They just kind of went off and did it. It became super popular and everyone in the West kind of learned about the character as Robotnik. We wanted to unify that into one name moving forward. This is something I actually did in the Sonic Adventure series.
In , Sega was on the ropes after the messy launch of the Mega Drive. The console would be rebranded as the Sega Genesis in the US, but it needed more than that to take off. It needed a must-have game. The winner of the contest, as drawn by character designer Naoto Ohshima, was Mr. Needlemouse who would go on to become Sonic the Hedgehog.
But there was another design by Ohshima that the development team loved. This one featured a round man in a set of polka dot pajamas and a nightcap. He had a massive bushy beard and round, Coke bottle glasses.
You can see his original design in this archived 1UP story recapping the contest. She's one of the most beloved characters in RPG history, though I hope nobody got her name tattooed before Square Enix changed it. Known as Aeris in the western releases of Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy Tactics, the beatific martyr's name was once a point of contention for fans hoping she could be secretly resurrected in-game--Aeris being an anagram for arise was the thinking at the time.
Those hopes were dashed when all later appearances of the character refer to her as Aerith not that that stopped her from coming back from the dead in multiple games anyway. Aerith is a slightly more correct romanization of her Japanese name, the katakana being or Earisu. Some reports even conjecture that the developers themselves prefer Aerith, because it contains the letters for the word "Earth," an allusion to her connection to the planet's spirit.
This change in name is more of a fix than a major alteration, and should FF7 ever be remade, she'll likely be called Aerith there as well. In his first appearance Erol is the right hand man of the big bad in Jak II, and Erol is clearly designed as Jak's nemesis, looking like a more sinister version of the franchise hero.
Erol falls to certain death at the end of that second entry, only to return in Jak 3 as Cyber Errol. And no, that isn't a typo. Thanks to his cybernetic enhancements, Errol ascended from sidekick to the main villain in Jak 3, so clearly the extra "r" in his title did something for his career.
Still, the new naming kind of goes in and out even within Jak 3, sometimes reverting to its original Erol with little explanation. Many fans joked that the extra "r" stood for robot, which is as good an explanation as any. The Dragon Quest series has gone through dozens of name changes, including the franchise title. Always known as Dragon Quest in its native Japan, due to legal issues it was introduced to American players as Dragon Warrior, though it eventually reverted to Quest.
As with other entries on the list, the mythical hero's new name, Loto, was the same as it always has been in Japan, though the text sometimes gets translated to Roto. Doctor Ivo Robotnik from Sonic the Comic Art by Richard Elson and John Burns. Coincidentally, Robotnik's next two greatest opponents were not the Freedom Fighters, but his own renegade creations. Using a copy of the Omni-Viewer , the rebellious Brotherhood of Metallix travelled back in time and altered Mobius' history, [21] preventing the accident that had transformed Kintobor into Robotnik.
Subsequently, Commander Brutus , a Badnik trooper that Robotnik programmed with a copy of his own brain patterns, [25] constructed his own army of Badniks [26] and invaded the Metropolis Zone, having acquired Robotnik's ambition for conquest. He then took control of Brutus' Badnik army and taunted Mobius with his continued reign. Over time, and thanks in part to the example set by groups such as the Freedom Fighters, Robotnik began to lose his grip of terror over his subjects.
They destroyed his statues, held demonstrations [30] and protests, [31] mocked him on television, [32] and even fought back against his Troopers. A chain of seeming good fortune for Robotnik led to his ultimate downfall when he discovered that Sonic had become stranded in the Special Zone. Striking while Knuckles was absent, Robotnik and Zachary used the hapless Emerald Hill Folk to create a giant biological computer.
Seconds before Robotnik was able to activate the machine, the Black Asteroid exploded in the skies above. Robotnik was overpowered and captured by the freed Emerald Hill Folk, led by Porker Lewis , and handed over to the returned Sonic. Sonic took Robotnik to the Metropolis Zone with the intention of locking him away for a long time, but Robotnik was liberated by Grimer and attempted to re-activate his technology by using the power generator in the basement of Citadel Robotnik.
He was thwarted again by Sonic, who overloaded the power core and destroyed the Citadel. Robotnik and Grimer managed to escape again and went into hiding, but Robotnik had been firmly toppled as ruler of the planet. Long having planned to investigate the mysterious Flickies' Island , Robotnik used his fall from power as a chance to finally explore the island. He discovered that the Flicky birds that populated the island came from another dimension via a Mobius Ring , and that the Flickies made excellent organic batteries for new Badniks.
A Drakon Prosecutor arrived through the ring and captured Robotnik, taking him back through the ring to the Drakon homeworld for questioning. Robotnik returned to his Flickies' Island base, conducting a number of random Badnik attacks on Mobius while building up his army of Metallixes, which he made stronger than ever by using Drakon technology.
He tried to appease Ko-Dorr by promising to secretly steal the Chaos Emeralds for him, but his timetable was rushed when Ko-Dorr insisted that Robotnik get him the Emeralds immediately. Robotnik was finally able to take control of the jewels in their full-power state, absorbing their energy through a device directly into his body.
However, the sheer energy apparently proved too much for his body to contain, and he was transformed into a crystal statue. Robotnik having become a god through the Chaos Emeralds, from Sonic the Comic This was, however, soon revealed to be a chrysalis stage as Robotnik's body adapted to the immense energies it now contained. Robotnik was the absolute ruler, the Emerald Hill Zone was a cyber-formed industrial wasteland used to process radioactive waste for toxic chemical dumping, and Sonic's friends were either frightened citizens Amy and Johnny , Robotnik's lackeys Porker or dead Tails.
Robotnik proceeded to try and break Sonic's spirit by putting him through a series of torments: taking Sonic to the future to show that the hedgehog was destined to fight Robotnik for sixty-five years without any hope of victory; warping reality around him; [52] resurrecting several of Sonic's most dangerous enemies; [53] stripping the heroic hedgehog of his speed; [54] and pitting Sonic against an evil Knuckles. Despite all of this, Sonic declared that he would fight Robotnik to the end no matter what, and then manipulated the doctor's ego, goading him into restoring Sonic's powers and Knuckles' memories of the original timeline.
While Sonic distracted Robotnik, Knuckles was able to use the Grey Emerald to reverse all of the changes that Robotnik had made and drain all of the Emerald power from Robotnik's body. Barely able to exist without the power, Robotnik shrank down into nothingness. He ended up in a sub-atomic universe on the planet Shanazar , and reverted back into Kintobor presumably due to the energy drain.
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