Never discouraged by his defeats, Eggman is always able to come up with a seemingly endless supply of plots to make his ambitions a reality. His ambitions and schemes ever growing, his plans have varied from using Animals to power his robots, known as "Badniks", to making incredibly dangerous global threats that have involved building war machines, using doomsday devices to threaten entire nations, and relying on ancient mythological deities or eldritch abominations bent on destruction, all in the name of achieving his goals. At times, Eggman has even gone as far as to target the entire universe and hatched schemes to control spacetime itself.