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In addition to using a variation of SWATBots known as Shadow Bots (hulking SWATbots that are shiny and black, to mirror Robo-Robotnik's appearance), Robotnik sought a legendary giant robot called the Giant Borg. He succeeded in piloting the robot himself and tearing through the Freedom Fighters, until he was struck down by the force of thousands of multi-dimensional Sonics, each arriving from their own reality to pummel the Borg to pieces. The scattering of his weapon seemingly destroyed him, leaving him nothing more than a severed robot head — or so everyone thought. Robo-Robotnik would live on, transferring his digital consciousness to a space station, where he remained in a stasis for many years.
It was sometime during this exile that the Dr. Robotnik of Mobius Prime was seemingly vaporized by his creation, E.V.E. Robotnik was actually sent to the alternate reality of Robo-Robotnik, where he met his alternate self onboard the space station. This meeting inspired Robo-Robotnik, who decided to "get back in the game" as it were, and after assisting Robotnik in returning home, he later followed him to Mobius Prime. Feeling dissatisfied with his victory in his universe (which had left Mobius a smoldering wasteland), Robo-Robotnik decided to take advantage of the death of his "other self", and seize control of the remnants of Robotnik-Prime's empire. After conspiring from the shadows for several issues, Robo-Robotnik--wearing a skin disguise to fool everyone into thinking he was Robotnik back from the dead--eventually revealed himself after summoning all the Robians on Mobius (still vulnerable to his control) and taking them to his orbital platform in space. He then lured Sonic and the rest of the freedom fighters to the satellite to entrap them, which more or less worked; Sonic fought Robotnik on an assembly line, which ended with Robotnik being doused with acid, removing his disguise and exposing his deception.<ref>''Sonic the Hedgehog' #74</ref>
The scheme to kill Sonic failed, though he succeeded in re-conquering Robotropolis and keeping most of the Robians under his command (though he would later lose them). The Freedom Fighters enlisted the help of Snively to blow up the orbital platform with Robo-Robotnik in it; His body destroyed, Robo-Robotnik uploaded his mind into a new robot shell back on Mobius (a design based on his character model in the ''[[Sonic Adventure]]'' video game).<ref>''Sonic the Hedgehog #75</ref> With his new body he took on a new name: ''Eggman'' (although he would still be called Robotnik at times in the story, to help readers get used to the changes). While in this form, he also briefly had the ability to roboticize others by touch, similar to the [[Midas Touch]]. If the victim was unwilling to be roboticized, however, they would be rendered little more than a metallic statue instead, a fate shared by Nate Morgan and several other Overlanders.
The series continued, and he lost his robotic body numerous times, each time simply rebuilding himself. He later found himself, Snively (who had by that point been roboticized), Sonic, and Tails captured by an alien race known as the Bem. Eggman and Snively were transformed back into flesh and blood, and forced to battle for their lives against a roboticized Sonic and Tails in order to prove whether or not flesh was superior to metal. They were returned to Mobius without being changed back, and have remained that way ever since, unable to re-roboticize themselves (due to an after-effect of the Bem's deroboticizer).
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