Reading this EPIC Moment as SatAM Robotnik! (SPOILERS to IDW #50!) 

Eggman is a full-on blacksmith. If he doesn't have any machines to hand, he's got no problems doing things entirely by hand with his own sweat and blood... Also Eggman can break his own robots with his fists so he's up there with Knuckles XD

he's also a speed type: as he also managed to outrun sonic in his second encounter. he's an exelent pilot too, but he cannot fly on his own. he requires tech for that. but if he is allowed tech, he is the true emodiment of speed, flying and power.

@@MrMoron-qn5rxthis and his sense of drama are why I love him as a villain

@@MrMoron-qn5rxto quote a certain someone: “HOW ARE YOU FASTER THAN ME?!?”

@@Makorzeon hand*

He wants to conquer the universe but he also wants to have fun while doing it. So he isn't 100% serious most of the time.

Tbf, that actually is kind of true, look at Mike pollock in that one cutscene in sonic lost world.

@@BlueTyphoon2017and how he is in sonic frontiers

@@Avatarbeeconsidering his relationship with sonic i like that

There used to be a fan theory going around that Eggman is actually an older Snively.

Starline straight went "I did it i beat eggman" and eggman went "a nice dream, but dreams are meant to be *rises from rubble* Broken."

To me it showed Starline did most of his actions to himself had he not let his ego and approval of Eggman get the better of him and maybe showed Eggman some ideas other than the deadly six in keeping the Zombots undercontrol than maybe most of his actions could've been avoided

The spider toying with the fly caught in its web.

And the worst part is... normally Eggman and other villains claim victory before actually achieving it. But here... he claimed it and could boast about it all the way he wanted without "too soon" thing hitting him in return.

The animals are _far_ stronger than him, though

Second only to the moments where PULLS OUT A GLOCK AND TRIES TO ICE TAILS

​@@hamstersandwich9917Wait, WHAT!!?

@@SithArbiter1157 There are multiple instances where eggman pulls a Gun on a number of characters as a form of close-range defence. It's not outright Shadow levels of gun violence, the gun is stylised but it's still very much a gun.

@@hamstersandwich9917he does it very casually on IDW and that one looked 98% like a normal Glock

Forget the corner, he knows he’s got starline in a CASKET

That would be so strange but so awesome.

I'd love for them to do that, even have the glasses tilt showing the red eyes

@Thomas Harrington In Archie even Modern Eggman canonically had those black and red eyes under his glasses, so I also like to imagine that’s what they look like if he takes them off.

Eggman Prime has returned..

Why did that remind me of how Kintobor became Robotnik? In both Sonic 1's promotional comic and Fleetway Sonic.

Now that would be one hell of a plot twist

This !

Ayo can a homie get a link to the sauce for this?

We can pray my guy

As far as I know, Eggman's eyes ARE still red pinpricks under there. He shows it, once, while cursing Sonic like usual before saying something like "oh right, the stupid golden rodent. The chaos is constant" and readjusting his glasses to hide his temporary moment of insanity. I dunno if I'm getting Archie and IDW mixed up tho cuz I think it's in that transitional period where they were trying to rewrite the universe.

It’s called a silhouette and you’re absolutely right

The sheer joy of that grin contrasted by the destruction of his mech really sells how in control he is.

The Spiral King Lordgenome from Gurren Lagann did it before him, only, _he_ actually got out of a ruined gunman (what that series called the mecha) and started throwing down with a guy who was _still piloting an operational one_ with _his bare hands!_ "I should've known not to trust a _gunman_ to _get the job DONE!"_ - The Spiral King, a pure, unadulterated _badass._

I have made a few improvements since recording this video. I’m yet to show a better SatAM take, but I gotta think of a video to do the voice with. 🤔

@@Swordtee40 There's always classic Archie... Or Sonic 175.

@@Swordtee40 Oh I know, you can do your eggman voice to do a take on "Mayuri's Perfection" speech from Bleach.

@@PhilipAJones What is important when trying to do a Jim Cummings take is not just the pitch black malice that he emulates. On one hand it can come of as joy in the creepiest way while at the same time, it becomes a hatred so cold, hot and cruel it actually hurts him to expel.

What if in an alternate timeline, the Sonic games kept most of the Dreamcast-era English voice actors? And if Jim Cummings replaced Deem Bristow from 2005 onwards(due to the latter's passing of lung cancer)?

I'd love to see that explored more. They just need to work out the Sage issue. IIRC, they've dropped some hints she's sticking around in Canon. You just need to find a way to make SatAM Robotnik Eggman work with his AI Daughter, without making her totally irredeemably evil. *Granted* Frontiers gave me the impression she'd go along with him as long as he's not going *too* far; so she could always just sort of be his helper-disagreeing conscious.... We'll see if she shows up again I suppose. I feel like she'd help him with any scheme short of "Now sage. This is my Puppy-Killer ray. When I press this button, every puppy on earth will be skinned alive." "Father, are there not more productive ways to use your intellect?"

YESSSSS

Yesss

In the Sonic and Tails R radio drama there was something of an adaption of the satAM line, "in every game, there are winners and there are losers..." Where Mikes sounds suitably chilling.

​@@DemonDethchase I wanna hear that line so badly

@@sideways_chip_eater6420 hopefully this goes through, and youtube won't be difficult about links ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Xo7CnlyAwes.html (51:31)

@@sideways_chip_eater6420 https youtu be Xo7CnlyAwes?t=3091 (51:31) Hopefully this time it should go through, though you'll have to fill in the gaps 😅

Once eggman gets one of his giant hands on sonic (specifically his face) eggman soul more than likely be able to cause actual damage to sonic’s skull with a squeeze, eggman is incredibly physically strong due to him building all his robots himself

Eggman might very well be hiding his real fighting abilities from Sonic and his friends as a sort of Ace in the hole. His "weakness" when faced with them mano a' mano could be a long-running elaborate charade.

the IDW continuity doesn't have the Freedom Fighters but there is a group called the resistance (from the game Sonic Forces) which later reorganized into the restoration which spends all of its time trying to repair all the damage the Eggman Empire left behind after they overthrew Eggman and stopping Eggman whenever he tries enacting a new scheme. Sega still technically own the Freedom fighters and most of the associated characters, but they don't want to use them because Ken Penders would use it as an excuse to throw another tantrum and they don't want deal with that headache again.

I mean, Eggman does have super strength in the games as well, it just isn’t shown very often because he prefers showing off his genius through his inventions over his mere brawn. It’s usually just when he doesn’t have access to his machines like when he punched those ice cubes(?) in Lost World and threatened to strangle the Zeti for taking over his plan. He probably wouldn’t last in a one on one against most of Sonic’s friends since they’re even more super powered, but if he took them by surprise he may be able to knock someone out. Or maybe we can get a Super Robotnik like in AoStH, the second movie or certain fan games. That would be an opportunity to have him go full brawn.

​@Rainpooper Yeah I don't see him being able to really fight Sonic's friends without his mechs. Even Amy who has been a bit mixed on if she has abilities or not could probably still be a lot for him to try to take on without his mechs. Think at best, he could take on Tails reasonable smoothly without his robots but I don't think that he'd really have any reason to and Tails will mostly likely be in flight or in a mech himself. Think it's better to keep it as a tool to keep henchmen in line rather than something to have him match Sonic and friends. He can slam characters about but don't think that he should be lifting and throwing cars. Even during punching the ice in Lost World, it took a few attempts and it did hurt his hand so I think that this is a good balance. Making him Knuckles strong would just be too far.

To be fair eggman can run faster than sonic, somehow.... (semi joke in the games he manages to outrun sonic after each boss fight)

There's a reason he's known as Eggman -SatAN- SatAM

Why do I imagine hearing "Snooping as usual I see!"?

Snooping as usual, Starline.

Honestly this!

He's got the master plan

Yeah, apparently Eggman is just hella strong. Like if he REALLY wants a mf dead he’ll either whip out a G U N or just straight up curbstomp your ass!-(IDW Eggman will do this anyways. In some games he has been shown to have super strength but doubt we’ll see him throw hands sadly)

And I had the feeling that Snively was going to be WORSE than Robotnik!

Most definitely. With all the pentup anger and hatred.

Or...Eggman is much stronger than we give him credit for.

@@xprojectsa3627 Pretty sure Black Canary and Black Widow would take Eggman down with a simple b&$ch slap.

@@porobotboyxxx k but we're talking bout people from the sonic universe.

@@jordanphipps6436 Eh, fair enough.🤷‍♂️

Eggman is faster than classic sonic and he does have a degree of super strength.

I imagine the only reason why Eggman never tries to fight Sonic hand to hand is because he knows he’s not fast enough to handle Sonic’s reaction times. I’d also imagine that Eggman can more than handle any normal opponents in a fist fight… it makes sense he would prepare for the possibility of a more personal battle.

@@trevinodude I guess that's true. It would actually be pretty silly for a villain who regularly battles heroes with literal super powers to not even try learning a bit of hand-to-hand combat in case he couldn't rely on his tech, now that I really think about it. Still, even with that in mind, I can't help but be surprised to actually see it happen. Just one of those things where, even when you should expect it, it's still shocking to actually see happen.

@@Midnight3Wonder Agreed

Crap himself.

honestly, SATAM Robotnik on paper would probably be his ideal version of Eggman. however he probably wouldn't have inspired Starline into supervillainy in the first place because it wasn't Eggman's genius that fascinated Starline so much, it was Eggman's pageantry and passion, two things that Robotnik is sorely lacking in, he lacks Eggman's excentricities and because of that Starline would probably remain a simple civilian content with studying the Warp Topaz and trying to not get Roboticized.

@@anthonyrodriguez8788I agree. If anything, I think Archie Eggman might have been a more inspiring figure for Starline than SATAM. Eggman had that classic showmanship that Starline was drawn to… but he could (pre reboot) be just as cold and sadistic as Robotnik ever could. Honestly… even if Starline WAS somehow inspired to villainy from SATAM Robotnik, I doubt ol’ Robuttnik would ally with Starline as long as IDW Eggman did. He already didn’t value Snively… he’d have roboticized Starline as soon as he felt Starline was becoming a threat.