Silver will continue to work with the Secret Freedom Fighters.
Tiara Boobowski will appear.
Fiona Fox will be redeemed and break up with Scourge.
Either Axel the Water Buffalo or Bearenger the Grizzly will be the Kommissar of the Efrikan D.E.L. chapter.
The staff said that each branch of the Dark Egg Legion will have a Kommissar as well as a Grandmaster. In addition, they're not ruling out any post-Super Genesis Wave characters from appearing, especially since the comic is now in IDW's hands. And since Axel was the Egg Boss of the Efrikan Egg Army, and Bearenger is a bear (making him feel home in Diesel's chapter), I think either is a good choice to be Diesel's second-in-command. Hershey is not dead, but legionized.
- Semi-confirmed, semi-Jossed. Hershey isn't dead, but she isn’t legionized either, instead returning to New Mobotropolis in issue 251.
The Great Desert D.E.L.'s Kommissar is Bunnie Rabbot's aunt, Lulumae Rabbot.
Given how Bunnie's uncle Beauregard is the Grandmaster, this makes a lot of sense.- Jossed. Lulumae's dead; the Kommissar is a new character named Lesath the Scorpion.
The events of this comic exists because of an unseen Convergence-like event.
The first original story arc of the series will involve the Ixis Resurgence.
Let's count the reasons:
1. Naugus is still out there in Geoffrey's body.
2. Naugus is still the king of New Mobotropolis, and Silver and the Secret Freedom Fighters still need to stop him.
3. It was revealed that the Tasmanian Devil Dogs were used to combat the Order of Ixis—possibly tying into Thrash's motives.
4. Dr. Finitevus teased about some "secret sins" Albion did, which may tie to that.
5. As of StHO #250, Eggman is working on a brand new plan after the loss of Mecha Sally, taking him out of the picture for the time being.
With all that in mind, I'm thinking that the Order of Ixis will play a huge role in the next story arc, with a potential conclusion in StHO #275.
- Apparently confirmed. Naugus is the Big Bad of the new "Redemption" arc, Geoffrey's redemption.
- In a previous issue in the original comic, Silver outright said that Naugus being on the throne means the Resurgence is soon but what that means wasn't elaborated on. Its possible that all the mutations Naugus is suffering is actually his body breaking down and when that happens, the original Ixis wizards that made him up will be resurrected.
Alternatively, the first story arc of the series will be an adaptation of Sonic Battle.
This adaptation will focus on the Gizoid introduced in #248 becoming the Emerl we all know and love, albeit with some differences. For example, due to Sonic and Sally being an Official Couple, he might call Sally "Mom" rather than Amy. (Also, if anyone working on the comic is reading this, if this theory will be confirmed, please have Emerl be Spared By Adaptation.) Combining the two theories about what the first story arc will be about, the Gizoid will be the one to defeat Naugus.
I mean, it's not the first time an Ixis wizard was defeated by echidna technology.- Some subversion are jossed.
- Subversion 1: that it Will be Elias to kill Naugus. Naugus going One-Winged Angel will Force Team Fighters and the Secret Freedom Fighters to team Up, and one of the Secret Freedom Fighters, namely Uncle Chuck, is currently trying to invoke a Heel–Face Turn on the Gizoid.
- Subversion 2: that The Power of Love is what defeated Naugus. The Reveal that Hershey is Not Quite Dead allowed Geoffrey to attempt to have a Heel–Face Turn And warn Hershey that Naugus pulled a Grand Theft Me on him, but Naugus countered it by using The Power of Hate to go One-Winged Angel.
- Seemingly jossed. The last page of Issue 252 has Sonic, aided by Antoine's spirit, attack Naugus.
If Dr. Eggman is Killed Off for Real, Dr. Eggman Nega will take his place as the main antagonist.
Zonic did state that "Sonic-Prime needs to fight a Robotnik" to maintain balance in the multiverse. This could be a good opportunity to maintain the status quo should the original Eggman die.- There's a big problem with that: Sonic won't be able to fight Robotniks his entire life. Just let him have his happy ending, dude!
Scarlett O'Fenn will pull a Heel–Face Turn and help Bunnie escape the Sand Blasters.
- Confirmed about Scarlett helping Bunnie escape the Sand Blasters. As for a Heel–Face Turn... well, she's been shown being a healthy romantic couple with an ex-Robian, and the Sand Blasters don't share Jack's Fantastic Racism. So the Black-and-Gray Morality that the Grand Desert has is now a Grey-and-Gray Morality, with the two black characters (Eggman and Jack) being a case of Evil Versus Evil.
Shard and NICOLE will become a couple
- It would fit into her personal story-arc of her emotional evolution and can adapt a drop storyline that the writers had considered where NICOLE developed a relationship with Eggman's rogue A.I. "son" A.D.A.M.
- After the Freaky Friday accident that inspired her desire to evolve and expand, NICOLE called Sonic a "very appealing hedgehog" and seemed particularly flattered when he complimented her new organic form when he first showed it.
- When Shard, the original rebuilt Metal Sonic, made a joke it made her laugh in what seemed in a very Ship Tease-y way and it was already established in the original series that he had developed a thing for her.
- The issue in which Shard made that joke is not canon to Archie Sonic Online. Although Shard and Nicole do still have some Ship Tease, likely to compensate.
- Conclusion: [NICOLE=] and Shard could end up as the robot/digital A.I. version of Sonic/Sally
There will be a revival of Knuckles' solo comic book series following the events of Endangered Species
The ending of the miniseries screams an online revival of Knuckles the Echidna. As Knuckles mentions, there's a lot of unresolved things that he and the Chaotix need to take care of, and it doesn't seem right for those further adventures to be shown in further issues of the main comic or Sonic Universe Online. Not to mention, there's now an empty void with Endangered Species's completion, so the best option is to replace the arc with an online revival of Knuckles moving forward.Metal Sonic will eventually defect from Eggman
Eggman revealed that his newest iteration of Metal Sonic has a core that allows him to be more think and adapt to any situation. Orbot rightfully worries about this, though Eggman brushes it off. This could mean that eventually, Metal will betray his creator and strike out on his own, potentially leading to an adaption of Sonic Heroes. Rotor will meet and befriend/be partnered with Cobar during the effort to de-bomb the Legion's cybernetics
Rotor and Cobar are bound to get together, sometime in the future, as per the "Mobius: 25 Years Later" storyline, and Ken Penders has stated in his lead-up to it that they met on a joint Legion/Freedom Fighter mission. Currently, Team Fighters has helped solidified a ceasefire with the Dark Legion by promising to help them remove the bombs from their cybernetics. Besides Tails and Nicole, Rotor is their biggest tech-head to do such a task. Endangered Species showed that Cobar was, in fact, assigned as the chief in charge of Legionization for the group. It is highly likely that the two will be paired together to figure out a way to disarm the bombs, and get their in-canon hook-up, from there. On the note above, the means to disarm the Legion's bombs will come from Bunnie's return to the FF
Since we now know that Bunnie had temporarily joined her uncle's Dark Egg Legion faction to regain her cybernetics, and that said cybernetics also contain a bomb, it's likely that the Freedom Fighters' knowledge on how to disarm said bombs would come from Rotor analyzing Bunnie on her return to their group.