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The Wachowski Family

Tom Wachowski

Sheriff Thomas Michael "Donut Lord" Wachowski

Portrayed by: James Marsden ^{Foreign VAs}Yuichi Nakamura (Japanese), Luis Leonardo Suárez (Latin-American Spanish), Per Eggers (Swedish), Raphael Rossatto (Brazilian Portuguese), Martin Watier (Quebec French), Damien Boisseau (EU French), Massimiliano Manfredi (Italian), Zhang Yuanming (PRC Mandarin), Song Yucong (TW Mandarin)

Appearances: Sonic the Hedgehog | Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | Sonic the Hedgehog 3

"No, this is not some fun family road trip!"

"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."

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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• Action Survivor: He contributes the best he can, considering he's in a universe that also includes super-powered hedgehogs, foxes, and echidnas.
• Affectionate Nickname: 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.
• Appropriated Appellation: Sonic's "Donut Lord" nickname for him. Tom initially doesn't like it, but adopts it for himself much later.
  Tom: (to Robotnik) I'm the Donut Lord, you son of a b-!
• Audience Surrogate: 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.
• Big Damn Heroes: He shares a moment with Maddie in the second movie, saving Sonic from getting crushed by Robotnik's giant robot by mere milliseconds.
• Canon Foreigner: He doesn't exist in the video games.
• Challenge Seeker: The reason he wants to move out of Green Hills and into San Francisco is because 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.
• Composite Character: He's a human friend Sonic makes when stranded on another world, similar to Chris Thorndyke, and a member of local law enforcement like Sam Speed from the same series.
• Cool Uncle: 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.
• Deadpan Snarker: He has his moments, especially when talking to Robotnik.
• Defrosting Ice King: 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 Character Development.
• Demoted to Extra: 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.
• 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.
• Donut Mess with a Cop: 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. Tom eventually calls himself the Donut Lord while fist-fighting Doctor Robotnik in the climax.
• Easily Forgiven: 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 Dr. Robotnik, punishment for it probably wasn't high on anyone's list of priorities.
• The Everyman: He's your average police officer, bored of living a typical middle-American life before it's turned upside down by Sonic.
• Fair Cop: A town sheriff who wants to be a cop in a big city played by James Marsden.
• Fatal Flaw: 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.
  • Shooting Sonic with a tranquilizer dart makes Sonic drop his Power Rings, necessitating the road trip from Green Hills, Montana to San Francisco, California.
  • Punching Robotnik in the face makes it personal with him, getting Tom on the bad side of the mad scientist and the US government.
  • Averted at the end after some Character Development on Tom's part. 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.
• Fire-Forged Friends: 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. He and Maddie even take Sonic into their home once Robotnik is gone.
• Flaw Exploitation: After learning that Robotnik's Berserk Button is being punched in the face, Tom exploits it by repeatedly punching Robotnik in the face, making Robotnik lose focus on Sonic at a critical moment.
• Flat "What": 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.
• Goal in Life: 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. 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.
• Happily Married: 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.
• The Heart: He instills into Sonic the concepts of The Power of Friendship and With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility mantras in the first movie and its sequel, greatly impacting Sonic's priorities, decisions, and interactions with other characters.
• Heroes Love Dogs: He considers his golden retriever, Ozzy, to be his "best animal friend," much to Sonic's dismay.
• A Hero to His Hometown: 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. During the climax of the first movie, the entire town rises to Tom's defense when Robotnik threatens him.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: He becomes a fugitive from the government, with the news calling him a suspected domestic terrorist after punching Robotnik and helping Sonic escape.
• Hypocritical Humor: 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.
• I Choose to Stay: He makes plans to relocate to San Francisco after the SFPD hires him. Ultimately, however, he and his wife decide to remain in Green Hills following Robotnik's defeat and allow Sonic to reside in their attic.
• I Just Want to Be Special: 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.
• Informed Flaw: 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.
• Interspecies Adoption: He and Maddie end up adopting Sonic at the end of the first movie. The end of the second shows that the two of them have also welcomed Tails and Knuckles into their family.
• Lame Comeback: 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.
  Robotnik: Nice, rub that in my orphan face.
• Lead You Can Relate To: 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.
• Mr. Fanservice: It's a given, being played by a former Versace Model and all. Even Sonic lampshades it, mentioning how tightly all of Tom's clothes fit him.
• Nice Guy: A very kind and friendly cop.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: 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.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: 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. So, to try and get Robotnik's focus off of Sonic when he has him cornered, Tom hammers on this Berserk Button liberally by getting onboard his craft via ring to beat him senseless.
• No One Gets Left Behind: When Robotnik has them surrounded by a Ring of Fire 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.
• Official Couple: With his wife Maddie, as shown in the beginning of the first movie.
• Papa Wolf: He becomes fiercely protective of Sonic over the course of the first movie, even going so far as to adopt him.
  • 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.
• Parental Substitute: 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.
  • 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.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: He punches Robotnik in the face when he tries to catch Sonic.
• Police Are Useless: 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.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: 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.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: 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 Robotnik ever will.
• Small Town Boredom: 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. At the end of the film, he chooses to stay in Green Hills after all and let Sonic live with him and Maddie.
• Took a Level in Kindness: By the second film, he's a full on Nice Guy, and father figure to Sonic and his otherworldly friends.
• Trademark Favorite Food: 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.
• What the Hell, Hero?: 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.
• With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: He teaches this to Sonic as their relationship evolves from road-trip buddies to a father-son relationship.

Maddie Wachowski

Maddie "Pretzel Lady" Wachowski

Played by: Tika Sumpter ^{Foreign VAs}Marina Inoue (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)

Appearances: Sonic the Hedgehog | Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | Knuckles | Sonic the Hedgehog 3

"I've been pretty admirable in not freaking out!"

"You sacrificed for me. I'm happy to sacrifice for you."

Tom's wife and an animal veterinarian. She assists Sonic in his travels, and eventually becomes Sonic's adoptive mother.

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• Action Survivor: Especially in the sequel, where she fights G.U.N. agents with Rachel to save Tom, Sonic, and Tails.
• Affectionate Nickname: 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.
• Big Damn Heroes: 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.
• Canon Foreigner: Like Tom, she isn't from the games.
• Closest Thing We Got: After Sonic is injured from 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.
• Crazy-Prepared: 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.
• Dissonant Serenity: 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 whisper-shouting at him about the ridiculousness of what has been going on, especially Sonic.
• Finger Gun: She does a two handed version of this at end of her Secret Handshake with Rachel.
• Happily Married: 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.
• Heroes Love Dogs: Like her husband, she is very fond of their dog Ozzy.
• Interspecies Adoption: She and Tom end up adopting Sonic at the end of the first movie. The end of the second shows that the two of them have also welcomed Tails and Knuckles into their family.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: 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.
• Kindly Vet: A Nice Girl who works as a veterinarian.
• Mama Bear: Her first instinct when meeting Sonic was to pull Jojo closer to her.
  • In the sequel, she doesn’t hesitate to jump to the rescue of Sonic and even refers to him as “our kid” to Tom. 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.
• Ms. Fanservice: 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.
  • In the second film, she spends half of her screen-time in a slinky bridesmaid dress that shows plenty of leg.
• Nice Girl: A very nice and kind woman, and very loyal to her husband.
• No One Gets Left Behind: 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 Ring of Fire at the time.
• Not So Above It All: 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 Secret Handshake with her sister in the second.
  • She also admits at the end of the second film that she thinks Knuckles is hilarious.
• Official Couple: With her husband Tom, as shown in the beginning of the first movie.
• Oh, Crap!: 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.
• Openminded Parent: 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.
• Parental Substitute: Alongside Tom, she becomes Sonic's parental figure as they adopt him at the end of the first movie.
• Sassy Black Woman: Although she is a Nice Girl, Maddie can be feisty, snarky and sassy.
• Secret Handshake: She does this to get hyped up with her sister Rachel before rescuing Tom, Sonic, and Tails.
• Sibling Team: She teams up with Rachel to rescue Tom, Sonic, and Tails from G.U.N. (and in Rachel's case, to get vengeance).
• Sibling Yin-Yang: She has this dynamic with her sister Rachel. Maddie is a Nice Girl and Happily Married, 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.
• Straight Man: 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.
• Team Mom: She's more or less this by default in the first movie, but it becomes even more apparent by the end of the second.
• Took a Level in Badass: 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.

Rachel

Rachel

Portrayed by: Natasha Rothwell ^{Foreign VAs}Kozue Saitō (Japanese), Laura Torres (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)

Appearances: Sonic the Hedgehog | Sonic the Hedgehog 2

"D-I-V-O-R-C-E!"

"Hell hath no fury like a bride scorned!"

Maddie's sister, Tom's sister-in-law, and Jojo's mother. She tries to keep Tom and Maddie from being together.

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• Action Survivor: 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.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When Tom shows up at her door, she threatens to call the CIA, the FBI... and Tom's mother.
• Ascended Extra: She gets quite a bit more to do in the second movie.
• Big Damn Heroes: 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.
• Bound and Gagged: She spends half of her time in the first film tied up to a chair.
• Butt-Monkey: 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.
• Canon Foreigner: Like Tom and Maddie, she isn't from the games.
• Deadpan Snarker: She has her moments.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: In helping Maddie rescue Tom, Sonic, and Tails from G.U.N., she winds up marrying Randall, who confesses to having fallen in love with her for real during the undercover operation.
• Establishing Character Moment: She spells out "divorce" after a phone call between Maddie and Tom, establishing her objection to their relationship.
• Everyone Has Standards: As obnoxious as she was in the first film, 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.
  Rachel: [To Randall and Walters] What kind of twisted sicko tricks someone into a fake wedding?!
• 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.
• Finger Gun: She does a two-handed version of this at end of her Secret Handshake with Maddie.
• Hate Sink:
  • 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.
  • By Sonic the Hedgehog 2, it's averted, as Rachel is no longer written to be intentionally disliked. Rachel Took a Level in Kindness 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 earn a happy ending, as Randall confesses that he was an undercover G.U.N. agent meant to trap Sonic, but he really did fall in love with Rachel as time went on.
• I Have No Idea What I'm Doing: She expresses this sentiment as she uses Tails' gadgets to help her sister rescue Sonic and co. and get revenge on her fiancé.
• I'm Standing Right Here: 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.
• Irrational Hatred: 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.
• Jerkass: At least Robotnik has an amusing charm about him and one Pet the Dog moment. There is really nothing appealing about Rachel in the first movie.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: 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 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. 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.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • 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.
  • In the sequel, she's justifiably angry and distrusting towards G.U.N. (specifically Walters and Randall) for setting up a wedding as a complete ruse and using her and her entire family as bait to capture Sonic and arrest Tom.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: Her poor attitude toward Tom is often punished via Rachel getting placed in overtly annoying and/or humiliating situations.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: She goes straight from her own wedding to her own Roaring Rampage of Revenge against G.U.N. and Randall.
• Large Ham: She has shades of this in the first film, but Natasha Rothwell takes this up a notch for her character in the sequel.
• Love Makes You Crazy: 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.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: 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 tied up to a chair to stop her from being a nuisance.
• Only One Name: Her last name is never mentioned.
• Red Herring: 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.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: 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.
• Sassy Black Woman: A Black woman with shades of Deadpan Snarker who's very invested in separating her sister and brother in-law.
• Secret Handshake: She does this to get hyped up with her sister Maddie before getting revenge on her fiance.
• Ship Tease: She gets this with Officer Wade Whipple in a deleted scene when he starts flirting with her.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: 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 Final Battle.
• Sibling Team: She and Maddie work together to rescue Tom, Sonic, and Tails from G.U.N..
• Sibling Yin-Yang: With Maddie. Maddie is a Nice Girl and Happily Married, but Rachel is obnoxious and implied to have had a divorce with her husband. Their differences don't stop them from teaming up in the sequel, however.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: 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 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., she still ends up marrying Randall, who confesses to having fallen in love with her during the undercover operation.
• Took a Level in Badass: She spent most of the first movie tied up. In the sequel, she provides the "Roaring Rampage" part of the Roaring Rampage of Rescue after the heroes are captured and her fiance betrays her.
• Took a Level in Kindness: She is noticeably less abrasive towards Tom in the sequel, and even hears Randall out after he's revealed to actually be a government agent, when he takes a taser shot for her.
• Villainy-Free Villain: Although she isn't actively antagonistic and doesn't do anything villainous in the first movie, Rachel is still written with the intention that 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. She even drops most of the antagonism in the sequel.
• Woman Scorned: 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.

Jojo

Jojo

Portrayed by: Melody Niemann ^{Foreign VAs}Mami Fujita (Japanese), Abril Gómez (Latin-American Spanish), Isa Cavalcante (Brazilian Portuguese), Matilde Ferraro (Italian)

Appearances: Sonic the Hedgehog | Sonic the Hedgehog 2

"So you won't hurt your feet anymore."

Tom and Maddie's niece and Rachel's daughter. She befriends Sonic and helps by giving him new shoes.

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• Canon Foreigner: Like Tom and Maddie, she isn't from the games.
• Cheerful Child: 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.
• Cuteness Proximity: 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.
• Disappeared Dad: 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.
• Friend to All Living Things: She immediately bonds with Sonic and helps him by giving him new shoes.
• Hero-Worshipper: 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.
• Iconic Outfit: 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.
• Like Parent, Unlike Child: 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.
• Nice Girl: She becomes one of Sonic's friends and is the one who gives him his iconic shoes.
• Only One Name: Her last name is never mentioned.
• Small Role, Big Impact: 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 The Reveal regarding Randall. Also worth noting is that she is the one who discovers 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.

Guardian Units of Nations

In General

"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."

— Commander Walters

A global military taskforce founded with the purpose of defending Earth from any and all alien threats.

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• Adaptation Origin Connection: 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.
• Age Lift: See Adaptation Origin Connection above.
• Fun with Acronyms: Yes, it is spelled G.U.N., which the movie pokes fun at.
• Good Is Not Nice: They genuinely have the safety of the world in mind, but that doen't mean they're above questionable means of bringing it about. Such as tricking Rachel with a fake wedding as part of a plan to capture Sonic.
• Meaningful Name: An acronym like G.U.N. covers the organization's shoot first, ask questions later policy.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Coming up to Robotnik's secret base with a ton of tanks and artillery doesn't accomplish much besides giving Robotnik more materials for building his Death Egg Robot. Although to be fair, they did not know Robotnik had the Master Emerald.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Zig-Zagged. They seek to arrest Sonic who, despite his kind nature, 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.

Commander Walters

Commander Walters

Portrayed by: Tom Butler ^{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)

Appearances: Sonic the Hedgehog | Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | Sonic the Hedgehog 3

"Twenty minutes ago, an energy surge knocked out power across the entire Pacific Northwest. What do we know?"

"Well, sounds like we're really good at figuring out what it wasn't."

A commander of the United States Armed Forces and the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff working at The Pentagon, 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.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: Lacks his counterpart's heterochromia.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: The note under Canon Character All Along makes his appearance in the first film a retroactive example.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: 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.
• Adapted Out: He doesn't appear in the novelization of the first film, with his role replaced by Agent Stone.
• Anti-Hero: He genuinely cares for the safety of his nation, yet is willing to use more questionable methods, such as setting the Wachowski family up in a 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.
• Artistic License – Military: He is an army general with a naval rank (commander). His rank as commander of G.U.N. is more justified due to it being a spec-ops unit.
• Canon Character All Along: The second movie reveals him to be the leader of G.U.N, making him a much lighter take on the G.U.N Commander from Shadow the Hedgehog. His expression of fear when he discovers that the government is recovering the files on Project Shadow just provides further evidence.
• Composite Character: His appearance, authority, and growing relationship with Sonic makes him a lot like President Michael K. from Sonic X. 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 Shadow the Hedgehog.
• Deadpan Snarker: He has a moment in the first movie, as seen with the above quote.
• Inspector Javert: 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.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While being completely apathetic in his methods and is totally in the wrong for 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:
  • He's right that Sonic is potentially dangerous, as he's caused 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.
  • 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 intended to arrest Tom alongside Sonic and Tails.
• Kick the Dog: Very minor, but he steps on a child's sandcastle soon after his agents blow their cover at Rachel's wedding.
• Named by the Adaptation: He went nameless as the G.U.N. Commander in the games (although the Archie comics gave him the name Abraham Tower).
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: 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.
• Oh, Crap!: He has a massive one in The Stinger of the second movie when Project Shadow is discovered.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: 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. 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 Double Subverted.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He only appears in two scenes in the first movie, but he's the one who sends Dr. Robotnik to Green Hills, setting in motion the events of the second and third act.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In the sequel. Granted, he led the newly founded G.U.N. in the aftermath of Sonic and Robotnik's incident in San Francisco for good reason, but it is cold of him to set up a 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 for refusing the brunch offering. He also refuses to release Sonic after hearing of Robotnik's potential return, but 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 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.
• Trademark Favorite Food: 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".
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: 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.
• Would Hurt a Child: Walters allows his agents to taser Sonic unconscious, not caring that he's Just a Kid, 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.

Randall Handel

Randall Handel

Portrayed by: Shemar Moore ^{Foreign VAs}Shunsuke Sakuya (Japanese), Idzi Dutkiewicz (Latin-American Spanish), John Alexander Eriksson (Swedish), Fayolle Jean Jr. (Quebec French), David Krüger (EU French), Andrea Lavagnino (Italian)

Appearances: Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Rachel's new fiancé.

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• Amazon Chaser: His reaction to Rachel coming for him out of revenge for the Honey Trap plot by G.U.N. is to whisper "What a woman..."
• Becoming the Mask: He says that he did genuinely fall in love with Rachel during the undercover operation.
• Canon Foreigner: As with most humans in the movies, he has no counterpart from the games.
• Easily Forgiven: Even after the reveal that he 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.
• Establishing Character Moment: 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 as well as an actor.
• Expy: His role as a G.U.N. agent tasked with infiltrating a human family Sonic is staying with makes him similar to Mister Stewart.
• Honey Trap: His entire romance with Rachel was all part of a scheme to capture Sonic.
• 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 handsome In-Universe.
• I'm Cold... So Cold...: Parodied. After 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 fell on the ice sculpture.
• In Love with the Mark: He genuinely fell in love with Rachel despite having only gotten together with her in order to get to Sonic.
• Mr. Fanservice: 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.
• Nice Guy: 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.
• Rhyming Names: Ran-dull Han-dull.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: He is the Manly Man to Tom's Sensitive Guy in the second movie. Despite being foils in that regard, they both are nice guys.
• Walking Spoiler: It's hard to talk about him in depth without revealing that he's an undercover G.U.N. agent.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Whether or not he and Rachel will get married for real after revealing he did fall for her is never brought up.

Agent Mason

Agent Mason

Played by: Kid Cudi

Appearances: Knuckles

A rogue G.U.N. agent tasked alongside Willoughby by The Buyer to capture Knuckles for his power.

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• Blood Knight: Admits he joined G.U.N. so he could beat up people legally.
• Co-Dragons: Serves as this with Agent Willoughby for The Buyer.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: During his fight with Wade in the second episode, while he has Wade in a Neck Lift, 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.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: He fights with a pair of powered gauntlets, while his partner Willoughby favors laser guns.
• Ironic Echo: Mason throws Knuckles's Badass Boast from his fight with Sonic in Sonic 2 back at him during the confrontation in the bowling alley.
  Knuckles: You think you can take my power?
  Agent Mason: Do I look like I need your power?
  Agent Willoughby: What are you talking about? Of course we need his power, it's the whole reason we're here.
• Only in It for the Money: 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.
• Power Fist: He's rarely seen without a pair of metal gauntlets powered by Knuckles' quills, at least whenever Wade's not borrowing them.
• Uncertain Doom: 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.

Agent Willoughby

Agent Willoughby

Played by: Ellie Taylor

Appearances: Knuckles

A rogue G.U.N. agent tasked alongside Mason by The Buyer to capture Knuckles for his power.

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• Co-Dragons: Serves as this with Agent Mason for The Buyer.
• Evil Brit: She's played by an English actress, and she is one of the Buyer's co-dragons.
• Fantastic Racism: She hates all extraterrestrials, joining G.U.N. for the chance to finally wipe them out, only to be frustrated that the organization is playing "house sitter" with Sonic and his friends.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: She fights with laser guns, while her partner Mason favors a pair of powered gauntlets.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Her Establishing Character Moment has her callously sending a nosy G.U.N. agent to the Mushroom Planet. Her final scene has her and Mason get unwillingly sent through a Ring themselves, though with a more Uncertain Doom for the two of them.
• Only Sane Man: Only Sane Woman in her case, since she reminds Mason that they're here for Knuckles's power when fighting the echidna in the bowling alley.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: She shows disdain for "Americans" after Mason bungles a subtle mission with his Blood Knight attitude, and admits she joined G.U.N. for the chance to wipe out any and all aliens on Earth.
• Uncertain Doom: She and Mason are last seen being trapped in a loop between two Rings, which close before they can emerge from the second one.

The Whipple Family

Wade Whipple

Officer Wade Whipple

Portrayed by: Adam Pally ^{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)

Appearances: Sonic the Hedgehog | Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | Knuckles

"Most people think I'm a joke."

"I WILL TELL PEOPLE ABOUT THIS!"

Tom's deputy and friend from Green Hill Police Station.

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• Alliterative Name: Officer Wade Whipple.
• Ascended Extra: 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, eventually becoming the main protagonist while Knuckles becomes a Supporting Protagonist once the show shifts focus to his narrative after the halfway point.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • He shows up at the end of the first movie with the other residents of Green Hills to save Tom and Sonic.
  • In the final episode of the Knuckles miniseries, he 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 Heroic Second Wind.
• Butt-Monkey: He tends to be the butt of the joke in most scenes he appears in. This ends up getting upgraded to Iron Butt Monkey 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 Power Fist against his will, getting stabbed in the arm by his sister during a petty Sibling Rivalry argument, and being dragged away by the foot by a bounty hunter's motorcycle while Knuckles and Wanda just watch.
• Canon Foreigner: Like Tom, he isn't from the games.
• Clueless Deputy: He is not exactly the sharpest knife in the proverbial drawer.
• Comically Missing the Point: Aside from generally being Sarcasm-Blind, he mistakes Dr. Robotnik as being an actual "robot with a doctorate".
• The Dog Bites Back: After Robotnik abuses him early in the first film, Wade leads the people of Green Hills to fight back against him.
• Good Cop/Bad Cop: In the sequel, he tries this on Stone after capturing him in Robotnik's lair, to no success. He also includes "Cop with a Bagel" in the routine, to which Stone responds he's just holding a display bagel.
• Historical Character Confusion: Played for Laughs. 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.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: 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.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: When Robotnik is about to kill both Tom and Sonic, Wade stops him by firing near his head.
• Police Are Useless: Played for Laughs 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. 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.
• Power Fist: On two occassions in Knuckles, he makes use of Agent Mason's gauntlets powered by Knuckles' quills to fight after he gets his hands on them.
• Sarcasm-Blind: Wade's Establishing Character Moment is being oblivious to two of Tom's sarcastic remarks in a row.
• Ship Tease: He gets this with Rachel in a deleted scene when he starts flirting with her, though it's ultimately sunk by the sequel.
• Took a Level in Badass: His story in Knuckles revolves around him, being trained by Knuckles in the ways of the echidna warrior, developing from a Butt-Monkey who struggles to earn the respect of those around him and constantly chokes whenever it mattters 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, he's donned Agent Mason's gauntlets to defend Knuckles and hold off The Buyer after he's drained Knuckles' power.

Wanda Whipple

Wanda Whipple

Portrayed by: Edi Patterson

Appearances: Knuckles

Wade's sister who works for the FBI.

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• Alliterative Name: Wanda Whipple.
• Big Sister Bully: 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 Sibling Rivalry, 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.
• Deadpan Snarker: 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.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Aside from her existing Sibling Rivalry 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 Eye Am Watching You gesture. He later earns her respect after he saves her from a chain-wielding bounty hunter.
• Honor Before Reason: 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 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...
• Sibling Rivalry: 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).

Wendy Whipple

Portrayed by: Stockard Channing

Appearances: Knuckles

Wade's mother who's a retired Krav Maga instructor.

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• Alliterative Name: Wendy Whipple.
• Almighty Mom: 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.
• Chekhov's Skill: 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.
• Excellent Judge of Character: She recognized her ex-husband's true nature the moment he abandoned his family. She even advises Wade against his attempts to reconcile with him, believing that Pete's selfish desires will always outweigh his desire for a family. She's proven absolutely right when Pete cowardly sells his entire family out to the rogue G.U.N. agents.
• Frying Pan of Doom: She employs one to great effect against a group of thugs invading her house.
• Jewish Mother: 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.
• Never Mess with Granny: She's a capable Krav Maga master who helps Knuckles fight some intruders that break into her home.
• Nice Girl: She does have a fainting spell when introduced to Knuckles, but she quickly gets over her initial shock and apologizes to the anthropomorphic echidna.
• Open-Minded Parent: She's can be reasonably seen as one of the only competent Whipple in the family.
• Talk to the Fist: She punches Pete in the face after he tries to abscond with the trophy.

Pistol Pete Whipple

Portrayed by: Cary Elwes

Appearances: Knuckles

Wade's father, who abandoned the family when Wade was a child to pursue a career as a professional bowler.

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• Alliterative Name: Zigzagged Trope. He's the only known Whipple whose first name doesn't start with a W, but his nickname provides a source of alliteration: Pistol Pete.
• Archnemesis Dad: Knuckles instantly understands that besting Pete is Wade's ultimate test. And that's before he even sells the entire family out.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: 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. Of course, whether he's being honest is entirely up for debate.
• Dirty Coward: 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.
• Hate Sink: Abandoned his family to pursue his bowling career solely for the fame and gloating. He even willingly sold his own family out to the rogue G.U.N. agents to save his own skin. His ex-wife makes sure she gets the last laugh by punching the pathetic lowlife out cold.
• I Am Very British: From all the Union Jacks on all his clothes, to the way he drinks tea with his pinky sticking out, Pistol Pete is pretty much a living, breathing caricature of a 'posh Brit.'
• It's All About Me: He admits the reason he abandoned Wade was so he could pursure fame in bowling by himself.
• Large Ham: Cary Elwes was clearly enjoying himself immensely as Pete chews the scenery both physically and verbally every time he's on-screen.

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Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik (Unmarked Spoilers for Sonic the Hedgehog (2020))

Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik

Portrayed by: Jim Carrey ^{Foreign VAs}Kōichi Yamadera (Japanese), Mario Castañeda (Latin-American Spanish), Jonas Kruse (Swedish), Tatá Guarnieri (Brazilian-Portuguese), Roberto Pedicini (Italian), Daniel Picard (Quebec French), Emmanuel Curtil (EU French), Tutehameng (PRC Mandarin), Sun Cheng (TW Mandarin)

Appearances: Sonic the Hedgehog | Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | Sonic the Hedgehog 3

"So nice when diabolical evil lives up to the hype!"

^{Click here to see Robotnik's second outfit}
"Confidence! A fool's substitute for intelligence."

^{Click here to see Robotnik's first outfit}
"Whatever this creature is, it's our job to secure it, neutralize it, uncover the source of its power."

"Allow me to clarify. In a sequentially ranked hierarchy, based on level of critical importance, the disparity between us is too vast to quantify."

Completely full of himself, with the IQ and evil ambitions to match, Dr. 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.

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• Ace Pilot: 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.
• Actor Allusion: 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 tends to be a recurring color in Jim Carrey's filmography, and getting an Imagination-Based Superpower from the Master Emerald's power adds another reference to The Mask.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: 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 had a grandfather.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: 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 in The Stinger, 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.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • In the second movie, he makes a Death Egg Robot which is a hundred times bigger than its game counterpart, on top of having additional capabilities to summon more badniks and shoot missiles and lasers, and a movable moustache for smashing. He's clearly learned from his first loss that Sonic's no joke.
  • Dr. Eggman never used Chaos energy to empower himself in the games, but in the second movie, he directly juices himself up with Chaos energy, allowing him to teleport, sense electricity in people’s brains, and telekinetically build his giant robot.
• Adaptational Context Change: 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.
• Adaptational Name Change: Played With. 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.
• Adaptational Jerkass: While no version of Robotnik is a Nice Guy, 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.
• Adaptation Dye-Job:
  • Played With in regards to his hair color. In the games, his hair has varied 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 The Stinger, 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.
  • 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.
• Added Alliterative Appeal: 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".
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: 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. It really was to buy time to prep a giant Death Egg Robot punch… which doesn't work.
• All There in the Script: His first name is never mentioned in the movie, but a Nickelodeon TV Spot suggests that it's still Ivo like in the games. The second episode of Knuckles later confirms this is the case.
• Always Second Best: His rivalry against Sonic can be considered a Lensman Arms Race of this, with Sonic always finding a way to up his game the moment Eggman finally has him cornered. 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.
• Ambition Is Evil: 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. Absorbing the power of the Master Emerald gives him the power to finally achieve his ambitions.
• AM/FM Characterization: Robotnik enjoys listening to "Where Evil Grows" by The Poppy Family and he holds a low opinion of Limp Bizkit. Eagle eyed viewers will also notice that he has Crush 40 on his playlist.
• And Then What?: Sonic asks this of him in the sequel after 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.
  Robotnik: 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.
• And There Was Much Rejoicing: 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.
• And Your Little Dog, Too!: Quotes the trope when attacking Sonic's house with Knuckles.
• Arch-Enemy: 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 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 Master Emerald.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: 50 feet is an understatement. In the second movie, he makes a Death Egg Robot that absolutely dwarfs the environment, making Sonic look like an ant in comparison.
• Audience Surrogate: 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.
• Ax-Crazy: 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 Played for Laughs — but he regularly has his moments where his cheerfully manic demeanor is played as dangerously unhinged.
• Badass Boast: 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 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!
• Badass Bookworm:
  • While briefly recounting his childhood to Tom after 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.
  • Later, when he encounters the same bar brawler who shrugged off being hit in the head by a bottle (and Sonic's Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs), he ends up throwing him through a window.
• Badass Longcoat: He starts out wearing one, but later on he starts wearing his standard red outfit.
• Badass Normal: In a universe that is filled with superpowered anthropomorphic animals, Dr. Robotnik is still the greatest threat, based solely on his genius alone.
• Bald of Evil: 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).
• Benevolent Boss: Downplayed. While Agent Stone is the only person that Robotnik shows any kindness to, Robotnik treats him not unlike how the 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.
• Beware the Silly Ones: 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.
• Big Bad: The main antagonist of both movies. He's a government agent employed to track down Sonic and 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 Mad Scientist, but 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 Take Over the World.
• Big Badass Rig: His lab in the first movie can be described as an oversized Badnik in the form of a semi-truck.
• Blinded by Rage:
  • After Tom learns of Robotnik's Trauma Button, Tom starts deliberately pressing it to make Robotnik angry enough to slip up. 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.
  • 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.
• Boomerang Bigot: 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.
• Brought Down to Badass: After becoming a powerful Omnicidal Maniac from the Master Emerald's energy, he's nearly impossible to take down... until 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.
• The Bully: Though he hates bullies due to his childhood trauma of having to deal with one as a child, 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.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He is extremely weird and a 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.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He calls his drones "Badniks", acknowledges his truck as an "Evil Lair", has his lab labeled as "Evil Lab" on his circuit breaker, and dances to "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".
• Chewing the Scenery: Robotnik does this 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.
• Clothing Reflects Personality: 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 Control Freak not to take a "hands-on" approach to oversight.
• Cloudcuckoolander: He's quite the wacky character, and clearly gets even wackier after being banished to the Mushroom Planet. Being played by Jim Carrey certainly helps.
• Companion Cube: In the first stinger, stranded on the Mushroom Planet, he has made himself a new "Agent Stone" to keep him company/boss around... by taking a literal stone, carving it into the likeness of the real one, and throwing it around to go on "rock-connaissance".
• Composite Character:
  • Played With. Robotnik being a goverment scientist is shared with his grandfather from the games, 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 Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric due to how far more overt Robotnik is about it.
  • His final design, based on a red flight suit, is in line with Eggman's design in Sonic Boom, with a certain dash of his infamous 2006 design. Both of these designs are known for not having the ol' doctor as a comical Fat Bastard, 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.
  • 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 Sonic the Comic Robotnik in the Robotnik Reigns Supreme arc, who does the same thing. His super form in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog 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.
• Control Freak: 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.
• Cool Shades: 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.
• Costume Evolution: 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 High Collar of Doom and new goggles.
• Crazy-Prepared: 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 Sticky Bomb. 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'. 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.
• Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: After gaining the power of chaos, Robotnik develops black markings around his eyes, which when combined with his Glowing Eyes of Doom evoke his menacing appearance in the various Sonic cartoons that came out in the 90s.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: 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.
  • 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 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.
• Dark and Troubled Past: A Played for Laughs example. He was orphaned as a child, and at school, he was punched in the face by The Bully. Instead of reporting it to the principal like normal, he took his own revenge, and somehow left the bully in question only able to eat through a straw for at least a year. Also, that's how he got the Trauma Button about being punched.
• Dastardly Whiplash: 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 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".
• Deadpan Snarker: As hammy and crazed as he is, Robotnik also has a penchant for snarky one-liners.
  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?
  Stone: Yes, he is.
  Robotnik: [nonchalantly] Tell him to stop, or I'll pull up his search history.
• Defiant to the End: Though it's ambiguous, it's presumed that he fell to his death when the Death Egg Robot was toppled over by Sonic. Not only did he try to 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!"
• Determinator: Even after being banished to the Mushroom Planet, spending 87 days there alone, and 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.
• Devil in Plain Sight: As the man himself lampshades, Knuckles really should've known better than to think the Obviously Evil Mad Scientist was a trustworthy friend.
  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.
• Did You Actually Believe...?: While telling Knuckles that 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.
• Disproportionate Retribution: 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 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... something that left said bully hospitalized and unable to eat anything without a straw for nearly a year.
• The Dreaded: 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.
• Drink-Based Characterization: He drinks lattes with steamed Austrian goat milk, which are prepared by his lackey Agent Stone, to showcase his ludicrous standards and overbearingness.
  • 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.
• Emerald Power: Robotnik's Master Emerald-fueled super mode, fittingly, is accompanied by green-colored energy.
• Empowered Badass Normal: In the first movie (and also in the second to a decent extent), he is mostly a threat due to his Super-Intelligence and mechanical arsenal. In the second movie, he directly empowers himself with the Master Emerald in the climax, granting him levitation/flight, teleportation, and telekinesis.
• Establishing Character Moment: When Robotnik meets with the military, he wastes no time in showing everyone how insufferably vain and abrasive he is.
  Robotnik: I'm sorry, Major. What was your name?
  Major Bennington: Benningt-
  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.
• Energy Absorption: As the Reality Warper Super Robotnik, the doctor "eats" a display bagel by converting it into pure energy and consuming it in one gulp.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Not him personally, but he does get a few Played for Laughs examples.
  • 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 (even though he blew up the Sphinx's head beforehand).
  • 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.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: 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 simple, but effective:
  Tom: He was my friend.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • 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.
  • 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 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 unpersoned by the government.
    • 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.
• Evil Genius: He creates rather impressive gadgets and machines, but he's also in this solely for his own motivations. He's also a completely Smug Snake.
• Evil Is Hammy: 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 Freak Out, complete with exaggerated movements, after Sonic destroys his robots on the highway.
  Robotnik: [stomping around his base] OUUUUUGH! GIVE ME A BIG! FAT! BREAK!
• Evil Is Petty: 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.
• Evil Laugh: He lets off a truly hamtastic one over his bizarre "rock-connaissance" joke, made more menacing by his Vocal Evolution.
• Evil Orphan: 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.
• Evil Sorcerer: 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.
• Evil Wears Black: Compared to his game counterpart's red and black attire, this Robotnik is introduced wearing an almost completely black outfit, though he later changes into 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 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.
• The Exile: 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.
• Fantastic Racism: Robotnik has a massive disdain for any organic life compared to technology, as it does what it's told and is much more efficient. Played With, in that he himself is a human who possesses these beliefs, as opposed to an evil robot or an AI.
• The Farmer and the Viper: 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.
• Fatal Flaw: 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.
• Fate Worse than Death: 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.
• Faux Affably Evil: 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.
• Foil: To Sonic. Whereas Sonic has humble ambitions, content to live a quiet life within Green Hills and mainly dreaming of modest things like 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. 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.
• Freudian Excuse Denial: He grew up orphaned, with no friends, bullied at school and with a burdensome power, much like Sonic. 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.
• Genius Bruiser: 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.
• Geniuses Have Multiple PhDs: Dr. Ivo Robotnik is mentioned early on to have five doctorates, as well as an absurdly high I.Q. (and being "a psychological tire fire") as the reason why the Pentagon tries to tolerate him as a specialist.
• Go Mad from the Isolation: 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 Companion Cube rock and calls it Agent Stone after his former lackey. In spite of this, he makes a Badass Boast that this isn't going to hold him back.
• A God Am I: After absorbing the Master Emerald's power in the second film, Robotnik achieves newfound powers, which he believes puts him above humanity.
• Glowing Mechanical Eyes: Not him, but his inventions tend to have one akin to HAL 9000.
• Godzilla Threshold: 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 Insufferable Genius 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.
• Gratuitous Japanese: When he examines a strand of Sonic's quills up-close, he says "omoshiroi" ("interesting"), for no apparent reason.
• Gratuitous Spanish: He says "¿Dónde has estado toda mi vida?" while admiring the Master Emerald.
  • It becomes Gratuitous Italian in the Latin American Spanish dub.
• Green and Mean: 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.
• Hated by All: Robotnik is despised by almost everyone except for Agent Stone, and given he's a rude, obnoxious Mad Scientist 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 once they realize they have no other choice. When Robotnik is banished to the Mushroom Planet, they're happy he's gone, and immediately remove any trace of his existence.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: In stark contrast to Sonic, an alien hedgehog who is ultimately revealed to be 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.
• Humongous Mecha: He constructs a huge robot out of any and all metal in the surrounding area during the climax of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 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.
• Hypocrite: Robotnik is this in spades:
  • When he was punched in the face by a bully as a child, he retaliated with extreme vengeance. Now that he's an adult, he acts like a bully himself, treating everyone else he interacts with contempt and disdain, and hunting down an innocent blue hedgehog just to steal his powers for his own self-benefit.
  • He 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.
  • When chasing Sonic, Robotnik gives a shaming remark about Sonic not being allowed to run on the Pyramids after he blew the Sphinx's head off! And then he shoots at Sonic, damaging the pyramid anyways!
  • In spite of all his statements about how worthless every other human being who isn't him is and how he prefers the company of machines, he ends up going mad due to isolation at the end of the first film, because without other humans to demean and lord his superior intellect over, his ego has no way of receiving any sort of gratification.
  • Related to the previous point, Robotnik berates Agent Stone about how he won't miss him if he's gone at one point, yet he recreates his likeness with a literal stone to carry around and chat with when he is stranded on the Mushroom Planet. It also doubles as a Pet the Dog moment, as it shows he truly did miss Stone.
  • This conversation alone:
    Major Bennington: Listen pal, I don't know if you realize who...
    Dr. Ivo Robotnik: I'm sorry, Major. What was your name?
    Major Bennington: Benningt—
    Dr. Ivo Robotnik: (interrupts) —NOBODY CARES!
  • When Robotnik catches Knuckles invading his mech alongside Tails, he remarks the echidna being "disloyal", even though he's the one who betrayed him first. Knuckles has none the mad doctor's hypocrisy and just goes straight to punching him.
• Iconic Attribute Adoption Moment: Initially slimmer and with a full head of hair, he becomes his iconic bald, wild-moustached self by the time of the The Stinger when he's trapped on the Mushroom Planet.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: 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.
• Informed Attribute: 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 Multiversal Conqueror.
• Insufferable Genius: 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.
  Robotnik: In a sequentially ranked hierarchy, based on level of critical importance, the disparity between us is too vast to quantify. Agent Stone?
  Stone: [matter-of-factly] The doctor thinks you're basic.
• In-Series Nickname: 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.
• Intelligence Equals Isolation: 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.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: During the climax of the first movie, he outright calls Sonic a "thing" while questioning 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.
• It's All About Me: 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.
  Robotnik: That's one small step for man... one giant leap for me.
• It's Personal:
  • 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.
  • 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.
• Jerkass: He's a rude, obnoxious, and condescending asshole who can hardly finish a sentence without insulting someone, and he's trying to kill 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.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Downplayed. Robotnik's a Card-Carrying Villain right off the bat, but he's at least 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.
• Klaatu Barada Nikto: Robotnik shouts it as an alien triggers one of his traps on the Mushroom Planet.
• Lack of Empathy: 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. Later, when Sonic is apparently killed, 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".
• Lame Last Words: Robotnik shouts "Later, hater!" to Super Sonic as he falls to his Uncertain Doom.
• Large Ham: Being a mad scientist played by notorious ham Jim Carrey, this is a given. When angry or flustered, he's prone to Milking the Giant Cow and shouting at the top of his lungs.
• Laser-Guided Karma: 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 officially forgotten by the U.S. government.
• Last-Name Basis: 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.
• Laughably Evil: 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 Jim Carrey, this is to be expected.
• Lean and Mean: Unlike his Fat Bastard 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.
• Leitmotif: He has his own menacing theme, which is a close soundalike to his theme in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.
• Love Is a Weakness: In direct opposition to Sonic's outlook of I Just Want to Have Friends, 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.
• Madness Makeover: In The Stinger of the first movie, he's shaved his head bald and his mustache has grown much longer, reflecting his classic appearance from the games.
• Mad Scientist: 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.
• The Men in Black: 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.
  Robotnik: How can you threaten someone who never existed?
• Malicious Misnaming: 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.
• Minor Injury Overreaction: A simple punch in the face from Tom is enough to set him off in a major way and decide that It's Personal.
• Misanthrope Supreme: 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.
• Morality Pet: 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 Giant Mecha without any hesitation after gaining the powers of the Master Emerald.
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: 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.
• Multiversal Conqueror: Played with. 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.
• Narcissist: He is an incredibly insufferable 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 Yes-Man shows that he needs constant reaffirmation for his ego. His Establishing Character Moment 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.
• Near-Villain Victory: 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.
  Robotnik: I GOT HIM! I finally got him! (cackles madly)
• Nerdy Bully: The World's Smartest Man, and he never passes up the chance to rub it in someone's face.
• Never Found the Body: 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.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: His appearance seems to take cues from Friedrich Nietzsche.◊ Fitting, really, considering that Robotnik thinks of himself as an intellectual Übermensch.
• Noodle Incident:
  • 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."), it probably wasn't pleasant.
  • 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 Trauma Button about being punched in the face.
• Not So Similar: Both he and Sonic grew up orphans, with no friends and a burdensome power (Sonic his Super-Speed, Robotnik his Super-Intelligence). That's where the similarities end: whereas Robotnik is a Jerkass and Misanthrope Supreme who embraces his loneliness and makes a point of having no friends at all, Sonic is a Nice Guy who Hates Being Alone and just wants to have friends.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: 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 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.
• Obviously Evil: He wears black with the later addition of red, is a total dick to everyone he interacts with, installs ominous glowing eyes in his robots, and wants to capture 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.
• Oh, Crap!: 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 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, and that really doesn't work.
• Only Friend: Agent Stone is this for him, especially in the sequel. Most exemplified in the finale of the second movie: while Super Robotnik has just finished betraying Knuckles and is now a borderline Physical God with no need for anyone else, he still obliges Stone's request to Take Me With You, 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.
• Oral Fixation: After getting Sonic's quill, he has a knack to sticks it in his mouth multiple times... and gets mildly electrocuted each time.
• Parental Abandonment: 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.
• Pass the Popcorn: After he introduces Knuckles to Sonic, Robotnik just casually grab himself a bowl of popcorn while watching the two have their first encounter.
• Pet the Dog:
  • 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 Number Two. 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 takes him with him aboard the Death Egg Robot to help him pilot it, even though by this point Robotnik is a Physical God 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.
  • If the Knuckles mini series is anything to go by, he had no problems working with The Buyer.
• Physical God: 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.
• Power Glows: 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.
• Power Up Full Color Change: 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.
• Precision F-Strike: Delirious with disbelief and anger, he gives Tom a pointed one after Tom knowingly invokes his anger by relentlessly beating him about the head to save Sonic.
  Robotnik: Who the hell do you think you are!?
• Psychopathic Manchild: 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.
• Rapid-Fire Interrupting: When addressing Major Bennington, Robotnik constantly cuts him off.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: 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.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: 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.
• Robot Master: 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.
  Robotnik: The time for talking is over! It's time to push buttons!
• Sanity Slippage: As seen in The Stinger, 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.
• Screams Like a Little Girl:
  • 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 Trauma Button against being hit in the face.
  • 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.
• Sealed Evil in Another World: 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.
• Shock and Awe: His new gloves give him the ability to discharge yellow electricity from his fingers.
• The Sociopath: 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 actually allows Stone to join him in his Death Egg Robot.
• Spiteful Suicide: 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!"
• Stephen Ulysses Perhero: His name is Dr. Robotnik and he is a supervillain Gadgeteer Genius who uses robots and drones for his evil deeds.
• Stronger Than They Look: 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.
• Super-Intelligence: The closest thing that Robotnik has to a superpower that contrasts Sonic's Super-Speed is his own immense intelligence (he has 5 PhDs and an IQ of 300). To wit:
  • He generally create revolutionary advanced technology many years ahead of it's time, allowing the American government to topple multiple nations in covert operations.
  • 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 Super-Speed by empowering his Eggpod with one of Sonic's quills.
  • 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.
• Super Mode: 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.
• Super-Speed: 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.
• Take Over the World: 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.
• Touché: Upon seeing Tails using his tails like a helicopter to fly Sonic to safety, Robotnik gives off an impressed chuckle and comments, "Foxy move!"
• Tranquil Fury: He talks with Tom on the phone about the latter punching him in the face in a calm yet threatening tone, making it clear he will ruin Tom's life for it.
• Trademark Favorite Food: 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 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.
• Trapped in Another World: 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 The Stinger, he's been trapped there for 87 days and has gone mad from the isolation, but nonetheless vows to return to Earth.
• Trauma Button: A Played for Laughs 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.
• Tricked-Out Gloves: 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.
• The Unfettered: Robotnik does whatever he wants, whenever he wants, and has no concern for the consequences.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Heavily downplayed, but he does treat Stone better in the second movie compared to their first outing.
• Uncertain Doom: 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 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 Joker Immunity 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.
• Un-person: 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.
• Vetinari Job Security: 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.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: 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.
• Villainous Breakdown: 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. When his Trauma Button 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 Go Mad from the Isolation, complete with a Madness Makeover. In spite of that, Robotnik confidently vows that he'll find a way back and take his revenge on everyone.
  • 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 Super Mode, 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.
    Robotnik: Move, you hunk of junk! […] No!
• Villain Has a Point: 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.
• Villains Out Shopping: While examining the energy output of Sonic's quill, he happily dances to "Where Evil Grows" and accepts a latte from Agent Stone.
• Villainous Friendship: The closest thing he has to a friend is Agent Stone, and even then, Robotnik barely tolerates him, acting rude and contemptuous of him (and even punching him), despite Stone doing everything Robotnik asks him to. That said, it is ultimately shown that Robotnik does consider Stone a true friend, going as far as admitting he missed him when he returns from his banishment in the second film.
• Villainous Valour: 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, his response to Sonic getting back up at full power and racing towards him is to 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.
• Villains Want Mercy: 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.
  Robotnik: Ohh, it's like that? Okay, we're not friends! (falls out of the Death Egg Robot) LATER, HATER!!!
• Vocal Evolution: Throughout the film, Robotnik's voice is more or less Jim Carrey in Large Ham 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, Mike Pollock. 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. Upon obtaining the Master Emerald and gaining his Super Mode, his voice gains an eerie, almost autotuned echo that makes him sound demonic, especially when he's speaking through the Death Egg Robot.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: He's more than eager to harvest an alien hedgehog for the sole purpose of making better robots.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: 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.
• World's Smartest Man: 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.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: As described by Jim Carrey, Robotnik is the way he is because he lacked nurturing, love, or guidance in his formative years. In Jim's own words, "He hates the world because the world abandoned him".
• Would Hurt a Child: Throughout the movie, he is trying to capture and eventually kill Sonic, who is just a teenager.
• You Are What You Hate: 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.
• You Don't Look Like You: 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 The Stinger and the sequel, which also gives him a new suit that adds some yellow to the red coloration.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After he steals the Master Emerald, he plans to leave Knuckles with Sonic in the collapsing temple, and 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.
  Robotnik: Sadly, you are as useful to me now as a backstage pass to Limp Bizkit.

Agent Stone

Agent Stone

Portrayed by: Lee Majdoub ^{Foreign VAs}Daiki Hamano (Japanese), Carlo Vázquez (Latin-American Spanish), Björn Bengtsson (Swedish), Wendel Bezerra (Brazilian Portuguese), Renaud Paradis (Quebec French), Jérémy Prévost (EU French), Raffaele Carpentieri (Italian)

Appearances: Sonic the Hedgehog | Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | Sonic the Hedgehog 3

"The doctor thinks you're basic."

"I just thought you might like a latte with steamed Austrian goat milk!"

Robotnik's right-hand man, and, in contrast to how despised the doctor is by everyone else, a complete sycophant towards his boss.

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• Affably Evil: In stark contrast to 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.
• Ambiguously Gay: Bordering on intentional Homoerotic Subtext, 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 a French Maid Outfit on the screen at the Mean Bean.
• Berserk Button: Do not insult his lattes. Unless you want to get framed for money laundering, of course.
• Big "YES!": Well, he doesn't say "yes," but given his reaction to Robotnik returning, he might as well have.
  Stone: He's BAAAACK...!!
• Breakout Character: 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 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 Physical God, further cements it.
• Butt-Monkey: His only purpose is to be the doctor's punching bag both verbally and, in at least one instance, physically.
• Canon Foreigner: He was created specifically for the movie, filling the role of Robotnik's lackey that previous continuities have in characters such as Snively, Grimer, or Metal Sonic.
• Chekhov's Skill: 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.
• Composite Character: He takes Commander Walters’s role in going to visit the Wachowskis in the first movie’s novelization.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Though mostly a comical Yes-Man and Butt-Monkey, 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.
• A Day in the Limelight: 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. Stone does so in less than a week.
• Deadpan Snarker: When under Wade’s "interrogation" right before Robotnik returns with the Master Emerald in tow during Sonic 2.
  Stone: I’m not telling you anything. And that is a display bagel.
• The Dragon: To Robotnik in the first movie, which carries on into the sequel. While he and Knuckles serve as Co-Dragons, 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.
• Dressing as the Enemy: Inverted. After the Death Egg Robot is destroyed, he evades G.U.N.'s forces by disguising himself as one of their soldiers.
• Extreme Doormat: At one point, Robotnik sucker-punches him in the chest. Stone doesn't so much as utter a word of complaint about it. 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.
• Faux Affably Evil: When Robotnik isn't around to be a dick to everyone, Stone proves to be surprisingly manipulative, and manages to take over a coffee shop to set up a new secret base for when Robotnik returns.
• Harmless Villain: He doesn't seem to be a malicious guy, in spite of working for Robotnik. He doesn't do anything evil in the movie. In the comic prequel to the second movie, however...
• Mad Scientist: 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.
• Minion with an F in Evil: 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.
• Morality Pet: While still abusive toward him, he's the only person Robotnik shows any form of kindness to, as Robotnik compliments how he makes lattes and even 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.
• No Full Name Given: His first name is never mentioned.
• Nominal Villain: Agent Stone works as an assistant to the evil and insufferable Dr. Robotnik, but seemingly has no bad intentions, and puts up with Robotnik's abuse while keeping a positive attitude the whole time.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: The Official Movie Pre-Quill proves that he can be a ruthlessly efficient Chessmaster when he wants to be, as his disrespectful former coworkers learn the hard way. Near the end of Sonic 2, Stone uses the Death Egg Robot's Stash-Masher to destroy Tails plane nearly killing Tails with it.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: 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.
• Only Friend: 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 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.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: In The Pre-Quill, Robotnik admits that Stone is a genius in his own right, even if he's leagues behind Robotnik himself.
• Satellite Character: 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.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Between Eggman's Co-Dragons, Knuckles is the Manly Man who routinely invokes honor and possesses Super-Strength, while Agent Stone is the Sensitive Guy who makes art in latte foam.
• Sycophantic Servant: 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.
• Translator Buddy: After Robotnik's long tirade toward Bennington, Stone sums up the doctor's opinion of the Major in five words:
  Stone: The doctor thinks you're basic.
• Undying Loyalty: 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.
• Unexplained Recovery: Unlike Robotnik 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 The Stinger of the second movie.
• Villainy-Free Villain:
  • 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.
  • 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.
• What Happened to the Mouse?:
  • 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.
  • This is Averted altogether at the end of the second movie. After Robotnik's apparent demise, he is shown during The Stinger to have disguised himself and infiltrated G.U.N.
• Yes-Man: He sucks up to Robotnik at all times, following his instruction without question.

Crazy Carl

Crazy Carl

Portrayed by: Frank C. Turner ^{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)

Appearances: Sonic the Hedgehog

"I almost caught him last night."

"I know you’re out there! And I know you’re real!"

A man in Green Hills who started rumors of a Blue Devil lurking around the town.

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• Canon Foreigner: Like Tom, he isn't from the games.
• Cassandra Truth: Before Sonic hides out in Tom’s garage, he’s the only one who believes in Sonic’s existence.
• Chainsaw Good: 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.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right: 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."
• Enemy Mine: 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.
• Friendly Enemy: Sonic views him as this, saying they have fun. It turns out he sees Sonic the same way, standing up against Robotnik when he threatens him.
• No Mere Windmill: No one believes him about the "Blue Devil" around town. Turns out, Crazy Carl is right. (Sort of; Sonic isn't actually a devil.)
• Put on the Bus: While he does shows up in the Pre-Quill comic, he's nowhere to be seen in the second movie.
• Terrible Artist: He creates an artist's rendering of the Blue Devil. It's a terrible Sonic picture... but a great Sanic picture.

The Buyer

The Buyer

Played by: Rory McCann

Appearances: Knuckles

A mysterious inventor and colleague of Dr. Robotnik. He has an interest in capturing Knuckles so that he can power his inventions.

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• Big Bad: The trailer for Knuckles establishes him as the main threat of the miniseries. He's actually more of a Greater-Scope Villain while Agents Mason and Willoughby act as The Heavy.
• Composite Character: Being a genius human inventor with a fatter more bulky body who makes two henchmen go after his enemies makes him more similar to Robotnik from the original incarnations. But his plan of going after Knuckles and him once working for Robotnik make him similar to Eggrobo when playing as Knuckles in Sonic 3 & Knuckles.
• Evil Genius: He was able to work together with Robotnik, who would accept no less than another such evil genius.
• Humongous Mecha: One of the snippets from the trailer showcases him piloting a gigantic bipedal war machine.
• No Name Given: His real name is never revealed in the series. And probably never will be, given how he was crushed by a large casino rooftop decoration.

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