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A turnaround of the Professor Gerald 'Sonic The Hedgehog 3' film 2.5" figure, released by Jakks Pacific in 2025.
I know this is like cringe to most people but with me unironically enjoying it is it bad that I'd like to see an artist redraw this scene with game canon Eggman and Gerald? colored or not, It would probably (potentially) still be just as cursed but hilarious but that might be just me
Sonic Fans: Do you view Gerald Robotnik as a villain?
Yes, he's a villain
He's a villain but I don't think he's evil
No, he's not a villain
Nuance/ he can't be categorized as either
Thanks for the anonymously submitted poll!
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In my Roseverse AU, an important part of Amy's character is--just like in the Gameverse--her love for others. She has so much love for the world, for friends and family and even for her enemies. She believes that the ultimate expression of love is letting people find their own way so they can explore their own forms of love. Forcing someone you love to live a certain way...That's vile to her.
Then there's Roseverse Gerald, who believes love is good reason to conquer the world. He wants a world where Maria can be safe and sound, where she'll never fear the likes of G.U.N. like his grandfather Ivo did, where everything he cares about is protected. He wants to conquer the world to keep it all protected. He wants his little world in a snowglobe so nothing bad happens to it.
And that's where he and Amy collide. The two of them are fundamentally opposed...But they can each see where the other comes from. And this gives them a more tolerant relationship than Gameverse Eggman and Sonic. Roseverse Amy and Gerald are more than rivals, they're embodiments of each other's philosophies. And beyond fighting, each one struggles to convince the other that they are right.
Gerald doesn't want to hurt Amy. He wants her to see his way. That summoning Chaos and using the ARK and unleashing Dark Gaia were all necessary actions, if miscalculated, in the name of ensuring a world where nobody suffers. Wouldn't she like a world where she doesn't have to worry about danger all the time? A world where Sonic can truly be hers?
Amy refuses that. A world with no danger is a world devoid of adventure, something she loves. A world where Sonic was forced to love her would make him miserable. She argues that Gerald is so afraid of losing Maria that he'd risk destroying the world by unleashing these monsters, and that's a risk she would never take, even if she stands to lose those she loves most.
Both reject the other's beliefs. Both continue to fight for their ideal world, and to try to convince the other to join them. It's an unstoppable force versus an immovable object.
AU where Amy and Professor Gerald swap places with Sonic and Eggman respectively, but during Forces, instead of six months of being tortured, Gerald (who sees himself as a good guy and who wants to conquer the world so he can "protect" people from harm) instead keeps Amy in a very comfortable cell that has everyone one could ask for. He does this so he can convince her to join him, or at least not interfere with his plans.
He makes sure she has her fortune cards, TV (which plays heavily vetted media that doesn't have a message against him, or his own propaganda), video games. He serves good and healthy food, even offering her favorite desserts if she's on good behavior.
Amy, naturally, hates it. She's ashamed that she was captured, scared for her friends' safety, furious that Gerald thinks he can buy her support by treating her nice. Some days, she tries to break free, but Gerald has planned for every contingency. Other days, she plays along, pretends to be a good "guest". Gerald talks to her often, trying to sway her. They have passionate debates about each's point of view. Amy tries to appeal to his emotions, get him to see her side and free her. Gerald tries to use logic to convince her that the world needs a dictator to protect people's happiness. Neither can agree. They both decide to keep trying. For now.
It reaches a head when Amy is told she has a call from her friend. She gets a video call from Cream, who talks about how everyone has surrendered, how Gerald is in control of the whole world. But for some reason, she says she's happy, and she wants Amy to give up so she can join her friends and live in Gerald's new world. It takes Amy a minute, but she realizes the truth: he used advanced A.I. to generate a fake call with Cream to trick her!
That pushes Amy to the point of rage. She swears she's going to find a way to escape. To make sure Gerald's plans fail. She refuses to let him win or to fall for his tricks. She will find a way to beat him, no matter what.
She will be free, and she will see her friends again. He can count on it.
Going off of Gerald's journal, from the time GUN raid happened to when the casualties list was officially made. Would it be best to assume Gerald had been apprehended and immediately put in a jail cell by that point. Or perhaps he was evacuated alongside the other inhabitants, GUN raid happened, he was left to presume work while events unfolded out of his control, and would've been under some form of house arrest until he could be "formally" arrested and put into a cell?
The timeline of events is a bit vague, admittedly. But based on Gerald's statements and the difference in tone between the ending of his SA2 and Battle diaries, as well as the details offered by Rouge's report, I would theorize he was arrested first and detained for some unspecified amount of time while the raid occurred and before learning of Maria's death. Afterwards, he was left to stew in his guilt, despair, and grief for so long that he went mad.
Gerald implies in both ShTH and Battle that he was aware of the government's plans to shut down the facility. In his Battle journals, he claims "the upper echelon is going crazy" and recounts being threatened with a forcible shutdown:
If Windii's translation of Rouge's report is to be believed, apparently it took GUN a week to carry out the operation and eject survivors to Earth. They had always planned to pin the blame on Gerald for the accident... which, if the report is true, actually did happen.
Reading between the lines, however, I think it's safe to say they had detained Gerald under these false pretenses of an accident---which would explain why he hadn't snapped right away, why he seemed to be relatively calm during his Battle journals even after getting hit with the Maria bombshell, and why he expressed hopes in his SA2 diary for the safety of his colleagues and granddaughter. It's possible that the week GUN took to execute their operation, more or less, passed between his initial arrest and his learning the news of Maria's death. He literally had been told that an accident occurred, and that Maria perished. Based on his lamentation in his SA2 diary that he couldn't bear the thought that she had died because of his research, one may infer GUN lied to him by omission and implied she had died due to the """accident""":
This is the grief of a sane man who has lost everything dear to him and believes himself guilty. His plan to make Maria's last words Emerl's activation key reads like an act of atonement.
Here, Gerald is heartbroken, but not quite the hateful husk of a man we heard and saw in SA2, scared of his own uncontrollable thoughts of "want[ing] it all to end." Insanity slowly took root as he succumbed to bitterness and despair.