Hiya, folks.
Besides Edmund and Dimitri's line, Julian has the comic's most expanded family. I've recently been compiling together a tree to organize all of his relatives. Check it out...
EDIT: Since I have .htaccess enabled, I'll need to link you to the page, rather than direct link the image. Here's the link:
www.emeraldcomics.com/kintoborfamilytree.html
I suppose this is a topic for discussing his family. Do you all think Colin, Agnes, and Nate will ever return from their radioactive grave? If you notice any errors here, please point them out and I'll fix 'em ASAP.
Hmm...What about the Frozen scientist from the Good, the Bad, and the Unknown arc? Ivan Kintobor, or whatever his name was? Wasn't he like thousands of years prior to Dr Julian Kintobor "Robotnik"?
Also, if we want to get super technical, didn't Robotnik put his own DNA into E.V.E, along with DNA from Sonic the Hedgehog? If you buy that storyline you could put a little ring next to his box, and a Sonic box and list "E.V.E" as an offspring...Who's deceased. But when E.V.E reappeared in the Tossed in Space Arc none of the aleins recognized Sonic's DNA as being related to E.V.E's so that might have been dropped.
Those bits of information might be too trvial to add to the diagram, though.
There is something I noticed there EE. You have it stated that Gerald was the father of Robotnik's father. However, I do believe that it was stated (In issue #98 to be exact) that Gerald was Robotnik's grandfather on his mother's side of the family. Not to be picky or anything!
Oh.
Wow.
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You have just caught something really tricky. Checking #98, you're absolutely right. But how can that be? It makes no sense!
If Gerald gave birth to Julian's mother, then wouldn't Julian possess his father's name? Children don't typically take their mother's maiden name for their last name...
There are a couple of possibilities here that I see:
1) Julian of the "House of Ivo." Maybe Ivo wasn't Julian's father's first name, but his last. And in some sort of family agreement, Julian took his father's last name as his middle, and his mother's maiden name as his last. Thus, "Julian Ivo. Kintobor." Actually, since Gerald's been known as "Robotnik," not "Kintobor," that would throw another wrench into it, since Julian was supposedly the one who changed his name around when he overtook Mobotropolis. So many questions...
2) Another possibility is his father's name was actually Kintobor and his mother's name was Robotnik. Thus, Gerald Robotnik gives birth to another Robotnik, who marries a Kintobor. Since the father's last name is dominant, Julian takes "Kintobor" for his last name. So, "Julian Kintobor." He would later spell his name backwords when he overtakes Mobotropolis, switching it back to his mother's maiden name. This is a much smoother possibility, IMO. It would just be a HUGE coincidence that Julian's parents had the same last name spelled backwards.
Wow...
I want to know everybody else's opinion on this one before I edit in changes...
Actually I don't ever remember Gerald having a last name in Archie canon. I could be wrong though. I guess they did that just to fit the characters into the Archie-verse without all the confusion. But I guess that didn't work soo hot now did it?
Very true, good catch, again! It could be "Professor Gerald Kintobor." If that's the case, then:
3) Julian's mother's maiden name would have been Kintobor, and unless there was incest, then Julian's father would have had to been "Ivo Robotnik." But, this doesn't work either, because he was born "Julian Ivo Kintobor," which in this case was his mother's maiden name. It's a possibility that there was a family agreement, like in situation 2, but...
Again, I'd like to hear all of your opinions on this!
Julian's father's name wasn't Ivo, unless I'm forgetting something in the comic that directly states that it was - ?Julian's referred to as being "from the House of Ivo", it means he's descended from the House of Ivo, like a Royal House. Who knows who or what Ivo is, but he/it/they were presumably a famous and influential Overlander at some point.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't see what the problem is at all.
Assuming that we're following a "take the father's last name"-system, how does Gerald's last name (Robotnik based on the games) affect Julian's last name (Kintobor)?
What Matt said about the "House of Ivo" stuff. It's not that different from the "House of Dimitri" stuff added to Julie-Su's profile a long time ago.
Man this is some confusing stuff! Only in the Sonic comics can we have such a mess where we can't even figure out who goes where in a simple family tree!
