I Love The Way This Movie Implies So Much About Ivo's Childhood And Overall Life Without Giving Us A

I love the way this movie implies so much about Ivo's childhood and overall life without giving us a flashback.

The Sonic Movies tend to have a general underlying theme of family. Childhood is very much connected to this theme. One could argue that your family has the most impact on you when you are a child. Robotnik was left without family presumably since birth or early childhood. Therefore there are many things he never got to experience.

Like going to a theme park

Learning how to ride a bike (in media a stereotypcally precious bonding moment between parents and kids...)

(...and apparently a thing Bot couldn't do before. Guys, he genuinly never learned how to ride a bike.)

And of course celebrating holidays such as his OWN birthday.

(This might be the first time Bot actually celebrates his birthday.)

And Halloween, Christmas and New Years. It seems like they are trying to recreate a whole childhood year in that one afternoon.

We're kind of expected to assume that Bot never had any of these things in his childhood, which is why he latches onto this opportunity when Gerald offers it.

It kind of shows that Bot is not repulsed by the idea of family at all. It shows that he just has a warped understanding of it. Thinking that because his family and the world abandoned him, he doesn't deserve these things. When Gerald comes back and doesn't reject him but specifically seeks him out Ivo allows himself to have these nice things because now he thinks there is someone who wants him to have these nice things. Which makes this

even more heartbreaking. Rejected again.