This article is a companion piece for the “Fat the Kookaburra” article which you can see here:
https://zedm256.wordpress.com/2023/07/20/sonic-oc-ftk/
This will expand on what I already said about Eggette in a section of that article. Here you will see all the things created off of this fan made character.
I will also briefly mention two other fan made characters that stemmed from Eggman.
Upon the release of Sonic Mania more specifically on August 28 2017, Twitter user Alpha Gamboa (@blackbookalpha) had posted about an observation they made with the Flying Battery Zone boss. Now sprite misinterpretations are always rather amusing to see just to get the perspective of someone else who might have seen something different.
The first Sonic game has an example of this within Marble Zone.
🦔確かに少しマリオに見えなくもないですね😱
https://web.archive.org/web/20211003062726/https://twitter.com/nakayuji/status/1444549598484172800
Translation via DeepL
🦔It sure does look a little like Mario.😱
Responding to user (@TanookiKuribo)
I know I mention this every now and then, but have you ever noticed Mario in Sonic 1?
Well this is what Alpha Gamboa saw from that Flying Battery boss as he made some art of this perceived character.
Can’t unsee this #SonicMania boss
What was just supposed to be an upside down Eggman was being seen as someone else all together. Many responses were made from this post writing about their adoration for this character. It even got the attention of some of Sonic Mania’s very own artists.
Lucas Carvalho (@midio), one of the pixel artists, wrote:
omg gotta send this to the team hahaha ♥
https://twitter.com/midio/status/901981512467394562
*omg means Oh My God
Tom Fry (@TomFryPWG), one of the two cofounders of PagodaWest Games and the Art Director for Mania, wrote this:
You’ve only gone and bloody done it haven’t you? Lol
https://twitter.com/TomFryPWG/status/902834280199593984
*Lol means Laugh Out Loud
Paul Veer (@pietepiet), another pixel artist, wrote this:
Omfg
https://twitter.com/pietepiet/status/901982200748400640
*Omfg means Oh My Fucking God
One user pointed out that this “character” was already seen in Sonic Advance.
she existed over a decade ago in Sonic Advance
https://twitter.com/BassMnX/status/908029060764377088
Another user brought up yet another fan made character based on the interpretation of another Dr. Eggman sprite. This one was dubbed Captain Vidya.
Is she related to Captain Vidya?
(not my image)
source:
https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/ive-created-a-monster.26312/
https://twitter.com/CherryPixelBun/status/902006177080504322
Here’s another diagram in case you still can’t see it. He’s looking upwards:
Here is some of the other art of Vidya:
Here is my favorite one out of the bunch:
Anyways, many names were thrown around to give to this sprite misinterpreted Mania character.
Here are some examples…
Robecca
https://twitter.com/Hobo_Dante/status/902386988719804416
Shella
https://twitter.com/PressTheButtons/status/901982089884692480
Yoko
https://twitter.com/ReginaldKonga/status/907467632680501249
https://archive.ph/a3SBb#selection-4625.0-4634.0
Yolka
https://twitter.com/betheymoth/status/902167666047291392
Ivana
https://twitter.com/CodyMatthews4/status/902220843773812736
Omeletta
https://twitter.com/TheMemeJester/status/901996132133470210
One of the names more commonly thrown around was Omelette to go along with the name Eggman has.
Did you name her? What about Omelette?? 8D
Love this design!! 💕
https://twitter.com/ChibiJenHen_Art/status/902326870259224576
https://archive.ph/ejg4t#selection-40251.0-40250.2
That’s Eggman’s very own Omelette, clearly. She’s such a cheesy girl.
https://twitter.com/azurada23/status/902335305084231680
https://web.archive.org/web/20200521175546/https://twitter.com/midio/status/902336463966265344
While Omelette does fit with the whole egg motif I am more partial to another name that was suggested around. That name being Eggatha. See because it is close to the name Agatha. Besides Omelette is literally just the name of the egg dish so it doesn’t sound as creative.
Bruh, her name should be Omelette. xD
https://twitter.com/Red_Bakeneko/status/902107363041267712
Or eggatha
https://twitter.com/TieRue/status/902169070266671105
clearly her name is Eggatha, she’s a fan who reads the press garden tabloids, and no one’s sure if she’s an android
https://twitter.com/curtisperry/status/902164056219496448
https://archive.ph/ejg4t#selection-35173.1-35173.116
My reasoning: sharing a root word/ brand, and it doesn’t *sound* unusual.
https://twitter.com/curtisperry/status/902405994730356736
https://archive.ph/ejg4t#selection-35873.0-35882.0
Eggatha.
https://twitter.com/SwaugerDogger/status/902164824897007616
Alpha Gamboa themselves preferred the name Eggette. If you noticed in his post with the initial drawings the name appeared in there too but with a question mark. They were probably not entirely sure of choosing that name up until that point.
For those asking, you can name this OC anything you want. I prefer Eggette since the Omelette tag makes me hungry every time I search for it
https://twitter.com/blackbookalpha/status/906561580522864641
The next thing in question was the relationship between Eggette and Eggman. Some said daughter and others said niece.
It would be funny if Eggman actually has a daughter.
https://twitter.com/MintyBunnyButt/status/905468325785886720
She like his Bowser Jr. Or I should say his daughter. lol
https://twitter.com/Ryan_the_Fanhog/status/902349953535791113
Dr. Robotnic/Eggman daughter is now official headcannon.
https://twitter.com/Sam_Ka_Blam/status/902168930244055042
It looks like Eggman’s daughter from the future!
https://twitter.com/Fractor11/status/902169001140379653
I have zero objections to this being Robotnik’s canon daughter.
https://twitter.com/Tevor_the_Third/status/902335558348926977
Omg! She’s adorable, could be added as eggman’s niece in a #SonicMania DLC or in a sequel
https://twitter.com/KonnichiwaHime/status/902230751437086725
the niece that comes to visit and actually succeeds in defeating sonic
https://twitter.com/SuperUnhappyman/status/902239133816561664
she is a good niece
https://twitter.com/MemeBeanRegime/status/902335880937005056
Omg, she looks like she could be his adorable little niece!💖💖💖
https://twitter.com/BrookRaccoon/status/902574565947084800
Alpha Gamboa would choose to make her Eggman’s niece showing that she came from a brother of Eggman. Although it leaves the placement of her mother unknown.
#Eggette Origins
https://twitter.com/blackbookalpha/status/905297787625070602
I love that this supposed brother is essentially just a reference to that concept art of Eggman in pajamas back when he was considered as one of the choices for the main character of the series before Sonic.
Alpha Gamboa would also draw a version of Eggette where she is much older to see how she would look like in the role of Eggman.
#eggette is old now
https://twitter.com/blackbookalpha/status/948756414792527878
Alpha Gamboa’s character would spawn so much fan art. Here’s a few I personally selected as my favorites. I must emphasize “a few” as there are so many more I like but don’t want to fill too much here.
https://twitter.com/Ziggyfin/status/932724989551263744
https://twitter.com/Shnikkles/status/904884387660967936
https://twitter.com/space_ellien/status/903447653450522624
https://twitter.com/lina_prime/status/904567897514749952
https://treespeakart.tumblr.com/post/165315252819/cooked-up-some-costumes-for-eggette-created-by
https://burnishable.tumblr.com/post/165165527053/inbetween-commission-break
I think this could be considered a crack ship for how ridiculous it may look. Here is the meaning of crack ship in case you don’t know what it means:
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Crack_Ship
Here is a TV Tropes page on it:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrackPairing
I suppose the only friends she would have are machines, just like me with my computer ;D
https://shenanimation.tumblr.com/post/165098027641/how-thoughtful-of-me-to-invite-you-to-tea
https://twitter.com/Tootsietucan/status/904956510974820352
https://twitter.com/ChrisCrossSauce/status/902326695931338753
By the way, I’m aware that they aren’t actually transparent it’s just for better readability on how the design works.
https://twitter.com/pics_pixels/status/1096465181826142209
https://twitter.com/DreamyBeaches/status/911414267571605505
https://twitter.com/timcampbe/status/916421764690755584
https://twitter.com/timcampbe/status/936705903985750016
Here are some drawings of Eggette and Eggman together
https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Jennifer_Hernandez
https://twitter.com/ChibiJenHen_Art/status/902326248202002432
This is their new account:
https://twitter.com/Jens_Drawings
https://chubides.tumblr.com/post/164944985186/she-is-so-cute-3-3-3-i-needed-to-draw-her-d
https://thepapernesguy.tumblr.com/post/165064968777/these-two-are-too-adorable-for-words-ya-hear
https://www.tumbex.com/ninsegado91.tumblr/post/164907693394/mikeluckas-eggs-cutiesaturday
Weaseletta & Terror Teddy were designs submitted by a fan for a Megaman 6 boss design contest. These designs, among a slew of others, were shown in volume 44 of the Nintendo Power magazine dated from January 1993.
https://megaman.fandom.com/wiki/Boss_character_contest
https://twitter.com/mantareyes/status/904373528031629312
Bowsette was a fan made character made a year after Eggette in 2018. It derived from the then announced game New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe which introduced a new power up called the Super Crown that was exclusive for the character Toadette and it would transform her into Peachette. As the name suggests it basically turns Toadette into a Peach clone.
Someone made a little comic showing what if Bowser used the Super Crown and that is how it started a trend of others making their own fanart from this new form.
https://twitter.com/ayyk92/status/1042465252221181954
If you would like to know more about Bowsette then go to this page:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bowsette
By the way, I never really liked the choice to make Bowsette blonde and I know it’s because it was based off of Peachette but I’ve seen iterations of Bowsette where she is dark skinned and has red hair which I think looks much better. Not only does that make the design more distinct but it fits Bowser more as he has red hair.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/bKQ8OG
https://kassarie-art.tumblr.com/post/179120065510/warm-up-turned-into-bowsette-cause-its-still
https://twitter.com/HedgeMom/status/1044710208595869697
Apparently it turns out Nintendo had an idea that was similar to Bowsette and could have appeared in Mario Odyssey. This was found in an artbook for Odyssey:
Here is an article discussing this:
Anyways, back to Eggette now…
https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Katella
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/bridgeoffaust/1161
Katella’s only appearance was in the 40th episode titled “Zoobotnik”
She falls madly in love with Eggman, or I should say Robotnik in this instance, when she meets him but he does not love her back as she is too strong and physically aggressive for him.
You know with that fanart above I could imagine that she could possibly fill the role as the mother of Eggette. She’s even got a red jeweled tiara like Eggette.
Here is a link to the episode where she appears if you would like to see it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PKTCjpfK8M
https://web.archive.org/web/20210404235010/https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2023724-haggard
Who is that at the bottom of the image? It turns out it’s someone named Haggard.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/haggard
This guy came from a 2010 4chan thread where people were trying to figure out a connect the dots page which came from the Archie Sonic comic issue 107 from 2002.
I found a high resolution digital version of this page which you can see here I guess if you want to try it out yourself:
Alongside are drawings of Sonic, Tails, and Sally which I believe were done by Ken Penders. With only the vague instructions of connecting the dots of the same color all the people in the thread struggled to figure out what exactly the figure is supposed to be.
One person posted this as their result which is how Haggard was spawned
Apparently it’s supposed to be a side profile view of Eggman but in one of the many variations of the American Robotnik design.
Here is the actual full thread where all of it occured:
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2010/13032508/
I luckily managed to find it from this FunnyJunk page:
https://funnyjunk.com/channel/4chan/Tg+connects+the+dots/tlkgLgy/
Did anyone else used to go on FunnyJunk? I don’t know many others who have so I’m just wondering. I remember when that site was green colored and even yellow colored much further back.
Here’s two of the ones I found good enough to show here:
Something conflicting I’ve found in my research is another 4chan thread dated from 2009, so a year before the thread I linked above, which has the same premise of doing that connect the dots page and also contains similar posts with Haggard in it as well. So what are the exact origins of Haggard then?
http://www.fybertech.com/4thread/v_43962950/
That’s all I could say about Haggard. I’ve seen the character before in passing so I thought it would be something interesting to bring up here as I don’t think many people know about him. Back to Eggette once more now.
Here are sprites/sprite animations of Eggette
Here’s 3D models of Eggette
https://the-regressor.tumblr.com/post/165416960336/eggette-sketchfab-view-x-based-off-the
https://twitter.com/LixesPrototype/status/906701685191561216
https://maidcactus.tumblr.com/post/189074820840/some-eggs-inspired-by-this-fanart-from-twitter
This next one isn’t a 3D model but I didn’t know where else to mention it so I decided to write about it here. Here is a custom figure someone made:
Other Source:
Some even went as far as cosplaying as Eggette
https://web.archive.org/web/20210405180352/https://www.acparadise.com/acp/display.php?c=96436
https://www.vgfacts.com/forums/thread-548-page-7.html
https://archive.ph/Brp5Q#selection-2003.0-2018.0
https://twitter.com/Poisonneus/status/953987471385047040
https://web.archive.org/web/20210405005711/https://www.flickr.com/photos/wrathofconpics/42537703572/
https://twitter.com/MrEcock/status/949393095061360642
https://wrathofconpics.tumblr.com/post/184765906317/magfest-2019-eggette-cosplayers-message-us
Articles were written by outlets like Polygon, Dorkly, Sonic Stadium, and Know Your Meme to document Eggette and the outpour that fans made.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/eggette-omelette
While there was a fervor for Eggette there was another original character that was made just right before Mania was released. This time coming from some of the actual Sonic Mania team members along with a few fans.
To find out more about that original character go to this article
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