Egg Boss

Current= Egg Bosses are regional enforcers employed by Dr. Eggman to lead different units of his Egg Army across Mobius. Sub-Bosses, also known as Underbosses or Dark Egg Legion (D.E.L.) Grandmasters were beings originally employed by Dr. Ivo Robotnik to watch over various territories across Mobius he controlled to enforce his will, and to annihilate opposing forces threatening his empire. After his death, Dr. Eggman employed old and new Sub-Bosses to serve his own dictatorship.
 * -|Pre-SGW=

History
Current= Shortly after returning to Mobius following the Super Genesis Wave, Dr. Eggman encountered some of his forces in the Efrika Plains. He was quickly made aware that his military was now known as the Egg Army, with it's various regional leaders titled as Egg Bosses. This first of these whom he encountered was Axel the Water Buffalo of the Efrika Unit, followed shortly thereafter by Mordred Hood in Avalon. He next made contact with Tundra the Walrus in Artika, just before the beginning of the Shattered World Crisis. While attempting to find a solution to this development, Eggman attempted to contact one of his Egg Bosses near Spagonia but found that they were all busy trying to deal with the crisis themselves. After obtaining the Gaia Manuscripts, Eggman contacted Axel again with orders to increase security at his unit's base, as Eggman suspected that it could be one of the Gaia Temples. (StH: #253, #254, #255, #256, #257, #259)

Egg Boss sisters Cassia and Clove the Pronghorns were later tasked with recovering a Chaos Emerald from Crystal Cave, but it was stolen by the Freedom Fighters thanks to files stolen from Eggman by Sally Acorn. Before reassigning the pair, Eggman contacted Soumerca Egg Army Boss Thunderbolt the Chinchilla, who had also located a Chaos Emerald, and instructed her to prepare for the Freedom Fighters' arrival. Thunderbolt laid a trap for the heroes but was unprepared for Sonic the Hedgehog's Werehog transformation, which decimated her forces. And attempt to redeem herself by deploying the Flying Dynamo robot proved unsuccessful. Clove was later entrusted with the only one of the seven Chaos Emeralds that Eggman's forces had managed to retain through an engagement with the Freedom Fighters. (StH: #263, #264, #265, #266, #267, #277)

Formerly, Sub-Bosses were known to have been located in Angel Island, Sand Blast City, the Dragon Kingdom, the Great Canyon, and the Kingdom of Mercia. All of these Sub-Bosses were subsequently defeated or destroyed by the local resistance, sometimes with help from the Knothole Freedom Fighters. (StH: #58, #138, #181, KtE: #12, TMS: #1, #3, STT)
 * -|Pre-SGW=

As of 3237, the Eggman Empire had various Sub-Bosses stationed at Flicky Isle, Station Square, the Land of a Million Lights, Southern Tundra, Downunda, and the Mobian Sea. However, due to the decline of Dr. Eggman's sanity as well as the Chaotix's destruction of New Megaopolis's communications center, the various Sub-Bosses went unchecked as Dr. Eggman obsessed over defeating Sonic the Hedgehog, effectively ruling their own personal fiefdoms. After adding the former Dark Legion to his cyborg Mobian armies, Eggman renamed the various groups the "Dark Egg Legion", and most of his Sub-Bosses were renamed Grandmasters. (StH: #190, #194, #214)

Members
Current= =Active= Artika
 * Tundra the Walrus

Avalon
 * Mordred Hood

Efrika
 * Axel the Water Buffalo

Great Blue Realm
 * Akhlut

Metropolis Zone

Shamar
 * Nephthys

Soumerca
 * Thunderbolt

???
 * Cassia
 * Clove

=Active= Downunda
 * -|Pre-SGW=
 * Duck "Bill" Platypus

Dragon Kingdom
 * Bride of the Conquering Storm

Efrika
 * Diesel

Eurish
 * Iron Queen (Former Dragon Kingdom Sub-Boss)

Mercia
 * Mordred Hood

Nerb Kingdom
 * The Foreman

'''Northern Tundra
 * Akhlut

Oil Ocean Refinery
 * Beauregard Rabbot

Soumerca
 * Drago Wolf & Razorklaw (Co-Grandmasters)

=Inactive= Angel Island
 * Valdez (Destroyed)
 * Kage Von Stryker (Deceased)

Mount Mobius
 * Scorpius (Destroyed)

Dragon Kingdom
 * Iron King (Location unknown)

Downunda
 * Crocbot (Destroyed)

Eurish
 * Hugo Brass (Demoted)

Mercia
 * High Sheriff (Deceased)

Mobian Sea
 * Jaws (Destroyed)
 * Octobot (Destroyed)

New Megaopolis/Albion
 * Lien-Da (Trapped in another Zone)

Other
 * Sir Charles Hedgehog (De-roboticized)
 * Dimitri (Betrayed by Lien-Da)

Background Information
Current=
 * Several of the Egg Bosses have appeared on covers for issues of Archie Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic Universe in which they did not appear:
 * Axel appeared on the cover of StH #255, and again with Cassia on the variant cover of SU #73. He would also appear on a variant cover for SU #75 with Tundra.
 * All of the Egg Bosses introduced as of the Worlds Unite crossover-with the exception of Akhlut-appeared on a variation cover for StH #275. Akhlut and Mordred Hood are also the only Egg Bosses to carry over from serving as Dark Egg Legion Grandmasters in the Pre-Super Genesis Wave Timeline.
 * -|Pre-Super Genesis Wve=
 * In one of his Q&A sections, Ian Flynn stated that all active Sub-Bosses (with the exception of the Iron King and Queen) would now be titled "Grandmasters", going off the Dark Egg Legion formula. (1) However, the title Sub-Boss was shown to apply afterwards.
 * According to info released in the fifth volume of the Sonic Universe Graphic Novel Series, Battlekukku XV was originally considered as a candidate for Sub-Boss of the Land of a Million Lights.
 * Abandoned story concepts that take place after Sonic's return from space included Jack Rabbit and Croctobot as Sub-Bosses under Eggman in the Great Desert and Downunda, respectively. Gala-Na would also have been a Sub-Boss. A new character named Colonel Mange would have been the leader of the Dingoes and Sub-Boss of Angel Island. 2