Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
You know, I'd like to know the answer to this too. I don't think his design was necessarily intended to be that way. But it's certainly easy to draw comparisons and think it's supposed to be that way (especially given the name change and the contrasting colour schemes).I brought this up in the "character model thread", but does anyone know if there's ever been official word on Robotnik purposefully invoking the Red Scare Communism imagery?
Besides his name having Communist roots, I noticed that his color-scheme itself is basically the U.S.S.R flag and his whole modus operandi of taking away free will and turning everyone into mindless robots without individuality seems like the cartoonish view of Communism you usually see in anti-Communist rhetoric.
I almost want to say people are looking too much into it.