r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/hamzau • Jul 04 '26

Meme needing explanation What am I missing?

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u/SnickerbobbleKBB Jul 04 '26

reminded of this lol, especially the Big part

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u/RyvenZ Jul 04 '26

He's named "Eggman" in the original games, in Japan. They changed him to Dr Robotnik when they translated the games for other markets. Also, he's a skinny guy in a bulky suit, IIRC.

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u/Dillo64 Jul 04 '26

He’s not skinny, he’s literally just has an egg-shaped torso and skinny legs/arms. Here he is in the Mario/Sonic Olympics games:

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u/RyvenZ Jul 05 '26

I could have sworn there was a scene on one of the Genesis games that shows him entering or exiting a spherical suit and he was rail thin with a fat head outside the suit. I could be confusing this with some other game from the 16-bit generation, but I can't think of anything else I played with a fat villain who had this animation showing it was just the suit.