Board Thread:Speculation, Theories, and Rumors/@comment-4861962-20150406235628

I'm sure this has been talked to death, but I'd probably have to super necropost a thread for it, so I'll just start a new one.

Personal speculation: We know Eggman idolizes Gerald Robotnik, his Grandfather. This can be factored in one of two ways:

-Eggman was old enough to know Gerald and his successes before he died, 50 years ago. This puts Eggman somewhere in his mid-50s to early-60s

-Eggman was born after or closer to Gerald's death. If we guess that, at most, he was born 10 years after Gerald died, that would make put him in his 40s. Maria's either his sister or his cousin- if she was his sister (unlikely), this is a bit of a stretch.

Eggman's hair is gone, so he's clearly pretty old, probably in line with the early-60s theory, but his mustache shows no sign of greying (though this could be chalked up to cosmetics). Also, constantly having your plans for world domination thwarted by an amped-up garden rodent is probably enough of a stressor to induce hair loss at a younger age, probably 50s. So just for the sake of argument, I'll say Eggman is between 50-60 years old.

Which brings up another point: At what point did he start trying to take over the world? Depending on how canon Generations is, he was going to be a teacher at some point, but cut that short to start taking over the world (assuming he went through at least 4 years for a graduate's degree, possibly 2 more of post-grad, he would be 24 when he became evil, or something happened that made him want to be evil). And what happened between when he began world domination and when Sonic intervened? Unless he started his plans in his 40s, Sonic either wouldn't have been born or not yet capable of fighting.

I'm probably overthinking this. Like, all of this. 