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eggman
TBF he was more egg-shaped in his 1st-gen design so it more sense to call him "Dr. Eggman"
doctor huevo
doctor huevohombre*
Doctor Iván "Huevohombre" Robótico
doctor huevon
I always thought Sonic called him Eggman because he was bald, not because his torso is shaped like an egg.
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you say that but you post nu-Robotnik aka zoomer Robotnik
but it makes more sense to call HIM Robotnik since he's not egg-shaped
but ops image is absolutely egg shaped
??? zoomers didn't play the SA games
They did, considering how many times Sega re-released them. They just didn't like them.
wtf I love zoomers now
I bought that switch Sonic collection for my autistic zoomer cousin. I watched him play it for a while and he seemed to enjoy it. He looked at me deadpan and asked, "so did this come out before Mario?" He was under the impression that Sonic was an ancient series that Mario came along and killed but evey few years you get a new game, like what they do with Pacman. I think he expected something that looked like 2nd or 3rd gen games.
>switch Sonic collection
sonic origins? you need to get him a proper emulation setup. iirc they took out the michael jackson tracks from sonic 3 those cheap wieners sega
>proper emulation setup.
so a walmart laptop with steam and retroarch?
>steam
if hes a moronic kid steam makes it piss easy. though obviously standalone is better.
no they didn't. sonic has 0 pull with zoomers given that it hasn't had a good game in over a decade. sonic is a legacy milliennial autist thing
sonic is fairly popular with zoomers. they're the whole reason people are coming around on shit like shadow and 06. rockman is a series that fits that description better. you guys seriously live in a fantasy world where all your strawmen are real.
zoomers are not that young. the oldest ones are in their early-mid teens now.
>oldest
youngest*
It's both
Who the frick are those two Black folk in the middle?
Bean the Dynamite and Bark the Polar Bear, two OCs (which is why they got into Fighters Megamix).
These days, they've been reinvented as allies to Fang/Nack.
As soon as the eggman moniker gained popularity in the West, the franchise was as good as over
>Iizuka plugs his ears and pretends to not hear
PINGAS
i like eggman because its a creative unique name to go with his design
robotnik sounds like generic white people shit like zorak or hordak or some shit like bro white people could NOT come up with names for shit
this. robotnik is evil for the sake of sounding evil, eggman isnt that kind of character. of course the average westgay has negative media literacy.
>eggman isnt that kind of character
he's turning animals in to robots to serve as free slave labor for his theme park. yes he is.
you know robotnik is literally just the slavic word for "worker/slave" right?
how the frick does worker/slave fit robotnik
hes literally the leader of the bad guys
hes THE bad guy
and hes an egg MAN
He works hard to build the robots
And he's a slave for his idea of world domination
OK npc c**t
Why are classicgays feeling so threatened if we call him Eggman? It's like they want to secure the fact there should be only one correct name, it's vital to them for some reason. I've never seen somebody arguing over princess Peach and insisting we should call her Princess Toadstool.
"Robotnik" is a Slovak word for "worker", by the way. Should we also establish Mobius as a post-apocalyptic Slovakia?
>Mobius
YOUR MOTHER.
its millenials. their childhood is the only correct way to experience anything. same reason you have people like richmunk clinging on to archie. they cant accept that the version of their favorite games they grew up with were butchered, poorly made localizations designed to sell copies, without any real artistic integrity.
>I've never seen somebody arguing over princess Peach and insisting we should call her Princess Toadstool.
i have. its far less common though. probably because sonic also attracts a lot of autists.
I’m a millennial and I prefer Eggman. Why? Because I’ll always favor the original vision over some bastardization made by suits that (correctly) assume American children are moronic.
thats based, im just talking about the majority, especially on a board like this.
>its millenials. their childhood is the only correct way to experience anything.
Yes.
If I had to guess, combination of nostalgia and feeling that "Eggman" isn't a particularly threatening name. While saying that the doctor was never threatening wouldn't be accurate, the english side played him up as more of a straightforward evil villain with his childish aspect so that image stuck for those people.
Classicgays get worked up over the dumbest of shit, and are still tearing their anuses apart over Sonic's eyes being green.
>"Robotnik" is a Slovak word for "worker"
don't care. american website. american culture
sonic is not "american culture", you should go jerk off boomer shooters and shitty CRPGs that you've never played with the rest of the hipsters if thats what you want
Sonic is a brand that would have flopped if it weren't for the expertise and foresight of Sega of America. They were 100% responsible for its success while the nips himmed and hawwed and dragged their feet and blamed everyone else but themselves
ok bernie
Japan never gave a shit about Sonic, most Japanese gamers view him as a pachinko machine company mascot.
Half of this board posters isn't even American.
hi, classicgay here. i also remember when Peach was called Toadstool and Bowser was called Koopa.
Robotnik got his namechange just because Sega of America didn't want people to immediately think of the Beatles.
honestly, i've come to accept Eggman, though i think the Adventure games still handled it the best. his name is Robotnik, Eggman is a nickname he doesn't entirely reject, hence still giving everything he makes an "Egg-" prefix.
>and Bowser was called Koopa.
bowsers real name is koopa, bowser was made by nintendo america. funny how both bowser and robotnik are actually real last names
>Should we also establish Mobius as a post-apocalyptic Slovakia?
what's wrong with that
Depends? Is this Archie canon where Mobius is literally post-apocalypse Earth?
No teddy Roosevelt
Doctor Ivo Robotnik
My name is Doctor Ivo Robotnik
Doc-Doc-Doc-Doctor Ivo Robotnik
My name is–
>Doctor Eggman
NO! NO! NO! NO! N-N-N-N-
HO IT’S FROM THE SHOW
IT’S FROM THE SHOW FROM THE SHOW
HO IT’S FROM THE SHOW
IT’S FROM THE SHOW FROM THE SHOW
I’M GONNNA BE ON TV
I’M GONNA BE A TV STAR
I’M GONNNA BE ON TV
HO HO HO HO HO IT’S FROM THE SHOW
I want you to
FLUFF MY PILLOWS
MAKE ME HAPPY
CATCH SONIC
CUT THE MONITORS
SCRUB MY MONKEY
HATE THAT HEDGEHOG
TEAR EVERY HAIR FROM MY BEAUTIFUL BALL
TOMORROW I'LL
Formerly known as Julian Ovi Kintobor
>Kintobor
The Archie comics were moronic
REVENGE OF DR. ROBOTONIC
Doesn't Japan use Robotonic for SA2?
"Robotnik Winter Zone" in Triple Trouble is also named such in "Sonic & Tails 2".
Kintober came from the western Sonic Bible and was used in Sonic The Comic. Archie just changed the context behind the name.
>"Robotnik Winter Zone"
I always thought it's a weird name for zone
The frick is Robotnik Winter?
Is it artificial winter made by Robotnik, with each snowflake being made out of nanobots?
Or Robotniks fall from the sky and cover the land?
Or maybe it's like spending time with Robotnik for entire season of the year so it associates entirely with him, like a historical time period.
"The December of 1887 was known as Robotnik Winter."
The japanese manual explains it: It's basically Nuclear Winter Zone due to Eggman testing the Atomic Destroyer on it.
You know who else jerk offd to princess sally?
Chris seems to not give a frick about any Sonic continuity before SA, and doesn't jerk off to anything besides Amy recolors.
There was a video of him winning some sonic 3 prize but you are 100% right
His name is "Robotic Doctor"
Chad Buttnik vs Virgin Eggman
I pretend that his real name is Robotnik and Eggman is a slur that Sonic uses towards him.
>pretend
This is canonical fact so you may not pretend anymore.
I thought the Japanese version was actually named Eggman and Robotnik came from American translators.
They've unified both versions in Adventure.
In Frontiers, you can listen to one of Eggman's audio logs and he says that "Eggman" is a nickname Sonic gave him, but he adopted it to intimidate his enemies. I don't think the name "Ivo" ever was mentioned in the games, though.
Real-world explanation; in-universe, the final word is it's Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik.
What's contested is the point he adopted the "Eggman" nickname. Lore is that Sonic used it as an insult and Robotnik liked it enough to make it his alias. WHEN that happened, no one's sure. It happened at least by Sonic 2, which makes the Sonic Adventure English dub where he insists on Robotnik weird. If Sonic 1 isn't the first time they met like the Japanese manual implies, it's probably whenever their earliest meeting was.
This means there's an alternate universe where he's known as the less family-friendly "Dr. Fatfrick".
PINGAS
>The Japanese team called him Miles Prower in development
>The American team called him Tails in development
>There has to be a singular answer!! Both can't be official!!
Simplistic thinking is stupid, don't get into it.
Absolutely nobody ever calls him Miles, even in Japan.
Not a single person
>An internal competition was held at STI, and while numerous designs were once again submitted to be considered for the role (including a rocket-powered turtle named Boomer), it was Yasushi Yamaguchi who would win out with his design. Yasushi had created a two-tailed orange fox whom he affectionately called "Miles Prower." His surname is a combination of the terms "per hour" and "power", the full name serving as a pun on the phrase "miles per hour," a clever homage to the Sonic the Hedgehog character and franchise, which pushed the speed aspects in advertising and the like. However, the Sonic 2 team wanted to go with a much simpler name, "Tails," which Yasushi was none too pleased with. Sneaking his original name onto the concept art, it was decided that a compromise would be reached, with Miles being the character's real name and Tails being the nickname.
Kilómetros "Colas" Porhora
Let's talk about all the cool shit he went back into the past to build
>builds giant tech cites
>loses to speedy go fast hedgehog boi
But for real
Why was my homie obsessed with building cities? Like every game and show
He's an embodiment of industrialization. SatAM Robotnik especially hates nature, clean air and water and seeks to pollute everything (i think he actually drinks machine oil too?)
Game Robotnik also likes casinos and amusement parks. He had an entire room with slots and toy rides on Egg Carrier in Sonic Adventure. That's pretty much all he wants from life - to expand his area of influence (via building cities and factories) and have fun exclusively for himself (via theme parks). All of that resulted from lack of parental attention in his childhood. His grandfather was an icon for him, but he always loved Maria more.
The mad lad robotized a whole planet. Can we say that?
Luvs machines
'ates nature
simple as.
My dude got opec beat
Him? He makes Mario and Luigi look like brain surgeons. He's too ignorant to be an oil tycoon.
Ignorance is bliss.
How could he build all of this and not crush one smol blue boi
It's Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik.
Eggman is his alias. His stage name. The one he wants branded on the planet so thick in its crust you can read it from Uranus. It's much flashier and bombastic than his real name, and Eggman was always about spectacle over logistics. He makes the most impractical robots, cities, theme parks, and death traps, simply because they're flashy and bombastic. He's a manchild that is less about why and more about why the frick not, so the silly sounding moniker that he has given himself/embraced (depending on your region) is more than fitting.
It was always Eggman in JP, though having that be his actual name feels off, even though it's so iconic, I think having Dr. Ivo Robotnik, which is a cool name, be his real name, and Eggman be the way Sonic call him, makes a lot of sense, it's not a bad compromise that they came up with afterall.
His real name is Ivo Robotnik and Dr. Eggman is his supervillain name.