckles' Chaotix
* Mega Man
* Mega Man: Worlds Unite Battles
* Sonic
* Sonic & Knuckles
* Sonic & Knuckles: Mecha Madness
* Sonic and Mega Man: Worlds Collide Prelude, Free Comic Book Day Edition
* Sonic and the Tales of Deception
* Sonic Blast
* Sonic Saga Series: Darkest Storm
* Sonic Saga Series: Eggman Empire
* Sonic Saga Series: House of Cards
* Sonic Saga Series: Order From Chaos
* Sonic Saga Series: The Dark Mirror
* Sonic Select
* Sonic Forces
* Sonic Hide & Seek & Destroy! Free Comic Book Day Edition
* Sonic Mega Drive
* Sonic Mega Drive: Next Level
* Sonic the Comic
* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Sonic the Hedgehog Annual 2020
* Sonic the Hedgehog FCBD 2012
* Sonic the Hedgehog Free Comic Book Day
* Sonic the Hedgehog Triple Trouble
* Sonic the Hedgehog: All Or Nothing
* Sonic the Hedgehog: Bad Guys
* Sonic the Hedgehog: Battle For Angel Island
* Sonic the Hedgehog: Crisis City
* Sonic the Hedgehog: Fallout!
* Sonic the Hedgehog: Genesis
* Sonic the Hedgehog: Halloween ComicFest
* Sonic the Hedgehog: Infection
* Sonic the Hedgehog: Out of the Blue
* Sonic the Hedgehog: Tangle & Whisper
* Sonic the Hedgehog: The Chase
* Sonic the Hedgehog: The Fate of Dr. Eggman
* Sonic the Hedgehog: The Last Minute
* Sonic Universe
* Sonic: The Games - Modern
* Super Sonic vs. Hyper Knuckles
* Super!
* Team Sonic Racing Deluxe Turbo Championship Edition
* Team Sonic Racing One-Shot
=== Manga ===
* Dash & Spin: Hyper Speed Sonic
* Sonic 4-koma
* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Sonic World Adventure
=== Video Games ===
* 3D Sonic the Hedgehog
* 3D Sonic the Hedgehog 2
* Blue Sphere
* Eggman no Kazuate Panic!
* Knuckles the Echidna in Sonic the Hedgehog 2
* Knuckles' Chaotix
* Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games
* Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
* Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
* Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
* Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
* Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games
* Sega Ages: Sonic the Hedgehog
* Sega Ages: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
* SEGA Heroes
* Sega Superstars Tennis
* SegaSonic the Hedgehog
* Shadow the Hedgehog
* Somari
* Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
* Sonic & Knuckles
* Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
* Sonic 3D Blast
* Sonic Advance
* Sonic Advance 2
* Sonic Advance 3
* Sonic Adventure
* Sonic Adventure (2010)
* Sonic Adventure 2
* Sonic Adventure 2 (2012)
* Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
* Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut
* Sonic and the Black Knight
* Sonic at the Olympic Games
* Sonic Battle
* Sonic Blast
* Sonic Chaos
* Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood
* Sonic Colors
* Sonic Colors: Ultimate
* Sonic Dash
* Sonic Drift
* Sonic Drift 2
* Sonic Forces
* Sonic Forces: Speed Battle
* Sonic Free Riders
* Sonic Frontiers
* Sonic Generations
* Sonic Heroes
* Sonic Jam
* Sonic Jump
* Sonic Jump Fever
* Sonic Labyrinth
* Sonic Lost World
* Sonic Pinball Party
* Sonic R
* Sonic Racing
* Sonic Riders
* Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity
* Sonic Rivals
* Sonic Rivals 2
* Sonic Runners
* Sonic Runners Adventure
* Sonic Rush
* Sonic Rush Adventure
* Sonic Shuffle
* Sonic Speed Simulator
* Sonic Spinball
* Sonic the Fighters
* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
* Sonic the Hedgehog 2
* Sonic the Hedgehog 3
* Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles
* Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I
* Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II
* Sonic the Hedgehog CD
* Sonic the Hedgehog Mobile
* Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure
* Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball
* Sonic the Hedgehog Triple Trouble
* Sonic the Hedgehog's Gameworld
* Sonic Unleashed
* Sonic's Schoolhouse
* SonicN
* Super Smash Bros. Brawl
* Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U
* Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
* Tails and the Music Maker
* Team Sonic Racing
* The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
=== Webcomics ===
* Nerf NOW!!!
== Trivia ==
* Dr. Eggman has blood type B.
* According to Orbot, Eggman has, at the time of Team Sonic Racing, lost more than 227,000 times.
* Dr. Eggman has more redesigns than any other character in the whole Sonic series.
* Dr. Eggman is the character with the most deceased voice actors in the entire Sonic franchise, counting Deem Bristow ,Chikao Otsuka, and Hartmut Neugebauer.
* Dr. Eggman's Sonic Channel artwork was the base of two 3D-model poses: first for his Trophy in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and again for Sonic Unleashed.
* He is the only character who has retained his English voice actor since 2005, whereas all of the other characters have had their English voice actor changed in 2010.
* In Shadow the Hedgehog, Dr. Eggman is the only ally of Shadow's that appears as a guide for both Dark and Hero missions.
* The only 3D game Eggman has not made an appearance in is Sonic and the Black Knight.
* An unused line of Omochao's from Sonic Adventure 2 hints at the possibility that Dr. Eggman's mustache may be fake.
* Sega did not model any eyes for Eggman's 3D model in all games except Sonic the Hedgehog (2006). Eggman's eyes are blue in this.
* An early version of Dr. Eggman (an over-sized Theodore Roosevelt in pajamas) was originally one of the choices to be the main character and even as the hero of the game that would become the first game of the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
* There is an Internet meme from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog where Robotnik's line "Snooping as usual I see" was shortened into "PINGAS". This joke was even used in the Archie comics.
* The name Dr. Ivo Robotnik may be a reference to its appearance as Ivo backwards is Ovi, which means "egg" in Latin.
** "Robotnik" is an actual word, meaning "worker" or "slave" in the Slavic languages. This could explain his preference for using enslaved animals and robots as his minions.
** The name Ivo itself is also in fact a given name in real life that is European in origin.
* In the game of Football: Virtua Striker 3, Dr. Eggman appears in a secret team called "FC Sonic" that make up Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy.
* In Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I, the back of the cards in Casino Street Act 2 has Eggman's face on them.
* Eggman is one of the two canon characters throughout the series originally based off of a political public figure (Theodore Roosevelt) let alone a real person. The other is Sonic, whose personality is based off of Bill Clinton.
* On December 3, 2012, a woman actually named Susan Eggman was elected a member of the California State Assembly. And on June 4, 2014, a man actually named Michael Eggman was elected congress representative of Central Valley, California. So now, Dr. Eggman is the only character in the series who is not only based off of a political public figure, but also shares a name with not one, but two.
* His pose for Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is very similar to his pose in his artwork for Sonic Colors, only with his hands in different positions.
* Dr. Eggman has a recurring theme (that is not his theme from Sonic Adventure 2). It plays in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), Sonic Unleashed (most notably the Eggmanland's hub world theme), Sonic Colors (plays in cutscenes before the boss fights and in the Sonic Simulator; the latter plays the music in an 8-bit remix), and in Sonic Forces. Dr. Eggman has a combined theme in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) with Elise called, "Elise Goes Alone."
* Eggman has a huge fondness for the own food he cooks in Sonic Unleashed, especially his "Poppin' Eggcorn".
* Eggman's ultimate ambitions appear to involve building theme parks despite having ulterior motives. Such cases are Eggmanland in Sonic Unleashed and all the parks in Sonic Colors.
* Although Dr. Eggman himself does not appear in the Super Smash Bros. games, he does appear as a trophy in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and is also indirectly alluded to in a Codec conversation, where Solid Snake (voiced in the Japanese versions by Akio Otsuka, who is the son of Chikao Otsuka, who voiced Dr. Eggman) mentions that he "for some reason doesn't like [Sonic]." Coincidentally, Solid Snake's father, Big Boss, was voiced by the late Chikao Otsuka in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (at the time under development), whose character also had a goal similar to one of Eggman's (specifically, Big Boss sought to subject the world to becoming a warzone to allow soldiers freedom, a warrior utopia known as Outer Heaven, similar to Eggman's scientist utopia of the Eggman Empire. Both plans also stemmed as a response to perceived unjust actions against people they looked up to The Boss for Big Boss, and Professor Gerald Robotnik for Dr. Eggman).
* Eggman was the very first human character to ever appear in the Sonic franchise.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Doctor Eggman at Sonic News Network
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