Doctor Ovi Kintobor (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Doctor Ovi Kintobor is the overarching protagonist (alongside Omni-Viewer in the Fleetway comics) of early western lore in Sonic the Hedgehog media, appearing in comic books such as: Sonic the Hedgehog (promotional comic), and Fleetway Editions Sonic the Comic series. 
According to western versions of the character's backstory, he once was a kind human scientist on Mobius who wanted to rid all evil on Mobius, until he transformed into the evil Dr. Robotnik during a laboratory accident. Before that, he was a good friend of Sonic the Hedgehog.
== Biography ==
=== Sonic Bible ===
His early life is a mystery, he however originated from planet Earth. Its unknown how Kintobor got to planet Mobius. 
Robotnik, originally known as Ovi Kintobor, was a kind and benevolent scientist that operated in a local toxic waste dump. He was using the Cogwinder Retractable Partulent Corer to search for Chaos Emeralds, specifically the final, gray emerald. One day, he accidentally dug up a hibernating brown hedgehog named Sonny. He used a machine called the Lingua Scrambler'Um to teach Sonny how to speak human language. Kintobor explained to Sonny that he needs the Chaos Emeralds to reverse years of pollution and rid Planet Mobius of all evil, reverting it to its natural state.
Kintobor rescued many poisoned and struggling animals in his base, many of which Sonny befriended. Eventually, Kintobor appointed Sonny to be his right-hand assistant so he could help him in his search for the emeralds. Kintobor began teaching Sonny about physics, but Sonny discovered a treadmill that Kintobor had constructed. Running on it to pass the time, he eventually broke the sound barrier, crossing all known limits of acceleration and moving at the speed of light. Kintobor was alarmed, rushing to slow down the treadmill, only to find that Sonny had somehow turned blue. Kintobor began calling Sonny "Sonic" due to how fast he was moving. Sonic used his speed to further assist Kintobor in his experiments, and discovered a machine made entirely out of gold rings. He found out Kintobor had used this machine to gather all evil in Earth into six colored emeralds, and had them stored them in a cabinet.
Kintobor explained that the emeralds could eliminate all pollution from the world, or in the worst scenario, double the amount of evil in the world if they were to be hit by radiation. Unfortunately, just as he said that, a wave of pollution penetrated Mobius' surface and hit the emeralds, which made Kintobor's machine, the Retro-Orbital Chaos Compressor turn on and cast a beam on Kintobor, a half-eaten egg, and the Chaos Emeralds.
This transformed Ovi Kintobor from the benevolent, kind, scientist into a cold-blooded, wrathful beast that uses his intellect to spread more pollution and evil into the world, unlike Kintobor, who wanted to rid the world of it. The creature chased after Sonic, who grabbed many gold rings and ran out of there as fast as possible. The monster named itself Dr. Ivo Robotnik, and swore to destroy Sonic no matter what.
===Sonic the Comic===
Kintobor's origins slightly differ in the Sonic the Comic series. Like the bible version, Doctor Ovi Kintobor was a kindly scientist who somehow came to Mobius from Earth and sought to rid the world of evil. He build a underground laboratory in Emerald Hill Zone where he constructed a machine called Retro-Orbital Chaos Compressor (or ROCC) using Golden Rings to gradually draw in and gather all the planet's negative energy so he could safely contain it by utilizing six Chaos Emeralds he obtained. Kintobor soon befriended a speedy brown hedgehog named Sonic and made him a pair of Power Sneakers that enabled him to move so fast that he broke the sound barrier, turning him blue in the process. With Sonic's help, Kintobor tried to acquire a Grey Emerald to stabilise the ROCC's energy transferral, but then discovered an alternative method of achieving this when Sonic failed to obtain the emerald. Before working on this method however, Ovi opted to have some lunch and only found a rotten egg that had been in the fridge for six months. Kintobor returned to the ROCC with rotten egg in hand when he accidentally tripped on a wire while looking for some salt and onto the machine's control panel, sending a surge of energy through him and the egg. Afterwards, Sonic discovered Ovi Kintobor had been transformed into the tyrannical Doctor Ivo Robotnik.
The accident caused an explosion that scattered the Golden Rings used in the ROCC's construction, with one of the Rings having an imprint of Ovi Kintobor's mind burned on it. The Ring was found by Sonic and used to create a Kintobor AI to assist him and the Freedom Fighters battle against Robotnik's rule of Mobius.
== Appearence ==
In the Sonic the Hedgehog promotional comic, he was an elderly man with messy white sideburns and a large white kaiser moustache, for attire he wore a brown blazer with a white shirt underneath, as well as blue jeans with a black belt.
In Fleetway's Sonic the Comic, his appearence is similar to his Robotnik form, though he was a lean and slick man as apposed to obese, he even had an oval shaped bald head, he also had a long strip of ginger hair behind his head, resembling his moustache. For attire, he wore a white labcoat and white gloves and silver pince-nez sunglasses.
== Personality ==
Kintobor was a very kind and nice benevolent, albeit clumsy scientist, helping people in need and saving sick and poisoned animals, and using his talents to benefit others rather than himself. After his transformation into Robotnik, he became a monstrous tyrant that only cared about himself, and would do anything to destroy Sonic the Hedgehog, even going to extreme lengths to fulfill his dream to conquering Mobius for himself.
== Gallery ==
File:06a2a8c8a5076a7c68961d20fb027dd6.jpg|Kintobor in the US promotional comic.
File:Sonicusrobotnik.webp|Kintobor turning into Robotnik in the US promotional comic.
File:STC8-Kintobor.JPG.webp|Kintobor in Sonic the Comic.
File:STC71 kintobor trips.webp|Kintobors accident.
File:Kintobor transforms into Robotnik.jpg|Kintobor transforms into Robotnik!
File:Doctor-Ivo-Kintobor.webp|Doctor Ivo Kintobor (who is the Moebius counterpart of Robotnik) in the Archie Comics.
File:Ovi Kintobor computer.png|The Kintobor computer.
File:The Origin of Dr Robotnik & Kintobor computer - Full Scene - YouTube - Google Chrome 11 26 2023 2 59 38 PM.png
File:Robotnik turns back into Kintobor..jpg|Robotnik turning back into Kintobor.
File:Kintobor turning back into Robotnik..jpg|Kintobor turning back into Robotnik.
File:Kintobor Badnik.webp|The Kintobor Computer after it was taken over by Grimer.
== Trivia ==
* His name is Robotnik spelled backwards.
* While the Western designs of Dr. Robotnik don't often have white gloves and especially glasses, Kintobor in Sonic the Comic is seen wearing pince-nez sunglasses and white gloves likely nodding the ones from his original Japanese Eggman design, however he lost the said attire when he transformed into Robotnik. Despite this, Robotnik is however seen wearing his white gloves in the first issue of Sonic the Comic with the likes of the US promotional comic, until they suddenly vanished in the second issue.
* Its unknown what region he comes from on Earth, though its possible he is an American or British citizen, hence he appears to be an anglophone. London and England are also shown in Sonic the Comic when Earth makes an appearence which he may have come from before he came to Mobius.
* Kintobor's US promotional comic appearence was loosley modeled on the real life scientific genius Albert Einstein. Kintobor even mentions to "Eggstein's theory of mass versus velocity" which is a reference to Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity (commonly simplified to E = mc2)
* Despite the Kintobor backstory been unused for Robotnik's Archie counterpart, his actual name is Julian Kintobor, the former would however be used in some of the issues such as issue 11, whom he would be the Moebius counterpart of Dr. Robotnik.
* Despite this backstory of Dr. Eggman being well recieved by some fans, claiming it makes him a more tragic character, and explaining as to why Sonic never kills him, thinking he still wants to believe he can one day get his friend back, the early North American Sonic canon was slowly abandoned throughout the 1990s. This culminated in the Sonic series' 10th anniversary, in 2001, with the release of Sonic Adventure 2, which scrapped the Kintobor backstory entirely. No mention of Dr. Kintobor and the canon he came from has been made ever since.
* Dr. Robotnik's appearance in the Sonic the Hedgehog film series produced by Paramount Pictutes is a bit similar to Kintobor, as both are lean and slick men along with their ovalish heads.
== External Links ==
* Doctor Ovi Kintobor on the Sonic Wiki
* Doctor Ovi Kintobor on the Sonic the Comic Wiki
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