Gerald Robotnik (Mobius' Freedom Fighters)

Gerald Robotnik is the deuteragonist in The Robotnik's, secondary antagonist of Mobius' Freedom Fighters for the second and (in the first half) third seasons and the main antagonist for the third season (in the second half). He was a Overlander scientist and the grandfather of Dr. Ivo Robotnik. A world-renowned insane scientist who is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest and deadliest villains on Earth until his retirement. Which encouraged his grandson to be just like him and go out to discover Mobius.
A few years afterwards, Gerald found out about his grandson's now gained reputation, and comes out of his retirement to join his grandson's empire and help him in his world conquest. Though after The Space Colony ARK incident, he was taken into custody by the military, deeming he too dangerous. And after he escaped custody and almost destroying Earth again, he was captured again and sentenced to death by gunshot. 
== Appearance ==
Gerald Robotnik bore a distinct resemblance to his grandson. He had broad and elevated shoulders, a round, almost egg-shaped, torso (though not with as large a girth as Robotnik), slightly over-proportioned arms and legs, and large hands and feet. He was also bald with a dome-shaped head, a long and large nose, and low-set small ears. Like Robotnik, he also had an oversized mustache, except his is grey (originally brown before aging) and more ragged. He was also not very tall of stature, only being about half a head taller than his grandson.
Gerald's general attire consisted of a red turtleneck sweater (originally purple in Season 2 and yellow in his youth) and a white lab coat with black buttons. He also wore blue or purple (depending on the season) pince-nez glasses which had a distinct ripple-like pattern on them. In the Quest For the Power Stones arc, he was shown wearing brown (grey in Season 2) pants and brown shoes, while in post-Quest For the Power Stones, he is seen wearing brown pants and brown shoes.
== Personality ==
Before his descent, Gerald was a good man and a profound humanitarian, the very much opposite of his psychotic grandson Ivo. He was devoted to using his intellect to help mankind and bring them happiness and hope through the power of science, which he believed was the reason for his existence. 
Though after he got close in touch with the negative powers of gemstones, Gerald changed. And he changed for the worst. he became more of a rage-filled psychopath, developing a deep obsession with committing global genocide. Even in his last moments, all Gerald had to express was his contempt for humanity, and he died a broken man. 
While he's much more serious and threating than Ivo, Gerald's still human and remains to be a caring person towards his family, especially his grandson Ivo.
== Powers & Abilities ==
Aside from science, he's very strong for his age, as he's able to pin down others to the ground due to his wresting skills, or being able to harness the powers of the Power Stones along with Robotnik
*Intelligence: Possessing an astonishing IQ of 350, Gerald is an extremely intelligent scientist.
*Archaeologist Researcher: Gerald has a love for researching about history of places, especially Mobius. Where he uncovered many of their secrets from ancient stone tablets, papers and old ancient relics from long ago.
*Engineer: Gerald designed the world's first bernal sphere space colony, the Space Colony ARK, which came equipped with living quarters and laboratories surpassing everything available on Earth, and developed incredible devices and machinery such as the Eclipse Cannon, which has the power to destroy planets, and the pseudo-perputual mobile Chaos Drives. His biggest accomplishments, however, include the Health Unit that he privately make to help him live longer than usual (wish Gerald a happy 100rd birthday), the Bio Lizard and Shadow the Hedgehog, artificial beings with immortal bodies and powers beyond any creature on Earth.
*Skilled Pilot: Gerald is shown to be an incredibly skilled pilot, especially in the Egg Mobile. The only person who could rival his skill is his grandson Ivo.
*Skilled Liar - Mordecai proves to be a better liar than him many times, but he is still a good liar.
*Durability: Like his grandson, Gerald has survived multiple explosions from his destroyed robots.
*Wresting: Due to him being a wrester before going to science, 
===Transformations===
Super Gerald: By harnessing the power of the four Power Stones, Gerald can enter a Super State, transforming him into Super Gerald. Easily his most used transformation, Super Gerald is one of his strongest forms. In this state, not only does he has increased strength, he's also able to fly and is nearly invulnerable. However, this transformation consumes a lot of energy, meaning it cannot be maintained for long.
Hyper Gerald: By using the power of the seven Chaos Emeralds, Power Stones and Master Emerald during the finale of Season 2, Gerald achieved an extended and more powerful form of Super Gerald called Hyper Gerald. This form basically shares the same traits as his Super form, except Hyper Gerald commands greater power and all of his Super State abilities are greatly enhanced.
== Weakness ==
* Forgetful: As his old age began to catch up to him, Gerald started to become a bit forgetful. From small things to forgetting where he put his glasses or the tv remote, to slightly more problematic things like accidently reverses the positive and negative electrode connectors on his experiments when hooking them in, and to sometimes dangerous things like accidently dropping the remote to the size machine when he and Ivo where testing it's shrinking technique on themselves, or getting himself trapped inside one of his grandson's impenetrable bubbles, which, if Ivo didn't jump in and save him, could've killed him.
* Childishness: He may be the more mature compared to Ivo, but even he's prone to childish fits of rage. Although compared to his grandson, who normally takes his anger out elsewhere, Gerald tends to take his anger out on others (so if you near him and he's feeling slightly angry, run.).
* Pride: He has an inability to swallow his pride and stubbornness. He struggles to concede that he's not very good at something or that someone's better than him at something and if he wants makes a point, he will go to great lengths to prove said point.
== Relationships ==
=== Ivo Robotnik ===
Gerald's grandson. Growing up, Robotnik had immensely respected his grandfather, who likewise acted as the reason why he desired to become a scientist. It is also implied that his desires to form the Robotnik Empire were rooted at feeling his grandfather was unfairly tried. And when he offered Gerald a position as his partner in crime, he accepted. However, their relationship with each other was shaken somewhat after The Space Colony ARK arc when Ivo learned of Gerald Robotnik's irrational desire of destroying all life on the planet via a collision course from the Space Colony ARK due to insanity. And when Ivo turned good, his relationship with his grandson decreased. Nowadays, the 2 both lost respect for each other. 
=== Mr. Schmitz ===
Gerald's former friend. Once his partner in crime to help him with his endeavors slowly lead to them becoming strain due to Gerald's downward insanity, with the bombshell being Schmitz shutting down his project Shadow and locking it up
== Trivia ==
* It's known that Gerald has been arrested multiple times on Earth. When asked during on of the live QnA's, Gerald reveals that while he's been arrest so many times he can't remember, he says that he's been arrested at least ten times or more
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