Doctor Eggman (WI01)

## Doctor Ivo 'Eggman' Robotnik

**Doctor Ivo 'Eggman' Robotnik** is a major antagonist from *What If Sonic Never Lost The Werehog Form?* most known for orchestrating the events that led to Sonic gaining his Werehog abilities.

## Personality

Doctor Eggman is a sardonic and cruel genius that enjoys the suffering of others, particularly that of his nemesis Sonic the Hedgehog. He shows no remorse for the corrupting curse he accidentally left Sonic with after the Dark Gaia incident, and continues hatching plans for world domination by any means necessary. He is known to be both incredibly cunning and woefully overconfident, laying complex schemes that often go awry simply due to his own ineptitude at controlling the powers he attempts to control.

## History

### Past

Doctor Eggman's history is identical to that of his video game canon counterpart's prior to the events of the Dark Gaia incident's conclusion. Notably, he once attempted to control Chaos in an attempt to take over the world, but was betrayed by his own minion when he grew too powerful for Eggman to control.

In an attempt to seize the power of Dark Gaia, Eggman used an orbital laser cannon to crack open the planet Earth, allowing the primordial entity to wake. Following the creature's collapse into the Dark Gaia Spawn, he constructed the Dark Gaia Fusion Furnace to re-assemble the scattered creatures back into their original form, as well as a Mind Control Device to control it with - fearing that Dark Gaia may turn out similar to Chaos.

### Sonic Unleashed Arc

In Part 1, Doctor Eggman appeared in his Egg Dragoon, doing battle with Sonic the Werehog. Upon reaching the underside of the continent housing Eggmanland, he revealed the remote control for his Mind Control Device and the reconstructed Dark Gaia, whom he had successfully been able to brainwash and control using his invention. Eggman commanded Dark Gaia to attack Sonic with 'all its strength' while Chip gathered the seven Gaia Temples in order to form his giant stone body. Upon the shoulders of the Gaia Colossus, Sonic continued battling the Egg Dragoon while Chip fought off Dark Gaia.

Because of Dark Gaia's increased animosity, it did not re-absorb the fragment of itself inside of Sonic's body that causes him to become the Werehog, and fought Chip much more ferociously than in the original timeline. At some point during the battle, the Mind Control Device atop its head was damaged, and thus when Sonic threatened Eggman to call his minion off, he was unable to do so. Becoming frustrated, Eggman attempted several more times to forcefully retake control of Dark Gaia, but was instead struck by one of its tentacles and sent flying to parts unknown.

### Sonic Colors Arc

Doctor Eggman's next appearance was in Part 3, where he unveiled his Interstellar Amusement Park as a way to 'atone' for his past crimes. He appeared before Sonic, Tails, Cream, Cheese and Yacker at the Tropical Resort and responded to Sonic's demands that he 'fix' him with callous laughter. Eggman elaborated that there was no way to destroy the essence of Dark Gaia, and that he wouldn't do if even if he knew how. He summoned the Globotron to attack the party, but quickly fled after it was destroyed by a single punch from the Werehog.

He was next seen at the Starlight Carnival generator, where he demonstrated his Mind Control Ray against Tails. He fled once again after the device ran out of Hyper-go-on energy, eager to collect more that he might activate the full-sized Mind Control Cannon.

After the destruction of all five generators, Doctor Eggman was seen in his control room with Orbot and Cubot, where he was monitoring the status of his Hyper-go-on reactor. His systems alerted him to the escape of a 'giant alien' he'd been keeping in captivity, and the Nega-Mother Wisp proceeded to appear and lay waste to everything in sight. He was later nowhere to be found when E-123 Omega broke into his control room along with the rest of Sonic's allies, led by Tails - who commandeered his Mind Control Cannon and used it to restore the Mother Wisp's sanity. In the wake of Mother Wisps' fission with Sonic following her mass-restoration effort and while all the heroes were gathered, Eggman appeared, bursting beneath the ground in his new battle-mecha: The Nega-Wisp Armor. Though he was able to use the machine's Color Powers to entrap Sonic and send his friends flying, the Mother Wisp effortlessly disabled the Armor's systems and freed the captive Wisps acting as its power source, leaving it inoperable and Eggman defenceless. Mother Wisp then banished Eggman to the 'edge of the universe', where she believed he could never cause anyone any harm again.

### Sonic Generations Arc

At some point during the several weeks following the Wisp incident, Doctor Eggman discovered the Time Eater floating through space and took control of it, commanding it to systematically kidnap Sonic's friends one-by-one while slipping through time to erase all his past failures. After the monster kidnapped, Classic Eggman following his battle with Classic Sonic, Eggman recruited him to his cause and the two worked together in order to roboticize the Time Eater.

In Part 5, Eggman and Classic Eggman revealed themselves as the masterminds behind the Time Eater incident along with its new, mechanically-enhanced form upon arriving at the Night Palace, where Sonic had just used the Magic Lamp. Though they came under attack by Alf Layla wa-Layla, the newly-improved Time Eater easily restrained him long enough for Eggman to exposit on the events that led up to his time-erasing scheme, as well as detail the power of his new servant - inadvertently inspiring Erazor Djinn to take control of the Time Eater for himself. Eggman was caught in the process of the Time Eater's reconstruction into Alf Wamaritan, and quickly jettisoned from the creature's head along with his Classic counterpart when he got the chance. During Alf Wamaritan's battle with Sonic and his allies, he remained flying out of harm's way in his Egg Mobile, collapsed into a loss of hope in the face of their foe's overwhelming power.

Doctor Eggman was sent back to the present along with else (barring Sonic and Erazor Djinn), when Alf Wamaritan imploded, whereupon he apparently escaped, last seen leaving his Classic counterpart to be captured.

## Powers and abilities

### Inventing

> *Main article: Eggman's Creations (WI01)*
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Identically to his canon counterpart, Doctor Eggman is a super-genius inventor, and creates battle-ready machines and weaponry seen all throughout the series.

## Weaknesses

Similar to his video game canon counterpart, one particular weakness of Doctor Eggman's that is notable in his *WI01* iteration is his overconfidence. He has, on multiple occasions, put himself in danger by overestimating his ability to control or contest with powerful forces such as Dark Gaia, the Mother Wisp, the Time Eater and so-on.

## Relationships

### Sonic the Hedgehog

> *"And even if I could... Why would I? You're so much more fun this way! Maybe you'd consider being a new attraction at my amusement park... After all, we could always use a **freak show!**"*
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Sonic is Eggman's nemesis, and he revels in any ounce of suffering he can inflict upon him. Upon learning that his Werehog transformations had persisted past the Dark Gaia incident, Eggman taunted Sonic on the futility of discovering a cure while outlining his refusal to even try, willing to endure the increased power given to Sonic by the form if it means` he is in misery.

### Classic Eggman

Eggman teamed up with his Classic counterpart during the Time Eater incident, wheren they collaborated efficiently to upgrade the Time Eater with cybernetics. Though they seemed to be amicable and - as iterations of the same individual - in harmony with each other in their desires to do evil, Modern Eggman readily abandoned his younger self after they were warped out of Night Palace to the present day, leaving him to be captured by the heroes.

## Trivia

* Doctor Eggman is the first *Sonic: What If?* antagonist, appearing in the first episode of the entire series.

## References

1. ↑ *"But this time, he's got a trick up his sleeve. He remembers how that insubordinate Chaos turned against him and he's not about to let that happen again." ~ What If Sonic Never Lost The Werehog Form? Part 1*