Thursday, October 23, 2008

MAD DOCTOR OF THE WEEK

DR. ROBOTNIK

From the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series, Robotnik is the main villain throughout the run. Way back from in the first Sonic game for the Sega Genesis, Robotnik (also known as Dr. Eggman) has been always battling the blue hedgehog in an attempt for world domination. Oddly enough, his main plans of world domination involve putting small animals in robots to power them. Throughout the games, Sonic must free the animals and reach the end of the level to defeat Robotnik.

As games went on, Robotnik's animals-in-robots plot weakens as he does other methods, such as shooting a giant cannon at the earth if his demands aren't met, making a robotic version of Sonic, and other such shenaningans. Though fans have claimed the Sonic series has fell from its original grace, Robotnik still stands as a completely awesome mad doctor with his 300 IQ points.

Fun facts, Robotnik was actually originally designed to be the main hero of the games during a contest, but was beaten out by Sonic. Though, in return, he was made into the main villain. Also, the first Sonic games only featured Sonic and Robotnik, later in adding Tails and Knuckles and other such characters as the games went on.

Robotnik's actual name in Japanese is Eggman, but was changed to Robotnik in America. During Sonic Adventure, Sonic Team decided to try to ween away from the Robotnik name for the Japanese name, so had Sonic and his friends tease Robotnik by calling him Eggman. Though he was quite offended by this nickname in Adventure, he adopted the name and actually refers to himself as Eggman in Adventure 2.


MAD CREATIONS

Another mad doctor I have made would be Jasper's grandson, Riley Zinc. Unlike his relative, Riley is more of a failed doctor (he's actually a mucisian). The mad part is more of his specialty, having a large array of paranoia issues and other mental illnesses such as depression and insomnia.

He isn't much for taking over the world. His main goal in life is pretty much not to get mauled by the everyday happenings he seems to suffer. Riley's bad luck never seems to end, from being blamed for a murder that he didn't commit, various injuries from ridiculous situations, and even being chased down by a cannibal at one point.

Another thing is that he has a complete phobia of anything supernatural, being highly superstitious. He spends his day on Friday the 13th behind a couch with a bicycle helmet.



OTHER MAD THINGS

Remember, Soap Factory's haunted basement goes until November 2nd! You should totally buy your tickets online and go through! It changes every night, but there are some mad doctor things involved during certain nights! I'll be more detailed after November 2nd, so you can come and enjoy the ride.

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