Poll: Eggman or Robotnik?

[ljd184]

i always know him as dr eggman

 

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Old one - Eggman
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[Sanaj]

Robotnik, because it's his original name and because he builds robots and machines and locks little animals inside.

Robotnik makes me think of some dastardly guy fresh from the bowels of some Cold War laboratory that could mess your shit up if he ever got all of his together. Eggman sounds like something a child would name their plate of eggs/bacon arranged to make a smiley face.

Therefore, Robotnik.

If people in Japan want to keep calling him Eggman fine, but pretty much everywhere else it just sounds stupid.
Don't give me that Eggman is Dr. Robotnick's son or whatever...that is a lame cop out answer.

Dr. Robotnick sounds more like a villain that uses Robots for his schemes...
I think it's more funny when his name tries to be more serious when his appearance is quite comical.

So yeah, Dr. Robotnick all the way. <--- (If you're feeling lazy just read this line.)

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

Jak please. Let's look at your link to Dictionary.com shall we?

Of the adjective variations given an egg fits:

3. curved like part of a circle, as an outline.

4. having a circular cross section, as a cylinder; cylindrical.

7. free from angularity; consisting of full, curved lines or shapes, as handwriting or parts of the body.

Thus, eggs can be described as being "round."

Here's the adjective definitions on Wiktionary which concur. [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/round#Adjective]

On Topic: Robotnik

Okay, here we go... again...

Here, the very definition of egg: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/egg

See the part that says "The round or oval"? Now, we all know that eggs can be spherical or oblat spheroid... so when described here why do they leave spherical out and use "round" but leave "oval" in if in fact round does not describe the generic "egg" shape to which eggman is attributed? He is clearly not the spherical shaped egg, he is the oblate spheroid shaped egg.

As I have said before, I will place my bets with Stephen Fry.

. . . are you serious?

Round can mean "spherical."

Round can also mean "lacking sharp corners."

The fracking definition entry of "round" you posted to back up your argument says so!

A sphere is round, an egg is round, Eggman/Robotnik is round.

 

[AutumnGold]

PINGAS!!!!

 

[JordanMillward_1]

Robotnik all the way

 

[MarsProbe]

Dr. Robotnik all the way.

Childhood memories aside...actually, scratch that, it's basically all down to childhood memories. He was Dr. Robotnik back then and as such will always remain so named.

 

[Spygon]

Dr. Robotnik as eggman sounds like a under 5 kids toy like mr potato head

 

[annoyinglizardvoice]

Eggman just sounds like a lyric out of a beatles song about walruses. Coo Coo Cachew! Robotnik sounds like someone who should be doing stuff with robots.

That's odd in a way I must agree with completely.
I liked it when he called himself Robotnik, but the good guys called him eggman, it showed how little they thought of him.

 

[Pendragon9]

I just call him Bowser 2, since they both fail to stop their cutesy archrivals.

There. No need to argue over it.

Oh, and

PINGAS!!!!

This.

 

[The Donkey From Shrek]

always called him robotnik

 

[Sejs Cube]

Don't care, screw the whole Sonic franchise and it's creepy-ass fans.

 

[the Tadman]

Eggman is f'ing retarded. If he were a masked Super villain whose power is to shoot eggs out of his ass then yes, that would be adequate.

 

[Cuniculus]

I don't know why he was called Eggman in the first place. Robotnik sound better, because he does happen to build a SHIT LOAD of robots.

 

[soren7550]

I call him by either or. Both names are for the same dude, so no one should really get confused. (unless you never heard of anything that deals w/ Sonic.)

 

[Kinguendo]

Okay, here we go... again...

Here, the very definition of egg: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/egg

See the part that says "The round or oval"? Now, we all know that eggs can be spherical or oblat spheroid... so when described here why do they leave spherical out and use "round" but leave "oval" in if in fact round does not describe the generic "egg" shape to which eggman is attributed? He is clearly not the spherical shaped egg, he is the oblate spheroid shaped egg.

As I have said before, I will place my bets with Stephen Fry.

. . . are you serious?

Round can mean "spherical."

Round can also mean "lacking sharp corners."

The fracking definition entry of "round" you posted to back up your argument says so!

A sphere is round, an egg is round, Eggman/Robotnik is round.

The defintion says "round OR oval", a difference between the two clear enough to need seperate mention in its definition. As I said, there are round spherical eggs and there are rounded oval eggs. Eggmans shape is that of an oval egg and so he is not the round egg as stated in the definition, he is physically attributed to the oval one!

 

[letsnoobtehpwns]

Robotnik. It sounds cooler.

 

[barryween]

Dr. Eggman, it just seems to go along with the whole Sonic thing better than Robotnik, idk why, it just does.

 

[sln333]

The first time I saw him I knew him as Robotnik, so I say that one. Eggman makes him sound like a fool when he's supposed to be a bad guy.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Dr. Eggman Robotnik

Because SA2 and Sonic X established both names as equally canonical, and Robotnik is clearly a last name.

Also Princess Peach Toadstool.

I believe his full name is Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik. I think he just donned the name 'Eggman' as a kind of villainous alias.