Maria Robotnik
From Sonic Earth
Maria Robotnik (マリア‧ロボトニック, Maria Robotonikku?) is character that appears in flashbacks during Sonic Adventure 2, and Shadow the Hedgehog, along with the anime series Sonic X, where she mirrored her role in Sonic Adventure 2. She is voiced by Yuri Shiratori in Japanese, and Shelly Fox and Bella Hudson in English. She is the granddaughter of Professor Gerald Robotnik, and is the cousin of Doctor Ivo Robotnik, better known by the alias Doctor Eggman. Before Shadow was created, she was friends with the G.U.N. Commander. Maria suffered from the illness known as "NIDS" (Neuro-Immune Deficiency Syndrome), which was considered incurable at the time.
While Professor Gerald's government-sponsored research aboard the Space Colony ARK was initially intended to attain an immortal being, Gerald took on the task to try and save his granddaughter, and named the project 'Project Shadow'. After the final product, Shadow the Hedgehog was created, he and Maria became friends. While this was going on, someone had been leaking information that the Biolizard was a potential danger. So, GUN sent troops up there in what they called an "accident," which was really a raid. Maria and Shadow attempted to flee the invading soldiers, but when they couldn't, Maria encased Shadow in an escape pod to escape the ARK. However, Maria was shot by a soldier, and as Shadow watched in horror, unable to help her, she asked him to bring hope to humanity and give humans a chance to be happy, before triggering the capsule's escape. This experience scarred Shadow for life, but ultimately his determination to keep his promise to Maria led to him to become friends with Sonic.
Maria has made a few appearances in the Archie Sonic Comic, most recently in Sonic #171 where Shadow's origins were finally revealed. In the alternate version of Mobius: 25 Years Later the Mobians appear to view her as a deity of sorts as several of them are see praying to a statue of her with angel wings in Portal, while a statue of her also appears in the throne room of Castle Acorn. Sonic even stats the phrases "Maria have Mercy" and "Maria help me" at the loss of his family.
Maria Robotnik is playable in the video game Shadow the Hedgehog, if a second player controller is inserted into slot 2, the 2nd player can control her, but only in 2 levels.
