Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25400375-20141122211616/@comment-679780-20150220225625

Observer Supreme wrote: Uh, sort of. What I meant to say is that I'm wondering who would work with or for him for whatever reason. Cobra Command is a terrorist organization that in the original G.I. Joe comics not only had a lot of fronts, but actually had a sovereign island while Shadaloo from Street Fighter has a good amount of criminal contacts. Eggman suffers so much defeats, makes a good amount of jokes, and endures so much hero/villain alliances that it's easy to forget he's a genuine terrorist threat with dictatorial ambitions and the resources to carry his plans out. What some people wonder, of course, is how he's able to micromanage so much logistical necessities while trying to conquer the Earth. In the Sonic Riders and Colors games, he had some businesses, but they weren't a lot of knowledge of how much he's supported by such fronts or if he's got any actual non-robot supporters of any sort. The expanded stuff gave him sidekicks that offered some talent while serving in a jester-like status, actual lieutenants that gave commands in his absence, and assistants that were somewhere in the middle. In the present games, Orbot and Cubot are clearly the cartoonish sidekicks, Metal Sonic is Eggman's most special weapon next to the Death Egg and Egg Carrier and may even be the closet thing to a second-in-command he has by default, and if Fang was added, I'm sure he'd be given a more mercenary sense of freedom, but would be hired as an ambitious assistant when the plot requires proxies. Something like that anyway. Well, he has the Eggman Empire. While not an actual city of his utopian ideals I always imagine it's more like an organisation. However I imagine most, if not all of his loyal followers are robots by him. For example the Mechas from 8-bit Sonic 2. They appear to operate independantly, occaisonally with some assistance from Dr. Eggman. However there artificial intelligence is questionable given they have basic commands such as Antlion just locked there chomping it's mandables.