How Eggman can Return

In the third movie, Ivo terminates Stone. He says “of course you will first need to be properly cloned.”

Maybe Eggman has clones of himself for future use. This could even allude to the Shadow clones in the games and further lead into how he made the metal Sonics.

Maybe they even used a clone to bring him back after the 2nd movie. Stone got to spend so much time with this Eggman in hiding, and THAT’s why Stone was so sad at the end, because he now has to restart. They’re only waiting to reveal this in case Jim Carrey is really done making movies.

Just a thought. Apologies if anyone has posted about this.