#robotnik is a robot

[lixel-5]

sonic 3 spoilers

even though i was obsessed with symbrock for 2 years and got me on ao3, i think robotnik’s death hurt me more than venom’s….

[technically-human]

He couldn't deal with all that rizz

[heph]

D3: Alternate Universe - SONIC BOOM

[stellarnat]

Watched the Wild Robot again 🥲 inspired me greatly last night

[crowlls]

Working on comms atm so just some sketches for now

(the middle one… what if during the scene he was building the big mecha)

[pretzlforpresident]

So you know how roboticization was meant to be used for healing right

[yes-asil]

Scribbled game!agent Stone, because the concept won't leave me alone

[zer0expektation]

The (almost) Perfect Assistant

[amazingdeadfish]

It's the Spookie Month

[candiezmanzion]

metal/neo metal sonic ramble

never not thinking about how robots in idw have text like this

but neo metal sonic has the same text as all the organic characters

he also expresses clear emotion just like an organic person would, if not with a bit more robotic logic behind it [save when hes in a blind rage]

HE EVEN EVILLY LAUGHS AT ONE POINT

neo metal is proof that metal is VERY MUCH CAPABLE OF EMOTIONS LIKE ANY ORGANIC [if it wasnt already obvious when he's just metal] i think its sooo crazy that IDW shows metal is the most 'human' out of all the eggman robots yet he's arguably treated the worst, not even being able to Speak in his standard form.

ik sonic is just being his usual dick self here but he kinda has a point in a way. metal almost definitely WANTS to be able to talk and express himself. but he's reduced to his lesser, albeit still very powerful, form.

oh and don't even get me started...

it's so sad to me how even though he's still very capable of emotion, eggman has literally programmed out any hint of rebelliousness. like sure, it's most likely that even if eggman HADN'T programmed out metal's rebellious streak, he'd still be evil, but this leaves not even a CHANCE for redemption on metal's part.

which makes it even more ironic that sonic says this...

sonic fails to comprehend that metal literally CANNOT become a better person. eggman literally repeats what neo already told sonic, metal is programmed to kill and to be loyal to eggman. he has NO choice. hes been under eggmans control forever and when he rebelled he was beaten and reprogrammed to never be able to rebel again. metal has basically zero autonomy outside of eggman's orders [which is in great contrast to neo, who seems to be working FOR eggman's wishes, but still very much absorbed in his own power and emotions].

i don't really know what this whole ramble is about. i think while the comics seem to push the message that metal is going to be evil Forever, i also think it would be devastatingly tragic if he didn't get a redemption in the comics. y'all cant set up a horrifying depiction of abuse like this and tell me 'oh yeah and he stayed in that state forever'. i think if another fight happened at one point or another maybe they could TRY to figure out how to program OUT his anti rebellion streak? lol? even WITH that he did hesitate when sonic offered for him to be a good person again.

he literally hesitated when SONIC. IS THE ONE WHO OFFERED HIM A TRUCE. like he's literally programmed to believe sonic is his copy and he needs to kill him I don't think i can understate how insane it is that metal, despite all his programming and lack of automomy preventing it, for a split second, considered sonics offer.

thats all for tonight. metal sonic deserves the whole world. please reblog or comment your thoughts id love to talk more abt how hes characterized in the idw comics, might talk abt reflections next. bye !

[team-sleeps]

Fellas, is it gay to stare lovingly at a digitally maid-ified version of your boss, file named maid-nik on a computer program you have on your system named Robotnique Boutique, in a coffee shop you made specifically to anticipate his return and as an excuse to continue to make foam art of you and him on the lattes you serve random customers?

[technically-human]

Dammit Stone, those things have cameras!

A sort of part two to this post

[heph]

CEASE THIS MINDLESS SNUGGLING THIS INSTANT!!!

[theknucklehead]

Jim Carrey’s Robotnik is definitely a really interesting character study:

He was an orphan without any family, was bullied at school which caused him to fight back, and spent his years studying and learning until he could build the perfect machines to do what man can’t.

He developed a hate for humanity and thus favors machines because they are more efficient and take orders without push-back; the only person he trusts is Agent Stone, but even then he treats him like he’s nothing to him even though he helps the doctor without question.

Eventually he is defeated by Sonic and sent to the mushroom planet where he is with no one but a rock that looks like Stone. This was a really fitting scenario because it parallels Sonic’s story where he started out alone, but gained friends and a family.

Robotnik would eventually then escape the mushroom planet with the help of Knuckles, and in tern ends up using him just to get his hands on the Master Emerald.

After his betrayal, Knuckles joins Sonic and they work together to defeat Robotnik, showing the power of friendship over Robotnik’s constant need to not make friends and only use people (even Stone who still helps him despite everything that has happened).

In a deleted scene from the 3rd movie, it showed that after the defeat of the Death Egg Robot, he found Robobnik, rescued him and nursed him back to health which again continued to show how much Stone cared for the doctor, of course Robotnik continues to treat him poorly.

After that Ivo meets his grandfather Gerald Robotnik and finally gets a chance to have an actual family for once which doesn’t make him less evil but shows what he was missing.

Stone realizes there was more to Gerald and Shadow’s plan and tried to warn Ivo, but he continues to push Stone away like he always does. Of course Ivo does find out what Gerald was planning which was to destroy Earth along with themselves, Ivo tried to convince him not to and even made a point about how he has a family now, but Gerald disregarded him even telling him he will never be like what Maria was to him.

Ivo then went out of his way to sacrifice himself in order to stop the eclipse canon from destroying Earth with it’s laser and self destruction, and as he’s doing so sends out a message to Stone apologizing for always treating him poorly showing that in those last few moments Ivo finally realized the purpose of friendship and companionship, something he wanted from his grandfather but didn’t get.

I gotta hand it to Fowler, he really cooked with Robotnik’s character in these movies.

[iggyshippingcorner]

alright cozy stobotnik hug before i go to work

stone’s fractal scarring a la chaos emerald is directly inspired by doctor_wumbo on tiktok because I haven’t been able to stop thinking about his art since I saw it <3

[hesperidiae]

Robot Maria. That's all AU by @cassidyisnowdrawing