The Robotnik's

The Robotnik's is a American animated television mini-series that's a spin-off of Mobius' Freedom Fighters. It aired on February 18, 2023.
Originally not planned, The Robotnik's was put into production due to production delays in the middle of the second season of the main show. As such, the series is known for being in between the main show
==Summary==
Taking place around the second season of the main show, partially at the halfway point, the series follows Dr. Ivo Robotnik, a middle-aged, mad scientist who is the longtime enemy of the Freedom Fighters, and his family's day to day life consisting of his crazy hermit grandfather Gerald Robotnik, and his lackeys Metal Sonic, Tails Doll and Mecha Knuckles. Whether testing inventions that can (and do most of the time) end in disaster, running the empire and trying to not let the Freedom Fighters ruining with their fun, or just trying to find a hobby that's not enslaving all of Mobius, Robotnik and his out-there family team can find misadventures wherever they go and whatever they do.
==Cast of Characters==
Character 	Bio
Robotnik Empire 	Robotnik Empire
A totalitarian regime ruled by the infamous Dr. Robotnik. It was created on Mobius shortly after Robotnik's takeover of the planet, with its capital being Newtrogic High Island. Its main enemies are the resistance and their numerous allies. Regardless, the Robotnik Empire continues to encompass much of Mobius.	A totalitarian regime ruled by the infamous Dr. Robotnik. It was created on Mobius shortly after Robotnik's takeover of the planet, with its capital being Newtrogic High Island. Its main enemies are the resistance and their numerous allies. Regardless, the Robotnik Empire continues to encompass much of Mobius.
Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik 	A mad scientist with an IQ of 300, and a vast knowledge of mechanics and making machines, many of which being powered by small critters stuffed into robots he considers Badniks. Despite his large ego and somewhat goofy attitude, Robotnik has a reputation of causing massive global disasters. No matter how much damage or chaos his plans may cause, the doctor is dead set on taking over Mobius and defeating Sonic and his Freedom Fighters by any means necessary.
Prof. Gerald Robotnik 	Robotnik's world-renowned insane senile elderly grandfather who is in his 100's and widely acknowledged as one of the greatest and deadliest villains on Earth. Which encouraged his grandson to be just like him.
Metal Sonic 	The ultimate robot which Robotnik developed secretly in order to compete with Sonic. While he was Robotnik's lackey However, he's know for being very shifty and mysterious.
Tails Doll 	A creepy old doll that Metal Sonic manufactured. This, on the outside without the power plant embedded in its head, is a mere stuffed animal, whose meager form nevertheless exhibits considerable ability due to its lightweight design. However on the inside, it's a menacing doll that can do awful things.
Mecha Knuckles 	A secret robotic weapon manufactured by Dr. Robotnik to overcome Knuckles near the end of Season 1 with in case Knuckles would prove to be a hindrance.
Freedom Fighters 	Freedom Fighters
A rebellious freedom group formed, based and operating out of South Island. The team travel around Mobius, always one step ahead of Dr. Robotnik. 	A rebellious freedom group formed, based and operating out of South Island. The team travel around Mobius, always one step ahead of Dr. Robotnik.
Sonic the Hedgehog 	A speedy, snarky 15 year old blue blur who's gifted with the power of super sonic speed and the leader of the Freedom Fighters. Sonic knows Robotnik longer than anyone as before taking home on South Island, he met and fought Robotnik on Christmas Island. After defending South Island from Robotnik, he banded the Freedom Fighters and devoting his life to making sure Robotnik doesn't succeed with his diabolical plans.
Miles "Tails" Prower 	A 8 year old fox born with the abnormality of having two tails and the creator of the Freedom Fighters' plane, the X-Tornado. Tails has accompanied Sonic during his adventures as his sidekick and Freedom Fighters' handyman.
Mighty the Armadillo 	A 16 year old no-nonsense enforcer who lived on Westside Island with Ray and Amy. He and Sonic are more or less rivals, due to Mighty feeling Sonic's way to lax in his role as leader. Mighty also has a bad temper (which does not help sometimes).
Ray the Flying Squirrel 	A 7 year old friendly flying squirrel that is Mighty's sidekick and the youngest Freedom Fighter. Despite him being kept from going on missions with the Freedom Fighters due to his age, Ray his a burning desire to get involved in the fight against Robotnik.
Amy Rose 	A 12 year old cheerful, though slightly erratic girl, with a positive attitude, boundless energy and a love for fortunes and mystic things. However, she has a scary temper and her infatuation with Sonic makes her shortsighted and a bit obsessive about him, having followed him everywhere since meeting him and wanting to marry him.
==Voice Cast==
Character 	Voice Actor
Dr. Ivo Robotnik & Professor Gerald Robotnik (youth)	Mike Pollock
Professor Gerald Robotnik 	Marc Biagi
Metal Sonic & Sonic the Hedgehog 	Ryan Drummond
Miles "Tails" Prower & Tails Doll 	Colleen O'Shaughnessey
Mecha Knuckles & Knuckles the Echidna 	Scott Dreier
Mighty the Armadillo 	David Humphrey
Ray the Flying Squirrel 	Colleen O'Shaughnessey
Amy Rose 	Lisa Ortiz
==Episodes==
Season	No. of episodes	First Aired 	Last Aired
1 	13 	February 18, 2023	May 27, 2023
# 	Title 	Summary 	Air date
Season 1	Season 1 	Season 1 	Season 1
01 	Gerald Robotnik: Portrait of a Villain 	In the first episode in the miniseries, Gerald Robotnik tells Metal the origin story through his autobiography on his childhood, adulthood, why he wanted to be the villain that he is today and why his grandson, Ivo Robotnik, looks up to him the way he does 	Feb 18, 2023
02 	Villains, Dictators... Chao Dads? 	While exploring the Mystic Ruins, Robotnik and Gerald end up finding a secret entrance to a Chao Garden and discover what was thought to be an extinct race of Chao's. Even some of them follows them and claim the scientists as their dads 	Feb 25, 2023
02 	Elevator Trouble 	Robotnik and Gerald's trip to the Communal Laundry Room is stopped by a major problem when the elevator they're riding on breaks down. 	Feb 25, 2023
03 	The Artificial Chaos 	Gerald brings home his old research experiments from Earth, the Artificial Chaos. But when he accidently reverses the positive and negative electrode connectors when hooking them in (he must be getting extremely old), his experiments escape and begin running amuck around Newtrogic High! 	March 4, 2023
03 	The Issue with Sparkling Lifting Drinks 	During a Saturday hang-out with the Freedom Fighters (neither had nothing better to do), Sonic and Tails find a room of Ivo's abandoned creations. One of them is a machine that produces Sparkling Lifting Drinks, a soda pop that makes its drinker float into the air, which Robotnik forgets the reason why he abandoned seeing how he remembers it getting close to completion. For the heck of it, Sonic, Tails, Ivo and Gerald take a swig of it, causing them to float into the air, but discover the reason why it was scrapped when they nearly get killed by the fan at the ceiling.	March 4, 2023
04 	The Incredible Shrinking Scientists 	Gerald attempts to demonstrate his new invention to his grandson called the Super Shrink Ray: a size machine capable of shrinking objects down to almost microscopic size. His plan backfire when the scientists goofing off with the machine accidently shoot and shrink themselves, leaving the two pint-sized scientists scrambling for a plan to get back to their normal size. 	March 11, 2023
05 	The Egg Bubble Trap 	When he discovers how Sonic's able to be able to be underwater with Air Bubbles, Robotnik decides to use Sonic's ability to trap him and his friends in a impenetrable bubbles of ultra-tough plastic bubble that will shrink as they use up the air at Aqua Lake Zone-until Gerald accidently gets trapped in one of his own bubbles and gets stuck in the bottom of the zone, and Robotnik needs to dive underwater and save him before he runs out of air. 	March 25, 2023
05 	The Fountain of Youth 	With Gerald hitting 100, Ivo feels a good birthday present for his grandfather is to help him relive his youth by finding the Mobius' Fountain of Youth. And while he does find it, Sonic and the gang try to keep it away from him fearing that he might use it for a twisted scheme 	March 25, 2023
06 	The Big Switcheroo 	What seems to be a day where Robotnik and Gerald reveal their new body-swap machine at the Annual Mobius' Science Expo, goes south when a huge fight with the Freedom Fighters causes the machine to activate and causes everyone to switch bodies 	April 1, 2023
06 	Stranded 	Due to a malfunction in the Egg Mobile, Robotnik and Gerald ends up getting stranded on an island with no other than Sonic and Tails who also had an malfunction with the X-Tornado. Which lead to the 4 slowly going insane on the island, in a game of survival. 	April 1, 2023
07 	The Power Stone from a Meteor Shower 	During the annual meteor shower, Gerald ends up spots a meteor hurtling toward Mobius—and it has a mysterious 7th Power Stone embedded inside! With this catching the attention of everyone, the villians must travel to the South Pole and keep Sonic from getting his hands on it. And things get more messeir when the want for the power forms a rift between not only the villains but the heroes too 	April 8, 2023
08 	When We're Old and Grey 	Robotnik and Gerald's attempt to turn Sonic and Tails into seniors with their newest machine called the Decrepitizer backfires, as while they're trying to zap them, Sonic's recklessness gets the better of him and result in him damaging the machine and accidentally causing a large-scale boom that makes everyone on Mobius very old. Now the elderly heroes and villains have to clean up the mess and repair the machine to reverse the effects while trying to deal with the aches of old age. 	April 15, 2023
08 	Stroke of Luck 	Bored, the Robotnik's decide to play a game of Stroke of Luck, Mobius' popular board game that can curse good or bad luck onto the players. And while they take as a joke, they soon learn that the board game might've actually cursed them when things end up going very badly (more than usual that it), and have to get the curse removed. 	April 15, 2023
09 	The El Gran Gordo Bros (Part 1): Wrestling Bros 	Taking advice from their lackeys, Robotnik and Gerald decide to take some well deserved time off and seek out a hobby that's not trying to conquer Mobius. And they get the idea when reminising on when they used to wrestle under the identities called The El Gran Gordo Bros, they decide to get back into the ring, which catches the eyes of Sonic and Tails, who been bored over no sight of the scientist and decides to sign up to to take them on 	April 22, 2023
10 	The El Gran Gordo Bros (Part 2): Tag-Team Wrestlers	With the Robotnik's preoccupied in the ring, the door is left open for a new evil to arise, and they're once-faithful lackeys Metal and Mecha seizes the opportunity to be an even better villians then they were, basically locking the 2 out of their own empire to work on their new super weapon . With no other options, they decide a team-up of unimaginable proportions must happen: The El Gran Gordos and their rivals El Erizo Veloz and El Zorro Festivo, must band together to save all of Mobius! 	April 29, 2023
11 	The Fate of Ivo Robotnik 	After an accident with the Memory Scramble wipes his memory during his birthday, Ivo end up in the care of the Freedom Fighters and they brainwash him to believe his a handyman around Emerald Town called Mr. Tinker into becoming better people and not waste of oxygen. But when the robots and Gerald arrive back home to find out what happened, the quartet set out to bring the scientists home 	May 6, 2023
12 	Where is Eggman? 	Metal Sonic, Tails Doll and Mecha Knuckles wake up with no memory of the previous day's events, and with Robotnik and Gerald nowhere to be seen The trio set out to find the scientist by figuring out exactly what happened the day before. 	May 13, 2023
12 	The Void 	A malfunction in a Warp Post causes Robotnik and Gerald to get warped to the Void. An vast and largely empty dimension hidden in Mobius. And their robot lackeys have to go save them 	May 13, 2023
13 	Ivo Robotnik: President of Mobius 	Robotnik tries to run for president by kidnapping the Mobius President. And with this power, he's able to have more power and control over Mobius, to the point of setting up a date to have South Island wrecked and the Chaos Emeralds stored. And Sonic has to find the president in 24 hours to bring Mobius to the right justice and save his island. 	May 20, 2023
==Theme Songs==
=== Opening Theme===
*R.OB.O.T.N.I.K
===Ending Themes===
*R.OB.O.T.N.I.K (shortened version) (Episodes 1-12)
*T.O.P (Episode 13)
*
==Trivia==
* The series is known for being very fourth wall breaking. With the characters constantly making jokes about how this is a cash grab and excuse to give the producers more time for the second season of the main show.
* This is the first show that makes Robotnik the star
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