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- This article is about the Boom version of the character. For other appearances, see Doctor Eggman (disambiguation).
Doctor Eggman is the main antagonist of the Sonic Boom series. He is a human scientist referred to as the greatest and most powerful supervillain in the present-day world,[34][35] and the arch enemy of Sonic the Hedgehog. Feared around the globe and with unlimited resources at his disposal,[36][37] he seeks to conquer the world and enslave the population.[38] From his island fortress, he concocts many evil plots and schemes against Team Sonic,[39] a group of heroes who always thwarts his plans.
Concept and creation[]
When developing the character designs, the designers went with a very formal, military-esque attire for Eggman to emphasize his vanity and concern for his own and his robots' appearances, which is an attribute befitting villains.[40]
Appearance[]
Eggman is depicted as being a rotund human in appearance. As his name implies, his torso is shaped like an egg, albeit an upside-down egg.[41] He possesses pale peach skin and has been noted to be overweight.[42] He also possesses a dome-shaped head and no visible neck, a bald head, a big, bright red nose, small round ears, and a very smooth, yet wide, brown moustache. He also has smooth, yet still broad shoulder, and thick arms. He also has slightly short legs by comparison to the rest of his body and relatively small feet. His eyes are never seen.
Supposedly, Eggman's head was once full of hair, but he has since gone bald over the years.[43] He was also born with a vestigial tail, but had it removed years ago.[18]
Eggman in his pajamas.
Eggman's usual attire consists of militaristic garments; set of gray goggles with flappable green lenses, along with a pair of blue pince-nez glasses, covering his eyes. He wears a red jacket, which features yellow cuffs, golden buttons, a yellow flap, and coattails hanging from the back. He also wears white gloves, dark gray pants with lighter gray stripes on the sides, and a pair of high-rimmed black boots. On his right wrist he has his wrist controller.
In addition to his usual clothes, Eggman has a number of additional attires:
- For sleeping or otherwise slouching, Eggman wears a pink pajamas with feet, which has the Eggman Industries' symbol on the front and a trapdoor on the rear.
- For rainy weathers, Eggman wears an overcoat.[44]
- When exercising or conducting other physical workouts, Eggman wears a red fitness vest with black shorts, a yellow belt, grey running shoes, and grey socks.[34]
- For mornings or when feeling glum, Eggman sometimes wears a red morning robe with yellow edges.[45]
- For beach trips or sunbathing, Eggman has a striped old-fashioned diving suit in two color schemes: red and white, or black and white.[5][7]
- For covert thefts, Eggman has a black bodysuit with a white version of the Eggman Industries' symbol on the front, black shoes, and a black burglar cap.[18]
- During his graduation, Eggman wore a purple robe and a black square academic cap.[18]
- While Eggman had the Froglodytes as his servants, he wore a fur cape and a skull hat with long horns in addition to his regular attire.[19]
- For vacations, Eggman has a blue and white Hawaiian shirt.[46]
- During the Eggtoberfest, Eggman wore green lederhosen with a yellow shirt, white shocks, brown shoes, and a brown fedora with a red feather.[10][47]
- On holidays, Eggman has been known to wear a red and white Santa Hat, a fake white beard and fake white eyebrows. In addition, he wears a variant of his jacket with white fur edges on the front and bottom, black cuffs, white insides, and a red-striped frontal flap.
Personality[]
Dr. Eggman is a short-tempered, egomaniacal, sadistic, obstreperous, raucous, and pompous mastermind with some noticeable sardonic wit. He has all the qualities of a classic villain: he looks, talks, and dresses like a bad guy and has selfish and unmotivated dreams of conquering the world, the destruction of his enemies, or both.[38][17] A would-be tyrant, Eggman has a hunger for power, a thirst for destruction, and as well a desire for attention, adulation and a little respect.[38][48] Loving to brag, he holds a high view on himself which makes him highly narcissistic and arrogant and gives him a sense of self-entitlement. This attitude has led him to deny his numerous failures, which he refers to as practice runs[32]. He also deems his terrible actions justified, and longs to privatize otherwise public rights.[49][50][51] Driven by a constant desire to ultimately enslave the entire world,[38] he is determined to do whatever it takes to achieve his goals, even if that means causing meaningless destruction, getting into otherwise awkward situations, or joining an enemy more powerful than he is.[38] His uncaring personality is mostly due to his over-inflated ego, as he only views himself with utmost pride.
Complementing his arrogance, Eggman is rather vain. He is very concerned with how he and his robots look[40] and takes great pride in his mustache, which he grooms professionally and would give up his chance at power to preserve.[27] Despite having unlimited resources at his disposal, Eggman can be rather stingy as he refuses wasting more money than needed and always complains when he thinks his money is going down the drain.[27][52] While sometimes showing the tendencies of a neat-freak, Eggman actually has poor personal hygiene.[10]
Eggman is a complicated guy when it comes to his relationships. While contradictory to his previous villainous exploits against them, Eggman has no trouble cutting loose and having fun with his enemies at appropriate times, whom he can even show a sincere fondness of. In the case of Amy, he remains her enemy on the battlefield, but in their free time they are "Fuzzy Puppy buddies."[53] Though this comradely behavior is sometimes a front he uses to exploit his enemies, Eggman is willing to provide genuine help to his enemies as he believes the "bro code triumphs the enemy thing."[54] Also despite being extremely reliant on his robots, Eggman has a bad habit of mistreating them with his callous attitude and abusive care.[6]
For all his smarts, Eggman is deranged, immature, obsessive, and rather buffoonish in behavior, and his schemes are usually more zany and petty rather than threatening.[53] Also, despite being a self-proclaimed "man of science," he can just as easily believe in the supernatural, and shows signs of phasmophobia.[55][33] Possessing an overly obsessive focus on achieving whatever goal comes to mind, Eggman tends to overlook crucial details in his plans, having more than once risked the entire existence of the world in order to nudge a victory over his enemies or concocted evil schemes that would ultimately mean nothing in the long run.
It has been stated that Eggman used to be full of hope in his youth.[30] However, his years of failures have left him with a more pessimistic attitude. Also, even though he refuses to give up on his ambitions, no matter how many losses he has to endure, Eggman has been known to sink into depressions after a particular painful streak of losses.[56][57] Even if he should be at his lowest however, Eggman is quick to pick himself up once he is struck by inspiration.
Despite his self-proclaimed status as evil and powerful, Eggman's acts of villainy can be rooted from a childlike desire to be acknowledged; if Eggman snagged a legit invite to Sonic's next sleepover, he would consider it a victory.[58] In fact, Eggman is a very insecure and lonely man who suffers from an emotional void that he tries to fill out by involving himself in others' lives. This is best exemplified in the complex relationship he has with Sonic.[28] He has also had several less-than-malevolent hobbies and passions that he has enjoyed outside of his villainy, hinting he is not all bad.[34][14][59] Most noticeably, he was willing to save the life of Beth the Shrew after the girl had showed him nothing by kindness.[21] It has also been pointed out that Eggman is quite fickle; in the case of D-Fekt, Eggman shifted almost instantly from boasting proudly about D-Fekt's abilities to berating him for being made a failure when his abilities did not work as intended. Similarly, Eggman tends to make mountains out of molehills over the most measly or mundane things when he feels he has been wronged, which he justifies on the grounds that it is the "principle that counts."[3][60] He also never forgets any grudge he might have.[61]
While Eggman's pride and arrogance are his core parts, they are also his greatest weakness, as they make him far too overconfident and prone to announce his plans prematurely which ultimately leads to his downfall.[51][62] Excessively self-delusional, he thinks others secretly admire him and only mock him out of jealousy.[27] Also, when feeling upstaged by greater evils, Eggman will devote himself to overthrow his contenders and establish himself as the top villain around.[63] When in situations over his head though, he is willing to abandon his pride to get help, even if it means demeaning himself.[44] He is also laidback and is noted to be somewhat of a doofus as he misses out on great opportunities to eliminate Team Sonic.[64] He also prefers tactics that involves as much destruction as possible, despite how much better a subtle approach would be, and he can pretty much only handle situations in a villainous manner.[48][65] Because of all his flaws, no one really considers him a true bad guy;[66] however, this also works in Eggman's favor as people tend to underestimate him, which makes him an unpredictable opponent.[1] Eccentrics aside, Eggman is still a highly intelligent, deceptive and manipulative individual under the right circumstances who can play his foes right into his hands and make some very dangerous devices.[1] Also, while things might not always work out for him initially, he is always working behind the scenes to get the upper hand and come out on top, only ready to reveal himself, in a not so subtle fashion, whenever the opportunity reveals itself.[38]
Powers and abilities[]
Eggman's various robotic creations.
Eggman is a brilliant scientist, mechanic, and inventor whose mastery of technology is nearly boundless, able to create all manners of machines, mechs and robots, and Doomsday Devices capable of undoing creation.[67] According to Orbot, he is the greatest genius that has ever lived,[34] his intellect only matched by the likes of Tails and Bolts.[68] His remarkable skills as an engineer and programmer are best evidenced by the armies of robots and weapons he has created for his numerous attempts at conquest and destroying Team Sonic, some of which he has been able to build and program in a very short time. He is also a very skilled pilot with the many different types of mechs and vehicles of his own designs in difficult battles with Team Sonic. He is also able to understand and speak in morse code.[30]
Another of Eggman's skills is his masterminded plots, manipulations and schemes which nearly always succeed in some way. However, even when successful, his plans usually fail due to Sonic and his friends and his own arrogant overconfidence.
Physically, Eggman has above average strength, being able to break a ping pong table with one hit.[31] He has as well been noted to be surprisingly agile for his age[1] and can dodge laser fire from five opponents at the same time, showcasing great reflexes.[69] Eggman has also shown remarkable durability, having survived getting slammed halfway into a boulder and getting shot down in his Eggmobile by Sonic's Mech Suit.[63]
Equipment[]
Dr. Eggman wields a wrist gauntlet which is equipped with a device that originally belonged to Lyric. This device lets him manipulate any electronics that are not manually controlled. In addition, it can fire various types of beams, such as lasers, force-field beams and teleportation beams It also has some more novel functions, like an alarm for schedules and a music player.
Transformations[]
Sonic Cookie Eggman[]
After once eating an Evil Cookie infused with Sonic's DNA, Eggman became Sonic Cookie Eggman. In this form, Eggman possessed all of Sonic's powers and moves, including his super speed, agility, reflexes and spin attack. He also acquired much of Sonic's personality, complete with a change in morality. However, he lost this form permanently after being restored to normal.[49]
Furry Eggman[]
After bombarding himself with purple rays, Eggman developed the ability to transform into a small and adorable creature, dubbed Furry Eggman, whenever he got angry. In this form, Eggman possessed animal-like agility, the power of flight, and the ability to emit rainbows. He eventually lost this form permanently after going forty-eight hours without getting angry.[21]
Weakness[]
Physically, Eggman has rather poor health. He possesses cholesterol issues and severely lacks in stamina, the latter which making him unable to run or exercise for very long before he is exhausted.[27][8] This is likely due to being severely out of shape. As a testament to his poor physical health, if he exerts himself too much in the process of dodging attacks, he risks throwing out his back.[43]
Additionally, while Orbot and Metal Sonic seem smart, most of Eggman's robots appear incredibly stupid and incompetent. None have been capable of carrying out basic tasks, never mind beating Sonic. This dimness has expanded to Eggman himself, who tends to cook up needlessly convoluted and generally petty schemes, none of which have actually granted him any real success despite his intelligence.
Relationships[]
Trivia[]
References[]
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| Playable characters | Team Sonic (Amy, Knuckles, Sonic, Sticks, Tails) | Shadow | Vector | |
|---|---|---|
| Non-playable characters | Burnbot | Cowbot | Cubot | Dr. Eggman | Lady Goat | Mayor Fink | Orbot | Sprite | Stratford | Walrus Male | Wild Cat | Zooey | |
| Levels | Jungle | Village | Eggman's Lair | Mountain | Junction | |
| Enemies | Buzz Bomber | Crabmeat | Motobug | |
| Moves/Techniques | Chaos Spear | Dash | Dash Magnet | Grinding | Knuckle Slam | Protected Combo | Ring Hammer | Second Chance | Vector Projector | |
| Gimmicks and obstacles | Blue plasma bomb | Dash Pad | Ener-Rail | Hoop | Mine | Rail | Red plasma bomb | Spring | |
| Items | Enerbeam | Magnet | Orb | Red Star Ring | Ring | Score Doubler | Shield | Super Ring | Ticket | |
| Others | Amy's Hammer | Banking | Boom Boost | Boomerang | Chaos Blast | Combo | Eggmobile | Event | Mission | Prize | |
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