Gemerl (IDW)

Gemerl is a character that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by IDW Publishing. He is a robot that previously served Dr. Eggman. After being reprogrammed by Tails however, Gemerl became a reformed robot and began living with Cream and her family in Floral Forest Village. He serves as Cream's protector.

Appearance
Gemerl is a humanoid, mostly black, robot. He possessed five-fingered gray hands and feet in the shape of shoes with black soles and yellow lines around them. His upper arms, abdomen and thighs are gray, and he has spherical black joints as shoulders and pelvis-leg joints. He also has relatively thick armor around his forearms and lower legs, (each one possessing yellow cuffs), fin-like yellow kneecaps, fin-like yellow objects on his forearms, and some kind of jetpack on his back. On his chest, he has three gray circles. Lastly, he possesses a spherical head with a gray mouth plate, blue eyes with red rims, gray caps for ears, and a curved yellow horn with points sticking out from the sides and a blue eye in the center on his forehead.

Past
In the past, Gemerl was turned into a scary robot by Dr. Eggman. As such, all he did was fight and destroy. This brought him into conflict with Sonic and his friends. At one point, Gemerl fought Sonic at the Altar of the Emeralds. In the end though, Sonic and co. did not destroy Gemerl. Instead, Tails fixed Gemerl by turning him into a kind-hearted robot. He then got to live with Cream and her family in Floral Forest Village.

Crisis City
Gemerl, Cream, Vanilla, Cheese and Chocola eventually got entangled in another threat from Dr. Eggman when the doctor invaded Floral Forest Village in his Faceship, which dowsed a part of the village in a Metal Virus batch, creating a Zombot outbreak. When Vanilla convinced Cream and Cheese to hide with her and Chocola in their house, Gemerl accepted Cream's request to assist the village defenses to protect his family. Gemerl later attacked Sonic when he came through the village, having deemed him a threat to Cream and the family since he was infected with the Metal Virus. Sonic explained that he could keep his infection in check by running, but Gemerl refused to consider Sonic less of a threat. Sonic suggested to Gemerl that could remove the Metal Virus by interfacing with it, but Gemerl noted that he and the Metal Virus were incompatible. Nonetheless, Gemerl gave Sonic an ultimatum: either run away and burn off his infection, or stay and be eliminated. In the end, Sonic chose the former, as his infection was reaching its apogee anyway. With Sonic gone, Gemerl turned his attention to the incoming Zombots and prepared to eliminate them. After firing his first missiles however, Cream arrived and stopped him. Convincing Gemerl that the Zombots were just innocent people forced to do evil things and thus did not deserve to be destroyed, Cream get Gemerl to fight the Zombots non-lethally. After receiving Cream's gratitude and being told to apologize to Sonic when seeing him, Gemerl began occupying the Zombots. Eventually, Gemerl saved Sonic from some Zombots and apologized as Cream wanted. Sonic then told Gemerl that Cream and Vanilla were heading toward the north glade for the Rescue Shuttle. With Sonic covering him, Gemerl headed out to ensure the shuttle got off safely.

Personality
Gemerl is an artificial intelligence, capable of making independent decisions. Originally though, all Gemerl cared about was fighting and destroying. After being reprogrammed by Tails however, Gemerl became a gentle and caring robot towards his friends and adopted family.

Gaemerl is greatly devoted to Cream and her family, and will defend them by any means necessary. He is in fact so devoted to those he protects that he tends to go too far in his execution, like attacking a friend or innocents when he deduces that they are posing a threat, willingly or not. He is also not shy about using lethal force against his opponents. While these actions may make him seem like a jerk (as Sonic puts it) or even a ruthless machine just following his programming, they can actually be traced back to a emotional desire to protect those he care about, showing that Gemerl does possess genuine emotions. As a testament to this, Gemerl is able to show regret about his actions, like when he hesitantly admitted that he was not "operating optimally" when he attacked an infected Sonic.

Gemerl uses a very robotic and computer-based speech pattern. He also tends to take comments too literally. Outside of that, he is remarkably life-like, being able to make gestures and understanding arguments that apply to emotional and moral values.

Powers and abilities
Gemerl is a very powerful robot. He possesses incredible speed, enough to earn even Sonic's acknowledgement, and is capable of flight using jetpack on his back. He is also able to fire missiles that cause fairly small explosions. He is also able to bond with machines, although he cannot bond with machines whose infrastructure is incompatible with his.

Friends/allies

 * Cheese
 * Chocola
 * Cream the Rabbit
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Vanilla the Rabbit

Enemies

 * Dr. Eggman