Line #28 YMMV/GhostsOfTheFuture


1	!!!Please note links to lore (aka WordOfGod) may have ''spoilers''. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt:
3	** The attractive lineart, such as the quasi-pencil lineart is issue 15 and later, rich colors (helped by the dynamic lighting and shading and unique "spotty" aesthetic), accurate proportions of the characters, props, and backgrounds, neatly drawn action scenes, intricate detail in the machinery and [[SceneryPorn backgrounds]], and overall quality which surpasses the official ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' comics make ''Ghosts of the Future'' one of the best ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' fancomics on the web. No wonder Evan Stanley [[PromotedFanboy got to work for the official comics]].
4	** The [[DetailHoggingCover painted covers since issue 11]], such as [[https://www.deviantart.com/evanstanley/art/GotF-issue-11-Cover-388373495 this]], [[https://www.deviantart.com/evanstanley/art/GOTF-issue-15-cover-639341123 this]], [[https://www.deviantart.com/evanstanley/art/GOTF-issue-16-cover-707373917 this]], and [[https://www.deviantart.com/evanstanley/art/GOTF-issue-18-cover-818844780 this]], are ''beautiful'', especially the realistic-looking [[https://www.deviantart.com/evanstanley/art/GOTF-issue-14-cover-586498187 issue 14 cover]].
5	%%* BrokenBase: The retcon of [[spoiler:Rouge passing away naturally of old age to being turned to stone in Scourge's home dimension]]. Some see it as a good idea that hammers home how the "old" Sonic world is well and truly dead, while others see it as just another tragedy in a nonstop train of tragedies that only makes the TooBleakStoppedCaring even more blatant. What makes this especially contentious is that [[spoiler:Rouge's original death by natural causes was actually ''previously acknowledged'' in-story, making the retcon even more blatant.]]
6	* CompleteMonster: [[EvilSorcerer The Sorceress of the Black Isle]] is the ArcVillain of the Arabian Nights arc. A character from the Arabian Nights who was thought dead, the Sorceress uses the Chaos Emerald sent to the Arabian Nights to amplify her powers, commanding malevolent djinn to terrorize the land. When confronted by two djinn, Uhu and Fouh, the Sorceress imprisons Fouh, and tells Uhu that if he brings the Seven World Rings to her, she'll release Fouh. When the heroes arrive in her palace, the Sorceress congratulates Uhu for bringing Sonic, who has the Seven World Rings inside his body, to her before she reveals that she's brainwashed Fouh into being her slave, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness ordering her to kill Uhu]]. To get the Seven World Rings out of Sonic's body, the Sorceress uses her magic to hasten the Flames of Judgment on Sonic's chest, gleefully burning Sonic's body into nothing but bones. She then attempts to use the combined power of the Chaos Emerald and the Seven World Rings to destroy the Arabian Nights.
7	* HilariousInHindsight:
8	** Who [[WhatCouldHaveBeen was]] the original BigBad? It was [[https://www.deviantart.com/evanstanley/art/Nickolai-the-Lynx-90781877 Nicolai the Lynx]], and this was ''[[https://spiritsonic.tumblr.com/post/102539069479/when-did-you-think-including-nicole-and-scourge-in before]]'' Stanley learned of [[spoiler:Nicole's holo-lynx form]].
9	** The unused concept of the ''[[https://spiritsonic.tumblr.com/post/155196825974/i-mentioned-the-gotf-verse-version-of-marine-the Ghosts of the Future]]'' [[https://spiritsonic.tumblr.com/post/155196825974/i-mentioned-the-gotf-verse-version-of-marine-the counterpart]] of Marine has her being an obsessive ConspiracyTheorist who believes in aliens and that [[spoiler:the New Chaotix]] is a [[TheMenInBlack secret government agency]]. This was made years before [[WesternAnimation/SonicBoom Sticks the Badger]], who resembles Marine and also is an obsessive conspiracy theorist, was introduced, as {{Lampshaded}} in [[https://spiritsonic.tumblr.com/post/155111356679/have-you-ever-thought-of-redesigning-and-using this Tumblr post]].
10	** This [[http://evanstanley.deviantart.com/art/GOTF-Extra-page-21-blooper-104549510 gag edit]] {{lampshade\|d}}s the HoYay of an issue 5 panel featuring Uhu (Shadow's ''Literature/ArabianNights'' [[AlternateSelf doppelganger]]) and Sonic. Sonic and Shadow would later be [[https://spiritsonic.tumblr.com/post/174363058604/i-love-your-comic-and-youre-doing-awesome-with confirmed]] by WordOfGay to be attracted to males also and have [[BetterAsFriends attempted a romantic relationship]] outside the comic.
11	** As Evan Stanley [[{{Lampshaded}} said]], "Everybody's comparing [[Film/Aladdin2019 Will Smith Genie to Sonic]] and I've been drawing Sonic with [[https://twitter.com/SpiritSonic/status/1095175680042516481?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet fog feet and heavy gold jewelry for like 12 years and I feel extremely called out"]].
12	---> '''Sonisis''' (@sonisis_): So that's why you called it ghosts of the future
13	* HoYay: Stanley {{Lampshade}}s this reaction in a [[http://evanstanley.deviantart.com/art/GOTF-Extra-page-21-blooper-104549510 gag edit]], which makes issue 5's panel of Uhu (Shadow's ''Literature/ArabianNights'' [[AlternateSelf doppelganger]]) talking to Sonic--which is Ho Yay itself--gayer.
14	* JerkassWoobie: [[spoiler:Scourge]] is still a total {{Jerkass}}, but given that he was [[spoiler:manipulated into a DealWithTheDevil that destroyed Moebius and killed everyone he cared about [[TakenForGranite through petrification]], including [[TheLostLenore Fiona]] and then [[AFateWorseThanDeath bound in eternal service]] to the same being responsible for it]], it's hard to not pity him.
15	* MoralEventHorizon:
16	** The story pretty much ''starts'' with Eggman gleefully leaping across the Horizon by [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mind-controlling]] Shadow into killing Sonic and his best friends.
17	** [[spoiler:Nicole crosses the Moral Event Horizon by commanding Metal Sonic to attack and maul Vennie, which eventually results in her being permanently disabled.]]
18	* NoYay: Evan Stanley was [[https://spiritsonic.tumblr.com/post/179743786659/i-feel-like-vennie-and-scourge-are-gonna-be-a not]] pleased to find people shipping [[spoiler:Vennie and Scourge]] together.
19	--> I see a lot of people shipping [[spoiler:vennie and scourge]], c'mon guys I know ages don't matter much in Sonic but... it REALLY feels like shipping a grown man with a little girl and that's just eugh, They're goofy mismatched friends, [[spoiler:Also Scourge's whole arc is about [[MisaimedFandom how much he still loves his girlfriend]].]]
20	* ShockingMoments:
21	** In issue 6, [[spoiler:the Sorceress of the Dark Isle [[OneWingedAngel transforms into]] Darkwing and becomes ''[[FullFrontalAssault naked]]''. While her other parts are covered up with a CensorShadow, her breasts are aren't, yet they lack so much detail the nipples barely count as nipples. Many readers were shocked by [[NippleAndDimed this bit of partial nudity]] showing up in a ''Sonic'' fancomic, and Evan Stanley [[https://spiritsonic.tumblr.com/post/177247174704/do-you-think-if-you-designed-the-characters-from now sees it]] as OldShame.]]
22	** In issue 17, readers were shocked by the incident in which [[spoiler:Mettalix impales Silver's hands and an abundant amount of red blood draws out]].
23	* SignatureScene: In issue 17, [[spoiler:Metallix impales Silver's hands with his sharp thumbs, which is infamous for how [[BloodyHorror bloody]] and [[ShockingMoments shocking]] it is]].
24	* {{Squick}}: [[https://spiritsonic.tumblr.com/post/165337436959/woah-so-all-this-hybrid-backstory-means-shadow The lore]] reveals the fact that the modern Hyrbids came to be [[DesignerBabies through the impregnation]] of human women with artificially-created sperm. It doesn't help they only gave consent so that they could [[QuestionableConsent have free healthcare and pensions for them and their families]].
25	* UnexpectedCharacter: [[spoiler:GIANT ZOMBIE SCOURGE!]]
26	* {{Wangst}}: Shadow's realization that he killed Sonic and his best friends [[BrainwashedAndCrazy under mind control]] is supposed to be angsty, but comes off as shallow due to the overuse of ellipses and how weak Shadow's crying is. {{Lampshaded}} in [[https://spiritsonic.tumblr.com/post/179374094964/what-killed-amy-knuckles-and-tails-shadow this Tumblr post]]:
27	-->Also WOW LOOK AT THAT ANGST \
28	WE NEED MORE ELLIPSES… PEOPLE… BRING ME… '''''MORE.'''''
29	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Even though ''Ghosts of the Future'' is a fan comic of ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'', a kid-friendly video game series, and created by Evan Stanley, who is now an official ''Sonic'' comic artist and writer, it is ''not'' for children. The comic [[DownerBeginning starts off]] with Sonic and his best friends being bloodily [[PlotTriggeringDeath massacred]] by a mind-controlled Shadow, which results in Sonic and Shadow enduring trauma and [[ItsAllMyFault guilt]]. There's brutal violence and bloodshed, profanity, sexual innuendo[[note]]such as the VisualInnuendo of the Sorceress holding the long neck of a jug between her breasts[[/note]], and a brief, non-sexual, and partial nudity in the form of [[NippleAndDimed a female's exposed breasts]]. Nevertheless, little kids still read the comic and their parents even read it to littler ones, [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/755905710/4621971269 so]] Stanley added {{Content Warnings}} to the [[BloodyHorror issue 17 incident]].
30	* TheWoobie:
31	** The main hedgehog trio, Sonic, Silver, and Shadow, are all woobies.
32	*** Sonic spent his last moments witnessing his closest friends being killed and suffers traumatic memories of their deaths as a ghost, [[ItsAllMyFault blaming himself for their deaths]].
33	*** Shadow [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feels absolutely guilty]] for killing off Sonic and his best friends, even though he was [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mind-controlled]], thus wasn't his fault.
34	*** Silver [[ItsAllMyFault blames himself]] fully when [[spoiler:Vennie is mauled by Metal Sonic]]. In Stanley's [[https://www.deviantart.com/evanstanley/art/GOTF-issue-9-page-5-274008516 words]] ''(spoiler in link)'', "It's a pretty well-established trend in this comic that I show my feelings of admiration through doing horrible, horrible things to the characters I like."
35	** Both of Silver's sisters are woobies.
36	*** Vennie is [[spoiler:[[WheelchairWoobie permanently unable to walk]], by a Nicole-controlled Metal Sonic and held hostage by Scourge]].
37	*** Sicily is left guilt-stricken by [[spoiler:being indirectly responsible for Vennie's injuries]] and [[AllTheOtherReindeer ostracized]] when she takes pity on [[spoiler:Metal Sonic]].

Context YMMV / GhostsOfTheFuture