Zombot

Zombot is a term that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by IDW Publishing. It is a term applied to animals who has been infected by the Metal Virus and turned into soulless robots serving Dr. Eggman.

Anatomy
Zombots are made up entirely of a liquid metal composition, giving their skin and fur/hair a metallic sheen. As such, their bodies are highly mallable, as the simplest blunt impact can deform a Zombot's body. They also possess red sclera, and may possess extra features, such sharpen claws. Other than that, a Zombot retains the shape it had back when it was an organic being.

Characteristics and culture
Described as "robot zombies" by Sonic, the Zombots are completely silent, emotionless and without personalities. They are also completely unresponsive to outside verbal chatter; noticeably a Zombot Tumble was unresponsive to taunts from Sonic that would have sent the old Tumble into a fury. This has led Amy to call them "soulless". Having been deprived of their free will as well due to the Metal Virus, they instinctively obey only the orders of Dr. Eggman.

Because the Metal Virus causes its victims to display aggressive tendencies without direction, the Zombots are highly volatile and aggressive towards non-infected subjects. However, they appear to be at least docile towards their own kind.

Powers and abilities
Zombots appear to possess increased strength as a Zombot Rough was able to make a rock wall crack with a single punch.

While the Zombots' liquid metal bodies become less durable following their transmutation, the Zombots possess the power to manipulate their own liquid body composition, allowing them to instantly reconstitute and restore their bodies whenever they receive a damaging blow. This makes they virtually unstoppable opponents.

Because they carry the Metal Virus, Zombots are able to spread the Metal Virus to any living tissue, be it either flora or fauna, through the slightest physical touch. Once the virus has been passed onto a victim, the Zombots can accelerate its infection rate by exposing the victim to more of the virus (like through extra touches). However, they cannot pass the virus onto processed or inorganic matter.

Infection
The first Zombot (a term of which had not been coined yet) created was a Pocky that Dr. Eggman used to experiment with the Metal Virus on. This Pocky was saturated in the virus, instantly turning it into a Zombot, which Eggman used for further experimentation. The next Zombot to be created was a Ricky in Eggman's captivity, who had been infected with the Metal Virus during Eggman's experiments. However, it first became a full Zombot after Eggman used the Zombot Pocky to accelerate the virus's infection rate on it.

While fighting Sonic and Amy in Echo Mine, Rough and Tumble unintentionally released backpacks full of the Metal Virus onto themselves, turning them into Zombots. These two then began fighting Sonic and Amy, who proved unable to harm them. Although Sonic ultimately managed to get rid of Zombot Rough and Tumble by knocking them into a refuse pit, he got infected with the Metal Virus in the process, slowly turning him into a Zombot. Meanwhile, having heard Sonic call Rough and Tumble "Zombots", Eggman decided to call them just that, as he thought the name was "catchy".

List of Zombots

 * Rough the Skunk
 * Tumble the Skunk