| NOTE: This page is only about the version of Professor Gerald Robotnik in the Sonic Cinematic Universe, considering the anime and original video game counterparts were not voted Near Pure Evil. Therefore, only the film version's info and actions should be listed here. |
| “ | Shadow: Professor, is this really what Maria would've wanted? Gerald: The question isn't what Maria would have wanted… it's what do they deserve. Remember what she meant to us… remember what they took from us. |
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| ~ Gerald to Shadow before enacting his plot to destroy the Earth. |
| “ | Oh, Ivo… you're no Maria. The moment I lost her, my family was gone forever. The only way to give Maria's life meaning is to destroy the world that took her from me. SO I'M BURNING IT ALL DOWN! | „ |
| ~ Gerald revealing his true psychotic nature to Ivo and showing that he never cared about him. |
Professor Gerald Robotnik is the main antagonist of the 2024 film Sonic the Hedgehog 3, the third main installment of the Sonic Cinematic Universe.
Much like his game counterpart, he is a brilliant scientist and the grandfather of Dr. Ivo Robotnik, and the late Maria Robotnik, who had worked for the Guardian Units of Nations fifty years ago as part of Project Shadow, hoping he would be a great achievement in the future. However, after G.U.N. issued a warrant for his arrest for his shady practices, Gerald tried to escape with Shadow and Maria, with the latter being killed in an explosion caused by a soldier firing at a tank filled with Shadow's chaos energy.
Filled with vengeance, Gerald freed Shadow from his stasis, and recruited him, Ivo, and the latter's right-hand man Agent Stone, intending to get his hands on the very weapon that he designed for G.U.N.; The Eclipse Cannon, which he will use to destroy humanity in a spiteful murder-suicide, consumed by the grief and rage of losing his granddaughter.
Just like his grandson, he was portrayed by Jim Carrey, who also played Count Olaf in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- Despite still being tragic and sympathetic, Gerald's more honorable and scapegoat nature from the games is almost completely absent, with him instead being depicted more as a man whose grief twisted him into becoming perhaps the worst version of himself, turning into a selfish and sadistic individual who intends on punishing all of humanity for taking his granddaughter away from him.
- This is evident because he used his grandson Ivo and adopted son Shadow to destroy the world without telling the former about it, knowing Ivo would not like such a genocidal plan, not to mention he had 50 years of time to think twice and let his rage go before it's too late for the harm to be avoided.
- Also, while his original counterpart also tried to destroy the world, he still had numerous redeeming qualities at heart, meanwhile this version of Gerald hardly had any after losing Maria, not to mention his original counterpart didn't turn into a sadist despite becoming insane, even being scared that he could no longer control his thoughts.
- This is evident because he used his grandson Ivo and adopted son Shadow to destroy the world without telling the former about it, knowing Ivo would not like such a genocidal plan, not to mention he had 50 years of time to think twice and let his rage go before it's too late for the harm to be avoided.
- While he does seem to genuinely care about his grandson Ivo at first, it ultimately ends up being nothing more than just a façade, with him letting it slip once that if Ivo weren't family, he'd probably "gut him like a pheasant", bringing him onto the Eclipse Cannon without telling him that it would self destruct once it fires, and outright admitting that he truly doesn't care about him at all, claiming he's "no Maria".
- Although he did genuinely care for Shadow at one point, even risking his own life to protect him from G.U.N., he is shown to be rather emotionally manipulative of the hedgehog in the current day, using his grief for Maria as a tool to convince Shadow to help him in his cataclysmic scheme, and when Shadow began to question if he was doing the right thing, wondering if Maria truly would have wanted to see the world destroyed, Gerald further manipulated him by telling him that it didn't matter if it was what Maria wanted, only that humanity needed to pay for what they did to her.
- This shows that he doesn't respect what Maria would've wanted for humanity, instead plotting to kill them all because it's "what they deserve", and has no qualms using her death to manipulate Shadow into doing his bidding. In addition, he said his family was gone forever as soon as he lost Maria, proving that any sentimentality he may have once felt for Shadow was long gone.
- While he does still undeniably care about Maria, it becomes clear that Gerald's plan to "avenge" her warped into a selfish desire to get revenge on humanity over time, completely acknowledging that she probably would not have wanted to see the world destroyed, but saying it wouldn't matter anyway, meaning that Gerald genuinely wanted humanity to suffer regardless.
- While he claims what he was doing was the right thing, this makes him far more delusional instead of a well-intentioned extremist because of the billions of lives he put at stake, most of whom had nothing to do with Maria's death, only a small amount of G.U.N. soldiers.
- It is very heavily implied that Gerald is sexist on top of his general misanthropy, he's disgusted to see women in the military have become normal in his 50-year absence.
- While he has lots of comedic moments, such as licking Shadow's quill, the fourth wall break joke of Ivo and himself being played by the same actor, their family montage being in virtual reality, and also their dance in the lasers, a lot of it was to keep up the facade of being the grandfather Ivo always wished of having and Gerald sheds most of these qualities in the end after his true plans are revealed. Even before this reveal, he is notably completely serious when he interacts with Shadow, showing that most of his goofiness was merely an act.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3[]
- While never flat-out said, it is heavily implied that his practices with Shadow were suspicious in the first place, which is why G.U.N. was tasked to arrest him.
- After being arrested by G.U.N., as well as being consumed by grief and anger, he tricked them into making a deal with them by designing the Eclipse Cannon in exchange for his freedom so that he could plan revenge against G.U.N. and the rest of humanity for Maria's death.
- He hacked into the facility Shadow was being held captive in and set him free, which would result in Shadow attacking the G.U.N. soldiers there and in Tokyo.
- He hacked into Ivo's Badniks and used them to kill Commander Walters so he could lure Ivo to him and take "revenge" upon Walters, despite him trying to prevent Maria's death, with Gerald uncaring about the fact that Walters was at a restaurant full of customers, including children, at the time of the attack.
- Even before he revealed his true plans to Ivo, Gerald made it clear that he planned on destroying G.U.N.'s headquarters with the Eclipse Cannon. This would not only kill all the G.U.N employees, but would also endanger millions of London citizens caught in the crossfire, something he admitted to and didn't care about.
- After reuniting with Ivo, he left Team Sonic tied up at the abandoned G.U.N. factory, having Shadow nearly kill them by creating a miniature black hole.
- Upon gaining access to the Eclipse Cannon, he revealed his true plan was to destroy the Earth, wanting to wipe out humanity as he blamed them for his misery of losing Maria, even though G.U.N.'s soldiers were the only ones responsible, while also making it so that himself, Shadow, and Ivo were killed as well.
- When Ivo tried to dissuade him, saying they could rule humanity rather than destroying it, Gerald coldly revealed that he never really cared about him and that he's "no Maria", a remark that clearly hurt Ivo, thus turning him against him, as as he only wanted to rule humanity rather than destroying it.
- He was responsible for getting Shadow to want to destroy the world too, since the grieving hedgehog merely wanted to be left alone and did not wish to harm anyone unprovoked until he reunited with Gerald.
- He attacked Ivo when he tried to stop the Eclipse Cannon.
- He destroyed the control panel for the Eclipse Cannon so that nothing could stop it from firing.
- Once he realized that Shadow had joined Sonic's side, he had his G.U.N. Hunters go after them to have them both killed, completely subverting any and all care he might have had for Shadow.
- He nearly killed Ivo by throwing him off the bridge of the Eclipse Cannon, allowing him to be sucked into the coldness of space, and would have succeeded if Tails and Knuckles didn't save him in time.
- Before knocking him off the bridge, he taunted Ivo by mockingly asking if his last words were "I love you", further cementing the complete lack of care he has for his grandson. Even worse, Ivo would've said that he did love him, but dismissed it after Gerald mocked him for it.
- This also shows that while Gerald may have been furious at G.U.N. for causing Maria's death, he had no problem killing Ivo, making him a hypocrite.
- While being knocked into the Chaos Energy field and getting disintegrated on contact is indeed a horrible death, it's not treated with any sympathy whatsoever, and his fate is well-deserved for all his crimes, with everyone cheering after he dies.
- Even after his death, he still remains a threat since the Eclipse Cannon still fires and has to be redirected away from Earth by Ivo, Tails, and Knuckles and forcing Sonic with Shadow to block the laser from destroying the Earth and almost causing Sonic to die if it wasn't for Shadow pushing him out of the way, destroying part of the moon in the process.
- Afterwards, the Eclipse Cannon overloads as Gerald designed it to explode after it fired, which would cause a nuclear winter and destroy the world anyway, forcing Shadow and Ivo to sacrifice themselves to save the world. Although Shadow survived, Ivo's fate is still unclear and if he did die, Gerald would be indirectly responsible for his death.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- Much like his original counterpart, he has a genuinely tragic background, where G.U.N. issued a warrant for his arrest and he tried escaping with Shadow and Maria only for her to be killed after a G.U.N. soldier shot a chaos energy tank, causing an explosion that would lead to her instant death. The loss of his granddaughter left Gerald a genuinely broken man, to the point of suicidal intentions as shown with how he's willing to die with the rest of humanity.
- No matter how evil he eventually became, Gerald still genuinely loved his granddaughter Maria, as her death is his whole motive for turning evil and seeking to wipe out the entirety of humanity in a twisted attempt to avenge her thinking they deserved to die. It was even stated by Commander Walters that he took Maria everywhere he went, and Gerald tries to get her out of the GUN facility to save her and is seen crying when she dies, proving his genuine love and care for her.
- While he is taken much more seriously after the reveal of his true plans, Gerald's final battle with Ivo still has some comedic moments that detract from his heinousness, such as him comically spanking Ivo with his nano-gauntlet, Ivo cutting off half of his mustache and causing Gerald to exclaim "that's elder abuse!", and his anti-climactic death of getting zapped into nothingness after Ivo shoves Sonic's super-powered quill up his butt to send him flying into the energy field of the Eclipse Cannon, complete with a fart-like sound effect and Gerald comically screaming right before he dies with a zap sound effect accompanied, with Ivo remarking that for all his faults, his grandfather made one hell of a bug zapper.
Trivia[]
- This is currently the only version of Gerald Robotnik to be Near Pure Evil, as his other counterparts are too tragic and sympathetic.
- He is the only Sonic Cinematic Universe villain to be Near Pure Evil as all the other villains either have too many comedic moments, too many redeeming qualities, fail the heinous standards too much, are bog-standard, or all of the above.
- He and his grandson have opposite statuses to their mainstream counterparts. Gerald is a Villainous Benchmark in the games due to failing the high heinous standards and Eggman is Near Pure Evil in the games/IDW canon as well as the Archie comics, but it is reversed in the Sonic Cinematic Universe.
- Originally, Gerald would have been long dead as shown in early concept art for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 where his skeleton is shown. Had this been the case, Gerald likely wouldn't have qualified as Near Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- Professor Gerald Robotnik on the Villains Wiki
- Professor Gerald Robotnik on the Sonic Cinematic Universe Wiki
- Professor Gerald Robotnik on the Sonic Wiki
- Professor Gerald Robotnik on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
- Professor Gerald Robotnik on the Entertainingly Detestable Wiki
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