Sonic Goes Full Five Nights at Freddy's for Robotnik's Dark Victory
Warning: spoilers ahead for Sonic the Hedgehog #50!
After portraying Dr. Robotnik, now commonly known as Dr. Eggman, in a pathetic light for years, IDW Publishing's Sonic the Hedgehog finally depicts the mad scientist as a true monstrous villain, just as he's always deserved.
Eggman has had the chance to exercise just one truly diabolical deed in IDW Publishing's Sonic the Hedgehog series: the unleashing of the Metal Virus that almost turned Sonic into a zombie. This plague was so powerful that even Eggman lost control of it. From that moment on, the comic began to focus solely on his fanboy Dr. Starline, who perceived this failure as just the latest in a long line of defeats that could all be pinpointed to Robotnik's personal shortcomings. Since Doctor Eggman either couldn't or wouldn't change, Starline took it into his hands to temporarily remove him from the equation so he could fix his hero's mess, though Starline's intentions soon evolved into a desire to rule over Eggman as well. Dr. Starline's actions were so all-encompassing, they even spread beyond the events of the mainline series, spilling into the stories of separate miniseries Bad Guys and Imposter Syndrome. As a result, readers couldn't help but believe he was right about Robotnik's failings.
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But then all of Dr. Starline's well-thought-out schemes, each one conceived in response to Dr. Eggman's utter failures as a villain, came crashing down in the most brilliant fashion. At first, Dr. Starline appears to have won against Eggman in their highly anticipated confrontation. But then Eggman menacingly rises from the literal rubble of his earlier defeat and, after proceeding to
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