10 Video Game Mentors Who Were Actually Complete Morons

9. Dr. Robotnik - Sonic The Hedgehog

Arch-nemeses for as long as you can remember, Dr. Eggma-Robotnik dammit, and Sonic the Hedgehog have been battling it out for generations, across consoles and all sorts of various media forms. Hang on a minute, though... Did you know Sonic has an origin story - and that they used to be friends? It's true, at least it used to be until Sonic Adventure in 1998 demanded a retcon, ballsing it all up. The story came from a comic initially released to tie in with the first game, whereby Sonic was a brown hedgehog who burrowed into Dr. Ovi Kintobor's lab (Ivo Robotnik backwards, just so you know), only for the two to start working together. Sonic discovered ol' Ovi was creating a machine that could harness all the world's evil energy inside seven Chaos Emeralds, and promptly had his natural gift for speed put to use powering their containment. Kintobor even gives Sonic his trademark sneakers to ensure better performance, turning him blue in the process as he reaches new levels of supersonic speed. One day, Ovi is working on the machine and (whilst holding a hard-boiled egg as a snack) clumsily spills a bottle of liquid inside its components, merging him with the aforementioned evil and pitting the newly-minted "evil, hardboiled, robotic nutcase" against Sonic forever more. If only one intrepid mad scientist didn't attempt to contain the world's most powerful jewels in an untested machine, alongside then juicing up said machine with an abnormally-fast hedgehog who wandered into his home, thousands of innocent animals could've avoided those massive containers we had to keep springing them out of.