Name: Larva
Debut: Sonic Colors
Whadda hell... Sonic invented larvae? NO! Dr. Eggman invented larvae. NO again! Creatures invented larvae when the first creature was born as a larva. But Dr. Eggman’s own custom larva is one I quite like! Let’s discuss this fictional fake larva.
In real life, grubs live underground, wiggling about and feeding on roots and other plant material they find! Not really something that directly translates to a video game enemy. Not very threatening, unless perhaps it was a game about playing as a root. What over-the-top weaponry has that funny scientist outfitted this unassuming larva with?
Hmm... well... he gave it eyelids! That’s new for a grub! Never before have I seen a larva slumber so efficiently. Larva and its eyelids cannot hurt you, however. In fact, Larvas only appear in one part of one level, and appear ONLY to be destroyed to earn a collectible! This is so sad. I hope they don’t have feelings. But it’s also good because there are aliens trapped inside of them. The well-being of a real alien is priority over the well-being of a mechanical larva.
I guess that is the purpose of Larva (Badnik), then? To contain a Wisp inside, and remain underground to hopefully not be noticed? But when every robot contains a little creature, and others actually attack Sonic, Larva really stands out!
Maybe Eggman created Larva and made it sleep underground because he Wanted to. It’s clear this man has a strange relationship with the concept of “creatures”. He goes out of his way to make his Bad Guy robots modeled after a huge variety of animals, even when they don’t really need to be! The creature aesthetic is very important to him artistically. Unfortunately, though, he does not really respect Actual creatures, kidnapping them and using them to power his Fake creatures. What’s The Deal?
My hypothesis is, Eggman likes creatures, in theory, but he likes them even more when they are HIS creatures, and he can take the credit for them! If he makes a robot grub and has it act like a regular grub underground, he considers that better than a real grub acting like a regular grub underground. Maybe there are even more unassuming Badniks in the world, that are never seen in games because they don’t actually do anything, and are just hanging out somewhere beyond our sights!
...or MAYBE... Larva is getting ready to pupate! There are plenty of beetle-based Badniks, like Mecha-Bu here! Imagine a robotic larva that could pupate into a robotic pupa and eclose as a robotic imago, all on its own. It would be such a technological marvel! In this scenario it would also have hatched from a robot egg. Now I’m giggling thinking about Robot Eggs! A scientists builds a robotic egg and has no idea what will become of it until it hatches. Maybe into a robot larva. Maybe into a robot chick. Maybe into a robot egg but this one is also like a guy and has a face and limbs. Hey! Like Egg Robo! It has all come full circle to Badniks again. I swear I was not planning that! I swear I just went on a tangent! Please continue to think about Robot Eggs and the funny things that could hatch out of them.
