With his iconic bushy mustache, blue goggles and pear-shape appearance, it's sometimes are to forget what a twist video game villain Sonic The Hedgehog's archenemy, Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik can be. When playing as a wise-cracking, super fast hedgehog in a colorful world, saving cute little animals from peril, it can be difficult sometimes to read between the lines.
Don't think so? Alright, quiz time; which of the following has Dr. Eggman attempted since his debut in 1991? Kidnapping, slavery or mass genocide? The correct answer is all of them! What else has he tried in other Sonic the Hedgehog stories? Just read for yourself!
10 Regularly Imprisoning Animals In His Robots
Ever since the early '90s, Dr. Eggman has had only one goal in mind: world domination. He wants to mold the world into his own personal Eggman empire. How does he plan to pull this off? He tries to imprison all the cute, little woodland critters of Green Hill Zone inside military-grade robot, of course.
Imagine being stuck in a small confinement, forced to watch as your home and everything you know and love is destroyed right in front of your eyes. That's what these poor animals have to endure until Sonic finally frees them.
9 Kidnapping A Mother & Child
To be fair, kidnapping is nothing really that new in the world of video games ever since Bowser made it a full-time hobby. However, Dr. Eggman decided to kick it up a notch in Sonic Advance 2. While attempting to, once again, build his Eggman Empire, he began to capture innocent animals again.
During his rampage, he kidnaps Vanilla the Rabbit and her six-year-old daughter, Cream. Sonic eventually rescued both of them but, soon after, Vanilla gets kidnapped again, forcing Sonic and Cream to set out together on an adventure to rescue her.
8 Abandoning His Henchmen In Space
For the past 10 years, Cubot and Orbot have been loyal to the Dr. Eggman, regularly assisting in his crazy world domination schemes. You'd think, through all that loyalty, that would earn some respect with the mad scientist, but you'd be very wrong.
Sometime in-between the events of Sonic Colors and Sonic Generations, while pushing Dr. Eggman in his damaged Egg Mobile through space, they encounter the Time Eater. After he decides to try and harness the entity's energy for his own nefarious plans, Dr. Eggman orders to duo to push him into the Time Eater. As a result, Robotnik disappears and both Cubot and Orbot are stuck in the emptiness of space for an unknown amount of time. He doesn't even try and go back for them, they are just left there and they aren't seen again for the remainder of the game.
7 Threatening Amy Rose At Gunpoint
When playing a fun, colorful game about a wise-cracking hedgehog trying to save the environment from a robot-obsessed madman, it's can be rather surprising to come across something as dark as this. During the events of Sonic Adventures 2, in order to negotiate Sonic for the final chaos emerald, Dr. Eggman threatens and holds Amy Rose hostage at gunpoint.
Granted it's a fairly cartoony, over-sized gun but that doesn't excuse the fact that it's still a gun. This wouldn't usually be considered so dark but the fear in Amy's eyes and voice really sell the tenseness of the moment.
6 Blowing Up Half The Moon
If you've ever been to an elementary school science class, you know how dire the moon is. If the moon would ever explode, the Earth's axis would go completely off, the tides would continue to shrink and, most importantly, our stepping stool to the rest of the universe would be gone. Well, in Sonic Adventures 2, Dr. Eggman manages to do just that.
After successfully acquiring all the chaos emeralds and equipping them to his new weapon, the Eclipse Cannon, he wanted to demonstrate the full power he had created to the world. So, without warning, he shot the cannon at the moon, blowing a full half of it off. In the long-run, it's shown that this, miraculously, did not have any negative effect on the Earth but imagine what would've happened if Eggman had aimed a little bit more to the left.
5 Kidnapping & Enslaving An Innocent Alien Race
In Sonic Colors, we are introduced to the Wisps: a small, peaceful race of aliens who seem to harness an extremely powerful energy source. After Dr. Eggman opened his own amusement park planet in an attempt to show he's turned over a leaf, it's revealed that he's kidnapped and enslaved these cute creatures in order to power his next ultimate weapon, a mind-control ray.
He did this by imprisoning them in small tubes that suck the negative energy from them, transforming them into Nega-Wisps, a more violent, degenerate and feral version of the alien race. Despite the fact that Sonic eventually rescues them, it really does show Robotnik's lack of empathy for others' lives in his goal of domination.
4 Using The Time Eater To Freeze Sonic's Friends
Sometime after the events of Sonic Colors, Dr. Eggman discovered a mysterious alien creature called the Time Eater and saw that it held some interesting abilities involving time manipulation. He quickly plotted to use these powers to undo all of his past defeats at the hand of Sonic.
So, he converted the entity into a cyborg-like machine so that he could control and harness the power of time manipulation. He has his new ally crash Sonic's birthday party in Sonic Generations and sends his friends to the White Space, a broken realm between dimensions that hold the universe together. The terrified look on Sonic's friends tell you everything you need to know about this place.
3 Creating & Launching A Worldwide Plague
In another attempt to accomplish his goal of world domination, Dr. Eggman dabbles in a little bio-terrorism. During the events of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series, he develops a plague called the Metal Virus. This virus consists of nanobots that resemble bacteriophages and when they come in contact with organic matter, either human or floral, the virus spreads through its victim and transforms them into a metal-like substance.
Using the virus, Dr. Eggman managed to turn the entire population of Floral Forest Village, Sunset City and Central City into Zombots, causing a colossal outbreak. What could make this even more terrifying? Eventually, after approximately 200 years, the virus will cause the infected individual to slowly disintegrate. Yikes!
2 Attempting To Suicide Bomb Station Square
When he's not attempting bio-terrorism, he's giving regular old-fashioned terrorism a go. After enduring another defeat to Sonic and Tails in Sonic Adventure, Dr. Eggman makes one more effort to finally gain a win under his belt, bombing all of Station Square. That would be crazy enough but where is Robotnik as he presses the launch button? Right in the middle of Station Square!
This wasn't mistake either because he, almost excitedly, exclaims that he will take the whole city with him if it means he finally take down his furry blue foe. Thankfully, the missile turned out to be a dud and while that is dark enough, this is also an interesting look into Dr. Eggman's mental health. The fact that he's so willing to give up his own life to kill millions and Sonic alike is both dark and kind of sad at the same time.
1 Causing the complete destruction of Sonic's world
A complete destruction of everything his archenemy has ever cared for deserves the number one spot. During the Sonic the Hedgehog series from Archie Comics, Eggman teams up with Mega-Man nemesis Dr. Wily to create alternate realities where Sonic and Mega-Man are eliminated. They try to accomplish by using a device called the Super Genesis Wave, which allows the user to rewrite reality to their own benefit.
Unfortunately, the Super Genesis Wave became too powerful for reality to withstand, causing the multiverse to begin collapsing. To make matters worse, the residual energy from the device left on Sonic's World after a botched attempt to stop the Wave began to escape, causing the planet's destruction. This would lead to the Shattered World Crisis storyline in the comics which forced Sonic and his friends embark on a quest to put reconstruct what was once their home.