Snively (Archie Comics)

Evil-doer

• Post-SGW
• Pre-SGW

Snively Robotnik, bornColin Kintobor Jr., and also known asDr. Julian Snively, is the secondary antagonist of Archie Comics'Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series.

Originally, he was known asColin Kintobor Jr. orSnively Robotnik in the Pre-Super Genesis Wave timeline, and was a 31-year-old overlander native to Sonic the Hedgehog's home world - the planet Mobius. It soon transpired that he is the nephew of the villainous despot known asDr. Ivo Robotnik, with whom he never really gets along with; Snively also dislikes his uncle's pet birdCluck and they too share a distaste for each other.

It soon became clear that Snively is just as power-hungry and extremely treacherous when he became responsible for his uncle's death after reprogramming theUltimate Annihilator to target only his DNA. Following his coup, Snively attempted to secure control over his once late uncle'stechnocratic empire - only to be captured and imprisoned by the Freedom Fighters. After escaping from prison and being the temporary leader of the other escapees, Snively at one point joined the alternate-universe counterpart of Dr. Ivo Robotnik, better known asRobo-Robotnik and later Dr. Eggman, though his alliance to him has ended temporarily on numerous occasions. He will often align himself with whoever he has to in order to survive, only to back-stab them in the end. Snively has shown compassion, however, specifically towards his half-sister Hope. Despite this and working for the Guardian Units of Nations nowadays, Snively remains to be an overly-ambitious and vituperative mastermind that one must never trust.

Personality[]

Snively is truly a deceitful, conniving, surreptitious, self-serving, and fraudulent individual. He is shown himself to be as a perfidious, mordant, greedy, and treacherous madman who has secretly resented bearing the brunt of Robotnik's abuse. On a few occasions, Snively has taken over Robotropolis and played at being a domineering and oppressive dictator while his uncle was away. Snively's rule never lasts very long, as he wasn't a terribly shrewd and sharp-witted villain; He reprograms his uncle's SWATbots to make him snacks and fetch him things, rather than focusing on more important tasks like hunting down the Freedom Fighters (which Snively has insisted he could do more efficiently than Robotnik). He even gone so far at least to rename the grim industrial city ofRobotropolis "Snivopolis" to suit his clean but egotistical taste during his rule for a short time before Doctor Robotnik's return from theDeath Egg. However, Snively has on occasion to be shown as or more dangerous than Robotnik. Then again, it was his treacherous ways that forced his father to boot him out of his home.

It appears that he takes a great deal of pride in his hair, or what is left of his hair. When Shadow swiped his last six strands, retrieving his hair was his top priority. He even put tracers in his hair, individually. Tails and Knuckles realized this after Tails noticed there was a beacon in Freedom HQ (Shadow had brought the hairs there) and Knuckles commented, "He's Eggman's nephew. They're all insane!".

Unsurprisingly, his sanity has been called into question on more than one occasion.

Snively cannot act "himself" around Eggman, which is why he secretly goes online, chatting with an anonymous person over the Egg Network.

Snively found love with a Sub-Boss by the name ofRegina Ferrum during a routine surveillance check. The two have since been talking to each other via the Egg Network and have become quite close, even sending each other gifts. Eventually the two lovebirds took over the Eggman Empire but when Regina was imprisoned, Snively was forced against his will to leave her behind. After a long while working for Eggman, he finally made his move. He distracted Eggman, went to the Dragon Kingdom, and liberated Regina from her prison. Following a minor mishap with Regina scolding Snively for leaving her, the two kiss and make-up and battle Eggman.

Appearance[]

Snively is an extremely short and skinny human. He has a huge, light-bulb like head that is dominated by large green eyes and a big and very long nose. He is also bald except for a few strands of black hair on it.

In "Blast to the Past", Snively had a full head of brown hair, although it has blown off from the rush of air from Sonic accelerating to full speed nearby. Snively speaks with a snide nasal English accent.

Snively originally wore a uniform consisting of a green shirt over a light green turtleneck, light green pants, brown belt and brown boots. He wears a green jacket very similar to his uncle's, but without the yellow square buttons, and a black pants/shoes suit like his uncle and white, cuff-less gloves.

Powers and Abilities[]

A technical genius of considerable skill, though often outshined by his uncle, Snively is a (scientific) force to be reckoned with, robotics-engineering and programming being the two most prominent skills at his disposal. Despite his short stature and frail looking frame, Snively is capable of physical activity, he has a noted affection and affinity for a winter sport called "hockey" and was willing to put his hostility aside for a game. Snively is very well known to have two great skills at his disposal which makes a brilliant and dangerous madman:

• Genius Intellect: Snively boasts intelligence almost equal to his uncle's, though he is rarely in any position to flaunt it. Although he is denied Eggman's vast resources, he possesses excellent electronic expertise and can easily hack into almost any computerised system. He is also an expert pilot and has operated many of his uncle's mecha.
• Treachery: Snively is a natural born liar and manipulator. He cares about no one but himself and will betray anyone to get what he wants. He and Dr. Eggman have tried to kill each other through treacherous means for years, using each other's strengths and weaknesses to gain advantage over the other. It has become something of a game to them.

Other Media[]

Main article:Snively (SatAM)

Snively appears as the secondary antagonist in theSonic the Hedgehog SatAM animated series. He was voiced by Charlie Adler.

Relationships[]

Allies[]

• Eggman Empire
  • Badnik Horde
    • Crabmeat
    • King Gong
    • Metal Sonic v3.0
    • SWATbots
  • Grandmasters
• Iron Dominion
  • Iron Queen - love interest
  • Lien-Da

Enemies[]

• Amadeus Prower
• Chocola
• Eggman Empire
  • Cubot
  • Dr. Eggman - paternal uncle from an alternate reality
  • Orbot
  • Dark Egg Legion
• Dr. Ivo Robotnik/Robotnik Prime - paternal uncle
• Kingdom of Acorn/Republic of Acorn
  • House of Acorn
    • Alexis Acorn
    • Alicia Acorn
    • Elias Acorn
    • Maximillian Acorn
    • Megan Acorn
• Freedom Fighters
  • Arctic Freedom Fighters
    • Augustus the Polar Bear
    • Erma Ermine
    • Flip Penguin
    • Guntiver the Arctic Wolf
    • Sealia Seal
  • Chaotix
    • Charmy Bee
    • Espio the Chameleon
    • Julie-Su
    • Knuckles the Echidna
    • Mighty the Armadillo
    • Ray the Flying Squirrel
    • Saffron Bee
    • Vector the Crocodile
  • Knothole Freedom Fighters
    • Amy Rose
    • Antoine D'Coolette
    • Bunnie D'Coolette
    • Dulcy the Dragon
    • Fiona Fox
    • Miles "Tails" Prower
    • Mina Mongoose
    • Nicole
    • Rotor Walrus
    • Sally Acorn
    • Sonic the Hedgehog
    • Tommy Turtle
  • Team Freedom
    • Big the Cat
    • Bomb
    • Cheese the Chao
    • Cream the Rabbit
    • Heavy
  • Monkey Khan
• Dr. Quack
• Duane Quack
• Elizabeth Quack
• Geoffrey St. John
• Hershey St. John
• Hubert Quack
• Louise Quack
• Kintobor family - paternal relatives
  • Colin Kintobor Sr. - father
  • Lady Agnes Hopkins - paternal step-grandmother
• Mammoth Mogul
• Merlin Prower
• Ixis/Walter Naugus
• Robo-Robotnik v1.0
• Rosemary Prower
• Scourge the Hedgehog
• Team Dark
  • Shadow the Hedgehog
  • Hope Kintobor - paternal half-sister
  • Rouge the Bat
  • E-123 Omega
• Team Hooligan
  • Bark the Polar Bear
  • Bean the Dynamite
  • Nack the Weasel/Fang the Sniper
• Vanilla the Rabbit
• Jun Kun/Iron King
• Car-Heem
• Mobie
• Steve
• Knothole Village
• Southern Baronies

Gallery[]

Dr. Julian Snively

Silver Snively

Snively's new robotic body moments before it is destroyed.

Snively roboticized.

Snively's corpse inDark Enerjak's trophy room.

Trivia[]

• Snively's plans to conquer Mobius with extra help after Robotnik's defeat is reminiscent of that of hisSatAM counterpart at the end of the series finale "The Doomsday Project", as he said the last lines: "The Big Round Guy, finally let Sonic defeat him. Well, don't celebrate too soon, Hedgehog. Now, it's my turn! And I'm not alone!".
• Snively was never featured in the comics untilSonic the Hedgehog #8 (although he appeared in the "Christmas" back-up story inSonic the Hedgehog #6), wearing an all white outfit. After this, Snively was almost always seen wearing a blue top and brown pants, as opposed to hisSatAM counterpart, who always wore green. Despite Snively's introduction to the series relatively early on, the Badnik Crabmeat would act as Robotnik's close lackey more than Snively for numerous issues, until the Badniks were, for the most part, faded out of the storyline.
• Snively's post-Super Genesis Wave first name, Julian, was originally the real first name of his uncle Dr. Eggman in the original timeline and in theSonic the Hedgehog animated series.
• Snively appears to have some built in cybernetics, as he not only had a switch operating a door on the back of his hand, but controlled his Eggbots with remotes resembling his thumbnails. One nail even has a communicator. Whether or not they remained after he was roboticized and derobotized is unknown. He also has GPS trackers in his last 6 hairs.
• He wears a green outfit that is similar to Doctor Eggman's (possibly a reference to the Super Mario Brothers as a joke, since Mario and Sonic were video game rivals).
• Former writer Ken Penders revealed on his forum that in his post-#159 plans, he originally intended to kill off Snively in a heroic act while he attempted to shut down an unstable nuclear power plant with the help of the Freedom Fighters. Snively's death would have hit Sonic hard with grief and would have caused uneasiness between all his friends.
• Karl Bollers also had ideas for Snively post-issue #134, which would have included Snively creating a battle suit for himself a new identity in order to battle his uncle; as "Snarkey", he would also have formed an alliance with Shadow.
• The cause for Snively losing his hair was due to "male-pattern baldness" which afflicted the geniuses of the family, as he claimed to his father Colin, but in the animatedSatAM series it was caused by a time traveling Sonic. Both series feature Snively being quite fond of his hair, and becoming vengeful upon losing it.
• Snively's eyes were originally blue, however during the middle of the series they were changed to green, they're now currently blue again.
• According to a Twitter conversation with Ian Flynn, Snively is no longer related to Dr. Eggman in the Post-Super Genesis Wave universe. This is due to SEGA mandates not allowing family members for the main game cast, unless established in the games themselves.
• Because of the mandates that Sega created after the lawsuit Ken Penders tried to file against and the conflict with Archie, Snively, like all the characters from SatAM, had to go to through some changes and had to receive a design to make him look more like the video game characters.

External Links[]

• Snively Robotnik on theSonic Wiki

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