Maria Robotnik

## Maria Robotnik of the House of Kintobor

### Fate

Shot in the back dead by a G.U.N. soldier while trying to assist Shadow's escape.

### Relative(s)

* Gerald Robotnik (grandfather) †
* Jennifer Vasquez (grandmother) †
* Geraldo Robotnik (father) †
* Meredith Sanders (mother) †
* Bertha Robotnik (aunt) †
* Ivo Kintobor (uncle) †
* Colin Robotnik (cousin)
* Dr. Eggman (cousin)
* Irving Pavlov (second cousin) †
* Unnamed cousins
* Dr. Spicer (first cousin once removed)
* Hope Robotnik (first cousin once removed)

### Friend(s)

* Shadow (best friend)
* Abraham Tower

### Enemies

* Black Arms
	+ Black Doom

## Items & Equipment

### Previous Attire(s)

* Dark blue hairband
* Dark blue top
* Light blue dress
* Dark blue slippers

## Powers and Abilities

### Skill(s)

* Genius-level intelligence
* Positive influence
* Hand to hand combat

### Abilities

* Enhanced agility
* Enhanced strength

## Portrayals

### Voiced By (Foreign)

* Flávia Fontenelle (Brazilian Portuguese)
* Marie Millet (French)
* Letizia Ciampa (Italian)
* Ximena Marchant (Latin Spanish)
* Biwen Lei (Mandarin Chinese)
* Adriana Moniz (Portuguese)
* Chelo Vivares (Spanish)

**Maria Robotnik**, is both a fictional character and tetartagonist of the *SKB's* *Sonic Pokémon* series created by Yuji Naka and Ken Sugimori. She was a young human, who had unfortunately died during an incident 50 years ago.

Maria had suffered from a rare, but terminal illness disease. In order to save her life, Gerald agreed to the President of Station Square's research proposal to create immortality and took Maria along with him to the ARK to be raised safe.

Because of the N.I.D.S., she is the unable to leave the ARK and go down to the planet and place of her birth. To save Maria's life, Gerald worked on Project: Shadow in hopes for a cure for her over of helping personal military matters.

Gerald's research managed to produce a potential cure with the help of Black Doom, with whom Maria became close friends. When G.U.N. later shut down the ARK, Maria was killed by a soldier while trying to assist Shadow's escape.

Her passing while trying to escape the ARK when the project was terminated had a big impact on Shadow's mental psyche and proved to be an event that would strongly influence the fate of the world in the decades that followed.

"*Shadow, I beg of you! Give them a chance to be happy!*"

—Maria Robotnik, to Shadow.

## Appearance

*Voice Actor*: Rebecca Honig (English), Yuri Shiratori (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Bulgarian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Croatian), Not Known (Czech), Not Known (Danish), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Filipino), Marie Millet (French), Not Known (Galician), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hindi), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Letizia Ciampa (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Malay), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Persian), Not Known (Polish), Adriana Moniz (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Chelo Vivares (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Turkish), Not Known (Ukrainian), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Vietnamese), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (French Creole), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Ximena Marchant (Latin Spanish), Biwen Lei (Mandarin Chinese), Not Known (Spain-Spanish), Not Known (Taiwanese Mandarin)

### Biography

Maria Robotnik - A loving and generous girl suffering from NIDS (Neuro-Immune Deficiency Syndrome). She lived aboard the ARK so that the low gravity would keep her condition in remission. And yet, was raised with Shadow and was his only friend, died in front of his very eyes; her final wish was that Shadow save the world. Saving the world from what is a secret only Shadow knows. Traumatized by the grief of her death, Shadow remains strong enough to keep the promise he made to her.

### Physical Appearance

Maria was described as beautiful, yet frail in appearance. She was a young slim human girl who was about two heads taller than Shadow. She had wavy shoulder-length blonde hair, with dark blue eyes, pink lips and pale peach skin. For attire, she wore a dark blue puffy-sleeved t-shirt with light blue trims, a light blue, knee-length skirt, and a dark blue hairband and slippers.

Occasionally, Maria wore a pink hairband, a pale pink Juliet-sleeved dress with a white collar and a pink duel-flap tie, and pink flats with gray soles.

* Hair Color: Blonde
* Skin Color: Peach
* Eye Color: Blue
* Age: 12 (Deceased)
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: 140 cm (4' 7½")
* Weight: 70 lb. (32 kg)

## Personality

While frail in appearance, Maria was strong in spirit. Eternally cheerful, optimistic and positive despite her condition, Maria could see the good in almost anyone or anything. She was likewise a very kind, loving and generous soul who always put others before herself, supported her friends, and held an unconditional love for the people of the world, even showing compassion towards her enemies when they were distressed. Because she never got down to Mobius, Maria was very interested in the planet and wished to see it.

She was as well very encouraging as she could make others accept themselves and calm others down when in stressful situations, including Shadow. Always gentle and thinking about others before herself, Maria was one who found it easier than most to forgive and forget, not to mention trust. Even after G.U.N. violently raided the ARK and shot her down, Maria did not hold any ill will against the people on earth and only wished for them to live happy lives.

She was also utterly selfless as she sacrificed her life for Shadow's sake, having faith he would carry on her dreams for her. Despite her youth and frailness, Maria was brave, determined, and had a strong sense of righteousness. When the Artificial Chaos were on a rampage, Maria wanted to stop them to save the innocent, and during the GUN's raid on the ARK she refused to leave the injured researchers behind. Even on her deathbed, Maria remained undeterred and only wished for Shadow to fulfill his purpose.

## Relationships

### Friends/Allies

* Shadow (best friend)
* Abraham Tower

### Family

* Gerald Robotnik (grandfather; deceased)
* Jennifer Vasquez (grandmother; deceased)
* Gerbera Robotnik (father; deceased)
* Meredith Sanders (mother; deceased)
* Bertha Robotnik (aunt; deceased)
* Ivor Robotnik (uncle; deceased)
* Colin Robotnik (cousin)
* Dr. Eggman (cousin)
* Irving Pavlov (second cousin; deceased)
* Unnamed cousins
* Dr. Spicer (first cousin once removed)
* Hope Robotnik (first cousin once removed)

### Enemies

* Black Arms
	+ Black Doom

## Abilities and Powers

Maria did not have any special skills, and because of her [[Neuro-Immune Deficiency Syndrome]|N.I.D.S.]], she had a frail and weak body. However, she did have some abilities: she was able to run fairly quickly and had enough strength to land weak blows.

## History

### Past

It has been implied that Maria comes from a long line of brilliant scientists. She was raised onboard the Space Colony ARK. Before she could visit Mobius however, she contracted from the rare, but incurable and inevitably fatal terminal illness. Due to her disease that made her body frail and weak, Maria needed constant attention, which meant she could not leave the ARK's hospital, leaving her confined in space.

Additionally, her condition was only mitigated by the low gravity onboard the ARK, further confining her to the station. Despite getting medical help, Maria only grew weaker over time. Even so, Maria remained optimistic that she would recover. While looking down at the earth from the ARK, Maria developed an interest in it and longed to go there. Onboard the ARK, Maria was looked after and cared for by her grandfather, Gerald Robotnik.

Maria came to mean everything to Gerald, and the two of them would work and live together onboard the ARK. Maria also befriended a young Abraham Tower whom she would play with. In an attempt to save Maria's life, Gerald, who was the greatest scientific mind of his time, agreed to work on Project Shadow, a government project for creating an immortal life form. The reason for this was that Gerald believed that he could make a cure for Maria's illness with the creature they sought to make.

Gerald's research eventually led to the creation of Shadow, an immortal and powerful creature, who received a soul identical to Maria's. Maria eventually befriended Shadow and they grew very close to each other. While raised and living together with Shadow onboard the ARK, Maria wanted to go down to Mobius with Shadow and make new friends like him in there. Maria also took notice of Shadow's own interest in Mobius and would hear his hopes of finding the meaning behind his existence on that planet.

When the Artificial Chaos went on a rampage onboard the Space Colony ARK, Maria sought out Shadow to help save the ARK. Shadow complied with Maria's wishes, saying that he would do anything to protect her and the ARK, and the Artificial Chaos crisis was soon after averted by the combined forces of Shadow and GUN.

When the government began growing suspicious about Project Shadow, Gerald prepared a contingency video for Shadow where he told the black hedgehog about Project Shadow's imminent shutdown and about how he was meant to defeat the Black Arms, an evil alien race who helped create Shadow, with the Eclipse Cannon when they returned in 50 years to conquer Mobius. During the recording, Maria joined her grandfather and promised to help Shadow protect the planet alongside him.

Sometime eventually after the completion of Project Shadow, Maria's peaceful existence was shattered when G.U.N. attacked the ARK in order to shut down Project Shadow, take possession of Shadow himself, and eliminate everything and everyone related to the project, as the military had come to believe that Project Shadow was too dangerous. Meeting up with her grandfather during the violent raid, Maria was entrusted with Shadow by Gerald, who told her to escape the ARK with Shadow in some escape capsules.

While Gerald distracted G.U.N., Maria and Shadow tried to escape the raid, but Maria was unwilling to leave the other researchers in the captivity of G.U.N. and pleaded Shadow to help them. After Shadow had made his decision, he and Maria continued onward, but were attacked by a Heavy Dog on their way to the escape capsules. Fortunately, Shadow defeated the Heavy Dog, allowing him and Maria to resume their escape from the G.U.N. soldiers pursuing them.

Eventually, Maria and Shadow got to the ARK's escape pods in the research center. There, Maria saved Shadow by initiating his escape pod's launch with him in it. While Maria was separated from Shadow however, she was spotted by G.U.N. soldier, Mr. Schmitz. In an attempt to escape Schmitz, Maria ran back to the escape pods, where she prepared to deploy Shadow's escape pod. However, Schmitz caught up to her and warned her not to pull a lever.

Maria ignored his warnings however, prompting a desperate Schmitz to shoot her. Mortally wounded, Maria, with her last strength, before saying goodbye, begged Shadow to protect the world, help bring happiness to humanity for her sake and give everyone a chance to be happy, just before Shadow's capsule was jettisoned into space from the ARK. Afterwards, as Maria herself succumbed to her wound and perished, her parting words were "Bring hope to humanity".

## Legacy

Maria's death was an event that had a huge impact on the friends and family of the young girl and would strongly influence several conflicts that would determine the fate of the world. Shadow, who witnessed Maria's death first handed, was traumatized by this sight and came to loathe humanity for what they did. Maria's last request for Shadow to protect the world and its people would be a driving force in the hedgehog's life, which Shadow made the promise to keep despite his loathing of humanity.

Commander Tower also suffered a deep loss, as Maria was like a sister to him, which made him develop a life-long grudge at both Gerald and Shadow for inadvertently killing her. However, none was more affected by Maria's death than her grandfather, Gerald, who went mad with grief and made a plan to destroy the world to avenge her by having the Space Colony ARK collide with the Mobius once all seven Chaos Emeralds was inserted into the Eclipse Cannon.

To ensure his plan's success, the professor brainwashed Shadow, twisting his memory of Maria's last request so that Shadow would be motivated to seek revenge at the human race. Before he went insane though, Gerald made Maria's last words the keywords that would activate Emerl's free-willed emotion-based AI. When Shadow was reawakened nearly 50 years later though, he sought to avenge Maria's death (due to Gerald manipulating his memories) by destroying the human race.

Maria's last request for Shadow to protect the world and its people would be a driving force in the hedgehog's life, which Shadow made the promise to keep despite his loathing of humanity. When Shadow was reawakened nearly 50 years later though, he sought to avenge Maria's death (due to Gerald manipulating his memories) by destroying the human race.

It was not until the 11th hour that Shadow remembered Maria's dying wish, and he aided Sonic and his allies in stopping the very plan he had set into motion, seemingly sacrificing his life in the process. Shadow survived his ordeal only to lose his memories, with the exception of a disturbing image of Maria being shot. When the Black Arms invaded and set Shadow out to rediscover his purpose, Black Doom would use Maria's demise at the hands of the humans to sway Shadow to his side.

Fortunately, Shadow learned of his true purpose in life from a final video message from Maria and Gerald. Shadow was to be the protector of all life on Mobius and defend them from any forms of threats that may and will come, especially when the Black Arms returned in 50 years. This, which gave him the motivation needed to obliterate the Black Arms. Currently, Shadow strives to keep his promise to Maria, which has made him save the world multiple times.

Contemporaneously, Maria was allegedly seen in a very positive light amongst the people, even over 50 years after her death. This sparked some jealously from her cousin, who, despite never actually meeting her in person, appeared to dislike her because of her being seen as someone very special despite having died, leading to him not getting much attention from relatives. However, during the Starfall Islands *incident*, Jack, would wonder if she was much like his "daughter".

## External links

* Maria Robotnik *‎‎‎Heroes Wiki*
* Maria Robotnik *Mobius Encyclopedia*
* Maria Robotnik *Nintendo Wiki*
* Maria Robotnik *‎‎‎The Sonic Wiki*

## Notes & Trivia

* Her appearance and outfit are reminiscent of Alice, the heroine of Lewis Carroll's novels *Alice in Wonderland* and *Through the Looking-Glass*.
* Maria's name is the password for both activating Shadow the Hedgehog and accessing the ARK's files about Project Shadow. The password is formatted as "Ma-Ri-A" because of Japanese phonetics (matching the katakana for her name "マリア").