kailus13 said:
IamLEAM1983 said:
Robotnik is depicted in the thumbnail and Eggman is mentioned.
Is this heresy towards my childhood or cognitive dissonance?
He's always been Eggman.
In Japan, yes, and as of Sonic Adventure, pretty much everywhere in the console spectrum. I grew up with the incarnation that was voiced by Jim Cummings, however, specifically the one for the cartoon fans tend to refer to as "SatAM" - and that version was called Julian "Ivo" Robotnik.
The games and comics tend to have divergent canons that intersect and split apart again and again. The current consensus in the Archie comics, which I also used to read, is that his real name is Julian Kintobor, while Eggman is a more recent moniker he only truly acknowledges in the one or two instances where Sonic managed to drive him utterly insane with anger.
Considering how the Sonic universe tends to meld and reject elements from the Archie comics and Yuji Naka's source material, I think it's generally safer to agree that both statements are correct.
He's Eggman for most of his video game roles (except maybe for Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, where the game itself is named as such) and alternately Robotnik or Eggman depending on the general mood of the current comics run.
His SatAM appearance, however, is definitely over and done with. Even when he answers to Robotnik, he still looks like the Eggman of more recent years.