"Jack Fletcher works as the show's voice director, a role he has also held for the video game series since 2010. The animated series was first announced on October 2, 2013, revealing a teaser image featuring Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles ""Tails"" Prower, Knuckles the Echidna and Amy Rose, in silhouette form. The series, which consists of 52 11-minute episodes, was developed by Evan Baily, Donna Friedman Meir, and Sandrine Nguyen, with Baily and Bill Freiberger as showrunners, under the supervision of Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka. On February 6, 2014, Sega revealed the first trailer for the series, showcasing the"
"Knuckles the Echidna, the pacifist Mighty the Armadillo, the ninja warrior Espio the Chameleon, the easygoing Vector the Crocodile, and the energetic Charmy Bee. The group also had two additional associates, Heavy the Robot and Bomb, two of Doctor Eggman's robot mechanics who apparently broke free of his control and want to help them. Each character has his own unique abilities and alters the gameplay; for example, Knuckles can glide and climb walls, while Charmy can fly infinitely. When they were re-introduced in ""Sonic Heroes"" and in all subsequent appearances, only Espio, Vector, and Charmy remained members of the Chaotix."
"of Albion. Knuckles' early adventures typically involved protecting Angel Island or the various Echidna groups-only rarely would he join the Freedom Fighters against threats like Dr. Robotnik. However, Robotnik's encroachments on different areas of the planet-including Angel Island itself-eventually persuaded Knuckles to relocate to the surface to join the battle against the evil doctor and other threats. One of his enemies-a villainous Echidna named Dr. Finitevus-later made Knuckles into a new Enerjak after revealing that Robotnik had driven the Echidna race to the brink of extinction. Knuckles would become wracked with guilt over his actions, especially since the remnants of"
"with the help of his robots, Infinite, Shadow the Hedgehog, Chaos, Zavok, and Metal Sonic, manages to conquer the world within six months. Frustrated, Knuckles the Echidna forms a resistance force with Tails, the Chaotix, Amy Rose, Silver the Hedgehog, Rouge the Bat and a survivor of Eggman's attack whom they nickname the Rookie. Knuckles discovers Sonic's whereabouts, and the Rookie steals a space shuttle, breaks into the Death Egg, and rescues Sonic. Back in the city, Tails is attacked by Chaos, but is saved by Classic Sonic (also from ""Sonic Mania""). The two set out to spy on Eggman,"
"time in ""Sonic CD"". In the bad ending, Robotnik is seen flying away with a Time Stone, but is shot down by a rock thrown by Sonic. Following the events of ""Sonic 2"", the Death Egg crash-lands onto Angel Island, causing critical damage to the ship. While repairing the space station, Robotnik meets an echidna named Knuckles, who he tricks into thinking Sonic and Tails are villains after the powerful Master Emerald that Knuckles protects with his life in ""Sonic 3"". Knuckles steals the Chaos Emeralds from Sonic and constantly interferes with Sonic's fight. Robotnik is able to launch the"
"the Echidna. His sacred duty is guarding the ""Master Emerald"", why he is destined to do this job is beyond even him. Knuckles' first three part miniseries ""Sonic's Friendly Nemesis Knuckles"" was released in 1996. His second miniseries was published in 1997, ""Knuckles: The Dark Legion"" and after three issues was continued into ""Knuckles the Echidna"" which began starting its numbering from issue 4. Archie has essentially 'retconned' ""Sonic's Friendly Nemesis"" as being ""Knuckles the Echidna"" 1 through 3. This was also done with the ""Sonic Vs Knuckles: Battle Royal"" one-shot which they 'retconned' into being ""Sonic Super Special"" #1."
"against him and intends to collect the Chaos Emeralds for itself. Towards the end, Robotnik teams up with the heroes to defeat Chaos. Like other characters in the series, Robotnik was redesigned for this game; here he calls himself ""Robotnik"", with Sonic and friends calling him ""Eggman"" as a nickname. ""Sonic Adventure 2"" marks the Doctor's first appearance as a playable character, as well as the first game where is primarily referred to (and refers to himself) as ""Eggman"" in all regions. Eggman revives the antihero Shadow the Hedgehog from dormancy. Shadow, knowing Eggman's desire to rule the world, agrees"
"breaks free and rejoins with his friends, forming a coalition to overthrow Eggman's rule. In ""Sonic Spinball"", a pinball-themed game, Robotnik seizes Mount Mobius and turns it into a mechanical base (the ""Veg-O-Fortress"",) setting up an elaborate pinball mechanism to keep the Chaos Emeralds safe. After the Veg-O-Machine is destroyed, Mount Mobius begins to crumble, and once the final boss is defeated, the Doctor falls into the mountain which sinks into the ocean. Robotnik has also appeared in ""2.5D"" isometric platformers; in ""Sonic Labyrinth"", he secretly replaces Sonic's famous red shoes with the new ""Slow-Down Boots,"" which take away his"
"forces with a new team of Freedom Fighters, made up of children of the heroes from the present reality of the series, to thwart the evil King Shadow the Hedgehog, who unleashes a monstrous fusion of Tikal and Chaos from the video game Sonic Adventure. Issues #9–12, known as """"Knuckles: The Return"""", in which Knuckles and his teammates, the Chaotix, set out to capture the Echidna villain Dr. Finitevus and punish him for his recent involvement in Knuckles' brief possession by the evil entity Enerjak. As a result of the search, they end up fighting Dr. Finitevus and his temporary"
"""Sonic X"", in which he also portrayed Professor Gerald Robotnik. Pollock assumed the role of Eggman in the video game series beginning with the 2005 games ""Shadow the Hedgehog"" and ""Sonic Rush"", as part of an initiative by SEGA to maintain vocal consistency between the concurrent video game/TV portrayals of the ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" franchise. Several anime websites, anime conventions, podcasters and interviewers have also taken notice of Pollock's performance as Dr. Eggman in numerous video games and animated series within the Sonic franchise. His performance as Dr. Eggman has become synonymous to the character himself. On July 15, 2010,"
"the ability to ""double jump"" (being able to perform a second jump in mid-air). Tails is able to fly through the air for a short time, and Knuckles the Echidna can glide through the air upon jumping. Amy Rose, the last initially available character, drives a car, allowing her to hover over bodies of water and receive extra speed from driving over boost spaces. Secret characters include Sonic's archenemy Dr. Robotnik, who flies in a hovercraft and resists differences in terrain; robotic clones of Sonic (Metal Sonic), Tails (Tails Doll), and Knuckles (Metal Knuckles); Robotnik's robotic assistant EggRobo; and Super"
"the ""Sonic"" series. Unlike other ""Sonic"" games, players are tethered to a computer or human-controlled partner; the tether behaves like a rubber band and must be properly handled to maneuver through stages. There are five playable characters, each with their own unique abilities. Knuckles the Echidna can glide and climb walls; Mighty the Armadillo can perform a wall jump; Espio the Chameleon can run along walls and ceilings; Vector the Crocodile can boost through the air and climb walls; and Charmy Bee can fly and hover. There are two other partner characters, Heavy the Robot and Bomb, who hinder players'"
"Dr. Robotnik 11th out of their ""Top 100 Videogame Villains"". Nintendo Power listed Dr. Robotnik as their seventh favorite villain, also listing him as having one of the best mustaches. A potential macrocycle inhibitor of Sonic hedgehog discovered by a Harvard University research team was named ""Robotnikinin"" after the Dr. Robotnik character. The researchers felt that after Sonic hedgehog was named after the Sega video game character, they should ""adhere to the convention"" in naming the inhibiting compound after the character's archenemy. The band Intercontinental Music Lab included a song about Dr. Robotnik on their 2008 album, ""Superheroes of Science""."
"Eggman (referred to by his full name Dr. Ivo Robotnik in the Western instruction manual) debuted in the 1991 Mega Drive/Genesis platform game ""Sonic the Hedgehog"", where he attempted to collect the 6 Chaos Emeralds and hoped to turn all of the helpless animals inhabiting South Island into robots under his control. Sonic manages to defeat Robotnik and returns peace to South Island. Robotnik returned in ""Sonic 2"", where he once again sought the Chaos Emeralds, of which there were now seven. He attempts to collect them in order to create the Death Egg: a huge, orbital space station that"
"Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine is a falling block puzzle game developed by Compile and published by Sega. It was released for the Genesis/Mega Drive in North America and Europe in November 1993, and was ported to the Game Gear and Master System in December 1993 and June 1994, respectively. The plot revolves around ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" series antagonist Doctor Robotnik kidnapping residents from Beanville and turning them into robots, with the purpose of removing all joy from the planet Mobius. ""Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine"" is the Westernized version of ""Puyo Puyo"" and replaces"
"mention. However, the game makes small references to the character, including a collectible item bearing his emblem, an in-game mission featuring his robots as enemies, and unlockable fan art of the character. He appears as a trophy in ""Super Smash Bros. Brawl"" and as a spirit in ""Super Smash Bros. Ultimate"". There have been five animated television series featuring Dr. Robotnik. The first was ""Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog"" where he was voiced by Long John Baldry. His appearance in this series was designed by cartoonist Milton Knight. Robotnik was the series' main antagonist, being portrayed as a villain who"
"a giant space station called the ARK with it, where he again scuffles with Rouge over the Emerald. He saves her from falling into a constructed pit of lava; she decides the shards are worthless and dismissively lets him keep them, so he reassembles the Emerald and runs off. The game's antagonist Gerald Robotnik, Eggman's grandfather, initiates a program to send the ARK on a collision course with Earth as revenge for an attack on the ARK decades earlier, so Knuckles teams up with the other playable characters to reroute it. Knuckles serves as a power-based character in ""Sonic Heroes"""
"(alongside Bowser) in the Adventure Mode of ""Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games"" for Nintendo DS and ""Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games"" for Nintendo 3DS. Eggman also appears in the crossover title ""Lego Dimensions"" as part of the ""Sonic"" level pack, in which he attempts to use the game's Keystone Devices to conquer multiple dimensions and defeat Sonic; a haunted parade balloon based on Eggman also appears as a boss in the game's ""Ghostbusters 2016"" story pack. The only game to feature Robotnik as the central character is the 1993 puzzle game ""Dr. Robotnik's"
"of Echidnas and their relationship with the Floating Island and the Chaos Emeralds. The comic also introduced original characters such as the sky pirate Captain Plunder, rebellious super-Badnik Shortfuse the Cybernik and engineering genius Tekno the Canary, who occasionally featured in their own dedicated strips. The comic's incorporation of characters from ""Knuckles' Chaotix"" established the alternate dimension called the Special Zone as a major location, and also introduced the Brotherhood of Metallix, an army of Metal Sonic robots who rebelled against Robotnik and embarked on a plan to alter the timeline and take over Mobius. One element of ""Sonic the"
"Robotika Robotika is an American comic series created by Alex Sheikman. Two collections have been printed, featuring the original story line and the ""For a Few Rubles More"" line. It is published by Archaia Studios Press. In the far future genetic engineering has become commonplace, and countless cyborgs are created and later cast off once new models are developed. The cyborgs live in desolation in the badlands, which resemble the old west. Robotika centers around 3 main protagonists: Niko, Cherokee Geisha (C.G.) and Yuri Bronski. Niko, an emotionless mute, is an elite member of her majesty's secret service, specializing in"
"the game's titular protagonist, was created 50 years before the game's events by Professor Gerald Robotnik in an orbital military research space colony known as the ARK. Robotnik was trying to unlock the secrets of eternal life on the government's orders and create the ""Ultimate Life Form."" To that end, Robotnik designed Shadow to harness the powers of the Chaos Emeralds. At the end of ""Sonic Adventure 2"", his first in-game appearance, Shadow was presumed dead, but he returned in ""Sonic Heroes"" with amnesia that persists into the events of ""Shadow the Hedgehog"". The Guardian Units of Nations (G.U.N.) is"
"series, the development team wanted a character who was ""the opposite of Sonic""; a character who represented ""machinery"" and ""development"" to play on the then-growing debate between developers and environmentalists. The character was also designed to be easy for children to draw. The English instruction manual for his debut game ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" described the character's full name as ""Doctor Ivo Robotnik"", while the Japanese version's instruction manual for the same game called him ""Doctor Eggman"". It was not until 1999's ""Sonic Adventure"" that the character was called both ""Eggman"" and ""Robotnik"" in the English version, with all following English"
"""GOAL"" will instantly end the level. In an attempt to steal the six Chaos Emeralds and harness their power, the game's antagonist, Dr. Ivo Robotnik, has trapped the animal inhabitants of South Island in aggressive robots and stationary metal capsules. The player controls Sonic, who aims to halt Robotnik's plans by freeing his animal friends and collecting the emeralds himself. If the player collects all the Chaos Emeralds and completes the game, an ending sequence is shown. If all the emeralds are not collected, Robotnik taunts the player while juggling any of the Chaos Emeralds not collected by the player."
"genres other than 2D and 3D platform games. These include ""Sonic Spinball"", ""Sonic Labyrinth"" (1995), the racing games ""Sonic Drift"" (1994), ""Sonic Drift 2"" (1995), ""Sonic R"" (1996), ""Sonic Riders"" (2006), ""Sonic Rivals"" (2006), ""Sonic Rivals 2"" (2007), """" (2008), and ""Sonic Free Riders"" (2010), the fighting games ""Sonic the Fighters"" (1996) and ""Sonic Battle"" (2003), the ""mobile game"" ""Sonic Jump"" (2005), and the role-playing video game """" (2008). Video games such as ""Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine"" (1993), ""Knuckles' Chaotix"" (1995), ""Tails' Skypatrol"" (1995), ""Tails Adventure"" (1995), and ""Shadow the Hedgehog"" (2005) starred supporting characters of the ""Sonic"" series,"
"him in a sidequest to take down some of Eggman's robots, during which he makes a number of references to the rap songs about him in the ""Sonic Adventure"" games. Knuckles also makes a cameo as an easter egg in """" on the box of a video game entitled ""Knuckles the Echidna in Knuckles & Knuckles & Knuckles"". In ""Super Smash Bros. Ultimate"", Knuckles appears as an assist trophy that attacks players when summoned, he also appears as a spirit. In ""Sonic the Comic"", Knuckles plays a similar role to that of the games. When the Death Egg crashes on"
"its characters with those from the ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" franchise, primarily the ""Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog"" animated series. The gameplay is reminiscent of ""Tetris"", in which the player must organise different coloured shapes as they fall down a board. The game received mostly positive reviews, with critics praising the gameplay but criticising the difficulty. The game is set on the planet Mobius, which is inhabited by bean-like creatures. Doctor Robotnik conceives of a plan to bring terror to the world by kidnapping the citizens of Beanville and turning them into robot slaves, and eventually creating an army that will"
"Eggman hacks into the game world and begins to wreak havoc until Sonic appears. He leads Sonic and the girls on a chase through several ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" games until they finally defeat him using an invincibility power-up. He later appears in the final episode to wish the girls farewell at their graduation. When the first ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" title was released in 1991, Sega of America developed an origin for Sonic the Hedgehog and Dr. Robotnik which diverged from the back-stories created in Japan by Sonic Team. In this back-story, set on the planet Mobius, Dr. Ivo Robotnik was"
"team-based installment, the role-playing game """", Knuckles is a playable character with a major role in the story. The game begins with Tails informing Sonic that Knuckles has been kidnapped, so a team beginning as Sonic, Tails, Amy, and Rouge must rescue him. He is eventually saved, and it is revealed that the echidna race is still alive in the form of the helpful Shade the Echidna and her villainous tribe, the Nocturnus. He is a minor character in ""Sonic Rush"", where he accosts protagonist Blaze the Cat under the impression that she has stolen Chaos Emeralds. In the Nintendo"
"had re-released the game and its successor together as ""Sonic 3 & Knuckles"" instead. ""Mega"" ranked it the fifth best Genesis game ever in November 1994. In 2014, GamesRadar ranked ""Sonic 3 & Knuckles"" as the seventh best Genesis game; in 2013, Jeremy Parish of ""US Gamer"" ranked it eighth. The game served as the first appearance of Knuckles the Echidna, who would be featured prominently in future ""Sonic"" games. Issues 33 and 34 of ""Sonic the Comic"" and issue 13 of the Archie ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" comic consisted of their own comic adaptations of the game. For ""Sonic""s twentieth"
"ability to jump or run fast, and in ""Sonic 3D Blast"", he turns innocent Flickies into robots in yet another search for the Chaos Emeralds. Robotnik/Eggman is also a playable character in such games as ""Sonic Drift"", ""R"", ""Adventure 2"", ""Riders"" as well as its sequels """" and ""Free Riders"", ""SEGA Superstars Tennis"", ""Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing"", and ""Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed"". Eggman made a cameo appearance in ""Super Smash Bros. Brawl"" and ""3DS/Wii U"" as a trophy. He appeared as a playable character in all of the ""Mario & Sonic"" titles, and as the 2 main villains"
"releases to date referring to him as ""Doctor Eggman"". Yuji Naka has explained that ""Robotnik"" is the character's true last name while ""Eggman"" is a nickname taken after his shape. Since then, English language sources have listed his identity as Doctor Ivo ""Eggman"" Robotnik at least once, and has recognized both the first name Ivo and the last name Robotnik as recently as 2016 in the videogames and 2015 in social media. Despite that, with the exception of Sonic X, no Japanese language media has ever acknowledged it, and his in-game profile in """" lists his real name as a"
"longer than any other English-speaking actor. For Teleflora's Mother's Day campaign in 2016, Pollock narrated Vince Lombardi's ""What It Takes to Be Number One"" speech in a commercial video called ""One Tough Mother"". 2017 Smite Kuzenbo Voiced a God in a video game Mike Pollock (voice actor) Michael B. Pollock (born March 9, 1965) is an American voice actor best known as the voice of Doctor Eggman in the ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" franchise, as well as many characters in various anime English-language dubs and video games. He provided voices for the narrator, Raoul Contesta, and Drayden in the ""Pokémon series"","
"the fiftieth issue, erased from existence by his own superweapon. An alternate version of Robotnik from a parallel world becomes the lead antagonist, first introduced as ""Robo-Robotnik"", but later takes on the name of Dr. Eggman. New antagonists were introduced, including the evil sorcerer Ixis Naugus; Scourge the Hedgehog, Sonic's evil counterpart from a parallel universe; and the Dark Egg Legion, a union of other factions like the Iron Dominion and the echidna-led Dark Legion. Game storylines like ""Sonic Adventure"" and ""Sonic Adventure 2"" were adapted, introducing Shadow the Hedgehog as a recurring character. The Xorda, an extraterrestrial race whose"