Ivo Robotnik

Dr. **Ivo Robotnik** (アイヴォ・ロボトニック, *Aivo Robotonikku*), or known as **Dr. Eggman** (ドクター・エッグマン, *Dokutā Egguman*), is both a fictional character and a antagonist from the *Sonic* series created by Yuji Naka.

He is an evil human mad scientist with an IQ of 300, whose primary dreams and ambition of universal domination and reshape it into the greatest empire. He will not stop until he dominates the world with unlimited resources and his ruthless army at his disposal.

Aided his 2nd-in-command, sidekicks, messenger, as well as his arsenal of mechanized minions, terrornauts, and airships, he is a self-proclaimed or certifiable genius with a fondness for mechas has made him a renowned authority on robotics.

Ultimately, Dr. Eggman has time and time again proven a formidable foe and persistent force, despite his constant plots are always thwarted at the hands of his most hated enemy, Sonic the Hedgehog, and his many allies.

"*Citizens of the world! My name is Dr. Eggman- the world's greatest scientist, and soon to be the greatest ruler. Resistance is futile. You will submit to my rule or be swept away like dust bodies! Now witness the beginning of the greatest empire of all time!*"

—Dr. Eggman.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice Actor*: Mike Pollock (English), Kotaro Nakamura (Japanese), Not Known (Albanian), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Isaac Bardavid (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Croatian), Just Meijer (Dutch), Bruno Lähteenmäki (Finnish), Not Known (Filipino), Marc Bretonnière (French), Not Known (Galician), Johannes Hamm (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), András Faragó (Hungarian), Jumali Prawirorejo (Indonesian), Zvika Shwartzberg (Isralian), Dario Penne (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Preben Olram (Norwegian), Wiesław Sławik (Polish), Ricardo Monteiro (Portuguese), Petre Ghimbășan (Romanian), Dmitriy Filimonov (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Francesc Belda (Spanish), Gunnar Ernblad (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Anatoliy Zinovenko (Ukrainian), Isaac Bardavid (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Juan Guzman (Latin Spanish)

### Appearance

Dr. Eggman is depicted as a human with a rotund and burly appearance, his torso and head coming together in an egg-like shape. He possesses no visible neck, a bald head, a bright red nose, and a very bushy mahogany moustache. He also has long, almost disproportionately thin arms and legs.

#### Younger

During his early years, Eggman had a completely round torso with normal-looking arms and legs. Back then, he also wore a red shirt/jacket with yellow triangles (which can be described as either a collar or part of a cape, which can be seen on his back), with black pants with connected boots and silver-colored round buckles, white gloves, and mirrored pince-nez glasses.

#### Present

In the present day, Eggman remains obese, but has become somewhat burlier, taller and less flabby with long, almost disproportionately thin arms and legs.

For attire, Eggman wears tinted, navy blue pince-nez glasses and green-lensed goggles as headwear and an elegant, red coat sporting two square metal buttons on both sides of the chest in gold. These buttons have white straps that run across the coat's sides to identical buttons on the back. The coat also has silver, zipper-like linings down the back, arms and front, yellow cuffs, and two extensions on the front that have large silver buttons. In addition, Eggman also wears white, cuff-less gloves on his hands and a pair of black pants with matching boots seemingly attached to them bearing circular plates on the both sides of the ankles and three square ones riding up the shin.

* Hair Color: Mahogany (mustache)
* Skin Color: Beige
* Eye Color: Not Known
* Age: 40s-60s
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: 185 cm (6' 1")
* Weight: 128 kg (282 lbs.)

## Relationships

### Friends and Allies

* Eggman Empire
	+ Egg Army
		- Egg Bosses
			* Abyss the Squid
			* Akhlut the Orca
			* Axel the Water Buffalo
			* Mimic
			* Rough the Skunk
			* Tumble the Skunk
* Time Eater
* Jackal Squad
	+ Infinite

### Family

* Ivan Robotnik (ancestor; deceased)
* Ivo Robughnik (ancestor; deceased)
* Brutus Robotnik (ancestor; deceased)
* Irving Pavlov (second cousin; deceased)
* Prof. Gerald Robotnik (grandfather; deceased)
* Maria Robotnik (cousin; deceased)
* Eggman Robotnik (father; deceased)
* Bertha Robotnik (mother; deceased)
* Colin Robotnik (brother)
* Dr. Hacker (nephew)
* Hope Robotnik (niece)
* Dr. Eggman Nega (distant relative)
* Eggman's Robots (creations)
* Bocoe
* Orbot
* Decoe
* Cubot
* Bokkun
* FriendBot (formerly)
	+ Badniks
		- Metal Series
			* Metal Sonic
		- Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad (formerly)
			* Scratch
			* Grounder
			* Coconuts
	+ E-Series

### Neutral

* Breezie the Hedgehog
* Dr. Starline
* Dr. Julian Snively
* Team Hooligans
	+ Nack the Weasel
	+ Bean the Dynamite
	+ Bark the Polar Bear
* Chaos
* Emerl/G-merl
* Team Babylon
	+ Jet the Hawk
	+ Wave the Swallow
	+ Storm the Albatross

### Enemies

* Team Sonic
	+ Sonic the Hedgehog (arch-enemy)
	+ Tails the Fox (also a rival)
	+ Knuckles the Echidna
* Team Rose
	+ Amy Rose the Hedgehog
	+ Cream the Rabbit
	+ Cheese the Chao
	+ Big the Cat
* Team Chaotix
	+ Vector the Crocodile
	+ Espio the Chameleon
	+ Charmy the Bee
* Team Might
	+ Mighty the Armadillo
	+ Ray the Flying Squirrel
	+ Sticks the Badger
* Vanilla the Rabbit
* Christopher Thorndyke
* Chuck Thorndyke
* Cosmo
* Helen
* Frances
* Danny
* Mister Stewart
* United Federation
	+ The President
* G.U.N.
	+ Topaz
	+ Team Dark
		- Shadow the Hedgehog
		- Rouge the Bat
		- E-123 Omega
* Tangle the Lemur
* Tikal the Echidna
* Metarex
	+ Dark Oak
	+ Pale Bayleaf
	+ Black Narcissus
* Bio Lizard
* Diamond Cutters
	+ Claire Voyance
	+ Slinger the Ocelot
	+ Smithy the Lion
	+ Whisper the Wolf
* Black Arms
	+ Black Doom
* Princess Elise
* Team Sol
	+ Silver the Hedgehog
	+ Marine the Raccoon
	+ Blaze the Cat
* Ifrit
* Professor Pickle
* Chip
* Nocturnus Clan
	+ Pir'Oth Ix
* Shade the Echidna
* Deadly Six
	+ Master Zik
	+ Zavok
	+ Zazz
	+ Zeena
	+ Zomom
	+ Zor
* Lyric the Last Ancient

## Powers and Abilities

Dr. Eggman is a brilliant scientist and inventor with seemingly limitless mastery over technology. His remarkable skills as an engineer and programmer are best evidenced by the armies of robots, machines and mechs he has created for his numerous schemes. He is also an incredibly skilled pilot: able to manipulate many different kinds of his own mechs, robots and vehicles in difficult battles with Sonic.

### Attacks

* Big Belly Ballistic Bounce
* Flying Gordito Smasher

### Move Skills

* Genius level intellect
* Brilliant expert mechanic and inventor
* Advanced piloting skills
* Hand-to-hand combat skills

## History

### Past

#### Early life

Dr. Eggman was born as Dr. Ivo Robotnik, the grandson of the brilliant scientist Professor Gerald Robotnik. In childhood, Dr. Robotnik looked up to his grandfather as a hero, and believed him to be a great man who had done his best to help mankind. Thus the doctor decided to follow in his grandfather's footsteps and became a scientist.

#### The first rise of Dr. Eggman

Dr. Robotnik started his career as a technical researcher for G.U.N.. However, at some point he became obsessed with the idea of the entire world under his rule, and using his unmatched genius, began his plans. It was not long before a fellow coworker of his, Dr. Julian Snively, stumbled across his plans for world domination.

Not wanting to let it slip out, Robotnik bribed him into becoming his chief mechanic. Thanks to his "contributions", Robotnik was granted full access to the Federation's resources, which assisted in his conquest to obtain the Chaos Emeralds, prepare an army of robots, and construct his super-weapon: the Death Egg. Ever since then, he began his life's work to establish his Eggman Empire.

### Early schemes and conquests

Some time after this, he launched his first Death Egg, only for an old friend and a young hedgehog would begin foiling the plans of Dr. Robotnik (now giving himself the alias "Dr. Eggman"), and later joining them were the group of heroes would later be become known as the Resistance, who would end his attempted rules and thwart his plans time and again.

Even so, Dr. Eggman however had still managed to create a powerful empire for himself and was able to use it to spread his evil ambitions across the globe but would continually come into conflict with his mortal adversaries and their allies each time. This was despite his briefly tricking Knuckles the Echidna, Guardian of Angel Island, and gaining control of the Master Emerald.

Later, Eggman would construct the incredibly lethal Metal Sonic, who he used to kidnap a young Amy and seize control of Little Planet. Once again, he was defeated by Sonic, who not only rescued Amy, but liberated Little Planet and outmatched Metal Sonic in a race.

An attempt of Eggman's to eliminate Sonic following his loss of Mobotropolis involved the Super Special Sonic Search & Smash Squad and a "captured" Breezie the Hedgehog. Breezie fed information to Eggman that allowed him to deploy robots against Sonic such as the original Silver Sonic. In return, Eggman would reward Breezie in such a way as to insure her financial security. Sonic eventually faced off against Dr. Eggman in the Egg Storm Chamber, where Eggman held Tails captive. However, Eggman let Tails go free in an attempt to keep Sonic from chasing after him while Eggman fled.

Dr. Eggman later launched an operation on Isolated Island that was thwarted by the Team Chaotix, resulting in numerous Badniks being left on the island. Another creation of his was the computer virus Phage, who despite her abilities apparently disappointed Eggman severely. Her fear of Eggman's wrath later prompted an attempt to retake Isolated Island and Dr. Ellidy's research for Eggman.

At some point in time, Dr. Eggman and his forces invaded Lupe the Wolf's village. Sonic came to her aid, and Sonic ran off to follow and defeat Dr. Eggman while Antoine defended Sally and Lupe. Using the terrain of the Thunder Plains to his advantage, Sonic lead the evil dictator into a lightning bolt, destroying the doctor's vehicle and sending him fleeing while his hated nemesis mocked his name.

### The schemes for Mega Drive

Eggman later hatched a plan to search the Eastwatch Islands for the Ancient Gears to run his new super-weapon, the Mega Drive. Needing the Master Emerald to power the Mega Drive, Eggman tricked Knuckles into believing Sonic had gone on a rampage with the Chaos Emeralds. Agreeing to let Eggman watch the Master Emerald, who he had believed had cleaned up his act, Knuckles waited to ambush Sonic in the Cascade Temple under the orders of Eggman. With the Master Emerald secured, Eggman went to search for the Ancient Gears. Finding the first in Green Seaside, Eggman encountered Sonic and Tails, who defeated him and took the Ancient Gear along with freeing captured Mobini, with Eggman fleeing. Eggman later met Sonic, Tails, and Amy in Flower Park, where he lost another Ancient and more captured Mobini to the heroes. Eggman then fled to Cascade Temple, where the heroes helped Knuckles realize that Eggman had once again tricked him. While Eggman ambushed the four when they formed a team, he was beaten again and lost another Ancient Gear and more Mobini to them.

After fleeing to Glitter Peak, Eggman met the four heroes again and suffered another defeat at their hands. After losing another Ancient Gear, Eggman fled to Haunted Depths, where he encountered Sonic by himself, who had split up from his friends. After losing another battle and another Ancient Gear to his nemesis, Eggman fled to Eruption Ruins. He reused a more deadly version of the trap sprung by Knuckles in Cascade Temple Zone, but was unable to stop the reunited heroes. Fleeing on foot to a new machine, Eggman challenged the group once more, but was bested again. After losing another Ancient Gear, Metal Sonic swooped in to steal the five Ancient Gears that Tails had as well as kidnap Amy. Both Eggman and Metal Sonic then fled to Eggman's newest flying fortress. While devising a list of demands in exchange for Amy, Eggman was interrupted by Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles when they located him. After handing over their Ancient Gear in exchange for Amy thinking that Eggman did not have the last one, the team realized that Metal Sonic had the last Ancient Gear inside of it. After the three defeated Metal Sonic and saved Amy, Eggman and Metal Sonic fled to Eggman's deep sea base directly under the fortress.

## External links

* Dr. Eggman *Wikipedia*
* Dr. Eggman *Sonic News Network*
* "Eggman"\_Robotnik Dr. Eggman *Villains Wikia*

## Notes & Trivia

* Dr. Eggman once used to have a meticulous cardio regimen.