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Doctor Eggman - Creations

Doctor Eggman - Eggman's Mobile

As the vastness of Dr. Eggman's mechanical kingdom requires omnipresence to maintain a tight control, Eggman's Mobile (also known as the Eggmobile in the Sonic Adventure Sound Test, or the Egg-O-Matic in US comics and cartoons) allows the doctor to cruise around his factories in a speedy fashion. The small hovering craft has a very distinct egg-like shape with a small circular lamp on the front, and can be fitted with a seemingly endless amount of gadgetry. Not only does the doctor use it as his primary means of transportation, Eggman's Mobile usually also appears at the end of each zone in the games to fight Sonic with new original accessories. Sometimes Eggman's Mobile is integrated as the cockpit of even larger doomsday devices. When these are destroyed, Eggman and his mobile will inevitably emerge unscathed from the fires.

Doctor Eggman - Badniks

The helpless animals that inhabit the islands of Sonic's world are usually the first to fall victim to Dr. Eggman diabolical schemes, as the evil doctor will gather them in large droves to be transformed into his loyal worker drones. The badniks are most often used to build Eggman's weaponry, such as the Death Egg space station, but they play a more visible role as the enemies Sonic encounters on his quest to defeat the evil doctor. These badniks come in all sizes and shapes, usually accommodated to the particular environment of the zone in which they appear. A simple bump to the head of each robot is enough to free the animal inside of it.

It should be noted however that not all badniks contain animals. Some of them are invincible to Sonic's attacks and detonate by means of self-destruct (most famously the Bomb robots from Starlight Zone and the Astrobots from Metropolis Zone). Others were created as more intelligent mechanics to oversee the construction of Eggman's facilities and posses a personality of their own. Most prominently these include the Badnik duo Heavy & Bomb, first seen in Knuckles' Chaotix.

Since Sonic Adventure, Badniks have often been abandoned in favor of Eggman's E-Series units. In Sonic Heroes it appears that the Eggpawns have replaced the Badniks as Eggman's main infantry units. It may have originally been Metal Sonic's idea, but Eggman still uses the Eggpawns in Shadow the Hedgehog.

Doctor Eggman - Egg robots

The doctor's Eggman-shaped robots have evolved throughout the series, first appearing in Sonic & Knuckles as the simple but numerous Egg-Bots or Egg-Robos. Soon after, Eggman followed up with more lethal incarnations that could think for themselves — the E-Series. Notable E-Series robots include E-101 Beta, E-102 Gamma, E-103 Delta, E-104 Epsilon, E-105 Zeta, E-121 Phi and E-123 Omega.

Gamma was forced by Eggman to defeat his brother Beta, who was theoretically his superior. Seeing Beta's desire to be useful Eggman let him in on the operation but ridiculed him as "spare parts". After an encounter with Amy Rose, and his accidental witnessing of Beta being taken apart and remade, Gamma decided to free the animals imprisoned in all of Eggman's robots, including the ones inside the E-Series. Beta was actively reengineered and modified in the meantime. Gamma, having destroyed all the other robots and freed the animals inside, went on to have a final showdown with Beta, going into battle with one thought in mind: he too has an animal imprisoned inside.

Omega, on the other hand, is a prototype robot which Eggman quickly dumped after he began work on the next line of robots, the E-2000. Infuriated by this, Omega joined Team Dark with Shadow the Hedgehog and Rouge the Bat in Sonic Heroes.

Phi is a grey robot that looks similar to Emerl (Sonic Battle). He looks very different to the other E-series robots because of this. There are 14 versions of him who all have different attacks (i.e. Phi #1 has Sonic's attacks while Phi #14 has Rouge's attacks). At the end of the game they are all destroyed by Emerl.

In Sonic Heroes, Dr. Eggman ditched the animal-powered Badnik designs and, in their place, started developing Eggman-resembling grunts simply called Eggpawns. These had no animals inside and had rather poor intelligence and stamina, but they usually attacked in groups to make up for their lack of fighting power. Eggman continues to use the Eggpawn model in Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic Rush and may do the same in future games. It should also be noted that in Sonic Rush and Sonic CD his robots contain flower seeds instead of animals, but in Knuckles' Chaotix and Sonic Advance 3 they contain Rings.

Doctor Eggman - Sonic robots

Robotnik, aside from the huge mechas and robots he builds in his likeness, also seems to enjoy trying to make robot Sonic knock-offs to pit against his rival. His first attempt was called the Roller, which was in the Spring Yard Zone of Sonic 1. They were a bit of a failure since they could only roll and Sonic can destroy them very easily. Silver Sonic (Mecha Sonic in Japan) was his second attempt and featured as the penultimate boss of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Silver Sonic was an improvement over the Roller, but was still a dismal failure due to the fact that it was the total opposite of the original — slow, unwieldy, big, and stupid. In Sonic and Knuckles it was later upgraded with a much sleeker and more aggressive design, and it was also faster and able to fly. This later version is often referred to as Mecha Sonic even by non-Japanese fans because he was repainted blue. It returns as the boss of the Sky Sanctuary Zone in three different occasions. Sonic thought he had defeated it in the Sky Sanctuary of Angel Island, but it later reappeared and fought Knuckles. Mecha Sonic got hold of the Master Emerald and attacked Knuckles as Super Mecha Sonic, but, not being able to absorb the Emerald into its being, needed to constantly recharge his power. Knuckles soon managed to defeat it during these recharge lapses.

Eggman's most successful and persistent Sonic copy to date is Metal Sonic. He made his first appearance in Sonic CD to capture Amy Rose and race Sonic on the Stardust Speedway. Unlike the previous attempts, Metal Sonic was built with a sleek form built for speed. Metal Sonic, after his first defeat at the hands of Sonic, went on to harass the Chaotix, where he was able to turn into a huge, red, Godzilla-sized version of himself via the Chaos Rings and wreak havoc for a while, until he was defeated once again. Since then, he's been seen around participating in any kind of racing or fighting Sonic joins in, in hopes of defeating him one day. In Sonic Heroes, Metal Sonic impersonates Eggman in an attempt to copy the Sonic Heroes' DNA and finally put an end to their rivalry, once and for all.

In the Shadow the Hedgehog video game, Eggman created an army of android versions of the titular character. The design of the Shadow androids was much more similar to their source material than Metal's design was to Sonic, to the point where they were mostly indiscernable from the genuine article. Eggman attempted to use this to his advantage, claiming that Shadow himself was an android too, but later admitted to lying near the very end of the game.

Eggman has also built robot copies of other characters, such as Metal Knuckles and Tails Doll.

Doctor Eggman - Death Egg

The Death Egg made its first appearance in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, 1992), where it was a space station, which by the level select screen, can be seen as moon-shaped. It was the final level of the game, containing only the final two bosses. After Sonic defeated Dr. Robotnik, the Death Egg crash-landed onto the Angel Island.

In Sonic 3, Robotnik repaired the Death Egg and was about to launch it when Sonic arrived in the Launch Base Zone. Sonic quickly boarded the giant space station and defeated Dr. Robotnik, causing the space station's destruction.

In Sonic & Knuckles (or Sonic 3 & Knuckles), the event is changed; instead of being destroyed, the Death Egg falls out of the sky and lands in the volcano of Angel Island (otherwise known as the Floating Island) where Lava Reef Zone and Hidden Palace Zone were situated. In the end of the game, the Death Egg was launched again, using the power of the stolen Master Emerald. It then became a two-Act Zone playable by Sonic and/or Tails containing an Act 1 boss and three Act 2 bosses (including Tails' final boss). After defeating the final boss, the Death Egg was destroyed.

In the arcade game Sonic Championship (Sonic the Fighters in Japan), Robotnik went to make the Death Egg Ⅱ, which once again was home to the 2 last bosses. Although retaining the shape of the original death egg, it was different in the fact many pronged girders came off in different directions (these had no purpose). It was then destroyed (before completion like the Death Star II from Star Wars) and never heard of again.

In Sonic Advance 2 a space station similar to the Death Egg called the Egg Utopia appears. It is destroyed when the stage boss is defeated.

Later on, in Sonic Battle, Robotnik rebuilt the Death Egg for use of his "Final Egg Blaster". The final battle against Emerl was situated there. The game didn't tell what happened to it after Emerl was defeated by Sonic, but it was presumably destroyed.

The Death Egg is a tribute to the Death Star, a space station in the Star Wars series.

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