Dr. Warpnik (Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog)

Dr. Warpnik is a character that appears in the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog television series. He is an inventor and the cousin of the infamous Dr. Ivo Robotnik, who banished him to the Warp of Confusion for his exceedingly loony behavior.

He only made a single appearance in the episode, "Trail of the Missing Tails", and was never heard of again.

Why He Sucks

 * 1) He is overly insane, where he is way too weird and freakish to be a likable character or a charmingly quirky character.
 * 2) He is extremely weird and creepy to the point that he even freaks out Robotnik, who banished him to the Warp of Confusion in disgust, and rightfully so.
 * 3) He's prone to rambling on many tangents, has a creepy obsession with fish, bursts into fits of maniacal laughter, and generally act in an overly strange way. His lunacy is never funny or entertaining to watch and rather annoying.
 * 4) * Speaking of his disturbing obsession with fish, he either treats them like love objects to make out with, which has some really disturbing sexual undertones (which is a form of 'bestiality since he is human!), he'd use them as a form of transportation, or he uses them as the go-to method of attack of smacking people with live fish.
 * 5) His voice and the way he talks in a lispy manner is extremely grating. If you thought Scratch, Grounder or Coconuts are prime examples of characters who have voices that viewers can find annoying or displeasing to listen to, well Warpnik takes the cake for having the most ear-grating voice in the whole show, and that's saying a lot!
 * 6) * The worst offenders to his voice are his acts of yelling, laughing, and crying.
 * 7) He is so annoying, he easily ruins the episode he was just featured in.
 * 8) His design is rather confusingly bizarre as a cartoony "human", where his red/pink face along with some ugly facial expressions makes him seem like an alien instead of a human.
 * 9) Because of his ugly design, there are over-the-top scenes of him being clinically insane. An example of this is laughing like a maniac when he meets Sonic as it cuts to a trippy warping background with him laughing in a loud, creepy way. This is really cringe-worthy to watch.
 * 10) Not to mention that his design seems to be some bizarro copy of Dr. Robotnik himself. The reason for this is how he has a similar comma-shaped head to go along with his exaggerated face, having cartoonishly evil elements to him, and is also a mad scientist. The only difference is that, unlike his bloated cousin, Dr. Warpnik is a tall, spindly figure.
 * 11) Idiot move: He has a whole subplot of getting revenge over Robotnik for being banished, despite this, his incentive for wanting to capture Sonic and Tails doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Why focus on capturing Tails as his prisioner, where his original goal was to get back at Robotnik for banishing him in some surreal world filled with fish.
 * 12) * If he had a plan to escape, why didn't he just simply do that already instead of attempting to guilt-trip Sonic with his backstory for why he wanted revenge? Probably he was simply just too much of a loon to do so.

Warpnik's Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) He was never seen again after the only episode he appeared in.
 * 2) His expressive hair (or possibly a wig) that floats above his head and frequently shifts into shapes to emphasize his moods or thoughts, is rather creative.
 * 3) Robotnik understandably gets to make insults like calling him a "fish fondling fruitcake" and "worthless wimp", along with Robotnik getting back at him in violent ways too. Especially since it is completely warranted for how annoying Warpnik is towards everyone.
 * 4) * Sonic even points out how his backstory was getting tedious and just wanted to save his friend instead of listening to his boring backstory.

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Trivia

 * His name is a play on the two words, warping and Robotnik (or even a badnik).

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