#as if that's not canon while victim Eggman is literally non-existent in all the canon game moments

[egg-emperor]

Even as a huge lover of dark stuff and angst, I just really don't want Eggman to be a sad tragic deeply troubled emotional lonely character himself. He doesn't need that in order to have depth and entertainment or even relatability. He's supposed to be an evil crazy silly fucked up guy who wants to dominate the world and it's badass and cool and fun and he has a blast with it. He's so passionate and happy in it, far from miserable.

I love how Eggman actually does have it set up perfectly for them to make him a tragic character in the games like with the Robotnik family tragedy and deaths- but he actually isn't. He has never shown himself to deeply affected and troubled by Maria or even Gerald's deaths. In fact quite the opposite as he seems to have low empathy, Gerald's death hasn't been implied to impact him and he's made it especially clear that he doesn't give a shit about Maria lol

That's why I always want Eggman as the perpetrator with the exceptions of him being so devastated and angry by his failures he can get suicidal in destructive dangerous ways that hurts everyone else too (happened in Adventure), or he gets what he deserves for his fucked up crimes (like Shadow killing him in Shadow 2005), or an accident (the Egg Carrier crashing and killing him in 06) though those are all non canon because he's simply too powerful and indestructible hehe

And the exceptions hardly takes up any of his character, which is what adds impact when he does deal with some shit that actually affects him. He doesn't live feeling miserable all the time, he's a very passionate, confident, determined character who loves himself and believes in his dreams and fights hard for them. That's the part that's really relatable, not putting him through uncharacteristic angst that he'd never be impacted by in the games.

Other than that, have him make things tragic and fucked up for others instead. Show how much of a cruel cold bastard he can be towards to put others through agony and pain and laugh in their faces. Show how much of a thrilling dangerous threat he is and all the reasons he's the bad guy. And he can be a funny and epic badass at the same time, how cool is that? He already has so much potential without suffering tragedy and angst himself.