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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#5601: Jul 1st 2025 at 12:43:48 PM

Sounds disproportionate, all for one character.

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

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#5602: Jul 1st 2025 at 1:39:07 PM

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15007618130A19027000&page=224#comment-5599

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15007618130A19027000&page=224#comment-5598

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15007618130A19027000&page=224#comment-5597

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15007618130A19027000&page=224#comment-5594

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Edited by ErosThanatos on Jul 1st 2025 at 7:39:03 AM

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#5603: Jul 2nd 2025 at 10:50:19 AM
Thumped: Wow. That was rude. Too many of this kind of thump will bring a suspension. Please keep it civil.
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#5604: Jul 2nd 2025 at 2:35:46 PM

I wonder if we will get Neo Metal Sonic back since it seems the only way for Metal Sonic to talk.

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#5605: Jul 2nd 2025 at 3:29:54 PM

Metal Sonic hasn't shown up in any of the stories for awhile, hasn't he?

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#5607: Jul 2nd 2025 at 5:09:56 PM

With Metal Sonic being an army of mooks in the next movie, I'm guessing Neo Metal Sonic might be a final boss of sorts for the film. That might increase the desire for him to return to that form for a comic story or 2.

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#5609: Jul 3rd 2025 at 7:02:19 AM

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

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#5610: Jul 3rd 2025 at 7:15:15 AM

[up] 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

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#5611: Jul 3rd 2025 at 7:46:31 AM

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

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#5612: Jul 3rd 2025 at 8:13:47 AM

One way it could work is if they reprogrammed the other Metal Sonic that Eggman Nega created.

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#5613: Jul 3rd 2025 at 9:34:43 AM

Oh yeah, Metal Sonic 3.0

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#5614: Jul 3rd 2025 at 9:39:52 AM

That 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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#5615: Jul 3rd 2025 at 10:21:03 AM

[up][up]

He's already basically Shard, but without the blaster arm and no mouth like Metal.

[up] 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

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#5616: Jul 3rd 2025 at 12:08:13 PM

The big thing going against Shard coming back is that Mecha Sonic’s already doing that, yeah.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Jul 3rd 2025 at 12:08:44 PM

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#5617: Jul 3rd 2025 at 1:57:33 PM

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

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#5618: Jul 3rd 2025 at 7:08:25 PM

The issue isn't having more than one Metal Sonic, it's doing the same plot twice.

Besides, IDW is basing on the game and the games are pretty solid on Metal Sonic being a singular character.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Jul 3rd 2025 at 7:12:17 AM

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#5619: Jul 4th 2025 at 2:45:47 AM

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 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/imagem_jpeg_6.jpeg

Edited by RandalDrake on Jul 4th 2025 at 7:05:33 PM

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#5620: Jul 4th 2025 at 7:54:35 PM

Oooh! I love fights in the rain!

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#5621: Jul 5th 2025 at 1:15:30 AM

I hope whoever inked all that rain gets paid well!

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#5622: Jul 5th 2025 at 7:31:47 PM

Yeah, I hope so too! Can't believe this series is going on 80 issues!

Edited by Rabbitearsblog on Jul 5th 2025 at 7:32:09 AM

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#5624: Jul 5th 2025 at 10:48:01 PM

[up] 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

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#5625: Jul 5th 2025 at 10:49:20 PM

According to a quick Google search, from 1993 to 1999, six years.

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