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  • Regarding the Old Save Bonus, Episode Metal. While the idea of Metal Sonic being playable is cool and all... Why the heck is he fighting his own boss? He didn't betray Eggman yet, did he?
  • Again, about Episode Metal... The trailer revealing it showed Metal Sonic, broken, in Stardust Speedway as he should be. There is one problem with this picture; Stardust Speedway is in its Bad Future. That is contradictory to what actually happened in Sonic CD, is it not?
    • It's never really been said which ending to Sonic CD is canon. In fact, the entire purpose of Episode 2 is to show where CD fits in.
      • Besides, Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) was supposed to have been erased from the timeline, and yet Crisis City still made it into Sonic Generations. Granted, the events of that game was due to the two Eggmen messing with time, but still.
    • Maybe Sonic opted to collect the Time Stones rather than changing the futures of each individual act and didn't get the last one until some point in Metallic Madness? In that case, all of Eggman's changes would be retroactively undone. This still works with Episode Metal as it's implied that Robotnik was reaching through time to retrieve Metal Sonic. He probably snatched Metal up not too long after his battle, but not have done it until after Sonic 2, and 3&K.
  • In Sonic the Hedgehog 4, Episode Metal, you play as Metal Sonic, and working for Dr. Eggman. Why are the badniks still attacking me?
    • This troper has two theories.
      • 1. As Metal Sonic was still heavily damaged during the events of Sonic CD, Eggman programmed the badniks to fight him, to warm him up.
      • 2. Eggman must have programmed them to attack any blue hedgehog or orange fox. He failed to put "organic" in the blue hedgehog part.
      • He did made Gamma and Beta fight each other in Adventure, seems that Eggman like to make his robots fight each other just for his own amusement.
      • Actually, he made them fight each other as a test.
    • Eggman's probably just really lazy. Most of his robots are probably programmed to attack almost anything that moves. But he doesn't care since A) he knows Metal Sonic will just cut right on through them, and B) he can always just crank out more robots.
      • While I don't know about the OG Badniks, his robots in later games (timeline-wise), like Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) and Sonic Unleashed, are shown to not attack anyone until Eggman gives the orders, and even then, they will not intentionally harm anyone Eggman hasn't given the green light for. In both versions of Unleashed, there are NPCs in Arid Sands Act 1 who are standing in close proximity to some of these robots, and they leave the citizens alone (though they'll cause a lot of property damage if that's what it takes to attack Sonic). In Sonic Colors, these robots are even used as the amusement park's staff. I would guess that even in earlier-set games, Eggman's robots could follow direct orders from him. Hence, I'd say those Badniks were ordered to attack Metal Sonic. Eggman probably enjoyed watching the sheer power of what is arguably his proudest creation.
      • It's possible that the later models had significantly more advanced AI (thus things like their ability to think tactically and operate weaponry), whereas old-type Badniks are more akin to murderous roombas that simply follow a pre-programmed route and attempt to attack anything along that path.
  • If Sonic 4 takes place right after Sonic 3, why are Sonic and Eggman in their older forms?
    • Because they Retconned all of the characters to look newer.
      • Maybe from a mainline standpoint, it takes place after Sonic 3, with the spin-off games (Triple Trouble, Labyrinth, Tails Adventures, Knuckles Chaotix, Blast, Championship, 3D Blast, R, the concepts for X-treme) serving as in-between filler. Perhaps Sonic 4 is the first timeskip game for Modern Sonic.
  • What was the power in the temple? Just some random magic power lying around?
  • Wouldn't everyone at the White Park Zone freeze to death waiting in line for the rides?
    • Not when they all have winter clothes on.
  • At the beginning of Episode Metal, Eggman sends some machine to Little Planet that repairs Metal Sonic and calls him back. We see Metal Sonic broken in Stardust Speedway's Bad Future, until he's fixed and returns to the Earth, leading to Episode Metal and Episode II. Even ignoring the debates about which future is canon, how does that make any sense!? Sonic 4 takes place in the present, not the future!

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