Will he ever return?

No way in hell.

>>89586932
Baron Harkonnen?

Maybe in the Lara-Su Chronicles
:^)

>>89587362
kek

>>89586932
>western Sonic media
>ever relevant again
If Japan falls into the sea, maybe.

>>89588054
Thanks for crushing my dreams than ma8

Why would you want that shit design to return?

Like for real, it's a busy mess and just straight up inferior to Genesis Eggman, especially since this design was best used for comedy.

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>>89586932
He did once.

>>89586932
I hope so. Despite being obese, he managed to be intimidating. Also, Snivley is the best chapter to ever come out of the Sonic franchise.

>>89586932
Why?

Dr. RobotNegan is way fucking better and funnier.
It's like somebody from a 'real world rules' dimension shows up it a cutesy cartoon land and starts heaping psychological damage on creatures who have no concept of what that means.

>>89593154
Also, post RobotNegan being an asshole to everyone if you have it.

>It should hit me in the feels.
>For some reason I find it humorous instead.

>>89593154
>>89593212
>Dr. RobotNegan

?

>>89595122
Dunno, only have seen panels here and there.

Something something Eggman from the games replaces the Eggman from the Archie comics after being pulled in from another dimension.

This would be normal Archie cringe fodder but apparently they make it so that after Eggman shows up he goes Negan on the entire universe: They can't handle 'real universe rules' psychological trauma so he uses it in hilarious abundance.

In simpler terms. It's an entire planet of weaklings to beat the shit out of for lols.

>>89595197
Time to be a loser.

The first Robotnik (the one in OP's image) is the one we know mainly from SatAM, what with fighting the Mobians, you know, Sonic and friends. During Operation: EndGame, Robotnik created a machine called the Ultimate Annihilator which could fire an omega wave (read: nuke so powerful it rips open dimensions) as well as erase things from reality. Snivley, his nephew, reprogrammed the UA when it was meant to erase Sonic to erase Robotnik.

In an alternate timeline, where Robotnik would be erased, he instead literally turned his all organic body parts into machinery so he could take out the Freedom Fighters. He didn't on his first strike, and just as he was about to quit he ended up merging with the SatAM Robotnik, giving him the motivation to literally destroy every single furry on the planet. This made him bored, and after learning how to dimension hop, he traveled to the dimension where Robotnik was erased from reality. He used machinery to change his appearance from the SatAM one to the video games.

Then came the Super Genesis Wave (read: reboot thanks to lawsuits). Although his history is very different, he's still the same sick son of a bitch that he was before the reboot when he succeeded at genocide and wanted to do it again.

Also I think he can't really be defeated because he uploaded his consciousness to the ARK, but I'm not sure.

>>89595331
Gosh, that all sounds remarkably silly

>>89589565
Because it's better than modern lanklet Eggman?

>>89586932
>Super ultra aggressively dead in the original line, TWICE no less
>effectively replaced by the successor designs of Eggman Dreamcast onward
>Due to that stupid lawsuit and the resulting reshuffling and super retcon, Ivo Robotnik of that particular design now no longer exists, period.
Yeah, no, he's pretty much gone forever.

>>89595331
And he gets all the best lines.

>>89595580
It's really not. Lanklet Eggman has a much stronger silhouette, doesn't have all the pointless extra details, and doesn't look stupidly out of place next to Sonic and the other animals.

>>89595331
>In an alternate timeline, where Robotnik would be erased, he instead literally turned his all organic body parts into machinery so he could take out the Freedom Fighters. He didn't on his first strike, and just as he was about to quit he ended up merging with the SatAM Robotnik, giving him the motivation to literally destroy every single furry on the planet. This made him bored, and after learning how to dimension hop, he traveled to the dimension where Robotnik was erased from reality. He used machinery to change his appearance from the SatAM one to the video games.

Time to be an even bigger nerd: that's super fucking wrong.

Long story short, you had Robotnik, and a robot version of him in an alternate dimension. The regular one died, and the robot one killed his planet's heroes. He got bored so he filled the gap by taking the organic predecessor's place.

>Then came the Super Genesis Wave (read: reboot thanks to lawsuits). Although his history is very different, he's still the same sick son of a bitch that he was before the reboot when he succeeded at genocide and wanted to do it again.
>Also I think he can't really be defeated because he uploaded his consciousness to the ARK, but I'm not sure.
Where do you people get this kind of shit from? Do you even read the comics you're talking abo-
>/co/
wait, fuck, nevermind.

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>>89595487

>>89595331
>>89596511
Let me explain this properly.

>OP's pic is the original Robotnik from the pre-reboot universe. We'll call him Robotnik A
>One issue had him end up in an alternate timeline where he meets another version of himself. We'll call him Robotnik B
>Robotnik B decided to roboticize himself during a battle with Sonic and upload his memory into a orbiting satellite. That ended up being a stupid idea because he's now stuck there and can't do anything
>Robotnik A tells him not to give up before returning to his own timeline which motivates Robotnik B to get free somehow and kill everything on the planet
>Robotnik A later gets erased from existence by his own machine
>The comic goes on without either Robotnik for 20 issues
>Robotnik B gets bored of ruling over a dead planet so he decides to go rule Robotnik A's timeline
>Since he was roboticized, he can transfer himself to different robot bodies. He makes a robot body based on the Sonic Adventure game design. Robotnik B becomes the new main villain.
>Robotnik A comes back for one issue and goes away again, never to return
>Robotnik B gets permanently deroboticized thanks to alien magic. Still has game redesign but no longer a robot
>Later ends up meeting Dr. Wily from Mega Man during a crossover, they create a machine that can rewrite reality entirely
>Reality gets screwed up and the entire timeline was rebooted. Everything you just read doesn't mean shit anymore. Now it's just flesh and blood games Eggman and it's always been that way.
>Eggman wakes up one day with a faint memory of being an even more overweight robot from another timeline but he blames it on a bad egg he ate that morning

>>89599258
>Eggman wakes up one day with a faint >memory of being an even more overweight robot from another timeline but he blames it on a bad egg he ate that morning

How sad.

>>89597689
Honestly that's simple compared to the horrifying mess of convoluted bullshit that was pre-reboot Knuckles and everything surrounding him

Also the Great War.

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>>89599258
As a collector since 1992 until today with every sodding issue ever, this is technically the most accurate answer.

>>89599258
>>Robotnik B gets bored of ruling over a dead planet so he decides to go rule Robotnik A's timeline
>Since he was roboticized, he can transfer himself to different robot bodies. He makes a robot body based on the Sonic Adventure game design. Robotnik B becomes the new main villain.

The only problem with that was eventually for the sake of being less complicated, they started to treat Robotnik B like he was Robotnik A, and this was well before the reboot.

So Sonic and pals would attribute situations caused by Robotnik A to Robotnik B, and Robotnik B would recall situations that involved Robotnik A as being his own.

The comic was shit at keeping track of itself. Penders or no Penders, it needed that reboot.

>>89599782
Man, all that history, over 200 characters, just gone.

>>89600386
>So Sonic and pals would attribute situations caused by Robotnik A to Robotnik B, and Robotnik B would recall situations that involved Robotnik A as being his own.

I think the explanation that Flynn made up when he was first cleaning house was:

>Robotnik A and Robotnik B had identical timelines and experienced identical events with identical analogs to the protagonists, but their narratives didn't divide until they met each other.

So everything that happened to Robotnik A happened to Robotnik B in exactly the same way with exactly the same characters until Robotnik B roboticized himself. And that's why Robotnik B had Robotnik A's memories and the cast treated him like he was the same guy as the Robotnik they grew up fighting. Also why Snivley called him uncle even though he wasn't REALLY his uncle.

It was the worst sort of Band-Aid, but Flynn was trying his best.

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>>89600386
They've addressed it a few times but it ultimately shouldn't matter that much.

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>>89600386

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R2vFDIBToI
The best sonic cartoon

>>89601264
It's like he's trying to move away from the fact that it sounds fucking retarded even to him by doing something evil.

>>89600386
Robo-man didn't show up until issue 22.
Everything they ever reference takes place before that, and the two timelines were about as close as shit gets.

He's as much the old dude as Doc Brown was Doc Brown by the end of BttF3.