Dr. Julian Robotnik by MaRaMa-TSG

Thank you. ^_^
And let me know if that project gets done. I'd love to see it.

Heh, thanks for the words.
And I think the funny show, yes with Grounder and Scratch, was the very first to come out. After that was Sat-AM.

Now, the whole Eggman/Robotnik thing. In Japan he's -always- been called Eggman, never the name Robotnik, that was the American dub, probably to give the guy a bit more seriousness. He was still called Egg head or Moon Head(Julian's case) by Sonic as an insult though. However, when the very first Sonic Adventure game came out, Japan wanted to sort of merge the american and japanese fans into liking the games too and to try and make things easier for those who didn't know about him being called Eggman.
So, in that game Eggman's introduction is with Sonic saying "Look! A giant talking Egg!" and he angrily replies, "Silence! I am Dr. Robotnik! The greatest scientific genious if the WORLD!" while Sonic simply says "Whatever you say, Eggman."

So in that game, Eggman was just an insult Sonic's friends called him to annoy him.
Now, when Sonic Adventure 2 came out, he started being called Dr. Eggman, even while he kept using the name Robotnik and there we get to know about his grandfather Gerald Robotnik and his cousin Maria Robotnik who was Shadow's friend 50 years ago.
But when Robotnik does a live TV appearance in the game to threaten Earth with his new weapon, in the screen you see the words Eggman Empire. It's from there on that people started calling him Eggman and every game after that. His real name it's still Dr. Robotnik, he just uses Eggman like a nickname now with no bother of it being insulting anymore.

Archie also wanted to merge the fans, so on issues #50 they killed of Julian, spend a bunch of issues bringing new foes for Sonic and the gang and then started hinting a possible come back from Julian. In issues #75 he's officially "back", comic titled "Don't call it a Comeback", and there's a bit of a nice and awesome show down with Sonic and him but by the end of that and then #76 we see it's really Robo-Robotnik who was an alternate version of Julian who had already conquered his world and killed of his Sonic and had himself roboticized. After he's defeated in those issues and apparently blown up along with his space shuttle as he was a robot he transfered his conscience into another body from a whole set of bodies we get to see stored in a basement of Robotropolis. That new body was Eggman's body.

So for another bunch of issues Eggman was rather vicious as a robot, but as issues went on he started turning more tame and goofy (the way for Archie to get the old fans used to the new guy), in another issue a race of aliens turned Eggman back into human and that's how he's been ever since.

The old city of Robotropolis, that was really the original Mobotropolis got literally nuked to the ground. To prevent the blast from destroying everything else they managed to raise a shield the moment the nuke went in and so kept the explosion trapped inside a dome along with all the deathly radiation.

New Megaopolis was built in another location. I started skipping comics since then so not sure but I think that's actually where the ruins of the old human city that was around waaaay before the Archie storyline.

So, as a hardcore fan of the old Julian from both the show and the early Archie comics. I did not like the idea of killing him off just to bring in the new popular version from the games. I do like Eggman just as much, just preferred Julian because he was so much darker and evil. And I really don't like when Julian is called Eggman because they're completely different. I leave the term Eggman to the Japanese version only. Now Robotnik is more freely as every version uses it.
So do me a favor and in your flash, if any american version appears don't use the name Eggman on them and help spread the habit of it. :]

I don't mind explaining to the new fans because they were confused by Archie and blinded because they wanted to slowly erase the older versions to merge with Japan's and gather the newer and more numerous fans as they just want to make their profit. :/
I stopped reading the comic for a while since I was upset with their harsh choices, Now they got new writers and I've been reading them, but still won't buy them. But they're getting interesting again so might subscribe once more if that keeps up.

Good luck with the flash and let me know if you make it to go see it.