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MewtwoLucario wrote: Mystic Monkey wrote: My least favourate Sonic characters are Orbot and Cubot.

They seemed shoe-horned in there just for Dr. Eggman to talk to and have Scratch and Grounder like roles.

One of those "Why not Nack?" things for me. Buddy, Scratch and Grounder started a line of constantly-blamed, idiotic (although only one is a true idiot) henchies for Robotnik/Eggman. In Sonic Underground, Robotnik had Sleet and Dingo, in Sonic X, Eggman had Decoe and Bocoe, and as of Sonic Colors, Eggman has Orbot and Cubot.

Yes but those characters were made for the cartoons.

Dr. Eggman whom we known since Sonic 1 never needed any henchbots until Sonic Colours. I get henchbots in the cartoons were to challnge Sonic and character development for Dr. Robotnik of the show. I also know that modern Sonic games have much more fleshed out stories than they did before Sonic Adventure so I know in order to have characters like Dr. Eggman develop to be more than just "bad guy", he'll need those to interact with. But Orbot and Cubor just seemed to have been added in because Sonic cartoons and it just doesn't seem to belong with me.

My reasons why I chose Nack as Dr. Eggmans ideal henchman, is because I imagine him like Sleet but not a coward. As long as he gets paid he will work for Dr. Eggman but is not intimidated by him giving the games story writers oppotunity for jokes between the two, for example I can imagine Nsack abandoning Dr. Eggman and jump ship the moment the said ship is going down because of Sonic. Anothr reason why Nack would be an ideal partner is because of Nacks athletism and being a treasure/bounty hunter means he can keep up with Sonic or get things on behalf of Dr. Eggman. Yes their relationship would be rocky and mostly business than genuine trust but I can imagine it humourus enough to work out.