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To everyone who has a problem with me posting tropes about Lanolin, I just want to make this VERY clear; I'm not doing this because I hate her, I'm ONLY trying to jot down what happened in the comic to the best of my ability. If I sound biased of hate-filled, it is completely unintentional. If I argue with someone, it's because I'm trying my best to figure out what tropes best apply to the information I try to jot down. I am sorry if I inconvenienced others, and if someone could help me make appropriate edits when (and if) I'm unbanned, I would greatly appreciate it.
Edited by ErosThanatos on Jul 1st 2025 at 7:39:03 AM
I wonder if there'll be a chance to ever see Shard back.
He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.As much as I'd love to see Shard again, that's definitely not happening. Not only does his entire existence revolve around the idea of Metal Sonic being reprogrammed, destroyed, and completely rebuilt (which IDW really wouldn't be able to get away with as, unlike in Archie Comics, it follows the game continuity, so they wouldn't be able to do that to Metal Sonic) but I don't see any way for characters from Archie Comics to appear in IDW in any meaningful way.
Edited by Awesomekid42 on Jul 3rd 2025 at 12:35:41 PM
I do think the concept of a Shard expy could work with Scrapnik Mecha Sonic post-redemption. Maybe not to the extent of completely changing his design and name (unless SEGA really wants to distinguish Mecha from Metal and is willing to let the team make such a status quo change) but the general idea isn't impossible.
Edited by Calout on Jul 4th 2025 at 2:15:58 AM
WE ARE NINTENDO. YOU CANNOT BEAT US...except if you cheat... or if you use a guide book... or if y— SHUT UP!Yeah, for a variety of Archie lawsuit related reasons, I don't think Shard specifically is possible but Scrapnik Island showed room for the concept of "a redeemed Metal Sonic" in IDW continuity
HAPPY HALLOWEEN FOR MARIAThat actually leads me to another question about how much the Rivals games are even allowed to be represented (in any Sonic media, not just IDW). References to them have been next to nill throughout all the games (I think the most it ever got was Metal Sonic 3.0 appearing in some mobile games), and it always stood out to me in #67 how, unlike with Blaze, Knuckles, and Shadow, Silver's conflicts with Sonic never got any actual illustration when the characters went over the various times befriended people he fought against.
Edited by Awesomekid42 on Jul 3rd 2025 at 12:40:54 PM
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He's already basically Shard, but without the blaster arm and no mouth like Metal.
Well it’s cause his conflict was in '06 and even Sega knows how much that game SUCKED so it doesn’t surprise me they’re trying to rewrite slowly like how Elise is designed to look more like a child than an adult acting like one as seen on the official artwork where she is ice skating with Silver.
https://x.com/sonicstadium/status/1639217766174523392
Plus my own theory of after Generations the reboot of having Humans being wiped of and now Mobians or sorry anthro animals living in their places.
Edited by RandalDrake on Jul 4th 2025 at 2:27:26 AM
He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.The Sonic 3 movie ended with a Metal Sonic army, STC has the Brotherhood Of Metallix, I think Archie has the Metal Sonic Troopers and the games have two Metal Sonics so why shouldn't IDW have multiple Metal Sonic? If the problem is that they don't want to take away from the Main Metal Sonic why not have him in the Emperor Metallix role of leading the army? The problem I suppose is that Metal Sonic wants to be the only Sonic and the last thing he wants are more of him incase they also want to be the only Sonic and turn on him.
Edited by neoamon on Jul 3rd 2025 at 9:57:55 AM
"May your heart be your guiding key"Sucks especially since Shard was a nice way to recover a bad character one of the many Archie had, his self-healing, the megaman-like multiuse arm.
In other news the next issue gonna have badass angles and fight scene in the rain. https://x.com/IDWSonicNews/status/1940840475629658582/photo/1
Edited by RandalDrake on Jul 4th 2025 at 7:05:33 PM
He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.
How long it took Archie to reach 80?
He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.
Counting only the mainline, formerly-ongoing Sonic the Hedgehog comic and not the predecessor miniseries, any of the Super Specials, Knuckles the Echidna, etc., six years and eight months. Issue 1 was released in April '93, and Issue 80 was released in December of '99.
Edited by TrashJack on Jul 5th 2025 at 1:50:40 PM
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary

If that was a response to me, not really? It's more or less a standard response to this sort of thing.