Air date: March 23rd, 2005 (FR); November 26th, 2005 (US)
"A Metarex Melee" provides examples of:
- Call-Back: When Chris hitches a ride with Shadow and Rouge, he ends up on the Crimson Egg just as he ended up on the Space Colony ARK in the Shadow Saga.
- Let's You and Him Fight: Super Sonic and Super Shadow clash against each other.
- Took a Level in Badass: When Chris confronts Eggman on his ship, he throws a flashbomb on the villains and steals their Chaos Emeralds with Shadow chasing him.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Because Chris refuses to give Rouge the Emeralds, she drops him in a deep hole where Knuckles has to save him.
- Versus Title: The Japanese title for this episode is "Clash! Sonic vs. Shadow".
