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| 6 | !!The Wachowski Family |
| 7 | [[folder:Tom Wachowski]] |
| 8 | !!Sheriff Thomas Michael "Donut Lord" Wachowski |
| 9 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JamesMarsden [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/YuichiNakamura (Japanese), Luis Leonardo Suárez (Latin-American Spanish), Per Eggers (Swedish), Raphael Rossatto (Brazilian Portuguese), Creator/MartinWatier (Quebec French), Creator/DamienBoisseau (EU French), Massimiliano Manfredi (Italian), Zhang Yuanming (PRC Mandarin), Song Yucong (TW Mandarin)[[/labelnote]] |
| 10 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog|2020}}'' | ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog 2|2022}}'' | ''Sonic the Hedgehog 3'' |
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| 17 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"No, this is not some fun family road trip!"'']] |
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| 19 | ->''"It's time for this guy to get out there and prove himself. I love Green Hills, but... you know, I wanna help people in real trouble. I want someone to turn to me in a life-or-death situation and I'll be there for 'em."'' |
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| 21 | Green Hills' sheriff and Sonic's first human ally. Tom wants to break out of small town life and prove he has what it takes to be a cop in the big city. However, things get very weird when Sonic enters his life, putting him in a compromising situation with both the US government and his future plans. He eventually becomes Sonic's adoptive father. |
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| 23 | * ActionSurvivor: He contributes the best he can, considering he's in a universe that also includes evil scientists and superpowered hedgehogs, foxes, and echidnas. |
| 24 | * AffectionateNickname: Sonic refers to him throughout the first movie as "the Donut Lord", because Sonic observes that he "talks to donuts, then eats them if they step out of line." Tom eventually takes to it, calling himself "Donut Lord" in the final fight with Robotnik. |
| 25 | * AppropriatedAppellation: Sonic's "Donut Lord" nickname for him. Tom initially doesn't like it, but adopts it for himself much later. |
| 26 | -->'''Tom:''' ''(to Robotnik)'' I'm the Donut Lord, you [[CurseCutShort son of a b-]]! |
| 27 | * AudienceSurrogate: He fills this role in the first movie, where the audience can experience through him what it's like making friends with and having their small town life shaken up by the Blue Blur himself. |
| 28 | * BigDamnHeroes: He shares a moment with Maddie in the second movie, saving Sonic from getting crushed by Robotnik's giant robot by mere milliseconds. |
| 29 | * CanonForeigner: He doesn't exist in the video games. |
| 30 | * ChallengeSeeker: The reason he wants to move out of Green Hills and into San Francisco is because [[SmallTownBoredom small town life bores him]]. There's no challenge for Tom in helping people recover bagels stolen by ducks and sitting idly all day at a speed trap. |
| 31 | * CompositeCharacter: He's a human friend Sonic makes when stranded on another world, similar to [[Anime/SonicX Chris Thorndyke]], and a member of local law enforcement like Sam Speed from the same series. |
| 32 | * CoolUncle: No matter how much his sister-in-law Rachel may despise him, her daughter Jojo clearly adores Tom, and the two have a great relationship. |
| 33 | * DeadpanSnarker: He has his moments, ''especially'' when talking to Robotnik. |
| 34 | * DefrostingIceKing: At the start of the movie, he's not pleased that he has to accompany Sonic on his quest to retrieve his rings, but he softens up considerably thanks to CharacterDevelopment. |
| 35 | * DemotedToExtra: Downplayed. His role as deuteragonist is taken over by Tails in the second film, but he still plays a major supporting role in the film's second act. |
| 36 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: Of the first movie, due to his character development playing a huge role in the film and him setting almost the same amount of screentime as Sonic. |
| 37 | * DonutMessWithACop: Sonic calls him the "Donut Lord" for a reason: he's a local town cop who loves eating donuts, even talking to them to practice his promotion acceptance speech. [[spoiler:Tom eventually [[AppropriatedAppellation calls himself]] the Donut Lord while fist-fighting Doctor Robotnik in the climax]]. |
| 38 | * EasilyForgiven: He is never punished for assaulting a government agent, or at least a government contractor. But then again, considering the person he punched out was [[{{Jerkass}} Dr. Robotnik]], punishment for it probably wasn't high on anyone's list of priorities. |
| 39 | * TheEveryman: He's your average police officer, bored of living a typical middle-American life before it's turned upside down by Sonic. |
| 40 | * FairCop: A town sheriff who wants to be a cop in a big city played by James Marsden. |
| 41 | * FatalFlaw: '''Impulsiveness.''' Tom has a "shoot first, ask questions later" mentality in the first movie, and he gets himself into deeper and deeper trouble because of his tendency to act before he thinks. |
| 42 | ** Shooting Sonic with a tranquilizer dart makes Sonic drop his Power Rings, necessitating the road trip from Green Hills, Montana to San Francisco, California. |
| 43 | ** Punching Robotnik in the face [[ItsPersonal makes it personal with him]], getting Tom on the bad side of the mad scientist and the US government. |
| 44 | ** Averted at the end after some CharacterDevelopment on Tom's part. [[spoiler:Though he gets into the SFPD at last, he chooses to reject their offer and go back to Green Hills with Maddie, letting Sonic live in their attic.]] |
| 45 | * FireForgedFriends: He becomes this over time with Sonic. After the myriad of adventures they have trying to get to San Francisco, Tom grows genuinely attached to Sonic. [[spoiler:He and Maddie even take Sonic into their home once Robotnik is gone.]] |
| 46 | * FlawExploitation: After learning that Robotnik's BerserkButton is being punched in the face, Tom exploits it by [[spoiler:repeatedly punching Robotnik in the face, making Robotnik lose focus on Sonic at a critical moment]]. |
| 47 | * FlatWhat: He has this reaction after meeting Sonic for the first time when the former sneaks into his home to find shelter on an unfamiliar planet and post-knocking him out with a tranquilizer dart. |
| 48 | * GoalInLife: To become a "real" police officer in San Francisco. Before the movie starts, he'd been trying to do so for quite some time with no success, seeing as how Maddie expected Tom to be rejected enough that she baked two cakes for him, one for rejection and the other for success. [[spoiler:Tom does get accepted to the SFPD early on in the film, but decides to remain in Green Hills to help the people he cares about most.]] |
| 49 | * HappilyMarried: To Maddie. When she was in veterinary school, he worked three jobs to pay the bills and her tuition, and even when he lands his dream job in San Francisco, Tom wants to make sure that ''she'' is okay with uprooting and moving. |
| 50 | * TheHeart: He instills into Sonic the concepts of ThePowerOfFriendship and WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility mantras in the first movie and its sequel, greatly impacting Sonic's priorities, decisions, and interactions with other characters. |
| 51 | * HeroesLoveDogs: He considers his golden retriever, Ozzy, to be his "best animal friend," much to Sonic's dismay. |
| 52 | * AHeroToHisHometown: Whenever there's trouble in Green Hills, Tom is the first person everyone calls for. While Tom sometimes thinks he's wasting himself in a little town where he does very real police work, he's still a caring, competent officer, and all the residents respect and appreciate him. [[spoiler:During the climax of the first movie, the entire town rises to Tom's defense when Robotnik threatens him.]] |
| 53 | * HeroWithBadPublicity: He becomes a fugitive from the government, with the news calling him a suspected domestic terrorist after punching Robotnik and helping Sonic escape. |
| 54 | * HypocriticalHumor: Considering that he eats a dozen donuts a day, it's rich that he would complain about the unhealthy meal that he bought for Sonic. |
| 55 | * IChooseToStay: He makes plans to relocate to San Francisco after the SFPD hires him. Ultimately, however, he and his wife decide to [[spoiler:remain in Green Hills following Robotnik's defeat and allow Sonic to reside in their attic]]. |
| 56 | * IJustWantToBeSpecial: Part of the reason why he wants to move to the big city is that he doesn't feel he's doing anything truly life-changing in a small town like Green Hills. It's also likely what gets him to help Sonic despite all the trouble it would cause him. |
| 57 | * InformedFlaw: It's supposed to be obvious that he's a wimp in comparison to Randall and his friends, except for the fact that when he playfully flexes, his muscles are just as big as the other guys. |
| 58 | * InterspeciesAdoption: He and Maddie end up adopting Sonic at the end of the first movie. [[spoiler:The end of the second shows that the two of them have also welcomed Tails and Knuckles into their family.]] |
| 59 | * LameComeback: During his first encounter with Robotnik, the mad scientist brags about his intelligence by saying he could solve formulas as a toddler while Tom was "spitting up formula". Tom attempts to retaliate by saying he was breastfed. |
| 60 | -->'''Robotnik:''' [[TooMuchInformation Nice]], rub ''that'' in my orphan face. |
| 61 | * LeadYouCanRelateTo: For parents who might have a hard time relating to a hyperactive space hedgehog, there's a charismatic and respectable married man in the mix too. |
| 62 | * MrFanservice: It's a given, being played by a former Versace Model and all. Even Sonic [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it, mentioning how tightly all of Tom's clothes fit him. |
| 63 | * NiceGuy: A very kind and friendly cop. |
| 64 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: He accidentally sets the whole plot of the first movie in motion. When Tom first meets Sonic, he shoots him with Maddie's tranquilizer darts. A dazed Sonic accidentally drops his Power Ring bag, mumbles "San Francisco" (from Tom's T-shirt), a ring portal opens, and the bag of rings falls on top of the Transamerica Pyramid Building. The portal then closes before Sonic is able to go through, necessitating a road trip to go retrieve the bag. |
| 65 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Tom gains Robotnik's dedicated disdain early on, second only to Sonic, when it turns out getting socked in the face is a direct trigger for the malicious egomaniac's unresolved issues from childhood. [[spoiler:So, to try and get Robotnik's focus off of Sonic when he has him cornered, Tom hammers on this BerserkButton ''liberally'' by getting onboard his craft via ring to beat him senseless.]] |
| 66 | * NoOneGetsLeftBehind: When Robotnik has them surrounded by a RingOfFire and Sonic begs them to run away and save themselves, Tom echoes Maddie's sentiment to Sonic that they are family, and family sticks together. |
| 67 | * OfficialCouple: With his wife Maddie, as shown in the beginning of the first movie. |
| 68 | * PapaWolf: He becomes fiercely protective of Sonic over the course of the first movie, even going so far as to adopt him. |
| 69 | ** [[spoiler:It's taken to another level in the sequel, as he and Maddie refuse to leave Sonic's side just before Robotnik crushes them all with the Death Egg Robot. Of course, Sonic going Super saves them. He was also willing to fight several G.U.N. agents when they attempt to imprison Sonic for his powers.]] |
| 70 | * ParentalSubstitute: After he agrees to help Sonic, he starts having moments of being one to the Blue Blur. And that's even before he and Maddie decide to adopt Sonic. |
| 71 | ** [[spoiler:This is solidified further at the end of the second movie with Sonic acknowledging Tom as his dad. It's even strongly implied that he and Maddie have adopted Tails and Knuckles as well.]] |
| 72 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: He punches Robotnik in the face when he tries to catch Sonic. |
| 73 | * PoliceAreUseless: Averted in his case. Tom is clearly competent at what he does and calmly doles out orders to Wade when the latter calls him during the power outage. Wade, unfortunately, seems to play this trope completely straight. |
| 74 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: At Rachel's wedding, he is the Sensitive Guy with Randall's Manly Man, highlighted during the volleyball game and when he apologizes before punching Randall in the face. |
| 75 | * ShutUpHannibal: During the climax of the first movie, he gives one to Robotnik in response to his dismissal of Sonic as a "silly little alien" who doesn't belong on Earth, telling him point-blank that Sonic may be an alien, but he knows more about being human than [[TheSociopath Robotnik]] [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters ever will]]. |
| 76 | * SmallTownBoredom: This is his motivation for wanting to leave Green Hills for San Francisco. He wants to join the SFPD because he wants to be challenged in his abilities as a police officer and have someone rely on him. There's no challenge for Tom in helping people recover bagels stolen by ducks and sitting at a speed trap all day. Sonic calls him out for wanting to stop defending Green Hills just for a higher-ranking position in a bigger urban city. [[spoiler:At the end of the film, [[IChooseToStay he chooses to stay in Green Hills after all]] and let Sonic live with him and Maddie.]] |
| 77 | * TookALevelInKindness: By the second film, he's a full on NiceGuy, and father figure to Sonic and his otherworldly friends. |
| 78 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Donuts. He is said to eat donuts everyday and revolves his life around donuts by not just eating them, but treating them like toys or imaginary friends to talk to. It's why Sonic nicknames him "Donut Lord" after watching him for a long time. |
| 79 | * WhatTheHellHero: He gives Sonic a somewhat parental-sounding scolding at the start of the second movie, after Sonic spends all night fighting crime in Seattle and destroys part of it in the process. |
| 80 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility: He teaches this to Sonic as their relationship evolves from road-trip buddies to a father-son relationship. |
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| 83 | [[folder:Maddie Wachowski]] |
| 84 | !!Maddie "Pretzel Lady" Wachowski |
| 85 | !!!'''Played by:''' Creator/TikaSumpter [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/MarinaInoue (Japanese), Carla Castañeda (Latin-American Spanish), Johanna Lazcano [''Sonic the Hedgehog''], Hilda Henze [Sonic the Hedgehog 2''] (Swedish), Fernanda Bullara (Brazilian Portuguese), Florence Blain Mbaye (Quebec French), Déborah Claude (EU French), Laura Facchin (Italian), Zhang Biyu (PRC Mandarin), Shen Xuanling (TW Mandarin)[[/labelnote]] |
| 86 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog|2020}}'' | ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog 2|2022}}'' | ''Series/{{Knuckles}}'' | ''Sonic the Hedgehog 3'' |
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| 92 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"I've been pretty admirable in not freaking out!"'']] |
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| 94 | ->''"You sacrificed for me. I'm happy to sacrifice for you."'' |
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| 96 | Tom's wife and an animal veterinarian. She assists Sonic in his travels, and eventually becomes Sonic's adoptive mother. |
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| 98 | * ActionSurvivor: Especially in the sequel, where she fights G.U.N. agents with Rachel to save Tom, Sonic, and Tails. |
| 99 | * AffectionateNickname: Like with Tom, Sonic refers to her throughout the first movie as "Pretzel Lady", because he thinks that she was born with no bones after observing her yoga sessions. |
| 100 | ** Knuckles continues this trend in his eponymous miniseries by referring to her as “Pretzel ''Woman''”. |
| 101 | * BigDamnHeroes: She shares a moment with Tom in the second movie, saving Sonic in the nick of time from getting crushed by Robotnik's giant robot. |
| 102 | * CanonForeigner: Like Tom, she isn't from the games. |
| 103 | * ClosestThingWeGot: After Sonic is injured from [[spoiler:one of Robotnik's robots exploding like a sticky grenade]], Tom takes Sonic to meet Maddie, a vet. Tom admits that Maddie wouldn't logically know anything about Sonic's alien biology, but she's his only option. Even then, Maddie does make the observation that Sonic's feet must be incredibly sore, given the signs of wear and tear. |
| 104 | * CrazyPrepared: When Tom's letter from the SFPD arrives, she actually gets ''two'' celebration cakes ready, one for an acceptance letter and the other for rejection. |
| 105 | * DissonantSerenity: Invoked. She remains oddly calm when Tom shows up to San Francisco with Sonic, an alien hedgehog, and even talks about how calm she is being with Tom, not "freaking out," before [[SuddenlyShouting whisper-shouting at him about the ridiculousness of what has been going on, especially Sonic]]. |
| 106 | * FingerGun: She does a two handed version of this at end of her SecretHandshake with Rachel. |
| 107 | * HappilyMarried: To Tom. After he lands his dream job, she is more than willing to uproot and start a new life with him, and even after he's been all over the news as a wanted man, she trusts him enough to give medical care to the strange, blue alien he's brought along with him. No matter how much her sister wants her to divorce Tom, Maddie won't do it, and they stay together. |
| 108 | * HeroesLoveDogs: Like her husband, she is very fond of their dog Ozzy. |
| 109 | * InterspeciesAdoption: She and Tom end up adopting Sonic at the end of the first movie. [[spoiler:The end of the second shows that the two of them have also welcomed Tails and Knuckles into their family.]] |
| 110 | * KickingAssInAllHerFinery: She goes on a rescue mission with Rachel straight from the wedding ceremony, fighting G.U.N. agents while still in her maid of honor dress. |
| 111 | * KindlyVet: A NiceGirl who works as a veterinarian. |
| 112 | * MamaBear: Her first instinct when meeting Sonic was to pull Jojo closer to her. |
| 113 | ** In the sequel, she doesn’t hesitate to jump to the rescue of Sonic and even refers to him as “our kid” to Tom. [[spoiler:Even more so, she and Tom refuse to leave a weakened Sonic, even though he begs them to, with the three of them choosing to die as a family when Robotnik attempts to crush them with the Death Egg Robot. This love gives Sonic the motivation, however, to tap into the power of the Chaos Emeralds and become Super Sonic to save them all. Likewise she scrounges through Tails's gadgets to face off against G.U.N in hopes of rescuing her husband, son and his friend.]] |
| 114 | * MsFanservice: Much like James Marsden, Tika Sumpter spent a part of her career as a model, and they don't shy away showing off her beauty. One of her first scenes in the first movie is her in gym wear doing yoga exercises. It's played for laughs, though, since Sonic thinks she doesn't have bones (and nicknames her "Pretzel Lady" for it), and has trouble himself copying her moves. |
| 115 | ** In the second film, she spends half of her screen-time in a slinky bridesmaid dress that shows plenty of leg. |
| 116 | * NiceGirl: A very nice and kind woman, and very loyal to her husband. |
| 117 | * NoOneGetsLeftBehind: She expresses this to Sonic, and reminds him that they are family when he pleads for her and Tom to escape Robotnik. Of course, it doesn't help that Robotnik has them all surrounded by a RingOfFire at the time. |
| 118 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Despite her usual calm and put-together demeaner, she does have her moments, from freaking out behind closed doors when Sonic wakes up in the first movie, to doing a silly war cry with finger-guns to finish the SecretHandshake with her sister in the second. |
| 119 | ** She also admits at the end of the second film that she thinks [[LiteralMinded Knuckles is hilarious]]. |
| 120 | * OfficialCouple: With her husband, Tom, as shown in the beginning of the first movie. |
| 121 | * OhCrap: She has this reaction upon realizing that after Sonic teleported her and Tom back to Green Hills, she left her sister tied to a chair HOURS earlier. |
| 122 | * OpenmindedParent: She relaxes more into this with Sonic and his need to find his identity in the sequel, while Tom openly struggles to transition from being Sonic's partner in crime to more of a father figure. |
| 123 | * ParentalSubstitute: Alongside Tom, she becomes Sonic's parental figure as they adopt him at the end of the first movie. |
| 124 | * SassyBlackWoman: Although she is a NiceGirl, Maddie can be feisty, snarky and sassy. |
| 125 | * SecretHandshake: She does this to get hyped up with her sister Rachel before rescuing Tom, Sonic, and Tails. |
| 126 | * SiblingTeam: She teams up with Rachel to rescue Tom, Sonic, and Tails from G.U.N. (and in Rachel's case, to get vengeance). |
| 127 | * SiblingYinYang: She has this dynamic with her sister Rachel. Maddie is a NiceGirl and HappilyMarried, but Rachel is quite boisterous and implied to have had a divorce with her husband. Their differences don't stop them from teaming up in the sequel, however. |
| 128 | * StraightMan: Whenever she shares the screen with her more brash, flamboyant sister Rachel, and most notably in the sequel where they team up during the wedding-rescue/revenge sequence. |
| 129 | * TeamMom: She's more or less this by default in the first movie, but it becomes even more apparent by the end of the second. |
| 130 | * TookALevelInBadass: She goes from a more passive role in helping Sonic recover in the first movie, to rescuing him ''twice'' in the second -- the first time being when he, Tails, and Tom are captured by G.U.N., the second time when she and Tom save him from getting crushed by Robotnik's giant robot. |
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| 133 | [[folder:Rachel]] |
| 134 | !!Rachel |
| 135 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/NatashaRothwell [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Kozue Saitō (Japanese), Creator/LauraTorres (Latin-American Spanish), Cecilia Wrangel (Swedish, ''Sonic the Hedgehog''), Kayode Shekoni (Swedish, ''Sonic the Hedgehog 2''), Karen Ramalho (Brazilian Portuguese), Catherine Hamann (Quebec French), Anne Mathot (EU French), Angela Brusa (Italian), Li Shirong (PRC Mandarin), Qian Xinyu (TW Mandarin)[[/labelnote]] |
| 136 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog|2020}}'' | ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog 2|2022}}'' |
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| 142 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"D-I-V-O-R-C-E!"'']] |
| 143 | ->''"Hell hath no fury like a bride scorned!"'' |
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| 145 | Maddie's sister, Tom's sister-in-law, and Jojo's mother. She tries to keep Tom and Maddie from being together. |
| 146 | ---- |
| 147 | * ActionSurvivor: After her own wedding turns out to be an elaborate setup by G.U.N., she takes matters into her own hands with the help of Tails's gadgets and her sister. |
| 148 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When Tom shows up at her door, she threatens to call the CIA, the FBI... and Tom's mother. |
| 149 | * AscendedExtra: She gets quite a bit more to do in the second movie. |
| 150 | * BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:She saves Maddie from the G.U.N. agents who have her surrounded by using one of Tails's gadgets, which homes in on all the agents, knocking them out. Rachel even says she didn't even know the gadget was capable of doing that before she and Maddie split up again]]. |
| 151 | * BoundAndGagged: She spends half of her time in the first film tied up to a chair. |
| 152 | * ButtMonkey: Rachel spends the entire second half of the first movie tied to a chair where nobody, not even her own daughter, will listen to her. Given her nasty behavior, it's hard to blame them. |
| 153 | * CanonForeigner: Like Tom and Maddie, she isn't from the games. |
| 154 | * DeadpanSnarker: She has her moments. |
| 155 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:In helping Maddie rescue Tom, Sonic, and Tails from G.U.N., she winds up marrying Randall, [[BecomingTheMask who confesses to having fallen in love with her for real during the undercover operation]]]]. |
| 156 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: She spells out "divorce" after a phone call between Maddie and Tom, establishing her objection to their relationship. |
| 157 | * EveryoneHasStandards: As obnoxious as she was in the first film, [[spoiler:upon learning that her wedding was just a ruse, a part of her was furious that she had been tricked, but there's also a part of her that is appalled that G.U.N. used the fake wedding to capture Sonic, using her and her family as bait]]. |
| 158 | --> '''Rachel''': ''[To Randall and Walters]'' What kind of twisted sicko tricks someone into a ''[[HoneyTrap fake wedding?!]]'' |
| 159 | * {{Fainting}}: Upon seeing Sonic for the first time, Rachel barely has enough time to mutter "Oh, catch me, Jojo!" and ask somebody to catch her before passing out. |
| 160 | * FingerGun: She does a two-handed version of this at end of her SecretHandshake with Maddie. |
| 161 | * HateSink: |
| 162 | ** In the first movie, Rachel urges her sister Maddie to divorce Tom for no apparent reason before he becomes wanted by the government. Rachel is also a loud contrarian in every scene in which she appears. She never even comes around by the end, but since the couple are continuing their life in Green Hills, it's a non-issue. Even so, Rachel is written with the intention that the audience will dislike her. |
| 163 | ** By ''Sonic the Hedgehog 2'', [[spoiler:it's averted, as Rachel is no longer written to be intentionally disliked. Rachel TookALevelInKindness by tolerating Tom's presence much more (she still makes it clear she dislikes him, but she acts more outwardly civil to him and isn't constantly trying to get Maddie to divorce him anymore). While she's unhappy when Sonic shows up to her wedding to Randall, Rachel's shown to be justified in being upset. Rachel also actively helps Maddie rescue Tom, Sonic, and Tails after G.U.N. locks them up. This allows Rachel to [[EarnYourHappyEnding earn a happy ending]], as Randall confesses that [[HoneyTrap he was an undercover G.U.N. agent meant to trap Sonic]], but [[BecomingTheMask he really did fall in love with Rachel as time went on]]]]. |
| 164 | * IHaveNoIdeaWhatImDoing: [[spoiler:She expresses this sentiment as she uses Tails' gadgets to help her sister rescue Sonic and co. and get revenge on her fiancé]]. |
| 165 | * ImStandingRightHere: Tom and Maddie discuss commandeering Rachel's car, among other things, while Rachel is tied to a chair and listening to their entire conversation. Their inflections imply that they want her to hear them since she's been such a pain in their side about their relationship. |
| 166 | * IrrationalHatred: Why she dislikes Tom so much is never really explained. A deleted scene for the first movie implies it stems from her going through a bad marriage herself. |
| 167 | * {{Jerkass}}: At least Robotnik has an amusing charm about him and one PetTheDog moment. There is really nothing appealing about Rachel in the first movie. |
| 168 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In the second movie, she is noticeably less obnoxious than she was in the first movie, indicating that what happened in the first movie did humble her a bit. Not only does she [[spoiler:actively help Maddie rescue Tom, Sonic, and Tails from G.U.N.]], but she has also become more willing to hear people out. Plus, she's shown to genuinely love her sister, and works exceedingly well with her. [[spoiler:She's also become more forgiving, especially when she forgives Randall after he confesses to having actually fallen in love with her during the operation.]] |
| 169 | * JerkassHasAPoint: |
| 170 | ** Sort of, in the first film. While she doesn't seem to know the whole story regarding Tom and Sonic (and probably wouldn't care even if she did know), she does point out that they both are, by all accounts, fugitives from the U.S government, and getting involved with them would put her, Jojo, and Maddie in serious danger. When you account for how Robotnik almost kills Maddie later when she decides to help the duo out, it's clear she's not entirely wrong. |
| 171 | ** In the sequel, [[spoiler:she's justifiably angry and distrusting towards G.U.N. (specifically Walters and Randall) for setting up a wedding as a complete ruse and [[EveryoneHasStandards using her and her entire family as bait to capture Sonic and arrest Tom]].]] |
| 172 | * KarmicButtMonkey: Her poor attitude toward Tom is often punished via Rachel getting placed in overtly annoying and/or humiliating situations. |
| 173 | * KickingAssInAllHerFinery: She goes straight from her own wedding to her own RoaringRampageOfRevenge against G.U.N. and Randall. |
| 174 | * LargeHam: She has shades of this in the first film, but Natasha Rothwell takes this up a notch for her character in the sequel. |
| 175 | * LoveMakesYouCrazy: She's always been a bit high-strung, but the stress and betrayal at her wedding drives her to cartoonish levels of hijinks for vengeance. |
| 176 | * ObnoxiousInLaws: She doesn't like Tom, to put it nicely. Even ''before'' he becomes a fugitive, she jumps on any flimsy excuse to tell Maddie to divorce him. She becomes so obnoxious that she has to be ''[[BoundAndGagged tied up to a chair]]'' to stop her from being a nuisance. |
| 177 | * OnlyOneName: Her last name is never mentioned. |
| 178 | * RedHerring: Towards the beginning of the movie, a scene with Rachel (who hates Tom and constantly tries to convince Maddie to divorce him) and a meaningful-looking shot of Robotnik's drone riddling a photo of Maddie and Tom with bullets suggests that the shenanigans of the movie might put a strain on Maddie and Tom's relationship. |
| 179 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After helping her sister Maddie deal with G.U.N. agents in the sequel, Rachel turns her attention to getting revenge on her fiance Randall, charging in full force with a golf cart. |
| 180 | * SassyBlackWoman: A Black woman with shades of DeadpanSnarker who's very invested in separating her sister and brother in-law. |
| 181 | * SecretHandshake: She does this to get hyped up with her sister Maddie before getting revenge on her fiance. |
| 182 | * ShipTease: She gets this with Officer Wade Whipple in a deleted scene when he starts flirting with her. |
| 183 | * ShooOutTheClowns: After reconciling with Randall, she stays in Hawaii with her wedding party while Tom, Maddie, and G.U.N. head back to Green Hills to help Sonic confront Dr. Robotnik for the FinalBattle. |
| 184 | * SiblingTeam: She and Maddie work together to rescue Tom, Sonic, and Tails from G.U.N.. |
| 185 | * SiblingYinYang: With Maddie. Maddie is a NiceGirl and HappilyMarried, but Rachel is [[{{Jerkass}} obnoxious]] and implied to have had a divorce with her husband. Their differences don't stop them from teaming up in the sequel, however. |
| 186 | * ThrowTheDogABone: After suffering from fainting and being left tied up in a chair and having her car borrowed by Tom and Maddie in the first film, the sequel [[spoiler:has her getting married... though of course, Sonic's adventure ends up interfering with the wedding. Of course, after she helps Maddie rescue Tom, Sonic, and Tails from G.U.N., [[EarnYourHappyEnding she still ends up marrying Randall]], [[BecomingTheMask who confesses to having fallen in love with her during the undercover operation]]]]. |
| 187 | * TookALevelInBadass: She spent most of the first movie tied up. In the sequel, she provides the "Roaring Rampage" part of the RoaringRampageOfRescue after the heroes are captured and her fiance betrays her. |
| 188 | * TookALevelInKindness: She is noticeably less abrasive towards Tom in the sequel, and even [[spoiler:hears Randall out after he's revealed to actually be a government agent, when he takes a taser shot for her]]. |
| 189 | * VillainyFreeVillain: Although she isn't actively antagonistic and doesn't do anything villainous in the first movie, Rachel is still written with the intention that [[HateSink the audience will dislike her]] because of Rachel's irrational hatred of Tom and constant nagging that Maddie should divorce him, even before Tom becomes a wanted fugitive. [[TookALevelInKindness She even drops most of the antagonism in the sequel.]] |
| 190 | * WomanScorned: [[spoiler:After discovering her fiance Randall was really a government agent who faked the wedding to capture Sonic, Rachel does not take it well. While Maddie works to free Tom, Sonic and Tails, Rachel hunts down Randall, screaming "Wifey's home!" She even uses the "Hell hath no fury" quote when confronting him.]] |
| 191 | [[/folder]] |
| 192 | |
| 193 | [[folder:Jojo]] |
| 194 | !!Jojo |
| 195 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Melody Niemann [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Mami Fujita (Japanese), Abril Gómez (Latin-American Spanish), Isa Cavalcante (Brazilian Portuguese), Matilde Ferraro (Italian)[[/labelnote]] |
| 196 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog|2020}}'' | ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog 2|2022}}'' |
| 197 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jojopng.png]] |
| 198 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"So you won't hurt your feet anymore."'']] |
| 199 | |
| 200 | Tom and Maddie's niece and Rachel's daughter. She befriends Sonic and helps by giving him new shoes. |
| 201 | ---- |
| 202 | * CanonForeigner: Like Tom and Maddie, she isn't from the games. |
| 203 | * CheerfulChild: She doesn't seem all that bothered by Sonic's appearance, especially compared to her mother. On top of that, she also gives Sonic his new shoes after seeing that the ones he has are worn out, all so that Sonic wouldn't hurt his feet anymore. |
| 204 | * CutenessProximity: Her immediate reaction to seeing Sonic for the first time is to give an excited smile. She certainly stands in contrast to her mom fainting or Tom and Robotnik's freaked-out screams. |
| 205 | * DisappearedDad: Her father doesn't appear and isn't even mentioned. In Jojo's drawing, you can see that in the background there's only her and her mother. |
| 206 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: She immediately bonds with Sonic and helps him by giving him new shoes. |
| 207 | * HeroWorshipper: She seems to have become one towards Sonic by the end of the first movie, as she is seen running around her house saying “Gotta go fast” over and over to imitate him. |
| 208 | * IconicOutfit: [=Jojo=] sees how horribly worn-out Sonic's sneakers are, and gives him a new pair which are red with one single white stripe, like his trademark sneakers from the games. |
| 209 | * LikeParentUnlikeChild: She has none of Rachel's obnoxious characteristics. While her mother antagonizes Tom at every opportunity, Jojo is a sweet girl who is happy to see him and goes out of her way to be kind to Sonic. |
| 210 | * NiceGirl: She becomes one of Sonic's friends and is the one who gives him his iconic shoes. |
| 211 | * OnlyOneName: Her last name is never mentioned. |
| 212 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: She's only there for a few minutes in the first movie but she gives something very important to Sonic -- his trademark shoes. In the second movie, she has even less screentime, but Tom's prank on her switches the rings, and causes a major chain of events to unfold, including TheReveal regarding Randall. Also worth noting is that she is the one who discovers [[spoiler:Tails's bag of gadgets after he, Sonic, and Tom are captured by G.U.N. during the wedding. This ultimately aids in Maddie and Rachel's rescue-revenge mission]]. |
| 213 | [[/folder]] |
| 214 | |
| 215 | !!The Whipple Family |
| 216 | [[folder:Wade Whipple]] |
| 217 | !!Officer Wade Whipple |
| 218 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/AdamPally [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Oolongta Yoshida (Japanese), Noé Velázquez (Latin-American Spanish), David Lenneman (Swedish), Dláigelles Riba (Brazilian Portuguese), Alexandre Fortin (Quebec French), Ellias Changuel (EU French), Gabriele Tacchi (Italian), Wang Xueliang (PRC Mandarin), Xia Zhishi (TW Mandarin)[[/labelnote]] |
| 219 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog|2020}}'' | ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog 2|2022}}'' | ''Series/{{Knuckles}}'' |
| 220 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/20240423_120148.jpg]] |
| 221 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Most people think I'm a joke."'']] |
| 222 | |
| 223 | ->''"I WILL TELL PEOPLE ABOUT THIS!"'' |
| 224 | \ |
| 225 | Tom's deputy and friend from Green Hill Police Station. |
| 226 | ---- |
| 227 | * AlliterativeName: Officer '''W'''ade '''W'''hipple. |
| 228 | * AscendedExtra: He gets a slightly larger role in the second movie. And then gets promoted to being a main character in Knuckles' series alongside the titular character, [[spoiler:eventually becoming the main protagonist while Knuckles becomes a SupportingProtagonist once the show shifts focus to his narrative after the halfway point.]] |
| 229 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: He's an incompetent doofus most of the time, but in the final battle of the first movie, he manages to fire a couple warning shots close to Robotnik's head. |
| 230 | * BigDamnHeroes: |
| 231 | ** He shows up at the end of the first movie with the other residents of Green Hills to save Tom and Sonic. |
| 232 | ** In the final episode of the ''Knuckles'' miniseries, he [[spoiler:stands up to the Buyer after he saps Knuckles’ power out of him, using Agent Mason’s gauntlets to lob bowling balls at him while he helps give Knuckles his HeroicSecondWind]]. |
| 233 | * ButtMonkey: He tends to be the butt of the joke in most scenes he appears in. This ends up getting upgraded to IronButtMonkey in the ''Knuckles'' mini-series as his comic relief is boosted to full-on slapstick, ranging from his attempt at a plan literally blowing up in his face in a blaze of glory, getting launched around by a rocket-propelled PowerFist against his will, getting stabbed in the arm by his sister during a petty SiblingRivalry argument, and being dragged away by the foot by Jack's motorcycle while Knuckles and Wanda just watch. It was also revealed in the series that his father abandoned him when he was a child. |
| 234 | * CanonForeigner: Like Tom, he isn't from the games. |
| 235 | * CluelessDeputy: He is not exactly the sharpest knife in the proverbial drawer. |
| 236 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: Aside from generally being SarcasmBlind, he mistakes Dr. Robotnik as being an actual "robot with a doctorate". |
| 237 | * CrazyPrepared: He's accidentally gotten himself cuffed to the point Tom gave him a Master Key, which he uses to free his sister and mom in the finale of the ''Knuckles'' mini-series. |
| 238 | * DisappearedDad: His father abruptly abandoned him at a department store when he was a child. |
| 239 | * TheDogBitesBack: |
| 240 | ** After Robotnik abuses him early in the first film, Wade leads the people of Green Hills to fight back against him. |
| 241 | ** After being constantly pushed around by Jack and ending up captured by him for a bounty reward, Wade eventually learns to stand up for himself by escaping his imprisonment and turn the tables around, taking Jack’s hat, jacket, and bowling team shirt. |
| 242 | * GoodCopBadCop: In the sequel, he tries this on [[spoiler:Stone after capturing him in Robotnik's lair, to no success. He also includes "[[FoodInterrogation Cop with a Bagel]]" in the routine, to which Stone responds he's just holding a display bagel.]] |
| 243 | * HiddenDepths: Wade is a goofy ButtMonkey who receives little respect from everyone else and largely serves a comic relief character in the movies, but ''Knuckles'' reveals that he has deep-seated abandonment issues from his father abandoning him at a young age and that he's very insecure about his self-worth as a result. |
| 244 | * HistoricalCharacterConfusion: PlayedForLaughs. When Sonic tells him that they need to find a way to find Knuckles, Wade recalls a kid in his class nicknamed "Knuckles" who could fit his whole fist in his mouth, and thinks that if it's the same Knuckles, they're in big trouble. |
| 245 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: Averted. After grabbing the phone to threaten Tom, Robotnik and his crew leave him without giving him any more trouble. Wade even {{Lampshades}} this, asking if they had forgotten to brainwash him, but they ignore him. This ends up biting Robotnik in the ass when he and several others come and distract Robotnik for long enough to prevent him from killing Tom and Sonic. |
| 246 | * LetsGetDangerous: |
| 247 | ** In the first movie, when Robotnik is about to kill both Tom and Sonic, Wade stops him by firing near his head. |
| 248 | ** This is taken further in the finale of the ''Knuckles'' mini-series [[spoiler:where he alongside his family holding off The Buyer long enough for Knuckles to regain his consciousness and finish him off.]] |
| 249 | * NiceGuy: He’s one of the nicest human characters. |
| 250 | * PoliceAreUseless: PlayedForLaughs early on during the power outage, where he completely forgets Tom's instructions and sits at his desk in quiet panic while the phone rings incessantly. [[spoiler:Downplayed in the sequel, where he manages to infiltrate Robotnik's new lair and capture Stone, though he's unable to get any effective interrogation done before Super Robotnik teleports in. It's also Lampshaded, as when a G.U.N. agent remarks on his incompetence, Tom and Maddie ''immediately'' know who she's talking about]]. |
| 251 | * PowerFist: On two occasions in ''Knuckles'', he makes use of Agent Mason's gauntlets powered by Knuckles' quills to fight after he gets his hands on them. |
| 252 | * SarcasmBlind: Wade's EstablishingCharacterMoment is being oblivious to two of Tom's sarcastic remarks in a row. |
| 253 | * ShipTease: He gets this with Rachel in a deleted scene when he starts flirting with her, though it's ultimately sunk by the sequel, since she gets together with Randal. |
| 254 | * TookALevelInBadass: His story in ''Knuckles'' revolves around him, being trained by Knuckles in the ways of the echidna warrior, developing from a ButtMonkey who struggles to earn the respect of those around him and constantly chokes whenever it matters to a genuine hero able to fight to defend those he cares for and stand up on his own two feet. By the final episode, [[spoiler:he's donned Agent Mason's gauntlets to defend Knuckles alongside his family together and hold off The Buyer after he's drained Knuckles' power.]] |
| 255 | [[/folder]] |
| 256 | |
| 257 | [[folder:Wanda Whipple]] |
| 258 | !!Wanda Whipple |
| 259 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/EdiPatterson |
| 260 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Knuckles}}'' |
| 261 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/20240423_123445.jpg]] |
| 262 | |
| 263 | Wade's sister, who works for the FBI. |
| 264 | ---- |
| 265 | * AlliterativeName: '''W'''anda '''W'''hipple. |
| 266 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: While she certainly has a rivalry with her brother Wade, she still shows up at the Bowling Tournament with her mom to support and even cheer on her brother [[spoiler:to take down their traitorous father]]. |
| 267 | * BigSisterBully: She was this to Wade as a child as one of his flashbacks of past Shabbat dinners involved her tormenting him something fierce. And even in the present day when their relationship has changed more to a SiblingRivalry, she's a lot more aggressive than Wade to the point that she ''stabs him with a fork'' when she reaches the end of her rope during their argument at the dinner table. |
| 268 | * CanonForeigner: She doesn’t exist in the games. |
| 269 | * DeadpanSnarker: A lot of her dialogue comes off as this whenever she's speaking down to people, most notably when she's threatened by a chain-wielding thug seeking to capture Wade for his bounty, she's constantly cracking jokes about said thug before he proceeds to attack her. |
| 270 | * DefrostingIceQueen: Aside from her existing SiblingRivalry with Wade, she also makes it clear that she doesn't trust Knuckles one bit, insisting on checking him for weapons and later giving him the EyeAmWatchingYou gesture. He later earns her respect after he saves her from a chain-wielding bounty hunter. |
| 271 | * TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: After her father, Pete, abandoned her when she was a child ''and'' sold her, Wade, and their mother down the river to save his own hide, she finally gets some payback by beating him up when he tries to steal Wade’s trophy.]] |
| 272 | * HonorBeforeReason: [[spoiler:When she and Wendy are captured by Mason and Willoughby, she states out loud that she ''refuses'' to be rescued by Wade of all people, insisting on using her FBI training to dislocate her thumb to [[SlippedTheRopes slip out of her handcuffs]]. To her credit, she does pull it off, but only well after Knuckles has disposed of the GUN Agent duo. The dislocated thumb does not look pretty though...]] |
| 273 | * SiblingRivalry: She and Wade do ''not'' get along very well, constantly trying to one-up each other by making up details about their respective law enforcement careers, and at one point even escalating to physical violence (culminating in her ''sticking a fork in his arm''). In fact, Wade is more than okay with Agent Willoughby shooting Wanda (to her dismay). Even so, she still seems to [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther care]] about Wade to some extent. |
| 274 | * {{Touche}}: Her facial expression says so when Knuckles, after saving her, returns the EyeAmWatchingYou gesture that she gave him upon their first meeting. |
| 275 | * {{Womanchild}}: She mentally acts more like a spoiled teenager with a large ego than a professional FBI agent. |
| 276 | [[/folder]] |
| 277 | |
| 278 | [[folder:Gwendolyn "Wendy" Whipple]] |
| 279 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/StockardChanning |
| 280 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Knuckles}}'' |
| 281 | \ |
| 282 | Wade's mother, who's a retired Krav Maga instructor. |
| 283 | ---- |
| 284 | * AlliterativeName: '''W'''endy '''W'''hipple. |
| 285 | * AlmightyMom: As a former Krav Maga instructor, she's ''very'' capable of putting up a fight, as she and Knuckles fight off a majority of the squad of thugs seeking out to hunt Wade for the bounty put on him. All while the two successfully protect the Shabbat candles. |
| 286 | * CanonForeigner: She doesn’t exist in the games. |
| 287 | * ChekhovsSkill: It's mentioned that she's a former Krav Maga instructor when Wade and Wanda start getting rowdy at Shabbat. This comes in handy when her house is raided by bounty hunters. |
| 288 | * TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: After Pete abandoned her, leaving her to raise their kids by herself, and ''then'' sold her and their kids down the river to save his own hide, she finally gets some payback by punching him in the face.]] |
| 289 | * ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: She advises Wade against his attempts to reconcile with his father, believing that Pete cares more about his selfish desires than his own family, and warning Wade that his father is great at getting people to love him and that he usually leaves them after that. [[spoiler:She's proven absolutely right when her cowardly, selfish ex-husband sells his entire family out to the rogue G.U.N. agents.]] |
| 290 | * FryingPanOfDoom: She employs one to great effect against a group of thugs invading her house. |
| 291 | * JewishMother: Downplayed in that she's proud of Wade and Wanda's respective careers, but is frustrated that they rarely visit, much less at the same time. She's shown to be deeply proud of her Jewish heritage; the reason she wishes her children would visit more is because she misses their Shabbat traditions, which she's largely kept up alone. Oh, and she used to be a Krav Maga instructor. |
| 292 | * NeverMessWithGranny: She's a capable Krav Maga master who helps Knuckles fight some intruders that break into her home. |
| 293 | * NiceGirl: She does have a fainting spell when Wade introduces her to Knuckles, but she quickly gets over her shock and apologizes to the anthropomorphic echidna. |
| 294 | * OnlyKnownByHerNickname: She's only called by her real name once, by her ex-husband, in a scornful and mocking manner. She promptly returns the favor. |
| 295 | * OpenMindedParent: She's reasonably seen as one of the only competent members of the Whipple family. |
| 296 | * TalkToTheFist: [[spoiler: She punches Pete in the face after he tries to abscond with Wade’s trophy.]] |
| 297 | [[/folder]] |
| 298 | |
| 299 | [[folder:Peter "Pistol Pete" Whipple]] |
| 300 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/CaryElwes |
| 301 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Knuckles}}'' |
| 302 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/20240423_123440.jpg]] |
| 303 | |
| 304 | Wade's father, who abandoned the family when Wade was a child to pursue a career as a professional bowler. |
| 305 | ---- |
| 306 | * AlliterativeName: ZigzaggedTrope. Although his first name doesn't start with a W, his nickname provides a source of alliteration: '''P'''istol '''P'''ete. |
| 307 | * ArchnemesisDad: Knuckles instantly understands that besting Pete is Wade's ultimate test. [[spoiler: And that's before he even sells the entire family out.]] |
| 308 | * BritsLoveTea: To the point where he has a fancy teacup embedded inside his bowling ball. |
| 309 | * CanonForeigner: He doesn’t exist in the games. |
| 310 | * CharacterTic: Pete has a habit of making "finger guns" at people... which is what probably earned him the "Pistol" nickname. |
| 311 | * TheCharmer: He may be a despicable piece of garbage, but he’s very charismatic. His ex-wife tells Wade that Pete’s always been talented at making people love him. |
| 312 | * DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: While he doesn't try to paint his behavior in a particularly good light, Pete confides in Wade that he left because he was looking for something he felt he could only find on the lanes. [[spoiler: Of course, whether he's being honest is entirely up for debate.]] |
| 313 | * DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:It turns out that when Agents Mason and Willoughby decided to threaten him to get him to make Wade give up Knuckles, Pete ''immediately'' caved for his own life and sold out Wade and his family to the two agents. His first reaction to when Knuckles and the Buyer crash the bowling game is to cower and hide.]] |
| 314 | * {{Fauxreigner}}: Played with. Even though he has the accent and mannerisms of a stereotypical posh British man, it's just a persona he puts on for show and he's actually from Slough, a place in the UK with a LowerClassLout reputation, something Wendy makes fun of when after he sells her out. Ironically, he's played by Creator/CaryElwes, who is British but has made a career out of playing Americans. |
| 315 | * HateSink: Callously abandoned his family to pursue his bowling career solely for the fame and money. [[spoiler:He even willingly sold his own family out to the rogue G.U.N. agents [[DirtyCoward to save his own skin]]. His ex-wife and daughter make sure to get the last laugh by beating up the pathetic lowlife.]] |
| 316 | * IAmVeryBritish: From all the [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead Union Jacks on all his clothes,]] to the way he [[BritsLoveTea drinks tea with his pinky sticking out]], Pistol Pete is pretty much a living, breathing caricature of a 'posh Brit.' His ex-wife mocks him and says that he’s actually from Slough and his accent is fake, and Wade believes that the posh British thing is just a facade to get more attention. [[spoiler: He slips back into his natural, ''far'' rougher accent, after his HumiliationConga.]] |
| 317 | * ItsAllAboutMe: He admits the reason he abandoned Wade was so he could pursure fame in bowling by himself. He also claims that he is the only member of the Whipple family who matters. |
| 318 | * LargeHam: Cary Elwes was clearly enjoying himself immensely as Pete chews the scenery both physically and verbally every time he's on-screen. |
| 319 | * LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: He loses the championship to his son Wade, whom he sold out to the rogue agents, and when he tries to steal Wade’s trophy and get away, he gets a well-deserved beatdown from his ex-wife and daughter who he also sold out, with the latter continuing to kick him while he is down.]] |
| 320 | * OddNameOut: The only Whipple whose first name doesn't start with W. |
| 321 | [[/folder]] |
| 322 | |
| 323 | !!Guardian Units of Nations |
| 324 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 325 | ->''"After the events in San Francisco, a global task force was created, devoted to protecting our planet from alien threats. That day, Guardian Units of Nations was born."'' |
| 326 | -->-- '''Commander Walters''' |
| 327 | |
| 328 | A global military taskforce founded with the purpose of defending Earth from any and all alien threats. |
| 329 | ---- |
| 330 | * AdaptationOriginConnection: Unlike in the games, where the organization has been around for at least fifty years, here it's less than a year old, having been created as a direct response to the fight between Sonic and Robotnik. [[spoiler:This is subverted in ''Knuckles'', where The Buyer cites that G.U.N had existed but was called something else entirely. It was renamed G.U.N. to avoid any association with Eggman.]] |
| 331 | * AgeLift: See AdaptationOriginConnection above. |
| 332 | * FunWithAcronyms: Yes, it is spelled G.U.N., which the movie [[LampshadedTrope pokes fun at]]. |
| 333 | * GoodIsNotNice: They genuinely have the safety of the world in mind, but that doen't mean they're above questionable means of bringing it about. [[spoiler:Such as tricking Rachel with a fake wedding as part of a plan to capture Sonic.]] |
| 334 | * MeaningfulName: An acronym like G.U.N. covers the organization's shoot first, ask questions later policy. |
| 335 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Coming up to Robotnik's secret base with a ton of tanks and artillery doesn't accomplish much besides [[spoiler:giving Robotnik more materials for building his Death Egg Robot. Although to be fair, they did not know Robotnik had the Master Emerald]]. |
| 336 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: ZigZagged. They seek to arrest [[TheHero Sonic]] who, despite his kind nature, [[JerkassHasAPoint was responsible for the EMP and San Francisco incidents]] as well as being guilty of numerous acts of vigilantiism. Them seeing him as a bigger threat than Robotnik is explained by them believing the latter to be dead and once given proof of his return, immediately focus on him instead. But until then, they did not seize his assets or arrest his assistant, which allowed Agent Stone to prepare everything for his return. They also decide to arrest Tails even though, as far as they know, he hasn't done anything illegal. They seem to have lightened up somewhat by ''Knuckles'', as they've elected to simply monitor Sonic and his friends and stay out of their way unless they leave Green Hills, and even then, the only action mentioned is reporting it to Walters. |
| 337 | [[/folder]] |
| 338 | |
| 339 | [[folder:Commander Walters]] |
| 340 | !!Commander Walters |
| 341 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Tom Butler [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Ikuya Sawaki (Japanese), Santos Alberto (Latin-American Spanish), Johan H:Son Kjellgren (Swedish), Hélio Vaccari (Brazilian Portuguese), Marc Bellier (Quebec French, ''Sonic the Hedgehog''), Jacques Lavallée (Quebec French, ''Sonic the Hedgehog 2''), Michel Dodane (EU French), Ambrogio Colombo (Italian)[[/labelnote]] |
| 342 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog|2020}}'' | ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog 2|2022}}'' | ''Sonic the Hedgehog 3'' |
| 343 | [[quoteright:304:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/commander_walters_sonic_7.png]] |
| 344 | [[caption-width-right:304:''"Twenty minutes ago, an energy surge knocked out power across the entire Pacific Northwest. What do we know?"'']] |
| 345 | ->''"Well, sounds like we're really good at figuring out what it wasn't."'' |
| 346 | |
| 347 | A commander of the United States Armed Forces and the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff working at UsefulNotes/ThePentagon, who assigns Dr. Robotnik with the task of figuring out what caused the energy surge that knocked out power across the entire Pacific Northwest. Really likes Olive Garden. |
| 348 | ---- |
| 349 | * AdaptationDyeJob: [[spoiler:Lacks his counterpart's heterochromia]]. |
| 350 | * AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: The note under CanonCharacterAllAlong makes his appearance in the first film a retroactive example. |
| 351 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: [[spoiler:The G.U.N. Commander of the games]] is a serious antagonist hardened by a tragic past. While Walters is still antagonistic, he's also much friendlier and more comedic in comparison. |
| 352 | * AdaptedOut: He doesn't appear in the novelization of the first film, with his role replaced by Agent Stone. |
| 353 | * AntiHero: He genuinely cares for the safety of his nation, yet is willing to use more questionable methods, [[spoiler:such as setting the Wachowski family up in a [[HoneyTrap wedding ruse]] to bait Sonic and capture him for his powers. Of course, after he learns that Robotnik is still alive and is up to no good again, he's willing to at least hear them out, even after seeing a beam of green light.]] |
| 354 | * ArtisticLicenseMilitary: He is an army general with a naval rank (commander). [[spoiler:His rank as commander of G.U.N. is more justified due to it being a spec-ops unit]]. |
| 355 | * CanonCharacterAllAlong: The second movie reveals him to be [[spoiler:the leader of G.U.N, making him a ''much'' [[AdaptationalNiceGuy lighter take]] on the G.U.N Commander from ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog''. His expression of fear when he discovers that the government is recovering the files on Project Shadow just provides further evidence.]] |
| 356 | * CompositeCharacter: His appearance, authority, and growing relationship with Sonic makes him a lot like President Michael K. from ''Anime/SonicX''. [[spoiler:But in the second movie, he is the leader of G.U.N. and is more reluctant to tolerate Sonic and his friends, much like the Commander in ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog''.]] |
| 357 | * DeadpanSnarker: He has a moment in the first movie, as seen with the above quote. |
| 358 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He fully trusts Robotnik, a man who is highly unstable and has ideas of megalomania in the first film [[spoiler:and two agents of G.U.N include two people who happily sold weapons to a highly dangerous criminal, all the while distrusting Sonic as he comes from a different planet and caused a bit of havoc trying to learn to control himself.]] |
| 359 | * InspectorJavert: [[spoiler:He's distrustful of Sonic thanks to the havoc he caused with his powers, including his recent vigilantism, and wants to detain the hedgehog on the off chance he's a threat to the Earth.]] |
| 360 | * JerkassHasAPoint: While being completely apathetic in his methods and is totally in the wrong for [[spoiler:imprisoning Sonic and Tails (who, as far as he knows, hasn't committed any crimes) for their powers]], Walters brings up a few solid points: |
| 361 | ** He's right that Sonic is potentially dangerous, as he's caused [[DestructiveSaviour more harm than good]] while operating as a vigilante, if what happened in San Fransisco, his EMP incident, and his recklessness in Seattle is anything to go by. |
| 362 | ** He calls Tom out that he's supposed to be Sonic's responsibility and seemingly encouraged him to act outside the law without helping him understand sooner how to be responsible, and [[spoiler:intended to arrest Tom alongside Sonic and Tails]]. |
| 363 | * KickTheDog: [[spoiler:Very minor, but he steps on a child's sandcastle soon after his agents blow their cover at Rachel's wedding.]] |
| 364 | * NamedByTheAdaptation: He went nameless as [[spoiler:the G.U.N. Commander in the games (although the Archie comics gave him the name Abraham Tower).]] |
| 365 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:He and his agents taser Sonic and lock him up along with Tails and Tom, allowing Robotnik more time to find the Master Emerald Temple without much interference. Tom and Maddie make sure he gets chewed out for this.]] |
| 366 | * OhCrap: [[spoiler:He has a massive one in TheStinger of the second movie when Project Shadow is discovered.]] |
| 367 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He just wants to figure out what caused the blackout, which is why he picked Robotnik of all people for the job (he's well-aware of his {{Jerkass}} nature, it's just because he had no other choice). Later on in the end, he offers to have an informal chat with Sonic after the film's climax. [[spoiler:Subverted in the sequel, where he tries to trap Sonic. However, as soon as he sees the beam of light coming from the Master Emerald in the distance, therefore confirming Robotnik's threat, it becomes DoubleSubverted.]] |
| 368 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: He only appears in two scenes in the first movie, but he's the one who sends [[BigBad Dr. Robotnik]] to Green Hills, setting in motion the events of the second and third act. |
| 369 | * TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:In the sequel. Granted, he led the newly founded G.U.N. in the aftermath of Sonic and Robotnik's incident in San Francisco [[WellIntentionedExtremist for good reason]], but it is cold of him to set up a [[HoneyTrap false wedding]] as a ruse to spy on the Wachowskis and capture Sonic, and then he arrests Tom for "aiding and abetting an alien creature" and [[DisproportionateRetribution for refusing the brunch offering]]. He also refuses to release Sonic after hearing of Robotnik's potential return, but [[PetTheDog sends word out to his men anyway]]. He and his agents get the short end of the stick when Maddie and Rachel free Tom, Sonic, and Tails with the latter's inventions and proceed to [[TheDogBitesBack tie Walters up]] for all the trouble he's caused. Luckily, when they see a green beam in the distance, he's now willing to help the Wachowskis out.]] |
| 370 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: He really likes Olive Garden and their Never-Ending Pasta Bowl, to the point that when he shows up in the second movie, Tom only remembers him as "the Olive Garden guy". |
| 371 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Sending Robotnik to Green Hills to investigate the mysterious power outage was his idea, which in turn led to the events in both that film and its sequel. |
| 372 | * WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Walters allows his agents to taser Sonic unconscious, not caring that he's JustAKid, merely seeing him as an anthropomorphic alien hedgehog that possesses dangerous powers and must be contained strictly under the government's authority. He even puts Sonic and the unconscious (and very badly hurt) Tails in cages, and his agents ignore Sonic's pleas to get Tails medical help.]] |
| 373 | [[/folder]] |
| 374 | |
| 375 | [[folder:Randall Handel]] |
| 376 | !!Randall Handel |
| 377 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ShemarMoore [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/ShunsukeSakuya (Japanese), Creator/IdziDutkiewicz (Latin-American Spanish), John Alexander Eriksson (Swedish), Fayolle Jean Jr. (Quebec French), David Krüger (EU French), Andrea Lavagnino (Italian)[[/labelnote]] |
| 378 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog 2|2022}}'' |
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| 385 | Rachel's new fiancé. |
| 386 | ---- |
| 387 | * AmazonChaser: His reaction to Rachel [[spoiler:coming for him out of revenge for the HoneyTrap plot by G.U.N.]] is to whisper "What a woman..." |
| 388 | * BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:He says that he did genuinely fall in love with Rachel during the undercover operation]]. |
| 389 | * CanonForeigner: As with most humans in the movies, he has no counterpart from the games. |
| 390 | * EasilyForgiven: Even after the reveal that he [[spoiler:tricked Rachel into a fake marriage]], Rachel is still unusually quick to kiss him after he declares he still loved her. Granted, it's left ambiguous whether they actually get back together or not. |
| 391 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: When interacting with Tom for the first time, Randall looks like he's furious about what happened to his bride-to-be and is intent on making Tom's life miserable, until he drops the act and makes friends with him. The scene establishes Randall as a genuinely nice guy [[spoiler:as well as an actor]]. |
| 392 | * {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:His role as a G.U.N. agent tasked with infiltrating a human family Sonic is staying with makes him similar to [[Anime/SonicX Mister Stewart]].]] |
| 393 | * HoneyTrap: [[spoiler:His entire romance with Rachel was all part of a scheme to capture Sonic.]] |
| 394 | * {{Hunk}}: Being played by Shemar Moore, that's a given. Rachel mentions his good looks even when angry at him, and both Sonic and Tom regard him as very handsome InUniverse, with Sonic joking that Randal is better-looking than Tom. |
| 395 | * ImColdSoCold: Parodied. [[spoiler:After [[TakingTheBullet taking a taser hit]] meant for Rachel, Randall acts like he's been mortally wounded, groaning that he feels cold. Rachel quickly calls him out on this, saying he [[MinorInjuryOverreaction fell on the ice sculpture]].]] |
| 396 | * InLoveWithTheMark: [[spoiler:He genuinely fell in love with Rachel despite having only gotten together with her in order to get to Sonic.]] |
| 397 | * MrFanservice: Like Tom, he too is played by a famous fashion model, except unlike James Marsden, the producers go out of their way to make sure Shemar Moore has a shirtless scene on the beach. |
| 398 | * NiceGuy: Even after being told about Tom from a biased source (Rachel), he's still friendly and welcoming toward his soon-to-be brother-in-law. |
| 399 | * RhymingNames: ''Ran''-dull ''Han''-dull. |
| 400 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: He is the Manly Man to Tom's Sensitive Guy in the second movie. Despite being foils in that regard, they both are {{nice guy}}s. |
| 401 | * WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about him in depth without revealing that [[spoiler:he's an undercover G.U.N. agent]]. |
| 402 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Whether or not he and Rachel will get married for real after revealing he did fall for her is never brought up.]] |
| 403 | [[/folder]] |
| 404 | |
| 405 | [[folder:Agent Mason]] |
| 406 | !!Agent Mason |
| 407 | !!!'''Played by:''' Music/KidCudi |
| 408 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Knuckles}}'' |
| 409 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/20240423_121450.jpg]] |
| 410 | |
| 411 | A rogue G.U.N. agent tasked alongside Willoughby by The Buyer to capture Knuckles for his power. |
| 412 | ---- |
| 413 | * BloodKnight: Admits he joined G.U.N. so he could beat people up legally. |
| 414 | * CanonForeigner: He doesn’t exist in the games. |
| 415 | * CoDragons: Serves as this with Agent Willoughby for The Buyer. |
| 416 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: During his fight with Wade in the second episode, while he has Wade in a NeckLift, he has to halt their fight to answer a phone call from his mother, who he talks to quite kindly and talks about his job with her like it's a casual office day, albeit leaving out the detail that he's in the middle of clobbering the daylights out of Wade. |
| 417 | * FantasticRacism: Against aliens. He calls them freaks and is excited for the chance to try to beat one up when he comes after Knuckles. |
| 418 | * {{Greed}}: He wants to become rich and live a life of luxury. |
| 419 | * GuysSmashGirlsShoot: He fights with a pair of powered gauntlets, while his partner Willoughby favors laser guns. |
| 420 | * IronicEcho: Mason throws Knuckles's BadassBoast from his fight with Sonic in ''Sonic 2'' back at him during the confrontation in the bowling alley. |
| 421 | -->'''Knuckles:''' You think you can take my power?\ |
| 422 | '''Agent Mason:''' Do I look like I need your power?\ |
| 423 | '''Agent Willoughby:''' What are you talking about? Of course we need his power, it's the whole reason we're here. |
| 424 | * {{Jerkass}}: He’s a sadistic criminal who came to work for G.U.N. just because he enjoys beating people up. [[FantasticRacism He’s also racist against aliens]]. |
| 425 | * LaserGuidedKarma: His EstablishingCharacterMoment has him callously sending a nosy G.U.N. agent to the Mushroom Planet. [[spoiler: His final scene has him and Willoughby get unwillingly sent through a Ring themselves, though with a more UncertainDoom for the two of them.]] |
| 426 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: Other than getting pleasure from beating people up, he admits that this is the only reason he joined G.U.N. and why he was quick to join Willoughby in going rogue and capturing Knuckles. |
| 427 | * PowerFist: He's rarely seen without a pair of metal gauntlets powered by Knuckles' quills, at least whenever Wade's not borrowing them. |
| 428 | * {{Sadist}}: He says he joined G.U.N. so he could beat up “superpowered freaks” and get paid for it. |
| 429 | * UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: He and Willoughby are last seen getting trapped in an endless loop between two Rings, which may or may not have a void in between.]] |
| 430 | * UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler: When Willoughby gets sucked into a Ring, Mason laughs at her, even though Willoughby did him a big favor by convincing the Buyer to give them both once more chance to catch Knuckles instead of killing them.]] |
| 431 | [[/folder]] |
| 432 | |
| 433 | [[folder:Agent Willoughby]] |
| 434 | !!Agent Willoughby |
| 435 | !!!'''Played by:''' Creator/EllieTaylor |
| 436 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Knuckles}}'' |
| 437 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/20240423_121552.jpg]] |
| 438 | |
| 439 | A rogue G.U.N. agent tasked alongside Mason by The Buyer to capture Knuckles for his power. |
| 440 | ---- |
| 441 | * CanonForeigner: She doesn’t exist in the games. |
| 442 | * CoDragons: Serves as this with Agent Mason for The Buyer. |
| 443 | * EvilBrit: She's played by an English actress, and she is one of the Buyer's co-dragons. |
| 444 | * FantasticRacism: She hates and distrusts all extraterrestrials, joining G.U.N. to protect the Earth by wiping out any alien visitors like Sonic, growing furious that the organization has decided to trust Sonic and his friends and abandon their original goal of neutralizing the aliens. |
| 445 | * GivenNameReveal: She's the first person in the Sonic the Hedgehog film series to speak Dr. Robotnik's first name out loud. |
| 446 | * GuysSmashGirlsShoot: She fights with laser guns, while her partner Mason favors a pair of powered gauntlets. |
| 447 | * {{Jerkass}}: [[FantasticRacism She’s racist against aliens and refuses to trust them, only wanting to see them neutralized]]. She also makes snarky remarks about Americans. However, she claims that she wants to neutralize aliens to protect the Earth, so she has shades of WellIntentionedExtremist. |
| 448 | * OnlySaneMan: Only Sane Woman in her case, since she reminds Mason that they're here for Knuckles' power when fighting the echidna in the bowling alley. |
| 449 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: She shows disdain for "Americans" after Mason bungles a subtle mission with his BloodKnight attitude, and admits she joined G.U.N. for the chance to wipe out any and all aliens on Earth. |
| 450 | * UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: She and Mason are last seen being trapped in a loop between two Rings, which close before they can emerge from the second one.]] |
| 451 | [[/folder]] |
| 452 | |
| 453 | !!Robotnik and Associates |
| 454 | [[folder:Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik ('''Unmarked Spoilers for ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' (2020)''')]] |
| 455 | !!Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik |
| 456 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JimCarrey [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/KoichiYamadera (Japanese), Creator/MarioCastaneda (Latin-American Spanish), Jonas Kruse (Swedish), Tatá Guarnieri (Brazilian-Portuguese), Creator/RobertoPedicini (Italian), Daniel Picard (Quebec French), Creator/EmmanuelCurtil (EU French), Tutehameng (PRC Mandarin), Sun Cheng (TW Mandarin)[[/labelnote]] |
| 457 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog|2020}}'' | ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog 2|2022}}'' | ''Sonic the Hedgehog 3'' |
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| 462 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sonicthehedgehog2drrobotnik.png]] |
| 463 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"So nice when diabolical evil lives up to the hype!"'']] |
| 464 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see Robotnik's second outfit]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sonicthehedgehog2020doctorrobotnik.png[softreturn]''"Confidence! A fool's substitute for intelligence."''[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 465 | |
| 466 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see Robotnik's first outfit]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/robotnik_paramount.png[softreturn]''"Whatever this creature is, it's our job to secure it, neutralize it, uncover the source of its power."''[[/labelnote]]]] |
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| 469 | |
| 470 | ->''"Allow me to clarify. In a sequentially ranked hierarchy, based on level of critical importance, the disparity between us is too vast to quantify."'' |
| 471 | |
| 472 | Completely full of himself, with the IQ and evil ambitions to match, Dr. Ivo Robotnik is a scientist hired by the US government in their attempts to detain Sonic. He invents and controls various machines, most of which are piloted remotely. |
| 473 | ---- |
| 474 | * AcePilot: He pilots a vehicle that fires laser bullets and rockets which he uses to try and kill Sonic, and the sequel features him using his classic Eggmobile against Sonic. |
| 475 | * ActorAllusion: ''Sonic the Hedgehog 2'' shows Robotnik empowered by the Master Emerald, which envelops him with a green aura and in one instance his eyes even glow green. [[green:[[Film/TheMask Green]]]] tends to be a recurring [[Film/BatmanForever color]] in Jim Carrey's [[Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas filmography]], and getting an ImaginationBasedSuperpower from the Master Emerald's power adds another reference to ''The Mask''. |
| 476 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: He reveals to Tom that he grew up as an orphan, and he was bullied as a child. In the games, his past is left vague, but it is implied that he had parents, as he at least [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 had a grandfather]]. |
| 477 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the first film, Robotnik looks much more dashing than in the games, as he's in better shape, has a full head of hair, and his mustache is well-groomed. {{Subverted|Trope}} in TheStinger, which shows that after ending up stuck on the Mushroom World, he has shaved his head and grown out his mustache so it's now bushy like his game counterpart, but has retained the more fit body, albeit having gained a bit of weight. |
| 478 | * AdaptationalBadass: |
| 479 | ** In the second movie, he makes a Death Egg Robot which is [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever a hundred times bigger]] than its game counterpart, on top of having additional capabilities to summon more badniks and shoot missiles and lasers, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and a movable moustache for smashing]]. He's clearly learned from his first loss that Sonic's no joke. |
| 480 | ** Dr. Eggman never used Chaos energy to empower himself in the games, but in the second movie, [[spoiler:he directly juices himself up with Chaos energy, allowing him to teleport, sense electricity in people’s brains, and telekinetically build his giant robot]]. |
| 481 | * AdaptationalContextChange: In the games, he is given the nickname "Dr. Eggman" based on his cartoony oval shaped body. In the movie, Sonic gives him the nickname based on his flying drones, which are ovoid and white. |
| 482 | * AdaptationalNameChange: PlayedWith. While the doctor's name remains the same, this is the first time he is primarily referred to as "Robotnik" in official capacity since the late 90s to early 2000s in the US before his nickname "Eggman" in Japan took over worldwide. |
| 483 | * AdaptationalJerkass: While no version of Robotnik is a NiceGuy, in the games he holds a certain amount of respect for his adversaries and has a sense of self-restraint when it comes to achieving his goals. Here, he's portrayed as a ''massive'' {{Jerkass}} who is pretty much incapable of being in the vicinity of another living being for very long without being rude and condescending to them. |
| 484 | * AdaptationDyeJob: |
| 485 | ** PlayedWith in regards to his hair color. In the games, his hair [[InconsistentColoring has varied]] [[HairColorDissonance in color]] between orange, auburn red, and dark brown. Here, Robotnik starts out with a full head of dark brown hair and a moustache that's the same color, then in TheStinger, he's shaved his hair off to be bald and has gained a more reddish mustache. His appearance in ''Sonic 2'' has him retain his look, minus the gut. |
| 486 | ** In the games, the few times Robotnik has been shown with his goggles off he's had blue eyes. Here Robotnik has Jim Carrey's brown eyes. |
| 487 | * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Speaking in alliterations is just one of the ways Robotnik hams it up, e.g. calling the Mushroom Planet a "portobello purgatory" or Knuckles "simple-minded space trash". |
| 488 | * AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:When cornered by Super Sonic, Robotnik immediately starts putting on airs of letting bygones be bygones, and that there's good people on both sides as he's all but begging to not get his butt stomped. [[ISurrenderSuckers It really was to buy time to prep a giant Death Egg Robot punch]]… which doesn't work.]] |
| 489 | * AllThereInTheScript: His first name, Ivo, is never mentioned in the films. It's only brought up in [[https://youtu.be/ALDqbbbYysE a Nickelodeon TV Spot]] and confirmed in the second episode of ''Knuckles''. |
| 490 | * AlwaysSecondBest: His rivalry against Sonic can be considered a LensmanArmsRace of this, with Sonic always finding a way to up his game the moment Eggman finally has him cornered. [[spoiler:When he finally has him good as dead in the first movie, Sonic powers into "Blue Lightning" form and trashes his ship into the Mushroom Planet with ease. The second film shows Robotnik one-upping that in the form of Knuckles and the Master Emerald's power, only for another near victory to be met with ''Super Sonic'' and a second obliteration.]] |
| 491 | * AmbitionIsEvil: In the second film, it's revealed that Robotnik's ultimate goals are to build a robotic empire and enslave all organic life, which is apparently something he's been planning for a long time, but was unable to attain due to lack of resources. [[spoiler:Absorbing the power of the Master Emerald gives him the power to finally achieve his ambitions.]] |
| 492 | * AMFMCharacterization: Robotnik enjoys listening to "Where Evil Grows" by The Poppy Family and he holds a low opinion of Music/LimpBizkit. Eagle eyed viewers will also notice that he has Music/Crush40 on his playlist. |
| 493 | * AndThenWhat: Sonic asks this of him in the sequel after [[spoiler:Robotnik gains the power of the Master Emerald for himself. Robotnik defies his expectations by explaining that he plans to enslave humanity to use them to build an army of machines, and then repeat this task across the universe and then the ''multiverse'']]. |
| 494 | -->'''Robotnik:''' ''[[spoiler:I'm going to enslave humanity and force them to service my machines. First Green Hills, then the universe, then the multiverse, then who knows?! Maybe it'll be enough? Full disclosure: '''you won't be there'''.]]'' |
| 495 | * AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: After Robotnik's disappearance to the Mushroom Planet, the United States government pretends he never existed, and they're all too happy to forget about him. |
| 496 | * AndYourLittleDogToo: Quotes the trope when attacking Sonic's house with Knuckles. |
| 497 | * ArchEnemy: To Sonic, like in every iteration of the franchise. His status as this is officially cemented at the end of the first movie when Sonic banishes him to the unnamed Mushroom Planet, where his already fragile psyche shatters from isolation and hunger, growing fixated on exacting revenge on the hedgehog. He is so utterly obsessed with destroying Sonic that [[spoiler:it's used against him in the climax of the sequel, where Sonic draws his attention long enough for Knuckles and Tails to sneak aboard the Death Egg Robot and separate him from the [[ArtifactOfPower Master Emerald]]]]. |
| 498 | * AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: 50 feet is an understatement. In the second movie, he makes a [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Death Egg Robot]] that absolutely ''dwarfs'' the environment, making Sonic look like an ant in comparison. |
| 499 | * AudienceSurrogate: His reactions to the first fight between Sonic and Knuckles practically speak for the audience, with him gleefully chowing down on popcorn as he watches. |
| 500 | * AxCrazy: Robotnik is already crazed to begin with, but his growing frustration with Tom and Sonic worsens his sanity. By the end of the film, he's long gone off the cliff, despite being convinced that his grasp on sanity is "absolute". He effectively lives in this state throughout the second film, which in his private moments is at times PlayedForLaughs -- but he regularly has his moments where his [[DissonantSerenity cheerfully]] [[CloudCuckooLander manic]] demeanor is played as dangerously unhinged. |
| 501 | * BadassBoast: At the end of the first movie. Despite being trapped on the Mushroom Planet with barely more than the clothes on his back, and freely admitting "a lesser man would die here", Robotnik brandishes Sonic's quill and [[SequelHook declares that he'll "be home by Christmas".]] The second movie has Robotnik make good on his promise, managing to find his way back to Earth in just about 9 months! |
| 502 | * BadassBookworm: |
| 503 | ** While briefly recounting his childhood to Tom after [[TalkToTheFist their initial encounter,]] he mentions that he was once punched in the face by a school bully and put said bully in hospital in retaliation, leaving them "eating through a straw" for at least a year after. |
| 504 | ** Later, when he encounters the same bar brawler who shrugged off being hit in the head by a bottle (and Sonic's RapidFireFisticuffs), he ends up [[DestinationDefenestration throwing him through a window]]. |
| 505 | * BadassLongcoat: He starts out wearing one, but later on he starts wearing his standard red outfit. |
| 506 | * BadassNormal: In a universe that is filled with superpowered anthropomorphic animals, Dr. Robotnik is still the greatest threat, based solely on his genius alone. |
| 507 | * BaldOfEvil: At some point after he is banished to the Mushroom Planet, he shaves his head with a sharp piece of debris from his ruined flying machine (complemented by a wilder 'stache). |
| 508 | * BenevolentBoss: Downplayed. While Agent Stone is the only person that Robotnik shows any kindness to, Robotnik treats him not unlike how the [[WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM SatAM version of Robotnik treated Snively]]. In spite of this, the film Robotnik genuinely considers Stone to be a dear friend that he values the most, even entrusting Stone with backup plans in case his previous plan would go awry while being completely honest with him about his evil schemes; he even willingly obliged to take Stone with him while assembling the Giant Eggman Robot to attack the heroes. |
| 509 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Robotnik is very silly and quite childish, with antics such as making robot noises when he moves, dancing around his lab, and playing leg guitar. But as goofy as he is, he also a sociopathic misanthrope with extremely high intelligence, no empathy or morality, and he is ''very'' determined to get what he wants. He's built an army of extremely high-tech military drones controlled with a control console built into his gloves and takes after Sonic in an advanced personal aircraft that can fly at supersonic speeds, and he very nearly kills him with it and casually talks about how he's going to enjoy dissecting Sonic's corpse to learn more about him. |
| 510 | * BigBad: The main antagonist of both movies. He's a government agent employed to track down Sonic and [[TheyWouldCutYouUp take the secrets of his powers]], which he does with extreme prejudice, although only to exploit that power for himself. Even Robotnik's nominal allies in the United States government would rather have nothing to do with him because of his reputation as a MadScientist, but [[GodzillaThreshold he's the only one who can conceivably catch Sonic]]. He continues this role in the sequel, with the doctor being much more open with his villainy and seeking the Master Emerald to use its power to TakeOverTheWorld. |
| 511 | * BigBadassRig: His lab in the first movie can be described as an oversized Badnik in the form of a semi-truck. |
| 512 | * BlindedByRage: |
| 513 | ** After Tom learns of Robotnik's TraumaButton, Tom starts deliberately pressing it to make Robotnik angry enough to slip up. [[spoiler:Tom warps up to Robotnik's hovership with a Ring and starts punching him repeatedly in the head, angering Robotnik enough to lose focus on Sonic at a critical moment and set him up directly for his defeat.]] |
| 514 | ** [[spoiler:This repeats itself in the sequel, where Sonic realizes that Robotnik now has an obsessive, seething hatred towards him, and puts himself in the crosshairs to make him lose focus on all else.]] |
| 515 | * BoomerangBigot: Robotnik looks down on humans as inefficient, even though he is human himself. Given how deluded he is, it's possible he thinks he's the sole exception to the rule or above normal humans. |
| 516 | * BroughtDownToBadass: [[spoiler: After becoming a powerful OmnicidalManiac from the Master Emerald's energy, he's nearly impossible to take down... until [[TheDogBitesBack Knuckles gets his deserved revenge by punching Super Robotnik so hard, he extracts the Master Emerald from his body]] which leaves him helpless and vulnerable. However, he was still able to utilize his genius intellect to use the still-functioning Death Egg Robot in a desperate attempt to retrieve the Master Emerald at all costs.]] |
| 517 | * TheBully: Though he hates bullies due to his childhood trauma of having to deal with one as a child, [[{{Hypocrite}} Robotnik is no better than one]]. He is rude and unpleasant to everyone he comes across, and uses his authority and resources to threaten and demean others, as well as throwing his weight around them. |
| 518 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: He is [[CloudCuckoolander extremely weird]] and a [[{{Jerkass}} huge asshole]], but is also one of the most intelligent scientists in the world, hence why the US military (reluctantly) has hired him for some dirty jobs and brings him on to investigate the Pacific Northwest blackout. |
| 519 | * CardCarryingVillain: He calls his drones "'''Bad'''niks", acknowledges his truck as an "[[SupervillainLair Evil Lair]]", has his lab labeled as "Evil Lab" on his circuit breaker, and dances to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfeEcCLMtxk "Where Evil Grows" by the Poppy Family]] while studying Sonic's quill. It only gets ''more'' blatant in the sequel, where he refers to himself as "diabolical evil". |
| 520 | * ChewingTheScenery: Robotnik does this [[EstablishingCharacterMoment in just the first few minutes]] of his introduction, interrupting the major in charge with a loud, demanding voice. He doesn't slow down from there. |
| 521 | * ClothingReflectsPersonality: His gloves contain controls for his various machines; notably, the controls are located on the ''palms'' of his gloves, reflecting that while he isn't doing his own heavy lifting, he's too much of a ControlFreak not to take a "hands-on" approach to oversight. |
| 522 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He's quite the wacky character, and clearly gets even wackier [[spoiler:after being banished to the Mushroom Planet]]. Being played by Jim Carrey certainly helps. |
| 523 | * CompanionCube: In the first [[TheStinger stinger]], stranded on the Mushroom Planet, he has made himself a new "Agent Stone" to keep him company/boss around... by taking a [[VisualPun literal stone]], carving it into the likeness of the real one, and throwing it around to go on [[{{Pun}} "rock-connaissance"]]. |
| 524 | * CompositeCharacter: |
| 525 | ** PlayedWith. Robotnik being a goverment scientist is shared with his grandfather from the games, [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 Gerald Robotnik]]. His disdain for organic life and instead trusting only machines, while implied with Eggman in the games and several other incarnations, is more in line with Lyric from ''[[VideoGame/SonicBoom Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric]]'' due to how far more overt Robotnik is about it. |
| 526 | ** His final design, based on a red flight suit, is in line with Eggman's design in ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'', with a certain dash of his infamous [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 2006 design]]. Both of these designs are known for not having the ol' doctor as a comical FatBastard, but instead looking fit or average in shape. Additionally, he doesn't wear glasses like his US portrayal of the character and has goggles on his head like his modern incarnation. |
| 527 | ** In the second movie he is given reality-warping powers by the Master Emerald, and uses that power to become a God above all humanity to try to ruthlessly kill Sonic and his friends and take over the universe. This is very similar to the ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' Robotnik in the ''Robotnik Reigns Supreme'' arc, who does the same thing. His super form in ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' was likewise powered by the Emeralds and transformed him into a giant. Here, instead he builds a giant robot in his own image that mimics his movements, to the same effect. |
| 528 | * ControlFreak: Why he prefers machines to other humans: they can ''only'' do ''exactly'' what ''he'' wants them to do, and do so without hesitation or doubt. |
| 529 | * CoolShades: As is standard for the character, he wears sunglasses in a few of his scenes, at least until they're distorted following his first encounter with Sonic. |
| 530 | * CostumeEvolution: Robotnik starts off with a black outfit with maroon lining before switching to a red flight suit with his trademark googles. In the sequel he dons a new red and black coat with a HighCollarOfDoom and new goggles. |
| 531 | * CrazyPrepared: He had the foresight to design an armed robotic vehicle to deploy a smaller one from its underside in the event it gets tipped on its side, and the smaller vehicle can in turn continue functioning so long as it has even one wheel left. Even if it loses that, its eye can take flight and has some manner of cutting laser. If it stops working in ''that'' form, it becomes a StickyBomb. If one looks closer at the designs for the larger segments of the creations, you can see even ''more'' eventualities being planned for, such as having literal eyes in the back of its 'head'. [[spoiler:Even his Death Egg Robot is also not exempt from this trope; he had it originally powered by the Master Emerald, but also made sure it had backup power to keep trucking on, as well as making it compatible with his usual glove interface in case he somehow managed to lose the all-powerful artifact. More humorously, he also included an instruction manual for all the functions of said Robot, ''including weapons he didn't know it had''.]] |
| 532 | * CreepyShadowedUndereyes: After gaining the power of chaos, Robotnik develops black markings around his eyes, which when combined with his GlowingEyesOfDoom evoke his menacing appearance in the various Sonic cartoons that came out in the 90s. |
| 533 | * CutLexLuthorACheck: Zigzagged throughout the movie. His brilliant inventions could earn him a lot of honest money, but he ''does'' work for the American government, meaning he has an "honest" job -- even though it's mentioned he helped in coups against nations in the Middle East. Then, after obtaining one of Sonic's quills, he uses it for his own purposes of building more robots, instead of researching it as a new green energy source. |
| 534 | ** It actually works against him in the sequel. His government connections mean that once GUN is aware of his return, they're easily able to track him down. After he obtains [[spoiler: the Master Emerald, he may have godlike power, but GUN freezes all of his assets and has his hideout in the Mean Bean coffee shop surrounded already. If he didn't have the Emerald, he'd have been screwed right there.]] |
| 535 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: A PlayedForLaughs example. He was orphaned as a child, and at school, he was punched in the face by TheBully. Instead of reporting it to the principal like normal, he [[NoodleIncident took his own revenge, and somehow left the bully in question]] [[{{Revenge}} only able to eat through a straw]] [[EvilIsPetty for at least a year]]. Also, that's how he got the TraumaButton about being punched. |
| 536 | * DastardlyWhiplash: He's got a prominent chin, curled mustache, black coat, and flamboyantly villainous personality. His mustache grows even bigger when stranded on the Mushroom Planet. Ironically, Jeff Fowler [[https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2489940/sonic-the-hedgehog-director-reveals-difficulty-with-jim-carreys-robotnik stated]] that he wanted to defy certain aspects of this trope, calling the game version of Robotnik "moustache-twirly" and saying he wanted this interpretation to be more "grounded." Sonic himself describes him as "a madman with a mustache from the Civil War". |
| 537 | * DeadpanSnarker: As hammy and crazed as he is, Robotnik also has a penchant for snarky one-liners. |
| 538 | -->'''Robotnik:''' I'm initiating a sweep sequence! ''[inputs commands on his glove to activate his flying drones]'' Ten miles in every direction should suffice. Is he [Bennington] still looking at me funny?\ |
| 539 | '''Stone:''' Yes, he is.\ |
| 540 | '''Robotnik:''' ''[nonchalantly]'' Tell him to stop, [[EmbarrassingBrowserHistory or I'll pull up his search history]]. |
| 541 | * DefiantToTheEnd: Though it's ambiguous, [[spoiler:it's presumed that he [[DisneyVillainDeath fell to his death]] when the Death Egg Robot was toppled over by Sonic. Not only did he try to [[ISurrenderSuckers trick Sonic by pretending to surrender to get the drop on him]], when he was toppled off the Death Egg he lets out a mocking "Later, hater!"]] |
| 542 | * {{Determinator}}: Even after being banished to the Mushroom Planet, spending 87 days there alone, and [[GoMadFromTheIsolation completely losing his mind]], Robotnik refuses to give up and is determined to find a way back to Earth. The second movie reveals that ''he does'', thanks to Knuckles giving him a way off. |
| 543 | * DevilInPlainSight: As the man himself lampshades, Knuckles really should've known better [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter than to think]] the ObviouslyEvil MadScientist was a trustworthy friend. |
| 544 | --> '''Robotnik:''' You poor, naive creature! It's not your fault. A more advanced intellect would have seen this move coming a mile away. …Or 1.6 kilometers. |
| 545 | * DidYouActuallyBelieve: [[spoiler: While telling Knuckles that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he had served his purpose]], he further taunts him by saying he was foolish for being willing to trust him and thinking they were friends.]] |
| 546 | * DisproportionateRetribution: He threatens to pull up Major Bennington's search history for continuously looking at him funny. He also develops a vendetta against Tom for the sheriff slugging him across the face, and vows to ruin his life out of revenge as well as capture Sonic. He also admits to having done so in his younger days, mentioning that a [[TheBully bully]] once punched him in the face and humiliated him in front of the school, and Robotnik, instead of simply reporting him to the principal, retaliated by see... [[NoodleIncident something]] that left said bully hospitalized and unable to eat anything without a straw for nearly a year. |
| 547 | * TheDreaded: When one of the generals at the Pentagon suggests bringing Robotnik in to investigate the blackout in the Pacific Northwest, the others react with dread and ask if there's ''any'' other recourse, not because they're scared of him, but because he's ''such an asshole''. |
| 548 | * DrinkBasedCharacterization: He drinks lattes with steamed Austrian goat milk, which are prepared by his lackey Agent Stone, to showcase his ludicrous standards and overbearingness. |
| 549 | ** In the sequel he tries making beverages from pulped mushrooms, which taste awful. Funnily enough, by the time he gets to try another of Stone's lattes, he's become accustomed to the taste of mushrooms and states that the latte could use some. |
| 550 | * EmeraldPower: [[spoiler:Robotnik's Master Emerald-fueled super mode, fittingly, is accompanied by green-colored energy]]. |
| 551 | * EmperorScientist: His end goal is to enslave humanity under his own regime, with ambitions of making it a multiversal empire. |
| 552 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: In the first movie (and also in the second to a decent extent), he is mostly a threat due to his SuperIntelligence and mechanical arsenal. In the second movie, he directly empowers himself with the Master Emerald in the climax, granting him [[PowerFloats levitation/flight]], {{teleportation}}, and [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]]. |
| 553 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: When Robotnik meets with the military, he wastes no time in showing everyone how insufferably vain and abrasive he is. |
| 554 | -->'''Robotnik:''' I'm sorry, Major. What was your name?\ |
| 555 | '''Major Bennington:''' Benningt-\ |
| 556 | '''Robotnik:''' NOBODY CARES! Nobody cares! Listen, Major Nobody-cares, you know why nobody cares who you are? Because nobody cares about your feeble accomplishments. And nobody cares how proud your mommy is that you're now read at a 3rd grade level. Have you finished Charlotte's Web yet? Spoiler alert; she dies at the end. But she leaves a big creepy egg sac. |
| 557 | * EnergyAbsorption: [[spoiler:As the RealityWarper Super Robotnik, the doctor "eats" a display bagel by converting it into pure energy and consuming it in one gulp.]] |
| 558 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: [[AvertedTrope Not him personally]], but he does get a few PlayedForLaughs examples. |
| 559 | ** While chasing after Sonic in his prototype flyer, he calls out Sonic for making an illegal left turn, and chastises him for running up one of the pyramids of Giza, pointing that they are one of the seven wonders of the world ([[{{Hypocrite}} even though he blew up the Sphinx's head beforehand]]). |
| 560 | ** When Sonic shoves Tom and Maddie off a building, Robotnik is shocked, and even states, "I was not expecting that". But he was expecting not to expect something, so it doesn't count. |
| 561 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: Robotnik is genuinely confused as to why Tom is going out of his way to help Sonic, despite how much chaos he's brought into his life. Tom's reply is [[ShutUpHannibal simple, but effective]]: |
| 562 | -->'''Tom:''' [[FireForgedFriend He was my friend]]. |
| 563 | * EvilCounterpart: |
| 564 | ** To Sonic. Sonic is an alien hedgehog who ultimately just wants companionship, and makes it a point to look out for those who care about him. Robotnik, meanwhile, is ultimately a power-hungry sociopath who doesn't care about friendship and is a total dick to just about everyone except Agent Stone sometimes, despite being human. Not to mention that both of them have been orphans at one point in their lives. |
| 565 | ** He's also this to Tom, albeit more subtly: both are ultimately normal humans in roles of authority and respect, but Tom is a small town sheriff beloved by his hometown for being reliable and kind, whereas Robotnik is a high-ranking government agent who unsettles even his own employers, thanks to his unstable personality and ''incredible'' {{Jerkass}} traits. Because of this, and being the [[InsufferableGenius super-intelligent]] {{narcissist}} he is, Robotnik views Tom as ''exactly'' the kind of "mediocre" everyman that represents his contempt towards humanity, which only serves to further his breakdown when it turns out this "rural chum" is more crafty and resourceful than he thought. In the end, Tom foregoes leaving Green Hills for the SFPD, having gained a sense of mattering to the people of his town from his adventure with Sonic, while Robotnik's mad scheme for world domination results in him being banished straight to the Mushroom Planet and getting {{unperson}}ed by the government. |
| 566 | *** In the sequel he also has Knuckles as an alien companion like Sonic to Tom, even calling their quest a road trip, similar to Tom and Sonic’s journey from the first movie. |
| 567 | * EvilGenius: He creates rather impressive gadgets and machines, but he's also in this solely for his own motivations. He's also a completely SmugSnake. |
| 568 | * EvilGloating: Robotnik wastes no time in trying to take control of the situation and then bragging about it. A noticeable trend about his brand is that it's very matter-of-fact and dependent on how in-control he actually is, so anyone with sufficiently cutting wit or a long enough winning streak against him can get under his skin even when he has a decisive advantage. Despite Tom being a normal, average-intelligence sheriff of a small town, Robotnik's gloating barely fazes him because of passing slights like Tom punching him in the face or hanging up on him during a phone rant. |
| 569 | * EvilIsHammy: Jim Carrey is clearly having the time of his life bringing Robotnik to the big screen, combining his penchant for loud and manic characters with the already bombastic nature of the source character. Whether it's him dancing while preparing his vehicles, to screaming about his love of lattes with steamed Austrian goat milk, his portrayal is definitely one to be remembered. Then there's the moment Robotnik has a FreakOut, complete with [[MilkingTheGiantCow exaggerated movements]], after Sonic destroys his robots on the highway. |
| 570 | -->'''Robotnik:''' ''[stomping around his base]'' '''OUUUUUGH! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis GIVE ME A BIG! FAT!]] ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis BREAK!]]''''' |
| 571 | * EvilIsPetty: He wants to ruin Tom's life in addition to capturing Sonic because Tom punched him in the face. It reminds Robotnik too much of a childhood bully. |
| 572 | * EvilLaugh: He lets off a truly ''hamtastic'' one over his bizarre "rock-connaissance" joke, made more menacing by his VocalEvolution. |
| 573 | * EvilOrphan: Robotnik off-handedly mentions growing up as an orphan to Tom at least twice: once when they first meet, and the next while he's threatening him over the phone when he and Sonic are at the truck stop. |
| 574 | * EvilSorcerer: He becomes one in the second movie thanks to harnessing the Chaos energy directly. He can use it to float and conjure up bolts of energy from his hands. |
| 575 | * EvilWearsBlack: Compared to his game counterpart's red and black attire, this Robotnik is introduced wearing [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/sonic/images/4/4d/Robotnik_%28Paramount%29.jpeg/revision/latest?cb=20190502063954 an almost completely black outfit]], though he later changes into [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/sonic/images/2/27/RobotnikMovie1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190430233146 a red flightsuit]] that makes him look more like his game counterpart. In the second movie, he changes to a different red outfit with black highlights, which [[PowerUpFullColorChange gets turned into a black outfit with green highlights when he absorbs the Master Emerald]], and then reverts back to red and black when the Master Emerald gets punched out of him. |
| 576 | * TheExile: At the end of the film, Sonic and Tom foil Robotnik's plans by banishing him to the Mushroom Planet. However, he insists that he'll be "home by Christmas" with one of Sonic's quills. The second movie's first trailer shows that he does just that, with Robotnik finding his way back to Earth after only nine months. |
| 577 | * FantasticRacism: Robotnik has a massive disdain for any organic life compared to technology, as it does what it's told and is much more efficient. PlayedWith, in that he himself is a human who possesses these beliefs, as opposed to an evil robot or an AI. |
| 578 | * TheFarmerAndTheViper: Knuckles saves him from being run over by a large boulder by holding up a trap door long enough for him to get through. Robotnik returns the favor by stealing the Master Emerald from him and leaving him to die in the collapsing temple. |
| 579 | * FatalFlaw: Wrath. Robotnik becomes so obsessed with defeating Sonic in the second movie that it blinds him to the actions of Sonic's friends until it's too late. |
| 580 | * FateWorseThanDeath: If Robotnik's remark about the Mushroom Planet is anything to go by, this is essentially his ultimate fate upon his banishment there. With that said, he proclaims that this won't hold him for long, and come the second movie, he makes it off the planet back to Earth to enact his revenge. |
| 581 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He's able to act civil and polite when he wants to, but even then, it seems he can't even be in the same vicinity of another human being for long without being rude and insulting in some manner. This is best shown when he tracks Sonic to Tom's house; he introduces himself to Tom cordially, but soon devolves into bragging about his intelligence while mocking Tom's own before casually threatening him with a drone for Sonic's location. |
| 582 | * {{Foil}}: To Sonic. Whereas Sonic has humble ambitions, content to live a quiet life within Green Hills and mainly dreaming of modest things like having friends and taking part in a baseball game, Robotnik's ambitions include the enslavement of humanity to construct a machine empire. This is taken to its logical extreme in the second film. [[spoiler:When Robotnik gains the power of the Master Emerald, he sets about constructing the Death Egg Robot that would allow him to enslave humanity before moving onto the rest of the universe. But, when Sonic absorbs the power of the Chaos Emeralds, he only uses it to defeat Robotnik, summon a few chili dogs, and willingly gives up the incredible power with no prompting, as he's content just being an average kid in Green Hills.]] |
| 583 | * FreudianExcuseDenial: He grew up orphaned, with no friends, bullied at school and with a burdensome power, much like Sonic. [[NotSoSimilar Unlike Sonic]], he decided to embrace the loneliness by retreating into his ego, deciding he was superior to the rest of humanity and that friends would only drag him down, and uses his power for his own irresponsible self-benefit rather than to help anyone else. In the present day, he gladly boasts about his troubled childhood as having helped him become the "superior" person that he is now. |
| 584 | * GeniusBruiser: Downplayed. While he consistently overpowers any human that attempts to fight him and is a hardy survivalist, he would much rather just use his machines to do the heavy lifting and relax in his chair. |
| 585 | * GeniusesHaveMultiplePhDs: Dr. Ivo Robotnik is mentioned early on to have five doctorates, as well as an absurdly high I.Q. (and [[{{Jerkass}} being]] "[[MadScientist a psychological tire fire]]") as the reason why the Pentagon [[BunnyEarsLawyer tries to tolerate him as a specialist]]. |
| 586 | * GoMadFromTheIsolation: Not that he was all that sane to begin with. Having been stranded in the Mushroom Planet for 87 days and shaving his head completely bald hasn't given his sanity any help. He even adopts a CompanionCube rock and calls it Agent Stone after his former lackey. In spite of this, he makes a BadassBoast that this isn't going to hold him back. |
| 587 | * AGodAmI: [[spoiler:After absorbing the Master Emerald's power in the second film, Robotnik achieves newfound powers, which he believes puts him above humanity]]. |
| 588 | * GlowingMechanicalEyes: Not him, but his inventions tend to have one akin to [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL 9000]]. |
| 589 | * GodzillaThreshold: The entire reason the US government hired him to capture Sonic in the first place. It's made clear that they can't stand him, since he's a rude, obnoxious InsufferableGenius with little in the way of ethics or restraint, but they feel that they have no choice but to hire him for an unknown threat such as Sonic's EMP. |
| 590 | * GratuitousJapanese: When he examines a strand of Sonic's quills up-close, he says "omoshiroi" ("interesting"), for no apparent reason. |
| 591 | * GratuitousSpanish: He says "¿Dónde has estado toda mi vida?" [[spoiler:while admiring the Master Emerald]]. |
| 592 | ** It becomes GratuitousItalian in the Latin American Spanish dub. |
| 593 | * GreenAndMean: [[spoiler:His eyes, outfit, and energy are all vivid green when he's charged with the Master Emerald. All three traits disappear after Knuckles punches the Emerald out of him.]] |
| 594 | * HatedByAll: Robotnik is despised by almost everyone except for Agent Stone, and given he's a rude, obnoxious MadScientist with no scruples, it's not hard to see why. The government only hires him because he's just that good, in spite of how much of a jerk he is, and only bring him in to capture Sonic [[GodzillaThreshold once they realize they have no other choice]]. When Robotnik is banished to the Mushroom Planet, they're happy he's gone, and immediately [[{{Unperson}} remove any trace of his existence.]] |
| 595 | * HumansAreTheRealMonsters: In stark contrast to Sonic, an alien hedgehog who is ultimately revealed to be [[NiceGuy very friendly]], Robotnik is a cruel, sociopathic, rude, abrasive, and power-hungry human. Tom even lampshades it during the climax, remarking that Sonic knows more about being human than Robotnik ''ever'' will. |
| 596 | * HumongousMecha: He constructs a huge robot out of any and all metal in the surrounding area during the climax of ''Sonic the Hedgehog 2'' [[spoiler:with the power of the Master Emerald. He then controls it directly by channeling the Master Emerald's power straight into the robot until Knuckles separates him from the Master Emerald. However the titanic machine can still be controlled through Robotnik's conventional glove and console-based interfaces as a backup]]. |
| 597 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Robotnik constantly harps on how machines are better than people because machines are efficient and obey him without fail, yet he gets mad at Agent Stone for prioritizing his safety over taking the initiative and chasing after Tom and Sonic when they get away. Additionally, when Robotnik catches Knuckles invading his mech alongside Tails, he remarks that the echidna is disloyal, even though he's the one who betrayed him first. |
| 598 | * IconicAttributeAdoptionMoment: Initially slimmer and with a full head of hair, he becomes his iconic bald, wild-moustached self by the time of the TheStinger when he's trapped on the Mushroom Planet. |
| 599 | * InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Robotnik will readily flip from lording his superior intellect over everyone within earshot to berating someone for so much as ''mentioning'' an experience or ability he lacks. He especially has trouble with anyone talking back to him, particularly if they got a good zinger in. |
| 600 | * InformedAttribute: At no point in the first movie does Robotnik claim to want to take over the world, as claimed in outside material. He's arrogant and a misanthrope, but the movie gives the impression he merely wants to test his machines using Sonic's power. Any world domination plan can only be implied. This is averted in the second movie, where he seeks the power of the Master Emerald to use it to turn humanity into his robotic slaves and eventually become a MultiversalConqueror. |
| 601 | * InsufferableGenius: The United States government doesn't want to work with him. Within minutes of Robotnik meeting the military, it's clear why: Robotnik immediately declares himself superior to Major Bennington and mouths off to him. |
| 602 | -->'''Robotnik:''' In a sequentially ranked hierarchy, based on level of critical importance, the disparity between us is too vast to quantify. Agent Stone?\ |
| 603 | '''Stone:''' ''[matter-of-factly]'' [[LaymansTerms The doctor thinks you're basic.]] |
| 604 | * InSeriesNickname: At the beginning of the first film's climax, Sonic bestows the classic "Eggman" nickname upon him, though here it's based on the design of his robots rather than his physique. |
| 605 | * IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: It's implied that he was a child genius, which unfortunately made him an outsider amongst his peers and contributed to his ego and lack of empathy for others. |
| 606 | * ItIsDehumanizing: During the climax of the first movie, he outright calls Sonic a "thing" while questioning [[EvilCannotComprehendGood why Tom would throw his life away to help him]]. Subverted by the second film onwards, where he calls Sonic by name, including his species name hedgehog. Being isolated on the Mushroom Planet certainly gave him time to think about him. |
| 607 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Robotnik cares little about the United States, the government, or anyone except himself. He wants to capture Sonic and study him because he wants to build better robots. |
| 608 | -->'''Robotnik:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace That's one small step for man...]] one giant leap for ''me''. |
| 609 | * ItsPersonal: |
| 610 | ** After Tom sucker-punches him, Robotnik explains the last time he was punched was by a bully in school. He then got his revenge and swore that nobody would ever punch him again. Tom just did, so making Tom suffer is now one of Robotnik's goals in addition to catching Sonic. |
| 611 | ** After his defeat by Sonic at the end of the first movie, Robotnik develops a deep hatred toward him to the point of changing his approach from simply catch and discover his power to ''outright'' destroy him by any means necessary as soon as he return from the mushroom planet. |
| 612 | * {{Jerkass}}: He's a rude, obnoxious, and condescending asshole who can hardly finish a sentence without insulting someone, and he's trying to kill [[TheHero Sonic]] for his own greedy purposes. He's such a jerk that when he's banished to the Mushroom Planet, the government pretends he never existed and tries to forget about him. |
| 613 | * JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Downplayed. Robotnik's a CardCarryingVillain right off the bat, but he's at least [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist nominally well-intentioned]] and operating under the U.S. government's orders even if he's motivated primarily by harnessing Sonic's power for his machines. By the time of the sequel, any pretenses of morality are gone and Robotnik's goals have shifted to universal domination. |
| 614 | * KlaatuBaradaNikto: Robotnik shouts it as an alien triggers one of his traps on the Mushroom Planet. |
| 615 | * LackOfEmpathy: This is to be expected of a villain as cartoonish as Eggman. A good example is when Sonic pushes Tom and Maddie off a building (in order to save them), Robotnik is at first surprised, saying he wasn't expecting that, but then shrugs it off, saying "I was expecting not to expect anything, so it doesn't count" while showing an utterly callous lack of concern towards Tom and Maddie falling to their (apparent) deaths. [[spoiler:Later, when Sonic is apparently killed, [[KickTheDog Robotnik taunts the grieving Tom]] by eagerly going on about how he wants to put the hedgehog's body on ice and dissect him as an alien, while calling him a "thing".]] |
| 616 | * LameLastWords: [[spoiler:Robotnik shouts "Later, hater!" to Super Sonic as he falls to his UncertainDoom]]. |
| 617 | * LargeHam: Being a mad scientist played by notorious ham Jim Carrey, this is a given. When angry or flustered, he's prone to MilkingTheGiantCow and shouting at the top of his lungs. |
| 618 | * LaserGuidedKarma: As if being banished to a faraway planet isn't enough, the self-centered doctor gets the icing on the cake in the form of being [[UnPerson officially forgotten by the U.S. government]]. |
| 619 | * LastNameBasis: Everyone refers to him as "Robotnik," including the doctor himself. The only person who doesn't is Sonic, who calls him "Eggman" after the shape of his drones. His first name is never mentioned. |
| 620 | * LaughablyEvil: While he's mostly devoid of redeeming qualities, Robotnik is still one of the funniest characters in both films. Any time he's on screen, there is ''always'' at least one moment that he has that you can't help but find absolutely hilarious. Being played by Creator/JimCarrey, this is to be expected. |
| 621 | * LeanAndMean: Unlike his FatBastard video game counterpart, this Robotnik is completely slim, though like his video game counterpart, he's still the same asshole we know and love. After being banished to Mushroom World, Robotnik appears to be gaining weight. |
| 622 | * {{Leitmotif}}: He has [[https://youtu.be/q2-hdAedEHU his own menacing theme]], which is a close soundalike to his theme in ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog''. |
| 623 | * LoveIsAWeakness: In direct opposition to Sonic's outlook of IJustWantToHaveFriends, Robotnik vocally makes a point of having ''no'' friends. In his stated opinion, the simple fact that people are fallible, while machines can only serve in their designed capacity, is cause enough in itself to forego such attachments altogether. |
| 624 | * MadnessMakeover: In TheStinger of the first movie, he's shaved his head bald and his mustache has grown much longer, reflecting his classic appearance from the games. |
| 625 | * MadScientist: He tends to act quite kooky and hammy, and is an evil scientist hired to hunt down Sonic and aiming to find the source of his powers for his own ends. |
| 626 | * TheMenInBlack: Though he doesn't fit the look, he does still wear all black, and fits the trope otherwise. Even before the US government made him an {{Unperson}} and erased their records of him, its strongly implied that a lot of the work he did for them was off the books and top-secret, plus as an independent contractor he can work outside the system and allow them plausible deniability. The Secretary of Defense says that Robotnik has intervened with foreign affairs to stop coups and topple budding nations without anyone (officially) knowing he was there or that such an incident even occurred. Not to mention this line he throws out when Tom tries to threaten him using his authority as sheriff. |
| 627 | -->'''Robotnik:''' How can you threaten someone who never existed? |
| 628 | * MaliciousMisnaming: Like with the Wachowskis, Sonic refers to him as Eggman because of his egg-shaped drones. Unlike the Wachowskis, of course, it's more of an insult. |
| 629 | * MinorInjuryOverreaction: A simple punch in the face from Tom is enough to set him off in a ''major'' way and decide that ItsPersonal. |
| 630 | * MisanthropeSupreme: He's a human who hates humanity. Robotnik finds humans to be a letdown, thinks everyone is stupid except for him, and makes a point of having no friends. The reason Robotnik loves machines is because of their greater efficiency and how they can only do as they're told. |
| 631 | * MoralityPet: The only nice thing he does in the entire movie is compliment the way Stone makes lattes when offered one. Despite claiming he's not going to miss Stone when they depart, on the mushroom planet he names a literal rock "Agent Stone" and takes the rock with him, indicating he does miss Stone deep down. The sequel shows him acting more friendly with Stone once the two reunite, with Robotnik admitting he missed him. He even takes him to his GiantMecha without any hesitation after gaining the powers of the Master Emerald. |
| 632 | * MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: He insists on being called a doctor, and certainly likes less than savory approaches to science, down to saying to a KO'd Sonic that he'll love dissecting his body. |
| 633 | * MultiversalConqueror: Played with. [[spoiler:As Super Robotnik, he talks about how he plans on eventually conquering the multiverse but he's stopped by Sonic and friends before he can try to carry out such an ambitious plan]]. |
| 634 | * {{Narcissist}}: He is an incredibly {{insufferable|Genius}} egomaniac. It's to the point that he spends half the time in the presence of others telling them how much better he is than them. The fact that he keeps Agent Stone around as his YesMan shows that he needs constant reaffirmation for his ego. His EstablishingCharacterMoment shows him constantly asserting his dominance over the military crew he's working with, belittling the major's credentials without letting him get a word in edgewise, and almost immediately telling him that his men work for Robotnik now. |
| 635 | * NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:Even when he's confronted by the combined alliances of Team Sonic, Super Robotnik, along with his Death Egg Robot, was still too much for them to properly defeat. Getting the Master Emerald punched out of him (thanks to Knuckles) didn't really dwindle his capabilities too much, as he used his intact mecha to slowly track Sonic down with each thunderous stomp while the latter was heavily limping towards the Master Emerald. Tom and Maddie were able to rescue him in time before the blue speedster became a blue pancake, but Robotnik did manage to crush him and his family... right after the Chaos Emeralds were absorbed by Sonic, which he uses to transform into Super Sonic; this allows him to save them all at the last second and give the wicked doctor a taste of his own medicine. ''But'' the fact remains: if Robotnik had been a little bit quicker, there wouldn't have ''been'' an angry golden hedgehog raining vengeance upon him-- just a smear on his mech's giant foot. Tails and Knuckles likely wouldn't have stood a chance afterward, either.]] |
| 636 | -->'''Robotnik:''' [[spoiler:''I GOT HIM!'' I ''finally'' got him! ''(cackles madly)'']] |
| 637 | * NerdyBully: The WorldsSmartestMan, and he ''never'' passes up the chance to rub it in someone's face. |
| 638 | * NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: While searching the wreckage of Robotnik's mech, G.U.N fails to find him or his corpse... and instead uncovers something else. Commander Walters is certain of his death, though Stone's presence disguised as a G.U.N agent suggests Robotnik may not be gone.]] |
| 639 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His appearance seems to take cues from [[https://probaway.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/nietzsche_6.jpg Friedrich Nietzsche.]] Fitting, really, considering that Robotnik thinks of himself as an intellectual {{Ubermensch}}. |
| 640 | * NoodleIncident: |
| 641 | ** He apparently provided support for the US government during coups against Pakistan and Azerbaijanistan, though what kind of support he gave to them is left unexplained. Judging by a remark from the Navy Chief of Staff regarding the latter ("It's not even a country."), [[CrapsackWorld it probably wasn't pleasant]]. |
| 642 | ** As Robotnik mentions to Tom in a phone call, a bully once punched him in the face as a child. Robotnik did something in retaliation that led to the bully eating through a straw for a year. It's how Robotnik got his TraumaButton about being punched in the face. |
| 643 | * NotSoSimilar: Both he and Sonic grew up orphans, with no friends and a burdensome power (Sonic his SuperSpeed, Robotnik his SuperIntelligence). That's where the similarities end: whereas Robotnik is a {{Jerkass}} and MisanthropeSupreme who embraces his loneliness and [[LoveIsAWeakness makes a point of having no friends at all]], Sonic is a NiceGuy who HatesBeingAlone and just [[IJustWantToHaveFriends wants to have friends]]. |
| 644 | * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: At the start of the first film, he's working for the American government to investigate a massive blackout and eventually apprehend the possibly dangerous alien lifeform that turns out to have caused it, which could be seen as a worthy goal. However, it quickly becomes obvious that he doesn't really give a damn about the government except as a [[CutLexLuthorACheck convenient source of funding for his technology]], and as soon as he discovers the kind of potential Sonic holds, all he really cares about is harnessing this unlimited power for himself and his machines. |
| 645 | * ObviouslyEvil: He wears [[EvilWearsBlack black]] with [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver the later addition of red]], is [[{{Jerkass}} a total dick to everyone he interacts with]], installs [[GlowingMechanicalEyes ominous]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing]] eyes in his robots, and wants to capture [[TheHero Sonic]] for his own nefarious purposes. The fact that his mobile lab and robots are labeled "Evil Lab" and "Badniks" on the lab's breaker-box should tell you everything. |
| 646 | * OhCrap: [[spoiler:Robotnik doesn't get sad, or terrified that he got the Master Emerald punched out of him.. he gets ''mad'', and still attempts one final kill move on the blur blue. Then [[SuperMode Super Sonic]] emerges, and one can practically see the aghast horror in Robotnik's face as he realizes his prior godlike power is now inside his arch-nemesis. Doesn't stop him from trying to fight back, [[CurbstompBattle and that really doesn't work.]]]] |
| 647 | * OnlyFriend: Agent Stone is this for him, especially in the sequel. Most exemplified in the finale of the second movie: [[spoiler:while Super Robotnik has just finished betraying Knuckles and is now a borderline PhysicalGod with no need for anyone else, he still obliges Stone's request to TakeMeWithYou, lets him control the Death Egg Robot's weapons, and ''openly thanks him'', a level of kindness ''no one else'' genuinely receives from the Doctor.]] |
| 648 | * OralFixation: After getting Sonic's quill, he has a knack to sticks it in his mouth multiple times... [[HarmlessElectrocution and gets mildly electrocuted each time]]. |
| 649 | * ParentalAbandonment: He grew up in an orphanage, he never met his parents, and when Tom points out he was breastfed by his mother, Robotnik calls him a braggart. |
| 650 | * PassThePopcorn: After he introduces Knuckles to Sonic, Robotnik just casually grab himself a bowl of popcorn while watching the two have their first encounter. |
| 651 | * PetTheDog: |
| 652 | ** Robotnik is a misanthrope who hates other people, but he has a consistent soft spot for Agent Stone, who proves himself a competent and loyal NumberTwo. He appreciates his lattes and openly says he loves how Stone makes them, and when he's stranded on the mushroom planet he names a rock "Agent Stone" as his companion. When he returns to Earth in the sequel, he recruits Stone to be his aide again and in the climax [[spoiler:takes him with him aboard the Death Egg Robot to help him pilot it, even though by this point Robotnik is a PhysicalGod who has no need for him]], even shown to briefly be visibly concerned for him when he is knocked out cold at one point. In the Pre-Quill comic series, Robotnik leaves a manifesto for Stone to help him survive and prepare for his return, and in it, Robotnik remarks that while Stone is a half-wit compared to him, compared to normal humans he's a genius in his own right. |
| 653 | ** If the ''{{Series/Knuckles}}'' mini series is anything to go by, he had no problems working with The Buyer. |
| 654 | * PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:After betraying Knuckles, he absorbs the Master Emerald to become Super Robotnik, and using his newfound power, he builds his giant Death Egg Robot with the scraps different vehicles and objects around Green Hills.]] |
| 655 | * PowerGlows: Upon empowering himself with the Master Emerald in the second movie, he is constantly depicted surging with green electricity, not unlike the blue and red lightning coming off of Sonic and Knuckles respectively. |
| 656 | * PowerUpFullColorChange: Much like Super Sonic, "Super Robotnik" also gets a complete color change after absorbing the Master Emerald, with the red parts of his outfit changing to black and the black parts changing to green. |
| 657 | * PrecisionFStrike: Delirious with disbelief and anger, he gives Tom a pointed one after [[spoiler:Tom knowingly invokes his anger by relentlessly beating him about the head to save Sonic]]. |
| 658 | -->'''Robotnik:''' Who the ''hell'' do you think you are!? |
| 659 | * PsychopathicManchild: It wouldn't be Robotnik otherwise. His very hammy personality and delight in being evil show him as a very childish and immature man. He is also very petty, as shown when he makes things personal with Tom after being punched in the face by him. |
| 660 | * RapidFireInterrupting: When addressing Major Bennington, Robotnik constantly cuts him off. |
| 661 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He tends to give these out in quick succession to whomever he feels isn't complying with his demands in the manner to which he is accustomed. |
| 662 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Robotnik initially wears a black suit and coat, but once he gets into his prototype hovercraft, he swaps it out for a black and red flight suit and goggles that look more like his traditional outfit. |
| 663 | * RobotMaster: Natch. He builds drones, giant robots, and flying machines. He says he does this because machines can only perform in their designated capacity, unlike humans. |
| 664 | -->'''Robotnik:''' The time for talking is over! It's time to push buttons! |
| 665 | * SanitySlippage: As seen in TheStinger, being trapped on the Mushroom Planet does a number on his already questionable mental health, the results of which are seen in the sequel, where he does things that aren't so much mad genius as they are plain mad, like leaping onto the windshield of Tails' commandeered police car and licking it. |
| 666 | * ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: |
| 667 | ** He lets loose a high-pitched scream upon seeing Sonic for the first time, which gives Tom enough of a distraction to punch Robotnik right in the face. It's too bad for Tom that this makes it personal with Robotnik, who has a personal TraumaButton against being hit in the face. |
| 668 | ** He does it again at the start of the second movie (as in, it's ''literally'' the exact same scream from the last example) when he gets zapped and flung away after activating his handmade beacon with Sonic's quill in an attempt to get off the Mushroom Planet. |
| 669 | * SealedEvilInAnotherWorld: His fate in the first film is him being stranded on the Mushroom Planet. The opening of the second film has him escaping by using Sonic's quill and tech salvaged from his aircraft to send an interplanetary distress beacon, Knuckles responding and bringing him back to Earth. |
| 670 | * ShockAndAwe: His new gloves give him the ability to discharge yellow electricity from his fingers. |
| 671 | * TheSociopath: Jim Carrey describes Robotnik's character in an interview as "pure, unadulterated evil", and it shows. Despite his humorous qualities, Robotnik is a ruthless narcissist who sees people only as tools to benefit him, has no problem killing anyone who gets in the way of his plans, doesn't care about any collateral damage, and his intentions are purely selfish. Despite this, he does at least seem to share a genuine friendship with Agent Stone and does start to genuinely appreciate Stone and his company by the time of the second movie and [[PetTheDog actually allows Stone to join him in his Death Egg Robot.]] |
| 672 | * SpitefulSuicide: [[spoiler:[[NeverFoundTheBody Maybe]]. Still, when Super Sonic confronts him in the second film with full intent on making him pay once and for all and the robot is blowing up all around him, Robotnik jumps off the robot and vanishes in the chaos while yelling "later, hater!"]] |
| 673 | * StephenUlyssesPerhero: His name is Dr. Robotnik and he is a supervillain GadgeteerGenius who uses robots and drones for his evil deeds. |
| 674 | * StrongerThanTheyLook: He looks like the type of guy who relies on robots to do the fighting for him, but he is able to throw a man much heavier than him through a window and easily knocks Tom off his hovercraft after getting blindsided. |
| 675 | * SuperIntelligence: The closest thing that Robotnik has to a superpower that contrasts Sonic's SuperSpeed is his own immense intelligence (he has ''5'' [=PhDs=] and an IQ of 300). To wit: |
| 676 | ** He generally create revolutionary advanced technology many years ahead of it's time, allowing the American government to topple multiple nations in covert operations. |
| 677 | ** In the first film, he's able to accurately guess Sonic's physical appearance with little evidence to go on, and reverse-engineer Sonic's SuperSpeed by empowering his Eggpod with one of Sonic's quills. |
| 678 | ** During his year long exile in the Mushroom World, he's able to survive by identifying which of the fungi is edible while simultaneously creating a beacon through the salvaged parts of his destroyed Eggpod along with Sonic's quill. |
| 679 | * SuperMode: [[spoiler:In the climax of the sequel, he absorbs the Master Emerald to obtain a Super form of his very own, colored black with green highlights. He channels its energy to power the newly-built Death Egg Robot which he constructs through the state's psychokinetic prowess and the ability of the Master Emerald to turn thoughts into power.]] |
| 680 | * SuperSpeed: In the climax of the first film, he achieves this by empowering his Eggpod with one of Sonic's quills, allowing him to keep up with Sonic as the latter tries to outrun him. |
| 681 | * TakeOverTheWorld: Upon discovering Sonic and his immense power, he decides to throw the government under the bus and kill Sonic himself. Why? So that he can steal his energy to power his robot army, which he plans to use to achieve global domination. After receiving the power of the Master Emerald, he directly states that he intends to take over the Earth, then the universe, ''then'' the multiverse. |
| 682 | * {{Touche}}: Upon seeing Tails using his tails like a helicopter to fly Sonic to safety, Robotnik gives off an impressed chuckle and comments, "Foxy move!" |
| 683 | * TranquilFury: He talks with Tom on the phone about the latter [[TraumaButton punching him in the face]] in a calm yet threatening tone, making it clear [[ItsPersonal he will ruin Tom's life for it]]. |
| 684 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Coffee. In particular, lattes with steamed Austrian goat milk. While trapped on the Mushroom Planet, he attempted to make a mushroom-based coffee substitute, with ''[[BadToTheLastDrop limited]]'' success, and his first stop on Earth after making an attempt on Sonic's life is Agent Stone's coffee shop for a long-overdue latte. |
| 685 | * TrappedInAnotherWorld: At the end of the film, Sonic uses his rings to banish him from Earth and trap him on the Mushroom Planet. By the time of TheStinger, he's been trapped there for 87 days and [[GoMadFromTheIsolation has gone mad from the isolation]], but nonetheless vows to return to Earth. |
| 686 | * TraumaButton: A PlayedForLaughs variant, but being punched in the face. It reminds him of unpleasant childhood memories. When Tom does it, he makes it personal with Robotnik, making the doctor want to ruin Tom's life as much as he wants to capture Sonic. |
| 687 | * TrickedOutGloves: Before he switches over to fingerless gloves, he wears black gloves that have a device in them that scans footprints and lets him remotely control his robots, among other things. The first style of gloves returns in the sequel. |
| 688 | * TheUnfettered: Robotnik does whatever he wants, whenever he wants, and has no concern for the consequences. |
| 689 | * TookALevelInKindness: ''Heavily'' {{downplayed}}, but he does treat Stone better in the second movie compared to their first outing. |
| 690 | * UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:He's last seen plunging into the remains of his own collapsing, exploding mecha. G.U.N. seems to believe he's dead, but they're unable to find any trace of his body at the end--that and the presence of Stone among the agents ''heavily'' suggests the good doctor managed to find a way to [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat survive the explosion]], but nothing's confirmed at the end of the film. There’s also the fact that Eggman in the games is known for JokerImmunity and surviving much worse. His death is unconfirmed as a means to write him back in should Jim Carrey return for another movie, but is final enough to make sense if he doesn't.]] |
| 691 | * UnPerson: At the end of the film, he is banished to another planet by Sonic, and upon doing so, the government, who never liked him anyway and only hired him because they had to, is quick to erase all traces of him from existence. When questioned about Robotnik by Tom, Commander Walters says "no such person exists". Ironically, early in the movie, Robotnik threatens to unperson Tom when the local sheriff gets in his way. This likely means there wasn't much for the government to clean. |
| 692 | * VetinariJobSecurity: This is the entire reason the government puts up with Robotnik and continues to hire him for such things as capturing Sonic. Yes, he's a rude, obnoxious, sociopathic asshole, but he's also a legitimate genius and just ''that'' good at what he does. |
| 693 | * VileVillainSaccharineShow: Despite being in a lighthearted buddy comedy film and having humorous qualities himself, Robotnik still stands out for being a self-centered, cruel, unpleasant, sociopathic asshole with few redeeming traits. |
| 694 | * VillainousBreakdown: Throughout the first film, he gets more and more frustrated by Sonic and Tom's ability to avoid him. At the finale, he really loses it. [[spoiler:When his TraumaButton gets pressed by Tom, he loses focus, and Sonic banishes Robotnik to the Mushroom Planet with a Warp Ring as a result. There, Robotnik starts to GoMadFromTheIsolation, complete with a MadnessMakeover. In spite of that, Robotnik confidently vows that he'll find a way back and take his revenge on everyone]]. |
| 695 | ** [[spoiler: He suffers this experience again in the second film's climax, which happens right after Knuckles literally beats the power of the Master Emerald out of him, causing the mythical gemstone to fall out of the opened hatch of his Death Egg Robot. When he realizes that he's no longer in his SuperMode, Robotnik becomes anxious as well as infuriated by the situation that forces him to use his robot by using natural operations to ensure his interrupted conquest before Sonic can grab ahold of it to defeat him.]] |
| 696 | --->'''Robotnik:''' [[spoiler:''Move'', you hunk of junk! […] No!]] |
| 697 | * VillainHasAPoint: In the second film, just as he betrays Knuckles by taking the Chaos Emerald for himself, Knuckles furiously objects to this by saying that it wasn't part of the deal they made, and that he trusted Robotnik as a friend. However, Robotnik wisely points out that true friendship involves being open, honest, and vulnerable with each other, and that Knuckles should've known better than to put his trust in Robotnik in the first place. As cruel as he puts it, Robotnik is correct about the ideal of true friendship, especially regarding the fact that he genuinely considers Agent Stone to be his only friend, due to being very open and honest with him. |
| 698 | * VillainsOutShopping: While examining the energy output of Sonic's quill, he happily dances to "Where Evil Grows" and accepts a latte from Agent Stone. |
| 699 | * VillainousFriendship: The closest thing he has to a friend is [[TheDragon Agent Stone]], and even then, Robotnik barely tolerates him, acting rude and contemptuous of him (and even punching him), despite Stone acting very polite and doing everything Robotnik asks him to. That said, it is ultimately shown that Robotnik ''does'' consider Stone a true friend, going as far as [[spoiler:admitting he missed him when he returns from his banishment]] in the second film. |
| 700 | * VillainousValour: Robotnik doesn't just ''think'' he's an apex predator-- it's how he does his business. Beyond how his only response to Sonic's destructive otherworldly power is gleeful curiosity about how he can exploit it, his approach to dealing with an uncooperative biker thug is to simply chuck him out a window without so much as a second thought. Come the third act of the first film, [[spoiler:his response to Sonic getting back up at full power and racing towards him is to [[BringIt slide down his goggles with only so much as a smirk]], and manages to keep his valour throughout the final clash until he's banished to the Mushroom Planet. However, despite now being potentially ''millions of light years'' from home, he's still dead-set on finding a way back to Earth using nothing but his raw expertise and one of Sonic's quills.]] |
| 701 | * VillainsWantMercy: [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] at the climax of the second movie. When he witnesses Super Sonic making short work of his Death Egg robot, his reaction is to beg for peace and try to get him to drop their whole conflict as a way of buying time to hit him with a punch. It fails, however, and he takes his defeat with surprising nonchalance.]] |
| 702 | -->'''Robotnik:''' Ohh, it's like that? Okay, we're not friends! ''(falls out of the Death Egg Robot)'' LATER, HATER!!! |
| 703 | * VocalEvolution: Throughout the film, Robotnik's voice is more or less Jim Carrey in LargeHam mode, but by the time of the ending, his voice has noticeably become a lot gravellier since his banishment to the Mushroom World. In fact, it comes off as quite an impressive impersonation of Eggman's most famous voice actor, Creator/MikePollock. In the second movie, his voice is still a bit deeper but retains Carrey's other mannerisms, coming off as a mix between the two vocal styles. [[spoiler:Upon obtaining the Master Emerald and gaining his SuperMode, [[VoiceOfTheLegion his voice gains an eerie, almost autotuned echo that makes him sound demonic]], especially when he's speaking through the Death Egg Robot.]] |
| 704 | * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: He's more than eager to harvest an alien hedgehog for the sole purpose of making better robots. |
| 705 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: [[spoiler:Empowered by the Master Emerald, Robotnik's goal long jumps from "kill Sonic" to "enslave the universe". He outright admits to Agent Stone that he's not all there at the time.]] |
| 706 | * WorldsSmartestMan: As with the source material, Robotnik sees himself as this, and can definitely back it up, given how much more advanced his inventions are than anything else in the world. This trope is the reason the government puts up with his incredibly unlikable personality. |
| 707 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: As described by Jim Carrey, Robotnik [[MisanthropeSupreme is the]] [[ItsAllAboutMe way he is]] because he [[OrphanageOfFear lacked nurturing, love, or guidance in his formative years]]. In Jim's own words, "He hates the world because the world abandoned him". |
| 708 | * WouldHurtAChild: Throughout the movie, he is trying to capture and eventually kill Sonic, who is just a teenager. |
| 709 | * YouAreWhatYouHate: Not only is Robotnik a human who looks down on other humans, he's also an even bigger bully than his childhood tormentors, given his own jerkass behavior and domineering personality. |
| 710 | * YouDontLookLikeYou: Subverted. In the first half of the film, Jim Carrey's Robotnik only vaguely looks like Eggman. He resembles Jim Carrey himself a lot more, but with a smaller yet cartoonishly styled brown mustache, as well as wearing a long black coat and square sunglasses in his initial scenes. He also has hair, something that the original Eggman never had. This changes over the course of the movie, as he eventually dons his trademark red bodysuit and goggles later on, and finally appears like the game version with a shaved head and bushy dark red mustache in TheStinger and the sequel, which also gives him a new suit that adds some yellow to the red coloration. |
| 711 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:After he steals the Master Emerald, he plans to leave Knuckles with Sonic in the collapsing temple, and [[DidYouActuallyBelieve tells Knuckles that he was incredibly dumb to trust him]] and think that they were the best of friends. But he doesn't do the same with Stone; when the latter pleads with Robotnik to take him with him, Robotnik obliges without hesitation.]] |
| 712 | -->'''Robotnik:''' [[spoiler:Sadly, you are as useful to me now as a backstage pass to Limp Bizkit.]] |
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| 715 | [[folder:Agent Stone]] |
| 716 | !!Agent Stone |
| 717 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Lee Majdoub [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/DaikiHamano (Japanese), Carlo Vázquez (Latin-American Spanish), Björn Bengtsson (Swedish), Creator/WendelBezerra (Brazilian Portuguese), Renaud Paradis (Quebec French), Jérémy Prévost (EU French), Raffaele Carpentieri (Italian)[[/labelnote]] |
| 718 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog|2020}}'' | ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog 2|2022}}'' | ''Sonic the Hedgehog 3'' |
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| 724 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"The doctor thinks you're basic."'']] |
| 725 | ->''"I just thought you might like a latte with steamed Austrian goat milk!"'' |
| 726 | \ |
| 727 | Robotnik's right-hand man, and, in contrast to how despised the doctor is by everyone else, a complete sycophant towards his boss. |
| 728 | ---- |
| 729 | * AffablyEvil: In stark contrast to [[FauxAffablyEvil his boss]], Agent Stone bears no real malice towards the heroes, and only opposes them out of a sense of duty. He does get to show that he's legitimately evil and not just out of work when it's revealed in the prequel comic that he can be just as cruel and manipulative to other humans as Robotnik is when he sets his mind to it and if they incur his wrath, even if he's not nearly as super-intelligent as his boss. |
| 730 | * AmbiguouslyGay: Bordering on intentional HomoeroticSubtext, Stone's loyalty to and obsession with Robotnik comes off as a full-blown crush at times, especially in the sequel, from the latte art to a picture of Robotnik in ''[[CreepyCrossdresser a French Maid Outfit]]'' on the screen at the Mean Bean. |
| 731 | * BerserkButton: Do ''not'' insult his lattes. [[spoiler:Unless you want to get framed for money laundering, of course.]] |
| 732 | * BigYes: Well, he doesn't say "yes," but given his reaction to Robotnik returning, he might as well have. |
| 733 | -->'''Stone:''' [[HesBack He's BAAAACK...!!]] |
| 734 | * BreakoutCharacter: For a movie-only character, Sonic fans have really taken a liking to Stone as a loyal lackey for Robotnik due to their incredible on-screen chemistry, to the point that there's been tons of fanart created of him, especially when paired up with Robotnik. Additionally, he was popular enough to get his own solo story in the prequel comic for the second film. Besides, Stones stands out among Eggman's many henchmen due to the fact that he isn't a robot, he's not afraid of Robotnik, he genuinely likes the Doctor, and he's smart and competent in his own right. He is also the closest Robotnik ever had to a genuine ''friend'', and the Doctor's decision to [[spoiler:bring Stone along for the ride after building the Death Egg Robot in ''Sonic 2'', even though Robotnik had ''no use'' for a henchman at that point due to having become a PhysicalGod, further cements it]]. |
| 735 | * ButtMonkey: His only purpose is to be the doctor's punching bag both verbally and, in at least one instance, physically. |
| 736 | * CanonForeigner: He was created specifically for the movie, filling the role of Robotnik's [[TheDragon lackey]] that previous continuities have in characters such as [[WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM Snively]], [[ComicBook/SonicTheComic Grimer]], or Metal Sonic. |
| 737 | * ChekhovsSkill: He's able to brew a latte that even Robotnik has to compliment. He's later shown to be laying low at a coffee shop as a contingency plan. |
| 738 | * CompositeCharacter: He takes Commander Walters’s role in going to visit the Wachowskis in the first movie’s novelization. |
| 739 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Though mostly a comical YesMan and ButtMonkey, Stone shows that he can be a cunning and efficient villain in the "Official Movie Pre-Quill" comic, where he masterminds a bank heist and swiftly disposes of the staff of a coffee shop to take it over in order to advance Robotnik's schemes. |
| 740 | * ADayInTheLimelight: He gets his own solo story in the prequel comic for ''Sonic 2''. It turns out the coffee shop he was working at was part of a contingency plan left behind for him by Robotnik. He asks that Stone take the business over and use it as a base to prepare for his eventual return to Earth. [[HypercompetentSidekick Stone does so in less than a week]]. |
| 741 | * DeadpanSnarker: When under Wade’s "interrogation" right before Robotnik returns with the Master Emerald in tow during ''Sonic 2''. |
| 742 | -->'''Stone:''' I’m not telling you anything. And that is a display bagel. |
| 743 | * TheDragon: To Robotnik in the first movie, which carries on into the sequel. [[spoiler:While he and Knuckles serve as CoDragons, it’s shown that Robotnik fully intended all along to betray Knuckles once he had gotten the Master Emerald, firmly establishing Stone as his true second-in-command]]. |
| 744 | * DressingAsTheEnemy: [[InvertedTrope Inverted.]] [[spoiler:After the Death Egg Robot is destroyed, he evades G.U.N.'s forces by disguising himself as one of their soldiers]]. |
| 745 | * ExtremeDoormat: At one point, Robotnik sucker-punches him in the chest. Stone doesn't so much as utter a word of complaint about it. [[spoiler:He does ''not'' tolerate his manager at the coffee shop treating him similarly, though, as he caps off his plan to infiltrate Green Hills by framing her for money laundering and taking over her shop.]] |
| 746 | * FauxAffablyEvil: When Robotnik isn't around to be a dick to everyone, Stone proves to be surprisingly manipulative, [[spoiler:and manages to take over a coffee shop to set up a new secret base for when Robotnik returns]]. |
| 747 | * HarmlessVillain: He doesn't seem to be a malicious guy, in spite of working for Robotnik. He doesn't do anything evil in the movie. [[NotSoHarmlessVillain In the comic prequel to the second movie, however...]] |
| 748 | * MadScientist: Not quite to Robotnik's extent, but Stone is shown to be a capable scientist in his own right. After Robotnik's sent away and his resources are confiscated, Stone's able to control and keep the Badniks in working order. He takes over a coffeeshop in the Pre-Quill, and by ''Sonic 2'' has turned it into a hi-tech secret base. Whatever devious schemes the doctor cooks up, Stone is eager to go along with them. |
| 749 | * MinionWithAnFInEvil: He seems a little too nice to be working for someone like Robotnik. When Sonic and Tom are fleeing from Robotnik, Stone's instinct is not to chase them but cater to his master and see if he's alright. He becomes more efficient and ruthless in the prequel comic for ''Sonic 2'', managing to use some leftover resources and Badniks to take over the local coffee shop by either leaving the employees stranded somewhere else and framing the previous owner with tax fraud. |
| 750 | * MoralityPet: While still abusive toward him, he's the only person Robotnik shows any form of kindness to, as Robotnik [[PetTheDog compliments how he makes lattes]] and even [[spoiler:makes a rock named Agent Stone on the mushroom planet, showing he does miss Stone despite claiming he wouldn't when they parted ways earlier in the film.]] |
| 751 | * NoFullNameGiven: His first name is never mentioned. |
| 752 | * NominalVillain: Agent Stone works as an assistant to the {{evil|Genius}} and {{insufferable|Genius}} Dr. Robotnik, but seemingly has no bad intentions, and puts up with Robotnik's [[MeanBoss abuse]] while keeping a positive attitude the whole time. |
| 753 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: ''The Official Movie Pre-Quill'' proves that he can be a ruthlessly efficient [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] when he wants to be, as his [[AssholeVictim disrespectful former coworkers]] learn the hard way. Near the end of ''Sonic 2'', Stone uses the Death Egg Robot's Stash-Masher to destroy the Tornado, nearly killing Tails with it. |
| 754 | * OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Despite getting knocked out in the middle of the final battle against the Death Egg Robot, he somehow survives its destruction with only minor injuries which also leaves open the possibility that Robotnik also survived despite losing the Master Emerald's power.]] |
| 755 | * OnlyFriend: As much as Robotnik treats Agent Stone like crap, he's probably the closest thing to a friend that Robotnik has. He compliments him when he gets him a latte that he likes, and [[spoiler:when he's stranded on the Mushroom Planet, he carves a rock in Agent Stone's likeness and lugs it around, in spite of his open contempt for people and their inefficiency. When Super Robotnik builds his Death Egg Robot, he takes Stone with him at his request with zero hesitation]]. |
| 756 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: In ''The Pre-Quill'', Robotnik admits that Stone is a genius in his own right, even if he's leagues behind Robotnik himself. |
| 757 | * SatelliteCharacter: His role in the movies revolves entirely around serving as Robotnik's personal lackey. The ''Pre-Quill'' comic sheds more light on him, including revealing him to be a genius in his own right. |
| 758 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Between Eggman's CoDragons, Knuckles is the Manly Man who routinely invokes honor and possesses SuperStrength, while Agent Stone is the Sensitive Guy who makes art in latte foam. |
| 759 | * SycophanticServant: No matter how much Robotnik belittles and abuses him, he serves with an enthusiastic smile and a latte with steamed Austrian goat's milk. Even Robotnik being banished does little to dissuade his loyalty. |
| 760 | * TranslatorBuddy: After Robotnik's long tirade toward Bennington, Stone sums up the doctor's opinion of the Major in five words: |
| 761 | -->'''Stone:''' The doctor thinks you're ''basic''. |
| 762 | * UndyingLoyalty: An absolute kiss-up to Eggman. Ironically, despite Robotnik complaining that humans are useless compared to perfectly obedient machines, Agent Stone does everything he's told without question or complaint. Furthermore, he's likely the ''only person'' who's actually happy with Robotnik's return from his banishment. |
| 763 | * UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler:Unlike Robotnik [[UncertainDoom whose fate remain unknown after the destruction of the Death Egg Robot]], Stone manage to survive the whole ordeal despite being unconscious early on and appear to disguised himself as one of the G.U.N. soldiers afterward in TheStinger of the second movie.]] |
| 764 | * VillainyFreeVillain: |
| 765 | ** He doesn't do anything truly villainous other than be Robotnik's assistant. Robotnik doesn't do anything illegal or villainous either, until he tries to kill Tom, which Stone did not participate in. This is fully {{Averted}} in the second movie's prequel comic, where he masterminds a bank heist to retrieve one of Robotnik's Control Gloves, and then actively and intentionally ruins several people's lives to gain ownership of a coffee shop. |
| 766 | ** [[spoiler:In the second movie's post-credits scene, he's seen disguised as a G.U.N. agent, suggesting that he'll play a villainous role in the next movie]]. |
| 767 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: |
| 768 | ** He's initially never seen again when Robotnik heads to San Francisco in the first movie, with the second movie reveals that he's been working at a coffee shop, which he took over through some evil schemes. |
| 769 | ** [[spoiler:This is {{Averted|Trope}} altogether at the end of the second movie. After Robotnik's apparent demise, he is shown during TheStinger to have disguised himself and infiltrated G.U.N.]] |
| 770 | * YesMan: He sucks up to Robotnik at all times, following his instruction without question. |
| 771 | [[/folder]] |
| 772 | |
| 773 | [[folder:The Buyer]] |
| 774 | !!The Buyer |
| 775 | !!!'''Played by:''' Creator/RoryMcCann |
| 776 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Knuckles}}'' |
| 777 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/20240423_121614.jpg]] |
| 778 | |
| 779 | A mysterious inventor and colleague of Dr. Robotnik. He has an interest in capturing Knuckles so that he can power his inventions. |
| 780 | ---- |
| 781 | * BadBoss: He’ll [[YouHaveFailedMe kill his employees if they fail him]]. When Mason and Willoughby fail to catch Knuckles, Willoughby does manage to convince him to give them one more chance, but he tells them that if they do succeed this time, they won’t be paid and their only reward will be that they get to keep living. |
| 782 | * BigBad: While established as the main threat of the ''Series/{{Knuckles}}'' miniseries at first, he's actually more of a GreaterScopeVillain while Agents Mason alongside Willoughby act as TheHeavy and only shows up to face Knuckles personally in the final episode. |
| 783 | * CanonForeigner: He doesn’t exist in the games and was created for the Knuckles series. |
| 784 | * CelebrityParadox: ''Series/GameOfThrones'' exists in this universe, with Maddie mentioning the Iron Throne. No one comments on the Buyer's resemblance to the Hound, also played by Rory [=McCann=]. |
| 785 | * CompositeCharacter: Being a genius human inventor who makes two henchmen go after his enemies and acts like a BadBoss makes him more similar to Robotnik in his earliest incarnations, but his plan of going after Knuckles and him once working for Robotnik make him similar to Eggrobo when playing as Knuckles in ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles''. |
| 786 | * TheDreaded: Mason and Willoughby are both very scared of what he’ll do to them if he finds out they failed to catch Knuckles. |
| 787 | * EvilOldFolks: He’s evidently getting to be old, since his hair is receding and turning grey, and he’s a total sociopath and the main villain of the Knuckles series. |
| 788 | * EvilGenius: He was able to work together with ''[[InsufferableGenius Robotnik]]'', who would accept no less than another such evil genius. |
| 789 | * EvilerThanThou: Towards Mason and Willoughby, who both fear him. When the Buyer finds out they failed him, he has his other henchmen capture the two and they can only plead for their lives. |
| 790 | * HumongousMecha: Pilots a gigantic bipedal war machine that bears some resemblance to the [[VideoGame/SonicMania Phantom Egg]] during "What Happens in Reno, Stays in Reno". |
| 791 | * MakeAnExampleOfThem: He destroys an Egg Drone Badnik with a welding torch during "Reno Baby" to show Agents Willoughby and Mason how he’s about to kill them for failing him. |
| 792 | * NoNameGiven: His real name is never revealed in the series. [[spoiler:[[TheUnreveal And probably never will be]], given how he was crushed by a large casino sphere.]] |
| 793 | * {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:The Buyer used to work for G.U.N. before it was named that, working directly under Robotnik. After Robotnik went rogue and G.U.N. [[UnPerson wrote him off as having never existed]], they tried to erase all their connections to Robotnik, including the Buyer, and they sent agents to try to kill him. Although he was scarred, he ultimately escaped and went into hiding. He now wants to destroy G.U.N. for betraying and attempting to kill him.]] |
| 794 | * TheSociopath: Agent Willoughby outright calls him an absolute sociopath. |
| 795 | * VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler: The Buyer is justified in wanting revenge on G.U.N., seeing as how they’re a corrupt organization and tried to execute him when he hadn’t done anything wrong.]] |
| 796 | * VillainRespect: He comments that anyone who comes after Knuckles had better be ready for a fight. Upon meeting Knuckles, he tells him that it’s an honor. |
| 797 | * WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: He talks with an indeterminate accent. |
| 798 | * YouHaveFailedMe: He almost does this, but it’s subverted. When he finds out Mason and Willoughby let Knuckles escape, he captures them and plans on killing them for their failure. However, [[spoiler:Willoughby relates to him about their shared desire to make G.U.N. suffer for how the organization treated them both]], and he gives them one more chance to catch Knuckles, telling them that instead of paying them, their reward will be that he won’t kill them. |
| 799 | [[/folder]] |
| 800 | |
| 801 | !!Others |
| 802 | [[folder:Crazy Carl]] |
| 803 | !!Crazy Carl |
| 804 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Frank C. Turner [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Hiroshi Iwasaki (Japanese), Alejandro Villeli (Latin-American Spanish), Faduli Costa (Brazilian Portuguese), Jean-Marie Moncelet (Quebec French), Mino Caprio (Italian), Ye Baohua (PRC Mandarin), Chen Jinyi (TW Mandarin)[[/labelnote]] |
| 805 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog|2020}}'' |
| 806 | [[quoteright:304:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_67_3.png]] |
| 807 | [[caption-width-right:304:''"I almost caught him last night."'']] |
| 808 | ->''"I know you’re out there! And I know you’re real!"'' |
| 809 | \ |
| 810 | A man in Green Hills who started rumors of a Blue Devil lurking around the town. |
| 811 | ---- |
| 812 | * CanonForeigner: Like Tom, he isn't from the games. |
| 813 | * CassandraTruth: Before Sonic hides out in Tom’s garage, he’s the only one who believes in Sonic’s existence. |
| 814 | * ChainsawGood: [[spoiler:He shows up at the film's climax wielding a chainsaw to protect Sonic from Robotnik. At the end of the movie, Officer Wade calmly tries to confiscate Carl's chainsaw, due to him being a little off the rocker.]] |
| 815 | * TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Despite being a crazy old man who lives in the woods, Carl's absolutely right in his belief that there's a "Blue Devil" that roams Green Hills. Sonic suggests that his nickname be changed to "Super-Observant Carl." |
| 816 | * EnemyMine: Despite the somewhat antagonistic relationship they've had for years, Carl shows up to defend Sonic. With a '''''freaking CHAINSAW.''''' He's legitimately upset with Robotnik for messing with "''our'' Blue Devil." As far as Carl is concerned, Sonic has always been a resident of the town proper, and he apparently looks out for the town's own. |
| 817 | * FriendlyEnemy: Sonic views him as this, saying they have fun. [[spoiler:It turns out he sees Sonic the same way, standing up against Robotnik when he threatens him.]] |
| 818 | * NoMereWindmill: No one believes him about the "Blue Devil" around town. Turns out, Crazy Carl is right. (Sort of; Sonic isn't actually a devil.) |
| 819 | * PutOnTheBus: While he does shows up in the Pre-Quill comic, he's nowhere to be seen in the second movie. |
| 820 | * TerribleArtist: He creates an artist's rendering of the Blue Devil. It's a terrible Sonic picture... [[AscendedMeme but a great Sanic picture]]. |
| 821 | [[/folder]] |
| 822 | |
| 823 | [[folder:Susie]] |
| 824 | !!Susie |
| 825 | !!!'''Played by:''' Alice Wren Tregonning |
| 826 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Knuckles}}'' |
| 827 | ->''"You're gonna choke, loser!"'' |
| 828 | \ |
| 829 | A girl scout who's also a fierce competitor when it comes to bowling. |
| 830 | ---- |
| 831 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Susie's first scene consists of her mocking Wade in a game of bowling, which is understandable given her age. After witnessing his own father personally insult him, she's quick to call him a "turd bucket". |
| 832 | * GirlScoutsAreEvil: Downplayed as she's not as much evil persay but just rather intense, preying on Wade's insecurities while their teams were bowling against each other. Jack even flat out refers to her as a "fearless, stone-cold killer on the lanes". |
| 833 | * HateSink: Downplayed as she is a surprisingly callous and vicious bowling player, sneering as she openly insults her opponent's. Indicating she may be a bit spoiled by her parents. All while smirking as Wade loses his position on the team does little to endear her to Wade. Though she does grow out of this obnoxious and cruel behavior eventually by the end. |
| 834 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While she was mean to Wade in the beginning but after seeing him defeat Jack in combat and [[spoiler:his father Pistol Pete in the Bowling Championship]] does she finally respect him and even form a friendship with him. |
| 835 | [[/folder]] |
| 836 | |
| 837 | [[folder:Jack Sinclair]] |
| 838 | !!Jack Sinclair |
| 839 | !!!'''Played by:''' Julian Barratt |
| 840 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Knuckles}}'' |
| 841 | ->''"Oh, I'm so happy you asked. I'm an acclaimed writer of historical fiction. I'm a man who knows his way around a vegetable garden. But at my core, I'm someone who uses his keen instincts to hunt the world's most dangerous animal: Man. Jack Sinclair, bounty hunter, at your service."'' |
| 842 | \ |
| 843 | A bounty hunter who used to be Wade's partner in bowling in the Renegades, at least until he ditched the deputy for a much richer opportunity. |
| 844 | ---- |
| 845 | * EtTuBrute: Wade was clearly hurt that [[spoiler:Jack is betraying him for money.]] |
| 846 | * HumiliationConga: Wade puts him through one via jousting duel by first cutting off his lock and then threatens him to give his hat, jacket and vest to him, causing him to run off like a scared and disgraced with people witnessing it. |
| 847 | * IFightForTheStrongestSide: When it comes to bowling, after Wade chokes in a game against Susie, a girl scout, he abandons Wade as his bowling partner and immediately recruits Susie into the Renegades in his place. |
| 848 | * NoodleIncident: He turned to bounty hunting after a unsuccessful lawsuit against an "unnamed rainforest-themed restaurant franchise" (heavily implied to be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainforest_Cafe Rainforest Cafe]]) caused him to lose most of his money. |
| 849 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: When it comes to his bounty hunting job, he doesn't care if his target is his old friend and ex-bowling partner Wade, he will hunt down his targets no matter what for a sweet paycheck, even if he offered his services to them earlier. And outside of it, he ditches Wade for Susie on his bowling team, partly due to her being much more skilled than the deputy, and partly due to her parents being loaded (though Wade believes the latter point was a lie and Jack just didn't want him at the Tournament of Champions). |
| 850 | [[/folder]] |
| 851 | |
| 852 | %%[[folder:Maria]] |
| 853 | %%!!Maria |
| 854 | %%!!!'''Played by:''' Alyla Browne |
| 855 | %%!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Sonic the Hedgehog 3'' |
| 856 | |
| 857 | %%A female character set to appear in the third film. |
| 858 | %%---- |
| 859 | %%[[/folder]] |
| 860 |
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