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Dr. Robotnik's Machines
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Badniks
The Badniks
Appearances: Sonic the Hedgehog | Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Left: A standard "Egg" drone. Right: A "Buzz Bomber" drone.
Dr. Robotnik's personal army of robots. They come in a variety of forms, from standard egg-shaped drones to powerful tank-like vehicles.
- Adaptational Badass: Their use of deadly lasers and missiles on the field make them much more destructive than the standard Badniks of the games. The lasers the Buzz Bombers have in Sonic 2 eventually make their way into the games via Sonic Superstars.
- Adaptational Mundanity: Physically so. The games' Badniks are colorful robots with a plethora of unique designs, usually based on animals. Here they are primarily white in color with plainer, less expressive designs, though the second film does introduce a new variant based on the Buzz Bomber. The prequel comic to the second movie includes Crabmeat-like Badniks as well, but they only appear for one panel, destroying Tina's car while she's taking a vacation.
- Adapted Out: In the games, Eggman infamously used innocent animals as "organic batteries" for his minions, and you were able to free them after destroying the robots. Understandably, this doesn't happen in the films; one could say that No Animals Were Harmed in the making of these Badniks.
- Airborne Mook: Both the egg drones and Buzz Bombers are specifically designed to fly.
- Asteroids Monster: The tank variant is capable of breaking off into smaller robots, its most basic form being a one-wheeled vehicle.
- Bee Afraid: The Buzz Bombers make their debut in the second movie. While the regular drones are shaped like eggs, these guys resemble giant bees.
- Big Badass Rig: A giant black automated rig with a Badnik eye serves as Robotnik's mobile laboratory in the first movie.
- Blind Obedience: The main reason that Robotnik enjoys using them opposed to humans since they all do everything he tells them to do without hesitation. The only to subvert this is the one Badnik Robotnik programmed to think for itself, which changes its mind later on.
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: While the wasp-shaped models are called Buzz Bombers in the games, they go nameless in the films.
- Glass Cannon: While undoubtedly advanced machines, they're still very flimsy. Tom himself can destroy the standard drones just by hitting them with mundane objects. In the sequel, Sonic is able to take them out with snowballs.
- Laser Sight: The standard egg drones have these. Tails gets surrounded by them in the second film, signaling to the heroes that Robotnik has arrived.
- Mecha-Mooks: Like in the games, they are the primary enemies that Sonic and friends have to fight off.
- Took a Level in Badass: After Robotnik steals the Master Emerald in the second film, he upgrades his robots with shiny black and green chrome builds resembling the A3G15 from Dragon Quest and Emerald-powered lasers.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Every Badnik sports a glowing red eye, an indication of their lethal nature.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The mobile lab variant Robotnik used in the first movie disappears in the sequel, being replaced by the disguised lair set up in the Mean Bean Coffee Shop. It's likely that it got confiscated by the authorities in the interim.
Death Egg Robot (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
The Death Egg Robot
Appearances: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Robotnik: Would you like to see how big a man I can be?
Robotnik's greatest weapon yet: a Humongous Mecha built with the power of the Master Emerald. It serves as the final threat of Sonic the Hedgehog 2.- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: It's a gargantuan robot that Robotnik uses to rampage through Green Hills. It's up to Sonic and friends to take it down during the climax.
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: It is clearly the Death Egg Robot of the games, but since the Death Egg space station doesn't appear, it's never called that. Merchandise simply calls it the "Giant Eggman Robot" (though this is incidentally the name of the regular final boss of Sonic 3 & Knuckles, which is another giant Eggman mecha) while the book manual that Agent Stone read refers to it as "Egg-Robotnik".
- Composite Character:
- It has the color scheme of its classic Sonic the Hedgehog 2 iteration.
- The size and power from the Master Emerald comes from the Giant Eggman Robo in Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
- Its power level and position as Eggman's ultimate weapon is like the Death Egg.
- The way Robotnik controls it and it’s over all body is like in the Titanic Monarch from Sonic Mania.
- The way it gets assembled using chaos energy and scrap metal is just like the Metal Madness boss from Sonic Heroes
- Cut the Juice: Subverted after Robotnik loses the Master Emerald as its main power source, as he also built it with an alternate power source and could be controlled manually with control panels and his gloves.
- Eye Beams: It can shoot Emerald-powered lasers from its eyes.
- Final Boss: Befitting of a classic Sonic boss, it serves as the last enemy that Team Sonic has to take down in the sequel, and even more fittingly, the final confrontation is between it and Super Sonic.
- Humongous Mecha: A mechanical colossus that bears the sinister likeness of its creator.
- Macross Missile Massacre: It unleashes a missile barrage from its chest, nearly taking out Sonic and Tails while they're riding the Tornado.
- Motion-Capture Mecha: With the power of the Master Emerald, Dr. Robotnik can control the Death Egg Robot with his own body movement while levitating in the air. After losing the Emerald, Robotnik has to switch to manual control panels.
- Nasal Weapon: The "snot rocket", which is a laser that's fired out of the robot's nose.
- No OSHA Compliance: It doesn't really have much safety features for anybody that's actually inside it. Robotnik gets away with this mostly by floating, but Agent Stone isn't so lucky.
- Off with His Head!: Super Sonic uses his newfound powers to decapitate the robot, allowing him to confront Robotnik face-to-face.
- Punch Catch: After Sonic emerges in his Super form, Robotnik uses the mecha to deal one more rocket-powered punch on his foe. Super Sonic manages to stop its fist with one arm, without even flinching.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Like the other Badniks, it sports red eyes and an entire face to go with it (though only after losing the Emerald's power).
- Rocket Punch: It's a giant mech suit, so it has to have rocket-powered fists.
- Walking Spoiler: Good luck bringing up anything about this, since it's part of the climax.
Unit
Unit
Voiced by: Aaron Landon
Appearances: Sonic Drone Home (Animated short)
An Eggman robot who appears in the animated short, Sonic Drone Home. It is notably the first Badnik in this continuity that can actively speak and think for itself.
- Armor-Piercing Question: Unit is first introduced upgrading itself in order to Take Over the World, while still claiming to have grown beyond its programming. Sonic manages to talk it down by pointing out that the whole "take over the World" thing is Robotnik's shtick and asks the Unit what it truly wants to do. This manages to calm the rogue drone down, leading to it admitting that it has a fondness for poetry of all things, and leads to its Heel–Face Turn.
- Artificial Intelligence: The first of Robotnik's goons to actually have sentience and a personality.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Downplayed, but Unit stops trying to kill Sonic because no one has ever asked Unit an actual question before, and Sonic was the first to ask one.
- Benevolent A.I.: Though hostile at first, Unit eventually cools down and befriends Sonic and Tails after they get to know it through its love of poetry.
- Elite Mook: Unit is alarmingly effective at upgrading itself with whatever it can find in the junkyard (using a fridge to eject anyone it traps inside, a paint sprayer as a Red Herring, and a propeller in case if its enemy tried to escape using flight) and almost succeeds at destroying Sonic without being given direct orders.
- Evil Is Hammy: Despite its Heel–Face Turn, it contines to speak in dramatic villain dialogue and even its poetry refects this theme.Unit: (reading a poem) It's Unit's ambition to crush all opposition...
- Expy: He is basically E-102 "γ" (Gamma) from Sonic Adventure. Both are robots created by Robotnik that learn to grow past their programming and befriend Sonic and his friends in the end.
- Giant Scrap Robot: Unit is first introduced upgrading itself with a body made entirely of junk from the scrapyard. Its makeshift parts include a construction excavator for an arm, a busted car for a torso, and built-in helicopter propellers.
- Heel–Face Turn: After an intense battle with Team Sonic, Sonic is able to calm Unit down and have a genuine heart-to-heart with it. It quickly lightens up and befriends the trio, though it still somewhat iffy toward Knuckles.
- Hidden Depths: Would you believe that the scrappy junkyard robot has a thing for poetry? It even writes its own material, and happily shares it with Sonic and Tails, earning their friendship.
- It Can Think: Unit holds the honor of being the first Paramount Sonic Badnik to show any self-awareness. It's smart enough to strategize without being given direct orders and writes its own poems.
- Purely Aesthetic Glasses: Played for Laughs; it puts on a pair of glasses to read its poem, despite being a robot with one eye.
- Reformed, but Not Tamed: Even after it befriend the trio and has different interest in mind with poetry, Unit remain focused on its quest to "conquer" the world.Unit: (Towards Knuckles) Soon, Unit will master the poetry forms and the world will cower. You will be the first to fall before this unit's superior prose, red mean thing.
- Third-Person Person: In a robotic fashion, Unit always uses its name in place of words such as "I" and "my."
